The Linfield Review - Issue 17

‘Dog sees God’ “Peanuts” tribute tackles weighty issues in a high school setting.

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April 2, 2010

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Ford, Fergueson shed light on tuition increase, student survey at ASLC Senate CFO Ford discussed rise in tuition, other increases for 201011 college budget

Linfield’s 2010-11 budget increases Hewlett-Packard Apartments: 4%

Dominic Baez Editor-in-chief Two distinctive reports, one regarding the college’s 201011 budget and one for a future student satisfaction survey, dominated the conversation at the March 29 ASLC Senate meeting.

• Kicking off the weekly meeting, W. Glenn Ford, vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer, presented the college’s 2010-11 budget, highlighting the budget creation process; increases in tuition, room and board, among others; and comparisons to similar schools in the area.

For the 2010-11 fiscal year, starting in July, increases include: tuition, 5.35 percent; the Division of Continuing Education per-credit fee, 9.4 percent; January Term per-credit fee, 5.9 percent; board, 4 percent; residence halls, 5 percent; and HewlettPackard apartments, 4 percent.

Ford said tuition, room, board and other required fees for Linfield, when weighed against comparable institutions, were on the low end.

George Fox and Pacific universities’

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Jan Term per-credit fee: 5.9%

(Unfunded student financial aid is siphoned directly from gross tuition revenue.)

In total, Ford said projected net tuition revenue will be $27.9 million, a 1.9 percent increase from last year.

As an aside, Ford said additional critical student scholarships and aid will be provided by alumni and friends of the college.

Ford, using the projector system in Riley Student Center, room 201, presented a dissected pie chart showcasing the separate slices of

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revenue the campus is expecting, the largest piece emanating from tuition.

Other revenue will come from gifts to the college, endowment draws, residence halls and dining.

Expenses, however, will overtake incoming revenue next year, at about $350,000. Ford said the college will tap into an enrollment stabilization fund, comprising one-time dollars, to cover the gap.

Tuition: 5.35%

DCE per-credit fee: 9.4%

tuition and fees, however, fell lower than Linfield’s in total.

According to the PowerPoint presentation, the administration is predicting gross tuition revenue of $46.4 million.

But while next year’s sticker price will rise, the cost of attending Linfield may actually decrease for those who rely on the college’s financial aid. College officials have budgeted an 11.1 percent increase in unfunded student financial aid, from $16.7 million to $18.5 million.

Dean of faculty turns in an unexpected resignation Dr. Victoria McGillin, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, announced McGillin her formal resignation for a one-year leave in a March 12 e-mail to Linfield faculty and staff. The resignation will be effective July 1.

McGillin said in the e-mail that she believes her resignation will help promote greater trust in “shared governance” at Linfield.

The Academic Advising Director Search Committee will conduct a nationwide search for a permanent dean of faculty in the coming months, President Thomas Hellie said.

McGillin has worked at Linfield since 2008. She built strong relationships with the faculty and staff in her time here, Hellie said.

“I have relished every day of work at Linfield because of the quality of my colleagues in each and every academic and administrative department,” McGillin said in her e-mail to the faculty and

Residence Halls: 5% Board: 4%

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Northup to hold new community outreach center Joshua Ensler News editor Renovations to Northup Hall will establish a space for the Linfield Center of Northwest Studies, an internship and community service center.

Jeff Peterson, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, organized the center. He said he was trying to connect Linfield students to the Northwest.

“We’re looking to have a more focused approach to having student engagement in the region,” he said.

Peterson also said that the program would focus on internships, collaboration with faculty and service learning.

Service learning combines classroom education with work

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Peterson in the field to improve the community.

“I can talk in my sociology class about poverty in the United States and then have students work with the homeless,” Peterson said.

The center is not yet fully funded. Peterson, who leads a faculty

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committee at the behest of President Thomas Hellie, has been attempting to bring his project to fruition for a little more than three years.

Funding for the center comes from grants, and Peterson said he hopes to get an endowment for his program. Organizations such as the Keck Foundation in Los Angeles have given small and medium-size grants to the program, Peterson said. He also said that most of the center’s first year was spent on grant-writing.

A Linfield press release said the Keck Foundation gave the center $50,000.

First Federal, a bank in McMinnville, is one of several local organizations involved with the center, Peterson said. The bank runs the First Federal Community Internship Program with the fledg-

ling center.

“The program seeks to create paid internship opportunities for Linfield students to work at a nonprofit,” First Federal Community Relations Coordinator Erin Stephenson said.

Nonprofit organizations solicit help from First Federal, which then finds willing Linfield students t volunteer, Peterson said. Sophomore Evan Wingren is one such student.

Wingren said the collaboration between First Federal and the center helped him get an internship with the McMinnville Chamber of Commerce, which he chose because it helped him apply his economics and finance classroom experiences.

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Men’s baseball loses two games

Linfield’s bike culture

Whitworth held Linfield to five runs in three games.

Riding bikes across campus has become more popular with the arrival of spring.

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April 2, 2010

EDITORIAL

Student union vital to Linfield community Linfield has for too long lacked an effective, communal student union — a place where students can gather to socialize, study and relax.

It’s past time to start working on creating such a place. We believe that this center, for all student activity, would ultimately increase student awareness of issues and events and build a stronger sense of community on campus, something that Linfield could certainly use.

Ideally, the center would be a place with ample accommodations for students who want to study (individually or in groups), arrange meetings, host events or relax. It would need to be open late, have food and drinks available and be appropriately furnished for different activities.

Some may argue that Linfield already has many of these aspects.

Sure, you can watch a movie in Ice Auditorium, relax on the couches in Fred Meyer Lounge, study in Nicholson Library or grab a snack at the Catty Shack. But wouldn’t it be better if you could do all of those activities at one location for longer hours?

These areas all serve their foremost purposes, but not one serves a wide variety of purposes. Fred Meyer Lounge is a great place to relax, but few would find it an effective area for studying with its

lack of computers and tables. Catty Shack is open late and a convenient place to grab a quick bite to eat, but its cramped nature is uninviting to lingering students.

We think a student union would be the perfect place to bring together all the best aspects of the areas we’ve described, thus eliminating their negative externalities. Students would be able to effectively do all of the described activities in a single, convenient location.

Others might say that students, too apathetic to bother taking part in their student government elections, would hardly be likely to use such a facility.

In response, we think that students should care, even if they say they don’t. The worst way to fight apathy is with more apathy, which would include not building a student center. Students may not always have the drive to get up and participate in their community, but this does not mean they should not be encouraged to do so.

We feel that a student center would encourage student involvement in many different aspects of campus.

We also feel that while students may not initially flock to this new center, it would still gain popularity in time. Maybe only a couple clubs would meet there at first, but those first few would eventually tell others of the functionality and convenience of the center, encour-

aging more and more to utilize it.

The center could also be a good place for students to work, creating more of those work-study positions that everyone seems to be after.

Yes, the project would be expensive and take a long time to complete, but that is all the more reason to start working on it now.

Unfortunately, many current students will likely graduate before the completion of such an undertaking. However, this project goes beyond the simple interests of a few students; it would be for the benefit of the entire Linfield community and for all future generations of students. We also feel that many graduating students would feel honored to have been the ones to finally get the ball rolling on this project.

Cost-wise, interest in a student union has been so widespread among students, alumni and trustees that the donations would probably pour in for such a venture.

It would even help the school make money in the long run, as it would be an excellent feature to show prospective students. In this sense, it would also help our branding problem in that it would provide a solid symbol of the student body on campus.

Also, while Linfield does not have a vast expanse of unused campus space per se, we feel there

torial staff, or as an entire newspaper, but that doesn’t mean you have to. Our new president-elect, Colin Jones, dully noted in the second debate that the Review hasn’t taken such a stance in at least the past several years. You should know better than anyone if this is true and if it is, why now? Because she did not give her full attention to the Review doesn’t at all mean that she wasn’t reaching out to students.

What you stated in the editorial in question (“Patterson does not appear to have this dedication to connecting with her potential constituents”) could not have been further from the truth considering she received the greatest number of votes for ANY candidate and

over doubled the votes of her opposition. While I agree with you that the Review is a great tool for speaking out and connecting to students, it’s without a doubt not the only way. The fact that the voting ended up as one-sided as it did should speak to the fact that the Review isn’t the ultimate power when it comes to reaching out to students and that there are equally (or more) effective ways of reaching the student body.

It appeared as though the Review may have felt entitled to a letter and interviews from candidates and that alone is a faulty belief. Candidates have the freedom to choose their method of communication and should not be criticized for choosing something

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Or by appointment at: linfieldrevieweditor@ gmail.com and linfieldreviewmanaging@ gmail.com are locations around that could be used to build a student center, such as the open area next to Nicholson Library.

Many other schools have student unions. The center at George Fox University houses the student government, a store, a dining hall, mailboxes and facilities for its yearbook, newspaper and radio station. Now is the time for Linfield to have its own student center on campus.

It won’t be immediate or affect all current students, but we think it’s best to work for the greater good in this instance, and we hope that when the ASLC Cabinet is replaced this year, they will take up the cause and work hard for something students have long been desiring.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Review, I would be hard-pressed to believe that Ms. Patterson has a misunderstanding of what an editorial is, what the first amendment states, or that she may be under scrutiny in her newly elected position. Ms. Patterson never asked for an apology in her letter nor did I get the implication that she wanted one. Although those are the focal points of your response, I don’t believe that was the intention of the letter.

From what I gather, her letter was sent in response to the endorsing of candidates with the Review’s name attached to it. I agree with Ms. Patterson that you have the right to endorse candidates as an individual, as an edi-

that may go against the grain. If anything we should be applauding Ms. Patterson for reaching that many voters without using the Review as an outlet.

