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’Cats win against Pacific Lutheran Universtiy on Dec. 3. >> page 16

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encouraging smokers to end their habits.

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A 22-year-old, male Linfield student was found deceased in his residence hall at about 9 p.m.

Nov. 18.

The body of junior Elliot Alexander, a McMinnville resident, was found inside his single room in Mahaffey Hall.

The discovery was made after Linfield College Public Safety was asked to make a welfare check, said Robert Alexander Cepeda, chief/ director of CPS in an email.

An email sent at 11:16 p.m.

Nov. 18 by Susan Hopp, vice president of Student Affairs and Athletics and dean of students, said that at this time “there is no indication of foul play.” However, the McMinnville Police Department is conducting “a standard investigation.”

Ron Noble, chief of the McMinnville Police Department, said that nothing looked obviously suspicious. The preliminary investigation found no evidence of foul play or that it was a suicide. The cause of death is unknown.

Elliot Alexander’s father, Michael Alexander of McMinnville said that Elliot was just finishing up his first semester of junior year as a political science major.

Michael Alexander said that there is every indication that Elliot Alexander died of natural causes. He was found sitting at his desk, and there was no evidence of foul play.

“Elliot enjoyed Linfield. He tended to be reserved, but once you got to know him, he opened up. He had a quiet generosity about him and was wonderful with children. Even though he found young children to be trying, you would never know it because he did so well with them,” Michael Alexander said.

“Elliot was enjoying his work and looking forward to his senior year when he could take more electives. He was beginning to think in other ways, about maybe

Parkour Students involved in parkour demonstrate their stunt abilities. >> page 8 & 9

Orchestra Concert The Linfield Chamber Orchestra performed for a large audience Dec. 2 in Ice Auditorium. >> page 10

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Linfield students, such as freshman Kelly McCandless (above), perform in the 2011 Fall Dance Showcase on Dec. 3 in Ice auditorium. >> Please see Dance page 5

Linfield gains new VISTA coordinator Football The Wildcats went up against California Lutheran University, earning a close win with a score of 30-27 Nov. 19. >> page 16

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Joel Ray Photo editor Linfield’s new VISTA Student Engagement Coordinator hopes to engage students in community service, owning a tree farm, and above all else, serve the local community.

Alexis Powell, who is now serving her second term with AmeriCorps, chose to work at Linfield because it allowed her to connect people with the local community.

“I chose Linfield to gain experience, to serve and to connect people. Really, to connect people,” she said Powell served her first term

with AmeriCorps at the Yamhill Community Action Partnership as the Homeless and Community Outreach Coordinator.

During her time at YCAP, Powell worked with homeless and low-income individuals by running the Thanksgiving and holiday programs, coordinating the annual homeless count and teaching gardening at a YCAP shelter.

Powell chose YCAP because she wanted to continue serving in Yamhill County. After graduating from George Fox University in Newberg, Powell opted to stay in Yamhill County so that she could continue to serve the community that she had already served for four years.

At Linfield, Powell primarily works with five students who are part of a new leadership program called Change Corps. Change Corps works through the office of Community Engagement and Service to organize service projects in the community to promote student involvement in service.

During her stay at Linfield, Powell hopes to connect students to service opportunities that are happening in the community.

She says she hopes to provide students with projects that connect what they are learning in the classroom with community ser>> Please see Vista page 4

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EDITORIAL

Shop locally this holiday season Crowds of people rushed to stores on Thanksgiving night, standing in lines for hours, waiting for stores to open up on Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year.

Stores such as Macy’s, Target and Best Buy opened up their doors as early as midnight for eager customers hungry for deals on clothes, electronics and appliances. In some stores, check-out lines wrapped all the way around the store.

With the country still in a recession, many holiday shoppers are looking for the best deals possible on gifts for family members and friends on their shopping list.

In the process of this extreme holiday shopping, many people become unnecessarily aggressive, pushing and hurting people, all because there is an item on sale.

There have even been Black Friday shoppers who have been trampled to death by other shoppers.

The holiday season is supposed to be the season of giving, not the

season of selfishness. Is hurting someone really worth that big, flatscreen TV? “People were crazy. They were like vultures,” freshman Alexis Heredia said.

While it is true that you may need to be more aggressive while shopping during the holidays, make a conscious effort to not be unnecessarily rude to other holiday shoppers. Try not to push people out of your way, and definitely don’t walk on top of someone just to get an item on your Christmas list. If everyone treats each other with respect, we can all have a more enjoyable holiday shopping experience.

Freshman Megan Goudie had a more pleasant Black Friday experience.

“People were assertive, but not pushy,” she said.

People don’t need to be rude in order to shop.

Big corporations are attracting herds of holiday shoppers by

advertising sales to people around the country. But what happens to the smaller, local businesses struggling to survive this holiday season?

When shopping for presents this year, consider visiting local businesses before visiting big chain stores.

By supporting local businesses for presents this year, you are investing in your community rather than just giving your money away to big corporations.

Local business owners are just trying to provide for their families, so why not help them buy presents for their children?

Also, consider donating food or toys to charity. Everyone deserves to have a decent holiday meal and every child deserves a toy on their holiday list. Keep the holiday spirit alive for everyone.

By treating other shoppers with respect and sharing the wealth, everyone wins this holiday season.

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POLITICS

SOPA invades Internet Think about all the countless hours you spend watching YouTube videos, looking at images on Pinterest or reading posts on blogs.

Now, picture them gone in an instant due to new government regulations. All across the country, millions are using these websites for their own entertainment or learning. The government is now trying to pass an internet censorship bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

With SOPA, corporations will have more control over their copyrighted materials. This is a good idea to a certain extent. Corporations such as the Hollywood movie studios that are supporting this bill are trying to make sure they get as much money and accreditation as possible for the products they produce.

Websites such as YouTube would not exist if this bill was active at the time of its creation. There didn’t seem to be a problem originally,

Ivanna Tucker Features editor but now that sites like YouTube have become so profitable, corporations want a cut of the earnings.

According to the Huffington Post, if this new bill is passed, companies would basically be able to force websites like YouTube to remove all the material belonging to the Hollywood movie industries and music production companies. This can include a demand to shut down noncomplying websites.

These types of threats also affect consumers. Shouldn’t the consumer have a say in the matter? Stricter laws could possibly in fact lead to a loss of revenue for some, especially those businesses

that advertise heavily on media sharing sites.

SOPA is a good idea; however, some of the guidelines established need to be more realistic to both sides. People complain about how the government has so much power now but with this new law, it will also have authority over everything that goes onto the Internet. The government should not have the ability to control every aspect of the lives of citizens.

Piracy is a bad thing.

There are alternate routes that can be taken to prevent this from happening, such as establishing fees or targeting the more extreme pirating sites.

Our lives are based on the mass of freely circulating knowledge and media that can be found on the Internet.

This bill challenges the building blocks upon which our generation has grown. Some regulation is necessary, but this bill is not the answer.

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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Runner sends prom invite

Meghan O’Rourke, since you are the opinion editor for The Linfield Review, I thought I would share some of my opinions with you.

In my opinion, your running bandanas are awesome.

Not only do they keep your hair out of your face, but you are also prepared to rob a bank or hold up a train full of loot.

In my opinion, your writing is brilliant, and it makes me hope that you are considering a mass communication degree.

In my opinion, we

would make a great couple at cross-country prom this weekend.

I would love to take you out to dinner, wear over-the-top outfits and take an unhealthy amount of awkward pictures together.

I would love to share a dance, enjoy the company of our teammates and celebrate the end of a great season with you.

Feel free to respond via airplane banner in the sky, writing in the clouds or a parcel from an owl.

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Don’t let consumerism overtake the holidays It’s been a long, hard semester, and now the end is so close I can almost taste it.

Only this week and finals lie between us and the holidays, whatever holidays you may celebrate.

It’s definitely showing in the realm of advertising, too.

I’ve lost count of how many Christmas sale commercials I’ve heard on my Pandora radio station. So many stores are urging us to buy their stuff that you can practically hear them tripping and shoving each other to be first in line. And it’s alarming how

Sharon Gollery Culture editor many people are the same way—frantic to get the best deals and the most things.

