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Volume 101, No. 5

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2023-11-17

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By MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
BLAISE HARRISON ’25 wants to
talk. Last Friday, on the steps
in front of JR Howard Hall,
Harrison, supported by groups including
the Arabic Club, Muslim Student
Association (MSA), Hillel, Spiritual
Life and Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement (IME), invited students to
stop and talk to each other. The topic:
the Israel-Hamas war, and the impact it
has had on our campus culture.
The event’s goal was simple.
Harrison held up a poster board
reading, “Cultivate Community. Talk
to us,” inviting passersby to engage.
The board’s straightforward
message was also printed and displayed
on flyers around the area of the
demonstration. This message was the
idea at the core of the demonstration
and a rallying cry that Harrison
emphasized in conversations with
many people that morning.
“We are representatives of
students on campus that are
connected to what is happening in
Israel and Palestine,” the flyers read.
“We are standing together on the
basis that all human life is sacred.
We stand firmly against the killings
of Palestinian and Israeli citizens and
condemn all acts of violence.”Harrison, a Jewish student, first
pitched the idea to Hillel, a Jewish
campus organization with a chapter
serving Portland State University and
Lewis & Clark. They then reached out
to staff at IME and students involved
in MSA and Arabic Club.
“This has come by people
physically talking to each other and
a lot of conversations happening at
the same time in different places,”
Harrison said.
For three hours, Harrison and
a handful of fellow demonstrators
stood, encouraging people to stop and
talk to them. The demonstrators held a
range of identities, including Muslim,
Jewish and “Muslim-adjacent
and Jewish-adjacent” students,
intentional phrasing Harrison used to
be more inclusive of people’s various
identities and relationships to the
subject matter.
The conversations covered a variety
of topics and were very thoughtful and
heartening.
“I’ve had interactions with people
that have just been talking to me
about their emotions and how they are
overwhelmed by what they’re seeing,
or (that) they’re not feeling seen on
campus,” Harrison said.
“DEMONSTRATION” continued on page 3By EMMA AMBROZIAK
& PAIGE A. ANDERSON
THE PORTLAND A s s o c i a t i o n
of Teachers (PAT) commenced
a strike on Wednesday,
Nov. 1, and as of Friday, Nov. 17,
will be entering their twelfth day
of negotiations with the Portland
Public Schools (PPS) district. PAT
is demanding fair labor practices,
increased wages, safer classrooms
and smaller class sizes for Portland
public schools.
Unionized teachers, administrative
persons, students and parents alike have
rallied non-stop for the past two weeks
and as the protests enter their third
week, massive crowds have assembled in
Northeast Portland to support the cause.
Picketing events, rallies and marches
have been held consistently across the
city. On Monday, Nov. 13, PAT hosted
a strike in front of the PPS building on
Dixon street, calling on the district to
hear and amend the issues presented by
the public school community. Students,
parents and teachers stood atop a float
to speak to the crowd.
With a plethora of signs
condemning the lack of attention
given to the quality of classrooms,
the attendees participated in chants
and songs, expressing their support
for educators within the district. A
student-organized band composed
of Cleveland High School students
attended and played energizing music
for the crowd.
The PAT is in an ongoing standoff
with the district about the increased class sizes, limited number of teachers
available, an inability to aptly provide
education for students with special
needs or learning disabilities,
rodent infestations, uncomfortable
temperatures within classrooms and
inadequate salaries. It has proved
difficult to reach an agreement
between teachers and the district.
More than 43,000 students across
Portland who were expected to return to classes this Monday now enter their
third week out of school.
“(PAT) represents more than
4,500 professional educators in the
Portland Public School system. We’re
working to create the best possible
learning environment for our students,
by protecting our profession and
advocating for frontline educators,”
the PAT website states. “(T)o
provide the necessary education and socialization of young people, safe
and clean classrooms, well-managed
and transparent communication
between the district and individual
administrations and appropriately
compensated teachers is a critical
requirement for the future of public
education in Portland.”
The PPS website’s FAQ page
outlines the back and forth between
the district and specific PAT requests.“Portland Public Schools is offering a
cumulative 10.9% cost-of-living increase
over the next three years: 4.5% in the
first year, then 3% in the second year, and
then 3% in the third year. The district has
also offered to raise the salary for starting
educators by 3.4%. These increases
would make our starting educators the
highest paid teachers in the metro area’s
six largest districts,” the website states.
“PAT wants a 23% cost-of-living increase
over the next three years: 8.5% in the
first year of the contract, then 7% in the
second year, and then 6% in the third
year. The district initially offered 2.5% for
each year of the contract, then raised our
offer to 3% for each year of the contract,
then raised our offer to 4%/3%/3%, and
most recently 4.5%/3%/3%. PAT has not
changed their offer. The district has also
offered a $3,000 stipend per year for
special education educators, including
school psychologists, speech-language
pathologists, and qualified mental
health professionals funded by special
education.”
PAT’s FAQ page also presents a
rebuttal against PPS’s offers.
“If we were to accept PPS’ numbers,
here’s how it breaks down: PPS’ budget is
almost $1.9 billion dollars. $200 million
across three years is $67 million per year.
That is less than 4% of their yearly budget
they need to adjust to cover our proposals.
This does not include the fact that we can
and will be petitioning for an increase in
the State School Fund for the last year of
this contract (since the SSF is renewed
every 2 years),” the website states.
“COMMUNITY” continued on page 3Vol. 101 No. 5 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023 www.piolog.com
Today’s Weather
Partly cloudy with a high of 55
degrees and a low of 41 degrees.
No precipitation expected. Sunset
at 4:39 p.m. and a waxing crescent
moon.OPINION
Race Monologues attendance
Letter to the editor expresses
disappointment with LC community’s
lack of support during Race Monologues.
PAGE 4FEATURES
Unique art installation
Sculpture and Digital Media students
created a soundscape tucked in the
woods behind Fields Center for the
Arts. PAGE 6ARTS
Upcoming dance exhibition
Dance X choreographers and dancers
prepare to bring performances to stage
this December.
PAGE 9SPORTS
Cheer and Step Team
Members discuss fostering a supportive
community and promoting school
spirit.
PAGE 10
Portland educators enter third week of strike
Student peace initiative
prioritizes conversationThe greater PDX community demonstrates solidarity with PAT in their fight to improve working conditions in the district.EMMA AMBROZIAK/THE MOSSY LOG
Teachers rally support for equitable labor practices, increased wages, safer schools, decreased class sizes
Ray Warren Symposium brings
Afrofuturist reimaginings to light
By OLIVIA FENDRICH
& LILLIAN SMALL
LEWIS & CLARK hosted the 20th
annual Ray Warren Symposium
on Race and Ethnic Studies on
Nov. 8-10. The theme this year was
“Future Forward,” exploring topics of
Afrofuturism and BIPOC imaginings of
the years to come.
The first ever Ray Warren Symposium
was established in 2004 in honor of the
renowned LC faculty and community
member, Ray Warren. Warren started
as an associate dean of admissions in
1987 and was named director of ethnic
student services in 1992. Throughout
his time at LC, Warren was dedicated
to creating space for and empowering
students of color on campus, whether
through his work in admissions,
organizing the annual Martin Luther
King Jr. Day festivities or advocating for
student athletes. Warren passed away in
December of 2004.
“Finding Common Ground” was
the theme of the first Ray Warren
Symposium, featuring keynote speaker
Dale Minami. Minami, a former advisor
to Bill Clinton and a co-founder of
the Asian Law Caucus, led a panel
on discrimination, racial profiling
and Japanese incarceration. Other
panels covered topics such as cultural competency, Native American medicine
and the Race Monologues.
This year’s symposium was co- chaired
by Mathila Tambe ’25 and Lucinda Law
’24. Tambe said that early discussions
about the symposium’s theme involved
asking the question of what the future
looks like.
“We answered the question with
another question—what the future
looked like to us? We are very aware of
the pride and prestige that comes with
the symposium completing 20 years and
found it fitting to send out a message
that we will continue to thrive and bring
underrepresented conversations and
topics to the campus for another 20
years,” Tambe said.
Law noted that she had not known of
Afrofuturism prior to taking on the role
of co-chair.
“Afrofuturism and other co-futurisms
were a concept I had not heard of before
my role as co-chair. I spent a couple of
weeks watching TED talks, Youtube
videos and reading articles in order to
grasp the ideals,” Law said. “Both Mithila
and I were passionate about having a
theme that was easily transferable to the
artistic sphere—which is exactly what
futurism and the future are about. It also
felt obvious that we would have a future-
themed symposium at our 20th Annual
Ray Warren Symposium.”Although this symposium directed
participants and speakers to reimagine
the future, the co-chairs relied on the
past to choose their keynote speakers.
“In our search for keynote speakers, I
wanted to spend some time researching
past panelists and guest speakers
as well—they are all such endlessly
inspiring and wonderful people,” Tambe
said.
It was the co-chair’s faculty director
that introduced them to one of the
people who would be chosen to speak at
this year’s symposium.
“Our faculty director, Dr. Kim
Brodkin, had told us about Walidah
Imarisha, who years ago had conducted
a spoken word poetry workshop as a
part of the Ray Warren Symposium;
coincidently I found an essay/book
review she had written on Aya de León,”
Tambe said. “When I first read the
review, de León was introduced to me as
a slam poet and hip hop artist and I was
blown away. Quickly I found out that she
now also boasts about being an author,
a climate justice activist and the director
of the Poetry for the People program at
Berkeley.”
Tambe said that upon discovering
de Leon’s work, the co-chairs knew she
should be invited to speak.
“BIPOC” continued on page 3.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
NEWS /gid00484
Ken Clifton presents research on biology of ArcticLC faculty form new AAUP advocacy chapter
By CORRINA CHAN
ON THE EVENING of Nov. 3, Ken
Clifton, a Professor Emeritus of
Biology at Lewis & Clark, and
Andrew McPheeters, the associate vice
president for community education
and travel programs, gathered over
Zoom with other alumni to discuss LC’s
trip to the Arctic in August 2024 and
teach attendees some facts about the
environment in the area. The trip has
reached 16 participants and will move
forward as planned.
The group will launch from
Longyearbyen in Svalbard, an island off
the northern coast of Norway and make
their way to the artic circle.
Clifton retired last spring and has
been on five alumni trips with LC. He was
the faculty leader for the 2020 cruise to
Antarctica, and has been on two safaris
in Tanzania and two schooner cruises
among the San Juan Islands, but has
never been to the Arctic Circle—the most
northern and remote region of Antarctica.
“My visit to the Antarctic gave
me a nice introduction to polar environments and I’m looking forward
to comparing and contrasting the two
places,” Clifton said.
He takes great enjoyment in these
extraordinary opportunities, because
he believes in the importance of
experiential learning. In his previous
role as professor of biology, Clifton’s
main interest was in behavioral ecology,
focusing on subjects such as jellyfish
and the sex life of seaweed.
“(I get) really excited about jellies,”
Clifton said.
During the lecture, Clifton
explained and quizzed attendees on
the architecture, environment and
ecology of the Arctic, including the
food web, how the habitat is different
from most other ecosystems and how
the unusual light cycles—it being
dark for several months out of the
year—affect the biodiversity and the
food web.
Clifton went on to detail basic
biology including producers, consumers
and endotherms and ectotherms, as
well as what kind of factors—biotic and
abiotic—affect the environment. He explained how this cycle of
complete dark in the winter months
and complete light in the summer
months affects primary producers, or
organisms that produce food through
photosynthesis. In the Arctic, primary
producers experience a huge spike in
photosynthesis in the summer and
a dip in the winter, as opposed to in
more temperate environments where
photosynthesis levels vary less throughout
the year.
In addition, many animals migrate
north during the summer to take
advantage of this huge boom in food.
While this is a long and arduous journey,
the effort of the migration is greatly offset
by the sheer abundance of sustenance.
Clifton also touched on the
adaptability of the different animals
that live so far north and how they
evolved to survive in the harsh climate.
Some animals gained a white color
which helped them blend in better
with the snow, while others evolved
thick layers of fat and fur, as well as
adopting hibernation behaviors to deal
with the cold, especially during winter. Many animals and even certain
plants show this kind of adaptive
behavior, with some bugs and plants
even being resistant to frost in the
earlier stages of their life cycles—larvae
and seeds—while their adult forms die
off. Other larger animals must feast
on food at the end of the summer
before “hunkering down,” as Clifton
describes, often by burying themselves
for the winter.
Clifton concluded the lecture by
pulling everything together: There
would be no polar bears without
the existence of all those species in
the food web below them, and all
rely on each other and the adaptive
traits required to survive in such an
extreme environment.
Clifton warns that a warming planet
and changes to the oceans threaten to
alter the environment dramatically
and it is important to stay informed
and take care, or the balance of this
ecosystem will be thrown off.
“It is very gratifying to share amazing
parts of the planet with others who are
keen to explore and learn more about a place (as LC alums and parentgenerally
are!),” Clifton wrote via email. “I’m
an ardent advocate for experiential
learning opportunities, believing that,
no matter where you are, the real world
has many lessons to offer.”
National organization encourages professor participation, hopes to foster conversation, unification
In special lecture, professor emeritus talks polar ecosystems, animals, adaptations, summer alumni trip By J FRANK
ON NOV. 15, the formation of a
chapter of the American Association
of University Professors (AAUP)
at Lewis & Clark was approved by the
national AAUP organization, allowing
faculty members to officially begin
conducting advocacy work under the title
of AAUP.
AAUP is a nationwide organization
that facilitates faculty organization and
aims to build solidarity within member
institutions in order to help faculty
better represent and advocate for their
interests. While any individual faculty
can be a member of AAUP National,
institutions such as LC can also form an
AAUP chapter through a process which
involves electing a steering committee,
writing bylaws and ultimately applying
for approval from AAUP National.
Since last year, a group of individual
AAUP members at LC have been
working to spearhead this initiative.
Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Oren Kosansky, was named president
in an election open to all AAUP national
members at LC last year, which also
selected vice president, secretary/treasurer
and three members at large.
The group’s hope is that establishing
an AAUP chapter at LC will encourage
more faculty to join as well as encourage
official organization and collaboration
between faculty across all departments.
“The AAUP is interested in
supporting ... faculty interest and
having faculty contribute to the mission
of the college. The idea is that we will
have a faculty forum for considering
those issues, working together with the
administration and the institution to
come up with solutions,” Kosansky said.
He further explained that the
AAUP’s purpose is not to address
individual faculty grievances but rather
to conduct research on a broader
and more long-term scale in order to
create dialogues and work with college
administration from the perspective of
faculty interests.
“We will address broader issues of
like, ‘What’s the working environment
for faculty in the college? How can
that be improved? How can we work
with the administration to make it a
better environment for faculty so that
it’s a better college for everybody?’”
Kosansky said.
Two main areas of concern for
faculty that the AAUP hopes to focus
on are faculty governance and issues
of compensation.
“Our view, and I think it’s shared
by the institution, is that the better
faculty governance works, the better
it is for the institution. Faculty
governance could be structured better
in a way that faculty know what their
role is in decision making processes
and have more authority and decision making practices,” Kosansky said.
“The other (side) is that ... we are
interested in looking at the way in
which compensation happens at Lewis
& Clark for faculty, and trying to help
the community as a whole figure out
what are our values as an institution,
and how those values are reflected in
compensation policy ... The questions are
how are we distributing salaries, how are
we distributing raises, and in what ways is
that fair and in what ways is that not fair?”
Kosansky and his colleagues in AAUP
were motivated to form the chapter after
experience with previous advocacy work
in temporary faculty groups at LC to
address immediate concerns on campus
and implement changes to improve
faculty labor conditions.
For example, a group of faculty
passed an initiative which meant
all faculty received the same dollar
amount raise for one year, instead
of the usual system where raises are
proportional to each faculty member’s
salary the previous year. This initiative
was aimed at increasing equity by
leveling the skew of salaries, which
harms faculty who happened to be
hired when national salaries were
lower, and are therefore consistently
not paid as much as their rank peers.
