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Volume 99, No. 5

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2022-11-11

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By AMELIA DOYLE
THE 19TH a n n u a l R a y W a r r e n
Symposium on Race and Ethnic
Studies kicked off on Wednesday
with Keynote Speaker Dr. Rebecca Hall
and will conclude today with the Race
Monologues held in Agnes Flanagan
Chapel.
The theme of the symposium is the
art of storytelling, which asks people
to consider which stories are told and
by who. The symposium’s co-chairs
Azucena Morales Santos ’24, Carolina
Ruíz ’22 and Rocío Yao ’24 came up
with the theme after a lot of discussion.
“I love storytelling because it’s
a tool that all of us can embody in
many different ways,” Yao said. This
symposium will teach all of us or at
least make all of us think in ways
that we can use our own narrative to
empower ourselves.”
Yao points to how storytelling can
be empowering through childrens
books, personal narratives, the way we
talk with our friends and interact with
the world.
Yao said that storytelling could be
used as a tool of resistance or a tool of
oppression. She spoke to how people
learn a lot of stories from history
textbooks or through oral traditions.
She also explained how the form of a
story is really important.
“I think for a lot of communities
that have been historically oppressed, or have not been giving a formal voice
like in academia or in a book, a lot
of us have, have resorted in using
untraditional storytelling to resist
common narratives,” Yao said. “For
example, I know that in indigenous
communities, not all, but a lot of the
stories are maintained alive despite the
discrimination, despite all the banning
of their language through spoken
stories.”
Morales Santos echoed this statement
about Indigenous communities. “For me personally, stories hit
really close to home because it is
through storytelling that I have been
able-or that I have learned-my roots
in my lineage,” Morales Santos said.
“Because in a dominant story of the
history of the Americas or, in general,
the voices of my communities have
been silenced and ignored.”
The first event of the symposium
was a keynote speech by Dr. Rebecca
Hall, who wrote the the award-
winning graphic narrative “Wake: The Hidden History of Women-
Led Slave Revolts.” There was
a subsequent book signing and
reception in Gregg Pavilion.
“She has used graphic novels,
like a comic book, and tied it with
history very powerfully using the tool
of a graphic novel,” Yao said. “With
art, you can be imaginative, and the
graphic novel was a specific strategic
use of literature to convey a certain
power. It did help because this was
both personal narrative for her and a way for her to also explore the
hidden history of woman-led slave
revolts, which are often forgotten but
many historians have been trying to
uncover that story.”
On Thursday there was a
songwriting workshop titled “The
Power of Narrative” that focused
on crafting a story through song.
Another event titled “Race Across
Disciplinary Boundaries” featured
students research that explored
issues of race and ethnicity. This
featured the work of Eduardo
Beltran ’22, Caitlin Chow-Ise ’23,
Emi Olson ’22, Jacques Parker ’23
and Anthi Sklavenitis ’24.
Later that afternoon, a panel of
speakers on the theme of tattoos. The
event was moderated by Assistant
Professor Kabir Mansingh Heimsath,
and included speakers such as Ashley
Antolin, Sydney Hanish ’23, Kahiau
K. Chang ’26, Ricky G and Heysus
Torralba. The event explored how
communities of color have used
tattoo work to tell stories and how
this historically marginalized art
form has been used as a tool of
resistance, existence and liberation.
“I was trying my hardest to
include something in regards to
tattoos within this panel because I
feel like Portland is known for tattoo
work”
“Race” continued on page 3.Vol. 99 No. 5 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022 www.piolog.com
OPINION
Junior gives advice
A junior gives advice to freshmen about
how to balance classes, work, homework
and a social life.
PAGE 5FEATURES
LC alum watch company
Aldebaron Levin has a cool story to
tell. This year they started their own
watch company, their first design being
inspired by LC. PAGE 6ARTS
2000’s Punk Shakespeare
Student production of Hamlet on 11/11
and 11/12 focuses on gender roles, toxic
masculinity, internalized homophobia
and more. PAGE 8SPORTS
Equality in sports
Evaluation of Lewis & Clark athletics
gender equality under the banner of
Title IX’s 50th anniversary.
PAGE 10Program includes visiting keynote speakers Dr. Rebecca Hall, Dr. Oriel María Siu, LC student speakers
COURTESY OF RAY WARREN SYMPOSIUMRay Warren Symposium features storytelling
PODCAST
The Mossy Pod
Adjustment to The Mossy Pod release
schedule means the next episode will
be avaliable on November 18.
Expanded Inside Out
courses offered in 2023
By ROSALIE
ZUCKERMANN
EVER SINCE Associate Professor
of History Reiko Hillyer
introduced the Inside Out
Prison Exchange Program to Lewis
& Clark in 2011, the class has been in
high demand among students. With
the aid of the Mellon Foundation’s
Healing Social Suffering Through
Narrative Grant, the program is
expanding to offer more Inside Out
classes and make the instructor
training more accessible.
The Inside Out Program was
originally founded in 1997 at Temple
University in Philadelphia, but now
over 150 colleges and universities host
Inside Out courses.
“I was made aware of the program
by a colleague who teaches at
University of Indiana,” Hillyer said.
“I was a visiting professor, but I was
really determined to bring Inside
Out to Lewis & Clark … So I took the
training in 2011 and taught my first
Lewis & Clark class with Columbia
River Correctional Institution.”
Once Hillyer became a permanent
professor, she was able to include
her Inside Out Class, Crime and
Punishment in the United States, in
her regular rotation. It is offered every
other year and accepts 15 students.
“Prison” continued on page 3.By AMELIA DOYLE
ON OCT. 27, Lewis & Clark
Law School announced that
Assistant Professor of Law
David Schraub won the Huffman
Scholarship Award for his article
“Sadomasochistic Judging,” which
was published in Constitutional
Commentary at University of
Minnesota Law School.
It is Schraub’s second year at LC
and he is the third person to receive
the award. The award is given annually
to a professor who authored an article
that was written the year prior. The
recipient is chosen by a three-member
faculty committee. S c h r a u b t e a c h e s c o n s t i t u t i o n a l
law and discrimination law. He
looks at what bigotry is in law and
how to conceptualize it, often looks
at different approaches when it
comes to the issues of discrimination
and inequality. He has written law
journals on philosophy, antisemitism
and microaggressions.
According to Schraub, his article
focuses on the role judges play in the
judicial system.
“Sometimes judging means doing
something that you don’t like, the
outcome and you wouldn’t have
reached it if you were a politician
or a dictator and that you’re doing
because you’re bound by the law,”
Schraub said. “That’s the heart
of what legitimacy is, restraining
yourself from simply pursuing your
own preferences.”
Schraub said that the best way
that a judge can hold themselves
accountable is to issue painful
decisions that are harsh and then they
make based on the law rather than
their own preference.
“I don’t want people to get out
of it (Sadomasochistic Judging) is
anytime a judge issues a position that
has outcomes we dislike for behaving
badly. I mean, sometimes it is,”
Schraub said. “The reason it’s a puzzle
is because it is the case that sometimes
law requires judges things they would
rather not do. But the takeaway is that we shouldn’t swing too far the
other direction and assume that just
because judicial decisions are harsh,
that is your proof positive. The judges
are really, really committed legalists,
because sometimes pain is just pain
and hurt is just hurt.”
Schraub said that winning the
award was especially rewarding
because it was a sign that he belongs
at LC and that his peers support him.
He also thinks that it is notable that
for the past three years the Huffman
award has been won by junior members
of the faculty.
“I’m really grateful not just for
the vote of competence, but for the
underlying mentorship and support
that I think the award represents,”
Schraub said. “That is, in large part,
responsible for putting me in a position
where I’m producing what I hope to be
interesting and provocative pieces of
the scholarship.”
To Schraub, learning about law
was always tied to a broader interest
in solving social problems. He thinks
that if someone studies law and never
becomes a lawyer, the act of studying
law is still a valuable part of becoming
a good citizen.
“I’m very proud that I think it is
readable to non-law people, audiences,
which is something that I always try to
do,” Schraub said. “I’m very much a
believer, and this is especially true at
Lewis and Clark.”LC Law Professor, David Schraub
wins Huffman Scholarship Award
David Schraub won Huffman award. COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Inside Out training applications due Jan. 12. COURTESY OF NINA JOHNSONFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
NEWS /gid00484
National Science Foundation funds opportunity for LC students to learn from local STEM teachersData science minor offers summer program
New COVID variants, flu, Respiratory Syntactical Virus cases uptick, doctors encourage vaccinations“Tripledemic” to swamp hospitals this illness season
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
By ASHLYN LITTLE &
ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
AS COLD AND flu season
approaches, a combination
of viruses make this winter
an inundation of illnesses. With new
COVID-19 variants on the horizon,
a particularly severe strain of the seasonal flu and the presence of
Respiratory Syntactical Virus (RSV),
The New York Times has dubbed our
current state a “tripledemic.”
With relaxed masking and social
distancing protocols nationwide and
on campus, these variants are striking
at a time when defenses are down. The
most recent COVID variants derived from Omicron, XBB, BQ.1 and
BQ.1.1, are making a rise globally and
surpassing other forms of the virus in
severity, transmissibility and ability
to evade immunity.
In terms of what this “tripledemic”
may look like for Lewis & Clark, it will
depend on the cases in Oregon of all
three viruses. LC has very minimal
restrictions due to the small number
of COVID cases present on campus
and the 98% student vaccination
rate. According to The Bark, there
have only been five positive COVID
cases at LC during the period from
Oct. 29 to Nov 4. If cases of the three
viruses did rise locally, however,
mask wearing and social distancing
measures could be reinstated,
following the trend of last spring
when protocols were reinstated after
being repealed.
Medical professionals stress the
importance of getting vaccinated
and staying up-to-date with vaccines
because,while they may not fully
prevent infection, they limit the
effects and spread of the variants.
When hospital beds and ICU space
is only increasing in demand, it is
critical to mitigate severity through
vaccination in order to avoid
hospitalization. LC encourages
students to take advantage of the free
COVID booster flu shot clinics on
campus.
According to The New York Times,
“Coronavirus cases are low, but are
beginning to rise in some parts of the
country. Several European countries, including France, Germany and
Britain, are experiencing an uptick
in hospitalizations and deaths,
prompting experts to worry that the
United States will follow suit, as it
has with previous waves.”
As of early November, BQ.1 and
BQ.1.1 constitute roughly 35% of new
COVID cases in the U.S., according to
Time Magazine.
Not only are these new strains
adept at evading both vaccine-
derived immunity as well as
infection-derived immunity, they
are resistant to drugs which protect
immunocompromised people, such
as Evusheld and Bebtelovimab. The
most recent Pfizer and Moderna
vaccines were not designed for these
variants, but getting boosted can still
raise overall antibody levels which
helps with symptom severity and
duration of illness.
In addition to rising COVID
concerns, this flu season is predicted
to be the worst in over a decade.
According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention as of Nov. 3,
there have already been over 880,000
cases of flu-like illness, 9,100
positive influenza tests and 6,900
hospitalizations. These numbers are
the highest recorded this early in the
season since the 2009-10 swine flu
pandemic.
“Public health experts urged
Americans, especially those at high
risk, to get a flu shot before cases rise
much higher,” The New York Times
states. “Like the Covid vaccines, the flu vaccine may not be a perfect
match for the circulating variant, but
even so, it roughly halves the risk of
hospitalization in both children and
adults.”
RSV poses yet another concern,
as cases are on the rise nationally. It
is a highly contagious virus that is a
particular threat among infants and
children under five years. Although
this is not a direct threat to the LC
community, the rapid inundation of
RSV cases are filling hospital beds.
While most cases of all three
viruses are rather mild, they are still
expected to lead to millions of sick
Americans and strain healthcare
resources this coming winter.
