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The Pioneer Log: Lewis & Clark College’s Student-Run Newspaper

Volume 92, Issue 2

Lewis & Clark College Student Newspaper

Pioneer Log Staff

2019-02-22

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LC budget for Border Studies program cut
As Overseas and Off-Campus_programs face budget cuts, the Border Studies trip is the first to go
By RILEY HANNA visiting another country."
Lopez explained her personal
THE SUDDEN removal. of the connection to the Border Studies
Border Studies program from program.
the list of Lewis & Clark study "I've never been out of the U.S.
abroad programs served as a great and I really loved the idea of start
shock to many students and facul ing at the border," Lopez said. "I
ty. Centered in Tucson, Arizona, thought about it for a long time. I ap
this program aims to study the cur plied and interviewed ·and when·I got
rent human rights debate at the into the program, it really meant a lot -
U.S-Mexico border. It is run through to me·. My dad is from Mexico. He
Earlham College,. although open for was deported when I was a kid, so
LC students to apply. we've actually never met. The Bor
Three students had already been der Studies program gave me so
• accepted to the spring 2020 program much hope that I was finally going
earlier this. semester. The news of the to understand this part of myself.
cancellation came in an email sent on • The border, immigrati0n; the wall.
Feb 4. It's on the news every day, it's p_olit
Blytqe Knott, the Director of ical, it's violent and it's a part of my
Overseas and Off-Campus Programs, story, a big part."
explained that a major reason behind Maya Hernandez '19 participat
the cancellation was the recent ap ed in the Border Studies program
proval of a new program set in Merida, in spring 2018 and was saddened by
Mexico. the loss of the program.
"It was a difficult decision to can- • "I was devastated to hear about
eel the Border Studies program for the sudden cancellation of the Bor
spring 2020," Knott said via email. der Studies program," Hernandez
"Quite a number of factors were con said. "I took part in the Border
sidered, but a major one was that a Studies program in the spring of
new program in Merida, Mexico was COURTESYO F MAY A HERNANDEZ 2018 and found the experience to
approved by the Curriculum Com The canceled Border Studies Program studied socio-political dynamics at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tucson, Arizona. be incredibly insightful, educational
mittee just recently. This pr.ogram is and very necessary. I cannot stress
intended to take the place of Border full Earlham tuition plus a program' on the sudden cancellation. in fall 2020. the importance of a program that
,Studies." fee;'' Suttmeier said via email. ''It was "I understand that given our seri-• "I was .honestly just so confused," affords students the opportunity to
Another important factor leading prohibitively expensive for us to offer ous budget shortfall, the conege will Lopez said: "I don't know why the learn about the currept immigration
to the program's cancel1ation was its (far more expensive for us than our need to make euts," .Young said via trip was canceled. My application crisis on the U.S.-Mexic0 ·border.
cost. Bruce Suttmeier, Dean of the own programs). With the new Mer email. "What is less clear to me is how was transferred to the Ecuador pro The exclusion of this program is a
College of Arts and Sciences, elabo ida program now approved, it made . much each of our progr_ams cost the gram. I'm looking forward to the significant loss to the LC communi-·
rated on the unsustainable nature of sense to offer this program, which college, and therefore it is impossible Ecuador program, I mean I'm just ty."
the pr.ogram. will serve our students better and will for me to know how much money will trying to stay positive, but, honestly, Young does not think that the
"The Border Studies program, run be more sustainable in the long run." be saved by cutting the Border Stud it's difficult for me to imagine being· program in Merida will be a suffi
by Earlham College, has substantial Professor of History Elliot Young, ies program." there. I don't have any connection to cient replacement for the Border
curricular overlap with our new Me the former faculty advisor _for the • Venessa Lopez '21 planned to par Ecuador, so it almost feels random, Studies program.
rida program and required us to pay Border Studies program, commented ticipate in the Border Studies program which is not at all how I want to feel "Budget cuts" continued on page 3
Ma-ria-Sen1ple announced as con1n1encen1ent speaker
By GELSEY PLAZA to stop laughing first." including those of us in the Dean's a novelist speaking at commence held on May 11 at 2 p.m. in the Ore
Se!Ilple was born in Santa Monica, Office, have really enjoyed her writing ment," Cole said. "I look forward to gon Convention Center. To find more
BITTERSWEET, hilarious, and California and currently lives in Seattle, and we believe her talent and accom hearing her perspective as someone inofrmation about Maria Semple
deeply touching are some of Washington. She is an active participant plishments will appeaL to our gradu who lives a creative life." -and her work, visit her. website at
the many superlatives used to of the city's literary community and a ates;their families and the entire Lew- The 2019 Commencement will be https://www.mariasemple.com/.
describe the fiction of Maria Semple. founding member of Seattle 7 Writers, is & Clark community." •
This bestselling screenwriter and au a nonprofit collective of Pacific North Director of Student Activities and
thor will be the Lewis & Clark 2019 west authors who support reading, Commencement Coordinator Ja
Commencement speaker. Semple's writing and literacy in the community. son Feiner is also delighted to have
novels include "This One is Mine" They promote literacy efforts through Semple speak at this year's graduation
(2008), the bestselling "Where'd programming, teaching, speaking, ceremony.
You Go, Bernadette" (2012) and the grants and donations. She has also "I think it is incredibly exciting
recently published "Today Will Be taught fiction writing at Richard Hugo to have an international, bestselling
Different" (2016). "Where'd You Go, House, a nonprofit community writing • author, writer for television and film
Bernadette" has been translated into center in Seattle. and a Primetime Emmy nominee· as
eighteen different languages, spent a Associate Dean for Student Aca our commencement speaker," Fein
.year on the New York Times bestseller demic Affairs John Krussel is_g rateful er said via email. "Ms. Semple is. a
list, won the American Library Associ that Semple is coming to speak at this world-traveling educator and very
ation Alex Award and was shortlisted year's commencement ceremony. creative writer an"d will share how
for the Women's Prize for Fiction. It • "We received a number of com she .draws on insights into human
will ·be made into a major motion pic pelling suggestions for commence nature and offbeat humor that leads
ture directed by Richard Linklater and ment speakers from faculty, staff and to her happiness that comes from
released in late March. students, though for reasons of writing that she cannot live without.
"Ms. Semple's storytelling is al-. availability and cost, not all were • I am confident that her message will
ways front and center, in sharp fo feasible," Krussel said via email. really be an inspiration for the Class
cus," New York Times writer Janet "We are thrilled that Maria Semple of 2019."
Maslin said. "You could stop and pay graciously accepted our jnvitation to Associate Professor of English
attention to how apt each new format speak at commencement. Ms. Semple and Department Chair Rachel Cole
is, how rarely she repeats herself ana has a long career as a creative writer of also shares in the excitement of hav
how imaginatively she unveils every fiction, including novels, short stories ing Semple come to speak at LC_-
bit of information. But you would have and television. Many on our campu~, "It will be a special treat to have JENJCA CRUZ/PIONEER LOG
E&D series concludes Pros of Double Major Coop up and running - Vu Pham Interview Yoga craze thrives at LC
E&D colloquium discusses LGBTQ adoJ?tion as One's passions are frequently pitted against Students try to revive Coop as a cozy cafe and The Portland director discusses his artistic origins, Susan Lilly has been teaching classes at LC for 18
the series concludes ,vith "Journey of Identity pragma~ism in determining which majors are performance space despite past conflict. Clubs and experiences as a Vietnamese refugee and approach years and touts its health benefits.
and the Law (Portland meets Italia)." marketable organizations are granted access. -- to filmmaking.
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FRIDAY,F EBRUARY2 2, 2019
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Colloquium discusses LGBTQ adoption law
-E&D Colloquiu-m series concludes with "Journey of Identity and the Daw (Portlandia meets Italia)"·
By HANNA MERZBACH Beck was motivated to pursue the Steverson argued that, oftentimes, Sciences Bruce Suttmeier, who opened age and a student go first to give more of
case, not just to gain citizenship for her the interests of societies are put above the event,-has also taken a personal in a younger, contemporary point of view
THIS YEAR'S E&D Colloquium se daughter, but to set a precedent in Ital those of the child. • . terest in Beck's case. As a gay man, he of what it's like," Olivia Olson '22 said.
ries concluded on Feb. 20 with a ian adoption law. "My whole thing is that if we actual said he feels responsible for making life The colloquium posed a unique op
final lecture centering on LGBTQ "We wanted to do this because every ly start focusing on the child and what easier for the next LGBTQ generation . portunity for students to hear about
identity and how it relates to family case that goes through the Italian courts their needs· are and who can best meet and helping ensure they have fell legal both national and international law.
and adoption law. Entitled ~Journey of helps other Italian families," Beck said. those needs, a lot of those restrictions . rights. "I thought it was really interesting
Identity and the Law (Portlandia meets "Italy only has civil unions (for LGBTQ w~uld go by the wayside," Steverson Suttmeier saw the topics of LGBTQ with the legal aspect of things because
Italia)," the event welcomed student people), not marriages."· said. "For me, the interest of the child identity fitting perfectly with the aims of I'm interested in law, so it was really
and faculty speakers, as well as visiting In an effort to tie her experience to is paramount." the E&D curriculum. great to hear froin lawyers about the
speakers, to provide their diverse per the Lewis & Clark community, Beck Steverson applied this logic to "At its best, E&D pushes students to state of things as they are now legally
spectives. invited Elias Williamson '20 to show a Beck's case. think hard about big, complex questions in the U.S. and in Italy and how things
The event was organized by Eleono musi~ video he made and ·speak about . "(The Italian courts) said that they and the issues around LGBTQr ights are have been historically and implications
ra Beck, -James W. Rogers Professor his experience in the LGBTQ commu were doing. it for the protection of the a fantastic venue for such exploration," for tlie future," Morgan Heithcock '22
of Music and Director of Musicology, nity. children, but they oever gave any evi he said. "E&D is about approaching said.
who spoke on her struggles with Italian "What the law had a problem with, dence to show that a child that was in a these ridiculously complex topics, and Students also applauded the coll<l
adoption law for same-sex couples. essentially, is our LGBTQ identity," same-sex home was any worse off than a reading, thinking and discussing so quium for includirig Beck's narrative.
