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2022-12-02

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Vol. 99 No. 6 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022 www.piolog.com
OPINION
Religion at LC
Many LC students hold spiritual and
religious beliefs, despite the campus’
reputation as widely non-religious.
PAGE 5FEATURES
Secret roller disco
There are many weird and wonderful
events that happen in Portland that
people do not know about. One of them
is secret roller discos. PAGE 7ARTS
English Reading Series
Poet Jane Wong shares her writing
during the English Fall ’22 Reading
Series.
PAGE 12SPORTS
Mental health and injury
Athletes share about mental struggles
associated with physical injury, and
difficulties with sports culture.
PAGE 14THE MOSSY POD
New episode release
Tune into the latest episode of our
student-run podcast to hear DJ Brown
interview the Hawaiian Club.Campus safety sent alert with racial
profiling after suspicion of dorm theftProfessor
given four
accoladesBy ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
CAMPUS SAFETY SENT out an
alert to the community on Nov.
25 at 12:07 a.m. after two people
on campus were suspected of attempted
theft. The alert included racial profiling
and faced backlash from the community.
The alert said, “2 Suspicious Persons
roaming Copeland Hall. Two Black
Males. Person 1 wearing black hoodie,
with dreadlocks. Person 2 wearing white
tee shirt. Report to Campus Safety any
suspicious activities.”
The racial descriptors in this message
combined with the lack of context to
explain the suspicion alarmed many
students and faculty.
“It was jarring to see racial
descriptors used in this alert without
any context,” President Robin Holmes-
Sullivan said via email. “I understand
fully why members of our community
found them very anxiety-producing —
and I am committed to ensuring we do
better in the future. We are in the process
now of analyzing what went wrong and
developing new policies and procedures
that should help us achieve that goal.”
The Black Student Union (BSU) said
in a statement the message prompted
emotions such as shock, confusion,
anger and sadness.
“As Black students, we do not have
the privilege to hide our identity, our
skin tone comes in wide shades of brown,
and in a crowd of a majority White
student body, being BIPOC students,
we stick out, after all, we are only 2.8%
of the student body (58 students self-
identifying as Black),” BSU said via
email. “... In our classrooms, we are not
the sole representative of an entire race, we shouldn’t have to filter our speech to
make our White peers feel comfortable.
In our living spaces in the dorm, we do
not want to be seen as criminals having
our neighbors fear us as we walk-by.”
The morning after the alert was sent
out, Vice President for Student Life and
Dean of Students Evette Castillo Clark
and Interim Director of Campus Safety
Bill Curtis sent out an email that gave
more information on the incident and
why the alert was sent out.
“After Campus Safety officers were
alerted to two individuals in Copeland
knocking on doors, testing door knobs, and entering unlocked rooms during
break,” the email said. “Campus Safety
observed two individuals in a Copeland
room not assigned to them, later the
Portland Police arrived to speak to all
present parties. No arrests were made.”
Curtis initially agreed to provide
an account of the incident, but
canceled the interview shortly before
it was scheduled to occur due to an
undisclosed emergency. Then when
Director of Campus Living Ben Meoz
was asked about the incident, he
redirected questions to Curtis. Many
students had questions following the events as information filtered in over the
course of several days after the alert was
sent. Castillo Clark and Curtis sent out
a followup email on Nov. 30, five days
after the alert, answering questions in
more detail.
After receiving multiple calls from
students in both Copeland Hall and
Juniper Hall, Campus Safety was able to
locate the people who had been reported
entering rooms. There is no evidence of
forced entry into any rooms, but it has
been reported that multiple items were
stolen from rooms.
“LC” continued on Page 3.By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
PROFESSOR OF Lawyering and
Director of the Criminal Justice
Reform Clinic (CJRC) Aliza
Kaplan received four distinct awards this
summer and fall for her work in criminal
justice.
These awards include the American
Constitution Society Oregon Lawyer
Chapter’s 2022 Hans Linde Award,
the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers
Association (OCDLA) President’s Award,
the Oregon State Bar (OSB) Award of
Merit and the Juneteenth Award from
the Uhura Sassa Culture Group at the
Oregon State Penitentiary which she
received on behalf of the CRJC.
Associate Dean of Law School Faculty
and Professor of Law John Parry, a
colleague of Kaplan’s, is thrilled to see
her work be given such credit.
“Aliza Kaplan’s unrelenting
determination to seek justice is
admirable and inspiring,” Parry said
to the Lewis & Clark Law Newsroom.
“We have watched her question the
huge forces of status quo and advocate
for those who have little voice in our
criminal justice system in Oregon.
We are so proud of what she and her
Criminal Justice Reform Clinic students
and staff have accomplished.”
Each award recognizes a different
aspect of Kaplan’s work. The Hans Linde
Award is “intended to honor Oregonians
who promote the values of individual
rights and liberties, genuine equality,
access to justice, and the rule of law,”
according to the American Constitution
Society website. The OCDLA, affiliated
with National Criminal Defense Lawyers
Association, is an organization of defense
lawyers as well as public defenders.
They specifically honored her work in
legislation, litigation, and teaching.
“The defense community in Oregon
is filled with so many terrific attorneys
and fighters for justice,” Kaplan said to
the LC Law Newsroom. She expressed
that she was honored to receive this
award from her peers.
“It is standard Campus Safety
protocol to contact Portland Police when
there may be a crime in progress that
poses a threat to student safety,” this
email said.
“Kaplan’s” continued on page 3.Annual tuition raise of 4.5% intended to offset
inflation with limited effects on affordability
By J FRANK
THIS FALL, THE Lewis & Clark
Board of Trustees approved
a measure which will raise
the cost of tuition for the College of
Arts and Sciences (CAS) by 4.5%. Room and board will also be raised
proportionately by 4% and 5%
respectively.
This was an expected increase, on
track with the past trend of a 4% yearly
increase. Associated Student Body (ASB)
President Madeleine MacWilliamson stated that “every year, Lewis & Clark
College commits to providing a consistent
and predictable increase in tuition.”
According to Andrea Dooley, chief
financial officer and vice president for
operations, this increase is intended to
partially offset inflation and rising costs
of operation. Factors such as the cost
of tuition at peer institutions, historical
prices and feedback from the community
were also taken into account.
“The College considers three main
factors in developing a recommendation
for CAS tuition, fees, and room and
board charges: (1) the need for additional
revenues to pay for students services,
faculty and staff salary increases, and
inflationary costs of other goods and
services; (2) consistency with past
increases and our communications with
current and prospective students and
families regarding expected increases;
and (3) comparisons with LC’s cross-
application peer institutions and the
regional market for room and board,”
Dooley said via email.
The money gained “will be used to
help cover priorities and needs across the
college,” according to Dooley. This will include need-based financial aid, student
services, faculty and staff raises, increased
program participation and facility
maintenance.
“Lewis & Clark needs financing to
maintain faculty to student ratios and
to improve the condition and safety of
residential infrastructure,” MacWilliamson
said.
Before a final recommendation was
presented to the Board for approval, a
lengthy process of analysis, feedback and
recommendation was undertaken by
multiple parties. These include the Business
Office, CAS deans and vice presidents,
the Office of Admissions, President
Robin Holmes-Sullivan, the Office of
Financial Aid, Campus Living, the CAS
Faculty Budget Advisory Committee and
Associated Student Body cabinet officers.
The 4% increase has been kept to
the minimum possible amount out of a
recognition of, and desire to mitigate, the
financial burden faced by students.
“(The administration) makes every
effort to minimize the impact by keeping
any increase to the lowest level possible,”
Dooley said.
“Administrators” continued on Page 3.
Copeland Hall, as seen through trees in the ravine, was a site of reported room entries and theft over Thanksgiving Break.SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
ALEX NASH/THE MOSSY LOG
Kaplan received many notable awards.COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022
NEWS 2
By PAIGE ANDERSON
PROFESSORS AT the Lewis &
Clark law school and Portland
State University (PSU)
collaborated on a project to create a
comprehensive report examining the
decision process of the Oregon Board
of Parole and how it affects potential
parolees in Oregon.
Law professor Aliza Kaplan is the
director of the Criminal Justice Reform
Clinic (CJRC), a program that allows
students to get hands-on experience
working on a variety of cases. In June
2022 Kaplan was awarded the President’s
award from the Oregon Criminal
Defense Lawyers Association and the
2022 Juneteenth Freedom. Kaplan took
charge of the parolee interviews and
started involving law students in the
process. Associate Professor Department
of Criminology & Criminal Justice at PSU
Christopher Cambell worked on the data
collection aspects of the report, searching
for patterns in the responses.
“We wanted to do the project
because here at the Criminal Justice
Reform Clinic, we represent people on parole in certain release types of release
hearings, and we have learned a ton
over the last five-plus years working on
these cases,” Kaplan said. “And the way
that the clinic works is the more we do
hands-on casework, the more we see
the problems in the system.”
Kaplan began to compile a list of
issues she noticed in the parole process
such as patterns of neglect and lack of
information on how the system works.
“We thought the best way to bring
attention to the parole process, and
to understand with evidence and data
what’s going on, was to do an academic
study,” Kaplan said. “So we partnered
with Dr. Campbell, and we did the study
and the report. And you know, that
entire process, and we also represented
people at the same time in all types of
release hearings.”
The process involved a mixed
method technique, meaning they used
both qualitative and quantitative data
collection to research all aspects of the
parole process, including the potential
parolees and the board itself.
“The whole idea of you having
multiple methods or mixed methods is to try and triangulate and try to find
all those points that are pointing to the
same direction and saying, ‘Yeah, this is
probably a pattern and here’s probably
why,’” Campbell said. “So I designed this
study as best as I could with the given
constraints.”
The survey that Campbell created
was distributed in five large lot boxes
that weighed between 35 pounds and
96 pounds and went to five different
facilities.
“They were distributed by the
Department of Corrections’ presence
across the state, and it was with great
coordination with the DOC folks on
the ground there and their willingness
to help us that they were able to ship
around these boxes to make it so that
they were available to adults in custody,”
Campbell said.
In addition to the report, Kaplan plans
to bring legislative recommendations
to the state during the next election.
In accordance with their observations,
Kaplan is requesting more funding for
the CJRC to allow adults in custody
(AICs) to have access to lawyers for
longer. The public defenders assigned
to AICs spend about 15 hours on each
case, while lawyers at the clinic allocate
around 90 hours to spend on each of
their cases.
The clinic needs more funding
to entice lawyers to take these cases
and give parolees the best shot at
understanding the process and acting
accordingly.
“They involve really telling a person’s
entire life story,” Kaplan said. “It involves
putting together a memo for the board,
so you have to interview the person and
put together materials for the board.”
It is a complex process and one
that the average adult probably does
not understand. Many people do
not have access to comprehensive
information about the parole process,
especially those who are isolated from
society in prison. “The adults in custody need more
support in their lives, whether they
get out of prison and are on the line
and they need people to navigate
them through the parole process.
It’s very complicated … and people
are all coming from very different
perspectives, backgrounds, education
and ages,” Kaplan said.
Kaplan is also advocating for more
rehabilitation opportunities to be
offered for inmates.
“One of the things we’re always
going to be pushing for is more
programs from the minute people
enter prison,” Kaplan said. “People
aren’t always ready, but they should be allowed to have access to programs
that will help them improve themselves
and rehabilitate. From day one.”
Kaplan said the Department
of Corrections does not offer any
rehabilitation programs for sex
offenders and has very few domestic
violence programs. Once eligible,
the Parole Board wants to see AIC’s
participating in rehab programs but
due to the lack of availability, many are
not able to do so.
Kaplan also worked on a report
that called to change Oregon’s death
penalty laws and was successful in
narrowing down who will receive the
death penalty.Aliza Kaplan works with PSU professor to gather data, interview parolees, invovle students in process
COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARKComprehensive report critiques parole board
By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
ON NOV. 3, a $27 million plan to
ban street camping and force
houseless people into city-run
campsites was approved by the Portland
City Council. The council began moving
forward with securing funding two
weeks later.
This five-resolution proposition and
spending package was drafted by Mayor
Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Dan
Ryan. It was passed unanimously with
the exception of Commissioner Jo Ann
Hardesty, who voted no on the camping
ban.
“(The city needs) to return our parks
and sidewalks back to our city,” Ryan
said in response to Hardesty’s rejection.
“Our children, our families want a place
to play. Our elders want to go on a safe
stroll in our neighborhoods.”
There are currently over 3,000
unhoused people living in roughly
700 encampments around Portland
according to the New York Post, which
marks a 150% increase in the houseless
population since 2019. The COVID-19
pandemic, a housing shortage and high
drug addiction rates have all contributed
to this crisis. The Portland City Council
declared a state of emergency on
houselessness in 2015 and extended it
five times before this proposal.
In a press conference on Oct. 21,
Wheeler announced the proposition’s
resolutions and acknowledged the
limited efficacy of past efforts to curb
public camping. These included issuing
emergency orders to ban camping
along dangerous roadways and school
routes as well as increasing alternative
camping options.