According to ABC News,
“Public health experts said one
of the possible reasons why cases
and hospitalizations are so high
is because during the COVID-19
pandemic, when schools and
businesses were closed and people
were staying at home, they weren’t
exposed to many viruses. Due to this,
people may be more susceptible to
getting sick, as their immune systems
are remembering (or learning for
the first time) how to fight off these
infections.
Immunocompromised people,
elderly people and pregnant people
are most at risk during this time and
should plan accordingly. This can
include wearing a mask when around
others, socially distancing when
necessary and staying up-to-date
with all vaccinations. By VENUS EDLIN
THIS SUMMER, the data science
minor will offer a program that
will pair 10 local middle and high
school teachers with undergraduate
students interested in teaching science
or math.
This program is funded by a
National Science Foundation (NSF)
grant that was originally awarded to
Professor of Biology Greta Binford
and her peers at the University of
Arizona for their research related to
conservation and management in
urban and wild areas. The original
grant amount of $527,734, which
was awarded in the summer of 2021,
was put towards implementing the
data science minor at Lewis & Clark.
An additional amount of $105,544
was awarded in 2022 to implement
additional programming, including the
forthcoming summer program.
Along with directly funding data
science classes, the grant has also led
to the integration of a data science
focus into some introductory numbers
courses, biology classes and Watzek
Library’s Data and Digital Services
(Watzek 343).
For Binford, members of these
different communities coming together
to promote data science education is
powerful.
“It’s a collective of thoughtful,
creative people that can think about
how to very target the things that
will be the most transformational for
teaching these things,” Binford said.
“But the ultimate goal is reaching
students so I help them identify being
empowered with these quantitative
reasoning skills.”
According to the NSF grant, the
summer program’s “overall goal … is
development of scalable, portable
data science education that can be
readily incorporated into existing
programs concentrating on STEM
(science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics), with a focus on ecology,
biodiversity, and conservation.” LC
students will work with teachers to
develop curriculum and co-teach it in
order to fulfill this goal.
After teachers in the Portland
area apply for the program and the schedule is set, a formal application
will be sent to relevant undergraduate
students, such as those who have taken
a data science course or have indicated
interest in the teacher pathways track.
Twelve local teachers have currently
indicated interest.
Binford reached out to Associate
Professor of Education Liza Finkel
to develop this partnership program.
Finkel was initially hired in 2013 on
a grant from the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute which focused on
connecting undergraduate math and
science faculty with the graduate
school. She is interested in continuing
this connection outside of LC.
“One of the other things that
I’m really interested in is making
better connections between teachers
who are out in the field and Lewis &
Clark faculty who can support their
work,” Finkel said. “Because I think
that there’s a lot of learning that can
happen on both sides.”
According to Finkel, once the
initial material has been tested,
undergraduates will come back the
following summer to revise the lesson
plans and to share them with other
teachers.
“(It will) also teach us a little bit
about what they learned so that if we
can continue this project we’ll have
learned ourselves about how to do this
work better,” Finkel said.
NSF Data Science Project
Coordinator Mila Pruiett ’22, who took
one of the initial data science classes
offered last spring, is enthusiastic
about the program.
“I’m really excited about getting
teachers feedback on what they’re
interested in their classrooms
having,” Pruiett said. “So not just
giving them a lesson that ‘you have
to do this,’ but really trying to meet
people.”
For Pruiett, the opportunity for
current students to get hands-on
experience is valuable.
“They’re going to be in a classroom,”
Pruiett said. “It’s like you’re getting
some amazing real world experience
while you’re an undergrad in data
science, which is like a massively
growing field and it’s not going
anywhere. It’s like if you’re interested in it, these are all great opportunities
to see if you like it and you know what
facets of it specifically are interested in
with it.”
Being in actual middle school
and high school classrooms is also
important to Finkel, who went on to
emphasize the role of working with
real data.
“The teachers and the students are
working with real data, addressing
real problems and then able to create
authentic work that they can share
back with the communities where the
data matters,” Finkel said. “For me, it’s
foundational to my thinking about what
good science teaching looks like. (It) is providing opportunities for teachers
and students to deal with issues that
are real and that are interesting, and
that concern them.”
The grant was initially able to create
an additional position within Watzek
Library’s Data and Digital Services.
Digital and Data Science Specialist
Ethan Davis has filled this role and also
anticipates making data science more
accessible to the community.
“We’re taking all of those available
tools and applying them to existing
knowledge bases that have been built
up,” Davis said. “While we do have
this new thing that is data science,
really what we’re trying to do is kind of integrate it into our existing knowledge
production systems.”
Binford has continued to work on
this project and advocate for the use
of data science as a tool because of the
role she sees it play in education and
the broader world.
“I don’t necessarily view myself
even as a data scientist,” Binford
said. “However, we’re living in this
world where the piles of data are
obscenely huge. Data are being used
on our behalf all the time to make
decisions, to manipulate. I think it’s
really important for people to be able
to critically evaluate the kind of data
that’s been thrown at them.”
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
Continued from page 1.
“For a better part of the decade, I
was trying to encourage other people
to take the training, because there was
so clearly an interest and it was so
clearly transformative and memorable
and important and significant,”
Hillyer said. “However, the training is
very, very intense. And it’s expensive,
and you can’t expect people out of
their own lives and out of their own
pocket to be doing professional
development.”
Each year, one faculty member is
selected for the Instructor Training
Grant, which compensates for their
time spent taking the training course
and allocates funds for their class
materials. For this summer’s training
course, the application is due Jan. 12.
This past summer, Associate
Professor of French Molly Robinson
completed the Inside Out training.
“The online training was … six full
days in a row and very immersive,”
Robinson said to The Source. “While
it was sort of grueling to be online all
that time, it created a real sense of
community and bonding … (It) was
designed to push individuals to go
deep within themselves to find things
that have impacted and influenced
them and brought them to where
they are today, and to share those
experiences with these people who are
initially strangers, who then become
just for that one week, a group of
people you can really appreciate.”
Robinson will teach her first
Inside Out course in the fall of 2023,
a comparative literature or world
literature class tentatively titled “The
Cry of Freedom.”
“The coaches who had been
incarcerated were so open and
articulate about their experiences,”
Robinson said. “The training allows
you, forces you, to see the incarcerated
students and formerly incarcerated
coaches as human beings who have a
story, who have troubles, and joy, and
pain … You can’t disregard what is
happening in our prison system.”
Associate Professor of Theatre
Rebecca Lingafelter will also teach
an Inside Out class in the spring of
2024, which will be available as a
way to complete requirements for the
theatre major. Lingafelter has already been
involved with the Inside Out Program
as a leader of a devised performance as
the final project of the class. However,
her background working in prisons
goes further back as part of the Public
Theater Mobile Shakespeare Unit in
New York.
“That is where they take a play,
adapt it for a small cast and then
take it out into New York to various
different kinds of performance
spaces,” Lingafelter said. “We went
to a houseless shelter, we went to the
Arthur Kill Correctional Facility, we
went to a youth program. So different
kinds of communities, bringing
Shakespeare there … taking the skills
and stories of theatre and applying
them to communities and contexts that
aren’t inherently theatrical.”
Lingafelter began collaborating
with Hillyer in 2018 when Hillyer
decided to shift the final projects from
a visual arts to a performance arts
focus. Hillyer had worked with an
artist named Emily Squires for three
years to construct unique projects.
One particularly memorable project
involved designing original books and
giving one to every student in the class.
When Hillyer felt it was time to explore
other means of self expression, she
turned to Lingafelter.
“Theatre was the next obvious step,
because it’s a form of storytelling, and
the class is all about storytelling,”
Hillyer said. “It allows an expression
of a range of human experiences that
a research paper can’t do. The class is
not just an academic class, but a really
holistic class that engages our souls
and our existential questions about
right and wrong and about human
connection and human worth.”
During the Spring 2018 semester
Lingafelter led exercises which
included creating and reflective
writing, movement, song and rhythm,
resulting in a devised theatre piece
performed at the prison. However,
due to the pandemic, the classes at
the prison ended prematurely and
the LC students finished the semester
independently on Zoom.
“It was devastating for the people
inside, who were not only losing out
on the educational opportunity and the
contact with outsiders, but who were
in fear for their lives because of the way COVID was spreading, and how it
was being mishandled,” Hillyer said.
“I tried to come up with improvised
ways of getting them material. Many of
them were taking the course for college
credit. In order to get the credit, you
still have to do the work. Zoom is off
the table, you cannot have a Zoom
class in the prison in this particular
prison. They’re completely cut off.”
This coming semester, the class
will be in person and will culminate
in another devised performance, this
time expanding its reach outside of the
prison.
“Over the past three years, Reiko
and I have been working to figure
out a way to take the material that we
make in that class and share it with
a wider audience,” Lingafelter said.
“Both as a way to uplift the voices of
the people who are on the inside and
don’t have the chance to kind of share
their experiences very much with the
world, and as a way to educate people
about the carceral state and the history
of mass incarceration in the country in
an artistic kind of frame.”
A grant from the Oregon
Community Foundation will allow the
professors to produce a three night
performance on the Portland Center
Stage with professional actors to
bring the devised vision to life on the
outside.
Regardless of the class format, the
unification of the two groups is what
remains important to Hillyer.
“It seems obvious that it’s mutually
beneficial, but just in case it needs
saying, the people who are inside
benefit,” Hillyer said. “Not just
because they’re getting college credits,
or stimulation or relief from boredom,
but because they’re being treated as
human beings with something to offer.
They’re being seen as something other
than a disposable, dangerous person.”
For professors involved with this
program, one of the ultimate goals is
to demystify the people behind bars.
“Prison is something that is built
purposefully, to isolate, to demonize, to
disappear people,” Hillyer said. “And
unless we have a loved one in prison,
we can probably live our lives not
thinking much about it or the people
inside it … If you’ve looked (a prisoner)
in the eye, and they look you in the eye,
you will be forever changed.”NEWS 3FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Friday’s events include Ghanaian Drumming, “Jordan’s Wisdom,” fashion show, student speeches
COURTESY OF NINA JOHNSON“Race Monologues” centers BIPOC experiences
Prison exchange program expanded due to popularityContinued from page 1.
“and I’ve heard many people of
color and communities in general
express themselves historically
through tattoos,” Yao said. “For
example, Pacific Islanders have
traditionally used tattoos to express
different stories and pass on their
history and ancestors.”
Thursday’s events were wrapped
up with the second keynote speaker,
Dr. Oriel María Siu, who is an
educator, scholar and author of
multiple children’s books. The event
was titled “Undoing Foundational
Fairytales One Story at a Time.”
“She decolonizes the story of
Columbus. I think a lot about how my
life would have been and how I would
have perceived myself differently,”
Morales Santos said. “If I had read her
book when I was little, I would have
been thinking about a narrative that
centers Indigenous or native people
and their experiences of resistance and
resilience in the face of colonization.
For me, personally, it’s really close
to home as a daughter of Indigenous
immigrants who emigrated to the
U.S. I’m thinking a lot about just the
different dynamics of emigration,
colonization and displacement.”
Today is the final day of the Ray
Warren Symposium. It includes
events such as Ghanaian Drumming at
the Gregg Pavilion from 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m., a performance of “Jordan’s
Wisdom” by Students for Cultural
Inclusion in Theatre in the Fir Acres
Black Box from 1:50 to 2:50 p.m. and a fashion show at Smith Hall from
3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The symposium will
conclude with “Race Monologues” in
the Agnes Flanagan Chapel at 7 p.m.
“I think that right race
monologues are extremely powerful and important, and it does happen
every year,” Yao said. “But for those
who have not attended before, it’s an
event where students of color from LC
can read, share their monologues that
they’ve written about their personal experiences on campus with joy, grief,
anger, or any kind of emotions. It’s a
very vulnerable event.”
