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Volume 100, No. 1

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2023-02-10

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Vol. 100 No. 1 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023 www.piolog.com
OPINION
Which class platform is best?
Too many platforms can make staying
on top of schoolwork difficult. Which
platform is best for LC?
PAGE 4FEATURES
Double-decker bus coffee
Tōv Coffee & Tea serves Egyptian and
Turkish Coffee Served in Double Decker
Bus in Northeast Portland.
PAGE 7ARTS
Protesting Through Music
Music is a powerful tool used throughout
history to send messages of unity and played
a unique role in the Civil Rights Movement.
PAGE 8SPORTS
Trail Blazers Broadcaster Dies
Basketball broadcaster for Portland
TrailBlazers, Bill Schonley dies at 93
after an influential career.
PAGE 10VALENTINE’S FORECAST
A Special weather report
Feb. 14 will have a high of 44 degrees.
The day will dawn with clouds in the
sky, but it will be partially sunny with a
50% chance of rain.
By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
THE ENDOWMENT for the Bates
Center for Entrepreneurship
and Leadership was recently
increased from $2 to 5 million thanks to
twin donations from Lewis & Clark- via a
profitable investment- and The Randall
Charitable Trust (TRCT). The donations
were $1.5 million each.
Four and a half percent of the
endowment will be released each year,
and the added balance will pay for a
tenured professor. In previous years,
the entrepreneurship department had a
visiting professor.
Contact between TRCT and the Bates
Center began a few years ago and just
recently yielded the donation. Director of
the Bates Center and Adjunct Professor
Chrys Hutchings said the culminating
moment may have been at a Bates Center
advisory meeting.
“Marsha Randall came to our advisory
meeting, and everyone on the advisory
board spoke about why they support the
Bates Center,” Hutchings said. “I think
that made a big difference to her.”
LC’s donation came after a startup
they had invested in was sold. The
company was the project of two alumni
which specialized in electric vehicle
charging.
Gifts like these allow the Bates
Center to function. The department
is funded completely by donations.
The added $3 million will free up the
endowment’s original $2 million to pay for some adjunct professors and
programming with the $90,000 it
yields annually. The remainder of the
expenses — a second professor, the
rest of staffing for their 21 classes and programming — are paid for by donations
throughout the year.
One of those expenses, Winterim, is a
unique LC experience. The program itself is
a week-long course offered during the final stretch of winter break that helps students
make pitches for new product ideas under
the mentorship of various volunteer
professionals and the Bates Center Staff.
“Donation ” continue D on page 3
By VENUS EDLIN
H ISTORY, ENGLISH and Fir
Acres Writing Workshop
Administrative Coordinator
Amy Baskin recently received her
third Pushcart Prize nomination.
Pushcart Press, an influential
publishing house known for its famous
Pushcart Prize, publishes their prize
winners in an annual anthology. The
literary prize is intended for authors
whose works are published in small
press, making it a prestigious honor for
the writers and their publishers. Baskin
was nominated by Timberline Review
for her poem “Self-Portrait as Comfort
Food,” which was published in the
journal’s 11th issue on Aug. 5.
Since she only published two pieces
in journals last year, she was surprised
by the nomination.
“I was not expecting it,” Baskin
said. “It’s a lovely honor. And there are
so many wonderful writers that were
published in (Pushcart), so it’s really,
really special.”
The nominated poem resulted
from one of her regular free writes, in
which she recalled a time she had to
explain the illegality of a question about
her body from a potential employer.
Though intrusive, the question was
commonplace in Japan, and Baskin said it was awkward to explain this
cultural difference as a white woman.
“I was reading a lot about the body,
my body, and then past experiences
with self-advocacy,” Baskin said.
“I remembered a story where I was
working at a Japanese travel agency.
I’d lived in Japan and worked in Japan
for three years and then returned to
San Francisco. It’s just a poem where
I reflect on a job interview I had where
my soon-to-be boss asked me if I was
planning to get pregnant soon.”
Additionally, “Self-Portrait as
Comfort Food” is a concrete poem,
which means the text takes the shape of
the topic of the piece.
“I was having so much fun with
how I could articulate something in the
shape of my body, and I actually played
a lot with it with a spine, like a lumbar
spine and everything,” Baskin said.
“It really came down to a well, I don’t
know what this looks like to anyone, but
I think that this looks like the front of
a woman or a womb-bearer. So I left
it like that, and then I believe that my
editor Marian Anderson at Timberline
review didn’t touch a thing.”
As a Best of the Net nominee, an
Oregon Literary Arts fellow (2019
Edna L. Homes Fellowship in Young
Readers) and an Oregon Poetry
Association prize winner, this is not Baskin’s first experience in the
literary world.
However, writing was not always
a love for her. Baskin, who describes
herself as a “voracious reader,” was
always connected to words and
language. She was gifted a journal as a
young girl which helped her express her
feelings and begin exploring her craft.
It was academic writing that caused
her apprehension.
“I was trying to – consciously or
unconsciously – write what I thought
people wanted me to write,” Baskin said.
“That would really tie me up and freeze
me and I had a lot of procrastination
and perfectionism associated with that.
I think for me personally, I don’t know
for others, but I think it comes down to
fear and shame.”
It was not until Baskin’s senior year
at McGill University Montreal that she
pushed through these reservations.
“(There) was this freedom, and
suddenly I could articulate myself and
my thoughts unencumbered, like I
didn’t feel inhibited anymore,” Baskin
said. “That was a great breakthrough,
honestly. It took me a long time. So
I guess I’d say everyone’s a writer,
everyone can write and go easy on
yourselves.”
In April, Baskin’s first poetry
collection, titled “Night Hag,” will be published by Unsolicited Press and
will be available at Aubrey R. Watzek
Library. Additionally, Baskin will be
reading at the Association of Writers
and Writing Programs’ 2023 conference
in Seattle in March. To see more of her
work, see “Hysterical Cake,” which is
Baskin’s first chapbook — which is a
small paperback booklet of poems.Bates Center for Entrepreneurship
and Leadership awarded $3 million
Amy Baskins wins Pushcart Prize for poem.Winterim 2022 took place during the last week of winter break a nd was free for students this year due to a donation.
Administrative Coordinator Amy Baskin
wins prestigous Pushcart Prize nominationCOVID-19
cases surge,
LC adapts
COURTESY OF LCCOURTESY OF LCBy AVA FRISON
ON JAN. 27, the Vice President of
Student Life (VPSL) office sent
a campus-wide email, alerting
students to a rise in COVID-19 cases
primarily seen on the College of Arts
and Science (CAS) campus.
According to this email, the surge
began on Jan 21. The third weekly Bark
newsletter of the semester confirmed
this timeline as the reported number of
cases from Jan. 21 to Jan. 27 was 29.
The case dashboard on Lewis &
Clark’s COVID-19 Ongoing Response
webpage has slightly different
numbers. This dashboard reported
a total number of 31 cases, split with
26 CAS on-campus cases, 3 CAS
off-campus and 2 graduate school
cases. The dashboard does confirm a
significant uptick, as just the previous
week saw a total of 6 cases overall.
Interim Director of Health Services
Julie Radostitz said in an email that the
week following, Jan. 27 to Feb. 3, cases
increased from 31 to 41, with two of
those being staff and the rest students.
“That is about a 30% increase,”
Radostitz said.
With varying symptoms and other
sicknesses on campus, there are likely
unreported cases. Ratostitz said that
some people might not know that they
have the virus, so they might not test
and subsequently not report it, or that
some people might not know where to
report cases. In general, Ratostitz said
she thinks students are doing well with
reporting.
“I am impressed with how many
students go on to the COVID response
website, which we revamped at the
start of the year so it’s a little easier to
use,” Ratostitz said. “… they’re doing a
really good job of reporting.”
A follow-up email from Campus
Living sent the following day said,
“This mirrors what we saw in fall just
after students return, about the same
number of cases over the same number
of days with a similar curve.”
Radostitz confirmed this and said
that with the latest Omicron variant
of COVID that after this uptick in
cases, there was not expected to be an
ongoing increase. She also said cases
on campus are expected to go down,
and they are seeing case numbers level
out.
“This was right on cue with (what)
Oregon Health Authority was saying
about the latest Omicron variant,”
Radostitz said. “It was on the East
Coast at the start of our school year
and they said about three weeks. It’ll
hit the West Coast because we’re not
a major port like the East Coast is. So
it starts in Europe, moves to the East
Coast, about three weeks later it hits
here.”
Both the VPSL office and Campus
Living emails said that mask-wearing
is one of the best measures to prevent
the spread of COVID and reminded
students to self-monitor and test in the
case of COVID symptoms or exposure.
“coViD-19” continue D on page 3
Today’s Weather
By PAIGE A. ANDERSON
LEWIS & CLARK’S New Student
Orientation (NSO) program has
expanded, introducing a mentoring
program intended to create more
connections, structure and support for
students arriving at LC.
Like NSO groups, New Student
Peer Mentors (NSPMs) will meet with a
handful of students at the beginning of
the term. They will continue to meet with
their group regularly throughout the first
semester. These cohorts will consist of 15
to 25 students. Mentors are expected to
meet with their mentees individually at
least twice in the first semester and are
expected to contact each group member
once a month. The program outlines
the unique opportunity to make a big
difference for new students.
“NSPMs are exemplary Lewis & Clark
students who serve as ambassadors to
the College and role models to incoming
students,” the NSO website informs.
Additionally, mentors will receive a
leadership award of $1,180 for their work
from August through the end of the fall
semester.
As director of first-year experience,
Johnathon Manz’s role is to build a
program with multiple initiatives to
foster new student involvement in the LC
community.
“The idea is to help students get
connected, whether that’s finding
extracurricular involvement, connecting
with new peers, or showing where to get
tutoring help,” Manz said.
The goal of expanding NSO is to
improve retention rate, assist students in
their search for community LC, provide helpful information from a student’s
perspective and make the transition to
college easier overall. “The impetus for
this program came from President Robin
Holmes-Sullivan last year when she
served as vice president,” Manz said.
LC alumnus and director of NSO
Franchesca Spann was the student
director for NSO and after graduating
in 2020, she was appointed as head
of the program. She also works within
Campus Living. “We heard feedback from students,
especially in the last few years with
COVID, that there is so much content
in NSO, and we jam it in, and then it
suddenly stops,” Spann said. “They’re
kinda unleashed into the rest of college
without a lot of support.”
Many students find their first
communities at LC through the New
Student Trip (NST). The small NSO
groups will serve the same purpose, but
with more continual support.“The whole goal of it being a peer
mentorship program is that there are so
many staff and faculty who work at the
college, but they’re adults and they’re
not going through it the same way other
students are,” Spann said.
Especially during COVID times,
she elaborated, real-world relatability
and peer mentorship will benefit many
students.
Another role of an NSPM is to help
newcomers navigate Portland. “It can be challenging to get to know
Portland, especially if you’re not familiar
with public transportation, so the peer
mentor is going to help their group use
public transportation, get downtown or to
a neighborhood and engage students with
their surroundings,” Manz said.
Peer mentors may choose to take
their group to a sports game, an art
exhibition or another type of off-campus
experience of their choosing. The NSPM’s
responsibilities are fully outlined on the
NSO website.
Applications to become a peer mentor
are closed for the fall semester, but NSO
is looking for a diverse group of mentors
with different skill sets, ways of interacting
and learning styles.
“There’s a perception that an
orientation leader must be really
enthusiastic, extroverted and a high
energy person, but I’m really interested
in finding students who want to be
that support,” Spann said. “I’ve been
trying to focus on having a range of
personality types, backgrounds, special
interests and gender identities that
reflects the student body.”
The application process consists of
a written application as well as a group
meeting to assess how mentors interact
with others.
“Our screening process is to provide a
sample of what it might look like to be in
this position,” Manz said. “We will have
some scenarios where we talk through
what a first year may experience and how
a peer mentor might respond to that.”
The expansion of the role of NSO
leader comes with more responsibilities,
but also financial benefits for those who
become mentors.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
NEWS /gid00484
Pilot program hopes to synchronously gather first-years with veteran students during fall semesterNSO introduces New Student Peer Mentors
COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
By SUMMER DAE BINDER
IN 2020, RORY Bialostosky ’22 ran for
City Council in his hometown of West
Linn, Oreg. during his junior year at
Lewis & Clark. Bialostosky ran, and won,
with the support of his neighbors.
However, following the resignation
of former Mayor Jules Walters, the City
Council voted for Bialostosky to take her
place, as an interim replacement.
“I never expected to be doing this,”
Bialostosky said. “I was Council President
last year, who is second in line to the mayor.
She (Walters) ran for state legislature
because an incumbent resigned, taking
a stand on the issues of the paydown
legislature. So, our mayor stepped down
for the Democratic Party endorsement.”
Bialostosky’s interest in city politics
began before college when there was a
dilemma with parking at his local high
school.
“There was a parking zone around the
high school where students could not park
during school hours, but the streets were
empty,” Bialostosky said. “The neighbors
would rent out their driveways to the
students but they had ample parking on
the streets because they had permits. I was
advocating for the students.”
While Bialostosky is young, he has
never let the arguments about his age
hold him back from running the city.
