The Linfield Review - Issue 18

Sound off at Puget Track and field athletes earn recognition, break personal records at invitational >> Please see page 15

April 9, 2010

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Chelsea Langevin Senior reporter Nearly 2 million young adults nationwide will be able to return to their parents’ health insurance policies until age 26 by September 2010.

After 14 months of passionate arguments across party lines, the federal government signed the Patient Protection and Affordability Act into law March 30. The act formalized President Barack Obama’s effort to extend affordable health care coverage to all Americans by insuring roughly 32 million Americans.

In Oregon, there are about 60,000

students who are eligible to move back onto their parents’ plans. Young adults qualify for this extension as long as they do not have access to insurance through their employer.

However, this only applies if they are college student.

“I think this legislation is an intelligent way to cover a group that’s often looked over,” Wu said.

The new federal law provides a minimum form of dependent coverage for all states. Before the reform, states such as Alabama, California >> Please see Bill page 4

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Hewitt intruder causes alarm Joshua Ensler News editor

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health care Health care reform sends students back to insurance-policy nest

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Government now issues student loans Shawn Fisher News reporter When President Barack Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Bill into law March 30, the federal government became the primary lender of student loans.

In past years, banks were the common lenders of student loans. Now, as stated in the bill, the government will lend money directly to college students for all federal loans.

The Linfield Financial Aid Office made >> Please see Loans page 4

Congressman visits for ‘Pizza & Politics’

An unidentified man trailed a student into Hewitt Hall on April 4, throwing the residents into confusion.

The man, according to a Linfield College Community Public Safety & Security press release, was not a Linfield student. It is unknown why he was in Hewitt, but witnesses said he was banging on doors and trying to get into the study room at the end of the second-floor hallway.

Freshman Carley Lukes, a Hewitt resident, learned about the intruder when she returned from brunch at Dillin Hall. She discovered her hallmates in an uproar.

“They were freaking out,” she said. “They said a creepy guy with no shoes on was in the hall.”

Lukes said she went to the kitchen to warn her friends of the stranger, convincing one of them, freshman Amy Bumatai, to lock the door to her room on the third floor.

Bumatai said she left her keys inside the room, which forced her to retrieve them before she could lock the door. When she opened her door, she said she found the man sitting in her chair.

“I screamed really loud, and we went downstairs and called campo,” she said.

Bumatai said the man was >> Please see Intruder page 6

Should ASLC spend student money to build a sand volleyball court?

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What volleyball court?

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53% Megan Myer/Photo editor Congressman David Wu talks with junior Katie Paysinger (middle right) and senior Chelsea Langevin (middle) and others in the Austin Reading Room of Nicholson Library on April 6. Wu discussed the health care bill while enjoying pizza.

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Parkour, a high-energy sport of acrobatic leaps and rolls, reaches Linfield. >> Please see page 8-9

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April 9, 2010

EDITORIAL

Volleyball court is sandtrap for student funds The Associated Students of Linfield College recently enacted a plan to construct a sand volleyball court near Mahaffey Hall. We believe this decision, although made with good intentions, holds little benefit to the majority of students.

Senior ASLC President Ashlee Carter said in an interview that students were surveyed at the beginning of the year to see what kind of project they wanted, and a majority voted to have something done with the Observatory. To our surprise, Carter said the faculty has taken over the future of the Observatory (something we will certainly look into).

With the option of the project fund going toward the Observatory ruled out, ASLC considered other options, such as building basketball courts, a sand volleyball court and a rock climbing wall.

Carter said that a sand volleyball court was the most feasible option, explaining that the location for the proposed rock wall wouldn’t work well.

“When we looked more into it, the sand volleyball court was something we knew we could get done in our budget, [and] we could get [it] done by the time our cabinet was done,” Carter said.

One of last year’s cabinet’s ideas was to renovate the Fred Meyer Lounge, but it was turned down because it was outside of ASLC’s budget.

We, however, feel it is unwise to rule out ideas because they are not within a current budget or can’t be completed by the end of a school year. There’s something to be said about seeing something come to fruition during your year in charge, but that shouldn’t blind you to long-term planning. Sometimes, it’s better to start a big project rather

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Carter said a past ASLC project was to renovate the Pioneer Reading Room. The project was out-ofbudget at the time.

“They had to get a loan type of thing, and cabinet last year had agreed that each year’s cabinet will pay for a certain part of it,” she said.

The logic behind this past renovation was clear: It prioritized completing a project above the budget in a timely fashion by taking out a loan for the project and paying it back over time.

Renovating the FML was out of last year’s budget, but so was renovating the Pioneer Reading Room.

Why not take out a loan to renovate the FML? Obviously we can’t be taking out loans left and right, but this doesn’t mean the idea should not be given thoughtful consideration.

ASLC essentially has three options: spend the entire budget on completing something now, invest the entire budget in a project to be completed in the future or take out a loan to complete a bigger project sooner. While the first option has its merits, ASLC should be open to the latter two options as they allow for larger projects to be undertaken.

Following this line of thinking, we feel that ASLC needlessly ruled out project plans that could have been more useful.

A sand volleyball court certainly has its uses, but it primarily benefits athletes (specifically volleyball players) and sports-interested individuals. But what about non-athletes?

Shouldn’t such a project, funded by student body fees, benefit as many students as possible?

On top of that, this particular project seems to be spearheaded by Athletic Director Scott Carnahan. “[Carnahan] is the one who’s

going to talk to the excavating company to actually dig the hole, and he has someone to get the sand donated, and so he’s kind of taken the lead on most of the project,” Carter said. “We don’t even know if they’re going to need much of our cabinet project funding.”

If this is the case, then why not just make this completely an athletic department project? Let’s leave projects only benefitting athletes to the athletic department, especially when they’re the ones providing most of the funding.

This court could only really be used for the three drier months out of the school year: September, April and May. Even then, it could only be used on days without rain, anyway.

ASLC has put thought into this and plans to keep the court covered when it is not in use (which also prevents the court from being turned into a litter box for Linfield’s native wildlife). It also plans to install a drainage system under the court for when it rains. It’s good that ASLC has looked into these potential problems, but we believe that should be the extent of ASLC’s involvement with the project, as the athletic department seems capable of taking care of most of it.

Obviously, most of the cabinet fund will not be used on this project, but rather than simply letting the money roll over, let’s think about what we can do with it now: In regards to the potential leftover money, Carter said, “We can also look into other smaller projects around campus that we know students [want] improved.”

We agree, but we would add that this discussion should be happening now as the year is almost wrapping up, leaving us short on time, and that this money does not have to be limited to smaller projects.

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Some relatively simple projects that would help everyone would be removing the school’s old chalkboards. Adding more benches across campus is another easy project that has been brought up.

It’s OK to think big, too, as long as it’s rational. Renovating the FML is something that could be done. We could also start investing in a separate student union. Or how about getting back that bowling alley we apparently used to have?

While we aren’t trying to be confrontational, we are being critical.

This discussion needs to be happening among students now. When ASLC realized after its survey that it could not re-open the Observatory, students should have received another survey with new options to think about or at least have been notified of the decision.

ASLC needs to figure out what most of the students want and work toward that, even if it might not be in this year’s budget or the immediate future.

ASLC uses our money; let’s make sure it’s being spent the way the majority of us want it to be spent.

-The Review Editorial Board Listen to the interview with Carter at www.linfieldreview.com.

A tale of two majors and several scheduling conflicts

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Jordan Jacobo “Waiting for Godot” During the fall of my sophomore year, as spring registration loomed over me, I made a big decision - one that changed the likely course my life would take. I decided to become an English major. But changing the course of your life is not without its share of necessary adjustments.

Or should I say problems? What would I do about mass communication, my existing course of study?

The study of journalism interested me, and I enrolled at Linfield with plans of becoming a reporter afterward, but now I wanted something different. I wanted to teach English to high school students, to spread the word about words, the commotion about commas.

I decided that becoming a double major was the best action to take.

I loved journalism, but I wasn’t in love with it; I wanted to let it down easy, to remain friends. After all, the all-seeing eyes of the mass media control nearly every word, sound and image we experience outside of our own perception. With the

24-hour news cycle and endless avenues of technological innovation, the media shape our world and, consequently, our paradigms.

But no, that life wasn’t for me. I wanted to study the oldest mass medium: books.

Now, with senior year registration fast approaching, comes the reckoning. For the last year and a half, I tried not to think about scheduling conflicts, about pre-requisites put aside. I tried to think that everything would work itself out.

But now, I’m having some conflicts. Literally. History of American Mass Media, a senior year capstone course for mass communication majors, is being taught at the same time as Critical Methods of Literary Study, a course English majors are supposed to take during sophomore year. Unfortunately for me, I couldn’t take Methods then — it conflicted with Information Gathering, another required course for mass communication. This past fall, during the final offering of Methods, I was studying abroad.

I planned on the possibility of taking the class this spring, but, alas, I couldn’t. It wasn’t available.

What I’ve come to realize about double-majoring is that it isn’t easy to do at Linfield — especially if you don’t decide to do so until midway through sophomore year. It seems as though requisite courses always

conflict, and they aren’t offered nearly as often as one would hope.