"This year I wanted to be very in Beck said. "I wanted Elias (William child in a heterosexual home," she said. you see more of the connections, un "I think that it was really nice there
clusive in terms of the type of colloquia son) to start off with the idea that we "So, when you dig below the surface, it derstand more of the history and grasp was that whole personal aspect to this
we were doing, making sure they really are LGBTQp eople that are trying to get really wasn't in the interest of the child more of that complexity." • one, and that you could fee! for Nora and
dealt with contemporary issues," Beck equal rights for all of us and it's a jour that they were protecting. It was again First-year students enjoyed the the struggle she went through with het
said. ney." the community norms and community mix of speakers and their different kids," Yitzchak Lu_ster'2 2 said. "I think •
Beck has two children: a son that's In inviting Williamson, Beck hoped values and traditions." perspectives. this is probably the best (colloquium)
her biological child and a daughter that to put students front and center. This is Dean of the College of Arts and "I liked having someone who was my that they've done."
her wife gave birth to. She and her wife the first year-students have presented in
adopted each other's children in 2003 the E&D colloquium series. •
to ensure the unity of their family. The Williamson's video addresses _the
adoptions were recognized in the Mult- mental health treatment of .LGBTQ
-nomah County Circuit Court. by Judge people and how it relates to the bjnary
Nan Waller,. who also spoke•at the col- understanding of gender, rooted in co
loquium. • lonialism. He spoke on how legislation_
While the adoption process in the is put in place in order to "make trans-
U.S. was relatively seamless, Beck's ness out to be a disability." •
family was not met with the same ease "It's basically taking the larger legis
when she was on sabbatical in Bologna, lative ideas that are going to be touched
Italy in 2013. on by other presenters and keying it
"Like every professor, I need to go into my personal exp_erience,"W illiam
on sabbatical to do my research," Beck son said prior to the event.
said. "I needed to do my research in It Williamson hoped that offering
aly and to take my family to Italy. I am his perspective would help first-year
an Italian citizen, but when I tried to get· LGBTQ students feel heard and better
my children their visas, they told me represented in the LC community. He
that I couldn't get their visas or their cit also hoped to educate those who aren't
izenship because they have two moms familiar with the· complexities of gender
on their birth certificates." identity.
Beck was soon able to get citizen "I think it's really important for peo
ship fo~ her biological son, however, •it ple to start thinking about gender iden
was five years before her daughter got tity and social politics in the context of
hers. With the help of Italian Attorney colonialism and in the context of law
Claudio Pezzi, who also presented at because everything is very interrelated,"
the colloquium, Beck brought her case they said. •
to several Italian courts: the Italian Court Beck also invited Dean for Diversity
of Minors, an Appellate Court and, final and Inclusion Janet Steverson to speak
ly, the Italian Supreme Court. Since Italy, on adoption and family law, which she
by law, has to accept U.S. foreign judg teaches at the LC Law School. Steverson
ments, the courts finally recognized the spoke on the history of adoption law
adoption and awarded Beck's daughter and the many restrictions that go along
HANNA MERZBACH/PI0NEER LOG
citizenship in September oflast year. with it.
Eleanora Beck, Bruce Suttmeier and Elias Williamson '20 speak at the fina1 E&D Colloquium on LGBTQ identity and law.
Student~l ed ENVS Conversations series lllakes its ·debut
ENVS professors and studen_ts gather to discuss elimate related issu·es outside of classroom setting
. .
By RILEY HANNA in attendance. While only ENVS majors While the discussion was originally will contribute. Proctor has been helping organize·
.attended this first discussion, the conver themed around the media's portrayal "While we're in school we have the topic of next week's conversation:
FINDING AN OUTLET to expand sations are open to any student interested of climate-related issues, DeMattos and this really valuable time when we're "Facts to Framt,works: How can we
academic discussion outside of in environmental topics. Henry did not come in to the conversa exploring all of these different things make sense of all the climate facts we
class is a goal of the new ENVS During the conversation, attendees tion with a· strict agenda. Instead, they that are often very difficult," Henry said. hear?" This topic has been a part of
Conversations series. The very first brought up a variety of topics they allowed the conversation to flow natu "I think that it can be really valuable to Proctor's research in environmental
scheduled conversation, entitled "Cli want to explore in future conversations, rally. have a space outside of a classroom to theory. Other upcoming topics of the
mate Apocalypse,"t ook place on Feb. 19 such as the harsher impacts of climate "We had this whole framework for sort of decompress and process all of ENVS Conversations include climate
and focused on how climate is portrayed change on marginalized groups, the how we were going to work the dis that information.'' in politics and the "Green New Deal.''
in the media. Chrislyn DeMattos '19 uses and abuses of fear-based rhetotic cussion, but it ended up flowing really First year students looking to major The dates for these upcoming ENVS
and Sophie Henry '20, both majors, and the question of what the limits are' smoothly and people seemed to have a in ENVS are especially encouraged to Conversations are Feb. 26, Mar. 5 and
have volunteered to coordinate these _toi ndividual action. Later on, attendees lot to say," Henry said. participate in the conversation series. April 9.
discussions. were given articles on climate from a Jim Proctor, the Director of the
Overail, the event was relatively ca variety of media sources and discussed Environmental Studies Program, spoke
sual, with both students and professors what they noticed in the rhetoric. about what he hopes will come out of
the ENVS Conversation Series.
"My hope is to create a space, a good •
space, a recurrent space, a stimulating
space, a space where people feel like
they can connect things from different
classes or follow up on something that
they worry about or want to learn more
about from class," Proc~or said. "When I
think of what leqrning is, I mean it hap
pens between me and students in class.
But, think about it, most of our learning
happens in a bigger circle than that."
DeMattos further discussed the goal
of these conversations.
"When we have talked in meet
ings, we want this to be a place that
isn't necessarily accessible during class
time, talking a:bout topics that aren't as
feasible to use in that one hour time,"
DeMattos said. "And, it's a little more
creative and students have more auton
omy over this mate-rial."
Henry commented on the unique
opportunities to engage meaningfully
in academic discussion in a college, and
reflected on how these conversations
LEXIE BOREN/PIONEER LOG

FRIDAY,F EBRUARY2 2, 2019
NEWS 3
IME facilitates dialogue on colorism in media
Students discuss the harmful ramifications that colorism has on personal identity as part of Wokeshop series
By AUDREY BARRETT how this show presents only one seg "It's just a drastically different ,en like an open discussion space where Dorantes Sanchez said.
ment of society, and darker-skinned vironment than a classroom," Fuller her voice could be heard. More Wokeshops are coming
0 N THE EVENING of Feb. 19 people watching it won't see anyone said. "It's more intimate and I feel like "It's a good place where you don't soon, which will be facilitated either
students gathered in Thayer to who looks like them. eolorism in this I don't have to police what I'm saying." have to be scared, and you can say by Telles or two of his co-workers.
talk about colorism in a dis show thus perpetuates the harmful For Dorantes Sanchez, this space is what you think without apyone judg "This semester we have five
cussion group known as a Wokeshop. cultural narrative that lighter skin is an opportunity to engage with topics ing you," she said. (Wokeshops)," Telles said. "The last
These sessions are sponsored by the more beautiful and desirable. students might not otherwise be edu Dorantes Sanchez said she ap one we had was acknowledging Port
office of Inclusion and Multicultural Students then were invited to speak cated on. preciates the opportunity to discuss land's racist history. My next one is in
Engagement (IME) and each one has about their own encounters with col "Most of (the Wokeshops) are these issues with different people March and that's going to be covering
a different focus relevant to IME. This orism, and shared memories of staying really interesting topics that you who could offer her different per religious intersectionality specifically
week's topic was colorism, specifically out of the sun to avoid getting darker usually don't have space to talk about spectives. here at Lewis & Clark."
as it comes up in social media, pop cul and family members who used skin anywhere else," Dorantes Sanchez said. "It"s just a really good space to get IME's Wokeshops are creating
ture and the news. lightening products in order to change "Like colorism, maybe once in a while these ideas out ... and have that space a space for students to discuss how
Matthew Telles '21 facilitated the their appearance. One student men it will be addressed in class, depend to talk with people, most of which are issues of race affect them personally
discussion. He read a definition of col tioned that he got darker as he aged, ing on what classes you're taking." actually genuinely interested in the and how they see these issues play
orism to make sure everyone was on and relatives made jokes about how Mejia said the workshop truly felt topic and semi-educated about it," out in the world around them.
the same page. he used to be so cute before. Another
"Discrimination based on skin col talked about how Mexican families
or, also known as colorism or shadeism, encourage children to marry some
is a form of prejudice or discrimination one lighter in order to mejorar la raza
in which people are treated differently ("improve the race") when they had
based on the social meanings attached children.
to skin color," Telles said. These Wokeshops- intentionally
Telles works for IME as a Peer Ed create a safe educational space for
ucation Coordinator, which means he students to discuss sensitive issues, ac
holds office hours and Wokeshops for cording to Telles.
students to engage with issues of racial "These are all about engagement
diversity and inclusion. He started by and education," Telles said. "We are
trying to facilitate a safe space for stu just trying to build a community of
dents. people together and connect com
"You don't have to feel like we're munities of people with each other,
here to judge you," Telles said. "This building bridges."
is a time to acknowledge problems and Sheyla Dorantes Sanchez '22, Ari
also speak on them." ely Mejia '22 and Iyanah Fuller '22
To illustrate the issue of colorism attended this colorism Wokeshop.
in pop culture, Telles showed a trail They agreed that these events are a
er of a Netflix original show that came unique opportunity for serious dis
out last winter, entitled "Made in cussion.
Mexico." While the actors were Mexi Fuller felt that the group made it
can by nationality, they were all light easy to speak up compared to a formal LEXIE BOREN/PIONEER LOG
er-skinned Mexicans. Telles explained academic setting. Students gathered and shared their personal experiences with colorism in a safe, welcoming and tolerant environment.
