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Volume 99, No. 4

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2022-10-28

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Lewis & Clark College: Pioneer Log / Mossy Log

By AMELIA DO yLE
& ASHL yN LITTLE
ON OCT. 21, President Robin
Holmes-Sullivan was officially
inaugurated as the president of
Lewis & Clark in the Pamplin Sports
Center. The ceremony was followed
by a reception on the undergraduate
campus. This inauguration marks a
historic moment in LC’s history, as
Holmes-Sullivan is the first woman,
person of color and openly queer person
to serve as the school’s president.
On Jan. 26, the Board of Trustees
announced that Holmes-Sullivan
would be the next president of LC.
Holmes-Sullivan officially began
her presidency in June after serving
as vice president for three years.
The former vice president has
already done an immense amount
of work for the benefit of the school
and its students. She spearheaded
the COVID-19 pandemic and worked
to make the campus fully remote.
This year Holmes-Sullivan
has already managed difficult
circumstances following the death
of a student on campus, as well as a
graffiti incident during Indigenous
People’s Day. Following both of these
events, the president sent out multiple
statements to deal with the aftermath
and encouraged students to seek
out the resources they might need.
The inauguration began with
students from countries outside
of the U.S. holding a flag that
represented their heritage. They
filed into the building followed by
faculty in their academic robes and
what was referred to as the platform
party. This included Holmes-Sullivan
herself as well as the speakers. The speakers included Board of
Trustees Chair Stephanie Fowler,
Chaplain and Director of Spiritual
Life Hillary Martin Human, Cultural
Resources Department Manager David
Harrelson, Master of Ceremonies and
Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media
Studies Kundai Chirindo, Congressman
Earl Blumenauer, Dean of University of
Washington’s College of Education Mia
Tuan, President of DePauw University
Lori S. White and Asia Wooten ’20.
“Your inauguration, like all
inaugurations on this campus,
symbolizes progress despite adversity,
as John R. Howard wants to propose. That’s the central theme of the Lewis &
Clark story: progress despite adversity.
The fact that you are out first for us
and have so many ways breathes life
into that story, the past and promising
future that lies ahead.” Chirindo said.
During the COVID-19 pandemic,
Holmes-Sullivan was the vice-
president during a transformative
time in higher education.
“There are no small parts in the
drama that’s unfolding all around us.
With the climate crisis, political and
social and racial reckoning with Robin,
we have a steady hand — a proven
leader of compassion and understanding strengthened humanity that the times
that maybe we have the right leader
for the moment. We’re fortunate
that she’s taking the helm of Lewis
and Clark College” Blumenauer said.
The rest of the speakers were two close
colleagues of Holmes-Sullivan during
her time at Portland State University
and one was a LC alumnus that has been
Holmes-Sullivan’s mentee since she was
a girl. Tuan reflected on her experience
of Holmes-Sullivan being a role model
for women of color in the workplace.
“I want you to know that your
president is a role model, not just to
me, but for many who have stepped into academic leadership,” Tuan said.
“She has broken barrier after barrier
and amassed a string of successes
throughout her career. But the most
important to me, she’s remained the
Robin that I know is still open hearted,
and an optimistic champion for the
power of education to transform lives.”
Another colleague of Holmes-
Sullivan,White, is very aware of how
Robin’s background as a psychologist
and a student affairs vice president
makes her more than prepared for
the challenges of leading a liberal
arts college in the 21st century.
“Talking round and round about
complicated problems, Robin would
listen carefully to what each of us said,
make sure everyone had the chance
to provide your perspective and then
would offer clear, well-articulated
profound solutions the rest of us
had not yet considered.” White said.
Wooten was the final speaker,
Holmes-Sullivan has been a mentor
of Wooten since Wooten’s mom
approached Holmes-Sullivan and
asked her to be Wooten’s mentor.
“After providing me with an
incredible amount of advice on how to
navigate the academic and professional
world as a minority, I felt so empowered
about sharing my academic and life
goals with Dr. Holmes.” Wooten said.
“I also enjoyed how seamlessly we were
able to transition into talking about
everyday aspects of life, like our hair.
She was just the mentor I needed when
I found it was nearly impossible to
find someone who looked like me and
someone I could truly identify with …
As I walked past her office every day on
the way to class, I felt so relieved to have
“StudentS ” continued on page 3Vol. 99 No. 4 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022 www.piolog.com
OPINION
Eat the rich?
Leftist slogans respond to systemic
violence with violent slogans - is this a
double standard?
PAGE 5FEATURES
Pio bus driver profile
Pioneer Expresss driver Andrey talks
life, love and photography.

PAGE 7ARTS
Slamlandia
Literary Arts’ “Slamlandia” returns to
Portland to host slam poetry and open
mic events.
PAGE 12SPORTS
Athletes’ Diets
Lewis & Clark Athletes are thankful for
all-you-can eat nature of Bon Apetít
dining.
PAGE 1426th president makes history as first woman, person of color to be president in LC’s 155 year historyPresident Robin Holmes-Sullivan inaugurated
SPECIAL EDITION
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Read a Letter from the Editor and a
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Chair of Board of Trustees Stephanie Fowler places a medallion on President RobinHolmes-Sullivan at inaugural ceremony.COURTESY OF NINA JOHNSON
TriMet plans to discontinue bus
lines 38, 39 due to low ridershipLC’s hammock policy
updated in ASB forum
Bus 39 stops at Lewis & Clark on its regular route through Burlingame to Hillsdale.COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARKBy VENUS EDLIN
ACCORDING TO A draft proposal
by TriMet, the company is
considering cutting Lines 38 and
39, the two that directly service Lewis &
Clark.
TriMet cites low ridership and
the fact that LC is situated in a high
income area for these cuts. Parking &
Transportation Service Manager Gabriel
Montez knows first hand the amount of
users who buy passes and can attest to
the claims of low ridership. According to
Montez, of the 62 community members
who buy passes, most of the traffic is not
through these lines.
“The folks from our campus simply
do not ride the 39,” Montez said.
“Unfortunately, of those folks that buy
the TriMet passes and the people that
I speak to, and I, myself, am a regular
user of TriMet – I ride in the city center,
I don’t write the 39. The 39 is not a good
line.”
However, many community
members have been rallying support to
keep the lines. In an email sent on Sept.
29, Associated Student Body President Madeleine MacWilliamson urged
undergraduate students to provide
feedback in a TriMet survey that is open
until Oct. 31.
“This decision impacts students,
staff, and faculty—everybody will feel
the consequences in this decision,” the
email stated. “Please, consider taking
two minutes to fill out the TriMet
feedback survey so you can prevent a decision that will impact us for many
years ahead.”
According to MacWilliamson, she
was initially made aware of the issue due
to staff and faculty.
“I received word from Campus
Living Director, Ben Meoz, that faculty
were rallying...
“StudentS ” continued on page 3By RACHELLE BINDER
AFTER SEVERAL students were
injured and one died from an
incident on Aug. 29, Lewis &
Clark administrators and members of
the Associated Student Body (ASB)
discussed safety concerns about the
current hammock policy.
The hammocking policy amended
by the Executive Council in
September 2016 is on LC’s webpage
for Recreational Activities Policy
and is consistent with the slacklining
policy, which dictates that slacklining
is only permitted in specific areas
and only by LC students.
According to Vice President
of Student Life Evette Castillo
Clark, “campus leaders are in the
process of updating Recreational
Activities Policies regarding use of
hammocks on campus.” This update
will include hammocking policies
assessed by the current executive
council. Most of the effort for the
drafted plan has been allocated
to Director of Student Rights and
Responsibilities Jessica Carron.“We are still comparing and
figuring out what will work best for
school,”Carron said. “Do we add pods
on campus where students hammock
in a particular era, and we set up the
space? Is the tree the best option?
What is going to be safest and make
the most sense for our facilities on
campus?”
ASB President Madeleine
MacWilliamson ’24 immediately
spoke with President Robin Holmes
Sullivan and Castillo Clark after
the Aug. 29 incident. The meeting’s
objectives were to develop a
hammocking policy that teaches
students and community members
how to safely hammock rather than
restrict hammocking as a whole.
“After the tragedy, there were a
lot of whispers and talk from other
administrators to ban hammocking
from campus,” MacWilliamson said.
“Robin said that this would be an
overreaction and take away from a lot
of the culture we have developed here
at LC.”
“Structural ” continued on page 3
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
NEWS 2
By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
SEXUALLY transmitted infections
(STIs) are on the rise nationwide.
There has been a 26% rise in
syphilis cases across the country,
while the disease monkeypox has seen
an international spike.
Thus far monkeypox has occurred
more frequently in cases of sex
between men, but is not limited to
these groups. According to the World
Health Organization, men make up
99% of reported monkeypox cases.
The virus spreads through close
contact, not just sexually, and has led
to a current 28,087 cases in the United
States and 235 cases in Oregon.
Nurse Practitioner Jessica
Kingsbury, who works for Lewis &
Clark’s Health Service, said LC is
aware of the trend, but is comfortable
with the current situation on a local
level.
“We have not had any notification
of any (monkeypox) cases on campus,”
Kingsbury said. “We have not seen it
in the clinic. We have also not had any
syphilis cases.”
Kingsbury could not speak
confidently for the entire LC
community, only for those who have
had tests done on campus, but based
on the results, LC is dodging the trend.
To schedule an on-campus test,
call 503-768-7165 or drop by the office
to set one up. LC’s Health Service is
located beneath the northeastern
corner of Templeton Student Center
at ground level, and can be reached
by following a small path. Syphilis
tests are $7.71 and monkeypox tests
are $100. All other test prices can
be found on the health services page
of the LC website under the fees for
services tab.Michelle Callahan, the director
of Health Promotion and Wellness
knows that getting tested is an
important part of staying healthy
while sexually active. She has
a degree in public health, with
concentrations in sexual and
reproductive health and gender and
sexual minority health and a zoo of
STI plushes on the shelf in her office.
“Advocating for yourself and
talking about your sexual health and
with your partner is okay and healthy
and there is nothing shameful about
that,” Callahan said. “Also, there’s
nothing shameful if you find out that
you do have an STI. They’re a natural
part of our lives.”
In addition to testing, LC offers
a variety of sexual health products
to students on campus through
Feminist Student Union (FSU) and
Campus Living. Caroline Arnis ’23,
one of the co-leaders of FSU, said
the resources their organization
provides to promote safe sex and STI
prevention are important.
“We have a little table outside
where we can keep all of the less
expensive resources … like condoms,
lube, dental dams, tampons and
pads,” Arnis said. “Then anything
else that’s more expensive like
a pregnancy test, Plan B, Ella or
fentanyl test strips, you can just
either come by when someone’s
in the office to grab it or schedule
a time to pick it up for you, free of
charge.”
Products like these help keep
students safe during sex. Arnis said
that FSU’s main priority is to ensure
it is executed in a healthy way.
“We just want to help people make
the choices safely because that’s what
people deserve,” Arnis said.Sex is a powerful action that can
affect people for the rest of their
lives. Because of its potent nature, it
is important for people to be properly
educated and prepared. In regards to STIs, Callahan was happy to educate.
“If people want to know more,
they’re always welcome to either
reach out by email, or they can stop
by the Health Promotion office, which at least for the fall semester, will be
in lower Odell.” Callahan said. “Then
for the spring semester, we will be in
the Campus Living suite due to the
Steward-Odell renovation.” STIs can be prevented by practicing safe sex by wearing protection, stayng educated and communicating with your partner(s).As syphilis, monkeypox infection rate increase, students encouraged to get tested regularly, practice safe sex
ALEX NASH/ THE MOSSY LOGLC reports do not align with national STI trend
AES celebrates 50th anniversary this October
By ASMAA ZAIDAN
THIS OCTOBER , Academic
English Studies (AES)
celebrated its 50th anniversary.
As part of the celebration, AES
hosted an open house and an alumni
event during alumni weekend in
June 2022.Former President of Lewis & Clark
John R. Howard established the program
with the intention of attracting more
international students and supporting
the growing population of non-native
English speakers on campus. Prudence
Douglas was selected from Portland State
University as the program’s first director.
It was originally called the American
Language Institute, and was later changed to the
Institute for the Study of American
Language and Culture in 1980. It was
eventually renamed AES in 2003.
