Linfield Review Issue #11 April 11

The Linfield Review April 11, 2016

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121st Year

Last Crow tribe war chief and Linfield grad dies

By Elizabeth Stoeger Staff Writer Chief Joseph Medicine Crow, a 1938 Linfield graduate and revered Native American historian and anthropologist, died April 3 at a hospice center in Billings, Montana. He was 102.

Not only did Medicine Crow receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2009, he was also the first member of the Crow tribe to receive a Master’s degree.

Medicine Crow, or “High Bird” in the Crow language, was born Oct. 27, 1913, on the Crow reservation.

He completed his under-

graduate studies in sociology at Linfield in 1938 and his master’s in anthropology from the University of Southern California a year later. His studies focused on the impact of European culture on Native Americans.

Medicine Crow spoke fondly of his time at Linfield though times were tough and he had to scrub pots and pans for the dining hall as well as work as a janitor in Pioneer Hall.

While at school, he lived off campus with several friends including Jerald R. Nicholson, whom the library was named after. Their friendship lasted a lifetime.

Medicine Crow was awarded

an honorary doctorate from USC in 2003. Along the way, he collected numerous honorary degrees from a variety of universities and, in 2015, had a middle school named after him.

He began work on a dissertation in the early 1940s, but felt compelled to serve in the Army in Europe during the war.

While serving, he accomplished four of the traditional deeds that earn Crow members “war chief” status, making him the last to do so.

After the war, he was named the official tribal historian by the Crow Tribal Council and worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 32 years.

Medicine Crow worked as a Crow historian for over 50 years and wrote some of the seminal works on Native American history and culture.

Crow was the last surviving connection to the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand.

“He is the last person alive to have received direct oral testimony from a participant in the Battle of the Little Bighorn: his grandfather was a scout for General George Armstrong Custer,” said the White House in a statement when he won the Medal of Freedom. >> See war chief on page 4

Sororities dominate at lip sync, Greek Week

John Christensen/Staff photographer Sorority sisters from Alpha Phi and Phi Sigma Sigma perform a dance during lip sync on Friday, April 8. The two sororities won lip sync and Greek Week as a pair this year.

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Students can now go bird watching with Professor Tom Love on Thursday mornings.

Students enjoyed the sun over the past few days by playing volleyball and sitting in the sun.

Student performers are continuing to prepare for this year’s luau.

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Place theme examines use of technology

By Elizabeth Stoeger Staff Writer The PLACE theme for the next two years will center on individual and collective relationships with media and technology, according to the new 2016-18 place director and professor of mass communication, Susan Currie Sivek.

The overarching theme will be “The Digital Society” with subthemes “The Digital Self” in 201617 followed by “The Digital Citizen” in 2017-18.

Sivek said the theme will call attention to, “how individuals relate to technology, how people relate to each other through technology, how technology shapes our lives as everyday people.”

The following year will investigate “the uses of technology in the government and activism, in global issues, in organizing around events and issues.”

The two-year approach is something new to Linfield. Sivek said, “We haven’t officially had a two year theme before” but this was chosen for ease of organization.

Knowing the theme for the next two years will make coordinating speakers, activities, and classes easier and less hurried.

Sivek, along with political science professor Patrick Cottrell, presented the idea and theme to a committee made up of faculty members and they found the idea appealing.

This theme is especially relevant today, given our increasingly dependent relationship with technology and especially social media.

“I think we are just becoming more and more immersed in technology. We interact with our various technologies constantly . . . and our relationship with technology and the ways that we use technology for our relationships, that’s becoming more and more significant,” said Sivek.

However, it is easier for people to overlook this aspect and become lost in the routine usage.

Sivek said she hopes that over the next two years, we are able to take a step back and look critically at our use of technology. >> See PLACE on page 6

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EDITORIAL

Student safety is deserving of speculation

Linfield is a brick red gem in the McMinnville area and Pioneer hall is a symbol of academic pursuit and everlasting community that pierces the skyline day and night.

It is an unfortunate reality that the area surrounding this scholarly oasis is notably ‘sketchy’, as most students would say.

Recent events on Davis Street are a glaring illustration of the razor thin (and somewhat intangible) barrier between the worlds here at Linfield and the less affluent parts of McMinnville.

On April 7, at approximately 11:20 p.m., a female student was grabbed by an unidentified middle-aged man on Davis Street near the field house.

The attacker fled after the student fought back and remains at large.

The Linfield community is incredibly fortunate this brave student was able to escape her attacker, however it is alarming that these types of tragedies are still possible after the events that transpired last school year, resulting in the untimely death of one of the best and brightest members of the Linfield community, Parker Archie Moore.

Administration and students alike still rally in the memory of Parker Moore but perhaps the best way to honor his memory is to ensure Linfield students can cross the street at night without fear of being abducted or assaulted.

The night culture at

Linfield is not remarkably lively. While this may mean there are less students out in harm’s way on any given night, it also means that students who wander in small groups are more susceptible to attacks like what happened on April 7.

Traveling in large groups is always a surefire way for students to stay safe at night, however, further efforts can be made by students to stay vigilant such as walking without headphones in one’s ears and staying aware of the environment.

This burden should not rest entirely on students.

Campus public safety and the McMinnville Police Department need to shoulder the majority of this burden.

Even the most drug riddled assailant should not feel the slightest bit of confidence in their ability to attack Linfield students on campus.

This is not to say that CPS and Mac PD has failed in any means as their joint patrols are seemingly ever-present, yet it is clear that further steps need to be taken to ensure students’ safety.

In the meantime students need to be guardians of one another.

It is common practice to stop a friend from driving home drunk and it should be equally practiced that friends not let each other walk the streets on the fringe of Linfield’s campus alone.

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Hard work ensures Luau’s success

By Sara Levering Staff Writer It is not surprising that Linfield’s Luau has the highest turnout for an on-campus event.

Angelia Saplan, ‘16, said, “Luau is like a season, almost like a sport.

It takes a lot of planning.” Personally for Saplan, she lived in Hawaii for three years and her father was raised in Kona on the Big Island, so she feels connected to Hawaiian culture.

Ryan Ishihara, ‘16, added, “This is Hawaiian club’s opportunity to share with friends, family, and even professors about our culture and where we come from.”

Students not from Hawaii are also invited to

participate and learn about the culture. They work hard to perfect the dances to honor Hawaiian culture.

Some participants have attended other schools’ luaus’ and Saplan said it was not nearly as authentic as the one Linfield puts together. Ishihara agreed, and said “the luau we put together puts our spectators in a comfortable setting.”

Stacie Cuadro, ‘17, pointed out that Luau is an attractive event and it expresses the Hawaiian culture. “In a way, we are able to tell stories about our home and how much it means to us.”

Luau is not limited to traditional Hawaiian dances. Other Pacific

cultures are represented as well.