Bialostosky and other members of Gen
Z, such as Florida’s Max Frost who
recently won a seat in the U.S. House of
Representatives, encourage young people
to get into politics at any level.
“It’s about the ideas that you bring
to the table,” Bialostosky said. “I get the
discontent but if you give up, you are going
to let other people win.”
Even as interim mayor, there
are several issues that Bialostosky is
focusing on, including the Abernathy
Bridge waterline crisis, which would be
exacerbated by the potential tolling of
I-205 between Oregon City and West
Linn. This project, headed by the Oregon
Department of Transportation (ODOT),
would mean the city would have to replace
the waterline despite having 20-30 years
of life left.
“We do not really have any funding for
it,” Bialostosky said. “We have asked the
state legislature to give $6 million to help
because right now we have had to cancel all of our existing maintenance projects for
our water system.”
The other priority for Bialostosky is
mitigating the impacts of tolling. The state
of Oregon is going to begin tolling I-5 and
I-205 throughout the metropolitan area.
The decision to toll is advised from the
ODOT’s “Environmental Assessment,”
which includes looking at the impact
of travel times on I-205, traffic on
neighboring streets, the local economy,
household spending, and greenhouse gas
emissions.
“Tolls in West Linn on I-205 are
planned to start first,” Bialostosky said.
“The city, the council, and myself are really
concerned and want to make sure if the
state is going to pursue this, we want to
make sure that our streets are not overrun
with cars getting off because it’s too
expensive.”
Having previously served on the city
council, Bialostosky had some in-house
issues that he plans to focus on.
“There were some things I disagreed
with in the council chambers,” Bialostosky
said. “General dysfunction, long meetings,
a lot of infighting, and inefficiency I would
say. The city attorney sits in here and
he gets charged by the hour, so he was
making a lot of money because the council
was taking so long making decisions.”
Rory has also received great support
from LC faculty, including former
Professor in International Affairs
Cyrus Partovi. Partovi enjoyed having
Bialostosky as an advisee and student
for four of his classes. Partovi anticipates
that Bialostosky runs for Mayor in May
2023.
“As soon as he declared his candidacy
for office, I became one of his first
contributors to his campaign,” Partovi
said. “I hope he runs for mayor in May. He
has a great future.” By EMMA FORD
PRESIDENT BIDEN’S student debt
relief program has had an eventful
rollout, leaving borrowers across the
country uncertain about the status of their
loans. As two Supreme Court cases await
decision this summer, and the potential
end of the COVID-19 declared state of
emergency looms, which would likely end
freezes on loan payments, questions are
being raised about the future of student
debt in this country. Here is a rundown on
what Lewis & Clark students should expect.
According to the official White House
website, the current proposed plan would
offer Americans earning less than $125,000
per year (about 95% of Americans meet
this criteria) to seek loan forgiveness for up
to $10,000, with recipients of federal Pell
grants (predominantly lower-income, who
earn less than $75,000 per year) receiving
the most relief, at up to $20,000 in loan
forgiveness.
Upon the program’s opening, 26
million Americans either actively applied
for relief or were deemed automatically
eligible. According to the White House’s
official tally, Oregon alone had 329,000
applied or auto-eligible borrowers, 211,000
of whom received full approval and were
sent to debt-collecting institutions.
However, four weeks after the
applications were opened, opponents of
the program filed two separate briefs to
stop debt relief from moving forward. Both
lawsuits, which are set to give oral arguments
to the Supreme Court on Feb. 28, challenge
the authority of the HEROES Act which
President Biden’s plan relies on. According
to Congress.gov, the Health and Economic
Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions
Act grants emergency economic powers
and funds to the federal government while
the COVID-19 pandemic is still designated
a national emergency.
Although the Justice Department and
White House have maintained their stance
regarding the legality of the plan, until the
lawsuits are put to rest and the judicial
orders overturned, applications are no
longer accepted. Moreover, pending and
approved applications have been frozen.
Even if one has been granted debt relief,
they are unable to receive it.
Borrowers took out these loans to
pursue undergraduate and graduate
studies, as prospective earning potential grows with increased college education
— according to The Economist, having
had some college education increases
average income by 11%, and a completed
Bachelor’s degree sees an increase of
65%. The United States Federal Reserve
calculates that U.S. students and
graduates collectively owe $1.76 trillion in
student loans.
This huge balance being partially
forgiven has made many economists
leery of the proposed debt relief program.
Potential long-term damage from
accelerating inflation is of great concern,
and so is the impact to the housing
market. Those potential benefits to
wages make college-educated Americans
more likely to be homeowners, but the
costs of debt forgiveness could be passed
along to the housing market, specifically mortgages.
Associate Professor of Economics
Eric Tymoigne disagrees. He referred to
Bard College’s Levy Economics Institute
and the paper “The Macroeconomic
Effects of Student Debt Cancellation,”
explaining that their findings supported
the conclusion that debt relief might have
positive outcomes.
“The Levy Institute published a
very interesting report recently by
Scott Fullwiler and Stephanie Kelton,”
Tymoigne said. “(It) said debt relief would
actually be a good thing for the economy.
The less debt people have, the more money
they spend. Millennial home ownership is
far lower than older generations.”
“Debt” Continue D on page 3.
LC grad appointed
as West Linn mayor
COURTESY OF PORTLAND TRIBUNEUS student debt relief program plan
halted, borrowers’ future uncertain
EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOG
New Student Orientation groups welcome and mentor over 500 first-year students to the Lewis & Clark each year.
Rory Bialostosky will serve West Linn. NEWS 3FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The best way to prevent the spread of COVID and protect yourself is by wearing masks.
ALEX NASH/THE MOSSY LOGLEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE MOSSY LOGTrimet proposes service
updates, 35 expansion
By SACHA GRIPMAN
AFTER FACING discontinuation
last fall, TriMet’s Line 39, which
connects the Lewis & Clark
campus to Southwest Portland, is no
longer being considered for a service
cut. But, in TriMet’s newest proposed
service changes, Line 39, named after
Lewis & Clark, would no longer serve
LC.
In the “Forward Together”
proposal announced in October,
TriMet “developed a draft concept
that would change more than 80%
of our bus service” according to their
website. Among those changes was
the elimination of Line 39 due to low
ridership. This news brought many
residents in the Hillsdale, Capitol Hill
and Collins View communities to the
defense of Line 39, urging
TriMet to retain the bus
line.
The Associated
Student Body
invited members of
the LC community
to provide their
feedback on the
proposed service
changes.
After receiving
feedback on the
initial proposal,
TriMet updated
the “Forward
Together” plan
in December so
that, “adjusted
routes, combined lines
and expanded times of day or days of
the week when buses run to update the
Draft Service Concept.” This updated
proposal reflects the consideration
of over 4,500 responses to feedback
gathered from both online and in-
person surveys.
TriMet will no longer provide Line
39 bus service to the undergraduate
campus.
“We’d extend Line 39 to serve
the Arnold Creek neighborhood and
Barbur Transit Center,” said TriMet via
Instagram.
TriMet chose to prioritize the high
number of students commuting to Ida
B. Wells High School, meaning Line 39
would only run during the morning and
afternoon commuter rush.
TriMet aims to compensate for
the loss of bus service to the LC
undergraduate campus, from cutting
bus 39, by updating the route Line 35.
“We’d expand Line 39 to serve SW
Portland and Lewis & Clark College.
Between Lake Oswego and Johns Landing, service would split with every
other bus traveling via either Terwilliger
and Taylors Ferry or Riverside Dr.”
according to the updated “Forward
Together” plan.
Service along each branch of Line 35
would be hourly, slightly less frequent
than the current Line 39.
The first branch, shown in the
Draft Proposal Map, would take
buses down their current route along
Macadam Ave., which runs through
Lake Oswego, terminating further
south at Oregon City Transit Center.
The new route would send buses down
Macadam until reaching Taylors’
Ferry Road. Buses would then follow a
similar route as the Pioneer Express,
turning down Terwilliger and
passing by the law school. However,
buses would not continue to the
undergraduate campus and would
instead follow Terwilliger
until it joins Macadam
on the outskirts of
Lake Oswego.
One significant
drawback to this
new routing is the
loss of bus service to
the undergraduate
campus.
Students trying to
catch the 35 would
need to walk half a
mile down Palatine
Hill Rd. to the traffic
circle in front of the
Law School. This
could pose significant
accessiblity issues for
students at LC. This change would
also make some transfers to other bus
lines more difficult, but there is some
upside to the proposed changes.
There are several benefits of
Line 35 coming to LC. This new
service pattern would provide
late-night and weekend bus
service, expanding transit options
for those commuting to campus
without a car. Additionally, Line
35 would provide a one-seat
ride into Downtown Portland,
facilitating transfers to over 10
TriMet bus lines, every MAX light
rail line, Vancouver’s C-TRAN,
and the Portland Aerial Tram.
While not ideally located, the
proposed changes to Line 35 bring
another bus to Downtown Portland,
later weekday services and weekend
service to the LC community,
increasing transit options and
facilitating connections to the rest
of the TriMet network.
Students uncertain about
campus COVID-19 protocols
Continued from page 1.
Radostitz said that wearing a
mask, maintaining distance and not
attending large gatherings were the
best way to protect yourself from
getting COVID.
As VPSL said in their email there
was a COVID booster vaccine clinic on
Feb. 7.
Both emails also provided links
to the “What Do I do Now” webpage.
Additionally, the Campus Living
email reiterated the expectations for
students.
“As a refresher, the College’s
expectations for those who are
COVID positive is that while isolating
on campus they are not to leave
their room unless they are: using a
bathroom, picking up meals, taking
out trash, accessing essential medical
care or responding to an emergency
(e.g, fire) alarm,” the email read.
Lastly, each email urged students to
stay vigilant in monitoring COVID-19
as the campus has few isolation beds
due to ongoing renovations.
Radostitz also said that the COVID
response team has adequate resources
for students to get help should they
need it.
“I hope they just take advantage of
it because nobody should feel like they
don’t have support or that they’re just
suffering in their room,” Radostitz
said. “We don’t want anyone to feel
that way.”
However, students may be facing
a more difficult time with figuring out
COVID policies. Audrey Morrissey ’26, recently recovered from having COVID
during the recent outbreak. She said
that she was surprised to contract
the Coronavirus, though she did
think about rising COVID cases with
everyone coming back from break.
“A bunch of people are coming
back on planes probably half the
time, so I did have that thought, but
then I kind of forgot about it because
… No one was really talking about
anything,” Morrissey said.
Morrissey mentioned she
previously had in their senior year
of high school. However, she did
not know what to do after testing
positive at LC. Isolation in particular
was a challenge. As previously
mentioned, LC does not have private
isolation rooms for students due to
dorm renovations, so Morrissey was
confused about the nature of the
COVID policy.“My friend got COVID first
semester, and I knew she isolated in
her room, but I wasn’t really sure if
there was a room for me to stay (in),”
Morrissey said.
Eventually, she isolated in
her room after Morrissey and her
roommates agreed to wear masks.
“I’m not going to drop a bunch of
money on a hotel, or an Airbnb – I’m
a college student, I don’t have that
money.” Morrissey said.
On LC’s COVID response website,
this is one of the suggestions they
make if a person does not feel safe
isolating in their room or staying with
a sick roommate.
Morrissey said that the COVID-19
response webpage was helpful with
reporting her positive test and getting
the help that she needed. She would
have liked to know that information
before they got COVID.
Donations help fund
Winterim program
Continued from page 1.
Natalie Elstone ’ 2 4 participated
in Winterim this past break and
really enjoyed her experience.
“I would totally recommend it,”
Elstone said. “I didn’t think I was
gonna be an entrepreneur, you don’t
have to think you’re gonna be an
entrepreneur to do it. I think it’s
like a really beneficial experience
for any student at LC, any student at
all in college; It just teaches you a
lot about future career paths.”
Hutchings also mentioned how
appreciative Winterim alumni are.
“They (alumni) will even send us
emails years later to thank us for it,”
Hutchings said. “It’s amazing, the
result on Friday afternoons.”
Despite not foreseeing a career
in entrepreneurship, Elstone said
Winterim gave her a lot of useful
professional advice and
experience that
will be useful in
other fields as
well.
“I had to
work in a group
with like two
people that I
didn’t know
before, and we
had to work
together really
fast to come
together and
agree on what
our product
was gonna be
and like what kind of
target market we were
gonna go for, like all these logistics,”
Elstone said. “And also, I think just
different problems solving skills.”
Elstone’s group pitched a
multiple-use mold detector and won
first prize.
“Natalie’s group won cash,
$3,500 cash, that they can spend
on beer and cigarettes,” Hutchings
said.
Hutchings offered more
serious support of the program as
well, though.“Winterim fosters courage,” the
Bates Center Director said.
This environment is created with
minimal cost, making it all the more
impressive.
“Everyone volunteers their time,
but our expenses are high because of
food and housing mostly,” Hutchings
said.
This past Winterim was free for all
participants, thanks to a donation.
It has always been a priority for the
Bates Center to make the program
affordable for students.
“In the past, we have made it free
for every student who requested it,”
Hutchings said. “We never said no.”
