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Women’s soccer wins both away games >> page 13

November 5, 2012

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Disciplines connect via new PLACE initiative Samantha Sigler News editor

Interlibrary loan Students learn about Linfield’s interlibrary loan program Oct. 31 during an open house and Halloween event. >> page 4

Alum opens store A Linfield alumna has opened a new clothing and accessories store, Robert Roe, on Third Street. >> pages 8 and 9

New play showing Linfield’s two-year project culminated in the new play, Kickin’ Sand and Tellin’ Lies, which opened Nov. 1 at Marshall Theater. >> page 10

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Volleyball

Linfield Volleyball won its game against Whitman on Nov. 2, but lost against Whitworth on Nov. 3. >> page 16

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McMinnville locals dress up and trick-or-treat around Linfield’s campus Oct. 31 in celebration of Halloween. Students, such as freshman Kayla Claybaugh signed up >> Please see Halloween to pass out candy while children traveled from dorm to dorm. page 6

Linfield has started a new initiative named the Program for the Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement (PLACE) that has both students and faculty excited for all the new possibilities open to the college.

“PLACE is an initiative that tries to bring the Linfield curriculum to life and engage both students and faculty development with the liberal arts,” said Patrick Cottrell, assistant professor of political science.

The program is a collaborative effort of Linfield faculty with an overall purpose of enhancing student engagement and faculty development through the exploration of thematic connections among modes of thinking and inquiry.

Each year there will be a different theme for PLACE. This year’s is “Legacies of War.” Both students and faculty are allowed to suggest different theme ideas, and the curriculum committee will decide which to use for the year. “[You can] think of this year’s theme being a thematic power strip that anybody who’s interested can plug into,” Cottrell said.

Both faculty and students are able to examine each year’s theme through different disciplines. The different themes will also each highlight, but not exclusively focus on, Linfield curriculum designations.

This year’s theme is highlighting Linfield’s creative studies (CS) and individuals, systems and societies (IS) curriculum designations.

Cottrell is teaching a seminar this semester, War, Politics and Society, that is being taught alongside an English course, War and Literature taught by David Sumner, associate professor of English, which best demonstrates using PLACE, alongside classes taught at Linfield. >> Please see PLACE page 4

Linfield alumna contributes to historic exhibit Madeline Bergman Staff writer The nursing program at Linfield College’s Portland campus is both historic and successful. For the past six months, Rosa Gibson, class of ’12, has been working on locating and preserving artifacts from the nursing program’s early days.

With the college’s support, she

has been able to organize and display the collection.

“Most of the items were first on the Portland campus, being shuffled around various closets, said Rachael Woody, Linfield archives director.

“The first half of the collection made it to the archives 10 years ago, before the archives program at the McMinnville campus had been established. The Portland

campus continued to come upon old artifacts.”

The first collection opened recently and is located in Peterson Hall at the Linfield Portland campus.

In January 2013, a second exhibit of the collection will be unveiled at the Willamette Heritage Commission in Salem, Ore., and will be on display for nine months.

Only 30 collections are chosen annually to be on display at the Willamette Heritage Commission.

Some of the most notable objects in the collection are daily bulletins from the American Hospital Association, yearbooks, pamphlets about the hospital, alumni materials, binders, letters >> Please see Nursing page 5

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Opinions

November 5, 2012

Medical Clemency confuses students More and more students are refusing to call for medical help even in the most dangerous situations.

Medical Clemency is Linfield’s way of ensuring that students can get help after abusing a substance without the penalty of a strike from the school. Students can call for themselves or for a friend who is in a dangerous medical situation.

Medical Clemency is by no means a “get out of jail free card,” but instead is a way for students to get help safely with less chance of consequences than if they didn’t call in the first place.

Recently, however, minor in possession charges (MIPs) are being handed out instead. This is causing many students to lose faith in the Medical Clemency system.

“I am confused as to why we even have a Medical Clemency policy when there is still a risk of students getting in trouble.

Yes, I obviously know that

it is to keep kids safe, but why would people call when there is a risk of a MIP? A strike compared to an MIP is nothing,” junior Kendra Barton said.

Barton asked about this issue at the last Greek Safety Patrol (GSP) training.

While Linfield officials did somewhat respond to the question, students were left with little confidence.

Rebecca Wale, director of College Public Safety and Environmental Health and Safety, responded to concerns by saying, “Medical Clemency was once used [to] help students who were in trouble. It attempted to create a trusting environment in which students felt safe to report a troubling issue. I am concerned that it is now being used by some to avoid taking responsibility for their poor decision-making.

“Linfield is not immune from the laws that govern us all. I believe no one is above the law, and it is our civic responsibility to fol-

low the rules of civil society,” Wale said.

We do not think students are above the law.

However, is Medical Clemency being falsely advertised as a free pass?

We think that while the police do have the law to uphold, students have the right to be fully informed of what really happens when they call Medical Clemency.

“If you become aware of a situation where someone could suffer serious harm or death from alcohol poisoning, you are obligated to act to prevent a senseless death…While medics and the police are busy assisting you, people who need assistance due to circumstances beyond their control, may not get help they need or deserve,” Wale said. ”For example, this past weekend, all available ambulances in our community were busy responding to alcohol poisoning emergencies on the Linfield campus...These caused

some people needing emergency medical care to wait for more than 20 minutes for help. The actions of Linfield students could have caused great harm to others.”

Perhaps medical clemency is not being explained well enough to both the students and the police.

Either way, something needs to change before a drastic and dangerous event forces it to.

“I personally watched an experience where someone called Medical Clemency, the girl was looked at and deemed OK to go home, and the person who called still got a MIP... A great example of how this program isn’t working. I think that as long as CPS and Res. Life are present in the case of Medical Clemency, the police need to stay out. They are threatening the legitimacy of Medical Clemency,” Barton said.

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TECHNOLOGY

Social media posts can threaten career opportunities

Social media is a part of everyday life. Millions log on each day to post statuses, photos and other content for those they are associated with to see.

Once this content is posted, others can easily find it.

When reviewing applicants, one of the first things bosses and supervisors look at are your social media sites. They will look at each photo and status you post and judge you based on that.

No matter how well your interview went or how good your resume is, this one aspect can cost you your chance at the job.

Your social media is a

Ivanna Tucker Sports editor representation of yourself.

It is posted on the Internet, and millions have the opportunity to view it.

There are privacy settings that can help censor parts of your profile, but these only do so much.

Employers search through social sites looking for reasons not to hire

you. One photo from a bad night that someone is tagged in can cost a person their entire career.

According to “How social media can hurt your career” on CNN.com, one of the reasons that employees are fired is for complaining about previous, current and future jobs.

Most people do not realize that these types of comments pose a threat toward their careers.

It is important to avoid bad-mouthing jobs and making announcements about other aspects of your job.

Jobs are not the only thing that can be affected by social media sites. Your

representation to the public can also be impacted.

Each post says something about you.

It is important to present yourself in the best manner. Otherwise, your post can possibly become the next item of gossip for everyone to talk about.

Some have decided to not even have a Facebook account or use other social sites because of future job searches and the drama it brings.

However, what other people post can also have an effect. They can tag you in photos or posts and then people can search these.

This can do the same damage as the individual

posting content of themselves.

Remind your friends to be careful about what they post with you in it.

Simple things, such as broadcasting unstable aspects of your life or your crazy antics of the night before can leave a lasting impression on the people who see it.

Even though most people don’t care what people think about them, they probably should care about what their employers think of them because this can make or break their chances at keeping or getting a job.

Ivanna Tucker can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

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Linfield should admit to the power of a big corporation The Linfield student body obviously wasn’t exactly thrilled when the college’s new tagline was revealed in 2010.

In fact, our discontent was so widespread and vocal that the slogan was ultimately altered from “The Power of Small” to “The Power of a Small College.”

Despite our initial misgivings, it seems that we’ve finally accepted, if not fully embraced the concept.

Being a small campus with a tight-knit community is something we are proud of, even if we find the branding that attempts

Gabrielle Nygaard Copy editor to communicate this to be somewhat lacking.

But on the other hand, the whole slogan feels more and more ironic recently.

When the new branding rolled out, many students questioned how much money was given to an outside company to craft it and

wondered why the college didn’t first look within to the creativity of its students for ideas. And names like Nike, Barnes & Noble and Starbucks on campus don’t exactly scream “small.”

These are huge corporations; the world’s largest athletic brand, and the nation’s largest book retailer and coffeehouse, actually.

Yet, the forthcoming change of our campus café has been heralded to us as not simply a Starbucks, but a “living room.”

So I take it that Wal-Mart is a mom-and-pop store, and perhaps the “din-

ing room” that Dillin will be transitioning into is a McDonald’s?

I’m not disparaging the business decision for Linfield to collaborate with these companies, as I’m sure the prospects were lucrative.

I like these brands, and I’m sure other students do as well. I would even describe myself as a recovering Starbucks addict.

I don’t think Linfield is morally obligated to patronize only small, local companies in the name of consistency (even if that does sound pretty cool). I realize that might not be

viable for a number of reasons.

What I do question is the way this move is being spun.

Considering the skepticism we had toward our college being paraded as little in the first place, trying to conform something that obviously goes against the whole idea that “bigger isn’t better” with this image just doesn’t work. But frankly, it doesn’t have to.

Sometimes bigger is better, like when it comes to a venti white chocolate mocha, but not always, like when it comes to a huge class size.

We at Linfield know this.

Maybe that’s why so many people were against being marketed so narrowly as “small” in the first place.