“If everyone gets the same amount,
then the people on the top aren’t
benefiting by virtue of having a higher
salary,” Kosansky explained.
This initiative was passed by
an overwhelming faculty vote of
around 75%, and though the school
did not continue to implement this
compensation system in subsequent
years, Kosansky considers this an
example of the kind of advocacy work
AAUP can accomplish. Another example
of AAUP members’ past advocacy was
extending the faculty vote to some part-
time, or non-tenure track faculty.
“There were some faculty—it’s a
category called with-term faculty—that
didn’t have a vote, but they’ve been
here for a really long time. They have a
commitment to the college, the college has
a commitment to them ... so we helped
to initiate a process that got them
the faculty vote. That’s an example of
stronger governance,” Kosansky said.
Given this positive experience
with faculty organization, Kosansky
and fellow board members wanted to
create a more official organization to
continue implementing such research
and advocacy in the future, with greater
reach and efficacy.
“Each of these initiatives had some
overlapping faculty and some different.
A bunch of us got together and said,
‘Wait, we’re doing all this work, how do
we sustain it?’ And then we were like,
‘If we’re going to do the work, then let’s
make an advocacy chapter. Because it’ll be
the right structure, we’ll get the resources,
we’ll develop solidarity,’” Kosansky said.Kosansky elaborated on the benefit
of forming a chapter of a national
organization as a way to solidify the
groups doing this work, as well as gain
support and resources.
“The AAUP National can provide
a set of resources for … helping us to
strategize, helping us to get information,
helping us to build solidarity on campus
and off campus,” Kosansky said.
Previous to AAUP National’s
approval of the formation of the chapter,
the board was already planning for its
future, meeting to discuss how they
would operate and establishing things
like broad goals, action strategies,
writing bylaws, spreading awareness
and recruiting more faculty to join.
“This semester, we’re setting the
foundation of how we’re going to work,
what the organization is going to be,
how we’re going to make decisions,
what issues we’re going to take up,”
Kosansky said.
In alignment with their long-term
strategic approach, the AAUP plans to
implement a meticulous, multi-step
action guide to ensure that they accurately
and effectively represent faculty voices
and values.
“As AAUP starts to figure out what
we want to address, there’s a process
we’re kind of following which is research,
report, advocate,” Kosansky said. “The
first step is (to) do a kind of research that
otherwise isn’t getting done. Once we’ve
done that research, be transparent about
it: ‘Here’s what we’ve found.’ And then
that report might lead to advocacy.”
In order to address specific areas
in which they observe the most
faculty interest or concern and need
for advocacy, AAUP plans to form a
handful of subcommittees that will each
work to address one such issue. So far,
most of the subcommittees have not
been solidified, but Associate Professor
of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Studies
Section Head and Director of Gender
Studies Magalí Rabasa has already been
appointed to head a subcommittee on
contingent faculty.
Employment conditions for
contingent faculty have been a prevalent
concern at LC for some time. Contingent
faculty, also called with-term, adjunct
or non-tenure track faculty, are those
teachers employed by the college who do
not qualify for tenure in the future. This
is due to their lack of a PhD or due to
being hired to fill a position which is not
long-term, does not involve a research
provision or does not meet the criteria of
a full-time tenure-track professorship.
Because of the unique position
contingent faculty hold, their contracts,
compensation and role in faculty
governance are handled differently
than faculty on a tenure track. At
LC, contingent faculty operate on
one-year contracts and until the
previously mentioned initiative by AAUP members, were excluded from
voting in issues of faculty governance,
meaning that they did not get an equal
say in decisions regarding conditions
for instructors. While some long-term
contingent faculty now do have a role
in faculty governance, there is still work
to be done, and Rabasa is passionate
about further bringing awareness to
their representation and improving
contingent faculty conditions as part of
the mission of AAUP.
“AAUP is a space where there can
be better representation of those voices
and concerns and of the needs of that
particular group of faculty,” Rabasa
said. “It’s not so much about saying
that the college has done something
wrong, but looking for ways to improve
what’s happening and saying ‘How can
things be done better?’ and ‘How could
we better serving and supporting our
faculty who are absolutely essential to
the operation of the college?’”
While Rabasa is herself a tenured
professor, her position in the World
Languages department means that she
is especially aware of and invested in
the interests of contingent faculty, of
which the World Languages department
employs many.
“We are concerned about the
situation of our long-term full-time
instructors because we think that
someone who’s been at the college for
decades should not be on one-year
contracts, and I think most people
would agree,” Rabasa said. “We
have incredibly skilled, experienced
instructors in those roles. They are by
no means temporary instructors or
filling in, and they are integral to the
operation of our program … Everybody
has to take a language at LC or pass
their requirement, so Spanish does
a lot of service for the university in
terms of staffing and teaching courses
that students use to fulfill that general
education requirement.”
Given the vital role of these contingent
instructors, many of whom have been
working at the college for years or even
decades, Rabasa and the AAUP believe in
the importance of listening to and valuing
the perspectives of contingent faculty,
and are committed to improving how
this is reflected in faculty governance and
compensation policy.
A core part of the AAUP’s purpose is
to create dialogue between faculty and
administration, while also being an
independent space for faculty to meet
and discuss their interests separate
from these joint discussions.
“I think that the college or the
administration really is committed
to the same values that AAUP is
committed to: equity, fairness, faculty
empowerment,” Kosansky said. “What
we think as AAUP is that having an
independent space for faculty to think
that through on their own, from our perspective, benefits the process.”
Kosansky hopes this will allow
faculty to better coordinate, conduct
research and determine their stances
in order to present a united front in
discussions with administration.
“My view is that the AAUP works
best when it’s putting together the
interests of the faculty and the mission
of the college. That being said, (faculty
and administration) might have
different views about how those go
together,” Kosansky said. “What that
relationship looks like as we move
forward will depend entirely on the
parties involved and who is willing
to have those conversations. The
administration does not have a role
to support or not to support. They’ve
heard us; they’ve seen us.”
Overall, Kosansky is satisfied with
the administration’s response and is
hopeful about the future of the AAUP
and its ability to collaborate openly
and have productive discussions with
administration. Dean of the College
Bruce Suttmeier expressed similar
sentiments in a statement, indicating
that the administration understands
the importance of the AAUP’s work and
is open to supporting its goals.
“AAUP as a national organization
has been vital in ensuring academic
freedom and strengthening higher
education amid challenges of all kinds.
The organization’s values of academic
freedom and shared governance are
values I share,” Suttmeier said. “Faculty
governance … is vital to the success of
the College, and I welcome AAUP’s role
in being part of that success.”
Kosansky explained why he believes
AAUP’s work should be of interest to all
LC students and faculty.
“AAUP looks to work with the
administration to address issues
that are of interest to the faculty
and therefore are in the interest of
students and the institution as a
whole,” Kosansky said. “The better our
work environment, the more we feel
ownership of what’s going on, the more
committed we are to the institution. …
The more faculty feel empowered
at the institution, the better it is for
faculty experience. The better the
faculty experience, the better they can
provide students with good teaching.”
In service of its mission to build
solidarity, the AAUP hopes to include
even more faculty members in its
discussions and advocacy work, in order
to serve as a forum to amplify faculty
voices across ranks and disciplines.
While all faculty are always welcome
to participate in forums and engage
with the chapter’s work, Kosansky
emphasized that the most impactful
way to participate is to join the AAUP.
“If faculty really want to have a
voice in what we are doing, they should
become members,” Kosansky said.
STELLA MERCER/THE MOSSY LOGNEWS 3FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
BIPOC presenters emphasize
tangible change in path forward
Continued from page 1.
“We thought her engagement with
different forms of creative expression
and advocacy would be invaluable to
our communities. When we ask and talk
about the future, it feels like a disservice
and is, honestly, ignorant to not include
our environment and planet in the
discussion and solutions. Aya de León
blended the world of literature and
climate justice in a way that I hadn’t
been exposed to yet and that’s why she
had to be a part of the symposium,”
Tambe said.
As for the other speaker, Ingrid
LaFleur, Law said that LaFleur’s body
of work fit perfectly with the theme of
the symposium.
“Both (Tambe) and I were drawn to
Ingrid LaFleur. LaFleur’s large field of
work and research within Afrofuturism
made for an enticing and interesting
pair of keynote presentations this year,”
Law said.
Tambe said that this symposium
is especially impactful on our campus
because it creates racially diverse spaces
for students who may otherwise struggle
to feel accepted at a predominantly
white institution (PWI).
“The conversations we hope to
ignite transcend the three symposium
days, and I think that’s very valuable to
a campus where I have been in classes
where I, an international student of
color, am the only international student
of color in that space,” Tambe said.
Tambe went on to say that
symposium events like the Race
Monologues exist for BIPOC students
and audience members to feel like their
thoughts and experiences are heard.
“Yes, the symposium aims to further
meaningful conversation among and
with our majority white peers, but it
is also for us, and for every BIPOC student who will attend this school and
maybe one day find themselves severely
underrepresented in initiatives and
campus spaces,” she said.
Tambe added that having students
of color plan this symposium is also a
major signifier of the progress that has
already been made for BIPOC students,
even at a majority-white school.
“Plus the presence of BIPOC
voices in the planning, facilitation and
celebration of the symposium prove
that we’re more than just a statistic.
‘PWI’ and ‘Majority White college’ are
phrases that are used almost daily and
yet ultimately only makes the presence
of White peers and staff and faculty
explicit,” Tambe said. “The power still
lies with the majority population. The
Ray Warren Symposium is perhaps
a way to reverse the narrative, to put
BIPOC folks in the spotlight because
they are here, have been here, will stay
here; and because they deserve it.”
The co-chairs then reflected on their
favorite moments from getting to plan
this conference.
“JT Flowers and Alisa Kajikawa
talk(ed) about their organizations
and the role they play in reforming,
revitalizing and reimagining Portland
city. As someone who is not from
Portland or the region, I know I used
to turn away from Portland and its
current socio-political happenings,
despite the fact that this is my home
for 4 years—and maybe more, who’s to
say?” Tambe said.
Tambe noted that her years living
in Portland as a person of color were
difficult at times.
“For my first year I was immensely
detached from and carried a sense that
what is happening in my immediate
physical surroundings won’t affect me
after I’m done with LC, which is more
than untrue. And guest speakers like the two mentioned before were key
in making me aware of my biases and
ignorance,” Tambe said.
As for Law, she said that the
symposium’s art show and discussions
with artists were her favorite parts.
“It was wonderful inviting some
of the artists featured in our annual
Ray Warren Symposium art show
and hearing them speak about their
inspirations and creative processes,”
Law said. “It was such a treat to
connect with the actual creator
behind the wonderful pieces we have
displayed. I am so grateful to these
lovely art curators, Lauren Arriola and
Cadyn Schenk-Turner, for their efforts
and attention towards the exhibit and
am so proud of how it turned out.”
Tambe said that ultimately, it was
providing a platform for BIPOC voices
that gave her a sense of fulfillment in
what she had accomplished.
“The people—students and
professionals and even audience
alike—who volunteer to speak up about
their lives and experiences during the
entire symposium showed me that
isolated issues rarely exist and I have
a responsibility towards the place that
provides me with so much for so many
years,” she said.
For Tambe, planning and executing
the symposium energized her for the
future. She emphasized that engaging
with such powerful voices was
exceptionally inspirational.
“Both the local leaders/organizers
were sources of inspiration and
determination because, while I may
never achieve the impact that they have,
I was so fulfilled to hear them talk about
their visions and mission,” she said. “And
the best part of the symposium—and all
the symposiums we have annually at
LC—is how educational or enriching it
is when I continue to stay open to it.”Continued from page 1.
One student who engaged with
demonstrators shared that they had
been harassed online for posting some
political opinions about the conflict. This
experience, which many LC students
may relate to, was extremely troubling to
listeners, drawing empathy from other
students. Harrison shared that behaviors
like this are what they are hoping to
address with their demonstration and
subsequent conversations.
“If there is language that is sparking
that intense of emotions, I believe it
is critical we are talking about that on
campus,” Harrison said. “We must talk
about where those emotions are coming
from.”
Harrison initially had the idea for
this event in response to divides they had
noticed forming on campus.
Harrison stressed that the event was
a collaborative effort between students and staff from a variety of backgrounds
and connections to Israel and Palestine.
That said, the event could not have
materialized without the passion and drive
Harrison has for community building,
communication and conflict resolution.
Harrison has a background in
facilitating hard discussions. They have
been trained in conflict resolution by
working with Community Dialogues
and an organization called Living Room
Conversations where people with different
viewpoints have in moderated discussions
about hot-button issues.
Alongside the short conversations
that Harrison facilitated on Friday,
they offered an email list students
could join to participate in a longer, sit-
down discussion in the future. Email
blaiseharrison@lclark.edu if you are
interested in participating.
“I am a big believer in conversation
and I really, really want to hear what
people have to say,” Harrison said.Continued from page 1.
According to PAT, PPS’s offer does
not consider inflation and the Cost of
Living Adjustment, and would therefore
not suffice to pay teachers a salary that
is proportionate to the expected amount
of work. In an interview conducted
by Oregon Public Broadcasting’s
Dave Miller, the current President of
PAT, Angela Bonilla, explained the
discrepancy.
“Well, we have had an inflation rate
of almost 18% over the last few years and
our salary has only gone up about 10%
in terms of cost of living adjustments.
And so we are just about 8.5% behind.
And our educators feel it. It’s hard to
go grocery shopping. It’s hard to pay
your mortgage because we continue to
have a pay cut by not keeping up with
inflation,” Bonilla said.
Though the official strike began
only 12 days ago, the teachers and
administrators of Portland public
schools have been in negotiations with
the district for years.
“We have been bargaining with
the district for under a year, but really
for much longer than that because our
contract last year was just an extension
of the previous contract because they
couldn’t reach an agreement,” Revi
Shohet, a special education teacher at
Bridger Creative Science School said.
“I work with middle schoolers and I see
a ton of anxiety. These kids just don’t
know how to be in the world. I’ve had
so many students with suicidal ideation
and attempts. This is something that
we’re dealing with every day and what the
district provides is functionally nothing.”
Shohet also claimed that students
with mental health issues, learning
differences and ones generally in need
of support from the authority figures
that teachers become in their lives are
being cast to the wayside. Shohet, along
with many other teachers at Monday’s
rally, share the belief that there simply
is not enough staffing in order to cater
to all of the students’ needs. “It’s not about putting more bodies
in buildings, it’s about putting people
with actual qualifications, like mental
health professions,” Shohet said. “I’m
not a therapist, I’m an instructor.”
The sentiment expressed by the
crowd was in full support of the
teachers; students and parents alike
spoke of the educators as their family
and deserving of compensation for their
hard work in the community.
“We’re clearly over the number of
days we usually use for snow and the
complaints of learning loss will start to
weigh more and more on families as we
balance that with the value in fighting
against the learning loss that is already
happening on a daily basis,” Jacque
Dixon, PAT-President elect who will
succeed Bonilla in 2024 said. “We do
not blame our teachers for this learning
loss. We blame PPS.”
Kaimana Pueo von Geldern, a
sixth-grade student from Vernon
K-8 Elementary School in Northeast
Portland, stood on the podium to share
his experience and the experience of
his mom, Maya Pueo von Geldern, who
serves as president of his school’s Parent
Teacher Association (PTA) board. In
front of hundreds of picketers, teachers,
students and supporters he spoke about
his school’s teachers and his concerns
about safety.
“Our teachers work super hard,”
Pueo von Gueldern said. “Our teachers
are our family.”
He then shared an anecdote about
one of the many safety concerns among
PPS teachers.
“We also have a really bad rat
problem. My mom once had rat
droppings go down her back and even
in her mouth when she was lifting a box
in a PTA closet,” he said.
His anecdote elicited a chorus of
boos and audible gasps from the crowd,
where a number of picket signs spoke
out against safety conditions, sharing
messages such as “ON STRIKE FOR
SAFE SCHOOLS,” “PPS SPENT THREE
MILLION ON OFFICE FURNITURE BUT SAY SAFE SCHOOLS ARE TOO
EXPENSIVE?” and “WHITE PAINT
OVER BLACK MOLD IS GETTING
VERY OLD.”
