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The Linfield Review October 6, 2014

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CPS report details incidents, policies Jonathan Williams @linfieldreviewnews The 2013 Linfield Annual Security and Fire report was recently released to the Linfield community which detail Linfield policies and the annual crime statistics.

This report is required by law and is something that students should look at, as its contents pertain directly to student life.

In the report, a significant increase in Liquor Law Referrals were documented. 134 people received Liquor Law Referrals in 2013.

This number increased by 40 students as compared to 94 students in 2012.

“This data could tell us that more students were drinking and

that campus officials were more observant of what students were doing,” said Ron Noble, director of College Public Safety.

Noble also mentioned that RAs and ADs are very well trained so that could have played a part as to why there were more referrals.

“We are not about punishing people at Linfield,” Noble said.

Noble says that the point of the student conduct board is to show those that were referred to them that there are consequences, but more importantly, that they need to learn from their mistakes.

Noble also emphasized that the purpose of strikes and the conduct board is to educate students on what can happen through substance abuse, whether it be drugs, alcohol or both.

“We want to limit abuse of alcohol and drugs on campus … we want people to make smart decisions,” Noble said.

An important difference to note is that there were only 6 Liquor Law Arrests in 2013 as compared to 11 in 2012. Liquor Law Arrests can only be made by local law enforcement and by sheriffs.

Campus Public Safety can only issue citations and referrals to students on campus.

Interpreting statistics isn’t always easy. Statistics will always present the numbers behind something but they do not tell the stories of why each incident happened.

An example of this is the 11 burglary incidents that were reported on 2013 report.

Noble explained, “The burglary

incidents occurred during a summer basketball camp.”

“Nine of the 11 burglary incidents happened in different rooms that athletes were staying in during the camp,” Noble said.

One incident of stalking was noted in the report.

A female student on the McMinnville campus said she thought that someone was stalking her. CPS found it to be a man from McMinnville and told him that Linfield is private property and that a student felt like he was stalking her.

The other most notable incident reported is the 5 incidents of Forcible Sex in 2013.

The report has numerous pages dedicated to explaining Linfield’s definition of sexual assault as well

as people who students can talk to if they have been sexually assaulted or have a friend that needs help.

All of the incidents mentioned in this article are incidents that are required to be reported by the Clery act.

The report is accesible to all students, faculty and staff at Linfield.

It is available on the Linfield website and can be provided by CPS upon request.

Above all Noble wants, “students to be safe and feel safe at Linfield.”

For more information on the 2013 report contact Ron Noble at rnoble@linfield.edu Jonathan Williams can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Wellness week aids students

Students rally for a safe campus

Samantha Sigler @linfieldreviewnews

Helen Lee/Editor-in-chief Sophomore Blake Chamberlain holds a candle during the prayer at the sexual assault rally on Sept. 30 in the Walker Hall coutryard. See page 5 for the full article and another photograph.

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Read about President Obama’s ‘It’s On Us’ campaign and how it is affecting college campuses across the U.S.

Learn what Eve Brindis is doing on the Linfield Activites Board this year as the music chair and what she is planning for this year.

Read about Shakespeare’s history through 10 epic plays depicted from the point of a one-man show.

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Students from all across campus came together this week to participate in Linfield’s annual Wellness Week.

Students from Health, Human Performance and Athletics classes, Greek Life and Resident Advisors made up the majority of volunteers, according to Kelsey Ludin, health and wellness program coordinator at Linfield College.

“I was most excited for our sexual health day, as it was one of our most popular days last year,” Ludin said in an email. “This week we handed out hundreds of our Wildcat love kits, which promoted safe sex. I believe it is important to give students the resources to make healthy decisions and reduce any stigmas attached to this topic.”

The purpose of Wellness Week is to reach out to students at Linfield and promote healthy lifestyles over the course of five days.

Each day students learn about a different health topic, where they receive basic information and resources in order to stay healthy at Linfield.

The five days included physical health, sexual health, stress management, nutrition and alcohol and drug prevention.

Students not volunteering during Wellness Week were still able to get involved, as each day there >> See Wellness Week on Page 4

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Addressing concerns about assault article The Sept. 19 Linfield Review article about the alleged sexual assault on campus was a difficult article to write. The sensitive nature of this article demanded that the staff proceed with caution and respect to the victim.

After hearing rumors of an arrest on campus, reporters Helen Lee and Rosa Johnson went to the McMinnville Police Department to confirm the name of the student and the charges. Throughout the course of writing the article, reporters spoke with Linfield’s Director of Communications Mardi Mileham, Director of CPS Ron Noble, and Deputy District Attorney Alicia Eagan.

The Review has received a great deal of feedback from students and faculty, and it will continue to be a forum

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for campus-wide discussion of events by publishing letters to the editor.

Many of the negative responses that were received are concerned with similar issues.

Some people feel that The Review has tarnished Linfield’s reputation by reporting on sexual assaults. The Linfield Review is a campus newspaper dedicated to providing the Linfield community with news, whether it highlights the college’s accomplishments or brings an important and uncomfortable issue to the students’ attention.

Students and their families, staff, and faculty deserve to know what happens on Linfield’s campus, and by reporting on these types of issues, The Linfield Review

helps provide transparency to the way that the college handles them. This is especially important when students are not aware of events that took place on and off campus when students’ safety is a concern.

Another primary concern that the staff has heard is that some students are upset about the details of the victim’s injuries in the article.

The difficult ethical decisions that were made in the course of reporting on this story were not taken lightly, nor were they made solely by one person. The staff and its advisor took each detail into consideration, and decided that including the extent of the victim’s injuries would alert the Linfield community to the brutality of the event.

This is vital to starting an open, campus-wide discus-

sion about sexual assault at Linfield because it serves as a wake up call to students, faculty, and staff that rape does happen on this campus.

If people shy away from the violent nature of crimes, then such crimes become easier to ignore and their significance is downplayed.

The Linfield Review’s staff is committed to making the campus a safer place by reporting on crimes on campus and holding the administration accountable for the way it deals with the safety of students.

The Linfield Review stands by its reporting of the alleged sexual assault, and welcomes feedback from the Linfield community about any article.

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Celebrities make feminism ***Flawless Beyoncé is so famous that she doesn’t even need to introduce herself, but she does have to declare that she is a feminist.

The singer, actress and woman vocalized her viewpoints on gender rights through her latest self-titled album. In particular, her song “***Flawless” declares the accurate definition of a feminist as a “person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.”

Many celebrities, including women, deny being feminists when asked that question because they fear that people will think of them as man-hating hippies. But Beyoncé addresses the fact

Rosa Johnson @linfieldreview that being a feminist does not necessarily include favoring females.

The reason why feminism is more focused on women is due to the fact that women in general face more political and social problems due to their gender. Birth control, abortion and sex trafficking are all primarily women’s

issues because they are anatomically wired to have children, and they can’t help that.

Gender issues still exist in first-world countries. In the U.S., the average woman earns 84 cents for every dollar the average man makes, according to a BuzzFeed study.

Although the pay gap doesn’t seem like too much of a difference, it adds up quickly at the end of the year.

A majority of single parents are women and need to not only pay for their children but their own supplies for just being a woman.

The average woman spends nearly $2,329 per year on birth control, gynecologist appointments and menstrua-

tion supplies along with other female-orientated health products, according to an Upworthy infographic. Yale University’s researchers did a study in which they turn in identical resumes to employers, one with the name “Jennifer” and the other with “John.”

Although the bias was deemed as subconscious by researchers, the male was offered $30,238 per year whereas the female was offered $26,508 per year, which is a total difference of $3,730.

That difference between equal pay could cover not only the supplies and doctor appointments for women per year, but even enough to have

money left over. Beyoncé doesn’t consult to feminism because she needs the extra money, but rather for the reason that women should be seen as equal to men.

As soon as a person with influence, such as Beyoncé and Emma Watson, declares that feminism is OK, some people become afraid that women are rising up and embracing themselves and their gender.

The feminist argument can be as simple as the fact that people would think this opinion would be much more impactful if a man wrote it rather than just another woman “ranting” about equality.

Rosa Johnson can be reached at linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com

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Alumna challenges administration for change

During my time as a Wildcat, I was fortunate enough to experience many greats: great friends, great professors, great achievements, great self-discoveries. The list can go on because, even in the dull campus moments, there was still something going on-December 16, 2009 was one of those types of nights.

I had spent the better part of the day trying to pack up my room in my mostly vacant HP apartment. Two of my roommates had already gone home for the break, and the other was out with friends. It was shortly after packing up the last bit of my dresser I got a phone call from a friend inviting me to a party at a friend’s house offcampus. I decided to go, figuring it would be the last time I saw some of these friends for some time, as a few were graduating or planning a semester abroad.

That night, in a house not too far from campus, after a party with people I had known, partied, and (yes) drank with for years, I was

threatened with a weapon and then raped. Twice.

That night, I lost many parts of myself, and as I walked the couple blocks back to campus, after slipping out of that darkened room, I racked my brain for the next step. I did not want to go to the police at that time. I did want to get medical help, but I didn’t drive and I wasn’t sure how Campus Safety would respond, and my RA at the time was male. It was three in the morning, I was in pain, confused and staring at my disheveled appearance in the mirror, I decided to go to bed.

I would not be able to deal with what happened to me for years.

Though the rape did not occur on campus, I came back to campus that night, and the next semester, looking for guidance. In the years I’d been on campus--as a woman, as a student, and even as an RA--there was never much information given on what to do after you or someone you know is raped. Sure, there

were a few hotline phone numbers typed up on nowtattered paper and taped lazily to the backs of bathroom stall doors, and I believe we went through a very quick, and severely lacking, presentation on consent and awareness during freshman orientation; there was also a year or so when people spent time making light of posters in the residence halls touting, “Consent is sexy,” but there was nothing comprehensive or consistent when it came to continuous education on sexual assault and how we, as a campus and community, could combat the rising rate of sexual violence.

The further being raped pulled me from myself. The more I resented my time spent at Linfield. Every good, great, and terrible moment was overshadowed by one horrible, horrible night. In the years following my graduation, I would speak nothing but ill of the college; as far as I was concerned Linfield was the place I died. With each flashback, nightmare,

and false sighting of my rapist, I hated Linfield more and more. I felt I had put a lot of love into a community to receive absolutely nothing in my time of need, and in the years following I would not only be diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and PTSD, I would also make two attempts to commit suicide.