There’s certainly some cognitive dissonance involved here, as a college built on the philosophy of small but on the services of big corporations.

But it’s nothing we aren’t willing to wrestle with in the name of getting our beloved Frappuccinos on campus. So let’s just admit it: size matters, and sometimes small isn’t the most powerful.

Gabrielle Nygaard can be reached at linfieldreviewcopyed@gmail.com.

MEDIA

Power-crazed Disney needs to return to its roots Disney is taking over the world. There, I said it. With the recent buyout of Lucasfilm for $4 million, the Walt Disney Company has added yet another powerhouse to its line-up. While companies are always expanding and working to gain more profit, the Walt Disney Company should stick to its roots.

According to a “USA Today” article from Oct. 31, previous owner George Lucas was not only paid $4 million, but also 40 million Disney shares.

With the control of the “Star Wars” franchise, the Walt Disney Company plans to release “Episode VII” in 2015, according to an article in “USA Today.”

But Disney’s not stopping there. It is also planning to release a new “Star Wars” movie every two or three years following “Episode VII.” As I am not a “Star Wars” fan, and I’ve only seen a few of the movies, I don’t have the sentimental attachment that I know many people do.

This being said, I do still feel that seven or more movies for the series is too many. And while Lucas put out six episodes of “Star Wars” (a fairly large number itself), it has a dedicated following because of the original idea that Lucas envisioned.

With the series switching hands, I feel that the movie will lose many fans.

Not saying I don’t like Disney, but the Walt Disney Company was founded on different ideas. Let’s just say I can’t picture Mickey Mouse using the force very well.

The trip to power that the Walt Disney Company

Kaylyn Peterson Copy chief has taken has led to its takeover of several major channels.

And while I was one of those children who loved Disney growing up, the Walt Disney Company has gone power-crazy.

Owning other major networks like ESPN and ABC Family, the Walt Disney Company is the world’s largest media conglomerate.

One wonders what will stop Disney from buying out other networks.

The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923, and up to the ’90s, had somewhat kept to itself.

While I’m not saying Disney shouldn’t come out with new things, I think that Disney should stick to what it knows.

For almost 90 years, the Walt Disney Company has brought joy to many families all across the world.

Rather than expanding its empire, Disney should work to create quality movies and shows for families to enjoy.

So, Disney, step back from the other big-name channels and remember what you were founded on.

Find another way to bring smiles and laughter to families everywhere.

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

LIFESTYLE

Instantaneous doesn’t mean better It seems to me that we’ve become a generation of instant gratification.

We want what we want, and we don’t want to wait.

We can’t blame ourselves entirely. We live in a world that caters to this frame of mind.

The fast-paced environments we live in are constantly throwing information our way, and we’re pressed to keep up and stay informed.

So, it’s not surprising that this has created an unrealistic, hyperactive way of perceiving things, especially how we perceive time in relation to goals and accomplishments.

This shouldn’t be identified as purely negative.

Some things we should be

Chrissy Shane Features editor able to get almost instantly, like a Big Mac or a spray tan.

However, when that frame of mind bleeds into other areas of our lives, such as our personal goals, it is extremely detrimental.

I’m a personal example of this mentality. One day, I realized that I wanted to quit smoking and start living a healthy lifestyle.

Healthy, in my head, meant that I needed to get a six-pack, as quickly and painlessly as possible.

So I bought some running shoes, ate a protein bar, did five crunches and was furious that I didn’t see any results the next day—so I gave up.

Obviously that wasn’t realistic, but there are so many people who are stuck in the same unreasonable mindset.

We see successful people on TV and in magazines, and we see people post their achievements on Facebook.

But what we don’t see is the struggle and time it took them to get to that point; for whatever reason, we refuse to acknowledge

that.

We need to reconstruct our thinking and train ourselves to grow out of this instant gratification.

It’s neither healthy nor helpful. It took me two years to reach my goal of a healthy lifestyle—not the three weeks the fitness magazines advertised.

I quit trying many, many times, and every time I felt like a failure. Failure is human.

We need to accept our failures and accept that certain things take time, a lot of time and persistence.

Big Macs and spray tans are instantaneous, but our goals and desires shouldn’t be.

Chrissy Shane can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com.

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PLACE: Students, faculty find commonplace to discuss ideas << Continued from page 1 “It’s a great platform for innovative learning,” Cottrell said.

Students, such as senior Collin Morris, who is a student fellow for PLACE and is also in Cottrell’s War, Literature and Society class, are able to get more engaged in material through a political and literary point of view.

Morris also helped launch the website for PLACE and communicated with the Associated Students of Linfield College to provide support needed for the program.

“PLACE is the sort of a program that I wish I had when I transferred to Linfield as a sophomore,”

Morris said in an email. “I think the idea of connecting the interdisciplinary nature of a unique liberal arts experience at Linfield through a common theme is brilliant.”

Students in these courses are required to complete activities, such as interview veterans, participate in panels, write reflection essays and do common readings in literature and political science.

Students from these classes are also traveling to Vietnam this January Term and will be able to interview Vietnam veterans there for their points of view on the war, allowing students to gain a better understanding of both perspectives of the Vietnam War. The intent of PLACE is to

broaden the sense of connections with students and the material to look at an event from different perspectives.

An example of this would be to look at an event from a political science perspective and research why a war happened, where it went wrong and what the consequences from it were politically, and from a literary perspective wonder how we know what the truth is or how characters in literary pieces demonstrate the truth of the war.

“You’re asking different sets of questions about a similar thing, which I really think not only piques intellectual curiosity but also positions students to be more innovative thinkers and to have deeper connections to the materials they

are learning,” Cottrell said.

There is a great emphasis on citizenship through PLACE, which Cottrell feels is deeply intertwined with a liberal arts education. There is importance placed upon student awareness of being engaging in community at every level and having a devotion to the public good.

“I really hope PLACE provides a commonplace to discuss a theme that percolates from the bottom up and allows all of us to broaden our intellectual horizon and knowledge,” Cottrell said.

PLACE is able to bring many speakers to campus and allows faculty to integrate the theme into courses’ syllabi at Linfield. Because the events will be planned far in advance, it will also

make it easier for faculty and students to attend events and integrate them into their curriculum.

“Each year [students] will be exposed to a common theme which will highlight two Linfield Curriculum’s,” Morris said. “After four years, that student will have had the opportunity to see guest speakers, take integrative seminars, partake in more service opportunities, and much more, all connected to a common theme. This will help students really take advantage of a liberal arts education.”

For example, Colloquium students will be able to attend PLACE events and relate them back to common readings, while other students will be able to gen-

erate a curiosity and depth for learning who those from other schools may not have.

“This initiative is only going to go as far as students and faculty take it,” Cottrell said. “It has enormous potential for growth, we can make it whatever we want it to be.”

For further information about PLACE and events or themes to come, check out the website online at www. linfield.edu/place.html.

There is also an interactive “prezi” online that further explains PLACE and the benefits it has to offer.

“The prezi is pretty badass. It does a nice job of capturing a complex idea,” Cottrell said.

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

Interlibrary loan program seeks patrons Paige Jergensen Staff writer The Interlibrary Loan Office invited everyone to join its Halloween celebration and learn about the interlibrary loan program Oct. 31.

The open house began at noon and went until 2 p.m. It took place in the Interlibrary Loan Office, which is located behind the circulation desk at Nicholson Library.

The office was decorated in the spirit of Halloween with streamers, skeletons and spiders strewn about, and the tables offered a delicious selection of cookies and candies. Guests were free to play games and had the chance to win a Starbucks gift card.

One objective of the interlibrary loan open house was to spread awareness of the program.

“We find that a lot of people don’t know a lot

about interlibrary loan,” said Justyne Triest, the evening supervisor and one of the hosts of the open house.

“So we’re doing outreach to let people know about the services that are available for free. Also, bribing college students with treats.”

The Interlibrary Loan Office is one of the many small offices within Nicholson Library that rarely has the chance to share what it does for the rest of the college, much like Tech Services and Electronic Media Services (EMS). The Interlibrary Loan Office is staffed by two full time workers and three student workers and is open and operating six days a week.

The office is responsible for borrowing and trading library materials, such as books, CDs, DVDs, slides and videotapes.

“Anything other than textbooks, basically,” said Rich Schmidt, the director of

Kate Straube/Photo editor Senior Tessa D’Alessandro sports a Halloween costume to promote Linfield’s interlibrary loan program at Nicholson Library on Oct. 31. The program is a free system to share material, such as CDs, books and other materials. resource sharing.

Since the Nicholson Library opened in 2003, the Interlibrary Loan Office has borrowed and lent about 70,000 items. Last year alone, the program shared and traded 6,820 items.

“It’s been good,” said Schmidt when asked about how the program is going, so far, this year. “We put a new software program over the summer. We do a lot of borrowing and a lot of lending.”

The interlibrary loan program mostly borrows and lends academic articles for students, but students can also request items for leisure, like the latest novel that may not be available at Nicholson Library yet, all at

zero cost to the student.

For more questions or more information about the interlibrary loan program, feel free to contact the office at ill@linfield.edu.

Paige Jergensen can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

News Briefs

Upcoming renovations to food services Linfield has extended its food services agreement with Sodexo to continue providing residential dining services to the McMinnville Campus, according to a campus-wide email sent out last week. Bill Masullo, general manager of Linfield Sodexo, said the new long-term partnership will include features, such as increased hours of operation, new food options and renovations to Dillin Hall and O’Riley’s, which will introduce a full-service Starbucks. Masullo, along with Allison Horn, director of Auxiliary Services, will meet with the Associated Students of Linfield College Senate to discuss the upcoming renovations on Tuesday. “We are going to be having bigger (strategic conversations) and a formal group (campus improvement group sub-committee) that will be involved in this process, gaining student insight,” Masullo said in an email.

