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LINFIELD
REVIEW April 28, 2014
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Linfield College
Women take fourth and men take seventh for the Track and Field Northwest Conference Championship >> page 16
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McMinnville, Ore.
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119th Year
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Issue No. 22
‘Ink’ project explores culture of tattoos
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Earth Week games Look at photos and learn more about the activities that took pace to celebrate the national Earth Week here at Linfield. >> page 5
Rosa Johnson Copy editor
Star student Learn about sophomore Aparna Parthasarathy, the marketing major who also acts and will soon make an appearance on the TV show “Grimm.” >> page 7
Local talent Read about sophomore Doug Sundman, an art major who recently had his work showcased in the Starbucks across from Albertsons. >> page 11
March for justice
Freshman Cruz Morey poses in front of an information booth at the Take Back the Night event, which has quick facts and statistics about sexual assault to raise awareness of the issue.
Helen Lee/Photo editor
>> Please see Take Back the Night page 4
The McMinnville based commercial photographer, Bill Miller has created the “Ink” project as a side project to his commercial work. Miller has previously created and shown photo-essays covering political, cultural, historical and architectural subjects. Last fall Miller decided to create the “Ink” project about tattoos, he started shooting in September of 2013 and has done seven photoshoots to in the past eight months. “The bias generally held of tattoos often manifests itself in negative socio-economic stereotyping. I hope that people who see the photo-essay will walk away with a better understanding of the humanity involved. The people I photographed are teachers, professionals, salespeople, factory workers, and excons. Regardless of where they come from, who they are, or what they do — they are the same people that you see, and work with, every day in our community,” Miller said in an email. The goal of exposing viewers to both the art and reasons why people would choose to get inked, to reduce negative bias and stereotyping of those who wear tattoos, according to Miller. Miller contacted Linfield’s Chair of Psychology Tanya Tompkins partner in this project along with the participation of the mass communication department. Along with Linfield’s contributors, Miller contacted a videography company Meadowlake Studios who decided to make a documentary of the “Ink” project. >> Please see Ink page 6
Engaging men in conversation about sexual assault Win, win, win
Wildcats baseball won a double-header home game against Lewis and Clark University on Saturday and continued winning against the University on Sunday. >> page 16
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Olivia Marovich News editor The Student Health, Wellness and Counseling Center hosted a lecture for Sexual Assault Awareness Month about how important it is for men to help prevent sexual assault. Guest speakers Jon Davies, Ph.D., the director of the McKenzie River Men’s Center and Max Wolfard, cofounder of the “Be That Guy” campaign at the university of Oregon spoke to a standing-room-only crowd in TJ Day Hall about how society needs to stop treating sexual assault as an exclusively female problem. “We shouldn’t be thinking about what society needs from men now,
but instead men should be asking themselves ‘what kind of man do I want to be?’ and ‘what keeps me from being that man today?’” Davies said. Both Davies and Wolfard run organizations where men gather to talk about the societal pressures placed on them to be masculine and dominant, and how these stereotypically manly traits can lead to other issues, like the propensity toward sexual assault. “I think the main message of the event was that men can be engaged in the issue without fear of being bashed or blamed,” said Coordinator of Student Health and Wellness Programming Adria Godon-Bynum. “The majority of men are not per-
petrators of sexual violence and we should be doing everything in our power to engage these men in violence prevention. I think the message was that good men need to stand up and participate in violence prevention and that when they do we will welcome them to the table.” A slideshow accompanying the lecture showed statistics that about 70 percent of college men demonstrate appropriate behavior, while 20 percent can be manipulative of a partner and 10 percent may at some point sexually assault or rape someone. “Men as a group are seen as powerful,” Davies said. “But individually men do not feel powerful, and our culture links the ideas of power and
importance to sexuality. Men are, therefore, more likely to be sexual aggressors and are less likely to seek help for fear of being shamed.” Davies compared the body image and beauty standard placed on women to the sexual standards placed on men, both of which are impossible and unhealthy to attain. Wolfard spoke about the program he created the University of Oregon to help engage men in the Greek Life system in becoming allies for sexual assault victims and teaching them to be active bystanders when they see something bad happening. “Be That Guy wants to redefine >> Please see Prevention page 4