Director Laura Shier, who has
headed the program since 2014, said
the program is important because it
helps students develop critical thinking
skills in a different language. She noted
how teaching academic English is
more complex than one might expect
because it requires teaching a new way
of thinking.
“Our classes are content based,
they’re truly trying to mirror what it
would be like to be in an undergraduate
academic class, and developing the
academic language skills,” Shier said.
“So how to express yourself well, critical
thinking well in English, organizational
aspects of writing, developing stronger
reading ability, how to participate in a
classroom, communication. All of those
have a cultural aspect to them; a cross
cultural aspect to them that is very
nuanced.”
Over the years, the program has
waxed and waned in size. It hit its
highest enrollment at approximately
140 students. This year, the program is
composed of 12 students, most of whom
are graduate-level students hoping
to attend graduate institutes across
the country. According to Shier, the
change in enrollment year-by-year is
often due to international contexts. For
example, in 2005 Saudi Arabia began
the King Abdullah Scholarship Program,
which led to a massive influx of Saudi
students to the United States. Later the
implementation of a similar program
at Japan’s Waseda University attracted
many students to LC.
“When I started, we had 134 students,”
Shier said. “By the second year I was here
the majority of the students were coming
from Saudi Arabia. And we had really
strong numbers with our Japanese study
abroad exchange programs.”
However, in the last few years, the
program has seen a dramatic decline
in enrollment, along with struggles in
recruitment. Overall, less undergraduate
students are dual enrolled in AES and
general LC courses. “T hat’s one of the biggest changes
for me since 2014, is that we don’t have
undergraduate students in our program,”
Shier said. “We had undergraduate
students who took more than just one
of our classes — they would take a full
semester load of classes (at LC.) And
that’s the one thing we’re missing that I’m
hoping that we can get back.”
John Barritt, an instructor for AES
who has been at LC since 2009, has
witnessed the program “growing and
shrinking” over the years.
“There were some years in the early
teens where we had something like 120
students at one point,” Barritt said. “So
there was all of this activity. And now
sometimes it feels like a ghost town.”
However, he is optimistic about the
future. AES has always been a dynamic
program as it follows international
trends. He notes the value of having
such a program is seeing students gain
confidence in a new language. Shier
is exploring ways to build AES back
up. One way they hope to do that is by
working alongside admissions to accept
international students who do not already
have high levels of English fluency.
Another option is to look domestically
for students who may benefit from
the program, such as first-generation
immigrants.
“For many of them it’s their first time
in the U.S., and coming here and figuring
things out, it’s really satisfying when you
see students connect with undergraduates
at Lewis & Clark,” Barritt said. “For
example, when a student comes in who
was really quiet and was really reticent
about speaking English, and suddenly by
the end of the year it’s almost like seeing a
different personality.”
AES students Nana Konobe ’25 and
Yui Nabae ’25 came from Tokyo to LC to
learn English. They were drawn here after
hearing about its beautiful campus and
welcoming environment.
“I wasn’t familiar with America, and
I didnt know where it was better for me,
but Portland is a good place so I decided
to come here,” Konobe said.
Nabae explains that although the
AES program is highly beneficial and
also intense. Oftentimes, classes can be repetitive and boring due to their size
and frequency, as they meet daily and
there are only 6-7 students. She is also
dual enrolled in Art History courses at
LC.
Konobe, who is a business major back
home in Japan, describes her experience
differently.
“I’m in a different class, so my teacher
always gives us new things so I don’t feel
it’s boring,” Konobe said. “I like the AES
class.”
Her main goal is to speak English
more fluently and understand
conversations better.
“I’d like to talk more naturally to
native speakers,” Konobe said. “Listening
to conversation is a little difficult for me.”
As for what the pair would like
American students to know about their
experience, they describe feeling a lack of
interest from American peers regarding
how it is to be a part of the program.
“I feel like when I talk to American
students about me taking AES, they’re
like, ‘oh okay’ and they don’t ask any
further,” Nabae said. “I think they’re
not really familiar with AES. I also
think American students … think it’s
normal for international students to
speak perfect English. And they just
don’t care if we can’t keep up with their
conversation or class. They’re just caring
about their own business.”
Konobe expressed similar struggles,
and suggested that perhaps part of
the issue may simply be a lack of
understanding.
“I heard most of American people
don’t study second language so … They
don’t know a lot of my feelings,” Konobe
said. “How difficult it is to listen and
speak a second language, so they don’t
know which word is easy or how to speak
slowly. And I can’t say ‘please more
slowly.’”
They both urged LC students to
consider speaking more slowly, use
familiar words and make their language
accessible when communicating with
English learners. Such engagement
benefits everyone, because it promotes
the type of cross-cultural exchange AES
hoped to foster from its inception 50
years ago. The 1984 Partners of the Americas Academic English Studies teachers smile.COURTESY OF LEWIS AND CLARK
Academic English Studies department enters fifth decade with open house, reminisces on long history
AES hosted the Education USA academy with the U.S. State Department in 2016.COURTESY OF LEWIS AND CLARK
NEWS 3FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
Reception honors
new college leader
Guests celebrate after inaugural speeches at the reception held in Academic Quad.COURTESY OF NINA JOHNSON
Continued from Page 1.
someone who I consider family
right here on campus with me,
someone who was willing to take
the time to catch up with me at any
point in time and look out for me.”
The ceremony consisted of
powerful musical performances by
student-run groups. The main event
of the inauguration was the bestowing
of a medallion representing the
presidency. This was followed by
a speech by Holmes-Sullivan who
began with thanking every person
individually for speaking, and how
grateful she was to the people that
helped her get to this moment.
The new president explained what
it meant for her to be a Black female
athlete growing up, and recognized
the important people in her life that
got her to where she is today. She
also discussed her future plans in
addition to the immense work she
has already performed for the school.
Holmes-Sullivan had a recurring
theme within her speech of being able
to find and use one’s voice to advocate
for themselves. She discussed how
she wishes to amplify students’
voices and help them locate the
voice they may not know they have.
“You’re about to hear some
different voices, stories from people
right here at Lewis & Clark, who set
the tone for the kind of institution we
can be with, the kind of community
for the kind of country we must
become,” Holmes-Sullivan said.
Holmes-Sullivan closed out her
speech with a focus on LC and the
people and the community of this
institution. She placed emphasis on
the importance of higher education
and creating diversity through
dialogues and community discussion.
“We will fully educate our students
creating a sense of belonging that is
the antidote to disconnection and
divisiveness, teaching them how to
foster differences without shutting
down or becoming locked in rigid thinking.” Holmes-Sullivan said.
“In the coming months, years, you
will be reading and hearing more
about the excellence that exists at
Lewis and Clark. It is among my top
priorities that we sustain and grow
our local, regional and national
reputation across all three campuses.”
Following the ceremony, a
reception was held on the Academic
Quadrangle Lawn featuring live music,
several food options and drink options,
including alcohol for those 21+. There
was an ambiance that invited people
to mingle and discuss the future with
Holmes-Sullivan as the president.
“I really liked the inauguration,
I thought that the speeches were all
really heartwarming and exciting and
I liked that I got to learn more about
Robin,” Cicely Bergsma ’24 said.
During the reception, Associate
Professor of Hispanic Studies Freddy
Vilches and his band Matices Latin
Ensemble played a unique blend of
traditional and contemporary music
combining a variety of elements
from Brazilian Bossa Nova, Cuban
and Latin music. Holmes-Suvillan
talked about Vilches in her speech
and his work in composing music
that centers around indigenous voices
and instruments. She mentioned
that he has traveled throughout
North and South America to restore
these languages, melodies and
rhythms dismissed and historically
marginalized, to the musical canon.
After the music ended, the
reception included a heartfelt speech
by Holmes-Sullivan’s wife Kathy and
her sons and her daughter-in-law.
“I can’t wait to see and be
part of what she, together with
the Lewis & Clark community,
accomplishes during her presidency
here.” Kathy Holmes-Sullivan said.
At the reception, several people
had a lot to say about the inauguration
and their excitement regarding
Holmes-Sullivan’s presidency.
“I loved seeing Robin’s friends talk
about her experiences working with
her, and I was able to get to know
her more through that lens,” Maggie
Martin ’25 said. “It makes me really
excited for the future of the school.”
Dr. Lisa Collins, who is the head
of the graduate school of education
and counseling, thought that it was
really great that Holmes-Sullivan
centered her family and personal
relationships in her inauguration.
Others resonated with this message.
“I really enjoyed hearing personal
stories about Robin,” Kate Milne ’24
said. “I feel like I got to know her
better and I was very moved by her
mentorship story and I am really
excited for her to be our president.”
As seen, many enjoyed how
personal Holmes-Sullivan’s speech
felt as well as the ceremony as a whole.
“It really felt personal to her, she
had a lot of personal stories about
her inspiration and the people that
influenced her,” said Amy Miller ’80,
who serves on the Board of Trustees
(BoT). “We (BoT) are just so excited
to have her be the new president.”Students weigh their impacts on
public transit, LC’s “car culture”
Structural safety of buildings, trees
reevaluated by engineers, arboristsContinued from Page 1.
“...about the elimination of the
38/39,” MacWilliamson said via email.
Several faculty members were
concerned about the route as removing
their way to commute. I worried about
my friends, who I know rely on TriMet
to get to campus. I thought that the next
logical step would be to publicize this
news, so students can provide feedback
and their personal experiences. Without
more voices, TriMet will not hear the
Lewis & Clark community.”
Fabian Guerrero ’22, who does
not use the lines, felt similarly to
MacWilliamson.
“If I only took the bus and had
no other way to get to school, the
closure of the 38 and 39 lines would
be catastrophic,” Guerrero said via
email.” I am not in that position, but
I really empathize with those who are.
The people affected are our peers,
our faculty, and our staff. Show some
respect for them, please.”
While Montez understands these
sentiments, he agrees with the proposed
changes, especially considering that
there are greater needs in lower income
areas with higher demographics of
people of color.
“I believe the knee jerk reaction was
to get upset by this,” Montez said. “But
frankly, just looking at the data … it
makes sense. In my mind, I understand
why they’re doing it.”
According to MacWilliamson, LC
offers the highest subsidized pass in the
Portland area in comparison to other
colleges. She is optimistic that this
relationship and bargaining power will
be beneficial in negotiations, especially
with Vice President of Student Life
Evette Castillo Clark prioritizing the
issue of TriMet coverage.
“While I have not heard an official
statement from administration, so I
do not want to speak on their behalf, I
met briefly with Sustainability Director,
Amy Dvorak, who gave me encouraging
news about alternatives to the 38/39,”
MacWilliamson said. “We may see
an expanded TriMet line, the 35, to
Macadam Avenue. I am confident that
L&C administrators will continue to
advocate for TriMet access to campus.”If Lines 38 and 39 were terminated,
Montez said the Pioneer Express could
support the needs of most who use the
TriMet in addition to regular Pio riders.
“We have more than enough room
in the morning to accommodate those
folks,” Montez said. “There’s plenty –
it’s a 40 foot bus, and even if it is full,
there is a standing room option as well.
I want to view this as okay, ‘How do we
actually take this as a challenge? How
do we use this as a way to create equity
for our community?’”
Due to TriMet’s reasoning,
MacWilliamson said there is one clear
path to guarantee these lines remain.
“If people feel passionate about
preserving these lines: use them,”
MacWilliamson said. “I know that this
initial step can be difficult. I held a
lot of fear around public transit after
routinely being harassed on my local
buses and light rail lines in San Jose,
CA. But, conquering this anxiety is
essential to upkeep public transit.
Unless you try the TriMet, you cannot
overcome these hurdles.”
Guerrero wishes that these lines
were accessible, but living in Sellwood
makes the commute impractical.
“I live in Sellwood, and what is a 15-
20 minute drive from my house is an
hour and a half long transit commute,”
Guerrero said. “I’ve been hoping that the establishment of a solid ridership base
to campus would trigger a proliferation
of more bus routes so that I and others
could choose to take transit to school.
Until reliable public transit service is
established to Lewis and Clark campus,
there will never be good ridership and
we will never become integrated into
Portland’s transit network.”
MacWilliamson also lives in
Sellwood and does not ride the lines for
the same reasons. While she recognizes
this may seem hypocritical, she
challenges herself to do better.
“I recognize that I need to do more;
I want to better familiarize myself with
the local routes,” MacWilliamson said.