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4 OPINIONS
Bates Center offers valuable education to students
Little known but highly useful, the Bates Center provides practical experience to those interested in business
By HANNAH POSEY-SCHOLL with a physical product, like a vertical
gardening kit or pressure-sensitive floor
THE HIDDEN gem of the third tiles, or you might decide on a digital
floor of J.R. Howard Hall is, product, working through an online
without a doubt, the John business or• app. You do not have to
E. and Susan S. Bates Center for know how to program, or the difference
Entrepreneurship and Leadership. between a for-profit or non-profit
In offering a Seed Grant Program, company, and you do not have to have.
hosting Lunch with a Leader sessions an idea beforehand - all you need is the
and workshops throughout the year, desire to solve a problem.
as well as Winterim at the end of One of the key features of the Bates
each winter break, the Bates Center Center is how incredible its employees
is a resource for every student at are with their willingness to help and
Lewis & Clark, not just students in worR with individual students. If you do
entrepreneurship classes. not have time in your schedule to go to
After two years of participating in one of their Lunch with a Leader events,
Winterim, I can say that this program .ask Associate Director Chrys Hutchings
alone shows the dedication the Bates or Associate Director of Operations
Center has to LC students. Winterim Catarina Hunter and see if you could
is more than just a fun way to come talk to the speaker before or after the
back to campus after winter break: it event. If the price tag of Winterim turns
is challenging, exciting and a much you away, ask about the grants the
better networking opportunity than Bates Center provides for students who
any of the career fairs. demonstrate financial need.
For lots of students, Winterim is The Bates Center provides resources
just a title on a poster or a flyer you through a network that exponentially
see around campus each fall semester. supplements the Career Center on
If you participate though, it is so campus, and centers around tying
much more. Winterim is a week-long LC's liberal arts roots to the outside
program packed full of workshops and world to help students bring what we
opportunities for anyone with even the ARRAN HASHIM/PIONEER LOG have learned here into our futures. By
smallest interest in entrepreneurship. The Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership supports all students even remotely interested in business education. focusing on the liberal arts-based ability
At the beginning of the week you are to look at problems from many different
paired with your two teammates, . directions, the Bates Center will do its
and throughout the program you financing businesses. Between these pitch competition on the last day. every team pivots to a different idea best to give you everything you need
learn about everything from personal workshops, you and your· teammates As you learn more about how or two before they settle on their to make those real-world solutions a
financial literacy to modeling and will develop a product to present in a your business will develop, almost final product. You might come up reality.
Money does not buy happiness, but it may affect your major
In college, one's studies should provide ample career opportunities and need not reflect personal pastimes
By AUSTIN SCHMIDBERGER major, but you will probably still be will be ones directly related to your with most degrees from a liberal career, even if it means lower pay and
spending the majority of your time on chosen major. Similarly, community arts school, such an investment may reduced job prospects, the payoff will
YOU ARE conflicted. You are the more difficult major, potentially and vocational colleges offer courses not be the best course if your ·goal be the acquisition of skills that will
passionate about art and would forcing you to shift your attention with specific associate degrees and is just to land any random job. You· serve you in that chosen field.
love to spend your college away from your more _passionate career paths in _mind. At a school can get a job making this much with Each of us has to make a personal
days painting and drawing instead choice. What should you do? like Lewis & Clark, you may get an a far cheaper degree, like from a choice about whether our liberal arts
of incessantly reading dry textbooks. An important factor when art degree, but you have also had to community college or potentially with degree is worth it. If you are pursuing
At the same time, you hear people considering a profitable major, take classes involving science, math, no degree at all. But a specific degree
constantly talking about how useless such as one in some STEM fields or reading, writing, discussion and if you are trying to land a job
However, some of the
an art major is and economics, is that many other areas while acquiring a to enter a specific that you are
how you will never. Each of us has to make if you do not enjoy variety of abilities that are applicable field that you are most popular degrees passionate about,
get a job with it. studying it, you to many lines of work. confident you then maybe it is,
So you consider a personal choice about will probably not However, some of the most will be happy and consider~d enjoyable even if hefty loans
pursuing a more whether our liberal arts enjoy whatever popular degrees considered enjoyable fulfilled in, then from LC still result are acquired in
profitable degree, job you get from from LC still result in some of the struggle might the process. But
like economics. degree is worth it. it. These kinds of the lowest average and median just be worthwhile. zn some of the lowest if you are racking
That is a smart majors often lead salaries. Majoring in psychology, We should average and median up immense debt
choice with a lot to high salaries fine arts, performing arts, remember, though, to get a "fun"
salaries.
of career options. but, to use the sociology/ anthropology and general that our greatest degree, with no
But then you take-Professor Bekar's cliche, money does not buy happiness. interdisciplinary studies usually passion does not ideas of how to
ECON 100 class and realize that, At the same time however, debt and results in salaries in the $40,000 have to be our apply it, then
for most people, economics is pretty unemployment certainly contribute to $50,000 per year range. If you career. Our hobbies that is perhaps
difficult, incredibly dry and tedious. to unhappiness. accumulate tens or even hundreds can just be hobbies and that is fine. a short-sighted decision. College
Many students find themselves in One of the great parts of a degree of thousands of dollars in debt from We can still maintain these interests is an important and enjoyable life
a similar dilemma: choosing between from a liberal arts school is the broad loans in getting one of these. degrees, while eventually holding a job in experience, but it is also a tool and
a degree they have genuine interest skill set it delivers. At most larger state you might be paying it off for a very an entirely different field. But if an investment for our future pursuits.
in and one that provides job security. universities and private colleges, the long time. you decide that you want to pursue When choosing a major, we need to
Of course, you could always double vast majority of classes you will take While you can likely get a job a major that le.ads to your dream remember that.
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FRIDAY,F EBRUARY2 2, 2019
OPINIONS
Love or logic: double majoring allows for both
Passions are frequently pitted against pragmatism in determining which majors are marketable
By JUSTIN HOWERTON on a job~by-job basis. Although this
specific work may not offer a consistent
WRITING IS creativity. It has salary, it can be beneficial for people
be~n _my primar~ outlet_ for who are not entirely sure of what
art1st1c express10n smce direction they will go after graduation.
I was able to read. I find a certain Writing code for a few years is a great
satisfaction in the subjective constancy way to earn a practical income without
of words, the ability to read something catapulting yourself into a field you
again and again without extracting will later detest.
a single, objective idea each time. Even with this additional academic
With words, there ·is always more to focus, I have found that not all of my
consider. It is with this in mind that I anxieties have been erased. But this is
choose to focus my studies within the a characteristic of college life th"at can
English Department. Befo(ecommitting never be fully extinguished. Students
to a specific college, I considered will always be torn between 'enjoying
majoring in journalism or English. After their time at school as best they can
choosing Lewis & Clark, where a and the reality that they must learn
journalism major is nonexistent, the certain artistic, scientific or practical
English department became the sole skills, depending on one's field of
candidate. The rigorous and intimate study, that will make them valuable
classes,. impassioned professors and candidates for employers.
department's devotion to radically I am not writing this to declare
improving the writing of any English that eve.ry student should pursue two
major were enough to convince me majors. Indeed, there are multiple
that I had made the right choice in JENICA CRUZ/PIONEER LOG drawbacks and disadvantages in going
selecting my primary area of study. this route. I cannot_ take ariy classes
Yet here I am as a double major in and forces me to consider how my own background besides teaching or This sort of logic is how I came outside of my two academic areas for
.English and math/computer science, experiences have shaped the way I journalism? This is not to suggest that I to declare an additional major last the rest of my time here, if I still wish
and I ·find myself wondering what interact with external reality. ever faltered in my assurance that I was semester. After considering the to graduate a semester early. But it is
sorts of forces attracted me .to this J3ut shortly- after choosing my meant to study the English language, but credits that I had earned so far, the still important t9 recogni_ze some of
decision. Hopefully, f have made my major in the spring of my freshman these sorts of thoughts were enough mathematics/computer science hybrid the benefits that come with accepting
passion for the written word obvious. year, I was plagued by doubt. What to make me consider the possibility . major became an obvious choice. suc,h an arduous w.orkload: a slight
As a child especially, reading allowed employment realities would I face of double majbring. in particular, Computer proficiency is a highly decrease in anxiety, heightened
me lo escape from the trifling and the after graduation? My writing skills I wanted to focus the other half of marketable skill that can. supplement sense of academic purpose and,
mundane. Literature exposes me to may be honed and polished, but what my intellect on a more quantitative, nearly any other career path: It also most importantly, confidence going
someone else's perception of the world . other professional fields would be practical subject that would guarantee opens up possibilities for contract into the professional world after
available to a person of my educational more options in the workplace. employment, which is usually granted graduation.
LC is suffering by not providing
n1ai_nstrean1n 1ajor departnients
By NICHOLAS NERLI n'umb'er of business ;dministrai:ion psyclJology and teaching, but the
graduates. Although many students undergraduate campus offers no
IN 1867, WHEN Albany College at LC choose to study less lucrative bachelor's degree in education. As a·
was founded in Albany, Oregon, career areas, those that do major in student, commenting on programs.
instructors taught students a high-paying fields benefit from this offered at the College of Arts and
curriculum centered on the classics institution's wide-ranging liberal Sciences (CAS) appears rather
and traditional sciences. It was arts curriculum. It is reasonable to inappropriate, but at the same
not until 1905 that Albany College assume, then, that a business prograin time, it seems common sense that
formally adopted the Bachelor of Arts at LC would produce successful there should be a CAS education
degree, effectively diversifying the graduates, establish • a positive. department. It 1s quite typical for
education opportunities presented regional reputation and enhance the students to continue their graduate
to students. When trustees officially school's portfolio. studies at the same institution they
changed Albany College to Lewis & Related to business, though a earned their undergraduate degree.
Clark College in 1942, the institution completely separate field, LC lacks Yet, at LC, which runs an entire
also purchased the Fir Acres Estate ·a. concrete finance major, although graduate school devoted to education,
from the Frank family, moving to the economics department offers the CAS noticeably lacks an education
its present home on Palatine Hill. a plentiful number of finance program despite offering some
Throughout· LC's history, education classes. Many. individuals assume courses taught primarily by graduate
has certainly transitioned from a that economics and finance are school professors. Like the business
single . classics-oriented program so interwoven that it would be and finance majors, absence of an
to an array of major options, redundant to offer both departments; undergraduate education department
while still protecting liberal arts however, this is fundamentally wrong. . reasonably turns away a hefty number
values .. However, the heart of LC's Economics, the study of production· of applicants. A career in educatio.n is
commitment to expansive studies is and distribution, is a· so'cial science .certainly a valiant commitment what
missing several majors applicable largely based on theoretical concepts with unfortunate pay disagreements
to the modern world, many of which meant to analyze policy and market and frequent attempts by officials
would attract a larger number of fluctuations. Finance, on the other ·to alter· curriculum, but teaching
applicants. • hand, focuses on money, interest rates is among the noblest of callings.
