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Linfield’s jazz band performs its year-end concert May 11. >> page 10

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Wildcats slide into Nationals

Training dummy Linfield’s College Relations is on its way to raising $50,000 for a new training dummy for the Portland campus in the upcoming fiscal year. >> page 4

Dos Zaquis Radio personalities make an impression on campus with their comedic approaches to popular topics. >> pages 8 and 9

Photo courtesy of Pantagraph/Carlos T. Miranda

Freshman Kate Hasty slides past Illinois Wesleyan’s Courtney Martin to second base during the May 12 game of the NCAA Division III Softball Regional Tournament at Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington.

The Wildcats won all four of their games, qualifying them for the NCAA Division III Finals, which start May 18 in Salem, Va.

Cat Cab Student band Na Hemo performs the final Cat Cab of the year, as well as, its own final Cat Cab on May 10 in the Fred Meyer Lounge. >> page 11

NWC Champs Sophomore Anna LaBeaume is a stand-out thrower for Linfield’s track and field team, setting records in shotput, discus and hammer. >> page 16

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Students debate issues with Internet via Skype

Speaker questions democracy in America

Kaylyn Peterson Copy chief Cultures collide as thoughts were argued between Linfield College and Kabul University students.

Students debated about the motion, “access to the Internet is a fundamental human right.” Coming from two different cultures, the teams used Skype to debate the idea May 8 in Ford Hall.

Starting the debate out on the government side was Kabul University student, Sadaf Maqsoodi. She defined the terms of the debate.

“Fundamental human rights are like the freedom of press, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly,” Maqsoodi said. “Internet access should be included in these freedoms.”

Maqsoodi went on to argue that by having Internet access it will help in education and that it would help connect people to politics and other world events.

Linfield sophomore Megan Schawab countered Maqsoodi as she took

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Linfield students debate issues, such as having access to the Internet as a fundamental human right against students in Afghanistan at Kabul University using Skype on May 8. the opposing side.

“While we agree with everyone deserving the fundamental rights to speech, press, assembly and so on, we believe that the Internet is merely

a tool to obtain those basic human rights, but it is not a fundamental >> Please see Debate page 4

Democracy is not possible in America, our votes do not matter and bigger is not always better.

At least, this is all true according to Susan McWilliams, an award-winning professor from Pomona College who spoke to students and staff May 7 in Jonasson Hall.

“We are too god damn big,” McWilliams said. “Democracy is not suited to big regimes like our own.”

McWilliams began the lecture with a political joke from the election of 1952 and continued on with more throughout the lecture to lighten the subject at hand.

“Virtually all Americans have trouble describing what a positive democracy looks like,” McWilliams said.

Depicting the similarities of the Tea Party and the Occupy Move>> Please see America page 5

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Phone: (503) 883-5789 E-mail: linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com Web: www.linfieldreview.com Editor-in-chief Jessica Prokop Managing editor Kelsey Sutton Copy chief Kaylyn Peterson Copy editor Business manager Jessica Pham News editor Samantha Sigler Sports editor Ivanna Tucker Culture editor Sharon Gollery Features editor Christina Shane Opinion editor Meghan O’Rourke

Moving takes longer than 24 hours Students’ minds are consumed with finals and end-of-the-year activities during the last couple weeks of school, and it can be difficult to think about anything else.

Within 24 hours of students’ last final, they are expected to be completely moved out of their dorm room or apartment.

Not only must students be moved out, but their rooms must be thoroughly cleaned before leaving.

This is a hasty deadline to meet during an already busy time.

End-of-the-year projects, exams, fun with friends and graduation are most likely higher on everyone’s to-do list than packing up everything into boxes.

There are numerous reasons why moving out within 24 hours is challenging.

The last day of finals is May 24, but Spring Commencement doesn’t begin until May 27.

Many students wish to stay on campus until Spring Commencement, but the current rule doesn’t account for that.

If students want to attend graduation, they have to drive all the way home with their stuff and then drive all the way back.

Not everyone lives around the McMinnville area, making it unlikely for many students to be able to attend graduation.

Graduation is an important event and should have the support of as many members of Linfield’s community as possible.

Extending the move-out date would allow more students to attend Spring Commencement and be supportive of graduates.

Another issue that arises with the current rule is that some students who live out of state and are without a car might be unable to move out the day after their last final.

Students who have to book a plane ride home or wait for their parents to pick them up might need more time to get things packed up.

Even students who live close to Linfield or have a car might have trouble moving out 24 hours after

finishing their last final.

After taking a lot of exams and writing papers, students’ brains are fried and need a chance to relax.

Students also want time to be able to say goodbye to friends before going home for three months.

Spending one last time with friends before going home can be important for people who aren’t going to see each other after the school year is finished.

While it is understandable that students need to move out promptly at the end of the school year, extending the move-out date until after Spring Commencement would give students more time to pack up their things and say goodbye to friends before returning home.

Expecting students to be completely moved out within 24 hours of their last final is a little hasty.

Extending the date by just a couple more days would be best for students.

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CAMPUS

Take the time to relax during finals week With the end of the school year drawing to a close, finals are the last thing standing between us and summer.

Finals week is a stressful time in life, and it seems to take years off of our lives. De-stress before finals, and take a break on Reading Day. Reading Day is a day used to get any extra studying done for finals.

Chances are, however, if you’re working on a lot on this day, you were probably a victim of procrastination.

Procrastination will only send you into a deeper feeling of stress, so take a

Kaylyn Peterson Copy chief quick break.

For those who do have everything together and find themselves reviewing past notes and are preparing for their finals just as a precaution, just relax.

The stress at Linfield rises during this critical week, but there isn’t much more we can do.

During the semester we’ve learned all we can learn and anything else you try to retain in that three-day weekend before finals has little chances of staying in your head for long.

Instead of cramming on Reading Day take a day trip and relax.

Although it is important to study, students don’t spend enough time relaxing. Spend your Reading Day doing something you want to do.

Now this doesn’t mean go out and drink and party.

These activities may be fun at the moment, but when it comes time to go back to

studying, you’ll regret it.

Even though we’re college students and money isn’t always at our disposal for big trips, there’s always something you can do.

There are a lot of options for relaxing. Take a trip to the park with some friends and have a picnic, or take a quick trip Lincoln City.

You get to be outside with friends, and you don’t have to worry about spending a lot of money.

If you truly feel the need to study during your day of relaxation, don’t overdo it. Bring some flash cards or your notes, and make a game of it. Have your friends quiz you in a

fun way.

These kind of activities make it so you don’t have to be holed up in your room or the library.

While it may seem childish to play study games, there’s nothing wrong with that. When we were all children, we knew how to have fun with what we were learning.

Whatever you decide to do before finals, remember not to stress out too much.

It will only make things harder for you to remember. Jut remember to take a breath and relax.

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

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Gay marriage is slowly becoming socially acceptable

Ever since I was old enough to understand that some people of the same sex love each other, I’ve found it ridiculous that they can’t marry each other the same way that heterosexual couples can.

The Constitution claims that “all men are created equal.” If this holds true, then shouldn’t gay couples have the same rights as straight couples?

If a young child can figure this out, then why is it taking educated adults in positions of power such a long time to figure this out?

The struggles that homosexuals are going through are the same as other minority groups in American history, such as African-Americans and women.

Meghan O’Rourke Opinion editor I was under the impression that we teach history in our schools in order to prevent making the same mistakes as the generations that came before us. If this is truly the goal of teaching history, then clearly we are failing.

The reasons that people have against gay marriage defy logic. According to the opponents of gay marriage, allowing homosexuals to

get married will destroy the institution of marriage, lead to people marrying animals, and if gay couples are allowed to raise children, those children will end up gay as well.

First of all, I don’t understand how gay marriage destroys the institution of marriage.

There are plenty of straight couples who destroy the institution of marriage.

Just look at celebrities who have gotten married and divorced within the span of a couple of days.

Also, I would argue that banning gay marriage is what destroys the institution of marriage and what it means to be a family.

By banning gay marriage and making being a homo-

sexual socially unacceptable, there are going to be people who never reveal their true feelings.

As a result, some may end up marrying a straight person and raising a family with that person.

This isn’t fair to either person in the relationship.

The under-cover homosexual is only pretending to love his or her wife or husband, while the straight person in the relationship doesn’t understand why his or her spouse isn’t as affectionate as he or she would like.

Another argument against gay marriage, which has never made sense to me is the rationalization that allowing gay marriage will lead to people marrying animals.

For one thing, animals can’t consent to marriage.

Also, why would we allow bestiality just because we allow gay marriage?

The argument that gay couples shouldn’t raise children is also faulty logic.

How are two people of the same sex raising a child any different than two straight people raising a child or a single parent raising a child?

There are plenty of straight couples who are incompetent of raising children, but do so anyway.

Gay couples stand an equal chance of being good parents.

Also, some people fear that gay parents will raise gay children. There are plenty of straight couples who raise gay children, so why wouldn’t

gay couples raise straight children?