“I hope that my message spurs more
on-campus and off-campus students to
acknowledge their individual impact on
public transit.”
Regardless of the results of the
draft plan, Montez said LC has a lot
to tackle moving forward since the
campus has a “car culture” and summer
transportation has always been a
challenge.
“It’s going to take a lot of
brainstorming, it’s going to take a lot
of courage and creativity,” Montez said.
“But I do think that we have a lot of
smart people who work and go to school
here. I’m confident that we can find a
solution to these problems.”
Continued from Page 1.
LC has also hired an outside
engineer to consult on structural
safety. The contractor will examine
campus structures, including the
pagodas near the reflecting and the
historic grape arbor in the Estate
Gardens. Additionally, the Reflecting
Pool construction will undergo further
repair work.
A structural safety forum will
be hosted at some point during the
senate space.“Every student is invited to come talk
with administrators,” Macwilliamson
said. “At the moment we have not been
able to schedule it because we are trying
to respect the privacy of the impacted
family.”
At the forum, clarity will be provided
about where to safely hammock so
that students will get to continue
participating in this popular activity.
“We have all these beautiful trees
around campus that are perfectly safe
for hammocking,” MacWilliamson said.
“They want to highlight those options for students with concern that students
can still hammock and enjoy their time
outdoors.”
In the meantime, the hammocking
policy has been stalled due to arborists’
assessment that the trees are in drought.
This makes them weaker and unable to
support as much weight as when the
policy was first written.
Facilities will need to reassess
the hammocking policy’s framework,
which provides guidelines of width
and diameter of trunks to support
hammocking.
One of many students who flock outdoors on sunny days, Isaac Simon ’23 reclines toreads in a hammock outside Alder Hall.DAVID ALLEN/THE MOSSY LOGTrimet shares their draft of proposed public transportation lines across Portland.COURTESY OF “FORWARD TOGETHER” THROUGH TRIMET.ORG
Vichez’s band performs at reception.COURTESY OF NINA JOHNSON
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 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.
Letter from the editor: Our 80th anniversary
The Mossy Log celebrates journalistic legacy of staff’s past, looks to new future after name change
By VENUS EDLIN
THE MOSSY LOG’S first issue
was published on Oct. 13, 1942,
which is 80 years ago this
month. At the time, the paper was
yet to be named. However, for the
following issues up until the start of
this semester, it had been known as
The Pioneer Log.
As our readers know, this change
was made as an effort towards
decolonization. However, some
members of the community felt it was
erasing our history, though that is off-
base. Come to find out, that history
started without a name.
For me, this is emblematic of what
it is like to be a news organization.
Most often, no matter the
circumstances, we stick to our print
schedule – even without a name. This
is something I know places me within
a long legacy of other editors-in-chief,
where every issue feels like a miracle.
For example, this issue comes
after a sudden emergency move out
of our office the day before layout.
Last issue, I had COVID-19 and was
editing, exporting and putting out
fires remotely. The issue before that
we were down several editors due
to the following reasons: a vacant
position (since filled), a spider bite
and a soccer game. We are on time
to a fault. However, I know this is not
unique. For all the EICs I have
known – Ihsaan Mohamed, Nicholas
Nerli and Hanna Merzbach – there
have always been problems, most of
them unpredictable. Under Ihsaan’s
leadership, our office also moved.
Unfortunately that time, our printer
did not work and our computers were
not connected to the network. Tha t issue we did publish late – by one
business day.
There have been times when
we have foregone publishing, most
recently due to the Coronavirus
pandemic. During Nic’s tenure, out
of fear of covid contamination, we
canceled our last layout that semester.
Honestly, it was a miracle we were
able to safely design the paper in person at all that year since most
classes were still entirely virtual, or
hybrid at best.
In fact, the semester before that,
when Hanna was EIC, issues came to
a complete halt when the pandemic
proved dangerous and LC students
were sent home. However, not before
we produced one last issue: the
coronavirus special edition. Funnily enough, this was the first
semester I served as an editor. A
week before students were required
to leave, I got an email with an offer
to be a news editor for the remainder
of the Spring 2020 semester. I was
elated: This was what I was waiting
for. It was very short lived, but I did
write four or five articles for that
issue and laid out page 2.
Ever since I have been at this
publication, there have been
challenges to printing. That is what
has defined us, more than any
name ever has. I hope what we can
remember is our perseverance above
all else, while reckoning with our
flaws and mistakes.
This issue is in dedication to those
previous editors and the struggles
they pushed through to publish, the
ones I know of and the many others I
do not. As well as our editorial board
and contributors who go through
their own personal tribulations to
ensure each issue is possible. And of
course, to you dear reader.
Sincerely,
Rising facism abroad
highlights US trendsPortlander anti-umbrella sentiment
guards against hazards, full hands
By ASHLYN LITTLE
IN RECENT YEARS , many
countries have been turning to
authoritarianism as their form of
government as opposed to democracy.
In Italy’s most recent election, the
citizens elected a new prime minister,
Giorgia Meloni, who advocates a
hard-right stance on immigration,
abortion, LGBTQ+ rights and is an
outright admirer of Benito Mussolini.
The implications that come with this
are terrifying and open a path towards
the degradation of democracy, as well
as human rights, especially in the
United States.
Emerging authoritarian regimes
pose a threat to the foundations
and reputation of democracy.
These patterns have been gaining
international traction, which imposes
a threat to other democratic countries
that may not be very prosperous
and therefore may fall siege to
authoritarianism. But the current
epicenter of these trends has found
itself in the United States.
There has been a degradation in
democratic process of the United
States in recent years. While America
is said to be the pinnacle of freedom,
democracy has come under attack
under our very noses. From the
2016 election of Donald Trump and
his authoritarian practices, to the
Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v.
Jackson that strips women of their
rights to bodily autonomy, democracy
is on the fritz in the “greatest country
in the world.”
If one were to throw a frog
into boiling water, it would react
immediately and attempt to escape.
But if you were to put it into cold water
and slowly boil said water, it would
stay and die. American people are
slowly being boiled by the degradation
of democracy and, in turn, the rise
of authoritarianism over time. This
pattern can and must be broken.
It cannot be denied that American
freedom is deeply rooted in racism
and the oppression of minorities.
The history that the United States
government holds is built on stolen
land and oppressive practices. The
systems America has put in place serve the elite and must be radically
changed and reflected upon for the
prevention of an authoritarian regime.
There are certain aspects of
democracy that are integral to its
success and must be protected. The
most notable are the balances of
powers and the integrity of elections.
Citizens of democratic countries must
continue to vote fairly and call out
any violations regarding voting to
preserve this integrity.
On the other hand, our government
must do their part to ensure that there
is still a clear balance of powers by
reflecting on their own institutions
and the foundations they rest upon.
change is necessary from the inside
out.
It is essential for democratic
institutions to internationally band
together to support each other as well
as human rights activists. Supporting
human rights efforts will combat
systems of oppression. The fight
against the rise of authoritarianism
is one that all must partake in to
promote the foundations of liberty
that democracy lies on.
Venus Edlin
Editor-in-Chief
By ERYN NICHOLS
THERE IS NOTHING that makes
you stick out more in Portland
than an umbrella. In the land
of people who take pride in being
different, you could walk down the
street naked and still not be as weird
as the guy holding an umbrella. Here
is a list of reasons why holding an
umbrella in Portland makes you look
like a loser.
People in Portland almost never
walk. They are always riding a bike
or a lime scooter. It would take some
serious skill to not fall off of your bike
and be impaled by an umbrella spike.
Holding an umbrella while biking
should be an extreme sport.
Also, people in Portland do not
have enough hands to carry a stupid
umbrella. Everyone in Portland has
their dog in one hand and a coffee in
the other. What are they supposed to
hold the umbrella with? Do not let
your mind wander too far.
Everyone in Portland is equipped
to go on a hike at a moment’s notice,
#gorpcore. Have you ever seen anyone
hike with an umbrella? If you say yes,
that probably was not a hike, it was a
walk. It is more efficient to let the rain
fall on you, and there is more room for
gorp in your pack.
People in Portland are very
spiritual, if you have not seen the
plethora of crystal and apothecary
shops. With an umbrella, how could
you participate in a rain cleanse?
In order to cleanse themselves of
toxicity, Portlanders take a nice walk
in the rain.
To be real, the rain in Portland is
unexpectedly inconsistent. If you walk
down the street and feel a drizzle, the
sun is already out by the time you pull
out your umbrella. You are then left to
carry it around all day in defeat.
When walking around a crowded
Portland farmers market, umbrellas
just will not do. You do not want to
continually bump into locals as you
search for lavender-infused honey
and organic IPAs. It is one thing to
be that jerk out-of-towner using an
umbrella — it is a whole other to be that jerk out-of-towner who takes
out the macrobiotic candlemaker with
said umbrella.
Lastly, we have trees, dude. Why do
we need some ugly, man-made piece of
metal when we have natural umbrellas
planted all around us? Instead of
looking like a dummy walking around
with your umbrella, just stop under a
tree while it rains. It will be over soon.
Replacing your natural umbrella with
an unsustainable, breakable lump
of polyester and metal is a major
Portland party foul.
In one of the rainiest cities in
America, it seems like umbrella business should be booming, but that
could not be further from the truth.
If it is still not clear why Portlanders
hate umbrellas so much, try carrying
one around. I am sure they will tell
you why as they beat you up. For the
record, I am kidding, no one is going
to beat you up because you choose
to carry an umbrella. But it is just a
little water— what are you scared of?
As a transplanted Portlander, I do not
carry an umbrella because I do not
want to blow my cover. Even though
I am constantly soaked, it is worth it
because at least I am not carrying a
loser umbrella.
EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOG
ALEX NASH/THE MOSSY LOGFRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 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.Rhetorical comparisons of left and right lack nuance
Far right slogans perpetuate harm, while progressive language exposes, responds to systemic violenceSame sad you: mental illness joins you abroad
Challenges with psychological health do not have to prevent you from studying overseas, just be prepared
By NATALIE CONNELL y
HOW CAN leftists be against
violent slogans from the right
like “Blood and Soil” and
“Destroy Antifa Scum,” or even the
use of “White Lives Matter” or “Blue
Lives Matter,” if they use chants
and expressions like “All Cops Are
Bastards,” “Revolution is the Solution”
and “Burn Fascists Not Forests” that
are just as aggressive rhetorically?
Why can this double standard exist?
As an intersectional Marxist,
especially one that has participated
in leftist demonstrations in Denver, I
have seen firsthand how people rally
behind violent slogans. Personally,
I use and support slogans such as
“No War But Class War.” These
experiences caused me to view
critiques of leftist rhetoric as surface
level and uncompelling.
Comparing violent slogans
between the right and left is not done
cautiously or thoroughly and usually
does not consider the context behind
them, or what violence means to
each side. It feels disingenuous to the
work done by previous generations
of activists that were predominantly
Black, Indigenous and queer.
“All Cops Are Bastards” and “Eat
the Rich” are useful ways to examine
this. While it is true that these
terms get co-opted by liberals and
the far right, I do not believe that to
be sufficient to render the phrases
hypocritical. It can be considered
temporarily distracting at best
when slogans are misconstrued, but
activism is a marathon rather than a
sprint.
Even when used as hashtags
or buzzwords, these expressions
can never lose their fundamental
meanings, and will always nurture
action, expression and community
on the left. Both of those slogans
have been around for decades, have
rich histories behind them and still
connect people to this day. Ideology
and cause-specific slogans on the left
go through phases of reclamation
and change. Think of the way “Black Lives
Matter” was appropriated by other
minority groups at first. On the left it
ended up being a useful mechanism
for people to examine how much work
the Black community has done in
cultivating protest and community-
driven ideals. It led to pro-immigration
demonstrations only using “No one is
illegal” and discouraging chants that
included “Immigrant Lives Matter.” It
encouraged communities to reevaluate
the rhetoric that they used and reflect
on how the left can perpetuate anti-
Blackness, even if unintentionally.
On the other hand, violent rhetoric
on the right is more reactionary in its
conscious echoing of left-wing word
choice, specifically with the co-opting
of the “Black Lives Matter” slogan into
“White or Blue Lives Matter.” There
is barely any historical context to sort
through when looking at timelines of
the alt-right. The Proud Boys, QAnon
and other far-right groups known
for particularly violent slogans only
go as far back as 2016 and 2017,
respectively. “All Lives Matter” is less
associated with the far right, but is just
as reactionary and again purposefully
misconstrues the focus of “Black Lives
Matter” away from systemic racism
and police brutality.
