May 19 2014 issue

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’Cats win Linfield sweeps; heads to nationals page 16

Spencer Beck/Staff Photographer Members of the Linfield baseball team hoist the regional championship trophy after winning four consecutive games. With the win on May 17, the defending national champions will head back to Appleton, Wis., to compete for the NCAA Division III national championship.

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Wall on Terror

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Editorial ...................... 2 News ........................... 4 Features........................ 7 Culture....................... 10 Sports ........................ 16 Students create walls with information on 9/11 topics. >> page 4

Richard Bourassa composes “A Song for Linfield” choral composition. >> page 7

Art majors display their works for their thesis and portfolio. >> page 11

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900 SE Baker St. Unit A518 McMinnville, OR 97128 Phone: (503) 883-5789 E-mail: linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com Web: www.linfieldreview.com Editor-in-chief Helen Lee Managing editor Rosa Johnson Associate editor Samantha Sigler Copy editor Amantha Hood Business manager Jessica Phan News editor Jonathan Williams Sports editor Alec Wisthoff Culture editor Gilberto Galvez Opinion editor Stephanie Hofmann

Opinions

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EDITORIAL

Clinic closing leaves students unprotected Recently the local Planned Parenthood closed down, leaving many students without the timely and inexpensive options that the clinic offered.

Places like Planned Parenthood are an important part of college life. They provide quick ways to stay healthy. This can be from giving women the opportunity to have cheaper birth control to anyone getting tested for STDs in a timely manner.

However, since McMinnville’s Planned Parenthood has closed, the campus desperately needs something to take over this role for students.

It’s true that students have the option to go to the campus’s Health and Wellness

Center, but often times it’s not the most convenient option.

The center is only open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. which is not when most emergencies happen.

Also if you do get there when it’s open you have to make an appointment that can take from one to three days. If a student is truly concerned about something with their body it doesn’t help to wait multiple days.

The office also isn’t very discreet when paying. The center either charge your Linfield account, insurance or they send you bills to your mailbox.

Many people don’t feel comfortable about their whole family knowing that they went to the Health Cen-

ter, but there’s no avoiding that once they see the monthly bill.

There is also no way for students to get a discount on their birth control anymore, whether that is pills or condoms.

The closest place that students can get their birth control is Walgreens, but that can cost from $30 to $60 dollars for just 28 days while a standard box of condoms is approximately $10-$15 for 10 in a pack. Most college students can barely afford to spend money on food, let alone birth control.

Also many students don’t want to stare down some random 7/11 cashier while buying some condoms. Being able to go somewhere that

has people that won’t judge or be thinking “I know what they’re doing tonight” can be the difference between people being safe or not. If the school had something that always had birth control in it, it would make the students much safer.

Students will continue to do the same things with or without a Planned Parenthood, but the college needs to find a new way to provide students with the options that they had before. Every student has to deal with these situations one way or another, so it would be money well spent if the school provided better options for its students.

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Journalism

Times firing a step back for female journalists The executive editor of The New York Times was recently fired after less than three years on the job.

Jill Abramson was a symbol of triumph for women in the journalism field, having broken the notorious “glass ceiling” several years ago when she was hired by the Times.

Although the details on why she was fired remain unclear, CNN reports that Abramson had previously confronted her employers about her salary, which was reportedly lower than her male predecessor’s, Bill Keller.

Times publisher and Abramson’s boss, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., rejected the

Helen Lee Editor-in-chief argument and claimed it was “an issue with management” in a speech to the newsroom on Wednesday.

But what exactly does “an issue with management” mean?

When a male boss is pushy, uncaring, and demanding, he is perceived as a strong leader. It is wide-

ly considered that these are characteristics needed to make difficult choices.

A female boss who displays those traits, however, is usually labeled as “bitchy” or “temperamental.” But when a woman asserts herself in major decisions and holds her staff to certain standards, she’s not throwing a tantrum. She’s not even moody. She’s just doing her job.

This double standard defines professional images for men and women.

In American society, women are expected to be kind, caring, and compassionate. But when female bosses show typically male-associated dominat-

ing characteristics, those women are viewed as harsh and unfriendly, not good leaders.

Take a look at Natalie Nougayrède, editor-inchief of the French newspaper Le Monde, for instance.

She, too, was recently forced out of her position as a result of attacks on her personality.

Nougayrède was called “Putin-like” and “authoritarian,” which are strict leadership traits that probably would have won her respect had she been a man.

Such accusations reek of sexism.

If Abramson’s firing had been a result of poor leadership, it would be under-

standable. But the Times won eight Pulitzer Prizes, digital paywall readership increased, and the company’s stock doubled under her watch, according to CNN. Clearly, it was not an issue of Abramson’s abilities. Setting the particular details of Abramson aside, cases such as this one are still disturbingly familiar and occur all too often.

Despite all the progress women have made so far, equality in perception and compensation for all genders in the workplace is still a long way off.

Helen Lee can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com

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Demanding diversity in a small college curriculum

The fourth bullet point of Linfield College mission statement: “Honors the rich texture of diverse cultures and varied ways of understanding,” What this means to me, and what this seems to mean to Linfield are two very different things. Linfield has an amazing program, which gives many students the opportunity to travel abroad, to embrace other cultures.

What I don’t see is Linfield College fully embracing the culture within, here on our local campus. I have a hard time believing we embracing and teaching about our minorities.

Though African may be

Amantha Hood Copy editor in my blood, I personally see it disrespectful to call myself an “African” American until I have a better understanding of my African roots, culture, and history. For now I will continue to refer to myself as a Black American. I have always wanted to take advantage of college as the opportunity to

find and understand my roots to a deeper level, through the idea of Black studies. Black studies are not an option here at Linfield, so this summer I’ll be getting involved in PSU’s Black studies program, in order to expand my horizons.

I was told that there are larger schools with a better curriculum for those looking to take Black and African studies. But I don’t want to have to search around the state to find the best school, which fits my goal of a more diverse curriculum. Why should I have to search, when that option is handed to many?

Thus far I’ve registered for two of the three or four African/Black focused courses

here at Linfield. Next year I am registered for two African focused classes, one being a dance class. I’m not here to complain, because at least Linfield does have a couple of courses offered for students looking to take something different. But I am here to bring it people’s attention that there are many of us who are underrepresented, on a local community level, and as an entirety in society. It all has to start somewhere though.

I have a hard time believing that we do not have enough resources to make a more diverse curriculum offered here at Linfield. After having a conversation with my Visual Culture Professor,

she found a way to incorporate not only more female artists into her curriculum, but also artists of color. Not only did she acknowledge my idea but she also implemented action, which I greatly appreciate and would love to see more of here at Linfield.

It can be hard to consider people’s perceptions, opinions, and views on things when you don’t personally walk in their shoes every day.

And that’s why I’m here writing in Op-Ed today, because I’d like people to recognize that there is always room for improvement. I believe that having a more diverse curriculum would lead to a better community based Linfield,

and perhaps a more diverse group of applicants of future freshmen.

I would suggest taking Fundamentals of Sociology, and then maybe you will have a better understanding of why I’m interested in learning more about different heritages. When it comes to history courses, literature courses, and other classes, I hope Linfield finds a way to truly embrace not only the innercultures living amongst us, but also minority as a whole.

Until then, I can’t say that I feel Linfield College is fully living up to there mission statement.

Amantha Hood can be reached at linfieldreviewcopy@gmail.com

Sustainability

Looking back on a great year for sustainability efforts Marisa Specht Office of Sustainability Happy last week of school Wildcats. The time has finally come for midnight Starbucks runs and banging your head against the wall to focus on studying for finals, but hey, at least the sun has graced us with its presence a couple of times these last few weeks.

This year has definitely been one for the books in terms of sustainability and we’re sad it’s coming to a close for summer, but we want to remind you to stay super susty the next three months and to return in the fall even more susty than before.

And to all you graduating seniors... may the sust be with you.

From adding compost to the residence halls to revamping up the annual Earth Week events, this year has definitely brought the campus to a more sustainable level.

