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Volume 100, No. 2

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2023-02-24

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Vol. 100 No. 1 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023 www.piolog.com
OPINION
“Ginny & Georgia”
The second season of the popular
Netflix show treats sensitive issues with
the care and realism they deserve.
PAGE 4FEATURES
Rose Garden restoration club
Student club looks to take on restoring
the campus rose garden back to its
former glory.
PAGE 7 ARTS
“Scrum” & “Betwixt and..”
Hoffman Gallery exhibition highlights
faculty art and multi-media sculptures,
photographs and abstract art.
PAGE 8 SPORTS
Pioneer’s 1000-point career
Blink and you’ll miss it – basketball
senior scores 1000+ points in record
time.
PAGE 11Late in the season, a February snow
storm casts upon campus. A high of 37
degrees and a low of 17 degrees. Sunset
at 5:51 pm. Classes canceled yesterday
due to inclement of weather.
By SUMMER DAE BINDER
On Feb. 6, a magnitude 7.8
earthquake struck southern
Turkey & northern Syria. The
earthquake took the lives of roughly
49,000 people and resulted in
125,500 injuries. This has been the
worst earthquake in Turkey since the
526 Antioch earthquake. This natural
disaster has affected a few members
of the LC community.
Turkey sits on the border between
the North Anatolian Fault that
spans from west to east, and the
East Anatolian Fault situated in the
country’s southeastern region. The
East Anatolian Fault is seismically
quiet in comparison to the North
Anatolian Fault, which has produced
11 earthquakes in the 20th century.
Thousands of people across the
region were left homeless. Both
Turkey and Syria have ongoing crises,
such as civil war, lack of infrastructure
funding and human rights violations,
that have been exacerbated due to
the earthquake. In Syria, 90% of the
population relies on humanitarian
aid as a result of the ongoing civil
war, according to the Brookings
Institution.
Salsabel Al-Masry ’25 has family
connections who have been impacted
by the earthquakes in Syria.
“When I heard there was an
earthquake in Syria, I felt really bad for the people there and I have
relatives living in Syria,” Al-Masry
said. “I could not contact them until
the third day of the earthquake. I
have cousins in the northwest region
and they are telling us that people are
without food and without homes.”
Oregon-based organizations
have been assisting those impacted
by the crises. The Oregon Turkish
Association is working overseas
to send monetary and material
donations, such as clothes and medical
supplies to Turkey. Mercy Corps,
based in Portland, has coordinated
humanitarian aid in Syria for years.
The group is currently working with
non-governmental organizations
workers in Northwest Syria.
Additionally, Asmaa Zaidan ’24
has ties to the town of Hama in
northwestern Syria.
“Our ruins run deep there because my
family have lived there for decades,”
Zaidan said. “When the earthquake
hit, it was devastating. We would have
the news on. I was wondering if my
friends were okay,”
The international response
differed for both countries. According
to the State Department, U.S. officials
have regularly coordinated with
Turkish officials and UN leadership to
figure out how to best support those
impacted.
In contrast, the U.S. sanctions
against Syria relating to blocking banks and payment processors resulted in
suspension of international charities
and families donating money to those
in need. The Syrian Red Crescent
urged Western countries to lift the
sanctions, claiming that they do more
harm than good in this time of crisis. In response, the U.S. announced that
it would exempt the sanctions for 180
days.
“Politics has played a really
big role in this,” Al-Masry said.
“Countries are seeing that we (Syria)
have conflict and should not receive that much help. There was an
earthquake, people were impacted,
lots died, their houses have been
completely destroyed and nobody
has helped them. We are not talking
about politics. We are talking about
humans, mostly kids.”Syria, Turkey left in disarray after earthquakes
LC President attends
State of the Union
By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
LEWIS & CLARK P r e s i d e n t
Robin Holmes Sullivan was
Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s
(BA ’70, JD ’76) guest at the 118th
Congress State of the Union Address
speech given by President Joseph
Biden on Feb. 7.
Holmes-Sullivan said she was
excited about the experience, calling it
“surreal.” As a self described “political
junkie” and someone who considered
going into politics, she was shocked by
the approachability of the government.
She wrote about it in a reflection letter
to Professor of Political Science Ellen
Seljan that Holmes-Sullivan shared.
“Being in the chamber with the
individuals that are responsible for the running of our country was
thrilling,” Holmes Sullivan said in
her reflection letter. “But you know,
what? They are just people. Any of
us could be in their seat doing the
things that they are doing if we really
want that.”
There were specific moments
from the speech that stood out to
Holmes-Sullivan.
“The most poignant moments
were when the First Lady and Second
Gentlemen were introduced; and
of course when the president made
reference to Tyrie Nichols’ mom
and dad who were there,” Holmes-
Sullivan said in the reflection letter.
“It was very heartbreaking and
inspirational. I was moved by the
fact that the president said they were
there because they wanted something
good to come out of Tyrie’s death.”
During her time in Washington,
Holmes Sullivan spent a lot of
time with Rep. Blumenauer. The
congressman graduated from LC’s
undergraduate program and law
school, and was pleased to take
Holmes-Sullivan to the address.
“Lewis & Clark has a long and proud
tradition of political engagement,”
Blumenauer said via email. “I was
delighted to host President Holmes-
Sullivan at President Biden’s State
of the Union speech, and pleased to
introduce her to Speaker Pelosi.”
“President ” continued on Page 3.
Kahramanmaras earthquake displaced civilians, claimed lives, affected those connected to LC
By VENUS EDLIN
With the housing application
launching on March 1, Campus
Living has various updates
regarding housing policies for the coming
year.
Assistant Dean for Campus Life
Benjamin Meoz, who started at Lewis &
Clark last year, said students felt there
was a lack of transparency in the process
last academic year, as well as unusual
circumstances due to the pandemic,
Stewart and Odell construction and
increased admissions.
“I think we are coming off of the
year wanting to be responsive to student
feedback as much as possible,” Meoz said.
“So we’re leaning heavy into education this
year.”
In addition to Meoz, many of the staff
now working in Campus Living started last
academic year. This was also when Platt-
Howard Residential Experience Manager
(REM) Serena Carubis ’24 started working
as a residential advisor (RA).
“In general, the relationship between
Campus Living and the student body
wasn’t great before last year,” Carubis said.
“Then last year, they had all the growing
pains, basically, and even for an RA it was
a complicated role just because there were
so many growing pains and just a lot of
change.”
Unlike in previous years, for the
2023-24 academic year, there will be
no residency requirement exemptions.
However, if students study abroad during their sophomore year, this will now
count towards up to one semester of the
requirement.
“The last couple of years, we have
offered rising sophomores an opportunity
to try and exit the residency requirements,”
Meoz said. “Each of those years was for a
different reason. That first year was due to
that monster class that was coming in and
needing the additional room; this year, we
have the renovation of Stewart and Odell,
reducing our housing and capacity, but
there’s no intention to offer that path this
year.”
Meoz said the goal for residency
requirements is to provide a smooth
transition for first years and sophomores
and to encourage higher retention rates.
Campus Living and Institutional Research
analyzed enrollment retention data for that
group from the 2021-22 academic year. This
data is correlative, so it does not indicate a
cause, given that lowerclassmen who chose
to take advantage of the exemption may
have already been more likely to drop out or
feel less close to the LC community.According to Institutional Research,
“Though their average GPAs were
comparable, students that lived off-campus
(especially those who started at L&C in Fall
2021) reported drastically lower retention
rates than those students that lived on
campus. Depending on the population and
term, the retention rate for off-campus
students was less than half of the rate for
on-campus students.”
In the coming year, there will also be
an emphasized focus on Living Learning
Communities (LLCs). According to Platt-
Howard Area Director Julia Pacheco-Cole,
the Global Village LLC will be renamed
Global Languages and Cultures, the Career
LLC will be renamed Launchpad and the
the Multicultural Engagement LLC will
also incorporate a social justice aspect in
coordination with The Center for Social
Change and Community Involvement. The
multicultural LLC will also be renamed,
though Campus Living is still taking
suggestions.
“camPus” continued on Page 3.Construction work begins in Stewart,
redefining residential life on-campus EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOG
Holmes-Sullivan visited Washington, D.C.COURTRSY OF ROBIN HOLMES-SULLIVAN
Renovations in Stewart and Odell residence halls will begin Spring 2023 semester.LEO BERNSTEIN-NEWMAN/MOSSY LOG
Today’s weatherBy SUMMER DAE BINDER
ON FEB. 20, t h e L e w i s &
Clark History Department
invited Professor Timothy
Cheek to the college for the annual
Throckmorton Lecture. Cheek
currently teaches at the School of
Public Policy and Department of
History at the University of British
Columbia. His research interest is
in 20th-century Chinese history,
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
history and the role of intellectuals in
public life in China.
The Throckmorton lecture
is an annual lecture held by the
History Department since 1964 to
commemorate the academic spirit
of former Professor of History
Arthur L. Throckmorton, who died
suddenly in December 1962. The
History Department has invited some
of the most recognized historians to
the LC campus since the lecture’s
conception.
Administrative Coordinator for
the English & History Department
Amy Baskin took part in organizing
this year’s Throckmorton lecture.
Baskin said Cheek’s lecture gives a
sense of the current events related to
China.
“In order to have a sense of
current events and what the Chinese
government is like now, to look at
the past to explain the present and
help interpret it,” Baskins said. “The
history of Confucianism in China is
going to influence the way the Chinese
Government is run, but how much, to
what degree, why, and where.”
Cheek intended to shed light
on how China is governed and how
its rule by Xi Jinping since 2012
challenges liberal hegemony and
raises fear in many Americans. The
lecture attempted to pin down the
CCP’s current governance has ties to
its Confucianist history. The beginning of the lecture starts
with Cheek giving a brief rundown
of 1,000 years of Chinese history
to explain how China is governed.
Cheek then explored the components
of the past Confucian practices,
including local, public education and
pacific virtue. One example of this
that Cheek elaborates on throughout
his lecture is “community compacts,”
an attempt to work as local self-help
that creates ideal subjects in Chinese
villages that began in Confucianism
of the early eleventh century.
Cheek compared the “community
compacts” to dormitory housing.
“In the 1930s, something of the
spirit of the community compacts
reemerged in a communist
ideological revolting campaign,
what we know as brainwashing. It
reappeared once again in a political
study session in Xi Jinping China
today,” Cheek said. “By the mid-
twentieth century, this transformed
into an ideological revolt by the CCP.
This is called Jiaohua.”
Jiaohua is the Mandarin Chinese
word for transformational teaching.
Cheek told the audience that it was
the one word he wanted them to
remember following the lecture. The
essence of Jiaohua carries on from
the dynastical history of China up
until now with the leadership of the
CCP.
The community compacts
function for rural administration
under an elite dynasty because local
village life was not as strong as elite
government. In the compacts, neo-
Confucianism was practiced as a way
to better themselves and morally
revive the spirit of the villagers.
History student Ethan Tolpin ’23
is excited that the Throckmorton
made a return following the
pandemic and was interested in
the aspect that one of the Chinese
characters is democracy. “The way we think about China is so
far from a democracy, so it was really
interesting to hear that one of the tenets
of being a good socialist promoted by the
CCP and Xi Jinping is democracy,” Tolpin
said.
Mateo Kaiser ’23, a history major, said
that though in his studies, he does not
focus on Chinese history, he still found a
lot of use in attending the lecture. “China is just totally outside of
my realm of historical knowledge,”
Kaiser said. “But it was interesting
to see, on one hand, how much of a
philosophical underpinning Chinese
government has had throughout
history, like this is really, really
rooted in this philosophical
background of Confucianism.”
Kaiser also said he is looking forward to applying what he learned
in the lecture to his studies now, in
terms of modern ideological roots.
“I’m taking a social theory class
and … we’ve been talking about, what
are the ideological underpinnings of
modernity? What are the critiques of
modernity?” Kaiser said. “And seeing
this, (what does) the Confucian
philosophy say of government?”FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
NEWS /gid00484
Data Science minor hosts first “Hackathon,”
Professor Ellen Seljan, data science librarians threw event to increase students interest in minor
By AVA FRISON
On Feb. 11, Lewis & Clark’s first
annual “Hackathon” took place
in the Aubrey R. Watzek library
classroom. This event was hosted by
Watzek data librarians and Associate
Professor of Political Science Ellen
Seljan.