Changes to come for pay stubs Linfield will be printing students’ financial aid award and earnings information on students’ pay stubs beginning Nov. 9. Students’ 2012-13 financial aid award information will be displayed on the right side of the pay stub under the heading “Other Benefits and Information.” The Campus Award will display students’ Financial Aid Award for Campus Employment Wages earned during the 2012-13 academic year that are applicable to students’ awards. The Federal Work Study Award will display financial aid awards for Federal Work Study employment, and the FWS FSCL Earns will display wages earned during the 2012-13 academic year applicable to students’ awards. ~Compiled by Jessica Prokop/Editor-in-chief and Samantha Sigler/News editor

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America’s higher education model isn’t broken Barry Glassner and Morton Schapiro Los Angeles Times

Higher education as we know it is about to come to an end. After all, there are no jobs for college graduates, certainly not for liberal arts students. Moreover, even were such students employable, they come out of school so burdened with debt that they will never dig their way out. The educational equivalent of eight-track tapes, traditional colleges and universities will vanish almost entirely, replaced by slimmer, more technologically advanced online and for-profit models.

As college presidents who hear such proclamations over and over again, we find ourselves suppressing the urge to yawn, and not because we lose sleep over them. Rather, we are reminded of Marcel Proust’s splendid observation in “Remembrance of Things Past”: “The one thing

that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been ‘great changes.’”

We take comfort in the fact that for more than a century predictions about the impending demise of classic higher education have met the same fate: They have been utterly wrong. Around 1900, David Starr Jordan, the founding president of Stanford, forecast the end of the liberal arts college.

Others foresaw financial ruin for higher education during the Depression, when public colleges suffered 40 percent reductions in funding and private institutions lost more than a quarter of their endowments and more than 70 percent of gifts from benefactors.

Then came proclaimers of the end of educational excellence resulting from democratization associated with the GI Bill, followed by prophets of demographic devastation from the large baby boom

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Dutch Brothers tries to move closer to campus Sara Miller For the Review The two brothers from Grants Pass were big dreamers with big follow-through.

And it took their coffee business, Dutch Brothers, from a single push cart to a multimillion dollar West Coast network in just 20 years.

“There are now more than 200 locations on the West Coast,” said Rennika Doty, regional manager of the McMinnville shops. “And we continue to grow every day.”

There are two Dutch Brothers shops in McMinnville, one downtown on Baker Street and the other north on Highway 99W by Goodwill. And Doty confirmed a third is in the works.

“The rumors are true,” she said. “We hope to open a third location in McMinnville, which would be close to campus.

“We are trying to work out the contract. It is not a done deal yet.”

If all goes well, the new shop will be located on a vacant lot on Highway 99W. The lot is close to the Albertsons shopping center, which includes a Starbucks.

The expansion is welcome news to Dutch Brothers regular junior Kendra Howard.

“Going to Dutch Brothers is fun because it’s not like a normal coffee shop,” Howard said. “All the workers are so friendly, and the service is fast and really good. Hav-

generation, and conversely, from the baby bust.

In short, there has been no scarcity of doomsayers.

We thought that economists were bad at predicting. Next to educational pundits, they

ing a Dutch closer to campus would be great, so I could walk there before class.”

Doty, a Linfield alum herself, said that she hopes that opening a shop near campus will spur the company to get more involved with the school. She said she is a big advocate for closer connections between the company and the colleges it serves.

“We donate a lot of money to Linfield, and we are always running specials for the students,” Doty said. “But I always think there is more that can be done, and hopefully moving closer will help that.”

Along with running student specials, Dutch Brothers hires a lot of students as baristas. Doty got her start working as a barista while she was still in school, and said she feels lucky going to a job that she loves.

She said working in the shops taught her more than just how to make coffee. It also taught her to cherish the relationships workers built with customers.

“It’s so easy to change someone’s whole day, or even week, by engaging in a short conversation and giving them some hope,” Doty said.

“Whether that is in a cup of coffee or a big smile. It doesn’t take much to go out of your way. I truly believe we change lives.”

Sara Miller can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

debt at all. Meanwhile, the college premium—the ratio of college earnings to high school earnings—is at or near record levels and has been increasing decade after decade since the late ’70s.

Though college debt levels clearly are something to monitor, the vast majority of students graduate with relatively small debt burdens.

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-Barry Glassner and Morton Schapiro have the vision of Nostradamus.

Present-day alarmists fare no better. Though college debt levels clearly are something to monitor, the vast majority of students graduate with relatively small debt burdens—about $25,000 on average—and about onethird leave college with no

While for-profit colleges enroll an increasing percentage of all undergraduates, the demand for education at selective private and public universities and colleges continues to grow, as evidenced by dramatic declines in the percentage of applicants they admit. And worry that online education will replace

the four-year undergraduate growth experience that takes place on a college campus seems as unfounded now as when first articulated 20 years ago.

Still, as the saying goes, even paranoids on occasion have people chasing them. The truth is that we don’t always sleep well at night. But what keeps us up is surprisingly similar to what we suspect kept up chancellors at Oxford University half a millennium ago: How can we best provide students with a balance of the practical skills they’ll need for the world that awaits them and the abstract wisdom that will help them adapt when that world, and they themselves, change? How do we assist our students in their almost-universal desire to make a positive impact on society, while they are in college and after they graduate and become leaders in their communities? What should be the role of our institutions

in addressing society’s most challenging issues?

And of course, our constant worry: Will we be awakened with word that a young person has done something reckless that harmed him or others, something we might have prevented? These are the issues that we wrestle with during our days and our nights.

One other thing worries us. There is a surefire way to make today’s dire predictions come to pass —if educational leaders feel compelled to listen to scaremongers who are all too anxious to force us to adopt a new model that eliminates outstanding professors and their passion for teaching, research budgets and the pursuit of new knowledge, the residential college experience and the core commitment to excellence that have made American higher education the leader in the world. If that were to happen, we might end up with colleges and universities that aren’t worth saving.

Nursing: Preserved artifacts now on display for all

Photo courtesy of Rachael Woody Linfield graduate Rosa Gibson has located and preserved items for a collection of artifacts from Linfield’s nursing program’s history. The first collection of these is on display at Linfield’s Portland campus. Another will be exhibited in Salem, Ore. << Continued from page 1 from the governor, scrapbooks and articles about the medical field.

There are two framed

certificates awarded to Emily Loveridge, who started the nursing program in 1890. One designates her as a registered nurse in the state of Oregon from 1911, and the other establishes

her as a licensed anesthetist in the state of Oregon from 1914.

Along with documents, the collection includes photos of Loveridge, family, employees, students, phy-

sicians, nurses, alumni and patients.

The collection also holds nursing uniforms, a silver tea set, porcelain dolls and a variety of other objects.

When Gibson began the project, the collection was kept in 75 boxes.

“It’s amazing that the campus held onto everything,” Woody said.

Perhaps more interesting than the collection itself is the information that can be gained about the nursing programs founder, Loveridge.

Originally trained in nursing on the East Coast, Loveridge was brokenhearted when her fiancé died of tuberculosis. She never married and always wore black. After her fiancé’s death she decided to travel to Oregon on the Oregon Trail to help care for the sick.

When she first arrived to the hospital, she was shocked by the conditions of the facility. However, she was able to whip it into shape, and it became one of the best teaching hospitals in the Northwest.

At the time, there was no orphanage in Portland.

Loveridge, who never had her own children, took it upon herself to adopt and care for all of the orphans.

The new Linfield nursing exhibit not only offers a glimpse into the life of Loveridge, it offers a look into the founding and history of the program that has helped so many.

Madeline Bergman can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

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Halloween: Trick-or-treating keeps students busy on Halloween

Kate Straube/Photo editor Students signed up in advance to pass out candy to children on Halloween. Children came with their parents dressed up in costumes and traveled from dorm room to dorm room across campus.

Chrissy Shane/Features editor Children from McMinnville wander around campus while trick-or-treating Oct. 31.

Chrissy Shane/Features editor Sophomore Dawn Wyruchowski (right) passed out candy to children who were trick-or-treating with their families at Linfield on Oct. 31.

Chrissy Shane/Features editor Linfield students wrote Halloween messages on their whiteboards to show their spirit.

Chrissy Shane/Features editor Freshman Sabrina Rahiri is the Pioneer hall president and one of the Linfield students who helped coordinate the trick-or-treating event on Halloween.

Chrissy Shane/Features editor Local children pose together to show off their different costumes Oct. 31 while trick-or-treating on campus.

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Photo courtesy of Robert Gardner Robert Gardner, associate professor of sociology, performs at a wedding.

“It started in grad school,” said Robert Gardner, associate professor of sociology, of his musical endeavors.

Although Gardner played trumpet through seventh and eighth grade, his musical pursuits flourished in graduate school.

“A friend of mine decided to buy a guitar,” Gardner said. “Our intention was to jam together.”

So, Gardner bought a bass, but soon discovered it was not his calling.

“I quickly learned that I just wasn’t as cool at parties with a bass,” Gardner said, chuckling.

So he bought a guitar and learned some basics from his brother, also a guitarist.

“I got really into bluegrass music when I was in grad school in

Colorado,” Gardner said.

