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Volume 85, Issue 3

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2015-10-30

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Howard gains all Senior urges school to
gender bathrooms lower costs of STI testing
Efforts for inclusive and accessible
By PETER KRANITZ vices her fresh
men year and
facilities on academic campus succeed
DISSATISFIED WITH the high being surprised
cost of sexually transmitted by the cost of ST!
By MEGHAN ZEA all-gender bathrooms to more build infection (STI). screening for screening.
ings on the academic side of campus students at Lewis & Clark, Nora Sack "I went in a -
IN AN EFFORT to create a more • could co t more depending on rising ett '16 has been lobbying for Student suming, like most
inclusive campus for trans and co ts.) Health Services to reduce the price. people do,, that
' gender nonconforming students, The fight for all-gender bathrooms So far, Sackett has 'spoken to the it's not going to
Lewis & Clark converted first floor on the academic side of LC campus Student Health Advisory Board and cost you $200,"
bathrooms in JR • has been a battle the Associate Students of Lewis & Sackett said. "I
Howard to be gen for years. Four Clark (ASLC) Senate, and has started never went back
der-open. ". ..I t was also incon years ago, students an online petition to get her message for that because
The all-gender gruent to be a cam involved in the out. I didn't want to
bathrooms are on Queer Resource Currently, STI screening costs deal with [the
the first floor of JR pus that purportedly Center and United an average of $181.84, according to cost]."
Howard, with gen supports queer people Gender and Sexu statistics provided to Sackett by Bess Sackett em
der divided bath alides, now merged Austin, Director of Student Health phasized that the MADISON BARNARD/PIONEER LOG
rooms remaining but yet lacks the basic into the Queer Stu Services. It i estimated that in the issue is primarily Osmond said. "It's finding the funding
on the second and necessities that allow dent Union (QSU), 2014-2015 school year, STI screenings budgetary, not policy-based. and allocating that funding appropri
third floor of How created a petition cost LC students collectively about "The health center does not set the ately [th'at is the issue]."
ard. The renova us. to be successful asking for all-gen $27,687.53. In comparison, the Mult costs," Sackett said. "They're not prof 0 mood emphasizes that the stu
tion were primar students." der bathrooms on nomah County Health Department of iting from the costs at all. The costs dent health insurance provided by
ily to convert the the academic side fers STI screening for approximately are completely set by the laboratory LC fully covers the cost of the tests,
former men' room, of campus and cri $20. that does the actual testing." though "only a fraction of students,"
including enclosing Samson Harman tiqued the fact that Sackett became intere ted in the Sackett hope that the school will about 30 percent, are on this plan.
the urinals with the only non-gen- cause after working with grassroots be able to subsidize some or all of the She also acknowledged the privacy
doors and strips dered bathrooms organizations supporting women's testing fee, reducing the cost to stu issues presented by parents viewing
at the edges of the panels to close up were on the residential side of cam reproductive rights in Argentina this dents. their children's insurance charges.
gaps people could look through. pus. After _years of rousing Facilities past spring. Associate Director for Health Pro "I know that can be a challenge
The restrooms cost a total of and other administrators to action, "I was talking to someone about motion Melissa Osmond also hopes to for students, especially if their parents
$4,300 and the new signs cost an ad the QSU decided that the most viable my time in Argentina and the different make STI screening more affordable are seeing their insurance claims,"
ditional $400, not including labor. option was to work with administra organizations I got to work with and I for students, ·but worries about where Osmond said. "Some students may be
The funds for the new bathrooms tion, and particularly Dean of Stu realized that we don't even have [free the additional funding will be found. reluctant [to be reimbur ed by insur
came from the Facilities Plan for the dents Anna Gonzalez. STI testing] at LC," Sackett said. "We in Wellness Services are pret ance] because they are afraid parents
201 -2 1 ac emi r a a pa ff nit in thinki th , fr TI or others may find out."
their major capital projects. (Adding ence of going to Student_ Health Ser- testing would be a wonderful thing," "STr continued on page 3
SLS hires Inore staff
Eco-artist prese_nts at ENVX
to increase visibility
By MEGHAN ZEA staff, but also to branch out the office,
according to Harold McNaron, Direc
THE LEWIS & Clark College Stu tor of SLS.
dent Lea1lership and Service "I'm hopeful these new staff will
Office (SLS) has created a new help us better pursue our mission by
. Project Leader position. This stipend engaging more stakeholders," McN
ed position facilitates service-learning aron said in an email on Oct. 27.
projects through the SLS office. By reaching futher into the Port
Currently, there are five Project land community, the SLS staff plans
Leaders leading to expand the com
trips to community munity's familiari
''I'm hopeful these
partners like Start ty with them.
Making a Reader new staff will help "We hope to.
Today (SMART), do a better job of
us better pursue our
Operation Night collecting and inte
watch, Sisters of mission by engaging grating community
the Road, Wisdom partner feedback
more stakeholders."
of the Elders, Ha within our process
cienda CDC, and es this year," McN
Portland Animal Harold McNaron aron said. "We also
Welfare Team hope to strengthen
(PAW Team). our connections
"I really like reaching out to com with faculty and better promote our
munity organizations and letting them office to the LC community."
know that Lewis & Clark has students The staff also recognizes the chal
that are interested in getting off-cam lenge their office will face in the com-
pus and doing service and are commit ingyear.
ted to service learning and community "Sometimes they just don't have
engagement," Hannah Spears '18, a the capacity to take everyone which
KATIE KELLY/PIONEER LOG SLS Project Leader for PAW Team, is a weird thing," Spears said. "You
Elizabeth Demaray, the keynote speaker atArti t and Environmental Studies Sympo ium ENVX: Environment Aero Boundaries, aid. would think that the issue revolves
explains the meaning and method behind her upholistered stones. While on campus, Demaray taught a sculpture class and attend The position was originally created around there being enough volun-
ed other ENVX events. Her work wa displayed in Stamm from Oct."2 0-22. not to just relieve some stress of SLS "SIS" continued on pa~----
The smell of marijuana Ghosts on S. Campus XC Seniors look back Netflix 'n' Kill Review of Neon Indian
Room search policy fails to address the source of Digging into the ephemeral truth behind the Seniors reminise on time spent on LC A guide to the best horror mo,ies streaming on Was the four-year wait for the "VEGA Intl. Night
suspected Residece Hall violations hushed rumors of our haunted chapel on South cross-country as the ason comes to a close; Netflix this Halloween School" album worth it? Read the re,iew inside
Campus catT)~ng the Pioneer spirit in their hearts always to find out.
See page 5 • See page 6 See page 10 See page 9 See page 8

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
NEWS 3
Battling for reduced STI testing
UPCOMING
culininates in an online petition
EVENTS
Continuedfrom page 1. dent Union (FSU) and the Rusty ail tative for the student government to
0 mond al o under cored the af Co-op. talk about the Community Service and
fordability of ST! creening provided by "Our role as a body is to inform and Relations Committee paying for a bake
the Multnomah County Health Depart to educate, but it's also to try to resolve sale/concert held at the co-op put on by 31 Haunted Hoopla in Pamplin. Doors
ment a an affordable alternative to the the e problem " aid Carlton Bone '17, the FSU and tudent government where
services provided by L . ASL ommunity Service and Rela all proceeds will go to cover reduc d ST! open at 6:30p.m.
Oct
On Oct. 12, Sackett poke to the Stu ti n Coordinator. te ting co ts for student ," Bone aid.
dent Health Advi ory Board (SHAB), Bone al o suggested that the ASLC Despite the bureaucratic and bud
an advi ing body that help determine Senate could pass a formal resolution getary is ue , Sackett i optimistic that
policy related to tudent health. ackett supporting lower co t STI creening. he will be able to make a difference not
wa well received, and SHAB di cu ed "Something [the ASLC enate] is only in the co t of STI testing, but al o
a number of po ible way to address able to do i pass a re olution, which i in the way LC treats exual h alth a a
the i ue. when ASLCc omes out on a certain posi whole. 2 Oh God My Cousin: Thoughts At the
"The budgeting for next year i hap tion," in thi case in up port of reduced "It' not about STI te ting, it' about Intersection of Life and Literature in
pening right now," ackett said. "They ST! creening costs, Bone said. "What acces to reproductive health care,"
were talking about what, if anything, we can do i release a resolution to the ackett aid. "It' about people being Nov the South Chapel at 4:30p.m.
could be moved around [in the budget] admini tratiori and the [Oregon] state able to feel secure in being able to get
to defer the co t." senate a king for the creation of a fund their reproductive health" care without
HAB also suggested ho ting clin for sexual health and sexual education." needing to deal with privacy is ues or
ics at LC with the Multnomah County Bone posits that this fund can be financial i sues."
Health Department to have inexpen ive supported by student body fee at LC If tudents would like to upport
Historical Project Runway in Gregg
ST! te ting periodically available on or as a statewide fund for all college Sackett' campaign they can ign her 5
campus. via the state legi lature. Bone al o ug petition to lower the co t of ST! testing Pavilion. Teams start designing at
ackett al o poke at the ASLC Sen gested that ASLC committee can i sue for LC student . It will be ubmitted to Nov 5:30p.m. Runway show begins at
ate meeting on Oct. 15 and was once community initiative grants to support various LC admini trators and can be
again met with support. The enate of projects aimed to rai e funds to offset found online at www.petitions24.com. 7:00p.m.
fered a number of alternative ways tci the cost for student ST! te t . At the time of writing, the petition had
addre s the i ue, such a fundrai ing "I've spoken with a enator who is over 200 signatures.
efforts in collaboration with on-campu also a coordinator for the co-op and I
organizations uch a the Femini t Stu- will be meeting with the FSU repre en-
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Connecting to community
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Continued from page 1.
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PHOTOC OURTESYO F AN
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portant, but I think the real thing of it i LC's SLS students discu sed erving the public on a group retreat to the coast. Nov
that at a liberal arts chool we are look Education."
ing to become well-rounded people."
Mc aron reiterates this sentiment. think they are e pecially important sources, and it i our responsibility and
"In SLS we strive to connect service on a college campus, where our entire our joy to join in olidarity with others,
and leader hip via collaborative pro community i working o hard to fig sharing resources to our collective ben CORRECTIO S BOX
ce se for positive individual and col ure out who and how we want to be efit."
In Oct. 16 issue of the Pioneer Log, one of the names of the senators in
lective change," Mc aron said. "These in the world. Also Lewis & Clark Col To get involved with SLS by email
"ASLC Senate elections complete for the year" was mis pelled. Brooke
proce es can happen anywhere, but I lege has a treme!1dous amount of re- ing them at leadserve@lclark.edu.
Alexander '17 is a Junior Senator for the 2015-2016 academic year.