Colleges and high schools across
the country host and compete in
“hackathons,” which are events where
programmers can get together and
collaborate on solving problems
using data and technology. For LC’s
Hackathon, students competed in teams
of two to create visual representations
using Watzek circulation data. This
event is part of the expansion of the
college’s growing data science program.
According to Seljan, the Hackathon
was hosted to increase interest in the
new data science minor, which offers
classes in computer science, data
analysis and programming.
“The data science program is new,
and it’s also interdisciplinary,” Seljan
said.”We really do want to have frequent
intercurrent extracurricular activities in
order to bring students together.”
On the day of the Hackathon, 14
students met at the Watzek library classroom for three hours to put
together data visualizations using
Watzek circulation data. The event was
accessible to students of all skill levels
and coding backgrounds. In fact, Many
of the students who attended are taking
Seljan’s intro to data science class.
Because students came from various
coding backgrounds and skill levels,
they used a variety of programs to create
the visualizations. “People use Excel,
Stata, R, Python and also data romper,
which is an online tool,” Seljan said.
Head of Digital Services Jeremy
McWilliams compiled the data to use.
The dataset included everything that
students typically check out from the
library, including books, headsets, and
magazines.
“The library system Watzek uses
has a lot of data, so mainly it was a
matter of choosing which fields might
be interesting for students to work
with and would allow them a variety of
questions to ask,” McWilliams said via
email.
Students worked in teams of two
in order to make a data visualization
within the three-hour window. They
also had the help of Seljan and three
data librarians, Science & Data Services
Librarian Parvaneh Abbaspour, Digital & Data Science Specialist Ethan Davis
and McWilliams. The students had
free reign to use the data from the set
McWilliams compiled to make different
visualizations.
McWilliams said that the organizers
decided to use Watzek circulation data
because of the library staff’s cooperation
with the data science minor.
“I think this was Ellen’s idea,
originally,” McWilliams said. “Library
staff have played a role in helping to
develop and support the Data Science
minor, so maybe our involvement
inspired the idea.”
Connor Smyth ’24 and Alex Denuzzo
’26 made up the winning team and won
$100 for their visualization about how
COVID-19 affected Watzek circulation
data. The pair did not know each other
prior to the event and were randomly
paired together.
“They actually didn’t even know the
same programming languages,” Seljan
said.“Alex knows Stata, and Connor
is in my class learning R, and so they
actually ended up working in Excel a
lot. But they found a way to make an
excellent graphic.”
Overall, Seljan said that the event
was a success and expressed hope that
the event would continue in the future. Seljan also emphasized that it was
empowering for students to work with
real data and to see a data visualization
of something real they interact with
daily over at Watzek.
“Everyone had a good time. We
learned something new about the data.
People seem to express interest in
coming back,” Seljan said.
McWilliams explained that Watzek
and the data science program have an
important relationship.
“We’ve carved out a role over the
years in supporting the faculty and
students with computer programming
and data literacy,” McWilliams said.
“So, supporting data science has been
kind of a natural fit.”
Abbaspour is the data science
specialist librarian and focuses on data
literacy and exploring data. She was
present at the event for student support
and learned quite a bit about the data
herself.
“I actually gained insights from
the visualizations they produced and
I was happy to, as someone who’s
worked in the past with Ellen, to
think about this curriculum and this
program,” Abbaspour said. “It was
really exciting to see it realized and to
see how enthusiastic the students were about pursuing this new curricular
opportunity.”
Seljan hopes this event had a positive
impact on the data science program.
“The mission of the data science
program here at Lewis & Clark is really
to, to kind of use data science tools for
the social good,” Seljan said. “So we’re
hoping to get datasets from a larger
Portland community and, you know,
organizations and issues that students
care about.”
Overall, Seljan and the librarians
thought the event went really well. The
goal of the Hackathon was to get LC
students interested in the data science
program and according to them, that
goal was achieved.
“I was so surprised by just how
well the hackathon worked for students
with all levels of experience, across
different platforms analysis,” Abbaspour
said.“Platforms and different points
in their sort of journey and curricular
journey like freshmen, it seemed like
everyone was able to engage with the
event in a really successful way.”
Future plans for Hackathon include
changing up the data set and expanding to
competitions other than data visualization.
McWilliams encourages anyone interested
in data science to attend next year’s event.
COURTESY OF ELLEN SELJAN
The winning team of Alex Denuzzo and Connor Smyth composed a data visualization of how COVID-19 affected student loans, using Watzek circulation data, that won them $100.
LEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE MOSSY LOG
Professor Cheek visits campus to educate Throckmorton attendees on communism’s relation to influential Chinese philosophy.Annual Throckmorton Lecture given by Timothy Cheek
University of British Colombia professor speaks on twentieth century China, confucionist thought NEWS 3FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Campus Living updates requirements
for students, emphasizes role of LLCs
Continued from page 1.
“Another thing is that REMs are
really focused on the Living Learning
Communities, which are going through
their renaissance right now,” Carubus
said. “Behind the scenes, there’s a lot of
LLC work going on (with) a lot of changes
to make them better, more accessible, kind
of more investment for the students —
something that the students want to invest
in and be a part of.”
The Travel Lounge LLC will continue
in Stewart Hall when renovations are
finished for all overseas participants. In
general, all students who are applying for
one semester on campus will be placed
in Stewart. Exceptions to this include
seniors graduating during the 2023-24
academic year and students with approved
accommodations not feasible in Stewart.
According to an email sent by Campus
Living, “One-semester students assigned
to Stewart will get advanced room selection
for the following academic year (2024–25)
in order to balance out this policy.”
According to Meoz, this change
enables Campus Living to fill spring
semester vacancies that had previously
been unfilled because upperclassmen had
moved out of areas that new students are
not eligible to live in. Meoz anticipates
this will help reduce overflow housing for
the spring. Additionally, Stewart will be
used for Winter Break temporary housing
so Hartzfeld students will not have to
consolidate between semesters.
However, Campus Living expects
some degree of overflow housing to
continue in the following years. This
year, overflow rooms were also offered
to returning students for a lower price in
order to voluntarily fill overflow, especially
because, according to Meoz, returning
students with roommate groups are less
likely to have conflict.
“It’s understandable for students to
be concerned or worried about overflow
housing, especially for our first years,”
Pacheco-Cole said. “From our data and looking at student perspectives from
this past semester, it seems like it’s tight
quarters, it’s not the ideal living situation,
(but) most are doing okay with it overall.”
For the coming year, Meoz said some
overflow rooms will be reverted into
communal spaces. However, there will
also be some permanent reconfiguration
of these spaces into quads that have
functional kitchens, which will be a unique
opportunity for underclassmen.
“Next year, our prime goal is to not
have to take offline community spaces,”
Meoz said. “I firmly believe that Stewart
and Odell being offline for half a year really
was a driving factor in how exceptional
we had to be this year with creating new
overflow.”
Some students have had gripes with
remaining vacancies being unfilled while
overflow housing was still in place. Part of
this problem will be solved with the new
one-semester housing policy.
However, Campus Living does need
to retain some emergency housing spots for harmful roommates situations, high-
risk students who have roommates with
COVID-19, and structural issues, such as
the recent basement flood in Ponderosa
Hall, which led to six students being
relocated. Next year, emergency housing
levels will return to pre-pandemic levels
of around five rooms, according to Meoz.
“Looking ahead to next year as the
endemic – I mean, it’ll never come to a
close, I guess will be permanently in (an)
endemic – but we won’t have the need to
carve out these blocks of rooms at the same
scale, unless public health circumstances
change and guidance changes,” Meoz said.
For students planning to live on
campus next year, the priority deadline for
applications and deposits is April 2. For
those who submit their materials after this
date, students who still have a residency
requirement will be put in the latest room
selection time slot and will not be able to
build roommate groups. Students who do
not have to live on campus will be put on
a waitlist that will be addressed once all other applications are seen through.
For additional information, students
can attend numerous info sessions
hosted by Campus Living on Feb. 28.
These sessions will be for on-campus
housing (5, 6, 7 and 8 p.m. in Templeton
350) and off-campus housing info (5:30,
6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. in Templeton
353). Additionally, there will be a
Living-Learning Community Fair from
4:15 to 5:15 p.m. in the Trail Room and
individual and small group housing
advising sessions from 5 to 9 p.m. in
Templeton 352.
Once the application wwopens on
March 1, Campus Living staff will hold
weekly Zoom Q&A sessions on Fridays
for the remainder of the semester. Meoz
will also hold open hours on Fridays
from 12 to 2 p.m. in the Trail Room.
Two additional in-person information
sessions will be held in April: a roommate
finding and group creation session
on April 4, as well as a room selection
process session on April 18.
LEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE MOSSY LOG
The Stewart and Odell Hall renovations are firmly underway during the Spring 2023 semester, which will complete next year.President
represents
LC in DC
Continued from page 1.
Aside from Blumenauer and Pelosi,
Holmes-Sullivan met more than a
dozen congresspeople; one of these
officials was Representative Lori Chavez-
DeRemer who represents Oregon’s fifth
congressional district, into which LC
falls. Holmes-Sullivan invited Chavez-
DeRemer to campus. The two are trying
to find a time that works.
Holmes Sullivan’s trip began with
a National Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities (NAICU)
conference with other presidents of
private, higher education institutions and
culminated in the speech. The NAICU
is a lobbying organization for private
colleges, located in Washington D.C. that
campaigns for the interests of schools like
LC.
After the conference, Holmes Sullivan
got a behind the scenes tour of the library
of congress from Blumenauer. The
congressman considers the library his
favorite place.
Before the address, Holmes-
Sullivan attended a party at House of
Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem
Jeffries office. Many politicians Holmes-
Sullivan recognized were in attendance.
“Maxine Waters walks by, and all
these people they’re just walking around
like you and me,” Holmes-Sullivan said.
“I was both titillated by that, and I’d go up
and talk to them. I went up and talked to
Nancy Pelosi and got that picture of her,
she gave me a little hug.”
During Biden’s speech he quoted
a saying from his wife, First Lady and
Northern Virginia Community College
Professor of English Doctor Jill Biden:
“Any nation that out-educates us is
going to out-compete us.” Holmes-
Sullivan considered this statement to
be remarkably similar to her personal
educational philosophy.
“The only way to have strong
democracy is to have an educated
citizenry,” Holmes-Sullivan said. “We all
know that, it’s the principles on which a lot
of things were built for this country, and
it’s been disturbing to see the numbers
of college age students, especially males
dropping in this country. And so, I think
that we all need to be concerned about
that, and working toward how we can
make sure that an experience like Lewis
and Clark and anyplace else is available to
everybody.”
In addition to the Biden
administration’s connection to
education, it is the first administration
to have a person or woman of color as
vice president. As a woman of color, it
meant a lot to Holmes-Sullivan to see
Vice President Harris in one of the three
central seats.
“Just yesterday someone came up
to me and said, you know, my daughter
is interested in going to Lewis & Clark
and part of her interest is that they have
a Black president,” Holmes-Sullivan said.
“That’s not the only reason why she’s
going to come to school here, but for some
people, it really does make a difference,
that representation that they can see
themselves doing these things.”
While Holmes-Sullivan felt a
connection to certain aspects and enjoyed
the experience, she felt a part of something
bigger as a representative of LC.
“People were talking about it, and
they were excited for me, but they were
also excited for the institution that I got
invited,” Holmes-Sullivan said. “Me
being invited, it’s like we got invited and
so it was a real highlight to how many
people wrote to me and said, ‘We’re so
glad you’re there.’”
COURTESY OF ROBIN HOLMES-SULLIVAN
Robin Holmes-Sullivan met Nancy Pelosi.Fields’ Dining Hall introduces new, reusable
eco-friendly containers, to reduce waste
By CORRINA CHAN
Fields Dining Hall, on Jan. 30,
introduced green “eco-tainers,”
which became available for
students to check out.
The program was implemented in
an effort to provide students with a free
and accessible way to take food from
Fields Dining Hall, while reducing the
consumption of disposable tableware.
In an interview, a food service
worker from Field’s dining hall said,
“It’s a better alternative than paper
plates and bowls” and “these new eco-
friendly takeout containers are going
to cut down on the amount of waste the
Bon produces.”
The containers are free only to
on-campus students. The Lewis & Clark
website states that “non-residents may
purchase carabiners/boxes for $5.”
Replacements for lost or damaged
containers will cost the same amount.