There is virtually no reason for
the far right to reflect on what chants
and slogans they use and why. They
seem to only reflect the violence
that they have always committed
and supported, rather than create a
broader commentary on the current
political sphere. It is uncomfortable
to thoughtfully analyze the eloquence
they use from their perspective. And it
is made much worse when the left and
the right are seen as fundamentally
using the same formats of expressions
and catchphrases by those who do
not know the context behind them.
Both sides use expressions to bring
people together, but that is where the
similarities end.
The key difference between the two
sides is the definition of violence. On
the left it is through a much broader
systemic lens, but on the right it is interpersonal. You cannot convince
someone that poverty is violent if
they do not care about poverty in
the first place, and certainly not if
physical force is their only defining
characteristic of violence. It makes
the two inherently incomparable.
Using a violent slogan such as “Eat
the Rich”’ not only acknowledges the violent nature of capitalism, classism
and poverty, but responds to that
violence. It shows the willingness to
meet that violence at its own level,
play by the rules of its own game. It is
nuanced and always has been.
I encourage other leftists and any
other individuals that have different
political identities to research the slogans their party uses and think
critically about what mantras to wear
on buttons and T-shirts. It matters
not just how violent they appear at
first glance, but what kind of violence
and history they are derived from.
Not all violence is created equal and
neither are the phrases meant to
incite mobilization. By ISABEL REKOW
SHORTLY BEFORE I left to study
abroad, a good friend of mine sent
me the “Romano Tours” Saturday
Night Live skit. Adam Sandler plays
Joe Romano, a tour guide who is tired
of people expecting that a vacation will
solve all their life problems.
“Remember,” Romano said. “You’re
still going to be you on vacation. If you
are sad where you are, and then you
get on a plane to Italy, the you in Italy
will be the same sad you from before,
just in a new place.”
My friend and I laughed with all
the hilarity that comedy elicits when
it touches a nerve. “You’ll be the same
sad you, but in Paris,” she said, smiling.
Her words and support meant a
lot since she had studied abroad as an
undergraduate several years prior, and
like me, struggles with mental illness.
If you have a mental illness at
home, you will also have one abroad.
Please, do not let that stop you from
going, unless you have reason to
believe you would be putting your
health and safety in danger. Since
college is already stressful, if you are
able to make it through a semester at
Lewis & Clark then you will probably
be able to make it through a semester
abroad. Congratulations! You have
passed the first test.
On the other hand, you might be
one of those lucky people who says
that they are okay. It is sweet of you
to think that. I hope it is true. It is still
a good idea to prepare for unexpected
changes in your mental health since
the disruptions of going abroad can
bring up or exacerbate issues you did
not realize you had. Do Your Research
Where do you want to study, and
which programs are you considering
applying for? Programs vary greatly
in the amount of support they offer
students. Some can connect you with
therapists in your host country. In
other programs, you are on your own.
You will also want to take into
account the prevalent views on mental
illness in the region you are studying
in. If you go to Canada, Australia, New
Zealand or western Europe, your host
country will view mental illness in a
similar way to the United States. In
much of the world, the topic is more or less taboo, although there is always
variation in the way that individual
people approach it. If you plan on
living with a host family, talk with the
Overseas and Off-Campus Programs
office to strategize how you can best
communicate your situation.
If you are on medication, it is
imperative that you make sure you
can legally bring your medications
with you. Some countries regulate
prescription drugs with a high
potential for abuse, such as
benzodiazepines and amphetamines,
much more strictly than the U.S. You
may also need special permission from your doctor in order to acquire
several months’ worth of medications
at one time. The last thing you want
is to go into withdrawal when you are
far from home.
Prepare
If you have any concerns, talk to
your doctor and/or therapist before
you go so that you can work out a
game plan. You can also reach out to
alumni of the program to see what
strategies worked for people in a
similar situation.
Talk to your friends and family as
well to make sure you can stay in touch
with them. Will you
use WhatsApp,
Instagram, video
calls or phone calls
to reach them?
Do you want the
predictability of a
scheduled weekly
call, or the flexibility
of reaching out as
needed?
Depending on the
program, you may
be able to choose
between a variety of housing options.
Host families, shared student housing
and individual apartments all have
different pros and cons for different
students. For example, if you want
the cultural and linguistic immersion
of living with a host family, but need
to spend a lot of time alone in order
to recharge, you might need to make
some compromises in order for the
situation to work for everyone.
While There
Studying abroad comes with high
highs and low lows. It is important to
build up a routine and not lose sight of self care. Try not to rely too much
on your support network at home so
that you can build a new one in your
host country.
Do your absolute best to be as
engaged as possible, whatever that
looks like for you. Remember that
a lot of the people around you are
pretending to be coping well, but are
actually not — just like in college back
home. There is considerable pressure
to have an amazing time. I cannot say
how many people I saw trying their
absolute best to be “Emily in Paris.”
Struggling is normal and everyone
does it their own
way. Do not beat
yourself up. I studied
abroad in the fall of
2021, and due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
all the students in
my program were
placed in individual
student apartments.
I knew beforehand
that the isolation
would negatively
affect my mental
health, and it did. There were a few
days when I did not step foot out of
my apartment due to depression, and
that is okay – I have days like that in
Portland, too.
Remember your goals and let
those guide you. Reach out to your
support network. It will be okay.
Mental health issues can be
terribly isolating and leave you feeling
trapped in your own mind and body.
Living abroad, even for the short
span of a semester, makes your world
bigger. Same sad you, but in a wild,
strange and beautiful place.
ALEX NASH/THE MOSSY LOGHALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOG“Remember that a lot
of the people around
you are pretending
to be coping well,
but are actually not
— just like in college
back home.”FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
FEATURES 6
Andrey’s photographs vary from blossoming floral arrangements that explode with color to interesting nocturnes and surreal landscapes captured indirectly through puddles as seen in the two rightmost images. Students, staff wrap up inaugural weekend with gastropub party at Punchbowl Social at Pioneer Place Downtown after-party celebrates inauguration
By PAIGE ANDERSON
CAMPUS ACTIVITIES Board
(CAB) hosted the Student
Inauguration afterparty at the
Punch Bowl Social club in downtown
Portland on Oct. 22. The event served
as an end cap to the weekend of
celebrations that welcomed Robin
Holmes-Sullivan as the 26th president
of Lewis & Clark.
LC students and community
members packed the large event space
located on the third story of the Pioneer
Place Mall which offers copious space
for games and socializing as well as
a 21+ section where alcoholic drinks
were available.
The venue features 12 bowling
lanes, two karaoke rooms, ping pong
tables, an arcade and a few bars
that served non-alcoholic drinks
free of charge. A large number
of the attending students took
transportation provided by the college
to and from the event.
The atmosphere of the afterparty
was energetic and many students
attended. The students split off into
various groups to check out all that
the venue had to offer.
In addition to the free beverages,
two tables were set up and piled with
an assortment of foods, including
two types of sliders, cilantro wings,
a wonderfully cheesey mac and
cheese, grilled veggie quesadillas
and shrimp cocktails. Ezra Hart ’25 oversaw a good deal
of the afterparty’s planning along with
other members of CAB. He began
to work out the logistics last spring
in order to create a fun and open
environment for students and the
community to celebrate.
“We wanted something where
(Holmes-Sullivan) could actually
interact with people and be able to talk
a bit more in a nice kind of way, a social
gathering where both the students and
Robin felt comfortable,” Hart saidAccording to Hart, off campus
events can be difficult to facilitate,
especially on weekends when students
may want to spend their free time
away from school sanctioned parties.
“Off campus events are always
kind of hard because it’s hard to
gauge what people want to do on a
weekend, but I’m so happy with this
turn out!,” Hart said. “There could
be just 10 people showing up and if
they are having a good time, that’s
all that matters!”Fortunately, since the event was so
well broadcasted to the student body,
the venue was full and lively.
Overall, students seemed to greatly
enjoy themselves and took advantage of
all the venue had to offer.
Stella Mercer ’25 enjoyed that
the school gave students a special
opportunity to celebrate the
inauguration. “I think it’s wonderful!”
Mercer said. “It is so awesome that it
is free, it’s so fun. I feel bad for all the
people who decided not to go.” Gathered at a small table near the
bowling lanes, Mercer and a group of
friends discussed the event. Mira Lawrence
’25 had only one critique.
“I wish they had a dance floor,” she said.
Ian Cebula ’25, also at the table,
commented on how well the event was
executed.
“Basically my whole vibe of this place
was that I wasn’t planning to come until
like an hour and a half before, but I realized
all my friends would be here,’’ Cebula said.
“It is way more bougie than I would have
expected.”
Holmes-Sullivan arrived toward the
end of the party. She casually milled around
and spoke to different groups of students
and community members.
The new president made sure to take
this time to connect with the students and
make her gratitude toward the community
known.
“I wanted to do a big thank you to
the students, because I felt they played a
huge role in me getting the presidency,”
Holmes-Sullivan said. “I wanted them
to make sure they knew I appreciated
them, and that my focus on the student
experience is not going to change.”
The party, she added, felt like the
cherry on top of days of wonderful
celebrations welcoming a new chapter in
LC’s history.
“I think the party is outstanding,”
Holmes-Sullivan said. “It is very safe and
there is a lot of variety, just look around.”
Students look really really happy, so it
warms my heart.” SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
Pioneer Express driver talks life, love, photography
By ISABELLE ATHA
FOR MANY Lewis & Clark students,
the Pioneer Express shuttle
provides essential transportation
to Fred Meyer, a ride to downtown
Portland or a journey to Sellwood on
the weekend. However, our beloved Pio
would not be around without the people
who drive it.
Andrey is
among the select
few who drive the
Pio and is popular
among students.
Before working
for LC, he held
a wide variety of
jobs.
“I worked
as a helper in
stonemasonry, at
Wally Park, doing
security, and
worked at a car
sales magazine,”
Andrey said. “But
I worked with a shuttle company that
had a contract with the school. I didn’t
think I’d end up here originally, but now
it’s just another route.”
Andrey has now been driving the
LC route for eight years. When in the
driver’s seat, he gets to connect with
his passengers.“Sometimes, I don’t even talk to
the students to connect with them,”
Andrey said. “Sometimes I accidentally
get involved with their life at that exact
moment (while they are on the bus).”
He told a story about a boy and a girl
who rode the Pio a while ago. In the time
from getting dropped off at Fred Meyer
and when Andrey came to pick them
back up again,
something more
had grown in
their relationship.
“I played a
romantic song for
them,” Andrey
said. “They got on
the bus together
and were just
chatting the
whole way. And
when we got back
to Templeton,
they had what
might have been
their first kiss.”
Connecting
with college
students has allowed him to think about
the relationship between himself and
his own kids.
“(During college) there is a
disconnection between parents and
kids,” Andrey said. “So when I started
working here, I got interested in how younger people communicate in a
different way. They respond to things
differently than fully grown people. It
helped me to create communication
with my own kids.”
One of the other ways he connects
with students is through the music he
plays on his portable speaker which
he affixes to the front of the bus.
Many may be familiar with the wide
variety he plays while driving, which
could be anything from ‘oldies’ to
electronic dance music.
Andrey’s speaker plays a non-
stop hit parade, which colorfully
distinguishes him from other Pio
drivers.
“Is this the one who plays
Hollaback Girl all the time?” Gina
Kennedy ’26 asked. “Yeah I know who
we’re talking about!”
“I like to do something to make
life fun and happy,” Andrey said.
“When I first started driving here, I
started to play music on this really
small speaker and the students loved
it. I play different playlists depending
on the mood.”
Andrey also hopes to introduce
people to music they have never
heard before, and has succeeded at
that.
“I’ll have someone come up and
have Shazam open and I’ll say, ‘Stop
stealing my songs!’” Andrey joked. Andrey also recognizes that college
kids are still just kids at heart, despite
being considered adults.
“Sometimes I’ll do this thing where
I drive twice around the roundabout
going back up the hill, and I call it the
carousel,” Andrey said. “I always see
people get excited when I do it, and I
think it reminds them of childhood.”
Isa Simon ’26 and other students
can confirm that the ‘carousel’ is no
fantasy.
