September 10, 2010
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Northup renovations underway
ITS spent the summer solving frequent hiccups with the Internet and upgrading existing equipment. Joshua Ensler News editor
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The plans to renovate the long-abandoned Northup hall are finally coming to fruition with construction that started in early July and plans for completion in mid-June of 2011. Work on the renovations has been progressing smoothly, Director of Capital Planning & Development John Hall, said. “We are implementing the plans that are the most current
that we have to date, and the project’s moving along fine,” Hall Said. “We plan on being completed, I would say, sometime around mid June. The building will be open then for next Fall.” Northup Hall used to house Linfield’s library but has been used for storage since 2003 when the library was moved to the newly constructed Nicholson building near the Miller Fine Arts Building. Starting next fall, Northup will be home to the
business, economics, English and philosophy departments along with the Writing Center and Linfield Center for Northwest Studies. It was initially decided that the business department would be moved to Northup Hall to vacate Taylor Hall in preparation for its own renovation, but the additional space in Northup was still open to other departments or uses. The additional departments were chosen after discussions
with various faculty members and other school officials. “President Hellie wanted to make sure that the business department had other academic departments that were with them, that they were not an island just to themselves, for good academic reasons,” Hall said. “The departments that were determined that might be a good fit were the economics >> Please see Northup page 5
New dean brings spirit and talent Kelley Hungerford Editor-in-chief To say that Susan Hopp is excited about being Linfield’s new vice president of student affairs and athletics/dean of students is an understatement: She’s only been a Wildcat since July, but she already describes her new role as the “best
student affairs job in Oregon.” The former dean of students at Pennsylvania’s Bucknell University got a call from an Oregonian colleague, who alerted her of the opening at Linfield. Hopp knew of the school’s reputation; she’d heard great things about the campus during careers at Western Oregon, Oregon State and Portland State
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universities. She even knew former dean Dave Hansen, professor of economics, and Jeff Mackay, associate dean of students and director of Residence Life. But it wasn’t just rumors and professional associations that drew her to the campus. She said she liked the idea of managing both athletics and student affairs and
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the prospect of nurturing Linfield’s student experience as the college develops its vision within its new brand. “I like to be a builder. I’m not a maintainer,” Hopp said. “I just think you take the best of what has >> Please see Dean page 6
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An unidentified worker uses an arc welder on Northup Hall Sept. 9. The building is being gutted and redesigned to hold four academic departments, the Writing Center and Linfield Center for Northwest Studies.
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Slowdowns in the network and the renovation of Northup Hall have forced Linfield’s Integrated Technology Services to improve Linfield’s network. Irv Wiswall, chief technology officer, and Integrated Technology Services, said that the two routers that sorted data in Linfield’s network were chokepoints and were causing network slowdowns. The upgrade was also inspired by the gutting of Northup Hall for its renovation. Part of the fiber optic line ran through the building and needed to be rerouted. Fortunately, a tunnel built in a previous renovation project was available for such an event, Wiswall said, Integrated Technology Services increased the number of routers on Linfield’s network from two to eight, and restructured the fiber optic network backbone that carries the information. “It involved recreating the local virtual local area networks and the configuration of a lot of equipment,” Wiswall said. The virtual networks are how the computers are organized to organize information on Linfield’s networks. He also said that the two routers had been overloaded, prompting the quadrupling of their numbers. There are now eight routers on the Linfield network, and a number of programs have been implemented by Information Technology Services to better organize the interaction between the machines. Because there are eight of them,
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September 10, 2010
EDITORIAL
Start off your school year sustainably With the new school year starting up, students are being faced with new responsibilities. As we are all learning to adapt to new school schedules, that will inevitably take up most of our time, it is easy to fall into the habit of forgetting to do the little things throughout the day that help make campus “greener” and more sustainable. We know, as college students, we already have a lot to think about and focus on each and every day, but if you can just remember a few tips on how to be more environmentally conscious, the campus as a whole can greatly benefit. Sophmore Katherine Takaoka, a member of the Greenfield club on campus, said that one of the main
things students can do is be conscious about how long of a shower he or she takes. We know it can be relaxing to take a long shower, especially after a work out or a game, but cutting back can make a difference all across campus by reducing the water usage. Secondly, a lot of energy can be saved if students unplug electronics in their rooms when they leave. It may seem like a bit of an inconvenience at first, but if students make a habit of unplugging laptops, phones and lamps, we can reduce the school’s energy consumption. Thirdly, recycling plays a big role in having a green campus. It’s easy to simply throw away a pop can or water bottle in your