Gardner attended a bluegrass music festival and left with a newfound love for the genre.

“I saw that there were all sorts of people jamming into all hours of the night,” Gardner said. “It inspired me to learn.”

After that, Gardner attended many jam sessions where he learned to play bluegrass music with people who would become his friends and future band mates.

“I ended up having a regular jam group that turned into a band,” Gardner said.

The social music group formed The Corn Whiskey All Stars, who went on to perform at a benefit show. After a band member moved out of state, another band was formed: Blue Moonshine, which performed at weddings and parties.

Now, Gardner brings his guitar to his office and plays when he can. However, with a recent addition at home, practice time is limited.

“I have a 10-month-old at home,” Gardner said. “She actually loves the guitar.”

Peter Richardson, professor of German

Peter Richardson, professor of German, can be found in his third floor Walker office “frailing,” a traditional “bump-ditty” rhythm common to many folksongs, on his Fairbanks banjo, worn with time and use.

“I came to it in high school,” Richardson said. “I started out with a baritone ukulele. That’s what I learned on when I was a freshman in high school in 1956. Then, I switched over to the guitar and the five-string banjo.”

Although Richardson didn’t have formal music lessons, music was an important part of his social life. He often got together with friends to listen to their favorite records.

“We’d get together after school and listen to records and try to play what we heard,” Richardson said. “This is what we did instead of video games or TV. It was great fun.”

Music has always been in Richardson’s life in one form or another. He grew up listening to his father perform classical pieces on the piano, and later in life, his two daughters played in the orchestra as young girls. His older daughter played cello in the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and his younger daughter played the violin.

“We played Irish fiddle tunes together,” Richardson said.

Now, Richardson plays for his grandsons, but they’re not the only ones who get to hear him pluck tunes on his banjo.

“We sing every day in my beginning German class,” Richardson said. “They are taken aback at first when I ask them to sing.”

Richardson also owns a guitar and a mountain dulcimer, and one day hopes to learn the cello.

“It’s never too late,” Richardson said.

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S he smiles with the sort of confidence that’s genuine, yet withholding. Her eyes light up as she recalls the recent opening of her boutique.

“It was beautiful,” she said. “I don’t think, until that moment, people understood the magnitude of my ambitions. Fashion is something that I have always found value in.”

Naseem Momtazi’s new store, Robert Roe, is the most recent addition to the popular Third Street business community in downtown McMinnville.

She was a junior at Linfield College when she began thinking about opening her own clothing outlet.

But she said, “I knew that if I wanted to get my dream going, I had to work at something else first.”

After graduating with a business degree in 2009, Momtazi began working for her parents’ well-known family winery, Maysara, as a sales and marketing specialist.

She said working for the winery has been a great experience. Not only has it helped her grow as a businesswoman, but it has also introduced her to many different cultures, experiences which have worked together to inspire her fashion sense.

Momtazi has traveled through most of the U.S. now, and has become familiar with the countries of Dubai and Sweden.

“You know, when I go to these places, I see many things,” she said. “I love seeing the different styles of cities and countries.”

She hopes to bring some of those styles to Robert Roe. The outlet carries products from brands like QI Cashmere, Naven, House of Harlow, Belle Noel, Lovers + Friends and Threads 4 Thoughts, to name a few.

It’s at the higher end of the price spectrum, but Momtazi hopes people will realize quality is a great investment. Her things may be a bit more expensive, but in exchange, they will last longer.

Prices for tops range from $13 for a T-shirt to about $170 for a blouse or cashmere sweater. Jeans run from $120 to about $210.

“I still have cashmere from high school,” she said. “It’s worth the investment.

“To me, it’s important for people to feel classy, to feel great about themselves, and I think clothes provide that quality.”

Inspired by the class she hoped to bring to the boutique, and wanting to avoid trading on the family name, she chose to name her business Robert Roe. “I knew from the beginning that whatever name I picked it had to be different from our name,” she said. “I wanted something strong. Robert is so strong.”

Momtazi said her family is extremely close, so it was a bit of a challenge early on to get her parents to understand why venturing out on her own was important to her.

Her youngest sister, Hanna, said, “Our parents were a bit reserved to the idea because they didn’t want my sister to lose focus of the winery.”

Though they have since embraced the idea, she said, they are not stepping in. They are giving Naseem the room to test her wings on her own, unaided.

Hanna said their parents invested a lot of hard labor getting where they are today, and they want Naseem to understand what it takes. She said some people might view it as a lack of support, but it’s actually the kind of support designed to teach her the most important lesson of all—the value of hard work.

On the flip side, Naseem said, some people assume her famPhoto courtesy of Olivia Uphoff ily is underwriting her endeavor, when it isn’t.

Linfield alumna and owner of Robert Roe, Naseem Momtazi.

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“What’s been a little bit annoying is that a lot of people think this is something I’ve done with my family, but it’s been all on my back,” she said.

“That’s been really hard, to live in the shadow of everyone thinking it’s a family business when it’s not; it’s all mine.”

Momtazi sees Robert Roe expanding some day to cities like New York and Los Angeles. She admires the fashion tastes of Rachel Zoe and Kourtney Kardashian and seeks to emulate them in her shop on a grand scale.

But it all starts with McMinnville. She said it’s a fact of life that clothing options are limited locally.

“I just want people to not stick themselves in a bubble,” she said. “It’s funny how many get into this mentality of, ‘This is how I must dress.’ I want them to see possibilities and feel good.”

She said the biggest limitations she’s facing right now are the location and hours.

Robert Roe is tucked into Studio 10, on the second floor, above La Bella Casa. And she noted, “I’m only open two days a week, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment. It’s what I can manage right now.”

Momtazi said one of her goals is to inspire other Linfield graduates, and current students, to create their own businesses as well.

“I want Linfield students to know that they can ask for internships so they can get a clear hands-on experience,” she said.

She’s also honoring her Linfield ties by offering students a 10 percent discount on clothing and accessories. Momtazi said the boutique isn’t fully where she wants it to be yet, but she isn’t easily discouraged.

“This is my baby,” she said. “There’s no way it’s not going to succeed. It’s going to happen.

“Opening this store is just the first step for me. People have no idea the things I’m creating in my mind.”

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Chrissy Shane/Features editor A customer browses through clothing racks at Robert Roe, Women’s Clothing & Accessories, which opened in August on Third Street.

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“Paranormal Activity 4” horrifies audience Kate Straube Photo editor

Joel Ray/Senior photographer (Left to right) Sophomore Chris Meadows, playing the part of Danny, J.P. Kloniger, playing the part of Lou, and freshman Lukasz Augustine, playing the part of Phil, perform in the Marshall Theatre during the opening night of “Kickin’ Sand and Tellin’ Lies.”

Dorymen play opens with success Chrissy Shane Features editor Nov. 1, Linfield’s Marshall Theatre premiered “Kickin’ Sand and Tellin’ Lies,” based on the extensive, two-year student and faculty research project, Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City.

The project is highly collaborative, combining the efforts of the Linfield College Department of Theatre and Communication Arts, the Jereld R. Nicholson Library, the Linfield Center for the Northwest, the Pacific City Arts Association and the Pacific City Dorymen’s Association, to document the historical dories and dorymen, and the role they play in the coastal village of Pacific City, Ore. “Pacific City has been the home of the dory fleet flat-bottom boats for 100 years,” said Brenda DeVore Marshall, professor of communication and theatre arts, “yet there’s not really a documented history there.”

Marshall, the director of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project, grew fascinated with the history of the dory fleet that was ingrained in the unique culture of Pacific City, an unincorporated village of about 1,000 people.

“I thought that’s what we should focus on, and if we collected oral histories, we could use them to create a

play,” Marshall said.

“This show is her brainchild and she is so invested and passionate in it,” senior Madison Sanchez, who is playing a doryman’s wife in the show, said, “I can’t express how awesome it is to perform in a show that was thought up by one of my professors, and written by another one of my professors and a fellow student.”

Playwrights, senior Chris Forrer and Jackson Miller, professor of communication arts and director of forensics, wrote the fictional story, which chronicles the experiences of the Kid as a young fisherman, learning the ropes of being a doryman in Pacific City.

Miller and Forrer found inspiration from more than 80 interviews with dorymen and women and members of the Pacific City community, from ages nine to 91.

“The main challenge was in sorting through all of the wonderful interview material, news articles, photographs and other artifacts to find the bits and pieces that we wanted to use in the script,” Miller said, “The main reward was in getting to work with the beautiful emotions in all of the personal stories we collected during the interview process.”

“The process of collaborating on a script with playwrights is always exciting because of the creative problem solving of getting the words on the page to

come alive onstage,” said Janet Gupton, associate professor of theatre arts, resident director, and director of “Kickin’ Sand and Tellin’ Lies.”

A little more than 80 percent of the dialogue derives from the actual interviews acquired throughout the project.

“We wanted to be true to the words, speech patterns and stories from our historians, while also making the narrative more dynamic and interesting in a larger scope of a theatrical production,” Forrer said.

“It’s like a patchwork quilt, trying to piece the history together,” said Tyrone Marshall, professor of theatre arts, director of theatre and resident designer.

“Over the two years of this project, I’ve been taking a lot of pictures to help document it from a contemporary aspect.”

Tyrone Marshall has collected nearly 15,000 images, many of which are being used in the multi-media set of “Kickin’ Sand and Tellin’ Lies,” along with vintage video of the fishing boats.

The collective nature of the project and production has allowed for a number of students and faculty, representing a number of different majors, to get involved.