As my journey of healing and recovery has progressed, I have grown stronger in advocating for myself and others when it comes to the issue of sexual violence.

Mostly, I have wanted to cut ties with Linfield because the personal history I have there can be overwhelming from time to time, but if I have learned anything in the past few years, it is this: silence only ups the rate at which people commit these crimes, because it lessens the chances they will be caught and punished appropriately.

This is a tough subject but, the Linfield student body is full of spirit, drive, and compassion. This is the time to start an open and ongoing

discussion of how to make the idea of a campus void of sexual violence a reality.

This is the time for students to rise from the air of obliviousness, apathy, and inaction around this crisis and start speaking out. Speak out to your friends, classmates, work study friends, lab partners, sorority sisters, and fraternity brothers. It is time to bring this cause into the light.

Sexual assault happens more often than you think and we have to stop pretending these acts are being committed by strangers in the night The people who are violating your peers are not monsters who hide, they are your friends who eat with you at Dillin and study with you in Nicholson. These crimes are being committed by people you have the chance to influence every day. When you begin speaking up about this, believe me, your friends hear you.

This is also the time for the Linfield College administration to do more. More panels, more speakers, more training,

more awareness, more information, and all of it needs to be ongoing. There needs to be reassurance and followthrough on transparency when it comes to investigating reports. The administration has got to do as much as they can to ensure everyone who comes to Linfield has the correct attitude toward sexual violence--that it is absolutely, 100 percent unacceptable.

The motto plastered on banners around campus the year I was raped boasted to all, “This is your Linfield.

Welcome home.” I know now, the banners probably brag about the “Power of small.”

No matter the motto greeting students as they return to campus, I want it to be more than just a pretty sign for perspective students.

Linfield College should not only do its best to persevere in the battle against sexual violence, it should also be sure it has visible and abundant resources for all students affected by such violence.

-Jamika Scott, ‘10

Student stands up for Linfield’s reputation

Why is the front page of the Linfield Review tearing down a Linfield student?

Why is it proclaiming that a rape that happened ON CAMPUS? My uncle came to tour campus and saw the paper and REFUSES to let my cousin go to Linfield because of that stupid article. She loves Linfield. It was her top choice.

But now... The apartments are apparently not safe, walking home from anywhere at night is not safe... How can the hall his daughter gets placed in be any safer than where the girl that was raped is living?

What’s the purpose of advertising the flaws of Linfield on the front page of the paper (that any community member can pick up and see)? With the great school that Linfield is (I’ve spent four years here.)

I hate to see an opportunity it gives students to practice journalism through the Linfield Review be the reason prospective students turn away.

I hope Diego doesn’t have a chance to come back to Linfield after this... because that great community that Linfield is KNOWN for won’t welcome him back -- even if

he’s found not guilty. Yeah, if he did what the Linfield Review says that he did then that should disgust each and every one of us. But I don’t understand why the front page article is outlining what sexual assault charges he is facing. Couldn’t it be inside the paper? Couldn’t the front page be something that... I don’t know.. Makes Linfield look GOOD? If it has to be on the front page, the article at least could have waited until the investigation is OVER, instead of “The police investigation is ongoing.”

As someone who has been misquoted (twice) in the paper, and tried for four years to give you guys the benefit of the doubt for things like this...

Please consider what I’m saying. I get that it’s a school paper and you want to keep it real and present the actual news. But keep in mind that with a community like ours and with how welcoming our campus is to families and friends and alumni that YOU have the power to destroy all of that. You don’t have to lie or withhold the real news from people... but you could at least

make people want to pick up the paper without feeling disappointed or disgusted at a member of our community.

This incident isn’t the first time I’ve felt that way and I can only assume it won’t be the last.

You’re all talented writers and have the duty and opportunity to impact Linfield in ways that no one else can. Albus Dumbledore once said “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” I hope you choose to put out a good paper instead of a medi-

ocre one. I hope you choose to have integrity instead of malice. I hope you choose to strive to make Linfield proud instead of disappointed. I’d say it’s possible... But it’s up to you.

I majored in math and computer science, clearly, so you’ll have to excuse my inability to write like any of you can. But I bet I can write a program to identify, in a list of 800,000,000 numbers, how many palindromes are listed.

To each their own. Good luck.

This is my tenth year of teaching at Linfield College, and this is the first time that The Linfield Review has published a case of an alleged violent rape and sexual assault so publicly. I commend you for your bravery in publishing this report and breaking the silence surrounding this rape that has taken place on this campus. My heart goes out to the victim and her family.

While we receive all kinds of emails from campus security and administration about petty crimes, auto thefts, and suspicious subjects on our campus, I fail to understand, why our campus community was not notified of this alleged sexual assault that took place on our campus.

Based on the report published

by The Linfield Review, “The alleged crimes occurred at 2 a.m. on Sept. 13 in [Diego] Garza’s room in HP Apartment Building E 104, according to the police’s probable cause statement”. Accord-

ing to the article, Garza was arrested on Sept. 16, 2014 in connection with an alleged sexual assault. “Garza was charged on Sept. 17 with rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration, and sexual abuse, all in the first degree according to a court document.”

This failure to circulate a report on this alleged and violent rape that has taken place on this campus, and furthermore, a failure to hold any meaningful and transparent discussion about this nature of sexual assault on this campus, have created a very unsafe campus for our female students. Students need to know in a much more proactive manner what is being done to prevent this kind of sexual assault from ever happening on this campus again.

We owe this to our students.

We owe this to their parents who have trusted us and have sent their daughters to study here at Linfield. While teaching is our primary responsi-

bility, I also believe it is our moral and ethical obligation to create and maintain a safe climate for our students. I have talked to several students in the last couple days, and it is extremely distressing to hear from them, how unsettled they feel about this sexual assault that has taken place on this campus.

I believe our administration has a moral and ethical responsibility to make such violent crimes against women more transparent and visible, especially when the victim has filed a police report. It is the ethical responsibility of our administration to ensure that every citizen on this campus feels safe. While some members of our campus community may feel the need to protect the image of Linfield from being damaged as a result of publishing an article in The Linfield Review, let me remind those people, what has been damaged permanently, is the life of a female

student that was forcefully raped. Any attempt to either sabotage, or any reluctance to hold a campus wide dialogue about this rape is an irresponsible and a cowardly act. Such a non-proactive stance will immensely damage the safety of the citizens of this college.

The subject of sexual assault on campuses has surfaced on the national stage.

On Sept. 19 President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced the formation of It’s On Us initiative, a national campaign to help put an end to sexual assault on college campuses. It’s On Us asks everyone, men and women across America, to make a personal commitment to step off the sidelines and be part of the solution to campus sexual assault. In blunt and unequivocal terms President Obama said, “Society still does not sufficiently value women. We still don’t condemn sexual assault as loudly as we should. We make excus-

es. We look the other way. The message this sends can have a chilling effect” on young men and women.

Our own college president, Tom Hellie, in his State of the College address delivered on Sept. 22 mentioned nothing about this alleged rape and sexual assault directly in his speech, but emphasized that we “Educate All Constituents on Title IX Issues.” In particular Hellie said: “At Linfield I know that our student affairs staff has emphasized this issue for many years in freshman orientation, but we determined several years ago that more must be done. Thus we have had presentations by John McKeegan and Susan Hopp in the past, and this year they will be reminding, clarifying, and educating all members of the college community about our obligations to treat each other with respect, to do our utmost to prevent improper and illegal behaviors, and to

report such behaviors to proper authorities and employ the college’s disciplinary systems as needed. This must be a high priority for all of us—not just because of the publicity on the subject but because we must stand for justice and morality as a college and a community.”

I would really like to see our students, faculty and administration to quote President Hellie “stand for justice and morality as a college and a community”. I would like to see us condemn this sexual assault that has taken place on our campus “as loudly as we should.” If President Hellie really believes, which I think he does, that “more needs to be done,” then this “more” should be done now and immediately. If we cannot stand up for basic human dignity, I don’t know what we are all doing here.

Gender studies professor calls for action

-Kate Shear ‘15

-Professor of English Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

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Wellness Week: Students learn ways to adjust to stress

John Christensen/For the Review Junior Hannah Depew tests out her body mass index with the BMI calculator at Linfield’s Wellness week. << Continued from page 1

Josie Tilbury/For the Review Doina Rotari, Linfield Sophomore, tests out her strength during Wellness week.

were different activities for students to participate in relating to that day’s topic.

For physical activity day students hula hooped and jump roped while learning how to take their heart rate, and on stress management day students were able to throw darts at paint filled balloons.

“Poor quality sleep and poorly managed stress are major contributors to decreased resistance to illnesses,” said Patricia Haddeland, director of Student Health, Wellness

and Counseling, in an email.

“Many college students feel poor quality sleep and poorly managed stress are part of the life of a college student, but they don’t have to be.”

This is also the time of year when the weather changes and people move indoors, which increases exposure to respiratory born illnesses, according to Haddeland.

Students can still vaccinate against influenza, which is the more severe respiratory illness the health center sees during fall and winter.

“Although wellness week happens only once this semester, students should always be looking for ways to stay healthy,” Ludin said.

“We have a lot of great people and resources at the Student Health, Wellness, and Counseling Center. I urge students to take advantage of this and we are always looking for students to get involved around campus.”

Samantha Sigler can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Obama’s ‘It’s On Us’ campaigns for college campuses Mikenna Whatley @linfieldreviewnews

President Barack Obama launched a new campaign against sexual assault on Sept. 19 for college campuses known as, “It’s On Us.” “I love the focus on the ‘It’s On Us’ campaign because it focuses on what each of us can do to make our community a safer place,” Dawn Graff-Haight said, professor of health, human performance and athletics for Linfield. “All it asks of us is to do the right thing. And because the majority of us are decent, caring human beings, working together we can make our community safer and ensure that our friends won’t be assaulted or affected by violence.”

Obama specifically reached out to young men to stand up for women being taken advantage of due to lack of or inability to give consent.