“To be completely transparent, it
has not worked,” Wheeler said to the
Arizona Daily Sun. “We have to do
something and we need to do something
different.”
Prior to this proposal, some
residents with disabilities filed a
federal class-action lawsuit on the grounds that the city is violating the
Americans with Disabilities Act by
allowing encampments that prevent
them from being able to use sidewalks.
The first three city encampments
are expected to open within 18 months,
but it has not yet been declared where
they will be built. Camps are initially
expected to house 150 people each,
but eventually the city intends for
them to be able to accommodate up
to 500. These sites will provide access
to food, hygiene and treatment for
mental health and substance abuse,
and will have 24-hour management.
If houseless people refuse to move
into the new encampments, they can
be arrested or cited by police.
“It is critically important to
realize that fining or arresting
people suffering on the streets solves
nothing,” Hardesty said to The
Oregonian. “No city plan for shelter
expansion should involve sending people to jail because they live in
extreme poverty or may be suffering
from a mental or behavioral health
issue in a state that ranks at the
bottom of the country in providing
those needed services.”
During late October, the city
council held a seven-hour public
meeting to discuss the proposed plan,
but business interests who favored
the proposed plan dominated the
first hour. A coalition of houseless
advocacy groups such as Street Roots,
AfroVillage PDX, Blanchet House,
Gather: Make: Shelter, Ground Score
Association, Hygiene4All, JOIN and
others held their own meeting in the
following days to create an uninhibited
forum for unhoused people to speak to
Wheeler and Ryan.
“Three camps of 500 people!”
participant Becky Lange said at the
meeting. “An internment camp is a
group where you put people who have not committed a crime, but they’re
a member of a group that’s found
distasteful or unwanted. Sounds like
what you’re doing here.”
Many who oppose the plan believe
that it can be dangerous to crowd
so many people together into one
area. Vince Masiello is a resident at
the Right 2 Dream homeless village,
which accommodates about 40 people
a night.
“I believe making camps about
that size is a lot safer,” Masiello said
to Oregon Public Broadcast. “It’s a lot
less work to deal with as far as getting
so many people to get along in a place
with only so many resources.”
However, supporters of the plan are
adamant that these aggressive efforts
are necessary. In addition to banning
street camping and consolidating
people in large camps, the city also
plans to create 20,000 new affordable
housing units in the next decade, offer more work opportunities for low
income residents and create a new
diversion program that would remove
low level offenses from houseless
peoples’ criminal records on the
condition that they agree to mental
health or drug abuse treatment.
The budget proposal includes an
amendment for the city to withhold
$7 million from a regional agency
that addresses homelessness unless
county leaders agree to allocate $15
million towards eviction prevention,
rental assistance and legal defense
funds.
According to OPB, “While $7
million is a fraction of the agency’s
$255.5 million budget, the move is a
way of strong-arming county leaders
into helping fund Wheeler and
Ryan’s plan to force people into city-
sanctioned campsites.”
This budgetary strategy reflects
how the plan is not isolated to city
government; it requires cooperation
from county, regional and state
partners as well as outside law
enforcement agencies.
The financial composition of the
plan includes $17 million to build
and operate camps for one year and
$5.5 million to increase staffing
in multiple city departments and
programs. Wheeler discussed the
spending package with Governor-
elect Tina Kotek and Multnomah
County Chair-elect Jessica Vega
Pederson and reported both of their
support.
Portland is not the only city to
respond to a housing crisis with
similar measures. Austin, Texas and
Denver, for example, have also passed
ordinances that ban public camping
and establish city-run campsites.
Bend, Oreg. will follow suit to restrict
public camping beginning in March.
Although Wheeler and Ryan’s
plan has been largely supported by
city and state governments, it is still
highly controversial.City Council votes to force housless people to relocate
COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Businesses, houseless advocacy groups clash over how to approach unhoused persons in Portland
THE MOSSY LOG/SOFIA REEVES
Law professor Aliza Kaplan is the director of the Criminal Justice Reform Clinic.
The Criminal Justice Reform Clinic allows for students to get hands on expirence.
NEWS 3FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022
Organization teams up with
coach to start clothing driveLC aims to improve
protocol, combat bias
Administrators expect new revenue
will help lingering budget concernsKaplan’s criminal justice
work recognized by OSBBy PAIGE ANDERSON
OPERATION NIGHTWATCH is
an organization that has been
providing clothing, food, shelter
and friendship to Portland’s unhoused
community since 1981. Many houseless
individuals are isolated from society and
judged too harshly for their situations.
The organization provides what
they call radical hospitality, which is
a disruption to the negative cycles of
poverty and exclusion, entailing an
outward expression to stand with one’s
community, particularly with those who
are at society’s margins.
As many as 100 people will
consistently stop by to take advantage of
the hot coffee and shelter that Operation
Nightwatch offers. It is also one of the
only hospitality centers that stay open
through the night.
Operation Nightwatch offers not
only the basic necessities that some
Portlanders do not have access to,
but also an environment where they
can build friendships with staff and
volunteers. Building relationships is
an important part of the organization.
The staff and volunteers aim to get to
know everyone individually and form
a connection where there is trust and
where guests feel safe and cared for.
They can also access free individual
counseling sessions through their own Mental Health Initiative. The initiative
recently went through a transformation
made possible by a large grant from
the Meyer Memorial Trust, allowing
Operation Nightwatch to offer housing
and mental health support to people
who identify as female or non-gender
conforming.
Matt Kosderka, head baseball coach,
partnered with Operation Nightwatch to
extend the organization’s reach.
“A couple years ago, I asked the
guys to come up with some ideas they
wanted to do and a couple of our guys
came up with a group called Operation
Nightwatch,” Kosderka said.
Kosderka, along with six or seven
volunteers from the baseball team,
began to spend time downtown at a food
and recreation hall where houseless
people could keep warm. It was a life-
changing experience for both the coach
and his players. They decided to become
more involved in acts of service.
“We decided to put together a
clothing drive that helps as many people
as possible,” Kosderka said. “You know,
the folks are out on the street in the
wintertime … you can only imagine what
that’s like.”
The donations have mostly come
from inside Lewis & Clark’s Department
of Physical Education and Athletics,
but Kosderka hopes to involve the rest
of the community and receive more donations for Portland’s underserved
population.
“I don’t know if I’ve really done a
good enough job of really getting it
out there as much as I’d like to — it
has been mainly from within our team
bringing stuff in,” Kosderka said.
“We’ve been able to give anywhere
from like six-to-eight duffel bags full of
stuff, which is a nice amount. I’d love
to make it even bigger and be able to
help as many people as possible.”
He encourages the LC community
to consider spending time volunteering
in Portland.
“It doesn’t take a lot of time,”
Kosderka said. “I know everybody’s
really busy in this crazy time of year,
especially with finals coming up, but a
couple hours of your week are definitely
something you could volunteer for.”
To make a donation, community
members can reach out directly to
Kosderka or bring clothing to the
baseball office located in the Pamplin
Sports Center. The most useful things
to donate are lightly-used clothing
or shoes, blankets, backpacks, warm
jackets and waterproof layers.
Jacob Serafini ’20 was on the
baseball team when Kosderka first
partnered with Operation Nightwatch.
“I think having people understand
that these experiences expand your
horizons and viewpoints more,”
Serafini said. “I think it will help you
more than anything you can study or
anything you can do in a classroom.”
The hospitality center is an intimate
space, equipped with chairs, tables and
a television. Operation Nightwatch
works hard to create a comfortable
environment where guests can relax
and recuperate.
“It’s just an opportunity to get off
the cold, wet streets and into a very
intimate, warm environment,” Serafini
said.
Kosderka has also worked with
other organizations so that his players
and the greater community can
become involved in helping others.
“There’s a group of folks in
Portland called Friends of Baseball,
who help kids who maybe wouldn’t
have the opportunity to play baseball,”
Kosderka said.
The team set out bins of baseball
equipment including balls, hats and
gloves for children and their families
to take.
“Just seeing the kids smile and get
pictures with the big Portland Pickle
mascot was awesome, everyone loved
it,” Serafini said. Continued from Page 1.
“Portland Police were called, arrived
on campus, and interviewed witnesses,
but were not able to conclusively
identify any responsible parties.”
Although protocol was followed for
police contact, the alert deviated from
LC’s official protocol.
“While we have a protocol for
drafting, approving, and sending LC
Alerts, it was not strictly followed in
this instance,” Castillo Clark and Curtis
said in an email. “The result is that
this particular alert had incomplete
information and contained racially
charged descriptors. We want to
acknowledge the effects of impact
versus intent, in particular the negative
impact an alert of this nature can have
on our BIPOC community, particularly
Black and Brown men.”
This alert is only one of many
constant instances of bias that affect
BIPOC students.
“At this institution, there is a shared
sentiment among Black students of
a sense of hyper-awareness of our
identities in comparison to our White
peers,” BSU said. “We monitor what
we say as to not to attribute to any
negatively associated stereotypes
associated with being Black (i.e. ghetto,
‘Angry Black Woman,’ ‘Dangerous
Black Man’). As a result, we cannot
focus on our education stress-free.”
Administrators stated an intention
to create a new policy for LC alerts
that uses a template approval process
in order to “limit the use of racial
or gender identifiers to situations
where it is necessary to provide
objective and verifiable descriptions in situations involving a significant threat.”
Information is unavailable regarding
what the current policy is, although
an LC Bulletin email specified that the
process involves review by the interim
director of campus safety, the vice
president for student life, or the Office of
Communications.
The emails do not provide a clear
reason as to why these steps were
deviated from or who chose to do so, but
the speed at which emergency alerts are
supposed to be sent out was alluded to
as a factor.
“We will improve the training of
those who are involved in issuing
emergency alerts and timely warnings,
improve the training of staff involved
in the Student Affairs On-Call system,
and improve training regarding issues
of implicit and systemic bias,” Castillo
Clark and Curtis said in their email.
Although campus administration
recognized the issues in the way this was
handled and has intentions to improve,
the incident has jarred our community
and made students question the
reliability of supposedly impartial alert
systems.
“To the person(s) that wrote and sent
that message, we hope you reflect and
ask yourself, ‘Do I have racial biases and
prejudices? If these people were White,
would I have responded the same?’”
BSU said via email. “Not only was your
message hurtful but it was harmful
to 50+ people in the community; it
especially impacted the Black Men on
this campus considering there are many
who fit this ignorant ‘warning.’ Please
continue to educate yourself and in
2022, there are no excuses -- do better.”
Additional reporting by Venus Edlin.
Continued from Page 1.
The Uhura Sassa Culture Group, a
Black cultural group in the Oregon State
Penitentiary that offers vocational and
educational opportunities, presented
their first ever Juneteenth Award to
the CJRC as part of their Juneteenth
celebration this summer. As director,
Kaplan accepted this award on behalf of
the clinic.
The CJRC allows students to get
hands-on experience with casework in
a variety of issues including clemency,
parole, court access for incarcerated
youth, and forensic science. Under
Kaplan’s guidance, students have
researched and drafted petitions that
have been successfully granted by the
governor.
“Anything that we can do in our
representation or in shining a light on
a system or working on policy changes
to make it better,” Kaplan said. “That’s
what we do here in the clinic and I feel
really lucky to work with all the players
on this.”
Lastly, the OSB Award of Merit is
considered the highest honor that the
Oregon Bar gives. This award is not
always given annually, but is instead
reserved for recognizing select “lawyers
and judges who have made outstanding
contributions to the community
and the profession,” as stated on the
OSB website. In order to be granted
this prestigious award, one must be
nominated with multiple letters of support from members of the legal
community.
The former OSB President, David
Wade, was proud to award Kaplan with
this honor. Most recently, Kamron
Graham became the newest OSB
president.
“Ms. Kaplan has offered hope to
vulnerable individuals, while also
advancing the law itself in meaningful
ways. It is my honor to recognize her with
our bar’s highest award,” Wade said in an
LC Law Newsroom article.
However, these recent instances are
not the first time Kaplan’s work has been
acknowledged. In 2015 she received LC
Law School’s Leo Levenson Award for
Excellence in Teaching.
Kaplan has done critical research on
the cost of the death penalty, the origins
of the nonunanimous jury law in Oregon
and, most recently, the Oregon parole
system. New legislation has been passed
as a result of her efforts, such as Oregon
SB819, a bill that establishes a procedure
so that people convicted of felony
offenses can petition the sentencing
court.
In addition to working as a professor
and director of the CJRC, she serves as
counsel to the Forensic Justice Project,
an organization dedicated to preventing
and correcting wrongful convictions.
“Anytime you’re dealing with crime
and people’s lives, it’s always heavy,”
Kaplan said. “But that’s what we do. So
we’re just excited to learn more ... so we
can try to make some good changes.”
Award-winning educator Kaplan gives lecture to class of Lewis & Clark law students. COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Continued from Page 1.
Philip Steffen ’25, a student
representative on the Budget Advisory
Committee, agreed that this tuition raise
is justified.
“(The) overall increase of 4.28% is
lower than the annual increase in the
Consumer Price Index, which means
that tuition, room, and board are ...
getting cheaper relative to the economy
as a whole,” Steffen said. “This is
because admissions takes seriously their
commitment to families to keep price
increases stable.”