This is not to say the Review is worthless or that it’s not a useful way of communicating, as I am a weekly reader, but it is to say that we should be open to other avenues of communication and encourage people to explore those opportunities, rather than dismiss them. I would encourage you to reevaluate your methods of presenting candidates next time around and focus on objective reporting that you as a staff are more than qualified to be doing.

Best, Evan Hilberg, junior

April 2, 2010

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OPINION

International institutions need teeth for authority

Shelby Simmons Secretary Hey Wildcats! Welcome back from spring break. We hope that everyone had a great break, and is ready to finish the semester. Ashlee Carter and Chris McIsaac met with Scott Carnahan regarding this year’s cabinet project. Each year, the ASLC cabinet works to make a project to give back to the school. This year, we have decided to make a sand volleyball court. The tentative end date for the project to be completed in early May. The project is on its way, and we will keep you informed as in continues. Kellan Westhusing recently hired a publicity secretary to aid in the daily work of the publicity team. She will help to keep the publicity projects moving smoothly. The IM soccer season has begun. Also, start to look out for the ASLC and SHAPE sponsored Dodgeball tournament. The Alternative Spring Break is hosting the Tyrone Wells benefit concert this Friday at 7:30 pm. The outgoing cabinet would like to congratulate the incoming cabinet. We know they will do a great job next year. The new cabinet is: Arielle Perkins, Vice President of Business and Finance; Nicole Bond, Vice President of Programming; Sophia Larson, Secretary; Keevin Craig, Club Director; Wil Hiles, Sports Director; Evan Hilberg, Student Center Director; and Bri Reichelt, Publicity. They have been announced at Senate, and are pending approval in Senate. LAB applications are now open. If you are interested or need more information, feel free to email Nicole Bond, Katrina Peavey, or the person currently occupying a certain position.

To apply, send your cover letter and resume by April 13 by 5 pm to Nicole Bond. Don’t forget to let your mom’s know that Mom’s weekend is coming up.

The events begin on Friday, May 7 and end Sunday, May 9. There will be various activities on and off campus. Have a great rest of the week everyone.

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Lauren Ostrom “It’s like a music sandwich.”

I’m in class listening to Assistant Professor of Political Science Patrick Cottrell talk about NGOs, IGOs and everything in between. I hadn’t taken a political science class at Linfield before; Global Governance is my first.

The professor asks the class, “Why would it be difficult for the government and international institutions to use force?”

The first thought that popped in my mind was the fact that we have been spending the entire class so far learning about gov-

ernment institutions and whether they are legitimate. We have been studying whether they are actually doing anything for the U.S. or if they should be shut down. So why would we obey force if some of us do not believe institutions are doing anything to begin with?

Another thought: The media cover so much of everything else going on in the world, but nothing about the war in Iraq or what the U.S. is doing in other countries.

Sure, there is coverage on bombings in Afghanistan or the capturing of American soldiers, but no details on whether we are winning or losing a fight that has been dragged out. And Obama is sharing his thoughts about his NCAA bracket in Iowa while our soldiers are fighting for an unseen cause.

International institutions have not done enough to make a U.S. citizen say, “Wow, I am glad we

have international law to keep us bonded.” So how are we supposed to be forced to cooperate?

To answer professor Cottrell’s question of what difficulty would be encountered if force were to be used: fairness. Not everyone can be treated the same to begin with.

International institutions already have a hard time treating each country the same. But how can you do that if each country is so diverse?

Darfur cannot be treated the same as the U.S. because we have a greater economy than it does, and Darfur is worrying about genocide.

Another issue with using force: accountability. Who is accountable for issues when it comes to international law? It isn’t apparent enough to have someone be accountable when applying force.

Why is force needed? And what kinds of international laws have been created? These are all ques-

tions I have asked myself since the start of class. It is difficult to use force when no one knows enough about international institutions in the first place.

My point: If international law really does exist, then why has it taken so long to adapt and become potent? And if it does exist, then how would it be strong enough to make an impact on citizens from different countries?

Our economy has sprouted quickly, and we have created other organizations such as NATO to use force among countries. So why is it so hard to get international law off of the ground?

Thinking about all of these questions makes my brain hurt because political science is mostly about opinion. How do we resolve our questions if this is true?

Lauren Ostrom can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

OPINION

Music search: It’s not just an iTunes function

Braden Smith I dig it.

During Spring Break, I watched an interesting documentary called “Scratch,” about the emergence and rise of disc jockeys, the hip hop culture and the art of “turntablism.”

While the documentary was fascinating in its entirety, one of my favorite parts was about the practice of digging. The film portrayed DJs searching through record stores for hidden gems to be used in their sets and in their own, vast, personal collections.

Many DJs view their collections not only as arsenals for battles but also as tools to be shared with fellow musicians.

One DJ, Jazzy Jay, claimed to have more than 300,000 records.

Compare that to your friend who recently bragged about his or her

iTunes collection of more than 10,000 songs.

I have always loved collecting, and this, combined with my love of music, makes something such as digging extraordinarily appealing to me. I enjoy searching for music almost as much as I enjoy listening to it.

Every so often, while searching through musty, old crates of used records in record stores, I will find that one hidden treasure that I would never be able to find anywhere else. I may have to look through dozens of junk records to find the one special album, but the accomplishment makes it all worthwhile.

When I went to Finland last summer, I made a point of tracking down some local record stores.

While there, I managed to find a record by the local Helsinki group, TV-Resistori. Today, it is still one of my favorite records, and I never would have found a copy anywhere in the U.S. Digging, in my opinion, is not restricted to the record store.

Record stores aren’t quite as abundant as they once were, although a

couple in McMinnville. The Internet is an excellent place to search out new music to add to your collection. I remember when a friend of mine introduced me to Pandora Radio on the Internet a few years back. I’ve been grateful ever since, as it has consistently introduced me to great artists I had not heard of.

I certainly do not rely on Pandora, though; there are a multitude of ways to track down new music online. Just searching through connections that musicians might have with other musicians, one can find all sorts of interesting obscurities online. I once found an artist by searching a random word on Google Images. The search led me to a webcomic whose author had released some music, which I promptly downloaded and enjoyed.

I am not saying music must be obscure to be good, but it is similarly true that not all well-known music is necessarily good. It is undeniable that there is amazing music out there you might never find unless you actively search for it.

Not only does seeking out the more obscure hits expose you to more interesting music, it can also spice up your personal collection, something any collector wants. I believe a person’s musical repertoire reflects on them as an individual and can say a lot about them.

This is why I am always apprehensive when people want to swap entire libraries. This is my collection. If I give it all to you, then how does it reflect me?

Don’t get me wrong, I will share my music with people. I would just rather share by showing my friends music I think they would like or by making mix CDs for them.

Personalizing your music collection is a lot of fun. In the documentary, DJ Shadow talked about his experiences with digging and mentioned that “it’s not gonna make a bad DJ good, but it’ll make a good DJ better.” I would similarly say that digging and seeking out music is not necessary to enjoy it, but it can make the experience much more enjoyable as a whole.

Braden Smith can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com

OPINION

Gentlemen: Work to find the middle ground

Dominic Baez I haven’t met you yet.

The cover of the March “Details,” a men’s magazine one would be hard-pressed to find in McMinnville (if at all), featured Robert Pattinson (“Twilight”) and the title “The Remasculation of the American Man.” Now isn’t that a bit of an oxymoron?

That’s hardly the point, though.

The article described a shocking ideal of what being “masculine” means to the general populace and how that definition is slowly evolving.

Jeff Gordinier, the article’s

author, painted a slightly depressing, although nevertheless true, former portrait of the “masculine” American man: “A ‘real man’ was a middle-management guy who watched the game in old sweatpants, scratched his ’nads and ogled the pom-pom squad while drinking cheap beer, stuffing his face with chili dogs, burping volcanically and complaining about the ol’ ball and chain. A real man was a pig, more or less.”

Sound familiar? It should. This has been a typical image drawn up when people say “a real man.”

And men wonder why women are appalled at some of their behaviors.

However, that is not to say that the polar opposite should be the ideal standard, either. Cowering in the corner, surrounded by fluffy pillows and complaining about how your boss said something

mean to you (because you screwed up) does not equate to being “a real man.” Then again, it never did. But that seems to be the current trend: “If I can’t be ‘a real man,’ then I’ll be a pansy. It’s easier.”

Much of that justification for turning into Mr. Sally Sunshine stems from a change in the meaning of masculinity. Not too long ago, there was a backlash against the frat-boy cliché of “man-ness,” resulting in a deteriorating effect.

Instead of moving forward and being something more, men retreated into their Fortresses of Comfort.

The “Details” article pointed out a distinct difference, an almost intangible assessment that’s essential to this discussion: “He’s a gentleman, absolutely, but that doesn’t mean he always has to be gentle.”

A gentleman should know how to dance (waltz, foxtrot, what have

you) and know how to dress. (It’s not a sin to your masculinity to recognize and appreciate a good fit.)

But that same gentleman should be confident, smart and capable of throwing down, as well.

To be a gentleman requires balance and consistency. A real man shouldn’t be expected to go to war and return unscathed. But a real man should also know how to change a tire. Properly tying a tie and knowing your way through a toolbox should go hand-in-hand.

He knows when to fight and when to back down. He does the right thing because that’s the right thing to do.

It shouldn’t be left at one extreme or the other. Then again, being “a real man” isn’t always easy. But that’s still no excuse for not being one.

Dominic Baez can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com

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Municipal court responds to tough economic times Shawn Fisher News reporter The McMinnville Municipal Court is offering an amnesty program for unpaid legal accounts that are more than three years old, which could affect Linfield students who owe money.

The program began Feb. 16 and will end May 14. It allows people to clear their accounts by paying half of the original amount owed on unpaid fines for citations, violations and misdemean-

ors. The amnesty program does not cover parking citations, DMV fees or restitution obligations.