Here are a couple achievements we’ve made here on campus the past 2013/2014 year: 1) We started off the year with an awesome farmer’s market on campus for those looking for some fresh, local produce.

2) All the freshmen received reusable shopping bags for their first ever college grocery shopping trips.

3) We had our first football season with composting/recycling stations at the home games.

4) We had some super convenient recycling/ composting stations set up around major points of campus.

5) We offered a totally rad Green Outreach Alternative Spring Break program 6) We had our second annual Earth Games with all new events, such as a Susty Easter Bike Ride and an Eat Local! workshop.

7) We launched our totally cool, new Resources web pages for the convenience of all you sustainable students.

I don’t know about you, but the susty vibe was strong this year. There was definitely a lot more student involvement and that is exactly what we want to see.

These Garden Work parties aren’t just for those who already know how to garden, just like the sustainability-focused courses offered in our curriculum aren’t just for those studying environmental science or policy.

There are so many options available for the students, faculty, and staff here at Linfield, it would be crazy for someone to not utilize them.

Fortunately, the Office of Sustainability and Green Team will be moving sometime in the near future to a more central location on campus (it’s the Observatory, but let’s keep this between all 1700 of us, okay?) to be closer to those we want to help most: all you awesome Wildcats.

So on behalf of the entire Office of Sustainability members, we wish you a wonderful summer and are excited to see what next year has in store for us!

Don’t forget to stay susty.

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

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Campus Life

Freshmen learn the ropes just as they leave T.S. Elliot once said, “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a new beginning.”

With all the hustle and bustle of finals, moving out of dorms, using up all the flex dollars in our accounts, it is easy to bypass a moment of reflection and evaluation of a freshman’s first year at Linfield College.

One year ago, all of the freshmen were soon-tobe high school graduates.

Upon looking back at all the changes that have taken place, there is no doubt that it has been a life-changing year.

Casie Gaza Senior sports reporter In August of 2013, all the freshmen were moving from houses to small apartment rooms, making the adjustment from mom’s famous macaroni and cheese to cafeteria food, and then making the switch from high school studying to the brutal grind of tests and essays.

The initial transition was

no easy task. Many had the experience of rooming with someone who seemed incompatible to their own personality and ended up moving rooms by the second semester. We all had the wonderful experience of adjusting from mom’s cooking to the food served in Dillin Hall and we all had the gracious experience of taking classes that seemed almost impossible to ace.

However, the transition became easier overtime.

By the second semester, we had all found our set group of friends, we had scoped out the professors to avoid, and we had all found handpicked roommates for next school year.

The end of the year is

always bittersweet as couples who were together 24/7 become distanced in the summer and we all return to our families.

However, despite the fact that we are all going our separate ways, there is no doubt that the friendships we have made will continue to grow.

With finals right around the corner and we all await the excitement of returning home to our families, we will all miss a certain part of Linfield campus life. This past year was one for the history books and it is time to await and look forward to the upcoming 2014-2015 school year.

Casie Gaza can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com

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Wall on Terror displays unspoken truths of 9/11 Jonathan Williams News editor Parts of the Linfield campus have taken home to large wooden walls with messages related to repercussions from September 11, 2001 painted on them.

Students from Associate professor of English Reshmi Dutt-Ballestadt’s Post 9/11 Literature class created these walls, as the students felt empowered to share what they had learned with the Linfield community.

D u t t Ballerstadt helped students coin the title “Wall on Terror” as a spin off from the well-known War on Terror term that has become common in the U.S. “We wanted to share what we had learned from Reshmi’s class with the Linfield community because there is more that meets the eye with events from 9/11,” Sophomore and student in the class Emma Ballantyne said.

The walls presented information about 9/11 as well as numbers that showed fatalities.

The class has taught students to look at the events

that occurred from a different lens than they normally would.

The class has proved to students through literary texts that there are racist norms that have become ingrained in the minds of U.S. residents.

There is a stigma that if you see a dark skinned man with a beard in New York City he could be a terrorist.

The class exposed to students that government officials stalked Muslims in New

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what they had learned from class with Linfield because they felt it was worth revealing nuances that have risen because of 9/11.

“Since we have gotten past the trauma, doesn’t mean everything has gone away,” senior and student in the classDawn Wyruchowski said.

The students wanted to bring back the humanity that most people forget about when they think of 9/11.

The soldiers that are fighting in Middle East are people to, but because there are so many of them, and deaths of soldiers are broadcast in the media often, U.S. residents forget that the soldiers are people too who have family, and people that love them.

Sophomores Camille Weber and Conner Purnell, along with junior Jessie Johnston, will present information that they have learned from the class at 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 19, in Ice Auditorium for the final PLACE talk of the year: “Legacies of War and the Liberal Arts: Learning from Difference.”

The students will be speaking along with peers from other classes that are centered around and connect to the current PLACE theme.

Since we have gotten past the trauma, doesn’t mean everything has gone away.

-Dawn Wyruchowski, Senior York and around the United States to their Mosques to question them, as well as to track them.

The walls that were put up on campus were to get a reaction from students based on the information that is presented on the walls.

Students in the class didn’t want to be thought of as pushy towards students by setting up a booth with information, causing them to construct walls with information on them instead.

The class wanted to expose

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Jonathan Williams can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Jonathan Williams/News editor This wall that is by the outside of Starbucks represents casualties that were a result from events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.

Convocation recognizes student achievements, scholarship Camille Weber Columnist

Yucheng Zhang/ Senior Photographer Freshman Nathan Pellatz (left) and sophomore Logan Mays accept awards from department chair of music Faun Tiedge at the convocation ceremony on May 13.

This year’s convocation recognized students from across different disciplines, academic interests, and professional settings.

Many of our wildcats were recognized with placards, pins and even money through scholarships for their commitment to sustaining a level of excellence within their intended fields.

Linfield College’s Annual Recognition Convocation took place on Tuesday May 13 in Ice Auditorium.

Departments recognizing strong academic endeavors included the modern languages, English/creative writing, music, mathematics, business, mass communication, and visual art.

Seniors Tyson Takeushi and Bryan Takano earned the Japanese National Honor Society Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for their accomplishments in Japanese at the post-secondary level.

Sophomore Andrea Pakula, Trey Chiu, Dylan Solon, Mitch Vandeberg, and junior Kiera Thurman were the recipients for the Hildegard Kurtz Scholarship.

Senior Madelyne (Mattie) Wong won a $1,000 scholarship and was as a recipient

of the Ballenger Scholarship in the Creative Arts for her excellence in Creative Writing.

The “Dukes of Hazards Lane Changes” team were recognized for their impressive run in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling where they were only beaten by five other teams in the United States.

The Charlotte Filer Linfield Journalism Award of $1,000 and J. Richard and Evelyn Nokes Scholarship of $2,500 was awarded to juniors Heather Brooks and Sarah Mason for their respected accomplishments in the mass communication department.

The Helen Blumensteil Merit Award in Studio Arts, Outstanding Junior went to senior Kelsey Garrett and Myra Lupe for $250 to recognize their hard work and commitment to art while the Helen Blumensteil Endowed Scholarship went to junior Lionel Parra for his tenacity and artistry in the art department.

Students were also recognized for their overall achievements to academics and extra-curricular activities.

The Pi Kappa Alpha chapter and the women’s soccer teams were recognized for their achievements in com-

munity service and given the Dave Hanen Senate Outstanding Service Award.

The Linfield library honored many of its committed employees with the Jerald R. Nicholson Library which was awarded to Kathie Byers (Archives), Kathleen Juan (EMS), Go Suzui (DC), Sara Scott (ILL), Hillary Krippaehne, Josua Tan and Jenna Lackson (Circulations), and Shelby VandeBergh, seniors Sylvan Tovar, Sujan Dhoju, and Kelly Yokoyama (lead student workers).

The ceremony ended with the reveal of the recipient of the Kemper Scholarship which rewards students with their overall achievement in higher education.

Kemper scholars receive significant annual scholarships and professional internships with major nonprofit organizations in Chicago.