However, due to this commitment to
affordability as well as the high levels of
inflation in our economy, Dooley expects
that the amount of money raised by the
tuition increase will still not be enough
to offset the college’s budgetary issues.
“Lewis & Clark has a small financial
endowment, and therefore relies on
tuition, room, and board for 84% of
its budget, which is very high for an
institution of this type (Reed is ~60%
tuition dependent, elite and public
institutions have much lower numbers
than even this),” MacWilliamson said.
“Moreover, L&C is coming off roughly 5
years of budget difficulties that have left
many departments short of funding.”Despite these struggles, both Dooley
and MacWilliamson agree that LC is in a
fairly good financial position considering
the economic damage from the recent
pandemic, and is on track to continue
improving. Revenue from tuition is not
the college’s only source of funding – the
Board of Trustees is another vital source
which provides for many of the college’s
financial needs.
“(I am) optimistic that the Board
of Trustees will be able to intervene
with their own funding to provide
for the college when gaps do occur,”
MacWilliamson said. “Part of the
Board of Trustees’ duty is to ensure the
prosperity of the college so at times, the
Trustees will be asked to fund projects
from their own donations when there is
no budget to do so.”
In addition, the school prioritizes
the student experience and staff
compensation, so these are unlikely to
be affected by the revenue shortage.
Rather, insufficient funding means
that long-term capital projects
or improvement goals may be
postponed. It should not, however,
impact day-to-day operational costs,
according to MacWilliamson.
“So far, Lewis & Clark has emerged
from the pandemic better than other comparable universities, and Eric Staab
has seen a healthy draw for admissions,”
MacWilliamson said. “If anything, I
think time and patience is necessary for
our school’s financial recovery.”
For students who are concerned
about how this increase will affect them
financially, Dooley reassures them that
those with partial scholarships (34%
of students) can expect an increase in
financial aid proportional to the new
cost of tuition, and that those who
qualify for a Pell Grant (20%) will
continue to have the full cost of tuition
covered.
Students with no demonstrated
need, who amount to 46% of the
student body, will have to pay the
full 4% increase. Dooley encourages
students who are experiencing
changing financial circumstances to
reach out to the Financial Aid Office.
“While I understand students who
are not in financial need likely feel
frustrated by the tuition increases,
our financial aid department has a
case-by-case policy,” MacWilliamson
said. “So, I am confident that those
without financial need have the ability
to negotiate their financial aid package
in order to receive further support from
the college.”Before distribution, donated clothes accumulate in bags in clothing drive storage.COURTESY OF MATT KOSDERKAFRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022
OPINION 4
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.Political defeatism is a self-fullfilling prophecy
Democratic Party, progressive movement must enact populist platform, uphold rhetorical promises
By COPELAND BURCHENAL
IN THE WAKE of the nail-biting
2022 midterm elections, where a
conservative majority in the United
States Senate was narrowly avoided,
tensions are running high.
It seems that every day different
threats to human rights, civil liberties
and democracy are cropping up,
threatening to degrade the safety
and happiness of people both inside
and outside of the United States. The
thought is exhausting, and there are
moments where it feels like crawling
under a log in the woods might be a
better option. However, no matter how
many hateful politicians, people and
pieces of legislation get thrown at us, the
only thing which could ever break the
progressive movement would be the loss
of hope.
After the increased rise in right-
wing populism under the Trump
administration, it feels as if the situation
is growing very dark. American politics
have always been prone to paranoia. In
an era where we should be progressing,
we are instead having to fight off a spike
in right-wing authoritarianism.
What does not help is that the
Democratic Party has been gridlocked
by corruption, uncertainty and
haplessness for the past few years and
is hamstringing progressive actors in
the process. It seems that when the
Republican National Committee (RNC)
started accusing everyone left of center
of being a pedophilic, satan-worshiping
communist, the Democratic National
Committee’s (DNC) best response was to
curl into a ball, pee themselves and hope
that they would not get kicked too much. A “return to normal politics” is
not just foolish, it is impossible. Once
the ethno-nationalistic right-wing
populism switch gets flipped, it does not
get flipped back easily.
So what should be done about
this? First we need to take a big, deep
breath. Our best work comes when
we are focused, realistic and diligent.
I do not blame anyone who is feeling
discouraged. There have been many
soul-crushing moments in the past
years. It can be hard to feel emboldened
during times like this. I am not saying,
“Oh, you just need to suck it up.” In fact,
I think we need to do quite the opposite.
Being honest with ourselves and others
about how we are feeling is paramount
to building up strength, even when we
are scared, sad or unsure.
We may have lost some battles,
but we have not lost the war. Not to
mention, Gen Z is easily one of the most
politically fierce generations in recent
American history, meaning that if we
put our minds to something there is a
good chance we can succeed.
A significant danger posed to the
progressive movement is cynicism.
Looking at the current political climate,
the question “can any of this even be
changed?” is a very legitimate concern.
Sometimes people do not feel that the
answer is yes, which is understandable.
However, when a person begins trying
to convince others that the situation is
doomed and that it is useless to fight,
and they reject the notion that progress
is possible, their cynicism becomes a
self-fulfilling threat.
There is too much at risk for us to
throw in the towel. It can be hard to
have hope sometimes, but it is a key component in this fight. Hope is not
something that is given to us by some
outside source. It is cultivated within
us and helps us endure hard situations.
Even though cynicism is satisfying for
a moment, it degrades collective hope
and energy, which are the only things
that keep the machine going.
On a broader level, if the DNC or
even a separate progressive party is
going to succeed in the future there
need to be some significant changes.
Rather than rising to the challenge
when the RNC went absolutely feral,
the DNC embraced a limp, sickly
style of moderate politics which did
nothing except disenfranchise possible
voters. The whole “at least we are not
republicans” message that they have
been trying to hammer home since
2016 is not going to get us anywhere.
The DNC needs to embody left-wing
populist ideals such as universal
healthcare, strong labor unions and
broadened support for the lower
class. Rhetoric must be upheld by
action. People need to be shown that
there is hope for change, regardless of
whether or not the Republican Party
is consuming itself like some kind of
nightmarish insect.
We need to remain hopeful and
realistic about what we can do. We
are not about to change the world
tomorrow, but that does not mean
we cannot work towards something
more beautiful and more caring than
the brutal system we have right now.
There are still many incredible things
worth fighting for, and so long as we
remember and cherish them, then I
personally have a lot of faith in the good
we can achieve .
STELLA MERCER/THE MOSSY LOG
LC students engage with faith despite atheist reputation
“Secular” campus finds spirituality, follows religious tradition, while campus ignores their existence
By JACQUES PARKER
LEWIS & CLARK has a reputation
for being a non-religious
college. In 2008, the Princeton
Review listed LC as the least religious
school in the nation. How true is this
statement? And what is the effect
of thinking about the college in this
way?
I have been conducting interviews on
religion and spirituality with LC students
since September 2022 as a personal
project. One question I ask students is
what their opinion is of the phrase
“spiritual but not religious” since
many respondents identify
with this category.
“I think it makes a lot of
sense,” Keshav Eldurkar
’23 said. “I feel like
spirituality is
more bodied
and religion
is more ideal.”
Other
students
believe
the difference between religion and
spirituality depends on who is
involved with it. For Ivy
Marple ’23, religion is
hierarchical,
with an
authority
mediating
one’s
connection
to the divine.Detailing how students view religion
and spirituality may explain why the
Princeton Review designates LC as one
of the least religious schools in the
nation — their conclusions are based
on student surveys. Other elements of
the interviews I conducted, however,
will show that there is more religion
at LC than one might expect.
Interviewees were sometimes
surprised that I asked about their
opinions on ghosts, Bigfoot and
aliens. I believe that the way non-
religious people view these beings
demonstrates something about the
nature of the category of religion.
Although non-religious people may
call themselves not religious, aspects
of their beliefs and practices can be
categorized as such.
Take ghosts as an example. Many
students believe in or are
open to the existence of
ghosts, even those who self-
identify as non-religious.
For example, Alexis
Chomyn ’24
said that although they are not religious,
sometimes dead people appear in
their dreams in ways they would not
have expected.
Although some may not think
of the belief in ghosts as a form of
religion, I argue otherwise. Ghosts —
as well as aliens and cryptozoological
creatures like Bigfoot — have a well-
formed cosmology surrounding
them in America. Religious historian
Catherine Albanese calls this concept
“metaphysical religion” in her book
“A Republic of Mind and Spirit.”
Many LC students exhibit
characteristics consistent with
metaphysical religion. An interest in
the mind and its powers in particular
is present at LC. Ruby Keyes ’24
had experiences that they initially
thought were ghostly, but now
attribute to the powers of the human
mind to trick itself. Julia Neumeier
’23 believes that astrology and
tarot readings make people
subconsciously aware of
certain elements of
their personality,
and people seek
out these
traits or aspirations as a result, though they
have no actual metaphysical effect
on the world. These psychological
explanations — though sometimes
denying a metaphysical effect — show
how elements of metaphysical religion
are still present.
Conceptions of LC as a non-religious
school negatively affect religious
expression. Abri Boyd ’23 noted that
resources like the Office of Spiritual Life
were not advertised well because the
campus is marketed or branded as non-
religious, but there are people working
to change this image.
Unintentional limits to the
expression of religion on campus may
disproportionately affect those with
non-Christian identities. According
to Ollie Feldman ’24, who is part of
Hillel’s student leadership, LC is not
particularly good at being attentive to
Jewish needs on campus.
One example they mentioned was
a student in the Fall 2021 semester
who wished to light a Yahrzeit
candle to memorialize someone who
died, but was unable to because of
Campus Living’s no-candle policy.
This occurred despite the student’s
appeal for a religious exemption.
Additionally, Feldman said that
last year during Kol Nidre, the first
service of Yom Kippur and the holiest
day of the year for Jewish people,
Campus Living scheduled a fire drill
that disrupted the service.
Although not directly a result
of the conception of LC as a non-
religious college, many students
scoff at religious issues because
they believe that it is. Many of those
same issues are ones that affect
non-Christians, primarily Jews and
Muslims. Many LC students have
the privilege of ignoring them, which
only serves to exacerbate them even
more.
LC is full of religion, whether its
students call it that or not. Portraying
LC as a non-religious campus makes
discussing religion and spirituality
much more difficult than it should be. EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOG
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 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.Letter from the editors: Templeton remodel
LAST ACADEMIC year The
Mossy Log spent our time in an
office in the Odell Basement,
an unpleasant location we knew was
necessary and temporary in order
to accommodate construction. We
were thrilled to hear that our space
allocation in Templeton was complete
mid-semester, but we were dismayed
at the result.
Our previous office was returned
to us and we knew it would not
be remodeled. However, it was
disappointing to return to the
dingy carpet, still-peeling paint
and all the same dust still settled
into the nooks of the room. We are
not alone in this fact as numerous
other student organization offices
remain untouched, including the
Black Student Union and the Native
Student Union.
This is not the vision we were told.
In fact, the Templeton remodel was supposed to prioritize student spaces
on campus. The eventual name change
from Templeton Campus Center to
Stephanie Fowler Student Center even
emphasizes this shift. For student
organizations, the core of student life,
to be disregarded in this way shows
this promise to be false.
That being said, not all
organizational offices were
untouched. For example, the Queer
Student Union is now housed in a
newly updated office complete with
fresh wood, orange accents and
large windows. However, we hold
no animosity against groups with
updated spaces because this is what
all student organizations deserve.
We refuse to allow the inequity of
the student center remodel to divide
student groups, but rather highlight
the hypocritical nature of how the
situation panned out. For space
allocations to be dealt so unevenly without a wider conversation is not
only unfair, but seeks to sow conflict.
How can a college that claims
to focus on equity, inclusion and
diversity justify remodeling one
student space and not another?
We are grateful to have these
spaces to form community on campus.
We are especially grateful to have
more options as the student center
gradually opens. Our one demand
is to hear a response as to why so
many offices are unchanged and how
allocations decisions were made.
Sincerely,
Venus Edlin, Noah Reese-Clauson,
Ava Frison, Amelia Doyle, Ashlyn
Little and Emma Ford
Endorsed by Gagged, Native
Student Union, Kendo Club, KPH
Radio, Muslim Student Association
and Tiny House Club
Campus center renovation prioritized some offices over others, s tudent organization spaces not updated
Making grades accessible to
students improves performanceResponse to prior article
on mandatory voting
By CORRYN PETTINGILL
AMID THE scramble at the end
of the semester, students clamor
to get assignments done, papers
written and tests studied in order to end
the year right. While students spend
so much time turning in their work,
professors sometimes submit them back
with edits, but no final grades. Is this
beneficial or detrimental to the ways
that students work?
After arriving at Lewis & Clark, I was
startled by the lack of communication
about grades. When I took a year at
Portland Community College, seeing
my grades as the term went on felt
like a breath of fresh air. I realized at
that point that without a percentage or
letter grade being presented to me, I
was going to treat courses like pass or
fail classes. The quality of my writing
decreased throughout the year at LC
since my subconscious felt like it did not
matter, and I had no external drive to do
better on tests.