QSU rallies for all-gender bathrooms on the
academic side· have their wishes met
Continued from page 1. is that people are accustomed to what
- elor at the QSU, asserts that the ever bathroom was there before, thus,
new bathrooms were a priority for queer the right hand side bathroom in How
student group on campus becau e they ard alway ha way more men than the
allow students that identify outside of left hand side. Eventually, new people
the gender binary to have a place to feel in later years will obliterate this pattern,
safe in fulfilling basic bodily needs. but for now, it's ort of overwhelming
"To be frank: tran and gender non for a per on like me, who is non-binary
conforming student like myself need a and surrounded by majority dudes."
place to pee," Harman said. "It wa also Other group on campus are also
incongruent to be a campus that pur supportive of the new bathrooms.
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portedly upports queer people but yet Though the Feminist Student Union
Gender Neutral Restroom Locations
lacks the basic neces ities that allow u (FSU) has not actively been involved
to be successful students. I can't tell you with conver ations with Student Life, ""°"""""C.....PVS
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the number of instances I've run around coordinator Bridget Lowry '18, main •~PJyrc:h TopHoorM1tCOl'lff'f111"1t•lb)n'I
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"The whole process was respectful," on campus. Thi includes trainings on lAW5CH00l
Gonzalez said. "There was a lot of pa trans identities. Additionally, they are UC Low.rl..,.. •104 106
tience and understanding on both ides. working to make sure that transitioning
The proces e in higher education are trans students have a smoother transi
low because [all-gender bathrooms] tion.
Lewis & Clark
had to be a part of capital projects and "We are working on a website right
the students listened and understood now to look at how we will honor stu ll'
that." dent's pronouns or non-pronoun use,"
However, members of the QSU ex Gonzalez said. "For students who are
pressed disappointment that the bath transitioning, we want to create a one
rooms were not modified by the time stop shop where students can have all Upd1tod • 08/26/20 t 5
student returned in the fall. their needs taken care of, instead of
PHOTOC OURTESYO F ANNAG O ZALEZ
"It was fru trating to have the bath having to go to three different places to
rooms changed two months into the fill out forms." A campus-wide map shows all gender bathrooms on both residential and acadamic sides of LC.
year," Harman aid. "What's happened

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
4 OPINION
Letter to the Editor:
REALITY
EXPECTATIONS
A call for
accountability
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By JULIE JACOBS.AND pon e to critique exemplifie the very
EMMA BIDDULPH problem with accountability. The article I :lm \e..~.,,-";.-i~
claims to critique our chool's policie -
how to ke.ep
T HIS CAMPUS HAS A problem we all are quick to do the ame. Howev
with accountability. . er, when it come to examining our own m~se\f~ Y\d
The late t is ue of the PioLog word and actions, we al o are quick
ot'nu-5 s~te-
ran a backdoor article to defend our
titled 'Criminal Con Satire can be one of the intention and
ver ion Program Hits deny our com
L&C'. After a tudent most effective means of placency.
saw the offen ive na political commentary, Lewis &
ture of the article, they Clark attracts
took the initiative to but it must be intention people from
reach out to PioLog al with its purpose. a much wider
staff and request ac variety of back-
countability. The Pio- ground than PSI instills cynicism early in
Log staff re ponded by the loude t voic
tating that "If a atirical reference to a e on campus are willing to acknowl
flawed in titution in our nation i inap edge. We cannot continue to only blame new students' college careers
propriate and necessitates an apology, I the administration when o often it i
really can't imagine what i an appropri- our dangerous a sumption about our
• ate form of discu sion, and that point of peers experience that make them feel
view concerns me." unwelcome. Ju t becau e we use word
Seminar course for first-years is problematic at best
Satire can be one of the most effec like "patriarchy" and "neoliberali m"
tive mean of political commentary, does not mean that we are not al o a
but it mu t be intentional with its pur part of these sy terns of oppre ion. In
po e. An appropriate form of di cu sion fact, our exclusionary education i com
would be one which doe not dismi plicit in the continuation of the e y - By ALTHEA BILLINGS tran itioning tudents - so we But all of thi , as it is pre ented
the reality of the prison sy tern and its terns, no matter how critically we may won't argue that. Instead, it is the now, is much too dry to be ab
effect in the S and examine them. T HE PIO EER Succe In ti finer points of PSI that are prob orbed.
on thi campu . With this pow tute (PSI) i a ix week long lematic. From the very tart of One markedly po itive change
What could be It is our responsibility er of recognition seminar cour e required for chool, tudent are required to from PSI' 2014 rookie year to the
funny about inviting to listen to the voices we mu t begin to all fir t year tudents to complete endure an hour and a half cla current incarnation i the addition
people who have not hold each other in order to register for the pring each week for six week , which i of tudent coordinator . The e paid
had the chance for of students who feel accountable. eme ter. PSI i intended to edu mo tly compri ed of dead time or students are certainly a tep in the
an education to par disempowered on this Thi is a call. cate students on a variety of topic , busy work. Thi i an i ue becau e right direction a far a bridging
take in the immen e A call to acknowl including wellne , identity and it teaches tudents to be unfocu ed the gap between jaded student
opportunities we are campus ... edge our po ition exual conduct. It also introduc in cla . It al o increa es-cynici m and eager taff coordinator .
afforded on this cam- of privilege within e tudent to the many re ources over academia and make it more PSI i till in it infancy. There'
pus? The underlying the education that found on campu . likely that tudent won't take the still time to change thi for future
a sumption of the atire is that it i fun we receive on thi tolen land. It i time The tated important i ue incoming clas e . The informa
ny becau e it would never happen to u ; to let our friends know when their joke goal of P I, pre It's important to brought up by P I tion pre ented i important, but
'pioneer are not the type of people who are hurtful rather than humorou , to paring fir t year introduce students seriously. • it need to be conden ed, and et
wind up in pri on'. Thi profile of the let our profe or know when they u e student for all PSI i widely at a mature cognitive level that
criminal is poor and uneducated and in their authority to ilence our voices, and that college en to college's resources con idered to be doe n't talk down to tudent . Sure
herently bad. The joke i that many of u to re pect our tudent leader enough tail , are noble. and expectations, but complete and ut we need help ettling in, but at
do not fit the profile of a typical convict to hold them accountable to being vocal The un tated goal ter drudgery, and the ame time, part of adaptation
ed criminal, a di proportionate amount about our needs on thi campu . of rai ing reten does it have to be so many are inclined is being treated a an adult who i
whom are poor people of color. The arti It i our re pon ibility to Ii ten to tion rate i n't o goddamn boring? to kip or leave capable of whatever college ha to
cle and the quoted re pon e above both the voices of students who feel di em bad either. Studie early. The incli offer. Time at LC i preciou , and
di miss the complicated nature of the e powered on thi campus, to under tand have shown that nation to kip i PSI hould be teaching tudents to
tereotype and does not account for the that we are complicit in this di empow first year retention instilled way to value that in and out of the clas -
real experiences and connections of o erment, and to begin to act in way that rate increa e if students make a early, and is deeply counter-pro room, not wa ting it each week.
many of our peer . can make this a more accountable and connection with a staff member ductive. It doesn't help that skip It's hard to want to respond to
This prejudice ignores the white u inclu ive community. within the first ix weeks, some ping leads to Friday make-up ses surveys from a program that i so
premaci t criminal ju tice y tern of our thing not o ecretly aimed at by sion that are more abbreviated terribly in ipid, but the future of
country today. It ignore any tudent This letter is supported by Megan this eminar cour e. Additionally, than the normal ones. PSI and the fate of the incoming
who attends Lewis & Clark who actually Scott-Busenbark, Samson Har it's important to introduce stu PSI pre ent important mate clas of 2020 depend on olid
ha been to pri on or has been affected man, Bridgette Hickey, Taylor dents to the college' resources and rial that just doe n't fit into New student feedback that gives the ad
b ci y e t i y t . overwhelming presence in our o Walters, Hannah Swerno.ff, and e so x p g e o c d ta d t a io m n n s , b b o u ri t n g d ? o e it have to be S th t o u u d g en h t it O m r i i g e h n t t at w io o n r k b ( e N tte S r O ) t , h er a e l . t m hi i s n is y t e ra a t r i ' o s n pr t o h g e r a t m ru th c . h a T ng h e a d t' f h ro o m w
Thi is not olely an indictment of Julia Withers It would be hard to argue that Students need to learn about Title the year previou . PSI i boring
the author of the piece, nor any staff of it' bad for Lewi & Clark to have IX and where to go when they need and tedious, albeit important.This
the PioLog, but the initial article and re- a support y tern in place for its help, be it per onal or academic. can be changed. There is still hope.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
OPINION
5
Campus Safety uses the smell of smoke to
weed out suspected student policy violators
Student questions justification of dorm room searches, calls for amendment of current policy
By AIDEN TRIGG-HAUGER They earch the room on the hall that is search of his room turned up non-addic ing the privacy of students and allowing
the loudest. And that is the crucial i sue tive psychedelic drugs. While his pos socialization without fear of wrongful
FOR INCOMI G freshmen, one of I have with the room search policy on se ion of the e drugs was illegal, I have reprisal.
the harde t part of the transition campus. no doubt that there are many students
into college life is moving from the I have twice been in rooms that were in posse sion of psychedelics on cam
hou e we have known all our lives and searched. In both cases an RA called pus. He made the mistake of socializing
into the dorm . The e dorm become a Campu Safety without knocking ·or in in the wrong hall and was then unlucky
new home for student , and though they dicating to the room's occupants that enough to suffer the consequencei of
are not alway perfect, they are the only there was a problem. In both ca e the someone el e's actions. Fortunate-
home we have. As such it i a di turbing rooms were searched in their entirety ly he has not had to serve jail time,
experience to have thi new home vio by Campu Safety, drug and alcohol but is involved in a yearlong reha
lated by a Campus Safety search. were confiscated, and student were bilitation program that includes
According to the Re idence Hall written up for policy violations. In both weekly drug test that impede
Contract, sectioq nine, "College officials ca e there were about 10-15 people in his ability to attend classes due
may earch a room when rea onable the room talking at a rea onable volume to the time he must spend com
u picion of a Code of Conduct violation and it wa before quiet hour . In both muting to and from them.
exi t . " The phrasing of this section is ca e no one had moked marijuana The Office of Student Rights
vague enough to leave a large amount in the room, had unsealed marijuana and Responsibilities says they
of di cretion for the Campus Safety of in the room, or had even smoked mar- "are committed to Catrnasb t
ficer who execute ijuana out ide the developing a car
room earches. On room the ame day ing community for Sattvo.