Jacob Hidalgo ’23 who is an ethic
studies student worker, was part
of the planning for the Ray Warren Symposium. He is also participating
in “Jordan’s Wisdom” and the “Race
Monologues.” For Hidalgo, “Race
Monologues” is a space to ensure
that BIPOC students are able to have
a voice on campus, where no one is
going to talk over them, whether in
celebration or anger.
“Ultimately, the main thing that
I want people to take away from the
Ray Warren Symposium in general,
but especially the ‘Race Monologues’
is just to listen and learn,” Hidalgo
said. “There have been so many issues
with that in the past, with ‘Race
Monologues’ especially with people’s
teachers assigning it for extra credit
for class, even though it is a very
vulnerable moment for the students
of color who are presenting. We would
rather you listen to our experiences
and grow as a person, than take
notes and analyze what we are saying
for credit...take our experiences
seriously.”
After the events of the last “Race
Monologues”, the Race Monologue
Presenters wrote a Letter to the
Editor that emphasized that “Race
Monologues” is about the real
vulnerable experiences of BIPOC
students, and how disrespectful it was
to the speakers when white students
attended the “Race Monologues”
solely for extra credit in their classes.
The doors for the “Race
Monologues” open at 6:40 p.m. with
first-come seating, and doors will be
closed at 7 p.m. or when full capacity
is reached. Those arriving late will not
be admitted.
The three co-chairs of the Ray Warren Symposium Rocío Yao ’24, Azucena Morales Santos ’24 and Carolina Ruíz ’22 pose. VENUS EDLIN /THE MOSSY LOG
Inside Out offers incarcerated individuals unique opportunities to participate in creative arts activities
COURTESY OF NINA JOHNSON
Prison exchange program provides with students unique insight to life in prison.
Students and inmates collaborate on creative projects together throughout the program.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
OPINION /gid00486
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.BY ISABEL REKOW
IT IS A TRUISM t h a t A m e r i c a n
democracy is struggling not only
to function, but to exist. How
can we ensure its improvement and
survival? Mandatory voting, in which
citizens are required to vote in their
country’s elections, could go a long
way toward improving the state of our
democracy.
Also known as compulsory voting
or universal voting, mandatory voting
is already a practice in over two dozen
countries around the world, including
many in Latin America. While voting
itself is an obligation, citizens are free
to choose whichever candidates they
wish to elect.
In Australia, voting takes place on a
Saturday in order to make voting more
accessible for workers, according to
the New York Times. Voting is easy,
and groups visit institutions such as
prisons and hospitals to ensure access.
While American turnout hovers
around 50% for presidential elections,
in Australia turnout tends to exceed
90%. Communities in Australia often
host barbecues on election day. After
all, it is the weekend. The act of
voting becomes a way of building and
reinforcing a sense of community.
Mandatory voting would bolster
civic engagement and foster a better
voting culture in the United States,
including, crucially, increased access.
A fraying patchwork of election laws,
varying from state to state, ensures
wildly unequal access depending on
one’s place of residence. Thanks to
Oregon’s vote-by-mail system and
motor voter law, voting in this state
is easier than in most of the country.
Black, Indigenous, Hispanic,
rural and poor people face the most
barriers to voting. According to Pew
Research, lower-income Americans are more likely than higher-income
Americans to be in favor of mandatory
voting. If casting a ballot were made
mandatory, voting would necessarily
have to become more accessible and
equitable.
It would also encourage engagement
among a group of voters who often
have access, but lack the drive to vote:
young people. Although younger generations will be affected long
term by the people and policies on
the ballot, it is usually older voters
who turn out in greater numbers and
have a greater sway on elections. We
as young adults would benefit from
increased representation.
Populism and extremism could
decrease as a result of mandatory
voting. A 2020 article in the Australian Journal of Political
Science explains that this has long
been one of the main arguments
in favor of the policy. By including
underrepresented groups in the
political process and giving them a
means to combat inequality, it may
address some of the positive goals of
populism while working against the
harmful tendency to descend into an “us against them” mentality of
distrust, xenophobia and hate.
Mandatory voting does not
have to come with strict penalties
for those who do not wish to
participate. Other countries allow
for religious exemptions and written
appeals explaining that a particular
circumstance prevented a person
from voting. Monetary penalties
risk discriminating against the
poor. These penalties could easily
be waived for those whose financial
situation prevents them from being
able to pay.
There also does not have to be
any penalty for casting a blank ballot.
The idea behind mandatory voting
is not to force people to comply with
the government. It is founded on the
idea that there should be a reciprocal
relationship between citizens and their
representatives, and all citizens should
be able to participate in decisions that
will profoundly affect their lives. If
someone does not wish to fill out their
ballot, then that is their choice. On the
other hand, formerly disenfranchised
voters will have access, and voters who
previously did not care about elections
will be in an environment that
encourages participation and builds a
sense of community.
Some may bristle at the words
“mandatory” or “compulsory,” insisting
that they express coercion and go
against the American value of freedom.
However, no one in the U.S. has
unlimited freedom. You probably obey
the speed limit, more or less. You have
the right to free speech, but not the
right to incite acts of hate and violence.
Living among other people requires
you to modify your actions in order
to respect the freedom and safety of
others. Spending at most a few hours
at a weekend barbecue is a small price
to pay for your own enfranchisement.Mandatory voting creates engaged community
Compulsory participation would encourage expanded voting access, increase underrepresented turnout
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
Hartzfeld residents should not be vacated over break
Forcing temporary relocation of students during finals hurts Campus Living as much as student life
By EMMA FORD
THERE IS A distinct possibility
that the Lewis & Clark
administration does not
understand that its students do not
find bureaucrat-land easy to navigate.
I have heard such sentiments echoed
by many an administrator that “we
send plenty of reminders” and “it
is all on the website.” This may be
true, but the community response to
the latest decision made by the LC
administration, or at least Campus
Living, has been telling.
The removal of the residents
of Hartzfeld in favor of temporary
residents for winter break is
something that those residents,
myself included, have been protesting
since we were informed a few weeks
ago. In that email, and in subsequent
emails responding to strong student
complaints, Campus Living claimed
that residents were made aware
of this possibility since they were
assigned to Hartzfeld in the summer,
but this is not the case as we residents
understand it.
Reading back through previous
emails, my peers and I only found
mention of a possible winter break
relocation following our assignment
to Hartzfeld, at which point we could
not have realistically moved out en
masse in a dramatically overstretched
campus housing situation. Subsequent
emails with questions and concerns
went largely unanswered in any
meaningful way. The Q&A session
that was scheduled for residents was
not scheduled with input from any
residents, and as such many of us were
unable to attend. Our RA’s are barely
better informed than we are, despite
their best efforts to stand up for
their residents. The communication
has been less than clear, and we as
residents are not being treated with
respect or fairness. It would be untruthful to state
that the school has no right to do
this. In the contracts we signed in
order to live on campus we may be
removed from our rooms in this
manner and have no recourse other
than to pay to stay over winter break.
But the case is not that the school is
violating a legal agreement, they are
violating the implicit contract that
every student felt they signed when
they received their Hartzfeld room.
It is an emotional outcry we feel at
the underpinning of our relationship
with our second home being taken
from us.
We are being made to leave
our rooms, unlike anyone else on
campus, and given limited storage
space and no other compensation.
Should Campus Living truly intend
to follow through with this, we
should receive something for the
considerable trouble we will be
forced to go through to carry out their
plans, especially during finals week.
The unilateral nature of this decision
feels particularly out of touch with
the realities of the sophomore (and
older) student reality.
One of the chief complaints among
my peers in the Hartzfeld dorms has
been at this lack of support on th part
of Campus Living. While in the real
world” one might pay movers “(or ply a
group of friends with the classic pizza
and beer payment) college students
on this campus have struggled
significantly with the lack of resources
made available to us. It was hellish to
have to pack up my freshman dorm
spring semester amid my second ever
finals season, and I was hoping to not
have to repeat the experience until
absolutely necessary. And I simply
am failed to be convinced that now
is such a time. I am sacrificing my
own study time and rest time to make
room for another student with no help
offered on the part of my school, and no recognition of the effect this will
have on me that my fellow students
do not have to deal with. It is not fair
that I experience an excess penalty on
my time simply for the dorm I chose
to live in.
And let us return briefly to the
point of cleanliness and safety. I do
not like the idea of someone that
I do not know sleeping in my bed
and using my bathroom. I especially
have concerns about whether or not
any damage to my room will affect
my deposit and if it will be caught
upon my moving back in. Should
my unwelcome guest break my
bathroom, spill on my carpet, damage
the large exposed piping that hangs
from the ceiling or any other hundred
possibilities, it would directly affect
me and my roommate. We have no
idea who will be in our spaces, but we
are forced to implicitly trust them.
However, the bottom line is, we
should not have to move. These
are our rooms, which we have been
lucky to live in, and have made
our own. Regardless of safety and
cleanliness concerns, these are our
homes away from home. Our lives
are in these rooms. To move out in
the middle of finals is going to be
nearly impossible logistically, and
a huge ask physically and mentally.
Instead of focusing on passing my
classes, taking care of myself, and
the upcoming holiday time with
my family, I have to source boxes,
consolidate the belongings I still
need to be using, and wrestle with
limited storage space.
Campus Living clearly has a
difficult task at hand in dealing
with lots of residents and limited
resources. If we could work with
them, the antagonistic relationship
that is developing could be nipped
in the bud. There is real hurt and
discontent brewing among students
who are simply trying to survive in temporary housing, away from home
for the first time. We understand hard
choices have to be made. But the fact
that this is the battle they are choosing,
and the fact that they are choosing not to
engage with us as a community, makes
it a little hard to be understanding.
This article may not change minds
of those with authority, and it may not be heard in the offices at the top. Policy
is policy and should I end up replaced
with a new resident over break I will do
my best to clear the way for them and
remember it is not their fault that I am
being removed. But at the end of the
day, I really do not want to give up my
room.
Would you?
EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOGFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
OPINION /gid00487
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.No regrets? Junior gives advice to freshmen
Students must balance effort of making friends with time alone to work, study, finish assignments
By CORRYN PETTINGILL
AS A CURRENT third year college
student, I have learned some of
the ins and outs of succeeding at
a university. However, there are a few
things that I wish I knew as a freshman.
College is not like the movies
Movies rarely elaborate on the hard
deadlines, the late nights of studying,
the battle between wanting to sleep and
socialize. Instead, they highlight a social
scene that is not a part of every college.
Every institution functions differently,
and so do the people. Lewis & Clark’s
social scene runs on the low — you have to
know the right people and have the right
friends, whereas movies suggest that you
might stumble upon a house party one
dreary evening.
Keep putting yourself out there
Another thing the movies get wrong is
how easy it is to find a social scene. While
no one could have predicted COVID-19,
I had not expected that making friends
would be so challenging. Exchanging
numbers at the beginning of the semester
can be beneficial for two reasons: It
allows you to have an emergency contact
for notes if you miss a class, and it allows
you to make friends with the people in
your class so you can study and hang out
together. Classes become less enjoyable
when you feel isolated and cannot talk to
anyone about the struggles you are facing.
Joining clubs also seems daunting, but is
a perfect way to meet new people and
explore some of the hobbies and interests
you enjoy. Plus, the experience they give
you looks great on a resume.Learn to sacrifice some of your
social life
Balancing your social life with
school and work is challenging. Many classes demand an enormous
amount of hours dedicated to the
assignments, and given the stress
this can cause, having at least a minimal social life can be a good
thing. Plan out how much time you
need to finish homework, projects
and work, and then schedule your social life around that. While the
memories that you make at college
are important, they are not the only
things you will be walking away with
by the time you graduate. Beyond
the grades, the material you learn
will help guide you through the rest
of your life.
Some days you will be alone,
and that is good
Spending my quiet rainy days
alone in Watzek Library working on
homework can be a relief from the
chaos of the outside world, but in
my first year at LC I was discouraged
by all the days I ate alone in my car,
studied by myself and walked to
class alone. Now, I find it a welcome
respite from the chaos of the world,
and it allows me to focus fully on
homework I need to complete. While
working in groups can be beneficial
for some projects, others require my
full attention.
