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First ever ‘Gender Equity Week’ comes to Linfield >> page 5
LINFIELD
REVIEW February 17, 2014
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Linfield College
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McMinnville, Ore.
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119th Year
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Issue No. 14
INSIDE Meal plan changes Dillin Hall, Starbucks and the rest of food services initiate more changes, including “Simple Servings” options. >> page 4
Costume creations Freshmen Kai Alegre and Kamon Tari are passionate about cosplay, dressing up like their favorite characters and visiting conventions. >> pages 8 and 9
Lunar New Year
Students ushered in the year of the horse at the combined celebration for Chinese and Vietnamese New Year. >> page 10
Spencer Beck/Staff photographer
College snow day
With snow and ice covering the roads, Linfield canceled the first day of classes for spring semester on Monday, Feb. 10. The cancelation was to ensure that students could safely arrive to campus. Continue to the editorial on page 2 to read more about how Linfield helped students out.
Esteemed author, feminist speaks Hate speech Helen Lee Photo editor
Win some, lose some Linfield won 6-0 against Western Oregon on Feb. 16, then lost 0-5 to the same team later that day. >> page 16
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Cynthia Enloe, the foremost feminist scholar of international relations, challenged Linfield students to question “normalcy” and raise gender equality issues during her lecture on Feb. 13. The research professor for Clark University’s International Development, Community, and Environment department examined gender and feminist ramifications of the America’s war in Iraq. Enloe discussed topics ranging from U.S. military foreign base prostitute policies to affected literacy rates for women in Iraq since American military action in 2003 to how economic sanctions affect men versus women.
Her primary focus was to educate students on the plight of Iraqi women as a result of U.S. presence, and to emphasize the importance of simply being aware of their efforts toward gender quality. “To create a women’s movement in Iraq is harder now than it even was in 1990. What is so amazing to me is that Iraqi women have organized, that the Iraqi women have created this network of 80 different Iraqi women’s groups across all these sectarian and ethnic lines, and that Iraqi women are still at it,” Enloe said. “They are still at it, and advocating for domestic violence units within the police and laws against honor killings,” Enloe said. Enloe’s approach to the ways in which U.S. citizens can help Iraqi women are, in her words,
“humble.” She advocates that part of the reason the Iraqi women are so revolutionary is that they do not accept donations from foreign nations or entities. Enloe stated that due to this, the most that anyone else can do for their cause is to recognize it, both on the individual level and in the media. In a more general sense of gender equality, Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science Dawn Nowacki commented on what can be done to address the issue. “The most important gender issue is to realize that there is a gender issue,” Nowacki said. The talk was a highlight of Gender Equity Week, and was >> Please see Iraqi Women page 6
and graffiti discovered Samantha Sigler Editor-in-chief
Offensive graffiti was found carved in the snow on top of various cars on campus during January term break, including a swastika and hate speech. A Residence Life staff member walking by Memorial Hall found the graffiti, and immediately removed it from the snow so that no one else would see the offensive language and marks. “I was saddened to that this could occur on campus,” Susan Hopp, vice president of Student >> Please see Graffiti page 6