Quinn Takashima, ‘16, said, “Something that brings me back every year is the passion I have for sharing Polynesian culture. I have made some of my best friends through the luau process.”

Shelby Cook, ‘19, explained, “It was a little intimidating to be a freshman at Luau practices, everyone seemed to have a strong bond with each other because of their prior experiences.”

Despite this, Cook says it was a welcoming community. “I am extremely happy I got involved. Luau has not only helped me make new friends, it has also allowed me to take part

in something that is very critical to Hawaiian culture.”

Cook admits she hasn’t been around for a lot of the behind-thescenes work. She acknowledges that Luau takes a lot of work to organize. “I don’t think I underestimated the amount of work that has to go into Luau because it’s not as if something this big could be pulled off with very little preparation.”

As far as the high turnout and popularity of Linfield’s Luau is concerned, it seems as though clubs and other organizations put together multiple events whereas Luau is a onetime event.

Luau attendees get an authentic Hawaiian

meal and a performance.

Most Linfield events are not so extensive. Luau has a huge reputation, publicized months in advance from both club members and previous attendees.

Since students spend months carefully planning Luau, it allows for a spectacular spread of an evening. If other clubs want to have more turnout than they currently do, they will have to make some changes and attempt to follow suit.

It may not be necessary to plan as intensely as Luau, but the same level of commitment could go a long way.

Sara Levering can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com

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Letter to the Editor

Student responds to voting during ASLC elections Recently at our beloved Linfield we held our annual elections to determine who would form the ASLC cabinet for next year.

I personally never met any candidates for any office, and so was forced to make my decision off of a small piece put in the Linfield Review.

There has been mention (from the Review,) that there is clearly something wrong with our student body’s attitude towards voting and elections in general since we had a whopping 618 students who voted, totaling some 39 percent of the entire school.

I would argue that instead of having an issue with voter apathy,

we have been fortunate to have the turnout we managed!

During any year that is not a presidential election year, the average voter turnout in state and local elections have been anywhere from twenty percent to forty percent, depending on the state one is in.

During a presidential election (such as the one coming in November,) voter turnout reaches closer to fifty percent for the entire country.

Going back decades, the last time we as a nation reached 60 percent or more in a national election was when we put Richard Nixon in office for his first term (1968).

Doing more local research reveals that in Oregon, the average voter turnout is lucky to exceed 30 percent for any election.

I would say that our election numbers for ASLC simply means that we have a higher than average turnout, but that it is true for many students on campus that they either do not have faith in ASLC or do not realize the impact ASLC could have on our dayto-day lives.

Since I have been attending Linfield College (three years now,) every candidate’s platform for an office in ASLC has been almost the same.

I find it hard to take a president, vice-presi-

dent, or any other cabinet member seriously when they recycle the same ideas over and over.

Such broad and positive planks such as “improving student involvement and campus communications” are a mystery to me, because nothing changes.

Year after year less and less people attend Cat-Cab, or other events ASLC has put on.

It’s time for them to step up, yes, but in order to do so they must first provide the student body with something out of the ordinary, something beyond the simple general promises that will actually impact the student body.

Then, with the stu-

dents actually having an investment in the election process, perhaps voter turnout will increase beyond what it is already.

Another issue with ASLC is that they have close connections to the college administration.

This is all well and good for having communication, but as someone who is constantly hearing nothing but the status quo from ASLC I cannot help but think there is something wrong, either at the administration level, with ASLC, or both.

Communication counts for nothing if the governing body is lethargic and irrelevant in student’s lives.

If the college wants to

have talks with the students via ASLC, that is perfectly fine. However, to use an example, when both the administration and ASLC representatives come out of talks to announce more tuition hikes, I would at least like an explanation as to why.

The total cost of me personally attending Linfield has been raised by around $10,000 since I have gotten here, and ASLC is either very bad at informing the student body of why we are being charged more or they are simply giving in to whatever the college administration thinks is best.

-Ian Cooper, ‘17

Sustainability

Greenfield, Dillin hall take on the Real Food Challenge

By Marisa Specht Office of Sustainability Cafeteria food seems to have an unshakable stigma that it’s unappetizing and unhealthy. However, in recent years, many school cafeterias (including our very own Dillin Hall) have been offering a variety of healthy meal options to their students.

Today, students can enjoy a hearty meal that is more sensitive to their preferences and needs.

Gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan are only a few of the options that are now being offered to students in their school cafeterias.

As students become more tuned in to issues surrounding their food, many become advocates for sustainable food systems.

The Real Food Challenge encompasses this idea into a program where students can have their voices heard.

The Real Food Challenge began as a self-funded, independent program of The Food Project, a non-profit organization in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Real Food Challenge is a national network of students who advocate for more influence in their schools’ food purchasing decisions.

So what does “real food” actually mean? According to Real Food Challenge advocates, “real food” is food that is grown, harvested, distributed, and acquired in a sustainable manner.

Many students that participate in the challenge encourage their schools to buy organic food from local farms.

These students hold

nation-wide public discussions to reach out to their communities for support and awareness.

A popular catch-phrase is “Unity. Community. Movement.”

Linfield College’s Greenfield is a student-led club that promotes and spreads awareness on sustainability.

Recently, Greenfield has made the decision to partner with Sodexo and take on the Real Food Challenge.

Greenfield President, Peri Muellner, hopes that in the next few weeks they can have an inventory done on how much food is already sustainable, organic, and local in Dillin.

Greenfield also hopes to create a survey to obtain Linfield students’ food values and to see what their hopes are with this challenge.

As for Dillin, they already offer a variety of sustainable services, including composting food waste for pig farmers, going tray-less, digital menus (no printing), fair trade/farm friendly/shade grown coffee, and serving seasonal produce.

Executive chef at Sodexo in Dillin, Noah Bekofsky encourages more student involvement, especially with their food committee that meets once a month. He says the major difficulties they’ve faced in providing sustainable food options/services have been student engagement.

He looks forward to their partnership with Greenfield in taking on the Real Food Challenge.

The office of Sustainability can be reached at sustainability@linfield.edu

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Students take a sit against political issues

By Ross Passeck Staff Writer Not everyone can protest with the reckless gusto of Bernie Sanders, getting wrestled to the ground at a civil rights rally in the sixties, and that is just fine.

Fortunately for students today, the internet has provided a safe space for protesting the most controversial topics.

Young people are wearing digital anonymity like a suit of dull armor in their quest to defeat tyranny.

Students are too brave to risk a dash of pepper spray in their eyes. When they protest, these courageous souls put the most precious thing they own at risk: their online reputation.

Issues like racism, immigration, and whatever leaves Donald Trump’s mouth are topics that need to be discussed.

Thanks to the everexpanding capabilities of

technology, the screens upon which these issues are hotly debated come in all shapes and sizes.

Students can save the world by composing a Facebook post from their desk or shooting out a tweet while sitting on the toilet at Taco Bell.