Do not expect professors to be
forgiving
While most of the professors
are very thoughtful and empathetic
about students’ issues, we should not
rely on them to guide us through the
semester. Set yourself hard deadlines
to make sure you turn things in on
time, so that when an emergency
actually occurs you have not already
exhausted your professors with
assignment extensions and missed
classes. It is natural for things to
come up during the year, so do not
waste your professors’ generosity on
false excuses.
CORRYN PETTINGILL/THE MOSSY LOG
Sleep deprivation results from
students trying to balance lives
By CORRYN PETTINGILL
BUSY COLLEGE days seep into
nights as Lewis & Clark students
stay up working on homework or
hanging out with friends, but despite
how little sleep we get, mornings
remain unforgiving. The next day,
we might complain to our friends
about how little sleep we got, creating
a competition of who got the least
amount of sleep. Most students barely
reach the recommended seven to nine
hours of sleep, and while competing
for the fewest hours is harmful to the
community, the real problems are not
being addressed.
A college student not only has to
worry about school and homework.
For most, it is also necessary to keep
a job to pay off student loans or
groceries. Outside of school, students
also have sports practices and club
meetings to attend, decreasing the number of hours a student has to
work on homework. If a student
lives at home, they might also have
to take care of
family members
or pets. On top of
that, keeping up
a good social life
and maintaining
one’s hobbies is
also healthy. By
the end of the day,
there is barely
enough time to
eat and go to the
bathroom, let
alone sleep for 10
hours.
Students do
not stay up to
prove to their
friends that they can go with
the least amount of sleep. We do it so
that we can maintain our school work as well as the rest of our lives. With
or without the competitive dialogue
between students, either way we will
not be getting enough sleep, so why is
talking about it bad?
Bringing awareness to the lack of
time students have to live balanced
lives is the only thing they can do
about their situation. Sometimes
coping means complaining, but
ultimately moving on.
When a friend talks about the little
sleep they got when you got less, your
first reaction may be to lash out in
jealousy and compare yourself instead
of empathizing with them. Students
do not talk about their sleep with
malicious intentions, but the way
that we interpret these complaints
are up to us. Our first response might
be “suck it up because we all are not
getting sleep” or “do not make me feel
bad about getting more sleep,” but
both would be unfair.
Chronic sleep deprivation
has deadly consequences such as
heart attacks, high blood pressure
and diabetes. It can also lead to
drowsiness, mood swings and
impatience. Whether we like it or
not, our bodies demand sleep. It is
not an option we can decide to turn
off, but a necessity to continue living
our lives. Even if you have to stay up
all night finishing an assignment, one
way or another that sleep will catch
up to you, especially
at the worst times.
Unfortunately,
we live in a
fast-paced and
unforgiving world
where we must
juggle everything at
once while somehow
maintaining our
mental and physical
health. We all have
different workloads,
therefore we
should not judge
others’ actions
based on our own
experiences, but
focus on our own
health and how we can work to make
ourselves better.Yearly tuition increase
harms students, school
By ELI KESSLER
A FEW DAYS ago I was told about
our Board of Trustees’ decision
to increase the cost of room and
board by 4.28%. Is this surprising?
No, not really. According to data from
AcademicInfluence.com, the cost of
attending Lewis & Clark for one year
was equivalent to about one third of
the median family income. In 2021, the
cost was greater than one year’s worth
of income. What do we do? Protest?
Yes, protest. But, the bigger issue is the
American economy and capitalism.
A rise in tuition is not new. It has
been happening for years — even
decades. Why can the school not operate
as it already does with current tuition
rates? Yes, increasing our tuition could
give us better facilities and resources,
but at what cost for students?
For the next couple of years, we will
have to put up with construction which
only limits what resources we have
access to. For example, the Templeton
Student Center remodel has taken
away access to multiple floors, which
means our mailroom moved locations
and our student unions have no
office space to meet and hold events.
Additionally, Maggie’s, our old café on
the residential side of campus, closed
down, which makes it more difficult
for students to get drinks and food.
On the bright side, some of the closed-
off spaces in buildings are slowly
beginning to open, including the Trail
Room and the Market. Our college could probably get along
fine with tuition costs that are even lower
than what they already are. But they
choose not to, and instead increase the
strain of tuition on us and our families.
Our college administrators and
Board of Trustees are well aware of the
increase in tuition. I wonder how many
people will be able to continue attending
LC. They risk pushing low-income
students further away and having
current students drop out as a result.
I love the campus, the teachers,
the people. I finally feel like I have a
community who genuinely likes me to
the point that I do not have to worry
about being myself in front of them, but
I am not sure I want to continue going
here with all the problems we are being
faced with.
The school is making it seem like it
is our problem to deal with, but it is the
problem of the Board of Trustees. They
are the ones in power. They are the ones
who make the most important and life-
changing decisions in all things relating
to our experience as students on this
campus.
Let us hope for the best. I have had
my doubts about this school well before
the rise in tuition, and they will only
grow more. If this is something that
bothers and genuinely concerns you,
this is the time to speak out about it. If
the school gets crickets and silence in
response to this plan to increase tuition,
that will give the Board of Trustees
more confidence to make more changes
in the future.
COURTESY OF THE MOSSY LOG ARCHIVECORRYN PETTINGILL/THE MOSSY LOG
“Most students
barely reach the
recommended seven
to nine hours of sleep,
and while competing
for the fewest hours
is harmful to the
community, the real
problems are not being
addressed.”FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
FEATURES 6
Levin’s first watch takes inspiration from the koi pond by the lower garden walkway.A Day Dreamer’s Watches debut wristwatch designed by Aldebaron Levin ’23 set for market release
COURTESY OF ALDEBARON LEVINStudent represents koi pond in wristwatch
By AVA FRISON
AT THIS POINT IN t h e y e a r
most college students are
trying to push through to the
end of the semester and catch up on
their homework. However, Aldebaron
Levin ’23 has been juggling school,
thinking about their future after
graduation and launching their own
company.
A few weeks ago, Levin, who is
from the outskirts of small town
Ramona, Calif., soft-launched their
own watch business called A Day
Dreamer’s Watches. While studying
as a philosophy major and computer
science minor, Levin has spent the
beginning of their final year at Lewis
& Clark trying to get their watches
manufactured and ready for retail.
According to Levin, the process of
getting these watches made has been
quite the rollercoaster. Their first
design was inspired by the LC koi
pond, which Levin first discovered as
a first-year student.
“I started just kind of wandering
campus trying to find a safe place
where I could just not have people
everywhere,” Levin said. “The fish
pond isn’t the most isolated place on
campus, but it’s my favorite.”
It was not until September of last
year, however, that Levin became
interested in watch making. Levin
contacted their friend with a graphic
design background to start coming
up with an initial design. Finalizing
the design took two to three months,
because they had a very clear vision
for what it should look like.
Levin intended to sell the design
to one of the watch companies that
initially inspired them. However,
Levin was rejected by the company
because that company already had a
design similar to Levin’s.
After that, the idea of the watch
fell stagnant for a while. But Levin
said the idea of making the watch was
so important to them that they kept
searching for solutions. It was not
until they got the idea to start their
own company that the plan resumed.
“I didn’t think I could start a
company,” Levin said. “I didn’t think
I could do any of this, so I just kind
of tried to let it go. But… I’d stay up
until 1 a.m. just on a random night
searching the web, trying to figure
out some way to just make one watch. All I needed was one version of this
watch.”
Since then, Levin has been busy
starting a business, finalizing designs
and contracting with a manufacturer
to make their dream of creating
watches come to fruition.
They partnered with a small
watch manufacturer in Ohio. Levin
enjoys their partnership because the
company emphasized communication
and involvement.
“I’ve been speaking with the
president of the company this whole
time,” Levin said. “Working with him
figuring out how to make my design
come to life was pretty cool and now
I’m hoping to keep doing that with
them. Because it’s really great having
somebody who knows so much about
watches, because I really don’t.”
Levin said the long distance
partnership can be a little difficult,
but that the company’s president has
excelled at communication.
In late October, Levin received
the first batch of watches after more
than a year of waiting. They said
they were very nervous to see the
product because they did not get
to see anything until the batch was
done since they did not produce a
prototype. However, once they saw
it, Levin was thrilled with the final
product and could not believe how
well it turned out.
“It was kind of a leap of faith
moment,” Levin said.
Though it is hard getting a
business off the ground, Levin has
been managing well. They do that by
making sure they focus equally on all
aspects of their life, creating an equal
balance of school and business.
“You know, study for that
computer science midterm, and then
also, you know, form an LLC and find
a CPA,” Levin jokes.
In addition to the koi-inspired
watch, Levin already has several
more designs in the works. Similarly,
they all represent some important
attachments to Levin’s life.
With these other designs,
Levin hopes to grow ADDW in the
future, but that also has led to some
challenges. ADDW’s manufacturer
does not process any orders of less
than 300 units. Now in possession of
300 koi pond watches, Levin will need
to start selling a good proportion
of them to be able to produce more designs. Levin has a plan to make
sure they are able to keep producing
watches while making a profit.
“I’m not starting my next design
until I sell at least half of my current
design,” Levin said. “Hopefully, I will
start production halfway through
selling my previous design.”
In the future, as Levin grows
ADDW, they want to stick with the
same manufacturer because they
align with their business model. Levin
was enthusiastic about the quality of
the watches their manufacturer was
able to make, though they run at a
higher price point as a result. Levin
said the price point for the current
model will be about $325 or $350.
Though they acknowledge that college
students will most likely not be the
target audience for their watch, they
hope that the LC community will help
promote the business after hearing
ADDW’s story. Levin also said that if the business
grows, they will try their best to keep
the watches at a reasonable price and
create an honest business model.
“I have been thinking a lot about
integrity as I’ve been doing this, because
right now, only 300 units of this watch
have been produced,” Levin said. “And
what I could say in marketing is this is a
limited object, I’m not going to produce
any more. This is it after this is sold,
I’m done. Or I can leave it kind of open
and say, you know, maybe someday I’ll
produce more if it sells well.”
Levin said one of the most difficult
aspects of getting a business off the
ground is promoting the brand.
“Getting the word out has been by
far the most important part of starting
this business and also the part that I’m
the least capable at because I’m not a
big social media user,” said Levin.
Levin says that help with social
media is one of the biggest focal points of promotion. ADDW can be
found @adaydreamerswatches on
Instagram. Levin plans to maintain
the business as a side project while
they go to law school next year.
However, Levin is willing to see where
the future takes them.
The main reason Levin started a
company in the first place was that they
wanted to encapsulate a special moment
in their life, which is an experience they
believe other people can relate to.
“The design was born of the
pandemic,” Levin said. “If it hadn’t
been for COVID, I wouldn’t have a
business right now, which is crazy.
But because I was here as a freshman,
and I was a little bit miserable, like
many of us were, it led me in this
direction. And I hope people can
relate to that and feel connected to
this. Because this isn’t just my story.
This is very similar to what a lot of
people have experienced.”
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Corryn PettingillCOURTESY OF ALDEBARON LEVIN
Sam Gilbertson ’22 wears Levin’s wristwatch that uses swimming koi fish in place of traditional clock hands to tell the time. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
FEATURES 7
Most wonder “fall” time of year is here at LC
By AVA FRISON
AS AN OREGON native, I recognize
fall as the superior season in the
Pacific Northwest. It is a very
distinctive season, especially in this part
of the country. After a long, scorching
summer and temperatures in the 80s
through mid-October, myself and
many on campus have been enjoying
the cooler weather and relishing the
arrival of the best time of year. The
Lewis & Clark campus has long been
known for its beauty, and as summer
turns to fall, the campus becomes
even more beautiful with its autumnal
transformation.