Between Black Friday and the holidays, this time of year isn’t so much the season to be jolly as the season to show

American consumerism at its finest. I get the feeling that too many people focus on the giving and receiving aspect of Christmas, making it a holiday centered around the all-important stuff. As nice as it is to give and receive presents, this should not be the focus of our holidays.

Now, if you asked an average person what the holidays were all about, you would probably get an answer about joy and love and being with family. Nobody likes to admit to being materialistic. However, the fact remains that the

way consumerist America shows its joy and love is to give and receive presents, making the presents the most important aspect of the holiday.

I would urge everyone not to let the consumerist aspect of the holiday season get in the way of the things that truly make this time of year special. For some people, that might be drinking eggnog, or watching old Christmas movies with their grandparents. For others it could be caroling with their friends or baking a special cake.

Spending money on whatever deals mega-stores throw at us is hardly the reason to celebrate.

I’m not saying that you should boycott big stores and buy nothing. The holidays would be pretty dreary without people exchanging gifts, and it’s true that a lot of stores offer deals on items that would otherwise be out of a lot of people’s price range.

There are also a lot of organizations that give donated toys or food to children who wouldn’t otherwise get any-

thing, and that is a wonderful kind of charity.

Giving gifts is not the only focus of the holidays, nor is it the main one. I doubt that any of the religious celebrations that happen around this time of year place much of an emphasis on getting stuff as part of the festivities.

As we head off on our break, we should anticipate the things that actually make the holidays special, not the prospect of acquiring more things.

Sharon Gollery can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

ENVIRONMENT

Factory farms ruin environment and torture animals

Most people don’t think about how the hamburger on their plate got there. They simply eat it without considering what they are consuming.

Even when people do stop to think about what the food put on their plate once was, they most likely don’t have an accurate idea of what really happens to the animals most people regularly consume.

When I was a kid, I always thought that farm animals lived a happy life, roaming relatively free in big green fields until they died and became our food.

I could not have been more wrong. Most farm animals live a miserable existence in cramped quarters until they are slaughtered for our consumption.

Poultry are perhaps the most mistreated, being fed tons of fattening food, but with no room to move around.

Many chickens become so overweight that their legs break from the pressure.

How can we justify this kind of cruelty? Animals can feel pain and certainly don’t deserve to live such miserable lives just so people can eat their Big Macs and chicken nuggets at McDonalds.

Most Americans would be outraged if dogs or cats were treated this way, but little consideration is given to pigs, animals that are more intelligent than dogs.

According to ABC News, IQ research at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England has proven that farm animals are smarter than most people give them credit for.

Something needs to be done to change the way farm animals are treated. Factory farming is not only bad for the animals, but it’s also bad for the environment.

Instead of harvesting grain to be consumed by people, the majority of grain is har-

Meghan O’Rourke Opinion editor vested to feed farm animals, which are slaughtered to be eaten by humans. Because farmers feed their animals so much grain, wildlife habitats are destroyed to accommodate farmers’ needs.

While getting rid of factory farms is a huge task, there are simple ways for everyone to take a stand against this torture. The most obvious way to protest is to simply stop eating meat altogether. For many people, this is too radical of a change. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other ways to help.

Reducing the amount of meat and eggs you eat can make a difference. Also, buying free-range meat and eggs can help. Free-range means that the animals are allowed more space to roam. This is a small step in the right direction for farming practices.

By not supporting the business of factory farms, you are helping to not support the torture of animals and the destruction of our environment. If everyone changes their eating habits, factory farms will be forced to realize that people no longer want what they have to offer.

Farming should be done the way it is portrayed in children’s books: cows and pigs roaming across green fields, free to graze the grass already provided by nature, instead of trapped in cramped quarters and being fed harvested grain.

Meghan O’Rourke can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com.

Photo courtesy of Olyvia Nodsle

“This is a photo I took on the ferry leaving Seattle one rainy, grey, Washington summer day. I chose to make it black and white because I’ve always thought of Seattle as being a monochromatic city. But since leaving, I feel like it has all of the same depth of a good black and white photo. It doesn’t need color (or sun) to have an impact. Seattle will always be grey in my head.”

CULTURE

Looks don’t determine ability We are the generation of body modifications. Piercings, tattoos and other forms of body modification are not modern innovations, but seem to have gained popularity in the last two decades. Society’s reaction to body mods is largely disapproving, especially in the workplace, and I think that needs to change.

Body modification is changing or altering your body from its natural or “normal” state to fit how you want it to look. Changes can range from simple things such as a nose piercing or a tattoo, to more noticeable things like dreadlocks. Some people do even more extreme things like get reconstructive surgery.

Changes like these are a personal decision.

Some view these modifications as a form of selfexpression and a way to be

Kelsey Sutton Copy chief different. While some may not think it is a good reason to permanently alter your body, it is still a personal decision—one that does not affect how one performs in the workplace or at school.

It also does not change a person’s worth or make them a bad person.

Body mods are becoming so popular that many employers don’t have a problem with them anymore. But there are still some places that refuse workers based solely on a few tattoos or piercings. I know some-

one who was fired because she had dreadlocks and her employer viewed them as “dirty.”

Ignorance is a large reason for this problem. Dreadlocks aren’t dirty. There is a lot of maintenance that goes into the hairstyle. Piercings and stretched ears don’t make someone a bad person. The individual simply likes the way he or she looks.

People shouldn’t be denied a job that they are qualified for just because they look a little different.

There is nothing wrong with standing out. The skills someone possesses might be indispensable, and to deny them based on something shallow is an unwise decision.

I myself enjoy piercings, stretched ears and tattoos. I got these modifications because I like them

and I think they look good.

It doesn’t change the fact that I’m going somewhere with my career and that I’ll make a great mother one day. It simply means I’ll look a little different. Yes, some are permanent, and I’m prepared to deal with those consequences. But I don’t think I’ll regret it. I don’t want to be afraid that my future is jeopardized because of something I find artistic.

While it is becoming increasingly more acceptable to have modifications, people who are pierced, tattooed and physically altered are still being discriminated against and denied equal opportunity.

A person’s ability to work and perform is not taken away by these changes and the judgment needs to stop.

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

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Students try to stamp out cigarettes Andra Kovacs Senior reporter On Nov. 17, Linfield was smoked out. Every year, on the third Thursday of November, the American Cancer Society sponsors The Great American SmokeOut, which encourages smokers to quit or make plans to end their addictions.

The national event reached Linfield as stu-

dents from the Peer Health: Wellness class and the Prevention and Control of Diseases class collaborated to provide information and activities to campus.

In Dillin Hall, students hosted an information table where they offered quit kits, brochures, stickers and more.

They also chalked different areas on campus to provide a clear demonstration of Linfield’s current rule to

keep smoking 30 feet away from buildings.

Christina Maul, health promotion & student wellness coordinator, said that this movement was important to show to students because there can never be too much information given on tobacco’s dangers.

“Even though we may feel that we know a lot about tobacco’s effects and we’ve seen a decline of tobacco use among stu-

dents and employees over the last five years, it is still important to provide accurate information about health risks and resources for quitting tobacco use,” Maul said.

The Great American SmokeOut came at an interesting time on campus, with discussion of a Tobacco Free Campus Initiative being implemented. One of the handouts offered at the event table in Dillin sum-

Alexander: Student found deceased on campus with no foul play involved << Continued from page 1 attending graduate school.

He was a good man, not just a good student or kid, a good man. I’m sorry for those who did not get a chance to meet him.”

Because the family and next of kin were still being notified at the time, Alexander’s name was not released to the Linfield community until an email update was sent by Hopp at 11:42 p.m.

A male, sophomore student who lives on the same floor as Alexander, and wishes to remain anonymous, was present during

the discovery.

“I heard voices outside, and they sounded older, so I peeked out of my room to see what was going on.

There was an older man and woman halfway down the hall or so. Someone from [CPS] was talking to them…I wasn’t sure what was going on at first. When I saw the ambulance, fire trucks and police outside, I figured something bad had happened. After about five or six minutes I went out in the hall to see if they were gone. I saw maybe four or five [CPS officers] and I think police officers by Elliot’s door. They noticed

Vista: Coordinator engages students with volunteerism << Continued from page 1 happening in the community. She says she hopes to provide students with projects that connect classroom lessons with community service.