“Sometimes he’ll be like ‘Do you
guys wanna do the carousel?’ which is
going around the roundabout twice,”
Simon said. “I enjoy that.”
Another student also remembers
taking an unexpected ride on the
carousel. “Sometime last year we were
on the way home from Fred Meyer and
we got to the roundabout,” she said.
“I’m just sitting there and then
I notice, “hey, we’ve been here for a
while” and he was just going around
and around and around in circles!”
“Sometime last semester Andrey
let me sit in the driver’s seat,” another
student said. “We stopped in the
South Waterfront so he could take a
break and while he did that he asked,
“does anyone want to sit up here and
my friend and I took great advantage
of it.”
Outside of his job at LC, Andrey
dabbles in his many hobbies. He used to fix cars, has an associate degree
in car engineering and once had an
aviation business.
He also enjoys art, especially
photography. His love for it started
when he was just 11 years old.
“I was so excited when my parents
bought me my first camera,” Andrey
said. “I took it everywhere. The first
day I used five rolls of film.”
Through the years, he has
thoroughly developed his craft. To
take a good picture, he believes it is
important to look at the world from a
different perspective.
“Younger kids will just sit down
and look at a ladybug or flower,”
Andrey said. “It’s nothing to us
because we see that every day, but
they see things from a different angle.
When little children start exploring
the world, they look at objects from
different ways and angles. Everything
to them is new. Sometimes I lower my
eyes to the ground like that and hope
to see the world from a new point of
view.”
During his continuing tenure on
the bus, Andrey has added much joy
to the lives of the LC community with
his very positive outlook on life. He
offers the young people he meets with
one bit of advice: “live life for yourself
and never give up. If you fall down, be
strong for yourself and get up.”
ISABELLE ATHA/THE MOSSY LOG
COURTESY OF ANDREY
COURTESY OF ANDREY COURTESY OF ANDREY
Andrey reflects on career, connecting to students, playing music, running carousels around Terwilliger roundabout
“I played a romantic
song for them,” Andrey
said. “They got on the bus
together and were just
chatting the whole way.
And when we got back
to Templeton, they had
what might have been
their first kiss.”FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
FEATURES 7
By Venus edlin
I could spend hours in the old
newspaper archives. In fact, I
have. However, I recognize you
may not have that time, so in that
spirit, here are some selections from
across decades.
For more archival content, visit
LC’s digital collections. Additionally,
bound print copies of previous issues
are available at Aubrey R. Watzek
Library on the Pioneer Balcony, my
personal favorite place to study.
Panel discusses Taiwan, China
tensions, possible future relations
By NATALIE CONNELLY
T HE INTERNATIONAL Affairs
(IA) department hosted a
panel discussion on Oct. 11
that offered different viewpoints on
China and Taiwan’s relations. The
panel centered on what the future
could hold if a conflict were to break
out.
The panel consisted of IA
Professors Kyle Lascurettes, Bob
Mandel, Matt Scroggs, Laura Vinson
and Francis Abugbilla. Each had
a unique perspective on the issue.
Lascurettes and Scroggs both
focused on military capabilities,
while Vinson and Abugbilla focused
on the Global South. Vinson
concentrated on the diplomatic
aspect, and Abugbilla the economic
one. Mandel added to the discussion
by posing questions to fuel
conversation instead of taking a
specific approach to the topic.
While the staff had time set
aside to express their opinions, the
panel also responded to students’
questions and arguments. Mandel
expressed the importance of student
participation in these panels.
“This is people looking at things
from a broad perspective, and it kind
of empowers students to say, ‘Well,
I’m not an expert on it either, but
see it a different way,’” Mandel said.
“The whole experience is supposed to
be toward tending empowerment and
agency and getting students willing
to express opinions and questioning
of views from established figures, like
the way established figures question
students’ opinions.”
IA major Logan Drain ’25 chimed
in during the discussion.
“Southeast Asia has some sort of
stake in the situation,” Drain said.
“While they do get economic and
trade benefits from China, they also
do trading with Japan. If the status
quo and economy are destabilized,
that affects Southeast Asia. If leaders
perceive that more clearly, wouldn’t
they have leeway to force China into
negotiations?”
This opened up a broader discussion
about various regions worldwide and
their ties to the situation. Vinson argued
that with all the alternative options for negotiations, Southeast Asia might be
a better option than North America,
Latin America or Africa for filling that
role.
Drain suggested Singapore as that
middle ground.
“Given Singapore’s positive
relationship with African states and
the U.S., it might try to facilitate a
peaceful negotiation between China
and Taiwan,” Drain said.
IA and Sociology Anthropology
double major Rocío Yao ’24 posed a
question with a constructivist approach
to the topic.
“Xenophobia in domestic
politics plays a role in global order,”
Yao said. “Anti-China politics is
inherently racialized and hurts all
Asian populations. How do you think
that influences domestic politics,
individuals and global order?”
Lascurettes responded, by pointing
out the similarity between xenophobia
influencing the Trump Administration’s
foreign policy, and how that lens
affects Western feelings toward
China. He argued it has an influence
on the support for intervention which
is rooted in Anti-China sentiments,
but that it can also lead to non-
intervention sentiments given that the Taiwanese population is also part
of the Asian community.
Mandel responded to the same
question, adding that bigotry was
playing a non-obvious role. He also
compared it to the U.S. foreign policy
against China during the beginning
and height of the pandemic. Many
other students challenged the
professor’s viewpoints and asked
questions that moved the discussion
forward, and all parties chimed in
over the course of 90 minutes.
“We wanted to highlight all the
faculty in IA getting together to
discuss important issues and show
how we can differ from each other and
still have respect, and just because
we have different views, we don’t
undercut each other,” Mandel said.
“We accept that not only as a reality,
but something we loved and that we
emphasize different things from each
other.”
The staff expressed wanting to hold
another panel next semester and plans
on asking for student input to decide
the topic. For the IA department,
such debates are intended to promote
respectful differences of opinion and
tolerance for the staff and students
that are involved.
SOFIA REEVES/MOSSY LOGWaste company City of
Roses comes to campus
By SOLEINA ROBINSON
CITY OF ROSES (COR) has
replaced Lewis & Clark’s Waste
Management, the college’s former
disposable waste removal company.
COR is a local, Black and family-
owned company focused on reducing
societal waste and diverting wasteful
thinking.
The previous company used by LC
was one of the largest waste management
companies in America.
COR is the only B-Corporation waste
company in the United States. B-Corp
certified companies are companies
that are mindful while still making
profit and commit to a sustainable,
diverse company model. To get this
certification, companies take the B
Impact Assessment which measures
the company’s “impact on its workers,
community, environment, customers,
and company structure.” Being a B-Corp
certified company illustrates that COR
is dedicated to environmental and
community sustainability.
COR’s mission is to divert reusable
and recyclable waste from local landfills
by reducing waste streams and building a
circular economy. A circular economy is
a model of production and consumption
where recyclable and reusable materials
are brought back into the economy
through leasing, repairing and reusing
existing items that would otherwise end
up in landfills or be recycled. According
to their website, COR contributes
to “building a circular economy by
reintroducing recyclable material back
into the supply chain.”
Director of Sustainability at Amy
Dvorak described the company, founded
in 1995 by Alonzo Simpson, as the
growing, “cool kid” in sustainable waste
removal that has a model geared toward
sustainability.
Usually, haulers own or operate the
landfills that they bring the waste to, so
they make money off of clients’ waste
going into said landfill. Because they
do not own the recycling facilities, the
companies do not profit from diverting
waste meant for their landfill to recycling
facilities. Consequently, they have no
incentive to encourage or help divert
waste from trash to lower the amount
headed for landfills. COR, on the other
hand, owns a recycling facility, a 12 acre site in East Multnomah County, referred
to as their “Material Recovery Facility”
which motivates the company to
encourage clients to produce less landfill
waste and divert it into recycling.
According to Dvorak, chief operating
officer of COR Alando Simpson sent
an email to LC detailing the amount of
waste and recycling it is producing and
ways to lower it.
Dvorak was enthusiastic when
she discussed Simpson, COR’s chief
executive officer, who is trying to create
a circular economy in Portland. Simpson
has spoken to the sustainability and
entrepreneurship class, a course offered
by the Bates Center for Entrepreneurship
at LC.
“Every year people are blown away by
what he is talking about,” Dvorak said.
His discussion topics range from
creating a circular economy to the
environmental impacts of waste
disposal.
According to Dvorak, COR
accomplishes its mission by finding
individuals and organizations in the
Portland community that make use
of materials that would otherwise be
thrown away.
COR offered multiple ideas of actions
LC could take to reduce the food waste
produced. Dvorak mentioned a hazelnut
farm that could take food waste produced
on campus and turn it into compost for
their trees. LC could then hypothetically
purchase the hazelnuts that were grown
in the soil made from the school’s food
waste, contributing to a local circular
economy.
COURTESY OF LC
LC’s new disposal crew poses by truckMuch has changed, but LC has many constants; explore imagery from our multiple decade long archiveArchival snippets: Honoring 80 years of The Log
By CLAIRE BAKKE
ON OCT . 20, Slamlandia returned
to Portland. The event, which
occurs on the third Thursday of
every month, and is hosted by Literary
Arts and organized by Julia Gaskill, a
lifelong Portland resident, published
poet and “professional daydreamer”
according to her biography.
Slamlandia is divided into two
parts: open mic and slam poetry. Open
mic is an opportunity for poets to share
their works aloud, while slam poetry
is a competition between poets that
five judges from the audience score.
Performance slots are open to
anone on a first-come-first-serve
basis, with eight available slots for
open mic and ten available slots
for slam, and all poems are time-
restricted to up to three minutes.
Five audience members are invited to
judge poets during the slam portion,
starting at a default of 8.3 points and
increasing or decreasing based on how
the judges enjoyed the performance.
Slamlandia emphasizes providing
“a creative, fun, and welcoming
space for all literary communities,”
according to its website description.
It is hosted at Literary Arts, a small
space in downtown Portland with
warm lighting and a comfortable
atmosphere. While not every seat was
filled, the room was full of family,
friends and community members
alongside the performers, turning
the room into a community space.
The featured poet was Xylophone
Mykland, @xylophonepoetry on
Instagram, who is self-described as
a “neurodivergent, agender lesbian
poet.” Mykland was featured as part of their debut poetry collection book
tour, “Someone I Can Hold Gently.”
Mykland started with a Mad Libs
style poem they called "Sad Libs" for
the way it explored their mental health
over the years. They also performed a contrapoem — two poems side-by-side
read one at a time and then across the
whole combined line — and a variety
of poems from their new book. The
poetry from their new book shared
their life story in second-person poems addressed to their mother,
first love, best friend and themself.
In the past, Slamandia has
featured poets such as Valerie
Yvette Peterson, who has written
and performed poetry across the country for more than 35 years, and
Brennan DeFrisco, who has served
as the county arts coordinator for
California Poets, Poetry Out Loud and
the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Aside from the featured artist,
a dozen other poets also had the
opportunity to perform. Three of
the poets who performed at the
open mic were new to performing.
They received cheers from the
audience for their courage in
sharing their stories through poetry.
The performing poets explored
a wide variety of topics, ranging
from explorations of nature in
humidity, swamps and fields, to city
life, PTSD, trauma, identity, horror
movies and trans stories. Despite
the heaviness of some of those
topics, the poets often turned back
to joy, and the progress they made
in their journeys to self-acceptance
and improving their mental health.
The next Slamlandia is on Nov. 17 and
features poet Little Blue. Slamlandia is
hosted at Literary Arts the third Thursday
of every month at 7 p.m. Entry on every
third Thursday is free. Slamlandia also
hosts more irregular open mic House
Shows, and entry to those is $5. They
can be on Twitter and Instagram @
slamlandia, and also at slamlandia.com
or literary-arts.org for more information.
For more frequent slam poetry,
Slamlandia also has a sibling open mic
called Portland Poetry Slam that is held
every other Sunday at 4 p.m. at Tiny's
Coffee Northeast. Portland Poetry
Slam can be found at @portlandpoetry
on Facebook. While entry is free, they
suggest a donation of anything up
to $5. Portland Poetry Slam also has
open sign-ups starting at 3:30 p.m.By MO APP-SINGER
IT SEEMS THAT Left at London
(real name Nat Puff) is always doing
something interesting. Whether that
something is a TikTok comedy sketch
or an album about mental health, she is
constantly creating under the public eye.