“One of the things I loved about the overall project, is that it allowed both parts of the department to work together,” Brenda DeVore Marshall said. “The theatre

program always involves students, but this has been a more formal involvement of students and faculty in both programs.”

Nine students and five professors made up the research team for the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project, and a total of 62 students are involved in the production of “Kickin’ Sand and Tellin’ Lies.

“We truly could not have created this wonderful production without the contributions of everyone along the way, and I am personally very thankful for having had the opportunity to work with such a talented and dedicated group of individuals,” Miller said.

In addition to the original script and multimedia production, the project has resulted in digital archives, scholarly papers, poster sessions and a photo exhibit.

It will continue through the spring of 2013 with a traveling exhibit, as well as continual updating of the digital archive collection.

“Kickin’ Sand and Tellin’ Lies” runs Nov. 1-3 at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. and Nov. 8-10 at 7:30 p.m. There will also be a performance in Pacific City on November 17.

To learn more about the project and to access the digital archives, visit digitalcommons.linfield.edu/dory.

Chrissy Shane can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com.

My fellow Review staffer Kaylyn and I sat in the theater by ourselves, faces covered by our jackets, as we watched the horror unfold in the latest installment of “Paranormal Activity.”

The Paranormal franchise began in 2007 and has since gathered a large following. The movies deal with a family being terrorized by a supernatural presence.

For those of you who have been lucky enough to make it five years without seeing one of these movies, here is a quick rundown of the stories (without giving too much away, of course). The first movie deals with a couple, Katie and Micah, being haunted by an evil presence. In the second movie (a prequel to the first), we meet Kristi (Katie’s sister) and her family who are also being haunted by the presence.

The third movie (set when Katie and Kristi are kids) answers a lot of questions about the first two, namely why the two sisters have to deal with the evil spirit no matter where they go. In the latest movie, the same evil spirit begins to terrorize a new family after the neighbor’s son begins hanging around their property.

From my experience, the movies have gotten increasingly scarier. With each movie, the supernatural presence becomes much more hostile. What used to be just random bangs and weird sounds in the night has turned into creepy cats and pool cleaners, knives falling from the ceiling, humans being pulled into the basement by invisible spirits and kitchen cabinets and doors opening on their own, just to name a few things.

Each movie steps up the level of horror and torture that can be released on a human. In addition, each movie expands on the idea

“Paranormal Activity 4” movie cover that supernatural occurrences don’t only happen at night. Not only that, but each movie advances in the way it records the paranormal activity. Simple home cameras on a tripod have transformed into smart phones and webcams used in the most normal locations imaginable.

As a general rule, the “Paranormal Activity” movies are really creepy.

The idea of being haunted by something that is invisible and has complete control over you is out of my mind creepy. Also, it seems impossible to make a tree house, your own bedroom or your own house, for that matter, a scary place, but think again... these movies will make you paranoid.

Everything that once made you feel safe, forget it! “Paranormal Activity” will ruin it, just like your parents ruined Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

“Paranormal Activity” not only scares you in the theater but it also drives you mad once you leave.

I am not afraid to admit that each “Paranormal Activity” movies scares me more than the first and that’s what I love about them. I don’t go to see scary movies to laugh (even though the first one was kind of a joke), I go to feel like I am going to die (for lack of a better way to put it). It’s my form of bungee jumping or skydiving but with a guarantee that I will still be alive at the end.

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Students fly across the pond to study abroad Kaylyn Peterson Copy chief

Photo courtesy of Alanna Stanton Junior Alanna Stanton sits outside of Wollaton Hall in England during her study abroad experience at the University of Nottingham. Stanton noticed many differences in teaching style and class structure while studying in England.

Known for the castles, royalty and history, Great Britain is one of the many locations that Linfield students can chose from to study aboard.

This fall semester, Linfield has nine students studying at the University of Nottingham.

Junior Chelsea Ploof’s adjustment to Great Britain culture hasn’t been as difficult as she predicted.

“I still get tripped up by the 24-hour clock and how they refer to time. Instead of saying 3:30 for example, the British would ask you to meet them at half 3. Or, they might even say half past or a quarter past and you have to determine what hour they are talking about,” Ploof said via email. “Also, currency is a challenge. I still get confused about the proper terms for each coin and the slang that is used to refer to pounds.”

When looking at the difference in schools, fellow junior Alanna Stanton has noticed the teaching style differences between Linfield and the University of Nottingham.

“The courses have a lot less mandatory reading [which] are much larger,” Stanton said via email.

“They seem to take the approach of ‘here are about 30 additional books that have good info on the subject we discussed in lecture, feel free to do more reading.’ You seem to in a sense

design your own course in a way. Focus on the parts you find really interesting.”

With more independence in their learning, Linfield students adjust to a new type of grading system.

“The British do not typically have a GPA or letter grades,” Ploof said.

“Instead, they receive marks based on percentages of the rest of the class.

Their marks are also on a totally different scale than us. For example, 70 is superior here where as in the U.S., it would be seen as average work. In order to get a superior mark, you also have to go above and beyond the expected amount of work. Your overall mark is usually dependent on only one exam or one paper. You have to conduct a lot of independent study and determine what is important and what is not.”

While Great Britain is filled with historical culture, those who come to Linfield from Great Britain see a lack of history behind the American culture.

Sophomore exchange student, Marit Berning grew up in Great Britain and in coming to Linfield has noticed some distinct differences in culture.

“The hardest thing about moving to America was getting used to the lack of historical culture,” Berning said via email. “In England, even the sidewalks have been around for 200 years, not to mention all of

the buildings, statues are so steeped in history. Coming to America was an aesthetic shock due to the newness of everything.”

Another difference Berning has encountered is the hospitality of Americans, more specifically those on the West coast.

“Americans are much more hospitable than Londoners (I can’t really speak for the whole of England),” Berning said. “Everyone seems eager to help here, and the general air is that if someone can go out of their way to make your day notably better, they will.”

While Great Britain and America are different, both Berning and Ploof, along with many other Linfield students, have positive experiences fueling their visits to each country.

“I have never felt so accepted and so at home while abroad before,” Ploof said. “Elements of the culture that I was originally nervous about, only make the experience that much better. I love all the opportunities and diversity that a big university has to offer, and I am really enjoying the social life. If I had to pick one word I would say opportunity. There are so many ways to get involved here. If you ever get bored of Nottingham or even England, all you need to do is just hop on a train or a plane and travel. The world is your oyster in the UK.” Kaylyn Peterson can be reached at linfieldreviewcopy@gmail.com.

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Joel Ray/Senior photographer Junior Kelly Yokoyama performs a Chris Brown medley during the Student Cat Cab on Nov. 1.

Junior Gulfem Torunler and Yokoyama, who are roommates, tried for a long time to get a Cat Cab slot and finally got to enjoy the spotlight.

Joel Ray/Senior photographer Junior Gulfem Torunler perfoms alongside Yokoyama during their Student Cat Cab on Nov. 1 in the Fred Meyer Lounge.

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J.K. Rowling’s novel makes readers forget Harry Paige Jurgensen Staff writer J.K. Rowling, acclaimed author of the “Harry Potter” series, is back with a new novel, “The Casual Vacancy.”

But for this novel, you’ll have to put your wands away.

Rowling took the new novel as an opportunity to do everything she couldn’t do in “Harry Potter,” a children’s series. “The Casual Vacancy” is an adult novel full of F-Bombs, drug use and sexy British scandal.

“I just needed to write this book. I like it a lot, I’m proud of it and that counts for me,” Rowling said in an interview for “The Guardian.”

“The Casual Vacancy” is set in a rural town in modern day England called Pagford.

The town is rocked by the sudden death of Barry Fairbrother, who leaves an open seat on Pagford’s town council. The town is politically torn between those who want to separate the Fields, a poverty-ridden side of town that is home to drug addicts and

bad seeds from Pagford, and those who want to keep it.

Several townspeople jump at the opportunity to take Barry’s vacant seat, which causes the ghost of Barry Fairbrother to intervene.

Rowling narrates Pagford by observing a handful of dysfunctional characters like, Samantha, the middle-aged woman that pines for her youth (and youthful boys), Krystal, the teenage daughter of a heroin addict/prostitute, and Cubby, the principal of the local high school who

is determined to protect the Fields after the death of his best friend.

Rowling has a distinct pattern to her writing. For about three-quarters of her novels, there’s a steady buildup of character development and plot thickening before, in the final quarter, there’s an explosion of events that leaves the reader stupefied.

During the first week, “The Casual Vacancy” became the 15th top selling novel from 2012 and within a month, sold more than one

million copies.

The media is raving about “The Casual Vacancy,” and not all of it is good. A family of Sikh’s in Pagford has caused a controversy. Many Sikhs appreciate the accurate portrayal of how Sikhs are racially discriminated against while some Indian officials, like Avtar Singh Makkar, want the novel banned in India.

“The novel contains moments of genuine drama and flashes here and there of humor,” wrote the New

York Times’ Michiko Kakutani. “But it ends on such a disheartening note with two more abrupt, crudely stagemanaged deaths that the reader is left stumbling about with whatever is the opposite of the emotions evoked by the end of the ‘Harry Potter’ series.”

Rowling took a relatively boring topic, like small town politics, and transfigured it into a fast pace and fun novel.

Paige Jurgensen can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com

Reproductive rights remain up in the air This week is it. The next president will be decided and all those annoying political ads will finally come to a close. At this point, it feels like they have been going on forever.