The two finalists of this award were freshmen Emily Eisert and Patricia Roberts.

The scholarship was ultimately given to sophomore Tatum Chidlaw for her motivation in the classroom as well as her excellence as a well-rounded Linfield College student.

Camille Weber can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

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Biology professor gives last lecture, but plans to stay busy

Emilie Skladzien/Photo editor Biology Professor Mike Roberts goes over a PowerPoint in his last lecture on Monday, May 12, in Graf Hall.

Gilberto Galvez Culture editor Past students, friends and family gathered together to celebrate biology Professor Mike Roberts’ last lecture Monday May 12 in Graf Hall.

Roberts mentioned that this “Last Lecture” was definitely not his last lecture.

It was just time that he move on beyond education. He already has projects in mind or in progress.

German Professor Peter Richardson introduced Roberts, telling the story of their Icelandic conversation table in the years before Linfield and mentioning that he approached Roberts with information about the opening in the biology department.

Richardson described Roberts as the “quintessential teacher.”

“When I needed a willing soul to help me with my German immersion Weekend, Mike volunteered, or was rather volunteered by

me,” Richardson said.

At one point, Roberts and a student discussed physiology at a German Immersion Weekend.

“There was Mike, and there was his student talking physiology in German,” Richardson said.

Roberts then started his lecture after the applause following Richardson’s introduction had died down.

He mentioned seeing student from 30 years ago in the crowd. Using slides and humorous quotes and comics, Roberts revealed his plans for retirement.

“As people age, they think, ‘I can’t do anything.’

In contrast, I have a lot to do,” Roberts said.

His experiments are driven by curiosity.

“There’s a whole bunch of things that people think they know that they don’t actually know,” Roberts said.

Roberts has five main projects he will be working on during his retirement.

The first of which is

publishing an article with Biology Department Chair Anne Kruchten. The article is titled “The Physiology and Evolution of Receptors.”

Next he is working with biology Professor J. Christopher Gaiser on a principles of biology textbook.

The textbook focuses on biology in a different way than most others. It begins the study of life with life’s early beginnings in Earth’s histories.

“It has always been and will be the age of bacteria.

We don’t really see them very much, but that really is the center of life,” Roberts said.

Roberts and the rest of the biology department already attempt to teach the class in this method, but they need a textbook written in the same order to be fully effective.

The third project Roberts is working on is with mathematics Professor Stephen Bricher. Their work focuses on the extinction of the Neanderthals once they

came in contact with modern humans.

“We aren’t taking a position saying it was either this way or that way. We made a mathematical model that accounts for the birth rate of both people, the death rate of both people and the resource,” Roberts said.

Roberts works on another project with the help of English professor Dave Sumner.

The project involved a Jan term class where students retrace John Steinbeck’s journey with his friend Ed Ricketts, a marine biologist. Roberts and Sumner will write a paper on that experience.

The final project Roberts has is his proposed ideas to aid in the search of the Peking Man bones discovered in China and sent away for safekeeping World War II. Roberts plans to possibly uncover a hoax with his theory.

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ASLC sets goals for next school year Jonathan Williams News editor

The Associated Students of Linfield College will be seeing some changes next Fall.

The group, which is currently led by President Trey Chiu and Vice President junior Ivanna Tucker, is the governing body that decides to sponsor or not sponsor groups on campus.

ASLC funds the Linfield Activities Board, The Linfield Review as well as many other groups on campus that students participate in.

“The senate is changing next year. Last school year, the senate voted to change the format from 27 senators to 40 that will represent each class.

My hope is to make each class council plan events for their class and also try to address some issues they have on campus,” Tucker said.

As the Vice President, Tucker explained that all students at Linfield receive minutes of the Senate meetings so they can see what is happening on campus, as well as what clubs are being started and funded.

Students who apply to be ASLC senators play a vital role for clubs and groups on campus.

ASLC senate meets every Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. during the fall and spring semester to vote on issues about campus activities as

well as deciding whether to charter clubs or not.

This year, the campus improvement committee from ASLC senate used the money they had to purchase game tables for some of the residence halls on campus so students would want to hang out in their residence halls more often.

ASLC can fund most groups that need help with funding as long as they show that they are a club or group that is organized, and has people interested in joining or helping out with it.

“We definitely want to encourage upper and lower classes to connect with one another. We want to build more unity in our school and also find ways we can impact the McMinnville community,” Tucker said.

Tucker and Chiu are looking forward to working with the Linfield community as well as with the new group of senators and cabinet members next year.

Tucker will play a major role in putting these goals into action, as the ASLC vice president is in charge of working with all of the senators and running the weekly senate meetings.

Ivanna Tucker can be reached at itucker@linfield. edu for more information on how to get involved in senate next year.

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

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What is your favorite memory this year at Linfield?

“Being able to join lots of clubs and finding people who have similars interests to me.”

-Chris Munjar Freshman

“Learning how to say I edited it, and anemone.”

-Rei Matsumoto Junior

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“Getting off my island, and starting to make my own life. I met a lot of friends at Linfield.”

-Stacie Cuadro Freshman

“Being a part of the luau, walking out to a huge audience, and getting to know my luau sisters.”

-Caitlin Duffner Sophomore

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Students present research at symposium, top awarded scholarships

Yucheng Zhang/ Senior photographer Senior Egzi Tanriver stands next to her research display at the symposium,

Gilberto Galvez Culture editor

Yucheng Zhang/ Senior photographer Senior Katricia Stewart’s “Personality, Well-Being and Music Involvement” in collaboration with other seniors, won second place at the symposium.

UFO Festival abducts downtown McMinnville

Students showed off data and conclusions at this year’s Scholarship Symposium.

While there were many great projects, seven of them received small amounts of prize money for their work.

In the creative works category, “‘Ajax in Iraq’ Stage Management” by freshman Madilyn R. Bechtel won the only award of $100.

Bechtel focused on her experiences as stage manager during “Ajax in Iraq.”

From them, she learned of the true inner workings of the Linfield Theater and what it took to make it all appear to work seamlessly.

Theater professor Tyrone Marshall sponsored this project.

In the social sciences category, first prize went to “Analysis of Population Dynamic of Terrorist Cells” by senior Amanda Dorman. Dorman created a mathematical model that shows recruitment by and reactions from the general

populace to terrorist cells.

With this project, Dorman focused on Al Qaeda. Her sponsor was mathematics professor Stephen Bricher.

“Personality, Well-Being and Music Involvement” by seniors Katricia Stewart, Erin Harris and Melissa Green took the secondplace prize of $75. They studied the correlation between music involvement and personality traits as well as the overall wellbeing of a person, gathering data through surveys.

Assistant psychology professor Yanna J. Weisberg sponsored the endeavor.

Third place, $50, went to “Knowledge Assessment of Catheter Care Policy” by seniors Cristiane Kane, Hannah Langley, Jessica Brandt and India Hubbard.

Their project focused on the recent catheter care policy in a large general hospital.

They wanted to determine whether nurses were following the appropriate procedures. Associate nursing professor Pamela Wheeler and nursing professor Sue Butell sponsored the project.

In the natural sciences category, junior Austin Browning, sophomore Katherina Rees and senior Julie Sadino took first prize, $100, with their project “An In Vivo Approach to the Discovery and Characterization of Cellular Mechanisms Regulating microRNA-Mediated Gene Slicing.” Their research, sponsored by assistant biology professor Catherine Reinke, involved the study of how microRNA gene slicing occurred.

Second place, $75, went to senior Matthew Creech’s “The Separate or concurrent effects of Methylphenidate and Alcohol on Acquisition and Retention of the Morris Water Maze in Adolescent Rats,” sponsored by psychology professor Lee Bakner.

The final prize of $50 went to sophomore Tika Zbornik and freshman Rhys Thompson for the “Genetic Analysis of Gene Silencing in a First-Year Scientific Research Learning Community.”

Gliberto Galvez can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Incident Reports This is a new section in which the Review will publish the most recent violations logged

by Campus Public Safety that we believe the student body should be aware of.