“We really want to be back in school.
I mean, I don’t miss the homework, but I
miss my friends and my teachers,” Pueo
von Geldern said, concluding with a
sentiment shared by many PPS students.
On the morning of the Monday that
the PAT was hoping would be the first
day back to school after eight days of
striking, Greg Burril, who has been a
substitute teacher for PPS since 2005,
gave a much-needed, energy-filled
speech to the crowd. He referenced
numerous budget cuts over the years,
unreasonable classroom sizes and more
safety concerns.
“We caught them hiding lead
in our drinking water,” Burril said.
“Dangerously poorly maintained
buildings drive our best educators to
other districts or out of the profession.”
Burril led a number of chants
directed towards students, parents and
community members.
“Are you ready to fight for clean
classrooms?” he asked. “Are you ready
to fight for comfortable temperatures in
all of your spaces?”
Burril mentioned the difficulties PAT
has faced in bargaining with the district.
“We’re putting an end to an
administration that refuses to bargain
over class sizes,” he said.
The crowd cheered him on with
megaphones, tambourines and dozens
of teachers touting signs demanding
smaller class sizes.
Two signs read, “CLASSROOM SIZE
DOES MATTER” and “I’D RATHER BE
TEACHING MY 245 STUDENTS.”
Several key points were made
throughout the duration of the rally.
There were multiple mentions of
safety concerns for students, teachers,
custodians and other on-site staff—
from vermin, to black mold, to lead
in the drinking water, to dilapidated
infrastructure to extreme classroom
temperatures throughout the year. A sea of royal blue t-shirts and
painted picket signs voiced concerns
about large and unmanageable class
sizes, poor compensation for inflated
living costs, unpaid work hours and a lack
of qualified professionals who are able to
respond appropriately to mental health,
accommodate learning disabilities and
address students’ basic and functional
needs. Protestors demonstrated a strong
desire for teachers’ voices to be listened
to and represented accordingly.
“Our bargaining team is still waiting
for PPS to take our demands seriously.
PPS is still sowing fear, uncertainty and
doubt and the media is still eating it up,”
Bonilla, the emcee for the rally, said.
“PPS will never have the credibility with
our community that we have because
we make PPS work.”
Lewis & Clark Associate Professor
of Hispanic Studies and Director of
Gender Studies Magalí Rabasa is also
a parent to two young children, one of
whom is a student in a Portland public
school. Rabasa is active in her children’s
PTA community.
The Oregon PTA, an umbrella
organization for parent-teacher
associations across the state, recently
put out what Rabasa dubs “questionable
guidance” as they encourage PTAs to
remain neutral in the context of the
bargaining and strike. Local PTAs were
told not to use their communication
channels in ways that may seem biased
and not to use their budgets to support
striking teachers.
According to many, teachers are
exhausted from weeks of rallying and
fighting, with no certain end in sight.
Teacher strikes in the past have lasted
anywhere from a couple of days to
nearly an entire school year.
“When we got there at 8 a.m. today,
(the teachers) were exhausted. They’re
angry. They’re sad,” Rabasa said.
By far the majority of voices
commenting on the strike are in support
of teachers and their demands for fair
contracts, but there are also parent
voices of dissent criticizing the strike, labeling teachers as lazy and calling for
them to go back to work. The media
rhetoric has also been shifting.
“It was never really pro-teacher, but
it has been shifting. It has been pumping
out a lot more anti-PAT rhetoric,
highlighting those parent voices, which
really are a minority,” Rabasa said.
At Monday’s rally, speakers implored
the crowd to support teachers by
showing up to picket lines and rallies,
signing the solidarity pledge, sending
letters to the Portland Public Schools
Board of Education, texting SUPPORT
or RALLY to 48744 to join informational
email lists, and standing beside
teachers as they persevere in realizing
their hopes for an equitable school
system. @pdxteachers on Instagram
and pdxteachers.org regularly provide
information about the strike.
As the third week of the strike
begins, students, teachers and parents
are hopeful that their requests will soon
be met with consideration and long-
lasting change.
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Blaise Harrison stands on the steps of JR Howard Hall speaking about their cause.Demonstration incites
discourse amid tension
Community aids PAT efforts to enact reform
Protest showcases variety of perspectives on ongoing negotiations between PPS and union members
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OPINION /gid00486
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.Emphasis on college experience
discourages better alternativesActivism efforts lack
awareness, empathy
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOGLetter to the Editor: Race
Monologues must be heard
Dear LC Community,
I am writing to express my deep
disappointment with our community’s
lack of support during this year’s Race
Monologues. As a student who has
been deeply involved in the Ray Warren
Symposium (RWS) in the last three
years, I bear witness and I embody the
significance of Race Monologues, an event
that spotlights the personal narratives of
Black, Indigenous and People of Color
(BIPOC), especially at our predominantly
white institution (PWI).
It is not a secret that in previous
years, Race Monologues was one of
the biggest events on campus. Staff
members who have been here since
the founding of Race Monologues in
2002 will tell you about the stories
from when it was originally performed
at Stamm Hall, crowded to the point
of discomfort, until they finally moved
it to the chapel to accommodate for
the constant high turnout of students.
In the RWS website itself, you can
find pictures of the chapel seats full.
In previous years, people would line
out the door early to secure a seat for
Race Monologues, sometimes, with a
line wrapping around Frank Manor.
In some years, people were also turned
away due to full capacity.
This year, however, the crowd was
nowhere close to what it has been in
the past, having approximately half of
the seats empty. Although we are aware
that there was a play going on at the
exact same time as Race Monologues,
the absence of bodies in the audience is
a strong indicator of whose narratives
are prioritized in the community. While
many white people say they couldn’t
show up due to inconvenience and lack
of energy, the student presenters and
coordinators spent an immense amount
of emotional energy and time during
the previous weeks to prepare for
our monologues. Even though we are burnt out socially, academically, and
physically, we still pull within ourselves
the strength to partake in Race
Monologues. The least white students,
faculty and staff can do is show up on a
Friday night.
Our campus considers itself liberal
and progressive, so white people
must be conscious of the importance
of solidarity, otherwise they are
complacent in perpetrating institutional
invisibilization and harm to BIPOC
bodies on campus. In terms of Race
Monologues, solidarity is shown, at the
bare minimum, through the presence
of the white bodies in the audience.
Although we have learned to not expect
the help of white people in our fight for
inclusion and racial justice, we do notice
that the power of our resistance grows
when white students, faculty, and staff
support (and not overtake) our voices.
If LC wants to claim to be as
progressive, liberal, and inclusive as
they do, their actions should match
their claims. You should be constantly
doing the work to challenge yourself and
the racist discourses that our society
normalizes. You should be constantly
using your access to literature, internet
and higher education to continue
learning about the communities who
are often left behind. You should be
constantly listening and validating the
voices from BIPOC, first generation,
international and marginalized
students.
And, if it’s still not clear enough,
you should be showing up to the only
event in the fall semester where BIPOC
students can reclaim their narratives
and invite you to their world. The
existence of BIPOC bodies at our PWI
is revolutionary and an art form, and
should be treated as such. Otherwise,
your intellectual laziness is making you
miss out on the very same “diversity”
you continuously praise and defend as
core values of this institution. Race Monologues was founded and
carried over by the voices of hundreds
of BIPOC and international students
for over two decades, and if the new
generation fails to see the importance of
that space and disappears due to beliefs
of a post-racial campus structure;
the labor, love and care from the
generations before us will be disdained.
Mental health matters—trust me I
know—but when you prioritize white
tears and fragility over the voices of
BIPOC students who, even if they are
hurting, must continue to show up, you
make your carelessness and chosen
ignorance very evident. The ability to
pick and choose when not to care is
selfish and performative. Do better,
otherwise, you will be the continuous
embodiment of structural racism.
How much longer do you plan to
continue to fail us and yourself?
In community,
Rocío Yao (RWS ‘22 Co-Chair &
Race Monologues Presenter in 2021,
2022, and 2023)
Written on behalf of other RWS
Co-Chairs, RWS participants, and
2023 Race Monologues Presenters.
This letter does not encompass the
views of all participants. Individual
opinions may vary.
By NADAV BEN DAVID
WHAT IS the purpose of college
to you? Is it purely academic?
Is it to prepare you for the
workforce? To network? Build life and
social skills? Many people come to college
for different reasons. What is yours?
College in the US, like a Swiss army
knife, has many tools and purposes.
From the obvious educational
perspective of learning about your
major and taking classes to socializing
and being independent for the first time
and learning how to create connections,
exist alone and navigate different
situations, college teaches a variety of
valuable skills.
While there are many reasons
individuals go to college, my personal
experience has to do with what feels
like a culture of advertising. Since I
can remember, I have been told how
essential college is. Not only in terms of
preparation for the “real world,” but for
the social experience of college as well.
In so many American stories, we
hear of college as this vital cornerstone
and pivotal step in development,
experiencing being a young student with
peers and the joy that comes with it. It
had been sold to me my whole life and I
saw it being sold to all my peers as well.
After graduating high school,
college was on everyone’s mind. For
most, it was never a question of “if,”
but of “where” they were going. I, on
the other hand, took a gap year abroad.
This experience taught me a few things,
but most importantly, it exposed me
to a new culture around education. I
learned how uniquely American it is
to go to college right after high school
and financially burden yourself for the
rest of your life. I felt less pressure and I started considering other options like
working, going to college abroad for
cheaper, or even going to the army for
more financial assistance.
But ultimately, what won out was
this “college experience” that was
sold to me. I knew I would never get
the opportunity again to be a young
adult around other students my age
in this way and I feared my life might
feel incomplete if I missed out on it. I
often question if that fear I have was
purposely created to feed an economy
of education in America.
However, regardless of whether
college is even right for you or not,
the implication that it is important
to do right after high school feels
very backward and almost harmful.
Education is incredibly powerful and
important, but the expectation that
an 18-year-old, a mere child, really, is
supposed to know what they want to
study or what they want to do in the
workforce is silly.
What these people often really need
right after high school is the chance to
be independent, self-actualize and learn
about themselves within the context of the world outside of home. While college
does this, there are many other options
that exist that do not come with the same
financial burdens. It is astounding how
many people, including myself, who are
nearing the end of their time in school
and say if they were to do it again, they
would study something else.
The experience of growing up and
being in college radically changes and
develops a person. Logically, it will
inform you about what you want to do
in the world. The only problem is, by the
end of college, you have already made
an academic commitment to a topic,
are often in debt and need a job. I feel it
would be so much more conducive to a
“successful” life if we were encouraged
to learn about the world more before
making such commitments, especially
when the financial stakes are so high.
One of the strangest forms of cognitive
dissonance I’ve experienced is realizing
that college is truly not for everyone,
despite what has been taught. Especially
not for everyone right out of high school. It
has been incredibly eye-opening to watch
in real-time as people my age go to college
and realize that it is not for them, as well
as to watch people who have chosen to
avoid college and still see genuine growth
and success in their lives.
It is disappointing to think of all
the people who have college degrees
and debt now simply because they
thought they needed this experience. I
hope we can more clearly communicate
the purposes of college and inform
people that they can learn things like
independence, self-actualization and
how to build connections without going
to college right out of high school. I truly
think it would result in less unneeded
debt and provide people with better
fitted educations.By JESSIE SHAW
ACCORDING TO the Princeton
Review’s 2023 rankings,
Lewis & Clark ranks as the
fourth most liberal and the 12th
most politically active college in the
nation. To many students, this is
not surprising given its location in
Portland, one of the nation’s most
liberal cities.
However, while LC’s student
body may be extremely liberal
and politically active, 0this
does not guarantee efficacy of
campus activism. Among both the
administration and the student body,
activism on campus is ineffective, as
each of their methods fails to bring
about change to the school.
Perhaps the most well-known
form of protest students will use as
“activism” is vandalism. However, the
use of graffiti is highly controversial
among students, as both the efficacy
and purpose are questionable.
The instances of vandalism I have
witnessed while at LC did nothing
good for bringing change. Last year’s
graffiti on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
at least had a message, compared
to the one three weeks ago. I could
understand the vandalizers’ point
about changing our controversial
school name, but is it truly supportive
of marginalized students for a student
who is most likely white and affluent
to vandalize a building?
In the end, graffiti is a costly and
tedious process, leaving the working
class to clean up the mess made by
a privileged private college student.
Furthermore, as graffiti removal is
expensive, LC could have invested
in campus resources beneficial for
the school and the very marginalized
students that the vandalizers
advocated for if the vandalism had
not happened.
Additionally, some forms of
“activism” students utilize could be
offensive or perpetuate harm toward
some students. In light of the recent
events in Israel and Gaza, the student
body appears to be divided over the
situation.
While I have not witnessed or
heard about any explicit antisemitic
behavior happening at LC, unlike at
some big-name universities, I am still
concerned, as antisemitic incidents have spiked since the Israel-Gaza war.
One time, however, I found a
pamphlet glued to the front door at
Tamarack Lounge that read “ANTI-
ZIONISM IS NOT ANTISEMITIC”
and “ANTI-ZIONISM IS THE ONLY
ETHICAL POSITION IN THE FACE
OF APARTHEID VIOLENCE.”
The pamphlet featured an image of
four people on top of a wrecked tank,
with one person waving a Palestinian
flag. Ironically, the pamphlet’s
concluding words read: “NO STATES,
NO BORDERS.” With messaging like
this, I fear that Jewish and Israeli
students at LC will feel unsafe on
campus, since so many antisemitic
incidents right now are fueled by anti-
Zionist rhetoric.
Let me be clear: What is going on
in both Israel and Gaza is terrible. My
heart breaks for all the civilians on
both sides who have been kidnapped,
killed or deprived of resources.
When it comes to addressing
issues within LC or across the
nation and the world, faculty remain
generally passive. Although LC has
been hosting community dialogues,
I am skeptical about their efficacy.
For example, all of the upcoming
community dialogues appear to solely
focus on our controversial Pioneer
mascot instead of other issues.
I am aware of the accusations
of the Pioneer being a culturally
insensitive mascot, but I do not
think it is as big of an issue as others
with more immediate effects. If the
school truly wants to create a safe
environment for everyone, they
should primarily focus on ways to
combat hate, while discussions about
our mascot should be secondary.
Overall, I think that activism at
LC tends to be ineffective at best
or toxic at worst, as is the case at
countless colleges. I do not think it
is “activism” when a private college
student vandalizes buildings with
political messages while leaving
workers making minimum wage to
clean it up.
Utilizing offensive tactics to raise
awareness for certain issues does
more harm than good for everybody.
Lastly, the administration must
do a better job of making LC a safe
environment for everyone and
recognizing any conflicts happening
on campus.
J FRANK/THE MOSSY LOGBy MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
UNDER THE Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), schools
and workplaces have levels
of accommodations that they are
required to offer disabled students
and employees. These educational
protections are specific to K-12 schools
and include 504 and Individualized
Education Program (IEP) plans.
Higher education institutions,
however, are not required to offer
accommodations the way high schools
are. IEP and 504 plans do not follow
students into their college years and
comparable accommodations are not
guaranteed at every institution.
Despite this, many colleges in
the United States still offer academic
accommodations. Here at Lewis &
Clark, the Office of Student Accessibility
(OSA) runs our system for academic
accommodations. Many colleges have
similar offices and are often staffed by
well-meaning people with an earnest
desire to help students succeed.
The intent of these accommodations
is to eliminate barriers for students
with disabilities so that they can have
the same opportunities to succeed
as students without disabilities. This
is often metaphorically explained
as “leveling the playing field” or
“removing roadblocks.”
Accommodations, then, should be a
good thing. I would argue that they are,
but are only effective to the extent to
which they are implemented. There are
three factors that frequently get in the
way of accommodations fully serving a
student body: stigma, barriers to access
and barriers to usage.
Stigma
Disability remains a touchy subject in popular discourse. What qualifies as
disabled and what accommodations
people with disabilities need or
deserve are contentious. People
without disabilities are still often
making decisions instead of disabled
people. Specifically, accommodations
are sometimes misunderstood as a
“crutch,” a problematic framing that is
both ableist in its language and untrue
in its meaning.