the u rface it eems "College officials may that the earch oc faculty, staff, and
rea onable, and in search a room when curred. students" in the tu
deed nece ary for It could be dent briefing book,
Campu Safety to reasonable suspicion of argued that the and indeed mine
be able to earch a Code of Conduct vio earche were ju - and my friend's
room where there • tified becau e al interactions with
i clear evidence lation exists" cohol and drug them have been
of misbehavior by were pre ent, this mostly positive
student . Yet the Resident HaU Contract does not change in the aftermath ·of
interpretation of the truth that the these incident . They
thi ection eems grounds on which the have been responsive to
to have evolved into a reality of unrea room were searched were fal e. The of our issues with the room
sonable room earche and violation of ficers who searched the econd room I search policy. However, if
tudent privacy, which do nothing to en wa in directly acknowledged thi . They the administration is tru
hance campu afety or wellbeing, and aid they were earching u because ly committed to creating
only ucceed in harming tudent who it smelled like someone was making a strong sen e of commu-
were having no negative impact on oth marijuana, yet after interviewing us they nity for tudents, we should be
er individual . realized that no one was under the influ allowed to gather in reasonably
In order to under tand the i sue of ence of drugs. They explicitly indicated ized groups in our dorms without fear
campu room searche we must go be thi in their report of the incident, but of having our rooms wrongly searched
yond thi ingle entence in the hou ing the room was still searched. because of the actions of others. RAs
contract and look at the reality of how These incidents were several weeks shou]d be required to investigate based
room earche occur on campus. If the apart, but followed almost identical pat on where the marijuana smells strongest
Re ident Advi or (RA) on duty mells terns. After both incidents I learned that and not where people are congregating.
weed, they are required to call Campu someone el e in the hall had been smok In addition, Campus Safety should at
Safety, and Campu Safety i required ing in their room at the time the search least do a brief visual and olfactory in
to earch the room. There's ju t one occurred, but because they were alone spection through an open door before
problem: in my experience the RAs and and quiet their room wa not earched. they start a complete search of a room.
Campu Security don't earch the room On the other hand a clo e friend of mine These kinds of concrete policy changes
that mells mo t strongly of marijuana. was charged with a felony when the would go a long way·towards protect- Katherine Alperin
Guest Opinion:
Coming out as an LGBTQIA + Ally What does it mean?
By CATHY BUSHA and LGBTQlA+ people are never asked to question my identification as an "ally."
ALEJANDRA FAVELA declare their sexual orientation and/ I considered removing my name
or gender identity. "Coming out' as from the list, but after much delibera
THE LAST ISSUE of the Pioneer LGBTQlA+ theoretically maintains a tion instead decided to re-double my ef
Log featured a full-page ad that 'normalcy' and 'othering' paradigm. (To forts to become a better ally. I realized I
was co-spon ored by the depart this point, while I [Cathy] am often he - needed to acknowledge my own identity
ment of Inclusion and Multicultural En itant to compare oppressions, it is worth privilege, and take respon ibility
gagement (IME) and the Queer Student noting that race i a social construction to educate myself more, e pe
Union (QSU). and, therefore, 'made up.' That said, cially with regards to trans
In ca e you mis ed it, the ad read, we can all agree that racism i very real. gender i sues. I am grateful
wno ide~tifie,
"We are your friends, mentors, pro The need/desire of some to "come out" to students who have pro
fe sors, colleagues, administrators, is al o a ocial construction becau e vided source of information
co-worker , and health care providers trans/homophobia is, al o, very real. and recently attended an ex as str~icht.
and we are Coming Out! We represent Removing 'coming out' a an option or· cellent workshop provided by
ju ta few of the talented and committed LGBTQlA+ labels will likely not end op the TransActive Gender Center.
Le bian, Gay, Bisexual, Tran gender, pre ion again t LGBTQlA+p eople.) I will no doubt still make mi take ,
Queer/Que tioning, Inter ex, exual As for Allies, the ad read "an Ally to but when called out, I will not retreat to
and Allied+ individuals who call Lewi the LGBTQlA+ Community i defined my place of privilege. As an ally, I will
& Clark College home. We invite you to a omeone who doesn't identify a trive to be a better Ii tener, and to work
join u in celebrating Coming Out Week LGBTQlA+,b ut is committed to actively with others in the LGBTQlA+ commu
2015!" learning about and advocating for/with nity to hold my elf accountable.
Over 150 LC LGBTQlA+ staff/facul the LGBTQlA+c ommunity." So, wbo is an Ally? Allyship is a verb
ty participated in' the ad, including 106 I (Cathy) received everal emails, - it i about people taking action to
Allies. call and conver ation from Allie , addre their own implicit bias and
Founded in 1988, in the femini t and wanting to know if, indeed, they are to serve as an accomplice to mar
queer liberation spirit of "the per onal "ally" enough to claim the title. One uch ginalized groups. Ally hrp is "an
i political," ational Coming Out Day/ conver ation was with Alejandra Favela, unachievable ideal and aspirational
Week i rooted in belief that in a homo/ faculty at the LC Graduate School of Ed proces ;" in fact, ome people ug
tran phobic world, voluntarily haring ucation and Coun eling. gest that a better term i 'Aspiring
one' exual orientation and/or gender When I received the email invitation Ally.' j QUE.ER
identity i activi m. "Coming out" not to "Come Out" (Alejandra), I immedi If you proudly Ii ted your name a
only empower the individual, but pro ately igned up as an ally. an Ally in the Coming Out ad, thank
vide vi ible connection to other people After all, my work, revolve around you. We now need you to (re)commil
who may be truggling with their own ocial ju tice issues in education. During yourself to listening, learning and con
exual orientation, gender identity and/ one of my cla e , we read a piece about crete action. ·JUST I-CE
or trans/homophobia. a teacher making the choice to come out.
That ·aid, not all members of the Although I was trying to illu trate the Cathy Busha is the Associate
LGBTQlA+ upport the 'coming out' point that teachers, just like tudents, Dean of Students for Student En
framework. Indeed, there are valid need to have their full identities validat gagement and the Interim Di
race/cla critiques (i.e. the whiter and ed, I made the mistake of conflating sex rector, Inclusion and Mul
wealthier you are, the easier it is to come ual orientation and gender and used the
ticultural Engagement.
out). Al o, there is an analysis that sug wrong pronoun in talking about a teach
gest that the act of coming out perpet er and LC alumni who recently came Alejandra Favela is an
uates 'the closet:' rigid, binary thinking out as a trans man. I was called out by Associate Professor of Ed
(you're either 'in' or 'out', straight or several students for this mistake, which ucation
queer); and heteronormativity. on- wa humbling and really caused me to

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
6 FEATURES
Wizards to sexy nurses: Halloween over the years
A nostalgic look back on the timeline of Halloween and how our perspective of the holiday has changed
By SYDNEY OWADA ter "Zombie Run" and visiting friends
in Eugene while Maddie Pierce '16 ju t
SHRIEKS RESOUND THROUGH wants to "sit at home and watch a scary
THE neighborhood as ghosts, movie with ome friends and eat can
ghouls and occasional Hogwarts dy."
students scamper down the sidewatk, The city of St. Helens al o attracts
toting the growing sta h of candy behind nostalgic students as it recreates the
them in plastic jack-a-lantern pails. Ba set from the Disney movie "Halloween
bies disgui ed as pumpkins are parad town, • a film popular among the gen
ed around in wagons as other children eration of current LC students. Despite
march up front porches to stick out their this exciting prospect, it falls short of
candy buckets expectantly and shout the the fantasy created by young minds.
customary "Trick-or-Treat!" as if each "I hoped Halloweentown would
homeowner were hard of hearing. Such be more Halloween-themed but it
a scene i expected in a neighborhood was only a block - that put a damper
on Halloween, yet as children grow into on the entire experience," explained
adult , the cuteness factor of Halloween Pierce.
fades and the giddines of childhood Other students take a wilder ap
seems to be an elusive spirit of the past. proach when it comes to Halloween
Many students at Lewis & Clark ex night as parties attract characters of
perience childhood withdrawal while all sorts where spirits (of both type )
expres ing excitement over potential and liveline s are sure to be found. For
costume ideas or attempting to coordi example, madcap parties are expect
nate themed group costume with their ed to be put on by sports teams freed
hallmates. However, such an indulgence from the bonds of their dry season and
in the Halloween festivities prove to be are highly sought after. Thi caliber of
more difficult than the older one is. As revelry could never be conceived in the
far as costume go, quality and expen •e s minds of children who e Halloween
becomes a determining factor. It seems LEAHD ARNELL/PIONEERL OG parties revolve around apple bobbing
that for women's costumes, anything e pecially here in Portland. being planned five months in advance tivitie . Haunted corn maze excursions contests and pumpkin carving, yet col
above a child' XL izes eems like co - Scheduling also afflict the costume like ome kid insist on doing), a sign and LC-led trips to the pumpkin patch lege tudent make sure that their Hal
tume di tributors are suffering from a planning proces . that Halloween gets put on the back at Sauvie Island are among'the opportu loween ba he cau e the gho ts of pa t
fabric shortage and a if they don't ell "If Halloween is on a chool day, I burner as more mature responsibilities nitie available for students who want to festivitie to roll in their graves.
normal- ized bunny co tumes. Hal ju t tudy and wear a Halloween accent take precedence. embrace easonal festivitie . For LC tudents, Halloween might
loween co tumes are al o expen ive, like earring or headband ears to cla s," Although the adult life of LC stu Along with these picturesque ac have lost ome of its innocence and
although hope i found in thrift tores said I is Terrall '16. dents add to the growing disillusion tivitie , students firfd creative ways to ugar-high, yet the holiday still holds
-a newly di covered domain that is a Either way, co tumes are usually ment of Halloween, college life opens spend the holiday. For example, Terrall on to the no talgic memories of child
aving grace to many a college tudent, thrown together last minute (in tead of up new pos ibilities for Halloween ac- plans on participating in a five kilome- hood guises.
There's a ghost haunting south campus. or is there?
• •
An investigation into the gho tl rumor of t_h hool :pi it th t dwell on ou outhern front
By LESLIE MUIR can only have been the wind pu h
ing a leaf or an old wrapper across
THERE'S A GHOST ON campus. the stone made me jump. Quickly, I
It haunt the Agnes Flanagan directed the flashlight back into the
Chapel; it roams the grounds of room, but there was nothing to be seen.