Many of the classes I’ve taken are just once a year, with no alternate courses. It’s possible to do, but it’s not a stroll through the park.

Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t leave my course selections up to the winds of chance. I studied my course catalog; I tried to take everything at the proper time, but it just didn’t work out. Now I have some real problems to solve. I’ll either have to take History of Mass Media from another college (and fork over the cost of enrolling in the course, which I really can’t afford) or convince my professor to let me do an independent study and work with him individually. I’m still waiting to

hear from him: He’s on sabbatical.

Registration is April 12, and as of this writing I still haven’t figured out what my plan is. I’ll probably be spending the coming weeks figuring out some attendance arrangements with my professors. It all depends on how my scheduling conflicts are handled, which makes me realize that, for all the effort I put into planning out my two majors, there was nothing I could do to prevent this from happening.

Such is the plight of the double major. I guess it’s what I signed up for.

Read Jordan’s weekly blog at www.linfieldreview.com.

Jordan Jacobo can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com

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Exposure to war provides critical information

Colin Jones Club Director Hey Linfield!

There’s been some great stuff going on with Senate and Cabinet this week and some fantastic events coming up!

Also in Senate, the Good News Committee announced that Bradley Keliinoi is this week’s Wildcat of the Week. They recognized him as an extremely active and outspoken Senator who has been working hard on behalf of the student body. They also commended his work as the chair of the Elections Committee.

The ASLC Cabinet has also been working hard. We’ve received the support we need from the Athletic Director to start breaking ground on the sand volleyball court announced earlier this year; we will keep you updated as things move along. In addition to that, Cabinet is working with ITS to overhaul the campus-wide email system. Starting very soon, you will no longer receive event emails from Jeff Mackay, unless they’re related to Residence Life.

Instead, events will be consolidated into a weekly email which will include all the exciting things happening that week and an occasional email from ASLC for the bigger events (Wildstock, Hawaiian Club Lu’au, ASLC Elections, ZTA Duck Derby, etc).

We hope this will cut down on the amount of “junk” mail that you get while still ensuring that you know what’s going on each week.

Senate approved my proposed Cabinet in a unanimous vote. They will be: Arielle Perkins, VP of Business and Finance; Nicole Bond, VP of Programming; Sophie Larson, Secretary; Keevin Craig, Club Director; Wil Hiles, Sports Director; Bri Reichelt, Publicity Director; and Evan Hilberg, Student Center Director.

Cabinet is moving towards the May 1st changeover, the new VP of Programming will start hiring the Linfield Activities Board. If you are interested in serving on ASLC’s programming board as the Music, Special Events, Health & Outdoor Programming, Off-Campus, or Cultural Events Chairperson, be sure to get your application (in the form of resume and cover letter) to Nicole at nbond@linfield. edu by 5pm on Tuesday, April 13th. If you have questions about the positions, check out the LAB website at: www.linfield.edu/ aslc/lab. The VP of Business & Finance is also hiring. If you are interested in serving as the Business Manager for next year, send your resume and cover letter to arperkin@linfield.edu.

Questions can be directed to Chris McIsaac or Arielle Perkins.

I hope you all have a great week. Be sure to take advantage of the professional comedian on Saturday, April 10th and the professional Cat Cab on Thursday, April 15th (as well as all the other great events going on this week)!

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Braden Smith Apparently not.

On April 5, WikiLeaks.org, a Web site that advocates freedom of information by posting documents leaked to them anonymously, posted a 2007 video taken from an Apache helicopter. The video shows the U.S. military in Baghdad gunning down about 12 Iraqis, two of which may have been journalists from the Reuters news agency. Two children were also wounded in the engagement.

The pilots in the attack seemed to think the targets were holding weapons, but it turned out that they may have only been holding camera equipment. Looking at the video, it is admittedly not clear, but that should be reason enough not to engage the “targets.”

I think our military made a mis-

take in this situation. While the contents of the video seem to be the most contested of this issue, I think another important issue is the leak and nature of the video itself.

Soon after the leak, a number of news organizations acquired the video and showed edited versions to viewers. Suffice it to say that the video has been widely publicized.

In my Information Ethics class, we discussed the ethical implications of the video. Is this information vital to the public, or does it undermine our faith in the military and its operations? Do we really need to see these disturbing images?

Opinions varied in class, but to all these questions, I firmly answer yes.

This information is vital to the public because we need to know what our military is doing, even down to the gritty details. As a voting, tax-paying citizen, I hold myself personally responsible for all the actions of our military, which, like our government, is supposed to serve us, the public.

In the same way that I want to know as much as I can about what my government is doing, I also want to know just as much about my military.

I also agree that these images undermine confidence in the military, but maybe our military does not always deserve our complete confidence. When our military kills civilians (inadvertently or otherwise), isn’t it natural to have our confidence in it shaken?

I would like to have faith in my military, but I will not put blind faith in it. War is a serious act to be engaged in and deserves our full attention. It is complicated, and while I would rather us not be engaged in war at all, we need to make sure that we carry out this war as intelligently as possible.

I take this as one of my responsibilities as a citizen. To carry out this task, information such as this video is important for me to have access to.

This is not to say that we should be overexposed to such images or that they should be sensationalized. The public deserves access

to such information, but it does not need to be shoved down our throats. I am fine with the video being broadcast, as long as some form of critical analysis, even if it’s biased, appears with it. The video should not simply be paraded about because it contains graphic content. News should appeal to the analytical portion of our minds, not the portion that likes to slow down and stare at traffic accidents.

I should also note that the U.S. government in no way tried to cover up this information to prevent its leak. I am just speaking to those who would argue against releasing and publicizing such information.

Videos such as the one leaked are unsettling but important for us to watch. Naturally, we want to avoid being disturbed, especially by images that we are responsible for, but if we simply devote ourselves to avoiding unsettling scenes in life, we may lose sight of big problems in the world.

Braden Smith can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com

OPINION

Giving back after passing on: a cause for organ donation

Amanda Summers This one’s for Eva. There are people who change lives, and there are people who save lives. Also, there are people who do both. There are people who fight until the end for the things they are passionate about.

When such people leave this earth, others must continue the fight.

An incredible person passed away March 27, 2010. Eva Markvoort was an inspiration to many as an advocate for organ donation and cystic fibrosis awareness. She encouraged all near her to love and appreciate every breath.

In 2007, Eva received a double lung transplant and was given a second chance at life. She could finally do things she had only dreamt of. Because of this, she did not leave this earth without first getting the chance to fully

live before going into chronic rejection.

All the work she did cannot be forgotten and must be continued.

In honor of Eva, I advocate for organ donation and am presently working on contacting organizations that focus on this cause.

Are you registered to be an organ donor?

Nobody likes to talk or think about the fact that someday each and every one of us will die. However, your last act could be that of saving several lives. If someone else can get a second chance at life by receiving my organs when I can no longer use them, then they are more than welcome to them.

The way I see it, no matter the circumstances of your passing, some good can be gleaned from it if you are an organ donor. Why not allow your death to provide new life? Recycling is rather popular these days; organs should not be forgotten in this regard.

According to the Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank Web site, one donor can save or enhance as many as 50 lives. Solid organs (the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas and intestines) can help

up to eight people. Whether your organs are fit for transplant use is determined at time of death, so individuals are encouraged to register as organ donors regardless of current health problems.

As of April 8, there were 106,913 organ transplant waiting list candidates in the United States according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. OPTN also reports that 2,198 transplants were performed this year as of April 2. Of these, 1,682 were from deceased donors and 516 were from living donors.

A living donor may donate bone marrow, one kidney or a partial liver, pancreas or lung. Blood is also included in living donation.

The shortage of organs is a problem. The only long-term solution is for more people to become donors. According to Donate Life America, another name is added to the national organ transplant list every 11 minutes. On average, 18 people die each day because of the lack of organs for transplant.

Donor registration varies from state to state.

According to Donate Life Northwest, Oregon residents can register to become organ donors

one of three ways. Option one is through the Department of Motor Vehicles when you renew or receive a driver’s license or identification card. In Oregon, your decision to register as an organ donor will be shown as the letter “D” on your license, permit or identification card. However, this does not pertain to whole-body, blood or bone marrow donations.

Other states, such as Washington, place a heart on your license or ID instead of a letter. My New Mexico license has a nice little heart on it for the same purpose.

Another way to join the Donor Registry is online at www. donatelifenw.org.

Third, you can download a paper form from Donate Life Northwest’s Web site or request one by calling 800-452-1369.

For information on how to register in other states, visit www. donatelife.net.

April is National Donate Life Month. Show your support for organ donation by registering today. It only takes a few minutes to register, but it will give someone another chance at life.

Amanda Summers can be reached at linfieldreviewcopy@gmail.com

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Budget breakdown: the ins and outs of the college budget As reported in the April 2 issue of the Review, tuition, along with other fees, are on the rise.

This week’s issue delves deeper into those increases, along with the budget process.

Dominic Baez Editor-in-chief Tuition: 5.35 DCE per-credit: 9.4 Jan. Term per-credit: 5.9 Board: 4 Residence halls: 5 HP apartments: The above percentages are the increases that will help keep the college operating in 2010-11.