The resolution on these screens is so incredible it is almost possible to see that nothing is actually being resolved.

Immigrants do not need to stand hand in hand in public defending their right to pursue the American dream.

Real change comes from forming a Facebook group so all their friends can know what they believe in.

Civil rights do not need gung ho activists marching in the streets demanding change anymore. Bernie Sanders was a brave man in his day, but if he had any grasp on how to resolve American political contro-

versy, he would hop on his Twitter account and sling hashtags around until his fingers fell off.

Maybe, back before computers, people spent more time doing things about pressing political issues but American students have evolved beyond that, utilizing technology for its true purpose.

The modern activist is the shadowy figure locked away in a bunker protected from impending assassins, or worse yet face-to-face encounters with dissenting opinions, pounding on a keyboard and preaching to an audience of potentially dozens of friends and bloggers.

This is where Linfield students shine. The fieriest political discussions on campus are not happening down Linfield Ave. They are online. Yik Yak has been the saving grace on this campus for productive discussion.

Students doubled down not only on social media but anonymity as well.

There is a revolution happening in the students’ pockets and it begs the question, “Is that a platform for political discussion in your pocket or are you just happy to be here in the protective bubble we call Linfield?”

Enough stands have been taken in decades past, in large part due to the efforts of educated and impassioned students.

It is time to take a seat in the face of political discourse. Standing, marching, and yelling are all great exercise but that is a roadmap straight to exhaustion.

Thankfully Linfield students are ahead of the curve and behind their electronic screens, taking the ‘active’ out of activism.

Ross Passeck can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail. com

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Photo courtesy Linfield College Photograph Collection, Linfield College Archives Joseph Medicine Crow, left, and other students gather for a photo taken during International Week at Linfield in 1938. Medicine Crow graduated from Linfield during the same year.

War Chief: Medicine Crow dedicated life to culture, people << Continued from page 1 He gathered first hand accounts of the battle from four of Custer’s six Crow guides.

Herman Viola, curator emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, said, “I always told people, when you meet Joe

Medicine Crow, you’re shaking hands with the 19th century.”

An irrepressible story-teller and advocate for Native American history, Medicine Crow inspired not only Crow tribe members to be proud of their heritage but taught the American public its moving history.

“Dr. Medicine Crow dedicated much of his life to sharing the stories of his culture and people. And in doing so, he helped shape a fuller history of America for us all,” said President Obama in a statement.

Nina Sanders, a member of the Crow tribe, for the online publication of the Smithson-

Thursday morning guided bird watching now offered

By Jenny Horniman Staff Writer It’s finally spring, and for many species, in this case birds, that means spring migration.

Join Dr. Tom Love, professor of Anthropology and avid bird watcher, to watch and observe the migration of birds as they make their way across Linfield.

From now on, students can meet on Thursday mornings at 8 a.m. on the front steps of Pioneer Hall to go on a

refreshing hour-long walk.

The walk will be a loop through Cozine Creek riparian area, then around campus.

Dr. Love said, “it’s a chance for Linfield students to engage their local surroundings during a very pleasant time of year.”

He also mentioned that although he does this most springs, he finds it even more impactful this year as it ties in with the PLACE theme, “Air, Water, Earth, and Fire: the ancient elements on a changing planet.”

One of the things that makes this experience unique is that for any and all out-ofstate students, this is a way to experience Oregon’s nature and beauty and learn more about our native species.

Dr. Love called his bird watching expeditions “surprisingly fun” and assured students that “good company and conversation” would accompany the sessions.

Jenny Horniman can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail. com

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ian said, “Through all of the phases of our lives, he encouraged us to be brave, to be better, to get educated, stand for what is right, and live a life of honor.”

His wife of over 60 years, Gloria Medicine Crow, passed away in 2009.

He is survived by his son Ronald Medicine Crow. Ronald

said, according to the Billings Gazette, “He was my everything. I don’t think I will be able to fill his boots because he was able to accomplish so much in his history.”

In his 2009 interview with Linfield communications director Mardi Mileham for the Linfield Magazine Medicine Crow said, “There is a

middle line that joins two worlds together. I walk that line and take the best from each and avoid the worst. I’ve lived a good, well-balanced way of life.”

Elizabeth Stoeger can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail. com

Scientist discusses how the unknown continues to drive scientific discovery

By Cassandra Martinez Staff Writer Part of the iFOCUS science colloquium series, Terry McGlynn gave a lecture titled “Unknown Unknowns and the Future of Scientific Discovery” on Thursday afternoon. McGlynn is a professor in the Department of Biology from California State University Dominguez Hills.

McGlynn began his lecture detailing how science’s greatest discoveries are sometimes not actually intended to be discovered.

He talked about growing up with his parents and siblings, and about his mother who developed an ulcer and how the doctors told her that it was due to stress.

At that time, not many people knew the actual cause of ulcers and it was considered one of sciences greatest mysteries.

This led McGlynn to talk about how the cause of ulcers was discovered.

Back then, many thought ulcers were caused by stress and a poor diet. Then, thanks

to an Australian physician Barry Marshall, they discovered that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori were the main cause of peptic ulcers.

McGlynn stated that in order for Marshall to discover this, he had to drink broth with Helicobacter pylori to prove his theory of ulcers.

Another unknown discovery McGlynn talked about was the discovery of the movement patterns of sloths.

Many people believe that sloths only stay in a particular area but in reality they move much farther then they appear.

Scientists puts tracking collars on a few sloths to calculate the distance and they discovered that they move about up to 41 yards.

McGlynn moved on to his research about the ants he studied in the Amazon Rainforest.

He examined the species of Gypsy Ants and was hoping to discover why they created many different homes.

He discovered that they tended to build many in order to fit their colony. He also

found out that they move around to other homes once they feel they exhausted at their current residence and they move during the late evening.

Another species of ants he mentioned was the Bullet Ant. They are mostly known for being the types of ants that eat other predators and other ants. In reality, they are associated with eating more of the sugar base substance from the flowers that are in the canopy part of the rainforest.

McGlynn used a quote from Donald Rumsfeld to sum up his statement, “If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence,” quoted from Rumsfeld’s interview with Stephen Colbert.

McGlynn wrapped up his lecture by stating that anything in science is based off evidence but not fact. Scientists are busy trying to prove things exist but not actually discovering something new.

Cassandra Martinez can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@ gmail.com

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Students team up, compete in Greek Week From top left: Students and members of Greek life celebrate and cheer during the lip sync competion on Friday, April 8.

Natasha Rowland, ‘16, and Byron Greenlee, ‘19, wait for instructions during the Greek Week dodgeball tournament on Thursday, April 8. Students compete in the Greek Week trivia challenge on Tuesday, April 6 after the awards presentation osted by Order of Omega.

Photos by John Christensen, Griffin Yerian and Jonathan Williams/staff photographers.