“We were looking at old accounts that weren’t moving and tried to figure out a way to help people out,” City Attorney Candace Haines said. “One of the main reasons was to get people their licenses back and get them legally on the road.”

As of March 25, 127 people cleared 284 cases, Haines said. Because the court offers amnesty only on cases that

Student sustainability

projects receive funding through ACES program Lauren Ostrom Features editor During the spring of 2008, Linfield made a commitment to provide a sustainable campus. The Advisory Committee on the Environment and Sustainability was created in 2007 to guide sustainability projects on campus.

Recently, grants were distributed to students whose ideas supported the commitment.

Fred Ross, co-chair of ACES and senior adviser and assistant to the president, said that he and W. Glenn Ford, vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer, created ACES to aid the commitment to campus sustainably.

“Anyone can create an application at any time of the year,” Ross said. “If it is a good idea and takes less than $5,000 to create, you can apply.”

Some of the grants awarded include the funds to build an on-campus bike center that will use “green” materials, such as solar panels, to generate light for rider’s safety; tools for the existing Bicycle Co-Op to provide maintenance and bike repair; a composting machine; and trail repairs on the Tryon Life Community Farm in Portland.

The funds were created through a renewable and sustainable energy program, which grants about

are more than three years old, most current Linfield students who owe money to the court probably do not qualify for the program.

The court staff considers the program a success because of the large amount of people who cleared their accounts, Suzanda Sterrett, the municipal court clerk, said.

“It’s such a good deal, and I think people are really trying to take advantage of it,” Haines said. “It’s really important to have a good

credit rating, and I think people are trying to improve their ratings and also get their licenses back.”

The program was created as a “positive and proactive” approach to help people during difficult economic times, according to the City of McMinnville Web site. It was also a way for the court to increase revenue.

“We noticed a decline in people being able to make their monthly payments,” Sterrett said. “We were trying to find a way to think

outside of the box to help people and clear our books.”

Tough economic times made it difficult for people in many of the cases to keep up with payments, Sterrett said.

“People don’t have a lot of money, and they have to make choices,” Haines said.

“There are other things that people spend their money on before they can pay us.

We aren’t going to be the top priority.”

The court has considered offering similar programs

in the future because of the program’s success, Haines said.

“Any amount of funds preserved has the potential to spur some form of economy,” sophomore Lucian Battaglia, who is from McMinnville, said. “But the court should be wary of being lax for too long.”

After the program ends in May, the cost of clearing an older account will return to the full amount due.

Shawn Fisher can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Protective net installed at softball field

$30,000 a year to support the campus through ACES. Junior Sammi Mack, vice president of the Gardening Club, said the club applied for one of the major grants and was rewarded.

“Our goal is to eventually have enough produce to put into Dillin,” she said.

“It would be a great way to involve the campus and let them know what the Garden Club is doing.”

In the meantime, the club has spent funds on planting, building a greenhouse, creating a fence around the garden and, eventually, produced a shed.

The goal the committee acknowledged when signing the commitment last spring was to eventually get down to zero carbon emissions. The college’s name is now on the Web site for the president’s commitment to sustainability among colleges and institutions.

Mack said that without ASLC, their club advantages would be different.

“If we didn’t have the renewable energy and sustainability funding, we would have a much smaller garden,” Mack said.

For more information about how to apply for a grant, go to www.linfield. edu/sustainability.html.

For more information on the president’s commitment to living sustainably, go to www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org.

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All: Workers install a net around the softball field. The new net will protect Terrell Hall from stray softballs, to the relief of many student nervous about parking in foul ball territory.

Megan Myer/Photo editor

Lauren Ostrom can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

Center: Project aims to connect students to community << Continued from page 1 five programs operating during Spring Semester.

The center has sponsored a total of 23 internships during the past two years, he said.

Peterson said he began working on the program after several years of contemplation.

“I went to a grant-writing seminar in Portland, and I had the idea at the confer-

ence,” he said. “I wrote a couple of things up and talked with faculty and administrators about focusing some of the things we’ve got.”

Peterson said the program’s next step is to establish an advisory board for projects. He said it will contain faculty and students, and will review faculty and student collaborative projects.

“It’s where a faculty member has an area of expertise,

and they involve their students in their research with them,” he said. “They basically learn how to do research and get out into the field.”

Other colleges have similar project programs, but Peterson said that Linfield’s will be unique in its focus.

“We’re taking advantage of Linfield’s position in the Willamette Valley and connect students in all of these ways,” he said. “We help students understand the connections between the class-

room and the real world. The regional connection is a natural one.”

Peterson said he has done much of the groundwork with the local community and is heartened by the response of Yamhill-area organizations.

“Rather than focusing on what we can do ourselves, these partnerships show what we can do together for the community,” he said.

Joshua Ensler can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

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The Yamhill County Transit Area extended its bus routes out of McMinnville, providing students and residents with more transportation options.

The extended bus line runs to Tigard, where passengers can catch the WES Commuter Rail, which meets up with the MAX Red Line in Hillsboro.

Using the MAX lines, passengers can go, for instance, to the Portland International Airport — a common destination for Linfield students.

“The connection makes a convenient way to get to the airport, without the hassle of short- or long-term parking,” Professor of Anthropology Thomas Love said.

Love often commutes to Linfield on the new bus route.

Route 44, the regular bus route, runs several times a day Monday through Saturday between McMinnville and Tigard. Route 45X, the new express transit, runs from the Tigard Transit Center to

Graphic courtesy of the Yamhill County Transit Area Linfield, but it is only offered once every weekday morning, with a returning express bus in the evening.

“Taking the express bus between Tigard and Linfield College is only 55 minutes, just 10 minutes more than a trip in the car,” Love said. “It is aimed at faculty and staff who commute down Highway 99W from the metro area, but it could be used effectively by students, as well.”

In addition to routes 44 and 45X, another bus route

was added that runs from downtown McMinnville directly to the MAX in Hillsboro.

The extensions are funded by state grant money, in partnership with Linfield, Yamhill County Transit Area and Oregon Mutual Insurance Company.

“We’re in this narrow window where we have this subsidy,” Love said.

“But that isn’t going to last forever. Now the goal is to build ridership.”

some time this month. It will attempt to probe the student psyche regarding matters ranging from faculty and staff to dining and residences to the overall appearance of the college and how welcoming Linfield is.

Fergueson said the survey is meant to close the gap between what students and what the administration feel is important.

He also said that because the survey was given nation-

ally, Linfield would be able to compare to other colleges and universities in ways not possible before.

The survey was last given out in 1998, during the college’s accreditation process.

• Other Senate business included granting a temporary charter to the Cube Club, a club for Rubix cube users; the introduction of the choices for next year’s ASLC Cabinet, who will face

Bus routes and the MAX are also inexpensive and gasefficient forms of transportation. One-way daily passes are $1, and 10-day passes are $15 for all bus routes.

“This is a unique opportunity to support sustainable transportation alternatives,” Tonya Saunders, transit manager in Yamhill County, said.

Full details on routes and schedules can be found at www.yctransitarea.org.

Shawn Fisher can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

ASLC: Satisfaction survey intends to gauge opinion << Continued from page 1 The largest expense chunk will come from paying personnel salaries, at 65 percent.

• Director of College Activities Dan Fergueson elucidated the second special report, which centered on a student satisfaction survey.

The college will distribute the Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory, a 70- to 80-part questionnaire,

the Senate for approval next week; 12 clubs undergoing re-chartering; and committee and administration reports.

To read the Review’s live blog from the Senate meeting, go to www.linfield.edu/ linfield-review/?p=3590.

Read the next issue of the Review for more information regarding the budget and the tuition increase.

Dominic Baez can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com

Broken pipe shuts down Memorial Fountain

All photos by Megan Myer/Photo editor Memorial Fountain, commonly called the people fountain, was shut down the week before Spring Break because of a busted pipe. Workers were forced to dig several holes to find the source of the leak. Repairs commenced after a large enough hole was dug for workers to remove and replace the cracked pipe.

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Author lectures on black mark in Oregon history Yin Xiao Culture editor A seasoned former journalist introduced Linfield to a piece of covered-up history of massacred Chinese gold miners in the American West in the 1880s during a guest lecture in Nicholson Library on April 1.

Based on this piece of history, Gregory Nokes, who spent 15 of his 43 years in journalism at The Oregonian, discussed his book, “Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon,” and shared his journal of the history of Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

On May 25, 1887, after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, more than 30 Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon by seven rustlers and schoolboys from Imnaha.

One of the murders was a 15-year-old boy. Three of the killers were found innocent, another three fled and were never caught and the other was not charged.

Listed as one of the top 10 in the Pacific Northwest last year by The Oregonian, “Massacred for Gold” tries to correct one of the darkest episodes in Oregon’s sordid

history of race relations.

“Why would a gang of outwardly respectable ranchers and schoolboys plot the slaughter of nearly three dozen defenseless Chinese when they easily could have robbed them without the bloodshed?” Nokes read from his book.

Nokes said “secret keepers” preferred to tell how amazing the Pioneer Square was instead of explaining how people they knew threw Chinese gold miners’ bodies.

As secret keepers said, much of the facts about the event have been forgotten.

Secret keeper Frank Vaughan explained that the Chinese were killed because they refused to loan the gang a boat, according the to book.

Nokes’ book stated that only 11 of the dead miners were found. They were never a part of the “American dream.”

“Even if we can’t learn their names, we should be able to learn their stories,” Nokes said. “Our history books still have blank pages.”

People seem grateful for Nokes’ book.

“I am glad to see there is an effective voice for forgotten history with investigation, a besides long history of China town in Oregon,”

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Jeremy Sitinoda said, whose grandmother is originally from China and now is working in McMinnville.

Freshman Julie Schoettler, who attended the lecture, said she was upset at the murders who killed the Chinese miners, although she understands the historical background of what happened in that time.