However, these are the same increases that will affect every Linfield student: at the McMinnville campus, the Portland nursing campus or those taking courses through the Division of Continuing Education.

And despite recently passed federal legislation affecting student loans and other forms of repayment for college students, they will be more hardpressed than ever to fork over enough money to attend college.

Even with unfunded student financial aid increasing 11.1 percent to $18.5 million, students, at face value, will still have to contend with a 1.9 percent increase in tuition alone, not to mention room and board (and January Term, if applicable) fees.

However, these decisions were made neither lightly nor quickly. The process is a tedious and headache-inducing endeavor.

The Process To kick-start this process, college officials request that each college department compiles a budget for the following year.

These proposals are then sent to the Budget Advisory Committee, a group of 12 numbers, including W. Glenn Ford, vice president for finance and administration and chief financial

officer; Victoria McGillian, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty; and senior Chris McIsaac, ASLC vice president of business and finance.

McIsaac serves as the student representative for the BAC. “I was involved to the extent that every other member was,” McIsaac said. “Other members of the BAC were responsive and respectful of my thoughts.

I felt that the budget that the president’s cabinet gave us was a good budget, and there was nothing to change. The BAC understood that I was representing the student body — without the students, there is no college, which meant my voice was important.

I attended every meeting [starting in December], the open budget forums and the presentations to the Portland and McMinnville [campuses].”

The BAC then reviews the proposed cabinet budget and makes recommendations, which are sent back to the college president.

McIsaac said the majority of the work was completed during January, culminating in about 20 hours of work.

In a rare moment of perfect harmony, both the BAC and the cabinet proposed the same budget for next year.

From there, the proposal returns to the president, where it is then sent to the board of trustees for final approval.

Breakdown In an effort to inform students of the budget, Ford presented it to the ASLC Senate on March 29.

Despite a lack of hardhitting, in-depth questions from senators or students,

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the presentation provided a much-needed sense of transparency regarding the college budget.

According to the PowerPoint presentation, the college is expecting revenue of $54,842,707 next year from $54,630,580 last year, an increase of 4.2 percent.

Specific revenue for next year’s budget include: tuition, $40,367,638 (73.6 percent of the budget); residence halls and dining, $8,600,454 (16.6 percent); other (not specified), $3,708,667 (6.8 percent); endowment draws, $879,000 (1.6 percent); and gifts to the college, $800,000 (1.5 percent).

Expenses will total $55,192,707 for next year, $350,000 more than what is expected to be earned through revenue.

College officials are planning on spending $36,243,150 (65.7 percent of the budget) on personnel costs alone, an increase of more than $1 million from last year (3.01 percent).

Aditional expenses include: operating costs, $10,874,288 (19.7 percent); other expenses (not specified), $4,086,853 (7.4 percent); debt service and capi-

tal, $3,588,416 (6.5 percent); and reserve, $400,000 (0.7 percent).

Overall, expenses for the 2010-11 year will increase 4.18 percent, or $2,212,127.

An expected $350,000 gap (more expenses than revenue) for the 2010-11 year will be covered by onetime dollars set aside in an enrollment stabilization reserve fund, Ford said.

During 2009-10, expenses also exceeded revenue by $350,000. While budgeted revenue for 2010-11 is increasing by 0.2 percent more than expenses this year, this does not mean that Linfield will have greater revenue.

“I was not disappointed with anything because I thought we did a thorough job of combing through the budget and making sure we discussed everything,” McIsaac said. “The rise in tuition is pretty standard for most colleges.”

For more information about the college budget, contact Ford at gford@linfield.edu.

A Q&A session with Ford will be in next week’s issue.

Dominic Baez can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com

and Hawaii, did not have state laws requiring extended dependent coverage to young adults.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius will create a standard definition for “dependent” to eliminate inconsistencies among states based on tax status or residency.

Graduating students who are covered by the school health insurance plan should check with the school to determine if coverage ends after graduation or continues until the next calendar year.

In order to provide coverage for dependents, employees will have to share part of the premium with the employer, who is paying the rest.

However, this law does not include expansions for dental and vision benefits. Instead, the insurance companies and states will determine eligibility and the degree of coverage.

“No piece of legislation solves all problems,” Wu said. “This will move young people ahead significantly.”

The act marks a significant milestone in the health care overhaul, as 95 percent of Americans will now have access to affordable coverage.

Since 1912, beginning with Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Agenda, presidents have fought for more comprehensive health care coverage.

“It’s been a longtime coming,” Wu said.

The federal government will require all people to obtain minimal health care coverage by 2014.

The act will limit the cost of premiums and cost-sharing for those people who earn wages less than four times of the federal poverty

line. The act also improves employee responsibility provisions by removing debilitating stipulations, such as the 60- and 90-day waiting period.

“I do think that 50 years from now, this legislative effort will stand alongside the GI Bill in importance, and people will wonder why America was the last industrial country to do this,” Wu said.

For small businesses providing coverage, the act requires states to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange to assist them.

By 2014, the act will extend Medicaid coverage to qualifying low-income individuals under 65 years old. The law also removed lifetime caps, meaning a policy will not be canceled simply because someone requires expensive medical treatment.

By September, the new law will stop insurance companies from rejecting children for coverage simply because of pre-existing conditions.

Wu said that the legislation is perhaps more important to the 200 million Americans who already have coverage because they do not have to worry about their families going bankrupt for pre-existing conditions.

“A lot of people say, ‘I would change my job, but I can’t because my son has diabetes,’” Wu said. “Taking away that uncertainty is important.”

For more information about how the act affects current students and young adults in general, visit w w w. y o u n g i n v i n c i b l e s . org/cover.html.

This is the first part in a three-part series regarding the new health care legislation. Next week will focus on effects on students.

Chelsea Langevin can be reached at linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com

Loans: Students must sign new Master Promissory Note << Continued from page 1 the transition to using only government-issued loans this year but the new law will go into effect July 1.

“We saw it coming,” Loan Coordinator Sharon Sweeney said. “Other schools waited until they were forced to switch, and now some of them are scrambling to make the change.”

About 80 percent of stu-

dent loans were funded by the government before the measure was passed. Many banks stopped loaning to students in recent years, Sweeney said.

The change was a “switch to cut out unnecessary middlemen,” Obama said during a speech at Northern Virginia Community College on March 30.

The government will no longer be required to pay subsidies to banks for col-

lege loans or pay off debt from students who default on loans. The change will save the government an estimated $68 billion during the next 11 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

“If the money saved that goes back to the government is going to be dispersed in the form of other financial aid, then I think that’s a good thing,” junior Klya Iveans said.

Iveans transferred to Linfield this fall and uses loans to help pay for tuition.

The savings by the federal government will be used to allocate more funds to community colleges, more Pell Grants and more subsidized loans to students and establish relaxed repayment terms to borrowers, Sweeney said.

The only change students may have noticed because of the switch was the need to

fill out a new Master Promissory Note to receive loans.

“It doesn’t affect eligibility, interest, the terms of loans or anything else,” Sweeney said.

Students with Stafford Loans who are graduating this spring will be asked to attend an exit counseling meeting May 6, she said.

The switch may also affect how students pay back loans, Sweeney said.

Students may have to pay

back two lenders — the government and the banks that issued older loans — instead of using one payment plan.

But the biggest effect of the change will be the impact on banks and other financial institutions, such as Sallie Mae, one of the largest lenders of student loans.

“A lot of people stand to lose jobs because of this,” Sweeney said.

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Senate approves new Cabinet, diploma resolution Dominc Baez Editor-in-chief Wearing Hawaiian attire and devouring pizza, the Associated Students of Linfield College Senate unanimously approved the candidates for the 2010-11 ASLC Cabinet, asking few questions throughout the discussion.

At the April 5 meeting, junior ASLC President-elect Colin Jones reintroduced his choices for the new ASLC Cabinet. Nearly the only concerns raised were from senior Jake Masin, through a letter to his senator, who voiced concerns regarding why more people, especially the outgoing president and vice president, weren’t involved in the interview process.

Jones answered by saying that asking for help is a yearby-year decision, based on whether the incoming president needs the advice. He said he was comfortable in the interviews, so he did not have seniors ASLC President Ashlee Carter or Vice President Chris Norman present

Victor Zhu/Photographer The new Associated Students of Linfield College Cabinet pose for a photo April 5.

Approval of the cabinet was unanimous and en bloc. at interviews.

Masin also complained that sophomore Bradley Keli’inoi, current ASLC Senate elections/campus safety chairman, was not appointed to a cabinet position despite his experience.

Masin, through his letter, said that lackluster constituency reports and non-updated Senate meetings minutes fail to inform students of senate happenings. ASLC has posted this week’s minutes to www.linfield.edu/aslc/min-

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utes after nearly a month of neglecting the update.

Jones rebutted, saying that the information is in the ASLC Notes and in a story in the Review (“Ford, Fergueson shed light on tuition increase, student survey at ASLC Senate,” TLR, April 2, 2010).

Adding to the conversation, Carter said that positions such as business manager and assistant to the secretary are meant to groom future prospects for cabinet

positions, but if those people aren’t appointed to those positions, then the purpose is defeated.

Jones said that, while he took experience into consideration, he hired using a more holistic approach.