Although it is true that it shouldn’t be taking as long as it is to legalize gay marriage across America, at least we are moving in the right direction, even if we are moving at a turtle’s pace.

More and more people are moving in support of gay marriage, as compared to a couple years ago when significantly less people were in support of it.

Hopefully Obama coming out in support of gay marriage is a sign that marriage will be recognized for what it is: a right that should be allowed to everyone, regardless of sexual orientation.

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

POLITICS

President Obama is finally bringing change

Last week, President Obama shocked, surprised and impressed many with his public proclamation supporting same-sex marriage on an interview with ABC. This public acceptance is a bold step for Obama, or any public official running for re-election.

Same-sex marriage is one of the most polarizing issues in this country, and it has always provoked stark divisions and harsh criticism.

This begs the question, why now?

In the wake of his ‘coming out’ on same-sex marriage, President Obama received praise from many in the public and from many media outlets; with the Boston Globe going so far as saying, “President Obama’s support for gay marriage marks the end of an evolution for the President, and to an extent, for the country.

Obama based his change of heart on simple fairness...his commitment to gay marriage puts him on the right side of history and demonstrates his willingness to embrace the future.”

This optimistic stance is noble in its message, however, altruism has never been the sole cause of public policy, and this is no exception.

The American public’s acceptance of same-sex marriage has been drastically increasing during the past decade.

As of March 2011, 53 percent of Americans supported the legalization of same sex marriage according to a poll conducted by the Washington Post/ABC News.

This is remarkable, especially in lieu of the fact that in 2007, that percentage was a head and shoulders below at 36 percent.

Nick Kintop Staff writer At this juncture, public support of same-sex marriage seems a valid, if controversial, strategy for the Democratic Party which has never had a strong base in the most traditionally anti same-sex-conservativeChristian demographic anyway.

However, the Christian demographic is in actuality losing its strict opposition to same-sex marriage as well, as an increasing number of parishes across the company contain openly homosexual clergy and increasing percentages of Christians morally okay with same-sex marriage indicate.

The political shrewdness of Obama’s projected image of being a moderate president attempting to be a bringer of change supporting same-sex marriage does not detract from the significance of the declaration itself.

Indeed, any political motivations are of little relevance in comparison to the symbolic value of the Head of State supporting an often berated minority.

Obama deserves a pat on the back, not only for ostensibly strengthening his position in the election through shrewd political timing, but for finally standing for a tangible example of the change he promised America nearly four years ago.

Nick Kintop can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com.

SOCIETY

Habitat for Humanity is expanding

Potential for Habitat for Humanity neighborhoods in Portland is momentous.

Habitat for Humanity has recently taken great strides in progression of its organization—and it’s happening right in our backyards.

During the Great Recession, about three years ago, the non-profit housing group took advantage of the depressed real estate market.

With the help of incredibly generous donors, Habitat spent millions investing in vacant land right outside Portland—a genius business strategy, which is expected to keep it busy for five years or more.

With about 150 lots to its name, Habitat will be taking an innovative step in its

Andra Kovacs Senior reporter organization and creating entire Habitat neighborhoods.

This big-scale approach is just one of many new methods being tested by Habitat across the United States during this market downturn.

According to a local building trades association, Habitat has become the 10th largest home builder in the

Portland-metropolitan area by housing volume.

This statistic will become even more applicable as the first 22 homes of its 150 lots rise this spring on the east side of Portland.

This is the largest project in Oregon that Habitat for Humanity has overseen.

Habitat for Humanity is an ingenious approach to housing in general and reaches far closer to any ideal standards of housing than other for-profit companies do.

But this step in its organization is one which will surely benefit not just them but the communities and lifestyle in general.

It is a sustainable and purposeful use of land that

would otherwise be bought and used for less meaningful functions.

The idea of having entire Habitat neighborhood is also a really healthy, momentous initiative.

The sense of connection and community that a neighborhood like that would foster would be really inspiring and life-changing.

Because each individual person or family would have endured the same process, the networking of support would be incredible.

The potential that this new idea has is limitless, and Habitat is on the forefront of fostering huge change in the realm of non-profit housing.

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

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<< Continued from page 1 human right in itself,” Schawab said.

Schawab continued to say that fundamental human rights include “the right to travel freely, but that does not make the plane a basic human right.”

Disagreeing with Schawab, Kabul’s Muhammad Fahim spoke on how the United Nations believe that access to the Internet is a basic human right.

“Can we go and replace the Internet with other tools?

No, we cannot,” Fahim said.

Junior Kole Kracaw, a member of the opposition, took a different approach to his argument against the Internet as a basic human right with a personal testimony.

“The other day I woke up, and I went to check my Facebook, and the Internet was down,” Kracaw said. “I felt that I was being denied a fundamental human right, and after a while of moping around, I realized, wait a minute, the sun is out and I have friends.”

While Kracaw agreed with his opponent’s definition of fundamental human right, he said that he doesn’t think that access to the Internet falls under it.

“If your life is at risk by taking away one of these things that falls under being a basic human right, then obviously that is a basic human right,” Kracaw said. “I do not think the Internet meets this standard.”

Kracaw made the point of how the Internet is deteriorating our interpersonal skills.

Kracaw ran out of time and

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Kate Straube/Photo editor Junior Kole Kracaw and sophomore Megan Schawab listen to terms being defined during the opening argument of the Skype debate about whether Internet access is a fundamental human right May 8 in Ford Hall. was not able to say his second point.

With students from both sides working together, sophomore Clara Martinez spoke about how access to the Internet should be a fundamental human right.

“The Internet shows us that we are apart of a greater community,” Martinez said.

Martinez paused during her argument to take a question from Fahim, who asked about the use of Internet in Egypt and their recent revolution.

“Do you think the revolution stopped when the government took away access to the Internet?” Kabul student, Muhammad Dawood, asked.

“The Internet was used as a tool.”

Martinez responded with saying how if it weren’t for the country’s original access, the revolution would have

been slower to start.

Tamana from Kabul University spoke on the side of the opposition and countered Martinez’s argument by stating if the government can take away something, then it cannot be counted as a fundamental human right.

Closing for the government side, Linfield sophomore Sam Javier acted as the Government Whip, pushing for the final arguments on their side. Starting the final argument Javier countered Tamana’s argument on the lack of access to the Internet due to government and costs.

“Putting it in terms of the right of the pursuit of happiness, everyone has the right to be happy, just because you don’t have the means to be happy doesn’t take away your right to it,” Javier said.

Speaking on the down side to full Internet access,

Dawood concluded the debate for the opposition.

“The Internet is growing into an addiction,” Dawood said. “We don’t have time for our own family or our studies or our friends. We can do this all in person. Yeah, we can use [the Internet], but as a tool.”

Wrapping up the debate, both sides exchanged questions about culture and each students’ true belief about the debate’s motion.

“I believe some Americans would say that the Internet should not be a fundamental right, but there are probably others that think it should.

We’re pretty divided,” Javier said.

Dawood spoke about how the Internet doesn’t really affect the everyday lives of Afghani citizens like it does for Americans.

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

Linfield’s College Relations hopes to raise $50,000 for a new, high fidelity training dummy for the Portland campus by the end of the fiscal year.

It has raised more than $45,000 for the dummy and hopes to meet its goal by the end of June.

The current dummy, dubbed Eric, has gone through more than 5,000 simulations and more than 1,000 students.

“When a group of us from College Relations was visiting the Portland campus, Jana Taylor, who is the director of the simulation lab, expressed that Eric’s warranty is about to run out. He’s kind of on his last leg, and they really needed a new mannequin,” said Christina Diss, director of annual giving. “And my boss, Bruce Wyatt, thought, ‘Wow, this is a great way to engage some Portland alums in philanthropy.’”

There has been a huge outpouring of support from faculty, students and alums.

It has received donations from more than 100 Portland alumni, in addition to donations from McMinnville alumni, faculty and staff.

College Relations also hopes to raise money for this cause through the Spring Fling event, where students will pay for the opportunity to throw pies in the faces of their professors.

Eric is just one of the training tools used in the Portland campus’ Experiential Learning Center. The ELC is a facility within the Portland nursing campus

where student nurses are able to practice the skills they have learned without putting human lives at risk.

According to the Linfield website, the ELC used 12 hospital beds, 10 adultsized mannequins, 12 infant mannequins, two pediatric mannequins and a variety of specialized equipment, such as IV training arms and catheterization models.

In addition, the facility has three high fidelity training dummies, including Eric.

Of all the equipment available, none is as immersive as the high fidelity training dummies.

“You can inject medicine into it, you can take its blood pressure, you can start IVs,” Diss said. “It gives students an opportunity to practice medicine in a safe environment before they start out on their clinicals.”

Not only does the ELC lab prepare students for their clinicals, but time spent in the ELC counts toward their clinical hours.

“We just feel like experiential learning is such an integral part of the Linfield college experience for all students, and obviously, especially critical for the nursing students,” Diss said.