Place: theme looks critically at technology through various lenses << Continued from page 1 She said, “it’s not something that we think about a lot because it’s such a routine aspect of our daily lives and so hopefully over the next two years we’ll

gain some insight into how technology is affecting us as individuals, as participants in democracy and in our world.”

The interdepartmental aspect of PLACE is what makes it unique.

Not only will the campus look through the mass communication lens at the subject but also with political science, sociology and many other departments.

With “the theme of ‘The Digital Self” and ‘Digital

Society,’ broadly, there’s some way that every department on campus can find a connection to that idea.”

Linfield will soon be hiring student PLACE fellows for next year.

Linfield faculty members nominate students they believe will be dedicated advocates for the program and are then approved by PLACE Faculty Fellows. Students work with the Faculty Fellows on

planning, organizing and running events.

The Common Read book for 2016 is “The Circle” by Dave Eggers.

Elizabeth Stoeger can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

How have you been taking advantage of the sun?

“I’ve been reading outside more than usual, enjoying one of the benches.”

-Clément Hossaert,

Teaching assistant

“I layed out by the garden with my friends and did some reading.”

-Alyssa Swanson, Sophomore

“I’ve been hanging outside more with my friends and walking to the store”

-Miriam Kilian, Sophomore

“Getting a cup of coffee in the afternoon and sitting outside instead of Starbucks.”

-Megan Hadley,

Junior

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Nigerian-American writer, critic to speak at Linfield

By Kellie Bowen Staff Writer

Photo by Gillian Wilson/freelance photographer A couple walks through the 40-acre field of tulips at Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival on Saturday in Woodburn, Oregon.

Tulip fields provide getaway for nature lovers

By Gillian Wilson For the Review The weather is warming up faster than usual this April and students are itching to get off campus and enjoy the sun.

One place less than an hour drive away from Linfield that

students can visit is the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival.

Located in Woodburn, Oregon, the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival is home to 40 acres of beautiful tulips that visitors can enjoy until the beginning of May. The entrance fee is only $5

per person.

The festival has onsite food and activities as well as flowers. Activities include hay rides, and depending on the weather, hot air balloon rides.

“I don’t know if it took my breath away, but the views were very calming,” Brody

Olson, ’19, said about the tulip fields.

The tulip festival is a relaxing place for students to get away from the stress of school and enjoy nature.

Gillian Wilson can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

A Nigerian-American writer will be holding a lecture called “The Miracle of Our Shared Space” at 7 p.m. on April 18 in Ice Auditorium.

He will also host a discussion from 2 to 4 p.m. on April 19 in room 222 in T.J. Day Hall.

Teju Cole is a NigerianAmerican writer, art historian, photographer and cultural critic. Cole has written two books, both of which have won a few awards. He is currently writing a third.

He has written articles for the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and several other well-known American and global newspapers and magazines.

In Cole’s latest article from the New York Times website, he compared two photographers, Steve McCurry and Raghubir Singh. He criticized

McCurry for capturing photographs of “false moments,” and praised Singh for shooting photos that are “a moment of truth snipped from the flow of life.”

Cole argued that Singh’s photographs show activity at the edges of the frame, which depicts a real scene in motion – no sugar coating.

McCurry’s photography, however, uses cultural embellishment “as a colorful backdrop to the fantasies of Western visitors.”

This lecture will address appropriation and how to tell other peoples’ histories as an actuality, not a fantasy. Outsiders can tell compelling stories of their visit abroad and keep the culture untarnished and the people raw.

Kellie Bowen can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Applications now being accepted for 2016-17 Editor-in-Chief The editor-in-chief oversees all aspects of the newspaper production process. The editor is a teacher, coach and mentor to students who seriously desire to improve their professional skills by working for TLR. The editor is an advocate for and architect of a diverse newsroom workforce. The editor-in-chief is the public face of all editorial decisions and content and is expected to: -Work with the Associate Editor to articulate newsroom vision and values and establish content goals for the year -Foster an atmosphere of acceptance and diversity among personnel -Attend meetings of the ASLC Communications Board -Hire and train an editorial staff, training that staff as necessary and deploying the staff in such a way as to meet the organization’s editorial objectives -Establish deadlines, ensure the smooth flow of content and handle the day-to-day decisions necessary to produce quality print and online publications -Develop an operating budget for the newsroom and then is expected to meet that budget by controlling expenses, including payroll -Line edit all stories prior to publication to identify problems, such as libel, inaccuracy, wordiness or lack of clarity -Write stories as needed -Take on or delegate additional duties, as needed -Hold regular, weekly staff meetings -Monitor the news daily to keep abreast of all issues that need to be covered and see that no pertinent news is missed -Monitor article comments on TLR Web site -Issue Facebook and Twitter posts frequently -Be available to line edit stories throughout the day as breaking news emerges

Applications can be picked up outside of the Review’s office (Renshaw 102 B).

Applications will also be sent out to the student body this week via email.

Questions? Email the current Editor-in-Chief, Jonathan Williams, at jwillia1@linfield.edu

Applications are due to Jonathan Williams by Friday, April 22, at 5 p.m.

Applications should be dropped of at the Review’s office.

April 11, 2016

FUN IN THE SUN

Clockwise from top left: two girls play cornhole during the more than 80 degree weather on April 7. Three friends enjoy the sun in the Walker courtyard. Participants in Division III week’s vollebyall tournament enjoy the sun. Riho Miyagawa, an exchange student from Japan does her homework in the sun in the Walker courtyard.

Joel Wenrich, ‘16, does homework in the Walker courtyard. Nozomi Imai, Japaneese teaching assistant, and Mathias Steinlechner, a Fulbright and German teaching assistant from Austria, enjoy coffee duing the warm weather.

Photos by Michaela Fujita and Malia Riggs/staff photographers

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April 11, 2016

Griffin Yerian/Staff Photographer Griffin Yerian/Staff Photographer Eryka Keoho, ’19, looks over her shoulder while practicing for Lu’au.

Rachel Richardson, ’18, leads a rehearsal of a Hula to be performed at the 44th annual Lu’au on April 30.

Student performers prepare for annual lu’au

By Megan Ditore Staff Writer Linfield College’s 44th Annual Lu’au will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Ted Wilson Gymnasium on April 30, 2016 with dinner being served from 5-7 p.m. in the Rutschman Field House.

Tickets to the performance can be purchased online at linfieldtickets.com.

“The mission of each annual Lu’au is to share our Hawaiian culture with the Linfield community. We hope to entertain the crowd as we journey through the Polynesian islands togeth-

er,” said Nalea Trujillo, ’16, the co-chair of Luau.

Her favorite part of Lu’au is the people she said.

“Lu’au is a huge event and with that comes a lot of planning and practicing. After spending a great deal of time together, it is nothing short of incredible to gain a

ence in all mediums, but he prefers acrylic paint.