residence hall or apartment, but if students look around campus, they will see several buildings and locations that have labeled recycling bins. Last but not least, consider reading an article for a class online rather than printing it. A ton of paper gets wasted in Nicholson Library and in Renshaw Hall, and reading online can help cut back on that issue. We would like to challenge students to keep these tips in mind when they carry out their daily routines. Overall, keep in mind that small actions by students can warrant big changes for the environment that surrounds us. -The Review Editorial Board
gest that our identity was solid — well known by the singular name. As Harvard is known, for example and others with traditional and long lineage. It was designed to require minimal maintenance with materials resisting the effects of time. I have no quarrel with the “new look,” as it represents us and is used for letterheads, cards, e-mails and the website, but superimposed on the existing entrances is silly and frankly lazy. We are
ill-served by this easy “solution.” Offered as it is in one of our basic design classes the grade would warrant a “C”— at best. And that is with grade inflation. I am disappointed and cringe each time I am confronted with thiscartoon. It can only be described as commercial graffiti, appliquéd on the original surface with no regard for design continuity. A facile, lightweight lettering suggesting a greeting card garnished with a garish, tinseled red acorn now
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR About 20 years ago, I was involved in the design of the entrance signage for the college. The charge was to develop the entrance with a welcoming sign that identified the college by name and at the same time presented the public with a sense of permanence and elegance. The horizontal, curved structure of concrete and brick implied a foundational architecture for the college’s identity. The simple “LINFIELD” (block letters) was chosen to sug-
decorates all the entrances to our campus. It effectively erodes any concept of permanence and seems more appropriate as a letterhead or business card—its origin, in fact. It was expensive, poorly conceived—garish, absurd. I am chagrined that this decision was made as it is now permanently installed and will remain for years to come, requiring, I fear, annual maintenance and repeated facelifts. - Nils Lou, professor of art
OPINION
Summer internships can put you ahead in life, school
Chelsea Bowen Consider an internship During the summer, I was lucky enough to be selected to complete a 10-week internship at a Portland TV station. Not only did I gain valuable, hands-on experience in the field of journalism, but I was able to add four credits to my fall schedule. Based on my positive experience, I think that other Linfield students could greatly benefit from pursuing an internship during the summer.
I know it can be a challenge to find the motivation to do schoolrelated work during the summer. A lot of us have been rattling our brains all school year and are ready to have some time away from academic activity. But if you can find the time and motivation, a summer internship can be a great way to get ahead. Not only do summer internships allow you to gain experience in the career you’re interested in, but you can also get ahead by getting credits out of the way before Fall Semester gets in full swing. During my summer internship, I met and worked with media professionals who have been in the field for several years. They gave me advice and tips on how to suc-
ceed after graduating from Linfield and how to start applying for jobs out in the real world. For example, I was given advice on what small markets would be good to start in. Also, I gained a perspective into how a broadcasting company is run and into some of the daily procedures and responsibilities of the media professionals I worked with. For example, I got to see what the producers and reporters do to get ready for a newscast. It is usually true that more experience you have in your field of interest when you apply for a job out of college, the more likely it is that your résumé will get noticed by prospective employers. Secondly, summer internships are a great way to lighten your
school load in the fall. It’s a relief to know that you have some credit hours taken care of, even though a final paper is required three weeks after the internship ends, before all of the fall courses and all of the homework that comes along with them starts up. It may seem like a big time commitment during the summer, but I’m sure no one will regret spending his or her time completing a summer internship once back on campus. Overall, I know that summer seems like a billion years away since school began, but I encourage students to keep the idea of a summer internship in mind for their future plans. Chelsea Bowen can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com
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Internet problems cause disapointment
Matthew Olson Internet is a downer. Well, the Internet’s down again. Maybe not completely shut off, but a majority of the campus is experiencing intermittent failures and general slowness. Shoot. Gamers from Potter Hall to the HPs can’t play anything because of some glitch nobody saw coming. Having trouble connecting to our own Linfield e-mail should not be a problem anyone should have. Getting kicked off three times trying to post this online, well, that just makes me frown. I’ve got friends going abroad this semester, and Skyping them has become a
priority for me. I’m starting to think it might be faster to send them letters or maybe swim across the ocean. It would be less frustrating than being disconnected every three minutes. I don’t know anyone in ITS. I’ve never met any of the workers, and I don’t know any of the work study students. I don’t know what their daily schedule looks like, and I don’t know if they spend their days actively working or acting like Jim Halpert. I’m not even sure how many there are; that alone troubles me. I just don’t know. My ignorance means that I can’t attack them personally without being incredibly wrong, and I certainly don’t intend to. All I want is Internet that consistently works and Internet that is somewhat fast. Now, I’m not asking for amazingly fast, super-hispeed Internet. I just need it to work, and I need it to be functionally fast.
