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REVIEW February 24, 2014
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119th Year
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Issue No. 15
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Paige Jurgensen Columnist
MLK day of service Every year communities celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. through performing service. >> page 6
Time capsule
The Linfield Archives are gathering mementos that represent this year. Anyone can add things to the time capsule starting Feb. 24. >> page 11
Spencer Beck/ Staff photographer
Comedian dazzles Linfield dads
Sammy Obeid draws input from an audience consisting of students and dads on Saturday Feb. 22. His jokes grew from one-liners and puns to jokes about math and current events.
Baseball The Wildcats finish the weekend strong, coming out on top in the final two games Feb. 23. >> page 15
Softball The weekend was victory-filled for the Wildcats. The team took home four wins, shutting out Lewis & Clark College every game. >> page 16
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During Valentine’s Day weekend, the Human Rights Campaign made history with their first ever “Time to Thrive” conference in Las Vegas, Nev. and Linfield sent four students from Fusion to attend. The conference’s goal was to educate its patrons on how to help protect and support the LGBT community. “Too many LGBTQ youth face significant challenges to being supported and empowered in their communities, schools and even homes because of who they are. I’m grateful Time to THRIVE is bringing people together to raise awareness and find solutions to ensure every young person can be empowered, for their future, and ours,” said Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Hilary and Bill Clinton, who spoke during the conference. Linfield students were able to listen to keynote speakers and attend workshops to further their >> Please see FUSION page 4
Olympic games grow, message still the same Xiaoyu Fan Staff writer The modern Olympic Games differ from their ancient Greek ancestors in significant ways. Is there still any lesson we moderns can learn from the ancients? Heather Reid, professor of philosophy and chair at Morningside College, gave an affirmative answer and explained her thoughts by delivering the lecture, “Olympic Sport and Its Lessons for Peace,” Feb. 17 in the Jonasson Hall. Reid started the lecture with an ancient paradox of Olympic, that is international peace and good will can hardly be promoted through competition among national teams, though peace is one of the most important Olympic goals. “Nonetheless, the ancient Olympic festival somehow developed an association with peace,” Reid said. “The association between Olympic Games and peace was made explicit in the modern Olympic Charter.” She discovered the Olympic-
style sport can cultivate peaceful attitudes in three ways. First, a time and place must be deliberately set aside for it. Ancient Greek religious sanctuaries, where Olympic contests were held, were considered the property of the gods and separate from day-to-day worldly concerns and conflict. Modern Olympic sport retains its status as sanctuary although it has lost religious purpose, Reid said. The ancient Greek’s ability to compete peacefully also roots in the Hellenic tradition of xenia, or hospitality, which requires Greeks welcome strangers. The tradition is a kind of interpersonal truce, the importance of which was not lost on modern thinkers such as Immanuel Kant, who understood it to be guaranteed not by gods in the limited space but by the fact that all human beings share common ownership of the earth’s surface. “The modern Olympic truce is even more ambitious than the ancient one,” Reid said. Since 1993, the truce demands
that nations follow the athletes’ example and put aside their political differences at least for the duration of the Games. A brief case-fire in Bosnia during the Lillehammer Games, for example, allowed an estimated 10,000 children to be vaccinated. Second, others’ equality must be recognized. This principle may derive from the religious origins of the Games, since a single best winner needed to be select through athletic contests, which most provide contestants equal opportunity in order to perform such a testing function. In our modern world, sport is not possible unless competitors submit to a common set of rules, which defines them as equals. “The fact is that athletic participation levels down social hierarchies,” Reid said. “Perhaps even more important for the goal of peace, international contests such as those in the Olympic Games provide an educational spectacle in which the world see diverse people treating each other as equals a voluntarily
submitting to common rules,” Reid said. Third, one another’s differences within the larger world community must be respected. The roots of this lesson lie in the nature of the ancient site itself, where altars were hosted to an immense variety of gods and heroes. Furthermore, a Panhellenic site served not just a single city or region but the diverse panorama of peoples and cultures in the Ancient Greek World, Reid said. The modern Olympic Games also remarkably successful at illustrating their cosmopolitanism spirit when the athletes abandon national ranks and enter the closing ceremonies as one world made of many diverse individuals and groups. “Engaging in athletic competition with someone different in any number of ways helps not only to overcome stereotypes and confirm our won humanity but also, perhaps more important, to toler>> Please see Olympics page 6