Emilie Skladzien/Photo editor A costumed alien king parades down Third Street during the annual UFO Festival on May 17, in downtown McMinnville, Ore.

Incident: Liquor Law Violation

Incident: Property: Trespass

Incident: Property: Theft

Date: May 10, 2014

Date: May 11, 2014

Date: May 11, 2014

Location: Delta Psi Delta Fraternity

Location: Theta Chi Fraternity

Location: Jane Failing Hall

Details: Referred to Residence Life

Details: Referred to Residence Life

Details: Referred to Residence Life

Incidents compiled by Jonathan Williams, News editor. Contact Rebecca Wale if you have any questions about incidents reported at rwale@linfield.edu.

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Sheet music for Bourassa’s choral song titled, “A Song for Linfield.” The Linfield Concert Choir will debut Bourassa’s piece at the 2014 baccalaureate service. The piece is written in the style of an alma mater, and contains lyrics such as, “we are Linfield, we are wildcats” and “a small acorn, a mighty oak, the symbols of our path...”

Retiring composer writes ‘A Song for Linfield’ Mikenna Whatley/Features editor Mikenna Whatley can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

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r. Richard Bourassa, Linfield professor of music theory and composition, has always found it easier and more meaningful to express himself through his musical compositions than through verbal com-

Dr. Richard Bourassa, Linfield professor of music, will retire at the end of this school year. He wanted to leave behind a piece of music students would remember and cherish as a reflection of their time at Linfield.

munication.

While Bourassa will be retiring at the end of this school year, he recently finished composing a piece of music that will forever leave its mark on Linfield’s students, staff and faculty.

The piece is titled, “A Song for Linfield.”

“I find it easy to think musically,” Bourassa said. “When I compose, I think about what it is that I am really trying to say that is important enough to take the time to say it.”

Bourassa certainly did take his time writing “A Song for Linfield.”

“I find I often put too much thought into things,” Bourassa said.

The piece, which is written to emulate the style of an alma mater, was written in two stages. Five years ago, Bourassa wrote the music and asked friend and former Linfield faculty member, Densley Palmer, to write a poem that he could set to the music he had written.

To Bourassa’s dismay, Palmer declined this collaboration offer, leaving Bourassa to write the text himself.

While Bourassa had written words for music in the past, he found this particular project quite difficult.

He wanted to be sure that his words encompassed the essence of not just Linfield as a college, but Linfield’s students, alumni, and faculty.

Bourassa’s greatest challenge in writing these lyrics was making sure that the piece would be something that all of these people could look back on and enjoy.

When writing this new and different song, Bourassa was constantly thinking of the large clientele he felt as if he had to please.

“Older people really like the older song because that’s what they’re comfortable with and that’s what they’re familiar with,” Bourassa said. “But those older students are over there, we are here, and I’m on my way out. There are all of these young people that want to have something that they can take with them to

remember.”

In order to appeal to the younger generation that Bourassa felt like he was really writing this song for, he focused on the things that are happening now at Linfield that would still be memorable if and when the next alma mater is written.

“That’s what I found really challenging,” Bourassa said. “I don’t know that a captured it, but I sure tried.”

The Linfield Concert Choir will debut Bourassa’s piece at this year’s baccalaureate

“It’s a piece that’s written to be a sense of identity and reaffirmation and that Linfield students are not alone.”

-Dr. Richard Bourassa Linfield Professor of Music service on May 31. However, when composing “A Song for Linfield,” Bourassa did not specifically have baccalaureate in mind.

“It’s a piece that’s written to be a sense of identity and reaffirmation and that Linfield students are not alone,” Bourassa said. “It’s a fun, celebrative opportunity for students to reflect upon where they’ve been and where they are going.”

Bourassa found himself reflecting upon his time as a professor here at Linfield as he wrote this piece with his retirement approaching fast.

“I feel that I have been very blessed to have been in an experience where every part of me has been touched by Linfield,” Bourassa said.

“I can’t think of anything that I regret.”

Bourassa wrote the music for “A Song for Linfield” first, and then added the words several years later. He found it much more difficult to write the lyrics than to write the musical accompaniment for this piece.

Bourassa has composed music for several instruments including piano, saxophone, clarinet, and more. “A Song for Linfield” is written for a four-part symphonic choir and piano accompaniment. Much of the piece is sung acapella.

All photos by Mikenna Whatley Bourassa’s piece, “A Song for Linfield” is three pages in length. It is sung in a cannon, or, call-and-response.

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All about connections

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Mikenna Whatley/Features editor

Students talk about how they landed their dream summer internships and the people who helped them along the way.

Get an internship: three words every Linfield student has heard count-

less times since coming to college. But figuring out how to find one that is right for each individual student can be a difficult task.

There are many ways students find their way to their college internships. The college career center, family friends and college alumni are just a few resources students can use to make connections to internship opportunities.

Many current Linfield students have done just that: made connections with people who helped them find an internship well suited for them.

Brita Gaeddert

Senior Brita Gaeddert found her internship at the International Pinot Noir Celebration here in McMinnville, Ore. through Linfield’s office for career development.

Gaeddert was hired for an internship at IPNC last summer, and was promoted to a part-time employee this semester. She plans to work out of the IPNC office in McMinnville this summer until the actual event in July.

This summer, Gaeddert will be working as the IPNC event coordinator, and thus will be the boss of the new intern. She will be helping to coordinate with volunteers, foreign and domestic winemakers, and anyone who will be working at the event, which is held on the Linfield Campus.

“We literally take over Linfield College for the weekend,” Gaeddert said. “It’s pretty fun.”

Gaeddert has very much enjoyed working for the IPNC for a variety of reasons; one of the main reasons being the ability to make personal connections with other employees.

“The fact that I have lunch with the executive director everyday is pretty amazing,” Gaeddert said.

The small office environment also allows opportunities for Gaeddert to give her input on project ideas for the IPNC.

“It’s a good combination of independent work as well as work for others and with others towards their goals,” Gaeddert said.

Gaeddert originally got connected with the IPNC office through the Linfield office of career development.

“I went to talk to Kristi Mackay and she gave me a list of a bunch of cool companies who needed internships,” Gaeddert said, “and IPNC was one of them.”

The Linfield office of career development has the resources to

help students who are looking for internships in general, but have particularly good connections with local businesses and companies, which is how Gaeddert found her internship and current part-time job at IPNC.

Kristen Ursino

For some students, internship connections come from family friends. For Linfield senior Kristen Ursino, this is precisely the way she got involved with her internship at the MIND Institute at University of California Davis.

A family that Ursino has been friends with for several years from her hometown in California has a teenage son with autism.

During the summer for the past four years Ursino has worked with their son and has progressively developed a passion for interacting with people, particularly children, who have autism.

His parents noticed Ursino’s growing interest in working with him and referred her to an internship opening at the child MIND Institute at UC Davis, where their son had previously participated in research studies.

MIND stands for medical investigation of neurodevelopmental disorders. The research done at the institute utilizes the skills of scientists, educators, physicians and parents to investigate the causes and treatments for neurodevelopmental disorders like autism.

The MIND Institute was started by parents of children with autism who raised funds to create a research center that would help them better understand their children and why they are the way they are.

“I will be working with the MIND Institute’s child life specialists in the Child Life program,” Ursino said. “My main duties will include providing play activities and

supervising children who come to the research facility.”

Kristen will be graduating Linfield with a degree in psychology. She has always found this subject fascinating and hopes to be able to have a career in counseling or art therapy that will allow her continue her passion of working with kids.

“Kids have so much potential when taught the proper skills,” Ursino said. “The earlier you help them the better off they’ll be.”

An internship at the MIND Institute is for someone with a background like Ursino, who has had

“That’s the purpose of a friendship: to gain something from your friend’s companionship... and for a good friendship it goes both ways.”

-Robert Beezer Sophomore previous experience working with autism, has a passion for helping children, and has studied psychology. It was through personal family friend connections that Ursino was shown and given this internship opportunity.