Winterim is not the only special
programming the department
offers either, one example being
Lunch With a Leader (LWAL). In
the next two months, four speakers
will come to discuss their trades
at different lunches. This
past Wednesday,
Brand Director at
Adopt Lynn Lee also
spoke at a LWAL.
Executive Editor
for Arts & Culture
at Oregon Public
Broadcasting Marcos
Nájera, Founder/
President at Berg &
Associates, President
at Global Television
Entertainment One
Michael Lombardo
and CEO/Founder at
UNLESS Collective
Eric Liedtke will
speak at lunches put together
by the Bates Center. All
meals will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. in J.R. Howard 302, and are on
Feb. 21, Mar. 2, Mar. 15 and Apr. 4,
respectively.
The Bates Center is constantly
reaching out to entrepreneurs and
business people in the community
to enrich their courses and prepare
students for the change from
collegiate to professional life. The
center want to provide as many
opportunities as possible for LC
students’ futures.
While not ideally
located, the proposed
changes to Line 35
bring another bus to
Downtown Portland,
later weekday
services and weekend
service to the LC
community.
“I think it’s like a
really beneficial
experience for any
student at LC, any
student at all in
college; It just teaches
you a lot about future
career paths.”
– Natalie Elstone ’24Debt Relief
pause affects
LC students
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Furthermore, Fullwiler’s report
agrees that student debt relief would
have minimal impact on the inflation
that continues to plague American
consumers, as some economists have
speculated. Associate Professor of
Economics Clifford Bekar weighed in
on the matter.
“Theoretically yes , but I don’t
think it would be much of an issue,”
Bekar said. “There is an intellectually
dishonest take on this, where we can
consider debt relief a transfer payment.
If you increase purchasing power,
you increase aggregate demand. If
debt forgiveness increased household
incomes in that way, it could increase
inflation. But debt is a liability, and
every liability to you is an asset to
someone else. So the two cancel each
other out – the borrower has more
in assets, but the bank has $10,000-
$20,000 less per forgiven asset.”
Inflation is a major concern for
American consumers, as household
necessities have risen dramatically
in cost without significant change in
average household income. Opponents
of debt relief raise real concerns over
a potential increase in spending power
continuing to put pressure on prices,
as individuals with more money are
willing to spend more on necessities
and luxuries alike.
“Current inflation is not demand-
driven, it’s a supply-side issue,”
Tymoigne said. “And it’s actually going
down as China opens up. Currently,
the largest issue driving inflation
is the war in Ukraine. They are a
major exporter of grain, and that’s
been disrupted. Hopefully, when the
conflict ends, inflation should steady
itself.”
This country’s continued shifting
landscape of financial decisions and
debt relief is a significant cause of
concern for many young people. As
global financial systems continue
along the slow path to recovery in
many young people are questioning the
necessity of long-term student debt. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
OPINION /gid00486
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
LEWIS & CLARK prides itself on
being environmentally friendly,
but students do not always
embrace this in their everyday lives,
particularly in terms of their water
waste. Coming from California, where I
grew up taking as many measures as we
could to offset droughts, I was shocked
to see students taking hour-long
showers and leaving
the water running
while brushing teeth
or scrubbing dishes.
Since Portland
is known for being
such a rainy city, it
does not cross many
people’s minds to
make an effort to
conserve water here.
However, Oregon’s
Water Resources Department details
that over half the state is currently in
severe to exceptional drought. Even if
we do not see effects in our own city,
we need to be aware of the greater
environmental context. Additionally,
due to climate change, the Pacific
Northwest as a whole is trending
towards hotter and drier weather,
rendering water conservation more
important than ever.
Many other colleges have installed
water-saving methods in their
dormitories, despite being in places
with high amounts of rainfall. Wellesley
College introduced inexpensive
hourglasses which suction on shower
walls to encourage students to shorten
their showers. This is in a city that gets
49 inches of rain on average annually,
in contrast to Portland’s 43. Tufts
University in Boston, which is roughly
equal to Portland’s precipitation
levels, has taken it a step further. They
installed the Uji brand shower head
in dormitories, which has a light that
changes from green to red after seven
minutes of the water running.
LC has also made efforts to be
environmentally conscious, it is just
that this effort does not extend over the
whole campus. J.R. Howard Hall and
Edna Holmes Hall are LEED certified,
which refers to “architecture that
minimizes use of natural resources,
energy, toxic materials and emissions
of waste and pollutants and maximizes
use of recycled materials,” according
to LC’s website. However, many buildings, particularly residence halls
that have not been recently remodeled,
lack conservation efforts.
In the wake of one huge
construction undertaking and in the
middle of another, I do not propose
that LC necessarily remodel all the
dorms. They could take point from
other colleges that have taken small,
but impactful steps. It does not even
have to be as expensive as installing
brand new Uji shower
heads; a simple stick-
on timer would make
a big difference.
Wellesley College
calculates the cost of
their timers as only
$2.19 each.
It is understandable
that people need
different lengths of
time to thoroughly
wash themselves in a shower, but when
people spend excessive amounts of
time using the shower to relax, it has
large-scale effects. Students might
think that it does not matter how
long they shower because they are not
paying for a fluctuating water bill, but
water waste is not the only harmful
byproduct. Since it takes electricity to
heat the water, it is a strain on energy
as well.
According to calculation metrics by
the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), one person who showers
daily cutting their shower time by
five minutes would save 73 gallons of
water a week. Using data from Fall
2021 on LC’s number of students
living on campus, if every student cut
five minutes from their daily shower,
this campus would save over 100,000
gallons a week.
I understand that many students
use showering as a way to relax, but
there are far less wasteful ways to
take a breather at the end of a long
day. LC was ranked the number
one green college in the country by
Princeton in 2015, and our law school’s
environmental law program was
ranked number one in the country by
the US News and World Report. With
standards like these, we cannot allow
wasteful practices to be habits.
We can do better. It is not only the
responsibility of the students, but also
of the administration to take steps to
encourage and facilitate water-saving
methods on campus.School, students must
step up to save waterAll professors should adopt
Canvas for uniformity, ease
By CORRINA CHAN
MANY OF OUR high schools
employed only one platform
schoolwide for teachers
to organize assignments, such as
Canvas or Google Classroom, but at
Lewis & Clark, it is up to each of our
professors to choose what platform to
use. This inconsistency has created
inconveniences in the student’s
everyday lives, having to jump from
platform to platform in order to stay
informed on quizzes, assignments and
general announcements.
While the needs of every professor
and class are different depending on
the area of study, the use of so many
different platforms can make things
unnecessarily stressful. It becomes
difficult for students to get things done or access information easily.
The issue is further complicated by
each forum having its own set of rules,
systems and shortcuts.
I struggle to remember to check
each platform, especially when they do
not notify me about upcoming events.
Checking multiple websites per day to
see if there was anything that I missed
is both stressful and tedious.
There are also times when there are
additional sub-platforms students are
required to use. Pearson is a platform
we use in French class to have access
to the textbook and assignments all
in one place digitally. This would not
be an issue if we did not also have to
look on Google Classroom for added
assignments and announcements.
At my previous schools, all
teachers were required to use one site (usually Canvas). It was incredibly
easy to get from one class to another,
find assignments and emails and have
all your documents in one place. We
did not need to have several extra
tabs open, clicking from one place
to another, because everything was
compiled in one easy-to-access site.
Proctoring quizzes and monitoring
cheating and plagiarism is also
simpler on Canvas because you can
link websites such as turnitin.com, a
website that professors often use to
check for plagiarism and consolidate
work from students. Canvas logs every
click of the mouse or time spent away
from the tab for the teacher to see. It
was quite stressful for the student, but
it was useful information for teachers.
After years of testing Canvas,
Google Classroom, Moodle, and even
no specific platform, Canvas seems
to be the easiest to use. It contains a
tab where you can email the professor
instead of having to open a separate
page. For asynchronous learning,
Canvas makes it easy for students to
access everything they need with little
direct contact with the professor.
For all class materials, from
assignments to quizzes, to discussion
forums and many more, everything
a student needs to have done can
be done with one application.
Additionally, as students who have
used the application before may
know, turning in assignments gives
you a small shower of confetti, which
is a nice reward for doing your work.
In short, Canvas is the best option
for students, especially college
students, because it has the right
amount of complexity for everything
necessary to be in one place without
being overwhelming. There must
be a change in how we manage
our workload during the semester.
Consolidating our materials,
announcements and exams onto one
platform is the easiest solution for
both students and professors.
Lack of major-specific study abroad
programs limits travel opportunities
By CORRINA CHAN
SINCE COVID-19 limited many
opportunities to study abroad,
students have been eager to get
back out into the world. For many
countries, especially in Asia, borders
are still closed or restricted. Now that
things are opening back up, we have
the opportunity to experience other
countries and cultures while earning
credit towards our own institutions.
There is just one problem: there are
not many for us to choose from.
Lewis & Clark boasts over 40
programs across 24 different countries.
However, most of these programs
are regional area studies or language
intensives, such as those in Japan,
France and Italy. This does not leave many programs for students of other
disciplines, such as certain STEM and
art majors.
For example, there is only one
active major-specific program for LC’s
most popular major, psychology, and
that is during the summer of 2024. A
lot of study abroad opportunities are
only offered one semester every two
also years, where you have very few
opportunities to get into the program
you desire before you graduate.
There are a few nonspecific
programs for a range of subjects such
as social sciences, humanities and fine
arts, but they are highly competitive
and fill up quickly. The London
humaities program, for example,
happens every two years and usually
contains only seniors and juniors
because so many students apply. Considering the number of students
who go into the humanities at LC, there
are very limited options for where we
have the opportunity to study. Only 11
non-language and non-regional area
study programs are available to all
other majors on campus, most of which
overlap under the nonspecific range
of categories.
For many, especially those who
come from lower income households,
studying abroad during our college
years is the best chance or one of the
only chances we have to go see the
world without breaking the bank, as
well as satisfying some requirements
along the way.
Global Perspectives is a general
education requirement for everyone. As
a liberal arts college, one of the things
we pride ourselves on is the study of
other subjects apart from our major,
rather than only taking classes within
our subject. We value a change in
perspective, and we prioritize studying
and understanding other cultures, as
LC is committed to diversity.
While we have on-campus courses
that fulfill the Global Perspectives
requirement, it is a life-changing
experience and opportunity to interact
with professors, students and people
from all over the world.
I am aware that it is difficult for a
college as small as ours to connect with
other institutions and get faculty to
lead these programs. I feel, however,
that it is important for students from
all disciplines, and not just those
that focus on the social sciences, to
get the experience of living abroad,
while getting in the requirements for
their majors and exploring their own
interests, if they so wish. Student observes village in Strasbourg, France during a 2017 study abroad trip.COURTESY OF JOCELYN MAHROSALIE ZUCKERMANN/THE MOSSY LOGALEX NASH/THE MOSSY LOG
“...if every student
cut five minutes from
their daily shower, this
campus would save
over 100,000 gallons
a week.”FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
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.By DANIEL NESHYBA-ROWE
SENDING OFF A quick email in
class, refreshing that one news
site, browsing Wikipedia — this
is a place we have all been. With many
classes requiring computers for at
least part of the period, I find myself
bringing my laptop everywhere I go.
Sometimes it makes sense to pull out the
distraction-machine to take some notes
in digital form, but not all professors
are comfortable with this. Is this the
right call, or do laptops have a place in
the classroom? It is my opinion that
laptops should be minimized in learning
environments.
The opportunities to sidetrack
yourself on a computer are endless. Every
time I pull out my laptop, I find myself
subconsciously checking my email. There
are landmines everywhere, with tempting
chat messages, interesting websites,
funny images and even homework
for other classes lurking around every
corner. Sometimes a forgotten definition
is enough to make my fingers start
flying over to wikipedia to find out
what “autometalogolex” means. Not to
mention games.
The impulse to play games is
powerful, even in class. The sheer visual
stimulus of a few colorful shapes moving
around a screen is enough to capture not
only the attention of the person playing,
but also that of everyone around them.
While a quick game of “Run” might not
seem too harmful for you, I can confirm
as the person sitting behind you that
my eyes are on your screen, not on the
whiteboard.
Some claim that keeping busy helps
them focus, but I refuse to believe that
games boost your attention. There are
far less distracting ways to fidget, like
doodling. If you are playing a game to
alleviate the boredom of a painfully slow class, I understand, but other
people probably want to pay attention
and you are making things difficult for
them.
Then there’s also the matter of
eco-friendliness. I suspect that laptops
are much worse for the environment
than paper. Paper is made from cutting
down trees, which typically happens on
a plantation, not old-growth forests.
Unlike deforestation, tree farming can
be done sustainably (there are various
organizations such as the Rainforest
Alliance and the American Tree Farm
System which review and certify tree
farms as sustainable or not) so paper
could be made with net-zero carbon
emissions.
Computers, on the other hand,
currently cannot be made with only
sustainable resources and, in fact, require
a host of problematic materials with
cartel-based supply lines and destructive
mining processes. Computers also
consume electricity, so overall it seems
unlikely that they are more eco-friendly
than paper.
I do not mean to say that computers
have no merits. Papers and notebooks
take up precious physical space, a fact
which becomes increasingly painful
as Lewis & Clark packs more and
more people into small dorm rooms.