Additionally, accommodations may
be referred to as “a leg up,” implying
that disabled students use their
accommodations to gain an advantage,
or that people without disabilities may
take advantage of the system to get
accommodations they do not need.
Accommodations are certainly
helpful for students who need them, and
there will always be those people who
abuse systems for their personal benefit.
Despite this, I have rarely encountered
an accommodation generous enough
to qualify as advantageous, especially
not significantly enough to merit going
through the arduous process of applying
for it.
As distorted as these perceptions
are, they still reduce the effectiveness
of the system. Stigma can discourage those who need accommodations from
seeking them out. It can make family
members hesitant to provide support
or assistance. It even makes it harder
for institutions to operate, dealing as
an entity with the same accusations of
preferential treatment or coddling that
individuals have to fend off.
Barriers to access
At the individual level, a huge obstacle
to the effectiveness of accommodations
is the necessity of having them
formally approved. Navigating complex
systems, lacking formal diagnoses and
dealing with the realities of limited
resources can all bar students who need
accommodations from getting them.
Deciding who qualifies for
accommodations can be difficult.
Diagnosed disabilities make approval
for accommodations simpler, but
getting diagnosed can be very
difficult, disproportionately so for
marginalized groups. Women are often
underdiagnosed with chronic illnesses
and mental illnesses, as are people
of color. Healthcare access is also a
barrier, and creates socioeconomic
divides in access to disability
accommodations.
Some barriers to education,
however, are not disabilities. Short
and medium-term circumstances,
including any variety of personal or
familial circumstances, can leave
students struggling and unsure if
they qualify for support. There exists
a diagnosis of “adjustment disorder,”
which is a functional catch-all of
life circumstances mostly used for
insurance purposes, but even that
poses all the same difficulties that any
other kind of diagnosis does.
Some institutions deal with this
by not requiring a diagnosis for accommodations, but rather having
a more holistic consultation process
discussing symptoms, challenges and
what supports may be of use. This,
however, can also create a problem,
making the application and screening
process more difficult for students
while also stretching the capacities of
offices providing services. The process
can be lengthy and demanding—two
things that can be very discouraging
to students who are already in need
of help.
Barriers to usage
Even once students are able to
secure accommodations, there can still
be barriers in the way of actually using
them. Again, colleges are not bound by
the ADA to offer accommodations, so
ultimately each professor can decide
how they want to interpret or abide
by the college’s provisions. In higher
education, accommodations are
sometimes called “recommendations,”
which is revealing of what their role
becomes once students age out of a
504 or IEP.
At LC, I have found that most
professors are extremely supportive
and receptive, both to formal OSA
accommodations and informal personal
requests for help. However, the fact
they do not have to accommodate me
is always looming, and self-advocacy is
vital to get the support I need.
The fact that I have to be proactive,
in every class, every semester, and even
more so than my non-accommodated
peers, can be frustrating. It can pose
a constant reminder of “otherness,”
and is also a somewhat high-effort
endeavor, all in the pursuit of support
from people who have already agreed
I face academic challenges. Self-
advocacy is a good skill to be sure, but for disabled students, learning it has
never been opt-in.
All the previously mentioned
problems pop up here again. Professors
are given ample opportunity to
have stigmatized perspectives, and
students may find internalized stigma
difficult to overcome, even with formal
accommodations in hand. The framing
of disability as something one needs
to build a skillset to overcome is not ill
intentioned, nor is it wholly inaccurate. It
becomes an issue when it puts the onus
on the student to support themself, rather
than committing the institution to share
in some of the burden.
An imperfect system with room to
grow
Accommodations are a relatively new
thing. The government signed the ADA
into law in 1990, and the mental health
field has been changing rapidly. Older
generations throw around “back in my
day”-isms, usually as a dismissal of what
they consider to be exclusively modern
problems.
Though this type of comment can
range from annoying to hurtful, I actually
find that adage to be quite comforting.
It shows that things are better now than
in the past and points to a likelihood
that this change will continue. All the
concerns I have laid out, I believe, are
solvable problems. Not trivially so, but I
also do not think we are doomed to live
with these systems as they are now.
Our current societal understanding
of disability and how to accommodate
it is helpful but incomplete. The
blunt instrument of academic
accommodations will, I hope, be
sharpened over time and continue to
improve into systems we can all be
satisfied with and supported by, truly
evening the playing field for everyone.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
OPINION /gid00487
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed in the Opinion section are NOT those of The Mossy Log and are held by the authors.J FRANK/THE MOSSY LOG
Ditch fast-fashion trends, find joy,
liberation through outfit repeating Barriers to academic accomodations pile up
By ROBERT MANGER
WE ALL h a v e b e e n t h e r e ,
trying to brush your teeth
whilst another Copeland
resident fights their demons in
the stall adjacent to you. Perhaps,
the thrice worn clothes sitting in
your second hamper since you said
farewell to your parents have reached
the ceiling, but the laundry machines
are all booked for what looks like the
remainder of the week. Maybe you
and your three month situationship
are tired of the twin bed, or you are
sick of having to perform your witch
rituals clandestinely. Whatever your
gripes are with your on-campus
living situation, an alternative exists:
offcampus living.
Living off-campus can function
as an escape from the nuisances of
yesteryear, but like all else in capitalist
society, it will cost you. How much,
you ask? According to Rent.com, the
average rental price for an apartment in
Portland is $1,217 for a studio, $1,494
for a one-bedroom and $1,795 for a two-
bedroom apartment. If your pockets
are a little more flush, according to
Rentometer, the average rental price
for a four bedroom house is $3,406.
Some rentals and grocery expenditures
amount to less than the room and
board offered by the college, saving you
money.
As an off-campus student with some
skin in the game, I can attest to the
glory and shortcomings of the lifestyle.
For one, not being under the nose of
a resident advisor brings a sense of
autonomy and freedom. No longer will
you suffer from a dirty bong all because
you do not want to get caught stinking
up the sinks in the dormitories or stop
your punk band rehearsal due to quiet
hours and the next-door neighbor’s
complaints (she doesn’t see the vision).
Ultimately, no one is policing you
except for, well, the police, sort of. Other benefits include: not running
into your ex as often, a needlessness
for shower shoes and the ability to
throw a rager. Depending on location,
there may also be interesting
opportunities such as nightlife, thrift
stores, parks and other amusements
within walking distance.
However, with all this newfound
freedom and autonomy comes quite a
bit of responsibility and change. The
Trader Joe’s frozen section becomes a
frequent hangout, cleaning becomes a
necessity and paying bills becomes a
headache. Due to potential commute
times nearing an hour daily, this
living arrangement is best suited for
those with wheels. Landlords are not
always the best with upkeep either,
so the condition of any potential
space should be assessed thoroughly.
A sense of isolation can loom large.
That’s right, you will be alone, so
bring some friends.
With some advantages and
disadvantages in mind, it is time to
consider whether off-campus living is
the right step for you. So get out there
and explore your options!Inaccessible navigation, lack of intuitive implementation, social stigma limit efficacy of OSA resources
EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOGOff-campus living poses
new freedom, hardships
By OLIVIA FENDRICH
AS SOMEONE who can
regrettably be labeled as
“chronically online,” I am
inundated with fashion content
every day. With thrift hauls, fashion
influencers and the relentless pursuit
of the next big trends shoved down my
throat like government propaganda, I
can attest that our culture has become
dominated by the pressure to consume.
However, obscured by this relentless rat
race lies a quiet rebellion—the subtle art
of being an outfit repeater.
Lewis & Clark’s student body
presents an interesting fashion
paradox. We are a campus that prides
itself on sustainability and progressive
political ideology, yet many of us are
guilty of relying on fast fashion, even
with copious thrifting, to keep up with
cultural shifts in individual expression.
This fixation on individuality forces
us to constantly reinvent ourselves as
more unique than the next person. But
the consequence of this phenomenon is
environmental destruction.
The fashion industry generates
trillions of tons of waste each year,
draining global resources and polluting
the planet. The production and disposal
of clothing is an international issue that
cannot readily be solved by individual
actions. However, when coupled with
political actions that hold fast fashion
corporations accountable, committing
to slow fashion can help ease the
stress placed on the environment. By
embracing outfit repetition, you can
promote sustainability and challenge
the attitude that fashion is disposable.
If sustainability is not enough to
convince you, consider how much
you spend on clothes each year. The
constant pressure to keep up with
trends manufactured each week can
take a toll on your finances. As college
students, there are better things for us
to be spending money on. Becoming an unapologetic outfit
repeater signifies a departure from the
oppressive climate of consumerism
that has been pushed upon us. It shows
that true style is not measured by the
frequency of new purchases but by
the creativity exercised in combining
and styling the clothing we already
own. This paradigm shift enables us to
allocate our already limited resources to
more meaningful pursuits than trends
that will not even exist a year from now.
Our obsession with individuality
manifests itself as the need to adopt
niche micro-identities. Will you
embrace a Lana Del Rey, coquette, old-
money aesthetic or be an everything
shower, green juice, clean girl today? Do
any of those words even mean anything?
We are all rabidly fighting for attention,
appealing to algorithms and nebulous
societal audiences, hoping that we can
be special in any way. Our identities
have been commodified to the extent
that we do not know how to exist outside
of consumption. So we force ourselves
to perform personhood again and again
until we lose what made us unique in the
first place.
The act of repeating outfits serves
as a declaration of authenticity and
security in one’s sense of self. It
challenges the notion that our identities
can be defined exclusively by how we
present ourselves. Instead, it celebrates
the uniqueness of personal style and
offers an opportunity to showcase the
sentimental connections we have with
certain pieces. Furthermore, outfit
repeating reduces our tendency to
rely on external validation
to establish our self
confidence. In this way,
outfit repeating can be
transformational for
self-actualization.
Still, our generation’s
unfortunate social media
addiction has shaped
our understanding of personal expression. We view creative
expression as a performance, something
that we do for the sole purpose of
being witnessed. Not only does this
limit our satisfaction with our artistic
tendencies, but it also perpetuates the
belief that a cute outfit is meant to be
showcased once and then retired for
good. The pressure to present a highly
curated, nuanced image online can be
overwhelming. We market ourselves to
our peers as if we are products.
This cycle is exceedingly difficult to
break and it permeates every aspect of
our lives. Proudly repeating outfits is a
rebellion against this digital facade. It
subverts the unrealistic standards set
by influencers and allows us to show off
realistic, repeatable fashion that more
substantially resonates with the people
in our lives. The unconscious desire
to document and display our every
creative inclination can be left behind
if we push ourselves to break the norm.
In a society where consumerism
dictates our creative expression and
self-worth, the art of being an outfit
repeater serves as a form of liberation.
This practice aligns with the growing
political shift toward sustainable
practices. It alleviates the financial
strain imposed by constant purchases
and makes room for genuine self
expression. It can even promote
greater authenticity in both online and
offline spaces.
By embracing the beauty that lies in
repetition, we can redefine the narrative
around Gen Z’s fashion and create
a more compassionate
approach to creative
expression. Being a
proud outfit repeater
is not just a choice,
it is a statement.
Let us challenge the
expectations imposed
on us and embrace a more
meaningful approach to the
way we dress.
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOG
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
FEATURES 6
Immersive forest experience
features auditory art project Student unveils PDX
hidden gems, best food
By CAROLINE DREW
STEP BEHIND the Fields Center
for Visual Arts and you will soon
stumble upon a neatly crafted,
freshly mulched walking path. If you
follow the roundabout trail and peer
into the surrounding trees, you will
find 16 strange new creatures perched
there: weather-proof speakers. The
Experimental Art Research (EAR)
Forest opened on Thursday, Nov. 2 with
a reception offering hot cider and donuts
to students and community members.
The soundscape emerged from the
vision of Associate professor and Head
of Sculpture Jess Perliz and Visiting
Professor of Art and Digital Media
Dann Disciglio. They collaborated with
numerous teams of students, faculty
and facilities staff members to create
an immersive audio venue in nature.
At the opening ceremony, the sun
shone overhead as professors, staff,
community members and students
traversed the trail, listening intently to
a variety of audio arrangements from
Disciglio’s digital media classes. Some
guests looked out into the forest as
they listened, taking in the fall beauty,
while others closed their eyes, perhaps
hoping to glimpse the inspiration
behind students’ arrangements. It was
important for Disciglio and Perlitz that
the EAR Forest be inaugurated with
student projects.
“Something magical happens when
the students see the really splendid,
incredible parts of being an artist like
having an opening and sharing your
work. There’s nothing better than that
moment when you symbolically walk
off the stage and you’ve finished your
performance,” Disciglio said.
The new venue offered a particularly
poignant stage for students.
“We are defining the space as we
go,” Disciglio said. “Not only are you
some of the first works that are going
to be playing back on the system, you
are some of the first brains that are
plugging into the system.”
Disciglio’s audio artists took eagerly
to the opportunity to share their pieces
with the community and help shape
the EAR Forest for artists to come.
“I would say the general consensus
was a curious excitement, like, ‘there’s
this new space and I’m going to help
activate it. I’m going to be part of an
opening ceremony,’” Disciglio said.
“To see the different methods that they
discovered, or developed themselves to
actually create new pieces was inspiring.”Poetry, music and carefully recorded
everyday sounds—the breathing of a cat
and boiling water in a pot, to name a
few—animated the forest at the opening
reception, sparking countless possibilities
for the EAR Forest’s future. The reception
featured two different timed audio
programs, one featuring work from
Disciglio’s Digital Media I class and the
other work from Digital Media II. The
16 speakers functioned separately for
Disciglio’s Digital Music I class: Each
student composed their own audio work
which was played over a single speaker.
Standing at the center of the path, the
individual works came together in an
intriguing, calming soundscape. The
second session featured compositions
from Digital Media II students in
which each speaker emitted a different
arrangement, played simultaneously.
Each student approached this task
differently, but the captivating effect was
the same.
The EAR Forest’s speakers create
sound that surrounds and envelopes
the listener and the natural setting
creates an embodied, sensorial
experience of listening. Shifting
natural elements exacerbate and
illuminate this unique aspect: Perlitz
said, “it’s just as beautiful in the rain.
“I was out there yesterday. It was
windy, the dead leaves were falling, it
was raining yellow and red leaves and
I had a similar experience. There’s
this immersive (quality) that felt so
different from our opening weather-
wise. It was windy and there were so
many more leaves on the path and it’s
just so immersive—it felt completely
different,” Disciglio said.
The sensorial, engaging elements
of the EAR Forest were at the heart of
Disciglio and Perlitz’s conception of
the project from the beginning.
“We were curious about how
(to) acquire technology that
doesn’t become obsolete, that
allows students to actually become
more present and engaged in their
surroundings. How can technology
actually bring us closer to ourselves
and our surroundings?” Perlitz said.
“We decided, well, we’re going to
use technology to create a venue or a
platform for people to use.”
Now that the venue has been
created, and students have begun to
explore the exhibition possibilities,
Disciglio and Perlitz are intent on
expanding the EAR Forest’s reach.
In spring 2024, they’ll welcome their
first visiting artist.“We’ll be able to bring in some
folks who work deeply with sound or
with audio paths or have practices
that lend themselves to this kind of a
venue. We’ll be able to integrate them
into classes and have them give an
artist talk,” Perlitz said.
Visiting artists give students
an opportunity to learn from new
perspectives and envision new artistic
possibilities. Beyond more traditional
art forms, the EAR Forest also holds
potential as an institutional creative
venue to be used across disciplines.
“There is potential for poetry, you
know. We have students and faculty
interested in doing theatrical events …
doing historical classwork … looking
at literature, looking at mythos. I
think we’ll probably even get to a
point at which there’s a way that a
math class could use it, or a physics
class,” Disciglio said.
As different scholars and artists
experiment with the EAR Forest,
Perlitz and Disciglio plan to build an
archive of the recordings to inspire
future projects.