Fall is where we begin to see
squirrels burying their loot for the
winter months, and the few deciduous
trees on campus change their leaves to
bright oranges and reds. The summer flowers wilt and shrivel from the frost,
and you may spot a few glimpses of
tiny chipmunks before they are tucked
away for winter.
Finally, the ever-famous Oregon
rain is back in full force, which has
been missing from our lives for many
months. It has turned everything on
campus into a mud pit, but the cooler
weather and cleaner air is a nice trade
off now that the rain has cleared the
wildfire smoke.
Because this fall was so late in
coming, winter is already approaching
and the trees are already losing their
leaves. It is nice to see beauty of nature
before winter sets in and dreariness
comes to campus.
There is no doubt about it, fall in
Oregon is my favorite time of the year.
And seeing the LC campus in full glory
has been amazing.
By JACQUES PARKER
MANY THINGS HAVE changed
in the last few years at Lewis &
Clark, including the mailroom.
The mailroom has undergone significant
changes including a major location change,
a loss of the Templeton Student Center
mailboxes and an overall increase in
the number and volume of parcels
received daily. I have been working at
the mailroom since January 2020, and I
have seen firsthand the changes I outline
here.
Here is what you need to know about
the mailroom to make things happen
more efficiently. Now more than ever, it
has been more challenging to obtain mail
at LC. Because of this, knowing how to
make the lives of mailroom workers easier
will make things move more smoothly.
Parcels
These are the bread and butter of
mailroom operations — how many parcels
we receive in a given day determines what
other activities mailroom workers can do
that day or even the one after that. On the
busiest days of the year, we can receive
about 1,000 parcels (boxes, bags and
large envelopes).
Meadow Zelenitz ’24, who has
worked in the mailroom since it was at
the Templeton location, told me that
recipients should put their full name and
MSC on parcels to make checking them
in easier. Julia Neumeier ’23, another
mailroom worker, asks that students be
patient with the mailroom staff, since
ordering a lot of parcels puts more work
on them. Also, when picking up parcels,
wait for the mailroom’s email rather than
relying on the sender or courier.
Letters
The mailroom receives more letters
and second-class mail (mostly magazines)
than one might think. Letter sorting
has changed quite a bit from when the
mailroom was in the previous location,
as there are no longer any individual
mailboxes to sort the letters into. Sorting
letters into a large filing cabinet is more
complicated and takes longer than sorting
into individual mailboxes.
Zelenitz notes that sorting letters is
not a priority, especially with the high volume of parcels coming in. She also
wants to remind students that “if you
don’t know your MSC, ask us.” MSC
numbers are also available to anyone
with login information on the LC
website’s directory.
Neumeier told me magazines in
particular need MSC numbers on, since
if it is not a subscription and not labeled,
then chances are it will be shredded
due to lack of space. She also asked that
students be mindful of how letters and
magazines do not show up in the system
used at the mail room to find parcels, so
be mindful of when you are receiving
paper mail.
With the election behind us, one thing
the mailroom deals with is graduated
students forgetting to change their address
with the Multnomah County Elections
Division or deregister to vote. Reducing
the number of graduated student ballots
the mailroom needs to deal with is
generally preferable.
Sending out mail
This process of sending out letters
and parcels is the most unchanged of
the mailroom’s operations. Dropping
off prepaid packages and stamped mail
can be done either at the window or in
the “stamped mail” slot outside. Prices
for stamps and metering have gone up,
which are decided by the United States
Postal Service, not the mailroom. If
you can, please print out labels before
coming to the mailroom.
By SACHA GRIPMAN
AFTER 13 YEARS o f r e s e a r c h ,
planning and construction,
TriMet’s new Frequent Express
or FX service has taken to the streets of
Portland. On Sept.17, crowds gathered
at three locations along the 15-mile-long
Division Street corridor to celebrate
Portland’s first rapid bus route.
FX buses come with a host of new
features that set them apart from
TriMet’s other bus services. The FX is
serviced by brand new 60 foot articulated
buses which sport a bright green livery,
making them instantly distinguishable
from the other vehicles in TriMet’s fleet.
The buses, built by Canadian
manufacturer Nova Bus, are composed
of two vehicle sections joined by an
accordion-style connector, which allows
the bus to handle similar turns to the 40
foot and 30 foot buses TriMet operates.
The additional section at the bus’s
rear contributes to an overall capacity
increase of 60%. FX buses feature
all-door boarding with Hop Fastpass
readers mounted at each of the three
entrances, facilitating faster boarding
at stations which helps minimize
downtime.
Additionally, the buses feature
two on-board bike racks, an improved
restraint system for mobility device
users and longitudinal seating
to accommodate more standing
passengers.
These infrastructure improvements
contribute to a smoother, more
convenient ride. In certain areas, FX
buses run in dedicated bus lanes. In
areas that do not have dedicated transit
lanes, buses benefit from a system called
Transit Signal Priority, which uses on-
board sensors to relay the bus’s position
and speed to a cloud-based server.
This data is processed by an artificial
intelligence program connected to 58
signalized intersections along the route.
Lights are held green for approaching
buses or changed to green faster than
the regular light cycle to help keep
buses moving along their route. Plans
for upgraded transit service along the
Division Street corridor have been in
the works since 2009, with planners at Metro, the Portland area’s regional
planning agency, considering a
multitude of options, from Bus Rapid
Transit (BRT) to a new MAX line. In the
end, planners settled on a BRT-style
design utilizing a mix of infrastructure
improvements and dedicated bus lanes
to facilitate faster trips.
Construction began in October
2019, with the project reaching
majority completion in mid-2021.
While awarding construction
contracts, TriMet prioritized minority-
owned businesses or those certified as
a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
(DBE). Ultimately, 84% of the project’s
construction was completed by DBEs.
In its original plan, TriMet
promised frequencies of six minutes
along the FX Division line; however,
due to the ongoing historic operator
shortage, buses have been temporarily
reduced to 12 minute frequencies.
With no end to the operator shortage
in sight, it is hard to say when FX
buses will reach their promised six
minute headways or if they will stay 12
for years to come.FX buses run from Union Station
through downtown along the transit
mall before passing over the Tilikum
Crossing to service Division Street.
Buses continue along Division until
terminating at the Cleveland Avenue
MAX Station in Gresham.
Division Street is home to a
plethora of fun shops and restaurants.
This allows riders to take the FX bus to
12th & Division for a great breakfast at
Pine State Biscuits or hop off at 34th
Ave for pizza at Cibo. Nossa Familia,
Blue Star Donuts and Salt & Straw are
all within a few blocks of an FX stop.
In addition to the many stores
along Division, FX connects with
every MAX line and more than 20
other TriMet bus routes, allowing
riders to connect with many other
parts of the TriMet network.
Whether you are riding to
commute, riding to explore the
neighborhoods around Division Street
or riding as a transit enthusiast, FX
buses bring an exciting new mode of
transportation to Portland’s public
transit network.
Significant changes to
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The mailroom decorates for Halloween.After scorching heat, autumn on campus showcases beautiful colors, cloudy skies, rain, leavesBy J FRANK
SHAKESPEARE'S " H a m l e t ” i s
coming to Lewis & Clark! The
Danish prince and his quest for
revenge will be showing at the Fir Acres
Black Box theater for two nights only on
Nov. 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. However, this
is no ordinary staging of “Hamlet.”
For Percival Walter ’25, who is both
directing and acting as Hamlet, this
production is the fulfillment of a life-long
dream. Walter’s energy and enthusiasm
for this project are evident, from his
explanations of the history of black box
theater, to Shakespeare’s queerness
and the 2000s pop-punk scene.
Walter and Shakespeare go way
back. He has been acting since a
young age, and attended summer
camp where he learned skills tailored
specifically to performing and producing
Shakespeare. As a transgender man,
this experience in theater was formative
to his self-discovery and identity.
“Doing Shakespeare theater at a young
age, I was very often cast in male roles,
because I was loud,” Walter laughed.
When he read “Hamlet” in his
sophomore year of high school, he
specifically remembers being struck by
the depictions of struggles with gender
and mental illness he saw in the text, and
identifying with the titular character.
“You read something from 500
years ago and it directly describes the
experience you have,” Walter said.
Through this project, Walter said he
has been “able to tell a story that helped
me when I was really depressed [...]
and tell it in a way where I get to be the
person that I’ve always wanted to be.”
Over the summer, he reached
out to his friend and Assistant
Director Paige Cabral, asking
for their help to make it happen.
To begin, Walter knew they
would have to significantly cut down
the play’s four-hour runtime. This is
a common practice in theater, where
sections of the text are removed to
create a more concise story, and focus on
certain elements of the plot or themes. In
order to create their version of “Hamlet,”
Walter and Cabral focused on using the
text to create the story they wanted to tell.
Specifically, the themes Walter is
choosing to emphasize are “queerness,
gender roles, and internalized
homophobia.” This production of
“Hamlet” will portray the central characters Hamlet and Horatio,
explicitly friends, as being in a romantic
relationship. While this is perhaps the
most prominent change, Walter said
his script also focuses heavily on gender
roles throughout the story, contrasting
toxic masculinity and emotional
repression in male characters, and the
frequent association of women with
weakness and emotional vulnerability.
Additionally, the script emphasizes
an exploration of internalized
homophobia and mental illness.
One might wonder, ‘Is all that really
in the text? Could Hamlet and Horatio
be explicitly gay using only the original
material?’ However, Walter relies on
his Shakespeare and theater history
background to provide evidence for
these topics within the original work.
Though one might presume the
play relies on physicality to add
context, such as romantic feelings in a
relationship, Walter was insistent that
most of the work was done with verbal
acting, and emphasizing the text itself
through line delivery and the actors’
intentions. “The audience will get it
if you (the actor) get it,” Walter said.
Horatio and Hamlet’s relationship,
incidentally, does not suffer from a
lack of material to work with, with
such lines as “goodnight sweet prince,”
“with all my love I do commend me to
you” and “your love, as mine to you.”
“It doesn’t feel like I’m
adding anything, it feels like
I’m highlighting the story that
was already there,” Walter said.
Most of the cast is queer,
meaning that they bring a level
of experience and authenticity to
this production that makes it all
the more personal and effective.
T h e p l a y ’ s s e t t i n g i n t h e “ 2 0 0 0 s
pop-punk scene” incorporates another
of Walter’s obsessions. He was inspired
by band dynamics of the time, where
performers flaunted the aesthetic of
queerness, also known as “stage gay,”
while homophobia ran rampant offstage
– which he thought paralleled the story
he was telling. Different characters’
wardrobes are inspired by different
eras and scenes within the punk
movement to reflect their age and story
roles, and era-appropriate music will
be brought to the show by Ezri Reyes
’22, including a pre-show performance.
This is a work of passion for
everyone involved, who will not receive any compensation or academic
credit. The lead production team is
a tight three people: Walter, Cabral
and Stage Manager Ava Schmidt.
The unique use of black box theater
is also a vital element of Walter’s vision.
He describes the relatively small square
room painted completely black as a
“neutral playing space,” where actors and
audience interact within a shared area.
Compared to a typical proscenium
theater, black box theater is a much more
intimate and personal environment.
The audience surrounds the action on
three sides, and the stage and audience
are under neutral lighting, meaning the
actors and audience can see each other
up-close and interact directly. According
to Walter, this is more accurate to the
staging for which Shakespeare wrote
his plays. Actors will prompt audience
members for responses and reactions,
and the audience is encouraged to
jeer, cheer, laugh out loud or otherwise
engage with the performance.For example, most modern
performances play the many questions
in Shakespeare as rhetorical, but in
this show the actors ask questions
directly to audience members, and
wait for a response. Walter is a strong
advocate of this technique, saying
that when the characters speak to
the real, live people in front of them,
a much more active, engaging and
authentic performance results.