Using computers not only reduces
clutter and weight, but allows for
superior organization. Computers
let you quickly search through files
for a particular phrase, for instance.
Typos and the like are also more easily
avoided and fixed on computers, with
tools like spellcheck to assist you. All
of these benefits, however, only help if
you are actually taking notes in the first
place.
Finally, a professor’s decision to
ban technology in class is done with
careful consideration. When I talked to Professor of Religious Studies Jessica
Starling, she explained her decision
to prohibit laptops originated from a
desire for better in-class discussions.
“I’m not phobic of technology,”
Starling said. “When we’re separated
by a whole bunch of screens that
are facing the student, it physically
blocks that flow of conversation and
engagement.”
The policy has not made classes easier
for Starling, who has to go through the
arduous task of creating a course reader for every class. Course readers are printed
packets that allow students to access all
of their readings without having to touch
a device. Professor Starling considers this
merit well worth the effort.
“Those course readers are pretty
affordable and so it’s like this pretty
accessible way that students can have all
the readings in one place just as I want to
present them,” Starling said.
In my personal experience, I have found
technology in class extremely distracting
and counterproductive to focusing on the material at hand. Concentration and
learning simply function better in the
absence of laptops and phones. While I
fully respect that everyone has their own
circumstances and some people need
technological assistance, for the most part,
I wish my peers would respectfully close
the laptop.
As professor Starling said, “It’s a
collective project; we all need to show
up and support each other’s learning
rather than obstruct it, both for
ourselves and for our peers.”Computers create distractions for faculty, students, they should be put away during class time
ALEX NASH/THE MOSSY LOGClosed laptops aid students’ learning experience
Safe-injection sites for heroin users should be available
By EMMA FORD
THIS ARTICLE is not a how-to, an
endorsement, nor a judgment.
But I am about to give you a crash
course in heroin, and yes, you need to
know this.
A safe-injection site (also called
safe-consumption sites) is a controlled
environment for drug users to inject
the intravenous drug of their choosing
with clean equipment. Safe-injection
sites employ trained staff who can
intervene in the event of an emergency.
Many overdoses are reversible with the
aid of drugs like naloxone (commonly
referred to by the brand name Narcan),
and help with safe dosing and injection.
Following the principles of
community harm reduction, the purpose
of these facilities is to make sure those
in active addiction are supported and
safe. They will not stop anyone from
doing drugs, although many offer access
to counseling, community services and
treatment drugs like methadone.
The Department of Justice (DOJ)
has indicated a willingness to relax
its stance on safe-injection sites,
reversing the Trump administration’s
aggressive action that it took against
such institutions. While prosecutors
successfully blocked Philadelphia’s
proposed safe injection sites last year,
two clinics opened in New York last
November to a far more open reception.
The DOJ is in communication with
experts to decide what guidelines could
be put in place to allow their operation.
Privately run safe-injection sites
have existed for years, but state-
funded sites (which exist in Canada,
Europe and Australia) are still not a
reality. Hopefully, they will become
more common in the coming years.
They are life-saving places which
actively contribute to lowering deaths
to addiction and overdose. They are
integral to a real fight against addictions
rather than a criminalization-focused
war on drugs. According to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, between April 2020 and April 2021
over 100,000 people died from drug
overdose.
So, you may ask as a non-injection
drug user, why does this matter? Lots
of people do inject themselves with
heroin, cocaine and/or amphetamines.
In order to prioritize their safety and
offer a chance to recover, information
should be as widely accessible and
understood as possible.
Let us unpack that deceptively simple
answer, and focus on heroin. Heroin is
the third most commonly-used substance
in the Portland area, behind cannabis
and methamphetamine, and the most
likely to be consumed via injection. The
National Institute on Drug Abuse places
the number of American heroin users in
2021 at 1.1 million people, and 13,165 of
them died of an overdose in 2020.
Oregon in particular saw trends of
drug usage in 2020 that followed the
rest of the country, which have seen
heroin users dying at increasing rates, particularly from supplies cut with
the synthetic opioid fentanyl. But the
National Drug Intelligence Center,
which is part of the DOJ, reported
that the rates of treatment-seeking
for heroin abuse have declined, even
though it is still the top narcotic that
treatment-seekers report using.
One of the chief dangers of heroin
is its basic chemistry, since even
the purest heroin can easily lead to
overdose, which inhibits breathing
and cardiac function, as well as
disrupting one’s self-preservation
ability and brain function.
Adulteration of heroin with synthetic
opioids, unexpected stimulants or
even house cleaning powders greatly
increases the likelihood of overdosing.
Most overdoses are reversible,
provided someone can act in time, but
an impaired user will quickly lose their
ability to safely measure a dose and
shortly thereafter their ability to react
when something goes wrong. Beyond the likelihood of overdosing,
with its status as a predominantly
injected drug, accidents with the
intravenous injection of the drug
are common. If a user hits an artery,
they will likely bleed profusely, or
accidentally inject air bubbles which
cause severe cardiac complications,
unlike when air is injected into a vein.
Hitting a nerve can cause paralysis and
result in amputation.
The process of shooting is painful,
and an addict who injects in the same
part of their body too often can lose the
ability to successfully find veins — the
stereotypical injection site of the inner
forearm may have to be forgone for
the neck, toes or groin, increasing or
retaining the dangers to one’s arteries.
Many of us have gotten a blood draw
from a phlebotomist who has stabbed
us multiple times trying to hit a vein.
Imagine doing that with a dirty, dull
needle while suffering withdrawals,
or having that “phlebotomist” be high
themselves.
Finally, the equipment and
environment an addict uses can be
incredibly dangerous. Users who are
forced to inject illicitly often have to
share needles or other supplies that
transmit disease and risk infections,
including HIV. Used needles are not
sharp, rendering them difficult to
inject with, resulting in higher chances
of injury in an already risky activity.
Users could be in unsafe situations with
people who would take advantage of
their incapacitation, or injecting with
other addicts who may be unable or
unwilling to call for help in the event
of an overdose. This already-struggling
group is being forced to suffer further
pain, rather than receive support as
people with a disease.
In short, heroin is a deadly, often
adulterated substance with a high rate
of addiction and a falling rate of users
seeking treatment. Psychologists,
doctors, politicians, social workers and
anyone else with a platform can argue
all day about what causes addiction, but the fact of the matter is that it exists,
and real human beings live with it every
day.
If we hope for decriminalization to
be a successful community measure,
addicts need active support. Simply
not policing addicts will not make
addiction go away. It merely lowers
arrest numbers. Medically-guided
support systems lower death rates,
overdose rates, rates of HIV and rates
of other infections. Treating addiction
the same as a mental or physical illness
succeeds more often than decrying drug
users as criminals or failures, which
has been the United States’ approach
for generations. It treats addicts like
people. Addicts have the potential to
recover, and deserve the best possible
chance to do so.
This requires freeing them from
the threat of incarceration, but also
as best as we are able, from the threat
of overdose. These sites are sparse
in the Portland area, but with the
recent decriminalization pushes on
Multnomah County ballots (possession
now merits only a $100 fine or a call to
a counseling service), the fight against
addiction deaths cannot be left halfway
fought.
So why do you need to know about
heroin? You may have never used it
or have no intention of using it in the
future, but you do not exist in a vacuum.
You exist in a community, and the
addict on the Portland sidewalk is part
of that community too. Understanding
the struggles and dangers your fellow
community members face is integral
to understanding how to help. The
lifesaving presence of safe-consumption
sites allow for cleaner, less painful,
controlled injection of drugs to ease the
pain of withdrawal.
No one deserves the suffering we
have allowed addicts to endure for
generations. Allowing safe-injection
sites, a first step on the way to recovery,
is our first step to righting the wrongs of
the War on Drugs that have destroyed
so many lives. LEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE MOSSY LOG
Open discussion of safe heroin use, possible injection risks could save lives, open path to recovery
Prohibitive signs attempt to limit drug use within the areas surrounding schools.By FRANKIE SPURBECK
THIS SEMESTER , my
textbooks cost $280. I’m sure
some of you are scoffing, but
as a social scientist, this was one of
my more expensive semesters. As
I purchased book after book, none
of which we would read in full, I
returned to a timeless question:
Why do professors assign textbooks?
And, beyond that, do they think
about students’ wallets when they
make these assignments?
As for why professors assign
textbooks; the short answer,
unsurprisingly, is pedagogical value.
Professor of History Elliot Young is
not a big believer in textbooks.
“The textbook industry is a
scam,” Young said.
Despite this belief, he assigns
a textbook for his Modern Latin
American History course in order to
provide context for students and act
as reference.Young concedes that textbooks
are sometimes necessary as a place
students can go to find information
needed for assignments or to
contextualize lectures.
That same idea was stressed by
Professor of Chemistry Julio de Paula.
“(Textbooks) can offer more
explanation and perspective than
could be possible in a lecture or
classroom discussion,” de Paula said.
Professor of Mathematics Paul
T. Allen had a slightly different
philosophy on textbooks. In our
conversation, he discussed his idea
that each discipline has a narrative,
or a collection of narratives. Each
course, then, should have a narrative
arc to it. Picking a textbook can help
the professor shape the arc of their
course. And, Allen acknowledged, if
it’s just him talking and lecturing, he
might miss certain details or explain
concepts poorly, in which case
students would benefit from having
an additional source to consult.Professor of Political Science Todd
Lochner brought up the value of scholarly
commentary in his Constitutional Law
class. As all Supreme Court cases are
public government documents, his Con.
Law class does not necessarily require a
textbook. However, Professor Lochner
chose to assign one because it provides
“scholarly commentary which he thinks
is really critical.”
Similarly, multiple professors
mentioned the value of using a textbook
as a tool to practice what students
learned in class. Professor of Spanish
Adrian Miller said that in the Spanish
101 and 102 classes, the text book is
crucial.
“Twenty Percent of the grade is just
doing online assignments to kind of stay
on task,” Miller said.
The textbook used in French
102 through 201 also has a practice
component, as well as other language
classes. Additionally, the math
department assigns work with a
similar goal. “Students need to do problems to
practice the skills,” Allen said. “And
the nice thing about a book is that a
book has practice problems that fit
the narrative.”
For certain courses, textbooks
are essential, but that does not make
them affordable. To what extent do,
or should, professors consider price
when assigning material?
“I usually recommend they buy
an earlier edition to save money,”
Young said. “I am also aware of the
cost of the books I assign and make
decisions so that the reading list is
affordable.”
Professor Miller said that the
Spanish department recognizes its
textbook is likely the most expensive
textbook students will buy in a
semester. As such, the department
consciously uses one that covers the
content from Spanish 101 through
202 so that students only have to
purchase one textbook for multiple
classes.
According to Professor of French
Isabelle de Marte, the French
program recently moved to a similar
system, altering the curriculum so
that students need only purchase
one textbook for French 101 through
201. Additionally, French students
are only required to buy the online
edition of the book, saving them
money. Of course, this change is less
helpful for students who test into
higher level language courses, but
professors are clearly thinking about
price.
Allen offered a unique take on the
issue of cost.
“I think that the cost of books
is an interesting issue,” Allen said.
“Because as a percent of the cost, the
total cost of the education, it’s like
0% … but as a percent of sort of like
the direct costs that have to flow out
of your wallet right now, it’s a large
percent … That means that students
feel those costs in a more immediate
way than they maybe feel the cost of
other things.”
However, I also think that
students sometimes perceive
textbooks as adding insult to injury:
as Professor Allen stated, students
pay a lot for college, and asking them
to pay more in addition to tuition can
be frustrating.One possible alternative is an
open-access framework. Miller,
who also works at Portland State
University (PSU), told me that PSU
has moved to such a system. In
their Spanish classes, students do
not have a textbook. According to
Miller, the department “paid one of
the instructors and the supervisor
to develop their own materials, and
then make it available for free to all
the students at PSU.”
Miller reports that such a system
has been discussed at LC, but at this
point, it just is not in the budget. It
takes hundreds of hours to develop
a curriculum, and professors would
need to be compensated for that
labor.
A similar discussion of labor
came up with Lochner. He explained
that one year, over winter break, he
took the time to manually edit and
upload a half of the cases his class
reads over the semester, in order
to avoid assigning two different
casebooks. The task can take months
to complete, so he has not yet done it
for the rest of the cases.
This discussion of labor hits on
the ethics of piracy, which is often
present in discussions of textbooks
prices. Many students download
PDFs of their textbooks from the
internet. However, there are other
ways to access textbooks for free
without pirating, such as utilizing
course reserves, or checking out a
longer term loan for versions in the
Watzek stacks or available through
Summit.
An alternative model, mentioned
by de Paula, would be for the college
to purchase enough copies of each
textbook for all students in those
courses, perhaps by expanding the
library’s current course reserve
system. However, as de Paula pointed
out, such a system would be expensive,
and that money would likely come
from cuts elsewhere.
Your professors likely have
something to say about why they
assign textbooks, and would be happy
to explain the issue. Furthermore, if
you have an anti-textbook agenda,
reminding professors of how much
money books cost may be one way
of swaying them towards more cost-
effective alternatives.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
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By ASMAA ZAIDAN
IMAGINE, YOU are in Cairo or
Istanbul, in a bustling yet cozy
maqhaa (coffeeshop) with the aroma
of rosewater, mint and fresh Turkish
coffee wafting up from the kitchen below.