South Campu ; it breaks pipes in the Continuing on, I made it to the
basement of the Howard Dorm Com backside of the chapel. The uppermost
plex; ·it float aimlessly around the re bank of windows were easy to identify,
flecting pool on foggy night . In trying although the light coming off the class
to figure out the 'official ghost tory' rooms and office spaces was glaring.
of Lewis & Clark's campu , I heard I quinted while scanning, hoping to
about all of the e sightings and more. see just one window fully lit, glowing,
Unfortunately between students, pro flickering or with a Hollywood-style
fes or , maintenance workers and floating green orb bouncing around
the internet, no one could claim for in it. Despite all of the hype and hear
sure that they knew the real story. say, on this October night not a single
Very few could ay, but many be one was lit. I waited, standing there in
lieved that a pirit doe in fact haunt the cold breeze for five minute facing
South Campu . In the top row of win the building' back fa<;ade with ner
dows in the back of the old chapel, a vous hope that a light might flicker on.
light is aid to be een on at all hours of I would really like to report that
the night. The legend goes that workers after some time waiting, the building
have tried to fix it over the years, but to beside me had mysteriously gone black
no avail. Always the light manages to and the sounds of nearby Skyline work
turn it elfbackon, ometime accompa ers and other students out on night
nied by trange knocks and bangs com time strolls had eerily disappeared, all
ing from the closed room, as heard from before one single window at the end of
the offices below. This curious behavior the top row dimly lit up. I wish I could
is thought to be caused by the one-and say that the remainder of my walk
only campus ghost, however the difficul through South Campus's expansive
ty at piecing together this information grounds bad involved more than me
caused me to doubt that explanation. MAGGIEC OIT/PIONEER LOG tripping over a few rocks, accidentally
There was only one way to add some knocking over a garden stick structure
Around the back side of the Corbett House, one of the areas allegedly frequented by our school's ghosts.
certainty to this ephemeral legend, and scaring the Hell out of some smok
and that was to find the ghost myself. ers trying to be inconspicuous behind
After years of watching the Discov a large tree, but I think those students
ery Channel series, "Ghost Hunters," got more of a scare than I did that night.
I knew exactly what' to prepare for: a Wednesday night, and the usual activi dow the spirit allegec!Jyh aunts - I had out the cell phone flashlight. I began to It was with great disappointment
night of stumbling around South Cam ties (smoking weed, fornicating in bush to get around to the lawn behind the climb down the steep stone steps into that I saw the window still unlit as I
pus in near-total darknes while having es) for that area of campus had long Corbett House. Having walked through the pit, expecting to see decades-old passed by on my journey borne. May-
a coronary every ubsided. Most the Corbett Annex courtyard dozens of discarded beer be the--maintenan&..e,_
time I tripped I knew exactly what to lights were off in times in the daylight, I was surprised to cans, rat feces, Maybe the mainte man finally did fix
over my own the classrooms, feel shivers running down my back this ·and by now, a 'that broken light af-
feet. The clos prepare for: a night of although walk evening. I found myself-looking around spirit waiting nance man.finally did.fix ter all the e years,
est t~ing I had stumbling around South ways were almost and checking over my shoulder more for me. The that broken light after all or maybe the gho t
to ghost hunt too . comfortably frequently than necessary. By the time I temperature knew it was being
ing equipment Campus in, near-total lit, to the point had reached the courtyard, I was feeling dropped as I these years, or maybe the watched and felt
was the fla h darkness while having where shadows on edge. This didn't stop me from slow descended into ghost knew it was being a little shy. I'll al
light function on lost their intimi ly pushing open the creaky wooden door the unsettling ways be hopeful,
my cell phone, a coronary every time I dation and bumps on the south wall to reveal the dorm ly empty space. watched and felt a little though, that some
a voice record tripped over my ownfeet. in the night could sized cement box sunken into the foun Looking around shy. thing paranormal
er, a mall thing be clearly iden- dation of the chapel known as "The Pit." with nothing lives nearby, and
of bear-grade tified as a de- This open air stone room used to be a but my flash I'll never claim that our campu mu t
pepper spray, some M&M's and monic squirrel rummaging around in tudent party spot in generations past, light, my heartbeat quickened. I left be 'ghost-free' after one night of ama
the theme ong to "Gho tBusters" a nearby trashcan. My own desire for but now serve only as a dungeon-es the pit as oon as pos ible, but real teur sleuthing. On the other hau_d, if
playing on repeat as I began the a scary experience aside, these were que shortcut to the South Campus lawn. ized that in order to close the dungeon you find your elf wanting a thrill on
brave trek over to South Campus. not prime ghost-spotting conditions. This was when the lights of campus door I had to exit the way I came. As I Halloween, I recommend attempt
It was around 10 o'clock on a To get to my de tination - the win- faded and my shaky hand finally pulled was hutting the door behind me, what ing to find the elusive. school spirit.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
FEATURES
7
What does Senate do? SAAB recipients give their_s tories
Examining ASLC's senatorial power
SAAB co·ntinues to grant grants to students who hope to
take education across the United States and beyond
By JONAH SVIHUS ment, and the Student Media Board.
All of these members con
THE WORD "SENATE" SUM verge in a civil forum to discu s By LINDSAY MULCAHY By EILEEN MULLER AND
MO S failed bills, government issues and to bring forth legis MAIA SAMERJAN
shutdowns, and the shortcom lation that can fix these issues.
ings of bureaucracy. When it comes Legislation vcomes in two forms: I RECEIVEDA SAABR esearch Grant to spend a week in Ar WE APPLIED FOR A grant to attend the Grace
to the Associated Students of Lewis & bills and resolutions. Bills are used to izona visiting archives, libraries and museums in four dif Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer
Clark (ASLC), many students are left amend the ASLC co n s t i t u t i on , ferent cities across the state. My research will be support Science Conference in Houston, Texas. We ap
wondering if our senate 1s while resolutions are ing my yearlong Honors History Thesis and my presentation plied to SAAB because we
similar, and ~ used to "ad at the Ray Warren Ethnic Studies Symposium this fall, which felt that this conference
furthermore, dress, acknowl examines how U.S. popular and legal rhetoric sought to de was extremely important
what does our ~ ~ /2 edge, request, fine national identity to attend, not only for us
senate even do? -- ~ - voice, or determine and categorize race as individuals, but for the
Walking into a action on matters of in the context of im larger Lewis & Clark com
weekly meeting, concern to the perialist ventures at munity as well. We hope to
held Thurs student body" the turn of the twen bring back the experiences
days in J.R. according to tieth century. My trip and knowledge of success
Howard 102, the Senate By- to Arizona allowed ful women in the industry
there are tu laws, which out me to acces prima in order to help support
dents from all line all of the sen ry sources about an the women in computer
corner of the Lewis ate rules. It is within African American science at LC and inspire
& Clark community. these two functions man named Charles more female tudents to
Some of them decided that the senate can then Smith who erved in take interest in computer
to run in order to push agen- discuss and take action the Spanish-Ameri cience. Currently, there
das and make changes, while others with the student body's concerns. can War and on the is a huge gap between the
wanted tci more generally give back If there is something you don't like United States-Mexi number of men and wom
to their community. Regardles , there about the Bon, talk to a senator who co border just before en who are in the computer
i a room full of eager faces, ready to can then draft a resolution or discu the Mexican Rev science field. In 2013, an
di cu i ue and bring forth their the is ue with the Bon Appetit commit olution, who then PR repo.rt stated that out
con tituent' complaints in a forum tee. If there is a problem with the med became a vocational of all of the United State
full of people who can enact change. ical amnesty policy at LC, reach out to teacher for American computer science pro
In addition to cla s senators, a enator and express your concern o PHOTOC OURTESYO FLlNDSAYM ULCAHY Indians at the Phoe- grammers, only 20 percent
there i also a collection of repre- that the enator can meet with the Stu nix Indian School. were women. We are plan
entatives who have voting power. dent Advisory Team and draft a reso The diverse and heterogeneous space Smith occupied pro ning a spring colloquium
The group include the Internation lution to Student Rights and Respon- vides me the opportunity to ask larger questions about for next emester to convey
al Students of Lewi & Clark, the ibilities. The LC senators are here as a how nationalism and racism manifest in "contact zones," what we learned at the con
Multicultural Club Consortium, the resource for the rest of the community. where different people and ideologies interact and are ference and that there is a
Queer Community Representative, Members of the enate also have the shaped by one another. The contrasting roles that Smith large and growing commu
the Student Athlete Advisory Com opportunity in their meeting to Ii ten occupies as a soldier, educator, and African American PHOTOSC OURTESYO F nity of support for wom
mittee, the Black Student Union, to students as well as guest peak man is a unique opportunity to look at how different forc EILEEN MULLER en in computer science.
and the Femini t Student Union. ers from the LC community. The e es of oppression interact and also conflict with each other.
Sitting beside the representatives, include faculty, administration, and
there are the liai ons who don't have members of clubs on campu . If a tu Want to write for Features? If you know an interesting
voting power, but represent their dent ever feels that they need to voice
group and give them voice on the a concern that isn't being heard they person, place, thing or idea, email bantonelli@lclark.edu.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
8 ARTS
Album-review: Deerhunt
The Cat Was Not
er Fading Frontier
,
a FireFighter: In
Deer~unter frontman Bradford Cox grapples with isolation Which Doug Re
E and disullisionment following car accident last winter
alizes That He is
1
it By HARISSON SMITH
BRADFORD COX IS in a weird
Not, In Fact, Evil
place right now. The frontman
and half of the brains behind
J the succe ful indie-rock/sboegaze/
noi y-dream-pop band Deerhunter was
:t recently hit by a car and prescribed an Editors Note:
tidepressant , resulting in the lo s of his This i the third lovely instalment of McKen-
IE
sexual drive. When asked about his re na Teigland's, "The Cat Was Not the Firefight
)1
sponse to thi serie of event he claims er." The Pioneer Log is publishing this story serial
1(
>i "I love it. I feel outside of ociety." He ly, with each upcoming issue printed in a new story.
fl also claim that "I've never felt lonely
ince I've gotten a dog." Even for Cox,
i, renowned for his eccentric per onality "This is the story of Doug, who wa prepared for his house
.t in interviews, thi tatement seems to to be burnt to a crisp, and his cat, Dave, who wa not a fire
a be a bit confusing. fighter. Dave will put Doug's nerve to the test as he risks all
n At least mu ically, "Fading Frontier" nine lives to en ure that Doug contemplates taking his own.
r upport the e claims. This is perhaps ot to worry though; the epic war between man and feline is
r one of the band's lea t noisy albums just gettings tarted, and neither are about to back down. Who
yet. The lo-fi ambient track of "Cryp will win? Will Doug reclaim his life, or will Dave manage to
n togram "-era Deerhunter play a minor tear it down for good? Al o, who gave the cat a lighter?"
role in the record, acting a brief and
J
t weet intro and coda to much more
.I traightforward pop ongs than before .
