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Volume 101, No. 3

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2023-10-20

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Symposium co-chairs weigh in on efficacy of environmental education, describe use of online simulationENVX highlights capitalism in climate issues
By AMELIA DOYLE
LEWIS & CLARK’S 26th Annual
Environment Across Boundaries
(ENVX) Symposium began this
week on Monday Oct. 16 and ended
on Thursday Oct. 19. This year’s
theme was “Life within Capitalism:
Reconsidering Market Consequences
and the Earth System” and featured an
array of different events.
“Global challenges of climate
change, biodiversity loss and pollution
have led to narratives that identify
‘Capitalism’ and Globalization as
fundamental causes of environmental
degradation,” the ENVX website
states. “‘Capitalism’ is in quotes
because Capitalism is not singular nor
well-defined: It expresses differently
in different places, times, and
communities.”
This year’s symposium’s three
co-chairs were Kaylee Howser ’24,
Julia Einaudi ’25 and Grace Blunck
’24. Howser and Einaudi said that
this theme was inspired by Blunck’s
poll that students in Jessica Kleiss’
class took. The poll asked students
what they thought was the largest
environmental disruptor. Most of
the students chose capitalism as the
largest environmental disruptor, but
when the same question was asked at a GlobalPDX conference, many people
did not point to capitalism as a driving
force for environmental issues.
“I feel like it’s a very relevant topic.
We really wanted to engage with that
in some way and challenge students
and preconceived notions. Also just give them a space to reflect and explore
their own beliefs,” Einaudi said.
Howser and Einaudi said they
were driven by the question of why
students thought capitalism was a
driving force of environmental issues
today. They kept returning to the root cause of capitalism.
“I think that this topic is one that
I feel is popular among LC students.
I know just in my own circles, I feel
like it’s something that people are
really interested in engaging with and
speaking about. I also pick classes where we talk about capitalism and
different aspects of capitalism,”
Einaudi said.
According to the ENVX website,
the symposium kicked off on
Monday, Oct. 16 with a simulation
called CarbonSim. This event was
held in partnership with Elizabeth
Bennett’s International Affairs (IA)
340 International Political Economy
class. CarbonSim was developed
by Josh Margolis, who works in
the Environmental Defense Fund
(EDF), a worldwide non-profit
organization dedicated to protecting
the environment.
“CarbonSim is an artificial
intelligence … application that
teaches the principles of emissions
trading and brings markets to life,”
the EDF website says. “(P)rogram
results are driven by design choices
made by policymakers.”
The EDF website states that
CarbonSim allows people to gain a
greater understanding of the power
and the limitations of environmental
markets through a collaborative
experience. Ruby Schaeffer ’25
attended the CarbonSim game and
enjoyed the different perspectives in
the stimulation.
“EVENT” continued on page 3.
CAB shares plans for
spooky-themed Fall BallIsrael-Palestine conflict escalates
to war, provokes global discourse
By AVA FRISON
ON OCT. 7, the political
organization Hamas launched
a series of attacks on Israel,
causing destruction to Israeli towns and
killing thousands. Israel and Palestine
have long had a bloody history, with both
sides initiating attacks on each other.
Since 1948 there have been four wars
between Israel and Palestine, with many
more military movements. However,
these attacks are considered different
from previous ones.
“The attacks were unprecedented in
tactics and scale as Israel has not faced
its adversaries in street battles on its
own territory since the 1948 Arab-Israeli
war,” an article from CNN stated. “It has
also never faced a terror attack of this
magnitude that has taken the lives of so
many civilians.”
There have been tensions between
Palestine and Israel for many decades.
According to the BBC, these began with the
statement that the Jewish people needed a
national home and place of origin.
“This stemmed from the Balfour
Declaration of 1917, a pledge made by
then Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour
to Britain’s Jewish community,” the
BBC said.
The land that is currently Israel had
already been a target of Zionist aims
as Jewish people world-wide claimed
it as their place of origin where the
Jewish ethnicity began. However, the
indigenous Palestinian Arab community
had been occupying that land for
centuries after the Jewish people left. While Britain tried to create two
separate Israel and Palestine states, no
agreement could be reached between the
two groups and in 1948, Britain stopped
trying to resolve the conflict.
“In 1948, unable to solve the
problem, Britain withdrew and Jewish
leaders declared the creation of the
State of Israel,” the BBC said. “It was
intended to be a safe haven for Jews
fleeing persecution, as well as a national
homeland for Jews.”
Since then, Israel’s statehood has
been contested, and there have been
many shifting borders between the
Palestinian and Israeli territories.
The Gaza Strip had long been held
by the Israeli government, but left the
settlements that they had in 2005 in an
attempt to establish peace and military
disengagement. Then, Hamas became
the leading political party in 2006,
holding the belief that Palestine should
be an independent nation.
“Hamas wants an independent
Palestinian state, one that, according
to its 2017 manifesto, would at the very
least include the land Palestinians held
in 1967, a position Israeli governments
have long said is out of the question,” an
article by Vox stated.
While political factions have long
gained popularity on the ideal of creating
an independent Palestinian state, Hamas
is often considered a radical party willing
to use military force. Yet, Israel is just as
willing to match that miltary force.
This attack was unforeseen by the
Israeli government, as Hamas fired
rockets and invaded Israeli towns. “Militants from Gaza fired
thousands of rockets towards Israeli
towns on October 7, before breaking
through the heavily fortified border
fence with Israel and sending militants
deep into Israeli territory,” said CNN.
“There, Hamas gunmen killed more
than 1,400 people, including civilians
and soldiers, and took 199 hostages,
according to Israeli authorities.”
Israel immediately declared war.
“The Israeli government formally
declared war Sunday and gave the
green light for ‘significant military
steps’ to retaliate against Hamas for its
surprise attack, as the military tried to
crush fighters still in southern towns
and intensified its bombardment of the
Gaza Strip,” PBS said. “The toll passed
1,000 dead and thousands wounded on
both sides.”
The Israeli government sent air
troops over Gaza. In a move that has been
widely criticized, they dropped bombs
on the strip, killing as many as 2,700
Palastinians. Both Palestinians and
Israelis were injured in the bombings.
This retaliation has drawn extreme
anger as it is a collective punishment of
the Palestinian people, most of whom
are not aligned with Hamas.
“Israel pounded the Palestinian
enclave of Gaza on Sunday, killing
hundreds of people in retaliation for
one of the bloodiest attacks in its history
when Islamist group Hamas killed 700
Israelis and abducted dozens more,”
NDTV World News said.
“RISING” continued on page 3.By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
OREGON MUSEUM of Science
and Industy (OMSI) will be the
venue for this year’s Fall Ball,
held on Saturday, Oct. 21. The theme
of the dance is “Ghouls and Gowns,”
which means that attendees are
welcome to wear classic formal attire
or a Halloween costume.
Ian Ishibashi ’25, this year’s Campus
Activities Board (CAB) chair, shared the
process of planning this event.
“Our role as CAB for Fall Ball is
deciding the theme,” Ishibashi said.
“It happened to fall the weekend
before Halloween so because of that we
decided not to do a Halloween event and
just make Fall Ball the Halloween event.”
Vice Chair of CAB Emma Ramsey ’24
echoed this sentiment and expressed
excitement at this year’s theme.
“Picking a theme is always the
hardest part, but with it being so close
to Halloween, it made the most sense,”
Ramsey said. “We are so excited to see
how the student body dresses up.”
Choosing the venue, however, took a
much more roundabout route than the
theme decision.
“OMSI happened to be the only
one available to us at the time and it
would also be able to hold the capacity
that we average throughout the years,”
Ishibashi said. “Capacity is a really
hard thing to find for a venue in
Portland especially since they are all
smaller. We were considering the zoo
at one point but (it) had some events
going on at the time that we put in.” Ishibashi notes that another aspect
making reservations difficult is having
to work around when other big events
for the school are already scheduled, so
they do not have flexibility to choose
dates based on venue availability.
Unfortunately, despite efforts to avoid
overlapping the ball with other events,
this Saturday is also when Once Upon a
Weekend, a student-written, acted and
directed theatre festival, will be held.
CAB also had to make the
reservation significantly in advance,
further complicating the planning.
Ishibashi explains that the reservation
for OMSI was booked in August.
“Another venue we considered was
the Crystal Ballroom which we have
actually done balls at in the past, but
they were fully booked already. We just
had to find a good venue that will hold
the capacity,” Ishibashi said.
Despite their perusal of other
options, CAB thinks OMSI turned out to
be the perfect venue. Ishibashi points to
the unique combination of typical party
features and exclusive opportunities to
explore the museum.
“We will have access to three
exhibits that are presently there. One
of them is an orca exhibit, one is a
natural defenses exhibit about how
animals survive in the wild and that will
include about three live animal shows
throughout the night and the last one is
the natural sciences hall. But also it has
the normal fall ball features: catering,
live DJ and dancing.”
“HALLOWEEN” continued on page Vol. 101 No. 3 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023 www.piolog.com
OPINION
Student media fee debate
Funding shortages and fluctuations for
student media organizations can be
solved by changing the opt-out fee to a
mandatory one. PAGE 5FEATURES
Pumpkin patch experience
Family farm offers a festive fall
experience with complex corn maze,
hay rides, and near-endless pumpkin
selection. PAGE 6ARTS
Professor speaks on novel
Professor and author Pauls Toutonghi
spoke at Powell’s about the process of
writing and publishing his latest book
“The Refugee Ocean.” PAGE 8SPORTS
Exciting Frisbee potential
Artemis ultimate Frisbee team soars
to new heights of competitive success
and fostering a culture of love, trust
and growth. PAGE 11
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
If you got it, haunt it
Only eleven more days until Halloween.
You know what that means... witch better
have my candy. We hope you have fun on
the best fright of the year!
COURTESY OF ENVX SYMPOSIUM
Co-chairs Kaylee Howser ‘24, Julia Einaudi ‘25 and Grace Blunck ‘24 have worked tirelessly to create this year’s ENVX Symposium.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
NEWS 2
Community event
aids mental health
By OLIVIA FENDRICH
ON OCT. 12, the Center for
Social Change and Community
Involvement hosted an event
with the Social Change Living Learning
Community to engage students with
the topic of mental health. Students
gathered in Akin Hall’s lounge to write
letters to people struggling with mental
illness through a program called Letters
Against Depression.
Participants logged onto a website
where they could see people that
had signed up to receive a letter.
Each volunteer chose a recipient and
then wrote a two-page letter to them
discussing the recipient’s story, which
were included in profiles, and providing
encouraging, hopeful messages.
Vasty Jean François ’25 was
the primary leader of the event. He
highlighted the necessity of allowing
students to create an impact beyond
Lewis & Clark.
“We give the students an opportunity
to connect with these people and their
stories,” Jean François ’25 said. “It
connects students with people from
outside the LC community.”
Forging connections between the
college and the wider community is a
founding principle of The Center, which
promotes engagement in social change
at both the local and national levels.
At the event, students gathered
around tables, writing letters and
spending time with each other. Dahlia
Linkow ’27 attended the event because
of her passion for supporting people.
“It’s important to let them know
they are not alone, and even when it
does feel lonely they have someone
there,” she said.
This was the first event hosted
by The Center that Linkow had
attended, and she believes that offering
workshops related to specific social
issues may attract new volunteers like
herself to become involved with The
Center.
Marta Alpresa Balaguer ’27, another
participant, enjoyed how the event
fostered community.
“I think letters are a very good
way to connect with people and I like
to use words to express my emotions
and understand others’ emotions,”
she said.
Alpresa Balaguer made an effort to
get to know those at her table, using the
event as an opportunity to meet others
with similar interests.
She also agreed with Jean François,
noting that the event offered an
opportunity to try something new
within a supportive environment.
“This is a very relevant activity that
makes us connect with the community and
go outside of our comfort zone,” she said.That emotional commitment can be
the driving factor in making a difference
in someone’s life.
“Not only does trauma affect so
many aspects of our lives, but having
someone to read your story, to feel
like your story is being heard and have
someone empathize with you, feels
good,” Jean François said.
Jean François emphasized that
it was one of the most successful
iterations of the workshop since he
began hosting them.
“It’s probably one of the most
attended Letters Against Depression
events we’ve had in the past year,” he
said. “I’ve done this a couple times
last year and the turnout was not that
great. This year I’m happy to see more
people show up and more people show
interest and be a part of the change we
need to make in our community and in
someone else’s life.”
Towards the end of the event, Jean
François invited the attendees to make
their own self-care bags. Students
placed candy, face masks, stress balls
and tea bags into small paper bags to
take home.
The Center serves the LC community
by offering volunteer opportunities and
leadership development experiences to
undergraduate and graduate students.
“We have a number of programs to
prepare LC students and grad students
to engage impactfully both locally
and globally in order to obtain active
citizenship and social change,” Jean
François said.
The Center is one of the only on-campus
organizations that explicitly serves both
graduate and undergraduate students.
On their website, The Center lists
their key values as “civic engagement,
social change, and global learning.”
“Part of the center philosophy is
trying to uplift leadership as a critical
part of education here at Lewis & Clark,”
Jean François said.
To support this specific goal, The
Center developed L&C LEADS, a program
which aims to cultivate leadership skills
in students through workshops.
“We engage in a process of
intentional leadership development,”
Jean François said of L&C LEADS.
This event is one of many that
The Center uses as a way to establish
mental health support at LC and
nationally. In addition, they have
many other opportunities for students
to get involved. Upcoming events
include “BANNED,” a forum on Oct.
26 to discuss the attacks on Ethnic
Studies and Gender Studies which
will take place in Stamm Auditorium,
and a volunteer night at the Blanchet
House, a Portland charity operating
out of a cafe. More information can be
found on their website.
OLIVIA FENDRICH/THE MOSSY LOG
Students choose a recipient to write a letter to after reading their story on a website.Transportation survey asks for
responses, required by Portland
Mass graffiti across campus costs
thousands, frustrates adminstrationBy J FRANK
ON OCT. 16, the Office of
Transportation and Parking
sent an email to all of the Lewis
& Clark with a link to a Parking and
Transportation survey.
“Every two years, the City of
Portland requires us to measure our
progress in reducing single occupancy
vehicle trips to campus,” the email read.
Transportation and Parking
Manager Joey Zayas, on behalf
of the Department of Parking and
Transportation, explained that this
survey is critical for students to
complete, as it provides data to ensure
LC’s legal parking status within the City
of Portland.
“The Lewis & Clark campus is zoned
as a Campus Institutional 1 (CI1) land
use under the City of Portland’s land use
planning system. As a CI1 land use, we
are required to have a Transportation
Demand Management (TDM) plan. The
plan requires LC to perform surveys for
data-tracking purposes,” Zayas said.
“LC has had a TDM since 1998, with
requirements connected to certain key
benchmarks.”
The survey will be around 25
questions and should take about five
minutes to complete. While this is a
regular administrative task and LC’s
parking situation is not immediately
threatened, it is still important that
students do their part by filling out
the survey to make sure it remains a
non-issue.
“We have not had issues with
response rates and have always
exceeded our objectives. We do not
anticipate any issues with hitting our
objectives this year. But it is important
to ensure our students respond because
we are required to have a minimum
30% response rate,” Zayas said.Even students who do not have a car
on campus and are not concerned about
parking should still take the survey,
as the opinions of all are valuable in
forming a comprehensive view of the
campus transportation situation.
“It is important for students without
vehicles to complete the survey. The
survey is meant to capture how all
members of our community get to
school or work, including students who
live on campus,” Zayas said.
“Your input is crucial and will play
a key role in shaping goals and making
improvements,” the email said.
Indeed, the Office of Parking and
Transportation is always looking to evaluate
and improve transportation options to
better suit the community’s needs.
“I am eager to look for innovative
ways of spearheading the parking
challenges at Lewis & Clark College.
LC and I share a commitment to
sustainability. The TDM is a roadmap
that re-envisions transportation and
parking in an effort to ensure a more
sustainable world for current and
future LC students,” Zayas said. “One
of my top priorities is to have more
engagement with our community to
share our progress, be open about
challenges that we face, and not shying
away from feedback.”