The process starts with students
picking up a carabiner from The Office
of Campus Living to take out food from
the dining hall. To obtain the containers,
students can pick up a carabiner at the
Campus Living office during its normal
hours of business in Room 112 on the
bottom floor of Roberts Hall, in the
former Maggie’s Cafe.
To use the containers, students bring
the carabiner to the Field’s Dining Hall
and switch their carabiner out for a
container when students swipe their card.
After that, they bring back the empty
containers and switch the out for either
another clean container or for another
carabiner if they do not wish to carry
the box around. No need to wash the
containers before bringing them back in,
Bon Appétit will take care of that.
“Eco Containers are handled by
the workers in the dish pit, where
they get put through a high-powered dishwasher to be sanitized and
cleaned,” the employee states.
There is no time limit in which
students will have to bring the
containers back. However, they
suggest that if students intend on
keeping them for an extended period
of time, that they empty and give the
containers a bit of a rinse for safety
purposes, as “it takes just 24 to 48
hours for mold to germinate and
grow”, said the Eco-container website.LC is committed to sustainability
as well as informing and
supporting its students as they
make environmental choices for
themselves. The containers will last
a long time and are large enough
to hold a full meal as you take it
on the go. Students no longer have
to worry about bringing paper
plates, or buying their own reusable
tupperware that can be costly and
take time and energy to clean. For most of last year, students
used brown boxes to carry out their
food, as the dining halls were closed
for COVID-19 safety reasons. Due to
the change, trash cans on campus
were frequently full or overflowing.
As of last week, over 375
containers were distributed, totalling
over 25% of the resident population.
LC is able to limit waste and the
paper plates that were once a staple
of the Bon.
ISABELLE ATHA/THE MOSSY LOG
Students can now get a reusable, green container that they can use to take food out of the dining hall instead of wasting paper plates.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 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.“Ginny & Georgia” correctly depicts mental illness
Hit show’s first season glossed over serious challenges, second season focuses on realistic portrayals
By MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
DESPITE ITS flaws, “Ginny &
Georgia” is one of very few
shows to correctly portray
mental illness in its second season.
The Netflix original centers around
Georgia, a 30-year-old mother of two
with a storied past, and Ginny, her 15
year-old daughter, who explores her
independence while learning about
her mother’s youth. While the show
immediately sounds like a darker
Gilmore Girls, it embraces this. Just
seconds into the first trailer, Georgia
declares that
they are “like the
Gilmore Girls
but with bigger
boobs.”
Season one
was met with
mixed reviews.
Despite achieving
enough success
to be renewed
within a month
of its debut, it
was perhaps more notorious than
beloved. The show quickly went
viral on social media. A tasteless
Taylor Swift joke incurred the wrath
of Swifties, and a scene dubbed the
“Oppression Olympics” was the butt of
jokes everywhere from Twitter to Teen
Vogue.
Beyond the controversy, the first
season was not particularly notable. It
was a soapy drama-comedy with plenty
of uncomfortable moments, which
leaned so heavily into being “Gilmore-
Girls-but-edgy” that it struggled to
have an identity of its own. It had its
saving graces, though, from top-tier
acting to the genuinely compelling cast of characters they portrayed.
Overall, the show was entertaining if
not groundbreaking.
The highly anticipated second
season came out Jan. 5, and has been
wildly popular. According to views
during the first 28 days on Netflix, it
was globally the second most-watched
TV show for the week of Feb. 6 (behind
“You” Season four, starring Lewis &
Clark’s own Penn Badgely), and the
10th most watched of all time.
This season immediately felt very
different than the earlier installment.
The first season ends with Ginny
running away to
her father’s house,
leaving tensions
high with Georgia.
In a long, scoreless
scene, Ginny
admits to her father
that she has been
self-harming. He
promises that they
will find Ginny a
therapist and get
her help, but insists
they tell her mother. She resists this
condition, and her refusal fuels a
conflict that carries through the first
half of the second season.
Ginny’s therapy sessions become a
recurring event, with multiple scenes
in the therapist’s office, discussion of
her mental health with her boyfriend
and moments when she uses the coping
mechanisms discussed in therapy.
Importantly, therapy is not
portrayed as a quick-fix, and it is
neither dramatized or trivialized.
The scenes are written with the care,
realism and tact that was missing from
the first season, and is missing in TV
mental health plotlines overall. Season one included Ginny’s
self harm, but glossed over it as an
unhealthy coping mechanism that she
would eventually deal with. It was not
a big deal to her, her loved ones or
the writers. Season two corrects these
mistakes. The show is not about mental
health, but rather about complex
characters who are experiencing
mental health struggles, among other
things.
The nuance seeps into various
plot points throughout the show.
Georgia demonstrates a deep aversion
to therapy due to her difficult past, which has also left her struggling with
panic attacks she has never addressed.
Ginny’s boyfriend, Marcus, falls into
a deep depression and starts abusing
alcohol, earning an episode centered
around him that is one of the most
impressive of the season.
This season’s accomplishments
were twofold. First, a lackluster,
overdramatized show completely
turned around, maintaining its positive
qualities, but injecting substance and
authenticity. Second, it gets mental
health right in a way few shows ever
really have.We have come to expect very little of
mental health in media, from OCD on
“Glee” to suicide on “13 Reasons Why,”
viewers have been scorned too many
times. This show rose to the challenge,
bringing complex and empathetic
treatment to a difficult topic that never
gets it.
“Ginny & Georgia” serves as a model
for what realism-based TV drama can
become, and may move the genre in
a direction it has desperately needed
for some time. The show will likely be
renewed for a third season, and I cannot
wait to see where its potential takes it.EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOG
Year-round classes would boost knowledge retention
Schedules with periodic breaks, internship opportunities instead of summer vacation would benefit students
By MAX ALLEN
WE HAVE ALL had that
disconcerting moment upon
returning to school after a
long break, where the professor writes
some gibberish on the board, spouts
some flapdoodle, then hands us our
homework and gives us a genial slap on
the back as we walk out the door. We
step out and think, “what in the sweet
high heavens just happened?”
Learning is often a “use-it-or-
lose-it” situation: When we learn a
concept or acquire a skill, we need
to regularly apply it in order to keep
it in our repertoire. The system that
most colleges use in the United States,
including Lewis & Clark, stacks the
odds against a student’s ability to
maintain knowledge.
We go to school for four months,
being fed information with little
pause, then are sent on our merry way
for a month of winter break. During
that month, many of us go home and
vegetate, or go elsewhere and vegetate
or stay on campus and vegetate. When
we return to school, we scramble to
recover half-forgotten concepts. After
bathing ourselves in information for
another four months, we hit summer
break — three months of putting our
learning on pause.
Proponents of summer break argue
that it facilitates learning and life skills,
as it gives students an opportunity
to take on jobs and internships that
they would otherwise be unable to
partake in. While this is a valid point,
it has to be balanced with the fact that
during summers, we lose a lot of the
knowledge that we gained over the
school year.
Three months is more than enough
time for our brains to prune away
the “calculus” pathways and replace
them with the “ice cream scooping”
pathways. When we return to school at
the end of August and go to our math
classes, we look at the integral symbol and can only think of how inefficient it
would be for scooping a cone of rocky
road.
Besides the loss of information
and skills, our schedule has another
fundamental flaw: a dismal lack of
breaks. In the four-month block that is
the spring semester, we have one single
week off and one national holiday,
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which falls
on what otherwise would be the first
day of school. Even compared to other
schools which subscribe to traditional
schedules, we have very few breaks.
Most schools, for example, had
this past Monday off for Presidents’
Day. I am not claiming that we should
have been celebrating Washington and
Lincoln’s birthdays instead of going to
classes, but I do think the ten weeks
of school between winter and spring
break warrant a moment to pause for
the sake of both the students and the
professors.
It is my opinion that our school
and many others would benefit from a
year-round schedule, or at least more
frequent, shorter breaks. It is true that
summer courses are offered at LC, but
they are expensive, often not covered
by scholarships, and as a result, are
a nonviable or unattractive option to
many.
The optimal schedule would
integrate opportunities to do
internships and research while also
attending classes, rather than depend
on summers for students to receive
these experiences. This would require
schools to rethink traditional education
systems in favor of innovative offerings.
Our school has many resources
already that would act as a solid
baseline to implement this, such as a
strong career center and a fair number
of research opportunities. It would
just be a matter of expanding these
opportunities and restructuring the
credit system. In making these changes,
the academic success of students would
doubtlessly be enhanced.
MAYA WILLIAMSON/THE MOSSY LOG“A lackluster,
overdramatized show
completely turned
around, maintaining its
positive qualities, but
injecting substance and
authenticity.”FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 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 HERA HYMAN
SINCE THE START of the
COVID-19 pandemic, people
have further developed
their opinions about being home.
Trading classrooms and offices with
sweatpants and cats sitting on our
computers, our relationships with
working outside of a professional
environment have evolved over the
course of the past three years.
In some ways, the ability to work
in a more relaxed atmosphere has
curbed a lot of anxiety about work
and classroom performance. This
is especially important because the
last three years have seen anxiety
levels reaching approximately 50%
nationwide, a percentage that is over
six times the levels in 2019. We have
also seen depression rates skyrocket
due to the isolation caused by the
quarantine — one of the many tragedies
brought about by the pandemic.
Subsequently, the question of whether
working from home should remain
part of our lives is a complicated one
with many perspectives, and needs a
nuanced introspection as we forge a
path towards a post-pandemic future.
With masks coming off and social
distancing hopefully becoming a thing
of the past, there has been a shift to
a more hybrid online and in-person
version of the world. Though we are
almost fully back in person, more and
more people are showing interest in
remote job opportunities, and some
schools and workplaces have options
for part-time Zoom attendance.Working from home, though often
isolating, has caused us to reevaluate
the 40-hour workweeks and long hours
sitting in a classroom. Maybe it is the
pressure to be constantly engaged that
has us yearning to be back in bed or the
freedom to be “business on top, party
at the bottom.” Personally, working
from home has been a blessing in
disguise, as it has given me a chance to
create a healthier work-life balance. I
also have more opportunities to make
money while still in school.
However, acknowledging the
disadvantages that come with being
away from a tangible workplace or
school environment is also important.
Though Zoom classes allowed the shy
kid to finally give their perspective in
a less anxiety-inducing environment,
there is a sense of accountability
created in person that is lost online.
Also, being able to see my friends
during lunch has increased my
mental wellbeing a lot more than I
anticipated.
Communication and collaboration,
two essential parts of classroom and
workplace culture, are diminished
significantly while working from
home. Online learning also severely
hinders a student’s ability to
learn with verbal and nonverbal
communication. Though convenient
for some, online communication
often does not take into account
economically challenged households,
who struggle with computer access,
quiet study spaces and more. My
experience with remote learning has
been positive overall, but it has not come without its ups and downs,
mostly in the form of mental health.
Nonetheless, the hybrid version
of an optional remote lifestyle has diminished a lot of the downfalls of
working from home. We now have the
options for creating a new, healthier
work-life balance that will decrease overwhelming feelings and bring us one
step closer to happiness, by accounting
for our place in an unpredictable,
ever-changing world.Mixture of working online, with others in person is optimal solution for issues with work-life balanceHybrid learning: beneficial for mental health
By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
AFTER THE beloved Maggie’s
Cafe shut down at the end of the
last academic year, where many
students spent the majority of their flex
points, the benefits and drawbacks of
the standard 14-Flex meal plan had to be
reevaluated. Many students rely on flex
points to keep them supplied with coffee
beverages, but for the minority of students
who do not drink coffee, including myself,
flex points can be unnecessary and result
in excess spending.
Even with the addition of the Trail
Room coffee bar and market, I opted not
to purchase flex points with my meal plan
this year. This was a result of the location
and hour changes as well as my adaptation
to a college dining routine, during which I
learned what is most efficient for me.
One can buy items at the local Fred
Meyer for two thirds or sometimes even
half the price of an equivalent sold in
the market. Without a car, it can be time
consuming to fit in trips to the grocery
store, but I find that a weekly bus ride to
Fred Meyer is worth the money I save. Additionally, Fred Meyer has more fresh
options as well as a variety of foods to
satisfy dietary restrictions. It comes
down to the individual’s preference
of convenience versus thrift, and in
a fast-paced college environment, I
understand that convenience often has
to win out.
Buying all the food to supplement
meal swipes off campus requires more
planning than spontaneous jaunts to
the market. This is why I still utilize the
market occasionally and just pay with
a card. Flex points are equal to dollars,
so there is no financial benefit to using
them in the long run. The primary
attraction is that one does not have to
pay immediately, but can rather pay
with their tuition.