In a mock letter from the training dummy, Eric writes, “Though a price can’t be put on a human life, it can on my replacement—$50,000.”

Just like a human life, the experience provided

by Eric’s replacement will prove invaluable to future nursing students.

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

What are you most excited for at Wildstock?

“I’m really excited for henna and Thai Country.

I’ve heard it’s really good.”

– Freshman Alicia McCrecken

“I have to say pretty much just Macklemore.”

– Junior Casey Shan

“I’m excited for the hen“Macklemore and Ryan na. I want a henna tattoo.” Lewis.

Enough said.”

– Freshman Katie Yearous - Freshman Megan Goudie

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Linfield students attend competitive speech tournament Samantha Sigler News editor Two students from Linfield College were the only women in Oregon to qualify for a speech tournament in Boston, Mass.

Coached by Dr. Jackson Miller, associate professor of communication arts and director of forensics, sophomores Clara Martinez and Stephanie Stovall competed

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against students from all across the country.

“The tournament provided me with an amazing learning experience,” Martinez said. “I feel like I have a better idea of what it takes to win first place at a persuasive speech tournament.”

The finals round took place at the Boston Public Library. Every contestant at the tournament also had his

or her speech published in Winning Orations, and the book will be available in most college and university libraries soon.

“If students get the chance I highly encourage them to check out the speeches contestants write,” Martinez said.

Martinez said she plans on returning to the Linfield Forensics Program because it has helped shaped her

Linfield experience.

“Forensics has become an important part of my college career,” Martinez said. “I plan to stay active in forensics until the end of my senior year.”

The biggest challenge Martinez faced was having to catch up with classes after missing days at a time and being off-campus during most weekends throughout the year for

speech and debate tournaments, she said.

“I actually find it a bit odd to spend a weekend on campus during the breaks we get throughout the semester because I’m always at tournaments,” Martinez said. “On the plus side, I have time management down to an art.”

Through forensics, students are able to learn valuable skills that they use

after their time at Linfield, Martinez said.

“I love feeling a part of a team,” Martinez said. “I spend time with students who love talking about current events and debating philosophical concepts, basically being nerdy. I work with talented students and we have a great coach; it’s like icing on a cake.”

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

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ment, McWilliams said that both groups give a negative sense of what democracy looks like, but are unable to depict what a healthy democracy would appear as.

To begin to explain healthy democracy, McWilliams explained that Americans learn at a young age that voting is the right way to get things done by taking votes at the playground.

“God dammit we are Americans and we are going to vote for what the right decision is,” McWilliams said. “[However}, while the extension of voting rights have made this a more democratic nation in a formal sense, we become more informally concerned.”

Although most Americans would agree that voting is important, McWilliams points out that voting is only meaningful if we are presented with meaningful choices. The problem that follows this is that Americans know our votes don’t matter.

According to McWilliams, democracy depends

Kate Straube/Photo editor Susan McWilliams, an award-winning professor from Pomona College, spoke to students and staff about the problems posed by having demomcracy in a large regime, such as America on May 7 in Jonasson Hall. on people feeling known and important. This can only happen in small states or regimes, as America is too big for it to function properly.

“Come to Linfield, everyone knows who you are and we know that matters,” McWilliams said. “Human beings are engineered in living in smaller communities.”

The idea that we need to feel important and heard is a

point that McWilliams reiterated throughout the lecture.

Through smaller communities, people are able to have a louder voice and feel as though they matter as a person, as well as have a vote that matters. “[We need to] not be afraid of small communities,” McWilliams said. “When you have the experience of mattering, you don’t give it up.”

McWilliams referenced liberal arts colleges as a good example of mattering through the idea that people do not focus enough on college’s civic functions.

“They train people to be good and active citizens,” McWilliams said. “We learn how to matter [and] have the ability to affect other people.”

McWilliams also said why she felt liberal arts colleges

were important to society.

“What makes liberal arts colleges so special and so important is that they are in fact counter cultural,” McWilliams said. “It is precisely in their smallness that gives them their power.”

Quoting political theorist Sheldon Wolin, McWilliams explained that the best we might be able to achieve is spaces of fugitive democracy,

moments and places where we can cultivate the habits of democratic life, and in so doing, cultivate an oasis of engaged citizenry.

“In this large, mobile and impersonal society of this United states, democracy is never going to be the dominant thing,” McWilliams said.

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

McMinnville residents attempt to stop growth of landfill Sharon Gollery Culture editor What began as a small disposal site in 1982, dedicated to serving primarily local users, has been sold several times and is now owned by Texasbased Waste Management, Inc., the world’s largest waste handling company and the 196th largest company overall. It was previously scheduled to be closed and the land returned to farming in 20 years Today, Riverbend Landfill serves as a regional dump for Portland and several other areas around Yamhill County.

Out of 640,000 tons of garbage per year, only about 25 percent comes from Yamhill County.

“That’s what most citizens object to,” said Ramsey McPhillips, an established farmer whose land shares a border with Riverbend Landfill. “Yamhill County is getting paid $1.25 per ton for storing other people’s garbage.”

McPhillips is one of the founders of a movement to stop the landfill from expanding. The Stop the Dump Coalition is a collection of businesses and environmental groups who want the landfill to close in 2014, as it had been scheduled to do, instead of expanding. Currently, Waste Management, Inc. is trying to obtain a permit to build a mechanically stabilized earthen berm around the perimeter of the landfill. The proposed berm would rise as high as 40

feet and expand the landfill’s capacity from its current 13.3 million to 16.2 million cubic yards.

In the past, WM has submitted permit requests to expand horizontally onto neighboring farmland, like McPhillips’ farm, but the Stop the Dump Coalition has fought WM in court and has so far managed to prevent the conversion of farmland to landfill. According to McPhillips, the group’s main method of fighting the landfill’s expansion is to prevent WM from obtaining a permit for any kind of expansion.

Besides loss of prime farmland and the storage of other counties’ garbage, the Stop the Dump Coalition is also worried about leaks. According

to the group’s website, stopthedumpcoalition.org, Riverbend Landfill began collecting garbage before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implemented rules regarding gas management and the use of liners, so several sections of the landfill are not lined properly and have been leaking volatile organic compounds into the groundwater around the dump.

“I don’t use my irrigation anymore,” McPhillips said.

“The only things we’re growing are things not consumed by humans.”

According to McPhillips, the soils beneath the landfill are loose, sandy and saturated. In the event of an earthquake, the soil has a high chance of losing its structure

and its strength through soil liquefaction, and the landfill would be destroyed, letting roughly 15 stories of trash spill into the South Yamhill River.

“If the landfill was destroyed in an earthquake, there would be a huge amount of toxins going into the river,” McPhillips said. “There are other landfills in Oregon that are not on a river and don’t have this danger of liquefaction. There’s no need for this one.”

Waste Not of Landfill County is an organization that is “the official arm of the Stop the Dump Coalition” according to the coalition’s website.

Waste Not formed in 2009 and has been opposing the expansion of Riverbend Landfill

ever since. Other partners of the Stop the Dump Coalition include local wineries, restaurants, farms and vineyards.

McPhillips said although he helped found the Stop the Dump Coalition, he is no longer part of the group.

“I need to be able to get in people’s faces,” McPhillips said. “I need to be able to be waving signs on the side of the road.”

Read more about Riverbend Landfill at riverbend. wm.com, the Stop the Dump Coalition at http://stopthedumpcoalition.org and Waste Not of Yamhill County at http://www.wastenotofyamhillcounty.net.

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Colleges grow their wait lists, leaving more students in limbo Bonnie Miller Rubin Chicago Tribune After months in limbo, Morgan Lundblad recently opened her long-awaited email from Harvard University to find only more uncertainty.

She had been wait-listed.

The senior at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Chicago had applied to a dozen of the nation’s most elite colleges.

When the smoke cleared, Lunblad still did not have a definitive path forward. Of the schools where she was accepted, she narrowed her choices to the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. Still, she can’t quite let go of Harvard, which had a record low 5.9 percent acceptance rate for this fall.

She may not know her fate until mid-summer.

“It’s not really a rejection, but it kind of is,” she said.

“It just doesn’t help you too much. I need to make a decision.”

While no one tracks the number of college applicants nationwide who are waitlisted, admissions experts and high school guidance counselors agree the ranks have swelled in the last five years. That leaves more students consigned to the halfway house of admissions, where they are unable to fully celebrate an admission or properly mourn a denial.

The number of schools using wait lists is on the rise, according to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. In 2010, 48 percent of colleges reported using a wait list, up from 39 percent in 2009 and 35 percent in 2008. At the same time, the number of students plucked from standby decreased, from 34

Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/MCT Morgan Lundblad, 18, a senior at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, sits at her desk in her Spanish classroom in Flossmoor, Illinois, April 5, 2012. She applied to 12 colleges and got accepted to some, denied by others and is on the wait-list for Harvard, her dream school. percent to 28 percent.