“I’m really interested in higher education and so I thought I would be able to use some of my connections I made last year and continue serving and strengthening those partnerships right here in Yamhill County,” Powell said. “I just think service learning is an invaluable experience for college students.”

Powell is unsure of what she wants to do once she completes her term at Linfield. She says that she hopes to attend graduate school.

“I still want to go to graduate school, I’m just not sure what I want to go for,” she said. “I don’t have a clear ‘this is what I want

to be when I grow up.’”

In addition to graduate school, she says that she hopes to own a tree farm one day.

“Last year when I was running holiday programs, I realized that people who can’t afford gifts can’t afford Christmas trees,” she said. “And so I just realized that I wanted to be a Christmas tree farmer.”

Powell also expressed interest in opening a food co-op in Newberg.

“There’s this spot that I’ve been scouting out and I think that would make a great initial startup food co-op. And they just put in an insurance or something ridiculous in there,” she said.

No matter where she ends up, Powell hopes to continue to serve her local community.

“I serve because I love serving,” she said.

Joel Ray can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

me and told me to go downstairs.”

Alexander’s body will likely be examined by the Oregon State Medical Examiner in the next few days. However, Noble estimated that the toxicology results from the examination will be released in a couple weeks, he said.

Geoff Porter, class of ’11, said that he had several classes with Alexander and worked on a paper with him during their time in Mass Media, Politics and Public Opinion last fall.

“He was a really nice guy, very bright and had a lot to say in class,” Porter

said.

The Counseling Center staff and the Chaplain will be available in Riley 201 at 10 a.m. Nov. 19 for students, faculty and staff.

And, a service of remembrance will be scheduled after Thanksgiving break, Hopp said in the email.

If students have any questions for the McMinnville Police Department about this case or any other incidents in the future, they can ask them 24/7 via email at macpd@ linfield.edu, Noble said.

Jessica Prokop can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com.

marized Linfield’s statistics about tobacco use, which has been a recent topic of debate.

Maul said she feels it’s important to share this information with students to be progressive and healthy as a community.

“There is a trend among colleges and universities across the nation to move toward being tobacco and smoke free campus to allow all students, employees and

visitors a healthy environment for living and learning,” she said.

For more information on tobacco use at Linfield or for help quitting, visit the Health Promotion and Student Wellness Center in Memorial 101, which is open for students with questions of any kind.

Andra Kovacs can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

Solving mysteries Students and faculty at Linfield assisted in potentially solving archeological mysteries Sept. 24 and 25.

Biology Assistant Professor John Syring, junior Leah Rensel and senior Rebecca Soderlind were given the opportunity to participate in a fossil dig in Kings Valley.

The three, along with a group of others, sifted through the farm site where bones had been found, searching for 12,000-year-old extinct ground sloths.

This dig could eventually answer many questions about the Ice Age mega fauna.

This was the first time that Syring’s students had the opportunity to join the dig and work directly with fossils. The fossils found are set to become a part of the Thomas Condon Fossil Collection at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon. ~ Andra Kovacs/Senior reporter

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Dance: Students strut their stuff on stage Students in Linfield’s 2011 Fall Dance Showcase perform a variety of dances. The dances ranged from waltz and hula to South African dance.

Joel Ray/Photo editor Martin Bellows and D’Leene Peet perform a waltz to the song “Green and Dumb” by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers.

Joel Ray/Photo editor Emily Crocker, dance ensemble director, performs a dance she choreographed to the song “Luckiest” by Ben Folds. The dance was dedicated to her children.

Joel Ray/Photo editor Sophomore Tim Marl performs a dance routine he choreographed to a mix of songs, which included artists Demi Lavato and Flo Rida.

Fall Dance Showcase Welcome to the Jungle: Junior Clia Zwiling Dance with Me Baby!: Senior Mai Doan Waltz: Martin Bellows My Love: Junior Kira Weaver Still I Rise: Sophomore Tim Marl For My Kids-Vivian and Baby TBA: Emily Crocker Sophisticated Hula: Freshman Ashley Kimi Follow me: Senior Mai Doan and Freshman Hang Do Edge of Glory: Junior Kira Weaver Kevinitronic-2011 Linfield Remix: Freshman Taemin Hara Burlesque: Junior Clia Zwiling Cowboy Swing: Martin Bellows Untitled: Freshmen Takaaki Saito and Asaki Saito He Mele No Lilo: Freshman Ashley Kimi Litoloboya: Sophomore Evy Lopez

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Senior Mai Doan and sophomore Sujan Dhoju perform a dance to the song “My Girl” by the Tempations.

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Affordable Holiday Gift Ideas Ivanna Tucker/ Features editor

The holidays are coming up and its time to start purchasing gifts for friends and family.

Being a college student makes it harder to go shopping, but gifts shouldn’t put a hole in your pocket.

Gift cards A simple $5 gift card to Starbucks, Coldstone or any other place that your friend or family member likes will show how well you know them.

Grab bag

Collect various things that represent aspects of your relationship or friendship and put them all in a bag. Write a note that explains the significance of each item. For instance, grab a ticket stub from a movie you both attended and loved.

Handmade bracelets, hats, scarfs and gloves

Picture frames

Buy a picture frame and personalize it by adding your own decorations. Then, add a photo of you and the person you are giving it to. This will allow he or she to cherish the memory you shared together.

Coupon book

For those who are slightly more creative, you can make a friendship bracelet or knit something. These gifts show how much you care because you spent your time carefully creating them.

Underwear

You can never have too many pairs of underwear. You can either ask what kind they like wearing or make your best bet and shop. Perhaps avoid this for family members, though.

Create your own coupons with little notes for things you owe them. For example, you can write “cup of coffee,” “free backrub,” “bowling,” “video game tournament” or Socks Socks are another affordable other good deeds. gift, and they can always be Baked goods put to use. You can be simple If you feel that you are not creative, but and get plainly colored pairs, want to do something special, buy or make or you can find unique socks to the person’s favorite desserts. match his or her personality.

Personalized mugs, shirts or bags

Purchase a plain shirt, mug or bag and then use art materials to design it. You can put his or her name on it, draw pictures or even get a picture printed on it at Walmart for an inexpensive price.

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Parkour: Diving through

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They dive, roll and vault over fences. Walls and parked cars are no longer barriers. They see them as pieces to a playground and tools for expressing themselves.

Sophomore Colton Wright and freshman Cody Meadows are players in the world of parkour and free running.

Parkour is a sport in which the goal is to move through obstacles in the most efficient manner, Meadows said. Parkour athletes—traceurs—vault over walls, jump long distances, roll, flip and dive.

He said that free running shares similar techniques and tricks with parkour, but that free runners are more concerned with the aesthetics of movement.

“Parkour is a discipline and free running is an expression,” Wright said.

Parkour has French origins, as it was used as a military survival tactic during World Wars I and II. While the sport has been around for decades, it didn’t begin to gain momentum until the 21st century, Wright said.

Meadows said he began exploring parkour when he was in seventh grade. At the time, his practice was just an extension of his penchant for other extreme sports, such as snowboarding and skating. Some of his first parkour moves involved flipping off objects onto snow drifts.

Wright didn’t begin practicing parkour until the summer before he began college at Linfield. Some poor coaching had begun to push Wright away from his background as a long distance runner, he said, and he wanted to find a new passion.

Wright had already seen parkour and free run stunts on television shows, such as “Ninja Warrior” and “Jump City.” Since he enjoyed being active and moving, parkour seemed like an obvious

sport to engage in.

“Personally, I’m not good myself through actions and Meadows and Wright cro year, when Wright saw Mea “I was outside one day w ing flips in front of Frerichs, had been practicing for thre and we’re always finding ou Wright and Meadows try pus and in McMinnville each “It’s our version of church This camaraderie betwee expected, Meadows said.

Meadows described a vis ranked parkour team. The t with them, he said.