“We’re excited as other disciplines
start to use it too, then there will be
examples of what it sounds like to have
16 poets, or to have oral histories, or to
have field recordings. Particularly in
the fields that maybe don’t often have
creative ways of displaying research,
it’ll help them imagine what’s possible,”
Perlitz said.
The very first dabblings into
interdisciplinary work at the EAR Forest
are close at hand. The EAR Forest will
be part of this year’s Festival of Artists
and Scholars. Disciglio and Perlitz are
hoping to collaborate with the 2024
Gender Studies Symposium as well.
“It’s a place of celebration,”
Disciglio said.
It is intended, much like a theatre or
concert stage, to bring people together
in shared experience and to foster
creative communities. In response to the
inaccessibility of the EAR Forest’s path,
each programming played there will be
recorded using binaural microphones—
which mimic the experience of hearing
through ears—and uploaded to a
Soundcloud archive.
The EAR Forest is open from 12
p.m. - 5 p.m. on Fridays. Programming
begins on the hour and repeats
throughout the time window. The
EAR Forest archive can be accessed
on Soundcloud at any time. Stay
tuned for future EAR events and
programming changes.
By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
AS THE Thanksgiving break
approaches and winter break
inches ever closer, countless
students will flock to the legendary
Portland International Airport, otherwise
known as PDX. This spacious, art-filled
building at the northeastern tip of the
city was ranked America’s Best Airport
by Travel and Leisure magazine in
2021, and remained in the top five from
2015 to 2020.
Recently, due to construction that
causes more crowding in main areas,
its laudable rankings have slipped
slightly. Regardless, PDX still has
plenty to offer, and we should make
the most of it instead of regarding it as
an inconvenience.
I have spent arguably too much
time in PDX due to national travel for
speech and debate tournaments, as well
as shuttling to and from California for
home visits. When languishing amidst
the harried parents, children glued to
screens and flustered business folk for
hours upon hours of lengthy delays, one
acquires a few tips and tricks.
PDX has a variety of higher quality
restaurant options such as Bambuza
Vietnamese Kitchen, Evergreens and
Oregon’s claim to fame, Tillamook,
which sells ice cream as well as savory
options like mac ‘n’ cheese. However,
these are all on the pricier end. For
slightly cheaper options, one can buy
pre-packaged snacks at a generic travel
market, grab a pastry at Stumptown
Coffee Roasters or pick up a smoothie
at Jamba Juice.
My personal preference is to
grab a boxed salad or sandwich at
The Country Cat, a cafe and market
conveniently placed right next to the
exit of the TSA checkpoint. This way I
can be set when I reach my gate, and
not have to wander around on an empty
stomach. The Country Cat sometimes
has inexpensive empanadas available
as well, which are of surprisingly good
quality for airport dining.
PDX is always sure to have
fascinating art installations. A
permanent mural is painted on a lower
hanging part of the ceiling to see as you
walk from your gate to baggage claim. It
features a collage-like amalgamation of
Portland symbols like roses, a compass
and Mount Hood, with a plane flying
through the center.
Another beauty to examine is the
large, abstract display of green, blue
and white circles hanging from the ceiling with turquoise threads, meant
to represent the forests, rivers and
clouds of Portland. When I was there
last, they also featured textile art in
a series of large portraits made with
yarn. These faces are complex, colorful
and shockingly realistic—a perfect
opportunity to stop and admire the
detail during a break or to kill time.
A delightful addition was completed
this last year: a Tillamook-themed
indoor playground. It features a
giant yellow bus with a towering pile
of many different Tillamook dairy
products. Children can climb up a
ladder into the bus and go down a slide
on the other end of it. Seeing the joy
this silly and cheerful structure brings
to many is a lovely way to bring down
some of that travel stress.
When you need a place to unwind
and wait for your plane, I always
recommend sitting at an empty
gate to watch that episode of Grey’s
Anatomy or chip away at that sociology
essay. Keeping an eye on the time is
important, but not having to deal with
the mounting swarm of folks coming
to your gate—and being able to have
some distance from so many unmasked
travelers—is well worth it to me.
A fun way to spice up your airport
time is with an original game of bingo.
Make a list of things you think you
might spot: children on backpack
leashes, an old man with a Trump
2024 hat, someone in four-inch
stilettos, a weary traveler asleep on
the floor. Then tally how many times
you spot each one. Or, if you are up
for more of an endeavor, map out a
whole bingo grid of things and check
them off throughout your journey. I
also love looking at the group of people
on my flight and guessing who is from
Portland versus just visiting.
I have many fond memories of PDX:
long phone conversations with family
and friends as I wander the terminals,
laughing off pre-tournament nerves
with my teammates or playing cards
with my roommate as we wait to visit
her hometown together. After visiting
Lewis & Clark, the Portland airport was
actually where I made my decision to
enroll here. Having to spend time in
one place and simply wait can clear your
head. Sure, sometimes you get your
pocket knife confiscated at security,
and sometimes your flight gets delayed
by four hours, but that all is part of the
obligatory ups and downs of traveling.
No matter what, we can ride that
Tillamook bus all the way back home. ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN/THE MOSSY LOG
As milk is the state beverage of Oregon, Tillamook’s PDX location shows its importance.
This installation is the first version of the EAR forest open to the public and provides an opportunity for many future projects.CAROLINE DREW/THE MOSSY LOG COURTESY OF PORT OF PORTLAND
Jacob Hashimoto’s art piece brings unique color and movement to the airport ceiling.By EMMA FORD
SO, YOUR PARENTS are not going
to fly you home for Thanksgiving
this year. Or maybe you chose
to be a young 20-something year
old pulling together holiday dinner
for yourself and your friends! Either
way, you may be facing down hosting
Thanksgiving dinner next week. We
here at the Mossy Log, through hard
won experience, have some tips and
tricks just for you!
Crowdsource ideas
Please do not feel like you, as host,
are in charge of reading minds. Most
of us have Thanksgiving or at least
holiday traditions and dishes that we
hold dear. If you are stressed about
making sure each of your friends has
that piece of home, send out a message
looking for input! Jellied versus fresh
cranberry sauce, scalloped versus
mashed potatoes, stuffing contents and
pie flavors are all hard to pick from,
so find some preferences and ask for
recommendations.
Plan your menu (and your budget)
Everyone knows planning a dinner
party is all about the menu you get to put
together. But you are a college student,
and money does not grow on trees. Make
sure, as that menu emerges, you keep at
least a rough idea of prices beside each
entry. That way, a multi-hundred dollar
grocery bill does not make for a nasty
surprise. If you are asking for financial
contributions, you can keep the people
participating aware well in advance. A
final total or itemized money request can
head off a lot of sore feelings.
Scout sales
Some grocery stores have cheaper
vegetables versus cheaper meat versus
cheaper canned goods, especially
during the holidays. There may be
more benefits than drawbacks to
visiting multiple locations to save a few
extra bucks. If Freddie’s has a sale on
Martinelli’s (it does,) but Trader Joe’s
has the least expensive dairy section (it
also does!) then make the extra trip or
send a delegation of friends.
Think about alterna-turkeys
Look, dorm ovens are not really
designed for roasting entire birds.
A turkey is a very expensive flub
should your unreliable kitchen not
cooperate. Allow us to suggest some
alternatives. Pre-cooked birds like
rotisserie chickens or a roast Peking
duck (available at different Chinese
restaurants and butchers, beautifully
done) are delicious crowd pleasers. If
you really love your turkey, you can still
have it—consider turkey sandwiches
with cranberry sauce, or grilled turkey
burgers. You can enjoy your beloved
bird at a much more friendly price
point, and the leftovers may also be
easier to eat.
In fact, look into as many
alternatives as you can!
Pie is great, but so is cake. Baked
sweet potatoes with marshmallows are
not everyone’s thing. And everyone
likes finger food appetizers like gyoza,
taquitos, spanakopita and samosas. If you find yourself unable to cover all
the trappings of a classic Thanksgiving,
give yourself permission to make some
of your friends’ favorite dishes, even
if they would not normally be seen on
your dining table at home.
Delegate–yes, even that part
You may be really invested in
cooking your family mashed potatoes,
or that one hyper-specific dish you
always enjoy the most or green beans
instead of brussels sprouts. So invest
your time accordingly! Allow your
friends to help with the things that
matter to them, or at least matter
less to you. If the cranberry sauce has
never made you the most excited, do
not waste two hours on it! Spend that
time on something else, and let the
person with their grandma’s recipe
take over.
Provide clear event details and
expectations
It sucks to feel like your event is not
getting the response you want. Are you
anticipating casual? Formal? Partying?
How much help are you going to
ask for? Can someone not cooking
inclined bring paper plates or make
a leafy decoration? Write a detailed
text, or better yet an email that you tell
your friends to look out for and then
remember that everyone around the
holidays is doing their best. They are
not trying to undermine the work that
you have put in, so try not to take things
not going your way personally.
Do it ahead of time
Look at your menu—I guarantee a
lot of your cooking does not have to be
done the day of your party. Casseroles
can be pre-assembled, produce can be
pre-cut and pies are way better after
having sat in a fridge for 24 hours.
I know that most of us have classes
well into Wednesday, but if you can,
consider spending your Wednesday
evening baking a pie and watching a
holiday movie, or chopping until you
cannot hold a knife anymore. It will
not only make your turkey day more
manageable, but you will get in the
holiday mood a little early.
Enjoy your day!
This is not supposed to be stressful.
Laugh off the overcooked food or
dish you did not have time to make,
put down the cooking utensil you are
threatening to beat your friend with
and go have a glass of Martinelli’s
before dinner is ready. You have got
this, and you are loved and appreciated.
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here
at The Mossy Log!
Emma’s Friendsgiving Menu
Rotisserie Chicken
Sausage, mushroom and celery stuffing
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Green bean casserole
Mac and cheese
Green salad
Rolls
Cranberry sauce
Drinks–Martinelli’s Apple Cider,
eggnog and cranberry juice
Dessert–Chocolate cake, apple
crumble and store-bought
pumpkin pieBy EMMA AMBROZIAK &
PAIGE A. ANDERSON
SOUP SEASON is upon us, and life is
good. Although canned soup quells
a hungry stomach, a simmering pot
of soup made from scratch delights and
satisfies. Making soup can be a lovely
bonding experience with friends, a quick
ego boost for new chefs and an easy way
to feed a lot of people (or to have lots of
easy leftovers).
Making soup need not be an
extravagant cooking endeavor. It really
is as easy as looking up a recipe, not
following it too closely and taste testing it
throughout. In fact, most soups begin with
the same four ingredients: olive oil, garlic,
onion and celery. It is good to mix in spices
at this point and later on, adjusting each
time you sip a spoonful of broth. Often,
carrots and broth come next, followed by
potatoes, protein and whatever else you
feel like putting in your soup.
Soup ingredients are also relatively
cheap, and generally on-hand. I don’t
know if any of you Mossy Log readers ever
read Stone Soup as a child, but it really is
true that if you and some friends all bring
together whatever meager ingredients you
happen to have left in your kitchens, and
throw it all in one pot, you’ll be sharing
some delectable soup a few hours later.
To encourage soup-making among
our community, we are providing some
easy recipes, inspired by our own personal
palates. Please, whatever you do, DO
NOT follow the recipe closely. It will
undoubtedly ruin the integrity of the artful
form of soup making.
Our very true belief is that soup is
made wonderful simply through vibes,
not a recipe. We strongly encourage you
to throw in whatever you have available to
incite a fantastically flavorful and unique
soup. There is no way to make a wrong
soup, and nearly every culture in the world
has some version of the staple meal.
Very generic and stereotypical
soup
Olive oil
1 onion, any size
3-5 cloves of crushed or minced or
chopped garlic
Some stalks of celery
2-3 long carrots
2-6 potatoes, depending on size
Chicken, beef or veggie broth (enough to
fill up the pot three
quarters of the way)
1 or 2 cans of tomatoes (if you want)
Legumes if you want, any kind (lentils, kidney beans, black beans,
cannellini beans, black eyed
peas, split peas, sweet peas,
green beans)
Corn (optional)
Salt & pepper
Any combination of spices (oregano/
basil/thyme/sage, red pepper
flakes for extra spice, a bay
leaf if you want to feel fancy)
Step 1: Sauté the garlic and onion in
olive oil for a few minutes or until they
smell good.
Step 2: Add some chopped celery and
carrots, and then a bunch of spices. Mix
it all together. Let cook for 5-10 minutes.
Step 3: Add broth, tomatoes, beans,
potatoes, and whatever else you want.
Bring to a rolling boil and then turn
down the heat and let simmer for 20-30
minutes, or until you think it is ready.
Maybe taste test and add more spices.
Step 4: Impatiently wait for the soup
smell to spread throughout the kitchen,
taste testing incessantly until you deem it
ready for consumption.
Step 5: Eat soup to your heart’s
content. Ideally with grilled cheese.
Chicken and wild rice soup
Olive oil or butter
1 onion, any size
3-5 cloves of crushed or minced or
chopped garlic
Some stalks of celery
2-3 long carrots
2 chicken breasts
Chicken stock
Flour (optional, for thickness)
1 cup uncooked wild rice, rinsed and
drained
Mushrooms
Milk
Spinach
Salt & pepper
Spices (rosemary, bay leaves, whatever
other miscellaneous spices
you think would taste good in
this soup)
Step 1: Sauté onion in olive oil for a
few minutes or until it smells good. Add
the garlic, some chopped celery and
carrots, and then maybe some salt and
pepper. Mix it all together. Let cook for
5-10 minutes on medium-low heat. Add
optional flour here too.
Step 2: Add chicken breasts, wild rice,
mushrooms, broth/stock and bay leaves.
Cover and simmer for 45 minutes. Stir
regularly so rice does not burn. Add more
broth if rice soaks up a lot of it.
Step 3: Take chicken breasts out,
shred with a fork and put back into soup.
Step 4: Add milk, spinach, more
spices, and voila!
Step 5: Eat the delectable cozy fall
soup you just made.
Vegan lentil soup
¼ cup olive oil
1 onion
1 stalk of celery
2 carrots, peeled and chopped
4 (or more if you’re a garlic girlie like me)
cloves of garlic
Curry powder, cumin, salt, black pepper,
thyme to taste (between 1 and
2 teaspoons of each)
1 cup of lentils, red or green
4 cups veggie broth1 cup of collard greens
Step 1: Sauté chopped onion in olive
oil, add garlic, celery and carrots until
fragrant and then season with spices and
salt. Cook for about 5 minutes.
Step 2: Add in broth, lentils, bring to
a boil and then reduce to a simmer, cook
for 20-25 minutes or until the lentils are
tender without losing their shape.
Step 3(optional): blend 2 cups of the
soup in a blender and add back to the
rest of the soup once it is smooth and add
in chopped greens.
Step 4: Toast a hearty pievee of
crusty bread, smother in butter and grate
parmesan cheese all over that soup and
dig in to that bad boy!
Creamy, cheesy vegetarian
cauliflower soup
2 small heads of cauliflower
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 yellow onion
3 cloves garlic, minced
4 cups veggie stock
1 teaspoon dry mustard
A pinch of nutmeg
1.5 cups milk
2 cups coarsely shredded sharp cheddar
Black pepper to taste
Step 1: Cut cauliflower into ½ inch
florets, boil with slightly salted water until
almost fork tender, 10-12 minutes, set
aside.
Step 2: Melt butter, sauté onion and
garlic until soft, 10 minutes.
Step 3: Add stock and spices, bring to
a boil and then reduce to a low simmer for
about 30 minutes.
Step 4: Remove from heat and allow
to cool slightly. Add soup to a blender
and blend until smooth and light, about 3
minutes. Do this in 2 cup increments so as
to not overflow the blender.
Step 5: Transfer back to the pot, add in
milk and stir well. Bring to a simmer and
add back in the soft cauliflower. Mix in the
majority of the cheese, leaving some to
sprinkle on top.
Step 6: Enjoy this delicious wintry
soup!
Step 7 (optional): Instead of leaving
out the cauliflower when blending,
consider adding it in to create a creamier,
richer soup with less texture from the
cauliflower.
We sincerely hope that students, after
reading this article, feel less intimidated
about making soup from scratch.