I’m a pretty flexible guy who understands that nothing is perfect. I’m okay with the occasional issue or time of slowness during peak hours, but none of us should have to deal with it all the time. And it seems to me that ITS has continually failed to deliver that in my three-plus years here. I don’t mean that insultingly or angrily or bitterly. I don’t mean it on a personal level. I mean that among students, there is a sense of continual disappointment. Our expectations have not been met. Getting to the root of the problem is not so easy. I will hazard a guess at what I consider is the most plausible explanation: We are witnessing a plan that was likely put forward when Linfield’s needs were much smaller and simpler. Typical of many organizations, the minimum number of resources needed were allotted to the task of fulfillment.
As technology has grown and upgrades are needed, it is possible the funds or workers for technology have remained static. The ability to build a sufficient network may be beyond the capabilities of our technology workers. That’s what it feels like, anyway. Even so, this output is unacceptable. A clear reevaluation of technology services is in order. The Internet is a lifeline for all of us and Linfield should be making this a priority. Serviceable Internet is all I’m asking for. It’d be a great improvement. A few more resources invested into our technology services, and the Internet could go from a weakness to a strength. This isn’t a technology failure, this is a Linfield failure. You can do better Linfield. We need better. Matthew Olson can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com
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Financial aid, responsibility aren’t shared by all students
Hannah McCluskey I thank my parents. The only word I can think of to describe my experience with college finances is lucky. I am simply lucky to have parents that have the means to support me through college and who also understand the workings of various financial necessities required for college requirements. I was quite naïve at a younger age to believe that this was always the case. To even imagine handling my private student loans, financial aid and Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) all by myself makes me want to curl up in a ball. But once I began my college career, I discovered that I was actually the minority within most college institutions. I have met so many individuals who act beyond their age and deal with the kinds of financial responsibilities in which many adults are unable to handle correctly. My first roommate at Linfield, who became one of my closest friends, was my initial example of this kind of autonomy and responsibility. She would speak financial gibberish to me, and I could not even comprehend
how she knew all this information and what’s more, how she handled it with such grace. My second example was from someone who would be embarrassed if I disclosed his or her identity. But this person is beyond even the definition of responsibility and who does as such with no complaints or self-pity. And although these personal examples are special to me, I know that there are so many others attending Linfield (and beyond) who display the same kind of accountability for their education. For those of you who are similar to me and have help with their school finances, just imagine how much more work there is to be done to get into school and then to stay in school. The paperwork, the constant phone calls talking to exhausted employees of private loan distributors and the many trips to the college’s financial aid office. I hope that you understand that others around you may not be as fortunate and must undergo different stressors and obstacles in order to achieve their goals of higher education. This understanding should be used to help you relieve some of your own things taken for granted. Whatever it may be, be thankful for what you have, and always remember that there are others who are less fortunate and who still make the best of it.