“Asking a traceur to do a graph,” Wright said.

Wright said that he has b group in San Francisco.

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But even with the support his parkour community provides, d at expressing words but I can define Wright said that fear still plays a dominant role in his practice. movements,” Wright said.

“One of the biggest obstacles is fear,” Wright said. “You are ossed paths on Linfield’s campus last always hesitant to break out of that shell and try something you’ve adows doing a stunt. never done before.” when I saw Cody and his friends practicHe said that traceurs and free runners often take time to pre,” Wright said. “It turned out that Cody pare for a stunt they’re about to pull, mentally measuring out the ee years. We decided to train together steps and jumps they’re about to take. ut more things we have in common.”

“Sometimes I’ll just stand in front of bars or a wall for about five y to practice their stunts around camminutes, working up the courage to make my move,” Wright said. h Sunday.

But even after planning exactly what stunts he will pull, fear h,” Meadows said. still creeps into his practice, he said, motioning to a scar along his en parkour athletes and free runners is right shin.

Wright said the scar came from when he was leaping across sit to the UK, where he met a topmultiple rails behind his high school, hesitated for a moment, and team invited him to do some stunts landed unevenly on one of the bars. His shin drug across the pole before he landed on the ground in pain. a flip with you is like getting an auto“I just remember lying on the ground, ready to pass out from pain because it hurt so much,” Wright said. “It didn’t help when I built relationships through a parkour looked at the pole and saw my skin on it.”

But even with occasional injuries, Wright said he can’t stop each other in person, traceurs and free practicing parkour. He encourages people to try it, even if they line community. don’t come from gymnastic backgrounds. sands of YouTube videos are dedicated Wright said his athletic background was limited to cross g demonstration and tutorials. country and track, but that he was still able to successfully break lly turn into lifestyles, it’s common for into the parkour and free running scene. o watch online videos of stunts when “I always want people to give it a try,” he said. “All I want is for ming them. you to move your body and let it take control.” ng parkour videos and then realize that front of your computer,” Meadows said. Joanna Peterson can be reached at linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com.

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Artist weaves tradition and baskets together Sharon Gollery Culture editor The room was full of upbeat conversation and the smell of cedar at the cultural workshop Nov. 30.

Linfield students and staff gathered in Withnell Commons for guest Stephanie Wood’s presentation about Native American basketweaving techniques with a hands-on activity.

Wood passed around examples of baskets that she had made, and she identified the materials that she used while talking about the traditions of basket weaving. She also showed examples of the grasses and sedges she used.

She showed the workshop participants how to crack a strip of cedar bark and peel the outer bark away from the inner bark.

Next, she demonstrated how to fold and twist the strips into the shape of roses.

“My favorite part was when my rose turned out pretty,” German teaching assistant Manuela Faschang

Joel Ray/Photo editor Participants admire one of the baskets that guest Stephanie Wood showed during the cultural workshop Nov. 30 in Withnell Commons. said. “I was proud when I saw I could do it.”

Wood also showed the participants how to twist thin strands of Alaskan yel-

low cedar into rope.

“The workshop was really new and interesting,” French teaching assistant Esse Dabla said. “I

really did not know what this would be about, so I was curious. I want to take chances and use opportunities. The whole thing was

authentic and simple.”

Wood said that she comes from a family of basket weavers, but today, only she and one of her cousins

continue to weave.

“I enjoy passing on and continuing traditions,” she said.

Throughout the workshop, Wood seemed to enjoy showing the workshop participants how to make the folds that would twist the cedar strips into roses.

“You can tell it’s really important to her life,” Faschang said. “Sometimes when you see things like this, it’s because people want to make money.

[Wood] tries to keep it alive.

It’s not just to make money.”

Wood is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. She is an alumna of the University of Oregon, where she completed her degree in cultural anthropology with an emphasis on Northwest Native American Cultures.

She has worked with several museum collections of Native American baskets to help identify the baskets’ origins and their creators.

Sharon Gollery can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

Senior ends college, LCO plays past, present vocal career on good note Kelsey Sutton Copy chief

Joel Ray/Photo editor Conductor Michael Gesme leads the Linfield Chamber Orchestra in playing a combination string instruments during the Dec. 2 performance in Ice Auditorium. The performance was titled, “Past and Present” because it featured a range of music from the baroque era to the twentieth century.

The song list—featuring works by composers such as Brach and Brahms— explored the past while glancing into the future, providing a broad view of music.

A soprano vocalist showcased her talents with a variety of languages and musical styles during her senior recital, receiving a standing ovation when she finished.

Senior Kayla Wilkens sang with what audience members described as grace and power Dec. 4. In an elegant, red dress, she stood on stage with confidence and kept the audience focused on her.

Wilkens sang various songs in French, German, English and Hebrew. The content ranged from music from the classical era to the twentieth century. Styles she performed included a tango-influenced piece and love poems.

“The Hebrew songs are quite lovely and very poignant, and I knew I wanted to share a moment like that at my senior recital—it’s a very special set of songs.

I’d heard “Animal Passion” at a vocal conference two summers ago and it’s very memorable. It’s a little bit naughty, but really fun to sing and it seemed like a great piece to end with.”

Music majors are required to complete a senior project in order to graduate. One of the choices for the project is a senior recital that demonstrates

competency and the accomplishments of the student’s time studying at Linfield.

“I think a senior recital is an extremely nerve wracking experience, and Kayla managed it with the grace and beauty that I would expect from her,” junior Jenaveve Linabary said.

The preparation process for the recital was an extensive one, Wilkens said.

“When I returned from France for Spring Term, my voice teacher and I sat down and mapped out what type of a recital I wanted to have, and we chose to pull one song from sophomore year and then we assigned a few songs from the program to work on for that semester,” she said. “Over the summer I met with her a few times to go over the rest of the songs that I was learning, and by the time I came back to school this fall, I was mostly working on memorization and details.”

Wilkens glided effortlessly through her recital, hitting every note with accuracy and precision.

“She is amazing. She hits those high notes and the audience is just captivated by it,” sophomore Anna LaBeaume said.

Wilkens was joined on stage by piano accompanist Debra Huddleston. Student musicians played alongside her as well, providing her with a fuller sound.

“It’s been great to see how far she has come since she was a freshman,” junior Jeremy Moll said.

Wilkens has performed many times with the Linfield Chamber Orchestra and with the Oregon Symphony in 2008. She has appeared as Adina in scenes from “The Eilxir of Love” and Violetta in “La Traviata” with the Linfield Opera Theatre. Wilkens performed with the LCO in a performance of “The Marriage of Figaro.” She portrayed Belle in the Albany Civic Theater’s production of “Beauty and the Beast.”

She is looking into vocal performance graduate programs. She says she plans on pursuing a vocal career whether that be Broadway or opera.

Wilkens brought the audience to their feet with her passion and talent, as her family, friends and everyone else congratulated her on her progress and success with applause.

“I’d actually expected to feel a bit more nervous, but I was honestly just really excited to share the material that I’ve been working on,” Wilkens said. “I really loved every song in my program and so it was a fun way to share what I’m studying here.”

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

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Improv Club keeps crowd in stitches Breanna Bittick Staff writer Linfield’s Improv Club put on an enthusiastic performance that kept the crowd laughing the entire night. Each member of the group brought their own comical personality quirks to the stage Dec. 2.

From turning a classic movie like “Titanic” into adlibbed jokes to an 11-second version of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” the comedians showcased their talent.

“I loved that no matter what was said or done, they just went with it. It didn’t matter if someone said something completely out of the ordinary or did something ridiculous, they just made it work,” freshman Laura Lichti said. “I thought that was not only

really professional on their part, but also really funny.”

Audience members provided the group with ridiculous scenarios, lines, places, ideas and people to add a wide variety of talent and quick-thinking to the routine.

The audience seemed to enjoy the group’s last and second-to-last performances above all the rest.

For the second-to-last performance, the group had to act out “Jack and the Beanstalk” in seven minutes. When they were done, they had a member sit out and cut the time in half. The group continued this until there was one performer left trying to act it out in 11 seconds.