Nokes said he spent a decade researching and made two dozen trips to Wallowa County, Ore., to discover what really happened and why some people tried to cover it up years later, according to The Oregonian.

“After I wrote stories for newspapers and magazines about this history, I realize it’s not known at all,” Nokes said.

“I couldn’t leave it just as a news story.”

He also said that it was tough to write the book, especially as a journalist, because much history is cruel without justification.

“A lot of Chinese immigrants in big cities in the Northwest [have experienced] violence and exclusion, and competitions of living is not an excuse [for a local American] to do that,” Nokes said.

All photos by Megan Myer/Photo editor

Learning to budget was the theme of a Residence Life event in the Fred Meyer Lounge on March 16. Students walked on a life-size board game and learned essential lessons in keeping their finances in the black.

Yin Xiao can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

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staff.

While her decision was both sudden and shocking, it shows she demonstrated her willingness to put the institution first, Hellie said.

The dean of faculty oversees all of the college’s academic programs, determines which courses will be taught and provides academic leadership for the curriculum. The dean also

plays an integral role in hiring, promoting and providing tenure to faculty.

“Teaching will continue as usual — we have a great faculty here,” Mardi Mileham, director of public relations, said.

In her two years at Linfield, McGillin has represented the college at national conferences and has been instrumental in creating opportunities and goals for the college.

“She’s a very good colleague, and we’ll miss her,” Hellie said.

The college’s first priority is finding an interim dean, a decision which should be finalized by the middle of the summer, Hellie said.

By the fall, the college will organize a committee of faculty, staff and students to hire a permanent dean, he said.

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They’re everywhere — chained to doors and poles or sitting on porch steps of residence halls. Bicycles at Linfield aren’t new — just a growing trend among students and faculty who prefer two wheels to four.

By Chelsea Langevin/Senior reporter

Above: Tess Haglelgam frequently rides heir bike to and from Nicholson Library.

Photo by Justin Derby/Sports reporter Bottom: Junior Sam Shryock rides his bicycle across campus, normally equipped with a helment for safety.

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uring the past four years, senior Duncan Reid has worked to accommodate Linfield’s bicycle culture with new bicycle racks and implementing the school’s Bicycle Co-Op. Now, there are roughly 300 bicycles on campus, filling up the bike racks or sitting on porches, Robert Cepeda, director of Linfield College Community Public Safety & Security, said.

“There are more bikes on campus now, and I’d like to say it’s because we’ve provided more resources for cyclists,” Reid said.

Since opening in fall 2009, the Bicycle CoOp has helped students fix flat tires, broken chains and rusty breaks, junior David KellnerRode said.

“A lot of people get a flat tire and will just stop riding their bikes because they don’t know how to fix them,” he said.

With “Bicycle Month” approaching in May, the Bicycle Co-Op plans to hold workshops on bicycle safety and maintenance to continue encouraging students to use their bicycles, Kellner-Rode said. “[The Bicycle Co-Op] isn’t super usable yet,” Kellner-Rode said. “But I’ve learned more from starting this than from any other class.”

Running the Bicycle Co-Op is comparable to operating a nonprofit organization, Kellner-

Rode said, because he has learned to manage finances, apply for grants, train workers and order parts.

In just a few short months, the co-op has become the hub of the student cycling culture, Reid said.

“It’s the only student-run building on campus,” Reid said. “I would encourage students to just come and hang out in there.”

The bicycle culture isn’t just about practicality, either, Reid said. Cyclists enjoy riding for the sheer enjoyment of wind and speed.

“People just need to experience what it’s like to ride a really nice bike,” Reid said.

As the weather improves, the co-op will sponsor bike rides in parks and through trails in town, Kellner-Rode said.

While the bicycle culture continues to blossom on campus, it faces several roadblocks, primarily the rainy weather, the shortage of bicycle racks on campus and the absence of bicycle lanes, Jeff McNamee, assistant professor for the athletic department, said.

“I think we need bike racks by every door,” Reid said.

For a bicycle culture to dominate campus, students and faculty need the proper infrastructure and facilities, McNamee said.

For example, students and faculty may

not mind riding their bicycles in the rain but choose not to because they know there isn’t a coat rack in the lecture room or a rack close enough to their building to hang their rain coats up, McNamee said.

“We just don’t have a great sense of what it is that students and faculty need to chose to ride their bicycles,” he said.

Linfield Avenue doesn’t have bike lanes because it isn’t owned by the school, McNamee said. But, as more people begin to ride bikes instead of driving in McMinnville, the city will need to accommodate the cyclists.

“When there’s a critical mass [of cyclists], traffic responds,” McNamee said.

Members of Greenfield, Linfield’s sustainability club, expanded storage space during the Northwest Sustainability Challenge by building the frame for an eco — friendly bicycle parking lot.

The lot, located between Elkinton and Terrell halls, will house 36 spaces and will feature the school’s first eco-roof with a solar panel, Kellner-Rode said. The eco-roof is a vegetation roof planted to provide natural insulation. The plants won’t be planted in the roof until fall 2010 when there are less extreme weather conditions.

Beyond choosing to ride bicycles for fun or sustainability, students should choose to simply because it is healthy, McNamee said.

“The debate about climate change polarizes groups — but I don’t think that people will debate that biking improves health,” he said.

For those considering the happy medium between driving and walking, Kellner-Rode suggests checking Craigslist before heading to WalMart for your first bicycle.

“We’ve had a lot of problems with the Roadmasters from Wal-Mart,” he said.

For about $60, a person can purchase a decent used bicycle, he said.

“Portland is a bike mecca, so it should be easy to find what you’re looking for,” he said.

There are also different levels of involvement within the bicycle culture, Kellner-Rode said. Some students choose to ride their bicycles from residence hall rooms to classes, while others ride them everywhere.

In fall 2010, Kellner-Rode, Reid and their roommates made a pact to not drive anywhere in town simply because they don’t see the need to drive.

“Biking in the wind, the cold and the rain isn’t bad if you’re prepared for it,” KellnerRode said. “It can actually be kind of fun.”

Because Linfield is a flat campus, it is a bike-friendly area, Reid said. But just a few years ago, many students were still driving their cars from their dorm rooms to the library.

“It’s just really good to see pretty much every bike rack full,” he said.

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‘River of flame’

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The first week of March marked the 25th anniversary firing of the kiln, a 30-foot furnace built into a hill near Professor of Art and Visual Culture Nils Lou’s studio in Willamina. While the kiln is fired about six times per year, this celebratory firing attracted twic the usual crowd of potters, ceramic professors and students and was what Lou calls, “one of the best firings we’ve ever had.”

Left: Mya Hoskisson, 15, mans the kiln’s main port March 6. Hoskisson and her sister, Brittney Bailey, have been working with the kiln all their lives.

Middle: The 2,500-degree kiln melts wood ash to glaze pots such as these. The kiln was unloaded March 13.

Right: A potter inspects the pieces inside the East Creek Anagama on March 13. The 30-foot long kiln is built into the side of a hill.

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t’s midnight. Blackness blankets the forests of Willamina, Ore., and the only surroundings glimpsed in the nearuseless headlights are a few feet of uneven dirt road and countless trees. Just when you feel like you’re going to pop out in a J.R.R. Tolkien novel, you reach the clearing, where what appears to be a colossal hobbit home emerges from the side of a hill. But before you see Bilbo, a chorus of voices welcome you to the East Creek Anagama Kiln. ave kiln Since Nils Lou, professor of art and visual culture, and two of his potter friends built the kiln in 1985, it has been fired 105 times. Used as a learning tool for ceramics students and a resource for Northwest potters, the kiln has lasted longer than Lou expected.

“I think it’s almost like any relationship, whether it’s with another person or anything that we personalize,” Lou said. “We assign it a certain vitality and life, and it takes on a form sometimes that goes beyond what we think it might.”

The kiln is based on an eighth-century Korean anagama, Japanese for “cave kiln.” And the translation fits because these kilns, or caves for pots, are built into the sides of hills.

Brittney Bailey, class of ’09, whose parents know Lou, has been involved with the kiln since a young age and said the East Creek Anagama is the oldest in the area.

“When this kiln was built, it was the only anagama style of kiln of its kind on this side of the Mississippi,” she said.

The anagama design emerged in Japanese, Chinese and Korean cultures nearly 2,000 years ago. It consists of one long chamber with a fire box in the front and a flue in the back.

The kiln’s sides are also pierced by small ports used to drop in fuel. East Creek Anagama is a traditional wood kiln, so it uses wood to fuel the firing process as opposed to the gas- and electricity-powered kilns of the modern age.

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“The ash itself is in many cases allowed to settle on the wear, the pottery,” Lou said. “The heat is enough to melt that ash into runny glazes.”

And it’s hot indeed. Lou said temperatures along the kiln reach between 2,300 and 2,500 degrees, enough to melt the ash and vitrify the clay — that is, make it glassy.

The process of preparing, loading, firing and cooling the kiln takes about three weeks, Lou said.

A fire is started in the main fire box, and it heats up gradually so that, after 10 to 12 hours, the fire can move back along the kiln.

The heat rises, baking pots placed on shelving above the fire.

“There’s a river of flame and ash that can move freely through the pots,” Lou said.

When the firing is complete, usually after two to four days, the kiln is closed, sealed and cooled for an entire week.

“If you open it up too early, the pieces go through a sort of a shock from entering an atmosphere that’s much colder than the one they were in before, and they’ll crack,” Bailey said.

Because the ash flow in the kiln is uncontrollable, how the pots look when they come out is a mystery.