Hannah McCluskey can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com
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Cisco causes console crisis Joshua Ensler News editor
The Linfield summer upgrade to a new version of the Cisco Clean Access Agent prevented video game consoles from connecting to the servers, a problem which was finally solved Sept. 8. The new Clean Access Agent identifies all computers, including consoles, by their Internet Protocol address, or IP address. Consoles usually don’t have a static, unchanging IP address, which the new version of Cisco requires for all machines that connect to Linfield’s Internet. The previous version of the Clean Access Agent only required the Media Access Control serial number of the video game consoles. The Media Access Control is like every other serial number: It’s used to tell millions of identical machines apart from one another. Since every console has a different serial number, networks call tell one machine from another. Because the old version of the Clean Access Agent is no longer supported by its company, Cisco, Integrated Technology Services was forced to upgrade from the obsolete edition to prevent
Linfield’s network security from being compromised by malware. Irv Wiswall, chief technology officer for ITS, said the new version of the Clean Access Agent is also meant to be less intrusive than previous editions. Previous stories in TheLinfield Review, such as “Internet falls short of expectations,” TLR, Feb. 19, detail some student complaints and the efforts of ITS to address those issues. ITS was ready to address the issue with consoles when summer ended, as evidenced by its e-mails about registering gaming devices, but not enough computers were on the network during the summer. This prevented the ITS from conducting a stress test — pushing the network as hard as it will go to see when it fails or its effectiveness degrades. With so few computers and so much bandwidth available, it was impossible to overload the network, making a stress test meaningless. With the network connection problem solved by ITS, students have resumed their mutliplayer Internet games from their consoles. Joshua Ensler can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.
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Suburban delicacies Students gather around a table laden with food at “A Taste of the Suburbs” on Sept. 6. Sponsored by the suburban division of Residence Life, students traveled from suburb to suburb to eat appetizers, entrees, mocktails and dessert. This table, in the Hewlett-Packerd apartment complex, served the main course of hot dogs, hamburgers and potato and green salads. There was also a raffle for a two-gigabyte iPod shuffle.
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News in brief
Linfield College Community Public Safety announced that a suspicious person was spotted near a residence hall on the night of Sept. 7, at about 10:30 p.m. The unidentified suspect was tall and thin, and was wearing black sweatpants and a red-and-black Nike windbreaker, According to an e-mail sent by Robert Cepeda, director of Linfield College Campus Public Safety on Sept. 9. The suspect’s ethnicity is unknown.
The suspect allegedly urinated in the bushes, then attempted to gain entry to an unidentified residence hall through an unlocked window, according to the report. The e-mail also warned students not to prop open doors, allow guests to wander inside unsupervised and to keep the doors locked when away, alone or asleep. Cepeda deliberately withheld the name of the affected residence hall to emphasize the all-encompassing message of campus safety, he said.
An unidentified man wandered into a woman’s room in Hewitt Hall April 4, last Spring Semester after he tailgated another student through the doors (“Hewitt intruder causes alarm,” TLR April 5”). LCCPS can be reached at 503-8837233. Cepeda also suggests calling Residence Life or 911 in the event of an emergency. ~Complied by Joshua Ensler
Catnet: Data revealed need for increased bandwidth
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less stress is now placed on each router as well. Routers are to a network what the sorting center is the U.S. Postal Service. Routers tag packets of information and route them to their destinations. Counter-intuitively, the single switch that separates Linfield’s network from the rest of the Internet causes no problems or delays. Wiswall explained that switches, as opposed to routers, as “dumb” equipment. They don’t track and sort information but serve to link branches of the network together. In addition to the new routers, more fiber optic cable was added to the line running from Melrose Hall to Graf Hall. The line was also rerouted around Northup Hall and increased the bandwidth between the two buildings. Wiswall said statistical tracking software showed a need for the increased bandwidth between Graf and Melrose halls. Bandwidth is the vol-
Graph courtesy of Irv Wiswall The graph shows an average day of Linfield’s Internet usage, Irv Wiswall, chief technology director of Integrated Technology Services, said. It is one day used as a sample, not an average of multiple days. The jaggeed line depicts incoming information, and the shaded area is outgoing information. The peaks are times of high usage. Typical heavy usage goes just over 80 Mbit/s, short of Linfield’s 100 Mbit/s of bandwidth. ume of information a connection can carry. It is measured in bits per second. Linfield has 100 megabits per second of bandwidth, or 100 Mbit/s. Wiswall said his department had noticed network slowdowns and outages