It was only when I discussed this
issue with peers that I realized not
seeing grades has its benefits for other
students. I understand the immense
pressure a letter grade can have on a
person’s stress levels, but what about
the immense stress of a grade you
cannot even see?I consulted a number of students at
other universities to see if other schools
were practicing this method, and
whether students liked it or not.
A student at University of
Portland, Lidia Tellez ’25, said that as
a biology student, it is super helpful to
see her grades.
“If I don’t agree with it, I can go to
(my professors’) office hours and discuss
the grade I got,” Tellez said. “It helps me
understand how well I am doing in the
class or how I can improve.”
This raises an interesting question:
Does a grade assess how well we are
doing in the class as helpfully as written
feedback from the professors? Feedback
and grades are two separate things.
Feedback helps you realize what you
got wrong and how you can improve,
whereas grades simply speak to
proficiency. While additional feedback
from teachers should not be replaced, a
percentage grade also lets you know the
damage it has on your GPA.
If an essay does not come with a
grade, I will think that rewriting it is
optional. On the other hand, if I see
that I failed it, I will be more inclined
to re-work and re-submit the piece.
Seeing our grades also helps us to talk
with our professors. Sometimes they
get things wrong, and if we cannot see
what numbers they are plugging in, we can not negotiate extra credit or ask
for explanations.
While number grades are not a
substitute for written feedback, they also
give students a kick in the butt to push
ourselves to improve. It is motivating to
see, although most of the time, I prefer
to ignore my GPA until internships
ask for my grades. However, student-
athletes do not have that luxury.
“I like seeing my grades. I would
go insane if I could not see them,” a
student-athlete at Brown University,
Elise Kreutzer ’23, said. “Many
student-athletes have to maintain good
grades in order to continue playing for
their sport, so staying on top of their
performance, in and out of their sport,
can be very important.”
There is a benefit to withholding
grades from students to improve their
mental wellbeing, but for other students
who rely on that extra push to do well in
their classes, it is not so great. A person
might ask their professor for their grade,
but after a while, I am sure professors’
inboxes are filled with students asking
for grades after every test or essay.
You should have the ability to look
at your grades so that you can monitor
your performance for whatever
reason. Whether you go out of your
way to see the grades or not should be
your own prerogative.By FRANKIE SPURBECK
THIS ARTICLE is an open
response to “Mandatory voting
creates engaged community”
by Isabel Rekow from the last issue.
The author alleges that mandatory
voting will increase underrepresented
participation and expand access to the
ballot box. I do not challenge these
assertions, but I think that mandatory
voting presents issues which that author
did not acknowledge in the piece.
First, mandatory voting will not
address the issue of a lack of political
knowledge. Sure, it will likely motivate
some people to research candidates
and issues, but it will not motivate
everyone. To be fully honest, I do not
want someone voting if they do not
know what they are voting on. Party
labels are helpful in general elections,
but in primaries, voters are asked to
choose a candidate from within a party.
Further, there are no party labels on
propositions or referendums.
Sending an individual to the polls
without any knowledge of what they
are voting on just does not seem very
productive. Do not get me wrong: I will
defend the right of every individual to
vote however they want, no matter how
much or how little they know about the
election. However, I would not require
people who have never thought about
politics to go to the ballot box and cast a
vote without first addressing their lack
of political knowledge.
Second, mandatory voting assumes
that high turnout is the holy grail of
democratic participation. It is not. High
turnout does not necessarily track with
a healthy democracy. Take, for instance,
the 2020 presidential election in the
U.S., which saw a nationwide voter
turnout of about 66% of the voting-
eligible population. This is significantly
higher than any election since 1932, yet 2020 was not a good year for democracy.
According to the Washington Post,
Turkey routinely sees voter turnout
in the 80% range, but is not generally
regarded as a healthy democracy.
Conceptually, if people are very
satisfied with their government, they
do not feel the need to vote. Low
voter turnout can be indicative of a
government that works well and that
people feel no need to change.
Third, a point of agreement: Voting
should be more accessible. However,
we do not need mandatory voting to
make that happen. We could change the
election day to Saturday. We could make
“election Tuesday” a national holiday.
We could, if we wanted, enfranchise
felons, or stop requiring voter ID
laws. None of these measures require
mandatory voting, and it seems to me
that increasing access to the ballot in a
piecemeal fashion is more doable than
trying to pass a mandatory voting law.
I am not convinced that a mandatory
voting law could be passed in the United
States — we lack the political will.
Lastly, I take issue with the idea
that forcing individuals to vote is an
acceptable restriction on political
liberty. It is completely true that no one
has unlimited liberty. Our liberties are
pretty seriously curtailed. However,
historically, we try to curtail political
liberties less than other freedoms.
I also take deliberate
nonparticipation as a legitimate
act of political speech. I would not
want to restrict someone’s ability to
refuse to participate in the political
process without compelling evidence
suggesting that the goal of democracy
will be significantly furthered by that
restriction. At this point in the process,
I am not convinced that obligating
people to vote will actually improve our
democracy, and as such, I am not ready
to restrict the liberty to do nothing.
CORRYN PETTINGILL/THE MOSSY LOG
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOGFRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022
FEATURES 6
New earthquake simulator game emerges out of study on distaster preparedness among young people Professors develop Cascadia 9.0 video game
By SUMMER BINDER
LAST THURSDAY NIGHT, an
elementary school playground
in Northeast Portland’s Boise
neighborhood turned into a roller
skating palooza. In the corner of the
basketball court local DJ Gregory T.
Skaters, dressed in an ’80s tracksuit and
glitter played a live set. Everyone spun in
circles around the schoolyard in bliss.
Here, anyone can take part in one
of the city’s most majestic secrets – the
Portland Secret Roller Disco.
The humble beginnings of the roller
disco started during the COVID-19
pandemic. Francesca Berrini and fellow
Portlanders collaborated for roller
skating amid the George Floyd protests
in June 2020. Most of Berrini’s friends
at this time were mothers stuck at home
who wanted to leave the house.
“We started at the top of a parking
garage downtown, near the Justice
Center,” Berrini said. “We would skate
down the parking garage and take an
elevator back up. Eventually, there
started to be a few too many people, and
the security guards said, ‘You can’t be
throwing a party every week.’”
Despite getting widespread attention
from the Portland community, Berrini initially intended for the disco to be kept
secret. For this reason, Berrini christened
her new group the “Secret Roller Disco.”“As more people started getting
vaccinated, more people started coming
out,” Berrini said. “People we did not know would know where we would be.
They would hear the music and be excited
to see what was happening. It started to grow a little bit, and finally, we decided
to have social media to tell people the
guidelines.”
Fellow skater Itzel Reyes started
regularly attending the disco this year
when her friend Katie invited her last
April. Reyes and her friends enjoy
playing roller hockey at the disco.
Originally from Mexico City, Reyes
finds solace in the U.S. with the help of
the Portland roller skating community.
“It is difficult to find your family
again in a new country. Skating and
Secret Roller Disco have been a big part
for me in that aspect,” Reyes said. “I
have found really great people and have
connected with them on a deep level.”
No roller disco night is the same.
Locations vary, including a closed-down
artistic space in Jaja PDX to a closed-
down Marshall’s in Lloyd Center. The
Secret Roller Disco is the perfect way for
Lewis & Clark students to engage with
the Portland community. Everything is
free except for merchandise.
Rain or shine, the Secret Roller
Disco is held every Thursday, and
occasionally Saturdays, from 7 to 9
p.m. Updates on location, theme and
rental skate availability are posted on
their Instagram @secretrollerdisco
every week. By CLAIRE BAKKE
CASCADIA 9.0, an earthquake
preparedness game developed
by faculty and students at Lewis
& Clark, was recently released to the
public.
The game was developed by
Associate Professor of Geological
Sciences Liz Safran, Associate Professor
of Psychology Erik Nilsen, Associate
Professor of Computer Science Peter
Drake and Associate Professor of
Rhetoric and Media Studies, Bryan
Sebok, alongside a large team of
students.
The research team was interested
in finding out what motivates people
to prepare for disaster. She initially
gathered the team in 2016, and their
research evolved into the development
of the first iteration of an earthquake
preparedness pilot game and study in
2018.
“The idea is that maybe capitalizing
on something that young adults like to
do anyhow — play games — might be
one way to raise consciousness about
it and get people who have an awful lot
of resources,” Nilsen said. “It would be
good for everyone if young adults were
involved in preparing and thinking
about what to do after the (earthquake).”
After teaching a class on natural
disasters Safran became interested
in the Cascadia Subduction Zone and
the particular earthquake risk it poses
to a region vastly unprepared for
such a natural disaster. The Cascadia
Subduction Zone stretches from southern
British Columbia to Mendocino, Calif.,
and has the potential to produce a
magnitude 9.0 earthquake, named “The
Big One.” The last earthquake of this
magnitude was in 1700 and geological
evidence shows earthquakes of this kind
recur every 400 to 600 years.
“The more I started to wrap my head
around (our seismic hazard), the more
important it seemed to me to devote my
attention to this,” Safran said. “It’s not
a straight-up geology problem, so that’s
when I started enlisting friends and
colleagues in psychology, media studies
and computer science.”
After receiving a four-year grant
of $559,617 from the National Science
Foundation in 2019 to further their
research, the team began working on
what would become the Cascadia 9.0
game. The earthquake preparedness
study aims to understand the behavior
and reasoning of young people in order
to prepare them for an earthquake
and the effectiveness of interactive
environments in promoting problem-
solving and behavior adoption versus
observational learning approaches. In the game, the player, who starts
as the character Zelda, searches for
their dog Tsu who has escaped during
the initial earthquake. In the search for
Tsu, the player encounters situations
they have to survive such as Gas leaks,
aftershocks, poor sanitation and lack of
drinking water.
Safran’s curiosity in this issue
grew from an interest in emergency
messaging and the way advertisements
and brochures framed the issue of
earthquake preparedness. Safran
and Nilsen noticed that many
advertisements targeted either older
audiences or children themselves.
Those two audiences leave out the
group that might be most valuable in
dealing earthquakes — young adults.
The three problems that face
the player in the Cascadia 9.0 game
are shelter, water and sanitation —
along with avoiding injury — which
are essential aspects of disaster
preparedness.
“The game nicely challenges you
and makes you aware that there’s some
danger, and lets you see various ways of
solving the problems that the player has
to solve in that first game about shelter,
water, sanitation and avoiding injury,”
Drake said. “Each of those problems can
be solved in three different ways, and you will do each one (in) different ways
(at) different levels.”
While practicing skills and problem-
solving through video games might not
be as effective as physically practicing
the same skills, their study was effective
in stimulating confidence in earthquake
preparedness and information seeking.
They also worked with local
emergency managers to find the
most important aspects of disaster
preparedness to focus on and to
ensure that all solutions presented in
the game were accurate to what safety
experts would recommend. Emergency
managers emphasized that there
is not a particular item to have in a
preparedness kit and that it is essential
for people to cooperate with their
neighbors.
“The people who are going to come to
your aid are the people who are around
you, and not the emergency managers
or the fire department because they’re
going to be managing the worst events,”
Safran said.
The study also found that the
Cascadia 9.0 game was successful in
making people feel more competent
and prepared in the short-term, and
increasing interest in seeking out
further resources and opportunities to
prepare. Additionally, while people’s motivation to deal with disasters
decreases over time, their sense of
competence in disaster preparedness
and managing disaster does not.
Overall, study participants who
played the video game felt better
prepared and more confident in dealing
with a potential earthquake than those
who did not. Many of the skills are
applicable to a wide variety of disasters
as well, as they emphasize good
sanitation practices, water purification
methods and other safe practices.
The team plans to continue this
research through the development of
a few additional minigames to answer
additional specific research questions
over the next year and a half. They
also hope to eventually create a real
game that both addresses the research
question and is fun to play.
The game, playable online at
cascadia9game.org, is made with the
game engine Unity and was written,
planned, designed and coded by the
four faculty members and a total of 55
students over the past three years. Some
students involved in the study through
the John S. Rogers Science Program
during summers. Drake’s software
development class has also been also
involved in game design in the Cascadia
9.0 project group.“The design was often a
collaborative thing with all four of
us faculty members and students,”
Drake said. “Both the students who
were computer science-types who
would be involved in writing the game
and the psychology students who were
more involved in the experiments and
analyzing the data that comes out of
the experiments and having people
play the games (were involved).”
There is a pressing need for student
involvement and support in this
project. Students with programming
experience in Unity looking to further
their skills in game development,
running focus groups, collecting
data and modeling in Blender are
all integral to continuing the study’s
research. Students interested in
getting involved can reach out to
Safran by email at safran@lclark.edu.
Those who would like further
resources for earthquake and disaster
preparedness can visit the website of
the Portland Bureau of Emergency
Management at portland.gov/pbem.
The website has resources to find
the nearest emergency information
centers after earthquakes, find
community meetings to join and
participate in Neighborhood
Emergency Team training.