Robert Beezer

For sophomore Robert Beezer, connecting with Linfield alum with similar interests was the key to finding an internship well suited for him.

Linfield alumni and close friend of Beezer, Colleen Gilmore, currently works at the Oregon

Photo cou Senior Brita Gaeddert will work as the e International Pinot Noir Celebration this mer she was just their intern, but has si to part-time employee for the IPNC offic Health and Science University Primate Center, where she was able to connect Beezer with an internship in the lab facility as a summer research student.

Beezer will be assisting in the vaccine unit this summer where he will help create an improved shingles vaccine. Specifically, Beezer will work on cloning DNA in hopes to find which part of the virus’ genome specifically codes for the area of the virus, so doctors will be able to administer the most effective vaccine to patients.

Beezer is currently working towards a degree in biology at Linfield, and hopes that this internship will help him learn more about what exact career path he will want to take later in life.

“You always hear that it’s all about who you know and getting ahead in life,” Beezer said, “and I’ve never really wanted to look at life that way.”

Beezer still is not one to believe that you have to constantly be actively seeking out people who have connections to things you want or need. However, he does see the value in forming and maintaining friendships with people who are willing to extend a helping hand that Beezer would reciprocate with any help he could give them.

“It does honestly help to know people and maintain those relationships,” Beezer said. “That’s the purpose of a friendship: to gain something from your friend’s companionship… and for a good friendship it goes both ways.”

Beezer feels especially thankful for the friendship connection he has made and maintained with Gilmore. He hopes to one day help her out the way she has helped him by giving him this summer internship opportunity.

Mikenna Whatley can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

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Mikenna Whatley/Features editor Senior Kristen Ursino will be volunteering at the Child MIND Institute at UC Davis this summer. She will work with children who have autism that come to the institute to participate in scientific research studies.

Mikenna Whatley/Features editor Sophomore Robert Beezer has an internship lined up at the OHSU Primate Center this summer. Beezer will be the student research assistant in the vaccine lab helping to create a new and more effective vaccine for shingles.

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Culture

May 19, 2014

Art class celebrates UFO Festival with crop circle Gilberto Galvez Culture Editor

Photo courtesy of Christopher Moss The crop circle stands in an empty field art professor Chirstopher Moss was able to make use of. The circle’s desgin is based on a drawing by senior Mariah Dannielle. She and sophomore Jessica McMillan saw the circle from above.

This semester’s Intro to Studio class has decided to create a crop circle in a nearby field in honor of the UFO Festival. The class, taught by art professor Christopher Moss, first came up with individual designs for the crop circle and then voted on which one to finally base their project on.

“The idea for the crop circle originated with the Alien Days Festival here in McMinnville. I liked that due to its size the class had to engineer a method to create a design without being able to visually see how it is coming along. We didn’t know if it worked until we saw it from the airplane above. It was a great lesson in problem solving, site locations, and working collaboratively,” Moss said.

It was senior Mariah Dannielle’s crop circle design that was chosen.

“The design was three rings in one, ranging from large to small. And they all

connected at one point. I was just doodling with various circle patterns in my notebook when I came up with design. I don’t know if there is any inspiration in that. But I was looking for a design that was doable, yet semi-challenging. The challenging part was the mathematics involved in creating the design,” Dannielle said regarding her design.

There were only spots for two students on the airplane that would view the crop circle from above.

Dannielle took one seat, and sophomore Jessica McMillan took the other.

“I told the class that the student whose design was chosen could go up in the plane with myself and one randomly chosen student. The class voted on Jessica McMillan’s. But I ultimately intervened as it was understood that the class thought it would be the easiest design to make.

I then chose Mariah’s. I told Jessica that she could still go up in the plane along with Mariah, the crop circle designer,” Moss said.

The class took the week of April 28 to create the crop circle. It proved a complicated process as they needed to make sure the shapes stayed as perfect circles.

“To create the crop circle we located a center point in the field for the largest ring. We put a steak at this point, and measured out the rope for the circle’s radius,” Dannielle said.

Using more stakes and rope, the class set up the general shape of the three rings. It was a collaborative project, their first in the Intro to Studio class.

“After all three circles were staked out, Professor Moss and two boys in our class mowed the perimeter of each circle, using the steaks as guides to ensure the roundness of each ring,” Dannielle said.

“My favorite part of the project was having an excuse to wander through tall grass in a large field,” Moss said.

Gilberto Galvez can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Music students present scenes from French, Italian operas Gilberto Galvez Culture Editor Assistant voice professor Anton Belov and voice professor Natalie Gunn worked with voice students to present an Opera Workshop: “Make Me Laugh, Make Me Cry – Operatic Scenes in Italian and French” on Sunday May 18 in Ice Auditorium.

Belov mentioned in his introduction that he wished to give the sense of an opera, but he had too many singers to have only one opera. He decided to present the Opera Workshop in scenes. The two-hour show with a tenminute intermission allowed the audience to see a variety of scenes with a variety of singers.

“It is such a wonderful thing to stage operas with young people,” Belov said.

The first quarter of the

opera workshop was made up of scenes from comedic Italian operas. Belov mentioned that these operas brought a sense of relatedness to the opera world, which was once filled with Greek gods and goddesses.

“La Serva Padrona” by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi opens the show with the interactions between an Italian bachelor and his conniving maid who is attempting to seduce him. The opera became a mix of singing and acting as the singers on stage, junior Logan Mays and sophomore Jamie Foglesong, sang with each other.

The second set of scenes was taken from “Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an opera on a womanizer and his endeavors. In the first of the scenes, “La ci darem mano,” Don Giovanni, played by junior Ryan Thompson in

this scene, steals a bride, played by freshman Jamie Bostock from her wedding, but they are interrupted before they can go too far.

In the next scene, “Batti, batti, oh bel Masetto!” The bride apologizes to her husband, played by Mays.

Don Giovanni, played by sophomore Jeff Laws in the third and final scene from “Don Giovanni,” attempts to take another woman through trickery. The other woman is Donna Elvira’s maid. Senior Brita Gaeddert played Donna Elvira, and Don Giovanni distracts her by using his servant Leporello, played

by Mays. Leporello dresses in Don Giovanni’s clothes to distract her. The scene ends when Don Giovanni has tricked Donna Elvira.

The next scenes came from French operas that took their inspiration from Shakespeare plays.

Rosa Johnson/Managing editor Junior Ryan Thompson and freshman Jamie Bostock embrace during their performance of “La ci darem la mano.”

“Those French and Italians loved their Shakespeare, but they also took a lot of liberties,” Gunn said.

The operas “Bénatrice et Bénedict” by Hector Berlioz and “Roméo and Juliette”

by Charles Gounod added new dimensions to Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Romeo and Juliet” respectively. The final French scene before intermission was Léo Delibes’ “Lakmé.”

After the intermission, the opera workshop continued with scenes from two French operas: “Les contes d’Hoffman” by Jaques Offenbach and another scene from “Roméo and Juliette.”

The final four scenes were taken from Mozart’s opera “Le nozze di Figaro.”

Gilberto Galvez can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Rosa Johnson/Managing editor Junior Logan Mays as Uberto drops his mouth in surprise.

Rosa Johnson/Managing editor Freshman Jamie Bostock sings as the bride in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni.”

Rosa Johnson/Managing editor Junior Ryan Thompson as Don Giovanni holds out his hand to the peasant bride he is trying to steal.

May 19, 2014

Rosa Johnson/Managing editor The sculpture of a torso sits in the middle of the Turnt Gallery. Students showcased their artwork,

Culture

Students feasted their eyes on a buffet of art during the “Turnt Gallery” opening known as “The Buffet” Senior Kate Straube curated “The Buffet” by collecting the art and displaying it. Portfolio students have their pieces displayed in the Miller Fine Arts Center’s Galley while senior thesis students have their

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Rosa Johnson/Managing editor A mural painted by junior Lionel Parra on the outide wall of the Miller Fine Arts Center. Senior Kate Straube curated the event, knowing it reflected youth culture with phrases such as ‘Turnt’ and ‘Going Ham’ on the program.