However, having a blanket amount
of 200 points per semester that one has
to use up encourages spending when it is
not necessary. By having no set amount
of money that I need to use up, I can
limit my spending on campus to only
when it is most convenient or essential.
The cozy atmosphere of Maggie’s is
not replicated in the Trail Room nor in the closet-like space of the market. Even
with the Trail Room’s new layout and
furniture, the nature of the large, echoing
space does not lend itself to the same
environment of a small, bustling cafe.
While the Trail Room can be great for
meals and student events, I seldom use
it as a social place to relax with friends,
which was the primary time that I found
myself buying snacks at Maggie’s. While
the Dovecote certainly has the cozy cafe
atmosphere down, its limited hours
make it inconvenient to find a time to
pop in.
I think that ideally there could
be the option to have fewer than
14 meal swipes a week, and then
supplement additional flex points
for the same cost. The way meal
plans are currently structured limits
flexibility to cook for oneself without
wasting a meal swipe. Thus, money
spent at the grocery store often
involves money wasted on an unused
swipe. However, as of now, without
changing the meal plan system, I
think the best way to be fiscally
proactive is to not use flex points. Flex points becoming obsolete,
not worth spending our money on
By CORRINA CHAN
WHEN APPLYING to colleges,
I knew from the start that
I wanted to go to a small
school. Oftentimes, smaller colleges
boast a greater student to faculty
ratio and smaller class sizes. Being
someone who likes more engagement
in my classes, this feature was near
the top of my list.
When I first arrived at Lewis &
Clark, I could tell instantly how cozy
and walkable everything was, from the
dining hall being right outside your
dorm’s door to all your classes being
less than a five minute walk away.
There are trails if hiking is your thing
and the trees and greenery around
campus give you comfort. It feels like
my home.
However, as more and more
students come to our small campus,
it can feel a bit crowded. In 2021,
there was record enrollment, due in
part to students who took a gap year
because of COVID-19. Because of this,
students in several different dorm
buildings were forced into “overflow
triple” rooms, a dorm room typically
meant to house two students, now
being modified to accommodate
three. Not only was this a problem
for students who were trying to limit
exposure to the virus, but it could
often feel suffocating.
Not only are the dorms too full,
the classrooms are starting to reach
capacity much quicker. With so
few majors and limited class sizes,
professors struggle with admitting all
the students who need to take their
course. In required classes, such as
introductory 100-level courses, many
students who need to take said class in
order to graduate in a timely manner
are being turned away because of the
cap on how many people can fit in the
classroom.
This semester in my Methods in
Psychology class, a required 300-level
that all psychology majors need
to take as a prerequisite, several
sophomores and juniors were unable
to get into one of the only sections of that class. They will have to try
again next year, possibly forcing some
of them to have to spend another
semester at LC. Extending graduation
takes both money and time away from
the student, all because of one missed
class.
The campus community is one I
truly treasure. It seems as if everyone
gets to know each other and faculty
very well. It was one of the reasons I
enrolled here and it is one of the many
reasons I love LC so much.
There are many reasons why
someone would choose a smaller
school over a bigger one and vice
versa. LC may be significantly smaller
than others that we might be used to
or might associate with an archetypal
college, but we all chose to come here.
LC may be small, and it has quite a few
faults that would not exist at larger
institutions, but it has an incredibly
close-knit community, where many
of us know and support each other,
making its relatively small size perfect
for most. LC’s smaller campus,
perfect for its students
LEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE MOSSY LOGALEX NASH/THE MOSSY LOG
The cafe located in the newly rennnovated Trailrooom replaces Maggie’s Cafe, where students would normally spend their points.ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN/THE MOSSY LOGFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
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EAST , PAST the Frank Manor
House, the Reflecting Pool and
Great Plat Field, there is a grassy
plaza with a flagpole in the middle.
To the right are stone steps, hugging
the plaza and leading down to a large,
open space with geometrically-shaped
rosebeds that have seen better days.
This is what remains of Lewis & Clark’s
rose garden.
The gardens once held 17,000 roses
and produced prize-winning flowers for
the Portland Rose Festival in 1929 and
1930. The rose garden was entered on
the National Register of Historic Places
in 1979. The garden was first planted at
the time of the construction of the Frank
Manor House, now the president’s
office, in 1924.
The Rose Garden flourished for some
time and was memorable to LC students
and faculty after the college’s purchase
of the Fir Acres estate in 1942. However,
the garden started deteriorating due to a lack of funding and proper maintenance.
Isaac Blake ’23 worked on the school’s
grounds team for two years and came up
with the idea to start a rose garden club
last academic year.
“It was renowned and known as one
of the best rose gardens in the state of
Oregon,” Blake said. “The Rose Garden
has not been a rose garden for a decade
or two. It has been out of commission
for a long time and people still have this
knowledge or know that it is there. It
used to be a very big deal in Portland.
There are plaques there and WWII
memorials.”
According to Blake, maintenance of
the rose garden is also difficult due to
the dynamic environmental landscape
of campus.
“The ravine behind campus has
grown considerably,” Blake said. “The
Douglas Fir trees down there have
gotten so much taller than they were in
the pictures (from) the 1930s.”
The club currently stands as an
ad hoc committee. They are currently looking for funding through the Alumni
Office and applying for funding as a
student organization.
“We are reaching out to alumni
because so many talk about how
beautiful the Rose Garden was and it is
a shame that it does not look like that
now” Blake said.
This group of alumni includes
Jennifer Huenik BA ’91 JD ’94 who has
worked alongside her daughter and
current student Sophie Abbassian ’25 to
help restore the garden.
“I am the only visible alumni
promoting it but certainly every other
alumni I have talked to has thought
reviving the garden is fantastic and glad
that someone is doing this,” Huenik
said. “I am here to support Sophie but I
do funnel all the ideas into my head her
way and reach out to the alumni with a
specific ask or request for support has
been something on our minds.”
The club has sparked discussion
among students and administration
despite not being recognized by the
college. Many students have argued that
instead of roses, the garden should be
home to other plants.
“(Students) wanted to restore the
area but didn’t necessarily want it to
be a rose garden and had a number of
arguments, such as deer are just going
to eat all the roses, native plants would
be better and more interesting,” Huenik
said.
There have been many efforts made
by the club to promote and fundraise
itself, including a rose sale in celebration
of Valentine’s Day. The club hopes to get
support from the facilities, alumni and
neighbors of the college.
“It is a really cool space,” Blake said.
“I think the type of student who goes
to LC gravitates towards places like
that. If we have a big space with a lot of
potential, run by a student-run initiative
to change it and create a beautiful place
with a student’s stamp of approval.”
By NADAV BEN DAVID
הדבר האהוב עליי שגרתי בישראל זה היה
החתולים. כל מקום שאתה הולך יש חתולים
שמסתובבים, מבק אוכל, ופשוט שם. כל
חתול בעצמו יש לו חיים וחברים ומבינות של
העולם.
החתולים נתנו לי המון. שהרגשתי מבולבל
או לבד במדינה חדש עם שפה שונה. הייתי
יכול לדבר איתם בקלות וכל פעם שהייתי
איתם הם עזרו לי להרגיש יותר טוב ופחות
לבד.
בדעה שלי החתולים החלק של ישראל הכי
יפה שיש. תשכח אתה ים, תשכח את ה הרים
בגולן, תשכח את ה ים המל. הדבר היחיד
שאתה צריך לראות שאתה באה ישראל זה
החתולים. אני רק קצת צוחק.
אחרי שסיימתי 2020 באתי לישראל בשנה
תיכון. באתי בשביל מכינה קדם צבאית.
חוץ הייתי האמריקאי היחיד
מהחבר שלי שגם היה במכינה. אבל כולם
חוץ ממנו היו ישראלים בגיל שלנו שהיו
אמור להיות בצבא בשנה הבאה.
היה ממש קשה לי להיות במסגרת. אני לא
עושה טוב בכללי עם קללות, אבל זה היה
היה מכינה על יותר קשה בשבילי שזה
הצבא. אני זוכר הרבה פעמים זה היה ממש
קשה בשבילי להיות עם אנשים של תרבות כל
כך שונה וחיים כל כך שנה. וזה כל פעם עזר
לי המון לצאת מהבניין ולהסתובב בהיר
לראות את כל החתולים. נתתי להם אוכל וגם
שמות.
יום אחד פגשתי חתול ספציפי שהיה גור. הוא
יצא הגינה של השכנה שלי התחיל לצעוק
עליי. נתתי לו את השם יוליוס. התחלתי
לראות אותו כל יום ולתת לו את טונה של
המכינה נותן להם לאכול בבוקר.
בגלל שהוא היה גור זה היה הזמן הראשון
בשבילנו בישראל. זה היה החורף הראשון
בשבילנו. וזה גם היה מלחמה הראשון
בשבילנו בישראל.
באתי בזמן של בעיות במדינה. גרטי בעיר
שקוראים לו סדרות ליעד עזה. אני לא אשכח
את היום הראשון. ששמעתי את הצבא
האדום. ציפיתי שזה מפחיד אותי ציפיתי שזה
יהיה רעש אבל לא ציפיתי כמה זה הפחיד אותי ואיך הרעש היא הזיזה את החדר.

הבוקר אחרי הצבא האדום יצאתי מהבניין
והסתובבתי בעיר. לא הבנתי למה העולם לא
אנשים עדיין הולכים הפסיק להסתובב. למה
לעבודה למה הילדים עדיין הולכים לבית ספר
זה לא הגיוני.
מצאתי את יוליוס. רציתי לשאול אותו איפה
הלכת מה עשית מה חשבת אתה גם פחד.
הדבר הכי חשוב שהחתולים נתנו לי זה שהם
עזרו לי להבין את העולם. ראיתי את החתול
הזאתי שלי והבנתי שהוא פשוט חתול. הוא
לא בחר שהוא נולד בישראל כמו שהחתולים
שגרים בעזה לא בחרו את זה. הוא פשוט
חתול שגר שם בול כמו הילדים.
כמה חודשים אחרי יוליוס התחיל להיות חולה. הוא הפסיק לרוץ אלייך שהוא ראה
אותי והוא הפסיק לצעוק עליי שהוא רוצה
אוכל. יום אחד מצאתי אותו ליד בית של
שכנה שלי והוא לא היה יכול לזוז. הלכתי
אצל בית של מישהי שאני מכיר שם. אישה
זקנה שקוראים לה סבטלנה. ידעתי שהיא
גם אהבה חתולים ושאלתי אם היא יכולה
לעזור אותי ולהביא את החתול לרופא. היא
נתנה לי קופסה לשים אותו בתוך והלכתי
על האוטובוס והלכתי לווטרינר היחיד
בעיר. היא אמרה לי שהחתול הזה ממש
חולה והוא ימות. לא היה לי את הכסף לתת
ל
הלילה הזה יוליוס מאת בידיים שלהם.
כל פעם בעתיד שאני באה ישראל אני יודע
שאני אלך ללטף את החתולים לחשוב על
כל מה שהם נתנו לי ולמדתי.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
FEATURES 7
Student club seeks to restore
rose gardens to former glory
The exterior of Flyawake Teahouse, nestled between N Beech and Mississippi St.COURTESY OF STEPH’S CUP OF TEA
Nadav befriended many cats in Israel, the most notable being Julius, pictured here.COURTESY OF NADAV BEN DAVID התקופה שלי בישראל והחתולים שקיבלו אותי שםPortland tea wizards
create brews for you
By MAX ALLEN & DANIEL
NESHYBA-ROWE
WE WERE BOTH in the midst
of stressful days when we
stepped out of the Lyft and
into the alley behind a sex toy shop.
Thoughts of school work, internships
and housing next year whirled through
our heads, seasoned by a weariness
from the day’s stimulations. But upon
walking into Fly Awake Tea House, the
incessant worries of our minds seemed
to recede.
Our first impression of the
atmosphere was “quaint,” but after
several cups of tea, it began to feel
timeless: a bubble of safety where our
external concerns could be left behind.
Though it was a small shop in terms of
square footage, there was a loft, several
alcoves and two bar-style seating areas
to make the experience feel as private or
social as you choose.