“Part of the process is to learn how to not anticipate too powerfully what to expect,” Lou said. “You learn to accept what comes and to appreciate all of the iterations of fire and ash and things that have happened to it that are actually somewhat beyond our control.” urning the midnight oil Next to the blazing kiln, Linfield students and a few others sat in light jackets or T-shirts, waiting for the call to stoke the fire. But shouts of “Stoke!” and the roaring of the kiln weren’t the only sounds. People were telling stories, chatting about the future and, on the night of March 5, belting out Violent Femmes and Tom Petty tunes accompanied to the guitar strumming of senior

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And when the fire flared up thr gasp. As Reid put it, “You’ve angere Lou requires his ceramics and s kiln.

“It’s not designed to make wood aren’t but merely to introduce them way of doing this,” he said. “It’s not community. I think there is some en and interesting to experience.”

Junior Gabe Stallings, a cerami taking classes from Lou throughout his third year at the firing.

“For me, this is an opportunity what will happen to the piece I put mail. “I surrender all control over w that it comes out interesting or bea This year, Stallings said he help fire.

Freshman Tyler Gerlach also he 10 p.m.-2 a.m. March 5. But unlike ics student. He said his girlfriend, a along.

“I had no idea what the experie I had no idea where we were going w said in an e-mail.

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Two Lakeridge students, sophomore Lindsay McCord and senior Tolley Rippon, said it was their first time at the East Creek Anagama, but they have been to other kiln firings.

“It gave me some new ideas,” McCord said.

Rippon said he was sleeping overnight in the studio on the property. Many other students and visitors were staying in a cabin or bunkhouse adjacent to the kiln.

The event attracted graduates, too. Besides alumna Brittney Bailey, class of ’09, James Duckworth, class of ’07, also showed up — all the way from Montana.

“I came for the free food,” he laughed, referring to a potluck that took place earlier that night.

The firing was also a celebration of Lou and what he’s done for the area during the past 25 years, Duckworth said.

When in school, Bailey said the firing was a chance for students to leave the hectic atmosphere of school and enjoy a peaceful time with friends.

Duckworth agreed, but the first time he went to the kiln, he was a bit unsure.

“I was, like, ‘Where the hell are we going?’” he said. “But now, it’s like a reunion every time.”

Although Bailey has been helping with the kiln all her life, she said she seldom makes pieces to put in the kiln.

“For me, it’s a lot more the family-friends aspect than the actual production of pots since I rarely put anything in the kiln,” Bailey said. “It’s a shaping element in my life [because] I’ve been doing it since birth.”

Overall, the two alumni agreed that the East Creek firings present an opportunity for potters, students and friends to unite, learn and have a good time.

“Potters are not necessarily part of the tortured artist group; they’re generally fairly happy, pretty quirky,” Bailey said. “They want to have fun, and for as dorky and, like, as fringe members of

society that they are, they get here, and they feel comfortable, and they’re with their people. And there’s just kind of that glee that comes with being with people that get you.” nfolding drama The kiln site brimmed with excitement as ceramic professors, potters, students and even neighbors huddled around the anagama’s opening, each trying to catch a glimpse of the treasures inside. Surprised “ooos” and “aahhs” filled the air, along with shouts of “Happy 25th anniversary” and “I’ll start the bidding on that one!” There were even some “uh-ohs” at pieces that came out cracked, fused together or shattered.

“It’s an unfolding drama,” Lou said.

Despite a few broken pieces, Lou said this was one of the best firings yet, and everyone was pleased with the colors and effects the kiln delivered.

Jason Laney, a potter who teaches at the Woodburn Art Center and the Silverton Art Association, had a few pieces in the kiln. This was his second time to the East Creek Anagama, he said.

“It’s just a lot of fun getting together with everybody and playing with fire,” Laney said. “You really get to pick each other’s brains.”

J. Lee, who moved into the property next to Lou about two months ago, wandered down to see the results of the firings. Lee is a painter and said the risk and unpredictability of wood firing warded her away from ceramics. But she said that this event almost made her want to be a potter.

“I’m just amazed at what’s here,” she said. “It’s really thrilling to move into a cabin in the woods and find all this art.”

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Megan Myer/Photo editor Junior Brynn Hurdus turns pages for senior Heidi Vanden Bos during Bos’ March 14 senior recital as she plays a J.S. Bach piece.

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The curtain falls for two music majors Corrina Crocker Feature reporter

Megan Myer/Photo editor Senior Andrew Pohl gets emotional while singing “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” from “Les Miserables” at his senior recital March 13.

Two Linfield students displayed their cumulative musical prowess during their senior recitals March 13 and 14.

• “It was definitely an experience,” senior Andrew Pohl said. “It was the most music I have ever memorized.”

Pohl, a baritone, performed in Ice Auditorium.

“Pohl’s was definitely among the top four senior recitals in my 26 years of teaching,” Dr. Gwen Leonard, professor of music and Pohl’s voice teacher, said.

Pohl broke onto the musical scene when he started playing piano in the third grade, and then picked up singing in eighth grade.

“Andrew came in with a talented voice, experienced maturity of his voice and came with a lot of promise,” Leonard said.

A love for singing has not always existed for Pohl.

“I hated practicing until about five years after I started,” he said. “We started doing competitions, and

I really liked the [music] teacher.”

Next year, Pohl plans on moving to New York City to use his finance major to become a financial analyst.

Although he is also a music major, he said he will not pursue music after college.

“Music will always be more of a hobby,” he said. “I will maybe sing in a church because there is good money there.”

Overall, Pohl said he believes the performance went well, but offered some advice: “Don’t spread yourself too thin, and start early.

I started in January, which was really too late. It was really stressful.”

Pohl will perform in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel,” which opens April 23 at the Gallery Theater in McMinnville. The performance is a collaboration of Linfield’s Opera Theater and the Gallery Theater.

• Senior Heidi Vanden Bos, a pianist, performed in the Delkin Recital Hall of the Vivian A. Bull Music Center.

“Everything I had to go through in order to prepare

[for the recital] and then to be able to share it with family and friends was worth it,” she said.

Her family and friends attended to support her.

Vanden Bos said she wanted to display what she learned in her time at Linfield through her music.

“Her recital was not required as a general music major, but she wanted to do it,” Leonard said, which emphasized Vanden Bos’ dedication to her music.

She said she plans on pursuing a career in music and will attend Marylhurst University next fall. She will work to earn a second bachelor’s degree in music therapy.

“God has given me a talent, and I am blessed to be able to share it with those around me,” Vanden Bos said. “I feel it is the best way to share talent in music with those struggling in some way.”

Aside from the piano, Vanden Bos plays the violin and the organ and sings in the choir.

Corrina Crocker can be reached at linfieldreviewfeature@gmail.com

W hile you were ‘studying’...

Above: Comedian Arvin Mitchell hits the scene with a clean comedic style in Ice Auditorium on March 13.

Far left: Brian Winkenweder builds a tower of blocks in “The Kitchen Counter Collective” exhibit in the Miller Fine Arts Gallery.

Bottom left: Student collaboratvie projects hang in the Miller Fine Arts Studio Gallery.

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Sporks, suicide and sex: Play reveals harsh truths Joanna Peterson Culture reporter

Laughter, gasps and piercing silence streamed through the audience during the debut performance of “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead” on March 16.

“Dog Sees God,” a parody of Charles Shultz’s “Peanuts” comic strip, features revamped characters struggling through high school and the controversies that arise when growing up: sexuality, drug and alcohol use, personal identity struggles and eating disorders.

“I’ve never seen a play that was quite so risqué,” sophomore Hope Fredregill said. “Some of the parts were unexpected and shocking, but I still enjoyed it a lot, which is surprising because I’m fairly conservative.”

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acters from Shultz’s comic strip are recognizable, others have been transformed from girls with bows and boys attached to blankets to punks and stoners.

Junior Matt Sunderland, who plays lead character C.B., said his role challenged him to consider controversial issues such as sexuality.

During the play, C.B. stumbles upon childhood friend Beethoven, played by senior Will DeBiccari, while grappling with his dog’s death.

After a painful discussion concerning child abuse and teen violence, Beethoven and C.B unexpectedly kiss, causing some members of the audience to gasp and cover their mouths in surprise.

“I definitely think that scene [made] some people in the audience squirm,” Sunderland said.

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that’s a good thing. Theater should make you squirm.

We want to tackle uncomfortable issues and break down barriers.”

While there are plenty of somber moments throughout the play, the audience laughed through whimsical conversations about topics such as the origin of sporks, the horrors of cafeteria food and a dance scene with choreography from the original cartoon.

The play ran March 1619.

“After being involved with so many productions, I usually have a feeling about how certain plays will go,” Sunderland said. “It’s not always a good feeling, but I’m confident in this production and my fellow actors. We all believe in this script.”

unteer spots were filled by women from Phi Sigma Sigma, with some taking double and triple shifts.

Volunteers worked in a variety of areas during the event, including food services, check-in, will call and doors.

Senior Christina Chuckas filled one of the volunteer spots in food services.

Chuckas volunteered at SIP her freshman year by parking cars; this time, she worked inside selling oysters. She ran the cash register and was a food runner the rest of the time.

“I got to run back and forth outside to the barbeque to grab oysters,” she said. “It was fun because it was a group of older guys doing the barbequing, and

they were singing and dancing.”

Chuckas said that she enjoyed being on the inside of things this time because there was more interaction with other volunteers and event attendees.

Volunteers from Phi Sigma Sigma were seniors Cori Simmons, Lauren Loepp and Samantha Burby; juniors Kira Goodkin and Tracey Major; sophomores Alex Lovre, Amy Nguyen and Molly Brackman; and freshmen Boram Lee, Jade Rojas and McKenna Pyeatt.

The men from Kappa Sigma were given a different role during the festival.

The group volunteered to work in the parking lot all three days.

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Megan Myer/Photo editor Senior Will DeBiccari (left), playing Beethoveen, pulls away from a kiss shared with junior Matt Sunderland, C.B., during a production night rehearsal for “Dog Sees God.”