Through black box theater, along
with the script, modern setting and
punk music, Percival hopes to share
his passion by getting audiences
to interact with the text, and to
counter Shakespeare’s reputation as
pretentious, academic and difficult.
In preparation for the production,
Walter tells readers that this is not what you
would expect a Shakespeare production
to be. He advises audience members
to treat it like you would a concert: Get
ready to interact, bring your energy and
most importantly “rock the fuck out!” FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
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"Hamlet" takes on 2000s pop-punk
aesthetic in new student production
By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
ON OCT. 28 , hurmat kazmi read
their story “Sissies” in the
Frank Manor House as part of
the English Department’s Fall 2022
Reading Series. The Fall reading series
featured two other writers, Audrey Gutierrez on Oct. 4, and Jane Wong on
Nov. 8.
kazmi is a fiction writer and
playwright published in The New
Yorker, The Atlantic, American Short
Fiction and McSweeney’s. This past
year they were the Provost fellow
in fiction at the University of Iowa. kazmi was born in Karachi, Pakistan
and lived in California from 2011-2012
through a high school foreign exchange
program. The story published in
The Atlantic “The Armpits of White
Boys,” was based on this experience.
The tale details an unnamed
protagonist’s time in Visalia, Calif.
where he befriends his traditional
host mother while simultaneously
exploring his sexuality. kazmi
makes a daring choice by simply
using he/him pronouns throughout
the story in place of a name.
Although the story was based
on events in kazmi’s life, that
aspect of their work varies.
“The balance between what is
fictional and what is bordering on my
life varies, it is almost never 100%
real life or 100% fiction,” kazmi said.
In contrast, “Sissies” is based on a
2014 mass shooting in a secondary and
primary school in Peshawar, Pakistan
in which 141 people were killed.
kazmi called this story “an exception”
to their typical writing style.
However, there are still many
similarities between these stories.
Both feature gay boys coming of age,
Pakistani protagonists and some
institution in the writing to help the
reader relate to the story. The use of
pronouns in “The Armpits of White
Boys” allows anyone with he/him
pronouns to connect to the protagonist. In “Sissies,” kazmi leaves a blank space
instead of names so that anyone can
imagine the setting they grew up in.
Despite this success, kazmi
maintains that they were
not supposed to be a writer.
“Given my life and my
circumstance, I feel like deciding
to be a writer would be the most
dangerous thing I could probably
decide to do,” kazmi said. “My family
isn’t aware that I’m a writer, they
haven’t read any of my writing, they
don’t know that I publish stories in
magazines, so any day now they could
stumble upon my writing and read
it. It’s like living in constant fear.”
However, they are grateful
for being self taught and
getting into writing atypically.
“In academic institutions and
English programs, often readings
tend to be very parochial and
regurgitative, like all the people
reading the exact same things at all
times,” Kazmi said. “When I started
reading, because I had no syllabus to
look at — I had not lists to follow or
wasn’t looking to read all the canon
— I think my literary tastes became
more varied and more diverse.”
From this unique reading list,
kazmi recommends the works of
Akhil Sharma, Anuk Arudpragasam,
Souvankham Thammavongsa, Jamil
Jan Kochai and Rajesh Parameswaran.Fiction writer hurmat kazmi read at the Frank Manor House as part of a department series.
Fiction writer hurmat kazmi featured in
English department's fall reading series
COURTESY OF HURMAT KAZMI COURTESY OF HALEY WILDHIRTMossy
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By NATALIE CONNELLY
STUDENTS FROM t h e W o r d s
Gender and Performance class
and English 334: Oscar Wilde
class came together on Nov. 1 to
perform scenes from Wilde’s play
“The Importance of Being Earnest” at
the Frank Manor House called ‘Wilde
Night’. The unique presentation
included various scenes from the
play woven together in an immersive
performance that engaged the
audience.
Bella Kerr ’26, who played
Gwendolyn Fairfax, described the
performance as a somewhat campy
take on the 1895 comedic play.
“‘The Importance of Being
Earnest’ is a comedic play that
involves themes of disguise, identity
and escaping society’s frivolous
expectations,” Kerr said. “We wanted
to really make the play something
fun and perhaps camp it up a bit.”
Kerr described their character
as, “A city girl raised under the
careful watch of her respectable
Mama, Gwendolyn has a no-
nonsense attitude and is very
confident if not a bit pretentious.”
The scenes performed included
all of the play’s main characters:
Jack Worthing, Gwendolyn Fairfax,
Algernon Moncrieff, Cecily Cardew and
Lady Augusta Bracknell. Each of these
roles were performed by students.
It was an immersive experience,
as the audience followed the
characters throughout Frank Manor
throughout various scene changes.
Andrea Hibbard, the Gender
and Performance professor, said
the choice to use different rooms in
the Manor House allowed them to
separate different scenes in a unique
manner. For example, in one key
scene from the play, Jack learns that
Algernon’s excuse for getting out of
social engagements is a lie. Algernon’s fabricated sick friend ‘Bunbury’
allows the two to squabble about
deception and escaping to the country.
“We used different spaces in
the Manor House for different
scenes,” Hibbard said. “We set the
conversation between Jack and
Earnest about Bunburying in front
of the fireplace in the foyer. Then
we moved to the Armstrong Lounge.
Along the way, Lady Bracknell made
a dramatic entrance down the spiral
staircase from the second floor.”
The cast’s decisions enhanced
the play’s satirical depiction of
Victorian social life. Lady Bracknell
had drag makeup on, and Jack
made faces and hand gestures to
the audience throughout the scenes.
“Our top priority was fun,”
Hibbard said. “Professor (Jenna)
Tamimi and I looked for scenes
that seemed to promise the most
laughs. Wilde’s play is a farce, it is
filled with opportunities for physical
comedy. Jack and Algernon fight over
muffins, and Gwendolyn and Cecily
compare their diaries. Almost all of
the characters speak in epigrams.”
Iris Dimase-Nordling ’25 said
that the costumes were elaborate,
adding to the immersion, and
fit with the overall theme.
“Jack and Algernon are of
different classes and wealth statuses,
so naturally Algernon got the more
expensive looking clothing while
Jack attempted to look the same,”
Dimase-Nordling said “Cecily, on the
other hand is Jack’s ward and also
a young woman 18 years old. Her
costume was meant to represent that
idea of innocence and youth with the
light colors and the flower crown.”
Snacks and tea were provided
for all and the actors used real
food as props during scenes,
eating along with the audience.
“The muffin scene was not
rehearsed with actual muffins until the performance,” Dimase-Nordling
said. “Shoving an entire muffin into
my mouth was not planned, scripted,
or thought out at all. Which, despite
not being able to speak clearly for a few long seconds, made it so much funnier.”
She was referring to the scene
where Jack and Algernon accuse
one another of deceiving the
women they know and bicker over wanting to be christened ‘Ernest.’
Jack Worthing says it best at
the very end of the play: “I’ve now
realized for the first time in my life
the vital importance of being earnest.” FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
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Classes showcase 1895 comedy with campy, unique twist including audience interaction, muffins, dragStudents create immersive Oscar Wilde showing
Student actors from the three classes pose in Victorian costume on Frank Manor’s spiral staircase after their performance.COURTESY OF ANDREA HIBBARD
By MO APP-SINGER
I HEAR PLACES (IHP) is a
breakcore producer who attends
Lewis & Clark. In their bio, IHP
describes themselves as a “Non-
binary musician and artist at the
frontiers of rave culture.”
Breakcore is a genre of
“undanceable dance music” that
features irregular time signatures
and intricate, sped-up samples.
However those attributes do not
begin to explain the complex and
often psychedelic effect the music
has on the listener. IHP’s complex,
textured music is no different.
IHP became interested in
making music at a young age.
Inspired by artists such as
Skrillex, they began experimenting
with dubstep influenced music.
“I’ve been making music since
I was about 12 or 13,” IHP said.
“When I heard what Skrillex and
all the other dubstep producers
around that time in like 2012, 2013
were doing, I was like, ‘I want to
make that.’ And from there was
the gateway to me experimenting.”
Their creative process really
depends on the
song, though an
overarching theme
in their music
is maximalism.
“Just starting
out with an initial
idea or a sample
in my music
and then adding
elements until it
coalesses into a
recognizable song,”
IHP said. “It’s all
one fixed creative
process though. It
really just starts
with something and builds up
from there. I just see what sounds good and take out what doesn’t.
Mostly I just leave it in, because
I make very maximalist music.”
Although their work is mainly
within the breakcore genre, they are
inspired by other obscure subgenres.
“You know
shoegaze? You
know witchouse?”
they asked. “I
want to make
the breakcore
equivalent to that.”
In five years,
their plan is to be
at a place where
they can support
themself with their
art and perform
in interesting
live shows. They
have played live
“sporadically,”
but find themselves limited by
college, personal life, and mental health. They are taking a gap year
after they graduate in 2023, and
hope to focus on their music then.
Their biggest musical inspiration is
either SOPHIE or Bladee, and they are
most proud of making the song “Religion.”
Additionally, IHP also runs a
meme page, the often esoteric and
insular @pdxbreakcoreposting.
“The meme page was something I
never expected to blow up, besides like
five people who I thought would like it,” IHP said. “It was me trying to
point out the obvious absurdities
in this beautiful, creative niche
DIY scene. I never expected that
people would actually like it.”
To IHP, memes are a wonderful
anarchist form of communication.
Various subcultures often overlap in
the meme scene, giving them a fun
avenue to experiment beyond music.
“That’s another aspect of the
Portland breakcore scene that’s unique,” IHP said. “Most other
scenes like rave and punk are
separate in most cities. Granted, I’ve
only lived in San Franciso and Utah,
but what I can tell is Portland is
the only scene in the country where
there’s this huge crossover between
hardcore punk and the rave scene.
You get people who were playing
a punk show a few hours earlier.”
They also enjoy the rave scene,
which they say is a welcoming place
for various types of people. One
such memorable rave they went
to was back in March, located at a
“large industrial area” in Portland.
“I remember it the most because
I met one of my best friends there,”
IHP said. “Raves are cool, but I
think the purpose behind them is
ultimately to bring people together
who are otherwise just outcasts,
especially queer trans people. It's
such a welcoming and safe space and I
feel like if you take away nothing else
from this interview, the music exists
so that people can party and have
cool connections with each other.”LC student, producer, meme page curator talks new music, dubstep influences, Portland rave cultureI Hear Places experiments with breakcore genre
IHP makes their album and song visuals independently, such as the art for "Religion." COURTESY OF I HEAR PLACES
COURTESY OF I HEAR PLACES
I Hear Places poses in front of graffiti.
“It really just starts
with something and
builds up from there.
I just see what sounds
good and take out
what doesn’t. Mostly
I just leave it in,
because I make very
maximalist music.”
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@mossylog.newsBy NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
THIS YEAR IS the fiftieth
anniversary of Title IX, a law that
provides legal protection against
discrimination in a host of contexts,
including the right for people of all
genders to participate in any federally-
financed educational program or
activity. Title IX is the reason many
women’s sports teams were created.
It is legislation that ensures equality
and thus should have been in place
long before 1972. Athletics were an
exclusively male experience going back
to ancient Athens, and every inch of
progress took a long time and lots of
hard work.
As mandated by Title IX, the
administration keeps sports funding
about as equitable as possible,
but misogyny does not need to be
institutionalized to manifest itself.
Sports teams are one of the most
gendered spaces at LC, as no other
program can prohibit a student from
joining based on gender.
Brecklyn Beighle ’23, a captain of
the women’s soccer team and track
& field athlete, said that Title IX has
brewed positive experiences on the
track team where men and women
practice together.
“All of the (track) coaches treated
us super equally,” Beighle said. “I
haven’t had a negative experience
like that with track, it’s only just been
positive.”
Rita Moore ’26 of the women’s
golf team has not felt any gender
discrimination from athletics while
being at LC.