Only "Leather and Wood" find it elf
rooted in the pa t - the la t third is am By MCKENNAT EIGLAND gerly ushered them into her house
bient noi e, jumbled conver ation, and and immediately started brewing
a few innocently childlike synthesizer THE NEXT DAY, Doug realized ome coffee for them, which went
bloop. that he did not know what the other completely to waste, a Doug could
"Snake kin" i a bomba tic num thing coming was, or would, be. He only drink decaffeinated and Dave
ber, in which the band toys with funky, had assumed that it would be some remained a cat. After finally shutting
If cocky, dance music for the first time. pun "I till carry on" throughout the is a huge part of the frontier-erasers. thing cleverly vindictive, something up and shutting down several hours
I
"All the Same" harkens back to the more lyrics. For being so readily confronta Perhaps the frontier i n't really fading that would warrant an ostentatious later, Dianne had left Doug and Dave
1
fuzzed-out p ych jams of "Microcastle," tional and open with reporters, Cox is at all. headline in the local paper.H owever, with an armful of blankets, a fresh
wherea "Living my Life" and "Breaker" incredibly elusive lyrically. This per Ultimately, it's hard to feel attached Dave was only a cat - a cat who was toothbrush, and a can of tuna. Doug
have the band exploring the cleaner, suades me to believe that Cox is a very to the tracks that don't succeed in mak an arsonist, mind you - but still just had not explained to Dianne why he
more inviting connotations of reverb different man than ing clear what a cat, and Doug feared that the gener had asked her so many question
e and delay (more like beach and blankets hi onstage perso Perhaps the disagreeable they're saying, al public's love of warm furry things about what she bad in her home that
u than a stoned paranoia). A conci e nine na might suggest. personality he creates let alone feeling. would work again t him in the event was flammable and/or was used to
tracks carefully prevent a slip into the Perhaps the dis In moments like make things flammable.
l t e ' boring abys . agreeable per on protects himfrom the the e, it's difficult Dougw as mulling over all of this My friend,U nda, is looking for
That said, Cox's torn emotional state ality he creates undignifying removal of not to compare the next day at his neighbor's break someone to rent out her spare bed
n hines through even the unniest tracks protect him from "Frontier" to the fast bar, rolling biscuit crumbs into • room for the fall while her grand
on the album. He preaches "You should the undignifying privacy and intimacy in earlier ambient little moist spheres that he would daughter is away at school. I'll give
take your handicaps, channel them and removal of priva the modern age of media. punk of "Crypto most definitely not be eating. Dianne, her a call for ya later today. Why are
feed them back / Till they become your cy and intimacy in grams" that cap his aging,p ortly neighbor, was stand my birthday candles in the trash? I
strengths" but simultaneously begs the modern age of tured the same ing across from him in the kitchen, don't recall throwing those ~way. ..."
"Will you tell me when you find out how ocial media. entiments of blissfully unaware of the plots against Dianne removed the candles from
to conquer all this fear?" After all, the al- uncertainty o his cat Doug the garbage and put them back in
1i He also cries out "What' wrong bum's title is ba ed upon the role of un well. The album instead thrives when was dumping the drawer. Dave
3 s w im ith u l m tan e? e o W us h ly at 's k e w e r p o s n g h i w s it p h a i m n e? in " a t n h d e f c o e r r m ta a in ti t o y n f . a P d e in rh g a i p n s th C e o x e r i a s a o t f te i m ns p t t a i n n t g in to C ei o th x e r e ru e p t t t s l in f g ro i m nt o h i a d m az e z la li n n c g h o p l l y e a s s t a a n te t , j f u ro st m a s h is q u b i r c a k i l n y "N01p,justr emember, l a o n o d k e D d o u u g p s a h t u t D te o r u ed g ,
I past tense: "I cried and I choked, I was tir up a little confusion of his own with ness ("Breaker," "Living my Life"), or a as he was com Doug, you and Dave as he watched the
1 e I sick and I was honey." Or in which-Cox his seemingly unrelated actions, lyrics, flamboyant energy ("Snakeskin"). ing up with can stay heref or as cat smirk. Doug
titles a song "Carrion" but makes the and music. Perhaps music journali m Score: 7.5/10 them. was too smart to
"Now, just long as you need to. I pretend that it had
Neo·n Indian - VEGA Intl. Night remember, mean, it's a shame that been a trick of the
u Doug, you and light.
i1 Dave can stay you don't have some "Thank you, Di
School Review: Alan Palomo soars here for as long gal your age to help anne. Well, if you
as you need don't mind, I'm go
to. I mean, it's you out, but I'll do what ing to head out and
a shame that I can." check out some of
By CADE MILLER you don't have these places." Af
some gal your Dianne ter a peck on the
S A LO GTIME fan of Alan age to help cheek from Dianne
Palomo' work under the eon you out, but and a mild staring
nd.ian moniker, I can afe 111 do what I contest with Dave,
ly ay that "VEGA Intl. ight School" can." Dianne leaned forward onto the Doug headed out of the house. He
was worth the four-year wait. On this breakfast bar in front of Doug, strate glanced briefly at the charred remains
record, Palomo manages to craft a gically bringing her elbows in. Hardly of his borne, the doorframe resolutely
very funky, chaotic sound that is both intriguedb y so many wrinkles, Doug still standing, and carried on. Doug
endearingly cheesy and refreshingly carriedo n with his task and nodded reflected that today was not the day
original. It i ea y to see why Palomo solemnly, pulling himself out of hi for plotting, nor would any day be
incorporated VEGA - the name of his thoughts. thereafter. It was simply not within
extremely groovy and danceable side "Thank you, Dianne. It should his nature. .
project - into the record's title, becau e only be temporary, really. I'm already And after all, Dave wa just his
it takes the ound of both hi eon looking at some open apartments cat. He was a furry arsonist, but Dave
Indian and VEGA project and throws and renting spaces.• Doug brushed was his cat.
them together in a blender (from the the crumb ball off of the newspaper
1980 , of cour e). The record itself that lay spread open to the classifieds
tart off trong, with in trumental on the granite counter. Dave was con
opener "Hit Parade" providing a perfect veniently sprawled across the real e - Bio:
ampler platter of sounds to expect; it tate section. Doug shoved him off the McKenna is a opbomore studying
i immediately followed by the fun and counter. forcing the black cat to jump English and P ychology. She hopes
catchy lead ingle "Annie" and the col lightly down onto the tiled floor. to enter the field of publi bing and
orful "Street Level." Thi hot streak con The pair bad shuffled into the pread awarene s of the inner work
tinue without a ingle hiccup (another modest abode the previous evening. ings of the human mind. Her \\Tit ing
key highlight is the wonderfully gaudy the crackling of their own home and is meant to entertain and invite con
march of "Dear Skorpio Magazine") runtime . The track "C'est La Vie (say quarters more than make up for its the dying flame etting a mood for templation about the obvious and the
until the instrumental "Slumlord's Re the casualties!)" i an enjoyably anthe lackluster ending. The album is perfect their somber exodus that was al implausible. In her free time, McK
Lea e," which i intere ting but ulti mic rebound, but the next track, "61 for dorm parties, ocial gathering , and together too sensual. Doug now enna enjoys the arts, puns, and the
mately an unnece sary and overlong Cygni Ave.," ha a melody so jarringly singing at the top of your lung in front wonderedi f this was why Dianne absurd. She also strives to meet her
epilogue to the excellent "Slumlord." similar to the one in "Annie" that it is of the mirror with a toothbrush (not had been particularlye xcited when quota for existential crises per day;
It i at thi point where the record nearly impossible to enjoy. The closing that I would know from personal expe she saw them standingb eneathh er this is almost always n;iet.
track is a live recording that is too corny rience, of course). porchligbtT. he old womanh ad ea-
begins to lo e the steam it had main
tained so well for most of its runtime. for its own good. ESSENTIAL TRACKS: "The Glitzy ....
All in all, "VEGAI ntl. Night Sc_hool" Hive," "Dear Skorpio Magazine," "Street
The track "Tecbno Clique" and "Baby's
is a rock solid record that is bursting at Level," "Slumlord"
Eyes" are well-written, but are adly
the seams with fun and a rainbow of SCORE: 9/10
too repetitive to justify their six-minute
colors, and the phenomenal first three

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
ARTS 9
N etflix 'n' kill: horror films
Stand-up collledian
to stream this Halloween
Sara Schaefer
A rated guide to the best horror movies streaming right now
perf or at LC
Ills
By JOSH FREEMAN
IT' THAT TIME OF year again! The writer and podcast host won
Halloween i ju t around the
laughs on campus last Friday
corner and there is no better way
to celebrate than by grabbing that
pecial omeone and having a " etflix
By NOAH FOSTER-ICOTH about their academic aspirations.
·n' chill" e h' over a good horror
''Y:u •1 thoughts hed id a goodj ob of
movie. The beloved treaming ite
playing off of the audience with
ha a mattering of decent horror NEVER know what's
offering that are actually, you know, going to happen up here,• out making them uncomfort
well-received by critics. A huge portion promised comedian Sara able,• said MadeleineB entley '19.
however, eem to be movie that you Schaefer at the beginning of her per Schaefer'cso medys tylei s similar
don't even remember coming out in formance at Lewis & Clark College to thato f Amy Schumerw, hosej okes
theater (probably becau e they didn't). 0 on Oct. 23. "I come out here all qui often urrounds ubjectss ucha s sex
The e campy, goofy, gory, and mostly et and sweet. .. and then I unleash!• uality and gender. In fact, Schaefer
low-budget gem are ju t dying for Schaefer proceeded to entertain LC has a cameoa ppearance on the first
you to nuggle up next to them this students with an hour's worth of ma episode of "Inside Amy Schumert
howliday ea on. Of cour e, if the idea terial fromh erc omedya lbum• Cbrya,, and has_a lso appeared on "Late
of gambling your" etflix 'n' chill" time alls,• copies of which wereo n sale in Night with Jimmy Fallon,• and "John
on a random, potentially terrible horror the Evans Recital Hall after the show. Oliver's rit York Stand-Up Show."
movie i n't that app aling, check out The majority of Schaefer"sj okes on Schaeferu suallys peaksi n a smoky,
the review below of ome of Netflix' Friday night addressed societal pres meDowwiced uringh erp erformanc
more ob cure election . creaming their head off? You wanna' "The Haunted Mansion" makes so sures placed on women, especially es, which make her rare moments
ee ome beaver ? Thi i your movie. much more ense now. He mu t like regarding their physical appearance. of high-pitcheda nger and hysteria
1." hr_oom ' (2007) It' every bit a ab urd a you think it'll horror, and once he finds hi weird "I feel like there's a lot of pres more surprising and more likely
o, we all have enough money to be, but in tead of fighting the genre of seductive vampire tride, he's mayb sure on ladies these days to have to get a laugh out of the audience.