Traditional red cushions, carved wooden
furniture and an array of stained glass
lanterns surround you. What if I told you
that you could find this experience here,
in Portland?
Fifteen minutes from campus, on
Hawthorne boulevard, lives a bright red double-decker red bus with a maqhaa
hidden in its walls. Tōv Coffee & Tea is
an Egyptian-owned food cart-esque café
within a bus, specializing in Egyptian &
Turkish-style coffee and tea drinks.
Tōv’s menu is a short and sweet
blend of classics — like Egyptian coffee
served traditionally in a briki pot and
finjan cup brewed over hot sand — and
original creations such as their popular
“Mint Thing,” a fresh mint syrup
cold brew. They also serve pastries,
including the quintessential levantine
dessert, konafa, and the iconic Ba’alawa
(baclava).
I am not a coffee drinker, so I stuck
to the classic sahlep, a wintertime
thickened milk drink topped with nuts
popularized in the Ottoman era. On the
side, I ordered a small piece of konafa,
while my companion ordered the Mint
Thing. Their menu is quite pricey for a
college student, with their cold brew at
$6.50.
Unfortunately, both my companion
and I were unimpressed. Sahlep,
traditionally a comforting, sweet and
thick drink with fragrant orchid/
rose notes, ended up both flavorless
and thin. It was essentially just frothy
milk topped with pistachios. It did not
compare to the sahlep in the streets
of Istanbul, or the version we make at
home. As for Mint Thing, I must confess
that neither my friend nor I are the most
reliable reviewers: We are not cold brew
fanatics. Even so, we were disappointed
in the lack of advertised mint flavor.
The mint was definitely present, but it
was like La Croix, promising so much
but offering so little. Finally, onto the pastry. I am
something of a konafa connoisseur. As
my companion and I are Palestinian,
recognition of a good bite of konafa is in
our DNA. While in Amman, I tried over
a dozen konafa shops in hopes of finding
the perfect cheese pull, crispiness and
sugar/rosewater balance (by the way, as to
where I stand on the khishneh (crispy) vs.
na’ameh (soft) debate, I fall firmly within
the former camp). Thus, I do believe I am
qualified to say that this konafa was not
deserving of the exorbitant $10 we paid for
the small piece. The cheese had no pull, the
flavor was bland and it did not taste even
remotely fresh.
Despite all that, I would not discourage
anyone from exploring Tōv. Coffee
devotees might be in for a tasty (and
visually appealing) surprise with the
traditional Egyptian/Turkish coffee,
Nectar of the Gods or Arabic People Latte.
Tea lovers might enjoy their chai latte or
Hibiscus Karkada. Admittedly, konafa is
a difficult dessert to get right and tastes
the best fresh out of the oven, so their
pistachio rose water cookie might be a
better alternative.
In all, Tōv offers an authentic aesthetic.
The small shop, with its Egyptian tunes
and ambiance, does a brilliant job of
immersing you in Arab/Turkish coffee
culture. In fact, I plan to return with Arab
coffee enthusiasts (my parents) to get a
more accurate review.
Being Syrian-Palestinian with family
in Jordan, I often find myself craving the
taste and feel of “back home,” despite
growing up in the U.S. Tōv was nostalgic; it
hits the spot. It is a visually stunning place
with kind people and a rare atmosphere.Review: coffeeshop hidden in double-decker bus
Eccentric Hawthorne spot with Egyptian, Turkish influences makes for lackluster trip eastside
Insider look at the “Textbook Industrial Complex,” and alternatives solutions to buying new books
A stack of used humanities course books are displayed in the campus bookstore, which serve as a cheaper alternative to new versons. TARA ELSA/THE MOSSY LOG ASMAA ZAIDAN/THE MOSSY LOG ASMAA ZAIDAN/THE MOSSY LOG
Professors share reasoning for textbooks on syllabusTōv Coffee and Tea offers Konafa as a traditional dessert, along with Turkish coffee. The coffeeshop is found within a red bus.
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Interior design of T ōv, sporting Egyptian and Turkish cultural colors and fabrics. By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
A N ELDERLY Black woman
called to us, “If you listen to
this man you’ll get wisdom,”
as we stood outside the Matt Dawson
Community Center, waiting for Kent
Ford to start the tour.
The tour was centered around
the historic Albina neighborhood,
where the Portland Chapter of the
Black Panther Party (BPP) was
headquartered. The Office of Inclusion
and Multicultural Engagement
organized the tour for Martin Luther
King Jr. Week.
Ford founded Portland’s Chapter
in 1969 with Tommy Mills, a decorated
veteran of the Vietnam War.
Without the Vietnam War, Ford
may not have joined The Panthers.
“I came into The Party, not via the
civil rights movement, but the peace
movement,” Ford said. “The Party
was the only Black organization that
was against the Vietnam War. The
groups like the NAACP, the Urban
League and the mainstream groups,
civil rights groups, they took no stand
on that and it was wrong – the war
in Vietnam, the great Empire out
there fighting people from getting
independence and people of color.”
Their first office was at the corner
of Cook Street and Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard. The building itself
is now gone, replaced by a housing
complex. The boulevard was renamed
to honor the late activist in 1989, a
date Ford overestimated in one of the
tour’s refrains:
“In the ’70s the city got in the
Martin Luther King business,” Ford
repeated.
Two blocks up from the office,
in a similarly replaced McDonald’s
parking lot, Ford was beaten and
arrested by the Portland police
officers.
“They arrested me, you guys,
pulled me out of the car and beat me,”
Ford said. “Pulled me out of the back
of a police car.”
The Portland Police Department
(PPD) did not have any evidence
against Ford, and he knew it. So, he
was not particularly worried about
long term incarceration. His release
soon proved him right. That did not
stop PPD from retaliating, though.
“I got acquitted on a Friday,” Ford
said. “They hit us on a Tuesday, go
figure.”
Using state-sanctioned violence
and law enforcement to suppress
the BPP was a part of a nationwide
pattern. Fred Hampton, head of
the Chicago chapter, was fatally
shot by police in his apartment in
a coordinated assassination by the
Cook County State Attorney’s Office
tactical unit, the FBI and Chicago PD.
The free health clinic, opened by
the Portland chapter in 1969 was
named after Hampton. The Fred
Hampton People’s Free Health
Clinic offered medical attention to
anyone who needed it for free, five
nights a week from 7 to 9 p.m. The
medical clinic closed in 1979, and
the building, formerly located in the
historic Albina neighborhood, no
longer stands.BPP had other health initiatives,
one of which was focused around
testing for sickle cell anemia. A
survivor of Fred Hampton’s murder
founded this program. He was shot in
the stomach.
“One of the guys who was in the
apartment the night Fred Hampton
got dusted, his name was Doc Satchel,
and Doc Satchel helped set up the ER
medical clinic in Chicago,” Ford said.
“So he hooked up with Dr. Burt Small
and Dr. Burt Small was out of Wayne
State University Medical School in
Detroit. And they set up the sickle
cell anemia thing nationwide for The
Party.”
In Portland, the sickle cell testing
was based out of Highland United
Church of Christ. The initiative,
however, was nationwide and
garnered a lot of media attention.
“The Black Panthers started testing
for sickle cell anemia, two weeks later
Portland Public Schools were doing
it,” Ford said. “Nixon went on the air,
gave six million (dollars) to sickle cell
anemia.”
Ford discussed big players in the
Civil Rights Movement besides Fred
Hampton.
“If you want to know how we got
to the troubles in prisons, how we got
to where we are today in America,
read Malcolm (X) and read (James)
Baldwin,” Ford said.
Notably missing from that list is the
man whose holiday we were celebrating:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Dr. King has so much faith and
so much Jesus in him, you don’t want
to do nothing to hurt the man,” Ford
said. “But, Malcolm said you speak
the language they’re speaking to you.
It don’t take fifty years to prove you’re
human.”
Ford’s hesitancy toward placing
MLK on the same level as the other
two may allude back to his reason for
joining The Panthers to begin with.
“The speech Dr. King made on
December the fourth 1967. It’s a long
speech, and it took him a long time to
make his points and stuff like that,”
Ford said. “But he had 15 hundred
people at the Riverside Church in New
York, and he talked about the war
in Vietnam. Mind you now, he had
gotten the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for
his work with the Montgomery bus
boycotts.”
A pediatrician and a minister,
both white, approached the Reverend
Doctor and asked how he could have
won the Nobel Peace Prize and not
stand out against the Vietnam War. On
March 4, 1967 the Nobel Laureate gave
a speech called “Beyond Vietnam—A
time to Break Silence.” A year later to
the day he was assassinated.
“You know you’re doing something
right if they come after you.” Ford
said.
Despite his role in it, Ford said
very limited progress came from the
Civil Rights Movement.
“Civil rights was a miserable
failure, it didn’t convince the
police departments in different
municipalities, counties, cities, states
across America that they shouldn’t be
killing people or sending them off to
prison,” Ford said.Despite this pessimism, Ford has
seen progress.
“We’ve accomplished more
since George Floyd than civil rights
accomplished in 50 years,” Ford
said.
In terms of continued progress,
Ford has two areas of focus, the first
being finally ending police brutality
and discriminatory penalization
and enforcement. Ford emphasizes
patience and determination.
“We have to just take it like the
guys in recovery, we’ve got to take it
just a day at a time,” Ford said. “Just
like the people of Portland Oregon
when they set the standard for the world, not just America but for the
world, by sustaining the protests (of
George Floyd’s murder) for over 100
days.”
Second, the BPP member pushes
for a renewed focus on international
humanitarian action.
“More people live in the world
besides us,” Ford said. “We’ve got to
stop the schoolyard bullying.”
In terms of The Party’s legacy,
Ford is pleased.
“We had a ten point platform
and program, land, bread, housing,
everything that was valid then in
1966 is valid today,” Ford said.
“Number 7 was the immediate end of police brutality and the murder of
Black people and the prison pipeline
and all of that. The best of the legacy
of Black child support is yet to come,
and we took a stand with the patrols
in the neighborhoods, watching the
police do they work when they do
those routine stops.”
Of those ten points, number five
stands out to me.
“We want education for our
people that exposes the true nature
of this decadent American society,”
The Black Panther Party Ten Point
Platform says. “We want education
that teaches us our true history and
our role in the present day society.” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2022
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Black Panther leads tour of Albina, civil rights
Ford dictates differences between civil rights leaders to students outside of The Urban League of Portland, using mural as guide.NOAH REESE-CLAUSON/THE MOSSY LOG
Kent Ford takes community members on tour of Albina neighborhood, where Portland Black Panther Party chapter was based.COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Ford recounts his personal, Black American history across from former Portland Party headquarters, now a housing complex.NOAH REESE-CLAUSON/THE MOSSY LOGPortland Black Panther Party Founder Kent Ford discusses past, present, future for Black Americans

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By EMMA FORD
THE HISTORY of Black
Americans has evolved
alongside music, from the spirituals
sung by enslaved people, to the
growing acceptance of blues and
jazz in the early 20th century, to the
songs that many of our parents and
grandparents grew up with. Music has
not only been entertainment or art, but
an expression of the complexity of the
Black American experience, as well as
a constant force in the fight for their
political and social rights.
In honor of Black History Month,
this article will tour the evolution of
Black music in America, between 1930
and the turn of the century.
Even before Civil Rights broke
into the forefront of American
consciousness, the earlier 20th century
saw songs of resistance and protest
against lynchings and brutal murders
of predominantly Black Americans in
the South.
Billie Holiday, one of the most
prominent Black female singers of the
1930s and 40s recorded and released
her seminal protest song “Strange
Fruit” in 1939. The pop music of the
time being jazz and swing, Holiday’s
song was originally a poem, written
and subsequently set to music by
school teacher Abel Meerpol. A deeply
politically active Jewish man, Meerpol
had been inspired by photographs of
lynchings when he wrote his original
poem, and had been the original
performer of the work in song form
before passing it off to Holiday, who
was a rising star in the New York clubs.
As a part of her live act, lit by a single
spotlight, Holiday’s uniquely powerful
voice gave life to one of the very few
pop-culture statements against the
treatment of Black Americans at the
time. She sang alone, but music was
soon to be carried by many voices in
protest.
Freedom songs, also known as
congregational songs, such as “Eyes on
the Prize,” “This Little Light of Mine”
and perhaps most famously “We Shall
Overcome,” grew organically out of the
Black churches that helped spread the
message of Civil Rights.
White Southern churches
overwhelmingly did not allow Black
congregants, but religion remained
a core value and important social
practice in Black communities, so the
unique practices of churches such
as the African Methodist Episcopal
Church shaped the early modern Black
political movements. The traditional
congregational song, born amidst
slavery, became central to many
Black Christian churches, with a
songleader leading their group in call-
and-response lyrics of personal pride,
spirituality and strength.
Upon incarceration for
participating in protests and marches,
Civil Rights activists used these songs
to voice resistance, adapting lyrics to
be warnings, or to communicate the
strength of the protestors. In jail, as
singers were threatened by guards to
be quiet, they would weave the guards’
threats into their singing to show their
refusal to give in.