For the last performance, group members had the audience write whatever

came to mind on slips of paper and the performers had to adlib the lines into their act, making sentences like, “I don’t have crabs, I have full blown lobsters,” and “Can I touch your oh dang girl?” a part of any conversation they were having at the time.

Another performance the crowd seemed to enjoy was one with two members having a conversation in a grocery store checkout line.

One was the store clerk and the other was the customer.

Whenever a selected audience member rang a bell, the performer that was talking had to change what they were saying to something completely different.

Their scene quickly took a turn to sexual innuendos and ridiculous accusations from buying condoms.

Joel Ray/Photo editor Junior Daphne Dossett, senior Amanda Wolf and freshman Whitney Weber adlib during the Linfield Improv Club’s performance Dec. 2 in the Fred Meyer Lounge.

“The scene with the bell was definitely my favorite.

Each time the bell rang they got funnier and the conversation just got even more

awkward as it progressed,” freshman Caitlynn Fahlgren said.

“They were absolutely hysterical and all so enthu-

siastic,” freshman Zooey Glassman said.

Breanna Bittick can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

Exhibition displays array of student work Samantha Sigler News editor Every type of art from paintings, to sculptures to video was presented in Linfield’s Gallery on Dec. 3 for Linfield’s 2011 Annual Juried Exhibition.

The event displayed students’ works and included three guest jurors: Liz Obert, associate professor of art; Avantika Bawa, an assistant professor at Washington State in Vancouver; and Susan Agre-Kippen-

han, dean of faculty and vice president for Academic Affairs.

It was up to the three jurors to deliberate and decide which art pieces would be selected and placed into the gallery.

Pieces that were not chosen were placed in the 2011 Annual Salon des Refuses in the Linfield Studio Gallery.

Many factors go into choosing pieces to place in the gallery.

“I look at what appeals

to me, how well it’s put together and the content of what I think it’s about,” Obert said. “There’s a lot of subjectivity with three jurors.”

The judges had many different pieces to choose from, making it difficult to pick which pieces would be selected and which would not, as well as which pieces deserved first, second or third place and honorable mentions.

First through third place were awarded cash prizes

and trophies, and honorable mentions received blue ribbons.

“The show as a whole was a great group of artwork,” Cristopher Moss, gallery director and curator, said. The event contained “every spectrum of the art,” which gave the gallery a more diverse look throughout the event. “[The event] brings community together,” Moss said, which was shown by the broad spectrum of students which entered their

artwork.

The honorable mention went to artist Amy Hardy, a senior enrolled in Linfield’s nursing program at the Portland campus. Hardy emailed Moss explaining she wished to enter the contest, however, was unable to drive down and enter her work. Moss drove to Portland and picked up her paintings for her, explaining that it was a “great opportunity” to be involved in.

Out of the 22 selected

artists, first place winner was junior Ziyun Liang, who won $175, second place winner was senior Emily Anderson, who won $75, and third place winner was freshman Hoi Ling Cheng, who won $35.

Honorable mentions were awarded to senior Amy Hardy and sophomore Julie Sadino, while the gallery choice that Moss was able to choose went to senior Alison Pate.

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

Students express themselves at open mic

Melanie Timmins/Senior photographer Sophomores Taemin Hara (left) and Gulfem “Rose” Torunlar (above) take their turns to perform at the open mic night Cat Cab on Dec. 1 in the Fred Meyer Lounge.

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Weathering the holiday season together

The holidays can be a stressful time, especially for new couples. There’s a lot for two people to navigate through, such as dealing with one’s own family and adding the other person’s, gift giving and receiving.

To lower the stress for both people, each person needs to be aware of what the other person is going through and be willing to offer help and support, especially with families from both sides.

Families gather together during this time of year

and it’s easy to introduce a boyfriend or girlfriend to everyone and see if they get along.

This Thanksgiving, I met my boyfriend’s family for the first time and he met mine.

Upcoming events Christmas Choral Concert

Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.

Ice Auditorium

Marshall Theatre: Directing Scenes

Dec. 4-6, 7:00 p.m.

Marshall Theatre

Taste of: India

Dec. 7, 5:00 p.m.

Off-campus

Jazz Night

Dec. 9, 8:00 p.m.

Ice Auditorium

Senior recital: Chelsea Janzen

Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m.

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My side consisted of 10 people, not including the two of us. He met half of them right away and the other half as they gradually showed up.

After a couple of hours there, we left to join his family. I was more nervous than I had ever been before in this type of situation.

In the past, if I spent Thanksgiving with a boyfriend’s family they were small groups and I had met them all before the holiday.

That was not the case this time. His family’s

Thanksgiving was much larger because it included his extended family, and I was going to meet all of them. I met his mother as soon as we walked in to the house.

Immediately afterward, I was swarmed by other adult family members when we joined them in the dining room. There were many more people than at my sister’s house and it was much louder.

I was introduced to people quickly and asked many questions from all them. It

was very stressful for me, but it turned out well.

Then there’s the gift season. For some, picking something to get the other person can be daunting. For me, it was getting the gift that I didn’t look forward to.

I have dated guys who would begin asking me what I wanted two weeks before Christmas, and I would tell them a few things.

One would go out the night before Christmas and pick up something that

gets tired of hearing about the sob story and offers to teach Cal how to “get his manhood back.”

After accepting the offer, Cal learns from the ladies’ man, Jacob, and begins to move on with his life.

Later, Jacob claims he has found the woman for him, Hannah (played by Emma Stone) and leaves the club scene.

Eventually, Cal realizes that he still loves and misses Emily and wants to go home. This is where all of the fun starts!

Through the beginning of the movie, it was hard to tell exactly what path this movie was going to take.

Eventually, it finds its footing and takes off.

“Crazy, Stupid, Love” was clever, emotional, and above all, real. It features at

least five different love stories that are all awkwardly connected.

The cast really highlighted this movie. Carell, Moore, Gosling, Stone and even Bacon were incredibly believable. Gosling has really grown on me, and he didn’t disappoint.

Carell was a toneddown version of his usual character, which I thought was one of his best movie roles yet. I also recommend “Dan in Real Life. “ Overall, the humor level was at about a B+, although there was one scene toward the end of the movie where it got bumped up to an A+.

If you’re looking for a solid movie with a mixed up love story that is welldeveloped and powerful, I highly recommend it.

I give “Crazy, Stupid,

I hadn’t mentioned and didn’t really want or need.

That felt like he was just getting me anything so I would have a gift from him.

A simple solution was for us to make a list for each other after I had a friend suggest it. I think it lowered the stress for him, and I know it helped me.

And sexy gifts are always fun, just make sure they’re given in private!

Bailey can be reached at linfieldreviewbailey@gmail.com.

I’m in love with ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ Hayden Mace For the Review “Crazy, Stupid, Love” is an outstanding movie.

I mentioned it earlier this year as my favorite movie of the summer but didn’t get to do much of a review for it.

“Crazy, Stupid, Love” is the story of Cal and Emily Weaver (played by Steve Carell and Julianne Moore) and their unfortunate divorce after 25 years of marriage when Emily admits to sleeping with her co-worker (played by Kevin Bacon).

Cal then falls into a deep hole and spends most of his time at a local bar talking to anyone who will listen about the situation. A club regular and player, Jacob, (played by Ryan Gosling)

“Crazy, Stupid, Love” movie poster.

Love:” 9.5/10 Once again, this was Hayden from haydensmovies.com bringing you the latest and greatest in movie news and reviews.

Hayden Mace can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

Toy piano band mixes odd sounds Brinn Hovde KSLC music director Quirky electronic artist Twink, The Toy Piano Band released its newest album “Itsy Bits & Bubbles” on Dec. 1. This album is unlike anything you may have ever heard and is certainly worth a listen for those with an open mind.

Twink is Mike Langlie’s sixth album of eclectic mashups. All the songs that he creates are an instrumental partnership of toy instruments, old school video game tones, various electrical creations and whatever else he can get to produce an abnormal sound.

“Twink” was born from a trip that Langlie made to a thrift store where he came across a toy piano. Since then he has had a fascination with the nontraditional boundaries of musical opportunity.

