Final tlr issue sept 8 2014

The Linfield Review September 8, 2014

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Linfield College

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McMinnville, Ore.

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120th Year

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Issue No. 2

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Linfield celebrates, kicks off Hispanic Heritage month

Freshman Lorena Naranjo prepares the triceratops piñata for its demise. Hispanic Heritage Day also featured live music, free food, a raffle, crafts and vendor tables set up around the IM field.

Cigarette fire causes damage, destruction Jonathan Williams @linfieldreviewnews

A cigarette is responsible for a fire in McMinnville that set fire to cars and the True Form Collision and Repair building at Baker street and Northeast 19 street.

The fire happened on Wednesday, Sept. 3, around 7 p.m. Fire crews were able to contain and put the fire out by 8 p.m.

Sections of highway 99W were temporarily affected by the fire.

No injures were reported after the fire. The Oregon department of forestry has noted that McMinnville is currently in a level three precaution level for fires as of September 4.

Students are often prone to

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electrical fires.

The U.S. Fire Administration offers some fire safety and preventative measures include never overloading circuits or extension cords.

Do not place cords and wires under rugs, over nails or in high traffic areas.

Immediately shut off and unplug appliances that sputter, spark or emit an unusual smell.

Students can place Work Orders to fix appliances through Residence Life.

For more information about this fire contact the McMinnville Police Department at (503)-4347307.

Jonathan Williams can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Jan Term required for freshmen Samantha Sigler @linfieldreviewnews

Jonathan Williams/News editor A cigarette caused a fire that burned a car and the True Form Collision and Repair building on Sept. 3 in McMinnville. The McMinnville Fire Department responded and put out the fire within an hour.

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Students dedicate time out of their Saturday morning to harvest and maintain the Linfield Garden, which is run on a volunteer basis.

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Freshmen will be required to stay on campus during their first year Jan Term beginning in the 2015-2016 academic year.

This will not affect current Linfield students, and Jan Term will still be an optional term once students are in their second year and above.

“The idea is, ‘what kind of firstyear experience do we want for our students?’ said Susan Hopp, vice president of student affairs and athletics and dean of students. “Because if you get a strong first year, you’ll excel the rest of >> See Jan Term on Page 5

Features

Culture

Instagram isn’t the only game in town for iPhoneographers.

Check out reviews of other camera apps. >> Page 7

The Linfield Gallery premieres its exhibit, “isthmos,” by Peter Campus.

Read about students that dedicate themselves on the Linfield Activities Board to create events for students.

Hispanic Heritage Day brings students out from Linfield as well as kids and families from the McMinnville community.

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The LINFIELD REVIEW 900 SE Baker St. Unit A518 McMinnville, OR 97128 Phone: (503) 883-5789 E-mail: linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com Web: www.thelinfieldreview.com Editor-in-chief Helen Lee Managing editor Rosa Johnson Associate editor Samantha Sigler Business manager Heather Brooks News editor Jonathan Williams Sports editor Alec Wisthoff Culture editor Gilberto Galvez Opinion editor Stephanie Hofmann Features editor Mikenna Whatley Photo editor Emilie Skladzien Graphics/ads designer Illustrator Kyle Sharrer Circulation manager Patty Roberts

Overnight guest policy still not good enough This year Linfield has made a huge jump into modern times with the latest change to the housing policy.

For the first time, students that live on campus can now have opposite sex overnight guest. No longer to students have to sprint upstairs at night or dodge RAs in the morning in order to not get caught. Even though this is a great step in the right direction the college still has a long way to go until it’s anywhere near perfect.

One of the biggest problems of the new change is how little it really changed.

Sure now we can have basically anyone we want in our room overnight but just for a couple of days. In the Residential Life’s Guide to Living at Linfield it says, “Residents

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are allowed to have guests stay overnight for no more than three consecutive nights and six nights out of a thirtyday period.” When the math is done, you can only have an overnight guest same or opposite sex 20 percent of the semester. Not only is this too short of a time, but the fact that there is a limit set

by Residential Life is odd.

That decision should be up to the roommates. If they are fine with the 20 percent rule or want to move it up to 50 percent, they should have the ability to change it, because in the end it’s the roommates that will be dealing with these guests. If they are both unhappy with the lower percentage they should have the power to change it.

Even though this seems

like a strange percentage to regulate overnight guests with many other colleges and universities around the nation are following this policy. The University of Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, University of New York and University of Arkansas all abide by a policy rule that is similar to Linfield College. Even though we are in the majority of this stance that doesn’t mean that we are on the right side. The whole nation needs to hurry up and catch up to the 21st centaury.

However not every institution is falling behind with the rest of the nation. The University of Texas has a completely new way to look at this problem by not making it one. In their official guest procedures document

they state that anyone can stay overnight at any time.

The only time limit that they have is if the guest is spending more than 72 hours in the apartment then they must fill out a simple sheet at the main office and then they can stay as much as they want. UT’s policy not only simplifies this whole process, but it also put the power in the student’s hands.

Linfield did make a great first step, but until students can fully decide when they can have people over in their own rooms the college is falling short. When we get to college everyone considers us adults so it’s about time that Residents Life starts treating us that way.

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Academics

Required textbooks are becoming a big hassle for students

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Opinions

For most people who went to public school they never had to think about textbooks until they reached college.

Now textbooks are unescapable, they piled up on your desks and their prices make any wallet cry.

Although textbooks are redeemed as necessary in and out of the classroom, most people believe that the readings are unhelpful and a waste of money.

According to a survey done by USA Today, 65 percent of student said that they had decided against buying a textbook because it was too expensive. In the same survey, another 48 percent of college students said that the cost of books had an impact on how many or which classes they took.

You aren’t crazy or imagining things. Textbook prices are nearly tripled

the rate of inflation since 2002 through 2013, the price of college textbooks rose 82 percent according to a recent study by the Government Accountability Office.

The College Board estimates that the average student in the United States spends around $1,200 a year on books and supplies.

Especially when a single book can cost as much as $200, prices begin to add up quite quickly.

But not only has these insane amounts have affected students’ savings but along with their GPA. According to the USA Today survey, 94 percent of the students who had skipped buying a required book said they were concerned that doing this would hurt their grade in that course.

Some tricks to avoid bankruptcy are to look online rather than going through the school’s bookstore.

Each professor is required to supply students with the ISBN Numbers of any required readings which makes searching through other sources simple. Renting books rather than buying them helps save shelf space and money.

If you are enrolled in a class

Kyle Sharrer/Illustrator that isn’t going toward your major or you are only taking for an elective credit so you will never use it again renting is a better option.

By shopping online you can use promo codes and coupons to get free shipping or other deals, there are even renting options as well. Some websites like Chegg.com send you free products like Red Bulls and Tide Pods so you get some

free samples along with your books; it’s kind of like a care package that it isn’t from your parents. Chegg will even throw in free shipping on an order that is over $100, which is easy to do on a full load of classes.

Getting books used rather than new helps with getting it for less along with it usually comes with helpful notes and underlining that contributes to the class.

Amazon is much cheaper than Barnes & Noble, although shipping costs do come into the final billing.

The convenience of getting your textbooks right from the store at that some moment that you sign your life away on that receipt does makeup for the fact that you will have to repeat this process each semester.

Rosa Johnson can be reached at linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com

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Want to write an opinion of your own and have it printed in the Linfield Reivew? Email your idea to LinfieldReviewopinion@gmail. com. We would love to hear your opinion about the school, nation, pop culture, world or really anything.

What’s new online this week:

-Going abroad changed my life: This staffer went on a summer cruise around the would and says its the best desision she ever made.

-Who are we to judge? This staffer takes a look into how suicides are discussed in the modern age and how Robin Williams’ death affected the topic.