fly to Ireland ju t to meet ome girl' cheap-a teen- la her and predictable kind of good at it. the perfect body, and it's just nev Afterh er performancoen Friday,
wannabe boyfriend and take hrooms zombie-plotline, it excel at being itself Score: 4 out of 5 Jamaican vampires er good enough," he pointed out. Schaefers poke to studentso ne-on
together? (the be t line aid with a traight face 1'bere·s- so many body achieve one whiles ellingc opieso f hera lbum
Premi e et. Let' go into the dark cary ha to be, "We cannot turn against 4. "The Last Day on Mar " (2013) ments that we need to unlock." and sharedh er opiniono f campus.
wood to trip for the fir t time? Already each other now, that' exactly what As the hour of opening credits will Schaefer also described her ex "This is a really nice cam
l11ere.W e'll pick our own magical Iri h the beaver would want"). A special atte t to, a lot of people came together periences in school ("To this day, if pus. You should be proud ...
mu hroom fre h out of the ground and hout out to the pecial effect team to make thi film and they're not so sure I look at the periodic table, I barf') of your parents. They made it
trip on tho e? Dtme. If the initial et-up that in thi day and age u ed actual why. Like Liev Schreiber. Liev Schreiber and asked audience members nice for you,• Schaefer said.
animatronic zombie beaver in tead of agreed to tar in thi movie, and he'
doe n't turn you off from the tart, you
might be in for a urpri e. For a plot that CG! not o ure why either. He' not o sure
could have taken place in omeone' core: 4 out of 5 animatronic zombie through mo t of his cene in which he combination to you, then you'll enjoy
ha kyard, the action more than make beavers and hi space team all aren't so ure 5. "Jug Face" (2013) this gory paranormal thriller.
up for the totally bizarre circum tance . why they're on Mar or why the return I'm just going to put this out there: I like core: 3 out of s giant pits
3. "Vampire in Brooklyn" (1995) home will be o bad. They're not o ure hillbilly horror. "The Hills Have Eye ,"
ot accounting for the accuracy of their
You thought you had een it all until why people tart becoming infected "Texa Chain aw Mas acre,""Red Honorable Mention: "The
depiction of what a hroom trip i like,
you found out that there's a Wes Craven with ome weird zombie bacteria and State," even the undead hillbilly Leprechaun"
the film' use of altered realities to
helmed film tarring Eddie Murphy a a in turn, the makeup de igner weren't family from "Cabin in the Woods", It's with deep sadne that I inform
que tion the potential of paranormal
Jamaican vampire trolling Brooklyn for o sure why having a Martian bacteria all do something for me. If you aren't you that "The Leprechaun" was taken
e ent i well done and actually pretty
Angela Bas ett. After recovering from infect your body make you look like cared by that brand of horror though, off of etflix's in tant watch before the
scary at time .
s the initial shock of thi film exi ting, a monkey. The fir t half of the movie there i n't much for you in thi movie. publication of this article - not before
core: 3 out of poi onous lri h
mu hrooms I tried watching, and two hour later reminded me of a bad "Star Trek" Outside of the creepy and trigger-happy this reviewer watched it to include. If it
I stumbled out of my room late for episode, and the econd half reminded family, the monster we're all suppo ed ever come back, I highly recommend
2. "Zombeavers" (2014) brunch and completely enwrapped. me of my Spanish homework and eating to fear, the pit in the ground, isn't well watching it. The least you can do i
Only Wes Craven could make you forget lunch and painting my nail and - oh, I defined and becomes more confu ing check out the "Honest Trailer" for it on
Are you sick of ridiculou
that you're taking thi movie seriou ly topped watching. than anything el e. However, if cult Yourube right now.
mon ter film like ''Sharknado" and
"Anaconda"? Do you mi s cantily clad and actually enjoying it. Al o, to tho e Score: 2 out of 5 zombie monkey. in religions, moonshine and good old Score: 4 of Hollywood' mo t ridiculou
teenager getting hacked to bit while of you following Eddie Murphy' career, space fashioned incest ound like a good attempts to make a horror movie/ 5
Beyond ''Monster Mash':· a creepy playlist for Halloween
Believe it or not, there's more to Halloween music than "Thriller" and "The Addams Family Song"
By BEN WEINSTEIN the dark and foreboding, never more 9. Fever Ray - "If I Had A Heart"
so than on her 2012 album "Vi ions." Although you may know her as one half
W TH HALLOWEE come Although this ong feel mu ically like of Swedish duo The Knife, Karin Dreijer
the inevitable on taught of the dead of night, it' impos ible not Ander on i a force to be reckoned with
unbearably chee y •· pooky" to be livened by it infectiou • sound. even when working alone. Creeping out
playli t . From "Mon ter Ma h" to "The As much as we all love the "Monster of the dark, foreboding synthesizer ,
Addams Famil Theme," mu ic tradi Ma ·h," "Oblivion" i the be t Hallow h r olherworldly vok is a~ entranc
tionally a ociated with Halloween is een dance party oundtrack out there. ing as it i brooding. It' not o diffi
particularly unli tenable in compari- 6. Suicide - "Frankie Teardrop" cult believing Karin when she ay she
on to it winter holiday counterpart . Probably the objectively cariest has no heart to love with on this track.
Though Halloween mu ic option are song on thi Ii t, "Frankie Teardrop" i 10. Purity Ring - "Belispeak"
undeniably limited, there are way to the mu ical equivalent of de cent into It's only fitting that at lea tone arti t
avoid hearing nothing but "Thriller" in anity. Even without the di turbing loo ely a ociated with the label "witch
on a loop thi aturday. Sit back, re lyric and chilling, minimali t drum hou e" appear on a Halloween-themed
lax, and cue up the ong below for a machine, Alan Vega' tortured creams playlist. Heavy vocal manipulation and
tolerably creepy Ii tening experience. will make you duck under your cover hard-hitting drum machine con titute
long before the ong' nearly 11-minute the majorityoftheduo' debut"Shrines,"
1. Veronica Falls -"Found Love In a duration i up. providing the perfect oundtrack
Graveyard" 7. TV On the Radio - "Wolf Like for any occult banger going down.
The fir t track from the Engli h Me" _11. Gil Scott-Heron
group' 2011 elf-titled debut, thi The bloodthirsty werewolf who "Where Did The ightc--,.,·-::-o.----
ong' pooky vibe i matched only by come out a the un goe down - a The late Gil Scott-Heron..wa one of the
how carily catchy it i . The interplay clas ic Halloween tale. 1V On the most influential and forward-thinking
between the male and female vocal Radio' 2006 ingle still ound fre h voice in mu ic aero s everal decade ,
A.Fl
perfectly complements the ini ter The title cl,aracter from" o feratu, ·• from which Slint' "Nosferatu Man" get it and immediate nearly ten years later, all the way up to his final album, 2010'
guitar riff, and "Found Love In a name ------------------------ reminding us why they became the in "I'm Ne, Here." Thi ong' lurching
Graveyard" i indie pop at it ab olute die-rock giant we know them a today. beat erves as an eerie backdrop for
be t.. Who ay Halloween love tories 8. Kanye We t feat. Jay-Z, Rick Scott-Heron' gruff voice, and if you
3. The Microphones - "Headles
don't exi t? Ro , icki Minaj & Bon Iver - need an spoken word poetry for Hal
Hor eman"
2. Slint -" o feratu Man" Few things in life feel more appro played in "Phantom," the now-defunct "Monster" loween (spookin' word poetry?) look no
Po t-rock pioneers Stint have a trio Krill make it clear that this ong I there a single better hip-hop further than "Where Did The ight Go."
priate than Phil Elverum's oothing
knack for making listeners feel unea y, live up to its name. The band's angular jam to play on the scariest night of 12. The Cure "Lullaby"
voice on a brisk autumn night. Beside
and" o feratu Man" from their sem guitar and anxious vocals are the the year? I think not. Everything What Halloween playh t could be
providing a unique (albeit a bit
inal 1991 LP "Spiderland" is especially pine-tingling musical equivalent of from Bon Iver' ominou intro to the complete without at least one Cure
challenging) costume idea, "Head-
effective in thi regard. Brian McMah ome ghastly being watching you from game-changing verse icki delivers will ong? Taken from their 1989 opus
le s Hor eman" erve as the perfect
an' hu hed vocals would give this song the di tance: "A wicked and twisted cau e hairs to stand on end. Throw in "Disintegration," Robert Smith'
oundtrack to any fall walks one might
an eerie feel even ifhe wasn't singing phantom comes to you in the night. . ." solid ver es from Rick Ros , Jay-Z, and whi pered vocals about the "Spi
take - trick-or-treating or otherwise.
about the cla ic German vampire film 5. Grimes - "Oblivion" Yeezus himself, and you've got a tasty derman" will give a good scare to
4. Krill - "Phantom"
"No feratu." Grime ha always been known for stew of capable MCs bubbling in your arachnophobes and bug-lover alike.
-From the first menacing ba s note
blending the bright and bubbly with cauldron.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
SPORTS
10
A reflection, as the the seven cross-country
seniors speed off into the sunset at the track
The cross-country teams wrap up their 2015 season at the Northwest Conference Championship Meet
UPCOMING
EVENTS
HOME
Women's Soccer
LC vs Linfield
Griswold Stadium
Saturday, October 31
12PM
ROAD
Cross-Country
NWC Championship
PLU South Field
Parkland, Wash.
Saturday, October 31
The cro s-county eniors, clockwise from top left: Bobby Brandt '16, Aviva Browning '16, Nick Ellis '16, Ashley Wamboldt '16, Tere a Stackhouse '16 and Evan Gamza '16. 10 AM ( women)
11AM (men)
By PETER MELLING Aviva B_rowning '16 bear arms {said while flexing}" great, relaxing evening and made being Football
"What are you instimulating ?!?" My fondest memory is the endle away from my family okay. The team re
THE FI AL ACT is approach One of the best moments was when antics that take place in Keith's office. ally is family in Portland, and have been LC @ Wil_lamette
ing for the men's and women's I was sprinting down a sand dune with I hope to leave behind some of my for the last four years. Salem, Ore.
cros -country team for the 2015 the whole team. sassiness. I'll probably leave some socks in the Saturday, October 31
- • eason. They race in the NWC Cham I hope the team always remembers I'm applying to graduate schools locker room (.as one is·want to do), but
pionship Meet on Oct. 31 at Pacific Lu that quiet is overrated. in African Art History, and (fingers I also want people to remember me for 1PM
theran Univer ity' South Field in Park I am applying to Teach for America, crossed) will work begin working for my my killer abs.
land, Washington. In preparation for we will ee how that goes! doctorate next year. I'll probably go to graduate school
Volleyball
the final event of their college career , Nick Ellis '16 Evan Gamza '16 for molecular biology or medical school.
the seven eniors on the team took time "We love our bread we love our but "We love our bread we love our In the short term, I'm applying for lab LC@ Puget Sound
to reflect on what their yearbook quote ter, but most of all we love each other!" butter, but most of all we love each oth technician and post-bac programs. Tacoma,W ash.
would be, their favorite moment on the My favorite moment wa when Jef er!!!!!" Ashley Wamboldt '16
team, what they hope to leave behind frey David MuUins spit on Kodie Artner All those times that Jeff Mullins' spit "What are you instimulating?!?" aturday,O ctober3 1
for future players, an·d their po t-grad at the LC Invite from 10ft away. Kodie managed to find its way onto Kodie. My fondest memory of LCXCi s all of 6PM
uation plans. was flustered and I was happy. I hope to leave the Lutes behind, in the time we spent on long bus ride tell
Bobby Brandt '16 I'd like to leave an impression on the dust. ing stories, laughing and playing music
"Let's go, biscuitsr Keith's heart. Also an appreciation for I planning on working for Bobby's obnoxiously. • Women's Soccer
That one time when I got a hug I re fruit snacks. 2-minute Tours. I hope to leave behind a team that LC @ Willamette
ally needed. I want to learn how to be a tattoo Teresa Stackhouse '16 has a lot of fun together and values the
Salem, Ore.