The trend is driven by the lingering economic downturn, along with the unpredictability of the admissions process, experts said. Many schools are seeing more and more applicants as seniors cast a wider net, applying to more institutions to hedge their bets.

Also, the recession has interjected its own volatility to the match game. Over the summer, a parent can get laid off or reassess skyrocketing tuition costs in tough times, triggering a last-minute shift from private school to State U. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult for

admissions officers to predict who actually will show up in the fall, so schools have countered with an insurance policy: a larger reserve pool to manage their enrollment, officials say.

“It’s become a pingpong game that both sides play with each other,” said Barmak Nassirian of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. “And it’s totally gotten out of hand.”

The end result is that many are left dangling.

“It’s insane...This year has been the absolute worst, with more kids on the wait list than ever,” said Laura

The Linfield Review wins various awards at Collegiate Day ceremony Samantha Sigler News editor The Linfield Review received 16 awards at the Oregon Newspaper Publisher’s Association Collegiate Day on May 11.

The Review’s biggest competition was The Beacon from The University of Portland and The Hill Top from Howard University.

The Hilltop received first

place in general excellence and The Beacon received second place.

They also placed high in best section and best writing.

The Review placed in best writing, series, feature photo, design, sports photo, headline writing, cartooning, house ad, web site, news story, photography and special section.

The Review earned three first place spots in headline writing, sports photo, car-

tooning and house ad.

In addition to placing in these sections, The Review received second for best news section, best features section, best headline writing, best news story, best photography and best website.

Overall, The Linfield Review received honorable mention in general excellence.

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

Docherty, college counselor at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Ill. “It’s just painful ... and it really drags out the process.”

Because many institutions closely guard their wait-list numbers, cracking the code of how many eventually get a coveted fat envelope is a subject of intense speculation on online message boards. Some schools declined to provide data to the Tribune, but statistics could be gleaned from college websites and other sources.

Northwestern University’s wait list shrunk from about 3,500 last year to 2,857 for 2012. Still, this year’s

wait list is about 1,300 names longer than six years ago, school officials said.

MIT’s wait list fluctuated between roughly 450 and 740 from 2007-10, then it shot up to 1,000 in 2011.

Wait lists at some smaller schools grew as well. Grinnell College in Iowa said its roster rose from 541 last year to 1,189 in 2012.

Bates College in Maine has not yet released its most recent data, but the wait list increased from 871 in 2010 to 1,305 in 2011.

How many back-ups will be admitted varies from year to year, school officials said. Although it’s tempting to cling to a fantasy, most

experts suggest applicants should regard their limbo status with a hefty dose of realism.

At Vanderbilt University, for example, 9.4 percent from the wait list were accepted—a number that has held steady for the last four years. Last year, MIT plucked only 26 students for acceptance from its reserve pool of 1,000.

Northwestern said it admitted no one from its wait list in 2011. The year before, it accepted just 21 out of 3,204.

Said Nassirian: “I tell them to think of a wait list as a ‘no.’”

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STRESSED OUT WILDCATS FIND RELIEF DURING FINALS Finals week is quickly approaching, and the stress on campus is palpable.

As students are bombarded with finals, papers and exams, they’re turning to their favorite stress-relieving activities.

Chrissy Shane/Features editor

“I play video games when I get stressed. It could be anywhere from “Angry Birds” to “Legend of Zelda.” Beating a level in a game gives me a sense of achievement and makes me feel like whatever task I have to do can be done. Plus I have a blast doing it!”

Freshman Aidan Willers

“I think running is the best stress reliever, and it’s good for you too! During finals week, whenever I feel stressed, I go out for a run to clear my head. I find that when I return to studying I can focus easier and am more relaxed.”

Sophomore Boo Lucas

“When I am feeling stressed from finals I like to find activities to take my mind off school. I have found that fly fishing is probably my favorite way to do this.”

Senior Zach Evans

“I play music when I’m stressed. I usually set aside an hour before finals to play my guitar and calm down. When I play guitar or saxophone, I forget about finals stress and just focus on the sounds and rhythm I’m playing.”

Freshman Evan Tracy

“Longboarding gives my mind and body something else to do and gets me out of the room after studying.

Being outside with myself and feeling the breeze and adrenaline helps me relieve my stress.”

Senior Sujan Dhoju

“When I’m stressed, I like to play volleyball and other outdoor activities. It’s the best way to get my mind off of school.”

Freshman Adri Jones

Chrissy Shane can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

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Their main audience is 18 to 24-year-old females, and they have had listeners from Oregon State University, student turns on her online radio and anxiously University of Oregon, Gonzaga and Boise State Univerwaits for the show to begin. She doesn’t know exactly sity. what is going to happen on the show today, but she

“It’s cool to have friends from back home listen,” knows that the two guys who are hosting are going to do Manley said. something entertaining. While listening, they start belt The dynamic duo complements each other while ing “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton. on the air. They each serve as a support system for the

Dos Zaquis is a radio show that was started last other, as Manley initiates the topic and Brandon gives semester by junior Zach Manley and sophomore Zach his opinion.

Brandon.

“There are very few things that we disagree on,”

The show features the two talking about a variety Brandon said. of topics from relationships to sports and even activities

Freshman Chris Haddeland and senior Reed Nichto do around McMinnville. They tend to not have a set olson have also helped with the show. Haddeland has script for the show, but rather walk in with a topic and assisted them with social networking by helping with go from there.

Twitter and other aspects. Nicholson hosted a segment

Throughout the year, they have had special guests, on their show called “Five Minutes with Reed,” which such as senior softball player Jaydee Baxter and senior ended up lasting 15 minutes because of his detailed exbaseball player Ryan Larson. planation of why people don’t talk to their dream girl or

“By bringing in athletes, it gives us a more inguy. depth look at the sport,” Brandon said.

“We want to give the fans something that they

Manley and Brandon met each other at summer would enjoy listening to on a regular basis,” Brandon baseball during Brandon’s sophomore year in high said. school and bonded each summer, while playing the

Brandon and Manley have also auctioned off dates game. Manley went to community college and decided with their friends to callers. Listeners have had the that he wanted to go in a different path with his life, so chance to win a date with Brandon, Haddeland, senior he went to visit Linfield. Brandon ended up visiting at Colton Westfall and junior Tim Wilson. the same time. From there, they have been playing base The show plays a variety of music, including rap, ball together for the Wildcats. pop and country.

The show began once Manley invited Brandon

“It’s more of a friendship [between Brandon and to join his two-hour time slot that he had to do for the me] rather than an acquaintance on the baseball team,” Broadcast Practices class. After Brandon sat in one FriManley said. day, they decided to make it a regular thing. Prior to being called Dos Zaquis, the show was titled “Catching Z’s Ivanna Tucker can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com with Zach and Zach.”

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Junior Zach Manley and sophomore Zach Brandon wish to have special guests Taylor Swift, Robert Downey Jr. and Scott Brosius on their show.

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Student directors show their talent Cassie Wong For the Review Advanced directing class students juniors Daphne Dossett, Chris Forrer and senior Kanon Havens each directed one hour-long play in Springfest on May 10-12 in the Marshall Theatre.

The class showcase featured three plays, “These Shining Lives” by Melanie Marnich and directed by Dossett; “Tone Clusters”

by Joyce Carol Oates and directed by Forrer; and “Saturn Returns” by Noah Haidle and directed by Havens.

Each night, different pairings of two of these plays were performed.

“These Shining Lives” is set in Ottawa and Chicago, Ill., from 1922 to 1938. It follows the protagonist Catherine and her friends in the course of getting infected with radium poisoning from work and suing their company for hiding the truth from its employees. According to Dossett, it “emphasizes the strength of four women as they overcome adversity and the touch of time.”

With only six actors and actresses, the play has more than 10 roles.

“Tone Clusters” is set in

a television studio in 1990. It features an interview of the parents of a murder suspect, who are forced to accept the truth despite their selfdeception of how the media wrongly portrayed their son.

Forrer said the beauty of the play lies in “a hard truth about the human condition and people’s inability to see what lies right in front of them when their contentment degrades into apathy.”

There was a voiceover throughout the play, which the director described as a “technical sensory overload.”

“Saturn Returns” is a story that follows a man who lost his wife and daughter at different stages of his life and how he became nostalgic and lonely afterward.

Havens said it is a simple but elegantly written “story of love and loss” and the play was delicately crafted.

In the play, there are three actors portraying the main character at ages 28, 58 and 88 as well as an actress portraying the man’s wife, daughter and nurse.

In addition to the directors, the cast and most of the crew are students who volunteered to assist with the productions.

Throughout the produc-

Kate Straube/Photo editor (From left) Sophomore Jenny Layton, sophomore Dorothy Sterling, senior Katie MacKay and junior Caitlyn Olson perform in “These Shining Lives,” directed by junior Daphne Dossett, on May 10 and 11 in Marshall Theatre. The performance was part of the theatre department’s Springfest. tion, the directors had to refine their communication skills so they could be understood by the entire cast and crew.