The songs were also messages of
unity. The common language of song
allowed the trained activists to feel
connected to the everyday people they
marched alongside – meetings of Civil
Rights activists included the same
songs many Black Americans sang
together in church every Sunday.
As White Americans began to
notice the movement, many who
joined found common ground in music
as well. Folk music, which grew out
of rural traditions of both Black and
white communities, provided a bridge
between distinct and in many ways
divided cultural languages.
The music of young white artists,
especially students from college towns
and cities up north, like Joan Baez, Pete
Seeger and Bob Dylan, spoke to the
burgeoning political bent of the young
Baby Boomers, their dissatisfaction
with the lack of morality and their
motivation for equality. At the 1963 March on Washington,
many of these singers performed
alongside Black entertainers and gospel
musicians, including covers of songs
like “We Shall Overcome,” as well as
their own political hits. While many of
these songs were less explicitly focused
on racial equality and more on general
change, they translated a movement
many younger White Americans had
not been raised to understand.
As the 1960s went on, the rigid
barriers between Black and white
America were continually worn away.
Harry Belafonte, despite being an
international star widely recognized
in the Civil Rights movement and a
confidant of Dr. King, was still hindered
in his career. His televised duet with
White British singer Petula Clark of
“On the Path of Glory” included a
single touch of her hand on his arm,
which was enough for sponsors of
Clark’s show to demand the segment
be pulled, which Clark refused to do.
Similarly, Nancy Sinatra had kissed
Sammy Davis Jr. on her show the year
before, provoking racist outcry.
Culturally, the hands that reached
across racial divides could not be fully
withdrawn. Beyond minor advances
on the small screen, musicians were
pushing boundaries even further with
groups like Sly and the Family Stone,
a San Francisco psychedelic soul
band that boasted a Black frontman
(Sly Stone) and an integrated lineup,
as well as men and women playing
together. Their hits included the iconic
“Everyday People,” an anthem of
tolerance and acceptance at the close
of the decade.
At the start of the 1970s, however,
the idyllic unity espoused by the hippie
movement was fracturing. By 1968,
much of the hope of the earlier part
of the decade had faded, quashed by
the assassinations of Martin Luther
King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. The
assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, as
well as the seemingly never-ending war
in Vietnam prompting increased unrest
among the nation’s youth continued to
tarnish the optimism of the 1950s and
early 1960s. The nation saw violence
and death on increasingly large scales,
beamed directly in their homes with
the growing ubiquity of television.
Music that had once served as
a unifying force began to celebrate
differences and call for Black
empowerment. Stars like James
Brown, who had wide appeal in White
audiences, became more overtly
political with songs like the gospel-
referencing “Say it Loud (I’m Black and
I’m Proud).”
Motown star Marvin Gaye’s career
had been shaped to be something
akin to the Black Frank Sinatra – a
non-threatening crooner with love-
song hits. However, in 1970, Gaye
released his seminal album “What’s
Going On,” a concept album exploring
the inequality, injustice and the
wrongs of 1960s America, focusing
on the Vietnam War, poverty and the
environment. “What’s Going On” was
not simply focused on the struggles of
Black Americans; Gaye leveraged his
broad appeal and the increasing stature
of Black Americans in popular culture
to offer the same level of critique and
protest white artists had been involved
in for decades. His album has since
been regarded as one of the greatest
of all time by the NME, Rolling Stone,
and the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame.
While many popular forms of music
continued to play host to both Black
and White musicians, the growth of
the Black Power movement and The
Black Panther Party, founded in 1966
to challenge racist police brutality,
encouraged movement towards Black
pride and empowerment separate from
White audiences and the mainstream.
Embracing poetry and uniquely
Black forms of music rather than
tailoring messages to the popular styles
of the day, political musicians of the
1970s advocated for Pan-Africanism
or explicitly condemned the casual and
overt racism they saw leveled against
their communities. They could be more
extreme than the stars of decades past, which helped many of these artists
icons with lasting legacies, disproving
the attitude of the 60s that said stars
had to have broad, safe appeal.
One of the most enduring icons
of the 1970s Black counterculture
movement was Bob Marley, who, along
with the Wailers, helped introduce
reggae to the global community.
Marley’s Rastafarian politics drove
his music. With its spiritual roots
in both Protestant Christianity and
Pan-Africanism, Rastas believed that
“downpression” (political oppression,
slavery, economic inequality) is a
test from “Jah” (God) after which
they will be delivered from evil. Hits
like “Exodus,” “Get Up, Stand Up”
and “Redemption Song” became
iconic as much for their messages
of empowerment as their musical
brilliance.
Political poetry also grew in
popularity. The Last Poets began in
the late ’60s and reached unexpected
chart success with their self-titled
debut album in 1970, espousing Black
Nationalist ideals in the emerging
genre. Gil Scott-Heron’s “The
Revolution Will Not Be Televised” was
also hugely influential in the genre,
with its pop-culture-referencing call to
action denouncing the complacency of
American culture with more directness
than ever.
With the growing focus on Black
artists and communities, the culture
in the ’70s was primed for what
some have described as the last great
American art form: rap.
Drawing a unique vocal approach
from West African tradition, Cockney
rhyming slang, Caribbean deejay
improvisation, and the American
political poetry movement, rap
developed as an accessible and catchy
way to make underground music
to samples and simple beats. With the earliest mainstream rap singles
(“Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill
Gang, “The Breaks” by Kurtis Blow)
coming at the end of the 1970s out
of New York City, the genre quickly
turned political. Grandmaster Flash
and the Furious Five released “The
Message” in 1982 as a tale of inner-city
poverty to glowing critical reception.
Progressive rap grew throughout
the 1980s, with Public Enemy forming
in 1985 and releasing the iconic
“Fight the Power” via Motown in
1989 as a theme song for Spike Lee’s
classic movie “Do The Right Thing.”
The genre, which grew to include the
Hardcore rap genre of the Wu-Tang
Clan and Mobb Deep, made political
messaging fundamental to New York/
East Coast-style rap and hip-hop.
As rap continued to develop in
New York, it began to appear in Los
Angeles, Detroit and the South as
well, who developed their own genres
out of their own experiences. Los
Angeles’s gangster rap (originally
known as reality rap) was a direct
counterpoint to New York’s political
approaches with N.W.A, Ice Cube and
Tupac Shakur’s rise in the 1990s. The
South saw icons like OutKast in the
90s and early 2000s bring their unique
sensibilities to the political statements
that created the Southern hip-hop
genre. The wide umbrella of rap has
been both venerated and vilified for
the artistic choices many groups made
with their politics.
Music as a force for Black
empowerment in the 20th century went
from Black artists performing in White-
controlled genres to have their message
heard, to propelling one of the most
important modern art forms of our time.
The legacy of these artists– the pride in
their art and themselves – endures in
the 21st century and hopefully will for
generations to come.Editor traces American Black protest
music's evolution with social rights
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Oregon Symphony performed Tchaikovsky’s fifth, Sibelius, modern work to honor Finno-Ugric culture
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ON JAN. 30, the Russian
club offered another unique
experience to share with the
Lewis & Clark community. The club
took students to Tchaikovsky’s fifth
symphony at the Oregon Symphony.
The performance took place at the
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, one
of the most famous concert halls in
Portland, recognizable by its majestic
lighted Portland sign. The show
lasted for one hour and 40 minutes.
The evening featured in the first part
the “Nordic Splendors” from Finland
and Estonia. In the second part, the
orchestra put forward Tchaikovsky,
the eternal musical heart of Russia.
In an homage to Finno-Ugric
culture, the show began with Jean
Sibelius’ “Finlandia” Op. 26. Written
in 1899 and originally called “Finland
awakes,” this masterpiece was written
in support of Finland’s prolonged
struggle for independence from Russian
occupation. This hymn-like melody is
an impassioned cry of freedom that is
still relevant today: On July 5, Finland
and Sweden applied to join the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
in order to defend their sovereignty
from potential Russian attack.
This hymn was followed by the world
premiere performance of Erkki-Sven
Tuur’s Violin Concerto No.3 “Konelused
Tundmatuga” (Conversations With the Unknown), composed between 2019
and 2020. LC students had the chance
to see Tuur introduce his work on stage
and to greet him at intermission.
Internationally renowned violinist
Vadim Gluzman played the piece’s
virtuosic solo, transporting the listener
into a world where layers of sound
stimulated all the senses.
The interest of this performance
relied on not only the modernity, but
also the nationality of the piece. Tuur
was leader of the Estonian rock group
“Spe” during perestroika, a massive
political reform launched by Mikhail
Gorbachev in the late ’80s in order to
transform the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR). To this day, his
work is still intimately linked to the
long history between Russia and the
Baltic countries.
After an intermission, the second
part of the night and the highlight
of the show finally happened: the
orchestra majestically played Pyotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5
in E minor, Op. 64. Composed in
1888, this monument is a tormented
melody written during a period of
self-doubt. What impresses most
are waves of melodic walls of sound
that follow each other, repeat
themselves and come sliding on the
audience. This magic is carried by the
movements of the amazing maestro,
David Danzmayr, literally possessed
by his music. His almost hypnotic baton allowed a total and sensational
immersion.
The applause was triumphant.
When leaving the concert hall,
everyone had commentary. Most
preferred the classical sound of the
19th century compositions to Tuur’s
modern concerto, so the reception of
the modern performance was more
subdued.
One thing is certain, all the students
found Tchaikovsky’s symphony breathtaking. The Russian composer
embodies the musical hearth of Russia and
masterfully evokes different emotions.
For Aleksander Veselkov, Russian
language assistant, Tchaikovsky is a part
of his childhood.
“I’m proud that I was born in the same
region. I lived in St. Petersburg, and he
also lived in St. Petersburg, and I visited
his grave,” he said.
This experience gave him a feeling
political nostalgia. “It brings me back to the time
of Tzar Russia, how everything was
beautiful about royalty,” Veselkov
said.
“Every time I go to the symphony
and I listen to something like that,
especially in such a beautiful setting,
it brings me back in time to the Tzar
Russia, to like the good old time
before the revolution and all this
bullshit that happened after. And I
think of how everything was beautiful
about royalty and all this stuff, it
makes me feel so good,” he continued.
For others, the symphony was a
way of discovering or rediscovering
Tchaikovsky. By taking more than 40
people to the show, the Russian club
succeeded in the double challenge
of promoting Russian culture and
democratizing concert music for LC
students.
Communication, hard-working
staff and especially the $10 price of
tickets are the ingredients for this
success.
“(Students) will go three to four
times with $10 and they will love it,
then they will come on their own, …
This is definitely a democratization of
culture” Veselkov said.
The club will continue its pursuit
of these objectives through the sale of
discounted tickets to two more shows:
“Peter and the Wolf” by Prokofiefv
on April 16 and Strasvinsky’s “The
Firebird,” also in April.J FRANK/THE MOSSY LOG
Composer Erkki-Sven Tuur speaks about the meaning behind his third violin concerto.
By J FRANK
AS THE FIRST event in Lewis &
Clark’s Spring 2023 Reading
Series, author Kaui Hart
Hemmings spoke to a packed Frank
Manor House on the evening of Jan. 24.
Hemmings, who was born and raised
in Hawaii, has published a handful of
popular novels. Much of her work is
rooted in this connection to Hawaii’s
people and culture, including her novel
“The Descendants,” a narrative of family
grief and bonding, which was recently
adapted into a movie.
At the Frank Manor House,
Hemmings read an excerpt from
the beginning of her book “The
Possibilities.” The book, similarly to
“The Descendants,” is an exploration
of family and grief, in which a mother
deals with the aftermath of her son’s
death in an avalanche.
Professor of Creative Writing Audrey
Gutierrez introduced Hemmings,
mentioning her accolades and recent
movie deal. Students from Gutierrez’s
Introduction to Fiction class were
required to attend for credit, after
having read and discussed a short story
by Hemmings.
“There's a subtlety to her writing,
but also a richness in her descriptions
and scenes, a clear awareness of the
human condition,”
Gutierrez said.
In the excerpt
Hemmings read,
the protagonist
runs into another
woman who also
lost her son to an
avalanche and
who tries to coerce her into joining the
support group MAAD (Mothers Against
Avalanche Death). Hemmings’ narrator
has a self-consciously wry, pragmatic
attitude, making the writing a breath
of fresh air despite its tragic subject
matter – some lines had the room
laughing out loud.
After the reading, Hemmings
welcomed questions from the audience,
which varied from inquiries about
the publishing process to her writing
routine and inspiration.
Students were curious about many
aspects of Hemmings’ creative process.
For those wondering how she finds
inspiration or motivation, Hemmings
said bluntly, “I don’t get inspired,” explaining that the process is something
she does habitually, regardless of
creative impetus.
“I treat it more as a job ... I don’t
wait for the clouds to part, or a muse, or
anything,” Hemmings said. “It’s mainly
just, this is what I do now ... I have to
clock in now and do my work.”
Later, however, she admitted that
despite this pragmatic attitude toward
her craft, certain
things do compel
her to write,
especially setting.