I’m sure many of us can think back to our childhood and captivating moments of jamming with our toy instruments. Langlie never let this go. The whimsical

“Itsy Bits & Bubbles” album cover. tracks that he has created are a collaboration of our youth.

The incredibly unique experience that each track provides will have you listening to music in a way you have never expected.

Something about the offkilter flow takes your mind to places beyond the extraordinary.

One moment you may

feel like you’re walking down a carnival midway and the next you’re lost in the circuits of Pac Man or Space Invaders.

Selecting a track is like choosing from an abundance of mysterious flavors in an ice cream parlor. Each one is unusual in a distinct way.

However, they all provide an unworldly experience.

Turn up any of the songs and you will touch unknown corners of your senses’ surroundings. “Peppermint Bee” will take you back to your Super Mario Brother days, while you climb through billows of cotton candy and paisley with “Jellybean Tree.”

Maybe it’s Dubstep for children. However you may classify this album, it will unanimously be agreed that it is bizarre.

Langlie’s work has been used by MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. The concept is so obscure and every note so unusual that it is worth taking the time to investigate.

Put on your headphones and drift to a paranormal world of harmonious cacophony.

Tune into KSLC 90.3 FM to check out Twink’s “Itsy Bits & Bubbles.” You can also listen online at www. linfield.edu/kslcfm or stream the station on iTunes.

Brinn Hovde can be reached at kslcmusic@gmail.com.

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Joel Ray/ Photo editor Senior Zach Anderson struggles to find a teammate to pass to against Pacific Lutheran University Dec. 3 at home.

Meghan O’Rourke Opinion editor The Linfield men’s basketball team battled to the end in its home conference game of the season against Pacific Lutheran, scoring two threepointers in the last minute of the game.

The Wildcats lost the game 68-76 Dec. 3.

While they may have lost,

they certainly didn’t lose without a fight. In the last 10 minutes of the game, the Wildcats scored 10 points, bringing the score from 58-76 to 68-76.

“Our goals for the season are to get into the playoffs.

We have to finish in the top four spots,” said Larry Doty, the men’s basketball head coach.

Unfortunately for the

Wildcats, Pacific won the game 76-67.

“We didn’t make freethrows and didn’t make stops at crucial points in the game,” said freshman Andrew Batiuk.

The game started out in the Wildcat’s favor, with junior Dakotah Pine scoring a two-pointer and a threepointer early in the game.

Both teams looked evenly

junior tailback Josh Hill scored on a 14-yard screen pass from Inns to give the Wildcats some breathing room. Hill, who had a career game against Cal Lutheran in the season-opener, rolled up 172 all-purpose yards and carried the bulk of the offensive load throughout the contest.

Smith said the result was a team effort, but did praise Hill for stepping up when his number was called.

“Josh is an electric player,” Smith said. “He was the guy who we win or lose with today, and he came through.”

Shortly after the score, a pass by Inns was tipped, intercepted and returned for a touchdown to pull the Kingsmen within three once again.

After a Wildcat three-andout, the Kingsmen drove for a field goal try to tie the game.

Then, Steele rose above the pile and squarely blocked the kick, preventing overtime and preserving the victory.

“I hit the right guard square in the nose and drove

him back,” Steele said. “You throw up anything you’ve got free, I threw up my left arm and it hit right on my left hand.”

The ’Cats were next slated to travel to Dover, Del., to face the Wesley College Wolverines in the second round of the D-III playoffs.

Wesley, an independent that went 8-1 in the regular season, has advanced to the national semifinals six of the past seven seasons and will pose a stiff road test for the Linfield Wildcats.

Smith said that he was stunned at the loaded quadrant of the bracket his team was placed in, but that no matter who the opponent is, the players and coaching staff relish the challenge.

“For them [the NCAA] to load a bracket like they did is really not right,” Smith said.

“There are some roads easier to the semifinals than others and our bracket is not one of them.”

matched after the first half, with Linfield just barely ahead of Pacific by two points.

“There is good chemistry,” Doty said, about how well the team works together.

The second half didn’t go as well as the first for the Wildcats. The score was close for most of the game, as neither team let the other get too far ahead.

Pacific however, started to pull away in the last four minutes of the game. In the last minute alone, Pacific players Charles Moreley and Coby Proctor scored 10 points off of foul shots alone.

“If you can make more free-throws than the other team attempts, you win 90 percent of your games,” Doty said.

While the Nov. 29 game was the first conference game, it was not the team’s first game. The men’s basketball team has already played four games this season.

The Wildcats played against Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash., on Nov. 25.

Unfortunately, junior Zach Meikle and Batiuk sprained their ankles in this game. The Wildcats scored 41 points in the second half, but it wasn’t enough to catch up to Northwest.

Northwest came out with the victory, winning 83-63.

The Wildcats played against NCAA Division I team, the Portland State University Vikings on Nov. 21.

“Our guys look forward to the challenge,” Doty said.

“It’s fun to play against D1 teams,” Batiuk said.

PSU won 101-64.

The Wildcats had their first win of the season against Concordia on Nov. 19 at their home court. Some good shots and rebounds helped the Wildcats to pull ahead of Concordia in the first half of the game and win 47-33.

Linfield held its lead throughout the second half, leaving the Wildcats victorious with a score of 88-72.

The men played their first game of the season against Corban on November 19 at Linfield.

The game was close, but Corban barely edged out Linfield for the win, with a score of 71-68.

The game was a battle until the end. Corban pulled ahead of Linfield with two two-pointer shots in the last minute of the game.

The Wildcats play Multnomah on their home court Dec. 5.

Currently, the team has a lot of players out with injuries, including front line players. Doty said he hopes to have his players healthy by January, when the next conference games happen.

Men’s Basketball Score by periods: Corban

37 34 - 71

Linfield

32 36 - 68

Score by periods: Concordia

33 39 - 72

Linfield

47 41 - 88

Score by periods: Linfield

28 36 - 64

Portland State

50 51 - 101

Score by periods: Linfield

22 41 - 63

Northwest Univ. 44 39 - 83 Score by periods: Linfield

36 31 - 67

Pacific (Ore.)

34 42 - 76

Score by periods: Pacific Lutheran 48 28 - 76 Linfield

33 35 - 68

Meghan O’Rourke can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com.

Football: Wildcats scrape by Kingsmen << Continued from page 16 made it a different game,” Smith said. “But the team in the playoffs who adjusts and gets it done in the crisis situations wins.”

The Cal Lutheran surge continued into the third quarter, with the Kingsmen adding another 20-yard field goal on their opening drive.

Kay continued his strong play by knocking a 43-yard attempt straight through the uprights, but Laudenslayer scooted into the end zone to answer with a five-yard touchdown run.

The Kingsmen quarterback tormented the Linfield defense all afternoon, making plays with his arms (249 yards, one touchdown) and his feet (83 yards, one touchdown).

“They were doing some things differently than last time,” Inns said. “That’s what happens when you play a team more than once.”

Up only three points,

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

Jessica Prokop/ Editor-in-chief Juniors Josh Hill and Drew Wert, and senior Hayden Mace celebrate a touch down made in the third quarter Nov. 19 at home.

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Softball field dedicated to Wildcat Sports Schedule long-time Linfield supporter Monday, Dec. 5

Kaylyn Peterson Sports editor Victor Zhu Staff reporter Students, faculty, the board of trustees and community members gathered to honor Del Smith, a trustee emeritus of Linfield College.

After more than three decades of support, Smith was honored with the dedication of the softball field Nov. 12.

The board of trustees approved the naming of the field during its most recent meeting.

Smith is an active supporter of both Linfield and the McMinnville community.

Serving on the Linfield Board of Trustees for 34 years, Smith has been an influential person around the Linfield community.

With a quickly expanding softball program, the addi-

tion of a softball field with covered dugouts, a grandstand, an enclosed press box and batting Del Smith facility creates the atmosphere needed for a nationally ranked team.

“Having a nice field is so important because it lets us use our facilities all times of the year. With the rainy weather, that’s a huge factor because it allows us to stay outside on the dirt as opposed to the fieldhouse, which just isn’t the same fielding balls and working on outfield skills,” sophomore Kim Chase said.