“You learn how to get along with others in the the-

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atre, and learn even more about yourself through collaborating,” Havens said.

“Theatre is really not only about the end product. It’s also about all the realizations you make and gain

as a human being through rehearsals.”

The theatre and communication arts department will have two more class showcases at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on May 20. They respectively

feature the dialect scenes by the intermediate acting class and contemporary scenes by the beginning acting class.

Cassie Wong can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

Choral groups team up for spring concert

Kelsey Sutton Managing editor The Linfield Jazz Band and Double Vision, Linfield’s vocal jazz ensemble, performed for students, family and the public in Jazz Night on May 11 in Ice Auditorium.

The Jazz Band displayed all the power of a classic big band as it played original compositions and other jazz standards. The band members interacted with each other throughout the performance, encouraging the soloists as they played.

As is custom for jazz, there were many soloists featured, including sophomores Sylvan Tovar on bass and Katelyn Henson on baritone saxophone, freshman Christian Santangelo on drums and junior Timothy Prag on tenor saxophone.

Seniors Chelsea Janzen and Kayla Wilkens sang an Ella Fitzgerald song alongside the jazz band. They stayed true to character with costumes and stage presence.

Each member of the band kept the energy going until the last song. They never missed a single beat and showed their expertise while paying special attention to dynamics and mood.

Alyssa Carano/Senior photographer Sophomore Timothy Prag plays a solo during the Jazz Night performance May 11 in Ice Auditorium.

Steve Kravitz, director of the Jazz Band and adjunct professor of music, honored junior Evan O’Kelly with the most outstanding musician award, as voted by his peers.

Double Vision picked up the energy as it took to the stage. The ensemble kept everyone in the audience moving and tapping along to the music. The singers made the scatting solos seem effortless. Soloists included seniors Jeremy Moll, Jesse

Goergen, Logan Freitas and Chelsea Janzen.

The singers fed off of each other’s energies, and they worked well with the bass, drum and piano combo.

Double Vision said farewell to Dana Libonati, adjunct professor of music and director of the jazz ensemble, after 21 years of teaching and directing.

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

Kate Straube/Photo editor Freshman Cody Meadows sings a solo during the Wildcat Men’s Glee Club’s performance of “For the Longest Time” by Billy Joel. The Men’s Glee Club and the Women’s Vocal Ensemble joined forces for the Spring Choral Concert “La Lela!” on May 13 in Ice Auditorium. The concert featured traditional tunes and modern melodies, as well as, songs by Giovanni Pergolesi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In honor of Mother’s Day, the performance was dedicated to the mothers in the audience.

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Artists discuss social change Sharon Gollery Culture editor

A three-day symposium marked the beginning of the Linfield Lacroute Arts Series, an interdisciplinary series of events designed to integrate the areas of music, visual art and theatre. The symposium ran from May 7 through May 9 and featured three artists who gave presentations, participated in a panel discussion and worked with students in the classroom.

Musician Thomas Lauderdale, photo historian Corey Dzenko and playwright Rob Urbinati started the symposium with a panel discussion about the role of the arts in social change. The panel took place on May 7 and was moderated by Susan AgreKippenhan, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Linfield.

Topics of the discussion included the role of the artist, the varied interpretations of art depending on context and audience, and the purpose of art, whether to entertain,

inform, invoke or all three.

“A lot of times, artwork is dismissed because it’s entertaining,” Dzenko said. “People think it can’t be entertaining and meaningful at the same time.”

Lauderdale presented the first of the artists’ lectures, “Singer-Songwriter: Learn Your Craft” on May 7. He narrated the processes of writing several songs for his band, Pink Martini. He illustrated the lecture with piano riffs, photocopied handouts of scribbled sheets of lyrics and clips of the finished songs.

“When I’m writing a song, I’m not trying to write a hit,” Lauderdale said. “I try not to be concerned how people will like it. If I don’t like it, it wasn’t worth it, and no amount of money can make up for that.”

The second lecture, “The Cruel Optimism of Gregory Crewdson’s ‘Suburbs’ and Suzanne Opton’s ‘Soldiers’,” was presented by Dzenko on May 8. She discussed idealized images of suburbs, traditional views of soldiers

and the way Crewdson’s and Opton’s photos explore stereotypes in how people view the American dream and the American military.

Urbinati gave the last two lectures May 9 titled “Creating a Play: From Idea to Page to Stage, Part One,” which covered Urbinati’s typical writing process and what Urbinati called the development path, or what happens after you finish writing a play.

Urbinati’s second lecture, “Rebel Voices and Necessary Dialogues,” focused on the role of theatre in social change.

Urbinati said since his view was that of someone who has chosen a career in arts, he sees himself as an artist first. But, as he pointed out, artists can be activists.

“The most overtly political play I’ve ever written was ‘Rebel Voices,’” Urbinati said. “I was asked to adapt ‘Voices of a People’s History of the United States,’ the companion to Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States.’ It’s a collection of

letters, speeches, poems and original documents in these minority voices.”

To illustrate his lecture, Urbinati invited junior Chris Forrer, sophomore Jacob Priester and senior Kanon Havens to read a selection from “Rebel Voices” that juxtaposed a poem by Allen Ginsberg, a U.S. military report and an eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Urbinati also discussed his next project, temporarily titled “The Linfield Project.”

According to Urbinati, this play will cover topics of racism and racial stereotypes, multiculturalism, cyberbullying and the way students communicate using technology.

“I wanted to get a sense of how things like this would escalate,” Urbinati said. “I think it’s going to be very complicated and mixed up, like how things get interpreted wrong in real life online interactions and escalate way out of proportion.”

“The Linfield Project” is

Kate Straube/Photo editor Playwright Rob Urbinati chats with audience members after his first lecture on May 9 in the Ford Hall lobby. scheduled to be produced in March 2013. Urbinati said Linfield students will be able to see the development of it throughout the 2012 fall semester.

The Lacroute Arts Series is sponsored by the Lacroute

Arts Fund, named for Linfield trustee Ronni Lacroute.

The series will include four similar interdisciplinary arts programs over the next two years.

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

Na Hemo gives popular final Cat Cab

Alyssa Carano/Senior photographer The May 10 Cat Cab by student band Na Hemo marked not only its last Cat Cab of the year, but also the last Cat Cab of the all-senior band’s college career.

Above: Seniors Cheyne Kaninau (bass) and Kala’e Parish (guitar) enjoy playing a song.

Right: Senior Sparky Gonzalez salutes the crowd.

Students enjoy dinner and Dr. Seuss musical Meghan O’Rourke Opinion editor A few lucky Linfield students had the chance to see the magic of Dr. Seuss brought to life and enjoy an exotic meal at an event organized by the Linfield Activities Board (LAB).

On May 12, nine Linfield students enjoyed the evening in McMinnville, eating dinner at Thai Country and watching “Seussical the Musical” at Gallery Theater, paying only $4 total.

“I told students that they

could order anything on the menu, so we had a wide range of dishes including noodle dishes, stir fries, seafood, ice cream, Thai Iced Teas, rice dishes, and a lot more,” said senior Emily Jenkins, the oncampus programming chair.

Senior Matthea Brown signed up for the event because of how much she enjoys Thai Country.

“I ordered Yellow Chicken Curry and Pineapple Fried Rice with a Thai Iced Tea,” Brown said. “I shared my food with my friend Geoff who got Chicken Pad Thai.

It was delicious and I highly recommend Thai Country to everyone I know.”

After enjoying dinner at Thai Country, the group headed to McMinnville’s Gallery Theater, on the corner of Ford and 2nd Street, to see “Seussical the Musical.”

“Seussical the Musical” is a popular Broadway musical, blending together characters and plots from many of Dr. Seuss’s books.

“It was a pleasant hodgepodge of many Seuss stories and it was fun to get to see characters from different sto-

ries interact with each other,” Brown said.

The main plot follows the story of “Horton Hears a Who,” but blends characters and events from other stories, such as “The Butter Battle Book,” “Green Eggs and Ham,” “The Cat in the Hat” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

“The show was very entertaining,” Jenkins said. “There were a lot of talented children in the play, and lots of fun songs that kept me smiling the whole time.”

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nity, featuring many young children, put on the musical.

“They were all very cute and talented,” international student Cassie Wong said.

“The main character Jojo was my favorite as she had an amazing voice and was able to memorize the many lines that were more like verse than normal conversation.”

Although the play is aimed at children and their parents, the Linfield students who saw the show were able to enjoy it as well.

“My favorite character was probably Horton,

because he’s so honest, genuine and lovable,” Brown said.

Jenkins, Brown and Wong would all recommend “Seussical the Musical” to other Linfield students.

“I would recommend the musical for people who enjoyed Dr. Seuss books, or who still do, like me, and are looking for a fun family performance,” Jenkins said.

“Seussical the Musical” is playing at the Gallery Theater until May 26.

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

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Bring your own boyfriend I believe that every girl should have a BOB—a battery operated boyfriend.