First, the fact that LC discontinued and market activity, with professionals Individuals recognize and pursue the
its business major was a crit~cal • advising clients on. investment societal contributions of education, a.
mistake that likely detracted the opportunities and money management. fact that the CAS fails to adequately •
amount of potential student Again, Portland possesses Q plethora support.
• candidat~. In a city like Portland, of finance-related corporations and Specific to business and finance
known as the "Silicon Forest," it internships that LC appears to be programs, some critics· may argue.
seems silly that any col1ege would fail ignoring by disregarding the advantages that a liberal arts college cannot
to offer a business program. Portland a finance major would inevitably bring. effectively support students in
houses several major corporations, The LC Graduate .School of these fields. However, this assertion
including Nike, Columbia Sportswear Education and Counseling provides is seriously flawed and many
and Intel, all of which employ a high a number of graduate degrees in employers would advocate for
employees that are trained through
the many unique aspects of the
liberal arts. Additionally, while 1;he
CAS ·offers the Teacher Pathways
program for underg-raduate students
to receive early admission into the
graduate school, this significantly
differs from an actual undergraduate
education degree. • Assuming that
potential applicants overlook LC due
to these lacking majors is sensible,
and the institution's budget may, in
the long-run, be suffering because cif
this. •
There is no doubt that LC offers
an impressive number of programs
for its size." However, by neglecting
to provide certain majors, this
institution limits the pool of
students considering submitting an
application, a decision that harms
the entire LC community what with
MAYAW INSHELL/PIONEERLOG our current fiscal state ..

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
FEATURES
Tamarack b-asement in n_eed of recupe_ration
Despite its fall i_ntod isuse, many are passionate about reviving 'the Coop as a music and coffee venue
By AUDREY BARRETT Crawford recognizes this issue,
too .. She said the Coop coordinators
0 FALL Tl{E random nooks and have and want to maintain a good
crannies on Lewis & Clark's relationship with the Area Director.
campus, the Coop definitely "We have to·be respectful, and want
has the most confusing name. ("Coo1( to be r.espectful, of the fact that this is
as in chicken coops? Or· "co-op" a_s someone's livipg space," she said. "And
in groceries?) It is -also incredibly a drum kit is Very loud!" .
versatile: it's equ1pped for music shows ·Beyond t~ noise concern, Crawford
or coffee service and _isc entrally located said substance use is a problem for the
between several dorms. However, it has Coop.
been going through §Orne renovations, "There· are very. strict rules on
which meant it hasn't been used to its campus about certain substance use,
full potential. and ... I don't know the details of it but
Marco Dregni • '21 and Kenzie ... there have been events i.n the past,"
Wingard '21 worked-together to serve Crawford said. "The administration
coffee otit of the Coop every Friday finds out and the space gets shut c;lown..
a
morning last semester. So a year and· half ago the space was
"It seems like it could be used more sh_ut down completely for a semester,
than it is," Dregni said. and the coordinators didn't have
Wingard agreed that • the space access to it."
could be better utilized, and that it As a result of those events, Wolff
would be nice to rev.ivet he Coop. Harwayne said shows have .been
"They ·used to have kids working . restricted out of concern for student
there everyday, making food and other health and wellness. _
things," Wingard said. "There's not a "What • I heard is (the school)
lot of spaces to hangout on campus, thought (Coop shows) would encourage
that aren'.t necessarily in dorms or the drinking and smoking," Wolff Harwayne
library or outside when it's raining, said. "But it's a college. It really just
so I think that's a' nice area where it's· ARRAN HASHIM'/PIONEER LOG felt like it was more anti-art because of
neutral and big enough."· Students can grab a cup of coffee or tea during the day, but some believe the space is not being utilized to its full potential. perception than it was
The Coop used to be open for pro-student~sobriety or anythipg like
person who wanted to come get coffee, make th.e Coop into something usable. "I very nearly went to music school, that."
student use during most days, but as
because leaving the door open would "We had quite a few hoops to but then I was like, oh, there's hella These students' experiences prove
of now, the organizers and campus.
cause ~he alarm to go off. But this jump through the last two years," opportunities here for playing •a nd the value of the Coop as a community
security have to grant special access for
pre·caution is necessary to protect the Crawford said. "Now that our space ' networking with people and stuff." space, but also point out the obstacles
those who wish to use the space. While
Coop, according to Crawford. is up and running, and I'm sort of Last year, ·wolff Harwayne played to making use of its full potential.
it was great for students to come and go
"Part of the responsibility. of getting through the process of getting at a Coop open mic show. Still, Crawford, Winfrey, and Suresh
as they pleased, it had some negative
maintaining the space is maintaining our sound equipment up and running, "When I ·played there it was like, have made great progress, and are
impacts on the space itself, according
-who's in and out of it," Crawford said. we're hoping to have more and more indie pop-y, guitar-y stuff," he said. "A optimistic about the coming months.
to the Coop's Finance .Coordinator,
"That's why we've sort of had to keep . clubs using it." , bunch of people there ended up being The Coop plans to extend coffee hours,
Ella Crawford '19.
the doors locked, unfortunately. I don't By day, the Coop can function· as music friends now that I make stuff organize a capella and-open mic events,
"People started to abuse the space,"
like that, I wish_i t could be a different ·a chill coffee shop. But by night, it with a little bit." and even a stuqent-run art gallery.
Crawford said. 'Two of the speakers
way, but it is what it is." transforms into a venue for musical While it offered an amazing Crawford said they also p)an to engage
are broken and that was because
After some damages to Coop performances. Nick Wolff Harwayne opportunity for him, Wolff Harwayne the athletic side of campus more, and
students didn't take care of them ... no
equipment and the general neglected '21 remembers being persuaded to has run into some roadblocks working . the new projector ';Yil)le perfect for
one takes responsibility for this, and
mess it had become, Crawford and her con1~t o LC fc!hr e. atte_nd,~d_cao ncert with-mus4;through.theCoop.... .•. s_portsviewing.events.-~ •• ,: .
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freezer, random jars of mayonnaise . "When I was visiting they had a somebody wanted to use that space. It really important," Crawford said: "I
some frustrations with the fact that
lying around and furniture that posed a show there and ... I was so stqked on was loud, and I get that, it's your house, feel ex.cited about it more so than I ever
people just couldn't get in. The two
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students had to-open the door for every
through a long bureaucratic process to i came here," Wolff Harwayne said. space," Wolff Harwayne-said.
Student hobbies support fitness
By CATHERINE CINGUINA fit," Kobayashi said. "The exercise is "It started when I was in high
just a bonus." school," Estes said. "My friend and I
COLLEGE FITNESS does not have • Gabe Barrero '21 brought his would get together on our bikes and
to be limited to an hour on the· passion for jiu-jitsu from home and ride around the city."
treadmill in Odell or the rush incorporated it into his daily college However, ge ·ng a car allowed Estes
from your dorm to you·r 8 a.m class. routine. He learned jiu-jitsu at a young to travel to more interesting locations
Despite being full-time students, age with his dad and brother and has around his hometown in Kansas City.
many individuals have hobbies that continued learning fighting methods "We could only originally get to the
allowthem to exercise. since. places we could bike to, but then that
Malina Kobayashi '22 enjoys "It's like fighting on the ground," kind of extended and I got my car and
dancing hula in a halau back home in Barrero said. "There's no punching. • I started to drive my car more around
Hawaii. A halau is a group that comes Mostly, it's using leverage and your the city up to hou·r and a half drive to go
together to learn about the Hawaiian body weight with the other person's mountain bike." Estes said.
culture and the art of sharing that body weight." Estes has found ways to continue to
culture through dance. She maintains Barrero often practices at Nemesis, mountain bike while at LC.
some of her practices while at school a gym in downtown Portland. He has. "Out here, I mostly ride my bike
to keep her memory sharp. Although found jiu-jitsu to be both an escape and down the trails by the cemetery and
hula may seem effortless to some, there a reward for a heavy workload and has ride down the road down the cemetery,"
is actually a lot of physical discipline often used it as an outlet for stress relief Estes said. "There's walking trails that
required. for much of his life. aren't supposed to be for mountain
"You're giving yourself to the dance," "It was (a) fun stress reliever for biking but a lot of people go on them ..
Kobayashi said. "You constantly have to high school and it was something (I Now that I have my car I go places like
tell a story through your face and body. could) do with my family," Barrero said. Forest Park."
There's so much movement even in a Ian Estes '21 has found mountain Mountain biking has allowed him
slow dance. You have to look so graceful biking to be a great excuse to to explore new ar.eas of Portland, both
all the time." justify an escape natural and urban, like Sellwood.
The constant discipline is what from the stress For Estes, biking sometimes takes
turns a graceful dance into a taxing of school and an precedence over schoolwork.
workout. Moves have ·to be as opportunity to see "If it's a nice day, biking comes
a
close to perfection as possible, new places in a· first," Estes said. "I see it as good way
meaning practices can last different way. to destress and get clear headed before
hours. doing work."
'Tm not doing
hula just to get
MICEAL MUNROE-ALLLSlJP/PIONEER LOG

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
FEAT·URES 7
Once Upon brings spontaneity to life ·on stage
LC's 24 hour play performance, Once Upon a Weekend, offers a humorous performance in the Blackbox
·EVERY SEMESTER, the Lewis. & day, and the show opens that evening. The show was hosted by Robbie
Clark Theatre Department puts For this semester's show, Isak Rodriguez '21, who entertained the au-
on a performance called Once Keller '18 wrote and directed "Daddy • dience with song, chants and short co
Upon a Weekend, in which students OU AW," a play in which the protago medic bits. Halfway through the show,
dir.ect, rehearse and perform a series nist contemplates what the play she's the Fire Arts Club performed a Glow
of plays, all within 24 hours. The plays, writing should be about. Yash Bisht show featuring two songs and several
all student-written, follow a general '21 wrote "In a Galaxy Far, Far Away," performers.
theme selected by the (Pause.) Board, directed by Tuse Mahenya '21, about • One of the main aims of Once Upon
the student dramatic literature journal an apathetic captain almost wrecking a Weekend is to encourage and support
charged with running"Once Upon. All a spaceship before a stowaway saves students school-wide to participate in
-plays must be written within one week the day. "Human(e) Society," written the Theatre Department. Writers, di
of the release of the theme. The theme by Robin Roianov '22 and directed by rectors and actors span all majors and
for this semester was "as one does .." Af Jaime Monsher '20, focused on an· un years without giving preference to the
ter the plays are written and turned in, derground business that. drugs people atre majors or experienced actors.
the (Pause.) Board selects the wicming and rehomes them as cats. "Utopia", When actors are not performing,
plays and assigns directors to them. written by Mackenzie Bath '19 and di they sit in the catwalks and watch from
Tlre Friday before the show, .auditions rected by Sam Gensler '20, told the sto above. The crowd is encouraged to re
are held. It is a 'no-cut audition, which ry of a boy who is lost in the snow and .spond vocally to the shows and tlie
a
means ~veryone is cast, regardless of stumbles upon cultish utopia whose host, making for a rowdy and spon
their experience in acting. Each cast is members wear flannel; have no privacy: taneous atmosphere when combined
given a tw~~hour rehearsal on Satur-• and never_leave~ he_c ompound. with the lack of rehearsal.