Students’ opinions have the
potential to directly impact our
transportation options.
“The TDM plan sets targets aimed
at achieving the Portland Bureau of
Transportation’s (PBOT) goals on
climate change, reducing congestion
and improving safety and livability,”
Zayas said. “How we manage parking is
just one part of the plan. Encouraging
carpooling and the use of Tri-Met,
subsidizing public transportation,
providing the PioExpress shuttle,
maintaining adequate bicycle parking and communicating regularly with
adjacent neighborhoods are also key
parts of the plan.”
Leila Diaz ’25 agrees with the
TDM’s goal of reducing the number
of cars on campus. She hopes the
Office of Transportation and Parking
will increase the convenience of
the parking system while retaining
the college’s natural beauty. Diaz
recommends reducing the number of
parking passes sold in order to lower
the frequency of students from being
unable to find spaces.
“My opinion on parking on campus
is (that) it is very limited,” Diaz said.
“However, … I like that we haven’t
torn down a lot of the beautiful natural
aspects of our campus to make room
for more parking lots. I know that
there is no cap on the parking passes
that are sold and I do think this makes
it significantly more difficult to find
parking spaces. … The biggest thing
is limiting the parking passes that are
available to be sold, or limiting it to
where only juniors and seniors can have
cars on campus.”
JR Saling ’24, also voiced concerns
about parking.
“Campus parking can be really
hard because there’s so few spots, and
they’re usually pretty far from your
destination,” Saling said. “Even the
handicapped spots are often multiple
flights of stairs away from where
you’re trying to get to. Especially with
the removal of the Tri-Met bus lines
and unreliability of the Pio, having a
parking plan is really important. We
definitely need more space on campus,
and better accessibility.”
The Office of Parking and
Transportation urges students to
complete the survey by Oct. 27. Those
who do so will be entered into a raffle to
win a $10 Amazon gift card.
By OLIVIA FENDRICH
ON THE NIGHT of Oct. 15, two
unidentified students were seen
spray-painted messages across
the CAS campus before fleeing security.
The initial email sent to the
community the day of the incident
detailed the extent of administration’s
knowledge about the event.
“Shortly after 2 a.m. today, an LC
Campus Safety officer discovered two
individuals spray-painting a building
on the College of Arts and Sciences
campus. The individuals fled on foot,”
the email read.
Previous incidents have occurred
on and around Indigenous Peoples’
Day in 2022 and 2021. This year tags
referenced both the Indigenous Peoples’
Day and Israel-Palestine tensions.
Some graffiti described political
grievances of the perpetrators, with
one on the Frank Manor House reading
“FREE PALESTINE,” another near J. R.
Howard Hall that said “LIBERALISM
KILLS” and another on the wall of
Smith Hall reading “NO REFORM
WILL EVER BE ENOUGH.”
However, other messages were less
political. “IT’S YOUR SKOOL [sic]
TOO—PAINT IT,” read a tag near J.R.
Howard Hall. “GRAFFITI IS YOUR
NEW HOMEWORK,” said another near
Olin Hall. On Miller Hall, one message
read, “YOU CAN TAG TOO! CAMPO IS
BAD AT CATCHING PEOPLE!”
These messages indicate that the
students responsible were not using
graffiti solely as a form of political
commentary, but also as a means to
make fun of Campus Safety.
President Robin Holmes-Sullivan
issued a bulletin announcement to the
community on Oct. 16.
“Ours is a campus that values dialogue
and interpersonal communication, even
in situations of disagreement. Ours
is a campus that values empathy and
listening, not vandalism of our shared living, learning, and community spaces,”
Holmes-Sullivan wrote.
Associate Vice President of Student
Life Operations and Strategic Initiatives
Bill Curtis expressed his disappointment
in the actions committed on campus
earlier this week.
“The recent graffiti incident
on October 16 represents a deeply
disturbing intrusion into the fabric
of the Lewis & Clark community,
undermining our shared commitment
to the pursuit of knowledge and
understanding,” Curtis said.
Curtis also shared the school’s current
actions in place to address the graffiti.
“Campus Safety is actively
conducting an investigation, and
in response, we have increased
foot patrols on campus while also
continuing the implementation of new
security cameras.”
Holmes-Sullivan noted the immense
cost the damage will incur.
“To fix the damage done will cost
tens of thousands of dollars, funds that
would have been much better used to
increase access and support students,”
she wrote.
Curtis reminded students to keep
lines of communication with school
administration upheld, particularly if
any member of the LC community has
information regarding the graffiti.
“I strongly encourage any student
or staff with information regarding
the incident to share it with a trusted
advisor or a college official. You can also
submit a confidential report online at
https://go.lclark.edu/concern.”
Curtis noted the importance of using
community resources for healing from
this incident.
“It is crucial to acknowledge
and address the emotional toll this
incident may have on our community,”
Curtis said. “For those in need of
support, please consider reaching out
to the Student Counseling Center,
International Students and Scholars, and the Center for Spiritual Life.
Additionally, employees are encouraged
to access assistance through the
Employee Assistance Program, while
the Ombuds Office remains available to
all members of the campus community.”
Despite the incident’s impact on LC,
Curtis urges us all to use this moment to
come together as a community.
“Let us stand together, resilient and
united, in the face of such disruptions
to our shared values and commitment
to fostering a safe and inclusive
environment for all,” Curtis said.
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOG
Some of the graffiti has political messages.
Other tags are aimed at campus security.OLIVIA FENDRICH/THE MOSSY LOGContinued from page 1.
“I thought it went really well, I am
really glad the IA 340 class participated
because they had a lot of background
knowledge that helped them to engage
a lot more,” Schaeffer said.
Schaeffer explained that the
CarbonSim stimulation was an
idealized version of the world, but it
was interesting to see what happened
to people in the game with more
investments into renewable energy. In
the simulation, the people that bought
more renewable energy earlier in the
game performed better than people
who bought renewable energy later in
the game.
Bennett was excited to partner with
ENVX in this event.
“Carbon emissions trading is
political, economic and international,
so the topic is squarely of interest
to a class of ‘international political
economy’ (or ‘IPE’) students. I was
delighted to have the opportunity to
partner with the ENVX symposium
to offer students the opportunity to
receive the same training as activists,
policy-makers, executives and
politicians,” Bennett said.
Bennett also explained that the
simulation was an engaging and
fun way to learn and to think about
carbon markets. She was also highly
impressed by students’ participation in
the CarbonSim game.
“Unsurprisingly, the facilitator
noted that LC students were able
to learn and engage as quickly and artfully as professionals with years of
relevant experience. It was great to
see undergraduates engaging at such a
high level,” Bennett said.
The next event was held on Tuesday,
Oct. 17, from 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Yuko
Aoyama and Clarence Edwards gave
keynote presentations in the Council
Chambers, followed by a reception in
the Beth Miller Lounge in the Fowler
Student Center.
The first keynote speaker, Aoyama,
is a professor at Clark University in
Massachusetts. She is interested in
developing geographic understandings
of capitalism through a global
lens, focusing on institutional and
comparative perspectives. She has
researched wind energy, tourism
and electronics, and is interested in
technological innovation and cultural
economy. Aoyama’s speech was titled
“Variable Capitalisms: Understanding
Fixity, Fluidity, and Hybridity.”
The other keynote speaker, Clarence
Edwards, is an executive director for
E3G. He works on climate change
in US foreign policy. He has worked
on legislation for supporting clean
energy, and environmental justice. He
has served in the U.S. Department of
Energy. Edwards’ presentation was
titled “The Type of Capitalism You
Practice Matters.”
“I was surprised with the plurality
of support for an economic market
that equally emphasizes social
dimensions. Capitalisms are socially
enforced and as such, we must focus
on consensus building on a global scale to address inequity and climate
change,” Blunck said.
Jessica Kleiss, the faculty advisor
for the ENVX symposium, also shared
her impressions from the event.
“Both speakers emphasized
that capitalism is a system—a set
of relationships—and that it is in a
constant state of change,” Kleiss said.
“It changes over time, and it expresses
itself differently in different places.
So I found myself wondering about
the process of change, the different
ways to affect change and the ways
that individuals, like every audience
member, might participate in change.”
Kleiss highlighted some of the
specific language in the speeches that
stuck out to her the most.
“I heard the word ‘entrenched,’ and
I found that both jarring and enabling.
Jarring because it evokes a feeling of
captivity, that we are trapped in the
system we have, and it is too big and
has too much inertia to be altered,”
Kleiss said. “Enabling because it
removes questions like ‘Is capitalism
the problem?’ or statements like ‘We
have to dismantle capitalism to solve
the climate problem.’ Instead, it urges
us to find ways to work within the
system in the time frames that we have,
and that evokes a feeling of creativity
and exploration.”
On Wednesday, Oct. 18, from
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Fowler
Student Center, keynote speakers
Aoyama and Edwards held a Q&A. The
same day, there was also a panelist
event held in the Council Chambers.
The event focused on the challenges
and opportunities in the market for
renewable energies. The panelists
included Susan Bladholm, Olivia
Cowley, Mica Miro and Joe Wachunas.
Cowley just graduated from LC and
Howser and Einaudi were excited that
a newer, younger perspective was also
included in the panelist grouping.
“I would really hope that students
are able to kind of just have an open
mind to the … concepts within these
conversations. That will be through a
perspective that they have never heard
of or they agree with and get some kind
of emotional reaction out of them,”
Howser said.
Blunck also spoke to a vision of the
future in response to these events.
“I feel more optimistic that as
climatic events occur, social response
will reform market solutions that will ultimately begin to address some of
the systemic issues that arise from
our current application of capitalism,”
Blunck said. “Our market is a
reflection of our values and I feel that
environmentally consequential goals
will gradually become more centralized
in the future changing the variation of
capitalism we see now.”
Finally, on Thursday, Oct. 18 the
ENVX Symposium came to a close
with a waste studies art workshop
in partnership with SCRAP Creative
Reuse and the ReBuilding center.
According to their website, “ReBuilding
Center is a climate justice nonprofit
organization. We make reuse and
repair affordable for all, reduce waste
and wasteful consumption, and make
the best use of our planet’s limited
material resources.”
SCRAP is a nonprofit organization
based in Portland that focuses on
affordable environmentally sustainable
behavior.
Participants were encouraged
to bring a T-shirt or other piece of
clothing to mend during this upcycle
workshop.
“I’m looking forward to it because
I did the most work individually,”
Einaudi said. Einaudi and Howser were
excited about the involvement of
the LC community in the ENVX
Symposium through events like the
upcycle workshop and the CarbonSim
simulation game.
“I think it’s important that the
events that we’re attending are
reflective of the things that we want
our attendees to come away with. A
big part of that is engagement. We
really want to showcase through our
symposium …actions you should take
when outside of these events,” Howser
said.
Einaudi hoped that students
would attend all the events that they
could, and learn something new in the
process.
“I hope that they will learn new
things that they will continue thinking
about and engaging with after the
symposium finishes,” Einaudi said.
Einaudi reflected on her experience
of being a co-chair of this ENVX
Symposium.
“I think it’s probably been the most
meaningful experience that I’ve had so
far. So I definitely would encourage
everyone to get involved with a
symposium in some capacity before
they graduate,” Einaudi said. NEWS 3FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
Keynote speakers discuss practical social change
Speeches, panelist comment on economic policies, global environmental concerns, renewable energy
Rising violence causes
humanitarian disaster
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The Israeli government has also
ordered the evacuation of Gaza. This,
too, has received criticism, as moving
Gaza’s 2.2 million residents is seen as
an almost impossible feat.
President Biden flew to Israel and
visited Gaza. He has pledged aid to both
Israel and Palestine and encouraged
other nations to do the same.
“At Biden’s urging, Israel and Egypt
separately agreed to allow some aid
into Gaza and the U.S. announced
$100 million in humanitarian aid for
Palestinians in Gaza and the West
Bank,” NPR said.
The Palestinian government has
put out numbers on the damage
already dealt. They said there are
currently 4,821 residential buildings
destroyed, 121,000 housing units
partially damaged, 12,845 residential
housing units destroyed and 9,055
uninhabitable units.
The effects of the Israel-Hamas
conflict has been felt by both Jewish
and Arab communities around the
world as well as at Lewis & Clark.
On Tuesday, Oct. 10, President Robin
Holmes-Sullivan sent out a college-wide
email addressing the violence.
“I am shocked and distressed by
the horrible violence in Israel and
Gaza that we are seeing in our news
feeds,” Holmes-Sullivan wrote. “I
am writing to ask you to join me in supporting our students and other
community members with close ties
to that region.”
Holmes-Sullivan directed community
members toward campus resources.
“Staff from the Office of
International Students and Scholars
have already been in contact with
students from the region to offer
assistance and support. I ask that all
of us demonstrate the same sense
of compassion and concern for the
unique needs of these students during
this very difficult time,” she said.
Holmes-Sullivan also directed
students to mental health and
counseling resources and mentioned
that students could light a candle in
the chapel.
“Community members looking for
another way to express their support
and concern can light a candle for
peace and wellbeing at the Agnes
Flanagan Chapel,” she said. “Candles
are located in the foyer of the chapel,
which is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
daily, including weekends.”
Additionally, LC’s Hillel, a
community for the college’s Jewish
students, held a vigil the night of
Wednesday, Oct. 11 at the cobblestone
circle for those affected by the violence
in Israel.
“Our hearts go out to all who are
affected by this war,” said Holmes-
Sullivan. “We fervently hope for peace
to prevail.”
COURTESY OF ENVX SYMPOSIUM
ENVX co-chairs selected the keynote speakers for their expertise in related fields.
The symposium’s co-chairs reflect on and celebrate the culmination of their efforts.COURTESY OF ENVX SYMPOSIUM
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The orca and natural defenses
displays are temporary specialty
exhibits that museum-goers usually
have to pay extra to see, while the
Natural Sciences Hall remains a
permanent feature included with
general admission. The Hall is
currently showing displays on prenatal
human development, weather patterns
of the globe and geological formations.
The OMSI website advertises the many
features of their current exhibits.
“Orcas: Our Shared Future includes
more than 100 original artifacts and
specimens, featuring life-size Orca
replicas, fossils, films, objects from
popular culture, and original artwork
from the Indigenous peoples of the
North American west coast,” the
website states.
The other temporary exhibit,
entitled “Staying Alive: Defenses
of the Animal Kingdom,” explores
adaptations such as camouflage and
mimicry, venom and poison, speed
and evasion.
“In this gorgeous exhibit, you
can get up close and personal with 16
live animals and learn all about the
extraordinary tactics and adaptations
they use to survive—featuring hands-
on interactives and on-site animal
experts,” the website states.
In addition to free exhibit viewing
for attendees, hosting the ball at OMSI also provides benefits for those involved
in preparation and cleanup.
“I will say the venue is making it so
much more chill (to plan), as we don’t
have much to decorate because the
museum speaks for itself,” Ramsey said.
CAB has high hopes for the ball, and
widespread excitement from students
has been notable around campus, even
if not yet reflected in ticket sales.
“Lewis & Clark students are
notoriously last minute about buying
it,” Ishibashi said. “So far we sold about 100 tickets, but last year I remember for
Spring Fling in the last two days we sold
over 250 tickets, so it’s unpredictable.”
Purchase your tickets at the Student
Engagement desk in Fowler Monday-
Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m. for $10 if you are
an LC student and $15 if you are not.
Credit or debit cards, Apple Pay and
cash are all accepted.
“Everyone on CAB is very excited
to see how the students enjoy the
exhibits, and we hope everyone has
fun,” Ramsey said.Halloween dance party to occur in
OMSI, exhibits open to attendants
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Dear LC community members, allies
and fellow Palestinians,
We, the undersigned student
organizations, unequivocally condemn
the genocide in Gaza by the Israeli
Regime, and ask that Lewis & Clark
College Administration call the situation
what it is: Not a war, not a conflict, but
a genocide. We maintain our belief in
Palestinians’ right to exist. Not just to
exist, but to live freely, happily and safely.