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Let’s Talk About Sex Stephanie Hofmann @linfieldreviewopinion

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If you have any ideas or questions for the next sex column just email LinfieldReviewOpinion@gmail.com. Have fun out there ‘Cats.

Sports

It’s 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning and students everywhere are realizing that they are in fact not in their own beds. As they scramble to grab clothes, keys and earrings from around this never-before-seen room, the dread kicks in. They are now a part of the “walk of shame.”

No explanation is needed when it comes to the walk of shame. Whether you have been a participant yourself or just saw it in a movie like “22 Jump Street” when Jonah Hill joins in with the other ladies, no one has to tell you what it is, because you know it when you see it. It’s the messed up hair, wrinkled ready-to-party clothes, the faint smell of tequila in the air, but the dead giveaway is always the look on walkers’ faces. It just screams dread. Head is down to avoid a positive ID, mouth in a straight, stern line, and eyes are darting side-to-side to spot a potential peer’s gaze. You can see that look from across campus and that makes everyone who struts down the road feel the shameful part of the walk, but I’m telling you now it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Whoever decided that the Walk of Shame should be a thing, let alone a bad one, was not only crazy, but probably didn’t have any fun ever. It should never be a bad thing that you had a good time.

Every student should be able to go out with friends, have fun together and if they want to have sex with someone they just met then they should be able to do that without feeling shamed by society.

Over the last couple of years there have been girls and guys alike trying to find a way to get around the Walk of Shame. There are kits, shuttle systems, buddy walks and even Instagram accounts that are trying to take the shame out of it, but really they are making it worse. The fact that we even have to cover up that we were at someone else’s place that night destroys the whole purpose of getting over the walk. We shouldn’t have to hide around convenient inventions. Everyone should own their walk with a confident face back to their dorm that says, “Yeah I did have sex last night and there is no way I’m going to be ashamed about it.”

So students at Linfield College, next time you have a great night and wake up in a new place don’t you dare feel ashamed. You had an awesome night and now you are going to walk back to your place with a hop in your step, because we are officially saying goodbye to the Walk of Shame.

Stephanie Hofmann can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com

Campus Life

Staffer calls foul on recent Students need more choices preseaon NFL fine decisions for food on campus than Dillin Unsportsmanlike conduct, helmet to helmet tackles, obscene gestures and excessive show boating.

All of these are penalties in football that can get players fined, but how much is too much?

On Monday August 18 the Cleveland Browns played the Washington Redskins in a preseason match up.

Johnny “Football” Manziel threw up the middle finger towards the Redskins bench.

Manziel was fined $12,000.

In that very same week New Orleans Saints tight end, Jimmy Graham, was fined $30,000 for slamming the football over the goal post after scoring a touchdown.

Why is an excessive celebration that almost every football player use to do have a higher fine than that of making an obscene gesture towards an opposing team?

This preseason alone the referees in the National Football League (NFL) have given out almost the same amount of calls as in the entire 2013-2014 season. Ref-

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Alec Wisthoff @linfieldreviewsports erees are cracking down on illegal plays and enforcing the rules much more than they have in previous years, but why do the fines have to be so erratic?

Just last week Coach Pete Carroll was fined $100k and the Seahawks organization was fined $200k for “illegal” contact during offseason practice. How is this amount of money even reasonable?

Every football team, whether it is high school, middle school, or even college probably has some contact during their practices. Football is a game of tackles, sacks and big hits(legal ones of course). If a team, like the Seahawks is caught ille-

gally using contact during a practice they should be given a severe warning by the NFL. If they choose to disregard the warning, then there should be a fine. The fact that the fine was $300k is absurd. No team should be fined this amount of money for a little extra contact.

The NFL itself needs to set rules that punish players for more obscene gestures or violent hits not a celebration or a small amount of contact during a practice. The players themselves should be able to express their emotions in a positive way, whether that be a celebration like a slam dunk or a dance.

I understand that it might be considered taunting the other team, but if you score you deserve to celebrate. Football is a game of emotions and if the players can release it in a positive way then incidents like Johnny Manziel will occur more often and be much more severe.

Alec Wisthoff can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Linfield has done a lot to improve Dillin Hall. It’s newly renovated, the cooks try hard to accommodate different dietary needs, and the sandwich and quesadilla station is great. But Dillin’s short hours—closing at 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 7 p.m. on Friday-Sunday— severely limits students’ ability to eat there on a daily basis.

Linfield’s small size means that students can get highly involved in several groups or clubs. But this huge time commitment, along with classes and social activities, makes it difficult to find the time to eat at Dillin before it closes. While Starbucks offers one dining alternative, it’s expensive and doesn’t offer enough of a variety to make up full meals every day.

Although it may be hard to find the funds and space to get another food option on campus, other small, private schools seem to find a way.

The University of Puget Sound, with approximately 2,500 students, offers a main

Helen Lee @linfieldreview dining hall as well as two cafés and a pizza house/convenience store.

Lewis & Clark College has around 2,100 students, and hosts two eateries in its campus center and two cafés.

If other small, private schools can offer their students more dining alternatives, Linfield should too.

The students need another dining option, whether it’s a café, pizza house, or convenience store. But Linfield can also look toward more creative solutions. Brett Burmeister is the managing editor of FoodCartsPortland. com. He advises street food vendors and knows all about mobile vending laws.

Burmeister has also launched NOLAFoodTrucks. com in the New Orleans food truck scene. He’s been featured by the New York Times, the Guardian, CNN, and other renowned media sources for his expert food truck reviews and experience. He would be a great source of knowledge in getting food trucks—a cheap and fun dining alternative for college students—on Linfield’s campus.

The kicker? He’s a ’92 Linfield alumni.

According to a 2012 Linfield Magazine profile on Burmeister, he credits Linfield with making him a “more successful individual in all [his] endeavors.” Linfield should try harder to utilize the connections it has with its graduates to make the campus a better place.

Food trucks are just one possible food option, but with Dillin Hall’s dismal hours, Linfield students should have a wider array of dining choices.

Helen Lee can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com

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Campus renovations nearing completion

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All photos by Emilie Skladzien/Photo editor From top right, a newly installed glass wall will display the anthropology museum articfacts with another wall of glass soon to be installed. The reconstructed hadicap ramp ouside of Melrose hall is now complient with ADA code. The new door for the entrance to the International Programs Office as well as the offices of the political science department. The door represents the start of a new era for Walker hall.

Jonathan Williams @linfieldreviewnews Renovations to Melrose and Walker hall are nearly complete as the start of the academic year is in full swing.

The renovation project, which started in June, is nearing completion with an estimated four weeks left according to Facilities Services director Allison Horn.

Walker is the more noticeable of the two renovated halls with the first floor completely retiled and open for students and staff to use.

The International Programs Office as well as the political science department has both moved into their new spaces in Walker.

Horn mentioned that the Linfield community would notice the newly painted white walls, which covers the original pink color that was fading.

The general contractor, Walsh Construction Co., has kept the project on schedule since it started back in June.

The crew is working only nights and weekends in Walker hall due to student and Faculty use of the building.

The bulk of the construction to Walker has been completed. The only tasks left to complete are installing ceiling panels and permanent lighting, as well as installing the custom made glass display cases for the anthropology museum.

Horn explained, “The display cases will feature artifacts from the anthropology department which will include a double-sided glass wall visible from the first floor hallway and the lobby of the International Programs Office.

There will also be smaller movable display cases in the entry to Walker Hall

displaying more artifacts.

The International Programs Office has amassed a larger space that is more comfortable for students and Faculty to use. The new office is light and open with natural light coming through large glass walls from the anthropology museum.

The political science department has a new seminar conference room that can be used for students and Faculty on the first floor of Walker.

Melrose hall, which of the two halls has the most work to be completed, also had the most upgrades and renovations done to it.

Vice president of Finance and Administration Mary Ann Rodriguez noted in an email that, “The project cost slightly over two million and was funded from a bond offering which was specific to capital improvements for the campus.”