Art students get ‘Turnt’ at Linfield’s ‘The Buffet’ Rosa Johnson Managing editor

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sculptures, paintings and photographs in Linfield’s Turnt Gallery Some of the featured artists in the Portfolio exhibit are senior Kelsey Garrett and juniors Tessa Henry, Lionel Parra, Taryn Takara, Colton Wright and Yu Yan. In the Thesis exhibit of “The Buffet” seniors Holly Vader, Luke Zimmerman, Alyssa Dykgraaf, Robin Cone-Murakami, Katherine Takaoka and Romel Ramos.

The Gallery opened on May 14 at 6 p.m. in the Lin-

field Gallery and the Miller Fine Arts Center, and will be available for viewing until June 1.

Along with an additional set of Artist Talks will be held on May 23 at 5 p.m. in the same location.

All of the exhibits are free and open to the public; the gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.

“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “The Secret Garden” and many more.

Four talented Linfield students will be front and

sional pianist and Linfield Alum, Susan McDaniel.

This performance is the culmination of a musical theater cabaret class taught

by Natalie Gunn, accomp a n i e d by Susan McDaniel.

“Natalie Gunn has done a great job putting this event t o g e t h e r, and we have all worked very hard.

Be prepared to hear a medley of A n d r e w Lloyd Weber, a show stopping compilation of ‘Les Miserables,’ a jazzy version of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ and a hip rendition of ‘Broadway Baby!’”

Ploof said.

Chamber Recital

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Linfield brings broadway music front and center Katie DeVore For the Review

Students have been rehearsing the Musical Theater Cabaret since the first week of classes this semester.

Hard work and dedication will be coming to a close in “Broadway Baby!” as student performers take stage to showcase their talent.

The Musical Theater Cabaret will be at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 21 in the Delkin Recital Hall at the Vivian A. Bull Music Center.

The group will be performing scenes, as well as songs from contemporary Broadway musicals. Some of the musical performances include “Les Miserable,”

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Natalie Gunn has done a great job putting this event together, and we have all worked very hard.

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-Chelsea Ploof Senior

center stage. They will be performing songs, duets, and ensembles from contemporary works.

The program features seniors Angie Aguilar; Chelsea Ploof; sophomore Megan Uhrinak and freshman Mikenna Whatley. The group will be accompanied by profes-

Katie DeVore can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Yucheng Zhang/Senior photographer Senior Christian Santangelo plays percussion during a chamber recital 4 p.m.

Thursday May 15. Other students played their own parts,

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Entertainment

May 19, 2014

A ‘Mockingbird’ for a new generation The Dallas Morning News “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird” “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of America’s most beloved books. The seminal tale follows Atticus, a courageous, strong-willed, morally impeccable lawyer, and his preteen daughter and teenage son as Atticus

defends a black man wrongfully accused of raping a young white woman in a small Alabama town.

Published in 1960, the novel helped shape our national consciousness about race. It particularly helped whites reconcile with their racial past by offering a painfully honest portrait of those who manipulate and profit from race, and then counterbalancing it with Atticus patient, perceptive, honest, courageous, conscientious protector of the weak and voiceless. The father every child wants, the lawyer every defendant hopes for. The person we’d all like to be.

Photo courtesy of deepsouthmag.com The combination of compelling characters and issues, an honest and contentious storyline, and its introduction in the early 1960s a time when the country was grappling with race

_ turned “To Kill A Mockingbird” into an instant American treasure. According to a study by the Center for the Learning and Teaching of Literature, it is the fifthmost-widely taught piece of literature in schools, just behind “Romeo and Juliet,” “Macbeth,” “Huckleberry Finn” and “Julius Caesar.”

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is at once charming and repulsive, forgiving and cruel all within the pages of one book. And for 50 years, that was the only way you could access the beautifully written prose of Harper Lee: in traditional book form. So, we were delighted when, in a rare public statement

New ‘Godzilla’ focuses on humanity Paige Jurgensen Columnist

So, basically everyone has experienced “Godzilla” in one-way or another. As there are 28 Godzilla related films in the world today, the 2014 film “Godzilla,” which is currently in theatres, is just being the most recent. “Godzilla” first appeared in an Ishiro Honda film, with the same self-titled name in 1954.

The premise of Godzilla is that because of nuclear experimentations in the Pacific those creatures became mutated and giant and super awesome. Those awesome mutated monsters then destroy key cities for funsies.

The twist for the new “Godzilla” film is that Godzilla has been alive for thousands of years, since the age of the dinosaurs, and hanging

Photo courtesy of www.godzilla-movies.com out in the ocean. The atomic bomb tests in the Pacific were not actual tests, but rather just an attempt to kill Godzilla.

However, Godzilla feeds on nuclear energy, so that only fueled him.

A flying bug monster called MUTO (or Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism) destroys that also feeds on nuclear energy, is hatched from a destroyed

nuclear power plant, ran by Brian Cranston’s character prior to its destruction.

The MUTO then seemingly terrorizes the western world.

Personally, all I ever want to see if monsters fighting each other. However, the 2014 version of “Godzilla” is about 95 percent drama about humans dealing with their lives after monsters start popping up and destroying key cities on the Western coast.

(Not Portland, though, Portland is safe.)

The film stars Aaron Tayler-Johnson (from “KickAss”), Ken Watanabe (from “Inception” and “The Last Samurai”) and Bryan Cranston (from “Breaking Bad.”) The film contains a lot of beautiful special effects and the film as a whole is visually stimulating, which can be

Monday, Lee announced that she would allow “To Kill a Mockingbird” to be offered as an e-book and digital audiobook, beginning July 8.

“I’m still old-fashioned.

I love dusty old books and libraries,” said Lee, 88. “I am amazed and humbled that ‘Mockingbird’ has survived this long. This is ‘Mockingbird’ for a new generation.”

Indeed it is. According to the Kids and Family Reading Report, the percentage of children who have read an e-book almost doubled from 2010 to 2013. And one has only to follow the past week’s news to under-

stand the importance of continuing to expose new generations of Americans to this coming-of-age tale about race and stereotypes: Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s outrageous commentary about slavery, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s reportedly bigoted attitude toward blacks.

With “Mockingbird” now set for e-release, we can only hope that other major works follow suit. We nominate: “The Catcher In the Rye,” “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude” to start.

difficult to accomplish when most of a movie is a close up of upset faces and sequences of utter destruction.

The film is pretty enjoyable, for the most part, as long as the audience member does not go in thinking they are going to watch a movie about awesome monsters doing awesome monster things.

Make no mistake; this film is a disaster movie that also occasionally shows a giant lizard. The movie is about surviving, fighting for one’s country, and relationships, both family and romantic.

As good as this film is, it is probably one best made for rental rather than seeing it in theatres.

Theatres should be reserved for monster fights.

Paige Jurgensen can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

‘Neighbors’ pokes fun at both genders Special Lovincey Columnist

“Neighbors” may not be a feminist film, but the jokes are feminist-friendly.

Comedy has always concealed and undermined female characters to either alluring or anything less than funny; recent films such as “Bridesmaids,” “Pitch Perfect,” and “The Heat,” broke this stereotype. “Neighbors” for obvious reasons isn’t a femaleleading film, but Rose Byrne holds her own next to the male dominated cast breaking down stereotypes of not only motherhood but in the film world of comedy as well.

Growing up can seem a little daunting; but for Mac (Seth Rogan) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) buying a new house and raising baby Stella is new and exciting and just the next steps of their marriage. When the Fraternity brothers of Delta Psi Beta showed up to the vacant house next door with Greek letters in hand, move-in boxes, and loud music, Kelly and Mac knew

that they had to address them with mutual respect and authority but also “be cool” about it. Zac Efron plays alpha dog, Teddy, Delta Psi President; he’s receiving of his neighbors’ warm welcome and does so with charm and embrace as he encourages them to come and chill with no hesitation.