So what will happen? For only one day after this article runs will we be unsure. But sex and reproductive rights have been a huge part of this year’s political discussions. Many opinions and false facts have been tossed around and have become viral on Facebook and other media. Before it became less relevant, I wanted to go through some of them.

The first statement that comes to mind was about the need- or lack thereof- for abortions in rape cases by Todd Akin. He claimed that doctors had told him that when legitimately raped, a woman’s body will prevent itself from getting pregnant.

One, this is not true.

Some form of birth control is what would prevent a woman from becoming pregnant after being raped. The body does not differentiate between rape and consensual intercourse and decide to stop a process.

Two, what is “legitimate rape”? He may have meant violent rape where it is clear the woman is being raped.

This invalidates women who are raped through manipulation and guilt, which is also emotional abuse (see my last article).

Unfortunately, he is not the only one to believe this. Back in 1995, Henry Aldridge said those who are truly raped don’t get pregnant because their “juices” don’t flow. Akin later claimed he misspoke, but never offered his alternative “medical advice.”

Some politicians have said that rape is God’s will.

Richard Mourdock said recently that he believed life begins at conception and that even in cases of rape, abortions should not be allowed. One of his supporters, Sen. John Cornyn, agreed with Mourdock that life conceived in this manner was a gift from God. Mourdock did say that he does not condone violence and rape. But when using the religion card, why is it not pointed out that rape is wrong? If life begins at conception, why is the after-

math punished rather than targeting the cause?

Gov. Mitt Romney has been wishy-washy on some issues, including when it comes to abortion and birth control. He has flipped on where he stands on abortion exceptions, from none to only cases of incest, rape and threat to the mother’s health or life. He has also reportedly said that he will get rid of Roe v. Wade and funding for Planned Parenthood.

Where he will land, nobody knows. But what statistics show is that more education about sex leads to less unplanned pregnancies and abortions. And stopping the problem at the source has shown more effective, not only in rape but a wide variety of other issues as well.

Bailey can be reached at linfieldreviewbailey@gmail.com.

Lamar’s album could save the rap genre Tyler Sedlacek KSLC Music Director Up-and-coming hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar released his second studio album and first major label debut, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City on Oct. 22 on TDE Records.

The album tells stories of Kendrick’s life and tales of living and growing up in the streets of Compton, Calif.

The album is a follow up to his critically acclaimed first studio album Section. 80.

In the song “Compton” Kendrick says, “Now we can all celebrate, we can all harvest the rap artists of NWA, America target our rap market, it’s controversy and hate, harsh realities we in made our music translate.”

Lyrics like this paint a perfect picture of the type of artist Kendrick is. He is someone who grew up seeing the harsh realities of life in the streets and has the ability not to just highlight them but to analyze the repercussions of the lifestyle, both positive and negative.

His ability to craft the tales of the everyday man trying to make it day by

day can appeal and translate to anyone. Kendrick moves beyond the limits of the gangsta rap genre and speaks to the humanity in almost all music fans and especially hip-hop fans.

The album features production from big name producers like Just Blaze (who has worked with the likes of Jay-Z and J. Cole) and the Neptunes (who have worked with artists like Justin Timberlake, as well as Jay-Z). The album also features appearances by artists, such as Jay Rock, Dr. Dre and Drake.

The album starts off on a slower note with two songs “Sherane” and “Don’t Kill My Vibe.”

“Sherane” is a story of a summer fling involving Kendrick and a character named Sherane. They meet at a party and flirt but Kendrick has reservations about getting involved because of her gang-affiliated family. Kendrick decides to continue the fling but as the song draws to a close he is confronted

by Sherane and two hooded men waiting to surprise him.

The song gives a fairly

“Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” album cover innocent look at summer love but also keeps the themes of street life and the dangers that constantly confront Kendrick throughout the narrative of the album.

The song has a laid back vibe but soon the album quickly picks up speed.

The album hits an incredible pace on the freestyle rap “Backseat Freestyle.” Kendrick’s raps come fast and with a growl in his voice that demonstrates the grit and power he puts into his album. Past fans will recognize flows like this from his song on Section. 80 “Rigamortus.”

Many Kendrick fans may be disappointed by the lack of features from his Black Hippy compatriots Ab-Soul

or Schoolboy Q but the album is still strong. And “Money Trees,” featuring Jay Rock, will more than hold fans of the hip-hop super group over until they release a formal studio album.

The album is a great success and Kendrick fans will not be disappointed with the direction the artist has moved in since his first release on Section. 80. Music fans in general will also find a lot of positives in the album as long as they like hip-hop.

It can keep the attention of the general rap fan or dig deep into the minds of the serious hip-hop aficionados.

Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City could be the strongest hip-hop release of 2012 by a young artist, who could be one of the first to save the genre and bring its consciousness back, while maintaining the reality and straight forward attitude that makes the rap so special.

This album is a must listen and Kendrick is an artist that any serious music fan needs to explore further.

Tyler Sedlacek can be reached at KSLCmusic@gmail.com.

Upcoming events Traditional Medicinal Plant Use in Latin America

3 p.m. Nov. 5, Jonasson Hall

Airlie Press Lecture

7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, Nicholson Library

Pro Cat Cab: Aaron Zimmer

9 p.m. Nov. 8, Fred Meyer Lounge

Marshall Theatre: Kickin’ Sand and Tellin’ Lies

7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 and 10, Marshall Theatre

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senior makes final appearance << Continued from page 16

Photo courtesy of Sports Information Senior midfielder Tessa D’Alessandro tries to block the opposing team from gaining possession of the ball during the game against Whitworth on Nov. 3. The Wildcats won 2-0.

Carrie Skuzeski Senior reporter Despite winning two more games and setting a record, the Linfield women’s soccer team lost a close battle for the Northwest Conference Championship to the University of Puget Sound Loggers.

The Loggers defeated Pacific University 4-0 Nov. 4 to secure their 11th consecutive conference championship. The Wildcats take home second place and wait to see if they will receive an at-large bid to compete in the playoffs.

Sophomore Stephanie Socotch guided her team to a 2-0 victory against Whitworth on Nov. 3.

Socotch, the lone scorer of the game, stepped up for

her teammates in what could possibly be the last game of her career, as she will be moving to the Portland campus to pursue a nursing degree.

“I didn’t let any stress get to me, I just played. I don’t even know what happened,” Socotch said about scoring the pair of goals. “I thought the game was an overall team effort, it wasn’t just me.”

For the fourth time this season, the ‘Cats retrieved a win in overtime, defeating Whitman 2-1 Nov. 2. Junior Emily Fellows can be credited for scoring both goals.

Although the ‘Cats were lagging in the first half with Whitman leading 1-0, a strong second half gained them the win.

Fellows scored the final goal with only 30 seconds

remaining in the first overtime period.

“It was our last two games so everyone went out and tried not to stress about it and had fun playing the game we love,” senior Emily Allison said about the final games of the regular season.

The Wildcats, with the respectable record 16-2-2, have a heap of accomplishments from the regular season to reflect on and be proud of. The ‘Cats have allowed only 10 goals to be scored on them. Early in September, the ‘Cats earned a spot in the D3soccer.com Top 25 national ranking for the first time in program history.

Then, not even a week later, they landed a first-ever spot in the NSCAA Top 25.

With their 16th win, the ‘Cats set a Linfield record for the

most wins in a season.

This season also allowed head coach Dominic Doty to amass more wins than any past women’s soccer coach at Linfield.

But the Wildcats still have a chance to continue on with their season if they receive an at-large bid to participate in the playoffs.

The 64 teams that will be selected to participate in the 2012 NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Championship will be broadcast in a live video show at 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 5.

Let’s hope the selection committee is impressed with the ‘Cat’s successful regular season, as the fate of the ‘Cats now depends on them.

Carrie Skuzeski can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

we had dug ourselves too deep of a hole to climb out of and win.”

The Wildcats had a poor performance at the net, being out-blocked seven to two with an attack percentage of .082.

Junior Kelsey Ludin led the ’Cats with 11 kills, Frazier had 35 assists and freshman Courtney Uyeda produced 35 digs.

This was the last game for lone senior Bethany Dickey. Dickey had four digs in her final appearance in a Wildcat jersey.

The Wildcats had a much different outcome on their game against the Whitman Missionaries on Nov. 2, sweeping the fourth-place team.

The first set was a nailbiter, going past the 25-point mark. With the set tied at 28-28, the Wildcats took over, taking the final two points on kills from sophomores Victoria Thompson and Kailana Ritte-Camara, winning the set 30-28.

The second set was close as well. Tied up at 24-24, the Whitman setter committed two bad sets in a row, giving the set to the Wildcats 26-24.

The Wildcats took the third set 25-22, sweeping the Missionaries.

The Wildcats were able

Dickey to get past the Missionaries, while being out-blocked 11-2.

“Our defense stepped up a lot and our hitters were really aggressive at the net. We also were able to side out really quickly and not give up runs of points, which helped us to keep the momentum through all three games,” Frazier said.

Ritte-Camara led the ’Cats with 13 kills and 24 digs and Frazier added 37 assists.

“It felt so good to finally get a win,” sophomore Courtney Wanamaker said.

“I think it built everyone’s confidence and ended our season on a positive note.”

The Wildcats finished their season with a nine and 14 record, going four and 12 in conference and finishing eighth overall.

Chris Haddeland can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

Wildcat Sports Schedule Friday, Nov. 9 Swimming

vs. Pacific Lutheran

6 p.m.

Cross Country

@ NCAA III Regionals

9 a.m.

Football

vs. Pacific

1 p.m.