Additionally, we share grief with and send
our deepest condolences to victims and
their families affected by violence. We
condemn all senseless violence against all
innocents, regardless of the perpetrator.
We could tell countless stories of
Palestinian suffering. Of mothers crying
over lost children, of entire lineages
eliminated in the collapse of a residential
building, of children too familiar with
the sound of rockets, of hastily dug mass
graves, of body parts strewn across
hospitals evacuated too late. We feel
the grief with us as we write this. But we
should not have to keep retelling these
stories to make a simple request: Call
genocide and ethnic cleansing what it is.
Since October 7th, Gazans have been
subject to collective punishment at the
hands of the Israeli government. Israel
intensified its illegal 16-year blockade of
Gaza, cutting access to water, electricity
and fuel. The Israeli government declared
a “siege” on the entire civilian population
of Gaza, launching a mass bombing
campaign that has killed over 4,200 thus
far, making this the deadliest massacre
Gaza has ever endured. The Israeli
government is responsible for dropping
over 10,000 bombs, as well as showering
illegal white phosphorus on civilians.
They target residential buildings, refugee
camps, UN schools and hospitals. On
Tuesday, we awoke to news of airstrikes on the Al-Ahli hospital, killing over
500 vulnerable, injured people. These
inconceivable war crimes in no way justify
the murder of Israeli civilians by armed
groups.
One week ago, Israel called for the
evacuation of 1.1 million residents out
of Northern Gaza within 24 hours. They
designated a safe route to the southern
half of Gaza, then proceeded to bomb
convoys openly carrying civilians. To
put it in perspective, Gaza is smaller
than Portland. Two million people are
crammed into a 25-miles-long by 7-miles
wide stretch, fenced in by Israeli apartheid
walls, making it the third most densely
populated area in the world. Evacuating
the North is impossible, a “humanitarian
disaster,” according to the World Health
Organization. There is no escape. Gaza
is no longer an open-air prison. It has
become a death camp.
Gazans have no warplanes, no
sophisticated iron dome, no military
backed by the most powerful ally. Gaza
cannot control Israeli water sources, nor
withhold access to electricity, nor stop
medical supplies from entering Israeli
borders. So, we ask: Who holds the
power? Who is the oppressor?
This is not happening in a vacuum.
The suffering of Gaza is a product of over
75 years of settler colonialism, of decades
of military occupation and apartheid
alongside Western complicity. Israel
has received 3.8 billion dollars of U.S.
taxpayer money as handouts, which has
left us with blood on our hands.The illegal
annexation of Palestine which began in
1948 continues today. Since October 7th,
the UN estimates that 1 million Gazans
have been displaced – around the same
number of those displaced in 1948.
Cycles of violence affecting innocents
on either side of the wall will continue
to repeat themselves if Israel continues
as is. The struggle of indigenous peoples
for liberation is worldwide: Indigenous
Palestinians are fighting the same fight of
First Nations people in Australia and all
the Americas. It is a fight for dignity, life
and land. Oppression breeds resistance,
and we refuse to remain neutral in the face
of genocide. Silence is complicity.
Amidst the ethnic cleansing is also
a full-scale propaganda war rooted in
racism and Islamophobia, depictions of Muslims and Arab people as “savages” and
“terrorists,” which predate this genocide,
are on full display. A consequence of this
is the murder of a 6-year-old Palestinian
boy in Illinois. Wadea Al Fayoume was
stabbed 26 times by his landlord. His
last words to his mom: “Mama, I’m fine.”
This is a product of propaganda that
dehumanizes brown bodies. We condemn
the hatred towards Palestinians and
Muslims in the US.
“Praying for peace” simply isn’t
enough. Peace is submitting to being
second-class citizens, to oppression
and erasure. Peace without justice is
tyranny. We strongly urge Lewis &
Clark College to join us in standing in
solidarity with the Palestinian people
and to issue a statement condemning
the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. We
also urge the wider community to join
us in showing up for Palestinian people
by joining us at protests, by speaking up
against genocide in academic spaces and
to elected officials, by boycotting and
divesting from businesses funding the
Israeli government.
In solidarity,
Muslim Student Association
Arabic Club
Feminist Student Union
STAAR: Students for Transformative
Action, Abolition, and Resilience
Gente Latina Unida (GLU)
Neurodivergent Student Union (NDSU)
Black Flag Book Club
Native Student Union
Cheer and Step
Queer Student Union (QSU)
Black Student Union (BSU)
Afrikan Diaspora ClubBy AVA FRISON
I CAME BACK from Fall break to
discover not a single parking space on
the CAS campus. Complaints about
parking are nothing new for Lewis & Clark,
as availability is notoriously limited. And
yet, though I have been frustrated with
parking at this college in the past, I have to
say I have never seen it as bad as it is now.
I live in the on-campus apartments,
which have no designated parking lot, so it
is already challenging to find a space that
is reasonably close to my dorm. I have to
walk, usually carrying all my bags, quite
a ways. It makes grocery shopping very
inconvenient. However, one day, I circled
the parking lot around the apartments
and found nothing; my plan was to park
illegally in the fire lane to unload my
stuff and then drive down to the stadium
parking lot to find a spot.
Ten very frantic minutes and two
unloading trips later, I drove down to
the stadium, circled and found nothing.
I went to the lower visitors parking lot,
circled and found nothing. At that point,
I was very angry and upset when finally
on the graduate campus through Gate 8,
I found parking, which meant another
rather long walk to my dorm.
I know parking last year was
particularly difficult last year as there was
construction going on. And I know that I
willingly chose to go to LC and willingly
chose to bring my car, but I’m still upset.
I pay tens of thousands of dollars to
go to this school and I pay another few hundred to have a parking pass. So why is
it that I don’t have a parking spot?
On the Campus Safety website when
you go to purchase a parking permit, it
forewarns you that “purchasing a parking
permit does not guarantee you a spot.”
This is an infuriating policy. If one
pays money for a service, one should
receive that service. It’s not “you pay and
you may get it;” you should be guaranteed
to get what you pay for.
So my simple solution is why not
sell as many permits as there are
student parking spots? I understand it is
extremely difficult to reserve spots and
that’s not what needs to happen. It’s just
that there needs to be the same number
of parking passes as spots. That’s what my
high school did.
My high school was in an area
surrounded by houses and had a small
parking lot. They numbered each spot and
then in the fall, when you registered for
a parking permit, you got a plaque with
a number that corresponded to a space.
There was a caveat that the number on
your plaque was not your parking space.
The number meant nothing, but it was
a way for the school to have exactly as
many plaques as parking spaces so that
they knew when the physical plaques ran
out, so did the parking spaces. I am just a
girl, standing in front of her college asking
them to do something similar.
This seems far more fair to everybody.
And at least, if you do not get a parking
permit, you are not wasting several
hundred dollars and can plan other
accommodations in advance. I think that
it is unfair that LC stands to profit off my
money when I potentially get nothing out
of it. Because currently, it is a probable
scenario that in the future, there will
not be parking on the CAS or Graduate
campuses. And what will I do then? Waste
the money I spent, I guess.
I am aware that I do not know
the intricacies of campus parking.
Campus Safety probably cannot patrol
24/7 for cars that are parked illegally
or visitors that are parked in student
parking or a million other things.
Parking is hard on the side of a hill,
and I have heard horrible parking
stories from other colleges. Maybe
that’s just life. But from where I’m
standing, LC can do better. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
OPINION 4
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.
By HALCYON ORVENDAL
RAINBOW capitalism: the
dreaded antagonist of LGBTQ+
college-aged socialists. Some
people talk about it as though it is
a cardinal sin—how dare the Big
Corporations use queer imagery
and flag colors during the month of
June and then completely back off
from doing anything to support us
after Pride ends? This is a totally
fair criticism, I say. My issue with
protestations of rainbow capitalism
comes from the subsequent complaint
that corporations aren’t engaging in
it anymore.
Basic economics—really, basic
psychology—comes into play here. If
someone you want the attention of
disapproves of the way you’re trying to
get their attention, you will generally
stop doing that thing, assuming that you
are a reasonable person.
A company, particularly a large
business that wants sales, operates on
the same principle: If nobody’s buying,
then why should they sell? If rainbow
merchandise isn’t being purchased
due to an outcry about appropriating
queer culture without supporting the
community, then a company won’t sell
those items anymore—especially if it’s
already getting hate from homophobes
who want this “woke agenda” gone from their local retail chains. If the target
audience is uninterested, and other
audiences are hateful, it’s a far better
choice for the company to just stop
selling these products.
Big corporations are not immune
to antagonism, and progress does
not come all at once. We’ve seen this
with queer representation in popular
media. For instance, in decades past
the media would primarily represent
the LGBTQ+ community through
little insulting jokes, or as creepy, evil
people who were bad-intentioned in
every way. Then we had progress with
implied queerness, or “word of God”
declarations by authors that a character
is gay, but they were prevented by
publishers for explictly stating that in
the book.
Now we have progressed even
further. We have “Nimona” and “Priory
of the Orange Tree” and games where
you can create nonbinary and trans
characters without it being a big deal
in-world (thank you, Baldur’s Gate 3).
There is still more work to be done to
get to the point where these things are
normal instead of celebrating every
time we have a queer character in a
piece of media, but these are huge
strides from the days of the Hays Code.
All this to say, change and support
is a gradual process, however much we
might want it to be instantaneous. It was a big risk for big companies to start
engaging in rainbow capitalism in the
first place—they would have done plenty
of economic analysis beforehand, and
the fact that it was an option considered
at all is huge progress from where we
were even 20 years ago.
It means that we are becoming more
mainstream and more accepted even
when it seems like queerphobia is only
growing louder. It means that we’re
a demographic that can be marketed
to openly, and that’s progress under
capitalism.
Am I saying that big companies
do plenty by engaging in rainbow
capitalism and paying lip service to
queer rights and there’s nothing they
should do to show support in more
tangible ways? To the contrary: If
companies feel ready to make the
sacrifices that rainbow capitalism
entails, they should also gear up to
provide more material support, even
if it’s something as small as donating
some percentage of profits from
rainbow merchandise to charities
supporting LGBTQ+ people.
Am I advocating for trans folks to
go buy a Target-brand chest binder
instead of their tried-and-tested, less
unsafe Spectrum or Underworks gear?
No—I’m not going to tell anyone to buy
things they’re not interested in, or that
have safer alternatives. That would be terrifically hypocritical of me.
But we cannot engage in booing
rainbow capitalism off the stage, and
then be surprised and disappointed
when it actually retreats behind the
curtain again.
Progress moves incrementally,
and we need to keep fighting for it. But despising others for putting us
out there is counterproductive and we
cannot expect everything to become
perfect all at once.
Take what you can get, show that
those steps are good for everyone and
not just you and then keep pushing for
more. This is the way we can effect real, HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOG
Progress for LGBTQ+ community deserves acknowledgement
Parking passes must
equal number of spots
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOGRainbow Capitalism response: Hypocrisy regarding any type of support for queer people is counterproductiveLetter to the editor: Violence
in Gaza must be condemnedBy MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
An open letter, a poem, a plea.
You, reader, have certainly heard
of raging violence in Israel and
Palestine. You, for whom Middle East is
synonymous with conflict, are passingly
familiar with the details, relying on your
values and ideals to contextualize the
headlines of stories you do not read. The
past two weeks may have been emotional
or confusing, a discomfort you have the
privilege to opt out of as soon as you like.
Last week, I went to synagogue for the
first time in my adult life. I sobbed and
sang and skinned my knee on the way
out. Bleeding onto my favorite pants, I
opened my phone to a reminder that I am
not welcome in my entirety, an Israeli-
American-Jewish-multihyphanate.
Posts, comments, texts, enmasse
declaring the worth of my personhood,
the morality of my nationality, the
injustice of my grief.
At a performatively liberal,
overwhelmingly white, uncompromisingly
secular institution, antisemitism is the
last acceptable form of discrimination—
the left embraces its caricatures, dog
whistles and scapegoats, denouncing
it only when convenient, only when
someone forces their hand.
At an illustrious ivory tower of
higher education, I have found a
community with immense capacity for
critical thought of complexity, except
when it comes to The Conflict. This is
beyond frustrating because I am beyond
frustration. I am mourning, I am terrified
and I feel abandoned by this community.
Behind politics, opinions, beliefs, is
a Jewish community that is suffering.
Fearing for our loved ones, for a country
some of us call home. Scared to speak
up on campus, for fear of retaliation.
Immobilized by grief for a far-away land,
exacerbated by antipathy in our classes,
residence halls and online. To untrained
eyes, each infraction appears small, incidental or obscured by gray area. I can
feel your untrained eyes on me, because
my eyes have been trained by years of
careful tiptoeing, around my identities
and politics and feigning neutrality for
my safety. I refuse to be small.
This week, my grandmother told me,
“Be careful.” She said not to tell people I
am Israeli or Jewish, because of stories
she has been reading of antisemitism
on college campuses in the States.
Antisemitic writing and action that is
being recirculated and emulated at Lewis
& Clark, because yes, dear reader, it
happens here, too. I could not make this
promise to her, because my predecessors
fought for my freedom from fear.
Not a day in my life has passed when
I did not have to make the choice to be
Jewish, visibly. Generations removed
from what the uninvolved view as the
last threat to global Judaism, to be a
visible Jew is still an act of courage. I
am desperately using what these weeks
have left of my courage to plead with you,
reader, to be kind.
Jews and non-Jews alike must, for the
sake of us all, choose kindness and tact,
two things I have been shocked to see in
deficit as a war is raging. Violence abroad
is horrific and unacceptable, and yet still
does not justify bias and hatred in our
community. Jews on campus are in pain.
We deserve and demand the respect and
humanity that is enjoyed by all our fellow
students, without asterisk, caveat or
exception. Anything less is unacceptable.
.יח דוע לארשי םעFRIDAY , OCTOBER 20, 2023
OPINION 5
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.By JESSIE SHAW
IN RECENT YEARS, there has been
an ongoing debate about whether
or not Lewis & Clark should ditch
the pioneer mascot. To some students,
having the pioneer as our mascot
embodies colonialism, as the term
“pioneer” is often negatively associated
with colonizers who stole land from
Indigenous people. While this reason
to change our mascot is completely
understandable, another solution to
settle the dispute may be to reinterpret
the mascot, as the term can apply in
numerous contexts that do not
specifically refer to settler
colonialism.
In a literal sense, a
pioneer is someone
who discovers
something new.
While the first
thought of a pioneer
would pop up as an
explorer or colonizer
who “discovers” land, it
can also apply to an inventor, a
philosopher, a scientist, a student
or anyone who develops, tries or
finds something new, whether that is
an invention or an idea. Furthermore,
the term can also apply to a member of
an infantry group preparing roads or
terrain for the main body of soldiers.
Honestly, I would feel honored to
be called a “pioneer” if I invented
something new, came up with a new
idea or were someone on the front
lines who prepared roads for our
troops. However, whoever decided to
make the pioneer our mascot did not
consider the other meanings behind
the term.
The problem is that our mascot was
created based on settler colonialism, in
accordance with the historic meaning
of the school’s name. When the pioneer
was chosen as the school mascot, it was obvious that it was created in reference
to explorers who pillaged Indigenous
land and were responsible for the
mass genocide of Indigenous people.
Because of this dark association, it is
reasonable for students to consider the
pioneer a racist mascot.
However, it is worth noting that
there is an abundance of college and
professional sports mascots that may
not seem too controversial and can still
be negatively associated with genocide,
imperialism or other forms of violence.
One example is the Major League
Baseball team the San Diego Padres,
which I am a big fan of since I am
from San Diego. Although
the vast majority of San
Diegans, like me, are
generally unbothered
by its name, the
Padres are not entirely
free from negative
connotations. After
all, the Padres refer
to the Spanish friars
who founded the
historic Mission San Diego
de Alcalá as the foundation
of San Diego, who also forcefully
converted the native Kumeyaay tribe
to Christianity. Despite this, the team
name still lacks accusations of glorifying
imperialism, as San Diego is home to a
significant Catholic community.