“We need men involved in this effort to address and prevent sexual violence, because men are also affected by sexual violence as much as women are,” Professor of English and Coordinator of the Gender Studies Program Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt said. “The issue of sexual assault is not just a gender issue; it is a human rights issue.”

“It’s On Us” is specifically designed to change people’s thinking on sexual assault on college campuses in particular.

Junior Special Lovincey, president of Students Advocating for Gender Equality, believes that the first step in combating campus sexual assault and rape is recognizing that it, in fact, it happens.

“Sure, it’s a societal problem,” Lovincey said, “But being at Linfield doesn’t make it any less of our own problem.”

“The number of women that are raped and sexually assaulted on college campuses nationally is alarmingly high,” Du t t -B a l l e rstadt said.

“The best national estimate is 1 in 5 women experience some form of sexual violence in their college years.”

Some 200 colleges around the United States have signed on to have the “It’s On Us” campaign be brought directly to their campus to take its action.

“Linfield needs to be more transparent as to how they have dealt with this incidence of rape on campus and provide some active education to address the issue of sexual assault on our campus,” Dutt-Ballerstadt said.

Lovincey wants to urge

students to stop sexual assault before it occurs, as the “It’s On Us” campaign advocates for as well.

“We need to see a push in preventative actions versus reactions,” Lovincey said.

“SAGE and other groups across campus want to involve everyone in standing up and speaking out against sexual misconduct.” “We

in the future.

“We can do a lot,” DuttBallerstadt said. “There needs to be a major cultural shift in the way we think about women and their dignity. There needs to be a clear understanding that a sexual assault in any form is a crime. There needs to be a culture of consent when engaging in sexual

city, state by state.”

Rape and sexual assault are two of the most underreported crimes. About 12 percent of instances are reported. Of the percentage that does get reported, only a portion of those offenders are punished for their crimes.

“Studies have clearly shown that many victims of sexual abuse and assaults are often reluctant about making official reports about these crimes,” D u t t - B a l l e rstadt said.

“They fear consequences, extensive investigations, being stigmatized, the perpetrator not being punished, and the victim not being believed.”

“It’s On Us” puts prominence on not just the work of survivors, activists and school administrators to stand up against sexual assault. The campaign points a finger at ordinary citizens and students, calling them to also be the ones to fight this issue.

“A data analysis by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Integrity shows that there is a wide discrepancy between the official numbers universi-

“There needs to be a major cultural shift in the way we think about women and their dignity.

There needs to be an understanding that a sexual assault in any form is a crime. There needs to be a culture of consent when engaging in sexual activities and bystander training.”

-Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

Professor of English, Coordinator of the Gender Studies Program

need the students, faculty and staff from every corner of campus to stand with us though,” Lovincey said.

While Linfield College is not directly involved or participating in the “It’s On Us” campaign, DuttBallerstadt suggested that Linfield hold a community dialogue where students, staff and faculty can come together to discuss the issue of sexual assault and come up with proactive ways to prevent it from happening

activities, and bystander training,” Dutt-Ballerstadt said.

Hence the campaign’s title, Obama is putting an emphasis on the fact that survivors of sexual assault should not fight the issue alone.

“This is on all of us, every one of us, to fight campus sexual assault,” Obama said. “You are not alone, and we have your back, and we are going to organize campus by campus, city by

ties report and the numbers seen by campus and community sexual assault counseling centers or other places victims seek help,” Dutt-Ballerstadt said.

In addition to the call for all kinds of students to help stand against the issue, Obama does not want the responsibility to only fall on college campuses, though that is the primary focus of the campaign.

Dutt-Ballerstadt stresses the fact that the public health of Linfield must improve in order to keep its students safe and help them learn in a healthy environment.

“The issue of sexual assaults and rape on college and university campuses has become an epidemic,” Dutt-Ballerstadt said. “This is why President Obama has launched a national campaign to address and stop this form of violence again women by the ‘It’s on Us’ campaign. At the heart of this campaign is a serious understanding of ‘consent,’ ongoing dialogues and education about sexual assaults, support for the survivors, and a pledge to not be a bystander.”

“College is a time for personal growth, learning about the world and about ourselves,” Graff-Haight said. “Let’s make sure we’re all safe and secure so we can reach our full potential during the four years we’re in this beautiful place.”

Mikenna Whatley can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

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Wesleyan will force fraternities to admit women Kathleen Megan The Hartford Courant HARTFORD, Conn.

Wesleyan President Michael Roth has announced that the university’s residential fraternities must admit women and become “fully coeducational” over the next three years.

Roth and the university’s Board of Trustees president, Joshua Boger, made the announcement in an email Monday after a weekend retreat with the Board of Trustees.

The decision comes after two high-profile lawsuits alleging rape in fraternity houses and after the Wesleyan University student government called on the administration last spring to force fraternities to go coed or give up their houses.

Kate Carlisle, spokeswoman for Wesleyan, said, “This is a change that Wesleyan has been thinking about for years,” and is not directly linked to any particular incidents.

“The move to coeduca-

tion is really all about inclusion,” Carlisle said. “It’s all about equity and very much in keeping with Wesleyan’s tradition of equity and progressive leadership on gender equity and issues like this.”

In their email, Roth and Boger said they “recognize that residential fraternities have contributed greatly to Wesleyan over a long period of time, but we also believe they must change to continue to benefit their members and the larger campus community.”

“If the organizations are to continue to be recognized as offering housing and social spaces for Wesleyan students,” the email continued, “women as well as men must be full members and well-represented in the body and leadership of the organization.”

Carlisle said the university, which is in Middletown, Conn., will work closely with the residential fraternities to ensure that the transition is as smooth as possible. She said it wasn’t clear how soon the frater-

nities would be asked to begin admitting women as part of the three-year transition.

Carlisle said the administration also has several new policies that will be implemented immediately to make the fraternities safer.

These include increased university oversight of the fraternities, more education about safety-related issues, and the elimination of rush or pledging for freshmen.

Representatives of the university’s two residential fraternities now in operation Delta Kappa Epsilon and Psi Upsilon could not be reached immediately Monday.

However, T.J. Blackburn, a member of DKE, said last spring that if the fraternity went coed, it would lose its charter and have to be shut down.

Blackburn, who was also president of Wesleyan’s Inter-Greek Council last spring, said that the national organization for DKE doesn’t recognize coed groups.

“Coeducation is essen-

tially a death penalty,” Blackburn said at the time.

Fewer than 100 students live at the university’s residential fraternities.

Earlier this month, Wesleyan declared a third residential fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, off-limits to all students, when a student was seriously injured when she fell from a third-floor window.

Carlisle said that student is in stable condition at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center.

At the time of the fall, Roth said in an email that he had “lost confidence in the ability of the fraternity members to manage social and residential activities at the house and abide by university policies.”

The university has said that Beta will remain offlimits to students for at least the rest of the academic year, but the school is open to considering a plan from the fraternity on how it would operate to meet expectations for student residential life.

Wesleyan now has two

coeducational residential fraternities: Alpha Delta Phi and Eclectic. It also has two additional fraternities and one sorority without residences.

Last spring, the Wesleyan Student Assembly called on the administration to force the residential fraternities to go coed as an attempt to reduce the incidence of sexual assault on campus and to address the gender inequity of allowing large campus social spaces to be controlled by all-male groups.

Nicole H. Updegrove, who graduated from Wesleyan in May but was president of the Wesleyan Student Assembly last spring, said at the time that she kept hearing stories from women on campus about them feeling “uncomfortable, vulnerable and unsafe in fraternity spaces. From a gender equity standpoint and a safety standpoint, I thought this proposal made a lot of sense.”

Roth said in his email that over the summer he heard many views on the topic from Wesleyan alum-

ni, students and faculty.

“Some have urged that we preserve the status quo; others have argued for the elimination of all exclusive social societies,” Roth and Boger wrote in their email.

Wesleyan has had a strained relationship with fraternities over the years.

One of the lawsuits, which was settled last year, included an allegation that Beta was known as a “rape factory.”

In that case, an anonymous student sued the school after she said she was raped by a nonstudent inside the fraternity house.

The man accused of the assault was not a Wesleyan student and went to jail.

In the other high-profile claim, a Wesleyan student said she was raped in the common room of Psi Upsilon fraternity during a party in May 2013.

In March, the woman filed a federal lawsuit against Psi U., claiming she was assaulted during a party that was “wildly out of control.” Her assailant was expelled from Wesleyan.

Campus rallies against sexual assaults Jonathan Williams @linfieldreviewnews On Sept. 30, a rally was held in the courtyard outside Walker Hall to raise awareness of sexual assault and the resources available for students who have been affected by it.

“What would it take to end sexual assault?” asked professor Dawn GraffHaight who teaches health education at Linfield.

Graff-Haight urged members at the rally to “make this a caring community … care enough about each other so that this doesn’t keep happening.”

The rally was put on by the Associated Students of Linfield College board and the Student Health and Wellness center.

Coach Joe Smith from the Linfield football team explained to the audience at the rally, specifically the

men, that, “Being a man of action means standing up for what you see as wrong.”

“Let’s take care of each other,” Smith said.

Even at a small college like Linfield sexual assault can happen. The rally was held so students could come together and know that there are people out there to help them if they find themselves in a bad situation.

Graff-Haight wants students to, “Make Linfield a place where rape can’t happen because we won’t let it.”

ASLC publicity director Olivia Marovich said the point of the rally was, “To raise awareness of sexual assault even on small campuses.”

“We wanted to show support for those who been sexually assaulted …

Linfield is a caring community that will help them,”

Marovich said.

Patti Haddeland a certified nurse from the Student Health and Wellness Center informed students about the different options they have if they experience sexual assault.

Haddeland mentioned that the health center can aid students with pregnancy care, trauma, prevention, counseling and she also talked about the Consent Awareness Training Squad, which is Linfield’s trained group of students that educate freshmen who are enrolled in colloquium on ways to prevent sexual assault.

Haddeland also mentioned the Willamette Valley Medical Center, the Henderson House and Juliette’s House as support options for people who need help if they have been sexually assaulted.

Haddeland said that the

Willamette Valley Medical Center “is equipped with SANE nurses which stands for sexual assault nurse examiners who are trained to aid and examine people that have been sexually assaulted.”

Sophomore Casie Gaza said about the rally that, “It was so moving and touching to see all the students gather to support a necessary cause.”