None of this would be possible without the help of Smith’s donations.

“Smith is a really gentle man, and has a big passion

to support Linfield’s sports,” senior Sami Keim said.

She also said that Smith founded a program that encourages young coaches and players to join college athletics.

Other financial gifts Smith has given have helped in the building of the Rutschman Field House, the renovation of Helser Field and improvements to the Maxwell Field.

After many gifts to Linfield, Smith was inducted into Linfield’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.

The softball team will not wait to put the newly dedicated field to use, as stated

by Keim, who says that the team will begin training in January.

The field is being restored for the next softball season.

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

Men’s Basketball

vs. Multnomah University

8 p.m.

vs. Concordia University

7:30 p.m.

@ Cheney, Wash.

6 p.m.

vs. Chapman

7:30 p.m.

Men’s Basketball

@ Portland, Ore.

7:30 p.m

Women’s Basketball

vs. Colorado College

6:00 p.m.

@ Portland, Ore.

7 p.m.

Men’s Basketball

@ Eugene, Ore.

7 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

vs. La Sierra

6 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 7 Women’s Basketball Thursday, Dec. 8 Men’s Basketball Friday, Dec. 9 Women’s Basketball Saturday, Dec. 10

Saturday, Dec. 17 Men’s Basketball Saturday, Dec. 28

Blatant power protecting taints 2011 playoff bracket I tried not to write this column. I really did. I sat on my couch and went in circles over it for an hour and a half before realizing that I’d be upset with myself if I didn’t speak my mind. I hinted at it two weeks ago in an article about the playoff bracket.

Head football coach Joseph Smith has openly decried it.

Analysts across the World Wide Web have scratched their heads. We’ve all come to the same conclusion: This year’s D-III football bracket is broken and broken badly. Pundits have called this season’s playoff format a ‘Travel Bracket,’ in which teams from far out of region are grouped together, creating matchups between teams who have never before met on the turf.

Sports Commentary

Chris Forrer Sports columnist The few supporters of the bracket say it facilitates ambassadorship between faroff schools in ways that aren’t possible in the regular season.

But those supporters are few.

I can understand some of the benefits of building a ‘Travel Bracket,’ like getting to travel to a new region and facing East Coast programs with storied histories. But

don’t be confused, folks: this is not a travel bracket. It’s a power protection bracket, no matter what the NCAA says to the contrary.

Perennial powers Mt. Union and University of Wisconsin-Whitewater have met in the NCAA D-III finals for the past six seasons, and their path to the Stagg Bowl has never been simpler than this season.

Consider their areas of the bracket, in which both received a No. 1 seed. The combined win-loss record of the teams in Union’s bracket is 70-9; Whitewater’s is 70-11. Those brackets feature, excluding the two top seeds, a paltry eight teams in the top 25 and only three in the Top 10.

That’s not a typo: half of

the teams in Union’s and Whitewater’s brackets are unranked. They include such teams as 7-3 Benedictine and 6-4 Albion, who only made playoffs by virtue of winning conference titles in two of the nation’s softest regions.

For a perspective check, Linfield’s area of the bracket featured four teams in the Top 10, a combined win-loss record of 69-6 and features four of only eight schools to make the semifinals in D-III football during basically the last decade (Linfield, Wesley, Mary-Hardin Baylor and Trinity).

No team in the bracket has more than two losses and only one of them isn’t ranked in the Top 25. This bracket quadrant is disgustingly and blatantly loaded, to

the point that No. 8 California Lutheran didn’t even get a home playoff game despite finishing the regular season in the Top 10.

How can you call this anything but power protection? The NCAA is looking out for its two top contenders without even trying to conceal it. Beyond that, they’re making half of the playoffs completely uninteresting by stuffing Union and Whitewater with cupcake teams en route to yet another Stagg Bowl matchup.

Top 10 teams get shafted, half of the bracket sucks and we get a seventh consecutive Union-Whitewater national championship; could this possibly get any worse?

Believe me when I say that this column isn’t a justifica-

tion for the 49-34 drubbing the ’Cats suffered in Dover, Del.; that game was a winnable one against a talented Wesley team that Linfield just couldn’t close out. This column is frustration that even in Division-III football, where values, ethics and the love of the game trump scholarships, NFL scouts and Heisman trophies. Corruption runs deep.

I hope the NCAA listens to the chorus of ‘boos’ it’s receiving from the D-III community and gets its head on straight next season by creating a more equitable bracket. If Mt. Union and UW-Whitewater are so damn good they can prove it on the field against tougher competition, just like everybody else.

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

Swimming makes a splash The men’s and women’s swim teams competed against the College of Idaho on Dec. 3, where the two teams came out on top. Official scores have yet to be released.

In the prior weekend, the Linfield teams hosted the Northwest Invitational. Both teams finished the meet in fifth place. The teams faced off with Whitworth University, Whitman College, Pacific Lutheran University, Pacific University, College of Idaho and Willamette University.

The Wildcats compete again Jan. 13 against Whitman College at home. ~Kaylyn Peterson/Sports editor

Kaylyn Peterson /Sports editor Senior Melissa Greenaway competes in the 200-yard backstroke on Dec. 3 at home.

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Wildcats fall to the Wolverines, ending the season Chris Forrer Sports columnist For the second consecutive week, the Linfield Wildcat football program found itself comfortably ahead at halftime of an NCAA Division-III playoff game.

For the second consecutive week, their opponent found a way back into the game.

This time, however, there would be no heroic ending.

The Wesley College Wolverines stormed back from a 20-point halftime deficit and rattled off 42 unanswered points in the second half en route to a 49-34 victory that ended Linfield’s playoff run.

Quarterback Shane McSweeny almost singlehandedly won the game for Wesley, accounting for 433 of his team’s 497 yards of offense and six total touchdowns.

“I’ve never seen or been a part of 42 unanswered points, and for this to happen in the playoffs, was even more heart breaking,” senior safety Drew Fisher said.

“Wesley

h a d some big dudes a n d s o m e g u y s t h a t c o u l d really p l a y Drew Fisher ball.”

Through two quarters of play, everything was going right for the ’Cats.

The tough Linfield defense harassed McSweeny, forcing him out of the pocket and sacking him twice, as well as creating an interception by junior linebacker Brian Dundas in the second quarter.

Additionally, the defense repeatedly tackled McSweeny and other Wesley ball carriers for lost yardage.

Wesley would score once in the second quarter on a 46-yard dash by McSweeny, but still only picked up a meager 181 yards of total offense in the first half.

“Everything was working for us in the first half,” Fisher said. “We tackled well,

m a d e p l a y s on the ball, and forced q u i c k p u n t s from the We s l e y o f f e n s e Hayden Mace which kept the momentum in our favor.”

Two short field goals of 26 and 27 yards by junior kicker Josh Kay got the scoring started early before junior quarterback Mickey Inns began to light up the Wolverine defense.

After breaking open one big play after another, including a shovel pass to junior tailback Josh Hill that went for 42 yards and a 45 yard catch-and-run down the sideline by senior tailback Aaron Williams, Inns fired touchdown passes of one and 33 yards to senior and junior receivers Buddy Saxon and Lucas Jepson.

Overall, Inns would accrue 296 yards through the air in the first half alone.

All these factors combined with a six-yard scoring run

by Hill to create a 27-7 halftime margin.

“We were extremely well prepared and were ready to play,” senior center Hayden Mace said. “Our coaching staff had a great plan of attack, and we executed it well in the first half.”

With a 20-point advantage and receiving the ball to begin the second half, everything seemed to be going in favor of the ’Cats.

Within seconds of starting the half, things began to go awry, with sophomore safety Colin Forman fumbling away the opening kickoff to the Wolverines on his own 28-yard line.

McSweeny wasted little time and capitalized a few minutes later on a 15-yard scoring strike.

After Fisher stripped a Wesley receiver and senior cornerback Taylor Skore recovered, Inns marched the ’Cats deep into the Wesley territory, only to have a pass intercepted on the one-yard line and returned 99 yards for a touchdown.

“They took hold of the momentum and it was hard

to create our own,” Mace said. “Every phase was slipping, and the offense wasn’t able to help stop the bleeding.”