Rachel Wells '19 poses on a biock. Sten Kiser '19 mirrors Wells' stance.
Sierra Gleason '22 and Abdulrahman Al Rayyis '22 contemplate their escape. Host Robbie Rodriguez '21 addresses the audience during a set changeover. Justice Jarrett '19 saves the spaceship.
'MACKENZIE BATH '19, MEMBE-'cl
OF (PAUSE.), WRrfER & ACTOR
"This is a lot more lax, especially if
you are an actor. Acting in Once Upon
a Weekend is the easiest thing ever
-·you barely have to memorize your
lines, and it's more about just having a
good time than it is about making this
. the best show ever, whereas the main
stage is like, 'We're trying to make this
good; and we're going to keep working
and keep pushing until we get there'."
"As an actor, it's not a big deal. But as
the coordinator of Once Upon a Week
end, the time crunch is a lot - I have
to make programs, that's a big thing.
I have to make sure that there's a vi"d
Mackenzie Bath '19 and Sona Hovhannisyan '22 argue over the fate of their spaceship. eographer, and the house manager,
and that the word gets out ... there's
chance to get to do it. I was really sure just a lot of little things I have to be
JAIME MONSHER '20, that I wanted to take on a differ·ent re aware of and be putting together. "
DIRECTOR sponsibility than acting this year, so
that's why I'm really excited to direct." "It's really fun - it's just this kind of
"This is my directorial debut. I've acted
taste of the theater without almost
in Once Upon ~very time my freshman "Once Upon is a great way to try some any of the stressful downsides - it's
and sophomore year, and this year I de thing new. I know that there are a lot of not time consuming, it's not forever,
cided to try my hand at directing." people who aren't necesarily involved and it doesn't kind of slowly drive you
in theatre, I only heard about it be-. crazy. Which is what we love about
"For acting, everything is kind of laid cause I was in improv club freshman theater, as theatre people, but it's nice
out - it's like, someone tells you to go year, but it's just another opportunity to just jump in and do this. Once Upon
here, and you've gotta do this. It's realjy to be goofy and wacky and have a lot celebrates every character, usually.
a jump to directing, where you have to of fun with other goofy and wacky peo They want to make you look hot, and
be in charge of all of it. I think it's really ple." everyone cheers for you, and it's great
fun to take on that responsibility, I kind
to walk out on stage and do something
of think of it as giving back to the com
and there's a whole roomful of people
munity in a way."
cheering for you. It's just really excit-
ing." •
Haley Wildhirt '22 and Rocco Weyer Johnson '22 examine Julia Warling '21. '.'It's definitely more fun when you're an HALEY WILD HIRT '22, ACTOR
actor. Maybe if you have more experi
"We're all like, 'Okay, I think we kind
ISAK KELLER '18, MEMBER OF "Acting is really fun. I've had everything ence in the Theatre Department, then "Kind of the understanding when you of know what we're doing.' And we'll
(PAUSE.), WRITER & DIRECTOR from that first thing where I had a ton maybe it's more fun, I wouldn't know, .. come in is that it's a very stress-free show up at eight o'clock, put on some
of lines to being a cop that had one line I'm not involved in the theater depart environment, because the scripts are fun, funky makeup, and do it." -
r
• "Once 'Upon's been one of my favorite and was wearing a tank top ... writing ment. But know that the people here student-written, and essentially you
things to do at Lewis & Clark since I stuff is fun, it's cool becau.se other peo are some of the best people at Lewis & try to follow as much as possible but "It's really nice that this ·is something
was a freshman. I got really lucky, I was ple direct your play so it's fun to see Clark and that's why I hang out with you can't memorize super well that that we have a base for - there ai:e
in a one-act with a really funny senior where people go with it. And getting to them when I can. But yes, the' time fast, and it's just goofy and it ends up people that have been commg back
that wrote a play loosely based off one meet new people, it's really fun slotting crunch is wild and goofy and I can't wait being kind of half-improv, half script for•every Once Upon in my career here
of the characters that I was in the show, random people that you've never met to run around downtown and get all the ed. It's not stressful because everyone that d.on't do theatre at all, this is their
so I got to be in a really good show with into a show that you wro~e" props and stuff that I need from what knows that it's not going to be per only bridge into the Theatre Depart
a bunch of really funny people. There ever Goodwill I can find." fect." ment and it's really exciting for me
were a lot of people backstage dressed "I like watching all of the plays from the that I've been able to keep having this._
up as aliens, cops, clowns, whatever - rafters, everybody involved goes up to "I like getting up and doing things in "I think because it happens so early be a thing, and all of these people can
it's just really fun walking back there, the rafters and watchep and yells things front of people. I know in my heart I in the semester, you really get a sense come and enjoy that and get their little
people are in suits, people are in fairy and that's really fun, it's a good commu •w ant to be a star - it's just always been _ofc ommunity early on, wqich is nice, taste of theatre."
a fun thing to do, and it doesn't happen because I'm usually a shy person."
costumes." nity, good bacchanal of things"
all tl1e time, which is why it's a special

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
8 ARTS
The Hoffman ·GaII·eryu nveils Dante exhibition
Sandow Birk's -"Dante's Divine Comedy and Other Works'' puts a modern· spin on ancient literature
. ARRAN HASHIM/PIONEER LOG
Artist Sandow Birk's series of illustrations are on display in the Hoffman Gallery. His.work creatively examines and intj'!rprets Dante's "The Divine Comedy" and the Qur'an in a variety of artistic mediums.
By STEPHEN HANLEY of handmade puppets. I thought I knew is astounding, whether he is tin~ering a painting of a flood frorii' "American_ Besides the artist and setting, howev
what to expect as· I. -walked through with Dore's use of light· or paying Qur'an," the shimmering water er, th·ese collections are strikingly differ
EN I WENT to see "Dante's the doors of the Hoffman Gallery. But . homage. to the overflows the frame ent. Going between the two rooms of the
ivine .Comedy and Other rather than entering a black and white intricate borders of .Besides the artist and and pools beneath gallery; I was struck by the stark contrast
Works" by Sandow Birk earlier realm of urban hellfire, I found myself traditional Qur'ans. . the page numbers between "Divine Comedy" and "Ameri
setting, however, these
this semester, I figured I knew what I was surrounded by the soft colors of Arabic In Canto IV of as survivors row can Qur'an." The first work is primarily
in for. After taking ArtH istory Professor illuminated manuscripts. Inferno, Birk shows collections are strikingly down the street. a response to both Dante's· legacy and
Ben· David's course on ·the subject my Though his "Divine Comedy" took how the virtuous Both projects American life, and it conveys its cutting
different.
sophomore year, I was pretty familiar top billing at this spring's exhil5ition, pagans have been present scenes • satire through crowded, active pieces.
with how Birk had reimagined Dante's Birk's "American Qur'an" is an equally cut off from God's from modern The secon_di s a work of reverence, an .
epic through a series of illustrations impressive work - a translation of• love by depicting America, yet Birk's attempt to provide context for a misrep
modeled after Gustave Dore's 19th Islam's central religious text illustrated them as homeless individuals huddled techniques imbue his ·illustrations with resented faith with soothing colors and
century prints. I'd even seen the movie, by scenes from contemporary American under a bridge which blocks the light of • the divinity at the heart of his subject peaceful scenes. •
cleverly an,imated through a collection life. His attention to detail in both works a l!lmppost at the top of the image. On matter. According to David, these differences
lie at the-core of the exhibition.
"Having the two projects side by side,
presenting how the artist maps and pic
ture·s the entire text of his source materi
als, really conveys the breadth and depth
of Birk's work/ David said. "We've been
. wanting tq do something like this for a
long time. I wish we'd ·done it sooner."
The Hoffman _ Gallery's current
exhibition, the last curated by Gallery
Director Linda Tesner, .holds special
significance for many at LC. David's.
-Visual R~presentations of Dante course
attracts students from a multitude
of majors, and his spring E&D class
reads sections from the Qur'an at the
beginning of the term. When Birk visited
the gallery on Jan. 24, I was moved by
how many familiar faces had come not
only to enjoy his masterpieces," but to
further explore subjects encountered in
ARRAN HASHIM/PfONEER LOG • . ARRAN HASHIM/PIONEER LOG
Sandow Birk's illustration "Ciacco and the Gluttons" ~epi(:ts a scene from C,ant6VI. Dante and Virgil converse with Ferinata in Sandow Birk's rendering of Canto X. their studies - a true testament to the
exhil)ition's triumph:
Local director discusses his filinS, creative inspirations
Vu Pham refiects on emigrating from Vietnam, wor_king in Portland and· life as an indie filmmaker
By BRENDAN NAGLE 'Tm not really a person who likes to
deal witli the <1utobiographicale leme11ts
PHAM KNOWS what it takes of my own life. I kind of find that sort
o make it in the film industry. of transparency, that one-to-one ana
"You have to be crazy to want logue, to be a little boring. I mean we're
this," he said over Skype. "And hey man, artists man, we can rriake something
I own mys---; I am.crazy." more fantastic than that."
