March 5, 2010
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Linfield College
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McMinnville, Ore.
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115th Year
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Issue No. 15
Linfield buys electronic learning tools Chelsea Langevin Senior reporter
Paoline-Anne Abulencia/Senior photographer The ASLC presidential and vice presidential candidates field questions from ASLC President Ashlee Carter and Director of College Activities Dan Fergueson during a debate March 1.
ASLC candidates present campaign goals Kelley Hungerford Managing editor While last year’s Associated Students of Linfield College election was marked by a twopoint margin, this year’s election, which will take place 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 9, features
a write-in candidate, transfer student and the usual Greekaffliated applicants. Here’s a look at what they have to offer: Shelby Simmons: Junior ASLC presidential candidate Shelby Simmons said she views running in this election as an opportunity to give back to the
college and its students. “I thought that Linfield has let me do so much and be involved in so much that I want to be able to do that for other students as well, and I want to be the voice of Linfield,” Simmons said. In her freshman year, Simmons was the Memorial Hall president.
She said the position and the girls in her hall are the reasons she is involved in campus activities. Since then, she has become a member of Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority and occupied various positions, including campus relaPlease see ASLC page 6
Trayless Tuesdays fail to save water, power in Dillin With or without trays, Tuesday dinners in Dillin Hall are no more environmentally friendly during Trayless Tuesdays
In four years, Linfield progressed from having only six projection systems to classrooms equiped with sophisticated Sympodiums, Smartboards and teleconferencing capabilities. While an official initiative to update the classrooms has not been declared, Linfield is making a strong effort to incorporate new technologies that facilitate learning, Andy Lockhart, multimedia support specialist, said. “It’s important for us that all classrooms get to a base level of technology,” Lockhart said. That level is a room equipped with a computer, projection system and audio capabilities, he said. Linfield has added new technologies to provide the fundamental technological capabilities into classrooms in Walker, Melrose, Taylor and Potter halls, Lockhart said. But not all classroom designs are formatted for new projectors or Sympodiums, he said. Rooms are evaluated first for their space and the technological knowledge of the professors who use the rooms. “The funding plan has been diverse, ranging from grants to departmental funds to academic >> Please see Smartboards page 4
Joshua Ensler News editor Trayless Tuesdays, a Greenfield initiative in Dillin Hall, have consistently failed to meet their goals of saving water and power. According to Dillin staff, Trayless Tuesdays don’t save time during clean-up, and the dishwashing machine runs just as much as any other day of the week. “Theoretically, if you turn the machine off ‘x’ amounts of minutes or hours sooner, it would save that much water,” Bill Masullo, general manager of student dining services, said. He also said that the dishwashing machine is not shut off any earlier than usual. “Students would, in protest [of Trayless Tuesdays], leave their dishes on the table,” Masullo said. “We ended up staying longer cleaning everything up.”
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Megan Myer/Photo editor Dillin supervisor Deb Waldron stacks dishes during a Tuesday dinner at Dillin. Trayless Tuesdays have routinely failed to save water or power at Dillin, employees said. Maria Falcon, a Dillin employee, said that students use fewer dishes when there are no trays, which was one of Greenfield’s sustainability goals. She also said that more dishes are left on the tables when there are no trays, which delays the shut-off of the washing machine while employees bus the tables. The dishwasher uses 226.8 gallons of water an hour.
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Trayless Tuesdays have taken place in Dillin for several years. Until recently, students from Greenfield would remove the trays and put them in Dillin’s kitchen, Masullo said. He said this annoyed the students. “It was a take-away,” Masullo said. >> Please see Trayless page 5
This week’s poll at www.linfieldreview.com
Power Shift Linfield
Book review: ‘Precarious’
Students march for environmental change and student action.
Linfield alumnus publishes his first book despite repeated rejection.
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