Although someone asked what would happen if the Senate did not approve the candidates, senators voted unanimously for the cabinet choices. The vote was also done en bloc, without any questions or debate pertain-

ing to the individuals themselves.

The 2010-11 ASLC Cabinet comprises: •Vice president of business and finance: junior Arielle Perkins •Vice president of programming: junior Nicole Bond •Secretary: senior Sophia Larson •IM sports director: sophomore William Hiles •Student center director: junior Evan Hilberg •Club director: freshman Keevin Craig •Publicity director: junior Brianna Reichelt After cabinet matters wrapped up, Jones spoke about 12 club re-charters.

All re-charters were granted unanimously, also en masse.

Re-chartered clubs included Outdoor, Tennis, Lacrosse and Math clubs.

After weeks of waiting for enough senators to turn in constituency reports, Senate was finally able to vote on the diploma proclamation.

(Faculty is considering sending diplomas to graduating seniors after Commence-

ment.) For those who voted, it was unanimous in favor of the proclamation, which frowned on the faculty’s train of thought. Only senators who turned in their constituency reports were allowed to vote.

In a special report, officials of Linfield’s sustainability club, Greenfield, explained a resolution it wanted Senate to approve regarding the closing of the Boardman Coal Plant. The plant is scheduled to close in 2020, but the resolution aims to encourage a closing date of 2014.

During Hot Topics, in which senators bring concerns about the college to the Senate floor, one issue stuck out: the renovation to the weight room. Senators asked who was in charge of the changes and what happened to the equipment that was removed.

Beginning in its next issue, the Review will feature profiles of the new cabinet members.

Read the live Senate blog at www.linfieldreview.com.

Dominic Baez can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com

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It’s all Greek to me

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Bridgette Gigear/Freelancer Top left: Phi Sigma Sigma members cheer Delta Psi Delta members during Field Day in which they took first place overall in the Greek Week day’s competitions.

Top right: Sophomore Alpha Phi Sorority members Gretchen George and Lindsey Thomas compete in the April 5 Walk-a-thon.

Bottom left: Greek members compete in orange necking, a Field Day event April 6.

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Vietnamese chef brings Asian flair to Dillin

Megan Myer/Photo editor Chef Mai Pham (left) prepares meals for students in Dillin Hall on April 6.

Students formed long lines to sample her meals. Pham owns the Lemon Grass Asian Grill and Noodle Bar in San Francisco and is the author of “Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table,” a cookbook of Vietnamese-inspired meals.

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“I kicked in my door, like usual, and he didn’t even flinch,” she said. “He just sat there, staring at the wall.

He didn’t even look at me.”

Robert Cepeda, director of LCCPS, released an incident notification the day of the intrusion.

He warned that students should be more alert to people “tailgating” — following students into buildings, a common practice among students at Linfield after they unlock the door with their ID cards.

Cepeda said that it’s common for students to allow “tailgaters” inside.

“You don’t even think about it when people follow you in,” freshman Amy Bassett said.

Freshman Alayna Marten said that the man told police that Anthony Hopkins let him in.

Bassett said that the man was laughing when he was taken away in an ambulance.

“It looked like he was on something,” Marten said.

The man was seen earlier April 4.

Freshman Nic Miles, sports reporter for the Review, said he saw him tailgate into Mahaffey Hall sometime in the morning.

“He followed [a student] after she opened the door,”

he said. “I saw him standing in the lounge. I went to my room to grab something, and he disappeared.”

Miles said he did not know if the man actually left the building during the short time he was away from the lounge.

Sophomore Blair Schuar said he saw him outside Mahaffey and said he though it was odd though he took no action.

Schuar described him as “shifty” and said he did not look like a Linfield student.

The incident was resolved when LCCPS called the McMinnville police.

Joshua Ensler can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

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Pump it up A true passion for teaching, athletic training and helping others led alumnus Frank Baumholtz to open a performance training facility in McMinnville.

By Septembre Russell/Copy chief

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lot of people don’t know how to move. It’s not because they can’t, it is because they forget how.”

For two months now, those who have forgotten how to move have been given a reason to remember. The reason comes in the form of certified personal trainer Frank Baumholtz, class of ’95, who explained that sedentary lifestyles and work environments cause muscles to shut off and forget how to work. He knows that it is important that those muscles need to receive a wake-up call.

Inside of his 1st Street training facility, MVP Performance Training, where he works with the general fitness population and even a professional baseball player, you won’t find treadmills or an elliptical. There are no machines — just Baumholtz and his get-up-and-go attitude, a mentality summarized by his own words: “Get on your feet, move and shake. Get your butt movin’.”

Baumholtz is athletic-minded, he said. He was a dual-sport athlete, playing baseball and football at Linfield during a time when Riley Student Center and Walker Hall were still one building.

Baumholtz received physical education and athletic training degrees from Linfield.

Photo courtesy of Frank Baumholtz Three of Baumholtz’s clients follow a tailored fitness plan.

Photo courtesy of Frank Baumholtz One of Baumholtz’s clients performs abdominal excersizes.

While his involvement in sports provides insight into the plight of an athlete, his master’s degree in education and minor in movement studies in disabilities from Oregon State University only solidifies his background. Baumholtz has been a personal trainer since 2006 and has been teaching physical education at Newberg High School for 15 years. In 2009, he was named Oregon Teacher of the Year.

Educating and training truly delight him. It is evident within his eager eyes, which display his readiness to learn what your goals are, where you are in terms of physical capability and how to teach and train you using a program that he tailors to the specific needs of those he works with.

“My mission is that I want to help aspiring individuals meet whatever their goals are,” Baumholtz said. “Helping people and seeing their reaction to meeting those goals is the rewarding aspect.”

Inside MVP, you will not find any mirrors, either. The space takes on a tone far different from that of a typical gym.

Baumholtz doesn’t deny that there are other places to work out; he also realizes that not everyone knows how to exercise.

“What if you’re intimidated?” he questions.

“What if you aren’t comfortable running on a treadmill in front of the window?”

Baumholtz said that he typically works with groups of four to five people. Having a smaller group offers a more inviting vibe.

“They work hard, no doubt, but the atmosphere is electric,” he said.

People find themselves joking while they’re working out. They talk about other topics such as their families, all as a result of the intimate atmosphere that surrounds them. No one has to worry about anything except their objectives, and Baumholtz has that under control.

“People told me I was crazy to start a business right now,” he said.

The disbelief did little to smite his determination. His goal and his passion were the forces that drove him to establish MVP. He knew there were people who wanted his help and that he just needed to get the word out.

Although the landlord of the building that houses MVP prohibits him from placing a sign in front of the training facility, there is one along the building’s side. If you look for it, it’s not hard to see. You may have driven or walked right past it. It’s just beyond the railroad tracks on 1st Street.

Photo courtesy of Frank Baumholtz Frank Baumholtz, class of ’95, directs two of his clients in his training center, MVP Performance Training.

As a husband, father and teacher, Baumholtz is running full speed in several directions. For that reason alone, he currently works by appointment only. However, he said that this will change as he takes on more clients.

Baumholtz plans to expand to a larger, more accommodating building in the future.

Septembre Russell can be reached at linfieldreviewcopy@ gmail.com

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Parkour jumps out new trend

Parkour: the physical discipline which involves training the body to overcome ordinary obstacl movements of the body.

Freshman Lori McEwen shares her insight about the sport she loves.

By Lauren Ostrom/Features editor

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magine that you are walking across campus. You pass a brick wall and suddenly you notice that people are vaulting over it and launching off a nearby pole.

Next, you watch them jump onto a tree branches and dive into somersaults across the grass. What you witnessed was the new recreational trend titled parkour.

Many people have never seen gymnastic-like moves such as these, but parkour is a sport which is becoming increasingly popular in countries across the world.

Freshman Lori McEwen discovered parkour as a sophomore in high school at Bishop Blanchet in Seattle. She watched as her classmates perform the stunts. When one of the students asked her to join, he told her to jump over a picnic table without using her hands. She said it took her almost a week to learn the stunt, but she eventually got the hang of it and has been addicted to the sport since then.

“It’s a whole different way of seeing things, and it’s a release,” McEwen said.

“When I parkour, it’s like I can let go of everything that’s on my mind and just focus

on my moves. I love that about parkour. It looks like a physical sport, but it’s mentally challenging, too.”

Although McEwen has not participated in parkour much during her time at Linfield, she said that she would love to find someone at school who shares her hobby.

She described herself as clumsy, always falling up the stairs in high school, but she caught on.

In parkour, individuals use their bodies as tools to get from one place to another in unconventional ways. They tumble, run and jump off obstacles such as bars, trees, buildings, roofs and anything else you can think of.

YouTube videos of parkour have skyrocketed in popularity. People of all ages are lacing up their tennis shoes and finding obstacles in their everyday paths to navigate over, under and through.

Parkour is comparable to free running, which focuses more on the aesthetics and movements of navigating around obstacles as opposed to merely getting around at eccentric angles. Parkour is also considered a

form of martial arts.

Parkour participants typically use urban areas and gyms to explore and catapult over obstacles.

Although parkour is becoming more popular, parkour gyms are rare. A recently opened gym in Seattle has attracted several newcomers.