I don’t mean that women should replace men for this, but rather to enhance their sexual pleasure, increase self esteem and improve their own body image.

Enhancing sexual pleasure is the most obvious claim for a toy. Men, don’t be afraid or worried about a toy. It’s there to—and I stress this—enhance, not replace.

It is a lot more difficult for women to climax or achieve the same pleasure, and this can keep you on the same page.

Increasing self-esteem and body image are a little less obvious. I include these because using a toy on your own or with someone can help you be more aware of your body and what you like. Many women don’t feel comfortable with their bodies while having sex. Confidence in yourself can make a big difference in your enjoyment. Think of it this way: orgasms relieve stress.

To orgasm well, you must

know your body. Experimenting with different stimulators allows you to get to know your body and understand it. The better you understand your body, the more pleasure you can achieve. The more pleasure, the better you feel about yourself and the more comfortable you can be in your own skin.

Vibrators come in different shapes, sizes and textures. Many are waterproof for use in the shower and easy cleaning. A basic vibrator is slender, smooth metal, and can be long or short.

This type’s primary use is to stimulate the clitoris not the inside of the vagina. For inside use there are more comfortably designed vibrators. These are textured dif-

ferently—usually silicone or plastic—and are thicker than the simple vibrators. These can come with a curved tip for G-spot stimulation, ribs or veins, and can be in the shape of a penis. Length and width can vary.

Bullets are small, oval shaped vibrators that are used on the clitoris and are attached by a wire to the controller. A spin off of this is a bullet encased in silicone with or without ridges that has a ring on the end to be placed around a man’s penis.

Another option that is more expensive (more than $100) is easier to maneuver around is the We-Vibe. The WeVibe is a flexible, U-shaped vibrator that is designed for couples. One end is inserted into the vagina with the other placed on the clitoris.

A tiny button to turn the toy on and off and to adjust the intensity or rhythm identifies the outside end. The toy gently hugs to stay in place and doesn’t come out during intercourse. The entire toy vibrates so he will feel it, too.

If a man isn’t available, there is a vibrator to remedy that. “Rabbits” are a style of vibrator that are designed to stimulate everything. The head of the toy spins inside the vagina, while its namesake, a small vibrator in the shape of a rabbit or some other animal, extends out to reach the clitoris.

There are many resources for toys, especially online.

One popular retailer is Adam and Eve. It provides quality goodies like the We-Vibe. A more cost-friendly choice is DearLady.com where it constantly has sales on random items. Buying online can be tricky, though. To view and feel the toys before you buy them there are “Adult Stores” and “Megacastle.”

Or contact a Pure Romance consultant or attend a party.

Keep in mind that when you buy a toy it must be cleaned. Find a good cleaner and use it after every toy use.

Bailey can be reached at linfieldreviewbailey@gmail.com.

Teen singer produces original album Haydn Nason KSLC 90.3 FM Singing songs about the college lifestyle and spreading peace, Garrett J. Brown sure knows how to connect to student listeners. Always hearing some kind of message in his songs, Brown’s album “Priorities” is a musthear for the month.

Brown recorded “Priorities” in the same studio that has produced works for Marilyn Manson and Elliott Smith, but don’t let the unique musical mix of artists fool you, his sound is definitely acoustic pop and soul.

Artists like Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz and John Mayer are just a few of Brown’s idols who inspired most of the sounds found on “Priorities.” His style can be

classified as soul-pop as he gracefully combines drums, acoustic guitars and saxophones.

Brown, now 17, started producing his self-taught sounds at the young age of 10. Some of his songs describe his upbringing as young and playful with a country feel. The track “Passerby” has an upbeat rhythm with percussion that can make you get lost in the background.

Brown is not just a talented singer, but also a writer who writes most of his songs and plays many different instruments. In 2009, Brown was named “Artist with the Most Potential,” by the Hard Rock Café in Boston.

Even though his sound is inspired by many famous artists, Brown stands out for the simple fact that he can

“Priorities” album cover do it all. He can write it, play it and then sing it, making a one-of-a-kind song.

The track “House of Cards” pulls out a Jamaican feel as the song starts with the keys and drums creating a great separation from his usual sounds on the album.

The saxophone throughout the piece also reminds you what real soul music should sound like.

“Priorities” is a perfect example of what real written

music sounds like. Brown not only makes his original songs connect to the listener, but he also has relatable lyrics that truly make you think.

Garrett J. Brown can be found touring, online and at KSLC 90.3 FM. He is always interested in connecting with fans and newcomers so if you enjoy soulful sounds, you are definitely going to want to check him out.

To hear more songs and to check out Garrett J. Brown in “Priorities,” go to KSLC and listen.

We are now streaming online, so go to our website and listen to the Best in the Northwest Student Station, KSLC 90.3 FM, www.linfield.edu/kslcfm.

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‘The Avengers’: Latest icon of comic-book popularity Ian Storey For the Review I saw it last night and I want to see it again. That about sums up “The Avengers,” a comic book super film tour de force that attempts to culminate the story arcs of three other, self-contained, super-hero films in a glossy, fiery plume of organized mayhem and trademark oneliners.

“The Avengers” takes the impossible task of adapting comic book continuity to the movie screen and does it well, propelling a geek culture

icon, and the movie’s writer/ director, Joss Whedon, into the director big leagues.

With geek culture on a relentless upswing, the success of “The Avengers” has made that momentum unstoppable, as if the first two “Spider Man” films and the “Dark Knight” were not enough. We’ll see more of this stuff, and what makes it to the big screen from the dark crevices of geekdom will become more obscure and all the more interesting… I mean “Scott Pilgrim” writer/director Edgar Wright is going to direct an “Ant-Man” movie!

Who is Ant-Man and why does he have his own movie?

Only the comic book aficionado knows, and the rest of the world will see! Anyway, that’s enough about how much “The Avengers” rocked my face off, lets actually talk about the movie.

The story is simple, and any prior knowledge of the first three movies is pretty much unnecessary to understand it. The astute reader might point out my reference to the previous three movies rather than the previous four.

After all, the main muscle of “The Avengers” lies in its

four heroes, “Captain America,” “Iron Man,” “Thor” and “The Hulk,” each one with their own respective movies.

Although “The Hulk” has not one, but two, equally terrible Marvel incarnations in recent memory, the main hero, Bruce Banner, from either movie has been replaced with Marc Ruffalo. And while the latest “Hulk” movie references the coming of “The Avengers,” it only confuses the plot of both.

Before I saw “The Avengers,” I was worried that the Hulk’s weak track record and consistent recast from movie to movie would manifest

itself as the lamest aspect of the film. I am so glad that I was wrong. That’s all I will say about that, go see it.

Tangents aside, while “The Avengers” is a monstrously successful comic book film, it stands in stark contrast with the likes of “The Dark Knight” and “Spider Man.” To put it simply, “Avengers” is more “comic-booky.” The film is glitzy and flashy rather than Christopher Nolan’s version of real and gritty. The characters are highly symbolic with their own unique personalities as opposed to the conflicted, emotional, and

complex Peter Parker.

Action and dialogue scenes are usually accompanied with bits of humor that feel oddly appropriate in a world full of super soldiers, magic hammers, and armor, though no less epic.

Each character so wonderfully stands on his and her own and play off each other so well that it’s almost unbelievable that such a movie worked out given the fact that we only have one screen to fit them into.

Ian Storey can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

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Wildcats pounce through tournament Ivanna Tucker Sports editor After three games in the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament, the softball team enters the championship round with complete domination.

In the third game on May 12 versus Illinois Wesleyan University, the Wildcats kept the Titans from scoring. The first hit made

by Titans outfielder Audra James, who singled to third base, but was quickly tagged out while trying to steal to second base.

The first three innings remained tight as both of the top teams made no runs.

During the third inning, three runs were scored by freshmen Grace Middelstadt and Kate Hasty and a home run from senior catcher Emilee Lepp.

No more runs were scored throughout the remainder of the game. The Wildcat defense remained strong allowing only at most one hit per inning for the Titans.

Senior Lauren Harvey allowed three hits during her four innings and sophomore Karina Paavola had one during the three innings she pitched.

The Wildcats took home the win with a score of 3-0, leading them to enter the winner’s bracket.

The second game against the Anderson University

Softball

Paavola Ravens was the biggest shut out of the tournament.

The Ravens entered with a 33-11 record, while Linfield had a record of 40-5. Within the first inning, the Wildcats scored six runs with the Ravens’ starter pitcher having to be relieved after five hits and five runs were scored while on the mound.

Throughout the game, the Ravens had difficulty hitting against the all-star pitcher Paavola. They were only able to gain three in comparison to Linfield’s 12 hits.

The Wildcats made two errors during the last inning, allowing the Ravens to load the bases. Paavola ended it quickly as she struck out the next two batters with her powerful pitches. The game ended with the score 8-0, allowing them to enter the next round.

The first shut out of the tournament against Benedictine gave the Wildcats a great start for the tournament.