“When I’m
living in a place,
and I love a place,
I want to tell a
story about that
place,” Hemmings said. “How can I
interweave a story? (And) characters
who clearly come from this place, and
their story would be completely different
if they came from anywhere else … I
think, actually, every place I've lived, I've
written some work about.”
Hemmings feels that she has to leave
a place to fictionalize it. “I feel like the
distance from a place ... gives you that
permission to recreate it. Since you are
dealing with fiction ... you’re writing
based on your memory and impressions,
which can sometimes be a stronger way
to reveal a place.”
One student asked how Hemmings
constructs dialogue. She said it is
difficult.“It has to be dynamic and lively and
convey information, and also just show
your character,” she explained.
Nevertheless, she enjoys giving a
voice to characters. Her source is real
life; she listens to the real conversations
people have when they think no one
is listening and tries to emulate their
speech patterns in her writing.
Hemmings said that she thinks of
writing as playing a role, which she
allows herself to use her imagination
and creative license to embody.
“A lot of it has to be settling into that
person and realizing that there's no right
way to express that because everyone's
gonna do it differently,” Hemmings said.
However, she also revealed that her
least favorite part of her creative process
is writing the first draft.
“I love to rewrite,” Hemmings said.
“And so that's my motivation to write,
because, okay, if I get all this done, I get
to go back and rewrite ... Because, yeah,
it's a chore, but it's also where you can
sort of settle in and mold the things that
you have in front of you.”
Two novels that Hemmings loves
and said she keeps coming back to
are “Crossing to Safety” by Wallace
Stegner and “The Secret History”
by Donna Tartt. On the topic of
writing, her recommendations are
“The Elements of Style” by William
Strunk Jr and E.B. White, “The Craft
of Fiction” by Percy Lubbock and “On
Writing” by Stephen King.By PAIGE A. ANDERSON
FOR THE READER who longs to
once again indulge in the fantasies
they adored in years past, “The Well
Where The World Ends” is a whimsical
novel written by Cleo Lockhart ‘25.
The story follows Riley, the
12-year-old protagonist, as she
adventures through a magical forest
to a wishing well. With a series
of mysterious events and quirky
companions along the way, Riley finds
that she plays an important role in the
mystery of the wishing well.
Lockhart began “The Well Where The
World Ends” as a self-indulgent creative
project, something which recalled the
spark of fantasy that got them into
reading as a kid.
“I’ve written things in other genres
that are more sophisticated, but I sort of
wanted to write about magic and make
something whimsical,” Lockhart said.
When the pandemic hit, Lockhart took
a gap year and committed to finishing a
first draft before the 2021 school year
began.
“I had the very beginning, the skeleton
of the story in my brain,” Lockhart said.
“My promise to myself was that I would
have a rough draft before I started
college.”
The morning before Lockhart began
New Student Orientation, they completed
the epilogue and thus the first draft was
born.
Lockhart drew inspiration from
diverse places throughout their writing
process.
“It honestly started from a
combination of a dream I had and because
I went to the Denver botanical gardens,”
Lockhart said. “They have this winter light
display where there were these cool lights
set out on a reflection pool and strung up
throughout. My brain was like ‘hey, what
if there was a garden that grew lights?’”
In a dream, Lockhart had a wasp as
a familiar and despite their fear of the
insect, liked the idea.
“I got really attached to my little
dream wasp and thought it would be a
cool plot point,” Lockhart said.
With a first draft completed,
Lockhart spent time whenever they
could re-reading and editing the draft.
“I have a couple of friends that are also
into writing and they wanted to help edit
my book and I thought that was so cool,”
Lockhart said. “It was a labor of love and
the sweetest thing in the world.” Being around creative people, they
added, was also inspiring because of the
different interpretations everyone had.
Lockhart said the publishing process
was tedious at times. They submitted the
work to a small bookshop in Colorado, as
well as a handful of other publishers, but
ultimately decided to self-publish.
“We had to keep editing the proofs,
and things would turn out in the wrong
shape, but over the summer I finally got
the version I liked in July,” Lockhart said.
With some help from their stepfather,
Lockhart published and printed the first
editions of the novel. They also keep a
stack of books ready to be sold to students
on campus.
“I published it through lulu.com, and
it's available on Amazon and Barnes and
Noble,” Lockhart said. “But I also have
been selling them at the student markets.”
Lockhart read a snippet of the novel at
the Co-Op’s Wednesday night open mic
and plans on hosting a reading at Aubrey
R. Watzek Library later in the semester.
“I have been talking to Erica Johnson
at the library and she actually ordered a
copy for the library, too,” Lockhart said.
“We talked about hosting a reading in the
library sometime in March, the date is still
to be determined.”
To purchase a copy or keep up to date
on the book’s events, DM Lockhart on
Instagram @clock.hart.
Novelist Kaui Hart Hemmings
reads at Frank Manor HouseSophomore promotes
self-published novel
COURTESY OF CLEO LOCKHART
Cleo Lockhart wrote and sells their novel.
FIONN ENSOR-MCDERMOTT/THE MOSSY LOG
Kaui Hart Hemmings answers questions from the audience about se tting, inspiration.
“I don’t wait for the clouds
to part, or a muse.”
- Kaui Hart HemmingsFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
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By ASIYA KAMAWAL
ON JAN. 21, BILL S c h o n e l y ,
a long-time Portland Trail
Blazers announcer, died at the
age of 93.
He passed away early last Saturday
morning at home with his wife. The
cause of his death has not yet been
disclosed. Schonely worked as a
broadcaster for the Portland Trail
Blazers from 1970 to 1998. In his
nearly 30-year career he would coin
the iconic term “Rip City,” which
would go on to exist as Portland’s
basketball nickname to this very
day. Due to his efforts he earned the
nickname “Mayor of Rip City.” He was
a favorite of the team.
Former Blazer Terry Porter
commented on the loss in a statement
issued by the team.
“He was the ultimate Trail Blazer —
the voice of the Trail Blazers,” Porter
said.
After retiring from broadcasting,
Schonely worked as a Blazer’s
ambassador and attended many home
games up until his official retirement
last April. Schonely gave a touching
statement to the crowd during a
halftime celebration at a game against
the Utah Jazz, while remembering the
teammates he played and watched
with. He reflected back on his own
catchphrase, Rip City.
“And look what happened,”
Schonely said. “It took a little while
for that phrase to catch on. I had
no idea that all of this was going to happen, but it did wherever you go.
It’s humbling to me.”
Schonely coined this phrase during
an inaugural season game versus
the Los Angeles Lakers, on February
18, 1971. After Blazers forward
Jim Barnett made a long midrange
jumper, he reacted naturally.
“Rip City, all right!” Schonely
yelled.
The name persisted for decades
after and now serves as part of his
legacy. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, of
Oregon, reacted to the death online.
“My friend Bill Schonely provided
the soundtrack for generations of
Trailblazers fans and forever made
our beloved Portland into #RipCity,”
Wyden said via Twitter.
He also emphasized the
announcer’s place in state history, “A
true Oregon legend.” Wyden called
Schonely.
Schonely broadcasted more than
2,200 Trail Blazers games. In 2012,
he received the Curt Gowdy Media
Award from the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame. He had a
lengthy broadcast career in the area
before being the sixth employee in
the Trail Blazer’s history. In fact, he
worked as the team’s television play-
by-play announcer for two seasons
in the 1990s and would continue
to broadcast for the following 28
seasons. Schonely only missed 28
games, most of which occurred when
recovering from a heart attack.
Interestingly, Schonely had a stutter
as a child in Norristown, Pennsylvania, but he overcame it by singing and
reading aloud from the newspaper. He
initially gained national attention in
sports broadcasting in 1957, when he
was hired as the Seattle Totems’ radio
announcer. He served with the Totems for 11 years and developed a catchphrase
there as well.
“He scoooooooores!” Schonely said
frequently.
Portland has become a basketball
hub for people from all walks of life. What Bill Schonely contributed to the
culture was paramount to creating an
exciting and welcoming atmosphere.
He is a part of what made Portland
basketball what it is, and for that, he will
never be forgotten. Portland Trail Blazers Bill Schonley dies at 93
Schonley built a highly successful career broadcasting Trailblazers games, earning the nickname “Mayor of Rip City.”COURTESY OF BRUCE ELY/TRAILBLAZERS
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Scooter FlanaganFriends, colleagues, fans remember life, passions of legendary basketball announcer & Portland hero
Men’s Basketball guard succeeds despite late career start
Roderick O’Neal ’24 talks junior varsity, sacrifices of student athletes in the aftermath of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic prevented O’Neal from playing during his freshman year.COURTESY OF KYLIE HILL/LC ATHLETICSBy VENUS EDLIN
EVEN THOUGH Roderick O’Neal
’24 played basketball growing up, he
was only on the junior varsity team
for one year in high school. It was difficult
for O’Neal to become a part of the Lewis
& Clark team, as athletes with J.V. and
prep school backgrounds aren’t typically
scouted.
“I didn’t have the typical basketball
journey of playing in college,” O’Neil said.
“I only played one year of high school
basketball, and that kind of stuck out …
because of how far I’ve gotten. You don’t
see people play college basketball with
only one year of high school basketball
under their belt, and I didn’t even play
varsity, I played junior varsity. And I didn’t
even play often, I was always the last man
off the bench.”
After graduating high school, he
attended a prep school to transition to college life. Shortly after, the pandemic
began as he was looking for colleges to
attend before ultimately picking LC after
an LC coach expressed interest in him.
According to O’Neal, scouting is
less likely to happen on club teams, like
the team he was on during his year at
prep school. This, paired with earlier
anxieties, made him worried about the
prospect of collegiate basketball.
“I was super short in high school,
and I would say that was a struggle
just because I was kind of overlooked,
I was the small kid,” O’Neal said. “This
caused a lot of doubt, like am I ever
going to grow? I ended up growing my
senior year of high school. Senior year
of high school is kind of late, being
like a late bloomer, and that was a
tremendous worry like whether I was
going to be able to play in college.”
In the 21-22 season, O’Neal played
in nine games, finishing the season with 10 points, four total rebounds, two
assists, three steals and one block. He
made first career appearance on Nov.
12, 2021 against West Coast Baptist
because his freshman year’s season
was canceled due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
However, COVID was not the only
obstacle of his college career. The journey
has been filled with multiple highs and
lows, including an ankle injury.
“Honestly one of the highest
experiences I had was this year, after my
ankle surgery,” O’Neal said. “I was able
to get back in shape and felt like the best
my body has felt in my whole life. I think
it’s just the whole aspect of you know,
college sports there is going to be a lot of
ups and downs.”
O’Neal thanked his mom and
grandparents for the sacrifices they have
made in order for him to get where he has
gotten in life.“I feel like my story is significant,
because of how much time and dedication
it took for me to take different paths, and all
the sacrifices I’ve made with my family, my
mom, all the sacrifices they had to make to
get me here, and it paid off,” O’Neal said. O’Neal and his teammates on the
Men’s Basketball team will face off against
Pacific Lutheran at the basketball court in
Pamplin this evening.
Additional reporting by Alex Stross.
Recently recovered from an ankle injury, O’Neal said he feels better than ever. COURTESY OF FAITH VARGA/SS VISUAL WORKSFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
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New sports photographer captures
snapshots of LC’s athletes in action
Sebastian DePrez, Natalie Elstone, Sara Nguyen & Aniqah Gaffor (From left t0 right, top to bottom) pictured in some of Whitney Maxfields first photos at LC.Scores
Baseball
LC v Occidental: W 10-7 8
innings
LC v Occidental: W 11-7
LC v Occidental: W 6-1 6
innings
LC v Whittier: W 22-7
Overall: 4-0
Basketball
Men’s
LC v Linfield: W 70-67
LC v PLU: W 69-68
LC v UPS: L 86-100
LC v GFU: W 76-72
LC v Pacific: W 88-80
LC v Willamette: W 94-83
LC v Whitman: L 79-84
LC v Whitworth: L 60-75
LC v Whitworth: L 60-75
Overall: 12-9
Women’s
LC v Linfield: L 57-65
LC v PLU: L 52-77
LC v UPS: L 56-101
LC v GFU: L 46-60
LC v Pacific: L 43-68
LC v Willamette: L 43-63
LC v Whitman: L 38-65
LC v Whitworth: L 54-78
Overall: 2-19
Swimming and Diving
Men’s
LC v Whitworth: L 54-143
LC v Whitman: L 65-132
LC v Willamette: W 106-78
LC v UPS: W 104-69
LC v GFU: L 97-102
Overall: 4-4
Women’s
LC v Whitworth: L 81-104
LC v Whitman: L 37-165
LC v Willamette: L 85-115
LC v UPS: L 55-122
LC v GFU: W 113-87
Overall: 2-6
Tennis
Men’s
LC v Lewis-Clark State Col -
lege: L 0-9
LC v William Jessup: L 4-5
Overall: 0-3
Women’s
LC v UofO Club Team: W 6-3
Overall: 1-0
Athletes of the Week
Feb. 1 - Feb. 7
Max Aldrich ‘25 - Men’s
Track and Field
Elise Barton ‘26 - Women’s
Swimming
Jan. 25 - Jan. 31
Brenden Patrick ‘23 - Men’s
Basketball
Eric Norman ‘23 - Men’s
Swimming
Jan. 18 - Jan. 24
Zach Martin ‘26 - Men’s
Swimming
Nikko Echalas ‘24 - Men’s
Basketball
Jan. 11 - Jan. 17
Tyler McFarland (Law) -
Men’s Basketball
Tatiana Rebanal ‘26 -
Women’s Basketball
By VENUS EDLIN
WHITNEY Maxfield ’25
started her photography
journey at 14 when her
mom gifted her a Nikon D5600. At
Lewis & Clark, she was a swimmer
her freshman year, but had to quit
the team. New opportunities as
a photographer opened up in the
aftermath, leading to her becoming an
LC athletics photographer.