To conclude, I think it is worth
considering keeping the pioneer as
our mascot, yet repurposing it with
a more positive connotation through
rebranding. It can refer to us students
as we come to LC to learn, find or try
new things. However, I would not
have a problem if LC decides to change
the mascot if too many students
and faculty are uncomfortable with
having the pioneer as our mascot.
If reinterpreting our mascot is not
enough to satisfy the student body,
LC has every right to change it.
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By CORRINA CHAN
ONCE WE GET to a certain age,
we hear this saying over and over
from adults: “You are too old to
do that! It is only for kids!” We hear it in
reference to playing on a playground or
having toys or stuffed animals or even
trick-or-treating on Halloween. When
we get older though, do we really have
to give up the carefree fun that we had
when we were little? Is it necessary to
subject ourselves to the “all work and
no play” grind that so many adults
subscribe to?
Absolutely not. In fact, I still feel
like a kid inside. College is a major
life transition that takes us away from
the oversight of parents and gives us
so much more autonomy. We can go
wherever we want when we want, save
and spend our money how we want and
go and see anything we want without
having to ask for permission.
Because of that, combined with a
little something called a pandemic,
people now feel as if time has stopped, or
they have skipped over a critical period
of growing up. We feel younger than
we are, and we really have something
interesting—a strange mixture of
emerging adulthood combined with
the feeling of stopped time that the
pandemic brought on.
This is the freedom our kid-selves
have always dreamed of, but, for most of
us, without the heavier responsibilities
of holding down a job or supporting a
family. This is the time that we have to
enjoy the freedom of college along with
the giggly fun that comes from still
feeling like a kid.
If you never had the opportunity to
agonize over your costume or to dress
up with friends and experience all the
seasonal Halloween horror and fun,
now is the time to do it. Eat all that
candy, watch those scary movies, laugh
and have fun with your friends and
neighbors just like you did when you
were little. With all the stress of exams,
applications and college drama, having
a designated night to have a little fun
can be liberating.
So who can tell us “No! You are
an adult now! Act like one”? Student
Engagement? Our professors? Of course
not. In fact, they actively encourage
and participate in this whimsical
fun that we have on campus. In fact,
Student Engagement promotes a trick-
or-treat around campus event. Ask
around and you’ll hear professor lore
of all the bizarre, funny things they’ve
done both inside and outside of the
classroom. I once replaced myself with
a Pokemon substitute doll in class to go
to the bathroom and I came back to a
worksheet tucked under it with a pencil
placed gently in its hand.
Read the weekly Bark and you’ll see
all the Trivia nights, dog petting events,
scavenger hunts and trick-or-treating
that Lewis & Clark has to offer us. Tell me
if they’re doing this just for the children.
So dress up and go to a ball, dress up
as a weird yellow creature for Gaming
Society, scavenger hunt with your
friends, do karaoke, win prizes and go to
events on campus. Check out the “Ghouls
and Gowns” themed fall ball and don’t be
afraid to wear your spookiest costume.
Live your life as you want to and not as
that boring old adult who tells you that
Halloween is only for kids. Letter to the editor:
being visibly IsraeliHalloween
fun should
be agelessInstead of changing
mascot, reinterpet it
By EMMA FORD
AT LEWIS & CLARK, students get
charged a lot in fees tacked onto
tuition—this is no secret. One of
those sneaky little fees is an opt-out fee of
$20 a semester called the Student Media
Fee that funds student media groups
like annual publications, (Pause.), the
radio station (KPH) and us here at The
Mossy Log. But for a variety of reasons,
that media fee has yielded a far smaller
budget than years past. For student
media, this poses a huge problem.
LC is too often derided for lack of
student engagement and an apathetic
student population. This can ring true
sometimes, but we still have a vibrant
campus community with engaged
and bright students, many of whom
enthusiastically participate in their chosen
ways. Every group on campus thinks of
itself as important, and they should! We are a mosaic of student groups, clubs,
teams, projects and organizations,
where every tile contributes to the
colorful picture of our school. I may
be a cynic in many respects, yet the
earnestness of each event never fails
to be touching to me. In the case of
student media groups, I find this to
be especially true.
Allow me to explain what goes
into being in a student media group.
As an editor at The Mossy Log, I
spend many hours out of my week
doing difficult, creative work editing,
writing, planning and designing in
a wholly student-led environment.
While I adore our faculty advisor, I
was recruited, trained and guided
by students. Under their leadership,
I have learned new skills and grown
into my own leadership position
of section editor. Our commitment
to the publication we joined is also a commitment to each other as
students, and one to which we hold
each other accountable.
The commitment is not negligible.
We have leadership and general
contributor meetings every week.
We spend hours of our free time
researching, interviewing, writing,
editing, sending emails, taking photos
and much more. Laying out our paper
is an all-night event—once every other
week we spend our entire Wednesday
evening well into the wee hours of
the morning on Adobe InDesign and
Photoshop. We then distribute and
table for our paper every other Friday.
These commitments are done for
little recognition or pay. The Mossy Log
was incredibly fortunate to be ranked
the #21 student newspaper in the
country by the Princeton Review, but we
do our work with no expectation of such
accolades. And when it comes to pay, we
are certainly lucky to receive any form of
stipend, but we do far more work day-in
and day-out than we are compensated
for, as I am sure every student involved
in an organization feels.
The Mossy Log is hardly the only
student media group on this campus.
We are joined by the radio station (KPH)
and seven annual student publications.
These groups work exceptionally hard
on their chosen projects, and in the
case of annual publications (Palatine
Hill Review, Synergia, (Pause.),
artEXPO, Living Mosaic, Polyglot
and The Meridian), they do so for no
stipend. They are driven, passionate
students who make our school better,
and they ought to be commended and
compensated for their work.
It would be completely inaccurate
to say that students participate in
student media for pay. But monetary
recognition helps motivate the hours of work and expertise required to be
involved in these organizations. Student
media develops expertise in media
production, organizational participation,
communication and various marketable
softwares. There is a simple way to
increase or start offering student
compensation.
The Student Media Fee should no
longer be an opt-out fee. It poses no
great financial imposition in the grand
scheme of costs at this school, yet any
student, regardless of payment status, is
allowed to consume any student media
they choose and participate in it. While I
certainly have no illusion that I do what I
do only for those who pay, I still ask that
if there is such a small way to support
myself and my fellow media participants
that it be done.
A common complaint is that our
student body does not show up and
show out for itself, supporting campus
events, but this has always struck me
as unfair. As college students who
are flexing our independence and
laboring under the weight of numerous
expectations and responsibilities, I
believe that LC student groups still
draw keen, engaged and passionate
students. As such, we ALL deserve to be
funded and paid.
Even if my call is not heard, and the
administration does not make the fee
compulsory, I ask anyone who reads
this to make sure you pay your media
fee next semester. Our budgets have
been slashed, and we want to keep doing
what we are doing, but it is getting hard.
Outside of the Mossy Log, students are
not yet being paid who deserve to be.
Consider supporting them even if you
never again read a publication or tune
into KPH. $40 may not be much to you
when paying tuition, but it means the
world to us.
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOG
winslow morgan/the m
ossy logFRIDAY , OCTOBER 20, 2023
FEATURES 6
By KAI MERMIS-CAVA
OVER THE FALL break weekend,
I visited the pumpkin patch at
Bella Organic Farm on Sauvie
Island. The farm is family-run and
features year-round fruit picking events
alongside their seasonal festivities.
During autumn, in celebration of
Halloween, they open a corn maze and a
pumpkin patch where you can pick your
own personable squash.
Pulling into the parking lot, you
are immediately greeted by large bins
filled with pumpkins of different colors,
shapes and textures—as many as anyone
could possibly think of. Accompanying
the pumpkin bins, there are a variety
of booths selling food and drinks,
including fall classics such as cider,
hot chocolate and a variety of caramel
apples. Other snacks include oversized
cookies, kettle corn, french fries and
corndogs, all of which are delicious on
a chilly autumn afternoon. For adults,
the farm also sells wine, hard cider and
beer.
Every year, the farm opens their
corn maze, which visitors can buy
tickets to and explore. Once you have
bought a ticket, there are hidden
checkpoints throughout the maze, with
multiple levels of difficulty, making it
engaging for all ages. The maze at Bella
Organic Farms boasts a different design and message each year. This year, the
message carved into the corn field was,
“No More Silence, End Gun Violence,”
formed by the paths of the maze.
Prices for regular corn maze tickets
are $10 during the day , and increase to
$12 after 6 p.m. However, Bella Organic
Farms also has an event called the
haunted corn maze which is open every
Friday and Saturday night in October,
and costs vary depending on the day.
October 6 and October 27 are $30,
October 7, 13, 20 and 28 are $35, and
October 14 and 21 are $40. Though I did
not explore the haunted corn maze, the
regular corn maze was quite enjoyable.
It was very easy to get lost, but I had a
fun time wandering around, trying to
figure out where I was.
Easily the best part of visiting
the farm was the pumpkin patch.
After lining up to get on the hay ride,
groups are driven out to the pumpkin
patch, which is huge. Pumpkins cover
the rolling hills as far as the eye can
see. You could absolutely wander
for ages, searching for the best
pumpkin. Every few steps I found an
even better pumpkin than the one I
had found previously, and it was a
struggle to pick which ones I wanted
to take home.
Once you have found the
pumpkins you want, you return to
the farm via the hay ride to pay for your new autumnal friend. The prices
are reasonable, ranging from $2 to
around $20 depending on the size of
the pumpkin. After trekking through
the field, you will likely be covered
in mud (I definitely was!) and so will
your pumpkins, so beware of dirtying
your car on the drive home. Despite
the mess, it was absolutely worth it.
The prices for the pumpkins
and the corn maze are fair, and the
events were fun. The prices for food
are on the higher end, so any college
students with a tight budget may
want to eat ahead of time or bring
their own snacks. The food was tasty
though, so one or two treats may
be worth it for the full experience.
Many of Portland’s pumpkin patches
are independent and family-run
businesses, so high prices support
these small businesses.
As a whole, the pumpkin patch
was enjoyable and festive, and I
would recommend it to students who
want to get in the spirit of Halloween.
Many events catered to younger
children, but that doesn’t mean
college kids and adults can’t have
fun as well. Whether you bring a few
friends and get lost in the maze, or go
hunting for the perfect pumpkin out
in the patch, an afternoon at Bella
Organic Farms will leave you satisfied
with seasonal joy. By MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN &
PAIGE A. ANDERSON
THE MEAL PLAN is the saving
grace of college students across
the nation: Dorm kitchens are
inhospitable, groceries are excessively
expensive but the pre-paid meal plan
is, well, there. While our campus has
other dining selections, including flex
points at the Marketplace, drinks and
snacks at the Dovecote and meal service
at the Trailroom, Fields Dining Hall,
colloquially known as the Bon, is our
steadfast, reliable source for all things
dining, open seven days a week.
College dining is no picnic, but
we are here to help you improve your
experience and make the most of your
expensive meal plan. Here are The
Mossy Log’s Bon hacks!
Go early, go often
The Bon opens at 5 p.m. for dinner.
Though for some, myself included, 5
p.m. constitutes more of a late lunch
than an appropriate dinner time, many
of my fellow Bon-goers find this a
perfectly acceptable mealtime.
The Bon is a Hobbesian battlefield.
Your classmates, roommates and
former hookups are your direct
competition. If you are not there to take
the last chocolate chip cookie, someone
else will.
Even if your appetite is still satiated
at this time, take the opportunity to
grab an after school snack of sorts
in the form of a bagel, fruit or pastry
while loading up an Eco Container to-
go box with your real dinner to eat at
a more reasonable, European-inspired
7:30 p.m.
Additionally, use up those meal
swipes! Skipping one or two a week
feels inevitable to some, but think of
all the benefits you are missing out on.
Coffee from a plastic mug is still better
than nothing when you have used up all
your flex points on lavender oat milk
lattes just because it makes you laugh
to see LOL on the cup.
The Bon is your grocery store
We at the Mossy Log do not
condone stealing, but acknowledge that
this line is blurred in a serve-yourself
cafeteria setting. Dishware, furniture
and appliances belong to the dining hall
(please do not Tragedy of the Commons
us. I hate plastic forks), but self-serve
ingredients are totally fair game.
I get tons of my perishables at the
Bon. Not once have I paid for milk,
cream cheese or leafy greens since I
started at LC, and neither should you!
A Bon inspired recipe: Elevated
boxed mac ‘n’ cheese
A personal favorite hack of mine is
taking this classic to new heights. Boxed
mac ‘n’ cheese is easy, predictable and a
comforting college staple. Try adding in
milk from the cereal bar, cheese from
the deli bar and some veggies from the
salad bar. Broccoli is a favorite of mine
for flavor and color, and carrots add a nice crunch. Throwing in some spinach
also does not hurt, and I know my mom
is proud of me every time I do.
Salad bar creativity
One of my favorite sections of the
Bon and one that can be greatly taken
advantage of is the salad bar. During
mornings, yogurt, fruit and granola can
be combined to create a wonderfully
light parfait or to add a fresh fruit
component alongside the bagels that
you eat six times a week.
As a vegetarian, I often find it
difficult to find good boosts of protein
when I get tired of the endless tofu and
soy curls, but the toasted sunflower
seeds add a deliciously healthy and salty
crunch to every salad I make. The black
olives, artichoke hearts and edamame
beans all together on top of your
lettuce of choice, tied in with a fruity
vinaigrette is a consistent, reliable and
enjoyable way to get your veggies in.
Bon bagel sandwiches are a
revolutionary way to make the most of
the toast bar and the salad section. With
the recent addition of hummus, I have
gotten really creative with how much
I can stuff into a toasted everything
bagel, piling it with lettuce, cheese, red
onion and scrambled eggs and some for
a filling, satisfactory weekend brunch.
Alongside Gatorade, it makes for the
best Saturday morning recovery meal.
Not a Dessert Desert
There are many ways to end one’s
bon meal with a satisfying sweet
treat, even when it’s 7:45 p.m. and the
delicious carrot cake has long been
gobbled up. One of my favorite ways to
mimic my favorite desserts from home
is to get creative with what is offered.
With a to-go cup full of ice cream,
I take the walk of shame to the milk
dispenser and fill up the remaining
space with 2%. Hurriedly leaving the
Bon, I mix the ice cream and milk
together to create either soft serve or
a milkshake, depending on the ratio.
If you are feeling extra creative, you
can top off your creation with pieces of
cookie or cereal to add a nice crunch to
your cold treat.
When the Bon offers apple pie bars
or berry bars, two of the best options
available, you can make them into
more of a desert by mixing them with
vanilla ice cream, emulating a slice
of homemade pie a la mode, with the
convenience of the dining hall.
Not just what the Bon can do
for you…
The ever-controversial Bon is,
after all, our one and only full-service
dining hall. Whether the day’s menu
holds your all-time favorite dish
(the chocolate mousse, anyone?) or
something you are less than excited
about, give back to the Bon.
Clean up after yourself, avoid
cross-contaminating foods, be kind to
workers, use the toaster properly to not
set off the fire alarm, you know the drill.
Care for the Bon, and it, in its own way,
will care for you.EMMA AMBROZIAK/THE MOSSY LOG
Bright, fat gourds sit on a railing, ready to be carved with expressive faces or to bring decorative, autumnal joy to any space.