Tyson Cecka, owner of Parkour Visions in Seattle, said that he was thrilled when his gym opened in late October 2009.

The gym is the only one located on the West Coast.

Cecka has been practicing the sport for more than five years and began teaching others a year and a half ago. After seeing that many people were abusing the sport by being unsafe, he decided he wanted to open his own gym with friends and offer classes in a controlled environment using his own obstacles.

“The idea with the gym is that we are taking elements from outside, and we are using them under our roof,” he said. “We are also mixing in stuff that we wish we could see outside, like bars, walls you can

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b and windows you can crawl through.” ecka said about 60 members have d the gym since it opened. wen and her friends have not joined a’s gym because they are away from e to attending school. ecka recently began a female parkour that has attracted a lot of ladies. Each averages 10 people and includes both s and children. ecka also said that each class is about aring for a situation where it is necesto get from one area to another, with instincts strong enough to conquer rent obstacles.

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Top: Freshman Lori McEwen’s friend Chris Walsh from Seattle sprints off a wall.

Middle: Another friend from Seattle, Mike Friedhoff vaults head-first toward the ground.

Bottom: Walsh pulls another stunt, catapulting off a picnic table.

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Singer makes third campus appearance Jessica Prokop Culture reporter Pop singer-songwriter and national recording artist Tyrone Wells played a stripped-down, acoustic show in Ice Auditorium on April 2.

Wells played songs from his new album, “Remain.”

One of the songs, “In Between the Lines,” aired on a Feb. 2 episode of “American Idol.”

“I didn’t know any of the songs, but the concert was good. It was incredible to see how well-known Tyrone was with many of the students,” junior Nicole Bond, incoming ASLC vice president of programming, said. “A lot of people already knew his songs and sang along with him.”

Wells has visited Linfield on two other occasions within the last two years and expressed interest in a third time. He even offered to cut his performance fee in half,

Associated Students of Linfield College President-elect Colin Jones said.

Roy Jay, a folk rock band, and Tony Lucca, an acoustic performer, opened the concert; Lucca also performed duets with Wells for a handful of songs.

“Even though the concert didn’t sell out, like we hoped, the attendance was still greater than last year and Ice Auditorium was full of people expecting to see Tyrone put on a great show,” Community Service Coordinator Jessica Wade said.

The concert was held for the benefit of the Linfield Alternative Spring Break program, a community service program that began in 2005. Its aim is to engage students in meaningful service and encourage lifelong civic leaders through a week of service opportunities.

This year, 30 students, faculty and staff participated on two ASB teams: the North-

west Sustainability Challenge and the Habitat Collegiate Challenge. Both groups focused on different service projects, such as the installment of new bike racks on campus.

ASLC provided Wells’ performance fee, and, as a result, all of the proceeds went toward the 2011 ASB fundraising program, which Jones said is completely student-funded. This year, 206 tickets were sold, raising $1,460, a slight increase from last year, he said.

Jones said that the benefit concert has been held consistently during the past few years because it proved to be a successful fundraiser.

Wade supervises the ASB program. She said this year was successful and that the program’s progress was made a result of the Tyrone’s appearance, which made the event more entertaining and fun.

Wells’ music has been fea-

Paoline-Anne Abulencia/Senior photographer Singer-songwriter Tyrone Wells takes the stage in Ice Auditorium for the third time on April 2 to raise funds for Linfield’s Alternative Spring Break program. tured on television series such as “Army Wives,” “Criminal Minds,” “Everyone’s Hero,” “Ghost Whisperer,” “Numbers,” “One Tree Hill,” “Rescue Me,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “What About Brian” and “The 50 Greatest Moments at Madison Square

Garden.” His music will also be used on the next season of “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Since its beginning, approximately 115 students have participated in more than 4,300 hours of community service with ASB. However, as some students

Clark attributes part of her affinity for poetry to being exposed to Jordan’s writing during a creative writing course they took together their sophomore year.

“As someone with the same educational background as Ansley, it’s exciting to see her winning awards and to know that someone who has taken the same classes as me is succeeding,” Jordan said.

Clark also acknowledged Professor of English Lex Runciman, her adviser, as a key contributor to her growth in writing.

She has taken various writing classes from him, including a poetry course that helped

her hone her skill within the genre.

“She has been able to create a voice that works effectively to let her say what she wants to say in a poem,” Runciman said.

“Finding out how to sound like yourself isn’t easy.”

While at Linfield, Clark has been active within the Department of English as student co-director of the Writing Center and president of the Linfield Literary Arts Club. Clark was also on a committee to help select a new English professor this year.

“Ansley has made great use of the English department,” Jordan said. “She has read writing that mem-

are still unfamiliar with the program, Wade and Jones both said that they hope to spread ASB’s message and to make it more popular with students in the future.

Jessica Prokop can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Student honored for imaginative poetry Joanna Peterson Culture reporter

Senior Ansley Clark’s love for written expression paid off at a recent literature conference, where she was honored for a collection of her poetry.

Clark won the Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature’s “Most Imaginative Work” award for six of her poems.

“Going to the conference was such an affirming experience,” Clark said. “It was wonderful to be surrounded by peer poets and to see the direction poetry is headed for people my age.”

The March 20 confer-

Clark ence was hosted by Portland State University and featured more than 100 students from Portland and surrounding areas, including Willamette University, University of Oregon and Reed College.

Clark said many of her poems, including her award-winning collection, are centered on familial

relationships.

“She deals with setting to explore the significance of relationships,” senior classmate Samantha Jordan said. “She doesn’t just capture the person but also the place she’s tied to the person.”

Although Clark said she is developing her poetry skills, she didn’t begin her Linfield experience with a firm grasp of the art.

“I hate reading my work from freshman year,” she said. “I submitted some poems to CAMAS that year, and they were so bad that they weren’t even accepted.

It wasn’t until this year that I felt my voice getting solid.”

bers of the department like and then has created her own niche of poets to follow from those recommendations.”

After she graduates from Linfield, Clark plans to earn a Master of Fine Arts in poetry.

Clark said she advises new writers to actively pursue their craft through constant practice.

“Just keep writing,” Clark said. “There’s a place for everyone’s writing.

Your experiences are your own, and you can offer a piece of insight and life that nobody else can.”

Joanna Peterson can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Free to rock the mic

Bridgette Gigear/Freelancer Sophomore Miles Oliveira (center) plays guitar and sings with his band Sea Unicorns of the Sea during a Cat Cab open-mic night April 8 in Fred Meyer Lounge. The Sea Unicorns of the Sea also performed a Cat Cab on March 18.

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Bridgette Gigear/Freelancer Brandon and Megan Bomberger; Emme, Lucy and Lydie Angevine; Carly and Colson Szdelak enjoy their Easter eggs during the Student Alumni Association’s and Residence Hall Executive Council’s Easter Egg Hunt in the Oak Grove on April 3.

Homeless exhibit housed in anthropology museum Yin Xiao Culture editor A student-organized exhibit provides a unique angle into the world of homeless youth. The exhibit, “Runaways and Throwaways: Homeless Youth in Yamhill County,” organized by senior anthropology major Shannon Merrick, opened April 8 in the Linfield Anthropology Museum.

Sociology and Anthropology Department Chair and Professor of Anthropology Thomas Love, who attended the opening reception, said it was a terrific opportunity for anthropology majors to independently curate an entire show.

Compared to the typical, historically themed exhibit, “Runaways” focuses on a current issue: homeless

youth who are without a safe, stable, permanent and adequate place to live.

Most homeless youth stay with friends and “couch surf” instead of sleeping on the street, which by definition is still considered homelessness. These “hidden homeless” make it easy for the general public to deny that there is an issue. But approximately 380 homeless youth are in Yamhill County today, according to the SOAN news release e-mailed campus-wide April 2.

“Just because people haven’t seen anyone sleeping on 3rd Street doesn’t mean there are no homeless people,” Merrick said. “For homeless youth, it’s also related to family issues and [lack of trust] in relationships with others.”

Additional reasons for

their homelessness include the that they left home without permission, or were forced to leave out by their primary caregivers.

Merrick said these youth are more succeptible to problems with drinking, drugs and pregnancy.

“If it weren’t for my friends, I would have committed suicide,” a homeless youth said at the exhibit.

Merrick said she interviewed a homeless youth named RJ and gave him her phone number. Then they became friends and sometimes called each other. But Merrick hasn’t see RJ recently.

“I guess there was no stable place for RJ, and he left from 3rd Street,” Merrick said. “He is not the only one like that.”

She also said that she hopes the community as

with the theater industry’s latest technological advancements.

“The technology we’re going to obtain is really going to give us the opportunity to use projected images, still images and moving images in an easily accessible way,” Technical Director and Sound Designer Robert Vaughn said. “[There are] tons of advances that are being made every year that if we don’t try to stay on top of all these things, our students will quickly find themselves being outdated.”

The grant will be used to acquire lighting instruments, three projectors, a software program called QLab and a computer with which to operate it.

Brenda DeVore Marshall, department chair and profes-

sor of theatre and communication arts, said the equipment will allow the program to incorporate multimedia, such as video footage, digitally-constructed slides, photos and projected documents, into its productions.