Secret Roller Disco hosts weekly pop-up skating parties
From parking lots to playgrounds, the Secret Roller Disco hosts community roller skating parties for Portlanders of all ages. SUMMER BINDER/THE MOSSY LOGCOURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Game protagonist Zelda must learn to survive gas leaks, aftershocks, lack of shelter and clean water while searching for their dog, Tsu, that escaped during the inital tremor.
Portlanders of all ages show up to regular community event organized by local Francesca BerriniFRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022
FEATURES 7
La candidata demócrata Tina Kotek
triunfó la gubernatura de OregónAmtrak trains provide way
for students to travel home
By DANIEL NESHYBA-ROWE
& MAX ALLEN
THE HOLIDAY season is upon
us, and besides decorative lights,
food and family, this means
travel. Many Lewis and Clark students
from across the country (and beyond
in some cases) traveled home this past
Thanksgiving break, and will make
the trek again in two weeks for winter
break. For most, this may mean a flight,
while Oregonians will largely be driving
home. As for Washingtonians like us,
we have a few choices.
The first, of course, is driving.
Driving to Seattle takes about three
hours without traffic and requires that
you have a car, or that someone from
Washington picks you up – in most
cases, this means a six-hour driving
day for them. Driving to Seattle costs
about $30 in gas, depending on the fuel
efficiency of your car and where you buy
gas. The obvious advantage to driving is
the flexibility it lends — it is no problem
to leave whenever you want, make
whatever stops you please and bring as
much baggage as your heart desires.
But what about those of us who
do not have cars? Well, planes
save Washingtonians neither
time nor money, and are the most
environmentally impactful mode of
transit — almost never the best option.
Amtrak passenger trains,
meanwhile, provide a comfortable,
affordable and less stressful mode of
egress from Portland. In fact, we are
presently composing this article as
we sit in the padded and patterned
coach seats of a northbound train. As
is common for the holidays, the train
is completely sold out, and while the
train car is quite full, it does not feel
overcrowded.
The legroom is respectable and
the aisle is wide enough to get up and
stretch every now and then. Wall outlets
also provide a luxury, allowing you to
play games on any device without fear
of them running out of battery. There
is nothing that quite encapsulates the
train experience like playing chess on
your laptop with a friend (or brand-new
friend) sitting next to you.
This trip, we are riding on the
Amtrak Cascades. If you happen to get a seat on the Coast Starlight,
though, you will have access to a
two-story observation carriage with
tall windows, spacious seats and great
views. Regardless of which train you
are on, they all have a snack carriage
where you can sit and eat at a table
mid-trip.
Furthermore, trains can be the
cheapest option if you play your cards
right. If you buy tickets early, they can
be as cheap as $22 one way (as they
were for us). In most cases, this beats
cars, and you can bet that it beats
planes as well. However, if you delay,
ticket prices can spike up to $50. It is
best to buy tickets a couple of weeks
in advance if you want to travel on a
budget. Regardless, tickets are always
refundable in the case of an unforeseen
event on Amtrak’s part. And for an
$8 fee, you can protect your ride to
be able to exchange your ticket and
get your money back if you decide to
change your plans. Personally, we tend
to travel without the added insurance,
as the situations where it is needed are
uncommon, but the option is there if
that makes you more comfortable.
Taking the train is a fairly
straightforward process and should
not be intimidating: Just buy a ticket at
Amtrak.com. Perhaps the most difficult
part is getting to the train station. If you
have a friend with a car who is willing to drive you, that is great; if not, you
still have several options. You could
take a Lyft — like we decided to do
this time — or save some money and
get a little exercise: From campus,
take the Pioneer Express, and then
walk to the station. The walk from the
Pio stop at Portland State University
is a pleasant mile and a half stroll
along 6th Ave.
We went straight through
downtown with no turns, enjoyed
looking at the city lit up for the
holidays in the dark of the evening
and finally arrived at the station with
an hour to spare (we recommend you
give yourself at least a 30-minute
buffer to make sure you do not
miss your train). If you prefer not
to walk from PSU, you can take the
Portland Streetcar or MAX line from
10th and Clay to 9th and Lovejoy.
We arrived at the station, and a few
chess games later, the train arrived,
at which point we joined the long
queue of people waiting for the
conductors to scan their tickets and
were guided onto the train. Along the
way, we saw some familiar faces of LC
students. Sometimes taking the train
to Washington can be a real party.
No matter how you elect to get
home, we wish you safe travels and
a happy holiday season. Maybe, just
maybe, we will see you on the Amtrak.
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOG
By NICOLAS
VELASQUEZ-SUAZO
EN EL MARTES 8 de noviembre,
Tina Kotek fue elegida de la
próxima gobernadora de Oregon.
Kotek, una demócrata, venció a
la republicana Christine Drazan y la
ex-demócrata e independiente Betsy
Johnson. Johnson capturó casi nueve
por ciento del voto de la centroizquierda,
mejorando la posición de Drazan.
La elección de Kotek representa la
continuación del dominio del partido
demócrata en Oregón. El deseo de un
gobierno más progresivo y Kotek será
la primera gobernadora lesbiana, con
Maura Healey de Massachusetts.
Kotek implementará legislación
progresiva para combatir los problemas
más urgentes como los incendios
forestales donde busca expandir el
cuerpo de bomberos, en números e
influencia, por todo Oregón. En el
sector de energía, Kotek quiere convertir
Oregón en un estado que usa electricidad
100 por ciento limpia. En el largo plazo,
invertirá en energía renovable como
viento y solar, prohibirá el uso de carbón
hasta cero en 2030. Kotek promoverá el
uso de transporte público y vehículos sin
emisiones y protegerá la legislación que
actualmente prohíbe la extracción de
petróleo de la costa.
Para combatir la alta tasa de personas
sin hogar en Oregón, Kotek aumentará el
gasto público en servicios y eliminará las
restricciones. En los primeros diez días,
Kotek abordará la escasez de viviendas bajando las restricciones de construcción
en áreas urbanas, rurales, y suburbanas.
Además, Kotek aumentará la fuerza
laboral de construcción y fomentará
la innovación en la construcción de
viviendas. Para identificar las personas
que necesitan ayuda inmediata, Kotek
creará un equipo de emergencia para
las necesidades de veteranos, ancianos y
menores de edad entre los primeros 30
días.
Además, para promover la diversidad
en sus políticas, Kotek expandirá las
oportunidades de propiedad de vivienda
para la comunidad Negra, Indigena, y de
Color. El objetivo de todas estas políticas
es asegurar que todas las personas de
Oregón tengan una vivienda o refugio con un proceso equitativo lo más pronto
posible.
Kotek también seguirá la plataforma
demócrata en temas sociales. Kotek
quiere proteger el acceso al aborto para
todas las personas que esten el estado.
Gastará más dinero en la educación
primaria y secundaria para mejorar la
tasa de graduación. Ella promoverá
más diversidad en la fuerza laboral y el
gobierno, e invertirá en las habilidades
de la parte de la fuerza laboral más
marginada.
Las políticas de Tina Kotek son de
las más progresivas en Los Estados
Unidos y el caso de Oregón demostrará
la capacidad de esas políticas para
mejorar la vida del pueblo. The Mossy Log editors
share holiday recipes
Frosted Christmas Cookies
8 oz unsalted butter
8 oz unsalted margarine
1 1/2 cups of sugar
3 eggs
(optional) 1 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups flour
1 cup almond meal
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1) Beat together until light and fluffy
butter
margarine
sugar
2) Once blended, mix in eggs one at
a time
3) Add in vanilla extract and if
desired, almond extract
4) Blend in a separate bowl, then sift
in flour, almond meal, baking soda
and salt.
5) Chill, wrapped in plastic or
parchment paper, for at least 2 hours
6) Roll out on a floured board to 1/8 -
1/4 inch thick.
7) Cut out and then bake at 350
degrees for 8-10 minutes.
Icing
4 tablespoons meringue powder
mixed with four tablespoons warm
water
1 teaspoon vanilla
16 ounces powdered sugar
1) Mix meringue powder and water,
vanilla and powdered sugar with a
hand or stand mixer until combined.
2) Mix in as much milk of your choice
to achieve your desired consistency.Glazed Orange Cake
8 tablespoons of unsalted butter
Zest of 2 oranges
Juice of 2 oranges
2 cups of self-rising flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup powdered sugar
1) Preheat your oven to 325
Butter a 8-inch cake pan, then line the
bottom with parchment paper
2) Melt 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
and set aside to cool
3) Zest and juice, 2 oranges
4) Sift together self-rising flour and baking
powder
5) Mix together eggs, melted, cooled
butter, granulated sugar, powdered
sugar, and the juice and zest of one
orange
6) Mix until just combined the dry and
wet ingredients
7) Pour into your cake pan and bake for
12-16 minutes until a tester comes out
clean
For the glaze
1) Mix 1 cup powdered sugar with the
zest and juice of 1 orange until blended
2) Poke holes in your cooled cake, then
pour the glaze over slowly so it absorbs
Chocolate Cranberry Gift Cookies
2 ½ cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
¾ cup dried cranberries
¾ cup mini chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
¾ cup vegetable oil
Extra sugar (about ½ cup)
1)Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2) Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl,
including cranberries and chocolate
chips. These can be stored in a jar with
the remaining required ingredients
written on for a gift, or can be made by
you!
3) Add vanilla, eggs and oil to the dry
mix and mix until fully combined.
Dough will be crumbly.
4) Add extra sugar to a small, shallow
bowl. Shape dough into 1 ½ inch balls
and roll in sugar until completely
covered.
5) Bake on an ungreased baking sheet
for 10 minutes, until the bottoms have
browned. Allow to cool on the baking
sheet before serving. Reese Family Biscotti
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
3½ cups flour
1 teas. Baking powder
1 teas. Salt
1 bag of chocolate chips
8 oz. of toffee bits
1) Beat eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla until
light in color.
2) Mix in flour, baking powder, salt,
chocolate chips and toffee bits.
3) Refrigerate for 2 hours.
4) Heat oven to 350º.
5) Divide dough into 4 8x3 inch logs on
ungreased sheet.
6) Bake until brown (25 minutes)
7) Reduce oven temperature to 300º.
8) Cut logs — perpendicularly into inch
long slices.
9) Bake for 20 more minutes.
Holiday berry compote recipe
3 cups of fresh or frozen berries (blackberries
or blueberries recommended)
¼ cup granulated sugar
½ tablespoon cornstarch
2 teaspoons lemon juice
lemon zest
1) In a small pot heat berries over
medium flame until they become
soft and begin to fall apart.
2) Add sugar and stir until
incorporated.
3) Turn off heat and add cornstarch,
lemon juice and zest. Mix until
combined.
SOFIA REEVES/THE MOSSY LOGEMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOG
By VENUS ED LIN
PAUL EVANSMITH h a s b e e n
accompanying dance classes at
Lewis & Clark for over 10 years.
Evansmith, who studied at California
State University Long Beach (CSULB)
and Arizona State University (ASU), has
been playing music since he was four.
When it comes to what music means to
him and why it is such a big part of his life,
he asked, “How much time do we have?”
“Music early on in my life was a
friend that wouldn't treat me like crap,”
Evansmith said. “So that is to say that I
was an utter and complete loner growing
up in school, so much so that children
would take the time to walk across the
football field just to pick on me and
throw stuff at me. I was that kid, that
anybody older and younger would make
fun of, and pick on. So when I came
home, I would just be able to play.”
Dancing has been in his life since
he began taking dance classes his
freshman year of high school, before
eventually exploring the professional
dance world. However, it was not until
he took a dance class at ASU that he
realized being a dance accompanist
was a possibility for him. When the
accompanist for one of his classes did
not show up, Evansmith offered to play
since he had extensive music experience.
Evansmith explained that playing
improvisationally in this manner
came naturally to him. It was not until
near the end of class that this chance
encounter grew into an opportunity.
“The boss comes in, the person who is
in charge of all the accompanists comes
running in because he was notified late,”
Evansmith said. “He’s watching me play
for the dance class. He's like, ‘Do you want
a job?’ Immediately, he's like, ‘I'll give
you a job right now starting tomorrow.’”He has not stopped being an
accompanist since. Though it may sound
unusual to fall into opportunities like
this, Evansmith said it is a common
thread for his career. For him, this
pattern embodies how fundamental
improvisation has been in his life as a
whole. When he was diagnosed with
ADHD two years ago at 50-years-old,
this quality of his life became more
evidently linked with his brain function.
“It is completely and utterly intuitive
to me, and natural to, to be given
random and unforeseen circumstances,
because that's how I live my entire life,”
Evansmith said. “And so being able to
be confronted with that, I have no idea
what's going to happen in dance class
from moment to moment, and that's totally fine. That's how I live my life, so
music is immediately accessible for that.”
Another opportunity that occurred
by happenstance in Evansmith’s
career was performing for President
Bill Clinton. The CSULB saxophone
ensemble that he was a part of was
invited to give a private performance to
Clinton. This same ensemble eventually
performed at the 10th World Saxophone
Congress in Pesaro, Italy in 1992.