“I was like, I have all this time
and what am I supposed to do?”
Maxfield said. “I was like, I have a
camera; I wonder if they need sports
photographers.”
Maxfield was put in touch with
Director of Athletics Communications
Seth Orenseky by her coach and was
hired shortly after. According to
Maxfield, her first photos were poor
quality because she was out of practice
and needed updated equipment.
“Did volleyball, did one game of
basketball and one swim meet and was like, I need a new lens. This
sucks,” Maxfield said. “I spent all
the money I’d made on a new lens.
That’s why the photos are good
now, because I spent all of my first
paycheck on a new lens. But it was
worth it.”
One of Maxfield’s friends, who is
a sports photographer at a Division
I school, recommended she buy a
85 millimeter lens with a 1.4 or 1.8
aperture, which is what she now
uses. Maxfield sought out a deal and
found the lens second-hand, but new
for $360.
Even though Maxfield is an
athletics photographer, she no
longer feels part of the sports
community at LC.
“I was on a sports team freshman
year and after quitting, like the
amount of distance that was very
quickly put between me and sports
was huge,” Maxfield said. “It was
nice that photography kind of filled
that gap a little bit.”While she took a photography
class in high school, she has not taken
any of LC’s photo classes. Originally,
Maxfield said she reached out to a
photography faculty member to skip
the required intro class which focuses
on film photography since she had
previously worked at a photo lab.
Since the faculty member declined
her request, Maxfield has taken her
photography interests outside of
courses as she would like to focus on
digital photos.
Maxfield has her opinions about
film photography – in fact, she said
she hates it.
“I have literally thousands of
dollars of gear that I’ve accumulated
over the years, like photo equipment,”
Maxfield said. “Why would I pay more
money to have film stuff? I already
have all the digital stuff.”
In her free time, Maxfield does
wildlife photography – focusing on
birds – which combines her passion
for photography with her interests as a biology major. Maxfield describes
sports and wildlife photography to be
very different from each other.
“I get there are some overlaps
with lenses I use,” Maxfield said.
“But you need a lot more patience for
wildlife photography, whereas sports
photography is really fast paced and
loud and not peaceful.”
Maxfield hopes to pursue these
passions in the future.
“I think in the long run, I
mean my biggest dream would
be combining the biology and – I
want to do conservation work with
photography,” Maxfield said. “…
Dreaming big there, but I think I
want to do photography forever.”
To see more of Maxfield’s sports
photos go to @wm_sportsphoto on
Instagram, for wildlife photography
see @whitm_photography.
“Sports photography is my job,
that’s what I make money doing. It’s
fun and I like the artistic expression,
but is it still a job.”
By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
ON JAN. 6 Head Strength and
Conditioning Coach Angela
Dendas-Pleasant was promoted to
assistant athletic director, while retaining
her other duties. Dendas-Pleasant is
thrilled with the opportunity to impact
students lives in her new role
“I’m excited to enhance our student
athlete experience,” Dendas-Pleasant
said. “We have a lot of projects in the work
that’s related to facility upgrades that I
think are just going to benefit our student
athletes that are currently here and then
the ones that are coming.”
Dendas-Pleasant started filling a
more administrative role during the
pandemic, and kept it up afterward. Mark
Pietrok, director of physical education
and athletics, was a proponent of her
promotion.
“I’d asked her to do different things
and you know she did him really well,
as usual,” Pietrok said. “It finally got to a
point where I wanted it to be recognized. It’s now part of her job, this administrative
piece.”
Dendas-Pleasant turns the athletic
administrative staff into a trio, between
herself, Pietrok and Associate Director of
Physical Education and Athletics, Senior
Woman Administrator Sharon Sexton.
Having three lead administrators is
atypical for college athletics; most staffs
are larger. Additionally, Dendas-Pleasant
is the most recent to join the college’s staff.
“Our longevity allows us to kind of
understand where some of the issues are
and see them coming and be able to plan
it out a little bit,” Pietrok said. “(We are)
able to accomplish those things in a way
that somebody who has not been here
very long would probably struggle with.”
Lewis and Clark is an exception in
having a majority of women in senior
administrative roles. Dendas-Pleasant
reflected on her position in a male-
dominated field.
“Now, there’s great female coaches
that have really kind of paved the way
and been great examples of holding head coaching roles or director roles, roles
with more responsibility and greater
leadership,” Dendas-Pleasant said.
“Seeing this as an opportunity to kind
of move to that direction, I think was
kind of the main thing that really kind of
intrigued me.”
Between prioritizing hiring from
within and having a smaller administrative
staff, LC athletics have a family-owned
sort of dynamic. This environment is
seen in the response to Dendas-Pleasant’s
promotion.
“A lot of support from former alumni
that were, I coached some of them my
first few years here,” Dendas-Pleasant
said. “You start to build kind of those
relationships and then to have them reach
out and show some love and support, was
great and a little bit overwhelming.”
It is because of relationships like those
that Dendas-Pleasant wanted to continue
leading the strength and conditioning
program and keep working with athletes.
“I think that’s kind of always been my
why of getting into this field is being able to have an impact on these young adult
lives through athletics,” Dendas-Pleasant
said. “I think athletics is a great vehicle to
really do that.”
Pietrok recognized Dendas-Pleasant’s
skill with amplifying student voices, and is
particularly excited to have her bring that
perspective to the leadership team.
“She has a real good sense of what
students are thinking and whatnot, so I’m
able to get some feedback in that area,”
Pietrok said. “That really helps me see
some things through that lens as we have
to make various different decisions.”Coach Ange ascends the ladder, lands new
title as LC’s assistant athletic director COURTESY OF WHITNEY MAXFIELD
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Hey Valentine, Stick It In My Backdoor!
BY MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
THE KAMA SUTRA is a legendary
text, famous for its graphic
descriptions of adventurous
and contortionist sex positions. The
text actually goes much farther, telling
a holistic tale of a healthy sex life,
including courtship, marital duties,
forgiveness and proper conduct.
How can we make use of this third
century Hindu text as twenty-first
century college students? Perhaps
in the pursuit of a well-rounded
liberal arts education, we should look
beyond the constraints of our place
and time and turn to the classics for
inspiration.
Here, I humbly present a
modernized repackaging of ancient
wisdom: The Dorm Room Kama Sutra,
100% guaranteed to get you laid this
Valentine’s Day.
Reel ’em in
Perhaps an underappreciated part
of a love story is making sure you pick
the right partner to pursue. Make sure
you have something in common other
than sitting next to each other in your
most boring class.
Ask them on a Dovecote date.
Be sure to go right at 11:10 a.m. on a
Tuesday so that you can awkwardly
wait in line for 45 minutes just to get
to the counter and find out they ran
out of oatmilk. You could take the
opportunity to invite them to your
dorm room – YOU never run out of
oatmilk.
Make it official
The all important exclusivity
question. In any healthy relationship,
it is important that both parties are on
the same page with their desires and
boundaries.
You, of course, would rather go with
the flow than telling your situationship
you would rather they not sleep with
every other person in your Econ study
group.
Still, communication is key. If all
else fails, give them an ultimatum.
Something classic and reasonable, like
holding their supply curves hostage or
threatening suicide.Get in the mood
You stalked them on Instagram,
learned the difference between
sociology and social psychology and
kicked out your roommate, all for this.
But the moment has to be just right.
Talk to each other. Whisper, perhaps
sweet nothings or “Did I lock the door?”
once every few minutes.
Consider bringing academics into
the bedroom. Personally, nothing
gets me going quite like detailed and
constructive feedback on a first draft of a
research paper. Add in a heartfelt “good
job” if you are feeling extra naughty.
Gone are the days of the Spotify sex
playlist. With analog music coming back
into fashion, have a designated sex vinyl
record that you have to get up every 20
minutes to change out – edging with a
vintage flair.
In lieu of candles, which are
prohibited from dorms, turn on those
colored LEDs. Flood the room in red
lighting that walks the line of sensuality
and nuclear bomb shelter. Everyone
who can see into your window will know
that you do, indeed, have sex.
The big finish
Ok, ok. The moment you’ve all been
waiting for: the sex positions, optimized
for a twin XL bed. Rather than detailed
descriptions of sex acts (my mom reads
these, you perverts), here are some tried-and-true dorm room sex positions,
reviewed by students like you.
The Overflow Triple
“My partner and I did not really
want the third there, but the RA said we
had to so we made it work. Surprisingly,
everything ended up fitting, but just
barely.”
The Remodeled Templeton
“It took forever to finish, and I can
never decide which entrance has the
easiest access.”
The House Show
“It is super loud and sweaty, and you
really have to go to the bathroom the whole
time. Also – very rough on the knees.”
The 8 a.m.
“I got up for this?”
The Pio
“It is a lot slower and bumpier than
you would like, but it gets the job done and
looks great doing it. Everyone loves riding
the Pio.”
The Bon
“Boning makes me feel awful inside,
but I do not really have any other options.
You get used to that feeling in your
stomach, but not the other people standing
around.”
There you have it. Use the wisdom
well and make your debaucherous
predecessors proud. Happy Valentine’s
Day, from all of us at The Mossy Log,
you freaks.Love questions answered -- ask out your crush?
Gift advice for every
type of "relationship"
College Kama Sutra evaluates LC
sex positions for your twin XL loversThis Valentine's, The Backdoor helps decide whether to confess to love campus cuties, Bon baddies
BY VENUS EDLIN
VALENTINE’S DAY can be a very
troubling time, whether you
are single, taken, or have done
the unfortunate math for your mid-
November birthday. As dating, hookups
and flirtationships start to pile up,
collegiate love life makes things even
messier. Here is a guide on what to do
for all your Valentines, from your dear
editor gone wild.
Couple-dates-in cutie
Sure, you have gone on a couple
dates, maybe out for one nice dinner
and shared a couple of smooches. It is
still pretty casual, so your V-Day plans
should be too. Flowers, a card and some
ass eating seem appropriate – just make
sure your dinner is high fiber.
Friend who gifted you a vibrator once
It was your friends’ holiday gift
exchange in 2019. The friend you grew
quickly attached to within the first week
of college was the one who pulled your
name. Did you have a crush on them?
Inconclusive. Might you still have a
crush on them? Unknown. However,
they have indirectly given you many
orgasms, and for that they deserve a
great gift. Options include a massage
gift card, finally making a first move and
a box of those “forever” roses that will
outlive your vibrator battery. After all,
you will probably be a little in love with
them forever, no matter what you admit
to yourself.
Long term partner
At this point, if you are looking
for advice from me, you may need to
reassess. You are bad at relationships.
Break up with your partner: It is the best
gift you could give them.
Cishet man who claims you
Imagine this common scenario in the
cisgender heterosexual dating world. A
pair connect gazes twice, the man buys
the girl a drink and they have the world’s
most boring conversation while checking
each other out; at this point they are
basically in a relationship. Please
note: There is no actual commitment
required, just obligatory heterosexual
coupling when boy meets girl. Of course,
this disproportionately applies to the
women, as they have been “claimed”
and must not tarnish the monogamous
ritual by speaking to another man. If this seems relatable: run. That man does
not deserve a gift from you. Instead,
get yourself a CBD gummy, a “dump
him” t-shirt and one therapy session,
minimum.
Kinky T4T FWB
I know I am the one with authority
here, seeing as this is a published piece
of work. However, I need some help with
this one. Does The Cure’s “Greatest Hits”
on vinyl seem appropriate? Asking for a
friend. Also, if you were wondering – I
will not explain what T4T means. You
either understand the bliss of BDSM
with a fellow sexy trans person who
you also share genuine interests and
friendship with, or you do not.
Former Gay Lover
In this case, “former” refers both to
the gayness and lover status. In the queer
dating world, it is unnervingly common to
suck the gay out of one of your partners.
They go into the relationship queer, come
out of it suddenly realizing their mom was
right the whole time and they are straight.
We have all had it happen. In this
situation, the best course of action is to
send condoms and flowers with a vague,
gay message. After all, their lost gayness
only made you stronger, and they deserve
recognition for their sacrifice.
Me
You have been secretly in love with
me and/or ridiculously attracted to
me during your whole tenure at Lewis
& Clark. This is my last semester, it
is your time. Be not afraid; I am in a
polyamorous relationship, but I will
still bite. If you decide to attempt
to woo me, I am very easy (and also
straightforward to get gifts for): Taco
Bell, real human teeth and a gin
cocktail will do it. Another fail-proof
method is Venmo (@venusedlin).
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