Independe.nt filmmaking is a This ethos is evident in his films,
profession that -reqllires enormous which tend to be surreal and oblique in
emotional and financial sacrifice, what tone.
with.the exorbitant price of equipment, "I love films that stir things deep in
the difficµlty of managing a cast and side of me,".he said, "films that cause a
crew and the constant struggle of • lot of emotional reaction, that cause a
finding investors and distributors. As lot of reflection ... films that make me
P·ham put it, "the cha~ces of success feel volatile and lost and suspicious and
are minimal." But he is no stranger _to hungry for more of my own life. A good
·these sorts of obstacles. A refugee from film is a film that creates a whole lot of
Vietnam, he settled here in Portland questions .." .
with his mother as a young child in the The world of independent filmmak
early 'Sos. ing is a ruthless one, and success -is
"Because r· didn't live in a more never guaranteed, but for Pham .:. who
traditional upbringing, my interests recently screened a selection of his films
weren't all that well supported," Pham at LC's Watz.ek Library - the moare
said. "Like I didn't come from an en warding thing is simply to lffiowt hat his .
vironment where mom and dad would :work has made an irripact, even if it's a
PHOTO COURTESY OF NOMENSTATUA
say 'oh you're interested in that well small one.
Vu Pham stars as Michael in "My Brother" which he also wrote and directed. The film was part of a screening at LC oil Feb. 20.
let's take you to the theater, or lets take "To know that someone left the the
you to the museum, or lets get you a pi- ater, or their home, and they thought
anq. teacher."' _ drafting scripts at Shari's _Cafea nd Pies, bit insular in our liberal leanings, and I for as little as I can there." about it, they asked a few questio~, it
Yet even as a child he was drawn and eventually the completion of his will say that, you know, even though it Aspects of l)is own personal life stirred a conversation, and it asked some
to storytelling and to the power of the first film, "Shining God," in his eariy is a very liberal city it is somewhat ho-. come through in his work ...,.s uch as questions that were relevant to their
image. He talked about a formative ex- 30s. Tho.ugl;i many independent film •m ogenous, and you have a lot of people his aforementioned feelings towards life, without making tliem want to es
• perience gazing through a View-Master makers would flee for more glamorous who think really similar to each other," Portland, or the experience .of being a cape from it in some kind of fantastical
toy, and an obsession with writing lit destinations like Los Angeles or New he said. "Sometimes you get lost in that Vietnamese immigrant - but Pham, way. Just that will make me feel I hav.e
tle stories as an elementary schooler. York, Pham remains based here in Port sameness, and that can create some who frequently stars in his films, accomplished something that is mean
In adulthood these childhood interests land, despite what he calls a "love-hate problems ... but despite its flaws and its stressed the importance of avoiding ingful and· valuable to me. And you know
evolved into long sleepless nights spent relationship" with the city. warts and all that I still love it dearly, stories that provide direct parallels to sometimes that's as-good as it gets, but to
"We are, for better or for worse, a and I'm grateful that I can make films one's life. rne, that's pretty god-damn good."

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FRIDAY,F EBRUARY2 2, 2019
ARTS 9
Ten hour doc "Shoah" screens in entirety at PAM
The Holocaust film, directed by Claude Lanzmann, played as part of a multimedia commemorative series
By JULIA WARLING ble becau_se throughout most of the
movie, there is background music of
Content Warning: some sort. But during this scene, the
Discussion of Holocaust only audible sound was the move
ment of the train. • •
0 N A RAINY Sunday morning At the art museum (PAM), there
in early February, I went to the were three intermissions - coming
Portland Art Museum (PAM) to halfway through each of the two "Eras,"
see a rare screening of "Shoah." The plus an hour-loi;ig break between the
French documentary about the Holo two for dinner. Each time I went back
caust spans almost 10 hours, and was into _thet heater, fewer and fewer people
put on by the NW Film Center as part came with me. The film would certainly
of the museum's multimedia Holo be difficult to sit through with no inter
caust commemoration. After 11 years missions, but it should be watched all
of filming and editing, it was released at once, if possible, as the film's pow
in 1985. I learned too much to describe erful moments are better understood ....,.,..
in one article, but I will do my best to when viewed in sequence.
scratch the surface. To the Nazis, the Holocaust was
The film begins at a Polish camp not a horrible period in history, but
called Chelmno, the first in which Jew the Final Solution. For me, the most
ish people were exterminated in gas impactful moment comes about three
vans. Simon Srebnik, one of only two hours in, when Lanzmann 'interviews
survivors of the 400,000 people who Raul Hilberg, one of the most promi
were transported to Chelmno, recalls nent scholars of the Holocaust.
singing beautiful songs on the river. "And the final solution, you see, is
He was forced to sing by the Germans really final," Hilberg says. "Because
for the sole purpose of their entertain people who are converted can yet be, in
ment. As someone commented during secret, Jews, people who are expelled
his interview, "He sang, but his heart can yet return, but people who are dead
wept." will not reappear."
The film is comprised largely of Yet somehow, as the interviewees
interview footage from the 1970s ac say multiple times, they always man
companied by panning views of nature MICEAL MUNROE-ALLSUP/PIONEER LOG aged to keep their hope, even in the
scenes where the concentration camps face of death and destruction - and
once stood. The camps, even in the • Chelmno survivor, Michal Podchlebnik. (another camp explored in the film), people dying. they made it out. In their interview,
'70s, were overgrown, but will never be Lanzmann asked his translator, "What the camp bordered the ordinary train About an hour and a half into the Lanzmann asks Podchlebnik, "Why do
forgotten. died in him in Chelmno?" lines. You could walk there from the movie, there is footage of-a train slow you smile all the time?" Podchlebnik
But not everyone wants to remem "Everything died," the translator train station in under 30 seconds. ly. approaching a station. The camera responds, "If you're alive, it's better to
ber, either.At multiple points, I thought said. "But he's only human, and he Farmers and ranchers lived next to the continues filming as the train gets smile."
the filmmaker, Claude Lanzmann, was wants to live. So he qmst forget." • train lines that brought the cattle cars, closer and closer until the only thing "Shoah" is a movie that I'm going
being uncomfortably pushy when peo Concentration camps were every as well as the Jews, to the camp. Jew that can be seen is a hook, presumably to remember watching for a long time,
ple did not want to answer the questions where during the ·Nazi occupation of ish people were dying while the farmers used to connect the cattle cars to the and I implore you all to experience this
he was asking them. The second in Europe - right next to farms, hous were working, and after a while they locomotive. This image stands as one extremely important film about an un
terview of the movie is with the other es, civilization. At Sobibor in Poland were accustomed to it. They got used to of the 10 hour film's most memora- forgettable period of history.
Laura Palmer to Portlandia: TV
.
.
and film of the Pacific Northwest
By NICHOLAS NERLI
GLOOMY, INCESSANT rain
produces an evergreen back
drop and quirky culture
throughout the Pacific Northwest,
much to the delight of film and tele
vision show creators. In the 1980s,
Hollywood began heavily investing
in productions filmed or set in the
Pacific Northwest (PNW) with classics
such as "The Goonies" before, in the
1990s, developing shows like "North
ern Exposure" and "Twin Peaks" as well
as the romantic comedy "Sleepless in
Seattle." The success of these projects
turned Oregon and Washington into
hotbeds for film production, a lucrative
PHOTO COURTESY OF ABC
trend that continues to provide consid
The woods of Washington in "Twin Peaks" figure heavily into its eerie ambience.
erable ecortomic reward for the region.
Though the climate requires
resilience, the PNW offers a unique the mysterious PNW ambience that in hopes of supporting a permanent
setting for filmmakers hoping to creators enjoy featuring. Viewers can PNW film industry. Elected officials
shoot rugged coastlines, temperate track the probes of detectives Sarah _ recognize the important role film and
rainforests and snow-capped peaks Linden (Mireille Enos) and Stephen tel_evision could play in the region's
without significant travel expenses. Holder (Joel Kinnaman) in "The economic development and advertise
Within this extraordinary landscape Killing," a particularly dark crime to attract a range of production proj
lies several major metropolitan areas • show set in Seattle. "The Twilight ects. Oregon, in particular, invests
boasting Fortune 500 corporations, Saga" film series, adapted from the ·heavily in projects exclusively aimed at
architectural triumphs and safe havens books of the same name, combined promoting the regional film industry,
for the peculiar and unconventional. the supernatural with the PNW's which results in near-annual revenue
"Northern Exposure," while set in peculiar environment, filming records being broken. Washington,
fictional Cicely, Alaska, featured primarily in Forks, Washington and on the other hand, has failed in recent
the precipitous Cascade Mountains Portland. years to wholeheartedly support pro
by filming in Roslyn, Washington. Of course, no analysis of the Pacif duction by reducing industry incentives,
Others shows like "Frasier" and ic Northwest film industry would be pushing film projects to Oregon and
"Grey's Anatomy" highlight white complete without mentioning "Port British Columbia. Despite Washingto
collar commerce in PNW cities. landia," the Peabody Award-winning nian reservations, however, fil~makers
While perpetual rainshowers may sketch comedy series starring creators ·continue flocking to the Pacific North
keep locals cynical-and dark, the film Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. west.
industry enjoys spotlighting the PNW The dream of the '90s may not ac Detectives and killer~~ physicians
as a hub for crime and psychopathy. tually be alive in Portland, but and patients, a gaggle. of adventurous
Creators certainly notice PNW is "Portlandia" perfectly satirizes the Goonies and two beloved feminist book
home to a bizarrely high number ridiculous aspects of this city we store owners comfortably call the PNW
of serial killers, including Ted love and hate. Tlie Pacific Northwest their imaginary home. Somehow, the
Bundy and the Green River Killer. righteously defends its title as home PNW has found its way into the minds of
The television series "Bates Motel" to any and all counterculture, much creators, resulting in now-regular l>fo
follows handsome young Norman to the disgust of traditionalists. Per ductions emphasizing the strange and
Bates (Freddie Highmore) through haps that is why show creator Justin cryptic yet curiously attractive nature of
his spells of murde~ous dissociation in Roiland decided to base "Rick and Oregon and Washington. The profitable
fictional White Pine Bay, Oregon. "Twin Morty" in the suburbs of Seattle, an Pacific Northwest film industry already
Peaks" investigates the murder of Laura ideal location for the Smith family's produced plenty of memorable person·:
Palmer (Sheryl Lee) while filming in the shenanigans. alities and it is reasonable to assume
Washington towns of Snoqualmie, North Legislators in the PNW eagerly pro other colorful characters are already in
Bend and Fall City, effectively utilizing vide incentive packages to filmmakers pro.duction. •

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-- FRIDAY,F EBRUARY2 2, 2019
SPORTS
10
Sports Commentary: Women in Sports Day
Derogatory language directed towards women athletes continues to harm their national appreciation
By ANNIE ERICKSON The most watched sport in the U.S. is sexism in sports has pervaded by
''Y,U :I
football, a-sport only played by men. The cowardly hiding beneath the surface.