Evansmith also recalled his
experiences working with a playback
theater ensemble that worked with
incarcerated youth. Years later, a standout
moment as a result of that experience
was when he was unpacking his gear
for a gig in Arizona. Two people tried to
intimidate him, but a third intercepted.“I was just like, ‘Do I know you?’
He was like, ‘Oh yeah man, you used to
come and teach us drums at the prison,’”
Evansmith said. “He started to talk about
how that changed him. I remember the
conversations with him from prison
because he was begging us – like we
had anything to do with it – because he
was going to get released soon, to not be
sent back to his parents and back to his
(community) because there's no way out.”
Though the man from the program
was sent back to his home where he was
unable to escape the gang he was part
of, Evansmith said this was an example
of how he utilized his influence as part
of the gang for the better. Recalling this
interaction, Evansmith began to choke up.
These examples illustrate just
how large of a role improv has in
Evansmith’s life, and how he hopes
to continue living in this way.
“I can easily say one of the
most important things in life is
the improvisation of that process,”
Evansmith said. “Actually with Eric, I'm
hoping to start essentially, eventually,
a nonprofit organization devoted
specifically to the sort of education about
the improvisational thought process. It's
not like I need to educate people how to
improvise, because people already do.
It's just so many people don't realize
they do that, so it's more like awareness
of improvisational thought process.”
Despite the many accomplishments
of his career, as a single father still
going through a divorce Evansmith
said the thing he is most proud
of does not relate to his career.
“The thing that I'm the most proud
of, or the most happy to be a part of,
the biggest thing in my life – that is my
daughter,” Evansmith said. “That's
it. I mean, nothing else even can
kind of seem to break through that."FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022
ARTS /gid00490
COURTESY OF PAUL EVANSMITHAccompanist Paul Evansmith talks
music, dance, value of improvisation
Mossy
Music
editorial
recommendations
"You and Me on the Rock
By Brandi Carlile
Every time this song comes up on
shuffle, I play it again several times.
In this version, Brandi Carlile sings
with her wife, Catherine Carlile, and I
love the way their voices blend. When
I hear this song, I sing it in my mind
to my kids, and it gets me feeling big
feels every time.
- Molly Robinson,
The Mossy Log Faculty Advisor
“Evelyn”
By Gregory Alan Isakov
The melancholy acoustic guitar gives
the perfect background for Isakov to
sing a story of a woman working a
dead end job at a gas station, watching
life from the outside but never quite
knowing how to relate or join in.
- Paige Anderson, News Editor
“Uppercut”
by Lou Roy
This was my song of the summer but
it’s so good that it could be your song
of the winter. It reminds us that it’s
the little moments, like waking up
with your dog, that are sometimes the
most special, and that we are all going
to end up as stardust anyway.
- Adelaide Kaiser,
Social Media Manager
“Dance in the Water”
By Danny Brown
Brown makes experimental hip
hop that may as well induce manic
psychosis. "Dance in the Water" is
a perfect example of his terrifying
and exhilarating blend of samples,
disturbing lyrics and themes of
living on the edge of self-destruction.
I cannot recommend the experience
of listening to his music enough.
- Mo App-Singer,
Arts Editor
By J FRANK
AS PART OF t h e F a l l ’ 2 2 R e a d i n g
Series organized by the English
department, poet Jane Wong
spoke at Frank Manor House on Nov. 8.
She read poems from her newest book,
“How to Not Be Afraid of Everything,”
interspersed with unscripted talk about
their meaning and her process.
“How to Not Be Afraid of Everything”
speaks on Wong’s ancestors,
Chinese-American heritage and
upbringing in a restaurant on the Jersey
Shore. It is overarchingly a response to
finding out about her ancestors’ deaths
during the Great Leap Forward — a
movement by the Chinese Communist
Party that led to mass starvation in an
attempt to promote economic growth.
Despite her heritage, she didn’t learn
about the Great Leap until college, when
a professor offhandedly mentioned
the initiative and its death toll during a
lecture. She thought back to her grandpa
talking about his family members
“disappearing,” and
suddenly realized
that this truth had
been covered up
and kept from her.
Thus she began
the long journey of
grappling with the
erasure of her family
history, which she
finally, more than
10 years after that
lecture, feels ready
to share in this book.
Her poems are
raw, visceral and
deeply personal.
The book opens with
anger and fear, which she describes
as a kind of catharsis, an expression
of feelings she has been taught to
repress. She goes on to develop
themes of healing and reconnecting
with her ancestors, as she seeks to honor them through her life and art.
Food is a prominent theme in Wong’s
writing: Growing up in a restaurant,
she was surrounded by food– a life
of indulgence in stark contrast with
her ancestors who lacked the basic
sustenance for survival. Her deep
connection with and appreciation of
food as a nourishment of life, culture
and spirituality runs through her writing.
The last poem in the book, “After
Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts
Feast Feverishly,” Jane describes as
“co-written with my ghosts.” She described
to the audience having an out-of-the-blue
vision of her ancestors imploring her to
write down their message. Believing that
this was her ancestors’ way of speaking
through her, she published the poem
exactly as it appeared to her, having
edited nothing but the form. Receiving
a response from her ancestors, she said,
felt like a culmination of her work over
the years to understand and connect with
her past. It was after this experience that
the idea for “How to Not Be Afraid of
Everything” was born.
She acknowledged
that the book will
be marketed as an
“immigrant baby”
narrative, a category
that has become
popular in the
publishing industry.
However, she wanted
the book to present
a complete narrative
of all aspects of her
identity and journey,
not just those that
fit into a marketable
and digestible story.
Her first literary
agent told her to cut all the poems about
her romantic relationships and leave
only the ones about her Chinese heritage.
She made the decision to fire him and
keep the poems rather than sacrifice her
authenticity. She said she does not want to be reduced to her heritage, or seen as just a
success story. Rather, she wanted the book
to represent herself as a whole, including
the long, fraught process of getting to
where she is today, including “messy
breakups and terrible ex-boyfriends.”
Since the COVID-19 pandemic,
Wong has been experimenting with
novel ways to present her work. She
recently exhibited one of her poems in
an art installation, where she glued the
words in circles inside metal bowls and
lit the room “intestinal pink.” She has
also been exploring how to incorporate
food, such as baking poems into
dumplings and literally eating her words.
Wong also read an excerpt from her
memoir, “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic
City,” which comes out in May 2023. This
will be her first published work of prose,
though her visceral sensory lyricism still
runs through it, lending it an enchanting flow of hyper-reality and painfully honest
emotion mixed with charming, dry wit.
She invited questions from attendees,
one of whom asked how she avoids “being
cheesy” when covering topics around
which so many recognizable cliches have
formed, such as race. Wong responded
that she just wants to be authentic,
and aims to be as emotionally true as
possible to communicate her experience,
even if that means using cliches.
“‘How to Not Be Afraid of Everything’
does not give you any advice unfortunately
about how to get rid of your fears. In
fact, there’s a lot of fear and anger in
this book,” Wong said. “But that said,
I think writing these poems by the end
of the book I did come to some sort of
realization that I think my ghosts and
my ancestors, they have my back. There
is this sense of I am comforted by the
generations that have come before me.”Jane Wong, author of "How to Not Be Afraid of Everything,” poses holding a bouquet.
COURTESY OF JANE WONG
"I think my ghosts
and my ancestors,
they have my back.
There is this sense of
I am comforted by
the generations that
have come before me"
— Jane WongDance Accompanist Paul Evansmith makes music with a piano and synthesizer.
Jane Wong explores themes of love, family,
fear, food as part of Fall '22 Reading SeriesBy LEO
BERNSTEIN NEWM AN
LA-BASED COMEDIAN Kristina
Wong staged the Pacific
Northwest premier of her
newest one-woman show “Sweatshop
Overlord” at Portland Center Stage
in The Armory on Nov. 5. Two
installations by local artists also made
their debut in The Armory’s lower
levels in conjunction with Wong’s
Portland residency, which will run
until Dec. 18.
“Sweatshop Overlord,” Wong’s
third full-length theater piece, calls
back to her life at the onset of the
COVID-19 pandemic during which
Wong organized a steadily expanding
network of volunteer seamstresses
to sew and distribute masks via
Facebook. As the show progresses
through the early lockdowns, Wong’s
network of volunteer seamstresses
dubbed ‘Aunty Sewing Squad,’ and
humorously shortened to A.S.S.,
becomes more and more of a support
system for its members who are
predominantly, like Wong herself,
Asian American women
Wong’s performance was staged
in the Ellen Bye Studio, a black box
theater located on the bottom floor of
The Armory. Guests wandered down
two stories of revolving staircases
from the theatre’s ground floor lobby.
Some paused on the first lower level,
a circular room with exposed concrete
walls, to investigate an exhibit of
handcrafted face masks born out of
a series of online workshops during
the first year of lockdown centering
on anti-racism called #MaskOutHate.
Some were posted between glass
panes against the room’s back
wall while some, like textile artist
Mohammed Murshed’s vibrant
mandala mask, hung between glass in
the center of the room. The bottom level, which serves
as a lobby for the black box, hosted
an exhibit by Portland-based artist
Wendi YuLing called “No New
Normal.” One piece strung between
painted hands was a patchwork
of blue disposable masks, each
with a note in black marker that
answered the question “what rituals
of care did you develop because
of the pandemic?” Other marked
disposable masks were primped in
the middle and strung around the
concrete wall.
Most guests failed to notice the
massive quilt suspended against a
corner wall as they filtered into the
black box. During the show’s final act
they learned that the Aunty Sewing
Squad presented the quilt to Wong
at their culminating picnic in the Bay
Area in 2021.
The black box’s stage area is a
small, floor-lit platform surrounded
by seating on three sides. A larger
than life roll of thread and classic
tomato pin cushion serve as a table
and chair at front stage right. Six foot
long rolls of technicolor fabric and
pastel USPS shipping boxes flank
stage left. At center stage rests a
small red Hello Kitty sewing machine
on a short green and blue table
surrounded by open shipping boxes
and loose fabric. A small trophy
holding a coronavirus particle over
its head pokes out of a sky blue box.
With the house lights still on,
Wong quietly emerges and sits down
at her sewing machine. The packed
room does not seem to notice. She
pantomimes the production of a
mask while the audience continues
to chat amongst themselves.
The lights dim and extinguish the
hum of the audience. Wong gets up
from her sewing machine and welcomes
the crowd with a land acknowledgment
and a trigger warning. “This show takes place in the
pandemic,” Wong says. “I know.
I know! Now you get to find out
if watching live theater about the
pandemic, during a pandemic, is
your thing. And because it’s set in
the pandemic, there are mentions of
death, illness, poverty, mental health
stressors, racism, trauma … the last
U.S. president.”
Wong takes the audience
back through 2020 in a tightly
choreographed multimedia experience
rich with costume changes, such as her
neon guerrilla get-up complete with
a bandoleer of thread reels wrapped
around her torso.
As A.S.S. collects more and more
mask-making Aunties, Wong remolds
herself from out-of-work actor and
comedian to intrepid leader and
organizer- with a roar both triumphant
and self-satirizing, she declares herself
the ‘Sweatshop Overlord.’
At one point in the second act Wong
steps onto her pin cushion seat as she
delivers a ‘message to George Floyd.’
The jovial tone that characterized
the show thus far darts into a somber
earnestness unique to millennial
culture. Wong personally apologizes
to Floyd for his wrongful death at the
hands of police violence- and that she
cannot join the protests in his memory
in her Los Angeles neighborhood of
Koreatown for fear that any harm that
might come to her could jeopardize
A.S.S. and its mask making mission.
Perhaps this scene played better in
its New York and Los Angeles previews.
It certainly fell flat in the downtown
Portland theater, which stands less
than a mile from the Multnomah
County Justice Center, the epicenter of
local protests against police brutality
in the Summer of 2020. Portland
protests after George Floyd’s death
made national headlines for high
and prolonged turnout and excessive crowd control measures employed by
the Portland Police Bureau and federal
agents.
All in all, Wong presents an intricate
and high-energy personal memoir
in the 90 minute performance. She
weaves together the past and present
of the Asian American experience
through the backdrop of the first year of the Pandemic as she employs
knowledge handed down from her
foremothers to “out-sew the Virus” in
the face of anti-Asian prejudice.
“ S w e a t s h o p O v e r l o r d ” w i l l r u n a t
Portland Center Stage until December
18. After a brief hiatus, Wong will bring
the show to Center Theatre Group in
Los Angeles in February 2023. Popular boyband Brockhampton says farewellFRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022
ARTS /gid00491
By N ADAV BEN DAVID
THE TWO final Brockhampton
albums will likely be their least
commercially successful. These
albums will probably get the least
amount of radio play, and the band
will never tour nor perform them.
However, they might be the most
valuable albums to fans.
Brockhampton is a self-entitled
‘boy band’ from Texas. Since its
formation in 2010, it has made great
impacts on culture and music. While
all-men rap groups are nothing new,
Brockhampton represented a modern
take on the concept. Having a queer
frontman and breaking away from
traditional rap with its collaborative
production style and diverse vocalists,
Brockhampton has differentiated
from other rap groups.