We envision a world where students
fearlessly under take cooking endeavors
and continually enjoy the satisfaction of a
belly full of soup.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
FEATURES 7
Successfully plan
this Friendsgiving
Professor talks colonialist grave-robbing, anthropology ethics
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOGHALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOG
Nourishing art of soup making
inspires spontaneity, creativity
By AMELIA DOYLE
ON WEDNESDAY , Nov. 8,
Assistant Professor of History at
Pennsylvania State University
Christopher Heaney gave a talk on his
new book “Empires of the Dead: Inca
Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors
of American Anthropology.” The event
was sponsored by Lewis & Clark’s
History, Hispanic Studies, Ethnic Studies,
Sociology & Anthropology and Latin
American & Latino Studies departments.
Assistant Professor of History
Nancy Gallman opened the talk by
introducing Christopher Heaney as her
friend and colleague.
“I just want to say how grateful I
am for all the advice that you gave me
and your friendship as I was trying
to learn my way around a place that was very new and unfamiliar to me,”
Gallaman said.
Heaney gave an overview of his book,
which is a history of how science and
colonialism turned Inca and Andean
ancestors and kin into specimens displayed
all over the world in museums, as well as
how these sacred ancestors were made into
objects of science and racial collection.
“On the Incan calendar, November
was the month for carrying the dead, and
I hope to do them and their stories justice
today,” Heaney said.
Heaney started by talking about the
idea of mummies and asked the question
of how we got to a place where Andean
ancestors are readily available to the
public. He discussed how many of the
Inca and Andean skulls were looted from
place s in South America in the name
of anthropology and science. This is an example of the structural violence that
took place by using anatomical specimens
of other people’s ancestors.
Heaney described how in the mid-to-
late 19th century private collectors and
government officials sought to display their
scientific achievements by sending any
artifacts, specifically the Incan, Andean
and Peruvian skulls that were looted from
the indigenous peoples, to world fairs, such
as the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
of 1876. This created a broad accessibility
to the skulls of these cultures’ ancestors.
One of the most interesting things
about these skulls was that there were
large holes present in them. This is
because of trephination, the practice of
cutting into the head to relieve pressure,
that the Peruvian people used.
Many European governments used this
as proof that the Native Americans were less advanced than European civilization,
but this was far from true. Heaney said
there was about a 76% survival rate for
Andean people judging from the skulls
that were found, versus a 20-40 percent
survival rate for Europeans, who actually
performed the same procedure.
Gallaman’s Histories of Indigenous
Peoples of North America (Turtle Island)
class prepared questions to ask Heaney.
“You write about how the boundaries
between science and the sacred are
blurred. How do you brace these together
in your study of history, specifically the
history of Indigenous people in North,
South and Central America?” Gallaman
asked on behalf of a student in her class.
Heaney responded that there is a
colonial way of looking at the science that
was used in the name of progress, that
violated Indigenous people’s powerful ancestors, treating these human skulls as
objects. He added that when studying this
history, one has to realize that museums all
over the world have these skulls already and
understand that the science that brought
them there existed as a form of control.
Heaney said that one thing he learned
from an indigenous Peruvian doctor, who
studied and collected the Peruvian skulls,
is that there is an overlap between the
sacred and science. There is a place for the
sacred to exist within museum spaces.
Heaney’s new book is now available.
He has also written “Cradle of Gold: The
Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life
Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu
Picchu.” His third book will explore the
history of the colonial laws regulating
grave-robbing in the Anglo-Iberian
Atlantic World and their assault upon
Indigenous sovereignty. Research questions boundary between science, sacred ancestry in world of Incan, Andean archeologyFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
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Navratri festival celebrates community
through traditional dancing, food, musicMossy
Music
State
songs
“Californiacation”
By Red Hot Chili Peppers
“What to say? Maybe the fact that it
shares the California-centric theme
of every RHCP composition. It
includes some critical examination of
the diffusion of Western culture, the
movie industry and the fetishization
of celebrityhood, if you can surmount
Kiedis’ baritone vocals and 'rap-rock’
lyricism, that is.”
—Robert Manger ’24
“Rocky Top ”
By Felice and Boudleaux Bryant,
sung by Osborne Brothers
“This song is sung at all Tennessee
Volunteer Football games, so much
so that it has been mistaken for its
fight song. In many ways, it became
an anthem for Tennesseans and
was even adopted as a Tennessee
state song. It combines country and
bluegrass music with lyrics that
convey a unique hometown love
everyone can relate to.”
—Amelia Doyle ’24
“Rocky Mountain High ”
By John Denver
“Please come and gentrify us.
Californians move here. Taste some
of that Rocky Mountain ganja. God's
on that shit, he’s got that casual reply.
Buy our weed, get Rocky Mountain
High. Understanding a clear blue
mountain stream is easy as shit.”
—Kevin Matisheck ’27
By TANVI SHUKLA
IN A SPECTACULAR c e l e b r a t i o n
that illuminated our college campus,
the spirit of Navratri on Oct. 20 took
center stage at the Gregg Pavillion. The
celebration enveloped the audience in
the enchanting embrace of tradition and
festivity. The rhythmic beats of dandiya
sticks and the twirl of vibrant traditional
lehengas created a mosaic of joy, laughter
and cultural fusion. The event’s organizing
committee, along with the support of
Spiritual Life, Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement, Asian Student Union and
International Students of Lewis & Clark,
orchestrated an unforgettable Garba
event that brought students from diverse
backgrounds together in a night of
celebration.
Navratri is a nine-night celebration
in India, pulsating with vibrant colors
and rhythmic dances, dedicated to
the Goddess Durga. As the sun sets,
communities unite in joyous revelry,
engaging in energetic dandiya and garba.
The festival symbolizes the triumph of
good over evil, with drum beats echoing
this cosmic dance of creation and
destruction. Temples adorned, incense
wafting, and hearts connected, Navratri
epitomizes faith and festivity, a radiant
tapestry of spirituality and togetherness.That evening at Gregg began with
many sounds of traditional Gujarati
music blending seamlessly with the most
vibrant Bollywood beats, setting the stage
for an unforgettable experience that is
surely etched in the collective memory
of our college community. The diverse
range of music catered to varied tastes,
ensuring everyone found a rhythm
to sway to.
Dressed in bright and shining
colors, students adorned themselves
in a visual feast that highlighted the
rich diversity of South Asia. Gorgeous
reds, dazzling greens and royal blues
swirled together in a vibrant dance
of celebration against the backdrop
of the night, creating a spectacle of
unity and joy.
The organizing team spared no effort
in transforming the college grounds into
a festive haven. Strings of twinkling lights
and the floral rangoli in the center infused
the atmosphere with a sense of reverence
for the occasion. The hall became a
melting pot of tradition and modernity,
where the rich tapestry of Navratri
came alive.
Sainaa Uppal ’27 described the Garba
celebration as a burst of energy.
“As someone who grew up celebrating
Navratri, participat(ing) in such a vibrant
celebration away from home made me feel connected to my roots. My favorite
part was seeing people dance with all joy
and happiness,” Uppal said.
Amartya Pandey ’27 expressed his joy
and found the event lively.
“I've never been much into traditional
dance, but the Garba event was fun,” he
said. “The atmosphere was infectious
and a great way (to) release academic
stress and connect with my friends. It’s
moments like these that make college
life memorable. The colorful clothes,
good Bollywood music and delicious food
made me feel at home.”
The Garba event transcended a
celebration of dance and food; it served
as a platform for cultural exchange
and understanding. In the midst of the
lively beats and swirling colors, students
from various backgrounds seized the
opportunity to learn about each other’s
traditions, fostering a sense of unity
and camaraderie that transcended
cultural boundaries.
Saleth Sierra Lovo ’27, blended
herself in the colors of the
festival, describing the event as an
euphoric experience.
“I had a great time because even
though I didn't know the steps, there
was a workshop happening. Therefore,
I learned a new dance style and really
enjoyed it,” she said. “My favorite thing was wearing the bindi and trying the
Kurta for the first time. I love (the) song
Saki-Saki now.”
The event organizers, Nisha Pathak
’26, Aadya Dixit '27 and Ela Gore ’26, were
delighted by the positive response from
the community and enjoyed putting the
event together.
“Being part of the organizing committee
for the Garba event was a rewarding
experience,” Pathak said. “It was fun
organizing; we weren't expecting so many
people. We were only expecting desis, but
eventually, we had a diverse community
joining us. It was a typical dance form.
However, people were so willing to learn,
and we had a fun time seeing everyone
enjoy our culture. We were dancing in the
circle and other people joined us. They were
doing the steps really well.”
As the night unfolded, it became evident
that the Garba celebration was not just a
cultural event but a celebration of diversity
and unity at LC. The joyous laughter,
infectious energy and rhythmic beats of
Garba created an unforgettable atmosphere
that will linger in our memories long after
the echoes of the music have faded away.
The Garba event served as a testament
to the richness of our college experience,
a celebration that transcended cultural
differences and brought us together in a
shared moment of joy and camaraderie.COURTESY OF OWEN CARREY
Carter Jenkins '27 & Sydney Bennett ’27.
GALLERY OFFERINGS
Hoffman Art Gallery:
Broken Spectre
Open daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Portland Art Museum:
Black Artists of Oregon
Open Wednesday through Sunday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Zymoglyphic Museum
6225 SE Alder St
Portland, Oregon
Nov. 12 & 26 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Portland Puppet Museum
906 SE Umatilla St.
Portland, OR 97202
Open Thursday through Sunday
2 p.m. to 8 p.m.THIS WEEKEND
16-18 - Theater : Faustus!
7:30 p.m. @ Fir Acres Theatre
18 - Music : Max Simon +
Worrywart
7:45 p.m. @ The Co-op
NOVEMBER
24-26 - Comedy : Ha Ha Harvest
Comedy Festival
100+ Comedians, 45 comedy
shows, 5 short films across 11
stages

27 - Film : Beyond Walls: 5 Films for
Prison Industrial Complex
Abolition
7 p.m. @ Clinton Street Theater
29 - Music : Jazz Night
7:30 p.m. @ Evans Hall30 - Culture : Ear Hustle Live!
8 p.m. @ Polaris Hall
DECEMBER
1 - Music : Choral Concert
7:30 p.m. @ Flannagan Chapel
3 - Music : Mo Troper + Jeffrey Lewis
8 p.m. @ The Co-op
4 - Music : Latin American Music
Performance
7:30 p.m. @ Evans Hall
6 - Music : Indian Music Ensemble
7 p.m. @ Seitz Hall
7 - Music : Zimbabwean Music
Performance
5:15 p.m. @ Evans Hall8-9 - Dance : Dance X
7:30 p.m. @ Fir Acres Theatre
RECURRING EVENTS
Mondays - Psanctum Open Mic
7 p.m. @ The Haven
Tuesdays - Art for Social Change
Meeting
12 - 1:15 p.m. via Zoom
Thursdays - Art Therapy Open Studio
12 - 1:15 p.m. via Zoom
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 - November
EMMA FORD/THE MOSSY LOG“Indiana ”
By Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek
“One of Lenker’s most autobiographical
and prophetic songs, ‘Indiana’ is
chilling and comforting at the same
time—just like a midwest winter.”
—Caroline Drew ’24
Henry IV Indigenizes Shakespeare,
critiques patriarchy, adds punk twist
COURTESY OF OWEN CARREY
Audrey Josa ’27 is well-armed as Poins.
COURTESY OF OWEN CARREY
Dylan Hunter ’27 monologues as Falstaff.
COURTESY OF OWEN CARREY
Simon Listiak ’27 pouts in role of Lord 1.1.
COURTESY OF OWEN CARREY
Brodie Joseph ’26, King Henry, grimaces.COURTESY OF OWEN CARREY
Erin Connelly ’27 plays Francis on stage.COURTESY OF OWEN CARREY
Charlie Baker ’26 portrays Worcester.COURTESY OF OWEN CARREY
Nina Low ’27 performs well as Bardolph.COURTESY OF OWEN CARREY
Leila Kreitmann ’27 as Hal, Henry's son.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
ARTS 9
Bruce Podobnik’s band honors impermanence
By EMMA FORD
THE LONG AND storied history
of the Portland indie music scene
has played host to many bands
and artists—none, perhaps, as rooted
in the Lewis & Clark campus than
Associate Professor of Sociology Bruce
Podobnik’s band Superluminous. Their
first album, “Summer’s Almost Gone,”
came out last year and is a culmination
of years of work from band members
and contributors alike.
“I actually chose the title,” said
Podobnik. “But it is a line from one of
my friend Tom’s songs on the album. (I
told him,) ‘Tom, it’s gonna sound grim,
but we’re living in the last golden age,
potentially, (of) human civilization.’
Things are difficult. I still believe there’s
hope and everything, but summer’s
almost gone. We’re living on the edge of
some precipitous changes, and already
they’ve been happening.”
The recording process for “Summer’s
Almost Gone” began in 2017, spanning
a long hiatus during the COVID-19
pandemic. Now available on Spotify, the
record is a blend of ’60s and ’70s hippie
influences with a tinge of ’90s grunge.
Each track builds upon the last to create
a vision of alternative music rooted in
the past, present and even the future.
When it comes to influences,
Podobnik and bandmate Tom Johnson
share some overlap—both cite the
Grateful Dead and ’60s folk among
their influences. But where they overlap
is perhaps less interesting than where
they differ. Podobnik expressed his love
for The Beatles and Bob Dylan, where
Johnson discussed local bands and
previous collaborations such as Raymond
Listen, Lettuce Prey and The Bugs.
The band, which relies on the
songwriting efforts of Podobnik and
Johnson, started as a jam between friends.
Upon the encouragement of Podobnik’s roommate and Professor Emeritus of
Counseling and Psychology at the LC
Graduate School Tod Sloan, Podobnik
formed the band to pursue sharing
his original songs. Shortly afterwards,
Johnson, a therapist and musician, joined.
Podobnik and Johnson share vocal
and guitar credits on “Summer’s Almost
Gone,” though Podobnik makes clear
that Johnson takes lead on most guitar
parts. The two write their own songs and
separately combine songs into an album
rather than combining their writing
capabilities on a single song.
Instead of offering input on content,
their partnership relies on mutual
encouragement and feedback, deciding
whether songs should be included in
setlists or the album.
“When one writes a song, it’s not
like it necessarily came from you
directly,” said Podobnik. “It somehow
came through you. I always feel kind
of weird about taking responsibility for
the melody. So basically getting a little
validation for that something I heard
that I liked, which turned out to be what
other people like as well, it’s very cool.”The collaborative efforts of
Superlumious go beyond those of
songwriting. While the band has a
full-time drummer, Luke Strahota,
the album also features multiple bass
players, miscellaneous guest musicians
and a featured singer, Jenny Stenseth.
To bring the songs to life, instruments
including accordion, cello and Djembe
drum were included.
“Finishing songs and at least partly
experiencing them with the band is
important to me,” said Johnson. “Bruce
or the band are often the first audience. I
remember on one occasion that someone
shared that they had a strong aversion to
one of my songs and it eventually was
taken out of circulation, but we played it
five or six times before it was sent into
exile. The producer we worked with on
the recording … often emphasized that
the best stuff comes out of the processes
of debate. I often agree.”
Another collaborator in the process
was Drew Canulette, who served as
the producer and engineer on the
record. Canulette, who has worked
with Nirvana and Neil Young, is known in many circles for his work with the
grunge band Soundgarden.
According to Podobnik, it was
Canulette’s influence that led to a
more polished sound on the record,
as opposed to the lo-fi sound the
band had been considering. While
the decision originally caused some
tension among members, including
the departure of their original bass
player, it is one the members are
ultimately happy with.
“The recording process opened
my eyes in different directions,” said
Johnson. “We ended up having time
over lockdown to work on songs,
and many of them went in directions
different from originally expected. We
were really fortunate to have so many
talented contributors to the record.”
The only original member to not
see the album’s release was Sloan.
Tragically, the former professor
passed away at the age of 66 in
2018. Though he heard some early
recordings, the final product was not
complete in time for him to listen to
songs in their final forms.