Family-run pumpkin patch
hosts fun, seasonal activitiesStudents share hacks
for unique Bon snacks
THE MOSSY LOG ARCHIVESNews Editors
Ava Frison
Olivia FendrichArts Editors
Maya Mazor-Hoofien
Caroline Drew
Sports Editors
Tanvi ShuklaOpinion Editors
Corrina Chan
Lillian SmallFeatures Editors
Paige A. Anderson
Emma Ambroziak
The Backdoor Editor
Emma Ford
Faculty Advisor
Molly RobinsonCopy Chief
J FrankHeads of Broadcasting
Isaac Babus
Joseph ChukuVisuals Editor
Halcyon OrvendalEditor-in-Chief
Amelia DoyleManaging Editor
Rosalie Zuckermann
Business Manager
Irene Hilman
Social Media Manager
Zoe Smith
Photographers & Illustrators Staff Writers
Kai Mermis-Cava
Jessie Shaw
Zoë Swanson
Alexandra Flory
Robert MangerWinslow Morgan
Rose Bialk
Alexandra FloryWeb Manager
Iman AgicBy KAI MERMIS-CAVA
THE GLOBAL warming crisis is
a problem that lurks in the back
of the mind for many. Scientists
are constantly warning against the
consequences of a warming climate, to
little avail. There are efforts to reduce
pollution and fossil fuel use across the
globe, but some would say that the
Earth has already reached the point of
no return. According to NASA Earth
Observatory, Earth’s global temperature
has increased by 2 degrees Farenheight
since 1880, with the majority of the
total temperature increase occurring
after 1975.
In 2023, the consequences of global
warming are becoming more apparent.
Antarctica’s polar bears are starving,
Venice is sinking and dozens of species are
going extinct every day. As of September
2023, even more obscure consequences
of global warming have begun to surface.
On Sept. 21, an Instagram post alerted
the public to flowers blooming in Antarctica, alongside a colorful photo of flowering
plants scattered across a shoreline while
icebergs floated in the background. Shortly
after this post was uploaded, it circulated
throughout the internet, spreading the
word that Antarctica was experiencing
an unprecedented amount of blooming
flowers. The photo was shortly found
to be taken in Greenland, after several
news sources conducted reverse image
searches, and the colorful flowers were
identified as Arctic–not Antarctic–species.
Nevertheless, the inaccurate post did
circulate concern about a relevant topic,
which is worth mentioning for the sake of
establishing clarity and raising awareness.
When visiting Antarctica, one
might expect to see an endless snowy
landscape. After all, it is one of
the coldest places on Earth. Due to
the harsh conditions of Antarctica,
very few things are able to grow in
the frost-covered ground. Only two
plants and a few species of moss and
lichen manage to survive there, and
even those that have adapted to the cold weather are not widely spread
across Antarctica.
In April 2022, a study was
published by Nicoletta Cannone et
al. investigating the acceleration
of warming in Antarctica, and
its impact on the region’s
two native flowering plants:
Antarctic hair grass
(Deschampsia antarctica)
and Antarctic pearlwort
(Colobanthus quitensis).
The study
researched
the effects
of rising air
temperature on the
Antarctica Peninsula
region between the
1950s and 2016. The rising
temperature exceeded the global
average warming. The study found
that the growth of the flowering
plants had exploded, increasing at a
striking rate and covering more ground
each year. The scientists theorized that the temperature of the summer air in
the Antarctic Peninsula region
had reached a range that allowed
the plants to thrive in a
formerly inhabitable climate.
According to the study,
this is the first evidence
of accelerated climate
change in Antarctica.
In March 2022,
scientists
working
in East
Antarctica
experienced
a record-
breaking heat
wave. The typical
temperature of
the eastern side of the
region is 65.2 degrees
below zero. During the
heatwave, temperatures
rose to an average of 5 degrees
and peaked at 14 degrees. News
outlets report that researchers on site were wearing shorts, and some
were even able to remove their shirts in
the relative warmth.
The glacial melt witnessed all over
the world has also reached an all-time
high, and the rapid melt has already
begun to change the circulation of the
Atlantic Ocean, as warm ocean waters
slow currents. The warming of the ocean
has also been linked to more destructive
hurricanes and storms around the world.
Thwaites Glacier, colloquially called the
Doomsday Glacier, is melting in Antarctica
and is expected to collapse within the next
decade. It earned its nickname because of
its massive size and potential to drastically
raise sea levels single handedly.
The consequences of global warming
are becoming very clear, very quickly.
Some believe that the flowering plants
of Antarctica indicate that the region has
reached its tipping point in the global
warming crisis, and there will be no return
from this. Others still hold on to hope, but
only time will tell the fate of the Antarctic
Peninsula region. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
FEATURES 7
An abundance of oyster mushrooms lurk beneath mossy logs, leaves and plants.
Mislabeled photo sparks conversation about climate change in Antarctica, spread of native plant speciesEMMA AMBROZIAK/THE MOSSY LOGUnethical harvesting practices impact campus
ROSE BIALK/THE MOSSY LOGBy EMMA AMBROZIAK &
ZOË SWANSON
OREGON IS an incredibly
biodiverse state, with more
than 3,600 native plant
species, climates ranging from
coastal rainforests to dry sand dunes
and precipitation that makes it
possible for flora from all over the
world to thrive. Portland is home to
only a sliver of Oregon’s impressive
biome, and Lewis & Clark is home to
even less.
As students attending one of the
most beautiful college campuses
in the United States—#4 according
to The Princeton Review—we
walk through a beautiful array of
thriving greenery on a daily basis.
We anticipate the smell of lavender
and rosemary wafting through the
air on rainy days, stain our hands
and lips purple with blackberries
every August, await early autumn’s
ripe persimmons and forage for
mushrooms as the rainy season
settles in. An already lush campus
landscape is diversified by the
gardeners and the beekeepers of the
community, who plant flowers, fruits
and vegetables, help keep bees alive
and healthy and tend to the soil and
the harvests year round.
Unfortunately, well-intentioned
students often misjudge the abundance
of certain plants, and unknowingly
overharvest herbs and other vegetation.
Unethical harvesting, both on campus
and within our larger community, puts
our native ecosystems, plants and even
sometimes ourselves,in jeopardy. Our
campus and the greater Portland area
deserve to be treated with respect,
knowledge and consideration.
Harvesting from the wild requires
a certain level of commitment and study. Before taking any native plant
from its ecosystem, you should not
only know how to positively identify
the plant, but also understand its role
in the ecosystem, its life cycle how
scarce it is, overall and locally, how
long it will take to recover the part
that you took from it, what other living
things use and need the plant, and
where you can and cannot harvest.
The Native Plant Society of Oregon
(NPSO) provides detailed information
about Oregon’s regulations regarding
harvesting and foraging. Never
collect native plants in city, county,
state or national parks, including
our lovely Tryon State Natural Area
across the street from campus. Small
scale collecting of common—not rare
or endangered native species—is
permitted on public lands, such as
national and state forests, BLM land
(Bureau of Land Management, which
maintains public lands throughout the U.S.) and public roadsides. Ask
before harvesting from any private
property that is not your own.
Do what you can to get rid of
invasive species: Join local invasive
plant eradication efforts, prioritize
planting native species in your
own garden, avoid buying and
spreading poorly labeled mixtures
of seeds and learn to identify local
invasive species. In Portland, some
of the most invasive species include
Japanese knotweed, English ivy,
Irish Ivy, Himalayan blackberry,
pokewood and butterfly bush. The
Portland.gov website is a well-
researched resource that encourages
locals to remove these plants when
possible, delineating which species
may be poisonous and how best to
remove each type of invasive plant.
Harvesting and uprooting invasive
species helps protect the native
ecosystems, prevents them from
climbing and killing trees, unclogs
waterways and creates space for the
establishment of native vegetation.
Some environmental conservation
organizations recommend only ever
harvesting one third of a plant at any
given time in order to ensure quick
growth and long-term sustainability.
The NPSO recommends that people
follow the “1-in-20 rule,” which
suggests only harvesting one plant
after finding 20 others, and not
harvesting more than 5 percent,
or one twentieth of each plant, its
seeds, a patch of moss or a clump of
fern fronds.
This rule would greatly benefit
our beautiful campus. The lavender,
rosemary, yarrow and dandelion on
campus have grown sparse as a result
of uninformed overharvesting. With
more than enough lavender to go
around, the root of the issue lies in
overharvesting. It’s important to be
mindful of the community’s overall need as well as each plant’s growth
rate when harvesting. For example,
plants like lavender are slower
growing, whereas rosemary, once
established, grows at a moderate
pace. Harvesting certain types of
moss and lichen can instantaneously
undo years of growth, and cutting off
large portions of vegetable or herb
plants can inhibit the speed of their
growth significantly.
Harvest and forage seasonally:
Gather and make use of crops before
they begin to wilt or go bad, collect
fruits and vegetables when they are
ripe or in full bloom and don’t harvest
too much from weak baby plants. Let
the seasons and the environment
guide you in interacting with and
taking from the outdoors.
Know whether a plant or fungus is
edible, or if it is internally or externally
poisonous. Confirm through a book,
knowledgeable person or app before
consuming something that was
harvested or foraged. Plant.id and
Book of Mushrooms are both good
apps for identifying species and staying
informed of poisonous look-alikes.
Some of the most common edible
plants in the Portland area are
Himalayan blackberry, Japanese
knotweed, mint, dandelion, lemon
balm, nettles, wakame seaweed,
Queen Anne’s Lace (beverages) and
bull thistle (cook spines until soft).
Remember to wash all plants before
preparing them. Learning to dry
fresh herbs, make syrups and jams
out of local fruits and experiment
with new cooking endeavors can save
money, support the local vegetation
and make use of otherwise unused or
unappreciated plants. Composting,
reusing vegetable scraps and
storing food properly helps prevent
food waste and give back to the environment.
“A Natural History Guide to the
Lewis and Clark College Campus”
is a good resource for learning
more about LC- and Tryon-specific
ecosystems. Understanding who
occupied our land before colonizers
laid claim to it, knowing how the
land has been treated throughout
history, taking the time to learn
about the natural biodiversity and
thinking conscientiously about how
you interact in nature all actively
play a role in the preservation and
improvement of our natural habitats.
Harvesting and foraging are
activities that have the potential
to help humans live sustainably
and make use of natural resources.
It can be incredibly fulfilling and
well worth it to learn the basics of
your surrounding area. That being
said, there is an ethical aspect to
our relationship with nature, which
entails responsible use and treatment
of vegetation and reflecting upon our
ecological footprint and how our way
of life alters the world around us.
Littering, excessively picking
flowers, walking off trail and wasting
food are all choices we make. Choose
wisely and thoughtfully, and do not
be afraid to explore and engage with
the natural world around you. Each
considerate human being who takes
it upon themselves to share what they
know and learn what they do not will Students encourage community to engage in safe foraging, gardening to protect local environment
Rising global temperatures prompt unusual flower growthEMMA AMBROZIAK/THE MOSSY LOGBlackberries invade Oregon’s forests.
English Ivy c hokes Marquam Forest Park.EMMA AMBROZIAK/THE MOSSY LOG H ALCYON ORVENDAL/T H E MOSSY LOGFRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
ARTS 8
Professor Pauls Toutonghi releases
novel about immigrant experienceMossy
Music
Halloween
recommendations
“Pet Sematary”
By Ramones
“For punk rockers out there, The
Cramps or The Damned may come to
mind when you think “Halloween,”
but Ramones have never shied away
from a holiday song. The guitars and
production make this upbeat song
creepy, and the lyrics referencing
Stephen King's book make it an
underrated Haloween classic.”
—Emma Ford ’25
“There Will Be Blood ”
By Jonny Greenwood
“This soundtrack, scored for strings,
is haunting—perfect for a walk to the
cemetery or to accompany feelings
of mounting dread and doom as you
prepare for midterms. This is for legit
fans of the unsettling—DO NOT put
this on at a party full of sexy cats. Or
do, depending on how much of an
individuality complex you have.”
—J Frank ’26
“October ”
By Broken Bells
“This song might not be explicitly
Halloween-focused, but its eerie notes
are nothing but autumn. Its lyrics
play with images—burning sparks, a
“tender mind” and seething eyes. That
ground us under an autumn moon over
a lonely town.“October” captures the
mournful beauty that bleeds into fall as
the trees shift from colorful to bare. ”
—Rosalie Zuckermann ’25
“Ghost Tree ”
By Simon Chylinski
“This soundtrack is excellent for
indulging in that good, good spooky
vibe—sometimes sweet, sometimes
ominous—and Ghost Tree is a solid
highlight. While not as scary as some
of the soundtrack, the breath-like
synths and ambiance make for a
terrifically haunting song.”
—Halcyon Orvendal ’25By EMMA AMBROZIAK
PAULS TOUTONGHI is a fiction
and nonfiction author and an
English professor at Lewis &
Clark. His work writing short stories,
essays and novels explores familial
relationships, cultural differences
and human emotion. On Sunday, Oct.
15 at Powell’s City of Books Toutonghi
discussed his recently published
novel, “The Refugee Ocean,” with
fellow author and screenwriter
Jon Raymond.
Over the course of the
conversation, Toutonghi shared
some of the parallels between his
own family history and his fictional
novel. Much of his writing process
involved translating music and family
documents from French to English,
recalling his family’s stories told over
weekend card games while growing
up and revisiting earlier writings
from his travels.
Many authors face the difficult
decision of whether to write fiction
or nonfiction when beginning their novel. When asked why he
chose to write through the lens
of fiction, he cited conflicting
loyalties to his family, freedom of
plot, dialogue and liberty to create
his own characters.
“There can be a larger emotional
truth in fiction,” Toutonghi said. “If
it’s nonfiction it has to be real.”
In the creation of “The Refugee
Ocean,” he wasn’t limited by the
facts of what happened. Much of his
experience as a child of immigrant
parents is reflected in the character
Marguerite Toutongi, who also shares
a version of his last name. Born in
Beirut in 1922, Marguerite’s character
and her story are untethered from
the factuality of Toutonghi’s lived
experience. The novel explores the
possibilities of fiction by braiding
together mercy, passions, betrayals,
music and emotionality.
“Music plays an enormous role,”
Raymond said.
He and Toutonghi highlighted the
emotional weight that a soundtrack
can bring to a story. Toutonghi alluded to the countless hours spent
listening to music throughout the
process of writing the novel. Rather
than keep this part of his writing
process separate from the story,
Toutonghi decided to interweave
songs into the story.
“I wanted to put into some
tangible form the emotions they [the
character] feel,” Toutonghi said. For
him, incorporating music felt like a
relatable way to achieve this.
One of the most engaging aspects
of the conversation was each of the
authors' transparency in regards to
the process of writing, editing and
publishing a novel.
“The biggest challenge was
persevering through the process
of being turned down by editors,”
Toutonghi said.
Raymond agreed, describing
publishing a book as a “brutalizing
process,” fraught with silence.
Both authors acknowledged the
importance of continuing to read,
write and surround oneself with
fellow writers and authors who can relate to the journey.
Throughout the seven year
process of drafting and writing “The
Refugee Ocean,” Toutonghi’s vision
for the book changed dramatically.
He cut out entire sections based in
Russia and Cuba, and narrowed down
his novel from 400,000 words to
100,000 words.
“It was a tremendously different
book,” he said. His newly published
novel intertwines beautifully written
themes of immigration, art and the
human experience.
“I wanted to tell a small story
that had bigger implications,”
Toutonghi said.
As an author and a professor,
Toutonghi’s honesty about what it
means to reflect, create and persist
as a writer is well-earned. This
glimpse into Toutonghi’s life as a
writer beyond campus was a valuable
reminder of the creative talent within
our community.
Check out “The Refugee Ocean”
from Watzek or pick up a copy at the
bookstore and give it a read.
EMMA AMBROZIAK/THE MOSSY LOG
Following Oct. 3 publication of "The Refugee Ocean" Toutonghi spoke at Powell ’s.EMMA AMBROZIAK/THE MOSSY LOG
New book weaves a multinational tale through Syria, Lebanon, Cuba and the U.S.
GALLERY OFFERINGS
Hoffman Art Gallery:
Broken Spectre
“'Broken Spectre' is an immersive,
74-minute film that shifts between
a manifold of ecological narratives,
from the topographic to the
anthropocentric, and to a careful
examination of nonhuman violence
and survival…in the Amazon Basin
and related eco-systems.”
— Lewis & Clark Website: Events
Portland Art Museum:
Black Artists of Oregon
“This exhibition serves to deepen
our awareness of the talented artists
who have shaped and inspired artists
regionally and nationally, and it will
be the first of its kind to consider
the work of Black artists collectively
in Oregon.”