“It really opened my eyes to sexual violence and how easy it is to slip into something so dangerous,” Gaza said.

The rally ended with a moment of silence lead by Linfield’s Chaplain David Massey who hopes, “We can change the way the world deals with sexual assault.”

Jonathan Williams can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Helen Lee/Editor-in-Chief Linfield Chaplain David Massey recites a prayer at the sexual assault rally on Sept. 30.

How are you preparing for midterms?

“I start to slowly study a week before the test.”

-David Brody, Freshman

“I tend to lock myself in the library. I try to get as ready as I can. ”

-Connor Owen-Lovins, Freshman

“I don’t have midterms but I have a lot of papers. I am going to be very meticulous with my time.”

-Ryan Thompson, Senior

“I tell myself I’m going to start studying early but usually start a few days before.”

-Abbie Johnson, Freshman

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History of the dory fleet sails to Nicholson Library Elizabeth Stoeger @linfieldreviewnews What began with a stroll down the beach has evolved into a multimedia history of the dory fleet of Pacific City, Oregon.

“I was walking on the beach one day and saw the dories coming in and it was sort of this, ‘Duh! This is the home of the dory fleet,’” said Linfield professor, and project director for the exhibit, Brenda DeVore Marshall on the genesis of “Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City.”

The rich history of this unique fishing community is uncovered in a new traveling exhibit on display in Nicholson Library.

What began in the summer of 2011, the exhibit is the result of a partnership between the Linfield College Department of Theatre and Communication Arts, the Linfield Center for the Northwest, and the Nicholson Library.

It was a collaborative effort with a total of 13 student researchers and five Linfield faculty members contributing to the piece.

Interviewing and communicating with the community of Pacific City was also an integral part of the

research process. Marshall said, “It’s been a really great working relationship between the Dorymen’s Association and Linfield” Local organizations participated in this project; The Pacific City Arts Association and the Pacific City Dorymen’s Association were also involved.

The display features 18 panels, all telling the story of Pacific City spanning from the 18th century to present.

Each panel showcases a different facet of life for the community. Some of the panel topics include building a dory, the process of fiberglassing, and the construction of the Memorial Wall in remembrance of the deceased of the community.

A new play inspired by the stories of the dorymen was written and produced, “Kickin’ Sand and Tellin Lies.”

The exhibition also features a collection of artifacts gathered from the locals.

In addition to the physical exhibit, there is an extensive online archive of audio and filmed interviews, photos, and story transcripts available through Digital Commons.

A total of 15,000 photos, 200 hours of audio and video and more than 1,500

artifacts have been collected over the course of this project and more than 100 dory fishers have been interviewed, according to the press release.

For professor Marshall, this was one of the major struggles she encountered when putting together this exhibit. She discussed the issue of consolidating the data, “We have so much material ... there’s a lot of data.”

She was in charge of constructing the exhibit along with Linfield Professor Tyrone Marshall. This process began in May and was finally finished at the end of August.

On the importance of the exhibit, professor Marshall said, “While each dory fisher has his or her own story, there’s never been a collection of them brought together.”

“While the exhibit is only the tip of the iceberg, I think it does at last provide the idea that there are a lot of facets and that there is a great deal of information here and I hope that it helps people understand that this is an important part of Oregon history.”

ture a pessimistic group, and among all professionals in higher education, the national association of college and university business officers is the one most worried about the future of higher education,” Hellie said.

Mary Ann Rodriguez was hired last year as the vice president for finance and administration.

One of Hellie’s main points addresses the justification of tuition increases in a climate of economic stress for colleges and universities.

“Over the last 35 years, American middle class family incomes have risen by about 15 percent. Tuitions have risen by about 20 times that amount. We really can’t be surprised that the government and the public were concerned, and we were concerned too,” Hellie said.

He highlights the core mission of Linfield as “personalized on-campus undergraduate education,” and stated that this mission has been subsidized for years by donations from alumni, grants from foundations, financial aid from the government, and profitable programs in the division of continuing education.

“But even so, our tuition has risen significantly. Our core mission is precious to all of us. We are transforming the lives of our tradi-

tional 18-22 year-olds, but to maintain that core mission, we must strengthen its financial underpinnings,” Hellie said.

Linfield’s full-time student tuition increase by 3.06 percent for the 20142015 school year, which is the smallest dollar increase in the last decade and the lowest percentage increase since 2003.

Overall, Hellie urged the Linfield community to strive toward goals he described as “extremely ambitious.”

Elizabeth Stoeger can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Photo courtesy of Michael Zier Photos from the dory fleet exhibit on display at the Nicholson Library.

Hellie discusses goals in State of College Address Helen Lee @linfieldreviewnews President Thomas Hellie discussed Linfield’s short and long-term goals for improvement during his Sept.

22 annual “State of the College” address.

Hellie was optimistic about Linfield’s capacity to excel in what he called a “hard time for colleges.”

“The short version of today’s message is that the state of the college is quite sound, and I believe it will continue to be sound,” President Hellie said.

He addressed a wide array of areas in which he saw the need for progress, such as rising tuition, the rollout of the PLACE program, enrollment numbers, educating students on Title IX issues, and fundraising for a renewed focus on the science facilities.

“These aren’t easy times in higher education. We’ve recently seen a host of harshly critical books on the topic of higher education,” Hellie said.

Hellie referenced the search for a new vice president for finance and administration in making his point about Linfield’s standing as a strong contender in the future of higher education.

“In talking to all of the candidates I was pleased to hear that they could see stability and potential at Linfield. College business officers are perhaps by na-

Helen Lee can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com

Incident Reports This section publishes the most recent violations logged by Campus Public Safety that the Review thinks the student body should be aware of.

Incident: Liquor Law Violation

Incident: Liquor Law Violation

Incident: Liquor Law Violation

Incident: Trespassing

Date: September 26, 2014

Date: September 26, 2014

Date: September 26, 2014

Date: September 25, 2014

Location: Legacy Apartments

Location: Hewitt Hall

Location: Anderson Hall

Location: Cozine Hall

Details: Seven students were having a party in a Legacy apartment on Sept. 26.

Details: Five students were having a party in a dorm room in Hewitt Hall.

Details: Details: Four students were caught Referred to Residence Life drinking in a dorm room in Anderson Hall.

Incidents compiled by Jonathan Williams, news editor. Contact Ron Noble if you have any questions about incidents reported at rnoble@linfield.edu.

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Features

Bringing the music to Linfield It’s Thursday and Linfield students are burnt out on the school week searching for a stress relief to get them through until the weekend begins. Where do they go? Thursday night concerts, of course.

The Linfield Activities Board Musical Entertainment Chair, junior Eve Brindis, is who makes these quaint musical Thursday night escapes happen.

“This is my second year doing it,” Brindis said. “I plan to pursue this as a professional career so I have a great deal of passion for it.”

While Brindis said there is not an exact job title for the career path she intends to take after college, the route she wants to take involves musicheavy event planning.

“I love planning events,” Brindis said, “And I just seem to tie live music into every event I’ve wanted to plan.”

Brindis’ position on the Linfield Activities board has allowed her to network with a wide range of artists which she anticipates will be a big help as she moves forward with her career after she graduates.

“I think live music is one of the most important things in the world,” Brindis said. “The fact that I get to share the live music with all students on campus and see the community that it creates is really amazing to me.”

Brindis finds great satisfaction in seeing how students can all relate to the live musical talent that comes to campus for these concerts, whether it’s with the music, or the artist or the friends that they bring to the event with them. The live music is what brings it all together.

“The most difficult part is trying to please everyone,” Brindis said, “because everyone always has an opinion about an artist that I bring. I try to keep everyone in mind when I bring new talent to campus and I hope people realize that.”

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Booking an artist to perform at Linfield is no simple task. Brindis must take several things into account and go through many different steps before a concert can actually happen.

“First I peruse the Internet and take suggestions and find someone I’m interested in,” Brindis said. “Then I follow them for a period of time, find out where they’re located, what they sound like live, and I think about how I’d see them at Linfield.”

Once Brindis selects an artist she feels would be a good fit to perform at Linfield, she contacts their agent to get a contract going so she can begin to make sure they’ll be accommodated with anything they will need once they get to campus. This can include lodging, meals, equipment and more.

“Sometimes I’ll pick them up and get dinner and just chill with them,” Brindis said. “I love musicians and I love getting to know them and hearing their stories.”

Some concerts Brindis plans are so well received by students and enjoyed by the artists themselves that they even come back for another concert. For example, Tall Heights has performed at Linfield three different times.

“They’re just all around really talented artists, even past just musically,” Brindis said. “They’re very professional and humble and communicative. They love coming back just as much as we love having them.”

But not all artists are as professional as Tall Heights. Brindis has found that much of the talent she books are surprised when they find out she is a young college girl.

“A lot of times people who have my position are paid professionals,” Brindis said. “Sometimes I find it hard to get respect right away.”

Brindis sees situations like these as chances to prove herself as a professional.

“Being a girl around lots of male musicians… there’s never a dull moment,” Brindis said.

Brindis hopes that by bringing live music to the Linfield campus, people will benefit from it in more ways than just bring entertained.

“The world in general would be so different without music,” Brindis said. “I feel that music brings people together in such a special way that nothing else really can. I think people gain a lot from it whether they realize it or not.”

Mikenna Whatley/Features editor Mikenna Whatley can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

Fred Meyer Lounge in Riley Hall is transformed into a concert venue each Thursday for the concerts Brindis books. The close and intimate setting is a favorite of many Linfield students.

Brindis and her older brother Caz Brindis pose together after a Thursday night concert at which Caz was the main musical act.

Tall Heights performs on the IM field at a concert held earlier this school year. Brindis enjoys having the freedom to hold concerts in other settings other than just FML every week.

The stage on which Tall Heights performed was decorated with thousands of twinkle lights which Brindis wrapped around several trees surrounding the performing area.

All photos courtesy of Eve Brindis

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Linfield Students Serve Mikenna Whatley/Features Editor

Mikenna Whatley can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

Photo courtesy of Linfield Change Corps Members of the Alpha Phi sorority come together to perform service for Taste of Service at the Yamhill County Gospel Rescue Mission.