Besides being a versatile artist when it comes to the mediums he uses, Adoff practices expressionism in his pieces. He is constantly attempting to make his audience feel emotion through his art.

“I suffer from anxiety so it’s a kind of release for me,” said Adoff when explaining why emotion is a central part of his artistry.

Linfield’s fine arts program has given Adoff the tools and creative space that he needs to explore and express himself through art.

Although that doesn’t mean he hasn’t had his challenges.

Two pieces that Julian considers special, yet challenging, are the two seven foot canvas paintings he pro-

duced last year. “ There was so much white space … I realized I had to be true to it,” he said.

Having a passion for a subject such as art takes heart and ambition. That same heart and ambition will transfer nicely as Adoff pursues a career in teaching.

Adoff plans to go to graduate school to earn a doctorate in art history and then become a professor.

From diving head first into the art world during his sophomore year to getting ready for his senior exhibition in May, Adoff has a bright future to look forward to.

Senior art major prepares for career and graduate school Mickayla-Bay Washington Staff Writer Linfield senior Julian Adoff is preparing to show his heart and mind at the senior showcase coming up in May. Adoff started to take the prospect of creating art professionally around the end of his sophomore year. Transitioning from a mass communication major to a fine arts major turned out to be a marvelous decision.

Adoff’s art is an experiment, crossing between different mediums, whether that be paint, ceramics, or graphic design.

“The distinction between the mediums isn’t black and white,” Adoff said.

Adoff has much experi-

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home away from home. The participants started as nothing more than classmates, shortly after friends and now as we count down to the final weeks, family.”

Katie Cantu, ’17, is participating in five dances this year. This is her second year participating. After she

A nature writer and climate activist tackled important questions about our moral obligation to the future of our planet at her library reading on April 6 in the Austin Reading room.

Professor of Philosophy from Oregon State University, Kathleen Dean Moore, read from her latest book, “Great Tide Rising,” which

addresses questions about climate change.

Moore began by asking the most commonly asked question: “Why do I have the obligation to do anything?”

She concluded that there’s so much of Earth left to save for generations to come.

By the time today’s children are middle aged, Earth’s life support systems will be irreversibly damaged.

The next question Moore addressed was: “What do you love too much to lose?”

She reflected on great changes in history and how they were all based on moral principles.

Nothing changes without people standing up for what they think is right.

Finally, the question was asked if we have met the enemy, and is it us? Moore said that this question is a logical fallacy.

The enemy is us, as long

“Lu’au is fun. A lot of hard work goes into it and we just want to show people what we have been working on.” Cantu said.

Megan Ditore can be reached at linfieldreviewarts@gmail.com

Photo courtesy Julian Adoff Julian Adoff, ‘16, stands next to his art work. Adoff is planning to attend graduate school and plans to earn a doctorate in art history and become a professor.

Writer provokes eco-friendly discussion Kate Seaholm Staff Writer

watched luau her freshman year, she wanted to get involved. She is excited to see the little skits in-between the dances that the boys perform.

There are about twelve dances in total to encompass the different cultures of the Polynesian islands.

as “us” refers to everyone.

Consumers should cut their use of fossil fuels, but corporate companies need to stop short cutting the system and drilling in places that consumers did not ask for.

Moore said, “We have met the enemy and I will do anything to make sure it isn’t me.”

Kate Seaholm can be reached at linfieldreviewarts@gmail.com

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Griffin Yerian/Staff Photograher Artist Michael Arcega talks about his art at the opening of the exhibition at the Linfield Gallery.

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Griffin Yerian/Staff Photograher A piece of Michael Arcega’s art from his exhibition “A Scene from the Anthropocene” which is on display in the Linfield gallery until April 30.

Art exhibition percieves ‘Nacirema’ in new light

By Kellie Bowen Staff Writer

A San Francisco-based artist is holding his first Oregon solo exhibition at the Linfield Gallery. The exhibition is titled “A scene from the Anthropocene” and will be on display until April 30.

Michael Arcega’s exhibition twists the outsiderinsider ideals of national

identity. Descriptions on the gallery walls continuously mention the term, “Nacirema,” which is “American” spelled backwards. It is a term that is common in anthropology and sociology studies to refer to the behavior and social trends and issues in the U.S. There is a story of exploration within this exhibition. Arcega crafted a canoe, which he named Baby,

and traveled along waterways all over the nation to collect items for his show.

The exhibition holds an interesting concept, but the contents and placement are a little confusing.

On its own, each piece in the exhibition is beautiful and compelling. As a whole, they are a collection of items from a first-world culture from both the past and future.

However, the “time-

and living without hope.

While it embodies and attempts to explain the deepest and darkest caverns of humanity, Zafon also provides the reader with humor and unyielding love.

The time period is postwar Barcelona, 1945. Barcelona is still recovering from a civil war some 20 years early and now from the recent World War. The war-torn city becomes not only a backdrop, but a symbol for the lives of the characters in The Shadow of the Wind; they too struggle with intense hardships and heartbreaks.

It begins when Daniel is eleven years old and his father takes him to a place called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

As tradition goes, Daniel picks one book from the Cemetery; He picks the Shadow of the Wind, a fictional book with the same title, by Julian Carax.

After completely immersing himself within the pages and finishing it in one night, Daniel tries with-

out luck to find more books

by Julain Carax. Daniel begins a dangerous journey through Barcelona’s past to find the author.

Through his searching he learns that a man with a burnt face named Lain Coubert has been finding all of Carax’s books and burning them.

Later, Daniel discovers that Julian fled to Paris in 1919 and is rumored to have returned to Barcelona where he was killed in an alleyway.

Not about to give up his search, Daniel with the help of his clever friend Fermin Romero de Torres, searches for old friends of Julian while trying to avoid the chief of police Fumero, who has his own hidden agenda.

To spoil the end would be a grave disservice to whomever is reading this, because I highly recommend this novel.

Author explores themes of loneliness and love

By Maggie Hawkins Sigma Tau Delta

Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “The Shadow of the Wind” is a story about a boy named Daniel Sempere who comes in contact with a book written by a man named Julian Carax, and through many twists of fate he begins searching for Julian.

Zafon is truly a romantic writer. A few examples of his descriptive ability are as follows: “I remember the light, like liquid gold, pouring off the sheets”;“. . . a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us. . .”

Zafon said that he is an avid reader, and if he did not write he would have died. The intensely and intricately woven story line and Zafon’s use of words to describe ordinary things throughout the novel make his love for literature absolutely evident.

The central message many have gleaned from the novel is that the worst prison of all is loneliness

Sigma Tau Delta, Linfield’s English honors society, regularly contributes book reviews to The Linfield Review.

lines” from which the objects seem to come from are both a rusted, extinct era of humanity as well as a chrome, laser-show human-populated future.

It is unclear whether these items are from a dead era or an era which is simply looking into its history. iPhones and keyboards are on display as “relics” from the Nacirema, but there are colorful dancing lasers, foil emergency blan-

kets and a tinsel bell piñata.