When I catch up with her over Discord,
she is in the middle of recording a three-
song EP in the fervent span of 24 hours.
This EP, entitled “Stone Fruit,” will be
out everywhere in November, and is
currently available on her Patreon. She
plays me snippets of the three tracks
before we dive into the interview, which
are all worth listening to when they
are out. Afterwards, I ask her what
media she has been obsessed with.
“I’m on my fifth rewatch of Breaking
Bad,” Puff said. “It’s my second
rewatch this year. I don’t know what
happened … There’s nothing else I want
to watch right now. It’s my comfort
show. It shouldn’t be. I don’t feel like
that show is particularly comforting.”
Soon after, I ask her about her
favorite music, particularly bands or
artists that people are shocked that she
enjoys. She mentions Death Grips, sea
shanties and, of course, classical music.
“I will literally turn up to Vivaldi’s
‘Winter,” Puff said, before recounting
a TikTok sketch about “America’s Next
Top Sea Shanty” that she made. “I still
have the mandolin I was carrying (in that
sketch). It’s necessary to have a mandolin
if you’re going to do a sea shanty record.”
Genre blending is a key part of
her music, as she has sung hyperpop
bangers on the same tracklist as
piano ballads. Puff said her traversing
of genre lines comes naturally.
“If I make two songs in the same
genre, I get easily bored,” Puff said. “I’m
like, that just sounds like this old song of
mine and then I give up. I just don’t like
the song anymore. I gotta stay unfocused
as I am, in my music. I feel like it’s
representative of who I am and what I do”
Puff then turns her attention to “The
Ballad of Marion Zioncheck,” a track
on her 2021 album “t.i.a.p.f.y.h,” which
references the two title tracks “there is
a place for you here” and “THIS IS A
PROTEST FOR YOUR HEART!!!” The album “t.i.a.p.f.y.h” spins Puff’s signature
brand of genre chaos into musical gold.
“The Ballad of Marion Zioncheck '' is a
standout song full of twinkling piano keys
played by Vera Much, with vocals from
Puff and Sophia Konat. Marion Zioncheck
was a congressman from Seattle who
died by autodefenestration, or throwing
oneself out of a window, in 1936. The song
relays his life and eventual suicide, before
concluding with a proclamation about the
modern stigma attached to mental health.
“So first of all, this was early
quarantine,” Puff said. “I had started
conceptualizing the idea of making an
album in quarantine that was entirely
based around the city of Seattle, or just the
greater Puget Sound region, maybe even
the entirety of Washington State … I ended
up finding an article – it was a listicle –
and the second thing on the list was the
rumor that Marion Zioncheck haunts the
Arctic Club in downtown Seattle, which is
a hotel that’s currently being renovated.”
An article written by Jeff Stevens
for a series about Seattle’s history called
“City of Anxiety” helped finalize her
research, though she was denied access to
archives at the University of Washington.
“I was living really close to the
University of Washington and I called
to see if I could access their library,” Puff
said. “They had printed articles on Marion
Zioncheck in the archives. They won’t
let me in because it was early fucking
pandemic, which is understandable but I
was like, damn it. So I had to improvise,
because I’m an impatient person.”
She refers to Zioncheck as “a mental
illness icon.” I would have to agree. With
the topic of mental health, the topic of
her personal self care practices comes up.
“I haven’t been caring for myself in a
way that feels satisfying as of late,” Puff
said. “Sometimes that acknowledgement
is enough … Are you surviving? Do that
for a couple of minutes, days, months,
whatever you need to do. Just stay the
fuck alive. Stay alive. And if you can do
things to yourself or with yourself that
keep you more alive, do that, by all means.”
The topic switches to performativity,
and what it is like being transgender
and neurodivergent online. Puff, in
particular, has been subject to the
hordes of trolls established creators talk about, especially on TikTok.
“In terms of my boundaries that I
have with the world and stuff, and people
not upholding those boundaries, I feel
like we’ve created this image of who’s
the enemy and who’s the friend,” Puff
said. “The fact of the matter is people
from all fucking sides of the political
spectrum have said weird fucking bullshit.
I’ve had people that I share politics
with send some crazy fucking DMs.”
However, she notes that
politics is an unreliable predictor
for such social media behavior.
“There is no political stance that
you can have that can keep you from
causing harm,” Puff said. “There’s
definitely political stances that can
get you to cause significantly less
harm, but not absolutely zero.”
She tells me about being
compared to male celebrities.
“Because (many people) want to
compare me to a man. And some of you
are saying sorry when you do it. You know
that it’s wrong. You know it’s a bad thing to
do. You know it might get you in trouble.
What is the risk, and what is the reward?”
As the conversation comes to a close,
I ask her about the advice she would give
to the mentally ill creatives out there. She
cracks a joke about carving her own niche.
“Stay out of my territory,” she jokes,
before getting serious. “Learn how to be
intentional first … After a while, after you
get a good handle on that, start being a little
more self indulgent. It’s really fun. I’ve been
making the best music of my life lately.”
Puff recounts an ex-
girlfriend telling her directly “you
should be more self indulgent.”
“That literally improved my music
a fuck ton. It was such a funny thing to
be like, oh this is what I need to do? I
just need to be a little more pretentious?
Great! …I feel like that’s the ultimate
goal of any musician that wants to take
themselves seriously and a little less
seriously. That’s why I’ve been trying to
embrace cringe, so to speak. There are
some genres I feel like people won’t touch,
and I’ll try to make little remixes of songs
that belong in those genres, or make
songs to remix that turn into that genre.”
She laughs, and then states “cringe
is kind of cool.” I’m compelled to agree.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
ARTS 8
A year after the release of her debut album, Nat Puff talks inspiration, mental health, upcoming EPInterview with indie musician Left at London
Portland's Literary Arts organization hosts monthly open mic and slam poetry event accessible to allSlamandia features both new, experienced poets SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
CLAIRE BAKKE/THE MOSSY LOGBy AMELIA DO yLE
PORTLAND Experimental
Theatre Ensemble (PETE) is
a company of artists based
in Portland that finds new ways to
make plays and performances in an
innovative and collaborative way.
The Institute for Contemporary
Performance (ICP) in PETE is a
training center that features short-
term workshops and a one year
long training program. Both Keshav
Eldurkar ’23 and Isabel Strongheart
McTighe ’22 are part of ICP’s 2022-2023
cohort, as well as Zoe Brouwer ’22.
The ICP program is 31 weeks of
instruction and support focusing on
the ideas of composition, creativity,
awareness, connectedness and
art. Everyone goes to class every
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Sunday. In the fall, the cohort works
on different acting techniques,
and is given an opportunity to
create a performance completely
designed by them in the spring.
“I think that the thing that I
really appreciate about this program
is that it’s all about self-produced
work,” Strongheart McTighe said.
“And making something that you’re
interested in and not waiting for
anyone else to have to cast you or
give you an opportunity, making
those opportunities for yourself.”
According to Eldurkar every
week focuses on learning different
theater techniques that enhance
acting and performance, whether it
is bringing out intensity and focus
or whether it is learning about
one’s body and what a body can do
through very specific grounding
techniques, whether it be going
really slow or really fast. According
to the PETE website, in the fall term
they begin by learning practices such
as viewpoints, Suzuki, clowning,
Alexander Technique and devising.
The Alexander Technique is a
reeducation in not doing anything
and is based on the idea of centering
your body and breath, while getting
rid of harmful tension. Eldurkar
mentioned that one of their more
recent classes entailed the practice of
clown. Clowning is centered around the character and relationships of
being a clown and the performances
focus on the physical and the
emotional start of the self of a clown.
One of the main aspects of the
program that Strongheart McTighe
really appreciates is that there is
a chance to connect with a new
group of people in a new space.
She said that it is really nice to get
out of the Palatine Hill bubble and
meet people from all over Portland
to see what they are working on.
Eldurkar said that ICP is giving
him a chance to take everything
that he has learned at LC and
apply it to his own individual art
style. While he does not have as
much experience as everyone else
in the cohort, he said that every
person’s input is valuable at ICP.
“Everyone has something
to offer, and no matter which
community you join, you are just
as important and knowledgeable as anyone else there,” Eldurkar said.
Strongheart McTighe urges people
to trust themselves when they are
making art or trying something new.
“I would just really encourage
anyone to like to go out and self
produce their work and make it
happen like in a classroom or outside
somewhere,” Strongheart McTighe
said. “But you shouldn’t have to wait
for anyone to give you permission
to make the art you want to make.”.
Both Strongheart McTighe
and Eldurkar said that they got
involved in PETE by working with
Associate Professor of Theatre
and Department Chair Rebecca
Lingafelter. Lingafelter is co-
artistic director of PETE. Eldurkar
encourages people who are interested
in theatre to work for PETE. For
more information visit https://
www.petensemble.org/. To apply
for next year’s cohort visit https://
www.petensemble.org/icp-apply. By RACHELLE BINDER
PHILADELPHIA-BASED singer-
songwriter Alex G, formerly
(Sandy) Alex G, has always been
near and dear to my heart. However,
a sold-out Alex G show is not the same
as it was 10 years ago.
If you were driving around town
with me this summer, you probably
had to tolerate me playing either
“Runner” or “Forever” on repeat. I
was introduced to his music after his
album “Rocket” was released in 2017.
The chaotic and eerie folktronica
tracks made me yearn for more. At the
end of the tumultuous 2020, Spotify
year-in-review notified me that I
made it to his top 0.01% of listeners.
I took this news with great honor.
At age 11, Alex G learned how
to play his brother’s guitar and
quickly started making music. His
career started with DIY self-releases
uploaded onto the online audio
platform Bandcamp. Alex G has
gained popularity in the past two
years on the social networking app
TikTok with his songs “Sarah” and
“Treehouse.” Most recently, Alex
G scored the film “We’re All Going
to World’s Fair.” On Sept. 23, Alex
G released his ninth studio album,
“God Save The Animals.” The album
invokes religious themes similar
to that of Christian rock music.
On Oct. 17, the McMenamins
Crystal Ballroom hosted Alex G.
The paintings occupying the venue
walls paired well with his backdrop
of the birds from the album cover
of “God Save The Animals.” As a minor, I defaulted to the under-21
section, predominantly filled with
high schoolers and the occasional
dad. Right before the show started, I started a conversation with three
girls a tad younger than me. A girl
named Emmy was just as stoked
to be at an Alex G concert as I was.The show opened with “S.D.O.S,”
and the crowd sang along to the
lyrics: “God is my designer, Jesus
is my lawyer.” The track lyrics juxtaposed with an alternative,
electronic beat which felt out of place,
but ‘out of place’ is how Alex G’s
music works. Hearing and performing
these songs live seems similar to a
circus act. His music is intricate,
extending beyond the parameters
of what music is ‘supposed to be,’
and always has you anticipating
the type of show he will put on.
The most unhinged part of Alex
G’s set was when he played his song
“Brick.” I try to avoid moshing for the
sake of my physical health. Yet, this
was unavoidable given that I was close
enough to the stage. Throughout the
night, Alex G’s amplifier was causing
hell, so his sound engineer, Steve,
came to the rescue on many occasions.
Alex G paid tribute to Steve by playing
“Bobby,” a song whose narrator
personifies his depression to his lover.
While this was my first time
seeing Alex G live, though probably
not the last, I found myself feeling
disconnected from him and his band.
Unfortunately, I feel more connected
to his performances at previous
festivals that I have watched on my
computer screen. Sure, breaking the
fourth wall can be difficult for live
musicians, especially as they grow in
popularity. What made Alex G and
his band so special for me was that he
started playing intimate, live house
shows, just like the sets I see my friends
play. I guess that was what I was
expecting. My biggest lesson learned
as an Alex G fan and a fan of other DIY
musicians is to please appreciate your
local music scene or musicians that
have yet to receive mass attention.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
ARTS 9
Growing popularity of singer-songwriter leaves longtime fans nostalgic for intimate house show performancesAlex G blesses Portland with new album tracks
Alex G performed tracks from his latest album “God Save The Animals” at a sold-out Crystal Ballroom concert on Oct. 7.