THROW. like a girl" is National Basketball Association (NBA) Thankfully, this trend of disrespect
a common insult perfected games have an average of 1-46 million seems to be changing with the rising
by insecure middle school viewers, while their female counterpart generation of kids. There is now
boys and is sometimes even used by (WNBA)o nly average 416,000 viewers on merchandise that can be bought by girls
coaches to motivate players to toughen ESPN. proudly declaring that they "throw like
up. This phrase is an assured challenge This phenomenon may be connected a girl." Mo'ne Davis, the first girl to ever
to masculinity, but it also effectively to the sensational drama commonly pitch a shutout in the Little League,
implies that males are superior and associated with men's sports. Using starred in a documentary by Spike Lee
should perform accordingly. As a the example of basketball, NBA players called "I Throw Like A Girl." Most girls
politically correct feminist, my instant consistently dunk, jump exceedingly now grow up playing sports right along
reaction to hearing such blatant sexism high and shoot from half-court. with boys and are taught they can do
is outrage. After all, U.S. women's Conversely, while some WNBA players anything that boys can. Perhaps if fans
sports have grown to be largely more have dunked, their games are generally of professional sports followed this
appreciated. Despite significant played below the rim. example, women in sports could achieve
progress, the prevalence of derogatory The tendency. to only appreciate complete equality.
language exemplifies the fact that the spectacular is natural and LC is in many ways proof that the
there is still prejudice holding women forgivable. However, somewhere condemnation of derogatory language
back in the sports world. along the way, sports fans started can contribute to athletic equality.
A 2007 United Nations report to make the assumption that if it is At our school, women's and men's
illustrated that, in the early formation of National Soccer Team has won three whether the Ne~ England Patriots not "above the rim," it is not good sports are appreciated alike, receiving
organized sports, most people thought World Cup titles and four Olympic gold guarterback, Tom Brady, was becoming basketball. If a man can make the relatively equal amounts of respect,
exercising was .h armful to women's medals. too old to compete for months, while sport look more exciting whatever opportunities and media recognition.
overall health without any scientific If the measure of women's success Women's National BasketballA ssociation women are accomplishing in that While LC may not be remembered as an
evidence. Simultaneously, it was accepted in sports is measured by their ability to (WNBA) superstar Maya Moore retiring same sport is deemed inferior. athletic powerhouse on a national level,
that sports were remarkably beneficial in achieve notoriety on a national level, for a season was scarcely acknowledged. Howeyer, if one really spends the time our approach to athletic equality should
improving men's health. that has been accomplished. However, The blame for these discrepancies to watch women's sports, they will see be revered and emulated by other
The U.S. has come a long way since it is important to realize that·fame is not should not be placed on the news that it can be just as exhilarating as institutions.
those days. Recenj:ly, National Girls & equivalent to equality. We. still live in station. They have made significant men's. However, this trend has not
Women in Sports Day was celebrated a world where women have to achieve -progress in covering women sports; Unfortunately, the general public yet translated from youth to the
at Lewis & Clark and across the nation, unheard-of excellence in order to be for example, ESPN has an entire tends to be actively adverse to fully professional leagues, as seen in the
recognizing the extent to which women recognized, while male mediocrity in section dedicated to women in sports. appreciating women sports. Disparaging social media posts. If children are
have advanced. in the sports _w orld. sports is often national news. For example, . In order to truly understand the U.S.'s language found on sports social capable of speaking with equality,
There are now professional leagues ESPN spent more time analyzinga missed perception of women's sports, we need media pages such as Bleacher Report avoiding phrases like "you throw like
for women's basketball, soccer, ice dunk by basketball player Zion Williamson to look at the people's opinions of what exemplifies this larger problem. Posts a girl," than adults should be too.
hockey, softball, golf and tennis. at Duke University than discussing how is being presented to them rather than about women athletes are incessantly Just as often as harmful language
Serena Williams, a four-time Olympic an unranked women's basketball team at just the presentation. followed by degrading comments like is thrown around, we should throw
gold medalist tennis player, is widely the University of North Carolina defeated Ultimately, news stations cover what "they belong in the kitchen" or that it away like the garbage it is. Maybe
considered one of the greatest athletes the previously unbeaten team of North people want to see and frankly, our they "should go make me a sandwich." then professional women's athletics
of all time. Additionally, the Women's Carolina State. Sports networks debated country prefers to watch men play sports. Despite an increasingly aware world, will receive the respect it deserves.
Woine·n's tennis enters the new
season with hope after changes
By CATHERINE CINGUINA
MEN'S tennis is arguably
ne of Lewis & Clark's most
uccessful teams, being the
most recent one to win a Northwest
Conference Championship. This year,
nearly half of the players are first
years and sophomores, which brings
with it some challenges and growing
pains. Yet the women's tennis team
is facing its current season with a
combination of optimism and grit.
Having already played numerous
matches against teams above their
division level and out of conference,
the team is focusing on improving
their game this season and for the ones
to come.
Carla Thomas '19 is the team
captain and has· been playing tennis
since she was old enough to hold a
racket.,As the only senior, she has been
on the team the longest and witnessed
many changes but is optimistic for the
their future.
I
I "-I see this season going very well,"
Thomas said. "We have been working
very hard on improving every week
during practice. We have amazing
f
coaches and they have already helped
' us improve so much."
I Emily Schmelling '20, who joined
at the request of head coach Jimmy
Chau, described the individual nature
of the sport.
LEXIE BOREN/PIONEER LOG
"I feel like since we have a relatively
Madelyn Landerfelt '21 practices for her upcoming match against Pacific University.
young team the more we play, we'll all
individually improve. and that's the
goal," Schmelling said. "In tennis in teams, Division I teams, so everyone Getting the right type of women who
general, you have to want to improve who on paper is stronger than us," want to compete at a strong Division
on the little things." Chau said. "We've taken some lumps III academic and athletic school, so
The team also has experienced and bruises, and all those good things, people who are passionate about tennis
changes to the coaching staff this year. but I t,hink that's motivated (the team) are number one. A lot of times it has
Chau has been an assistant coach for more than anything and that was kind nothing to do with tennis, it has more
the team for 14 years and was recently of the hope." to do with them as human beings first."
promoted to head coach • after the While Chau said it is necessary for The team's schedule has been
departure of Patrick Dreves to the U.S. the team to focus on improvement, he ·affected by the weather and they
Tennis Association. He explained the believes in the group's potential. have faced some initial losses this
logic of facing challenging opponents "We're young, we're figuring things season. Despite these setbacks, they
in their preseason. out," Chau said. "We gotta get that are determined to make the most of
"I scheduled a really tough schedule experience of playing together, being the season and will be playing away
to begin with, with nationally-ranked a team, working hard towards a goal. against Pacific University Feb. 24.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
SPORTS 11
Susan Lilly continlles yoga leadership at L.C
Instructor discusses how practicing yoga regularly offers health benefits, b·oth physically and mentally
By ANNEKE BANDA happily doing it."
Lilly expressed her love for teaching
SUSAN LILLY HAS been teaching studints.
·classes at Lewis & Clark for 18 "I love this age group because they
years and has found her practice are so tightly wound and we're in a time
to be very beneficial for .her health. In • of great challenge," Lilly said.
1976, she found her passion of yoga in Lilly is the only' yoga instructor on
Los Angeles, California and has been campus and teaches two sessions of 20
practicing ever since. people every Monday and Wednesday.
"I really liked the approach," Lilly She explained that for students who are
said. "I really liked more than just th~ interested in yoga, it is easy to begin.
yoga. I liked_t he philosophy, I liked the . "Just walk into class, have the right
chanting, I liked· the meditation, so I Clothes, don't walk in wearing jeans,
dived in head first." take your shoes off and lie down on the
Lilly received her yoga teachlng floor," Lilly said. "You listen to your _,..,
credentials in 1989 in Val-Morin, body. You do not push yourself. You're
Canada at the Sivananda Ashram, a not competing with anybody and if it
yoga community camp. She taught at starts to hurt you stop."
Willamette University and Oregon State As. for the ·consistency of her
University before finding herself here at practice, Lilly shared insight on her own
LC in 2001. schedule.
"The style that I teach is Sivananda • "It's not how much you have to do,
yoga Each it's how little you can get away with,"
person interprets Lilly said. "I do probably six hours a
it in their own week and that's plenty, that's a lot. I'm
way," Lilly said. not lifting weights, I'm not running
"I am trying to around the block, and I'm not knocking
teach ·students myself out." •
• that if you 'do Lilly stressed the importance of
this, you will stretching along with mentioning that
be strong and PIONEER LOG ARCHIVES after practicing yoga for some time,
Yoga Instructor healthy." A few students take advantage of a beautiful day to.practice their yoga poses orl the lawn outside 6f the Tamarack building. you will eventually be able to cater your
SusanLilly Sivananda practice to your own individual needs.