Arcega was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to Los Angeles when he was 10 years old.

He earned a Bachelor of fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master’s of fine arts from Stanford University.

His work has been exhibited in several Asian and American galleries and museums.

Arcega’s work focuses

on language and sociological dynamics. He usually works around situations with unbalanced power relations. He is currently an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University.

Kellie Bowen can be reached at linfieldreviewarts@gmail. com

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Singer, guitarist plays at Cat Cab

Justin Young plays guitar and sings Hawaiian reggae in Fred Myer lounge on April 7.

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Michaela Fujita/Staff Photographer Sophomore outfielder Cheyenne Fletcher dives for the plate. The Lady ‘Cats were able to easily shut out Puget Sound and are now second in the Northwest Conference standings.

Lady ’Cats dominate the diamond

By Malia Riggs Staff Writer The Linfield softball team dominated both their home double-header games against Puget Sound with a score of (3-0, 9-1) on Saturday and (3-0, 10-7) on Sunday.

In the first game on Saturday, it started out slow with no runs and only a couple of hits from the Loggers making it a pretty static game.

At the bottom of the third inning is when things

finally started to pick up, with two hits. A groundball to third base by Kenzie Schmoll who helped get the wildcats fired up to score the first run of the game made by Alissa Buss from stealing second base and advancing to third base and then home.

With a quick top of the fourth inning, Smotherman smashed a triple and the ’Cats scored two more runs, one by Smotherman and the other by Erin Tauscher.

“With the atmosphere of senior day/weekend everyone was more relaxed

and was just having fun, which we always work better when we have fun,” said Smotherman.

The Wildcats ended the first game with high spirits ready to control the field for the next game.

They started off the first inning strong with four runs scored, five hits with zero errors. Melanie Oord hit a double to left center bringing in two runs. Scoring the other two off of a single hit and a walk.

For the rest of the game the ladies were on fire, scoring almost every inning,

leaving the Loggers in the dust.

The first game on Sunday started off rocky with no runs until the bottom of the sixth inning, bringing in three runs by Buss and Cheyenne Fletcher. Oord, who scored on a single, scored the last run of the game for Linfield.

“We are a team that has a lot of fight. When we are down in runs or when we aren’t hitting well, we continue to compete to find a way to win the game,” Senior Shelby Saylors said.

The last game of the

weekend ended in the ’Cats’ favor with a score of 10-7.

With five runs, six hits and zero errors in one inning, it was an exciting bottom of the fourth for the wildcats.

The team held their own, fighting for the win throughout the rest of the innings scoring in the fifth and sixth innings and ultimately winning the game.

“I try not to dwell on my mistakes too much, softball is a game based on failure. Either the hitter or the pitcher will win. But the team that can perform under pressure will end up on

top,” Saylors said.

The wildcats did end up on top of the scoreboard for all four games, sending the Loggers off the field with tough losses.

Linfield’s softball team will be traveling to Spokane, Washington this weekend to face the Whitworth Pirates, who are ranked no.

1 in the Northwest Conference standings.

Malia Riggs can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@ gmail.com

Men’s golf turned wine valley into progress

By Ross Passeck Staff Writer While the best golfers in the world battled for a green jacket at Augusta, Linfield golf was putting on a show of their own in Walla Walla, Washington.

The men’s team put on for a t-4 finish out of nine teams overall, and the women ended their weekend in sixth place out of eight teams.

The Wine Valley golf course proved an interesting challenge to both teams despite relatively ideal

weather.

“As for weather, [the conditions] were pretty ideal. Sunny and hot, but on the second day the wind started to pick up,” Kyle Hargrave, ’16, said.

“There were a lot of bunkers, both fairway and greenside, and some of them are hidden so it really helps to know the course before playing it.”

“As for the golf course, there isn’t a single tree on the property. It’s wide open so you can hit it somewhat offline and still get away with it,” Hargrave said.

“As an individual, I had a really hard time putting.

The greens were really firm and fast, and I kept hitting my approach shots in the wrong area on the greens, which led to some three putts,” Hargrve said.

“As a team, we had a lot of unnecessary bad holes, but I would say everybody played pretty well for the most part today,” he said.

The Linfield golfers also found the greens to be an unexpected challenge.

“The greens were firm, which was something we haven’t experienced in a

while due to all this rain,” Madeline Rice, ’18, said.

“You could easily turn a tap in birdie into a three-putt bogey.”

Hargrave echoed Rice’s observations, “The greens were tough because there was a lot of slope to them and they were also very fast, but all in all, pretty damn good conditions.”

Beyond the conditions of the course many stories arose from this weekend including two sophomores leading the men’s team to tie for 11th in the tournament.

Lucas Balala and Logan Davis both shot 148 over the two-day tournament with Balala shooting the team’s lowest score of 72.

Freshman Mason Krieger managed to place third on the team and t-16th overall with a score of 150.

Davis had to battle adversity to match Balala at the top of the team.

“I opened with a quad bogey the second day but made five birdies to fire back and save a good round when I could have easily let that round get away from me,” Davis said.

Ultimately Linfield golf has put itself in a good position with their scores this weekend.

“We came back from ten shots behind George Fox on Sunday to save some much needed points going into the conference championship in two weeks,” Davis said.

With such little time left in the season Linfield’s golfers are headed in a good direction.

Ross Passeck can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@ gmail.com

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Linfield has top performances at GFU meet

Amanda Gibbon/For the Review Dallas Edge flies over the hurdles. She is ranked first in the NWC in the 100m hurdles with a time of 14.62 seconds.

By Emma Bloomfield Staff Writer Linfield’s students continue to hold high titles and set personal records for themselves in track. Students competed alongside many Northwest Conference teams at the Rich Allen Classic.

The track meet was on Saturday, April 9 at George Fox University.

Achieving new personal records is not just for freshmen. Seniors, juniors, and sophomores continue to do better with every meet as

well.

Senior Manuel Finley won the men’s 1500-meters in a time of 4:02.96, which is a personal record for him.

In the women’s 1500m, sophomore Kaelia Neal won with a time of 4:57.51, and freshman Courtney Beard finished second in 4:57.98, a personal record for her.

Junior Chris Roth finished fourth in the men’s 3000m steeplechase in a time of 10:10.70, also a personal record for him.

All of these new records being set, especially by the younger students, moti-

vates them to do better.

Junior Jake Mihelich won the men’s 100m dash in a time of 10.92 seconds, and won the 200m in 21.49 Junior Kane Kennedy finished fifth in the men’s 100m in a time of 11.24 and freshman Taylor Vicknair finished fifth in the men’s 110m hurdles in a time of 16.44.

The men’s 4X100 meter relay, which consisted of Kennedy, Ryan Orlandini, Spencer Payne and Mihelich, won in a time of 42.39.