Swimming

vs. Puget Sound

1 p.m.

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splitting the uprights from 27 yards to send the ’Cats into the locker room up 13-0.

The second half belonged to Inns, who tossed all three of his touchdown passes in the third quarter.

Inns found junior receiver Deidre Wiersma for a short nine-yard strike on Linfield’s first successful drive of the quarter. After more defensive dominance on the other side of the ball resulted in a punt, sophomore receiver Charlie Poppen hauled down a 28-yard lob from Inns to cap a seven-play drive that took less than two minutes.

Shortly before the end of the quarter, Inns and Wiersma hooked up again, this time on a 23-yard connection that ballooned Linfield’s lead to 34-0.

Wiersma topped 100 yards for the first time in several games, finishing with 133 yards to go with his two touchdown catches.

Yoder picked up right where Inns left off, tossing a 29-yard pass to freshman

Photo courtesy of Sports Information Junior linebacker Tyler Robitaille makes a tackle during the Puget Sound game Nov. 3. The Wildcats snagged a 47-7 victory and the conference title. receiver Evan Patterson less than a minute into the fourth quarter. Puget Sound tailback Austin Wagner responded by scoring the Loggers’ only touchdown of the day on a 19-yard run on the ensuing drive.

Yoder had one more trick up his sleeve, hitting sophomore receiver Derek Priestly with a 19-yard missile to cap the score at 47-7. The backup quarterback’s final line was impressive: 58 passes completed, 119 yards and two

touchdowns. Senior tailback Stephen Nasca led Linfield’s running back corps with 56 yards on the ground in his second game back from injury, although Shaffer scored the game’s only rushing touchdown.

The ’Cats retained their hold on the No. 3 spot in www.d3football.com’s Top 25 poll this week in addition to their No. 1 overall ranking in the West region. Should Linfield win its season finale at home against Pacific Uni-

versity, it would be in prime position to receive a No. 1 seed in the Division-III playoffs and secure the homefield advantage that comes with it.

Sports Commentary

random team from Spokane, Wash. You may have heard of this team by now, but in 1999, this team was the nation’s new darling.

That’s right, I’m talking about the Gonzaga Bulldogs.

1999 was the year that they made their mark. Dan Monson had a team without top talent that was taking UConn to the brink. They led by one point at halftime, and all of a sudden, I realized how much I cared about the outcome.

This game is exactly why basketball is unbelievable.

Maybe more than any other sport, team chemistry and coaching can dictate the path of a team. You need talent to win, but a team like Gonzaga in 1999 used team defense and outside shooting to

shock the world.

Could they do it to UConn too?

As the game was drawing to a close, my parents didn’t know what to do with me. I was jumping up and down, cheering after every basket, pleading with the UConn players to pull victory out of the jaws of defeat. As I look back, I was kind of like a mini Jim Calhoun. OK, maybe I’m not as stubborn, but still, UConn needed the win.

Sure enough, there would be no Final Four for Gonzaga.

El-Amin dribbled out the end of the game and the Huskies continued their dance.

Strangely enough, I was sad for Gonzaga. They almost ruined my championship pick, but I couldn’t help but

love how they played.

As the next 13 years passed, Gonzaga became a national power. Its fans show the passion that makes college basketball so great, and it recruits top players.

As for UConn, who knows where El-Amin is. Hamilton is still in the NBA—no facemask anymore, unfortunately. Jim Calhoun just retired after two more national titles and lots of rants on the sideline.

Fortunately for me, Calhoun’s retirement doesn’t mean I am retiring my love for the game. That UConn team ushered me into a life of caring too much for the games.

I can’t handle waiting seven months from the end of the season until the beginning of the next.

Thank goodness the season starts next week. Hopefully this year will be a success, just as my first March Madness Bracket was. This year is going to be wide open.

There is no clear-cut favorite (unlike last year where Kentucky and Mr. Uni-brow were unfair), and we could find a new team like Gonzaga in 1999 or George Mason in 2006 or Butler in 2010.

I have no doubt the season will be a success. College basketball never fails. Find your UConn this year if you haven’t already, and you’ll see what I mean. You’ll fall in love. But don’t you even begin to think that you can steal my true love. It’s all mine.

Chris Forrer can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

Upcoming college basketball season draws in viewers For some people, it takes years to find true love. For me, I found it at the ripe old age of six years old.

In 1999, I was introduced to a bracket—a March Madness bracket—and I have been smitten ever since. If I could, I would put a ring on it. Hey, that’s a good idea!

The 1999 tournament was incredible. I picked the University of Connecticut to win the tournament because I liked their Husky mascot and their Husky point guard, Khalid El-Amin.

El-Amin and Richard “Rip” Hamilton led UConn to the title that year, upsetting one of the best Duke teams of all time in a nail-biting championship game. I loved UConn’s swagger, even though I

Tyler Bradley Sports columnist didn’t know what swagger meant at age six.

Like I said, I did know what love was at age six, and nothing sealed my love more than UConn’s Elite eight game in 1999.

I was rooting hard for my new team, but it seemed as if its salty coach and its swagger had hit a roadblock with some

Tyler Bradley can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

Swim team collects multiple top finishes at meets Kelsey Sutton Managing editor The Linfield swim team struggled to keep up with Whitman College and Whitworth University at meets on Nov. 2 and 3 in Walla Walla and Spokane, Wash.

Although the race times were close, Linfield’s men and women were edged out by Whitman, with final scores of 127-78 for the women, 14-62 for the men.

Placing first in four of the 22 events, the Wildcats swam hard to land close behind in many of the races.

Freshman Nikki Overton finished the 1,650-yard women’s freestyle in first with a time of 19:02. Sophomore Aidan Willers swam to first

Overton in the 1,650-yard men’s freestyle, clocking 18:58.

Sophomore Kelcie Kimura led the way with two wins.

She finished first in the 200yard women’s freestyle with a time of 2:01 and won the 100-yard women’s freestyle at 55.11.

Other Wildcats who swam fast and placed high include senior Megan Sandall, who placed second in the 50-yard women’s freestyle with a time of 26.28. She finished second in the 100-yard women’s freestyle at 57.40.

Junior Lee Rivers finished second in the 400-yard men’s IM at 4:29.

Junior transfer Daniel Pallacios finished third in both the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle with times of 24.11 and 52.06, respectively.

In the 100-yard women’s butterfly, senior Catherine Nakamura placed second at 1:04. For the men, senior Sean Iwamasa finished the race in second at 56.28.

Despite the close loss on

Nov. 2, Willers said the team kept the positive energy coming.

“I think both days we swam really well. I saw lots of my teammates getting best times and putting in a great effort,” he said. “People were cheering for each other and providing encouragement for each other.”

Exhaustion from the day before proved to be a challenge for the swimmers in their meet against Whitworth on Nov. 3.

Whitworth dominated the results with final scores of 152-53 for the women and 172-32 for the men.

“Saturday was tough, being tired from Friday, but we still had some decent races,” Willers said.

Overton finished second with a time of 2:02 in the 200yard women’s freestyle.

Kimura finished first in the 50-yard women’s freestyle at 25.54.

For the men, freshman Ian White swam to third with a time of 23.05.

Rivers clocked in at 2:04 to place third in the 200-yard men’s IM. Senior Katie Main finished in second in the 200yard women’s butterfly with a time of 2:17. “[Whitman and Whitworth] are strong, resilient and fast. They have some good kids on their side and they put up a good fight,” Willers said.

For many swimmers on the team, maintaining tech-

nique and speed while tired is one of the biggest challenges. This especially can be said for those who swim the 160-yard race, which consists of 66 laps.

“Some of us need to focus on getting our technique correct when we tire out,” Willers said. “As a distance swimmer, I understand this completely. It is so hard to do simple things 40 laps into your 1,650. Every little detail becomes a struggle.”

The Wildcats will swim again Nov. 9 and 10 against Pacific Lutheran University and Puget Sound University, this time at their home pool.

Kelsey Sutton can be reached at linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com.

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Balancing life as a mother, student, athlete Sarah Mason Staff writer “The power of a small college.” It’s a catchy slogan Linfield students and faculty come across on a daily basis.

Since returning to Linfield after having a baby during her sophomore year, junior cross country star Siena Noe has fully experienced the power of Linfield’s small community.

Staff, community members, students and teammates have offered comfort and support for the 20-year-old single mother of 7-month-old Blaise.

After finding out before sophomore year that she was pregnant, she will admit she was devastated. Her parents thought the pregnancy would result in many missed opportunities for their oldest daughter. However, life for Noe has been far from that with help from Linfield.

After realizing that little Blaise’s father had no intention of being a part of her son’s life, Noe realized there was no reason for her to stay at her parent’s home in Yakima, Wash., and decided it was time to venture back to Linfield.

“Things were not good at home with the dad,” Noe said. “I’m a single mom. I thought the dad would be around and that me staying home would be best for Blaise. When it started looking like he wasn’t going to show interest, I knew I had nothing to keep me home at that point. And that’s when I started emailing Linfield.”

Noe never expected to be back at school after what she had gone through. She knew it was going to be difficult getting back on track, but she knew it was the best thing for her and her son.

“I didn’t think it was realistic,” Noe said. “Linfield has been really great about me trying to come back here and everything with my baby. I emailed some people trying to see if my academic scholarship was still applicable if I came back, which it was.”

Noe also never foresaw that a former boss would

eventually be renting out of her home to her. Eileen Allen provided Noe with the opportunity to rent a bedroom from her home and occasionally look after Blaise when needed.

