Oct. 16, 2017
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The Linfield Review
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McMinnville, Ore.
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123rd Year
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Issue No. 5
Northern California fires burn ’Cats’ neighborhoods
By Olivia Gomez She was at a friend’s house for the night when the calls flooded her friend’s cellphone. It was 2 a.m. and they needed to evacuate immediately. The power had gone out, so they could not learn what was going on from the news. But they didn’t need to—outside their window raged a piercing red sky. Junior Lindsay Fowler had been with her family in Sebastopol, California, for fall break when the fires in Sonoma County that began on Oct. 8 got dangerously close. When she left her friend’s house early that next morning, she watched the flames tear through the trees behind her as the traffic crawled down the only road back home. At least 36 people across four counties were killed as of Friday, The
Washington Post reported. The more than 20 fires have been the most deadly California has ever seen. By Friday night, the fires in Sonoma County had hit more than 2,000 buildings, most of them homes, according to The Press Democrat. Senior Hayden Cooksy lives in Placerville, which is about an hour outside of Sacramento, California. The fires have not affected his friends and family, but hearing of the damage occurring in Santa Rosa reminded him of the King Fire that damaged El Dorado County in 2014, which destroyed almost 100,000 acres. But the fires that make national news are far from the only fires Northern California residents live with. Cooksy said he experienced countless Spare the Air Days throughout his childhood and adolescence when the
Photo courtesy of Lindsay Fowler
What remains of Fowler’s high school friend’s house in Coffey Park, a neighborhood in Santa Rosa. smoke was so dense it dramatically
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Community protests Secretary DeVos
He remembers seeing planes circling overhead when he was in grade school, dropping flame retardant around the area on a seemingly weekly basis. California is just hot, dry and smoky, he said. Kailey Wright, a senior who grew up in Santa Rosa but now lives three hours away in Colfax, feels the same. “I can’t remember a summer when we didn’t have smoke in the air,” she said. Even though seeing smoke has been normalized, the North Bay’s weeklong blaze instilled fear in her. She said hearing about the fire that eventually devoured her old neighborhood gave her nightmares. These blazes are different, Cooksy said in agreement, because bushey overgrowth or trees do not fuel them.
decreased visibility and air quality.
>>see Fires, page 3
By Angel Rosas A new poster campaign has come to Dillin Hall showing off what Sodexo and the Dillin chefs are bringing to the table. The posters made their entrance unannounced early last month, showing off well-made sandwiches, salads, and other entrees. Dillin’s general manager Bill Masullo said that the posters are the newest set of marketing tools that has been sent to the Dillin crew by Sodexo. A few times a year Sodexo sends Dillin posters to be placed around the dining areas, he said. The posters feature different dishes that are served, ingredients, and the location of the farms where they grow.
“The staff and I have not been as timely as we could be to put the posters up, but are working to keep them up to date,” Masullo said. Executive Chef Noah Bekofsky hopes that the added publicity will start a conversation between the students and the Dillin staff. Bekofsky said he wants people to see the options that students have to choose from and understand that they have the ability to ask to add or remove something from the dish. The chefs and other workers eat at Dillin too and want to make the food good for everyone, Masullo said. He went on to say that Dillin’s staff members look at the food that people enjoy and try to serve food that students want to eat.
Dillin Hall’s posters pop
Oregon Education Association President C. John Larson informs Linfield students on how to become a student member of OEA as they protest DeVos’ visit to McMinnville High School.
Panel dissects future of free speech By Olivia Gomez and Elizabeth Stoeger Two prominent voices in the African American and LGBT communities, respectively, engaged in civil discourse on free speech, where they disagreed on the regulation of hate speech but found common ground when they discussed the First Amendment. Leading scholar in critical race theory and UCLA law professor Cheryl Harris joined The Atlantic editor
Jonathan Rauch for “A Conversation about Equality and Speech” in Ice Auditorium. The almost two-hour long event, one of a handful that celebrated Constitution Day, was co-moderated by professors Nick Buccola and Emina Musanovic and was followed by a reception. Buccola emphasized the importance of calling the Thursday afternoon event a conversation rather than a debate, and expressed hope that it would be a “model for the way we have conversations on this campus.”
After addressing the audience, Buccola gave the floor to Harris and Rauch, who each spoke for about 10 minutes to introduce their arguments. Their conversation turned from Supreme Court cases to the internet, but was based largely in their disagreement over regulating hate speech, especially in relation to minorities. Rauch recalled the history of the LGBT rights movement. In the 1960s, homosexuality was classified as a >>see Free speech, page 3
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From left: Ethan Curwen, Asahi Nakagomi, Minami Kawai, Leah Eklund, Sarah Cherin, Jewel Miller and Eva van Bruegel eat dinner beneath the new posters in Dillin Hall.