Yoga is a form heartbeat and then then five minutes your broken bones, that's when you "I tell my students to do 20 minutes
-of traditional hatha yoga founded by you bring it down. "I am trying to •t each of .listening to go to the doctors·. But, it is going to a day, I dO' random stretching for 20
Swami Vishnudevananda based on the So you're essentially, students that if you do the sounds. of the keep you away from the doctors. It's minutes a day, but it's not structured,"
teachings of his guru Swami Sivananda. by that method of building." _preventative, it's alternative medicine." Lilly said. "You know you get the
Lilly explained the basic principles repetition, training this, you will be strong Lilly described For her yoga classes at LC, Lilly structure, you do the structure, but you ~
and steps of Sivananda yoga, such as the body to relax." and healthy." • practicing yoga not explained that she focuses on various use the knowledge of. the structure to
an asana which encompasses various Lilly noted that only for a lifestyle aspects of the practice. make up your own what you need."
relaxation positions. the most challenging Susan Lilly but as a healthy "For students here, I focus on Overall, Lilly encourages her
"The basic philosophy of Sivananda aspect of Sivananda alternative to other relaxation, I focus on loosening up the students to practice self-care in all
yoga is tension release," Lilly said. "You •y oga is being able to Yoga I_nstructor forms of exercise shoulders, I focus on eyes, we do eye aspects of their lives.
do an asana for 20 to 30 seconds and relax. such as running exercises," Lilly said. "For the past week "Take care of yourself, eat well, sleep
then you c1:est.Y ou· do the sa.l.11teJso "There's a 10-minute relaxation at and weight training. and· a half, we've been doing immune a lot," Lilly said. "There are five points:
the sun and then you have breathing the end of each class," Lilly said. "It's five . ''General health maintenance is system boosting acupressure becau·se proper diet, proper ex.ercise, hang eut
time. You do leg lifts and then you minutes of guiaed meditation to tense what it's apout," Lilly said. "It's not people are sick. I don't like that so I'm with .good people, keep good thoughts
have breathing time. You lift the and refocus on each set of muscles and gonna cure cancer. It's not gonna heal making them do that, or rather they are and breathe."
Coach Ange's Corner; the essential mobility e~ercises
By ANGELA to the point to where you feel like you
DENDAS-PLEASANT will injure yourself. Small, incremental
& J'JUAN WHITE advancements each week will prove. to
show major gains with persistence.
NGELA Dendas-Pleasant has Though there is little movement
een leading .the athletics or weights being used here, safety is
epartment in strength and always the munger one priority. If you
conditioning in the last five years, feel unsure about something, take a step
sculpting many of the athletes on back and study it before diving right into
campus into premier competitors. And it.
now in collaboration with. the Pioneer Areas to target when fo~using on
Log, her knowledge and guidance are mobility should usually be in the neck,
being made available for everyone in the shoulders, hips, spine and arikles.
Lewis & Clark community. While working on these areas, be
For this edition, the focus is on sure to take more time and focus on
mobility, which is key in maximizing stretching the muscles. The following
any workout, especially when it comes workout will take you through a great
to lower body sessions. If you are just mobility rotation that you· can • do
starting to exercise and get into shape, _throughout the week to enhance your
bodyweight mobility circuits like this exercise routine.
one will be a perfect stepping stone in The workout below provides a great
strengthening muscles and developing whole body focus on mobility and shows
your fitness before movil.'ig into more how to strengthen muscles and joints
strenuous activities. that are often left out of traditional
A common rule of thumb to keep workouts. Training these body parts are
in mind when exercising is that when imperative to whole body strength.
muscles are stretched, they grow. To ensure that the exercises are
This idea is the same when it comes _to being done correctly, please feel free
mobility. to look up @strengthcoachtherapy on
Muscles need to be stretched to Instagram, or take a look at them on
become more limber. Therefore it is Youtube. They produce content that is
important to get a good stretch while specific to muscle· rehabilitation and
performing a mobility exercise.' mobility exercises, and they offer helpful
Push your limits a little bit, ~ut not guidance in training safely. •
Mobility Circuit: Hip Mobility
Mini Swiss Ball Neck Work: 1.) Hurdle Lateral Step Overs
2.) Hurdle Lateral Step Unders
1.) Standing Neck Flexion (tuck chin) 3.) Hurdle Forward Step Overs
2.)Standing Ne~k Extension (tilt chin) 4_.)H urdle Bac~rd Step Overs _
T-Spine Mobility Ankle Mobility
1.)Blackburn (lying face down on floor 1.) ½ Kneeling PV.CK nee Tap
position) Bar Behind Neck Press (Bar overhead and tap opposite
side)

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
12
oor
How to subsist on campus Maggie's ought to be
foliage· to avoid the- B·on praised to the heavens
By MARC-ANTHONYV ALLE are in the Motherland. You are greeted
with open arms, the energetic sound of
IN EARLY November, an article chatter, and perhaps an undergrou_nd
was published that sparked both anime being played on the TV at 98
outrage and critical acclaim. There percent volume.
is a war going on between two opposing You happen upon the rich
sides, and I fear that our side, the right cornucopia of processed carbs that
side, has been unheard for far too long. looks set for a junk food feast, covered
As a firstcyear student at Lewis with everything from· Ritz crackers to
& Clark, I was thrilled to hear about Oreos. An obelisk of Pringles towers
the prospect of having a cafe nearby. menacingly, like a crispy potato
The idea of getting my snack on in the Mt. Hood You -shell out half your
evenings was just too good to pass up, remaining flex dollars to afford your •
and let me tell you, ever since the first peanut butter and decide fo toss in two
day ofNSO, I have indeed been getting or three of those Lindor chocolates
my snack on. your Garn-Garn would give you when
I'm ruthless at Maggie's. I spend you finished your chores - just for the
flex points more often than freshman rush, Sure, Maggie's isn't perfect, but
dudes on Tinder respond to texts with it's foxy, fierce and here to stay.
just "k." People have often complained Despite all this, the best thing about
about the price of the items at Maggie's Maggie's is the music. From a track of
and this·· defamation is downright the mating call of the humpback whaJe,
criminal. Sure, certain items are a little to the entirety of Hamilton on shuffle,
on the pricier side, but you pay foe the atmosphere is perfection. I once
. what you get. That twenty dollar jar sat inside. of Maggie's during finals
of JIF peanut butter will taste all the week, and heard nothing but Death
better on the night when you're ... just Grips and Soulja Boy, and I'm truly
really tired, man. ' convinced that's the reason .I passed
Let me set the scene: it's been a all of my tests, it was the motivation I
CAYDEN BULLOCK//PIONEER LOG long night at Watzek, and you've been needed. I spent the better part of today •
By STEPHEN HANLEY sorrows is just outside your window. students interested in Portland's writing various papers, your eyes in Maggie's writing this article, and I
At this year's spring Student environment, the community's reaction • bright red and dry from staring at still have the "What's New Scooby
COLLEGE CUISINE has a well Activities fair; Ripple Mycologuy has been mixed. Associate Director-of the screen for so long. You.are weak. Doo" theme song stuck in my head,
deserved reputation. Despite '20 debuted her Pioneer Forager's Health and Wellness Marissa Lachland You are weary. But as you trudge up and I wouldn't have it any other way,
charging exorbitant tuition rates Association, a group dedicated to cautioned studfnts against consµming the hill towards your resipen~e hall Maggie's' has more than just the
that skyrocket each semester,. most p1undering LC's natural r.esources for strange plants' in her monthly email, you see a light in the distance, a fair{t potential to be a great on-campus spot
universities still peddle the cheap nutrients the Bon lacks. while maintenance crews have light, but a light nonetheless. You see for studying. It has surpassed that
Sodexo slop plaguing high schools "Yeah, pretty stoked on this one," complained about a putrid cloud that beautiful neon sign, whose color potential, and reached a cacophonous,
across America. It's understandable, Mycologuy said-. "So many people here of b_ody odor penp.eating the club's you_a re unsure of, and realize that you and carby nirvana. Your move, haters.
then, that many prosp·ective students don't appreciate the bounty Mother Howard meeting space. However, the
are enchanted by their first trip to the Gaia has bestowed on us." majority of students seem indifferent
Fields Dining Room. With alte~native Mycologuy proceeded to fish a to the Pioneer Forager's Association's
eating options and locally-sourced blackberry out of her white dreadlocks presence.
ingredients, Bon Appetit provides Lewis and popped it into her mouth. • "I mean, I guess that's cool," Gabe
& Clark with the best food a school can Mycologuy started foraging on a Palmquist '19 said. "But we haven't
get. Which is a shame, since it still gives Sunday in October of her sophomore really been a hippy school for, like,
me the runs every time I eat it. year, when she and her friends realized five years. They'd probably reach more
a
I hav·ed ined at the Bon at least three it was impossible to get food on campus people with Goodwili Bin Foragers
times a week for the past three years until 11 a.m. • club or something." •
and complained about it every time. Let "Ever since that first experience As of press time, Bon Appetit has
me be clear - the point of this article living off the land, I knew this was issued no official statement regarding
is not to slander the student-operated something I needed to do," Mycologuy Mycologuy's club. However, a Bon
eating establishments on our campus. said. "We all felt • so connected to employee Stream Ravine was overheard
This publication would never sign off the earth after we finished our first vehemently denying his association
on a hit piece like that. But the fact mushrooms. Except for Doug. His were with the organization while swiping IDs
remains that many LC students do not poisonous. But we did bury him in the in the Trail Room.
receive the nourishment they require ravine, so I guess he's more connected "My loyalty lies with my employers,
from Bon food. If you are one of these . to the earth than any of us." regardl~ss of my name," Ravine said.
malnutritioned campus dwellers, Though Mycologuy's organization "Please stop asking me about this."
fear not. The answer to your supping provides a valuable resource to LC
How to insult LC students and
assert doniinance over your ·peers
By AUDREY BARRETT believe you are social and potentially
friendly. Then, when ·you see him 3. Call them "basic"
I S THERE someone you don't like sitti"ng alone at a high table, just Do they like American Eagle jeans,
on this campus? Is it actually ... make eye contact, put in your Air Pods craft fairs and seasonally scented
yourself? I sure can relate, and and sit dow'n alone at. a neighboring candles? These are sure signs of
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aggressively attack others in order anywhere near his penis hands. to correct them immediately. In my
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I've compiled exactly what you 2. Create insecurity of their fashion can go immediately to hell.
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favorite .tactic is to indirectly call .b asic hoes. But they'll probably say
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curl creations and mysterious root instead of "levi-OHH-sah;" don't cigarettes, you'll have an insecure
vegetables, your agitation is at an all correct them. Just casually pitch into shadow• to follow you around and
time high. Y_ous ee that one kid from the conversation with the correct reflect your brilliance.
your .hall who always walks out of the pronunciation, and make sure to By following this simple guide, you
bathroom without washing his hands time it with a condescending glance can transform from a post-DSA era
- he's got it coming to him. Start with in the offender's direction·. They'll loner into a fearsome queen bee. All
a casual conversation at the salad bar. be confused, and nervous to ask for it takes is a complete lack of empathy
I personally ·enjoy a jaunty banter clarification for fear of appearing and readiness to jump down the
about whether the lettuce is iceberg more stupid than they already have. I throats of your peers.
or romaine. This will lead him to call it deconstructive criticism.
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