While Sloan’s influence has
largely faded into the backstory of
Superluminous, the group’s creativity
remains front and center. Podobnik and
Johnson agree that Johnson is the more
whimsical of the two writers.
“Sometimes the songs are fully
formed ideas which I just expand on,
and sometimes mumbled lyrics about
feline astronauts or sentient woodland
creatures,” said Johnson. “Sometimes
‘temporary’ lyrics used as placeholders
become permanent … Of course there’s
a song or two which falls into the cliché
of being therapeutic, and other times I’m
just trying to entertain myself. ‘It’s Divine’
was inspired by a meditation experience
and maybe too much caffeine.”
Podobnik’s own philosophies come
out in his music. As a very spiritual person, many of his musings on life,
nature and death come through in the
lyrics. Death is an especially prevalent
theme, through which Podobnik explores
the transcendental nature of being.
“I hope the moment I die, I just open
to that experience,” said Podobnik.
“And then it’s like you get transported
perhaps into a transcendent moment.
You still die, you still maybe lose your
consciousness. I have no idea what
happens after that, but it still can be a
beautiful fulfilling thing. I hope that I’m
singing a song when I die.”
Beyond his personal ideas, Podobnik
believes in community. The social act
of being in a band, and of playing live,
is one that he cares deeply about. He
also expresses a deep connection to
the environment, and what community
means in a world on the brink.
“We live on a very fragile planet,
you know,” said Podobnik. “And it’s
beautiful, but it’s also under threat.”
Superluminous, as a band and
collaboration, represents so much of
what is beautiful about community. As
the band slowly returns to playing live,
and hopefully back to the LC campus,
they will continue their mission of
spreading good music and good feelings
to the world.Superluminous’ 2022 album “Summer’s Almost Gone” explores themes of spiritualism, nature, death
The band’s first album came out in 2022.COURTESY OF SUPERLUMINOUS
The group was on hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, but hopes to perform live soon.COURTESY OF SUPERLUMINOUS
By ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
THE LEWIS & C l a r k D a n c e
department will soon be
showcasing the 28th annual
Dance Extravaganza, otherwise known
as Dance X. Dancers and choreographers
alike have been working hard since
September to prepare for the event.
Dance X student choreographers
spend semesters taking classes to
prepare for leading their own cast of
dancers. For many, choreographing
a Dance X performance is the goal
of TH 499 Independent Study and
acts as the pinnacle of their college
dance career. Kate Sowerwine ’24 and
Hoby Reece ’24 are two of this year’s
choreographers. Each has a long
history of dancing, which has informed
their specific creative visions for the
pieces they are crafting this semester.
“I am playing with the idea of space
and how when we are in our own spaces how we act, and then once we are in a
space with others how we act with each
other. Each dancer will have their own
specific color and then the lighting will
coordinate to the color. So as the piece
goes on, the colors will blend and the
lighting will blend,” Sowerwine said.
“It’s my first time choreographing in a
while so it takes a minute to get into it,
but I’m excited.”
Reece also shared his vision for the
piece he is choreographing.
“I’m doing a crazy snake piece.
It’s very narrative-driven and I’m
experimenting with creating a piece
that’s very attached to a plot arc, so I
don’t want to give too much away,”
Reece said. “But there is a queen of
serpents and there are her subjects,
and her subjects feel certain ways
about her.”
Sowerwine and Reece have danced
at LC for many years. Ahead of this
year’s performance, they reflected on how the selection of pieces has differed
from past years.
“I feel like this year there is a lot
more music-based choreography,
narrative-based choreography, conceptual
choreography,” Sowerwine said.
Reece added that there is also more
prop and scene usage, noting his own
piece as well as two others that use
objects onstage.
As the pieces grow and change, the
dancers and choreographers have check-
in points to support each other’s efforts.
“During the process we have
showings, so the whole cast gets together
and we show our progress,” Sowerwine
said. “It’s really a good way for the dancers
to be able to see each other because it’s
not often that everybody is together as a
cast, and for the choreographers to get
feedback on their progress.”
Reece reflected on some of the
commonalities between pieces he noticed
during showings.“I think everybody is at a little bit of
a different place in their process still,
but I feel like a lot of people are using
improv-based generative structures,”
Reece said. “A lot of us are getting
movement and choreography from our
dancers and what they produce in their
own bodies.”
Sowerwine expanded on different
approaches to choreographing.
“Some people do prefer to
choreograph chronologically to the
music, but then some people prefer to
go around sporadically, find whatever
they feel inspired by, piece it together
in the moment and create a kind of
skeleton,” Sowerwine said.
Both Sowerwine and Reece identify
with the more spontaneous, intuitive
choreography style.
“I’m a puzzle piece, putting bits
together kind of person,” Sowerwine
said. “I have two pieces of music that I
plan to have flow into each other and I
think whatever I’m feeling inspired by
in the moment is what I go for.”
Reece recounted how his piecemeal
style affects the rehearsal process.
“I also use little bits of the puzzle.
Sometimes I will come to rehearsal with a
phrase of choreography that I want them
to learn and I have an idea of where it is
(in the music),” Reece said. “We spent a
long time working on our ending, so since
we’ve been finished with that we’ve been
going back to other parts before that in
the piece and tying things together.”
When taking this approach,
choreographers sometimes notice the
resurfacing of similar movements later
in the piece, creating continuity.
“It’s really fun throughout the process
to see movements and little bits that
naturally come back,” Sowerwine said.
Both Sowerwine and Reece noticed
the influx of younger members into the
dance program, and were heartened to
see the growth of the department over
their years at LC.
“Dance is a growing department, and
this year it was encouraging to see how
many people were interested in Dance X at the beginning of the semester,”
Reece said. “There are a lot of people
that are younger and freshmen that are
in the show—like I have three freshmen
in my cast.”
Sowerwine added that she only had
one upperclassman in her cast.
“It’s cool to see that new crowd of
people joining the dance department, and
hopefully they can help it grow,” Reece said.
All the creative collaboration and
exciting inspiration of Dance X started
back in 1996 when Emily Stone ’97, a
theatre major, began an experimental
dance show in the Black Box. The first
show featured only 12 students working as
producers, choreographers, performers,
costume designers and lighting designers.
Stone’s experiment was met with an
overflowing audience. Dance X took off,
growing each year. Performances now
occur on the Main Stage, instead of the
much smaller Black Box, and students
receive class credits for participating.
“It’s really great, over the time that
we’ve been here, to see the department
grow,” Sowerwine said.
Sowerwine and Reece have been
instrumental in creating the newly
formed dance concentration in the
theatre major, where previously there
was only a minor. They hope the major
option will continue to bolster the
department and ensure the longevity
of such wondrous opportunities like
Dance X for many more years to come.
Dance X is not the only option,
though, if you would like to get involved
in dance at LC. In the spring there is
another show called Dance Y, put on by
the LC Dance Company, as well as the
opportunity to dance in senior thesis
performances. Reece and Sowerwine are
not only choreographing pieces in Dance
X, but also creating a joint dance thesis.
“Auditioners beware: Kate and Hoby
are making a dance thesis!” Reece said.
Dance X performances will take place
on the Fir Acres Theatre main stage on
Dec. 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.
Tickets are available on the LC Theatre
Department website. Students prepare for 28th annual Dance Extravaganza
Choreographers Kate Sowerwine ’24, Hoby Reece ’24 experiment with space, narratives, improvisation
Dance X is now a structured part of the theatre major’s dance concentration, but had humble beginnings as a passion project in 1996.COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARKBy ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
ATHLETICS AT Lewis & Clark
is a vibrant and ever-growing
department, but an integral
community often not given as much
recognition as other teams is the
Cheer and Step Team. Combining
cheerleading, a coordinated vocal
and physical performance to provide
encouragement
during
a game,
with step,
a style of
rhythm
dance often
involving
clapping and
stomping rooted
in African American
culture, this sport offers
a uniquely rigorous yet
creative blend of activities.
The LC Cheer and Step
Team not only cheers and
performs at games of various
sports such as football, they also
host workshops for anyone interested
in learning about Cheer and Step. The
team also often performs in the annual
spring Dance Y show, bringing Cheer
and Step to other corners of campus.
This year the team held tryouts
for new members on Sept. 10 and
performed their first sideline of the
season on Oct. 9. One of the team’s
new members who was welcomed onto
the team is Lizbet Alberto-Muñoz ’27.
“What inspired me to join Cheer
and Step was our wonderful captain,
Liana,” Alberto-Muñoz said. “She
really did capture my attention with
the way she talks so passionately about
her team and now as part of the team
I understand where she was coming
from.”
A big part of the passion that
Alberto-Muñoz sees comes from the
unity of working together toward a
common goal. “I think my favorite aspect of
doing Cheer and Step is the fun
practices and laughs with the team,”
Alberto-Muñoz said. “The feeling
of doing a dance we have worked so
hard on and receiving the love from
the stands is unmatched.”
Alberto-Muñoz described the
change she has experienced during
these past couple of
months on
the team.
“When I
started in this
team I wasn’t
as confident
in my dance
as I am right
now, something I
wouldn’t have been
able to do without
the help of my
teammates,” she said.
Alberto-Muñoz then
attributed her growth in
confidence to a supportive
team environment.
“The team is full of
loving and passionate
people that make me want to
go to every single practice,”
Alberto-Muñoz said. “I
would define our team as
one big friend group.”
She hopes to bring
more awareness to and
appreciation of the hard
work they put into every
performance.
“I would like more people
to know that we work really hard on
the cheer and dances in order for
them to enjoy, so I strongly encourage
them to come see us,” Alberto-Muñoz
said. “Overall, I hope we can bring
more school spirit to LC.”
Another team member, Michée
Brika ’26, is a dual athlete, competing
in Track and Field as well as
participating in Cheer and Step, two
sports with intense rigor.“I always loved dancing and
performing but when I heard Cheer
and Step was a safe place for BIPOC
people to express themselves (it) made
me want to join more. Mainly, Isha and
her kindness,” Brika said, commending
a fellow teammate.
In a community of openness and
belonging, Brika spoke to the various
aspects of the sport and the team that
she appreciates.
“My experience on the Cheer and
Step team has been empowering,”
Brika said. “I get to work with the
most genuine group of people on
campus. I enjoy being able to express
my creativity alongside motivating
individuals. It became one of my
passions.”
One of the many exciting parts of
the sport is how it continually changes
with each new piece of choreography that team members craft and learn.
“I love creating new stomp and
shake cheers for the team,” Brika said.
“We work extremely hard at practice
and it’s beautiful to see the evolution of
our work over time.”
Similar to Alberto-Muñoz’s growth
in confidence, Brika also spoke about a
feeling of accomplishment.
“I love witnessing the changes in
our confidence, it goes from zero to a
thousand after every practice,” Brika
said.
Brika hopes that more people can
recognize the magic that is Cheer
and Step, as it often gets overlooked,
keeping other sports in the collective
spotlight instead.
“I wish more people understood the
effort it takes to want to cheer others
on. It takes a lot of confidence and
dedication,” Brika said. “We deserve the same love and respect as the other
sports on campus. Most importantly,
we deserve our ‘thank you’ at the end
of cheering for a tough game.”
Check out the lcpioneers.com
website to find the next game they
will be performing and cheering at.
Additionally, follow @lc.cheerandstep
on Instagram to keep up with their
upcoming workshops and events,
see highlights and photos of them in
action and read new team member
introductions.
“Being part of this team has been a
really great experience and I encourage
other people to join. You won’t regret
it!” Alberto-Muñoz said.
Keep an eye out for the next round
of tryouts, and in the meantime,
be a supportive fan and show your
appreciation of the team’s devotion
and hard work.
By KEVIN MATISHECK &
ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
ON SATURDAY Nov. 4, an Oregon
day like any other, Lewis &
Clark’s football team won 66-24
against the University of Puget Sound
(UPS). In short, we crushed them.
This victory represented growth for the
team, as the Puget Sound Loggers saw
their team’s first pre-season loss.
UPS and LC have had a long history
of being neck in neck. From 2006
through this year, LC has had ten wins
and nine losses against UPS. This game
marked the win with the largest point
margin between the teams.Mateo Maehara ’27,a wide receiver,
spoke about the energy coming into
the game.
“We played this team the first week
of the season during preseason and we
had a really tight game. It was super
competitive and we ended up losing by
four points so that on top of wanting
to win every week gave us a little
extra motivation, a little extra spark
to really play our best and get a win,”
Maehara said.
Maehara then responded to how
UPS played against LC.
“They struggled. Part of the reason
for that was how prepared our team
was in practice. Coaches did a really great job of game planning and
watching film and figuring out what
we needed to improve on,” Maehara
said.
The game had plenty of highlights,
such as Elijah Mcgee ’24 rushing 117
and scoring a touchdown in addition
to his defensive contributions. Huero
Lopez ’24 forced a fumble on defense,
Thomas Reagan ’26 successfully
intercepted on defense and Elijah
Washington came in with a whopping
five touchdowns.
“This year there has been a lot
going on as far as big wins against
teams that we have been working to
beat,” Maehara said.That there has, as this past
Saturday, Nov. 11, the LC football
team beat Willamette 63-13 in the
Northwest Conference (NWC),
securing third place in a tie with
Pacific Lutheran University. This set
multiple records: It was LC’s first top
four placing in the NWC since 2012,
the first ever .500 record and the sixth
win in a row for the Wagon Wheel
Rivalry Game.
If you have ever walked through
the lobby of Pamplin Sports Center
and seen a large wooden wagon wheel,
this is where it originates. The wheel
acts as a traveling trophy passed
between Willamette and LC, giving
extra motivation for each school to
retain the wheel.
Beyond being a successful game to
close out the season, it was also Senior
Day, which added an auspicious air
to the experience. Linebacker Will
Powell ’24 was one of the seniors who
was celebrated.
“There was a lot of emotion
surrounding the entire day leading up
to the game on senior night,” Powell
said. “It was a very charged game, the
crowd was packed and energetic and
the team was emotionally charged.
Beating Puget Sound in such a
dominant fashion was amazing, but
my favorite moment was something
we did as a team beforehand.”
Powell described the
congratulatory events that ensued.
“After lunch, the entire team and
all of the seniors’ families met in the
Council Chambers to hear the seniors
be honored and have a teammate
speak about them and their impact
on the team,” Powell said. “My
favorite moment was hearing all of
the different stories shared in that
moment and the love poured out
for all of those whose times here are
coming to an end.”Maehara also pointed to the
heartwarming aspects of the day.
“It was definitely a sentimental
time, because y’know, you had over a
dozen guys who put their heart and
soul into this game that have been
lucky to play in college,” Maehara
said. “Everything has to come to an
end at some point, and for most of us,
we were given another chance to play
in college, and once college is over you
have to step away from it.”
As a freshman, Maehara
anticipated the bittersweet feeling of
ending a final season after so many
years of dedication.
“Having to step away from a game
you’ve been playing ever since you
walked is pretty emotional,” Maehara
said. “But it’s kind of cool that it
happened and you get to share that
moment with people you care about.”
Powell reflected on the parts of his
football career he will carry with him
as he moves forward.
“I will cherish the experience of
spending time with the team each day,
on the field, in meetings, in the weight
room, and in life,” Powell said.
With such a groundbreaking
season under the team’s belt, the
players express appreciation for the
sport they pour so much time into.
“Football is a very fun game and
I say that the buzz and energy of
the crowd in attendance absolutely
elevates the atmosphere of the game
for everybody in attendance. When
I look and see the stands full, I feel
even more obligated to produce a
good product on the field that those
attending will appreciate. I hope that
the campus only continues to grow in
their interest for the games,” Powell
said.
The interview with Mahaeha ended
with just one question: “Roll Pios?”
“Roll pios!” Maehara responded.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
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Cheer and Step shines in dedication, passion
Football Team excels against Puget Sound, Willamette
Final game of season places third in Northwest Conference, keeping wagon wheel traveling trophy at LCAthletes speak on growth in confidence, supportive family culture, space for BIPOC creative expression
COURTESY OF LC CHEER AND STEP
The team gathers on the field at Griswold Stadium, surrounded by pop-poms on the day of their first performance of the season.