She said many contemporary playwrights are influenced by film and television so much so that they write scripts specifically for the incorporation of multimedia elements. The new equipment will allow shows to make quick digital transitions and scenery changes.

“Musicals for the most part have multiple settings, and we’re thinking that creatively we’ll be able to use the multimedia to help us create some of the settings, which would broaden our options of what musicals we

Megan Myer/Photo editor Visitors examine the new exhibit, “Runaways and Throwaways:: Homeless Youth in Yamhill County,” in the Linfield Anthropology Museum in Walker Hall on April 8. well as youths’ families can make some changes for them because the help from the community isn’t sufficient as of late.

The exhibit is free to attend and is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, until the end of August.

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can do,” Marshall said.

The new projectors are also more powerful than typical classroom projectors.

The theater program incorporated projections into its last production, “Dog Sees God.” But the projector used was borrowed from Electronic Media Services, and it was limited by its projection size and capability.

“You have to make sure [to] have a projector that has enough umph, enough lumens, to punch through that extra illumination that’s coming off the stage instruments,” Tyrone Marshall, director of theatre and resident designer and professor of theatre arts, said. “I would like to get an image that fills the whole proscenium wall.”

The increased luminosity of the new projectors will

prevent projected images from fading out when stage lights shine on them. The new projectors will also be able to throw an image farther than the EMS projectors, which will benefit the theater, where projected media needs to travel nearly 50 feet.

Theater program officials said that they hope to showcase these new elements in productions next year.

Besides benefits to the theater’s productions, the new technology will throw open doors in design education.

“It’s just another pencil in the pencil box, and as a designer, you want to use as many pencils and brushes [as you can],” Marshall said.

Learning to use the technology will also make students more attractive and

marketable in the theater industry, Vaughn said.

“It’s great that a college theater program can keep up with professional theater companies,” senior theater arts major Jillian Haig said in an e-mail. “I am jealous I am graduating before being exposed to it. There will be hardly any boundaries of what can be accomplished in our black box theater.”

People who visit Marshall Theatre to watch shows will also benefit.

“I think one of the things in terms of students who come to see the plays, [this] will broaden their understanding of theatrical horizons,” Marshall said of the new equipment.

Yin Xiao can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Spotlight shines on theater’s multimedia grant Kelley Hungerford Managing editor

The Linfield theater program stole the show when it was awarded a $46,000 grant to purchase cutting-edge lighting and multimedia equipment.

“This grant may be the boost/kick-start our department has been waiting for and ready to take advantage of, because once we do, the quality and classiness of our productions will erupt, and everyone will want to ride the lava flow all the way down,” senior theater arts major Will DeBiccari said in an e-mail. “Answers that were once ‘no’ in production meetings are now without a doubt ‘yes.’”

The equipment will bring the department up-to-date

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‘Remember the Titans’? New release does not Dominic Baez Editor-in-chief It’s not enough to have Perseus, Medusa and a kraken clashing savagely with enchanted swords, if-lookscould-kill eyes and god-like strength. No, now it has to be done in 3-D. The 3-D effects of “Clash of the Titans” were hardly worthy of a Greek epic, but the movie in its entirety didn’t make you want to jump into Tartarus head-first.

A remake of the 1981 classic, “Clash of the Titans” recounts the ancient Greek tale of Perseus (Sam Worthington), son of Zeus, and his Herculean adventures. Not sure what the myth entails? Read a book.

The plot, as with every other Grecian hero-based movie, embarks with a ridiculous — and completely fabricated — birth sequence.

Not trying to ruin any surprises, but it’s not often that you see a coffin jettisoning out of the ocean by unidentified forces.

Because of mankind’s growing resentment toward the gods, they, Zeus (Liam Neeson) particularly, become angry with their “children.”

In retaliation, Zeus, in his almighty wisdom, unleashes

his brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes) — the same brother who Zeus banished to the Underworld after the defeat of Kronos — on the mortal populace. Clever, no? Well, no, not really.

In a series of unfortunate events, Hades eventually kills Perseus’ entire adopted family. So, as one can imagine, Perseus does not harbor warm, fuzzy feelings for the gods.

On top of this, when King Kepheus (Vincent Regan) and Queen Cassiopeia (Polly Walker) of Argos liken themselves to the gods and compare the beauty of their daughter, Andromeda (Alexa Davalos), to that of goddess Aphrodite, the gods lose it, and Hades storms the palace. Because Perseus is unaffected by his attack, Hades realizes that he is a demigod and tells him of his true father, Zeus.

Not to be outdone by Perseus, though, Hades kills the queen and demands that the city of Argos further pay for its insolence and vanity; in 10 days, the kraken will be released. If Andromeda is not sacrificed, then Argos will be destroyed. It’s just a big, ol’, happy love-fest in Argos.

So, Perseus, along with

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Sam Worthington as Perseus in the 2010 remake of “Clash of the Titans.”

Argos’ finest forces and Io (Gemma Arterton), a neveraging mortal who has been watching over Perseus since his birth, takes off in an effort to defeat the kraken.

Their quest takes them across Greece to the rocky Garden of Stygia, home of the final battle between the gods and the titans. Here, the Stygian witches reside.

(They share one eye — it’s rather disturbing.) The sister witches inform Perseus of how to kill the kraken (the head of Medusa will be involved), but, in an err in judgment, Perseus learns that he will not survive the battle.

Armed with his newfound knowledge, Perseus battles his way to Medusa’s

lair, which is the beginning of the end.

Superfluous 3-D effects aside, the movie was a pleasure to watch. The action sequences were intense, the plot made sense (for what it was) and it didn’t take itself too seriously.

However, that does not make up for the fact that this movie has no footing in

Greek mythology. For one, the kraken was never part of Greek antiquity; Poseidon, not Hades, threatened Andromeda, Hades never harbored any ill will toward Perseus; and as far as Greek mythology is concerned, Io never had anything to do with Perseus. And, to top it off, where are the titans?

Not anywhere in this movie, that’s for sure.

So, while it’s clear that no historians were contacted during the production of this movie, it still offered a nice slice of action pie. Just see it in 2-D; the extra dimension will just leave you wanting to be turned to stone.

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Dominic Baez can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com

Wildcat Word Search

ADMINISTRATIVE

ALTERNATIVE

ALUMNI

AWKWARD

GRANT

HOMELESS

KRAKEN

PARKOUR

PASSION

PERSONNEL

SEXUAL

SMITE

SUSHI

VOLLEYBALL

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Yet another holiday to add to spring: Opening Day me? Allow me to elaborate.

10:09 a.m.: I leap out of bed, skip into my living room and flip on the TV. The Cardinals are playing the Reds. As the reception flickers and comes to life, I cross my fingers, hoping to get a glimpse of an Albert Pujols at bat before I leave for my first class.

The Cards’ No. 2 hitter strikes out, and up comes Pujols. Three pitches go by.

I pour my morning orange juice without taking my eyes off the reigning MVP. Then, on the fourth pitch, a swing and a drive. Back to the track, to the fence and beyond. Home run, Pujols!

There is no way I’m going to my class now — I’m hooked. That, and I have to

Sports Commentary Alex Harkaway Freelancer My father once told me, “Every year around now there’s Passover, Easter and Opening Day. I always know which one I’ll be celebrating.” Religious allegiances aside, baseball’s first act makes a compelling case for holiday status. Don’t believe

“Back to the track, to the fence and beyond. Home run, Pujols!

There is no way I’m going to my class now — I’m hooked.” scrub about eight ounces of orange juice from my couch.

12:25 p.m.: The Indians are hitting against the White Sox, and the batter hits a sharp line drive up the middle. The Sox pitcher, Mark Buehrle, kicks at the ball, deflecting it toward first base and into foul ground.

He chases after it, and with the batter bearing down and almost to first base, Buehrle snatches the ball with his glove and flips it, with-

out looking, between his legs to the first baseman for the out. Amazing. If Jackie Chan is still making kungfu movies, he should call up Buehrle.

1:30 p.m.: I am in class and about as happy to be there as a terrorist is at the sight of Jack Bauer. Somewhere around this time, Jason Heyward, the next superstar, began his bigleague career by jacking a monster home run. In the

past month, I have heard baseball experts compare Heyward to Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds and Hank Aaron. That’s three of the top players of all time.

He’s the Lebron of baseball. He’s played one game and already has a highlightworthy homer to his credit.

But I missed it because I was in class. If this isn’t a good enough reason to make baseball a holiday, I don’t know what is.

10:11 p.m.: The Mariners win their opener in the ninth inning thanks to a goahead hit by some person named Casey Kotchman.

After the game, I Googled “Casey Kotchman” to figure out who the heck he is.

Google gave me the fol-

lowing three results: A Myspace layouts salesperson, a first baseman who drove in a grand total of seven runs with Boston last year and a softball player from the College of Charleston who lists Italian as her favorite food. You know what? I’m not sure which is the one who delivered that winning hit. My money’s on the softball player. Never bet against Italian food.

I learned something this Monday: From the homers, the close games, the beautiful defensive plays and the fatherly advice, Opening Day deserves to be a holiday. Next year, I welcome all of you to celebrate.

Alex Harkaway can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Smith steals his way into record books pitcher, no one can throw me out.”