“(All athletes on the mens and
womens golf teams) are pretty close
with each other,” Moore said. “Every
time you see someone we always say
hi and you know check in with each
other.”
Beighle did note, however,
that they have perceived gendered
treatment at times during her
experience in athletics. Multiple
soccer players, including Beighle,
attested to being told by trainers to
stay out of the training room when
football has practice, while the inverse
has not been done. In addition, they
said they were locked out of Pamplin
Sports Center after a late night
competition and had to call Campus
Security to get in.
“There’s a lot of differences in how
a men’s team is treated versus a labeled
women’s team,” Beighle said.
When asked about these instances,
Director of Physical Education and
Athletics Mark Pietrok had little to say.
“We would disagree,” Pietrok said.
“None of those complaints have been
brought to us.” In terms of access to training, LC’s
Sports Medicine Department said that
this was due to football requiring a
trainer on the field. There are only four
trainers whose hours are 5:00 a.m.
to 10:00 p.m., which is not sufficient
to open the office during football’s
practice.
The football team has a 76 player
roster, the largest of any team,
and their locker room reflects that.
However, other team’s roster sizes are
not reflected as well by their locker
room.
“[The football team’s] locker room
is so nice, it’s on the ground floor,
when you walk in there’s this huge
entrance,” Beighle said. “Ours is in this
tiny little space and we barely have any
space to fit.”
Additionally, the football locker
room has a ping pong table, microwave
and television purchased with their
team budget. Aesthetically this seems
unfair to many other athletes but team
budgets are closely regulated to insure
equity.
“The school provides an operating
budget for the programs and each team
has the opportunity to raise revenue to
enhance their budgets,” Pietrok said.
“We take a look at all the revenue that
is raised and make sure it is equitable
across the board.”
In regards to the football
locker room, the extra money for
embellishments came from that
budget.
“If you were to look at our funding
per student, (the football team is)
never near the top,” Pietrok said. “They
are normally in the middle of funding
per student per sport.”
Title IX ensures that sports teams
receive equitable funding, allowing for
the differing equipment costs between
sports. LC fully abides by this. Still,
moderate per player funding with a 76
person roster provides a larger budget
than if the roster were smaller, meaning
that if a set percentage of each player’s
funding was allocated to furnishings
the team could purchase nicer things
than some teams with higher per
player funding. Additionally, Pietrok
did not say where football placed in per
team funding.
Oct. 12 was the Day of ChamPIOns,
where teams encouraged donations
and set goals for total money raised.
On their respective Instagram
accounts, the men’s baseball team
disclosed that they raised $20,000, the
men’s and women’s cross country and
track teams raised $41,000, and the
women’s basketball team announced
that they had reached $4,000 and
were hoping to get to $5,000. No other
team announced their totals or goals
through the platform.This raises the question of whether
some teams are incapable of raising
desired funds.
“For the most part I wouldn’t say
any of our teams are in that situation
right now,” Pietrok said. “But I think
you have to look at it in a kind of a
bigger picture. Is the crew team going
to Boston every year? No.”
Head Football Coach Joe Bushman
says LC is extremely equitable,
especially compared to his experience
coaching at high schools.
“The school probably more than
any I’ve ever been at does a nice
job of supporting and encouraging
everybody and giving everybody
equal treatment,” Bushman said. “I
think you’re barking up the wrong
tree with that whole angle because it’s
not apparent it’s not real.”
In addition to institutional
concerns, Beighle said the attitude of
the community can be offensive.
“There’s a lot of comments made
from men’s sports teams about women
in sports and how we’re just not as
good as them or it’s not entertaining
to watch,” Beighle said. “I’ve heard
multiple comments from other men’s
teams about women’s soccer — softball
too and women’s basketball.”
The systemic nature of sexism
is even more visible in professional
sports than amateur ones. Many big
name athletes have records of sexual
misconduct that have not halted their
professional careers. Twenty four
accusations of sexual assault came out
against Cleveland Browns quarterback
Deshaun Watson. Jason Kidd, current
head coach of the Dallas Mavericks
and 10-time National Basketball
Association (NBA) All-Star, pleaded
guilty to a charge of domestic abuse
that involved punching his wife in the
face in 2001. Even the late Kobe Bryant,
a five-time NBA champion whose
death in 2020 brought international
mourning, was accused of rape in 2003.
The highest-paid female athlete is
the 19th highest paid athlete overall.
The average Major League Baseball
player makes $4,031,549 annually,
while the average National Pro
Fastpitch (an American professional
softball league) player makes just
$6,000.
Men’s professional leagues
make more money than women’s
professional leagues, so male athletes
get paid more. This points to systemic,
cultural issues from both the way the
industry is set up and consumers’
sports diets.
Although it focuses on equity
due to legal requirements and
ethical obligation, LC is a part of
this broader tradition and can not
forget it.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
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Title IX anniversary brings
introspection from athletics
By NICOLAS
VELASQUEZ-SUAZO
FIFA, OR THE F e d e r a t i o n
Internationale de Football
Association, Men’s World Cup
is set to kick off with Qatar facing
Ecuador on Nov. 20. This is the
first-ever World Cup held during the
Northern Hemisphere’s winter.
Over 28 days, the best soccer-
playing countries will play a total
of 64 games to crown one nation
with the Jules Rimet trophy,
awarded once every four years.
Favorites to take it home this
year include five-time World Cup
winner Brazil, two-time World Cup
winner Argentina who are on a 35
game unbeaten streak and France,
the reigning champion. Countries
like Germany, Spain and England
are also expected to have strong
performances.
Not all countries get to participate
though. Notable nations left out of
the World Cup include the 2020
UEFA Euro champion Italy, former
quarter-finalist Sweden, former
round of 16 placer Colombia and
Nigeria.
This World Cup represents a
transition from one era to the next.
Soccer icons like Cristiano Ronaldo,
Luka Modric, Robert Lewandowski,
Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez will
compete in their final World Cup and
will likely retire without ever winning
the tournament. Younger stars
like Kylian Mbappe, Pablo “Gavi”
Martín Páez Gavira, Phil Foden and
Vinícius José Paixão de Oliveira
Júnior are expected to replace them
in the spotlight and define a new
generation of footballers.
Lewis & Clark is perfectly situated
to watch this special World Cup. In
recent years, the college has had
students representing more than
50 countries on campus. While
there are no events or watch parties
programmed for the World Cup,
there are still many in the community
who plan to tune in.
Vasty Jean-Francois ’25, a student
from Haiti, is excited for the World
Cup despite his home country failing
to qualify. Haiti has only qualified
once for the World Cup in 1974 and
citizens decide between supporting
Brazil and Argentina in place of the
national team. Even in Haiti where
the Argentina/Brazil rivalry runs
deep, Jean-Francois views the World
Cup as a unifying force.
“Even though people support
different teams, it’s a good way
to bring people together,” Jean-
Francois said.
Jean-Francois has supported
Brazil with his father since he
was a kid while his brothers have
supported Argentina. Even though
he inherited his support for Brazil
paternally, Jean-Francois also
attributes his fandom to Brazil’s
playstyle.
“They reflect what the purpose of
the game is, a collective game where
you pass until you score,” Jean-
Francois said.
While Jean-Francois has some
reservations about Qatar for their
human rights violations and FIFA
for their support of Qatar, he still
plans to support Brazil and their
collective playstyle in the upcoming
World Cup.As the event draws closer,
billions of sports fans will support
their home country or some
other country they identify with.
Despite numerous international
disagreements, soccer will unite
countries for a brief time.
November sees start
of Men’s World Cup
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FOR THE first time since 2019, the
Rose City Rollers held a tournament,
on Nov. 4-6. The tournament
featured derby champions, Portland’s
Wheels of Justice (WoJ) and Portland
B team Axles of Annihilation, as well
as visiting teams Denver Roller Derby,
Montreal’s New Skids on the Block, St.
Louis’ Arch Rival and a special European
All Star Team.
During the tournament, Axles of
Annihilation lost their first and third games
to Denver and Montreal respectively, but
in games four and six WoJ pulled through,
scoring well into the hundreds. In game
four Portlands WoJ finished with 219
points against Montreal, who scored just
57. In the last game against the European
All Star Team, WoJ once again dominated
with 257 points while the All Star team
scored 52 points.
Games are 30 minutes, not including
time outs, and are broken up into two
halves. Within each 15 minute play is a
“jam,” which can last up to two minutes. A
jam is the time period in which the players
attempt to score.
There is no ball or puck in the game of
derby. Instead, players aim to get around
their opponents by pushing into them or
trying to slip between them. Each team
has five players on at a time, including
four blockers and one jammer, who is
identifiable by a star on their helmet cover.
The jammers score a point each time they
lap the blockers.
During the game, players can pull
crazy stunts on their skates, like jumping over and around their fellow teammates
and opponents. Knee pads, helmets and
mouthguards are required for the sport,
as it has often been likened to rugby on
wheels.
One of the WoJ skaters, Bonnie
Thunders, has been called the very best
player of the modern game of derby, and
was responsible for a large number of the
team’s points.
Since its creation in the 1930s, roller
derby has been one of the most inclusive
sports, as leagues warmly welcomed openly
gay athletes and kept the same rules for
men’s and women’s derby teams. Today,
many sports rules are modified when they
are played by women.
R o l l e r D e r b y w a s o r i g i n a l l y c r e a t e d
during the Great Depression by Leo Seltzer,
a sports promoter from Chicago, as a two-
person sport. One man and one woman
would pair up and skate around the track
in the form of an endurance race for a cash
prize. The game has changed quite a bit
since the 1930’s — instead of two players
trying to outlast each other, the sport has
evolved into a full contact game.
Summer “Babe” Fiest works with Rose
City Rollers and manages many of the
programs that are offered.
“The Rose City Rollers were founded
in 2004 and we had our first game in
2005. Since then we have become the
largest roller derby league in the whole
entire world,” Babe said. “Our adult
travel team, Wheels of Justice, are the
current world champions. And unlike
baseball, where it is like America and
Toronto, we play teams from Europe,
South America and Australia.”In order to make roller derby as
accessible as possible to the Portland
community, Babe says that Rose
City Rollers provide the majority of
equipment needed to start the sport.
“We do have a very generous grant
for our rent and roll program, which
means the only thing you need to buy in
order to join us is your mouth guard,”
Babe said. “We have all the skates and
pads, all of the helmets that people
can borrow as they are deciding if
this is what is for them and then you
can slowly build up your kits as you
progress through your skills.”
Sarah “Bricktator” Karnovsksi has
been skating for 11 years and has found
a community in derby. As a member
of the Arch Rival, Bricktator has been
able to travel to multiple continents
with her team and express her love of
competition.
“I played sports my entire life and
then when you get into adulthood
you do not have that same kind of
competitive community that you can
experience as a youth,” Bricktator said.
“And so now to have a team where there
are people that you spend so much time
with and you love and then you get to
like, go bash people around. It is just a
magical mix of things.”
Alter Eagle, known off the rink
as Hillary Scald, said she was born
competitive. She has been expanding
on her skill set by transitioning from
her normal position as a jammer into
blocking.
“It is not only about the competition
though, it’s about the community and finding my people and doing things in
such an accepting environment,” Alter
Eagle said.