No student tuition money was used for the completion of any of the renovations this summer.

The basement of Melrose has changed significantly but will keep its historic look once renovations are complete.

The east wing of the basement will now house the Office of Financial Aid, Registrar and Student Accounts. The offices are now all centrally located next to each other so student will have a one-stop place to go.

The new space has larger office spaces for Financial Aid advisers to talk to students and parents on a more private basis. The lobby of the three-office suite includes areas for students to sit and work.

On the West end next to the entry stairs is the Office of Academic Advising and Linfield Career Hub. Students will have lots of space to sit and chat with

advisers as well as Skype with potential employers in the video lounge conference room.

Students that need a place to take a test will now have private rooms in the Learning Support Services Office as well as a group room test taking room.

The entirety of the basement has brand new heating, lighting, carpet and fans to make it energy efficient. Students and Faculty will notice how light and modern it feels with the fast majority of the light coming naturally through many of the glass windows above doors along the hall.

The West entrance is now up to code in ADA handicap accessibility. The ramp was completely redone as well as a new set of stairs that run parallel to the ramp.

Jonasson Hall has stayed mainly the same through the entirety of the construc-

tion process. It has a new pantry that can also be used as a food preparation room with a new storage closet adjacent to the pantry.

Horn mentioned that it may be a while before an other major renovations happen on campus as none have been discussed as of yet.

Horn reflected on the construction process by saying, “It has gone well, Walsh has kept us on track through the entirety of the project and we were only limited by the space of the buildings during the renovation process as to other things we would have liked to have done.”

Students and Faculty can look forward to seeing the rest of the renovation wrap up in just four short weeks.

Jonathan Williams can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

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Students harvest, work on garden All photos by Emilie Skladzien/Photo editor

From left, senior Sophia Webster carries a box of peppers that were recently harvested for students to eat. Junior Jana Purington holds a strawberry and looks down on more produce that is ready to be harvested.

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your time [at Linfield].”

The only additional cost for students will be food for the month of Jan Term, as the price of Jan Term (including tuition and housing) will be included in the overall tuition package for the year, according to Hopp.

However, how the prices will be included into tuition is not yet confirmed, as that will be discussed and decided upon later this semester during an upcoming budget meeting.

“It’s got to be an entire full year experience…not just orientation weekend,” said Jeff Mackay, associate dean of students and director of residence life. “We know students

[who] are involve excel.”

The idea of making Jan Term required is nothing new, as it was required just 15 years ago at Linfield.

Classes that will be offered during Jan Term will remain similar to what they are now, with additional career preparation and development courses.

“All students will find something to be connected with during Jan Term,” Hopp said. “It’s about strengthening everything to make the experience better for students.

If students know how to take baby steps, then they don’t panic their senior year.”

There will also be additional entertainment for stu-

dents during the evenings and weekends, as the Linfield Activities Board and the Associated Students of Linfield College will be encouraged to plan more Jan Term events.

Jan Term will also be more connected to the Program for the Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement (PLACE) program with additional events and guest speakers.

“Logistically [it will be] an interesting thing to think about, [but] we know there are enough seats in classes for students,” Hopp said. “The biggest change is in perspective.”

Samantha Sigler can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

What have you enjoyed most at Linfeld so far?

“Getting back into the swing of things and learning again. I didn’t realize how much I love Linfield till I was gone during the summer.”

-Luis Santillan Sophomore

“Being back on campus ...but not the heavy workload.”

-Paulina Rodriguez

Junior

“Seeing friends you havent seen for a while and being back on campus.”

“Getting to know people and starting new classes.”

-Noemy Vega Sophomore

-Erin Nelson Freshman

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Linfield’s CPS Director protects campus Jonathan Williams @linfieldreviewnews Since July 1, there has been a new director of College Public Safety on the McMinnville campus.

Ron Noble is extremely proud to be a part of the Linfield community after serving as the chief of the McMinnville Police Department since 2006.

Noble moved to McMinnville with his family after working for the Corvallis police department for 18 years as a liaison with Oregon State University’s athletics department and Greek life.

“College Public Safety only exists because there are Faculty, staff and students that occupy the McMinnville campus,” Noble said.

Noble’s goals for College Public Safety is to create stronger relationships with the Linfield community,

become more approachable for students to ask questions and to be more reasonable.

Noble’s kids have attended Linfield and he has known many of the Faculty and staff since he started working at the McMinnville Police Department.

In response to the recent car thefts that happened in August on the Linfield campus as well as in McMinnville Noble said, “This tells you that the Linfield and McMinnville communities as a whole are safe since it seemed like a big deal that there were car thefts because that isn’t something that often happens.”

Noble has seen Linfield’s College Public Safety department grow during his time with the McMinnville Police Department. He commented that there have been five different directors of it since he started with

the McMinnville Police department in 2006.

He is planning on staying for quite sometime and hopefully retiring after his time as director of College Public Safety.

Noble also wants the community to know that the police that work for College Public Safety aren’t just here to give parking tickets and shut down parties.

College Public Safety is responsible for managing events, such as athletics, entertainment and special events for the college. They also work closely with facilities services by checking that buildings are secure as well as locking and unlocking them. CPS also works with the Office of Student Affairs, Residence Life and the conduct board.

Noble thinks that fraternities are a good thing but often times stray too far away from what their

brotherhood was built on.

He said, “They can be a great resource to the community, they provide good leadership opportunities for those in the brotherhood and also can have a positive impact on neighborhoods.”

Noble thinks that fraternities at Linfield could improve in some areas.

His mission for CPS is to, “Create a solid foundation and philosophy, generate better service and keep getting better as a whole.”

Noble firmly believes that his staff is professional and is equipped to handle an emergency situation if that kind of event was to happen.

Noble is happy to be at Linfield and is excited to see Linfield’s College Public Safety department continue to grow and get better as a team.

Jonathan Williams can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Student completes summer PR internship Jonathan Williams @linfieldreviewnews

A Linfield student completed an exciting internship this summer at one of the United State’s top public relations agencies.

Senior mass communication major Alyssa Townsend was one of sixteen applicants to get an internship at Waggener Edstrom Communications in Portland, Ore., this summer.

Townsend was the only undergraduate student in her internship.

She credits working for the Office of Communications at Linfield as well as doing social media for the Nicholson Library as the main reasons she was able to get the internship because she demonstrated that she could do communication for a wide range of audiences.

Attending a small college where students can get hands on experience while in college has paid of for Townsend.

Townsend worked in the Citizenship department in the Portland office for Waggener and Edstrom Communications.

The department handles corporate and social responsibility both internally and externally.

The internship was paid and Townsend worked forty hours a week five days a week.

She was also responsible for doing public relations for Waggener and Edstrom, creating communication plans and collaborating with other interns.

Townsend has said that she has always wanted to make a difference in the her see the ways in which she can help create change.

She learned that she

Photo courtesy of Alyssa Townsend Alyssa Townsend and her coworker Sylvia Ashmore in the citizenship department at Waggener Edstrom Communications in Portland, Ore. wants to use public relations to help make a difference in the world. Townsend wants to get an internship in Waggener and Edstrom’s social innovation department next summer.

Her dream is to work permanently for Waggener and Edstrom because she said she has always known that she wanted to make a difference but public relations has shown her what is truly possible, and how she can help create change.

Other responsibilities that Townsend had were the monthly citizenship newsletter that was sent out worldwide, blogging, taking pictures and creating communication plans.

Her favorite project during the internship was doing

pro bono work for the Boys and Girls Club of Bellevue, WA., by creating a social media communication plan for them.

During the internship Townsend commuted from Sherwood Ore., to Portland.

She said, “It was great having a manager and mentor during my internship because they both had completed an internship with Waggener and Edstrom.”

Townsend said she also enjoyed working with the other interns and creating professional connections she plans to keep for future jobs and opportunities.