even when not using all 100 Mbit/s, another reason ITS decided to upgrade the network. ITS also tried to fix problems with Linfield’s wireless network. “We looked at the statistics, and most Linfield stu-
dents are using wireless,” said Wiswall. “While wired connections are better, Linfield’s wireless was worse than it should have been.” He said the wireless nodes were too independent, creating conflict in the networks when they
assigned conflicting IP address to computers. “They were squabbling,” he said. IP address are given to computers by networks to identify their location within a network. The network has a new physical layout and is orga-
nized by new software to manage these devices and prevent the conflict from happening. The upgrades are not finished. Wiswall said that configuring the new switches on the network should be done by this weekend. Wiswall and his staff will also be adding a fiber optic cable to the Legacy Apartments. It will replace the microwave beam that runs between Newby Hall and the Legacies. Microwaves beams, like information conveyed via laser beam, must have a clear line-of-sight between the transmitter and receiver. With the cable in place, the Legacies will not lose Internet access if a large truck stops at the traffic light on the highway, if a tree grows in the way or if students pitch tents in the Oak Grove — all incidents that Wiswall said cut the Internet to the Legacies by blocking the microwave beam’s line of sight with the Newby Hall receiver. Joshua Ensler can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.
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Hellie’s address showcases Linfield’s success Joshua Ensler News editor President Thomas Hellie spoke about the successes of Linfield during an economic recession and warned against complacency now that the storm of collapsing economy is over during his state of the college address Sept 8. Boasting that Linfield survived the worst of the recession virtually unscathed when its competitors were cutting staff, faculty and programs, Hellie outlined the eight subjects he felt Linfield must address to remain a successful small college. “One year ago, we were worried,” Hellie said. “The Great Recession had swept across our country ... We had one of the smallest freshmen classes in years, some 10 percent below our original budget projections.” Hellie also spoke about the sudden acceleration of the Northup Hall renova-
tion, citing a sudden drop in construction costs and the effort of the faculty and staff involved in the project, along with Chair of the board of trustees Dave Haugeberg and T.J. Day, who he identified as a major donor. “Were it not for the trustees — and especially those two men — Northup would still be in mothballs,” Hellie said. Hellie thanked the college relations department and its head, Bruce Wyatt, for achieving record donations during a recession. To punctuate the turnaround made by Linfield, Hellie proudly announced the record number of incoming students. “Today we have 535 freshmen enrolled at Linfield, more than 23 percent of them Americans of color,” he said. Hellie then thanked the faculty for their dedication to recruiting more freshmen and urged the assembled
President Hellie’s top goals
1. To begin a strategic planning process, that will result in a vision, mission statement, and strategic plan by February 2012. (This is likely to commence in discussions with trustees during their November 2010 meeting.) 2. To revisit, evaluate, and possibly revise the facilities masterplan that was first created 10 years ago and updated in 2007. (In the short term we will take a close look at the plan to be sure that we are making the right decisions on spaces vacated in Taylor and Melrose.) 3. To evaluate our enrollment plans in McMinnville, aiming to increase the number of ethnic minorities, international students, and out-of-state transfers. 4. To begin developing long-term budget models that enable us to plan more effectively for the future. 5. To re-examine and reinvigorate our fund-raising campaign for endowed professorships and student scholarships, while also increasing the alumni-giving rate. 6. To complete the renovation of Northup Hall. 7. To implement the integrated marketing plan. 8. To develop the Board’s strategic agenda and membership. -Courtesy of Thomas Hellie staff to take pride at their accomplishments in the face of adverse conditions. Hellie cited a list of publications that had recently mentioned increased respect
for Linfield. “I believe these ranking systems are unreliable and unscientific, but I can’t deny that it helps our college when we rise 13 places in
the U.S. News college issue or when Parade Magazine names us as one of the 26 best small colleges in the country,” he said. Hellie’s peak topic was
the success of the branding of Linfield as a small college environment and the standardization of its promotional materials. He encouraged faculty to join him in actively planning for the future and increasing the diversity at Linfield. “We need to enhance our reputation and outreach and enroll students from a more diverse set of states and nations,” he said. Hellie closed with a letter of gratitude from a Linfield graduate’s parents, thanking the college for the education it provided. “We are so proud of Tommy [Thomas George] and appreciate everything that Linfield provided him,” wrote George’s parents, Tim and Tami George. “I’m sure that he would rather his parents not write or send this but that was not an option. It was time to say thanks to Linfield, and for the Linfield way.” Joshua Ensler can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.