Greek Life drinks in volunteer opportunity Jessica Prokop Culture reporter

Members from Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority and Kappa Sigma Fraternity reached out to the community, volunteering their time and efforts by assisting at SIP, the 17th annual McMinnville Wine and Food Classic, at the Evergreen Space Museum on March 12-14.

SIP, an annual event open to all ages, focuses on local wine industries and vineyards. However, this year featured live music with performances from acoustic guitar to baby grand piano, guest chefs from the Northwest, wine tasting, fine art and crafts, helicopter rides and community booths.

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service chairman Keith Welch said that all of the men did parking because that area needed the most help and it worked best with everyone’s schedules.

Welch said a wide variety of members came out to volunteer and that they worked with individuals from the community.

“It might not seem like we did a lot by just directing traffic, but we made a difference, and it was a good way to help out in the community,” Welch said.

Although one benefit was making a difference in the community, Welch said that another was having a fun volunteer experience with his group.

“It was great bonding with my buddies and hav-

ing a good time outside of the normal atmosphere of school,” Welch said.

Other volunteers from Kappa Sigma were seniors Eric Philips, Josh Atiyeh and Nicholas Safir; junior Eric Engelson; sophomores Lucas Hixon and Zach Evans; and freshman Josh Melander.

Freshman Leanne McCallum, Phi Sigma Sigma’s philanthropy chairperson, learned about SIP from fliers she saw in the community.

McCallum said this was the perfect opportunity to put together one big event for the sorority. She contacted Community Service Coordinator Jessica Wade to see if any other organization had already come to her about volunteering. At the time,

no other organization had.

However, Kappa Sigma soon became interested in SIP, as well, and decided to set up its own group of volunteers. Welch organized the volunteer opportunity because he already had experience with SIP from volunteering last year.

Patti Stritzke, SIP’s volunteer coordinator, said she was excited to learn that so many Linfield students were helping out with SIP this year, McCallum said.

Both McCallum and Welch said that they were glad that their organizations could give back and put the Linfield name into the community.

Jessica Prokop can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Cat Cab showcase

Megan Myer/Photo editor Sophomore Jessie Goergen sings acappella with friends and Linfield students April 1 at the Cat Cab in the Fred Myer Lounge. The whole room was packed wall-towall.

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Three perspectives on one stone of graphic novel Megan Myer Photo editor “3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man” is a must-read for any graphic novel lover. It is full of government secrets, love, pain and adventure.

The story begins during World War II and continues through three generations.

Each generation has its own story to tell.

The first story is of a mother who loss her husband to war and is left alone with her son. Her loss causes her to fight growing feelings of depression and loneliness, which are mirrored by her son’s increasing physique. The son has a tumor in his brain that causes him to grow taller and taller, and his distance from humanity grows, as well.

The wife of the giant man tells the second story, and the third is from the point of view of their child.

The reader is drawn in first by the fairy tale idea of, “What it would be like to be a giant,” and is then shown the reality of living in a world that isn’t meant for you. What would you do if you were as tall as buildings? How would you

survive, let alone live?

“I have a second cousin who suffered from the malady that the Giant Man suffers in the book — the tumor that made him grow; however, my cousin had an operation that stopped his growth. On the way home a couple years ago after meeting him for the first time, I began imagining what it would be like to have continued on growing. What would your life be like as a three-story-tall giant? The rest just fell into place,” creator Matt Kindt said about the impetus behind the comic.

One must not only have inspiration for a story, but also for making it come to life.

“I grew up reading comics — so old 1980s Marvel and DC comics were my initial inspiration, and as I got older, and I started looking for work that still spoke to me,” Kindt said. “I stumbled across Dan Clowes and Eightball. Those first few issues and the book ‘Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron’ were a revelation and made me realize that comics could be something more. They could hit all the buttons that great prose and movies hit but in a unique

way that only comics can.”

Gentle and fragile lines that embraced with gentle watercolors fill the pages.

Dynamic angles and content tell a tale that only in this way, could such a wonderful story be told.

How was this style created?

“I read a lot of prose,” Kindt said. “‘Catch-22’ was probably the most influential book that I’ve read that I can point to and be conscious of its influence.

I watch a lot of movies, as well. What I ended up doing, though, is reading and watching these things and pulling them apart to see what makes them work. I find becoming aware of the power of other mediums and learning what movies can do and what prose can do makes me a lot more aware of my own medium.

I approach every book with the idea of making something that can only work in comics. My ultimate goal is to create a work that can’t be duplicated effectively in any other medium.”

Kindt has been well received by critics with Harvey Award and Eisner Award nominations and Time Magazine’s top 10 (for graphic novels) feature.

Name: “3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man”

Author: Matt Kindt

Publisher: Dark Horse

Publication Date: Sep. 16, 2009 Price: $19.99

Image courtesy of Dark Horse Comics The cover of the graphic novel Kindt said it took a bit skill to get published.

“I had it relatively lucky,” he said. “My first book [Pistolwhip] I completed and had bound and copied, and I took it to San Diego Comic Con and handed it to all the publishers and editors who I thought would be appropriate for the work. I got home, and a week later Top Shelf called with an offer

to publish. It seemed easy, but the key there was to actually complete the entire book first. I was a nobody coming in off the street, so there’s rarely any interest in someone like that until you’ve proved yourself.

Can you complete a fulllength book and make it all work? That first book is hard — you’ve got to finish it and show that you can do

it. After that it gets much easier.”

Overall, this book is a must-read. If you haven’t picked up a comic before, start with this one. It isn’t the typical cheesy superhero comic, but rather a story that has the same impact as a great traditional novel. If you read it and find yourself thirsting for more, the publisher, Dark Horse Comics, offers a mini story of the Giant’s trip to Paris Online at http://www. darkhorse.com.

Megan Myer can be reached at linfieldreviewphotos@gmail.com

Wildcat Word Search

BIKE

COLLABORATIVE

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DEAN

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GRANTS

MASSACRED

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SENATE

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WELLNESS

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Here’s what a real baseball preview looks like

Sports Commentary Alex Harkaway Freelancer The first days of spring: For sportswriters, this is a time to do two things — gloat about their spot-on March Madness brackets and forecast the baseball season. Hmm, it looks as though I can only do one of those things. Kansas, anyone?

Doing a baseball preview is funny. To many media outlets, a baseball preview includes ranking the order that teams will finish in their divisions. Yawn. Everybody and their grandmothers could write that the Phillies will win the NL East, the Marlins and Braves will

fight for second place and the Nationals and Mets will be waiting on Stephen Strasburg (the Nationals for him to debut this year, the Mets for him to hit free agency in 2016). There. By The Oregonian’s standards, I just wrote a baseball preview.

Call me crazy, but I don’t think a baseball preview should have the average reader agreeing with it, if it’s any good. Instead, it should cause readers to scratch their heads, drop their jaws or exclaim, “Alex Harkaway, you are out of your [expletive] mind!” My 2010 baseball predictions are bold, improbable and possibly downright dangerous. They may even be right.

Prediction #1: The Tampa Bay Rays will make the playoffs.

The AL East will again be the most competitive division in baseball, but this year, the Yankees and Red Sox have got company.

The reason is because, this offseason, the Rays finally addressed their bullpen

“Everybody and their grandmothers could write that the Phillies will win the NL East...” issues by trading for closer Rafael Soriano. Mariner fans may remember Soriano as the talented pitcher they gave up for Horacio “7.16 ERA” Ramirez. Last year, Soriano saved 27 games in 31 chances, while the Rays’ relievers blew 22 saves, leading to countless late losses that took them out of the playoff race. With Soriano in place, the Rays will win 95 games. New York and Boston, you’ve been warned.

Prediction #2: More than one hitter will crack 50 home runs.

Not bold enough for you?

Consider that there hasn’t been a 50-home run hitter in two years, and within that span, no American Leaguer has topped 40. Ryan Howard and Mark Reynolds will

go toe-to-toe for the National League lead while Carlos Pena paces the AL. But that is old news. The long ball is so 1998. Pitching and defense are all the rage now, with the defense-rich Mariners becoming a popular chic pick to take their division. Which brings me to my last prediction: Prediction #3: There will be no postseason for Seattle.

After reading a feature article in Sports Illustrated about the Mariners and then seeing the team on the cover of ESPN the Magazine, I began thinking, “Could this be the year the M’s make it back to October?” After all, Seattle’s offseason additions of Cliff Lee, Chone Figgins and Milton Bradley have baseball experts every-

Two wins in last three games provide silver lining - even without netting Four Wildcats convene after a bizarre incident during lacrosse practice April 1.

While preparing for the Pacific University matchup April 6, freshman defender Gabi Nygaard’s netting came undone, bringing smiles to everyone’s faces. The Wildcats have won two of their last three games and are 2-5 overall. Freshman midfielder Mariah Jones leads the ’Cats with 21 goals, while senior goalie Ashley Johnson has recorded 20 saves.

Mariners have had Adrian Beltre, who is a two-time Gold Glove award winner and a fantastic defender in his own right, at third base.

Again, the improvement from last year to this year is minimal.

Finally, there’s Bradley. Mariner fans are glad to have him. After all, he is a solid hitter and a gifted athlete. But last year, his very presence in Chicago was despised to the point that the Cubs jumped at the chance to trade him away — for Carlos Silva, who was so atrocious in Seattle that every Mariner fan reading this column just shuddered at the mention of his name.

And the M’s expect Bradley to serve as their cleanup hitter? They would be better off signing Edgar Martinez.

Martinez references aside, I am willing to bet 778 words that no Mariner fans will agree with my predictions this year. Preview complete. Bring on the baseball.

lon at the NCAA III Indoor Championships on March 12. Lovell also won both the high jump and javelin events at the Frank Haskins Double Dual meet Feb. 28 and broke an 18-year-old school record in the decathlon at the Linfield Multi-Events Invitational on March 23, with a score of 7,125.