The game of roller derby has gone
through many stages of relevance; from
being popular in the ’30s, it faded out of the public eye until it was revitalized in
the ’70s. It once again emerged in the
early 2000s and has been consistently
popular ever since. The Rose City
Rollers are often credited with this
resurgence of the sport. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
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Rose City Rollers host tournament in Portland
Rose City favorites Wheels of Justice triumph over local, national, international teams in derby event
Cross-Country
NWC Championship meet
Men’s placed: 3rd
Women’s: 2nd
Football
LC v Pacific: L 41-56
LC v George Fox: L 20-41
Overall: 4-4
Soccer
Men’s
LC v Whitworth: L 1-9
LC v George Fox: L 0-6
Overall: 1-11-1
Women’s
LC v George Fox: L 1-2
LC v Pacific: T 0-0
LC v Pacific Lutheran: T 0-0
Overall: 4-7-8
Tennis
Men’s & Women’s: Northwest Fall
ITA Regionals
McDermott advanced
Allison Gabelman/Sujhad Amado
Aguad advanced
Volleyball
LC v Pacific Lutheran: L 0-3
LC v Whitworth: L 0-3
LC v Whitman: W 3-0
LC v Puget Sound: L 0-3
Overall: 2-19
Athletes of the Week
Oct. 30 - Nov. 5
Izzy Willis ’24 -Women’s volleyball
Max Aldrich ’25 - Men’s cross
country
Nov. 6 - Nov. 12
Kate Milne 24’ - Swim & Dive
Alexa Myers ’23 - Women’s SoccerScores Cross country bonds over fantasy football
league, design brutal punishments for loser
By EMMA FORD
THIS FALL , fantasy football is as
trendy as ever, and it has made
its way to Lewis & Clark. Official
leagues and online gambling websites are
common, but competitive games can take
place among families, groups of friends, and in the case of LC’s cross country team,
real sports teams.
Football has been an American
pastime for almost 200 years at this point,
but fantasy football is a much more recent
invention. Tracing its origins back to
the managers of the Oakland Raiders in
1962, fantasy football is a game in which participants draft a personal football team
composed of real NFL players and use their
statistics to simulate the management of a
whole new franchise on the owners phone
or laptop.
Frankie Reid ’24 is a captain on the
men’s cross country team. As the athletic
department focuses on inter-athlete community, the cross country team
embodies this with their fantasy football
league.
“We thought about making a league
my freshman year but things kinda fell
through,” Reid said via email. “So last
year was the first year we made a fantasy
football league.”
Fantasy football, with its competitive
and detail-oriented nature, breeds a
strong sense of engagement in players.
From online forums and journalism to
in-person debates, getting involved in the
fantasy football community can be a real
time investment if one wants.
“I think fantasy football brings out the
natural competitive side in us,” Reid said.
“It’s something almost all of us are a part of
so that means we’re always talking about it
(probably a little too much). I played in a
league for a couple of years in high school
but it wasn’t as competitive and high
stakes as the cross country league is here.”
As Twitter and TikTok show us more
on a daily basis than our ancestors saw
in a lifetime, activities new and old find
their audiences and swell in popularity.
Fantasy football leagues are getting
their moment in the sun via one of its
trademarks: its punishments. For the
crime of having the worst team, players
can be expected to perform tasks from the
inconvenient – losing money or buying
rounds of drinks – to the outrageous –
paint ball barrages and getting tattoos. As
popular posts online often show, leagues
get very creative with the consequences
for an under performing team.
“A lot of the guys talk smack to each
other every week which also really ups
the ante,” Reid said. “Some of our
punishments are kinda inappropriate.
We are doing a punishment wheel this
year, so the loser has to spin the wheel and
whichever punishment it lands on, they
have to do. Here are some of them: spray
tan, have to retake the SAT (Scholastic
Aptitude Test), wear a shock collar for
24 hours and the winner has control of it,
and wear a MAGA (Make America Great
Again) hat to classes for a day.”
As the real NFL season heats up,
the fantasy football competition does
as well. Around the United States,
groups of players are battling their
buddies and getting ready to dish out
severe repercussions to inadequate
general managers. Here at LC, that
anticipation is bringing one group of
athletes closer together.STELLA MERCER/THE MOSSY LOG
EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOGBy ISABELLE ATHA
LIVING IN a post-Roe v. Wade
world has many women
wondering whether or not their
healthcare will remain safeguarded.
Federal law no longer protects
abortion access, but a new bill has
been drafted in Congress that could
provide an alternative option.
The Martial Anti Reproduction
Time-travel bYlaw (MARTY) Act of
2022, named for the main character in
the cult classic “Back to the Future,”
provides women with two options
for getting rid of unwanted children
outlined in the Preventative Time
Travel and Postpartum Termination
Clause. And only women, because
according to some cisgender men,
women are the only people able to get
pregnant.
The act details how women can use
new patented time travel technology
to pinpoint the exact moment they
engaged in intercourse, and then be
transported back to that date to stop
it from happening.
Sarah Sanderson from Massachusetts
chose this option when she became
pregnant.
“I got back to my boyfriend’s
apartment right before my past self
was about to have sex,” Sanderson
said. “It worked for sure, but my
boyfriend got pretty freaked out when
I told him I was from the future. He
started calling me a witch, and then
he grabbed a hammer and knocked me
out. Next thing I knew I woke up tied
to a stake surrounded by people with
pitchforks.”
This clause will not have an age
limit, so mothers with children of any age can go back in time to prevent
them from being born. The United
States Government has warned any
unruly offspring to be careful unless
they want their mothers to un-concept
them.
If this seems undesirable, women
will also be able to terminate the baby
once it has been born — as stated in
the Postpartum Termination Clause.
Some of the ways for women to
terminate postpartum are by firing
squad, drowning or returning to the
customs of the Spartans and throwing
the baby off a cliff.
“I think it’s a great compromise,”
Senator Fred Bruz (R-TX) said. “We
here in America strive to protect the
innocent lives of unborn babies, but we could give less of a shit about what
happens before conception or what
happens to the baby after it’s born. I
think it’s important that we leave that
for the women to choose.”
The MARTY Act is already garnering
a lot of support from the foremost
experts on women’s bodies: cis men.
“I think MARTY will be so much
more effective and safe for women with
unwanted pregnancies,” says Dr. Hugh
G. Rection. “It takes the pressure off
of me and so many other doctors to
perform abortions too, so that’s a plus.”
Congress will begin voting on the bill
sometime in mid-November. The future
is looking bright for women’s rights, as
long as the functional uteruses each
one has can still be used by men./gid00483/gid00484FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2021
The Backdoor is made of spiders.
Law introduces time travel
as new alternative to abortion
By MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
LONG DISTANCE never
works, everyone said so,
but you, you were the
exception. You packed up your
childhood bedroom, kissed them
goodbye and promised to call
every day. Twice a day. The time
difference will be easy! Your
friends were skeptical, but you
believed. They were the love
of your life, and you know that
there is no one better out there
for either of you.
As the weeks and months
of the semester have ticked by,
something feels off. You were
so excited to see them over
Thanksgiving break, but now
you are not so sure. Is this just
your
Psych 100 class talking, or
are they acting weird?
Fear not, because a new study
from Dr. Serena Wellerstein can
empirically prove if your high
school partner is cheating on
you.
“I’ve compiled hundreds
of data points,” Wellerstein
said. “It was a combination of
qualitative interview data, field
work and a complex algorithm
that tracked prom photos of
couples and whether and when
they were taken down.”
Read the following statements
and mark each symptom you have
noticed. Some symptoms may
seem counterintuitive, so they are
all followed by an explanation as
to why this is a definite sign of
cheating. Scoring will follow the
questions, so grab a pen and get
critical!
1. Phone calls have become
less frequent. They are busy
having sex.
2. They changed their hair. A
hair change always accompanies
a personality change, and their
hair now says “I have hoes.”3. They wished you a happy
birthday. They are calling you
old and want a younger model.
4. They made friends in
college. College friends are just
soon-to-be hookups, everyone
knows that.
5. They compliments you.
Buttering you up so you do not
go digging for the truth. They
knows you took Beginning
Journalism junior year and will
follow a lead to the end.
6. They ask about your life at
college. They is trying to distract
you from asking about theirs,
the bastard.
7. They plan to come visit you
over a long weekend. They need
a break from all the hard drugs
and group sex.
8. They are keeping in touch
with your sister. The two of them
are doing it, obviously.
9. They texted you they “can’t
wait to see you over break!!
<3.” What could they be doing
on their phone? Dialing a sex
hotline?
If at least seven of nine of
these symptoms are present,
Dr. Wellerstein says, it is likely
you will need to give back their
promise ring and take down the
prom photos your mom took.
Fret not, young one. In all her
research, Dr. Wellerstein has
also found that cheated-on
freshmen can expect to make
full, healthy recoveries.
“Over 95% of college students
go on to find another true love in
college,” she assures. “They’ll go
on to date a bass player or a pre-
law econ major, someone their
mothers will grow to love.”
Remember to follow Dr.
Wellerstein’s golden rule: “If you
suspect that they’re cheating,
they probably are. Don't even
bother asking — Just dump
them. I have a PhD, I know what
I’m talking about.”Man cares about women's sports
because it lets him be transphobic
By ROSALIND MARGULIES
MIKE NGUYEN is many things: a
popular conservative pundit, an
IPA fanatic and a fan of women’s
sports, at least according to him.
Nguyen gestures toward his television
screen, where a WNBA player makes a
3-point shot.
“Look at these girls,” he said. “That’s
pure estrogen right there. Estrogen made
that shot.”
Last month, Nguyen found himself in
the spotlight following his controversial
comments on the Roe Jogan podcast,
in which he claimed trans women were
“ruining womens sports.” However,
when prompted in an interview several
days later, Nguyen was unable to name
a single female sports player, aside
from his “little cousin Phoebe who’s on the
swim team.” Nguyen contacted me for an
interview to correct the record.
“I love lady sports,” Nguyen said.
“Always have. Back in high school, me
and my friends would go to every single
women’s soccer game. We’d even try
to sneak into their locker rooms after.
Because we were true fans.”
I ask Nguyen what his favorite women's
sport to watch is.
“Hm,” Nguyen said. “You know, there’s
beach volleyball, mud wrestling, and …
that other one. You know what I mean.
Girlball.”
I do love a good round of girlball.
We watch a few more minutes of the
basketball game together. Nguyen tells
me which women, in his opinion, have
the best asses. We do not always agree,
but it is good to have discussions with
people whose beliefs differ from yours.
“We need to get trans-identified
women out of sports,” Nguyen said out
of nowhere. “Letting men in there is
ridiculous. It’s like sending Lionel Messi
into a rec soccer game.”I ask him to expand on this point.
“Well, it’s simple biology,” Nguyen says.
“Men just have better bodies for sports,
you know? They’re taller, and they have
broader shoulders and bigger penises.”
Though I have to give it to Nguyen on
this last point — men do, on average, have
larger penises than women — I am not
convinced by the rest of his arguments.
I decide to do my own research. I search
on Facebook, Instagram and White Pages
for trans women near me; what better
source than a primary source, after all?
Soon, I find a person, Melinda Purly, who
lives only two streets away from me, and
decide to pay her a visit.
I ask Purly how she feels about trans
women in women’s sports. In response,
she asks me how I got into her house. I
assure her that this is unimportant, and I
am simply doing journalism. Though
Purly seems at first uninterested in
being interviewed, I get her to agree
to answering a few questions on the
condition that I leave and not come
back.
I ask Melinda
how many
women’s
sports
teams
she
plays on.“None,” says Melinda. “I don’t play any
sports. I just go for runs sometimes.”
I ask Melinda if, while on these runs, she
attempts to find women to run faster than.
Melinda says no and asks me why the hell
she would do that, and asks me again to
leave her home. Intrepid journalist I am, I
press on. I ask Melinda what woman’s soul
she stole in order to transition. Melinda
threatens to call the police.
Even after both these interviews, I am
left with questions. Do trans women have
an advantage over cis women in sports?
Should they be allowed to play together?
And which NBA player really has the best
ass? I turn to the internet. After many hard
days of research, I come to a conclusion:
Te’a Cooper, formerly of the Los Angeles
Sparks. Satisfied with my work, I decide to
leave the rest of the
questions for
some other
young
journalist
or Twitter
user with
a cartoon
frog avatar to
answer. After
all, I cannot
claim all the
glory.Study shows high school
partner cheating on you
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