Junior Dallas Edge finished second in the wom-

en’s 100m in a time of 12.87 and won the 100m hurdles in 14.70.

Junior Madison Gladding finished fourth in the women’s 100m in a time of 13.08 and finished fourth in the women’s 200m in a time of 26.52.

Freshman Kycie Richwine finished third in the women’s 100m hurdles in a time of 15.98.

For the field events, sophomore Jeff Lieder won the men’s shot put with a throw of 14.13 meters. Lieder also finished fifth in the men’s discus with a throw

of 40.64m.

Senior Morgunn Ewing finished third in the men’s javelin with a throw of 56.99m. Senior Chris Beresford finished fourth with a throw of 55.45m.

Freshman Ellie Dean finished second in her first ever steeplechase. She ran 12:49.65.

Sophomore Trish Reeves won the women’s high jump, clearing the bar at 1.64m. She is now no. 6 on Linfield’s All Time Top-Ten List.

Freshman Olivia Mc-

Mostul to play at number six singles.

Harris stepped up at number one singles defeating her opponent in straight sets 6-3, 7-5. She had excellent hits at the baseline and excelled at placement of the ball in tight corners making it extremely difficult for her opponent to reach.

Doveri stepped into the number two position and excelled 6-3, 6-4. Kopecka at three singles struggled in the first set 1-6, but gathered her footing and gained momentum to take the second set 6-2. The match had already been decided, therefore she played one game in the third set and then played a tiebreaker swinging in her favor to give her the victory.

Junior Marisa Kume was back in the lineup for the Wildcats and played extraordinary well. She won in straight sets 6-3, 6-1.

Mostul was perfect at six singles won decisively 6-0, 6-0.

The Lady ’Cats’ last home match of the season

against Willamette, a team that has lost every match this season. Linfield had no problems blanking them to win the match 9-0.

Riddle and Harris played a tight match with a winning outcome of 8-4, but struggled with first serve percentage.

Doveri and Kopecka blanked their opponents in the second doubles position easily because of the Willamette duo making consistent errors that favored Linfield. They won 8-0.

Mostul and Lemon had an easy match at three doubles and won 8-2. They had great at-net offense and excelled at the baseline as well.

In singles action leading 3-0, Riddle had little struggle against a quality tennis player who appeared to be having shoulder problems throughout the match. Riddle took the match 6-1, 6-0.

Doveri played number two singles and she won decisively 6-1, 6-0 as well.

Kopecka at number three singles bounced back

Daniel finished third in the women’s pole vault with a clearance of 3.41m.

Freshman Madeline Shirley finished fourth in the women’s discus with a throw of 36.90m.

Sophomore Olivia Bannerot finished fourth in the women’s javelin with a throw of 37.87.

The Wildcats compete on Saturday, April 16 at Pacific University.

Emma Bloomfield can be reached at linfieldreviewsports @gmail.com

Wildcats advance to no. 2 in NWC Sara Levering Staff Writer

Malia Riggs/Staff Photographer Freshman Elsa Harris takes a swing at a home match. The Wildcats defeated both Pacific Lutheran and Willamette and now sit at no. 2 in Northwest Conference standings.

Amanda Gibbon/For the Review Freshman Olivia McDaniel attempts the pole vault. She is ranked third in the NWC with a height of 3.43 meters.

The Lady Wildcats tennis team had a successful day at home sweeping the visiting Pacific Lutheran Lutes 9-0.

In doubles action, sophomore Ella Riddle and freshman Elsa Harris battled a hard-fought match with some skilled volleying back and forth, but pulled out the victory 8-6.

In second doubles, sophomores Marisa Doveri and Basia Kopecka won decisively 8-2 with powerful strokes giving them momentum to win the match.

In third doubles, junior Courtney Mostul and sophomore Sierra Lemon also won without struggle 8-2.

Going into singles action with a 3-0 lead, Riddle was unable to play due to a minor injury that is being closely monitored by coaches Lisa Macy-Baker and Carl Swanson. Therefore, all players moved up a spot and added Courtney

from her performance the prior day and won 6-2, 6-0.

Kume at number four played extraordinarily and won 6-0, 6-2. Sophomore Laurel Nelson at the number five singles spot won 6-2, 6-1. Lemon at number six singles blanked her opponent 6-0, 6-0.

“Stepping into a new position in the lineup is always challenging, but with the support of my teammates, coaches and family, it made everything so much easier,” Doveri said.

“I made sure that they didn’t get the best of me and mainly focused on executing my shots. Overall, I am very happy with the way our team played this weekend.”

It gives us a great confidence boost as we get ready to play Lewis and Clark and George Fox next weekend,” she said.

Sara Levering can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Women’s lacrosse battles hard, falls to the Boxers in home game

By Mickayla-Bay Washington Staff Writer

Tensions were high as ’Cat Lax faced off against Pacific University.

The girls have played Pacific’s lacrosse team previously this year. As a result, ’Cat Lax is familiar with their aggressive style of play. Yet

this particular game seemed to be filled with somewhat combative plays from both teams.

The first half alone was brimming with plays that showcased combinations of skill and emotion, from Rebecca Kimball’s blocked shots and quick recoveries at the three-minute mark of the first half, and Emily Mish-

ko’s nimble moves against the defense at the 1:45 mark, of that same half.

Other players such as Makayla Khatewoda, Sarah Stuck, and Kelsey Dammarell made sure the girls from Pacific knew who’s home turf they were on by defending against any and every possible shot.

Even Nicole Lewis, pre-

viously sidelined as a result of obtaining a concussion, looked to be giving immense amounts of energy in order to help her teammates achieve a well deserved win.

Although effort was clearly being put into the game, our girls just couldn’t overcome the gap in the score.

As the second half of the

game began to close out you could visibly see some frustration from our ’Cat Lax girls.

“We showed Pacific how much we improved and even though we did do all that I still wanted us to win. I know our team needs a win,” Vanessa Van Horn said.

With the game ending in a 18-4 loss for ‘Cat Lax we

can understand their frustration. Hopefully this loss doesn’t dampen their spirits, but provides them motivation. The ‘cat Lax girls intend to come out swinging in their next game against Colorado College.

Mickayla-Bay Washington can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

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’Cats get sweep to keep playoff hopes alive

By Joe Stuart Staff Writer The Linfield Wildcats (20-14, 12-9) got their first sweep of the season this weekend in Walla Walla with wins against the Whitman Missionaries (12-23, 7-14).

Cal Neely, ’18, got the win in game one, pitching six and twothirds innings in relief of Cason Cunningham, ’19.

Neely allowed two runs off of six hits and two walks while striking out four in the 8-4 final.

Eric Lawson led the Linfield offense, ’16, in game one. Lawson had three hits and five RBI’s, with a grandslam for the highlight of his day.

Lawson’s grand slam would come in a five run third inning for the Wildcats to put them in a 6-2 lead after trailing.