Populating every available corner,
decorations leaning towards Buddhist
iconography whispered “tea shop,”
while abstract art on the walls gave off
an air of exciting energy. Warm and
inviting lighting covered the room, and
the music fluctuated from peaceful
sounds to funk metal and back again, yet
somehow never challenged the tranquil
vibes of the shop. Cakes of fermented
Pu-erh tea — disc-shaped and wrapped
in decorated paper — were dotted here
and there, stacked in corners, leaning
against walls and on display on shelves.
We were welcomed warmly by a
staff member, Diana, who offered us
a menu and encouraged us to ask any
questions we may have. The menu was
an experience in and of itself. Tea names
such as “Princess with Dagger” and
“Standing on the Shoulders of Giants,”
were paired with vivid descriptions of
how the tea would affect the body.
“We give the tea the names, generally,
to suggest an experience that you might
have,” Diana said. “For example, we
have this tea called Wizard’s Eyebrow
and it’s really really focusing, so you
kind of get this image of a deep furrowed
brow and kind of moving things around
and making things happen. Or like the
Golden Buds of Joy — it’s really just,
like, meditative and heartwarming.”
After admiring the tea names and
descriptions for many minutes, we
asked for recommendations. Diana
asked in return if we wanted to be more energetic or mellow, then suggested a
few options. I, Daniel went for a tension-
draining tea called Strong 6 (which the
menu suggested would melt your body
like butter), and I, Max ordered The
Empress, a Pu-erh purported to wake
up its drinker without the jittery tension
often associated with caffeine.
We sat at the bar in the loft, where
Diana steeped our tea in a lidded
porcelain cup, then poured it into a glass
receptacle, using the lid to strain out the
leaves. From there, she poured the teas
into our respective cups, and let us know
that there would be as much tea as we
wanted before leaving to address other
customers.
Our teas were indeed experiences:
Daniel’s was rich, earthy and chocolatey,
and Max’s was light and delightfully
mushroomy. The soft sounds of
conversation wafting up through the
plants drooping off the side of the loft
assisted the tea in creating an almost
otherworldly quality. It was supremely
peaceful; when we spoke, it was with
gentle tones, though much of the time
we simply sat in silent quiescence.
Once Diana returned to make us
another round of tea using the leaves
from earlier, we asked her about her
relationship with Fly Awake. She
expressed an appreciation for the
atmosphere of peace and gratitude the
shop tries to foster and said she enjoyed
discussing teas with customers.
“We joke that we’re certified tea
wizards,” Diana said. “[A] lot of times in
tea people will sort of take the title of ‘tea
master,’ but we don’t necessarily feel like
we’re doing anything masterful here. We
feel a little bit more like we’re making
brews and concoctions, so it has a little
bit more of a sense of wizardry about it.”
Regarding the purpose of the tea
house, Diana explained that it was the
owner Kevin’s vision that drove many
of the decisions behind the atmosphere.
“This whole space, I would say, Kevin
kind of created it to invite people to just
come and hang out and have dialogue,”
Diana said. “He kind of wanted to make
a place that he wanted to hang out in,
you know, that had interesting music.
He loves reading Tarot, talking about
lucid dreaming, and so tea’s kind of the
facilitator for all of those things.”
After a number of hours and more
cups of tea, we eventually forced
ourselves to leave the shop, calmed and
renewed.
The interior of Flyawake Teahouse, perfect for studying alone or with a group of friends.COURTESY OF FLYAWAKE TEA
Rose bush plots where the Rose Garden Restoration club has begu n to replant shrubs.LEO BERNSTEIN NEWMAN/THE MOSSY LOG
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
ARTS /gid00490
Mossy
Music
editorial
recommendations
"Into The Mystic"
By Van Morrison
I love the title of this song, because I
do not quite know what it means. The
lyrics of the song are enigmatic as
well, but I find them really beautiful
in a sort of tingly, goosebumps
inducing way. Plus, Van Morrison's
voice always moves me.
- Molly Robinson, Associate Professor
of French
"Dreams"
By Fleetwood Mac
I love the way Stevie Nicks' voice
makes me feel like it is spring. It just
has happy, clean, kickass vibes which
is just what you need for spring.
- Grace Winkelman '25
"Sunlight"
By Spacey Jane
This song literally reminds me of sun
shining through the clouds, waking
up to warmer air on a spring day.
This band makes music you cannot
help but dance toand this song is no
exception. The bridge feels like a hug
from the sky.
- Grace Marchant '25
"Lota"
By Angel Olson
Olsen says the song is about the
human condition and how you cannot
have everything you want and that’s
life. And for me that is how spring
feels, even if you do not feel ready for
life, it does not matter and things will
continue to grow around you and you
have to grow with it and be prepared
to change even if you wish you could
stay the same.
- Leila Diaz '25
By BURTON SCHEER
ALTHOUGH students could travel
far and wide to see the art on
display at the Hoffman Gallery, the
art department provides an exhibit for us
to view right on campus this spring.
This exhibit features two collections,
Assistant Professor of Art Dru Donovan’s
collection, “Scrum” and Associate
Professor of Art, Studio Head of Painting
Cara Tomlinson’s collection, “Betwixt
and…” . The exhibit opened on Jan. 26
and will be on display through Mar. 23.
Donovan’s collection of photography and
Tomlinson’s collection of paintings and
structures complement each other in this
exhibit, while simultaneously providing
unique insights into how different bodies
exist alongside each other. Utilizing
different mediums, both artists use
abstract compositions to convey conflict
and community.
When visitors enter the gallery, they
are greeted with a series of black and
white photographs by Donovan, which
add a fresh sense of bodily movement
to every corner of the room. Donovan’s
work focuses on how human bodies take
up space and interact with each other.
She explores this theme through different
compositions, poses and walks of life.
In her artist’s statement, Donovan
wrote that she challenges her audience
to engage with her works in a way that
does not assign meaning or context to the
pieces.
“The work offers no sound, no history
or purpose, and no entry or exit; the images
leave the viewer with just the impression
of a physical negotiation. Isolated, held,
and looped gestures create ambiguous
and unresolved exchanges for the viewer”
Donovan wrote.
While her photographs and videos
reflect a collection of different experiences
with life and relationships, they are not
a simple story meant to be understood
completely. Each image is merely a snippet
of time.
“The usual cues – context, identity,
motivation – allow the viewer to believe
at first that they understand what is happening. However, because the image
is balanced in a precarious stasis, the
viewer’s actual inability to understand the
root or cause of the gesture is common
in all of the work, bringing to light that
conflict and collaboration often coincide”
Donovan wrote.
While it is impossible to understand the
complete story of her subjects, Donovan
offers the viewer a representation of
nearly every stage of life. This collection
will urge you to consider the value and
beauty of every avenue of existence, from
cheer leading to parenthood, to rugby and
hospice care.
Walking around this first room feels
like growing up with her subjects. Her
snapshots of lives communicate how
important it is for people to grow alongside
each other. While she utilizes blank space
to center attention onto the movement
of her human subjects. In other works,
such as in “Scrum,” she eliminates any
possible space between bodies, which
emphasizes their connectedness. Very
few works in this collection portray faces of the subjects. This omission forces viewers
to consider the importance of other
areas of the body in conveying individual
purpose, relationships, and community.
After viewing Donovan’s work, visitors
are guided through the gallery to the next
room, which explores bodies, form and
composition in an entirely different way.
Tomlinson’s collection includes colorful
paintings, a wall completely covered by
smaller paper works and textile and wood
sculptures.
In an artist’s statement, Tomlinson
stated that her work focuses on how human
and non-human forms coexist and engage
with each other. She also elaborated on the
timing and conception of this collection.
“The work in this show was mostly
completed during the past three years,” she
wrote.
During this time, Tomlinson took
inspiration from our society’s collective
fascination, fear and lack of knowledge
around diseases and non-human forms.
“(It) was a time of protests, a time of
joining other bodies to actions, and a time for learning from and standing up for non-
human bodies and ecologies as our climate
changes,” Tomlinson said in the statement.
This collection is titled “Betwixt and…”
because it is an investigation into how
Tomlinson fits between these human and
non-human bodies. While many of these
bodies are constantly changing and fighting
against other forces, Tomlinson invites the
viewer to consider how bodies and ideas
can exist alongside each other. This liminal
space is conveyed through her vibrant,
abstract art and structures.
Although the techniques and
inspirations of these artists differ, both
convey the conflict and community of
various bodies in their collections. Whether
you are more drawn to photography or
abstract paintings and structures, the
exhibit offers an interesting experience
which challenges preconceived notions
about existence.
Students can visit the Hoffman
Gallery any day of the week from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. and experience the
world through another lens.
By MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
ON SEP . 28, SHOTS of deserted
plains and mountains
unassumingly end a half-decade
hiatus. In come the drums, then guitar
and a slow zoom-out on lead singer
Hayley Williams informing listeners:
“If you have an opinion / Maybe you
should shove it.”
This was the beginning of
Paramore’s music video for their new
single, “This is Why,” their first release
in five years. They released two more
singles each subsequent month until
the album, “This is Why,” named for the
lead single, came out on Feb. 10.
The title track is the opener and
presents a statement to listeners
that the rest of the album slowly and
thoughtfully explores: “This is why I
don’t leave the house.” This album has a
lot to address, with everything that has
happened in the world, in music and in
the members’ personal lives since their
last album.
Last week, the band posted on
Instagram, captioning a black and
white photo of the three members suit-
clad and moody with a bulleted list of
experiences the album hopes to explore,
including “Righteous Rage,” “Complete
and Utter Apathy,” “Moral Superiority”
and “Disbelief At The Inconsistencies of
The American-English Language.”
The next track “C’est Comme
Ça,” French for “it is what it is,” is
reminiscent of Alanis Morissette’s
“Reasons I Drink.” Both songs are the
laments of artists having spent decades
in the public eye now feeling it catch up
to them. Morisette emotes “The reasons
I tell everybody I’m fine / Even though
I am not” and Williams explores her frustration that “getting better is boring /
But the high cost of chaos, who can afford
it?”
The parallels between Williams and
Morissette are notable; both rose to fame
young, releasing their big break albums
at 19 and 21 respectively. Their albums,
“Misery Business” and “Jagged Little Pill,”
came 12 years apart, but were both full
of grungy, rage-filled scream-alongs for
scorned young women.
Written off as angsty teens, both artists
have careers full of depth and impressive
musical and lyrical productions and
importantly, are both still making music.
They are veterans for rockstars, let alone
women — Williams is 34 and Morissette
48 — and are releasing songs to match their
hard earned maturity.
This is the sound of 2020s angry-girl
rock: grown women, still angry, with an
adulthood’s worth of grievances to air.
However, some of this maturity is
tempered by Williams' oversimplified
reckonings with the new normal; “Every
second our collective heart breaks,” she
sings in “The News” before continuing
“Turn on, turn off, the news.” This
lackluster take on political polarization
is uncharacteristic for the singer and the
bite fans have come to expect from her.
Williams is outspoken across the board.
She has been a public advocate of abortion
rights, gun control and has spoken openly
about her mental health and experiences in
therapy.
Her vulnerability shines through in a
New York Times profile in 2020 preceding
the release of her first solo album, “Petals for
Armor.” The article is full of details Williams
shared about her reportedly “tortured”
marriage, abuse women in her family have
faced and various forms of mental health
treatment she has undergone.Less than a year later, Williams
released a second solo album, “FLOWERS
for VASES / descansos.” A stripped back,
acoustic album evokes the similarly
pandemic-era “folklore” and “evermore”
from Taylor Swift. Paramore, too, had
shifted away from its early 2000s pop
punk sound over the years. “Paramore”
(2013) and “After Laughter” (2017) saw
the band shed the skin it had maintained
for their previous three albums.
Her solo albums appeared to be a new
career phase for Williams, distancing
herself from rock and her band, but “This
is Why” is a return to both. The band's
Guitarist, Taylor York, elaborated in an
interview with TIME.
“We just kept writing and every
song kind of led us somewhere else…
we wanted to scratch this itch of playing
some rockier music,” York said.
With “This is Why,” Paramore the
rock band is back, with new maturity and
perspective.
Williams’ vocals are as impressive
as ever. “Liar” features soft emotional
vocals like those on her solo projects,
evocative of the members of supergroup
boygenius, who provided backup vocals
for a track on “Petals for Armor.” Other
tracks serve as a reminder that Williams
has been singing pop-punk for 20 years.
In “Figure 8” and “Running Out of
Time,” she shows off her higher range
and a grungy anger, complete with a few
powerful screams.