Members of the band began
to tease a final album after the
announcement of their disbandment
in January. Some members, though
mainly Kevin Abstract, have been
promoting the final album titled “The
Family” which was set to release on
Nov. 17. However, fans were slightly
suspicious when two singles were
released without the band’s signature
all-caps spelling and only featured
Kevin Abstract as a vocalist.
To some people’s surprise, the
album was written and performed
by only Kevin Abstract and featured
personal, intimate lyrics of his
experiences and feelings. However,
the real surprise came hours later
when a promotional photo was
released for “The Family” with small
text on the bottom corner reading
“surprise album (TM) midnight local.”
This second album released within
hours of “The Family” was stylized
in the classic all-caps spelling. “™”
featured all the members with classic
Brockhampton sound and chemistry
fans know and love.
The group’s downfall can be traced
to allegations of sexual misconduct and other crimes by member Ameer
Vann. The group reacted by kicking
Vann from the group and canceling
their upcoming album ‘puppy.’ Over
the next few years, the group began
its descent from the mainstream,
culminating in its disbandment.
Tensions between members and fans
began to rise due to the relationships
the members have with Vann, along
with creative differences and solo
career ambitions.
The new albums answer many
questions fans have about what is
happening internally in the band and
whether they will move forward. The
lyrics for ‘The Family’ read like letters
straight to the fans, perhaps a confession.
Kevin Abstract shares the most intimate
aspects of what Brockhampton has done
to his life and where the band stands now:
“Gold Teeth”
“Do we see each other? Hardly
Shit we made together? Godly”Kevin shares his faults and the
consequences of it all. Fans hear
his contributions to the end of the
band and his regret about being too
focused on himself and his career — for
prioritizing the product of his art over
the intimacy of his friendships:
“Good time”
‘It be so fucked up, I am doin’ Zoom calls
Talkin’ with niggas about personal shit
I’m like, “Yo, make sure we filmin’ this
Keep the camera rollin’”
That’s a toxic relationship
That’s what our friendship turned into
I turn everything into art”
He shares times he lets his
anger get the best of him and the
relationships that will never be the
same as a consequence:
“Brockhampton ”
“Me and Jabari had a fight that
changed our relationshipWhen you yelling at your brothers, it
gets dangerous
I don’t think our love’s ever been the
same since”
In these lyrics, Kevin is longing
for the safety of the past and the
early days of the band, and most
importantly his relationships and
friendships. This highlights that the
album is full of love for the band and
its members.
“37th”
“I know it hurts but this is my favorite
way (Yeah)
I know it’s hard, but please, just hear
what I say
If I could fly through a California
night
I’d end up back on 37th street”
These lyrics make me emotional
since they allude to the Brockhampton
Factory, a house on 37th Street in LA where they recorded their iconic album
“Saturation” and all of its music videos.
“The Family” served multiple
purposes. First, it seems that the
band only had enough music to
release a single album even though
they were contractually obligated by
RCA records to produce two more.
Fans speculate that Kevin Abstract
produced this album in order to
save the last music made collectively
for a final album. Second, due to
the dramatic and controversial fall
of Brockhampton, fans had many
questions left over. Rather than
address them in public statements,
Kevin Abstract lets his music speak
for him. This allowed ‘™’ to focus on
the music, not the drama.
If the second album was released
without addressing anything, fans
would be really unsatisfied. This way
Kevin appeased and communicated
with his fans for one last time, in
order to bring the privilege of one
final classic Brockhampton album.
Childhood friendship and a
humble beginning make the fall of
the band all the more emotional.
Kevin Abstract, the band, and fans
are losing the pure and wholesome
elements that have brought much
joy. These albums can be interpreted
as a moment of grieving, but also a
celebration of their accomplishments.
The story of Brockhampton is a
fascinating one with mistakes and
lessons we can learn from. Overall,
Brockhampton has had an undeniable
impact on music and culture that will
be felt for years to come. I am grateful
to have witnessed the final hurrah of
it all.
As Kevin Abstract said at the end
of his album, in the final song, titled,
simply “Brockhampton”:
“The next chapter is everything that
we said it would be
This next chapter is everything that
we want it to be
The show’s over, get out your seats”COURTESY OF SPOTIFYSupergroup’s two final albums “TM,” “The Family” mark end of band’s successful 12-year run, fans reflect
“Sweatshop Overlord” premiers in Portland
Kristina Wong’s one woman show explores COVID-19 pandemic, racism, poverty to varying effect
Kristina Wong poses armed with a pin cushion, measuring tape, needle and thread. COURTESY OF KRISTINA WONGFRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022
SPORTS 10
By ASHLYN LITTLE
NOV. 21 MARKED the
beginning of the most-viewed
sporting event: The World
Cup. This soccer event occurs every
four years, with France taking home
the trophy in 2018 and Germany in
2014. The World Cup is typically
a time of unity among the global
community, where countries come
together to support their respective teams and watch the great game of
soccer (fútbol).
This World Cup is notable for
several reasons, the first being that
social issues have become involved in
the game itself. Soccer is an important
and unifying sport that has become
more than just a game, as a result many
important world issues have become
intertwined with the sport. In this year’s
World Cup, there have already been
examples of this. From players showing their frustration at being banned from
wearing “one love” armbands in support
of the LGBTQ+ community to Iranian
protests regarding their countries lack
of women’s rights, the global platform
has been used to spread awareness of
many issues.
England, Wales, Germany, Belgium,
Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark
were all prevented from wearing the
bands in support of the LGBTQ+
community.
Fans along with players have
protested the severe human rights
violations taking place in Iran. One
woman was seen holding a sign with the
name “Mahsa Amini,” a Kurdish woman
who was killed by the Morality Police
for wearing a hijab improperly. Later,
this protester was escorted out of the
game. However, the Qatari government
has recieved backlash from the Iranian
team who kept silent during their
country’s national anthem in solidarity
with Amini and the protesters.
However, this year’s games are
also set in Qatar, which has committed
human rights violations of its own.
Qatar had promised the Federation
Internationale de Football Association,
otherwise known as FIFA, that they
would be tolerant of the beliefs and
morals of the organization, but the
country does not seem to be making
many allowances. Qatar has banned
many teams from wearing their
rainbow armbands and have kicked
out many fans for wearing anything
rainbow related. This has caused even
more protests, with one instance being
the German team covering their mouths
for a photograph in reference to being
silenced.
Another topic that has sparked
a lot of controversy regarding the
host country and its conduct was the
construction of the new stadiums.
Qatar has reported that between
400 and 500 workers died during
the construction. However, The
Guardian places that figure at 6,500.
In addition, Qatar outsourced this
labor to South-East Asian agencies.
A contract with a Filipino agency
was initially set at $400 per month,
but upon the workforce’s arrival was
reduced to $250. This comes amid
other allegations of unsuitable living
conditions, unpaid wages and forced
labor from Human Rights Watch.
This year’s World Cup will
continue to remain the most
watched sporting event from a global
perspective. In light of the social
issues surrounding the tournament
as well as competition between
some of the greatest players, this
year’s competition involves plenty of
intrigue for fans to rally around. World Cup injustices incite
protests from fans, players
Defense stops Pacific University wearing pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK ATHLETICS
By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
T HE LEWIS & Clark football
team finished their season with
five wins and five losses, their
best record in 11 years. Since 31 of 77
players are freshmen they are on track
to improve in the following seasons.
Additionally, this is the first season
Joseph Bushman is head coach.
“I was really, really proud of the
boys,” Bushman said. “We still felt like
we let a couple games get away from us
that we could have won.”
Defensive back Auzzie Ankai ’22 was
pleased with the result of the season,
but is hoping to have a better one during
his tenure.
“While we were successful compared
to past years, as a collective we are not at
all satisfied, and that shows a difference
in our season as well,” Ankai said.
Mark Pietrok, director of physical
education and athletics, established
that this success came with a young
group.
“This was one of the best years
recruiting wise for the football program
from a numbers standpoint in many
years,” Pietrok said.
In addition to the impressive season,
the team once again won the Wagon
Wheel trophy for the fifth year in a row.
The “Wagon Wheel Game” is an annual
tradition where LC competes against
Willamette for a large wooden wagon
wheel that is displayed by the previous
year’s victor until the next game.
“I’m a really big believer in hard
work, I just don’t think there’s any
substitute for it,” Bushman said. “We
really committed to our offseason
program — our weightlifting in the
spring and our practices in the spring.”
The team’s mantra, “Pound the
Rock,” which is abbreviated to “PTR”
on player’s t-shirts, is indicative of
this philosophy. The motto comes
from a story about a stonecutter who
pounds a rock over and over without
a hint of progress and despite growing
frustrated, keeps pounding. Eventually,
after a couple hundred blows the rock
finally breaks and the stonecutter knows the combination of all the blows
split the rock, not just the last one.
“We didn’t break it yet,” Bushman
said. “To me breaking it would
be competing or winning (a) elite
championship, which we hope to do
here the next few years.”
Bushman’s philosophy is not solely
based on hard work though, he also
emphasizes rest and team bonding.
“Football is hard enough,” Bushman
said. “You’ve got to do the hard work,
but you also have to mix in a healthy
balance of fun. That’s something we
do, a lot of team bonding activities,
because we want them to become
close; you’re a better team if you have
really good team chemistry.”
Last spring the leadership council
organized basketball and volleyball
tournaments for players and they all
went to see last semester’s mainstage
“Medea” together. For their awards
ceremony on Nov. 20, Bushman opted
to host a pizza party instead of just
listening to him speak.
Ankai felt the effects of Bushman’s
team building efforts and saw the
correlation on the field.
“Our community was tighter
than it’s been before and it showed
in practice, the weight room and
especially in games,” Ankai said.
Many of the rosters at LC have 120-
140 players, but Bushman is adamant
about keeping his relatively small
and only growing it to around 85-90
players.
“I’d like to think of myself as kind
of a player’s coach,” Bushman said “I
think the kids know that I have their
back and have their best interests
at heart. I wouldn’t want that many
because I couldn’t get as tight with the
kids.”
Pietrok’s hopes for the team (as for
all sports) are twofold.
“My hope is for steady improvement
both on the field and in the classroom.”
Pietrok said.
The football team is hungry
for continued success and looks to
improve next season through offseason
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The Pios pose with Wagon Wheel trophy after beating Willamette on Parents Weekend.Football celebrates best
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SPORTS 11
Sports Medicine office emphasizes prevention
By AMELIA DOYLE
LEWIS & CLARK’S Sports Medicine
Program helps athletes with
preventative actions, pain
management and treatment plans for
injuries. Head Athletic Trainer Jeremy
Loew and Athletic Trainer Brandon
Walcott-Ayers focus on treating athletes
that have injuries at the Pamplin Sports
Center.
“A big part of what we do is prevention,
so as much preventive work as we can do,
it makes it easier to recover from injuries
when they happen.” Loew said. “In injury
management, we try to be somewhat
individualized, as each injury is a little
different from the next.”
Loew started working in sports
medicine after playing college baseball.
He wanted to remain in the sports world
and liked the idea of working directly with
student-athletes. Walcott Ayers said he also
liked the idea of having a career in sports.
“I’d say that the college is really
supportive of what we do here,” Loew said.
“ I think they recognize the role that we
play in the success of sports here in general,
and that they recognize that the health and
safety of the students is really important.”
One of the biggest goals of both Loew
and Walcott-Ayers is to mitigate harm to
athletes. At LC they make the athlete’s safety
the priority, advising them on preventing
injury and keeping them from competing
when there is a risk of further harm.
“I think the college takes that (injury
management) very seriously,” Loew said.
“I think that’s what allows us to really make
decisions that are really in the best interest of the students, without having to
worry about what’s in the best interest
of a specific program if that’s not in
the individual student’s best interest.”
The Sports Medicine Office also
has many student workers — such as
Alyssa Abe ’23 and Eva Silberstein
’24 who help with pain management
and treat injuries. They also do some
clerical work and assist the trainers.
Abe said that after being injured,
it can be intimidating to work in the Sports Medicine Office, but the staff
is friendly and the focus is on helping
evryone who comes through the
office door.
“I think working in this office has
given me a lot of insight into how to
be better,” Abe said “I think it’s a
great job for anybody going into that
kind of department or healthcare.”
Silberstein was recommended
to the Sports Medicine Office by
Associate Professor of Chemistry Anne Bentley. She is now looking at
a career in sports medicine and is
grateful to Bently for introducing her
to the field.
“I would definitely try to get
involved with working in the Sports
Medicine Department, because that’s
kind of the only option that we have,”
Silberstein said. “It really gives us a
kind of internship, it gives you hands-
on experience with being an assistant
to professional athletic trainers.”Abe said that this type of
environment is good for learning and
interacting with people, compared
to working in a hospital. In sports
medicine it is much easier to talk to
people and form relationships, while
also getting hands-on experience.