Townsend has also done research with assistant professor of mass communication Susan Currie Sivek at Linfield.

Townsend said “the internship has been great and it has taught me so much more about public relations than what I had known going into the internship.”

Townsend also said, “Linfield and the faculty of the mass communication department have helped me a lot in getting this internship.”

Waggener and Edstrom’s summer internship is highly competitive because it’s their busiest time of the year.

Townsend will leave Linfield with a bounty of experiences and opportunities as she plans on entering the professional field after graduating in June 2015.

Jonathan Williams can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.

Emily Skladzien/Photo editor Ron Noble is the new director of College Public Safety. Noble took the job after serving since 2006 as the chief of the McMinnville Police Department.

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iPhoneography apps that aren’t Instagram Spencer Beck/For The Review

Spencer Beck can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com Fall — the time of year when over-edited photos of Pumpkin Spiced Lattes, autumn leaves, and morning frost are predictably purged onto all social media. This isn’t to say that these photos are necessarily terrible, but can soon become unoriginal. Therefore, there are little things, such as editing techniques, that help an individual’s photos stand out from the crowd. The first step for the iPhoneographer is to use Instagram for nothing more than posting and viewing photos. Yes, cool it with the Instafilters.

Put more simply, the Instagram editing features should be avoided because the given filters are too harsh and have been overused since the app’s debut in 2010.

So, let’s go over some of the top photo editing apps for iOS if you want to seem like a pro-iPhoneographer. Most of these are a musthave if you want high quality images with a touch of style.

Afterlight Another great application for the iPhoneographer is Afterlight. While it isn’t as film-like as VSCO Cam, it is more technical and has other must-needed features. It is great for adding white borders to non-square photos and easy cropping and straightening.

Photo courtesy of Spencer Beck From the Shutter side menu, you’re able to select photos to upload from your Camera Roll, Albums, or from the camera directly.

Photo courtesy of Spencer Beck

that it allows you to choose film-like filters before you even take the photo.

As an extra incentive, you can set your Camera Roll to automatically backup to the Shutter cloud.

Afterlight has minor photo tweaking options, cropping, If you are looking for space to put borders, and even a few film effects. all of your selfies or just a way to get more likes, these apps are for you. Also, they are conveniently free in the Apple App Store. Before you know it, people will Similarly to VSCO, Afterlight has be asking you how you edit your photos and film-like filters, semi-pro editing opthey’ll copy you out of flattery. tions, and a cool, minimalist feel. You can also save to phone in high quality or post to all of the popular social media.

For a nostalgic and simple app, try 1-Hour Photo. Once opened, you’ll notice a lack of, really, anything. The app features just a single button to take a photo, a screen to show you what you’re shooting, and two digital tickers to show you how many photos are processing and how many Photo courtesy of Spencer Beck minutes until your next photo is There are dozens of photo editing tweaks you can make from the processed. Once the shutter is pressed, VSCO Cam app. the photo must be ‘processed’ for sixty minutes. At this time, the photo will be VSCO Cam delivered to your Camera Roll with a pre-proIf you could only have one application, grammed, moody, black and white filter and a VSCO Cam (pronounced like ‘visco’) is a nopush notification. Although you cannot adjust brainer. Its minimalist design will enhance your the photos or see them until an hour after you creativity while its professional faux film effects take it, 1-Hour Photo brings back putting more with keep you occupied for hours. In addition thought into your photos before taking them to VSCO’s several dozen pre-programmed along with the feeling of anticipating the outfilters, there are many other filters that can be come of your photos. downloaded from its in-app store. If you aren’t feeling the filters or need more customization, PicStitch there are many pro-like tweaks you can do For the inner white girl with too many sofrom the app, including exposure, temperature, rority photos to post individually to Instagram, crop, sharpen, saturation, and fade.

Facebook, or Twitter, I recommend PicStitch.

But it is not just about the great editing While we have all heard of this app, it still features. The application is incredibly easy to remains a useful tool to throw together an easy navigate, with a pop-out bar on the left that photo collage of your hike from this morning, links to its built in social media (known as your night out on the town, or just six angles of Grid), a store for filters (most of which are free), your Frappuccino. your current VSCO library of photos, a built-in camera application, and more. Another great Shutter feature is the option to upload directly to InsFor another cool-but-not-always needed aptagram, Facebook, Twitter, email, and several plication, there is Shutter, the “Infinite Cloud other social media sites.

Camera.” While it looks similar to the built-in Photo courtesy of Spencer Beck Protip: If you edit your photos with VSCO iPhone camera app, Shutter does not need to There are hundreds of options for photo collages with Cam, put #vscocam in the tags and you’ll get use the Camera Roll, but instead immediately PicStitch. likes from other classy photographers who use uploads your photos to unlimited cloud storthe application. age. Another interesting feature of the app is

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Linfield Activities Board:

By Students, For Students Mikenna Whatley/Features Editor Mikenna Whatley can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

Photo courtesy of Cruz Morey Solo Circus was one of the Activities Board’s first successful events of the 2014 school year. Sophomore Cruz Morey hired Michael DuBois to perform his circus act in Ice Auditorium. From left: junior Heidi Ambrose (Culture Chair), senior Kelsey Tanouye (Social Media Chair), Michael DuBois, sophomore Cruz Morey (Special Events Chair), and junior Eve Brindis (Music Chair.)

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The Linfield Activities Board is one of the many on organizations that make Linfield College as unique a who attends it.

The Activities Board is made up of eight Linfi who meet once a week to plan events and activities f body to attend.

The Activities Board positions include Vice P gramming, Music Chair, Outdoors Chair, Secretary, S Special Events Chair, Cultural Chair, and Social Med

Vice President of Programming, Kacie Copela not only manages the Activities Board but also serve between the Activities Board, student senate and cab just recently hired and is excited for what this positio her.

“I had been a part of the Linfield Activities Bo year as the secretary and I decided that I wanted to p out of my comfort zone,” Copeland said. “I love bein activities.”

Copeland’s biggest project is helping to plan

“I handle a budget for Wildstock and I also k what the chairs are spending for their activities,” Co work with check requests and reconciliations.”

Most of the events the Activities Board puts o cause the money is given to them by ASLC.

“It is nice for the students to not have to pay of pocket every time they want to walk into a movie said.

One of the Activities board chairs that deals s with the showing of movies and other performing ev Special Events Chair, Cruz Morey, sophomore.

“My position’s responsibility is to organize ev performers, jugglers, comedians, magicians, hypnot word poets, anything like that,” Morey said.

One of Morey’s regular responsibilities is bein planning and scheduling movies to show on the big Auditorium.

“The movies that I show are no longer in thea have to show them before they come out on DVD,” M “It’s in that middle period.”

Linfield goes through a movie distributing agency Motion Pictures, which is how the Activities Board c to films that are not available to the general public y tract states that Linfield must show at least 15 new m per year, but the Activities Board also plays older mo Morey knew he wanted to be involved with the As Students of Linfield College in some way, which led path to the Activities Board positions available for st ply for.

“I really enjoy planning events and I like being in p responsibility,” Morey said. “This job lets me expand The Activities Board was set up by ASLC and rece from annual ASLC student body fees. This money is uted to the different Activities Board Chairs so they certain amount to plan and execute the events they p “Essentially, students are paying for us to put thes them through their tuition money,” Morey said. “Th I deal with goes to paying for the comedians or perfo bring to campus and also the movies that I show.”

The effort Morey puts into his position as Special E has given him a chance to gain experience in the typ plans to continue doing after college.

“This position is teaching me a lot about contracts with agents of people,” Morey said. “Planning isn’t s can just push aside and say ‘I’ll do it later.’”

In fact, Morey spent last semester planning all of th scheduled to happen this semester, and is already w organizing what will happen in the spring.