York’s crunchy guitar on “The News”
and the classic pop punk sound of the
guitar and Farro’s drums on “You First”
cement this album as a definitive return
to the angsty rock genre they helped
create.
Paramore’s impact on the new
generation of singer songwriters can not be understated. Mainstream, marketable
girl-angst is in, from Olivia Rodgrio’s
“good 4 u” and Billie Eilish’s “Happier
Than Ever,” to the flourishing alt-indie
scene with the likes of Fiona Apple,
HAIM and WILLOW.
With a new rock album filled with
their trademark venom, Paramore is
back and here to stay.
Fabric wall art creates unique dimension.
COURTESY OF ZACHARY GRAY/NME
Paramore band members pose for single.
COURTESY OF ZACHARY GRAY/NME
Still from new Paramore music video.COURTESY OF BURTON SCHEER
Multi-medium sculpture displayed in Hoffman Gallery in "Betwixt And..." exhibition. COURTESY OF BURTON SCHEERCollection of nine black and white photos.COURTESY OF BURTON SCHEER
Faculty exhibit at Hoffman Gallery
features multi-media sculptures, art
New Paramore album honors bands growth,
revival of rock & roll, pop-punk beginningsFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
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By J FRANK
STUDENTS for Cultural Inclusion
in Theater (SCIT) is presenting
“Pipeline,” a short student
directed play, in the black box theater
on March 17. This is Ruby Guzman
’25’s passion project and directorial
debut.
The play’s protagonist Omari,
played by Jonathan Newsome ’23, is a
Black boy who has had an altercation
with a white teacher and as a result is
facing an uncertain future. The play
follows his subsequent struggle to
figure out which path to take, where
he belongs and his relationship with
his mother, played by Sanaa Green
’23, as the two of them try to navigate
a school system that is not structured
for him to succeed.
Guzman, a co-leader for SCIT,
was encouraged by the President
Negasi Brown ’23 to direct a play
in the theatre department’s student
produced slot this Spring.
When Guzman’s professor had
given her a scene from Pipeline to
perform in her acting 2 class, she
felt an immediate connection to the
work and recognized the power and
importance of its narrative.
“I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is the
first time I’ve read a play that has my
voice in it. Like wow, I didn’t know I
needed that,’” Guzman said.Through this production, Guzman
wants to empower Black students to
get involved in theater.
“The goal is just for Black students
that are either in the play or outside of
it to know this space is here for you,
and we have a place where you can
make art,” she said.
Guzman spoke about the lack of
POC in theater, which has historically
been a white, often exclusionary
space. She described the experience of
feeling intimidated and out-of-place.
“The theater is a very white space,”
Guzman said. “... It doesn’t feel like an
accessible place to students of color ...
You walk into this all white space and
it’s terrifying. It’s like, ‘I don’t have
this fancy vocabulary that you have
from taking lessons your whole life.’”
This is a barrier to inclusion,
discouraging POC from getting
involved. Because of this, Guzman
said that inclusion has to be an active
effort. Through her production, she
aims to model how this effort is not
only possible, but essential, to bring
Black students into theater.
In addition to Green and
Newsome, the cast will feature Kenzie
Zubar-Williams ’25, TJ Muhammad
’26 and DJ Smith ’23. Guzman
enthused about working with this
group.
“Our rehearsals have been such a
wonderful, collaborative experience. The cast jumped head-first into the
project,” Guzman said.
In addition to empowering students
of color, she wants to send a message
to the greater community about
the importance of Black voices and
narratives in art.
“I want to say to the theater
department ... ‘look what you’re
missing, look at all this talent that you
are forgetting about,’” Guzman said.
“... We have closed ourselves off so
much and made our space so exclusive
that now it’s our job to go into the community ... We need to go out and
get people.”
Brown, Guzman said, has been an
essential support, providing resources
and mentorship as she navigates her
first time directing. Guzman is then able
to pass on this support to the actors.
“You have Negasi who’s like, ‘Ruby
let me create a space for you,’ and then
it’s me like ‘okay, let me create a space
for someone else,’” Guzman said.
“There’s just like, a lot of joy and
excitement,” Guzman said. “And I think
my main job as a director is to make everyone in the cast feel that they can
do it.”
Guzman is excited to shed the
spotlight on often-neglected voices.
“This story means a lot to me and
the cast so we are holding it tenderly
and hope that the audience will too,”
Guzman said.
Not only has she learned to direct,
but she has also witnessed the power of
community and theater.
“There’s just something about Black
joy that brings so much to your space,”
Guzman said.Student director makes debut with “Pipeline”
String Ideology:
Having a safe space to
create and play under the
broad umbrella of strings.Strings find home in new club to
promote creativity, stress reliefCommunity gets mossy
at terrarium workshop
Ruby Guzman, far right, rehearses with members of “Pipeline” cast. Guzman aims to create a space for Black students in theater. EMMA JOHNSON/THE MOSSY LOG
Students at String Club discuss preferred friendship-bracelet making technique.J FRANK/THE MOSSY LOGBy ANNABELLE BURG
AFTER A BUSY week of homework
and classes, students gather in
The Co-Op on a drizzly Sunday
afternoon, surrounded by friendship
bracelets, crochet and piano music. As
Lewis & Clark’s newest club, String Club
creates a space on campus where music,
fiber arts and debate come together
every Sunday at 4 p.m.
Piper Harmon ’26 started the club
as a senior at Cleveland High School in
southeast Portland, and decided to form
a new version of it at LC this semester.
“I was feeling really overwhelmed
with school and sports,” Harmon said. “I
wanted to have one place where I could
feel like I could just relax, and having
structure for that really helped me, so I
wanted to bring that here because I feel
like there are a lot of resources but there
isn’t quite what I was looking for, which
was a place where you can create.”
Harmon calls this “String Ideology”:
having a safe space to create and play
under the broad umbrella of strings.
String Club lacks any of the seriousness
that is so frequently found in art in
academic settings, and instead focuses
on the goofy and whimsical.
To Harmon, strings can be just about
anything. There are easily identifiable
strings, like embroidery, crochet,
knitting and other fiber arts, but one can
be far more creative with the term.
“We have had people interested in
string instruments,” Harmon said. “A
lot o f p e o p l e f o r g e t t h a t p i a n o i s a l s o a string instrument, which I like to
remind them. There’s also a little bit (of
a) silly aspect of it, which is like picking
random stuff that
you say is a string
for that day and
you try to debate
whether or not it
is a string.”
String Club
found its home
in the student-
run coffee shop
and venue, The Co-Op. Club members
can relax in overstuffed art chairs and
get coffee and tea from the volunteer barista-run Rusty Nail coffee shop. The
eclectic mix of strings is well suited to
the location, as many students sell
fiber art pieces,
stickers and
jewelry in the
space.
“They have
these open mics
where musicians
and spoken word
poets are coming
together and
sharing their art and people are selling
their craft in there already,” Harmon
said. “And so it’s already this place
of collaborative, creative energy that
lends itself really well to String Club.”
However, String Club has faced a
few challenges already. Harmon has
been unable to obtain official club
status. According to her, Campus
Activity Board said it is too similar to
the Handworking Club. Currently, the
club exists solely as a student-run and
self-funded group.
“Even if it can’t be an official school-
funded club, I’m still gonna have these
meetings because I believe in the
ideology and I think that a lot of people
will, when given the opportunity,
benefit from having this kind of safe,
maker space,” Harmon said.
At the moment, the amount
of strings provided by the club
is limited to friendship bracelet
material, but club members are
encouraged to bring their own
strings to work on, play music and
debate string ideology together. By PAIGE A. ANDERSON
MOSS Appreciation Week is
a beloved part of the Spring
semester for many Lewis
& Clark students. Throughout the
week, the Natural History Club (NHC)
encourages students to learn about and
enjoy the plethora of moss that calls our
campus its home.
According to NHC, it is their “annual
invitation to the LC Community to
salute our bryophyte brethren and in
doing so revel in our Pacific Northwest
habitat.”
Events often include keynote
speakers, workshops and the iconic
moss petting zoo, set up in the library
atrium. This year, NHC hosted a moss
terrarium building workshop as part
of Moss Appreciation Week. On Feb.
14 and 15, alumnus Robin Fujita ’18
organized and ran the workshop.
Groups gathered in the library entrance
and the workshop leaders outlined the
afternoon’s schedule.
Each participant was given a brown
paper bag and led toward Olin to begin
collecting specimens. The leaders
encouraged participants to harvest
from places where the previous groups
had not. Moss thrives in unexpected,
tiny places: below benches, in between
stones and in tufts decorating tree
branches.
Along with live moss, I chose
to harvest a small fern, a lichen-
covered stick and some small rocks
to add texture to the landscape of my
terrarium. Once we were satisfied with
our pickings, they led the group to the
library classroom where the workshop
was set up.
Each table was equipped with
tweezers, forceps, spray bottles and
other tools to organize and decorate the
terrariums. After an in-depth tutorial on
how to build the layers of our terrarium,
we were each given small jam jars with
lids and a free range of materials. The
club provided bins full of pumice and
soil substrate and extra mosses, as well
as decorative plastic frogs.
First, a layer of pumice stones
lines the bottom of the jar, acting as a
drainage layer and on top, a layer of soil.
Fujita encouraged us to create variety in
our landscapes, pushing the soil to build
small mounds or divots for our moss to
sit on. Then, before inserting the living
elements, participants had to add our
small rocks and stones so they would
not smash the moss.Finally, everyone could add plants.
Moss is a delicate yet resilient plant
that participants were able to harvest
in sheets and break into small pieces
without causing harm.
I began to layer cushion moss, a
bouncy and pillowy moss, along the
bottom of my terrarium, nestling it into
the soil with a pair of forceps. Next, to
build dimension, I added curly thatch
moss — a gorgeous Bryophyte decorated
with tiny sprouts.
Once I was satisfied with my base
layer, I carefully placed my fern in
between the two types of moss, making
sure that the roots were set securely in
the soil and added my lichened twig to
support the fern from the side. Filling
in the gaps with golden-short capsuled
moss and the occasional pebble, I
marveled at the small world growing
beneath my fingertips.
Moss thrives in wet conditions and
the terrariums need to be watered
regularly to thrive. Using a spray bottle,
participants moistened the sides of the
jars to ensure that the perimeters were
well saturated and then gently misted
the centers of the jars. In order to mimic
the damp Portland weather, the moss
must be watered every couple of days
and the pumice layer kept constantly
wet.
The terrarium I made now lives on
my desk and brings life into my dorm
room. Moss is a fascinating plant and
we are so lucky to have access to such
variety and abundance right outside
our doors. Next time you are walking
to class, gallivanting through Tryon or
even talking on the phone to your mom
outside your dorm, take a moment to
look down and appreciate the moss.
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By EMMA FORD
& ASMAA ZAIDAN
With the swimming season
coming to a close, the Men
and Women’s teams boasted a
strong performance, including multiple program records and numerous
swimmers advancing in the Northwest
Conference Championship (NWC) meet
that took place Feb. 9 through 12.
The men’s team placed 5th of 9 with
281.5 points, and women’s placed 7th,
with 202 points. Both results were in line with the all-season rankings held
pre-conference.
Aniqah Gaffoor ’26 and Jane
Tewinkel ’26 were named to the NWC
All-Conference Team, with Gaffoor
earning All-Conference Honors in three
events and Tewinkel in one. Gaffoor was also the first female Pioneer swimmer
to place in the top three of a NWC since
2019.
Five male swimmers were awarded
to the NWC All-Conference Team. With
swimmers Eric Norman ’23 and Micah
Rysavy ’25 returning after winning
previously. New awardees Zach Martin
’26, Michael Spicer ‘26 and Jonathan
Westlake ’25 were also named. The five
swimmers totalled 12 awards between
them, the highest number since 2020.
As the swim team closes out its
season, it anticipates welcoming a
majority of its swimmers back next
season to continue the hard work and
dedication of the 2022-23 season. The
team is pleased with the results from
this past season and the consistency
will help them improve even more next
season.
“In order to score in the Northwest
conference, you have to place in the
top six teams and that was really
impressive,” Rousseau said. “I think
it’s the highest we’ve placed overall in a
couple of years, so it’s awesome to see
that the program is getting faster and
that we’re really keeping all these fast
swimmers here and that’s really great.
And, I think a lot of I think we had
around it was over 85% of people’s races
ended up being a lifetime mess.”
Captain Anabelle Rousseau ’23
competed in her final collegiate meet on
Sunday.