Lovell is the favorite to protect his decathlon crown at the outdoor championships in May. But his twin brother, senior Jeremy Lovell, who finished second behind him last season at the championships, will provide ample competition.

Klimek, the record-holder in both the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races, has found success this season, as well.

At the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open on March 21, she won both the 800 and 1,500 races with season-best times of 2:23.18 and 4:51.37, respectively. Klimek also achieved an NCAA-qualifying time in the 5,000 at the Washington invitational earlier in the sea-

son.

Street has racked up many honors herself, despite her lack of experience. This season she broke a 12-year-old pole vault record at the Erik Anderson Memorial Icebreaker at Maxwell Field with a height of 11 feet, 11 ¼ inches, en route to winning the event. Street also shared second place in pole vault at the prestigious Oregon Preview meet in Eugene, Ore., on March 21, and placed fifth at the NCAA III Indoor Championships this year in the same event.

Even before these athletes earned their track and field honors, dozens of Linfield programs recorded exceptional years, including two men and two women being named to the Northwest Conference basketball allstar teams, two football AllAmericans, 14 NWC football all-stars and a softball program that is poised to make a run at another national title.

Continuing a banner year for Linfield athletics, five athletes and coaches on the Wildcat track and field program received regional honors for the 2010 indoor season.

Senior Josh Lovell was named the West Region’s male field athlete of the year, while senior Marci Klimek and sophomore Catherine Street were named the West Region’s female track and field athletes of the year.

Track and field head coach Garry Killgore and assistant coach Travis Olson were named the West Region’s head and assistant coach of the year, respectively.

After capturing the NCAA Division III championship in the 2009 decathlon, Lovell continued to dominate his competitors. He earned a slew of awards this season in addition to his regional accolades, including a secondplace finish in the pentath-

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where talking about an AL West crown. But upon closer inspection, I realized something: The Mariners aren’t any better than they were last year. Take the Lee acquisition, for instance. He is a bona fide ace who is capable of giving his team a chance to win every time he takes the hill. But if Mariner fans are expecting him to take the starting rotation to new heights, then they must have forgotten about the men Lee is replacing: Jarrod Washburn and Erik Bedard. Washburn and Bedard combined to post a sparkling 2.71 ERA for the M’s last year. Lee may have a good year, but he will be hard-pressed to improve on the numbers of his predecessors.

The Figgins signing has drawn almost as much praise as the Lee trade; both Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine detailed how efficient Seattle’s defense should be with Figgins at the hot corner. What they failed to mention was that during the past five seasons, the

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Wildcats catch NWC top spot Kurtis Williams Freelancer After a four-game trip to Spokane, Wash., and a 10-game swing in California, the softball team returned to McMinnville to sweep two Northwest Conference opponents. The wins put the team’s conference record at 11-1, which places it atop the NWC and one game ahead of No. 17 Willamette University.

Before heading to the Golden State, the team recorded three wins out of four games against Whitworth University on March 14 and 15.

Despite losing the first game of the series 2-1, the team bounced back with wins of 10-8, 10-1 and 6-2.

“We’ve been a little bit up and down offensively,” head coach Jackson Vaughan said. “We haven’t peaked yet, which in some ways is a good thing.”

During the matches, freshman first baseman Karleigh Prestianni totaled eight hits and four runs batted in. Sophomore shortstop Stacie Doucette accounted for seven hits and five RBIs, while junior third baseman Emily Keagbine racked up four hits and seven RBI, including a two-homer, six RBI game.

The ’Cats then hit the road for 10 games in six days, starting with a split against California Lutheran University. The ’Cats won the first 4-2 but fell 3-5 in the second. Doucette and sophomore catcher Emilee Lepp each had three RBIs in both games.

Matching up against the No. 18-ranked Claremont

Mudd-Scripps, the Wildcats were defeated twice, 3-7 and 2-3.

For a team with occasionally inconsistent hitting, a team batting average of .351 is impressive.

“To not be hitting well and still be hitting above .350 as a team is impressive,” Vaughan said. “There’s not a lot to complain about if you’re hitting .351 as a team most of the time.”

Doucette agreed, saying hitting is never a constant.

Along with a trip to Disneyland, the team went on to win five of its six games.

In 7-4 and 10-2 wins against the University of Redlands, Doucette hit two home runs — as did Prestianni and sophomore catcher Sami Keim. Both games featured Linfield pitchers, sophomore Lauren Harvey and junior Claire Velaski, who each recorded a complete game.

“The highlight of the Spring Break trip was Redlands,” Vaughan said.

“They’re a perennial playoff team and coming off two losses to Claremont, the kids responded well.”

Linfield went on to win both of its games at the Sun West Tournament, a yearly event held in Orange, Calif., that hosts schools during Spring Break.

On the way to beating Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota 6-0 and Chapman University 5-0, Harvey and Velaski both pitched all seven innings, while both posted complete games, allowing only four hits.

“Our whole pitching staff has done a good job of keeping us in games,” Doucette

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Duc Hoang/Freelancer Senior Samantha Van Noy fires a pitch during the Wildcats’ 17-2 win against Lewis & Clark College. Van Noy has recorded 15 strikeouts for a pitching staff that has an 19-5 record and a 2.38 ERA. said. “If they can keep the games close, usually we’re going to be fine.”

Vaughan said that Harvey and Velaski have solidified themselves as the top starters, with senior Samantha Van Noy and sophomore Brittany Woods stepping in when needed.

The trip ended on a mixed note, an 8-12 loss and a 16-3 win over Whittier College.

A five-run first inning for the Poets led to the Wildcats’ fifth loss of the season.

The last game of the California tour was spurred by a 10-run, seven-error second inning. Prestianni, Doucette and Keagbine each hit two home runs in the doubleheader.

Back in the Northwest,

Linfield, 7-1 in the NWC, faced against NWC undefeated Pacific Lutheran University in a vital conference showdown that Linfield won 10-2.

Scoreless through four and a half innings, the Wildcat bats exploded for seven runs, capped off by a threerun home run by Keagbine.

In the second inning of the second game, Keagbine was pegged with a high and inside pitch that broke her jaw.

Showing her resilience to all in attendance, Keagbine eventually brushed herself off, trotted to first and stayed in the game.

“She got her jaw wired shut,” Vaughan said. “She came back in and finished

the game, which is one of the more impressive things I’ve seen from a kid, toughness wise.”

Linfield went on to win 4-3 but lost its third baseman for at least the April 2 and 3 games against George Fox University and Lewis & Clark College.

“Emily is a huge part of our team,” Doucette said.

“We’re going to miss her, but we can’t really do anything.”

Even without one of its leaders, the ’Cats had little trouble taking two games from the University of Puget Sound, 7-2 and 12-0. Linfield ended the week ranked No. 16 nationally, one spot ahead of Willamette.

Lepp’s two RBIs and sophomore centerfielder

Jaydee Baxter’s two runs supported Velaski, who gave up three hits in seven innings.

Linfield jumped all over UPS pitching in game two, scoring nine runs in the first inning, marked by Baxter’s three-run home run and Prestianni’s two-run single.

Prestianni went on to hit a two-run home run in the third.

Doucette leads the team with 30 RBIs and is tied with Prestianni with nine home runs. Prestianni has recorded a team-high 33 hits.

Linfield will host George Fox on April 2 before heading to Portland to face Lewis & Clark on April 3.

Duc Hoang/Freelancer Junior second baseman Eric Evenson draws a walk during Linfield’s 0-4 loss against Whitworth University on March 27. to McMinnville and held the went four-for-six in those Wildcats to two runs and 10 matchups with two RBIs, as hits in the first two games of Whitworth took the first two the series. games, 3-2 and 4-0.

Pirate sophomore third Brown and Bixenman baseman Landon Scott recorded the only RBIs of the

contests, driving in one run apiece late in the first game.

The series finale was a role-reversal for each team as Wildcat pitching denied the Pirates any runs. In his first start since an early season injury, senior Reese McCulley held Whitworth to six hits in a complete-game shutout.

Linfield attained an early lead after Brow drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the third inning.

With a slight edge heading into the home half of the seventh inning, the Wildcats extended their lead. With a runner on third and two outs, junior third baseman Dustin Smith drove in sophomore pinch runner Jesse Boustead. Brown then delivered an RBI double down the left field line to give Linfield a three-run advantage.

That was all the insurance McCulley needed, as the Pirates were held to only one hit the rest of the game.

According to NCAA.com, as of March 28, the Wildcats are fourth in the nation in doubles (72), eighth in home runs (25) and 10th in total hits (300).

Tyson Smith is ranked third in the country with 21 stolen bases, while Boskovich is sixth in home runs with eight, and Brown is seventh in hits with 45.

The Wildcats will continue conference play April 3 when they travel to Tacoma, Wash., to take on the University of Puget Sound Loggers for a doubleheader.

They will close out the threegame series with a matchup April 5.

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Baseball: Linfield pitching showcases dominance << Continued from page 16 before surrendering a hit to freshman second baseman Galen Duff. Dorn would settle for a three-hit, one-run performance in six innings of work.

Junior Evan Hilberg closed out the Wildcat sweep, allowing only one run and six hits in six innings. He also struck out six Bearcats.

Leading the Linfield onslaught in the third game was senior center fielder Tyson Smith, who recorded four hits in the contest with three RBIs and his conference-leading 19th stolen base. He would add two more in the following weeks — one against Whitman and one in the Whitworth series.

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ued to light up the scoreboard against Whitman, as the Wildcats put up 54 runs in the three-game set, including a season-high 20 scores in the second matchup.

Junior right fielder and catcher Cole Bixenman was a force to be reckoned with as he recorded 10 RBIs in the first two games and delivered two home runs.

Larson, Dorn and Hilberg each earned wins in the series, combining for 12 hits and four runs allowed in 17 innings. The Wildcat bullpen then held the Missionaries to three hits.