COURTESY OF LC ATHLETICS
Players cluster enthusiastically around the iconic wheel trophy after beating Willamette to keep the wheel for another year.STELLA MERCER/THE MOSSY LOGBy ROSALIE ZUCKERMANN
PORTLAND’S SPORT scene has,
for many decades, been carried
by the fame of three big name
teams: the Trailblazers, the Timbers
and the Thorns—men’s basketball,
men’s soccer and women’s soccer,
respectively. While these teams are
certainly deserving of appreciation, we
shouldn’t gloss over other lesser known
athletic opportunities in the city—not
just to spectate but to participate in.
One sport many folks may not be
familiar with is the Nordic lawn game
Kubb. It is considered a combination
of bowling and horseshoes, and often
nicknamed “Viking Chess.” Played by
two teams with anywhere from one to
six players, the object of the game is to
knock over a series of wooden blocks
by throwing a baton, hitting the “king”
block last.
Thought to have originated over
1,000 years ago, Kubb only began to
gain popularity in the US in the past
couple of decades. Now there is even a
U.S. national Kubb tournament.
Games of Kubb run by a nonprofit
community organization called Nordic
Northwest are held every Sunday from
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 8800 SW Oleson
Rd. and are completely free and open
to people of all ages and ability levels.
Another free opportunity is the
Muni Kids Urban Golf which happens
every Thursday at 6 p.m. Anyone who is
interested meets at the Neighborhood
Golf Shop at 425 SE 3rd Ave. to be
provided golf clubs. Then, they follow
a street golf course created through
the streets of the Central Eastside
neighborhood. But that’s not the only
unconventional aspect of this golf
adaptation—players use foam balls.
If you enjoy biking, then the
Portland Cyclocross Crusade might
be for you. USA Cycling describes
the sport as “a unique, non-Olympic
discipline of cycling that can best
be described as a cross between
road cycling, mountain biking and
steeplechase.” Riders navigate both
paved and off-road terrain and must
traverse obstacles such as stairs or
steep slopes by running while carrying
their bikes.
The cyclocross season is just
wrapping up in Portland with an end -of-season celebration at Chris King
Precision Components from 2 p.m.
to 4 p.m. on Nov. 18 and does require
tickets. Next year, usually beginning
in October, check out the River City
Bicycles website to learn about where
and when races will be held. There
is also a month-long scavenger hunt
called the Grail Hunt where riders
look for and collect “grail icons”
along their races to win a $600 travel
voucher.
Cyclocross is not the only chance
for bikers to get involved in Portland’s
biking community. “Zoobombing” is
an offshoot of classic biking where
bikers gather at the People’s Bike
Library of Portland to take the evening
MAX train line up into West Hills past
the Portland Zoo and then ride at top
speed down the winding streets in the
dark.
After seeing a dwindling number
of participants, 2022 saw the largest
influx of zoobombers in many years,
according to BikePortland. Not one
for the faint of heart, zoobombing is
an adrenaline-packed way to find your
niche.
Another option to keep on your
radar is the Adult Soapbox Derby,
held every August in Mt. Tabor Park.
Teams work together to design and
build cars, then climb in them to race
down a paved path full of curves and
zigzags. Prizes are awarded for speed,
engineering, fan favorites and other
achievements. If participating feels
daunting, mark it on your calendar to
stake out a picnic spot and watch the
chaotic fun unfold.
For something more low-key, swing
by Calibration Cornhole at Ponderosa
Lounge & Grill in North Portland.
Cornhole is a lawn game where players
throw bean bags into a hole on a
slanted piece of wood from a distance.
This restaurant hosts games every
Monday and Wednesday at 6 p.m.
There are plenty more
opportunities to get involved in the
silly side of sports. All you have to do
is a little research and you can find
out how Portland’s famed weirdness
shines through athletics. Of course,
rooting for our major teams is exciting
and unmatched, but for a simple
everyday adventure, branching out
can lead to a world of discoveries.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
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Unusual athletics
shine in Portland
HALCYON ORVENDAL/THE MOSSY LOGBy EMMA FORD
IN PREPARATION f o r t h e i r
upcoming spring season, the
Lewis & Clark Women’s Basketball
Team welcomed six new members to
their roster. The six first-year players
constitute a refreshing new lineup for
the Pioneers, and join nine returning
players on the team.
As a winter sport, the LC Women’s
Basketball season runs from the
Nov. 11, 2023 to Feb. 17, 2024. The
team will compete at both home and
away games as a part of the Northwest
Women’s Conference.
According to the LC athletics
website, returning coach Ann Dorris
expressed great excitement for the
players’ arrival, citing their energy
and their development potential going
forward into the 2023-24 season.
The players are all West
Coast based, from California and
Washington. They come to Portland
from a variety of backgrounds, and
will occupy a wide range of positions
on the team.
Zoe Anderson ’27 of Los Angeles
joined the team as a guard after
graduating from Leuzinger High
School. Lauryn Frederickson ’27 joined
as guard and forward out of Maple
Valley, Washington, after graduating from Tahoma High School. Kaela
Guidry ’27 graduated from Pioneer
High School in Norwalk, California
and came to LC as a forward.
DJ Kendrick ’27 attended Orcutt
Academy Charter High School in Los
Alamos California, and joined the
team as a guard. Madilyn Palosi ’27, a
graduate of Viewpoint High School in
Thousand Oaks California, is another
guard. Finally, from Puyallup
Washington, graduate of Rogers High
School Divinity Singleton ’27 joined
as a forward.
The team’s incoming roster is
exceptional both on and off the court:
They all played for their varsity
teams, and over half competed on
either club basketball teams or
outside sports teams such as Track &
Field and Volleyball. Two served as
team captains, and all were awarded
with various league honors in their
areas, including MVP. Half were
recipients of academic honors in high
school both individually and as part
of their teams.
Many of their families, as
reported by LC Athletics, are also
involved in sports. Two reported
collegiate athlete parents, one a
brother and cousin and one an
uncle, in sports including soccer,
club lacrosse and basketball. Dorris and the coaching staff will
be working with these six, as well as
the nine returners, to develop players
both on and off the court in the
upcoming season.
Returning players in particular
have a unique role on the team.
Beyond their personal responsibilities
and growth as athletes, they have
a special relationship with the new
freshmen basketball players.
LC did start their season on a
slightly disappointing note, with
a loss to Whittier College (67-51)
on Nov. 11. But it was not a start
without hope, as nine LC players
had scores throughout the course of
the game, with a notable showing
from Frederickson who scored the
team-high for rebounds in her first
collegiate game. She also scored her
first collegiate bucket, and the final
basket of the game with her first
three-pointer.
Anderson hit a free throw to score
her first collegiate basket, as well as
achieving her first collegiate assist
with Singleton. Singleton scored her
first collegiate bucket as well.
Going into their 2023-24 season,
LC Women’s Basketball has a lot of
room to grow. And with six exemplary
new players, it looks like they will be
doing just that.
Women’s Basketball Team ushers
in six key new players this season
COURTESY OF LEWIS & CLARK
Recently recruited first-year athletes enter the spring league with fresh hopes, enthusiasum and astonishing talent
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Turkey Trot? Try the Backdoor Bounce!
By EMMA FORD
IT HATH COME to mine attention
that the good people of Lewis &
Clark, in the year of our Lord Two
Thousand and Twenty-and-Three,
are perpetrating an unconscionable
sin upon the streets of our fair
college. As we busy souls traverse to
and from our daily toils, we are all
endangered by these acts of evil. I can
remain silent no longer.
From the windows of our abodes,
a vile stench emits. This repulsive
corruption is a blight upon our land,
that threatens our way of life and
our bodily purity walking our own
streets. One cannot pass by ye olde
halls of Copelande without fear of
such an repulsive attack.
I speak, of course, of the unholiest
of waters: bong water.
My friends, mine fellow learned
folk, ye must know of this danger we
face every day. From the first blushes
of the rosy-cheeked dawn through the
deep velvet of our nights, the peril of
used weed brewing stock, flung from
the windows of our abodes, imperils
us. We cower from windows, looking
to and fro, affearing that a slurry of
jaundiced liquid and ashy remnants
of the devil’s lettuce should rain on
our innocent heads without warning.
A disgusting abomination, these
damnable forces which fling their
unspeakable filth from windows
surely must do so as an attack
against their fellow man. We cannot
continue on under such defilement.
Our beautiful campus, our home, is rendered contaminated by such
knavish behavior.
But surely, ye must say, this is
no different from the flinging of
chamber-pots which our forefathers
practiced in the time of great
individuals such as Shakespeare and
Queen Elizabeth.
Nay I say, nay! There was a
decorum, a sense of civic pride that
told our forebears they could not fling
their leavings upon the heads of their
fellow man without some warning.
But the customary cries of “Heave!”
and “Look out below!” and “Heads
up!” are no more. The slop now rains
down without warning. It is the work
of villains, villains I say!
Wickedness cannot go unpunished.
I call upon the protectors of the
halls of learning, our valiant and
most noble Campus Safety officers, to
do by us their sworn duty to this fair campus. In our time of need (and of
weed), we turn to them and beseech
them to protect us from hogwash.
It could perhaps come to pass
that these innocent students merely
attempting to traverse to their
lessons and clubs may come to enjoy
some protection in the form of an
umbrella-ed escort, in that our brave
Campus Safety officers should don
some covering and hold our most
sworn enemy as subjects of the PNW,
the umbrella, over our heads.
They may also, in the pursuit of
our protection, distribute such items
as rain ponchos and suits of armor to
the defenseless masses, so that those
prevailed upon to travel without
escort may yet remain unharmed.
Finally, it would do for these
bastions of campus law to rain the
hellfire of consequences upon these
perpetrators as they rain their refuse
upon us. Seek out and punish these
rapscallions, pursue them to the ends
of the earth, or at least their dorm
rooms, and bring them to justice.
A public whipping, or stockades
erected in the square in front of what
was once our beloved Maggie’s cafe
would be, to this author, more than
appropriate. These knaves must learn
to fear the crushing hand of the law,
the might of our guardians.
Too long have we labored under
the yoke of such terrors. It is time for
the people to say no more, and rise
up against these reprobates. We must
be able to walk our streets in safety
once again, free from the perils of
defnestrated bong water.By JESSIE SHAW
HAPPY HOLIDAYS f r o m u s
at The Backdoor! No matter
what you think about the
holiday of Thanksgiving, and being at
a school called Lewis & Clark we know
you have some thoughts, we invite
you to participate in our flirty, festive
and not-too-deep word search.
Find your holiday favorites and
least favorites in the miasma of
letters above. Circle or highlight your
selections, which can be forwards,
backwards, diagonal, horizontal, even
vertical! You know how word searches
work, right?
Send us your solutions when you
are done! We would love to get some
extra fan interactions on Instagram
(@mossylog.news). No solution for
this one either. You all can figure this
out, and we did not want to.WORD BANK:
Champagne
Christmas
Colonialism
Delays
Disgusting
Drama
Family
Football
Gravy
Leftovers
Overcooked
Parade
Pie
Politics
Potato
Pumpkin
Puritans
Sleep
Stuffing
Turkey
Wampanoag
WhitewashedBy MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN
THIS SEMESTER, w e h e r e a t
the college currently known as
Lewis & Clark have dealt with a
lot. We got COVID from freshmen. We
took a hard stance on property damage.
We went to some of our classes and did
some of the readings, probably.
My fellow Seamen, I see you. I hear
you. You scream outside my window and
talk shit in the Bon without checking who
is in line behind you. You are brave, and
you deserve the world.
You do not, unfortunately, deserve
more than four days off for Thanksgiving. I
know it feels like you do, but that is simply
your generational entitlement talking.
Classes being held on Thanksgiving
eve may feel criminal, but in the face of
injustice you know what to do: Post on
your Instagram story and generally be a
huge dick about it.
But even that infallible coping
mechanism is sometimes not enough.
The tension builds, Seamen, and you
need a release! I bring glad tidings
that the perfect targets for your pent
up aggression exist: your family. The
highlight of the holiday season is, of
course, doing irreparable damage to
your relationships with your loved ones.
Your LC friends will stop talking to you
if they catch you drinking coffee with
dairy, but as the saying goes, blood is
thicker than oat milk. Use your family as
your emotional punching bags because
they cannot leave you.
To make the best use of limited time,
here is the Backdoor’s guide to pissing off
your family over Thanksgiving.Please note: this guide is only for those
of you who are not skipping any classes,
those select few who value our education
over additional opportunities to run into
our exes at the grocery store. If you have
more than four days at home, suck it up
and be nice. Family is forever.
Day 1: Thursday
The first official day of break is
Thanksgiving day. You will miss the busiest
travel day of the year by flying home that
morning, but you are still encouraged to
take out your airport agitation on your
parents as soon as they pick you up.
Make sure to have your mom meet
you at departures because it has less traffic
than arrivals. It will give her more time to
address the visible hickey your half-assed
turtleneck is doing nothing to conceal.
You are a broke college student who
refuses to take advantage of their meal
plan because it is an “ick.” It is therefore
your imperative to raid the fridge in the
middle of the afternoon while your family
is trying to cook. Bonus points if this is
after napping on the couch all morning
and then using up half of the counter
space for mashed potatoes. Do not even
think about helping with dishes.
When the holiday dinner rolls around,
pull focus. Provoke your relatives with
buzzwords and start an argument about
native rights even though you can not
name a single tribe from your area. Make
it about Israel! Remember: the key to
activism is digging your heels in. Did you
accidentally tweet “Free Pakistan” last
week? No problem, no one noticed. You
are informed because you feel like you
are. Accuse your family of personally
committing genocide. It is your birthright.Day 2: Friday
Happy Black Friday! Engage your
family in a stimulating discussion about
consumerism and the myth of the
American dream. When your mom makes
a joke about not getting you any Christmas
presents, backpedal. Hard. Remember:
There is no ethical consumption under
capitalism, and you are not going to judge
HER for buying you that cute workout set
from Amazon even if YOU, personally,
could never support a mega-corporation
like that.
Insist that you be brought to Costco
to buy $300 worth of groceries. Try and pressure your dad into buying you vodka
shooters (lucky you that in California they
can be sold at grocery stores!) Stock up
like a bear going into hibernation even
though you only brought a carry-on. TSA
is chill around the holidays, right?
Blast your sad girl autumn playlist
late at night. Your family definitely
understands the Rory Gilmore vellichor
Lanacore vibes of being away from your
situationship and responsibilities for such
a long stretch!
Day 3: Saturday
Ensure at this point your childhood
bedroom is completely trashed. Be resolute in your refusal to clean it, as
you are on vacation. Promise to get to it
over winter break, when you will use the
same reasoning to put it off until summer.
Rinse, repeat and deal with it when your
prefrontal cortex finishes developing.
But you are an adult now, and you
live on your own (with three other
people in a converted Copeland lounge,
but still), so the rules have changed. It is
now acceptable to get caught polishing
off the half-dead Elf Bar you hid under
your bed at the end of summer. It is
not, however, acceptable to get caught
using the sex toy you shoplifted from
Walmart. Manners.
Get drunk with your high school
friends. When you come home,
assert your dominance by making a
quesadilla and watching TikToks with
no headphones on, even if it is well
past midnight. Your parents will find
it as endearing and “that girl” as your
resident advisor does.
Day 4: Sunday
On your final day with your family,
avoid quality time by any means
physically and mentally possible.
Remember that all physical activities
are body-shaming you. During any
proposed movie you have a migraine.
You are really just not in the headspace
for that board game right now. As a
potential IA major, Risk is triggering.
And after your breakup with the Econ
boy, Monopoly is too painful.
When it comes time, bid them
goodbye and get ready to do it all again
over winter break.
Happy Thanksgiving, you ungrateful
pieces of shit.Back home with The Backdoor: etiquette guide
Pioneer word search:
Holiday cheer edition!
A bong by any other name would
smell as foul, corrupt as deeplyHow to perturb your parents, enrage some extended family, make Thanksgiving events all about you!
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