I hope to leave behind some foot artist. Maybe work for Americore or try "What are you instimulating?" time they have with each other.
prints. Isn't it obvious? climbing. My sophomore year we had Friends I'm not sure what exactly I'll be do Sunday, November 1
I'll find a job and a beautiful lady, Angie Epifano '16 giving at the then-captain's house over ing after graduation, but I may move to 12PM
but not necessarily in that order. "I have a Constitutional right to Thanksgiving weekend. It was a really Washington, O.C.
_S wininiing and basketball heat up as winter nears
Winter sports season's practices and seasons begin, with many new faces and eager veteran athletes
ed to the established leadership on the
team, we will be ready to compete for a
NWC championship," said Head Coach
Dinari Foreman, when asked about
what this latest recruiting class will do
for the program.
The first game for men's basketball
will be an exhibition game against Port
land State on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m., and the
first official home game will be against
Valley Forge on Nov. 13 at 6 p.m.
Women's Basketball
'The rebuilding· project continues
with the women's basketball team.
Following an 8-17 season last year, the
squad hope to continue their improve
ment with the addition of five first-year
players and one transfer student. When
asked about each new athlete brings
to the table, Head Coach Asha Jordan
highlighted how each player would di
PHOTOC OURTESYO F CHRIS FRANTZA ND LC PIONEERS rectly improve the various facets of the
team's game (i.e. perimeter defen e,
The swim team poses at the alumni dual meet. Carl Appleton '16 and Ayisat Afolabi '17 hope to follow up last season with equally successful campaigns in basketball.
rebounding, passing and tempo . Ung
with their 13 returning Qlayer (includ
ing NWC All-Conference Second-Team
By PETER MELLING grow with the swim team. After bring "This group brings experience in a
and improve on their 16-11 record. In member Ayi at Afolabi '17), Jordan
ing in nine athletes in last year's recruit wide range of races, as well as a lot of
tent on not lo ing pace from last year's hopes to build up the team's young core
FTER THREE MONTHS of ing class, 13 new swimmers (eight wom success as high school students and campaign (and having only lost two se and diversify their offen ive and defen
ouchdowns, laps, goals and en and five men) will join the squad athletes. They're going to surprise some niors), six first-year players will bolster sive options.
pikes, it's time for some bas- and help to build up the team's strong people. As coaches, we are excited to the team' ranks. The e players come "The mixture of the newcomers and
kets and relays. The men's and women's young core. These new faces bring their work with these new Pioneers. They from all over the country, from places the returners will allow us more ·depth
basketball and swimming teams have extensive experience and raw talent to have big things ahead of them in col like Kailua, Hawaii, Richmond, Calif. and flexibility offensively and defen
begun practice for the upcoming win a quickly-developing team with strong lege and I'm ready to do all I can to help and Springfield, Ga. Their additions will sively. We don't want to be a one dimen
ter season. All of these teams have been potential, greatly expanding the team's them succeed here,• said Head Coach strengthen a team with two members of sional team that relies heavily on one or
fruitful in their recruiting, with a strong potential both in this season and in fu Chris Frantz, on the new athletes. the NWC All-Conference Second-Team two players. We want to hare the load
influx of first-year athletes. How will the ture campaigns. The schedule has also The first regular season meet for (Jason Luhpow '16 and Carl Appleton offensively and will look to our defense
veterans adapt to these new faces, and changed this eason, as it is spread out Swimming will be a home meet on Nov. '16) and set the squad up for future suc to control tempo," said Jordan, in an in
can the teams continue to improve over across November and January, with no 6 against Pacific Lutheran, at 6 p.m. cesses. terview with LCPioneers.com.
last season? events in December and the Northwest Men's Basketball "This group brings an awful amount The first game for women's basket
Swimming Conference Championship meet from The men's squad is looking to re
of wins and championships to our pro ball will be at home against New Hope
The youth movement continues to Feb. 12 to 14. turn to the NWC Championship Game gram. With this playmaking group add- Christian on Nov. 13 at 8 p.m.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
SPORTS -11
Bacchus ultim•ate frisbee
team showc~ses strengths
Lewis & Clark students show dedication through club sport
By CARLY CHELOVITZ ule practice at 6 a.m. on weekdays and tition in Cotvallis Oregon. They played
8 a.m. on weekends; luckily, the players teams from all over the northwest and
ULTIMATE FRISBEE IS very are dedicated enough to accomodate in California, including Portland State
different from traditional convienent practice times. University, University of Portland Uni
port . It is offered nowhere in "This shows a commitment and de versity of Puget Sound, Oregon State,
the United State a an official sport, termination that is not commonly een and San Jose State University.
only a a club port. In many places, in club sports; as well as a great step Azen Jaffe '19 is excited about his
though, it is taken a eriou ly as any forward for Bacchus and the ultimate first year on the team. "We learned a
formal port. ''Frisbee i different from community at LC," ay captain Ben lot and we played well. There are many
traditional port ; it i more inclusive, Whitenack '16. new team members, so we are all warm
laid back, and open. We Though Bacchu ing up to each other and learning how to
have a coach but tudent ". ..w e are all doesn't start their of play together," he noted.
are able to take charge at ficial season until the The following weekend, the play
warming up to
practice," explain Will spring, they have been ers road-tripped to Chico, California to
Satvis '19. each other and nothing but busy for the challenge multiple teams at the Chico
The team is being led last month. With multi Chug. Driving for over 20 hours gave
learning how to
to ucces thi year by ple practices a week and the club ample time to bond which the
Ben Whitenack '16 and play together." weekend-long tourna fir t year player seemed to enjoy. "We
Luca Contino '16, both ments, they are aiming played much better on Sunday than Sat
of whom have hown Aren Jaffe to have and preparing for urday and grew a lot as a team on and
their dedication to and their best eason yet. off the field. We were able to spend a lot
succe in ultimate frisbee for years. Whitenack already sees a lot of po of ocial time together on the road and
"Thi ummer I played on Portland's tential in the team this year. "Fall is a come together as not only a team, but a Alexe Navarro '17, Julia Somers '19 and Ali Carleton '16 rally the team in a match
premier •c lub team, Rhino, and we time we re etve to develop our incom family," ay Jaffe. against Clark College to open the 2015 season. As of October 30, the team is 9-11.
made it to Club ationals. But now ing fre hman and teach them the game. This year the orthwest Dlll region
I'm ready to take all that I learned this Many new players come into the school is haping up to be much more compet
ummer and apply it to Bacchus and year without ever having played ulti itive than in years past, which is a re Volleyball wraps up
pu hour team to the next level," Whit mate o we make it our priority to give flection of Bacchus' success over the last
enack add . them a much time playing and learn even year . In the pring they will com
Contino was fortunate enough to ing the fundamentals as po ible," he pete for a chance to go to nationals in
play for the U23 Italian ationals team· aid. orth Carolina. Thi includes playing a their 2015 season
thi ummer as well. While the team does compete in the diver e group of teams from all over the
De pite ample preparation, not fall, these preliminary tournaments are country, including a travel tournament
everything ha been smooth. The club held to prepare and give the team ex to Southern California.
The young team looks forward to 2016
i dealing with frustrations over har tra practice for the spring eason. Over Bacchus will continue their atten
ing the field with the traditional sports fall break, Bacchus traveled to compete dance at informal tournaments until
teams. This has caused them to sched- in the Beaver Brawl, a two day compe- their official eason begins in the spring.
By ABE FIELD day the 6th and Whitworth on Saturday
the 7thf or their final game of the sea-
THERE IS A rumor that when the on. "I feel proud of what my team has
women's volleyball team is play accomplished o far, as we continue to
ing in Pamplin Sport Center, improve year to year, but never com
whoever walks into the gym can feel pletely satisfied," said Coach Matz-Gor
the intensity which fills the players. don.
Thi sea on wa no exception. As the Leadership from Seniors
Pioneers finish up their eason, here' a The Pio ay goodbye to three eniors
look back at some of the sea on's high after this eason. Their maturity and
lights. their performance, Coach Matz-Gordon
"Clas zilla" says, will be greatly mi ed. Seniors
The Pios recruited a large freshmen Emily Drake, Ali Carleton, and Isabel
clas and added eight players to the Valentine have all left their mark on
team this year. Thi strong recruiting the program, their coach says, and they
push brought a competitive edge to this have been great leaders for their young
year's team, Coach Stacie Matz-Gordon er teammates to look up to.
said. This year's freshmen, according Looking to 2016
to Coach Matz-Gordon, are "fantastic Coach Matz-Gordon says that she
students, great people and pretty darn "couldn't be more excited about the
good volleyball players". One of these direction this program is headed. The
freshmen, Julia Sommers, lead the team . foundational culture the senior have in
in kills with 242 on the season. stilled, the total buy in from the return- -
A Competitive Conference ers and new players, and the increa ed
The Pios were part of an incredibly competitiveness are all vital to the
competitive Northwest Conference this growth of this program." The fan sure
season. Whitworth lead the conference have a lot to look forward to, because af-
with a 10-2 in-conference record fol ter another strong recruiting effort this
lowed by Willamette at 9-3. The team season, the Pios have more high level
SAMS COTT/PIONEERL OG currently holds a record of 6-7 in the recruits coming in 2016. All of these fac
conference, but the season is not yet tors point towards many exciting years
Ultimat~ frisbee players compete against each other at a 6 a.m. practice due to overscheduling field time at Griswold Stadium.
over. The women host Whitman on Fri- to come for the Pios' volleyball program.