“I was a little emotional on Sunday,
because it was my last races,” Rousseau
said. “... My coach had all the seniors say
something that they’re going to miss.
And I really was crying and basically
saying (how) I’m just going to miss
everything … I think sports is just like
such an interesting thing because you all
come together and work for just literally
one thing … And you all work hard for it,
and you’re all very dedicated for it. And
it’s just an awesome place to be.”Rousseau, who swam freestyle and
relay at the conference, attributed the
success of the team to its coaches and
positive dynamic.
“It was really awesome and really
uplifting because a lot of (the team)
had really great swims, and a lot placed
really high and had lifetime best,”
Rousseau said. “That was just awesome
– to see the great energy that everyone
was having, the camaraderie everyone
has had and just the excitement with
cheering everyone on. All of our voices
were so hoarse from cheering after, like,
four days because we were all so excited
for each other. And that’s what I really
loved about it.”
Other players also emphasized the
team’s camaraderie, such as Aiden
Ringel ’25.
“I felt really good and also, really
happy with the team,” Ringel said. “The
environment and the team are all really
supportive. Always cheering each other
on, and there’s a really great group
of people to be around for those four
days.”
Ringel, like many others, set
personal records competing in freestyle.
He also attributed team morale and
success to their coaches, in particular
Head Coach Murilo Martins.
“He’s a great coach, Murilo Martins,
and really funny — he makes us laugh,”
Ringel said. “And he’s a good leader.
And (working) for him as captain, I’ve
done a good job of hosting a lot of events
for the team so that we can get closer
and get to know each other more. Hang
out more outside of the pool as well.”
The Pioneer swimmers’ spirit and
devotion to a positive team culture
defined a successful end to their
competitive season with strong personal
and team showings. The final All-
Conference list, which will be released
later this year, is only one part of the
solid performance show all around.Ebb & flow: reflecting on the 2023 swim season
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
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By NOAH REESE-CLAUSON
BRENDEN PATRICK ’ 2 3 h a s
accomplished a career-defining
goal by surpassing 1,000 career
points with the Lewis & Clark Pioneers,
in only three seasons. His average of
21.5 PPG places him in the category of a
top 25 D3 scorers in the nation, ranking
23rd overall.
“That was one of my goals over the
years was to score a thousand, I didn’t
know I was gonna only have three
seasons to do it,” Patrick said. “It means
a lot to me and for my coaches, trusting
me for that long. ”
Patrick came to the program in 2019
and played one season, scoring 224
points in his first year — on pace to come
two layups short of 1,000. His sophomore
season was canceled due to the
pandemic, but after the break he scored
396 in his remarkable junior season
before reaching the milestone this year.
This season, the combo- guard topped
it off with his highest scoring season
yet, at 537 points, while maintaining
efficiency higher than that of most of
his contemporaries in the process, and
bolstering 50/84/32 shooting splits as a
6 foot guard who takes a steady diet of
heavily coontested shots.
Additionally, Patrick scored a career-
high, with a 43-point game on Feb. 10,
tying the Pamplin gym record for most
points scored. According to him, he was
still practicing team-first basketball.
“Whether that’s score the basketball
or distribute the basketball, just do
whatever my coach wants me to do,
whatever my team needs at that point
in time,” Patrick said.
A big part of his success and the
steady incline in points per season is his work ethic. Head Men’s Basketball
Coach Tim McCrory said he was
impressed with Patrick’s consistency
and leadership.
“In terms of my recollection, I
don’t think Brenden has missed one
practice, one lift, one team meeting,”
McCrory said.
His attendance is only one small
part of what Patrick means to LC
men’s basketball.
“For us, when you think of culture
and what the basketball team really
is, it’s Brenden,” McCrory said.
“It’s him on the court, off the court,
Brenden has two jobs off the court
and then he has the highest GPA on
the team.”
During the summer he wakes up
at 5:30 a.m. in order to drive to the
gym — about 45 minutes from his house — and gets on the court at
about 6:30 a.m. After his workout he
goes home, eats lunch, hangs out with
his family and takes some time off.
Patrick returns to the gym at 6 p.m.
to do his second basketball workout.
During the summer, Patrick also lifts
weights every other day, so on those
days he does three workouts a day.
In season, he wakes up for classes,
attends practices in the afternoon
and lifts with the team and squeezes
in time to perfect various facets of
his game. Patrick accumulated his
drive during his primary school
days. He was born in Oakland Calif.,
but moved to Danville (a suburb)
when he was six. As a result, when
he returned to his hometown — a
veritable basketball mecca that bred legends, such as Gary Payton and
Damian Lillard — he was treated as
an outsider.
“When all the good basketball is
where I used to live in Oakland they
didn’t give me any respect at all,”
Patrick said. “I always had to gain my
respect, I’ve always had to fight for
respect from the guys.”
As he has honed his basketball
skills, he has also honed his mindset.
“I had number zero, and there was
really no meaning to it,” Patrick said.
“It’s just how the sizes of our jerseys
work. That’s kind of your zero but now
I’m really worth zero just because I
said zero doubt. So like there’s zero
indecision when I’m playing because
I’m already prepared.”
Because of the pandemic, Patrick has an extra year of eligibility to
play basketball after receiving his
bachelors, which he plans to do in
grad school. That will not necessarily
be an easy transition, though.
“I’m definitely gonna miss this
place, miss the coaches for sure,”
Patrick said. “I wish there was a grad
school program that fit me here, but
I definitely do have to move on. I am
excited to take the next step in my
journey though.”
Patrick also wanted to extend a
thank you to his community here.
“Give a big shout out to all the
coaches and every player on my
team,” Patrick said. “Everyone has
their specific role and they’re trying
to fill it as best they can. Just keep a
look out for the basketball team.”Basketball senior reaches 1000 point milestone
Brenden Patrick plays in a game versus Pacific Lutheran University, helping the Pioneers secure a win 69-68.NOAH REESE-CLAUSON/THE MOSSY LOG
Scores
Baseball
LC v Claremont, Mudd &
Scripps Colleges: W 11-9,
L 10-11, W 15-7
LC v Whittier: W 11-8
LC v PLU: L 3-9, W 7-2,
W 15-11, W 14-2
Basketball
Men’s
LC v George Fox: L 74-77
LC v Puget Sound: L 75-79
Women’s
LC v George Fox: L 39-70
LC v Puget Sound: L 57-91
Swimming and Diving
Men’s
LC at NWC Champs: 5th
Women’s
LC at NWC Champs: 7th
Tennis
Men’s
LC v Whittier: L 3-6
LC v Cal Lutheran: L 0-9
LC v Occidental: L 0-9
Women’s
LC v Occidental: L 2-7
LC v Cal Lutheran: L 1-8
LC v Whittier: W 5-4
LC v UC Santa Cruz: L 2-7
LC v George Fox: L 2-7
Athletes of the Week
Feb. 8 - Feb. 14
Noah Nelson ’26
Brennen Davis ’25
Feb. 15 - Feb. 21
Kalea Kaui ’23
Micah Rysavy ’25By EMMA FORD
BASKETBALL PLAYER G a b b y
Beltran ’23, with the help of
Assistant Athletic Trainer Gina
Parisi, began pilot phases of the
Mental-Health Validation Program
(MVP) which is a counseling program
geared to student-athletes.
Being an athlete is a central part of
many student’s identities here on campus.
The long hours of training and hard work
being put into team or individual sports
performance weigh heavily on athletes,
but what goes relatively undiscussed is the
mental health of student athletes.
“Last basketball season I was first facing
anxiety and depression due to my sport,
and then towards the end of the season
I faced an injury that really affected my
mental health,” said Beltran. “Throughout
that time I had to scrape for resources
on campus, and this is when I realized
that there are no programs available for
athletes who are facing mental health
struggles. I never want anyone to feel the
way that I did, which is when I decided to
start building this program.”
The NCAA conducted a study in
2022 which found that rates of anxiety,
depression and mental exhaustion among
student athletes are 1.5 to 2 times higher
now than they were before the COVID-19
pandemic. Student athletes were more
likely to suffer eating disorders than
their peers, and the isolating effects of
mental health issues affected 67% of
respondents. However, only 45% of
respondents felt they had a safety net
on their campus where they could seek
mental health treatment or support. Many
felt their coaches or teammates would not
understand.
At Lewis & Clark, members of the
athletic department are looking to bridge
that gap. MVP began earlier this year
after Beltran approached the LC Athletics
training staff to conduct an independent
study on student athlete mental health.
“The program MVP was really born
out of Gabby and I’s collaboration,” Parisi
said. “For her for this independent project
and then for me, knowing that I’ll hopefully
be here for a long time, wanting to create
something that was lasting.” What began as an independent project
has since grown into a collection of
resources for student athletes. The project
is developing peer support networks and
ambassador program focus on building
up the athletic community. Coach “walk
and talks” are being implemented to work
further to build connections between the
athletes and their mentors. Ideas were
drawn from Beltran’s own experiences,
as well as the results of the study.
Observations highlighted the influence of
competitiveness and high-pressure teams
can be dangerous to the mental well-
being of students.
“As an athlete, there is the stigma that
‘showing tired’ is a sign of weakness…”
said Beltran. “This created a negative
relationship with mental health because I
felt so weak and isolated throughout this
time. I would say that isolation within
student-athlete mental health is not
talked about enough. So many athletes
are experiencing very similar struggles,
but as mentioned there is the stigma that
prevents individuals from talking about it.”
“While sometimes it might be a
crisis … or the emotional responses and
experiences that come along with injury
and also the day in and day out, just… being
a person and dealing with feelings and
dealing with an inner voice that maybe isn’t
so nice,” Parisi said. “I feel very strongly
about … offering empathy and creating
spaces where people can explore their
inner worlds and what’s going on for them,
and have that exploration be supported.”
As part of the study, student athletes
were surveyed about their experiences with
mental health issues, seeking treatment
and what athletics-specific services they
wanted to see on campus. Respondents
described struggling with negative self talk
and disordered eating patterns, for which
they requested guest speakers. Struggles
with injury and the isolation of recovery
were also common.
“While I may not be able to understand
fully what it’s like to have a season ending
injury or a surgery and come back from
that,” Parisi said. “I do understand what
it means to lose the sense of identity, to
really face hard mental health struggles,
and just the dissonance that can put in
oneself because it’s not physical. For me, I had to find my own healing journey with
it. I learned a lot of tools and skills that I
know have improved my mental health, so
I really want to help give that back. How
can I bring resources into a space that can
support these barriers that athletes will
face along their journey?”
As the program continues to grow,
Beltran and Parisi hope to bring in a
dedicated sports psychologist. While a
representative of LC’s counseling service
is now available in Pamplin once a week,
a sports psychologist is specially trained to
address the unique needs of athletes.
“I think athletes are humans, too,”
Parisi said. “(But,) it’s kind of this self
reinforcing identity. Just like anyone
else in the community or in the world,
when we are kind of struggling with our
identity, or trying to embody more of who
we authentically are, we’re faced with
the conditionings of our upbringing, our
culture, our environments.”
A webpage for MVP is currently in
development, and two guest speakers
from the counseling service with
athletics backgrounds will be brought
in this semester to speak to some of the
most common issues faced by students.
The pair are planning for an official
introduction to the program in late April.
The department is planning an official
introduction to the program for late April. “I have felt so grateful about the
support I’ve received from the athletic
department here and even the people
outside of the athletic department,” Parisi
said. “President Dr. Robin Holmes
Sullivan has been a huge supporter,
so has Yvette Clarke Castillo and Mark
Pietrock, who is the athletic director
— my boss, Jeremy. Everyone has just
been very open minded and supportive
of incorporating this and I am so grateful
for that. It feels good to be supported in
one’s vision.”
Beltran, who is approaching
graduation, expressed hope about the
future of student involvement once she
has moved on.
“Some future goals Gina and I have
discussed is to create a committee of
student-athletes who can continue MVP
when I graduate,” said Beltran. “I also
hope to continue being a part of this
program in any way possible, such as
checking in and providing any possible
ideas… An overall goal is to continue
opening the conversation of mental
health in sports and for LC student-
athletes to feel supported through a
program like MVP.”