— Portland Art Museum WebsiteTHIS WEEKEND
20 - Music : Fridays @ 5 Performance
5 p.m. @ Evans Auditorium
20 - Dance : Navratri Dance 2023
7 p.m. @ Gregg Pavilion
20 - Music : The Macks
9 p.m. @ Mississippi Studios
20 - 22 - Music : Ashnikko
8 p.m. @ Roseland Theatre
21 - Film : Cinema of Horrors Drive-in
Presents ‘The Shining’
7 p.m. @ Clark County
Fairgrounds
21 - Theater : Once Upon A Weekend
8 p.m. @ Fir Acres Theatre
21 - Music : Molly Burch
9 p.m. @ Mississippi StudiosAND BEYOND
24 - Music : James W. Rogers Concert
7:30 p.m. @ Flanagan Chapel
26 - Music : Halloween Cover Band
7 p.m. @ The Co-op
27 - Film : Cinema of Horrors Drive-in
Presents ‘Scream’
7 p.m. @ Clark County
Fairgrounds
28 - Theater : Gagged Halloween Show
7 p.m. @ Evans Auditorium
28 - Music : Drugdealer
8 p.m. @ Polaris Hall
29 - Film : Cinema of Horrors Drive-in
Presents ‘Nightmare on Elm
Street’
7 p.m. @ Clark County
Fairgrounds
31 - Film : Cinema of Horrors Drive-in
Presents ‘Halloween’
7 p.m. @ Clark County
FairgroundsRECURRING EVENTS
Mondays - Psanctum Open Mic
7 p.m. @ The Haven
Thursdays - The Co-op Open Mic
7:30 p.m. @ The Co-op
Saturdays - Rocky Horror Picture
Show
11 p.m. @ Clinton Street
Theater Upcoming Events - October
HALLOWEEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOG
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
ARTS 9
“Cousin” demonstrates Wilco’s edge, prowess
By J FRANK
WILCO’S “Cousin” begins
with an incessant, rhythmic
ticking like an analog clock,
a steady water drip or a running
machine. Crunchy guitar distortion
swirls and moans on top, first panned
hard to the left and then swelling
into a textured tide. As opening track
“Infinite Surprise” kicks into gear, it
sets the tone for Wilco’s newest project,
which runs bone-deep.
Released on Sept. 29, “Cousin”
is immersive, compelling, at times
unsettling and understatedly
profound. An innate sense of beauty
runs through the album, cutting
straight into the soft parts of our
humanity as though skin were
never more than an inconvenient
obfuscation. The album is not trying
to be anything; it simply is.
There are unpolished moments, yet
this rawness draws the listener into its
emotional landscape, creating a trust
between the listener and music that
would be lost in a studio-polished,
manufactured product.
At the same time, the
album is undeniably technically
well-crafted. The sound mixing is
masterful and a diverse array of
effects are used in varying degrees
of subtlety to immerse and orient
the listener. The ten tracks display
an impressive array of songwriting
power; emotional honesty never
once strays into rambling. At 43
minutes long, “Cousin” is an exercise
in concision. Not a single beat or
line is superfluous.
This is the band’s first release to
feature outside collaboration since
2004’s “A Ghost Is Born.” Fans
and critics alike find producer Cate
Le Bon provides a breath of fresh
air. Over two decades since their
seminal “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,”
which remains a revered cornerstone
of alternative rock, “Cousin” proves
that Wilco still has something new
to say. Youthful angst is replaced by
more mature and resigned reflection,
making a cohesive statement which
showcases deftness gained over years of creative fulfillment.
The band retains its signature
heavy, melancholy sound mixed with
jangly and soulful country roots, while
playing with modern alternative rock
trends, demonstrating that Wilco is
still unafraid to innovate and blend
styles. “Cousin” wears its influences
on its sleeve with the confidence that
its voice remains uniquely its own.
The influence of shoegaze, so
named because players would stare
down at their feet as they pressed
distortion and reverb pedals to create
ethereal, dreamy textures, can be
heard in the use of heavy effect pedals
and ambient sound.
Dizzying, looping guitar riffs in
songs such as “A Bowl and A Pudding”
and “Levee” call to mind the motifs of
Midwest emo, especially given Wilco’s
birthplace in Chicago and their
prominence in the alt-country scene.
At points in “Infinite Surprise,”
a whining instrumental yawns
microtonally between pitches,
providing a tortured counterpoint to
the resonant reverb. This resembles a
similar effect in Neutral Milk Hotel’s
song “The Aeroplane Over the Sea,”
achieved with a saw and a violin
bow. Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy’s
plain yet emotional vocals also
recall Neutral Milk Hotel—nostalgic,
desperately earnest, displaying both
bands’ folk sensitivity at the heart of
their songwriting.
At best, Wilco’s lyrics are
simple without being obvious or
cliche. Tweedy is not trying to be
pretentious or clever. His lyrics and
breathy, slightly scratchy voice foster
intimacy, balancing a naive sense
of wonder and unselfconsciously
honest observation with an
ever-present awareness of the banality
and monotony of existence.
Throughout its ten tracks, “Cousin”
explores themes of identity, isolation
and futility.
“So good / to see you / see you
again. / I’d almost forgotten / what
it’s like / to be this child. / Hold
my hand across the table. / Act like
you’re invisible,” the narrator sings in
“Soldier Child.”This sweetly haunted song captures
the hazy recollection of childhood:
The lyrics gaze back with nostalgia
and estrangement at the simultaneous
comfort and alienation created
by a lack of autonomy, which can
never truly be recaptured.
In “Ten Dead,” one of the album’s
heaviest and most hauntingly beautiful
songs, a dirge-like chord progression
and soft bass drum trudge onward like
heavy footsteps. The lyrics express the
defeatism born of watching tragedy
from a distance day after day, leaving
the narrator numb and apathetic.
The lyrics steer clear of being overly
political or confessional, instead
varying the bleak title statement
with metaphorical vagueness.
“The way my life will bend / the
way my attention bends / the way that
my knee bends,” Tweedy sings. “A
scratch on the cheek / a father to fight
/ I was too weak, too cold. / Mostly
night, I was mostly night / Not enough
light to hold.”
Motifs of darkness and night are
repeated throughout, alluding to
the narrator’s notion of being inert
and insensible.
“I woke up this morning / and I
went back to bed. / Ten, dead, ten
dead, / now there are ten dead …
Ten more, eleven more, / what’s one
more to me?” the narrator says.
The musical plodding feels
cyclical, conveying a sense of
resignation. With a repetition of
the opening lyrics, the song ends
right back on the dispassionate
observation with which it began.
Elsewhere, the lyricism is
handled with a clunkier touch, and
at times feels juvenile for a band
on their thirteenth album. While
sanguine confessions rang true on
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the simplistic
bemoaning of broken relationships
feels less poignant from a 56-year-
old Tweedy than it did two decades
ago.
“I’m evicted / from your
heart,” Tweedy sings over and
over in “Levee,” in a particularly
heavy-handed metaphor.
However, any lyrical fumbling is saved by the intelligent
chord progressions which mesh
satisfyingly with the melody,
harmonizing simple vocal lines to
create tension and resolution. Each
chorus places a hook in the listener’s
heart, and the album is chock-
full of stomach-swooping drops.
Musicianship bolsters sentiment
where pure lyricism falls short—
even trite statements sound newly
tense as the words teeter on the edge
of an arpeggiated dominant chord,
longing to fall.
Back at the album’s beginning, the
breathless, ticking beat of “Infinite
Surprise” becomes overwhelmed by
the haunting distortion, distanced by
its heavy reverb. Then the vocals and
a closer, compressed guitar come
in, which sound almost as if they
were being played out of a tin can or portable radio. In fact, the whole
song has a distinctly mechanical feel.
Layers thicken and fall away,
varying the tension from quiet and
coiled to thick and stormy. At points,
the song dies back down to leave
its ticking heartbeat exposed once
more, reminding the listener of the
inevitability of the passage of time.
Finally, “Infinite Surprise”
relinquishes its order as it is gradually
overwhelmed by an arrhythmic
crackling sound, until everything
else dies away and the listener is left
with a reminder of entropy, inherent
imperfection and the necessity
of failure.
“It’s good to be alive / it’s good
to know we die,” Tweedy sings—
ultimately choosing to embrace this
fragility and imperfection within the
wonder of existence.
“Good Omens” second season develops characters, plot
By KAI MERMIS-CAVA
THE TWO-SEASON TV show,
“Good Omens,” based on
the 1990 novel written by
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman,
is a fantasy-comedy story featuring
Christian themes and figures. It
follows a variety of characters
attempting to stop the apocalypse.
All of the events are documented
through the view of the two narrating
characters: Crowley, a demon, and
Aziraphale, an angel.
The show is humorous, with quips
and situations perfectly timed to
pull a laugh from the audience, yet
beautifully interwoven with the more
serious scenes that drive the plot.
The cinematography is gorgeous as
it captures both moments that are
central to the plot and the blossoming
relationship between Aziraphale
and Crowley.
Alongside “Good Omens,” Gaiman
is best known for books such as
“Coraline,” “American Gods” and
“The Graveyard Book.” Pratchett
for “Discworld,” a series of 41
novels. Pratchett was also appointed
officer of the Order of the British
Empire in 1998, and in 2009 was
knighted for services to literature.
Due to Pratchett’s passing in March
2015, Gaiman worked alone on the
show’s production.
Season one of “Good Omens”
follows Aziraphale and Crowley,
lifelong acquaintances who have
spent almost 6,000 years on Earth
working together. Respectively, they
are representatives of Heaven and
Hell, but they are fond of each other
despite their opposite natures. When
the Antichrist is born, they agree to raise the child together to prevent the
Apocalypse. Unbeknownst to them,
the pair end up spending 11 years
raising the wrong child.
Ultimately, despite their mistakes,
the Apocalypse does not come to
pass, and neither does a war between
Heaven and Hell. Crowley and
Aziraphale are deemed traitors but
are left alone to a quiet life on Earth.
“Good Omens” season two, which
premiered July 2023 and is set post-
COVID lockdown, follows a new plot
line. After the Archangel Gabriel, with
no memories of his past, appears at
Aziraphale’s bookshop, Aziraphale
and a reluctant Crowley use a miracle
to hide Gabriel from Heaven and Hell. However, a low-ranking angel
named Muriel is sent to visit the
bookshop to investigate after the
miracle catches Heaven’s attention.
Aziraphale lies that he was trying to
make two human women fall in love,
and when Muriel reports this back to
Heaven, Aziraphale and Crowley must
then make the two women, Nina and
Maggie, actually fall in love.
The second season is filled with
comedic moments as Aziraphale and
Crowley continue trying and failing
to execute elaborate schemes to lure
the two women together, effectively
drawing the audience into their
ridiculous plans and causing one to
root for them, despite the ludicrous
nature of what Aziraphale and Crowley
are trying to do.
Season two also features the
development of another relationship
between an angel and a demon: Prince
of Hell Beelzebub and the Archangel
Gabriel. Throughout an episode in
season two, it is revealed that the two
have been working together for much
longer than the audience realized,
and have grown fond of each other.
Ultimately, Beelzebub finds Gabriel
on Earth and Gabriel regains his
memories. The two flee together,
leaving Heaven and Hell behind.
At the end of the season,
Aziraphale is offered the position
of First Principality of Heaven, the
role vacated by Gabriel’s desertion,
effectively tearing Aziraphale away
from Earth forever. The Metatron tells
Aziraphale that, if Crowley desires,
Crowley can be made an angel again.
However, Crowley is furious and
pleads for Aziraphale to stay with him
on Earth. Aziraphale, believing that he
can make Heaven better, refuses. As a final attempt to convince Aziraphale
to stay, Crowley kisses him. The
scene is beautiful and heartbreaking,
with gorgeous filmography and a
soundtrack that makes you want
to cry at the lost possibilities of
their relationship.
There are a variety of impactful
themes featured throughout “Good
Omens” as a whole: good and evil,
the nature of being human, destiny
versus free will, love and friendship.
The second season delves even more
deeply into these themes than the first,
especially that of love and destiny,
inviting the viewer to dive into the
story as if they were experiencing
it firsthand.
Furthermore, “Good Omens”
satirically critiques the strict system
that the characters in Heaven and Hell
enforce, parodying a toxic and semi-
abusive workplace, where anything
less than perfection is punished. After
Gabriel flees Heaven, the Metatron
states: “For one prince of Heaven to
be cast into the outer darkness makes
a good story. For it to happen twice,
makes it look like there is some kind
of institutional problem.”
The line is ironic and humorous,
almost sarcastic in nature, though
the character delivering it is
absolutely serious.
The first season featured several
queer themes. Though Crowley spends
most of his time presenting as a man,
there are several times throughout the
show when Gaiman has confirmed
that Crowley was instead presenting
as a woman, confirming Crowley’s
genderfluidity. Aziraphale, on the
other hand, while referred to with
masculine pronouns, does not strongly
identify with any gender.“Good Omens” received praise
for the diversity it featured in the
second season: the lesbian couple who
were center stage for the majority of
the season, Muriel, whose gender is
simply “angel” as stated by Gaiman, a
queer relationship between Beelzebub
and Gabriel, disabled representation
in the angel Saraqael who uses a
wheelchair and, ultimately, a kiss
between Aziraphale and Crowley.
The second season of “Good
Omens” takes the meaningful themes
of season one and expands upon
them, even as the show narrows its
focus to the relationship between
Aziraphale and Crowley. It builds
the narrative in such an enticing way
that watchers cannot help but invest
themselves in a love story between an
angel and a demon, rooting for them
despite the odds.
The season ends with Aziraphale
asking the Metatron what the next
step in God’s great plan is, so he might
know what to expect. The Metatron
only says it is called “The Second
Coming,” hinting at the plot of a
possible season three. The cliffhanger
ending of the season as Aziraphale
leaves for Heaven, abandoning
Crowley on Earth, is enough to pull
at anyone’s heartstrings, leaving one
hoping for a third season to fix all
the mistakes made by the beloved
characters. Though “Good Omens”
has not officially been renewed,
the success of season two has fans
excitedly waiting to see if the trials and
tribulations continue, awaiting the
fate of the much-beloved characters
from the series. Will Aziraphale and
Crowley’s love story prevail? Or in
the face of Heaven and Hell, will their
relationship crumble to pieces?
COURTESY OF AMAZON
Season art showcases cast of characters.
Japanese flower artist Azuma Makoto created a lush botanical vision for album cover.COURTESY OF WILCONearly 30 years into iconic indie rock career, band continues to experiment with influences, audio, lyrics
Queer themes, gender exploration, satirical storylines drive novel-based series on Amazon PrimeBy ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
ON SEPT. 30, the Lewis & Clark
football team won a game 37-31
against George Fox University.
This was the first victory against George
Fox since they restarted their football
program in 2014, and the second one
in our football history, the first being in
1946.
Wide receiver and running back
Elijah McGee ’24 was one of the key
players involved in securing this
revolutionary win.
“That win was one of the best
feelings in my life,” McGee said. “Not
having beaten that school since around
1950 or something like that, it was like
we were a part of history for this school.
It was very rewarding because the
amount of work we have to put in just
to win one football game is more than
most people could imagine.”
McGee was an essential offensive
player, leading the team in four
catches for a team high of 74 yards and
scoring a pair of touchdowns. He and
quarterback Trey Morris ’24 worked
together, executing many passes and
connections.
Morris was paramount in leading
the team to victory. An article from the
LC website describes this game as the
best game of Morris’s collegiate career.
He secured three touchdowns and two
field goals in his five drives after coming
onto the field in the fourth quarter.
“Our defense would hold George
Fox to 6 points for the rest of the
game including two overtimes which
was huge. Secondly, our offensive line
showed up big, opening up holes, and
allowing for playmakers to do their
thing. Lastly, the playmakers that
we have on the offensive side make
everything go,” Morris said. “We have
one of, if not the, best receiving groups
in the entire conference, and people are
getting to see it.”