Whitman showed signs of life during the first game of the series, tallying five runs with help from senior first baseman Joe Rodhouse.

Just as the ’Cats grabbed a hold of the NWC lead, the Whitworth Pirates traveled

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Senior Wildcats display superiority in meets Nic Miles Sports reporter The track team’s thirst for success seems to go unquenched despite its athletes’ ever-impressive performances and recordbreaking victories this season.

The Wildcats continued an outstanding season at the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open on March 20.

Senior Marci Klimek turned in two season-best times after winning both the 800- and 1,500-meter races.

These times qualify her to run for the Northwest Conference Championships on April 23.

Senior Chris McIsaac also emerged as a Linfield standout. McIsaac, who holds the fastest time in the nation at the Division III level in the 10,000, ran the 5,000 in 15 minutes, 6 seconds, securing the fastest time in the NWC. In the field events, junior Kaycee Hallstrom won both the hammer and the discus.

She finished third in the shot put.

Junior Mike Eldredge won the 400 hurdles with a time of 56.26, which is more than a two-second improvement from his previous personal best of 58.34.

With an aggressive throw of 169 feet, 7 inches, senior

Jeremy Lovell won javelin.

Linfield also hosted a multi-event competition March 22-23 at Maxwell Field.

No strangers to the decathlon, seniors Josh and Jeremy Lovell illustrated their dominance of the field both days.

Scoring 7,125 points, Josh Lovell toppled the 18-yearold Linfield decathlon record of 7,113 points set in 1992.

The Lovell brothers finished first and second in last season’s national championships, and neither is showing any signs of slowing down.

Competing in the women’s heptathlon, sophomore Misty Corwin won her first multi-event competition with 3,774 points. Corwin managed to beat out Lewis & Clark senior Liska Havel by only 34 points.

Freshman Devon Taylor competed in her first heptathlon, scoring 2,940 points, securing a sixth-place finish.

Also making a debut in the decathlon, freshman Ben Wilkinson scored 4,270 and placed ninth.

Although there are still a few teams, such as Willamette University, that Linfield hasn’t faced on the track yet, head coach Garry Killgore said he’s not ner-

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a 73 on the final round to finish as the runner-up with a score of 225. Sophomore Alex Fitch scored 233, which tied him for 11th.

Senior Tyler Nelson shot 236, which tied him for 21st. Kardosky and senior Joel Rychard scored 264 and 248, respectively.

“As Yutaro’s teammate, I was happy to see him play so well,” Kordosky said.

“Originally from California, Yutaro’s parents came to watch him play, which does not happen when we play in the Pacific Northwest. We all know Yutaro has tons of talent, and it was great to see him finish in second place individually. His play gives the whole team more incentive to practice and prepare

for our upcoming tournaments.”

Similar to coaches worth their salt, Copeland sees areas where improvement can happen.

“I would like to see them find the right balance between accuracy and length with their drivers, and to also work hard on their approach shots,” he said. “Overall, it was a great trip, and I think they learned to just keep playing even when things aren’t going well.”

The women’s team did not have an invitational during Spring Break or this week. The teams will resume play April 10-11 in the Northwest Conference Spring Classic at Moses Point Golf Course in Moses Lake, Wash.

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vous.

“The beauty of track and field is that it is very quantitative,” Killgore said.

“It’s pretty easy to compare marks.”

Serving his final season as head coach, Killgore said he anticipates that the team will make an impressive showing at the Northwest Conference Championship, which is only three weeks away.

“We are a team that should be in the top three on both sides,” Killgore said.

“On a great day, the guys could win, and the ladies could certainly challenge to win it.”

Killgore said that a large indicator of how the conference meet will unfold is whether everyone on the team decides to accept that challenge and commit themselves to capturing top honors.

Members of Linfield’s distance crew will head down to Willamette on April 2 to compete in the Willamette Invitational.

The following day, Linfield will host the Jenn Boyman Memorial Invitational at Maxwell Field. Throwing events kick off at 10:30 a.m., and the running events will commence at 11:30 a.m.

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Nic Miles/Sports reporter Junior Mike Eldredge leaps over a hurdle during the Linfield Erik Anderson Memorial Icebreaker on March 6. Eldredge won the 400-meter hurdles at the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open on March 20.

Photos by Bridgette Gigear/Freelancer Sophomore Abby Olbrich (left) unleashes a serve during her 3-6, 1-6 loss against Lewis & Clark College junior Amalia Nilsson on March 14. Olbrich posted a 1-2 singles record since that match as well as a 1-2 doubles record with senior Sallie Katter. Katter (above) also went 1-2 during the women’s three matches against Chapman University, University of La Verne and Pomona-Pitzer College on March 24, 25 and 26, respectively. The men have won four of the last seven matches, including back-to-back victories against Lewis & Clark and the University of Puget Sound on March 26 and 27, respectively.

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Catline Hot NWC start cooled off by Pirates Grant Lucas Sports editor

Northwest Conference standings Baseball Pacific Lutheran 7-2 (16-6) Linfield 9-3 (17-7) George Fox 8-4 (15-9) Puget Sound 5-4 (10-12) Whitworth 5-4 (8-15) Softball Linfield 11-1 (19-5) Willamette 10-1 (18-5) Pacific Lutheran 8-2 (12-5) Pacific 7-3 (12-10) Men’s tennis Whitman Linfield

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Women’s tennis Whitworth Linfield Whitman Willamette

Lewis & Clark

12-0 (14-4) 10-1 (10-4) 9-3 (9-5) 7-3 (7-11) 12-0 (14-3) 9-2 (10-4) 9-3 (11-7) 8-4 (9-6) 8-4 (8-10)

Linfield stays hot Wildcat softball has won nine of its last 10 games and hold the top spot in the Northwest Conference. With the offense contributing more than six runs per game, Linfield’s pitching has had enough insurance to seal each victory as the No. 16 Wildcats continues to overpower their opponents.

See page 14 >> Personal bests set Seniors Marci Klimek and Chris McIsaac set personal records at the last two meets while senior Josh Lovell broke an 18-year-old Linfield record in the decathlon at the Linfield Dec/Hep on March 22 and 23.

See page 15 >> West Region honors athletes Senior Josh Lovell was named the West Region’s male field athlete of the year, while senior Marci Klimek and sophomore Catherine Street earned the region’s track and field athletes of the year, respectively. To add even more honor to the Linfield program, head coach Garry Killgore and assistant coach Travis Olson were named the head and assitant coaches of the year in the West Region, respectively.

See page 13 >> Final Four coverage Although many brackets are busted, The Linfield Review will continue to cover the Final Four in Indianapolis beginning April 3. Visit www.linfieldreview.com to keep up on each semifinal game as well as the national championship April 5.

Duc Hoang/Photographer Junior second baseman Eric Evenson fouls off a Whitworth University pitch during the Wildcats’ 3-2 loss March 27. Evenson finished the game with two hits. After a 4-0 defeat in the second game, the Wildcats bounced back with a 3-0 win behind senior Reese McCulley’s complete-game six-hitter.

After winning eight of its first nine Northwest Conference matchups, the Linfield baseball team dropped two straight against Whitworth University before taking the final game of the series March 27.

Since their 2-1 weekend against the Pacific University Boxers on March 6 and 7, the Wildcats have swept the Willamette Bearcats on March 13 and 14 as well as the Whitman College Missionaries the following week.

Linfield improved to 9-3 in NWC play and 17-7 overall, claiming second place behind Pacific Lutheran University.

Willamette was no match for a potent Wildcat offense March 13 and 14, as Linfield outscored its opponent 34-3 in the three-game series.

Senior shortstop Kelson Brown paced the ’Cats with seven hits and 11 RBIs, including his fourth and fifth home runs.

Sophomore outfielder Zach Boskovich added two long balls, as well, in the series, increasing his season total to a team-leading six homers.

The Linfield pitching staff overpowered Willamette batters all weekend. Sophomore Ryan Larson started the first game and dealt a complete-game, seven-hit shutout while fanning six hitters.

In Game 2, senior Garrett Dorn took the mound and continued the Wildcat dominance. Dorn carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning >> Please see Baseball page 14

CLU Invitational proves successful Their fifth-place performance leaves the ’Cats confident that they can compete with the nation’s best.

Justin Derby Sports reporter The Linfield men’s golf team finished in fifth place out of 15 teams in the California Lutheran Invitational, hosted by Cal Lutheran University at the La Purisima Golf Course on March 29 and 30.

The Wildcats scored 626 after 36 holes on day one, which put them in fourth place at the time. The Wildcats then scored 316 in the final 18 holes on day 2, giving them a team score of 942. The Master’s College scored 940, University of La Verne had 935, University of Redlands scored 933 and Claremont MuddScripps earned 918.

“Compared to day one, the team did about the same on day two,” senior Tony Kordosky said.

“The weather conditions were not as cooperative as they had been on day one, but coming from Oregon, we did not let a little rain bother us. Although we could have done much better, we were able to stay in contention on day two and come out with a respectable team finish.”

The invitational displayed the Wildcats’ skill on the difficult course. The La Purisima Golf Course is long and filled with sand, water and trees. It featured hills with uneven slopes, which made the greens tough.

“The course just doesn’t allow you to take a shot off,” head coach Greg Copeland said. “You have to be committed to every shot and have the confidence to execute under pressure. There is not an easy hole in the whole course.”

Copeland said the team’s performance in the tournament was a positive sign for the future.

“It tells me that we can compete with anyone,” he said. “Claremont, Redlands and Laverne are some of the best teams in the country, and we hung right there with them. I think the guys are understanding that they are good and will gain confidence from competing against this level of competition.”

Senior Yutaro Sakamoto shot a >> Please see Golf page 15

Photo courtesy of Brad Thompson Senior Tyler Nelson escapes trouble as he hits out of a bunker during one of his five first-place finishes this season.