No runs were gained dur-

Benedictine

R H E - 0 5 2

Linfield

- 3 5 1

R H E

Linfield

- 8 12 1

Anderson

- 0 3 1

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Illinois Wesleyan

- 0 4 0

Linfield

- 3 2 0

ing the first two innings. One ground ball was hit by the Eagles’ sophomore outfielder Kelly Mieszala. Another hit was made by their senior outfielder Laura Christenson in the top of the third.

When Linfield came up to bat, senior Jaydee Baxter, Middelstadt, and Lepp scored the three game-winning runs. Two of the runs were brought in by a successful double hit by senior Staci Doucette.

Harvey pitched a strong seven innings with only five hits made by the Eagles. Linfield brought in its first win with a score of 3-0.

The Wildcats are now placed in the champion bracket against the Illinois Wesleyan to defend their title as NCAA Division III Regional champions.

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

Photo courtesy of Kelly Bird Freshman Grace Middelstadt gives senior Staci Doucette a high five after hitting a single and failed attempt at stealing second against Benedictine on May 10. The first game set the tone for the rest of the tournament.

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plans to take the team in a new direction. He looks forward to seeing the team improve every day and beginning to build a new program. He hopes to see improvements in all areas of play.

Senior Kyle Brouse has played with the team since transferring to Linfield his sophomore year.

Despite a frustrating season this past year, Brouse has enjoyed playing with Wildcats. ”The highlight for me was being able to travel with the team, as well as, get to meet people from all over,” he said.

Brouse said he’s enjoyed the close community that Linfield has to offer both on campus and in sports.

“It made each athlete feel a part of one big team in the athletic department and on campus,” Brouse said.

Freshman Emerson North looks forward to returning next season.

Bechtol has already had the chance to work with the team in spring training.

North is impressed so far with Bechtol’s coaching style.

“He’s a really good coach. He knows how to talk to us during practice, and he’s good at talking to us individually,” North said.

Bechtol’s coaching style is different from former coach Lefebvre, but North said the team has already begun to see improvements.

Personally, North hopes to improve with his left foot, and overall play.

He said he’s greatly enjoyed his time with the Wildcats.

“Even though we had a rough season last year, it’s been a great experience so far,” North said.

The team finished with spring training this past Friday. It will be returning to the field for pre-season training in late August.

Caleb Goad can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

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Wildcat Sports Schedule Linfield’s identity crisis Tuesday, May 15 Orlando, Fla.

All day

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Men’s Golf

Orlando, Fla.

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Orlando, Fla.

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Orlando, Fla.

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NCAA III Finals

Track and Field

@ Newberg, Ore.

1 p.m.

Baseball

NCAA III Regionals

All day

Softball

NCAA III Finals

Men’s Golf Wednesday, May 16

Thursday, May 17

Friday, May 18

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Saturday, May 19

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Baseball

NCAA III Regionals

Softball

NCAA III Finals

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Women’s Tennis

NCAA III Finals

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NCAA III Outdoor Championships

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Monday, May 21 Softball Tuesday, May 22

Thursday, May 24 Track and Field Friday, May 25 Track and Field Saturday, May 26 Track and Field

Sports Briefs

Alumni wins Eugene half marathon

Marci Klimek, class of ‘10, was the first woman to finish the Eugene Marathon half marathon race.

After winning the Portland Marathon back in October 2011, Klimek finished the race in 1:17:35. She placed 30th out of 3,710 other runners.

Taking first was Craig Leon, a Eugene resident, who finished the race in 1:05:35, only 12 minutes before Klimek.

Two Wildcats vault above and beyond once again Attending the West Coast Invitational at Willamette University, two senior Wildcats place themselves high in the competition for pole vault.

Seniors Catherine Street and Misty Corwin came in first and second place. Street reached her limit at 13 feet, 6 1/2 inches. Corwin finished the competition with a height of 11 feet, eight inches.

With these scores in, Street holds her spot in second in the NCAA Division III, while Corwin lands in the sixth spot.

The top-22 women in the NCAA Division III will be invited to the National Championships on May 24-26 in Claremont, Calif. ~Compiled by Kaylyn Peterson/Copy chief

Hey ’Cats. After two years of being blessed with a weekly column in The Linfield Review, time constraints are finally catching up to me. With two stressful, busy semesters on the horizon for my senior year, I had to finally acknowledge that there are only so many hours in the week.

Hence, this is the last column I’ll ever write for the Review. Some of you might find it sad, but mostly, I expect jeering remarks across Facebook and online from those who I’ve somehow offended in the last two years. If that’s what you wish to do, so be it, and I don’t bear you any ill-will.

Two years seems like a pretty long time, but in the grand scheme of things, it really isn’t. That’s only about 24 football games, 100 softball games and a dozen or two track meets. Life seems shorter when you measure it in games rather than days and weeks, doesn’t it?

In the span of those games, I’ve learned a lot about Linfield’s rich sports culture, and it’s through writing this column for the Review that I was able to identify something rather interesting that I was only able to put my finger on as early as last Friday.

Theatre arts professor Janet Gupton, a mentor and role model to me, made a peculiar comment while discussing a theater alumnus that has been openly gay for many years. She said that Linfield wasn’t always the easiest place for members of the GLBT community, which baffled me. Linfield is a small, private liberalarts college in the middle of Oregon. Everything about this place, from the accepting faculty, to the many green initiatives, to the liberal flavor of Linfield’s culture would at face value seem to be a welcoming and supporting environment for such people.

Despite the attempts of Linfield public relations to pitch our beloved college as epitomizing the liberal arts experience, that’s really not what Linfield is at its core.

Because alongside all these proclamations of the joys of the liberal arts education there exists a deep-seeded, deeply entrenched sports culture that lives in constant combat with these values and ideals. Linfield is, to put

Sports Commentary

Chris Forrer Sports columnist it bluntly, a college in crisis.

I don’t mean to say that these two different groups are universally mutually exclusive, but it doesn’t take a genius to see that the world of sports and the world of the liberal arts have some glaring differences in core fundamentals.

Consider the GLBT community and its relationship to sports programs. Do you really think that a homosexual male athlete is going to be welcomed by every single one of his teammates with open arms? How often are the words “faggot” and “homo” used as trash talk among “the guys?” I can’t say with any expertise that such language is used in locker rooms at Linfield, but I can say that I hear it pretty often from athletes around campus in casual conversation. That’s not uncommon in the world of male sports, but for a private liberal arts college it’s appalling.

And what about the idea of the role of the press? In a liberal arts setting, journalism by students would strive to achieve levels of excellence and accuracy akin to a professional publication. This means reporting the truth, whether people want to hear it or not. Yet at Linfield, I wrote one critical column last spring that caused a firestorm of hateful speech on the Internet.

For daring to presume that the softball program isn’t perfect, I was advised by one player to stick to things a theatre major is good at, such as “chess or math team.” Other students went further, saying I ought to stick to “watching Harry Potter” and “jacking off.”

Athletes from other sports joined in recently, with one graduated football player saying to me online that “Dude, you need to figure out that whole writing in a school newspaper thing... dogging on your own team isn’t really the way to go.”

It’s true that history and success breed many positive words, which each program absolutely deserves when their achievements on the field merit it. However, in a sports-centric college environment, athletes fall into the trap of feeling that they are entitled to nothing but glowing reviews from their student publications due to their consistent success and rich history. This is of course nonsense but explains the hateful speech directed my way after that column more than a year ago. In a sports-dominant culture, this kind of thing would make sense: attacking someone who undermined one of the school’s programs. In a liberal arts setting, not so much.

While that attitude is playing out among athletes on the field, the Review continues to strive toward the liberal-arts ideal of honesty and professionalism.

It’s a minor miracle a major mess like this didn’t happen far sooner, because with two vastly different mindsets rooted in different student groups, this tension is always bubbling right below the surface, ready to burst when somebody like me stirs the pot.

These are only two examples of the greater problem I’m trying to get at, but I hope it illustrates the point well enough. Linfield is not really the liberal arts experience it’s billed as, nor is it only the rich sports culture.

The two halves can co-exist well enough for a time, but every so often when something emerges that seems jarringly out of place in one culture or the other we’re reminded that maintaining balance among them is not an easy task.

To be honest, I don’t think we’ve done it yet. Neither sports nor the liberal arts deserves a universal claim to define Linfield’s culture, no matter what each may think, and both have concessions to make in order to achieve a more cohesive, balanced college experience.

Hopefully the next generation of students and athletes can succeed where we have yet to. Until such a time comes, Linfield remains a college with a glaring identity crisis.

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

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Freshman pitcher stands strong on the mound Carson Crepeaux Staff writer

Kate Straube/Photo editor Freshman Chris Haddeland started off his college career on the right foot with a spot on the varsity team. He has appeared in three games as a starter.

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Sometimes the Linfield baseball team doesn’t have to look far from home to find excellence.

This year, the Wildcats had an experienced pitching staff with five seniors.