Members of the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority serving at the McMinnville Cooperative Ministries for the Taste of participate in this powerful day of performing service, and the girls have made a difference in several areas o

Service: the act of helping others.

Linfield certainly does its part to help others through organizations like Greek life, clubs such as Circle K, and campus events like Taste of Service.

Planning and organizing community service events takes more work than most people realize. It’s all about making and keeping connections.

Fraternities Fraternities as a whole contribute a great deal of service to the Linfield and McMinnville community. Pi Kappa Alpha’s Community Service Chair, sophomore Conner Pope, has many responsibilities in setting up service opportunities for his fraternity.

“This year and last year we’ve been a part of helping local elementary schools with field days and fair, helping local farms with various jobs, working at an animal shelter and participating in every event put on by Linfield Community Engagement,” Pope said.

Currently, Pike has a community service event planned with Sigma Kappa Phi to volunteer at a local animal shelter.

“We’re working on finding a day to serve at a farm with Phi Sigma Sigma,” Pope said.

Pike also makes a point to participate in campus-wide service events such as Taste of Service and Global Youth Service Day. Last year, Pike received an award from Linfield Community Engagement for “Student organization with the most hours of community service.”

Pike members feel a strong sense of accomplishment after every project or service event they participate in.

“It’s a special feeling coming together with brothers to help somebody out, working as a team and seeing progress as we return to certain sites,” Pope said.

Pope is proud of his brothers for making a name for Pike’s community service.

“It feels so good to hear such kind words from community members telling me how much they appreciate the students of Linfield and the guys in the chapter,” Pope said.

Pope would like to see Greek life as a whole do something special in the community and expect nothing in return.

“If out chapter gets such a rush from helping out for a few hours, I couldn’t imagine the feeling between all the chapters together working on one project and saving the community a lot of time and effort,” Pope said.

Sororities Sophomore Allison Burke is the Director of community service for Alpha Phi, and she is mainly in charge of seeking out, organizing, and commu-

nicating opportunities for her sisters to serve both on and off the Linfield campus and in the greater McMinnville area.

“I do this through keeping in contact with various Linfield and McMinnville organizations who are in need of volunteers throughout the year,” Burke said.

Alpha Phi also does seasonal volunteer work and projects that include donation drives to contribute items and money to various causes.

Alpha Phi volunteers at a wide variety of projects throughout the year.

“From sisters volunteering to help at various campus events like the Pi Day Run and the McMinnville Heart Chase Scavenger Hunt, which relates to our philanthropy, Women’s Heart Health, to joining with the Linfield community for Days of Service, we try and integrate plenty of opportuni-

“It’s a special feeling coming together with brothers to help somebody out...”

-Conner Pope

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ties for our sisters to make a positive difference,” Burke said.

Alpha Phi also serves Saturday morning breakfast at the McMinnville Co-op, makes food boxes for community members at YCAP, and gives out backpacks of meals to local elementary school students to help feed their families when there is limited food resources over the weekend.

“We are always on the lookout for new opportunities and organizations to partner with and we are looking forward to some new activities this year,” said Burke.

Alpha Phi pairs with the Kappa Sigma fraternity every fall for one of their favorite community service events - bowling with Special Olympics.

“I love seeing how enthusiastic our sisters are about pairing up to go over and make a difference in the lives of some of our community members,” Burke said.

Some Alpha Phi sisters even come back year after year and specifically ask to volunteer with the same person that they bowled with before.

“That’s what I love the most – besides making a difference with giving time to service, we develop meaningful personal relationships with those we give our time to and we come away with greater perspective and appreciation,” Burke said.

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Photo courtesy of Alpha Phi Alpha Phi sorority and Kappa Sigma fraternity pair together on St. Patrick’s Day to perform community service at the local McMinnville senior center.

Photo courtesy of Linfield Change Corps

Service event. Each year Phi Sig sends a group of their members to of the community because of their continues participation.

Photo courtesy of Kassie Russell Circle K members stand by their club booth during Linfield’s annual Activities Fair. From left, senior Katie Yearous, senior Kassie Russell, sophomore Deizhanna Kaya-Abad, and sophomore Jacqueline Hurst.

As a chapter, Alpha Phi donated approximately 200 hours this past spring 2014 semester to Alpha Phi specific events. That number does not account for all the service members gave during the year individually to other organizations and clubs on and off campus.

“It is my hope that the sisters of Alpha Phi represent Linfield College and Greek Life well in the community and recognize the need for volunteers in our community but also let McMinnville know that we are here to serve,” Burke said.

Taste of Service Taste of Service is an opportunity for Linfield students to get out in the community with their peers, break free of the “Linfield bubble” and help those in need.

Sophomore Alyssa Kaplan is the director of service and special events on a team called Change Corps and is responsible for planning and executing four service days throughout the year.

Over 90 students participated in Taste of Service this year. Different groups went to service sites including Barbara Boyer’s Farm, Homeward Bound Pets, Miller Woods, and the Yamhill County Gospel Rescue Mission.

“The Office of Community Engagement and Service has a huge list of community partners in McMinnville and Yamhill County,” Kaplan said.

“I worked to find a large variety of places that people could go to perform service in the area.”

The Taste of Service slogan this year was, “An opportunity to become involved in your community while meeting new Wildcats and having fun.”

“It not only showed Linfield students that they can get involved in the community, but it showed community partners that Linfield students want to get involved in the community,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan feels that the event was an overall success and made a positive difference in the community.

“People had a very good time and some want to go back to their service site again,” Kaplan said. “I want more people to come and see how much fun service can be.”

Circle K Sophomore Kassandra Russell is the current president of Linfield’s Circle K International club.

“A few of out previous/ongoing projects include a monthly soup kitchen night with our local Kiwanis club, a monthly Saturday morning breakfast, semester beach clean-ups, supply drives for local organizations, Trick-orCanning for YCAP, bonfire fund raisers, holiday gram fund raisers, and just general volunteering when it is needed in the McMinnville community,”

Russell said.

As a club, Circle K donated about 60 hours worth of projects that members can participate in per semester.

“I think that Circle K’s community service has made a difference in our community because we always have some project in the works to give back,” Russell said. “Our club is full of members who genuinely love to help people.”

By combining regular and one-time service projects, Circle K is able to reach out and help various areas of the McMinnville community at all times of the year and in a variety of ways.

“Even though most people still confuse out club name with the gas station, our members love spreading the word about our club’s service and telling people just exactly what we do,” Russell said.

Circle K’s three tenants are fellowship, leadership and service and they try to bring all of those aspects into everything that they do.

“Our club tries really hard to do projects that our members are passionate about and by doing so we have a strong dedication level to the service projects that we participate in,” Russell said.

Photo courtesy of Kassie Russell Circle K makes a group trip out to the Oregon Coast every semester to perform a beach clean up. The service they provide is greatly appreciated by the community.

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Actor performs Shakespeare’s histories, makes them relatable Cassandra Martinez @TRLCulture

Spencer Beck/For the Review Comedian Kevin McCaffrey leads an audience made up of Linfield Students and parents on a journey of laughter, bringing in his own college experiences for a more relatable effect.

Linfield parents met with comic relief Ross Passeck @TLRCulture

What has two legs, a microphone and made Linfield College students laugh alongside their parents?

Comedian Kevin McCaffrey took the stage in ICE Auditorium before a crowd on Parent’s Weekend. While students were worried they may have had to repress some laughter in front of their parents, parents were concerned that a comic stroll down memory lane might not be setting the best example for their young students. The subject of college drinking was an undeniable elephant in the room.

Nonetheless, McCaffrey took the stage and swiftly dealt with the tension, congratulating parents and students on the fact that everyone in that auditorium was spending at least some portion of their Saturday sober.

From there, McCaffrey began

his exploration of his college experience and laughter was the immediate result. One comical fact that arose was that, as a former student at Ball State University, McCaffrey praised Linfield’s football team for their impressive streak of winning seasons.

Unfortunately for Ball State, they once held the nation’s longest losing streak, justifying McCaffrey’s classification of Ball State as the “anti-Linfield.”

The range of topics exploded from their including everything from the proper spelling of “douche”, to Catholicism, to facial collisions with New York pigeons. The challenges of overcoming a pesky and sexually hyperactive roommate were also addressed, sparking laughter throughout the crowd. Eventually, McCaffrey shared with the audience his hilarious drinking story in which he pulled out his wallet, opened the cash compart-

ment and happily threw up into it. Even the elephant in the room was laughing after that story, as parents and students together laughed aloud without reservation.

It was definitely a unique crowd that night, but McCaffrey saw the positives: “I was a few years out of college, so there were certain things I talked about that parents mainly got, and there were other things the students mainly got. With a crowd like that, hopefully someone was getting everything,” McCaffrey said.

The crowd that night had an equal appreciation for McCaffrey. Even parents spoke well.

“His set was funny and gave a glimpse into the life of a college student. Parents who went to college definitely remembered situations from their own experience that could relate,” mother of freshman Connor Campbell,

Denise Campbell said. Students showed their appreciation as well with many hearty laughs and applause.

What this event truly illustrated was the unique opportunities Linfield provides to its students. While this night was not particularly academic, it was a different way to unify parents and students in the Linfield experience.

“It was a great time to be able to laugh with my mom about college. In a weird way it was a bonding moment,” Connor Campbell said.

There may have been worries for some parents that their student may find themselves throwing up into a wallet, but there was the understanding and hope that one day these students would reflect upon their time at Linfield and tell stories of their own with great affection.

Camas until her junior year at Linfield and applied for a position as associate editor because of nostalgia. Wong encourages seniors to consider submitting their work to Camas.

“Wouldn't it be cool to leave behind a little something on campus to be remembered by? You get a hard copy as well! As a plus for you pragmatic folk, you can stick it on your resume, too.” Wong said.

When Wong isn’t working on Camas she works with non-fiction professor Joe Wilkins in an internship where she helps go through submissions for the literary/ art magazine “The High Desert Journal.”

Wong is also the President of the Asian American Alli-

ance and draws comics for the PLACE Program’s Facebook page and as if that wasn’t enough, she also plays the piano.

Anyone can participate in Camas, whether as an editor or a contributor, there is a one credit class you can take on Fridays in the fall or spring semester. In the fall editors will read or look through submissions that they have received and accept the entries they want to include for that year’s issue. In the spring, editing and layout of the entries are done for print at the last few weeks of spring semester.