MVP will continue to work with
LC Athletics to build their new
programs, and can be contacted
through the department.Student, coach launch athletics counseling
service focused on mental health validation
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Patrick models his focused game face.COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARKBrenden Patrick reaches career milestone, ties Pamplin record for points scored, shares story/gid00483/gid00484FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
If you believe the Backdoor, that is on you
By EMMA FORD
OUR STUDENT e m a i l a d d r e s s e s
(@lclark.edu domain for the
win) provide us with access to
so many varied internet services. From
official Google applications to academic
databases to any sketchy site that allows
you to sign in via Google, being able to
properly use your student email account
is imperative. For all you technologically
challenged social science, arts and
humanities students, we hope you get
good use out of this guide.
Username Not Recognized
Remember that many @lclark.edu
email addresses have two versions! One
uses your randomly generated lc2_-____
user ID, and the other uses your name. If
you have only tried one version, now it is
time to try the other.
Domain Not Recognized
Make sure you have not left an “l” or
maybe the “r” out of “lclark” – and that you
did not switch out the “.edu” for “.com”.
Your Username Does Not Exist
There is no record of you here. Are
you sure you have been here before? Was
it just a dream? Or are you dreaming
now? Pinch yourself and make sure that
you are real.
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mistake or typo. We all do that sometimes,
it is alright! Delete and type again slowly.
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make a typo in your password. This is the
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committed against good typing and our
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try not to disappoint me again.
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No, Try Again
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are having some real trouble, but that is
fine and we will work through this.
Yeah, Not That Either
OK, so, still not working. Sure, you
might be getting closer, but it should not be this hard. You log into things every day!
Keep trying.
typeException: Expected type
‘float’ but got ‘Null’ at line 196 in
verifyCredentials()
Someone seriously messed up while
coding your sign-in function. I do not
know what you can do about it from the
login window itself. You could cry? That is
probably something the programmer did.
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and Try Again
It is still a little too short a time since
the last time you tried, and the login
window has a longer refractory period
than you do. Please be patient, and see
if you can entertain yourself until it is
ready for another round. And no, it is not
something you are doing wrong.
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Please check the alignment of your
computer. If not facing East, please rotate
your computer and try again.
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Look, your login window is not
homophobic. Can you just pick something
simple, or at least not shove it in everyone’s
face? This woke password business has
gone too far!
Valid Identity
Your login window is disgusted by its
fellow login windows, and wants to take
this chance to remind you that you are
valid and loved. Your password was fine,
just like you, so go ahead and re-submit
the form, queen.
Your Outfit Clashes
Fill out the CAPTCHA, selecting
complementary patterns and colors.
Otherwise, you are not getting in.
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The planets are not aligned for you
to check your email today. Our sincere
apologies for the inconvenience, please
take it up with the firmament.
Password Incorrect – Reset Here
Alright, that is enough. Just reset
to one of the three passwords you keep
on rotation, and try to remember it this
time, okay toots? By FRANKIE SPURBECK
AT THE BEGINNING o f t h e
Spring 2023 semester, Lewis &
Clark College’s executive council
approved a new leash policy for men at the
college. The policy, in pertinent part, reads
“Male students must be registered with
the college and under the direct physical
or voice control of a female companion at
all times.” The policy further specifies the
appropriate behavior for men in residence
halls and classrooms.
The executive council justified their
decision in a statement released to the
greater community, writing that
“After considering a number of policy
interventions, we have decided that
implementing this leash policy is the most
enforceable and cost-effective way of
dealing with the recent surge of raucous,
uncouth and unacceptable behavior of male
students on campus,” the statement read.
“Also, we just want to clarify, it’s not a sex
thing.”
Needless to say, the policy has faced
a mixed reception. To investigate the
effects on campus, I strapped on my teal
collar (reflective, for the active dog), my
leash (green, a hand me down from the
family pet,) and grabbed my one “female”
friend, and we were off!
Carl Barx ’23 loves the new policy.
When I met with Barx in the Dovecote,
he was rocking a handsome red leather
collar with matching leash, popular
among classic, traditional dogs.
“This was basically what me and my
girlfriend were doing already,” Barx said.
“But now, I’m just allowed to do it in the
Bon. I really like it, actually.”
His girlfriend, Missy Morales ’23, felt
similarly, but did voice some reservations.
“I think it’s fantastic that Carl and I
can really be ourselves,” Morales said.
“My only issue is when I have to hand
him off for class. We have one class period
where we have different classes, so I have
to give him over to a friend. I trust her to
watch him, and he’s really well behaved,
but it does feel kind of weird letting
someone else hold his leash.”
I thanked Barx and Morales for their
honesty, and wished them the best.
Next, I talked to Jeremy Snoutz ’25,
chairman of the Meninist Student Union.
Snoutz expressed some concerns.
“I mean, first they’re making men
wear collars… what next?” Snoutz said.
“Are they gonna mandate neutering, too?
Circumcision is bad enough!”
This descended into a diatribe on the
evils of circumcision, to which I listened
patiently. After all, he made some points.
When asked if Snoutz intended to adhere
to the policy, and if not, how he intended to
voice his displeasure, he informed me that he likely would be wearing the collar, for
totally non-sexual reasons. He also gave
me his Twitter handle, telling me he’d be
“teasing something big” in the next few
days. The curious reader can find him on
Twitter (@lc_mensu). For an extra treat,
be sure to check his liked posts.
Even professors are required to follow
the leash policy. To get their perspective on
the issues, I spoke to Dr. Robert B. Pamplin
Jr. Associate Professor of Government
Jack Russell, as the leash requirement has
deeply impacted his teaching.
“I do understand why this policy was
put in place,” Russell said. “But the changes
that are happening on this campus
increasingly leave out considerations of
professors. My female colleagues have
enough work to do without having to sit
through extra class hours to supervise me,
especially at the very end of the day or on
the law campus.”
To avoid having a female coworker
supervise his entire class, Russell is often
tied to the speaker podium or a table at
the front of the class — his harness of
choice being a spiffy tweed, classically
professorial in a ’90s sort of way.
However, Russell, who is a pacer,
tends to walk out to the end of his leash
without realizing, resulting in a painful
tug on the neck and the occasional
tumble to the ground. This sounded
difficult and a little humiliating, so I
offered my sympathies. Had he ever tried
a retractable leash, I asked?
“Not yet,” Russell said. “But that’s a
good idea. Maybe I’ll pick one up on the
way home from work.”
Last, I went and talked to a critical
segment of our student body: resident
advisors. As the leash policy explicitly
includes communal kitchens, lounges
and bathrooms, RAs have a unique
enforcement challenge.
Mitten Mutts ’25 and Olive Oso ’25,
two Copeland RAs, reported that one
of the most difficult components of
enforcement was trying to determine if
an individual should be leashed. “ I d o n ’ t w a n t t o a s s u m e t h a t a n y o n e
should be leashed because of how they
look, or act, you know?” Oso said. “This
policy is a new way to explore how gender
is presented on campus. I don’t want to
get anyone in trouble for trying something
new.”
This was a good point, and something
that I, a transgender individual,
appreciated. Mutts agreed, and then
posed a potentially even wider problem.
“There really aren’t many women in
my friend group,” Mutts said. “So, even
though I’m nonbinary, I sometimes hold
my boyfriend’s leash, just because of how
inconvenient it is to always have to call an
actual woman I know to walk my boyfriend
home from the Bon or something.”
This, too, I sympathized with. My
only female friend is currently studying
abroad, so me and my friends had all
been getting walked around by our one
femme nonbinary friend. Anecdotes
from around campus shared similar
stories of nonbinary individuals bending
themselves back into the gender binary
so their masc or even male friends can get
out for some exercise.
Overall, I heard a variety of viewpoints
from people on campus. Since the policy
was implemented, reports of rowdy and
raucous boy behavior are way down, as
well as reports of squirrel maulings (both
by and of male students.). However, the
extreme nature of the policy, as well as
the wide brush with which it paints all
male students, has provoked criticism.
After all, some are good boys (such good
boys!). Student affinity groups on campus
are working with the student government
to allow any male student on voice
command being allowed off-leash on
campus green spaces.
As it seems unlikely that the policy
will change anytime soon, grab that collar,
clip on that leash (currently on sale at the
Bookstore and Co-Op) and get ready to go
throw a frisbee around on the lawn. Give
man’s best friend (himself) some love, and
extend your hand to hold (his leash.)By TY ERDMAN
AS STUDENTS m i g h t k n o w , L e w i s
& Clark revised their COVID-19
housing policy this year. When
my roommate contracted COVID during
the post-winter break surge, after testing
negative, I turned to my school for
answers like the naive freshman I am.
According to LC’s updated policy,
students with COVID are still required
to isolate, and therefore miss classes for
five days and continue masking for 10.
Roommates of those students, meanwhile,
are conveniently instructed on their options
by the school’s COVID-19 response webpage:
“If you are not at risk of severe disease
from COVID, you may have several options
for your housing situation while your
roommate completes their five-day isolation
period: If you have off-campus friends or
family nearby you are welcome to live with
them,” the school helpfully suggests.
I truly feel welcome.
“If you have friends on campus who are
willing for you to temporarily move in with
them, you are welcome to make that move.”
However, if you happen to find yourself
with a dearth of familial connections in the most expensive city on the West Coast
after Anchorage, Alaska – do not fret! In
what some might describe as a passive
aggressive tone, the school provides you
with more options.
“If you prefer to obtain a hotel off
campus, you may do that. All costs
associated with this choice are your
responsibility,” the page states. “You
may stay in the room with your infected
roommate while they complete their
isolation period,” it continues. “If you
choose this option refer to CDC guidance
on how to care for yourself.”
Linked following this statement is the
CDC webpage on what to do if you are
COVID positive. It is reassuring to know
that LC provides students with such a
variety of great, practical, options during
this stressful time.
So, I was left with the decision: Where
to sleep for the 10-day period when my
roommate would likely be infectious?
Now, after experiencing various less-than-
official on-campus accommodations, I
decided to share my first-hand reviews to
guide for students in a similar situation.
Without further ado, here they are: The
best (and worst) places to sleep on campus. Aubrey R. Watzek Librar y
A classic. The armchairs between
stacks are surprisingly comfortable. If
you push two of them together, take your
shoes off and prop those feet up, you can
almost pretend you are in bed, or back
in the comfort of the womb. The stacks
slightly block the blindingly bright white
lights which stay on 24 hours a day, and
impressively penetrate right though eyelids.
Your best friend’s floor
This is ideal. Start working on those
codependent friendships now, because you
will be glad to have them. If you are lucky
enough to have a friend who will lay their
mattress topper on the floor and lend you
a blanket while their roommate is gone for
the weekend. This conveniently resolves
this issue of the library closing overnight on
Fridays and Saturdays. I highly recommend
this setup – barely distinguishable from a
real Twin XL dorm bed.
Downsides include sleeping in two
sweaters and your Carhartt jacket and
still waking up freezing in the middle of
the night because your friend sleeps with
the window open in January. Just gaze
at his roommate’s wall-sized “NOBODY
CARES, WORK HARDER” poster in a daze until you are lulled back into an
uneasy slumber. Alternatively, take this
opportunity to suggest that a true friend
would spoon you to sleep.
Your overenthusiastic acquaintance’s
empty dorm room
Both of her roommates left for reasons
she cannot figure out, so now she has two
empty bunk beds and a triple room to
herself. Sounds ideal, right? Brace yourself
for being psychoanalyzed at 11 p.m. while
you wait for your mutual friend to get
back with a pillow, and then finding out
that friend and your host (who have only
known each other a week) are dating, by
watching them make out in front of you.
You will go back to the library after one
night. Be grateful it was only making out.
Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Ah, blissful darkness. Do not tell
anyone, but the doors stay unlocked all
night, and the light switches are to the left
of the entrance. Pick a pew and spread
out - the wooden backs even lend an
illusion of privacy.
Unfortunately, this proves to be the
most disappointing accommodation yet.
You never realize how narrow pews are
until you are trying to cram your entire body onto one at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday
night. Something always ends up hanging
off. Take your pick of which body part
you want to bring to the chiropractor
when you are in your forties.
The Tunnels
If you want the full experience, this
is an essential. You are already sleep
deprived, so who even cares. Note that Olin
closes at 8 p.m., so you will have to make
an early night of it, which works out since
you are incapable of holding an intelligible
conversation anymore. Lay down on the
wet concrete floor, down an entire bottle of
melatonin and hope for the best.
Well, there you have it. Our school’s
mission to encourage creativity and
perseverance shines through the new
COVID-19 housing policy. Thanks, LC!
Good night, and good luck, pios.Unofficial guide to COVID exile housing options
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