“You really have to be meticulous with your plann know how to talk with people,” Morey said, “and m bargain sometimes.”

Morey finds fulfillment through his position on the Board because it allows him to give back to the stud “I want the students to be happy,” Morey said. “A sometimes they might not be happy with events tha pened in the past but we are really trying to improve max out our attendance.”

The Activities Board’s Culture Chair, Heidi Ambro hopes to maximize attendance at the different events “I plan events that are usually off-campus that ran thing between Evergreen Museum and Water Park v to fancy restaurants,” Ambrose said.

Ambrose finds her position to be a perfect for her d sion for and experience planning events.

“I am so excited about not only my events but my events too,” Ambrose said.

Ambrose finds specific gratification in her position are essentially no limits to what she can plan.

“It’s fantastic,” Ambrose said. “My position gives s opportunities that are worth seizing. I help students different cultures and appreciate things outside of th tine – which is what college is all about.”

Ambrose feels her position is, without a doubt, wo time and dedication that she puts into it.

“Linfield would lost a lot of its uniqueness withou brose said. “We enable the student body to learn mo world around us, and we provide great stress relief.”

Ambrose truly embraces the culture aspect of her p Linfield in general.

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“They inspire me to think outside the box.”

The main thing that the Activities Board needs from the student body in return for all of their time spent planning these activities is participation.

“Come to our events,” Morey said. “We are doing this for everybody. Come to the events and give us feedback. Participate.”

For more information on up and coming events and activities put on by the Activities Board, like “Linfield Activities Board” on Facebook, follow @LinfieldLab on Twitter and @LinfieldActivitiesBoard on Instagram.

“We put so much effort into what we do,” Ambrose said. “I love my team.”

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“Through the use of social media, my job is to generate and maintain positive relationships with students so that, through our posts, they can be informed about upcoming and current events happening on campus.”

The Activities board recognized that in this technological time, it is greatly needed for any organization to develop and maintain a digital presence. Thus, Tanouye’s position was created.

“I would say that I am definitely passionate about my work for this position,” Tanouye said. “I am an avid social media user and recognize the many benefits it can have.”

Due to the small size of the Linfield student body, there is already a strong sense of community that can be felt on campus.

“I see the use of social media as a tool that can improve, even more, the flow of communication between organizations and the students who benefit from them,” Tanouye said. “As a mass communication major, I have been able to study at length how the use of new media can be a cause of greater societal advancement.”

Tanouye views her use of social media for the Activities board as a way to implement her studies into the real world.

“I think that my position is great because its focus is on updating students with the latest information regarding our events in real time but in a positive and sometimes entertaining way,” Tanouye said.

This is the first year that the Activities Board has hired a Social Media Chair, and Tanouye sees great potential for how her role can better relay information about LAB sponsored events that interest students.

The Linfield Activities Board is, when it comes down to it, students working to entertain and keep Linfield students happy.

“The people I work with keep me motivated,” Morey said.

Photo courtesy of The Linfield Activities Board Here the Linfield Activities Board chairs are attending the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) West convention. This event is put on once a year to showcase musicians and other entertainers that schools can then network with in hopes of hiring them to perform on their campus.

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Linfield celebrates Hispanic Heritage

Emilie Skladzien/Photo editor The band Galaxia plays their favorite songs to add some spice to Hispanic Heritage Day. The event kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Sarah Coste, assistant professor of the HHPA department, sells snow cones at the Hispanic Heritage Day celebration on Sept. 7.

Members of Spanish Club hand out “agua de piña,” a drink made up of pineapple juice and water. Hispanic Heritage Month starts Sept. 15 and ends Oct. 15.

Students perform covers and original music Gilberto Galvez @TLRCulture

As cliché as it may sound, A Night of Music, Friends and Entertainment certainly made a splash, possibly because of the sprinklers that went off in the middle of the event but definitely because of the five student acts that graced the stage Aug. 29.

They sang a variety of music, covers and original songs and played instruments as well.

The first act to perform was The New US, made up of sophomores Katie Higinbotham and Conner Wells.

They performed three original songs and then a cover.

“We’re writing a lot of new stuff this year. We’d like to know whether we’re good or not,” Wells said before they played their first song, which is yet untitled.

Their second song was another original named “Please Officer You Don’t Understand,” their third a cover of “Cigarette Daydreams” by Cage The Ele-

phant and their last song was titled “You.” “We wrote it in 15 minutes flat last year,” Wells said.

The New U.S. will be playing shows throughout the year on Thursdays.

Senior Katricia Stewart sang a soulful set of songs, beginning with Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay.” The other songs she sang were “Like A Star” by Corinne Bailey, “Breezeblock” by Alt-J and “Permanent Holiday” by Mike Love.

Junior Logan Mays followed after. He, like The New U.S., sang a few covers then some original songs, explaining one of the tragic stories behind his new original song and a much happier story behind another one of his original songs.

The first song he sang was a cover of “What It’s Like” by Everlast.

It was during this amazing covers that the sprinklers came on in the IM field. They

distracted some from Mays’ performance, but once the LAB staff covered the sprinklers with garbage cans, everyone settled down to enjoy it again.

The second was a cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic,” giving it a very unique feel.

The next song was an original song named “The Loudest Whisper.”

“I had a friend whose parents went through divorce, and it affected him a lot. This is a song about how divorce—it’s not just about the couple,” Mays said.

Mays’ last song alone was another original, but it was a happier song for Mays’ friend, junior Travis McKenna, who is engaged.

For the last performance, Mays invited freshman Kyle Huizinga to the stage.

They’d barely met each other an hour ago, but they decided to perform Mothers Be Good To Your Daughters together.

Giiberto Galvez can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Katelyn Henson/For the review (Left) Sophomores Conner Wells and Katie Higinbotham perform at A Night of Music, Friends and Entertainment on Aug. 29 in the IM Field.

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NYU professor’s art makes its home in the Linfield gallery Rosa Johnson @TLRCulture Lifetime artist and videographer Peter Campus held an artist talk on Aug. 27 in the Vivian Bull Center for his gallery “isthmos.”

From Aug. 25-Sept. 30 Campus will feature seven of his works in The Linfield Gallery.

Campus began shooting videography in the late 1960’s with surveillance cameras that mainly featured monochromatic footage of people.

Most of Campus’s early works are projected onto walls for crowds to view video footage that is looped for various periods of time. One piece Campus created called “Anamnesis” projected the viewer in real time and had another camera play a delayed stream in order to skew the viewer’s perspective.

Campus would add additional flair to his other projection projects like rotating the images of his subjects or angling his projector in order to present the image differently from what people are used to seeing.

“We do know that our eyes see opposite of what is around us and that our brains tell us which was is the right side up, I like to flip the viewers’ perception to make them question what really is ‘right side up.’”

Campus said at his artist talk.

One of Campus’s first gallery installation pieces from 1971 called “Kiva” is now owned by the Whitney Museum. Shortly after his debut, Campus had his first solo show in ’72 called “interface.”

Along with being an artist, Campus studied experimental and cognitive psychology and currently

teaches at New York University as a Clinical Associate Professor of Art and has been there for over 30 years.

In 1990 Campus switched his videography from film to digital that changed his style to a more colorful and digitalized composition.

Curator and Director of The Linfield Gallery Cris Moss attended graduate school at New York University and met Campus there and had him as a professor during September 11, 2001.

Around this time Campus was also diagnosed with cancer. In order to cope with radiation and his other cancer treatment Campus recorded a short film called “Death Threat.”

Campus recorded other emotional pieces that featured up-close face shots one of which is a 12 minute piece called “Head of a Man With Death on his Mind” that was filmed after the death of his father.

“We very much acted like an actor and a director to achieve this piece,” Campus said referring to the “Head of a Man With Death on his Mind.”

Although Campus’s style has changed and varied since he first began working with mixed media at the age of 13, he continues to grow and adapt as an artist. From painting to black and white film photography, Campus has produced a range of compositions from portraitures to landscapes.