“We work together and talk about what goals we have for the magazine, utilizing a voting/discussion system

in order to determine which pieces we will accept. With each new group of editors Camas adopts a new feel, so hopefully this year's will be pretty cool,” Wong said.

Before it was Camas, its original name that was established in 1983 was known as the Test-Marketed Downpour until 2001. The inspiration for the name Camas is inspired by a kind of wild flower that is native to Western United States and ranges from a violets and lilacs to a pale white color.

Students can submit works of their own to camas@linfield.edu entries are due by Oct. 31.

Ross Passeck can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Camas associate editor shares story Rosa Johnson @TLRCulture

If it’s creative, you can send it in. Associate Editor of Camas and senior Mattie Wong is a creative writing major with a double minor in philosophy and economics. Her passion found her on accident when Wong joined a creative writing magazine her senior year of high school.

“I wanted to submit a piece to it, so I picked up a form, not realizing it was actually an application to be an editor.

Ended up applying anyway and had a lot of fun designing the magazine and choosing what pieces to include,” Wong wrote in an email.

Wong didn’t discover

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Timothy Mooney's "Shakespeare's Histories: Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace!" has graced the audience with an interesting and entertaining performance of Shakespeare’s historical plays. The audience Saturday September 20 at 7:30 p.m. not only contained Linfield students, but also visiting family members.

Mooney kicked off his performance with a greeting to his audience and he wore Elizabethan costume.

He interacted with the audience, even warming them up the audience with a few jokes for their comfort.

He talked about the history of England, from the years of 1066 to 1533; and the War of The Roses between the House of Plantagenet and the houses of Lancaster and York. He used the ten histories from Shakespeare to explain the power struggle for the throne in England in those centuries.

Mooney not only explained the history aspect, he acted the history through the works of Shakespeare.

He took some monologues from each of these plays and recited the ones to emphasis the storytelling of the characters and their part in the war. He delivered his mono-

logues with such character, that the audience clinged to his every word.

He interacted with the audience by including them in the monologues by looking straight at them or gesturing toward them as if they were characters in the scene.

Mooney kept the audience’s attention with these remarks and lifting them up from some of the heaviness of the topic of death. He even poked fun of how characters die in the plays after they predicted their own demise.

“If any character predicts or even worse enacts a prophecy, an event is set into motion which leads to a death,” Mooney said.

Everyone in the audience couldn’t resist a laugh on that one.

Overall, the performance was not only entertaining but very educational and fact-worthy. You didn’t have to be a complete Shakespeare fanatic in order to enjoy the rich history that comes with the works of Shakespeare.

Mooney was entertaining and there was never a dull moment during his performance. He made the show what it truly was, a journey through all ten of Shakespeare’s historical masterpieces in a breakneck pace.

Cassandra Martinez can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

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All photos by Rosa Johnson Junior Sam Krier (above) is the general manager of KSLC. He hosted a live radio show on middle school music during College Radio Day on Friday Oct. 3 in the Renshaw Basement.

Stacks of records (bottom left) pile all around the studio. Senior Ivanna Tucker (bottom middle) holds up one of the discarded record covers. She planned to put it up in her room.

Sophomore Ben Niesen, the music director, (bottom right) goes through his personal collection of classic rock music that he plays during his radio shows. You can follow @KSLCfm on Twitter for live updates and other information.

KSLC tunes in to College Radio Day

English department creates forum for intellectual discourse Gilberto Galvez @TLRCulture Friday Sept. 3, the English department held its Fall Literature Conference in the Pioneer Reading Room.

Students participated in a series of panels in which they presented their papers written on various topics, ranging from Reinterpreting the Classics to Postcolonial Trauma. There was also a PLACE keynote address by Dr. Sarah Wagner-McCoy, assistant professor of English and humanities at Reed College.

Senior Dawn Wyruchowski presented in the first panel, Literary Responses to 9/11, with her paper “Redefining the Dream in Netherland.”

“I think it went really well. We each talked about a different fragment,” Wyruchowski noted.

“We went from more personal, to how America itself is dealing with it, not just the individual,” junior Camille Weber, who presented on the same panel, said. Her paper was titled “Trauma in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”

Senior Samantha Hilton described the process she went through to revise her paper, “Postcolonial Illness in The Reluctant Fundamentalist.”

“I sat down with Reshmi, and we talked about how you would edit an academic paper. It was surprisingly about getting rid of the nitty gritty and talking about the

broader points. Reshmi also wanted me to add some intro because I was first in the [Postcolonial Trauma] panel,” Hilton said.

Professor of English and coordinator of the Gender studies program Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt teaches classes on postcolonial literature and theory, Transitional Feminism, Black British literature and creative writing classes on home and belonging.

The importance of these conferences at Linfield is about creating discussions.

“You get a chance to hear about the intellectual thoughts that other students are having. Sharing your thought processes with each other is essential to learning in college. It is aiming to

strengthen the intellectual thought of all Linfield and the discourse surrounding that,” Wyruchowski said.

Wagner-McCoy’s “How We Know and What We Read: African-American Literature in the Archives” presentation showed her process of researching Charles Chestnutt, a mixed race author during the Gilded Age. Wagner-McCoy spoke to adding to intellectual discussions. Chestnutt wrote various stories about life for people in the American South as AfricanAmericans. Some of them were published, but most of those were stories based on folklore, stories known as conjure tales. The stories that weren’t published were those that took the life of

African-Americans in the South from a more realistic angle.

“They did not want to publish things about mass lynchings,” Wagner-McCoy said about editors’ tendencies to reject Chestnutt’s harsher works.

“I realized there are a lot of short stories we don’t read by Charles Chestnutt, and some of them are very interesting,” Wagner-McCoy said. She spent time in the archives of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in order to find some of these stories.

At the time Chestnutt was writing and publishing his works, other authors wrote their own stories in dialect fiction, and these stories harken back to the good

old days of the South, painting them in a much brighter light than they deserved.

“Slavery is the defining event of American history.

You can’t read American literature without knowing that we put a price on the life of a human being,” WagnerMcCoy said.

Wagner-McCoy is trying to publish and bring these tales that told the real story of the South, involving the KKK and the truth of the Gilded Age, which was also called the Age of Lynching.

The keynote speaker added to the overall theme of increasing the depth of discourse already started by the student panel discussions, themselves.

Gilberto Galvez can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

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Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett croon, clash, collaborate on jazz duet album released this year Jamie McDonald @TLRCulture

Katelyn Henson/For the Review Freshman Benjamin Bartu recites his poem “Nets” that he published in high school. The Concert Night Thursday Sept. 28 was an open mic.

Art Spiegelman tells father’s Holocaust survival story through graphic novel Abby Thomas @TLRCulture Whether through fiction or non fiction, the narrative of World War II and the events of the Holocaust, have been heavily utilized across multiple mediums.

From films, to books, to pieces of art, stories both horrific and hopeful have been told for years. However, what about relaying the horrible events of a war that caused the deaths of millions through a graphic novel?

Art Speigelman attempts just that, in his two part comic book entitled Maus, focusing on the true story of young Vladek Speigleman and his journey through Nazi Germany and imprisonment in one of the most notorious internment camps–Auschwitz.

The multi-layered comic encompasses elements of the past and present, as Speigelman portrays both his father’s process of retelling the story, and the actual events of the Holocaust. In addition Speigelman also portrays his doubts and difficulties of creating his father’s complex survival story into a graphic novel.

Brought about by Adolf Hitler’s declaration of

Mickey Mouse as an enemy of the state, Speigelman chose mice as representations of the Jews through-

ters through their portrayal as animals. Speigelman himself recounts the difficulty of writing the story

Photo courtesy of Abby Thomas out his comic. The graphic novel consists mainly of different animal species as representations of different ethnicities. The Jews as mice, the Germans as cats and the Poles as pigs.

Despite being the first of its kind to win a Pulitzer Prize, Maus received heavy criticism and was accused of dehumanizing its charac-

this way, but his honesty only seems to add to the authenticity of the novel.

This was a risky choice for an artist, yet is executed excellently, as he depicts an experience he will never really understand, having not experienced it himself.

Through intricately illustrated frames Speigelman communicates much of the

fear, horror, confusion, and relief of his father’s past to visually create an experience like no other.

He takes the reader through a personal version of history, and in one frame he depicts his father and mother, Anja, as they walk down a path unknowing shaped like a swastika which eventually leads to their capture in Sosnowiec, Poland.

Somehow Speigelman seems to create images that encapsulates so much of what could not just be said in words. Sometimes criticized for being too gruesome in a format often meant for children’s adventure stories, Speigelman’s use of the comic allows him to represent his father’s story in the best way he knew how.

The black and white comic format provides a unique and controversial portrayal of a complex story of both great loss and great life. At times horrifically chilling, Speigelman creates something fictitiously and almost cartoony yet all too real to the human experiences of the Holocaust.

Abby Thomas can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Lady Gaga has been a powerhouse of pop for the better part of a decade. But her newest duet album with Tony Bennett, titled “Cheek to Cheek,” is a diversion from Gaga’s glittery world.

Opening with the punchy “Anything Goes” of the same-named musical, Gaga’s voice is featured without auto tune. Surprisingly, her voice is strong and supple with technical prowess. Gaga is appropriately behind the beat, as is typical in jazz, and is clearly having fun from the get go. The band sounds mostly natural, the drums give a great backbeat and Bennett’s experience as a jazz crooner lends a helping hand to Gaga’s novelty.

While this album has fun in spades, it has a forced quality to it. Jazz albums often have mistakes—that’s what makes them great, when there is an organic quality to how the music is made. But this album has been mixed in a pop style, there are some funky moments that feel staged rather than natural.

The balance of the songs is

off, in that Gaga often overpowers both Bennett and the supporting band. The band has been compressed so much that it sounds like it’s playing out of a tin can.

Bennett’s usual pitchy quality is highlighted because of the compression, which is especially noticeable on his solo sections.

The album has some moments of humor, such as when the “doo wa doo wa doo wa doo wa doo wa doo wa” ends with “Tony Gaga” on “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing).”