Being at this transitioning stage in their lives, Mac and Kelly find themselves torn between retaining the not too far forgotten joy of adolescent lifestyle and bringing a stop to the annoyance and constant disruptions of the nextdoor Fraternity. After calling the cops and breaking their promise, the brothers of Delta Psi do all they can to get back at Mac and Kelly.

In a scene between Kelly and Mac, Kelly calls out her husband’s immaturity and challenges the idea that women are “fixers” of relationships. This conversation provides a healthy realization that women may not be as equipped for parenting as they are

Photo courtesy of www.imdb.com assumed to be.

“I loved the film because I could relate to some of the college humor they used. My favorite part was when [Zac Efron and Dave Franco] were listing all the spinoffs of ‘bros over hoes.’” Sophomore Mikhale McCarrel enjoyed the humor and brotherhood of the film, “Seth, Zac and Dave made the movie hilarious.”

After a night partying at Delta Psi, Kelly’s breast are in a lot of pain and urges that she needs

to breastfeed but can’t feed Stella because of the alcohol consumption from the previous night. The male anatomy has been a frequent point of humor for comedy since the beginning of time, and for once, dialogue centered around the female anatomy is used not for arousal purposes but for pure comedy. After relieving his wife’s pain, Mac is quick to make light of the situation with cow jokes.

“Neighbors” is full of frantic energy, hilarious lines, and amusing improvisation. Comedies more often than not, try to carry out jokes for far too long and usually end up just killing the films momentum.

Director Nicholas Stoller impressively keeps a slim, chaotic plot going with non-stop wittiness and laughable moments. The comedy in “Neighbors” may not be timeless, but the take away in this film hopefully is integrating gender humor as seen in the banter to and from Mac and Kelly.

Special Lovincey an be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Upcoming events Honors Recital

7 p.m. on Tuesday May 19 in Ice Auditorium

Musical Theater Cabaret

8 p.m. on Wednesday May 21 in Delkin Recital Hall.

Wildstock

All day Wednesday May 21

From Brahms to Bourassa

Thursday May 22 at 2:30 p.m. in Delkin Recital Hall

Sports

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Photo courtesy of Waverly James Along with being a thrower for the Wildcats, senior Courtney Alley, fourth from left, joined by her fellow athletic trainees, looks forward to being a professional trainer.

Senior track athlete reflects on her last Wildcat season Kaylyn Peterson For the Review When arriving at Linfield as a freshman, not many know exactly what they want to do. College is a time of trial and error.

However for one senior her path had already been decided. Athletic training influenced her every decision in including her participation on the track and field team as a thrower.

Senior Courtney Alley threw her final throw on May 10 at home for the Linfield open. Alley joined the team her freshman year and has had four seasons to perfect her skills.

“It has been kind of like a roller coaster, there’s been a lot of ups and downs,” Alley said. “I’ve done a lot of growing through it. It was really frustrating coming in as a freshman and not doing as well as I would have liked too. It took me a couple years to start doing good again.”

In competing in collegelevel throwing Alley had to learn the hammer throw.

“It’s all about building momentum rather than

throwing something as far as you can,” Alley said.

While learning these new skills Alley pushed her way to the top of the lists with the distances she was throwing by her junior year.

But that all changed when she injured herself the first day of spring practices.

“I thought, ‘there’s no way I can come back, I’m in a boot, I’m on crutches, I can’t even walk to and from my classes,’” Alley said.

“And because of athletic training I’d missed the fall season while I was working with the football team.

So I didn’t have any of that preparation. Then Jan term practices were going super well, and then I thought, ‘OK maybe I can do this,’ then I just lost it all with because of my injury. It was really hard getting through that.”

Not giving up, Alley continued to heal and after four weeks she was able to return to throwing.

“Some events came sooner than others like shot put, but other events like discus never got back on its feet again,” Alley said.

Focusing on the hammer

throw and shot put, Alley prepared for conference.

Alley did not get the results she’d hoped for placing 12th in the hammer thrown, 13th in shot put and 14th in the discus throw.

Despite her placings in championships, Alley hit a high point in her final meet when she threw 40.03 meters in the hammer throw.

“I never thought I’d hit 40 feet,” Alley said. “So conferences was really disappointing, but that’s how track is, some days you’re on and others you’re not.”

With track ending Alley looks towards the future and upon graduation she’ll have earned the certifications to be an athletic trainer. While she had applied to graduate schools, and was accepted to one, Alley decided she’s not ready to head right back into school quite yet. She’ll be working with the dance and cheer teams around the Pacific Northwest in the meantime and will be reapplying to graduate school in the fall.

Kaylyn Peterson can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

Photo courtesy of Waverly James Courtney Alley and a fellow athletic trainee pose for a photo on the football field in the middle of a football practice in the fall.

Wildcat Sports Schedule

Thursday, May 22

Sunday, May 25

Track and Field NCAA Outdoor Championships

Baseball

Friday, May 23

Monday, May 26

Track and Field NCAA Outdoor Championships

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Women’s tennis shows love for the game On May 15, the Linfield College women’s tennis along with the Hope College men’s teams were honored as the recipients of the 2014 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Team Sportsmanship Award for the month of May. The award is given to teams across the nation monthly to teams that have exemplified outstanding sportsmanship, character and ethical conduct in the true spirit of competition and collegiate tennis.

When I got a notification from my coach that our team had won the monthly award, I was a little surprised. Not that I thought we didn’t deserve it, but that we had all been simply acting as good, respect-

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Camille Weber Sports columnist able people. At least, I didn’t consciously think about being an example of good sportsmanship when I thanked the opposing teams.

According to the post on the ITA website describing the Linfield women’s tennis team after the Conference Final match, “The Linfield squad showed great

sportsmanship despite the loss. Several players individually congratulated the Whitman players and as a team they cheered for us and wished the Pirates [typo: Missionaries] luck representing the conference at the NCAAs.” Although it was tough to take the loss to Whitman, to me the fact of the match was obvious. Whitman had just out-played us. Whitman College has an amazing men and women’s program and there is definitely a reason for it. It is definitely challenging going into a match knowing how talented the opposing team is, but it is more difficult to play with the same tenacity and composure as you would any conference team

and that’s exactly what my teammates did.

Despite some last minute changes we made to our line-up, the team competed probably the best we’ve ever competed against the 29th nationally ranked team. Although the final score was a 5-0 sweep, the individual matches were far from a full blow out. Our number two doubles lost by only two games while our number three doubles lost the final two points in a match tie-breaker. Despite barely losing the first set, our number one singles was playing (what I viewed) as the most elevated tennis of her career and although she had to play out of her comfort zone in number three singles, our original num-

Photo courtesy of Ashley Garcia Linfield softball team got hyped as they preparred to leave for the regional tournament in Redlands, Calif., after winning the NWC championship. The team fell short at regionals, losing two straight games.

Softball team focuses on great season, more to come Drew Mahrt For the Review While the Linfield women’s softball teams regionals run ended quickly, the team still played exceptionally well, finishing with a regular season record of 31-7 and sweeping the NWC tournament 3-0.

Throughout the season, hitting seemed to be no problem for the Wildcats.

Team leader in batting average, Katy Brosig, hit a spectacular .424 with 32 RBI’s and managed to only strike out four times.

Brosig was also a menace in the field, achieving

over a 92 percent effectiveness rate through her 43 games played.

Not far behind Brosig, Maddy Dunn and Ashley Garcia also kept their averages above .400. On top of that, Garcia also managed to hit six home runs and knock in 51 RBI’s.

Both Dunn and Garcia were just as reliable as Brosig, keeping their fielding effectiveness rate over 90 percent, with Dunn at 100 percent and Garcia at 93 percent.

There were no complaints in the pitching rotation either. All four of the girls kept their ERA’s below

3.0 and all had positive records to show for it. Karina Paavola led the team in almost every category. She had a positive strikeouthit ratio, a 1.67 ERA, and won 19 out of her 23 games pitched.

Maddy Dunn pitched a great five innings in her only appearance on the mound. She didn’t give up any runs and only allowed one hit though the duration of her stay.

Shelby VandeBergh also threw well for the ‘Cats.