Running back Elijah Washington
’24 also pointed to some of these crucial
moments when reflecting on the game.
“Some key moments included big
stops on defense and pivotal drives on
offense, including a huge interception
by Daryl Scott in double overtime and
an amazing play by Trey Morris and
Elijah McGee to win the game on the
pursuing offensive drive,” Washington
said.
Washington was another major
contributor to the victory, carrying the ball 17 times for 85 yards and, after catching
six more times, finishing the game with a
total of 120 yards.
“Going into the game the team had
more confidence than ever before,”
Washington said. “Coming off a tough
loss to Montana Western we knew the
type of team we could be and what our
potential was. The game was full of
ups and downs but the main thing that
stayed steady throughout was our will to
fight and continue battling until the last
whistle.”
As Washington draws attention to,
the game was not an easy win. At many
points, the outcome was uncertain and
it looked as if George Fox would come
out the victor.
“As a team, we talk about dealing
with adversity in life, practice, and
games. Being down by 18 with 9
minutes left in the game was a huge test
of adversity,” McGee said.
Clash Orsborn ’26 also spoke to the
challenges of the game.
“The beginning of the game was on
and off. When the defense was playing
well the offense wasn’t and vice versa,”
Orsborn said. “Going into the fourth
quarter down 28 to 10 everything
started to click for the team. The offense
was scoring, the defense was getting
stops, special teams (were) doing their
thing, and the energy from the entire
team never died even being down 18
points.”
This change in the fourth quarter
allowed them to bounce back from
being far behind to outscoring George
Fox 27-3. As for what factors played a
part in this change, McGee highlights
the importance of regrouping during the
game to check in, as well as preparation
far in advance.
“We had a talk on the sideline as a
team that refocused everyone, we made
adjustments and people stepped up
when we needed it most,” McGee said.
“I also give a lot of credit to the work
people put in over the summer. Late in
that game while George Fox was getting
tired we were getting stronger and
that is thanks to Coach Ange with the
summer workouts and making sure we
were all in great shape for the season.”
Defensive back Julian Colvin ’25
added perspective on the importance of
different practice methods.
“Lots of film time and lots of time
in the training room as well as the
weight room. Going forward this season
we still face some of the better teams in the league but with our preparation and
game plans I know we will come out on
top,” Colvin said.
Colvin also remarked on conditions
prior to the game that stoked a fire between
the two rival teams.
“The game atmosphere was different
from any other,” Colvin said. “Coming
into the week our team received (a) school
article from George Fox, and they stated
they weren’t going to have a problem
putting up 50 points on us. So, we took that
disrespect and used it as fuel for the game.”
When considering moving forward
after such a historic moment, many
players feel optimistic and ready to make
even more impacts, both in terms of
competition and team recognition within
the school.
“I hope we can bring pride and
excitement back to Lewis & Clark football,”
Washington said.
Many LC students who are not involved
in athletics may not be aware of the hard
work and undying enthusiasm that our
teams put in for every game.
“(T)his is the most involved I have seen
the LC community be with football and
creating a tight-knit community motivates
the team more than people would think,”
McGee said. “(T)hat’s props to our
President Robin for helping our athletes
get more recognition at our school.”
Along with a tight-knit schoolwide
community, close team connections are
critical for communication, confidence
and support.
“The new school year has brought
many new faces to the team, which has continued to add to the shifting culture
here,” Morris said.
This year, there was a record influx
of freshmen into the football team, with
over 40 new players.
“We brought in a huge class of
freshmen that have contributed right
away. Everyone has meshed pretty well
and the team culture couldn’t get any
better than the type of family feel we
currently have,” Washington said.
These new players have not only
become significant members of the
football family but also essential players
on the field.
“Our freshman kicker Thien Hoang
made a crucial game changing field goal,”
Colvin said.
The article reviewing the game on the
LC website also spotlights Hoang’s role.
“The freshman kicker went 3-3 on a
trio of clutch field goals. He hit a 41-yard
field goal just before halftime to cut the
deficit to 14-10. Hoang drilled a 39-yard
field goal with no time left in regulation to
tie the game and hit a 26-yard field goal in
the first overtime to give Lewis & Clark its
first lead of the day,” the article said.
Other freshmen were also huge factors
in the win against George Fox.
“Big-time performances from
freshman linemen Ty Sheffler and Iggy
Marquez. Being thrown into a game in
that atmosphere can be shocking but they
handled it very well and played well,”
McGee said.
Another example was when
quarterback Cruz Montana ’24 made a
touchdown pass to Aidan Owens, making history for each of them simultaneously:
For Montana, it marked his 50th
touchdown, and for Owens, his first.
The team dynamic this year is truly
unique, and the many experienced players
on the team hope to pass down their
knowledge to the ones who will carry the
torch in years to come.
“Being a veteran on this team, we have
to create the culture for incoming players
to adopt, and with that, it creates good
habits to follow, and this leads to team
excellence,” Colvin said.
This long-awaited victory against a rival
has spurred new goals for the future of LC
football. Orsborn shares his vision for what
is to come.
“I … hope we continue to improve every
season by making big jumps in the off-
season, continue to master our schemes
and better ourselves in the classroom and
community,” Orsborn said. “I believe if
we all come together and do these things
day in and day out it’ll ultimately lead us
to winning more and more games every
season.”
Washington spoke to the irreplaceable
moments of elation that working as a team
can bring.
“That moment after the game of pure
joy was something I’ll always remember,”
Washington said. “There’s nothing better
than celebrating with your brothers after
something you’ve collectively worked so
hard for.”
Keep an eye on the game schedule for
this season. The next home game will be
on Saturday, Oct. 28 at 1 p.m. against
Whitworth University.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
SPORTS 10
By EMMA FORD
AS AUTUMN continues to
march on and the trees are
missing more leaves every day,
fall sports are drawing to a close. The
Women’s Tennis team has served up
quite a few accomplishments for the
first half of their sports season.
Jimmy Chau, coach of Men’s and
Women’s Tennis at Lewis & Clark, has
worked for the Athletics department since 2004. In his tenure with the
college, he has seen many athletes
come and go, and knows how to take a
season’s progress in stride.
“The first tournament, we knocked
off a lot of rust,” said Chau. “I think
all the players would agree to that. But
then we really showed up well in the
second tournament. The ITA set we
played had some good results.”
The season began with the
Pacific 5-Way Tournament at Pacific
University in late September, where
six players earned victories. The
second and final tournament of the
season was the 2023 Intercollegiate
Tennis Association (ITA) Northwest
Women’s Tournament, where three
players earned consolation titles.
Consolation titles are the secondary
draws of a tennis tournament,
and with multiple players making
semifinals but not the main draw of
the tournament, other coaches may
have been disappointed in a team’s
showing—but not Coach Chau.
“There are a lot of different
opportunities for different players at
different levels to compete against
players at similar levels,” said Chau.
“And so it just makes for better
competition and a better experience
for everybody. And it is never a
perfect thing, but we tried our best to
get players in the right brackets.”The Women’s Tennis team has
experienced some changes in the past
season. Their usual roster has been
dramatically impacted by study abroad,
leaving them with fewer players than
normal. Student leadership has also
seen Hayley Kreps ’25 stepping up for
the team.
“One thing I am proud of the team
for this semester is that everyone is
really dedicated to improving their
own tennis abilities and the level of the
team as a whole,” said Kreps. “In past
years, we would practice three times
a week and lift twice a week during
the off season, but this year we have
been practicing five times a week, by
practicing after each lift. It seems like
everyone is really motivated to work
hard so that we can do well in the
upcoming season this spring.”
Coaching staff are pleased by
how the athletes are showing up and
serving balls.
“(The players) have been super
impressive this semester,” said Chau.
“Probably the most impressive since
I have been here in terms of holding
themselves accountable and training
extra and doing all the right things
when the coach is not around. I could
not be more happy.”
Being a college athlete has a lot to
do with personal drive, accountability
and responsibility. With their increased schedule, and more one-
on-one coaching time due to their
teammates being abroad, LC Women’s
Tennis put in the work to make the
most of the season.
“I think (what) college
athletes require to succeed is time
management,” said Kreps. “Especially
due to the amount of time you spend
in the classroom and practicing. It
is a big time commitment to be on a
college team and it is an important
skill to learn how to balance this
with managing homework and other
educational responsibilities.”
And while their coaching staff is
there for them, student athletes on
the team are responsible for holding
themselves to a standard.
“I try to let the student athletes
dictate how their experience unfolds,”
said Chau. “Obviously, I am there to
guide them, but a lot of it is driven by
them and their passion and desires.
And Haley has been awesome in terms
of managing that and trying to get
everybody on the same page.”
Coaches have a unique vantage
point into the life of a student athlete,
and they take their roles seriously.
“The standards get higher every
year,” said Chau. “Student athletes
want to do more, both academically
and athletically … in my role as a
coach, it is less about the X’s and O’s or the techniques of tennis,
as opposed to more helping them
manage, and balance things, staying
mentally healthy as well as physically
and socially.”
Going into spring semester, the LC
Women’s Tennis team has both room
to grow and accomplishments to be
proud of.Players share integral moments, team unity that led to first victory against rival school in over 70 years
Women’s tennis reflects on season’s challenges, lessonsFootball celebrates win against George Fox
Coach Chau proud of student athletes’ perseverance, dedication, growth despite setbacks, roster changesCOURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
The Lewis & Clark football team, who has just won their first game aganist George Fox since 1948, gathers around during a game.
COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Haley Kreps ‘25 steps up as peer guide.COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Coach promotes attitudes for success.
By ROBERT MANGER
THE LEWIS & Clark Swim Team
is suiting up to dive into a new
season despite preseason delays
due to the Zehntbauer Swimming Pavillion’s repairs. Team Captains
Micah Rysavy ’25 and Kate Milne ’24
shared the effects such repairs had on
the team’s preparation.
“It put us off two weeks and we
usually have two weeks of captains practice, so we’ve actually lost three
or four weeks of swimming. That was
pretty frustrating,” Rysavy said, “Then
the coach had to come up with a new
practice schedule for the weeks we
didn’t have and we were promised it
would definitely be open by the ninth.”
According to Rysavy, that promise
was not fulfilled, as the pavilion was
not open until Sept. 15. These repairs
were a setback that proved difficult for
the team. Rysavy pointed out that they
did not have an ideal way to train since
swimming inherently involves breath
retention and the feel of the water.
As Milne corroborates, the team
had to train on dry land, participate in
outdoor workouts and weightlift in order
to make up for the then-defunct pool.
“Our new coach Caitlin has been
giving us really good workouts and
people have been working hard so I
don’t think it set us back too much,”
Milne said.
Rysavy commented on the
importance of swimming both as a way
to stay active and find joy.
“We definitely have a welcoming
culture for everyone that wants to
swim. I feel like Caitlin and others all
care about making sure that everyone
is having fun in the pool,” Rysavy said.
This culture is not only a product
of the coaches’ dedication to the sport,
but also the team and their effort to
bring that to the water each day.
“It is definitely accepting people,
but also pushing ourselves as hard as
we can and Caitlin knows that we can.
There is definitely room for whatever
swimmer we wish to be,” Rysavy said. Similarly, Milne sees the team
culture as a critical facet of swimming.
“It’s a pretty closely-knit team,
we’ve been doing some events as a
whole team this year … and we also
have practice together so I think
that’s a unique aspect of our sport,”
Milne said.
Rysavy spoke more on new Head
Coach Caitlin Denise who recently
replaced Murilo Martins.
“Murilo was the old coach and he
texted us that he was going to quit
this summer, relatively late on into
the summer, and Caitlin was already
an assistant. He told us that ‘it really
matters that we hear your input and
we are going to weigh that input,’”
Rysavy said.
Rysavy expands on the role of swim
team members in adding perspective
during Denise’s promotion.
“We put in a pretty good word
for Caitlin and he had some good
reasons. We ended up meeting up
with (Athletic Director Mark Pietrok)
twice over the course of the process
just to say what we are looking for
with a coach, what we have enjoyed
with the coach before and say what we
liked and appreciated with Caitlin,”
Rysavy said, “It seemed like he cared
about what we had to think and he
said he cared about what we think.”
Milne reflects on this process as well,
stating that the team captains all wrote
a letter of recommendation endorsing
Coach Denise due to her previous
experience serving as assistant coach
and thus, her knowledge of the team
and how it operates.Although the team did not make
the final call, students were glad that it
worked out this way.
“She seems like she has a very good
organized structure and that has been
true this year for her practices and her
overall season,” Rysavy said. “I had
a feeling that if she was in the head
coaching position she really would put
that into a full cohesive season and
already that is working out well. She is
a really likable person and everyone on
the team really liked her presence as a
coach. She does a really good job with
the atmosphere we want to cultivate
and her practices are great. They make
me faster.”
Working with new people sometimes
necessitates some adjustment, but
according to Rysavy, along with the
helping hands of Assistant Coach J.P.
Greener and Former Head Coach Chris
Fantz, Coach Denise has excelled in
organizing the sport thus far.
Both Rysavy and Milne made it
abundantly clear that goals for the
season include breaking a whole bunch
of records.
View grueling practices pay off and
show your support at the six upcoming
home meets in the Zehntbauer
Swimming Pavilion starting Oct.
27 and follow their Instagram @
lcpiosswim. “If people want to watch
some fast swims, come to meets,”
Rysavy said.
The Zehntbauer Swimming
Pavilion is tentatively open to LC
students, faculty and alumni for free
swim from 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. and
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
SPORTS 11
Artemis Frisbee team excels in Beaver Brawl
By ALEXANDRA FLORY
A RTEMIS Ultimate Frisbee is
more than just a club sport
that students may encounter
when walking near the quad by JR
Howard Hall. While the team does
often practice throws by the Howard
steps, members of the team are doing
so in order to hone their frisbee
skills for upcoming tournaments in
addition to having fun. In the past few
years, the team has been increasing
in competitive ability which was
reflected in their performance at the
first tournament of the season Beaver
Brawl.
On Oct. 7 and 8, both Artemis and
Bacchus, Lewis & Clark’s women’s
and men’s matching ultimate frisbee
teams, traveled to Corvallis, Oregon
in order to compete against Oregon
State University (OSU) and the
University of Portland (UP) at Beaver
Brawl. Because 32 players attended
the tournament, the captains split
Artemis into two separate teams of
equal playing ability.
These teams, nicknamed
“Heartemis” and “Fartemis,” played
six games each over the course of
the weekend including two games
in which they played against each
other. Heartemis and Fartemis
ended up winning first and second
place respectively against OSU and
the University of Portland. Artemis
Captain Alix Abrahams ’23, described
with pride that the team performed
better than she had expected.
“We have never done this well in
the first tournament of the season
before. Every year we start off a
little wobbly, a little rocky, because
a lot of people are coming into this
sport just learning how to play it
and then we hone in and do really
well in the spring. But the fact
that we are doing really well right
off the bat is incredibly exciting,”
Abrahams said.
The team was pleasantly
surprised by the win, especially
considering that so many players
had only picked up a frisbee for
the first time just a month ago.
Artemis ultimate frisbee is a club
sport, meaning that anybody of any skill and experience level may join.
This often results in tournaments
acting as a learning opportunity for
first time players rather than being
centered around winning. However,
based on the outcome of the
tournament in Corvallis, the future
of this season is looking a lot better
than it has in the past.
“Artemis is on the up and up since
the time that I joined, which was in
the fall of 2021. Artemis has done
nothing but increase in skill and
achievement. The team just looks
better and better,” Abrahams said.
This growth is especially
exciting when considering how hard
COVID-19 hit the team, resulting in
a significant drop in both returning
and new players. For instance, there
are only two seniors who play for
Artemis, likely due to the restrictions
in playing that existed during
the entirety of the 2020 season.
However, Artemis has clearly made a comeback. For instance, in the
spring of 2022, Artemis competed in
the D-III national championship in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin and walked
away ranked as #15 in the nation for
D-III women’s ultimate frisbee.
