‘Execution of Justice’ This theater production focuses on the trial of Dan White, who murdered the first openly gay, elected city supervisor. The play runs through May 14.
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Issue No. 23
Columnist offers solution to world issues
Voting ethics talk
Guest professors discuss
misconceptions behind the civic duty and ethics of voting during an “Author Meets Critic Event: ‘The Ethics of Voting’” on May 5 in the Nicholson Library.
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Above: New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof receives a standing ovation during his lecture “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” on May 2. The presentation, which was originally set to take place at the Nicholson Library, anticipated such a full house, that it was relocated to the McMinnville Community Center.
Senioritis strikes Seniors, faculty and staff
share advice about how to counteract end-of-the-year distractions and how to
Left: Kristof discusses gender discrimination throughout the world during a Mac Reads event hosted by the Nicholson Library, the Linfield English Department, Third Street Books and the McMinnville Public Library on May 2 at the McMinnville Community Center.
make the most of their final months. >> page 8 and 9
Joanna Peterson Culture editor
Lu’au celebration Check out festive photos
of the 39th Annual Lu’au hosted by the Hawaiian Club on April 30 in the Ted Wilson Gymnasium. >> page 10
A New York Times columnist challenged a packed audience to help reverse gender discrimination during an author reading at the McMinnville Community Center on May 2. Nicholas Kristof, co-author of “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” used a series of pho-
’Cats go to regionals
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tographs and personal anecdotes to help audience members grasp the magnitude of gender inequality and how giving women equal opportunities can positively impact the world. Kristof identified the unfair treatment of girls and women as this century’s most dominant oppression. “Just as in the 19th century it was slavery and the 20th century it was totalitarianism, in this century
it is injustice to girls all around the world,” he said. Kristof wrote “Half the Sky” with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn. The book brings attention to women from around the world who have dealt with injustice and overcome their circumstances to provide lasting differences in their communities. He challenged the audience to view small gestures of humanitarian aid as investments by sharing
stories from his book, including an anecdote about Beatrice Biira, who was the first girl from her village in Uganda to earn a college degree from an American university. Kristof said that Biira’s parents could not afford to send her to school because she was a girl and because they were peasants. Biira was limited to staying at home to >> Please see Mac Reads page 6
Student radio streams online on campus Web Jaffy Xiao Features editor
Baseball conquers the Lutes
Photos by Megan Myer/Online editor
Linfield’s student-run radio station, KSLC 90.3 FM, began streaming publicly on the Linfield network last week and will be live worldwide in approximately six weeks. “[Listening online] is how students listen to the radio today,” Michael Huntsberger, assistant professor of mass communication and KSLC faculty adviser, said. “The project will benefit students and people who connect to where students are from.” Huntsberger said the online streaming is a project that’s not as simple to take on as it appears. The move has been in the works since 2009.
“Our generation doesn’t have a radio anymore, but we all have access to the Internet,” KSLC General Manager junior Eric Tompkins said. “Students would like their parents, grandparents and friends to know what their lives are like on campus.” Huntsberger said he was surprised that KSLC didn’t have online streaming in 2009, when he first came to Linfield, because most college radio stations had something online in early 2000. He said the project was a slow process. Before KSLC negotiated with Integrated Technology Services for on-campus streaming, it bought a new computer and installed a special sound card for better streaming quality, which took three months. Huntsberger
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also said ITS had its own major bandwidth issues and concerns about school safety, so KSLC was not a high priority for ITS. The online streaming became available on campus in January Term 2011 and was tested by the KSLC staff. However, another difficulty was how to stream music legally.
“Besides the broadcast license we have, we needed an online playing license from Sound Exchange, a performance copyright organization,” Tompkins said. Huntsberger added that it is >> Please see KSLC page 6