Student workers at the Sports
Medicine Office have gone into a
variety of different careers, from
EMTs and firefighters to doctors and
personal trainers. Athletic training facility offers individualized, rehabilitative work to students in need of any care
Basketball
Men’s
LC v Clairmont-Mudds-Scripps
colleges: L 63-95
LC v Warner Pacific: L 65-76
LC v Portland Bible College: W
121-47
LC v Portland Bible College: W
93-44
LC v Pacific University: L 72-85
Overall: 2-3
Women’s
LC v The Evergreen State College:
L 62-75
LC v Bushnell: L 56-86
LC v University of Wiscosin-River
Falls: L 65-86
LC v Whittier College: L 58-65
LC v Chapman University: L 62-77
LC v Pacific: L 59-65
Overall: 0-6
Swim
Men’s
LC v Linfield College/
Southwestern Oregon CC: L 121-64
LC v Pacific: W 129-36
LC v Pacific Lutheran: W 102-92
Women’s
LC v Linfield College/
Southwestern Oregon CC: L 125-56
LC v Pacific: W 115-82
LC v Pacific Lutheran: L 109-86
Athletes of the Week
Nov.13 - Nov. 19
Riley Buese ’25 -Women’s cross
country
Max Aldrich ’25 - Men’s cross
country
Nov. 20 - Nov. 26
Aniqah Gaffoor ’26 -Swim & Dive
Tj Muhammad ’26 - Men’s
Basketball
Nov. 27 - Dec. 3
Charlotte Caroll 24’ - Women’s
Basketball
Jonathan Green ’23 - Men’s
BasketballScores Injuries lead to mental health struggles
for athletes, they share their experience
The Sports Medicine Office, located in Pamplin sports center, is where student-athletes go to get treatment for injuries and to work on preventative treatments.
By VENUS EDLIN
INJURIES TAKE a toll on anyone,
but for athletes they can also mean
a temporary loss of identity. In fact,
athletes report worse mental health
outcomes as a result of injury than the
general public.
According to a Princeton study,
“Athletes may be at greater risk for
mental health issues in that they are less
likely to seek treatment, may be afraid
to reveal symptoms, may see seeking
counseling as a sign of weakness, are
accustomed to working through pain,
may have a sense of entitlement and
never had to struggle, and/or may
not have developed healthy coping
mechanisms to deal with failure. In
addition, many athletes have not
developed their identity outside of that
as an athlete and therefore if this role is
threatened by injury or illness, they may
experience a significant ‘loss.’”
This resonates with the experiences
of Gabby Beltran ’24 and Dylan Souza
’23, two student-athletes who have
endured significant injuries. Beltran,
who is on the women’s basketball team,
started playing soccer when she was
five and moved onto basketball in third
grade.
“Sports has just been like a huge part
of my life. It’s connected our family,”
Beltran said. “We would go play soccer,
on the weekends all together, go on
hikes … Watching the sports games on
the weekends has also just been huge for
me, but that’s all I’ve ever known. Sports
are basically my whole personality and
identity.”
When Beltran injured her ACL, it was
the first time in her life she was forced to
consider who she was outside of being an
athlete.
“I would still go to the gym, and I
would do so many arm workouts, like my
arms were ripped because I had so many
arm workouts, core workouts, everything
to just stay active in some sort of way,”
Beltran said. “But it was definitely a
dark time, I will not lie to you. Trying to
figure out just who I was, … it was not the
easiest.”
Souza had a similar experience after
having multiple knee fractures from
running track in high school, eventually
needing double arthroscopic knee surgery
his first year running at Lewis & Clark.“The confidence that I had in myself
came from my knees,” Souza said.
“Because I was just known as an athlete
throughout high school and I was known
(for) running.”
Souza described himself as “happy
go lucky” before his surgeries, but after
undergoing not one, but two surgeries
within the span of a year, he started having
depressive feelings every day.
“First surgery, the recovery process
was smooth because I had still had hope
and I went through it really well,” Souza
said. “I had to be attached to this muscle
contractor device for the first eight months
because my nerves are really damaged. I
had a straight leg cast too for three months.
I was just in bed for three months and then
I was feeling very lonely, very lonely.”This
loneliness increased after Souza spent
two times as long in bed after the second
surgery. His feelings were not reverted
after returning to the team either.
“They’re all having their running
practices and I’m going alone every day to
the trainers,” Souza said. “… I came back and I anticipated coming back and even
though I thought those emotions would
go away, they’re still there. I’d say I fell
out of love with running.”
Souza is not alone in forming a
negative relationship with his sport.
However, this started forming for Beltran
even before her most recent injury.
“I started to really base my
mental health based off of my athletic
performance,” Beltran said. “It really got
so bad, to the point where I just needed
a day off just one day off to rest my mind
and I was genuinely freaking out … I
came home crying to my roommates.
I was like, I can’t do this anymore. But
I love my sport, I was just stuck in this
weird in-between.”
Beltran asked for a mental health day
from her coach and it was received poorly.
Because she missed a practice before
a game, she lost her starting spot and
felt punished for taking care of herself.
Instead of dwelling on this, Beltran
wanted to focus on channeling her hurt
into positivity. With the mentorship of Assistant Athletic Trainer Gina Parisi,
Beltran has been working on a mental
health program for athletes.
“That’s just honestly how our society
and how sports works, that sports culture
works,” Beltran said. “Mental health
isn’t something you’re trained in how to
deal with or how to cope with, which is
why in the mental health program I also
wanted to include athletic staff training,
such as suicide prevention, nonviolent
communication, just learning how to
better support (athletes).”
The mental health program proposal
will be presented to the community in
early December. A program like this
would have been very valuable for Souza.
His loneliness might have been less
traumatic if he had been properly warned
or informed.
“Most doctors, they literally just tell
you the physical stuff. They don’t tell you
anything about the mental,” Souza said.
“Your parents don’t know, coaches don’t
really know. You usually go through that
on your own.”
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Beloved reflecting pool
orca ignites conflict
By ASHLYN LITTLE
FOR LEWIS & CLARK students,
the ethics behind keeping our
beloved pet orca who resides
in our on campus Reflecting Pool
have become a hot button issue.
While the orca has brought countless
smiles to the students of LC, the ethics
behind the small Reflecting Pool being
a big enough space for our dear pet are
being questioned. In the wild, orcas
swim upwards of a hundred miles a
day while in comparison, our small
pool does not allow much wiggle room.
The orca, given the name Shamu after
a student’s mother, has recently been
spotted with dorsal fin droop. This is a
clear indicator of the animal’s deteriorating
health which has prompted some to believe
Shamu may be happier somewhere he has
more room to swim, such as the ocean.
The task of caring for Shamu has fallen
to freshmen as a New Student Orientation
(NSO) bonding activity. Each NSO group
is responsible for feeding Shamu. This
process involves heading to the Reflecting
Pool and using a long stick with a hook to
feed Shamu fish from afar. This practice
has also come into question, due to the
propensity of the first years to attempt to
push one another into the pool, causing
an average of two fatalities per year.
Orcas need plenty of exercise and a
proper diet to be able to fully mature into
big strong adults. Since the Reflecting Pool does not allow for much exercise,
administrators are beginning to question if
it is in the whale’s best interest to continue
to live in the small pool. Solutions such
as flooding the ravine or moving the
orca to the swimming pool -- and having
the swim team practice in the reflecting
pool instead -- have been proposed.
Either way, something must be done.
Shamu’s increase in stress is correlating to
an increase in kills, with 18 students eaten
this semester, a 20% increase over last fall.
However, students still seem supportive
of keeping Shamu right where he is.
“I love Shamu,” Juan Beluga ‘25 said. “He
ate my roommate, so now I have a dingle.”
The removal of the orca would
cause the school to have to stop hosting
the whale training major, and would
also result in a sharp decrease in LC
cadaver donations to the local hospital.
The debate surrounding Shamu gained
renewed attention after LC began hosting
public shows, in which people can come
and watch Shamu perform a variety of
circus-like tricks. LC has been struggling
with monetary issues despite the high
cost of attendance, and so saw these
whale shows as a new source of revenue.
While the issue is still up for debate,
it is possible that Shamu may not be
living his best life in the small concrete
pool on LCs campus. Administration
has already considered replacing
Shamu with a new, more appropriate
animal, such as a great white shark. WINSLOW MORGAN/THE MOSSY LOGBy MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
IT FEELS LIKE just yesterday was
the sunny August day when you
arrived on campus, 'blu tack-ed'
your niche band posters up in your
unairconditioned dorm room, and
waved your parents goodbye. But
the weeks and months have come
and gone and it seems the end of the
semester is finally upon us.
As excited as most of us are to be
almost through with coursework, there
is another looming fear hanging over
liberal arts students everywhere: Will
I still be able to fit in back home after
all my time surrounded by Carhartt-
clad vegans with dyed hair, pronouns
and communist inclinations?
Fear not – there are ways to make
your time at home more tolerable,
possibly even fun. Just adhere to
some basic guidelines and remember
some key tips, all conveniently in
print (and online at piolog.com,
but we are working on it). Here is
The Mossy Log’s official guide to
surviving winter break back home!
Meeting new people
Over the holidays, you will
likely be dragged to various family
gatherings and social engagements.
Your mom has a friend who has
a son right around your age. He is
studying business at a prestigious
university and we are all very proud
of him. Try not to make direct eye
contact, he may find this threatening.
College football is a comfortable area for him. Remember: Our
team is called the Pioneers and
had a pretty good season, roll pios!
You may also have to introduce
yourself to adults curious about the
21st century college experience. Keep
it positive, keep it brief and lie about
your major. Just for the rush of it.
Spending time with family
Most students cite seeing their
families as one of the biggest anxiety-
provoking parts of visiting home. There
are ways to make it more comfortable
to spend quality time with them.
Flip that septum piercing up,
queen! There is no room for self-
expression at the holiday table. Got
siblings? Compare the drugs you
have taken in each other's absence.
Check in with your pets. Ask them
how they feel about the midterm
election results and the changing
landscape of American news media.
Do not tell your parents about your
theatre minor. Give them the gift of
blissful ignorance this holiday season.
Catch up with high school
friends
Take this opportunity to spend
time with your old friends. Pretend
you love their new tattoos, just
as they will pretend to love your
drunkenly-done stick ‘n’ poke
that “just needs a touch up.”
You spend all your time in
college telling people how much you
miss your friends from home. For
symmetry’s sake, tell your high school
friends how much you miss your college friends. They will love that.
Tell them all your Lewis & Clark
friend group gossip. Camille said
what about Lauren’s situationship?
You may have been sworn to
secrecy, but who would they tell?
Pick one random friend and
ghost them. Nothing matters.Explore your hometown
Visit places in your hometown that
you have yet to see. Smoke in different
public parks than you did in high school.
Engage with local businesses
in your community. See where
your fake ID works and which
stores have increased anti-theft security (note: this is a challenge).
Embrace your entrepreneurial spirit!
Sell cigarettes to high school students.
There you have it. Remember:
everything will be just fine.
Everything will be just fine! Happy
holidays, from all of us at The
Backdoor. Tell your mom I say hi. ALEX NASH/THE MOSSY LOG
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1 Purportedly
haunted
campus
structure
12 Jewish holy text
13 Oregon state
school,
acronym
14 Trump card
15 Space explorers
17 __ It Was, Harry
Styles hit
19 "Watch me
whip, now
watch me ___
___"
20 Acronym used
after a video game
match
21 High school test
23 Crypto abbrev.
24 Family25 Long fishes
27 Famous Ray
29 More weird
31 Midsommar
director first name
33 Connecticut Ivy
34 First 2 letters of
31, 41 across
35 Settlers of _____,
game
36 Identifier
38 Possible state of
hair
41 Part of a circle
42 Well, yes ___ __
45 Pirate syllables
47 Fanfic acronym
48 Friends with
mom
51 Chem. unit
52 Waffle brand
54 Blood type
56 Cuban cocktail57 Spanish "Mrs"
58 One with 4
leaves is lucky
59 3D
60 LC Sports center
name
62 Prima donna
64 Water source
65 Possible state of
a septum
66 Part of
California
the worst person you
know is from
67 "Yes" opposite
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1 "Nights" singer
2 Bane of the
class-skipper
3 59A
4 Grocery store
generic brand5 Contagious
animal disease
causing the loss
of hair
6 "I've got it!"
7 Ins and ____
8 Previously unsung
DNA discoverer
9 Stupid person
10 California
system of
universities,
acronym
11 Many LC
students come
from this
nearby city
16 He ____, she ____
18 Game of
Thrones
Prostitute
22 "Dead and
Gone" rapper23 When you'll get
there, acronym
26 God enemy
28 Yiddish lament
30 "I'm in my
villain ___"
32 College
equivalent of
hall monitor
35 Wrestler John
37 2019 movie
starring Octavia
Spencer
39 Fike
40 Home state of
many
outdoorsy LC
students
43 Albanian singer
44 Take too much,
acronym
46 Turns cookie
dough intocookies
49 Female aviator,
delicacy for
coconut crabs
50 Labra___,
Mata___,
Ambassa___
52 Mind powers
acronym
53 Dated slang for
leg
55 LC fine dining
58 Sculpting
material
61 School
organization,
acronym
62 Maker of Beats
63 Acronym often
seen in song
titles
65 Gen ed
acronym