Current Lewis & Clark swimmers challenge alumni in the
annual dual meet held during the homecoming weekend
By CARLY CHELOVITZ tiple Ironman Triathlon races. She has my old teammates and friends happy
raced all over Canada and plans to and successful in their news lives and
ON. OCT. 17, ATHLETES both continue training for another Ironman being able to talk to them about their
young arid old, came together this coming year. Another alumna, accomplishments gives me a lot of con
at the Zehntbauer Swimming Stacy Abrams '09, traveled from Tex fidence for what is to come in my life
Pavilion for some good, old fashioned as to compete against her alma mater. next year,• she said.
competition. This event, appropriate Abrams moved to Japan post-gradua The LC Swim Team gave the alumni
ly named the Alumni Meet, has been a tion and taught English through the Ja squad a run for their money this year,
part of Lewis & Clark's Homecoming pan Exchange and Teaching Program. but the graduates and their unconven
Weekend festivities for over a decade. Upon returning to the U.S., she took a tional methods still came out on top.
Each year, alumni and families come job at Texas University in their Interna While the current team must take the
from across the United States to watch tional Students Office. meet seriously,.alumni get to have a lit
the swimmers compete in a modified "I loved getting to know the LC tle more fun. Common practices include
short program meet, consi ting of 100 alumni and hearing where their lives cannonballing on top of swimmers,
meters of every stroke, the 200 Individ have taken them; it shows me how using tins, and converting individual
ual Medley, 200 free tyle, and the 500 many possibilities I'll have in my reach events intO'relays. Attendees will note,
freestyle. once I become an alum [sic]," explained though, that this meet is about much
This year, spectators traveled over Baergen Schultz '19. more than the swimming. "As an alum
2500 miles to watch and attend the The event is a great way for current [sic], it is so fun to see old teammates,"
event of LC' . Homecoming Week students to make connections and re said LC Swim Team Assistant Coach Sa ....
end. Among tho e alums were LeAnne connect with people like Schrotzen rit Gluz. "We contact each other every
PHOTOC OURTESYO F CHRIS FRANTZ
Schrotzberger '87. She has since taken berger and Abrams. Sofia Koutzoukis year to ee who is going to make the trip
her pas ion and talent for swimming '16, one of the Women's swim team cap out and live the college dream again for The alumni squad, featuring players from years and decades pa t, poses at the
to the next level by competing in mu!- tains, just applied to graduate. "Seeing the weekend." • annual alumni swim meet, held during Homecoming Weekend.

FRIDAY,O CTOBER3 0, 2015
The bockdoor is a worl<o f fiction and humor
The only thing scarrier than Hallovveen is
trying to Inake use of the Registrar's office
Do not let the silly Halloween decorations put up a month too early fool you; the registrar is terror incarnate
By DREW MATLOVSKY To make matters worse, the
and DANIEL ELLIOTT Registrar's Office has a rather unusual
method of student support.
HALLOWEEN Season is upon "It is currently school administrative
u , but the spookiest thing policy to require students to pledge a
(I\U:,))\)A~
on everyone's mind is not thousand·year~ of toiling in the infernal
fuO.
what they are going to be wearing for salt mines before we will consider (f\M'llftl ._
Halloween. responding to their precious little . -·
"Ever since the registrar lost my e-mails" said Judy Finch, Registrar '
AP cores, I haven't been able to sleep of the College of Arts and Sciences.
I I
at night," aid Victor Frankenstein, "Students are also required to settle I
feeling that the lack of bureaucratic any outstanding debt currently in their
efficiency at Lewis tudent accounts
& Clark College "[We] require students to before registering
has been a slight for cla es. We
inconvenience. pledge a thousand years try to make the
"And demanding of toiling in the infernal process as painless
the soul of my first as pos ible. Cash,
salt mines before we will
born child in order checks, golden
to switch my major consider responding to doubloon of the
hasn't helped my flying dutcliman,
their e-mails"
stress levels either." and pounds offlesh
Its walls are all acceptable
dripping with Judy Finch method of
blood, its desks payment"
worked by horrible "We are really ~
dementors, and its countertop stacked trying to improve transparency, and
high with towering piJes of add/ streamline the proces . Improvement
drop forms, it is safe to say that the are being made. Your voices are being
registrar's office is in need of something heard" added Finch. "Webadvisoi-no
more than just a fresh coat of paint. longer automatically files students
"Upon realizing the registrar's under 'EXPENDABLE BLOOD_
office was built on an ancient OFFERING, for example."
EVA LOVE/ PIONEER LOO
Native American burial ground, we Originally discovered on a
An artist's representation of the mental, emotional, and spiritual effects of spending an afternoon in the regi trar's office
realized our problems were more floppy disk in the lower catacombs
than ju t foundational," spoke Anna underneath Frank Manor House
Gonzales, Academic Dean for Lewis & encircled in a complex design drawn Top 100 Schools for fast, easy, and the whole ritual. As punishment for bis time for the next round of class sign
Clark. in goat's blood, the program, dubbed reliable online registration services on transgression, LC was cursed to suffer ups.
To even access the Registrar's "Webadvisor" was hoped to modernize the cheap. Unfortunately, somewhere through a thousand years of finicky "It would also be great if they
Office, students are required to travel the registration process, and cut down during the process of pleasing the drop-boxes and unstable infopages didn't take. severing an arm and a leg
through the basement of Templeton, on unnecessary costs, paper use, and evil spirit that lay dormant within that automatically log out in 15 ll)inute and offering it to the front desk in a
colloquially referred to as "the abyss," innocent lives lost. In a dark pact with the web application, Barry Glassner cycles. kneeling position in order to transfer
which is itself littered with the the infernal lord of administrative tripped and fell over the power For now, students and faculty hope community college credits here." added
horrors of the 12th plane, as well as ervices, LC agreed to exchange cord to his Dell XPS One™ desktop that necessary improvements to the Victor Frankenstein, "That would help
extracuricular fliers. dropping 10 places in the US News computer, unplugging it and ruining registration proces can be made in a lot."
Soy-based n1enace threatens to
Innovater dr_esses
overtake Lewis & Clark c~pus
as spooky ghost
Make no mistake, the meat substitute is more than it seems
By DANIEL ELLIOTI doing all the regular stuff. One
By EMILY DEWEY and was just the stress getting to me. was playing_B on Iver. In preparation of them is going as the weird old
dude from Duck Dynasty, tongue
DANIEL ELLIOTT Was I finally starting to crack? But for my midterms I set up a meeting L
EWIS & CLARK college, in-cheek. Another one i going as a
as I walked through Watzek I • aw· during office hours with my profes or, renowned for its creativity person going a a sexy cat. I don't 1
IT HAD BEE a short eight weeks them, the horror! Hiding behind but upon entering his office my gaze
and cutting edge cultural know. I guess I just wanted to do •
here at Lewi & Clark, but I the bookshelves and sneaking into centered upon a dry, brown sliver
movements, sets yet another something non- tandard this year.
already knew omething was awry. backpacks, I felt them closing in on of soy that sat in the place of my
groundbreaking precedent Something refreshing."
Everyday I would make my way to the me. They began to haunt me publicly. Philosophy professor. I slowly backed
this coming Halloween. James "I always knew my boy was a ,
J3on, and every meal I was faced with I aw one sitting on a bean bag in the my way out of the room, inarticulate in
Patterson, a sophomore English special one," said James' mother.
the same suspiciou oy-ba ed meat lounge, dripping pool of vegan aioli fear. "I'll ee you at lunch!" it cackled
major, in a massive break with the "I was a bit concerned when I saw
ubstitute - soy curls. What on earth aero the floor. They would follow as I quickened my pace. Outside, I
ironic, self-referential, and try pictures of his co tume go up on
are they? How are they squeezed into saw a tour group of young prospective
I even saw a group but-don't-try-too-hard traditions Facebook. I thought, 'Why couldn't
almost every vegetarian option? A students making their way across the
of Halloweens past, has decided he just go as a nice, intentionally
my tery. of them in the bridge. All were soy. All curly.
to try his hand at a more post low-effort Donald Trump costume,
I tried avoiding them, but like I had to get .to the bottom of this, I
Platteau sporting Joy postmod m approach: he's going like all the other nice neighborhood
a recurrent fevered dream, they had to go ee the big man on campus.
as a spooky ghost. boys?' But when I thought about-it,-,-. .,
remained tran fixed in my mind. Division T-shirts and He would surely know what to do. As
Speaking on his costume, James I felt like bis new. idea wa really
Then one day a I snatched my elf a I entered the office of Barry Glassner,
Birkenstocks. One of a ured the Pioneer Log that his something unique. Wi never did
vegetarian sandwich from the grill and and shook his band, I found his strong
costume was not intended to be stuff like that when we were kids."
at down with my meal I realized with them was holding a grasp rea suring, and yet hi body
ironic at all. "No seriously, It's not "Last year I went as the main
horror that there were three unholy soy wobbled strangely at the force ofit. His
guitar; it was playing a commentary on white girls at guy from "Cheers.' obody watches
curls, cuddleq up in a bed of onions and skin had odd pallor. The room smelt
Coachella who wear those racist 'Cheers' anymore. I've never
one ingle lice of bell pepper. I picked Bon Iver. slightly of e ame oil and imitation
Native American costume . It's not watched 'Cheers' before. So most
them up and placed them to the side mayonnai e. He Ii tened intently to
a Walter White costume that makes people though I was just dressed
of my plate, excusing the incident as a my story, but when I finished he only
fun of how many people go as up as -a middle-aged white man.
stroke of bad luck. But that night, my me to my classes and it through sat quiet and smirked. The ilence was
Walter White. I'm not even making It's like a pretty funny commentary
sleep wa tainted with image of oy lectures of Aquina and Plato with wa stifling. When he finally opened
it into a bad pun costume for the on the cyclical nature of popular
curls everywhere. I dreamt that they their beady eyes glued to the backs of his mouth, it was a ight I never shall
sake of having a bad pun costume. culture, stuff like thlt. Qne of my
entered my bedroom and tried to neak my head. They showed up to my PSI. forget in my wor t of dreams. His
It's just a fucking ghost." favorites. But like, I am tired of
into my box of goldfish, knowing my I tarted seeing them with notebooks teeth, his white gleaming teeth! They
Jam reportedly thought of the coming up with inventive costumes
propensity to savagely pour the cheesy and backpacks. I even saw a group were not bone at all, but jagged blades
groundbreaking new idea, because that nobody cares about. This year,
snacks straight from the cardboard of them in the Platteau sporting Joy of soy curl horror! Run students, run
he wanted to do something different I thought, 'fuck it, i'm just gonna be
into my mouth. Appalling. Divi ion T-shirts and Birkenstocks. while there is still time! And do not let
this year. "Yeah, my friends are a spookyg host.'"
The next morning I was sure it One of them was holding a guitar; it them find you.