“I got really lucky when my work-study boss from freshman year, Eileen Allen, found out I was trying to come back [to Linfield],” Noe said. “I needed a place to stay where Blaise could come with me, and she offered me a place for really cheap. If she hadn’t offered me a place to stay, that would have been the deal-breaker.”

Allen watches Blaise when Noe has 6:40 a.m. cross country workouts and when Blaise’s nanny is not available.

“I managed to find a nanny who was trying to open her own in-home daycare,” Noe said. “I was her first customer, so I got priority and Blaise gets to hog her schedule.

“She covers me during all my classes on Monday through Thursday,” Noe said. “It’s super nice because she lives right across from Linfield, so I can dart over there whenever I need to breast-feed. She’s really great and Blaise loves her.”

Between Allen and the nanny, there are still times when Noe needs a babysitter in order to make it to practice and meets and finish homework for her communication arts major and Spanish minor. She is lucky enough to have constant offers to watch Blaise free of charge.

“I have some of my friends from the team who watch him on Fridays,” Noe said. “Everyone here, especially my team, has been really supportive. There is no way I would have been able to pull all this off without their help.

“Everyone has bent over backward to make sure that I’m getting to all my classes and getting enough sleep,” Noe said. “I have people randomly offering to take Blaise free of charge, just so I can take a nap.”

If it weren’t for the gen-

Joel Ray/Senior photographer Junior Sienna Noe is one of the top runners for the Linfield cross country team. Noe now has a 7-month-old son named Blaise. She continually has to manage her schedule to take care of her child, practice and complete her classes for her communication arts major and Spanish minor. erous Linfield community, Noe would not be able to run for the Wildcats like she had trained for all summer.

“Getting back into shape wasn’t fun,” Noe said.

“But it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be because I had been itching to go running. Being pregnant, it was really difficult to be told that I couldn’t go running because it would hurt someone else besides me. My doctor told me to wait six weeks after giving birth, but I was back to running by day nine.

I was a little stir-crazy.”

She ran until she was six months pregnant, to which she attributes her ease in bouncing back. Noe contin-

ued to train all summer long, but is still shocked at how well the season is going for her personally.

“I managed to run first for Linfield two weeks ago,” Noe said. “I have been battling for second and third most of the season. I don’t feel like I am in the shape I am supposed to be in. But I feel like I am keeping up with the girls who have been training more than I did. It makes me pretty optimistic for next season.”

Noe has used the negative energy from her hometown and doubts from many people about her ability to attend college

and run cross country with Blaise by her side to fuel her competitive drive.

“I like that it’s just you out there,” Noe said. “When you race, if you have a bad day or a good day, it’s because of you. It’s been all about taking my principles and turning it into my driving force. I kind of knew what my principles were, but they were tested. I have had to solidify my values, which has made it easier to compete and steer my course.”

Noe is grateful for her support system here at Linfield. The Linfield community has truly made it possible for her to be back

this fall.

“Being a student athlete and single mom has been no walk in the park,” Noe said. “Being on campus with a ton of kids my own age makes it feel like all of campus is raising Blaise, which is really awesome.”

A lot has changed since sophomore year for Noe, and she is making the most out of her time at Linfield.

“I really have a driving force to finish school and apply myself because I have someone else to take care of. It’s not just me,” Noe said.

Del Prete gained possession of the ball again and the freshman tied the game for the ’Cats, 2-2.

The Bearcats continued to try to create scoring opportunities but were blocked off by the Wildcats’ back line. With 22 minutes left on the clock, the Bearcats made two back-toback goals, doubling their lead 4-2.

Linfield fought back, with Del Prete shooting in point-blank range but being blocked. The forward rebounded the ball and

scored with a rebound.

Throughout the remainder of the game, the Wildcats struggled to even out the match, with the Bearcats ultimately taking the win.

Loriaux made eight saves for the Wildcats.

Overall, this season the Wildcats finished with a record of 7-11-0, which is better than their 2011 record 2-14-1. Del Prete completed his first collegiate season as Linfield’s leading scorer.

Sarah Mason can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

Wildcats lose final game of season, 4-3 Ivanna Tucker Sports editor

Men’s soccer took a hard loss in its final game of the season against Willamette, losing 4-3.

In the 12th minute of the game, the Wildcats won a corner kick when freshman Domenico Del Prete‘s shot was knocked out of play.

The Bearcats came back with a corner shot of their own.

Sophomore Grant Loriaux made a save when a Bearcats player tried to

send in a shot.

Near the end of the first half, a Bearcats freshman forward snuck in a shot, closing the first half in the lead, 1-0.

Two minutes into the second half, another shot was attempted by the Bearcats but was blocked.

They rebounded and sent in another shot, doubling their score.

The Wildcats came back into the match wanting possession. Five minutes into the second half, Del Prete started a pass

Del Prete

Loriaux

series with senior Tyler Sedlacek, who passed it to sophomore Jake Baker and

made it back to Del Prete, who gave the Wildcats their first point of the game.

Ivanna Tucker can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

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Catline Wildcats bury winless Loggers Chris Forrer For the Review

Northwest Conference Standings Football Linfield

5-0

1.000

Pacific Lutheran

5-1

.833

Willamette

3-2

.600

Whitworth

2-3

.400

Pacific

2-3

.400

Lewis & Clark

1-4

.200

Puget Sound

0-5

.000

Pacific Lutheran

14-2

.875

Puget Sound

13-3

.812

Pacific

10-6

.625

Whitman

9-7

.562

George Fox

7-9

.438

Willamette

7-9

.438

Whitworth

6-10

.375

Linfield

4-12

.250

Lewis & Clark

2-14

.125

Volleyball

Men’s Soccer Whitworth

10-2-2

.786

Puget Sound

8-2-4

.714

Pacific Lutheran

9-4-1

.679

Willamette

7-5-2

.571

Whitman

6-5-3

.536

Linfield

5-9-0

.357

Pacific

3-11-0

.214

George Fox

2-12-0

.143

Last week the NCAA released its first set of regional rankings for Division III football, and Linfield checked in at first place in the West region. The Wildcats didn’t disappoint in their first week atop the regional ranking, sending the winless University of Puget Sound to a 0-8 ranking in a 47-7 victory.

The Linfield defense throttled the Loggers throughout, forcing five sacks and denying the opposition a touchdown until long after the starters had left the game.

Senior quarterback Mickey Inns had his most impressive game of the season, amassing 422 yards through the air to go with three touchdowns and a 69 percent completion rating.

Combined with a sharp game from junior backup quarterback Josh Yoder, Linfield quarterbacks set a single-game record with 541 total passing yards.

In the early going, it was senior kicker Josh Kay who got things going for the Wildcats, opening scoring with a 32-yard field goal to stake Linfield to a 3-0 lead.

Kay’s second attempt of the day was wide left from 32 yards, but freshman running back Jon Shaffer darted into the end zone from one yard shortly after to expand the lead to 10-0.

Kay got another opportunity late in the first half and capitalized, >> Please see Football page 14

Photo courtesy of Sports Information Junior defensive end Jeremy Girod fights off a block during the Puget Sound game on Nov. 3. Girod had six tackles and two sacks during the game.

Women’s Soccer Puget Sound

13-2-1

.844

Linfield

12-2-2

.812

Whitworth

10-4-2

.688

Lewis & Clark

7-6-3

.531

Pacific

6-8-2

.438

Pacific Lutheran

4-5-7

.469

Whitman

4-9-3

.344

Willamette

3-11-2

.250

George Fox

2-14-0

.125

Sports schedule Check out the sports schedule to see when your favorite teams play this weekend.

See page 13>> College basketball Sports columnist Tyler Bradley talks about the upcoming college basketball season.

See page 14>> Cross country runner Junior Sienna Noe has come back strong as one of Linfield’s top runners after having a child during her sophomore year.

See page 15>> Men’s soccer takes final loss The men’s soccer team completes its season with an overall 7-11 record.

See page 15>>

Kate Straube/Photo editor Junior outside hitter Shayli Coppock jumps up to spike the ball during the game against Whitman, winning all three sets. Linfield lost the match against Whitworth on Nov. 3, ending the volleyball team’s season.

Lady ’Cats split games in final weekend Chris Haddeland Culture editor The Wildcats volleyball team played its final two games of the season Nov. 2 and 3. The ’Cats went one and one on the weekend against Whitman University and Whitworth University.

The Whitworth Pirates came to Ted Wilson Gymnasium on Nov. 3 to face off against the Wildcats in the final game of the 2012 sea-

son. The first set started off tight, putting each team at 16 points.

The Pirates pulled away after two Wildcat errors, eventually taking the set 25-20.

The Pirates took the second set with more ease. After keeping close with the ’Cats at an 11-10 score, Whitworth capitalized on three Linfield errors, scoring six straight points to put the Pirates up 17-10. The Pirates won the second set 25-16.

The Wildcats wouldn’t let their season end without a fight.

After the intermission, the ’Cats jumped out to a two-nothing lead, and would never give it up, only allowing Whitworth to tie the set once at 3-3. The Wildcats won the set 25-23.

The Wildcats kept up with the Pirates, forcing the game to go past the 25-point mark. But with the game tied 27-27, the Pirates finally pulled away. Whitworth

took the next two points with kills, winning the final set 29-27, ending the game and the Wildcats’ season.

“We just gave up a lot of unnecessary points and didn’t play with the same fire that we had on Friday night,” sophomore setter Audrey Frazier said. “The last few points in the final set, we finally stepped up and made some big plays, but >> Please see Volleyball page 13