Other than being competitively
successful in the past few years,
Artemis also fosters a welcoming
playing environment centered around
“love and trust.” Scarlett Deveno ’27
began playing ultimate frisbee this
year and greatly anticipated playing
on Artemis. She reflected that her
takeaway from the tournament was
not only about playing competitively,
but also about finding community.
“I went to an Artie practice last
year when I was touring the school
and, not going to lie, it was the reason
I went to LC. And so I’ve been waiting
for this first tournament for a really
long time. It’s my first time ever
playing in a group sport. I feel like the
team community on Artemis really blossomed at this tournament and
everyone came together really well.
I’m super proud of all of us and I
had such a great time,” Deveno said.
Anna Ryan ’27, who is a first
year Artemis player, but has played
ultimate frisbee in the past, echoed
Deveno’s statement.
“The team was fantastic,” Ryan
said. “We were so strong and I am so
proud of that.”
Overall, a sense of pride was
felt by the entire team regardless
of playing experience. Players also
reflected on high hopes for the future
considering their past success.
Ryan shared that the freshmen in
particular are looking forward to the
team’s competitive future.
“We were joking, all the freshmen,
of how this is our senior pic. We are
moving all the way up. The freshmen
are really lovely and we are really
passionate about Artemis and we want
to do this. So I’m definitely looking forward to the coming season and
the coming tournament,” Ryan said.
Deveno was also equally dedicated to
this goal.
“I think that all the freshmen have
put so much time and energy into
this. I have seen so many people out
of practice practicing their throws
for hours. And really putting so
much energy and time into taking
care of their bodies so they can play
this game with the team and I’m so
excited for that to carry on for the
years,” Deveno said.
From a captain’s perspective,
Abrahams pictures the future of the
team achieving many great things
that extend beyond just one playing
season.
“When I picture the future of the
team, I picture my senior year where
it’s finally four years post COVID, like
full season Artemis, where we have a
large experienced senior class and
a large, experienced junior class,”
Abrahams said. “We are building that
sophomore class right now and then
next year we will hopefully get a lot
of skill and talent. It’s going to be the
pinnacle of what this team can be,
and we are going to go to nationals
and … crush it. That’s my vision, just
a really well built program.”
Even though the team is moving
towards more competitive success at
tournaments and setting up larger
goals for the team in general, that
culture of “love and trust” which is so
pertinent to the Artemis community
will not be lost. Abrahams expressed
the importance of maintaining a
welcoming environment in the
face of increasing intensity and
competitiveness.
“I think our overarching goal
for this year is to be competitively
successful without sacrificing the
very unique culture of love and trust
and individual buy-in that adds to
the whole team spirit,” Abrahams
said. “I am confident that we will
achieve that goal because that’s
what we have done in the past, it’s
always been a collective decision
that does not come from the top
down, that we want to go really far
and do really well and we want to
work together.”
Soaring to new heights of competitive success, enthused athletes celebrate their accomplishments with thrilled smiles.ALEXANDRA FLORY/THE MOSSY LOG
Swim team thrives in face of pre-season challengesPerformance at Corvallis tournament reflects athletes hard work, resilience after COVID setbacks
New Head Coach Caitlin Denise welcomed by enthusiastic athletes, keeps spirits up during construction
Club expects smooth leadership transition, competive success in face of obstacles.COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK12FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
Check your drugs for candy, and
bring it to us at the Backdoor!
By MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
THE 2023-24 school year’s Witch In
Residence (WIR) came to campus
on Oct. 1, serving as a peer mentor
for tarot readers, spell casters and stoners
in their holiest of seasons. This exciting
role includes managing the Living
Laughing Learning Community, Women
In STEM (Spells, Tarot, Emo and Magic).
The elusive role is a collaboration with
the Office for Ecstacy and Intoxication,
although they have been busy with cyclical
reports of anti-antisemitism (AA) and
anti-anti-antisemitism (AAA), and thus
unable to keep an eye on this vital campus
figure. The Office decided to enlist the help
of their favorite spunky girl-journalist (the
first who emailed back) to broadcast to
the masses what the new WIR, Juniper
Knotley Rathmore, has in store.
Knowing that WIRs typically prefer to
keep to themselves, my initial plan was to
investigate undercover. I left a note under
an elm tree requesting an appointment
with Rathmore for a stick-and-poke tattoo,
and awoke the next morning to find three
amethyst shards on my doorstep. Having
consulted Rathmore’s LinkTree guide,
I knew that amethyst corresponds with
Wednesday and that I should arrive at 3
a.m. sharp (because shards).
I was so excited my message had been
received that I almost cut my hand. This
reminded me that I did, in fact, need to let
blood to RSVP: left hand for “Yes,” right
hand for “Does later in the lunar cycle
work? My horoscope was off.” I pricked
my left pointer finger and stepped outside
to let the wind catch a drop of blood.
I arrived at Rathmore’s residence, an
effective use of the former Maggie’s Café
space. I knocked three times, and she
opened the door, a hazy waft of sage at first
obscuring her shawl-draped form.
“So is this on the record?” she asked.
I was stunned. How had she seen
through my cover?
As though reading my mind, she
responded, “Oh please. You? A stick and
poke? You look like your idea of Paganism
comes from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Come on in; I am ready for you.”
My ego bruised but kicking (I do have
one tastefully anarchist ankle tattoo, after all), I trepidatiously followed her
in, undeterred.
Her room was full of life: Books,
colorful crystals and mysterious jars
covered every surface. Salamanders
roamed a table-sized terrarium, mice
scampered through plastic tubes that lined
the ceiling and an aloof white cat sat atop
an overflowing bookshelf, keeping watch
over the leather-bound notebooks.
I turned on my tape recorder, as her
tattoo appointment rules said all phones
were banned and I thought it fit her whole
vibe, and began our interview.
MMH: Alright, I think we’re recording.
So, a white cat, huh?
JKR: The black cat feels a little on the
nose, y’know?
MMH: Great call. Your room is
beautiful by the way.
JKR: Oh, thanks. I used up my RA
budget on most of it. I think a big part of
my job is about creating a safe space for
exploration of the mystic arts, and my
room is a big part of that. The animals
were tough, though. It is so hard to get one
approved as an Especially Satanic Animal!
MMH: What kind of mystic arts have
you brought with you to the LLC?
JKR: A blend of ancient traditions.
Kabbalah, Voodoo, the thing they do on
Shadow and Bone, lots of stuff. I really
try to sample from a variety of cultures,
but I make sure not to do too much
research about appropriate practice so as to not taint my rituals. Appreciation, not
appropriation, or Asmodeous will get you!
MMH: Wack. Do you have anything in
store for the big day?
JKR: Halloween? Oh, but of course!
At this point, as she began to tell me
her Halloweekend plans, my tape recorder
experienced significant interference which
could not be scrubbed via podcasting
software, and gave me a nosebleed when I
tried to listen back. I do not know why this
happened, as her plans were little more
than seeing Rocky Horror and going to the
post-Homecoming Football Game party.
The recording eventually resumes to
Rathmore answering my question about
how she has been adjusting to LC.
JKR: I really feel the need to immerse
myself in campus culture, you know?
Some freshmen included me in their
dispo (slang for dispensary) run and I just
felt so welcomed. We are going to smoke
under the water tower tonight—I feel so
welcomed by the community.
MMH: Damn, girl! I think that’s all
we have time for. Thank you so much for
meeting with me.
JKR: It’s been a lot of fun.
MMH: What can I say, I am simply full
of spunk.
She sent me on my way untattooed,
but with a Spirit Halloween gift card as a
parting gift.
“Tell ‘em I sent you,” she said. “They
will throw in some body glitter for free.”By ISAAC BABUS
MY NAME IS Adam Hapsfeld, and
I am a freshman at Lewis & Clark.
I do not know if my message will
be heard, not only because I am being
censored, but due to turbulent school wifi.
Whoever sees this, I need help.
Last Wednesday, on my usual nightly
run, I switched my route to go through the
Rose Garden. The Office of Student Rongs
and Reactivity had suggested it after I
wrote about a series of strange encounters,
and I was sure I could trust them.
I was running down the gravel path
from the cobblestone circle when I saw
something in the middle of the path and
skidded to a stop. It was the unmistakable
pink of a Voodoo Donuts box. I should
have kept running. I was on a gluten-free,
lactose-free, sugar-free diet, and it was
going to be a bowel nightmare that would
test the strength of the ancient Copeland
plumbing. But the urge was strong.
I cautiously picked up the box. Just
as I began to open it, I heard running
from my right coming from the woods.
Something knocked the breath out of
me and the world went black as my head
struck the ground.
The pounding in my head awoke me.
I shifted uncomfortably in the chair I
was sitting in and blinked hazily, trying
to adjust to the darkness. A light flashed
in my eyes and I winced. “Its pupils are
dilating correctly,” said a blurry figure.
“Follow my finger, please.”
“W-who are you?” I stuttered.
“My name is Coach Moe,” he said.
“Welcome to the team.”
My eyes raced around the room trying
to take all the information in. I was in a
locker room of some kind. The stench of
the room was almost unbearable. Two
burly college athletes, clad in orange robes
emblazoned with team numbers, stood
guarding the exit.
“This is Mumps and Brayedon,” Coach
Moe said, noticing me eyeing them. “They
would never hurt a fly, but they do give a
mean concussion. Mumps gave you a hell
of a tackle!”
Mumps grunted.
“Why am I here?” I said, trying not to
let my voice tremble.
Coach Moe chuckled. “The team has
had quite the ‘explosive recruitment
season.’ How did you think we did it?”
“Athletic scholarships?”
“As if! School spirit,” bellowed Coach
Moe. “Watch this: Roll Pios!”
Mumps and Brayedon, in booming
voices, repeated the cheer and thumped
their chests.
“A hell of a pair, huh?” said Coach Moe.
“And we have so many more like them.
Soon, we will be unstoppable.”
Mumps and Brayedon suddenly
flanked me, holding me in place. More
figures in orange robes filed into the room,
their football helmets doing nothing to
obscure their faces, as Coach Moe rolled over a screen from out of sight, turned off
the lights, and hit play.
The horrors were unlike anything I
could have imagined. Players missing
tackles, fumbling throws, and getting
nutmegged. Scoreboards showed us losing
game after game. "Roll Pios!” echoed from
the speakers, and the players hypnotically
chanted them back. A Newfoundland
flashed intermittently on screen.
I tried to look away, but Mumps held
my eyes open.
“All this, Adam,” Coach Moe said as he
gestured to the screen where a player was
tripping comically head-over-heels on a
banana peel placed by the other team. “It
can all go away. You can be the difference.
We will make our offering, and then the
process will be complete.”
“BRING IN THE NARP!” hollered
the players, “SACRIFICE! SACRIFICE!
TOUCHDOWN!”
I could hear a commotion down the
hall, the futile struggle of a significantly
weaker student against linebackers.
“Wait!” I screamed. “Look over on
your right! Your team is beating that local
high school!”
Mumps and Brayedon turned and
I broke free of their grip. Coach Moe
leapt after me as I ran towards the
exit. I burst through the doors, out of
the athletics building into the sweet
sunlight, and kept running. I collapsed
in the woods by the gazebo.
I thought I had escaped. Knowing that
many football players keep to themselves
on this campus, I thought I would be safe
if I just kept my head down. I stopped
running, now, I just stay in my room. But
I feel myself changing. I chant “Roll Pios!”
every time I see orange. I have nervous
sweats about being late to practice. My
student email is full of notifications from
something called Hudl. I have been
thinking about switching my major to
RHMS. I keep seeing visions of that cursed
Newfoundland every time I try to sleep. I
still hear the chanting and nerdish screams
of the sacrifices. I do not want to be a D3
athlete the rest of my life!
Someone just slid an orange and black
letter under my door telling me to come
out of my dorm. I cannot stop myself, I
have to do it. If it is not too late before you
are reading this… please, help.By EMMA FORD
WE ALL KNOW one of the most
popular categories of costume
this year is going to be Barbie.
But if Barbie can be anything, what kind
of stereotype-smashing, feminist icon (or,
depending on who you ask, sexualized
glorification of rampant consumerism)
fashion doll should you be? Using our 100%
scientific, Buzzfeed-certified quiz, come
find out what kind of Barbie girl you are.
What do you carry your school supplies in?
A) Purse/shoulder bag
B) Tote bag
C) Backpack
D) My grubby little hands
Where do you prefer to study?
A) Outside
B) Watzek
C) My dorm
D) At my on-campus job
What dietary restriction do you have?
A) Lactose intolerance
B) Gluten-free
C) Nothing?
D) Vegetarian/vegan
What is your major?
A) Sciences
B) Humanities
C) Fine arts
D) UndeclaredStereotypical Barbie (ABCD):
You are That Girl—you have the skin
care on lock, the laptop case that
matches your pencil bag and a tastefully
decorated dorm room. Your notes are
color-coordinated and aesthetically
pleasing and your hair is always properly
Olaplexed. You are what we think of
when we think of “girl.”
If anyone is going
to live up to Margot
Robbie, it
might just
be you.
Doctor
Barbie (CBBA):
A slightly more
driven and bookish
That Girl—and with
a few extra issues.
You would never
end up a marketing
executive or
dental hygienist—
you have drive!
And possibly
some mommy
issues! Have no fear,
everyone is super
impressed with you
and your caffeine addiction. So long as you
keep being spectacular
and sleep deprived,
even in your
Halloween costume.
President
Barbie (ACAB):
Our resident PoliSci major
has arrived. Your laptop
still bears a womens’
march sticker and
digital drawing of RBG,
and your Instagram
story is still a classy 60%
infographics. You have
never truly stopped being
With Her. And we can all
smell the Hamilton phase
on you. Just be careful not
to try to look TOO much like
Issa Rae, Madam President!
Careful with that bronzer!
Writer/Physicist/
Lawyer Barbie (BBCB): Sorry to say
that you are not That Girl. You are simply,
well, boring. Just dress preppy and girly
and pick a high-paying, cubicled, un-
costumable career. And explain it to
EVERY SINGLE PERSON you meet.
Malibu Barbie (BACD): You are
from California, but Southern California. (Be
ready to be tarred and feathered by Bay Area mobs.) You probably should have bitten the
bullet and gone to UC Santa Barbara even
though they did not have the same financial
aid package. Bust out the bikini and shorts
and freeze your ass off, sweetie!
Mojo Dojo Casa House Barbie
(ADAD): Just say you want to dress in a
sexy maid outfit and go.
College Outdoors Barbie (CADA):
You make Patagonia
hot, and make all
of us somewhat
okay with paying
$100 to eat
freeze dried chili
and not shower
for a weekend.
Lean into that, and
bust out as much
pink flannel as you
can find. It should
not be hard as most
outdoor companies
make all their
“women’s gear” that
weird magenta color.
Alternative
Barbie (ACDC):
You are not like other
Barbies, but it is so
not cool to put down
symbols of femininity anymore. Find some pastel bondage gear
and really lean into the campiness, but also
be hot. And if your costume pieces come
from Dolls Kill, I promise not to tell.
Weird Barbie (DCCC): You
REALLY are not like other Barbies.
Or you are gay enough to find Kate
Mckinnon attractive. And you smell like
basement. This is an easy costume to
thrift, but with midterms we both know
you will buy that cheap plastic version
from Spirit Halloween.
Hippie Barbie (CBDA): Not to
be confused with College Outdoors
Barbie, you like tarot and mushrooms
better than trail mix and mountains.
Your room smells more like an ashtray
than activewear. And you will definitely
be in high spirits all of Halloweekend,
as though the little friend you keep
in your pocket does not have you in a
similar space every single other day.
No judgment darling, but it is not the
paranoia talking—we can all tell.
Ken (DCCD): You are just Ken.
And you are, say it with me, Kenough.
If your quiz answers all fail to match
up with anything listed above, we are
not sure what to tell you. Maybe go as
a bedsheet ghost, or Oppenheimer,
provided you have the cheekbones.
Happy Halloween!Be your own Barbie girl, in a Backdoor world
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