But Gaga and Bennett’s age difference of 60 years makes the romantic duets sound uncomfortable. The difference in their voices does not showcase either of them in a flattering light.

Overall, the album has its moments, but it comes across as trying too hard.

Gaga may be a pop powerhouse and Bennett may be an old crooner, but mixing the two styles has led to an album that makes little sense for either of them.

Jamie McDonald can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail. com

Upcoming events Brandon Schrand Book Talk

7:30 p.m. Thursday Oct. 9 in the Nicholson Library

Step Up All In

8:30 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 11 in Ice Auditorium

Faculty Lecture

7 p.m. Wednesday Oct. 15 in Ice Auditorium

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Volleyball looks to advance its success with a deep roster Jonathan Williams @LinfieldReviewNews The Wildcats’ volleyball team made huge improvements this season as they are nearing the halfway mark to the 2014 season.

The team’s most notable stride this far is their win against the Pacific Lutheran University Lutes on Sept.

27, in the Ted Wilson Gymnasium.

“Winning the match proved to the girls that we can compete with the best teams in the conference,” head coach Shane Kimura said.

Pacific Lutheran University has been the reigning Northwest Conference champions for the past three years.

“The support from the crowd really fueled the team’s energy and we responded well to it,” Kimura said.

Moving past the big win, Kimura hopes to improve ball control as well as consistency on an individual and team level.

Kimura also wants to work on serving and pass-

ing, minimizing errors, not giving away points and blocking, which Kimura said was great at the match against Pacific Lutheran University.

Standout players on the team so far include freshmen Jamie Talbo and Danielle Spirlin as well as junior Courtney Uyeda and senior Kailana Ritte-Camara.

Uyeda and Ritte-Camara have also filled leadership roles and have led the team to successful wins.

With more players on the team this year it has allowed for Kimura to put different players in for the same position.

“We have more balance and depth on the team this year,” Kimura said.

As the season has been in full swing since August, some players have accumulated injuries.

“We are being smart about how we practice and are making sure the girls take care of their body when we aren’t practicing,” Kimura said. “We tell players to be the best you can be when you’re playing.”

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that the team played in Texas helped get them ready for conference play.

“The Texas trip helped us figure out a strong lineup going into conference play,” Kimura said.

Although the Wildcats didn’t win any of the four games, “we learned a lot and it showed us what we need to adjust going into the rest of the season,” Kimura said.

This past weekend the team trumped the Whitman College missionaries on Friday, Oct. 3, but fell short of a win against the Whitworth University pirates.

Kimura has high hopes for the rest of the season in light of the team’s improvements and their win against Pacific Lutheran University.

“We have to go out ready to compete … if you don’t go out and compete you’re going to get beat,” Kimura said.

The Wildcats’ next match is on Oct. 10 against local rival George Fox University.

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

Spencer Beck/For the Review Senior Kailana Ritte-Camara spikes the ball during their match against Whitman College on Oct. 3. Ritte-Camara got 10 kills in the game against the Missionaries.

meet a raft of new requirements to prevent the misconduct and handle it when it occurs.

Many administrators worry about tackling cases they are not trained to undertake.

And they are concerned about being placed in investigatory roles without law enforcement tools or training.

In the last three years, the education department has launched more investigations, released more guidelines, received more complaints and issued more fines against universities for faulty reporting of sexual misconduct and harassment than ever before.

Officials further stepped up the campaign with the April 29 release of a White House task force report on how to deal with the problem, a 53-page document providing specific guidelines and, a few days later, the first-ever naming of campuses under investigation.

Fatima Goss Graves, vice president of the National Women’s Law Center, which has worked on this issue for four decades, welcomed the focus on the issue by the Obama administration, colleges, policymakers and student activists.

“This coming together,” she said, “could be a gamechanger.”

Kevin Kruger, president of the NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher

Education, said, however, that these cases are overwhelming some school officials.

“Campus life administrators would rather not be in the business of adjudicating sexual assault cases because they’re so complex,” he added.

The cases often involve heavy drinking, and are compounded by conflicting accounts and no independent witnesses.

Moreover, in a 2011 letter outlining legal obligations under Title IX, the Education Department’s civil rights office required schools to investigate incidents off-campus as well as on.

That 1972 law prohibits sex discrimination by educational institutions that receive federal funds.

While it initially was designed primarily to address bias in collegiate sports, it’s also used to fight sexual violence and harassment on the grounds that such acts deprive the victim of an equal education.

The misconduct could include a pattern of unwanted sexual actions, such as sexting or hugs, as well as such violent crimes as rape.

“It’s difficult enough for a trained investigator to do; to put that on a school official is really sticky,” said one higher education official who asked for anonymity to speak candidly.

Adding to the complexity, officials say, are evolving standards on how to balance the rights of all parties.

The 2011 letter, for instance, told campuses they must use a lesser standard of proof, a “preponderance of evidence,” instead of the stricter “clear and convincing evidence” that some campuses had been using.

The letter also stated that both parties should be treated equally, prompting questions about how to do that and still give the accused a presumption of innocence.

“The shadow system of campus justice threatens to leave constitutional rights behind and threatens to do more harm than good to students,” said Anne Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a higher education nonprofit in Washington, D.C. Other challenges include dealing with the blizzard of reporting rules, confidential and anonymous complaints and negotiating with employee unions to impose new training requirements, said Dianne Harrison, California State, Northridge president.

Her campus has reorganized its process for dealing with such complaints, funneling them to a central office with a specially trained staff.

She said it was crucial for university presidents to speak forcefully about the issue and

College admins learn to be sexual misconduct detectives Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times Butte College administrator Al Renville was never trained as a police investigator, but that’s close to the job he found himself in when two students had a sexual encounter off campus that led one to file a complaint with the school.

Renville said his inquiry took at least 200 hours, cost $100,000 and awkwardly bumped up against a parallel police investigation.

And because the accuser appealed the outcome to the federal government, the small college in the Sierra Nevada foothills suddenly found itself in the national spotlight, named as one of 55 colleges and universities under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for their handling of sexual misconduct allegations.

“What’s frustrating for college administrators is that we are not a police entity. We have no subpoena power, no way to compel testimony, no forensics ability,” Renville said. “But we are responsible for investigating these cases and ultimately to make recommendations.”

As the federal government launches an unprecedented campaign against campus sexual assault, colleges and universities are struggling to

make sure campus administrators carry out the work.

“We need to stop whining about reporting requirements,” she said. “This is about the victims.”

Kruger said the federal actions have put the issue on the “top of the list of what everyone is concerned about” and prompted hundreds of schools to improve their policies.

Campuses now are scrambling to create prevention programs, which also are required by a new federal law.

Some are revamping their reporting requirements to make them easier to use.

Another law, the Clery Act, requires colleges to release crime data, including reports of sexual violence.

Many colleges are moving to hire and train specialists to handle the cases. Some universities have added as many as three full-time staff members to focus on the issue. To keep up, the Association of Title IX Administrators has increased the number of administrators it is training annually from 300 to 1,500 in the last three years, said Brett Sokolow, the group’s executive director.

Before 2011, he said, the job of Title IX coordinator was “just a title” and the vast majority of those who held it were unaware of their responsibilities.

Now, he said, it’s a full-

time position that oversees campus policies on sexual misconduct and the process to review every complaint.

At the University of Michigan, officials embraced the new requirements and made several changes to conform, said spokeswoman Holly Rider-Milkovich. The revisions included requiring administrative reviews of all complaints whether the accuser wanted to participate or not and lowering the burden of proof for sexual assault.

Since then, complaints have increased 100 percent, which officials viewed as a student vote of confidence in their new policies.

“We saw it as a huge win for our institution,” RiderMilkovich said.

Since 2011, Butte College in Oroville, north of Sacramento, launched a comprehensive education program for all incoming students and staff training on the reporting process, among other things.

But Renville said sexual assault cases off-campus should be handled by police, not college administrators.

Chico Police Lt. Michael O’Brien, whose office investigated the Butte College case, said multiple people interviewing witnesses outside police control can taint the case and “usually harms the investigative process.”

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Lacrosse coach to build a stronger program Alec Wisthoff @LinfieldReviewSports With spring sports still months away there is still new staff that are looking to bring a new aspect to their sport.

With their vast knowledge in their specific sport they look to advance the athletic programs towards great achievements.

Coach Kat Enders of the Women’s Lacrosse team is enjoying her first year as a Wildcat. “I went to Ohio Wesley University it’s located in central Ohio,” Enders said in an interview. “I

originally got interested in lacrosse in the sixth grade. I went to a summer camp for beginners and it was just a great sport where I felt like it was so new to the area.”

Coach Enders saw potential in the sport and how it differed from that of other popular sports at the time. “ People where really good at soccer in Oregon and since lacrosse was new it was kind of a fresh start for everybody,” Enders said. “It was just a sport I picked up really quickly, really enjoyed and have played ever since.”

Coach Enders is a first

year coach at Linfield who has a rich history living in

in the top four teams in the state. As a high schooler I was 11th in the state.

My family are very avid golfers. My dad is actually trying to get onto the Senior Tour, however he is not old enough yet. We are members of Bend Golf and Country Club, where I have worked as an outdoor Member Service Assistant since I was 16.

Why did you decide to go to Linfield?

Academics and sports are very important to me, and the balance of intensity in both helped lead to my decision to study here at Linfield.

How do you like playing for Linfield’s golf team?

Now that golf has started, I have really been enjoying

playing for Linfield. The team and environment are so inviting and encouraging.

Who are your biggest competitors?

We are a pretty solid team; Whitman and Whitworth have very strong teams.

However, Lewis & Clark are our closest opponents when it comes to scoring.

I think I like Linfield’s team so much because it doesn’t feel like I am just playing for myself, it’s more like we are all playing as a whole. I have always played golf because I enjoyed it.

Linfield has allowed me to continue playing for the pure joy of experiencing different golf courses, spending 4-5 hours getting to know

Coach Kat Enders the northwest. “I am from the Portland area,” Enders said. “My parents are from

Lake Oswego but I went to school in downtown Portland.“ Enders has had prior experience coaching lacrosse and looks to bring her knowledge to the Linfield lacrosse team. “I had been coaching in the Midwest for awhile, I was at the University of Finley for two years as an assistant and I was ready to be back in the Pacific Northwest,” Enders said. “This position just opened up and everything fell into place and I’m really happy to be here. I really like Linfield.”