This next year, Linfield will lose those pitchers and require other pitchers to step up and fill the spots of the five seniors who are moving on from Linfield baseball. One pitcher who has shown a lot of promise and pitched a significant amount of innings this year is freshman Chris Haddeland.

“I love pretty much everything about baseball. I like being around my teammates, watching spectacular plays, and all the excitement that comes with playing the game,”

Haddeland said. “I enjoy pitching because I get to be involved in every single play. There’s never a dull moment when you’re on the mound.”

Haddeland just moved a few blocks over when he left McMinnville High School. He played baseball there lettering in varsity baseball his junior and senior years.

“I grew up playing baseball here in McMinnville. I played all through elementary school and middle school, and kept playing at McMinnville High School,” Haddeland said.

His senior year, he was the Pacific Conference pitcher of the year and 6A first team all-state pitcher.

People just graduating from high school do not see much time on varsity their freshman year. Haddeland, however, has proven to be

more than just a freshman sitting with the varsity squad.

Sometimes it can be difficult being a freshman amongst upper classmen, however, for Haddeland he fits right in.

“All of my teammates are very supportive and are encouraging when I pitch.

I feel like I was received pretty well by the team. It’s a great group of guys on the baseball team and they made me feel included,” he said.

Throughout the year, the baseball team has had success. Hitting has been good, as of late, along with the ‘Cats pitching. This year, Haddeland has shown that he too can be counted on among the experienced veterans on the Wildcat roster to come into games either to start or to relieve.

Haddeland has started

for the ‘Cats three times this year during the course of the season. His ERA is at 3.78 in 13 appearances on the mound, and is fourth in innings pitched for the Wildcats. He, along with senior Robert Vaughn, also has two saves on the year, tied for first in saves on the team.

Going over his freshman season, he feels that he did well pitching and looks forward to improving his change-up and working on “command of all my pitches,” he said.

The future looks promising for Haddeland, and with a chance of the team going to regionals, he has the chance of getting some post season experience under his belt.

Carson Crepeaux can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

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Catline Softball: Finals are on the horizon Kaylyn Peterson Copy chief

Northwest Conference Standings Baseball Whitworth

19-5

Pacific

19-5

.792 .762

Pacific Lutheran

16-8

.667

Linfield

15-9

.625

George Fox

15-9

.625

Willamette

9-15

.375

Puget Sound

6-18

.250

Whitman

5-19

.208

Lewis & Clark

4-20

.167

Linfield

25-3

.893

Pacific Lutheran

24-4

.857

Willamette

19-9

.679

George Fox

15-13

.536

Whitworth

12-16

.429

Pacific

11-14

.393

Lewis & Clark

3-25

.107

Puget Sound

3-25

.107

Softball

Men’s Tennis Whitman

12-0

Pacific

1.000

11-1

.917

George Fox

9-3

.750

Whitworth

8-4

.667

Pacific Lutheran

5-7

.417

Willamette

3-9

.250

Lewis & Clark

2-10

.167

Linfield

2-10

.167

Puget Sound

2-10

.167

Women’s Tennis Linfield

12-0

1.000

Whitman

10-2

.833

Whitworth

9-3

.750

Pacific

6-6

.500

Puget Sound

6-6

.500

Willamette

5-6

.417

George Fox

3-9

.250

Lewis & Clark

3-9

.250

0-12

.000

Pacific Lutheran

Softball ends with a sweep Going into the final round of the NCAA Division III Regionals, the Wildcats didn’t allow opponents to score a single run.

See page 13>> Sports schedule Check out the sports schedule to see when your favorite teams play this weekend.

See page 14>> Columnist says his goodbyes Sports columnist Chris Forrer reflects on his experience at Linfield so far and the school’s identity.

See page 14>> First year pitcher stands out Freshman Chris Haddeland has already made a name for himself during his first season.

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The Wildcats dominated the competition while away for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Regional Tournament in Bloomington, Ill., on May 13.

Linfield started the final game against Illinois Wesleyan University with three wins, all of which were all shut out games.

Starting the final game of the tournament, the Wildcats were slow at the plate until the second inning, where they scored their first two runs. Walking senior Staci Doucette, freshman Kate Hasty stepped in for Doucette and pinch ran for her. Next up to bat was junior Karleigh Prestianni, who hit a triple to right field, bringing in the first run of the game with Hasty earning the run. After making it to third base, Prestianni was replaced by pinch runner, sophomore Kristin Herren, who stole home, earning the second run after junior Megan Wallo tried to steal second base, but was tagged out.

The Wildcats continued their lead into the fourth inning when Doucette hit a home run into left field.

Linfield continued its reign over the tournament with no team scoring against them during any of their games by scoring another three runs in the fifth inning. With two runners on base, senior Emilee Lepp hit a three-run home run, allowing senior Jaydee Baxter and freshman Grace Middelstadt to score.

Leading the game 6-0, Linfield went into the seventh inning ready to end the game. In the final minutes, the Titans were able to score two runs. Even with the Titan’s freshman Audra James scoring off of junior Keri Leach’s home run,

Photo courtesy of Kelly Bird Wildcats celebrate after claiming their second title as NCAA Division III Regional champions after defeating Illinois Wesleyan University, with the Titans only scoring two runs May 13.

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it wasn’t enough to catch up to the Wildcats.

Celebrating the win, the Wildcats rushed the field after the final out, embracing and high-fiving each other, before being awarded their regional champion medals.

“We just knew that we needed to

do what we do,” said Wildcats coach Jackson Vaughn in a press release on the Linfield athletic website. “We won [Saturday’s game against the Titans] with only two hits but we got seven walks, which was a big part of the win. Today, we put together some things early on with some bunts. Then we got the big home runs from Staci and Emilee, which is more our style. If we go down, we’ll go down playing our game.”

The softball team declined to comment.

Linfield will travel for the NCAA Division III finals tournament May 18 in Salem, Va. It will play its first game against either Trine University or Ohio Northern University, who rank first and second in the NCAA Central region. The Wildcats will be going into NCAA finals placed third in the NCAA West region, behind University of Texas-Tyler and Pacific Lutheran.

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

Thrower hopes to launch into nationals Men’s soccer kicks off new with new practice techniques, drills Ivanna Tucker Sports editor Stepping into the pit, a thrower has to remain focused when preparing to launch a 6k-metal ball into the air. Multiple thoughts run through his or her mind—staying within the boundaries, the length of the throw, and most importantly, technique.

Sophomore Anna LaBeaume is the Northwest Conference Champion in shot and hammer throw.

She also placed second in discus.

She is a returning letter-winner thrower for the women’s track team. LeBeaume has stood out as one of the top throwers for the team for the past two years.

The creative writing and English major was named the Northwest Conference Champion in shotput and placed seventh in the hammer throw. The conference meet was coincidently held on her birthday last year, making her wins that much more special to her.

LaBeaume made an appearance at the 2011 NCAA Championship along with senior Catherine Street.

Throughout her experience, learning the hammer throw has been one her favorite parts of competing.

LaBeaume “It’s pretty wild,” LaBeaume said.

This year, LaBeaume has changed her way of practicing to take a different approach toward her events.

“You can’t go wrong with doing lots of drills,” LaBeaume said.

Each practice she starts by doing a warm up jog followed by some hip swings. Then LaBeaume does warm up throws and begins her real throwing practice.

During the off season, she continues to train by doing strengthening workouts and lifting. LaBeaume also played soccer during the 2011 fall season for the Wildcats.

When going into the shotput, she uses the glide to send the ball

to her record-setting lengths.

She currently holds the third highest record in the shotput, the hammer throw and the fifth highest in the discus in Linfield history.

LaBeaume provides a positive influence for her teammates with her goofy personality and dedication at practices.

“She keeps practice and competition light and fun by telling jokes and being her normal goofy self,” sophomore Courtney Alley said.

“Everyone also enjoys her company because she’s always cheering others on even if it’s in between her throws in competition.”

Next week, LaBeaume is competing at the George Fox University Final Qualifier Twilight on May 18. Her goal is to throw 44 feet in shotput, which would allow her to qualify for nationals again. Other team members who have qualified include Street and senior Misty Corwin.

“Everyone has been giving me positive energy,” LaBeaume said.

Her family has been her main support system during her season. They have been able to attend away and home meets, only missing three meets, she said.

“You put in what you want out of it,” LaBeaume said.

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

season with new coach Caleb Goad Staff writer

With a new coach, new players, and a new vision, the Linfield men’s soccer team is prepping for a fresh start next season.

For the past five seasons, the team has been led by coach Ian Lefebvre.

Following this past season, a new head coach, Chuck Bechtol was hired.

Bechtol has spent the last four years coaching boys soccer at McMinnville High School, where he led the boys to Pacific Conference titles for the past three seasons.

He has been honored as Pacific Conference Coach of the Year three times.

Bechtol, a Linfield alum, was a four-year soccer letter-winner from 1988 until 1991. He was a first team all-conference midfielder as a senior in 1991 and received AllConference honorable mention in 1989.

For this new season Bechtol >> Please see Soccer page 13