“Making art is the most wonderful thing I can think of doing. It makes me happy to make art I love sitting in my studio making art,” Campus said. Since 1972 Campus has had over 40 solo shows and there is no doubt that he will have more in the future.

Rosa Johnson can be reached at linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com

Rosa Johnson/Managing editor Peter Campus attends a reception in the Linfield Gallery after his artist talk on Aug. 27.

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Wildcat Artist Debut: Tyler Stenson

Katelyn Henson/For the review Musician Tyler Stenson play in Fred Meyer Lounge. He wants listeners to focus on his lyrics, wanting to become a lyrical Edgar Allen Poe.

Rosa Johnson/Managing editor Curator and Director of The Linfield Gallery Cris Moss attends the gallery opening with his son.

Rosa Johnson/Managing editor The “isthmos” gallery features seven televisions in The Linfield Gallery that plays Peter Campus’s videographs on repeat. Campus’s works will be in the Gallery until Sept. 30.

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Entertainment

September 8, 2014

Indulging in analyzing ‘The Great Gatsby’ can ruin the novel Paige Jurgensen @TLRCulture “The Great Gatsby” seems to be a novel that people either love or hate.

Often, the novel is hated because seemingly every high school student is forced to analyze it beyond necessity at least once.

That sort of forced dedication can lead to bitterness about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel.

I, for one, love “The Great Gatsby,” and not just because I have an undying love for Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred in the 2013 film

adaption. Nick Carraway narrates the novel, a writer turned business man, after he moves to New York to start a new life.

Carraway moves into a small shack that is surrounded by mansions, the biggest and brightest of which located right next-door and belonging to a mysterious man named Gatsby.

The only thing Carraway knew about this Gatsby that he loved to throw wild parties every weekend that the whole of New York would attend.

Across the lake from Carraway lived his beauti-

ful cousin, Daisy, and her husband Tom Buchanan.

Although they were a beautiful and rich couple, their marriage was anything but perfect.

Carraway soon learns that Tom has a mistress, a mechanic’s wife named Myrtle.

Carraway soon falls into the New York lifestyle of alcohol and carelessness, although always analyzing it as if he were outside of it all.

Carraway soon meets Gatsby and learns of his deepest secret, that he is in love with Daisy and moved

​The idea came about in a brainstorming session for fundraising for the choir’s upcoming trip to Hawaii.

Already a ways into ​ the process, senior Samantha Hilton who is a music minor says she and the choir are very excited both for the process of making the album and for it to be finished.

“I’m most looking for​ ward to seeing all of the other musical talent we have here at Linfield outside of just our choir, and for people to actually have a tangible look into what

we do here,” Hilton said.

Along with singing in ​ the choir, Hilton is also their treasurer and fundraising director. ​A full track list is nearly complete, and the album will include a variety of songs ranging from very upbeat to calm and slow.

Two of the most popular songs being recorded are “Baby It’s Cold Outside” and “The First Noel.”

Auditions are being ​ held within the next few days for the individual and instrumental groups to be featured on the album.

across the lake from her in order to be close. Carraway sets up a meeting for Daisy

and Gatsby and they soon start a love affair, but not without raising the suspicions of Tom Buchanan.

The overlying theme of “The Great Gatsby” that any tenth grader can tell you is indulgence.

Specifically the danger of indulgence. Jay Gatsby embodied indulgence and greed; he was a man of constant want.

More clothes, more parties, and more love. No matter how much he had, Gatsby wanted more.

But what he wanted the most was Daisy. Daisy was Gatsby’s final prize; he

wanted her beyond desire, although, arguably not exactly her. Gatsby wanted what he perceived Daisy to be. So, if Gatsby had gotten Daisy, he still would not have exactly what he wanted.

Gatsby’s indulgence didn’t make him a bad person, exactly.

Everyone had desires, but not everyone had the means of getting everything they desire the second they desire it. And maybe we shouldn’t, I mean, just look what happened to Gatsby.

Once the performers are finalized, rehearsals will start and then the recording process can begin.

With this project being new and unfamiliar, the recording and mixing of the album is the most daunting of the steps in the process.

However, with the experience of mixer Christian Santangelo, the recording should run smoothly and allow the album to be released on time.

Hilton is looking at a release date sometime in November.

An exact date has yet to

be decided, but she wants students to be able to have plenty of time to enjoy it on campus before leaving for winter break.

With all the talents of the choir on full display, Hilton also hopes to create some buzz for the music department, and encourage more students and faculty to attend choir concerts.

“I think people are aware that we have a choir, but they don’t necessarily know what we sound like.”

Hilton said.

Hilton is excited to see a positive response from the

student body when they have the finished product.

As the sunshine dwindles and summer draws to a close, Linfield students have a lot to look forward to this upcoming holiday season.

And, soon, they will have a Wildcat original to generate their holiday cheer as the clouds come along and the leaves begin to change.

Photo courtesy of www.goodreads.com

Paige Jurgensen can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Concert Choir to make first-ever holiday album Lindsey Silbernagel @TLRCulture As summer winds to a close, many Wildcats may be trying to hold on tight to the last few weeks of sunshine.

The Linfield Concert Choir, however, is already in full swing and ready for the holiday season as they begin work on their first ever Christmas album. ​The album is a compilation of songs done both by the concert as a whole, as well as small groups chosen by audition.

Author tells usual immigrant tale through the use of fantasy tropes Gilberto Galvez @TLRCulture Sometimes the best true story a person can tell needs a little drop of magic in it. Helene Wecker’s “The Golem and the Jinni” has more than a little magic.

It is, as the title suggests, a story about a golem and a jinni, both magical creatures, the golem from Jewish folklore and the jinni from Arabian myths. It is also a story of immigrants, love and evil.

The story begins with a man wanting a wife but no ordinary wife, a golem wife.

This golem would be obedient only to him, concerned with only his well-being, but also curious, kind and smart.

An evil wizard makes the wife requested of him, but warns the man to be careful, that a golem is not as gentle as it may seem.

The golem is awakened on a ship to America, where her owner dies. The golem crosses into America as a free golem. There she is going by an old Rabbi and named Chava.

The jinni is discovered within a clay flask by tinsmith named Arbeely.

Overcoming the surprise of a naked man appearing out of nowhere in his

Photo courtesy of www.goodreads.com shop, Arbeely picked out the name Ahmed for the Jinni and decided to help him integrate into New York society.

The golem’s maker, on the search for immortality, follows the golem to New York, hoping to find the secret. His interference adds many complications to the

golem and the jinni’s lives, to New York itself as well.

The magic is delightfully entertaining, but the underlying story of immigration holds the true magic. Both Chava and Ahmed are new to America. The sprawling city of New York is especially daunting.

Wecker even mentioned

in an interview that at first she had tried writing a story about to actual immigrants, but when it kept falling through, she decided to change the immigrants into magical creatures. The fantasy keeps a reader’s interest.

The chapters alternated points of view, but it was an easy book to follow, where the characters seem like real people you either love or hate to love.

Besides the characters, the other highlight was the way Wecker described the settings of her world. New York had a very daunting and diverse feel. One could feel the hot sun of the Arabian Desert in Ahmed’s flashbacks. Past and present the settings were wonderful.

Throughout the entire book the characters perform acts of love, hatred, fear, desperation and passion.

The excitement doesn’t until the last page, and neither do the beautiful and exciting images.

What’s more, the gorgeous cover easily catches anyone’s attention. Anyone interested in golems and jinnis or in a tale of immigrants should definitely look into reading this book.

Gilberto Galvez can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Lindsey Silbernagel can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@ gmail.com

Upcoming events Book Talk: Pauls Toutonghi

7:30 p.m. on Wednesday Wednesday Sept. 10 in Nicholson Library

Spoken Word Poet: Jnahie

9 p.m. on Saturday Sept.