Alumni, current student selected for PETE ICP
Keshav Eldurkar, Isabel Strongheart McTighe, Zoe Brouwer join exclusive Portland theatre group cohortRACHELLE BINDER/THE MOSSY LOG
COURTESY OF PETE
COURTESY OF PETEKeshav Eldurkar ’23, Isabel Strongheart McTighe ’22 and Zoe Brouwer ’22 joined Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s 2022-23 Institute for Contemporary Performance.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
SPORTS 10
By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
THE POPULAR opinion among
on-campus residents is that the
food provided by Bon Appétit is
not good enough, but these negative
voices drown out the aspects that
people appreciate. One group that
the food affects more than others is
student-athletes. With a high level
of physical activity, they need more
food, and specific types of food, to fuel
up. Across sports, athletes analyze
the quantity, variety, health and
convenience of Lewis & Clark’s food
options.
Football player Johnathan
Newsome ’23 praises the all-you-can-
eat structure of Fields Dining Room.
“I feel like it is such a prime place
to eat for athletes just because of
the amount you can get,” Newsome
said. “It’s just all about balance when
you’re an athlete, and I feel like they
have the perfect balance there.”
Protein is critical to keep up
athletes’ energy reserves, but many
lament that the primary protein
served is almost always chicken.
Swimmer Gillian Watts ’24 spoke on
the health ramifications of such a
repetitive protein.
“I think we all are aware how much
chicken there is,” Watts said. “I do
sometimes wish they had healthier
options because you get sick and tired
of the chicken and then it’s usually
like a pasta or burger option, which
isn’t the healthiest. I know some
people just end up going to the Troom
and eating pizza, which is even worse,
or eating a protein bar.”
Watts is not alone in her concern
about health. Connor Smyth ’24, a
hurdler on the track and field team,
also thinks that a lack of variety in
meat protein is harmful to student
athletes.
“I think chicken usually gets the
job done, but it’s a little monotonous,”
Smyth said. “I think my worst
complaint is that when it comes to
monotony it makes it harder to get all
the food nutrition you need.”
Despite this critique, Smyth thinks
highly of the food in general.
“I actually would say that I think
it’s a pretty good thing overall because
they have a nice variation and it’s nice
that there’s stuff that isn’t fast food,”
Smyth said. Fields Dining Room is viewed as
the healthier alternative to the Trail
Room, considering the whole grain
options, salad bar and balanced meals.
Additionally, the all-you-can-eat
aspect of Fields Dining Room is ideal
for athletes. Smyth, who has a hard
time getting enough to eat for just one
swipe at the Trail Room, states that he
eats at Fields Dining Room 100% of
the time.
“I’d have chicken most of the time
as the main protein, I’d have a source
of carbs which would be rice, potatoes
or whatever they had for the day, and
I’d always grab a bowl of spinach and
eat it straight like that,” Newsome
said.
Cross country runner Caleb
Silverman ’24 asserts the importance
of spinach in athletes’ diets.
“Spinach salad is an essential,”
Silverman said. “I go to the salad bar
every day.”
The salad bar is also one of Watts’s
favorite parts of the dining room, in
addition to the fruit and yogurt bar.
Aside from the quantity and quality of
food served, meal scheduling can be
an issue for athletes, particularly on
the weekends.
“The hours have changed so now
it doesn’t open until 11:30 on the
weekends which is kind of unfortunate
because a lot of sports practices, like
the swim team for example, end at 11
a.m., so we have to wait that 30 minute
period before we can eat,” Watts said.
“Usually we end up eating something
else between the brunch and dinner
period because you can only swipe in
twice. Even if I wanted to have lunch,
it’s not like I could swipe in again.”
Silverman agrees that it is difficult
to get enough to eat when only two
meals a day are served on weekends.
Many resort to supplementing their
weekend diets with food from grocery
stores, but having to cook is far less
convenient than eating food included
in meal plans.
“I feel like a lot of people aren’t
allowed to bring food home if they
didn’t finish the plate or if they want
to save food for later – they should
allow that,” Newsome said.
Overall, athletes feel that Bon
Appétit is doing a successful job of
providing them with a fairly healthy
variety of foods to eat, but more can
be done to help aid their diets.
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Adri DeGuzmanWomen’s soccer plays strong,
men’s team builds chemistry
By AMELIA DOyLE
RECENTLY, MEN’S soccer and
women’s lacrosse were added
to the many sports offered at
Lewis & Clark. The lacrosse team has
not formed yet, but the soccer team is
nearing the close of their first season.
They will not be admitted to the
Northwest Conference (NWC) until
next year, so they have mainly been
playing scrimmages.
Jim Tursi, the head women’s and
men’s soccer coach at LC, expressed
his excitement over the addition of
the men’s team. In the past, Tursi has
worked with the club soccer team at LC
and has learned how to work around
a student-athlete’s schedule having
coached two soccer teams in the past.
“Having a full varsity team this year
has been a joy,” Tursi said. “The guys
have really responded well and there
haven’t been any issues.”
Ishan Abraham ’26 is one of the
players on the men’s team. He was
interested in playing soccer in college,
but also wanted a challenging academic
experience. Many students driven to
attend LC similarly value a balanced approach between school and athletics.
As a coach, Tursi explained that one of
his main goals is allowing his players
to focus on academics, as many of
the athletes want to prioritize being a
student as well.
“I think a big part of this year is
about building a core group of people
who are comfortable with being a team
player with each other,” Abraham said.
“So I think a lot of what we’re doing this
semester is building us as a team.”
Over the past few years, the women’s
soccer team has done well. During the
2019 season, they had their best season
in team history as part of the NWC,
with eight wins. Since Tursi took over
as head coach in 2010, the Pios have set
several records, including assists (25)
and goals (35), and have finished lower
than fifth just twice.
Both Macy O’Hara ’24 and Grace
Billings ’25, players on the women’s
soccer team, talked about how much
they enjoyed the team’s dynamic.
O’Hara feels like the team builds off of
each other’s success. While they have
not had much contact with the men’s
team, they feel like the dynamic between
both soccer teams will be beneficial. The women’s soccer team has
many players from all different
classes, while the men’s soccer
team is more concentrated around
freshmen and sophomores.
“I’m happy that there can be an
additional team to create a larger
environment and eventually it’ll
grow and hopefully there will be
more connectedness between the
two teams,” Billings said.
O’Hara is really happy with the
dynamic of the team, and how much
she has surrounded herself with
people that have similar values.
Abraham said that he has felt very
supported in the process so far and
being on the men’s soccer team has
really benefited his experience at LC.
“I think for a lot of the people
on the team they weren’t even sure
if they really wanted to play soccer
in college,” Abraham said. “But I
think as the season went on, I feel
like everyone got to a place where
we kind of belong here. We’re here
as a team, and everyone has really
come to view soccer at Lewis &
Clark as an important part of why
they are here.”
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Lewis & Clark’s women’s soccer team faces off against conference rival University of Pudget Sound underneath a bright blue sky.
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Halcyon OrvendalFRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
SPORTS 11
By PAIGE ANDERSON
MATTHEW BARREAU the
head men’s and women’s
cross country (XC) coach,
has been elected president of the
Division III U.S. Track & Field and
Cross Country Coaches Association
Executive Committee for the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA).
Barreau was named head coach of
the XC team in 2019 and is entering
his third season of coaching for
Lewis & Clark. In his first season
at LC, Barreau led the women’s
XC team from last place to third in
the division. After serving on the
committee for the past 10 years as
both a member and vice president,
Barreau will become president for the
next three years.
“About 10 years ago, I started on
one of those committees and then I
enjoyed being in it and probably three
or four years into the committee, I
put myself up to be elected,” Barreau
said. “It’s been about six years of
being second vice president, and
three years as vice president and
then starting in January, I became
president.”
DIII is the largest division of the
NCAA, with 430 institutions and 40% of NCAA athletes competing in DIII.
LC plays in the Northwest Conference
with nine other schools.
Barreau was hired in the summer
of 2019, so he was not able to oversee
and support the teams’ training that
year. However, he took his role very
seriously and pushed his student-
athletes to improve immensely.
“It was about just helping show
the team what was possible,” Barreau
said. “I think that’s what elicited the
biggest changes that year … That
big jump was largely, I don’t say
by accident, but it just was never
planned.”
The shift from being last in the
conference one year to being third
in the division this past season has
shown Barreau’s ability to encourage
and inspire students to do their best
work. Becoming a better runner is
about improving the body’s capacity
for endurance. Barreau showed them
the impact practice can have on a
runner’s development and the team
listened.
Though he was not a part of the
XC team when the drastic change
happened, Caleb Silvermen ’24 spoke
to Barreau’s skill as a coach.
“I think he’s a great leader, he’s
super knowledgeable and I think
people gravitate toward him and his advice,” Silvermen said. “He
definitely brings a competitive
mindset and a push for greatness and
making sure we have the resources
for it.”
With the added influx of first-year
runners as well as a consistent and
passionate coach, Frankie Reid ’24
is excited to show the community the
skills of the men’s team.
“We have the postseason coming
up so I think we’re all pretty excited
for that and to show everyone the
hard work we’ve been putting in and
what we bring to the table,” Reid
said.
The Northwest Conference
Championship meet takes place on
Saturday, Oct. 29 at the Killarney
West Golf Course in Hillsborough,
OR.
Along with the academics, LC’s
proximity to Tryon State Park’s
trails and the greater city of Portland
appeal to XC and long distance
recruits.
We’re one of the best academic
schools in the conference and distance
runners are notoriously pretty good
academically,” Barreau said. “So all
the things like up to this place that
attracts quite a bit of people and a
talented pool of distance runners, we
should be pretty successful.”COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARKHead coach boasts successful tenure with impressive first season turn around, nation-wide recognitionBarreau elected as NCAA DIII president of XC
By NICOLAS VELASQUEZ-
SUAZO
LAST YEAR , the Portland Thorns
won the National Women’s
Soccer League (NWSL) Shield,
but lost to the Chicago Red Stars in
the playoff semifinals. This year, the
Thorns have continued their streak of
dominance despite failing to clinch
the NWSL Shield in a tight, regular-
season race.
Going into the last match, the
Thorns sat atop the league with 38
points while the OL Reign trailed with
37 points. However, the Thorns were
kept to a 3-3 draw against Gotham FC
while the OL Reign secured a 3-0 win
over the Orlando Pride, leapfrogging
the Thorns with a league-winning
40-point total.
The Thorns’ stellar regular-season
campaign was spearheaded by Most
Valuable Player nominee Alex Smith,
as well as anchored by goalkeeper
Bella Bixby and Defender of the Year
nominee Becky Sauerbrunn. Smith
led the Thorns’ offense, notching
three assists and netting 14 goals,
which was second in the league.
Despite not being nominated for
Goalkeeper of the Year, Bixby was the
league joint-leader in clean sheets
meaning games where no goals
were conceived, securing nine in
20 games played. Veteran defender
Sauerbrunn managed the defense
throughout the season which was
crucial to maintaining a high number
of clean sheets. Additionally, Sam
Coffey, a second-round pick out of
Pennsylvania State University, earned
a Rookie of the Year nomination after
consistent, strong performances at
midfield.
These performances, however,
were overshadowed. In 2021, The
Athletic published a story in which
Meleana “Mana” Shim and Sinead
Farrelly, former Portland Thorns
players, accused Former Head Coach
Paul Riley of sexual coercion during
his time working for the organization.
Riley was dismissed by the
organization after a 2014-2015 stint,
but the reason for his release was
not publicly announced. The Thorns’
response has been controversial as
members of the front office knew of
the scandal in 2015 and did not make
it public. In an independent report
commissioned by U.S. Soccer, which
was released on Oct. 3, Yates accused
the Thorns organization of ignoring complaints by players and covering
for Riley, allowing him to coach
other teams despite accusations
of sexual coercion. Furthermore,
the organization was accused of
concealing information and not fully
cooperating with the investigation.
In the wake of the report’s
findings, President Mike Golub and
General Manager Gavin Wilkinson
were released from the organization
on Oct. 5. Merritt Paulson, owner of
the Portland Thorns and Portland Timbers, resigned from his position
as chief executive officer of both
organizations. Paulson has no plans
to sell the clubs in spite of widespread
protests from Thorns supporters.
The Thorns are set to face the San
Diego Wave in the semifinals of the
NWSL playoffs on Oct. 23. The third
seed San Diego Wave has only lost
one of their last seven games and
beat the Thorns in their last head-to-
head match in August. It is uncertain
how the recent scandal and sudden managerial changes will affect the
Thorns’ play. In a conference call
with reporters on Oct. 4, Becky
Saubrunn gave insight into the
team’s mindset.