She won 11 recorded games and struck out 67, as well as keeping her opponents batting average to under .225.

While the team will be losing some key players next year due to graduation, they will still hope to be contenders for the title and work just as hard, if not harder to make that happen.

What the team will lose physically, they will make up for with mental toughness and a passion.

Linfield should expect to see another great season from the softball team during the 2014-2015 academic year, with the possibility of another regionals run.

Drew Mahrt can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

ber four singles played with so much grit that it took her opponent three match points to finally end the game that decided the conference championship.

The Linfield women’s tennis team cheered on Whitman as they celebrated their conference win. It was tough to do but it was also the right thing to do. The Missionaries displayed as much class and respect as our lady-cats did during the conference final making it easier to wish them luck on their journey to regionals.

I guess the point I am trying to make is that it is easy to display good sportsmanship when you understand that winning or losing doesn’t define the merit, abilities, and capabilities

of a team. Losing not only happens in sports, but it is absolutely necessary for the improvement of athletes and the progress of the athletic competition.

On too many occasions, there is excessive emphasis on the score and not enough emphasis on the game. Athletes compete not for high numbers or favorable percentages, but for the love of the game they play. I think a lot more individuals would be able to receive positive feedback for their sportsmanship if they were able to understand that at the core of all sports, the reason we compete is because we love the game.

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to make.”

If you were to ask any Linfield student on how they believed the ’Cats would do next season almost all would say they would play for the national title. Many freshmen that join this prestigious program should know that even the mightiest teams could fall.

“Every year our expectations are to build throughout the season to the point where we are the equal of any team in the country,” Smith said. “If we have enough talent in the program and we have worked in the offseason to our utmost, then playing to our full potential will lead to many wins on the scoreboard this next season.”

Linfield went undefeated in the regular season scoring an average of 48.8 points a game while holding their opponents to only 14.1. Though Linfield outscored their opponents it doesn’t deny the fact that teams change each year.

“The league will be similar to what it was last year,” Smith said. “PLU will be solid with their offense pretty much intact, but their defense took a big hit with graduation. WU will be solid, as will Pacific.

Whitworth I expect to be improved over last year.”

The 2014 football season should be filled with many leadership opportunities for the remaining players and, as always, plenty of touchdowns.

Camille Weber can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

Football looks forward to a strong season With spring sports coming to a close many Linfield Wildcat fans are turning their heads towards the 2014 football season.

Hopes are high next season after falling short to UW-Whitewater in the 2013 playoff season. With many seniors graduating the ’Cats are looking towards a strong incoming freshman class to help build the team.

The team itself has been working hard in the offseason to ensure that there will be a strong morale for next season.

The team has been left in a state with many leadership opportunities available.

“It will be very interesting to see who steps up into leadership roles and how the team responds to them,” Coach Joe Smith said in an email. “Our guys have been working very hard in the offseason and I am pleased with the leadership our seniors to be have shown up to this point.”

Though the Wildcats had a strong regular season they fell short in the run to the national title. Changes need to be made, but they must assess the team with the new incoming freshman to see what needs to be changed.

“Every year’s team is its own entity,” Smith said. “We will need to see how we come together as we add the freshman class to the team, then we can assess where our weaknesses and strengths lie and what adjustments we need

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

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Spencer Beck/For the Review Junior shortstop Corey VanDomelen steals second base at the bottom of the first inning against UW-Stevens Point. This was one of three hits that VanDomelen got in the game.

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Spencer Beck/For the Review The Linfield baseball team celebrates its 4-2 win against UW-Stevens Point on May 17 at home. This win catapulted the ’Cats toward the Division III national title.

The first run came from a home run by Fischer and the second run came from a home run by junior Jo Carroll. However, Stevens Point responded by driving in one run in the bottom of the third.

Linfield then drove in one more run in the top of the fourth with an RBI from freshman Scott Hilpert. Stevens Point then came back with one run in the bottom of the sixth.

Stevens Point would almost score one more run

in the bottom of the eighth after a home run. However, because the player did not touch first base Stevens Point was not credited with the run and the final score was 3-2.

Stevens Point ended up playing Linfield again in the championship match of the regional series on May 17.

On the mound to start for the Wildcats was Justin Davis, a junior right-handed pitcher from Sherwood, Ore. In the seventh inning, junior Corey VanDomelen came up huge for the ’Cats with a double to left field,

driving in two runs and giving Linfield a 3-2 lead. Carroll drove in a fianl run for the ’Cats, making the score 4-2. Haddeland closed out the game.

The Wildcats victory allowed them to advance to Appleton, Wis., to defend their National Championship title.

After the game coach Scott Brosius said, “It doesn’t get any easier year to year.”

“We were really good on the mound and defensively all weekend,” he said.

Casie Gaza can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

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Catline

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

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

MEN’S TENNIS Whitman Pacific George Fox Whitworth Lewis & Clark Pacific Lutheran Puget Sound Willamette Linfield

WOMEN’S TENNIS Whitman Whitworth Linfield Pacific Lutheran Puget Sound George Fox Willamette Lewis & Clark Pacific

NWC

Overall

22-2 16-8 15-9 14-9 13-10 10-14 9-15 4-20 4-20

33-7 25-14 28-12 22-17 17-19 13-22 20-18-1 11-25 10-28-1

NWC

Overall

25-3 19-9 18-10 14-14 13-15 13-15 8-20 2-26

34-9 26-12 27-16 18-22 24-16 16-24 12-25 3-31

NWC

Overall

12-0 11-1 9-3 7-5 7-5 4-8 2-10 2-10 0-12

17-3 15-4 11-5 8-10 7-11 5-13 3-13 2-14 0-14

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Overall

12-0 10-2 9-3 7-5 7-5 3-9 3-9 3-9 0-12

14-8 12-6 13-4 11-7 8-6 7-12 4-9 3-11 2-14

Senior track athlete talks final season

Senior thrower Courtney Alley looks back on her last season as a thrower and as an athletic trainer.

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Spencer Beck/Staff Photographer Linfield baseball team players embrace after winning the regional tournament and securing a spot to compete for the Division III title.

Softball reflects on a well-played season

Though the Linfield softball team fell short in regionals they are not disappointed with how they played during the tournament.

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Linfield football prepares for the 2014 season

The Linfield football team looks towards their new recruits and prepares for a spectacular 2014 season.

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Baseball wins regional Division III title Casie Gaza Senior sports reporter

It was a momentous week for the Wildcat baseball team, which qualified for the 2014 NCAA Division III World Series.

The Wildcats started off the playoffs against LeTourneau University of Texas. With Linfield’s junior ace pitcher Chris Haddeland on the mound, the Wildcats took the field with confidence and fearlessness. However, it was a suspenseful game.

With both teams throwing their ace pitcher, there was no doubt

that both teams struggled offensively. The score remained tied 0-0 until the bottom of the fourth inning as the Wildcat’s senior outfielder Kramer Lindell hit a home run putting Linfield on the scoreboard 1-0. Lindell’s home run was the only run scored for the entire match, and Linfield advanced to the quarterfinals against Trinity University of Texas.

In the 2013 NCAA regionals, the Wildcats defeated Trinity for the NCAA Division III National Championship title. However, though Trinity had hoped to redeem themselves, , the Wildcats

had a different plan.

This year the ’Cats were simply better as they finished the game with a score of 4-1. The beginning of the game proved to be suspenseful as spectators predicted the same match as last year’s championship.

Nonetheless, the ’Cats came up big in the bottom of the third inning roping in three out of the four runs. With a single to left field, senior Clayton Truex drove in two runs, while teammate, Lindell singled to center field for one more RBI. Linfield saw no response from

Trinity and topped off the grudge match with one more run in the bottom of the seventh, an RBI credited to senior outfielder Nick Fischer.

With the win over Trinity, the ’Cats’ journey back to the World Series remained alive and they advanced once more into the semifinal match against UW-Stevens Point.

UW-Stevens Point was another exciting game for the Wildcats.

In the top of the first and second inning, Linfield scored two runs. >> Please see Baseball page 15