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The Blonde and Other Slight Distractions

7:30 p.m. on Thursday Sept. 18-Saturday Sept.

20 in Ford Hall 10 p.m. on Friday Sept.

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Volleyball starts off strong, hopes to carry next season forward Jonathan WIlliams @LinfieldReviewNews The 2014 volleyball season is off to a strong start with the Wildcats first win against New Hope Christian in non-league play setting the stage for what could be an exciting year.

The volleyball team played a solid match winning in three out of four sets.

Shane Kimura has coached the Wildcats for 36 years and is as optimistic as ever that the team could surprise some of its opponents in the ever-competitive Northwest Conference.

With 9 returners from last years roster the team looks to have a strong amount of experienced players.

Coach Kimura believes that this year’s freshmen will bring a competitive edge and will provide more depth for the team.

Kimura also mentioned “the goal is always to win conference.” The Wildcats look to have a better chance

of improving their conference play with more women on the roster to assist the team.

Pacific Lutheran University, which has held the conference title for the past three years, is still the conference favorite to win the title once again.

Linfield is determined to move up in the conference standings this season with last year being their lowest standing coming in at eighth in the conference.

Kimura said his top three returning players are seniors Kailana RitteCamara, Victoria Thompson and Courtney Wanamaker who all bring with them three years of experience in the Northwest conference as well as leadership roles to lead the team to wins against conference competitors.

The team has chances early on in the season to improve with non-conference matches against Mary Hardin-Baylor, Texas Lutheran, Trinity and Southwestern on Sept.

12-13 in San Antonio, Texas.

The Wildcats hope to improve their game by not making little mistakes throughout matches that catch up with them and ultimately cost them the match.

Kimura said, “We are off to a good start, the girls are being competitive in practice and we are looking forward to conference play.”

The Wildcats first home conference match is against the 2013 Northwest Conference reigning champion, Pacific Lutheran University at 7 p.m. Sept. 27, in the Ted Wilson gymnasium.

The Wildcats first conference match is on Wednesday 17 at 7 p.m. against Willamette at Willamette.

Hopefully the preconference lay will kickstart the Wildcats into good conference play that can potentially lead to great success deeper into the season.

Jonathan Williams can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

Josie Tilbury/For the Review Sophmore Molly McTaggart serves the ball at a match against New Hope Christian.

cer back in his home town of Bend, Oregon.

“I originally started coaching at Linfield because Dom got the Women’s head coaching job and I had just graduated and had been coaching youth club soccer back home in Bend,” McCool said. “Dom offered me a job as his assistant. We were very good friends and teammates growing up so it was an easy choice to make the move and jump into college coaching with a good buddy that had similar soccer ideas.”

McCool has been at Linfield helping build the women’s program for some time now. Though he is now the full time coach for the Wildcats he still manages to help teach the youth.

“I am also a director of coaching for a youth club the Beaverton area,” McCool said.

Since Coach McCool has been able to see the women’s program grow since he arrived here and now holds the position as head coach, he looks forward to setting goals for this year’s team.

“As far as plans that we have for the team this year, the plan is pretty similar to the past in that our main goal is to win a conference title,” McCool said. “We have finished second the past three years and everyone is very motivated and ready to get over the hump and win.”

With the women’s team playing in California this weekend, McCool looks for-

ward to making his team a conference winning machine.

“We are actually meeting with our team psychologist this weekend in California to go over goal setting but on a team level we want to be fitter, sharper, and more dominant than ever and have been putting in a lot of extra work to be physically ready,” McCool said. “We have also talked a lot about having a very clearly defined style of play, or brand of soccer, which includes being very comfortable with the ball and dominant in possession, while committing players forward every chance we can to be proactive and attack minded. “ McCool has also set some personal goals that he wants

Women’s soccer team welcomes new coach Alec Wisthoff @LinfieldReviewSports With the fall semester underway many fall sports have started their practices.

For the women’s soccer team they will be starting this season with a new head coach who isn’t new to the program.

“I am 30 years old and grew up in Bend but played club soccer in Portland growing up, actually on the same youth team as Dom Doty the old coach,” Cole McCool said in an email. “ I went to University of Nevada Las Vegas where I played soccer for four years and graduated in 2007.”

Coach McCool isn’t new to teaching soccer. In fact he has taught youth club soc-

to see the team accomplish this season.

“Personally on a smaller scale, a goal of mine is to make training very fast paced and engaging every day so that the speed of the game is something that we are really comfortable with and we are able to push the pace,” McCool said. “It also makes training more fun and hopefully keeps players motivated to train all season as the grind of training five days a week wears on. We want the environment to be really positive, really active, and really enjoyable.”

With the women’s soccer team ready for back-to-back non-conference games this weekend against Cal Lutheran and UC-Santa Cruz, it’ll

shine a light on just how dominant they will be against their first conference game on Sept. 13 against Pacific.

The Wildcats first conference game is against former NWC reigning champions Pacific.

The Women’s soccer should get some match play in California and translate that into a victory against Pacific.

The women’s soccer team will be a team to watch this year with the potential to grab the NWC championship and possibly even more.

Alec Wisthoff can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

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Cheer coach gets the Wildcat Cheer team pumped Rosa Johnson @LinfieldReviewSports Linfield’s cheerleaders will be shaking their pompoms to a new coach this year. Lori DuPuis joined the faculty this fall and has been coaching for 26 years. While DuPuis is off of the football sidelines she teaches English at Tualatin High School and has been involved with the classroom for 22 years.

DuPuis has developed cheer programs which resulted in several state championships and nationally recognized teams.

Along with providing training, choreography, and private camps for Oregon schools, DuPuis judges for state and regional competitions. DuPuis has worked on the Oregon Cheerleading Coaches Association Board as Regional Rep and Conference Chairperson.

“Coaching college cheerleading has been the one endeavor I haven’t had the chance to experience.”

DuPuis said in an email, “I found Linfield through cheer friends who had children attending Linfield

ing experience left him with many contacts in the competitive swimming realm, and he has used them to recruit for Linfield’s team.

“Being that I just started in June, most high school students had already made their decision of where they were going to college. So, I spent most of the summer trying to find—using my contacts from the club swimming world— any swimmer that had not made a decision yet. But I also talked to transfer students, so we actually have a few older swimmers for this season,” Kimball said.

Kimball said the swim team was able to recruit about ten swimmers for this year’s season.

“Last year, there were nine guys on the men’s team that went to the conference championship. This year, there are 14 guys on the roster, and

and expressed a need for a coach. This fit with my

desires and enthusiasm to take my coaching to another level.”

DuPuis have had the honor to compete at USA Nationals in California with Tualatin High School and in Atlanta, Georgia as well.

DuPuis has also coached the Les Schwab Bowl several times.

DuPuis also met Vince Vaughn when he helped her Tualatin team win $1000 in a radio contest.

DuPuis wants to focus on athleticism for Linfield’s cheerleading program

along with student support and spirit.

“I enjoy teaching stunting and am looking for ways to propel Linfield cheer into the small college spotlight, encouraging cheerleaders to attend college here.

School spirit is also something the team and I would like to make a priority; we would like to students come to not only big games, but support all sports: basketball, soccer, and others,” DuPuis said in an email.

DuPuis is also planning for contests and promotions to

another three or so that will start in December when the season is over. On the girls’ side, we have over 20, and we’re hoping to get to 25,” Kimball said.

Kimball has high hopes for the season, and said Linfield has a lot of untapped potential.

“I think we have some talented members on our team right now. I think we have underperformed the last couple of years for one reason or another. I’m looking forward to having a fuller squad so that we can go in and be competitive,” Kimball said.

He considers Linfield’s swim team to be underdeveloped, and that there is much room for improvement.