“The players are not doing well,”
Saubrunn said.
Given their excellent regular
season performance and the
triple threat of Smith, Bixby and
Sauerbrunn, the Portland Thorns
remain favorites to win the NWSL
Championship. Scores Portland Thorns secure playoff spot, hailed
title favorite, despite organization’s scandal
STELLA MERCER/THE MOSSY LOGCross-Country
L&C Invite
Men’s placed: 13th
Women’s: 10th
Football
LC v Willamette: W 39-17
LC v Puget Sound: W 47-41 OT
Overall: 4-2
Football secured the wagon whell
against rival Willamette for the
fifth year in the row, the longest
streak in LC history.
Soccer
Men’s
LC v Warner Pacific: T 1-1
Overall: 1-9-1
Women’s
LC v Pudget Sound: L 0-2
LC v Linfield: T 1-1
LC v Willamette: T 0-0
Overall: 4-6-2
Tennis
Men’s & Women’s: Northwest Fall
ITA Regionals
McDermott advanced
Allison Gabelman/Sujhad Amado
Aguad advanced
Volleyball
LC v George Fox: L 0-3
LC v Linfield: L 2-3
LC v Pacific: L 1-3
Overall: 1-16
Athletes of the Wee
Oct. 16 - Oct. 22
Ashley Kane ’23 -Women’s
volleyball
Riley Buese ’25 - Women’s cross
country
Oct. 23 - Oct. 29
Dyontae Navarrete’24 - Football
Katie Shimaura ’24 - Women’s
volleyballCoach Barreau works way up in National Collegiate Athletic Association hierarchy.12FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022
The Backdoor is a figment of your imagination.
LEWIS & CLARK celebrates
exploration: With over 35
overseas and off-campus
programs ranging from New York to
New Zealand, the college encourages
adventuring beyond Palatine Hill and
immersion into a new environment. For
some students, studying abroad is an
opportunity to practice another language
while expanding one’s worldview,
decentering that implicit American
lens of college institutions in the United
States. For others, it is an attempt to make
valuable connections, forging friendships
across the world during an unforgettable
college experience.
For Matt Whitman '25, who hopes to
study in Osaka, Japan in the Fall 2023
semester, visiting Japan is a religious
pilgrimage. Last week, he invited me to
his dorm room to discuss his hopes for
his trip abroad.
Whitman’s double in Platt Residence
Hall is an aesthetic clash that can be
divided straight down the middle of
the room. The left side of the room is
fairly undecorated. It includes navy blue
bedding on a standard low dorm bed
and three band posters above the head of
this bed: The Strokes, Alex G and Mitski.
Standard indie decor for an LC student.
The right side of the room is a
completely different story.
It is a maximalist's fever dream.. The
bedding is plain black, yes, but taking
up the bed’s entire space is a woman.
Not a real woman, but a body pillow
of an anime girl: Asuka Langley Soryu
from “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” with
a bashful expression in her skintight
mech suit. There is a large wall scroll of
Hatsune Miku with her long aqua pigtails and spinning leek. A diverse range of PVA
poseable figurines take up Whitman’s
whole desk and almost all of his floor
space, from girls with pink hair who wear
blue-and-white striped bikinis, to girls
with long purple hair in sailor uniforms.
There is a steel katana on the wall
propped up by command strip hooks.
Three shuriken and one kunai are
embedded in the plaster. Is that allowed?
Are those not weapons? Is that not
damage to property? How has his RA not
said something about it? I theorize his RA
is afraid to enter the unholy space and I
am venturing into uncharted territory.
Whitman bows low and beckons me
into his anime cave with a wave of his
hand.
“Ohayō gozaimasu, Adri-san,” Whitman
says. “Yōkoso to my room.”
He says my name in syllabic Japanese:
E-i-do-ri. I tell him that I am not
Japanese, and to please not say my name
like that. I take a seat on his bed next to
Asuka and ask about his plans for Japan.
“My entire life has led to this trip,”
Whitman says. “My waifu, Asuka, is
waiting for me in glorious Nippon. I love
anime. I honestly love all things Asian. I
really do think I know Asian stuff better
than Asians, or at least Asian Americans,
no offense. Like, I’ve spent a year
learning Japanese at LC, but I think I’ve
picked up a lot more words from ‘Naruto
Shippuden,’ enough to be conversational.
Like baka, which means idiot. Or sugoi,
which means awesome. Keikaku which
means plan. Stuff like that. I already have
a closet full of yukata, including a replica
cosplay of Zenitsu’s haori from ‘Demon
Slayer. I can’t wait to wear it in Japan.
Maybe I’ll find my Nezuko over there.”
I ask him if he thinks that the word
“weeaboo” or “otaku” is pejorative. “There’s no better word to describe my
identity,” says Whitman. “Other than
being basically Japanese. Like, I’m a
white man, with an Asian soul. So I’m
excited to go to the land of my people.”
Has Whitman ever taken any Asian
Studies courses at LC?
“No, but I mean, I’ve read
"Orientalism" by Edward Said in high
school,” Whitman says.
He pronounces “Said” like the past
tense of “say,” like it rhymes with “head.”
“But I thought that was about Aladdin,”
Whitman says. “So it’s different. Also, I
don’t really watch Disney movies. I prefer
Miyazaki. Have you heard of Studio
Ghibli? It’s this niche Japanese animation
house.”
Whitman’s roommate, who was
in the room at the time of interview,
commented on what it is like to share a
room with Whitman and how he feels
about Whitman’s plans abroad. He
wanted to stay anonymous.
“Matt is cool,” the roommate says. “I
think he just prefers Asian girls. I do too.
Everyone has a preference, it’s like food.
Some people like spaghetti. Matt and I
both like ramen, if you know what I mean.
I’m honestly jealous. He’s gonna meet
so many Japanese girls when he’s over
there, and I bet they’re all gonna love him
because he’s … you know, white. Asian
girls love white men.”
He smiles, but I am horrified, glancing
up at his Mitski poster a little differently
now. I am confused. Does he skip Mitski’s
“Your Best American Girl?” Do Whitman
and his roommate bond over their shared
Asian fetish? I leave the weeb lair and
make eye contact with a girl outside in the
hallway. Her name is Celine Huang '26,
an environmental studies major who also
lives in Platt. As an Asian woman at LC, she has had an unfortunate experience
being Whitman’s neighbor. In the
hallway, I ask Huang if she knows that
Whitman is going to Japan next year. She
rolls her eyes.
“I wish it were mandatory for some
people to take AESC 270 next spring,”
Huang says. “Developing Intercultural
Competence. If anyone needs it, Matt
does. He’s so grossly ignorant. He still thinks I’m a student from
Japan. He tries to practice his choppy
Japanese with me. And I'm not even
Japanese! I’ve told him before, I’m
Chinese American. I’m literally from
SF.”
To Matt Whitman: Good luck in
Japan! You are a true pioneer. And to
all Asian women at LC: Rejoice! He is
gone next fall.White guy studies in Japan for normal reasons
Lewis & Clark student plans to travel abroad to appreciate, fetishize East Asian cultures, women
By ADRI DEGUZMAN
By MAYA MAZOR-
HOOFIEN
IF YOU HAVE you have read any
issue of The Mossy Log or walked
past a Words and Numbers class
lately, you have inevitably heard stories
of unprecedented crowding in residence
halls due to the large freshman class.
With Stewart and Odell Residence
Halls closing next semester for
renovation, the housing shortage on
campus is reaching disastrous levels, so
Lewis & Clark has had to get creative.
A new solution has been proposed,
and it is already being implemented
in small test runs. An innovative
procedure has been pioneered by a
recent LC graduate, who asked to
remain anonymous. The LC graduate is
now a first year student at The Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine where his
father is an alumnus donor.
“The procedure is based upon the
severing of the corpus callosum, an
operation developed to treat severe
refractory epilepsy, but accounting
for hemispheric specialization and
functional plasticity” the graduate
explained while struggling to
pronounce some of the words. He also
seemed to be referencing a Wikipedia
page. “This is a topic I’ve studied
extensively and am very passionate
about.”
The procedure will place two or
three students into one body provided
to them by the college. It is covered
by student health insurance and is
“probably safe,” according to the
graduate.
Logistics are still being finalized, but
the plan seems to be a promising one.
Bodymates will select their courses
for the Spring 2023 semester together
and will be given priority course
registration to help ease the process.
Students living in bodymate
overflow housing may share a meal
plan, but are still required to have one, as per the Campus Living policy.
“The college is offering 20% rent
deductions for students who are
selected for this overflow housing
program,” a representative from
Campus Living said. “Tuition fees will
not be discounted.”
LC’s new president Raven Harzfeld-
Mulligan is optimistic about this bold
move.
“Lewis & Clark students are creative
boundary-pushers who never fail to
impress me with their courage in the
face of adversity,” Harzfeld-Mulligan
said. "I know they will take this
challenge in stride, and the college will
do everything in its power to support
them."
Gina Mudis ’26 and Sofia Katz ’26
were a part of the early testing for this program and have been bodymates
since the beginning of the semester. The
students shared frustrations that echo
through the freshman class.
“This is just not what I had pictured
college would be like,” Mudis said.
“Sofia is a bio major and I'm in SOAN,
so her classes feel like a waste of time.”
Katz added her own grievances.
“Gina likes to eat dinner at five, but
I’m not hungry until seven,” Katz said.
“It doesn’t feel like a great fit.”
The girls’ aesthetics also have not
made for the best match, with Mudis
self-describing as “sort of y2k fairycore
grunge” and Katz identifying as more of
a “VSCO light academia softgirl.”
The girls did agree on one thing.
“They don’t have to put up with this
shit at Reed!” they said in unison.LC puts multiple freshmen in
single body to curb population
WINSLOW MORGAN/THE MOSSY LOG
ADRI DEGUZMAN/THE MOSSY LOG
ACROSS
1 LC's first
lizard-person
president
5 Howard neighbor
9 "Mr. Blue Sky"
band
11 2021 Tollywood
blockbuster
12 Fake major
14 Opium of the LC
masses
16 American football
position, acronym
17 What your
roommate always
seems to be
getting
19 "Live Your Life"
rapper
20 College that is
worse than LC
21 Why didn't we call
it Grampus?
26 Campus hole
28 ___ Choppa
30 Opposite of "off"
31 Spanish "we"
34 LC's favorite town
36 Test your drugs to
avoid one of
these, acronym
38 Precedes /they
39 19-9
40 Bon seasoning
43 Something yourmom wants you
to get
45 What you say
when you're
called on in your
gen-ed math class
47 Below the nose,
above the chin
48 Lil Wayne and
Nicki label
49 House show
necessities
50 Party poopers
51 Popular PE choice
52 LC's most magical
smoke spot
54 See 30A
55 Freshman
repository
59 Everyone's
favorite uncle
60 School that we are
also better than
63 Norway capitol
64 Anyone over 22
65 NJ Beach Island,
acronym
DOWN
1 River nickname
2 Classes for
freshmen and
preschoolers
3 Harry Styles
single, "As it ___"
4 "Lewis and Clark"
if you spelled it alittle wrong
5 Raven harassee
6 Controversial
weapon, acronym
7 For trans men and
8 All around us
10 Gender neutral
Spanish pronoun
13 Bad Taylor Swift
single
15 Kendrick's 3rd
best album
18 Internet address
22 Go to the Career
Center for help
writing one of
these
23 What will run the
world in 20 years
24 Writing tools
25 Four make a
month
26 Holds down a tree
27 What you try
before Xanax but
after weed
29 Jet last name
32 What you say
when you walk in
on your
roommate
canoodling your ex
33 Unfortunate
name for a
mascot
35 The part ofPortland where
Albina and Lloyd are
37 Casual greeting
for person you
don't like that
much
41 80's alien
42 Hello for short
44 LC's worst
acronym
46 Name for British
politicians
50 KPH broadcasts
this
51 Yet another
college we are
better than (yes,
really)
52 "Song 33" artist
initials
53 Stem major
nickname
56 Underclassman
steed
57 Humor acronym
58 "Idiot" in
Japanese
61 That one guy you
know who
compensates a
little too hard,
acronym
62 Spanish yes
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