This season, Smith has helped the ’Cats to a 19-8 record (11-4 NWC) and a current second-place standing in the Northwest Conference.

They are well within striking distance of first-place Pacific Lutheran University, and Smith said he believes this year’s squad is more than capable of taking the NWC crown.

“Even with the recent losses, I think our team still has the ability to win league this year,” Smith said. “My goal is to help the team win the conference title and to have a chance to play in the regional tournament at our home field.

Right now, I am focused on staying consistent for the rest of the season and helping the team win the important games we have in the next few weeks.”

After graduating from Linfield, Smith plans to pursue professional baseball as a career. Playing baseball is what he said he loves to do above all else and would love to play after college. But if it doesn’t pan out, he intends to remain involved in the sports field however he can.

The ’Cats next face Lewis & Clark College at home at noon April 10 and again at 1 p.m. April 11.

Chris Forrer Freelancer Senior outfielder Tyson Smith set the Linfield record for stolen bases in a single season during a game against the University of Puget Sound on April 3. Three days later, Smith added three more steals, breaking the Linfield’s all-time record.

This season, the speedy player has picked up 27 stolen bases, surpassing the previous season record of 23, which stood for 15 years. In his career, Smith has stolen 49 bases, which leaves him one bag away from setting the career-stolen-base record.

“It feels good to be a part of the history of Linfield baseball,” he said. “It’s not really something that I thought about until I got the record, but it is pretty cool to have.”

Smith began his baseball career at the age of four and has loved the sport since then.

Speed has always been one of his strengths as a player, Smith said, and developing the necessary skills to steal bases comes as a result of that.

He devoted time and energy to it, and the result of his hard work earned him a place in the Wildcat history books.

“I have learned to be confident and believe that I am going to be safe every time I steal,” Smith said. “If I get a good enough jump off the

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Senior outfielder Tyson Smith relaxes between pitches during the Wildcats’ 11-6 win against Corban College on Feb. 25. Smith has set new single-season and career records in stolen bases for Linfield.

Wildcat sports schedule

Men’s tennis

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Date

Opponent or event

April 9

George Fox University

Women’s tennis

April 9

April 10

Baseball Softball

April 10

Men’s golf

April 10

Women’s golf

April 10

University of Puget Sound

Time

Newberg, Ore. Tacoma, Wash.

3 p.m.

4 p.m.

Lewis & Clark College (2)

McMinnville

Noon

Pacific Lutheran University (2)

Tacoma

Noon

Northwest Conference Spring Classic

Location

NWC Spring Classic

Moses Point, Wash.

Apple Tree, Wash.

TBD

TBD

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Runners fare well despite poor conditions

Megan Myer/Photo editor Freshman pole vaulter Ryann Nolan clears the bar during the Linfield’s invitational April 3.

Nic Miles Sports reporter Bitter winds and saturating rain could not stop the track team from demonstrating its eagerness for the conference meet.

A crew of Linfield’s distance runners traveled to Salem, Ore., on April 2 to compete at the Willamette Invitational.

Running a lifetime best in the 1,500-meter race, sophomore Nelly Evans finished in 4 minutes, 51 seconds to place 13th in a 36-player field.

Distance powerhouse senior Marci Klimek followed suit in the women’s 5K. She ran a season-best of

17:45 and placed 10th out of 26.

Senior Frances Corcorran recorded a season best in the women’s 10K with a time of 39:06.

Late in the evening, seniors Chris McIsaac, Shawn Fisher and Tyler Davis and sophomores Scott Gage and Arian Anderson competed in the men’s 5K. They placed 19th, 24th, 38th, 52nd and 59th, respectively.

The following day, Linfield hosted the Jenn Boyman Invitational, in which the team overcame blustery weather and performed at full potential.

On the women’s side, freshman Melany Crocker was the runner-up in both

Megan Myer/Photo editor Senior Jeremy Lovell lands in the sandpit during the Linfield Jenn Boyman Memorial Invitational on April 3. Lovell went on to win the long jump by one-hundredth of a meter. the 100 and 200 races. She ran 13.27 and 22.73, respectively.

Crocker’s season goal is to beat her lifetime bests (12.81 in the 100 and 26.7 in the 200) and to qualify for finals at the conference meet April 23.

Crocker attributes her success this season to the workouts that head coach Garry Killgore assigns every week. “[The workouts] are hard, but they’re making us better and preparing us for conference,” Crocker said. “It takes hard work.”

She has proved to be a vital cog in the women’s sprint events.

Having already hit qualifying times

in the 100, 200 and 400, as well as both relays, the freshman out of Milwaukie, Ore., will spend the next two weeks preparing for the conference championship along with the rest of the team.

Evans also took second in the women’s 800. Her time of 2:22 was a season-best and qualified her to run the race at the conference championships.

In the men’s hammer throw, senior Clint Moore threw 146 feet, 8 inches, to finish third.

Killgore said that Moore will be an athlete to watch as conference and nationals approach. His steady improvement and consistent strong showing demonstrate

Megan Myer/Photo editor

Despite nearly wrecking over a hurdle on the back stretch, Zetterberg finished second.

Eldredge came down the final 100-meter stretch on Zetterberg’s heels, only to take a plunge on the final hurdle and drop back to finish fourth.

With conference quickly closing in on the team, Killgore said he is confident that the quality of this season’s athletes will shine through when they are called to battle in Spokane, Wash., on April 23 and 24.

The team will be competing at Pacific University on April 10 in the Pacific Luau.

attacker Anna Gorciak and goals from freshmen midfielders Isabelle Burke and Mariah Jones, extending the Wildcats’ lead to six.

“After we were up by six points, I expected a win,” sophomore defender Laura Ekstrom said. “I knew it would be tough, and we would have to continue playing at this caliber, but I was confident in our team.”

Pacific made a comeback just before the half, scoring five more goals and making the game 7-6.

Stevens and sophomore Monica Smith scored the seventh and eighth goals, respectively, to give Pacific a two-goal lead at the half.

The second half seemed like an even one until

Pacific took the lead on freshman attacker Kaitlyn Harper’s hat-trick goal.

Schreiber said it was an upsetting loss for the ’Cats, as this was the last time they will face the Boxers this season.

“We had some moments where we let them get ahead, and it was hard to catch up,” Gorciak said, The team, however, is moving on quickly.

“We are now focusing on the last two games of the season and working toward getting two more wins on the board,” Ekstrom said.

The Wildcats will host their last home game at noon on April 10 against Pomona-Pitzer College.

Nic Miles can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Three hat tricks sink ’Cats Corrina Crocker Features reporter

Sophomore attacker Anna Gorciak tries to get around a Pacific University player during the Wildcats’ 14-17 loss April 6. Despite an early lead, the ’Cats allowed nine second-half goals and three Boxer hat tricks overall during the defeat.

the threat he will pose to other teams, Killgore said.

Freshman Kyle Pfeifer captured his goal of qualifying for conference by throwing 135 feet, 8 inches.

The Wildcats nearly swept the javelin: Seniors Jeremy Lovell and Josh Scheel and freshmen Patrick McMahon, Clayton Cooper and Joshua Melander placed second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.

In the women’s 400 hurdles, junior Brooke Bekkedahl won the event with a time of 1:07.57.

Sophomore Barrett Zetterberg and senior Mike Eldredge worked together to fight off two falls in the men’s 400 hurdles.

The lacrosse team played a close game against Pacific University on April 6, but lost 14-17.

The women opened with three goals in less than 1 minute. However, Pacific battled back, winning the game with three goals in the final 3 minutes.

“We are evenly matched with them, so every time we play them, it is a close game,” junior attacker Monique Schreiber said.

Freshman attacker Kelly Stevens scored the first goal for Pacific, bringing the Boxers to within two goals.

Linfield retaliated with a hat trick by sophomore

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Weather delay puts damper on offensive attack Grant Lucas Sports editor Three days after beginning its series against the University of Puget Sound, the baseball team held off a late rally to win Game Two, but fell in the series finale in Tacoma, Wash., on April 6.

The Wildcats began the three-game set April 3, defeating the Loggers 12-8.

After jumping ahead 11-3 in the second matchup, rain forced the ’Cats to travel back to McMinnville in the seventh inning.

Senior shortstop Kelson Brown said that the ’Cats played “Linfield baseball” April 3, with solid defense, great pitching and hot bats.

The third-game loss can’t be blamed on the rain postponement, senior outfielder Zach Boskovich said.

“It was unfortunate that the weather didn’t cooperate,” he said. “But that’s just how baseball goes in the Northwest.”

Linfield holds an 11-4 Northwest Conference record and is 19-8 overall.

The Wildcats were first to light up the scoreboard in the series opener with a secondinning RBI by junior second baseman Eric Evenson.

Senior first baseman Rhett Fenton extended Linfield’s lead with a leadoff home run in the next inning.

Following a run in the fifth inning that gave the ’Cats a four-run advantage, the Loggers capitalized on a Wildcat error that allowed Logger senior first baseman Mark Rockey and sophomore designated hitter Matt Cox to score.

Linfield, however, blew the game open with a sevenrun sixth inning, including five unearned runs on two Puget Sound errors.