“The guys didn’t win a single meet last year. I have nothing but respect for the past coaches, but I also think that with the new energy that

is going to be brought into the program, we’re going to make some great strides,” Kimball said.

The swim team’s practices start Sept. 9, and he’s already thinking about the new competitive reputation that he wants Linfield to earn.

“What I’ve been telling my team is that we’re going to turn heads. People are going to notice that we’re a different team, and it’s going to be exciting and energetic. My goal is to be the best Oregon school this season in our conference,” Kimball said.

Kimball considers confidence to be a key factor in changing the team’s mindset and competitive edge.

“One of the biggest things is going to be confidence.

Instilling confidence, instilling some Wildcat pride in our swimmers when they step onto the pool deck,” Kimball

Helen Lee/Editor-in-Chief Kyle Kimball replaced Gary Gutierrez as the swim coach and is eager to start the season. said.

“If anyone has anyone Every swimmer is a swim- competitive swimming expemer to watch for this season, rience, come and see me. I according to the new coach. have an open door policy, so “I’m excited to get to know if anyone’s interested in jointhem better and to start build- ing a competitive swimming ing this team back to a confer- team that’s only going to get ence contender every year,” better and better, come find Kimball said. me at the pool,” Kimball said.

He looks to continually The Wildcats’ first meet is increase the team’s size, and October 31 in Salem. asks former competitive Helen Lee can be reached at swimmers to consider joining. linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com.

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Swim coach prepares for first year Helen Lee @LinfieldReviewSports

Kyle Kimball is the new coach for Linfield’s men’s and women’s swim teams. He was hired to replace Gary Gutierrez, who coached the team for 16 seasons.

Kimball started coaching in 1996 and has managed numerous teams, including ones in Salem, abroad in Ireland, and California.

Kimball is familiar with McMinnville and with Linfield’s swim team, and looks forward to working more closely with the college.

“My biggest stint was with the McMinnville swim club for about ten years.

And during that time I was able to come over to Linfield throughout those ten years and I helped Gary out,” Kimball said.

His considerable coach-

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happen in the near future such as Wildcat youth cheer camps, community nights at basketball games, alumni appreciation, student spirit contests at games and even tailgating.

“I can tell this is a closeknit, academically driven school with deep traditions.

It is exciting to be given such a warm welcome and work with such a talented group of girls,” DuPuis said

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Football team dives into the Swim Olympics

The football team participated in there annual Swim Olympics where different parts of the football team were in synchronized swimming. Certain genres of music were used for different groups.

Some genres included hip hop and rap.

One section of the event was a theme based off the hit movie Frozen.

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of the past two weeks 1. Seahawks-Packers Game On Sept. 4 the Seattle Seahawks took on the Green Bay Packers at Century Link Field in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks wasted no time in showing everyone who was watching that they are still a powerhouse. With a 36-16 win against the Packers the Seahawks are looking like Super Bowl contenders already.

2. College Football Week 1 With week one of college football complete it is looking like the top teams are struggling a little. With number two Alabama barely escaping defeat in a 33-23 win over West Virginia and number nine South Carolina losing horribly to number 21 ranked Texas A&M 52-28. Finally number 12 Georgia defeating number 16 Clemson by 24 points in a 45-21 win.

4. Wes Welker taking Molly?

Last week wide receiver for the Denver Broncos, Wes Welker, tested positive for the illegal substance known as molly.

He told reporters the accusations were false that he knowingly took the substance. He claimed that someone must have slipped him the drug while he was attending a horse race. He stands by his claim, but he will still miss the first four games of the season due to the positive drug test.

3. U.S. Open and the big names 5. Heisman or not, it’s still illegal that left early With the U.S. Open starting on August 25 there has been some big names in the women's draw that have left the tournament early. Ana Ivanovic, 2008 French Open champion and former world number one was seeded number 8 in the U.S. Open this year and was defeated in the second round in a close match against Karolina Plisklova 7-5, 6-4. Also in the same week rising America tennis star Sloan Stephens lost in a three set match 7-5, 4-6, 2-6 against Johanna Larsson, an unseeded player. Finally Agnieszka Radwańska, number four seed, lost to unseeded player Peng Shuai in straight sets 6-3, 6,4.

Earlier last week Heisman trophy winner and BCS champion quarterback Jameis Winston was once again being investigated into the claim that he raped a woman back in 2012. The woman gave her first interview on what happened back in early August and Florida State University is continuing its investigation into the claims. Charges were dropped against Winston in early December of 2013 due to insufficient evidence.

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Emilie Skladzien/Photo Editor A group of football players participates in the annual Swim Olympics on Friday, Sept. 6.

Sophomore kicks off the football season Helen Lee @LinfieldReviewSports

Cayman Conley will be Linfield’s varsity kicker for the 2014-2015 football season. He’s a 6-1, 210-pound sophomore from Ewa Beach, Hawaii. An experienced athlete, he played for three years on his varsity high school football team and four years on his varsity high school soccer team. Below are edited excerpts from a conversation with Conely about his time on Linfield’s team and his hopes for this season.

What has been your experience on Linfield’s football team?

When I first came here, I didn’t really like it. I thought it was way different from back home. But after a while, I got used to it and ended up really liking the team. Kickingwise, it was a struggle because I was so used to being on top in high school. It felt weird starting from the bottom and having to work my way up, but I think that’s what made me better—because of the challenge.

Now, it’s still a challenge trying to happen because anything could

happen. It could easily change and I wouldn’t be on top anymore.

Can you tell me more about the challenges you faced here?

It was definitely a challenge being from Hawaii and not knowing anyone here. It’s a really good thing that this team is cool with Hawaiians and people from everywhere. As far as kicking goes, I mean it was hard. It seemed like the coaches already knew the veterans really well, and it was hard to be noticed without overdoing it to the point where you mess up. It’s really hard getting noticed as a freshman kicker.

You’re in the number one spot for the varsity kicker. How’s that feel?

Pretty great. But, I mean, anything could happen.

You said it was really hard for you to get noticed by the coaches as a freshman, but here you are as a sophomore on the varsity team.

How did you get there?

Practice. I would usually show up an hour before practice and actually kick. I would do that a lot.

Maybe too much sometimes, and I’d overdo it. But I would always show up early to get better, even in the off-season.

Cayman Conley How many players were competing for that top kicker position?

Three. Michael Metter, Theo Petropoulos, and me. Metter is a junior, and Theo is in my grade. I

was definitely excited to get this spot, and especially to travel. But I was scared, too, because it’s a lot of pressure to be a kicker. I was a little scared of the one older guy that I beat out, and it’s a little awkward because he’s been on the team longer than I have. He’s been on the team for three years, and here I am as an upcoming sophomore taking the spot. I also felt bad for him because he really wanted this spot. But I wanted it too. So, it’s just one of those things you have to live with.

How close are all of you as a team?

All of us now, we’re all egging each other on to be better and to do better. We’re close as a team.

Everyone’s cool with each other.

It’s not like my high school where groups of people only talked to each other and everyone hated each other. I think one of the things that we do that really makes us closer is that when freshmen come to Dillin, we all have to sit next to each other.

Not one person is left alone, and I

Northwest Conference Rankings Men’s Soccer Whitworth Linfield Pacific Whitman Puget Sound George Fox Pacific Lutheran Willamette

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think that’s good team bonding.

What do you like about being on Linfield’s football team?

We’re really good. That’s pretty fun, to not be on a high school team where every season is so different.

It’s not like one season will be a championship season and the next is terrible. We’re always happy, you know? And that brings us closer together.

What are some of your goals for the season?

I definitely want to keep this starting position. My main goal is to just keep it simple—to have a really good season and to become one of the best kickers in D3 football.

And how are you going to do that?

Stay consistent with everything.

I have to keep my grades up, that’s the main thing. And practice. Lots of practice. I’m really looking forward to winning that championship and getting a ring.

Helen Lee can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com.