David Mason, ’16, Finn McMichael, ’16, and Scott Hilpert, ’17, all reached to load the bases before Lawson hit a bomb for the grand slam and his fifth homer of the year.

Linfield scored again in the fifth with a two-RBI base hit by Ryan Ross, ’18, to score Lawson and Hilpert to stretch the lead to 8-2.

Whitman would score a run each in the sixth and ninth, but would not be able to rally a comeback in game one.

The ’Cats would take game two thanks to hot bats in extra innings, winning 6-3 through ten innings.

Riley Newman, ’18, would record his Northwest Conference leading seventh win of the season, pitching nine innings and allowing three runs off four hits and three walks, with five strikeouts.

After the Missionaries scored two runs in the bottom of the first, Linfield answered right back to tie it in the top of the second.

A triple by Ross scored Ben Andrews, ’18, all the way from first.

Ross then scored when John Carroll, ’17, grounded out to first, but gave Ross enough time to score.

The tie was broken in the top of the fourth when Ryan Pladson, ’18, hit a solo home run, his third of the season.

Whitman answered back in the bottom of the eighth with a solo shot of their own by Adrian Vela.

With neither team able to score in the ninth, the game went to extra innings.

The ’Cats took the lead in the tenth, with RBI base hits by Pladson, Brady Rediger, ’18, and Mason.

Those three runs were all Linfield needed for closer Cody Walker, ’19, to get the Wildcats the win and his fifth save of the season.

Despite the series already being in the bag, the Wildcats did not let up in game three, winning in a 15-11 slugfest.

It was a game that relied in pitching staffs for both clubs, with the Missionaries using six different pitchers and the Wildcats using five.

Joe Perryman, ’16, would be awarded his second win of the year, entering the game in relief in the fifth inning and pitching two while allowing only two runs off one hit and three walks through two innings.

Ross led the offense in game three, with three hits and five RBI’s. Lawson homered again for his fifth of the season.

Both teams had six-run innings. Whitman’s came first in the bottom of the third to tie the game after allowing two runs in the first and four in the third by the ’Cats.

The Missionaries then took the lead with two runs in the fourth, but it would not last long.

In the top of the sixth, Linfield caught fire, having their six run inning. Two of Ross’s RBIs would come in the sixth, with a two-RBI triple.

Taking a 12-6 lead, the Wildcats

Griffin Yerian/Staff Photographer Freshman and left handed pitcher Wilson Miles pitches the ball at a home game for the Linfield Wildcats. would not trail for the rest of the game. The Missionaries scored three in the seventh to bring themselves within one, but three more Linfield runs in the eighth and ninth innings would stretch the lead and be all the Wildcats needed to get the sweep.

The three wins moved Linfield into a tie for fourth place in the conference standings with Pacific University, and keep the conference tourney hopes alive for the Wildcats.

The regular season ends for Linfield at home next weekend

when they host the George Fox University Bruins in their final home games of the year.

Joe Stuart can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Men’s tennis defeats Lutes, struggle against Bearcats

By Sara Levering Staff Writer The Wildcats were successful while traveling this past weekend defeating the Pacific Lutheran University Lutes 7-2.

In doubles action, freshman Trent Prussing and senior Tim Hawkins struggled at number one doubles, losing 8-3.

In second doubles, sophomores Liam Spearnak and Ben McNair played a tough match ultimately swinging in their favor 8-6.

In third doubles, freshmen duo Jacob Mangan and Carter Pentz played a close match but gathered the victory in the end decisively,

winning 8-5.

Going into singles action ahead 2-1, it was in their favor to gather a victory for Linfield. In first singles, Prussing took a bit to warm up losing in the first set 2-6, but gathered himself and won decisively 6-0.

The match had already been decided, thus, Prussing played one game and then a tiebreaker, which swung in his favor 7-6.

McNair played second singles and won in straight sets 7-6, 6-1.

Mangan at third singles won in straight sets as well, 6-4, 6-3.

Pentz at four singles was the lone Linfield singles player to go down, but not without a fight.

Softball

Baseball NWC

Overall

The match went three sets and a tiebreaker 7-6, 2-6, 1-0 (10-5 tiebreaker).

Spearnak at five singles excelled past his opponent for the win 6-0, 6-4. Junior Alec Wisthoff defeated his opponent without any struggle 6-2, 6-0 at six singles.

Playing against Willamette in Salem, Oregn, Linfield struggled to get the victory. In doubles action, Prussing and Hawkins continued to struggle as a duo and lost 8-2.

In second doubles, Spearnak and McNair put up a good fight but ended up on the losing side of the court 8-5.

Men’s Tennis NWC

Overall 15-3

Whitman Lewis and Clark

9-1 8-2

14-7 11-7

Whitman Linfield

8-2 7-2

11-8 10-4

Pacific

NWC Lewis and Clark 11-0

Overall 15-2

23-7 20-13 20-14

Whitworth Linfield George Fox

Pacific Linfield

12-9 12-9

20-13 20-14

Pacific 12-11 20-14-1 Pacific Lutheran 11-12 19-14

Whitworth George Fox

6-4 4-5

9-7 6-9

George Fox Pacific

6-4 4-6

11-8 6-9

Willamette Puget Sound

10-11 11-13

17-16 14-18

Lewis and Clark 11-12 Willamette 10-13

Linfield Willamette

3-6 2-7

4-9 2-8

Pacific Lutheran 4-6 Whitworth 4-6

5-8 5-10

12-23 11-25

Puget Sound

1-8 1-13

Puget Sound Willamette

2-14 0-13

3-20

25-9 23-11 23-12

17-18 14-14 9-24

Puget Sound 1-8 Pacific Lutheran 1-9

10-7.

Pentz struggled at the fourth singles losing 6-2, 6-1. As well as Spearnak losing in five singles 6-1, 6-3. Wisthoff was able to edge his opponent 6-3, 6-2 grabbing the victory.

“We played really well Saturday against PLU and not so well today against Willamette.

“I’m happy with the outcome of PLU, but today’s matches were a real shame. We just need to keep our heads up and finish strong,” Spearnak said.

Sara Levering can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Northwest Conference Rankings

Women’s Tennis NWC 9-1

Whitworth 15-6 Geroge Fox 13-8 Pacific Lutheran 13-8

Whitman 7-14 Lewis and Clark 3-18

17-6 15-8 13-10

Overall

Mangan and Pentz were the only doubles team that put together a win for Linfield with a score of 8-5.

An exhibition doubles match featuring Alec Wisthoff and sophomore Grant Barrow won 8-1.

Linfield had some catching up to do going into singles action. McNair was back to playing number one singles and won in straight sets 6-3, 6-3. Prussing went back to two singles and lost in straight sets 6-1, 6-4.

Mangan at three singles put together a win for Linfield in a three-set fashion winning the first 6-4, losing the second 3-6, and winning the third in a tiebreaker

1-9 0-10