The Wildcats appeared to have the game in hand after a homer by senior catcher Mitch Webb and a pass-ball score gave them a ninerun lead, but the Loggers responded six runs in the bottom of the seventh.

Junior second baseman Dakota Resnik drove in two

runs in the inning to narrow the deficit to three runs.

Linfield senior pitcher Tommy George entered the game in the seventh with one out and allowed only three hits the rest of the way.

Senior center fielder Tyson Smith paced the Wildcat offense with three hits, two runs scored and three stolen bases. Those thefts set a new single-season record for Linfield, and two more in the second game gave Smith the all-time career record.

Puget Sound grabbed an early lead in the second matchup, but Linfield responded with five runs in the second inning, followed by two more in each of the third, fourth and fifth innings to take a commanding 11-2 advantage.

Boskovich recorded four RBIs in two innings, including a two-run home run over the left field wall.

Wildcat senior pitcher Garrett Dorn carried a threerun, seven-hitter into the seventh inning and walked the first batter he faced. At this time, the game was postponed until April 5 because of rain. But another weather delay moved this game and the third matchup to April 6.

When play resumed, Dorn was replaced by junior Evan Hilberg, and Puget Sound welcomed him with a fourrun frame, depleting a ninerun Linfield lead to five with two innings to play.

The ’Cats sealed the win in the ninth when junior designated hitter Kevin Coleman drove in the 12th run.

Although he gave up three runs in the bottom of the inning, Hilberg retired the side, giving Dorn his fifth win of the season.

In the series finale, the Loggers attained an early lead in the second inning with an RBI by senior catcher Jason Powell. Four more runs were tallied the next inning, to give the Loggers a five-run lead.

Puget Sound continued to add insurance with a run in each of the fourth and fifth frames to pull away from Linfield.

Megan Myer/Photo editor Sophomore infielder Kevin Allan prepares to fire a throw during the Wildcats’ practice April 8. Linfield recorded 23 runs in a game and a half before rain postponed the remainder of the series for three days.

After breaking up the shutout in the eighth inning, Linfield added three more runs in the ninth with a three-run blast from Boskovich – his team-leading and NWC second-best eighth of the season. However, it was not enough to overcome the Logger advantage.

Senior Colby Robinson earned the win for Puget Sound in just less than three innings pitched, while Linfield senior Reese McCulley gave up six runs in less than four innings of work.

“We just had one of those games where nothing would get through or fall when we needed it most,” Boskovich said.

The Wildcats return to McMinnville for a threegame series against Lewis & Clark College on April 10.

“We have a short week to prepare for them,” Boskovich said. “But we will have a few great days of practice and come out this weekend focused and ready to make a statement.”

Grant Lucas can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Megan Myer/Photo editor Freshman infielder Geoff Kunita tosses the ball back to the pitcher during Linfield’s practice April 8. The ’Cats face Lewis & Clark College in McMinnville on April 10.

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Northwest Conference standings Baseball

Pac. Lutheran Linfield George Fox Puget Sound Whitworth Lewis & Clark Willamette Pacific Whitman

10-2 (19-6) 11-4 (19-8) 11-4 (18-9) 6-6 (11-14) 5-7 (8-18) 6-9 (9-13) 6-9 (9-15) 5-10 (7-20) 3-12 (3-23)

.833 .733 .733 .500 .417 .400 .400 .333 .200

12-1 (20-5) 11-2 (19-6) 9-3 (15-7) 9-3 (14-10) 5-10 (11-12) 5-11 (7-21) 2-10 (8-16) 0-13 (3-21)

.923 .846 .750 .750 .333 .312 .167 .000

Whitman 14- 10 (16-4) Linfield 12-2 (12-5) Whitworth 8-4 (8-12) Willamette 9-5 (9-7) Pac. Lutheran 9-5 (11-9) Puget Sound 5-9 (5-9) Pacific 3-10 (4-11) George Fox 2-12 (5-14) Lewis & Clark 0-15 (0-17)

1.000 .857 .667 .643 .643 .357 .231 .143 .000

Softball

Linfield Willamette Pac. Lutheran Pacific Whitworth Puget Sound George Fox Lewis & Clark

Men’s tennis

Women’s tennis Whitworth Linfield Willamette Whitman Lewis & Clark Pacific Pac. Lutheran Puget Sound George Fox

13-1 (15-4) 11-2 (12-4) 10-4 (11-6) 10-4 (12-8) 9-5 (9-11) 5-10 (5-12) 3-11 (3-13) 2-12 (4-13) 0-14 (0-15)

.929 .846 .714 .714 .643 .333 .214 .143 .000

Delay brings offense to halt The baseball team tallied 23 runs in just more than a game and a half and had one win already under its belt, but a rain delay postponed the rest of the series for three days. The Wildcats wrapped up a victory in the second game after holding off a late rally, but were unable to get the bats going in their third-game loss.

See page 15 >> Smith earns national honor Football head coach Joe Smith was named the Division III Coach of the Year by American Football Monthly magazine. Smith led the ’Cats to an undefeated regular season, a Northwest Conference title and a semifinal appearance in the D-III playoffs. Along with the other four winners of the award, Smith will be featured in April’s issue of the publication.

Justin Derby Sports reporter The Linfield tennis programs continued to shine in Northwest Conference action, as the men won two of three matches, and the women took three of their own.

With only two matches remaining before the championship tournament begins, the men’s and women’s tennis teams are enjoying highly successful seasons.

The Wildcat men defeated Whitworth University 7-2 April 2, lost to Whitman College 8-1 April 3 and beat Willamette University 5-4 April 6.

“We’ve just really working as a team and being there for each other on and off the court,” senior Kyle Anderson said.

“This team has been the most cohesive team I have been on since being here at Linfield, and I don’t think it’s a surprise that we have done this well based on that fact alone.”

Duc Hoang/Freelancer The men are 3-0 in matches Sophomore Abby Olbrich awaits a return from teammate senior decided by scores of either 5-4 Sallie Katter’s serve during the pair’s 8-1 win against Whitworth or 6-3.

University on April 2.

“We’ve managed to pull through because we know how skills and our teammates, and person playing has an equal role hard we work as a team,” Ander- we count on each other to pro- in the team’s success, whether son said. “We have faith in our vide critical points. Every single it’s number one singles or num-

ber three doubles. Every point counts for the same amount, so providing support to everyone playing really instills that faith in yourself when you’re on the court.”

The women beat Whitman 5-4 April 2, Whitworth 5-4 April 3 and George Fox University 9-0 April 8.

The Wildcats have turned in several strong performances as a top-10 team. Also, the Wildcats have kept their cool, going 4-1 in matches that end in scores of 5-4 and 6-3.

Senior Sallie Katter and sophomore Abby Olbrich have dominated for the ’Cats, winning three straight matches by a combined score of 24-11.

“Determination and focus has been the key to winning these close games,” freshman Sara Peterson said. “Paying attention to each point has helped us out as well.”

The men are 12-1 in the NWC, while the women have a 11-2 conference record. The men will travel to Newberg, Ore., to face George Fox on April 9, and the women head to Tacoma, Wash., to take on the University of Puget Sound on the same date.

Justin Derby can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

’Cats sweep George Fox in spite of rain delay Kurtis Williams Freelancer The softball team once again reaffirmed its spot atop the Northwest Conference.

Doubleheaders against George Fox University and Lewis & Clark College were rained out on April 3 and 4, respectively.

While the Lewis & Clark series was rescheduled for April 14, the games against the Bruins were made up April 7, in which the Wildcats won 12-0 and 8-0.

Linfield jumped on George Fox pitching early on, scoring seven runs in the first inning, during which eight batters reached base. Senior right fielder Rochelle Friend began the inning with an extra-base hit and ended it with a base-clearing double.

The following inning, sophomore designated hitter Staci Doucette homered off the right field scoreboard.

In the third, sophomore catcher Emilee Lepp hit a threerun home run. Another run in the fourth rounded out the score to 12-0.

Junior pitcher Claire Velaski was perfect through three innings, striking out seven of nine batters and moving her record to 8-2.

Senior pitcher Samantha Van Noy allowed two hits in the remaining two innings.

Friend and Lepp both had two hits and four runs batted in. Junior shortstop Emily Keag-

Megan Myer/Photo editor Sophomore catcher Emilee Lepp looks to the dugout for a sign during the Wildcats’ 12-0 win against George Fox University on April 7. Lepp finished the game with two hits and four RBIs.

bine added two hits in her return from a broken jaw March 27. The rain outs caused her to only miss two games.

Lepp did more damage with her bat in the second game. She added two solo home runs, a single and three runs.

In the fourth inning, Lepp and Doucette homered back-to-back.

Doucette’s RBI single in the sixth

ended the game 8-0.

Doucette’s 11th home run of the year puts her atop all NCAA Division III athletes. The Wildcats remain first in the country with 1.54 home runs per game.

Sophomore pitcher Lauren Harvey improved to 10-2 while striking out five batters and giving up one hit in four innings.

Sophomore Brittany Woods

pitched the last two frames, giving up one hit.

Linfield will play a 9-3 Pacific Lutheran University on April 10 and University of Puget Sound on April 11. The Wildcats will travel to Portland to make up the rained-out games against Lewis & Clark on April 14.

Kurtis Williams can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com