Enders is excited help

Freshman golf star looks forward to great season, reaching goals Helen Lee @LinfieldReview

Madeline Rice is a freshman on Linfield’s women’s golf team. She is a pre-engineering major, and is the second top performer on the team. The Wildcats have their next match on Oct. 19 against Lewis & Clark.

Below are edited excerpts from an interview with Rice.

Can you tell me a little about your golfing experience?

I am from Bend, Oregon.

I have been playing golf since I was eight years old.

I played four years of varsity golf at Bend Senior High School. We went to state all four years and placed at least

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Coach Enders is excited to get the lacrosse season underway and looks forward to accomplishing great endeavors within the lacrosse program.

The Women’s lacrosse team start out their season against Pacific at home on March 7.

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

other college players, as well as working on some amazing sock, V-neck, and farmer’s tans.

What are some of your goals for this season?

As an individual, my largest goal is to break 80.

A carrot that has been very close to my grasp in the past, just slightly out of reached.

However, I feel that this is the season that I will get into the 70s. My biggest competitor is myself and confidence level. Golf is five percent physical and 95 percent mental, and I’m working on the mental part.

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

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“It was fun and it was surprising, but not [surprising] at the same time,” Riddle said. “I felt like I was very prepared for the game. Even though I was third string I felt like I knew everything that the first string quarterback needed to know.”

Riddle went into the second game against the University of Redlands as the main quarterback which got him more field time, but also a lot more pressure.

However, Riddle handled the pressure and pulled through with a win against the Bulldogs of 36-3.

“I felt a little bit more pressure,” Riddle said.

“That game I definitely had a little more goose bumps going in to it and a little more butterflies.”

The team then went to Pacific Lutheran University to play the first game to count for the conference rankings. Riddle was ready for the challenge and led the team to beat the Lutes 41-14. “[It’s] by far the biggest game of my football career

of high school, youth and now college,” Riddle said.

“It’s definitely the biggest game of my life, but I feel like I’m prepared, the team is prepared and potently it could be for the league championship.”

The ‘Cats will have their first home game on Oct. 11 against George Fox University where Riddle will be making his first string quarterback appearance at home in front of students, alumni and family. The excitement of the home game and the electricity of the crowed makes Riddle so excited that he can’t even eat breakfast in the morning before the game.

“I just love playing here,” Riddle said. “The environment of game day is just unreal. I love just running out of this tunnel and playing on that field. It’s going to be fun.”

Riddle stresses that it isn’t about winning one game or beating a certain team, but about keeping the tradition alive. When the ‘Cats win the next couple of games, Linfield football will have 59 winning seasons which Riddle says is more important than any one game.

“The thing about Linfield is the tradition and you just want to keep it going,” Riddle said. “You just want to make everyone proud. You want to play for your teammates, the alumni and for your coaches.

Linfield football is just so much bigger than just that game. There is so much more around it and that’s what I love about being here.”

Looking back at the past three years, Riddle can’t believe where he is now.

He went from thinking he would never graduate high school to the first string quarterback in college. The whole experience has left him speechless.

“It’s just like a dream,” Riddle said. “Sometimes I feel like I’m just sleeping and I’m going to wake up and it’s going to be all gone, but every day I keep waking up and I’m here. I’m just so thankful for all the opportunities I have and the way things have just fallen into place. It’s just like something you would watch a movie or read a book about.

It’s a great place to be and I just love it here.”

Stephanie Hofmann can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com.

Photo courtesy of Kelly Bird Sophomore quarterback Sam Riddle runs out of the pocket and looks to connect with a receiver on October 5 at Pacific Lutheran University. This was Riddle’s second game as the starting quarterback.

tional senior Taylor Klopp shot seven over par tieing for tenth while senior Logan Munson shot 10 over par and tied for thirteenth overall.

The freshman showed the upper classmen that they area force to be reckoned with. freshman Lucas Balala and Max Hansen both shot 13 over par , tied for nineteenth overall.

At the Linfield Invitational Lucas Balala shot one over par tieing for second while freshman Logan

Davis shot four over par and tieing for fifth overall.

“I was happy with our ball striking, but our short games is an area where we need to improve on, especially our putting,” said Gregory Copeland, head coach for men’s golf, in an email.

With five new freshmen joining the team this year, Copeland is looking forward to their potential helping the team.

“I think once they get settled into the college rou-

tine and figure out what they need to do on the course and in the classroom that they will be a big part of the team’s success this year,” Copeland said.

“They have the potential to really push the upperclassmen to continue to work hard at practice and to play well.

There are also four seniors on the team that Copeland believes will make major contributions on the success of the team’s season, including Taylor

Freshmen give men’s golf high hopes this year Samantha Sigler @LinfieldReviewSports Linfield’s men’s golf team continues to play consistently well throughout the first part of the season.

They’ve had two matches so far, placing fifth out of eight teams after the Pacific Invitational match on Sept.

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of the past two weeks 1.Yankee Legend gone for good

On Sept. 28 a legend like no other struck his last pitch at Fenway Stadium. The New York Yankees short stop Derek Jeter ended his career against the Boston Red Sox. After an emotional farewell in New York where Jeter got struck out in the ninth inning, he knew he had to end his last game on a high note. In the third inning against the Red Sox Jeter hit an RBI infield single. As he walked towards the dug out he lifted his helmet and tipped it.

Baseball will always recognize him as one of the greatest players.

2. NCAA upsets from week 6 With week six complete many teams look to forget the horrible upsets that occurred. Number two Oregon losing to Arizona 31-24, number three Alabama losing to number 11 Ole Miss 23-17, number six Texas A&M losing to number 12 Mississippi State 48-31 and number four Oklahoma losing to number 25 TCU 37-33. With all these upsets will there be new contenders who can much up with reigning BCS champions Florida State?

3. Really Phelps...really?

The most decorated Olympic swimmer of all time, Michael Phelps, was arrested last Tuesday for DUI. Reports say that his blood alcohol content was double the legal limit and he was excessively speeding. Phelps made comments over social media that he will be putting swimming on the back burner so he can focus on other priorities such as his physical and mental health. The 22 time Olympic medalist will be attending programs that will help get his life back on track.

Klopp, Logan Munson, Kevin Kawasaki and Taylor Pirnke.

“I expect them to lead this team back to the conference championship,” Copeland said.

The seniors are also acting as leaders and role models for the underclassmen, and rather than being protective of their place on the team, are welcoming and encouraging the freshmen to succeed “They understand for the team to reach its goal

of returning to the national championship that being pushed by the underclassmen is important to keeping them working hard,” Copeland said.

The Linfield men’s golf team looks to continue their great ball striking and look to improve their short game for the Whitman Invitational at Wine Valley on Oct. 5 and 6.

Samantha Sigler can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

4. Deep trouble for Lakers With a roster that seems pretty intimidating the Los Angeles Lakers seem very confident in the up coming season. With Kobe Bryant, Jeremy Lin, Julius Randle, Steve Nash, and Carlos Boozer it seems that the Lakers roster will be a force that may not live up to its potential. Kobe has struggled with injuries and so has Nash in the past few years. Jeremy Lin and Carlos Boozer are great players, but they are not championship contenders. If the Lakers want to rebuild their team they are going to have to face a few really rough years.

5.Manning’s milestone Peyton Manning has written a “Cinderella Story” since his comeback from neck surgery. The quarterback for the Denver Broncos threw his 500-touchdown pass against the Arizona Cardinals. This is a huge milestone making Manning the second quarterback in the league to throw over 500 career touchdowns. Manning is knocking on Brett Farve’s doorstep for the all time record. Farve holds the record with 508-career touchdown passes. The most astonishing achievement in my eyes is that Manning has thrown just over 100 touchdowns since he started in Denver while he threw 399 career touchdowns with his previous team the Indianapolis Colts.

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Stephanie Hofmann/Opinion editor Sophomore quarterback Sam Riddle stands in front of the tunnel at Maxwell Stadium. Sam Riddle was 17 for 21 with four touchdown passes in the Oct. 4 game against the Lutes.

Dream comes true for sophomore quarterback Stephanie Hofmann @LinfieldReviewOpinion It’s the end of the first half and the Linfield football team leaves the field in a way that aren’t use to- losing. Coach Smith walks up to the players telling them they need to figure out what the problem is and start executing. Half time ends and they send in the third string quarterback to try and take back the game. Sophomore Sam Riddle stands in the middle of the field ready to show why he is a part of this team.

Riddle isn’t new to the adrenaline rush that you get while play-

ing an important game. He started playing football back in third grade continued all the way till his senior year at Century High School in Hillsboro, Oregon.

There was never a question in his mind that he would continue to play, because giving it up was never an option.

“I tried it my first year and I really liked it,” Riddle said. “I’ve loved it ever since.”

In the beginning of his senior year in high school for the first time football was no longer the only thing on his mind. His girlfriend and now fiancée, Brianna, found out that she was pregnant

with their now one and half year old son, Mason. Suddenly football, graduating high school and going to college was all in question when earlier that year it had been such a sure thing. With the support of both of their families, Riddle was able to graduate and come to Linfield.

“It’s crazy just to think that I’m here,” Riddle said. “The support of the coaches and the support of my teammates is just unreal. This community is awesome.”

With the support back home, Riddle joined the Linfield football community right away. In his freshman year, Riddle didn’t see

much field time. He appeared in only two games in the entire season. So going into the fall season, Riddle wanted to battle for not only more field time, but the starting position. However at the end of the summer practice, Riddle was going into the first game as the third string quarterback.

“Matt (Yarbrough) and Tom (Knecht), the other quarterbacks, are a couple of my best friends at this campus and we all had talked before this season,” Riddle said.

“We just wanted to let each other know that we are all there for each other. No matter who was in or who was out we would always be

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rooting for each other and always helping each other.”

The first game arrived against Chapman University and the team started off flat. They were getting penalty after penalty which made the third downs long. The first half came and went leaving the Wildcats in the dust. When the second half started they rotated in Riddle and Linfield took off from there. The team scored two more touchdowns in that half and when it ended the Wildcats had won their first game and Riddle was the new first-string quarter>> Please see Football page 15