From that point on, McSweeny and the Wolverines never looked back, scoring on their next four consecutive possessions to take a commanding 49-27 lead. The Wildcats would score once more to bring the score back to a respectable margin, but in garbage time after the outcome was no longer in doubt.

Wesley’s defensive unit stepped up to complement their prolific offense, holding the ’Cats to 153 secondhalf yards.

The loss overshadowed a heroic performance by Inns, who finished with a career-high 407 passing yards. The collapse ensured Linfield was headed home after a road playoff game for the third season in a row.

“Wesley has a great team, a top-five defense with excellent athletes,” Mace said. “We had them on the ropes and should’ve

knocked them out.”

The game marked the end of the careers of 20 different Linfield seniors, many of whom were three or four-year starters.

Mace said the bonds he made with his teammates and coaches were unlike anything he’d ever been a part of and was severely disappointed to end his career on a note like this.

Fisher added that his times on the field would be among the greatest in his life, but more importantly, the friends he made would stick around forever.

He also had something to say about the future of the program after the departure of the seniors.

“Mickey played a huge role in answering any questions about our offense this season. Josh Hill brought the running game back to Linfield,” Fisher said. “I think the stones are set in place for another exciting season from the ‘Cats next year.”

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

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Joel Ray/ Photo editor Senior Gretchen Owen dribbles down court and out of reach of Pacific Lutheran’s players Dec. 3 at home.

member of the team.”

Last year’s turn around season forces the team to strive for another successful season.

Goals for the team this year are to make it to the playoffs and possibly bring home the first league championship for the women’s basketball program.

“We are trying to keep in mind that even though we are a young team, we are still capable of great things,” Barawis said.

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

Women’s Basketball Score by periods: Northwest Christian

26 37 - 63

Linfield

24 25 - 49

Score by periods: Evergreen State

25 26 - 51

Linfield

35 23 - 58

Score by periods: Linfield

32 43 - 75

La Verne

29 43 - 72

Score by periods: Linfield

28 41 - 69

Whittier College

30 46 - 76

Score by periods: Linfield

20 34 - 54

Pacific (Ore.)

40 47 - 87

Score by periods: Pacific Lutheran

37 24 - 61

Linfield

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Catline Women’s basketball jump starts season Ivanna Tucker Features editor

Northwest Conference Standings Football Linfield

6-0

Lewis & Clark

4-2

1.000 .667

Pacific Lutheran

4-2

.667

Whitworth

3-3

.500

Willamette

3-3

.500

Pacific

1-5

.167

Puget Sound

0-5

.000

Men’s Basketball Pacific Lutheran

2-0

Puget Sound

2-0

1.000 1.000

Whitworth

2-0

1.000

George Fox

1-1

.500

Pacific

1-1

.500

Whitman

1-1

.500

Lewis & Clark

0-2

.000

Linfield

0-2

.000

Willamette

0-2

.000

Men’s Swimming Pacific Lutheran

2-0

Puget Sound

2-0

1.000 1.000

Whitman

2-0

1.000

Whitworth

2-0

1.000

Lewis & Clark

0-2

.000

Linfield

0-2

.000

Pacific

0-2

.000

Willamette

0-2

.000

Women’s Basketball George Fox

2-0

1.000

Lewis & Clark

2-0

1.000

Puget Sound

2-0

1.000

Linfield

1-1

.500

Pacific

1-1

.500

Pacific Lutheran

1-1

.500

Whitman

0-2

.000

Whitworth

0-2

.000

Willamette

0-2

.000

Women’s Swimming Pacific Lutheran

2-0

Puget Sound

2-0

1.000 1.000

Whitman

2-0

1.000

Whitworth

2-0

1.000

Lewis & Clark

0-2

.000

Linfield

0-2

.000

Pacific

0-2

.000

Willamette

0-2

.000

’Cats start the season off slow Men’s basketball kicked off the season Nov. 15. The team has already faced two conference losses.

See page 13>> Softball field dedicated The softball stadium was dedicated to a Linfield trustee, Del Smith, as a thanks for all his support.

See page 14>> Sports schedule Check out the sports schedule to see when your favorite teams play this weekend.

See page 14>> Football ends its season Traveling far, the team’s journey ended in Delaware against Wesley College.

See page 15>>

With the season just starting up, the women’s basketball team is already making a strong presence on the court, even though there are only three upperclassmen on the team.

During the preseason, the women’s basketball team had a record of 3-2. On Dec. 3, it won its first official season game against Pacific Lutheran with the score 66-61.

Senior Gretchen Owens scored a game-high 28 points and sophomore Kaely Maltman had 11 rebounds throughout the game.

PLU lead the first quarter by 12 points just after five minutes of the game. The Wildcats, however, pulled through and began to tighten the gap.

By half-time, the score was 37-30 in favor of PLU. With the shot made by freshman Karelyn Hensen, the score was finally tied 42-42.

The Wildcats briefly took the lead when Owens made a shot.

PLU gained a four-point lead again but the Wildcats did not give up and fought throughout the last quarter to pull out the victory against PLU. Freshmen, such as Katelyn Henson and Tyra Barawis, have had a strong start with their performance so far this season.

Henson is the third leading scorer for the team with 48 points so far. Barawis has the second highest number of defensive rebounds with 25.

Barawis shined at the first away game versus La Verne on Nov. 21, which led to a 75-72 victory. She was on top of her game

Joel Ray/ Photo editor Senior Brynna Fuller guards Pacific Lutheran freshman Andi Adams on Dec. 3 at home. with a 10/11 shooting average and four rebounds.

Henson started her first season for the Wildcats with seven points and three assists during the Northwest Christian game on Nov. 18.

Both players are expected to be crucial contributors for the team

this season alongside the four returning players. This is including Owens, who is a two-time all-Northwest Conference and Malthman honorable mention.

There have already been injuries that have afflicted the team, including freshmen Taylor Solomon’s torn ACL and

Carrie Skuzeski’s stress fracture. With her stress fracture, Skuzeski remains a part of the team. “[Skuzeski] does more of the behind-the-scenes stuff now,” Barawis said. “She is still a key >> Please see Basketball page 15

Wildcats steal the win in final minutes Chris Forrer Sports columnist Head football coach Joseph Smith didn’t expect to see a team as tough and talented as California Lutheran University until at least the second round of the NCAA Division-III playoffs.

After his team’s thrilling victory over the Kingsmen on Nov. 19, every fan in attendance at Maxwell Field could have told you why. Junior defensive tackle Tyler Steele blocked a desperation field goal that would have sent the game to overtime with 33 seconds left and the ’Cats withstood a furious second-half rally to eke out a 30-27 win in the rematch against CLU. “I firmly expected a tough game,” Smith said. “I felt like we had a chance to put it away and didn’t with a lot of our opportunities in the first half.”

For nearly the entire first half of play, the game seemed to be well in hand for Linfield. Junior kicker Josh Kay led the charge early as the offense faltered in the red zone, booting field goals of 30 and

43 yards. Cal Lu added a shaky 40-yard field goal of its own to keep it close in the first quarter, but junior quarterback Mickey Inns added two scoring strikes of 13 and eight yards to senior receiver Buddy Saxon and junior receiver Deidre Wiersma in the second quarter to pull away at 20-3. The Wildcat defense did its part, picking off two passes

by Kingsmen quarterback Jordan Laudenslayer thanks to senior cornerback and safety Christian Hanna and Drew Fisher.

“When we get put in a situation to get out there and make a stop, it’s on our shoulders,” Fisher said. “It’s exciting, and it’s what you play for.”

Just before the half ended, the Wildcats drew a controversial pass interference penalty that drew the ire of the Maxwell Field crowd. On the next play, Kingsmen quarterback Jordan Laudenslayer hit receiver Eric Rogers on a desperation touchdown pass as time expired and robbed Linfield of any momentum heading into halftime.

“The hail-Mary touchdown >> Please see Football page 13

Jessica Prokop/ Editor-in-chief Senior Buddy Saxon makes a touch down during the second quarter, pulling ahead of California Lutheran for the first time during the game.