Northup: Renovations scheduled for completion in 2011 << Continued from page 1 department, philosophy, and English.” The renovation of Northup Hall is only the start of a series of remodels of the academic quad (Northup, Talyor, Murdock and Graf halls). Once Northup is completed, planning and work will begin on the vacant Taylor Hall. Discussions about which department will move into Taylor are currently being held. “Our goal, ultimately, is to tear down Mac Hall, build a new biology building, connect it with Graf, remodel Graf and remodel Murdock Hall,” Hall said. The project stems from a report compiled in 2005 about how to improve the college’s sciences. Hall said it would take some time before everything was complete due to the time it takes to plan and raise money. “This whole process may take 10 to 15 years,” he said. “There’s going to be this activity going on in the academic quad area during that time, all in the effort to modernize our academic spaces and our science labs, and to expand the science labs.” The cost of the renovations to Northup Hall alone cost around $8.4 million, Hall said. This includes the cost of construction, permits, furniture and other various fees. The new Northup Hall will feature state-of-the-art technology and is the first Leadership for Environment
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The blueprints for the first floor of the renovated Northup Hall. Blueprints for the second and third floors can be found online at http://www. linfield.edu/linfield-review/. and Development (LEAD) building on campus. “It’s going to be highly energy efficient,” Hall said. “It’s going to be able to be a healthier environment for the occupants and users of the building, have a lot of special features in the heating and cooling system and the ventilation system inside
the building.” There will also be a solar panel on the building and a flat screen monitor inside that will constantly display the its energy output. Currently, workers are done tearing down the walls that won’t be used on the inside of the building and other demolition work
around the outside. Since the building is being redesigned rather than torn down and reconstructed, planning has been more complex and more costly, Hall said. However, he also said the recycling and redesign of Northup coincides with the college’s mission of sus-
tainability and reusing old materials. Along with a plethora of new, advanced features, Northup Hall, built in 1932, will retain some of its original, more charming aspects, such as an original fireplace in one of the reading rooms. Hall has high hopes for the new building and
expects students to enjoy the specially designed layout once it opens for the next fall semester. “Our architects did a wonderful job ... of making the program fit and work,” he said. “We’re all very excited about it.” Braden Smith can be reached at linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com.
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Dean: Hopp hopes to enhance student experiences << Continued from page 1 already been created and you sort of move into the next phase.” The search The Vice President for Student Affairs and Athletics/Dean of Students Search Committee started meeting in January to hunt for a new dean. Senior Colin Jones, Associated Students of Linfield College president and a member of the committee last year, said Hopp stood out as one of the top candidates. “You really saw that she knew what she was talking about, and she could articulate a lot of the really complex issues around student services really well,” Jones said. Examples of these key issues included the possible tensions between athletics and academics and an eagerness to interact with students, Jones said. After the first round of interviews, the committee, comprising three faculty members, two student services administrators and two students, was charged with whittling those applicants down to three. Hopp, along with Xavier Romano, dean of students for Knox College in Illinois, and Glenn Smith, vice provost for student services and enrollment management at Concordia University in Portland, visited Linfield in May for an intensive interview process. Hopp and Smith emerged as the primary competitors after grillings by students, faculty and the search committee. “Xavier, he brought with him a degree of controversy which we were not looking for,” Jones said. The controversy involved a student forum at Knox in March that questioned how college authorities handled sexual assaults on campus. According to The Knox
Hopp Student, the independent, student-run paper of Knox College, “Main concerns about how the administration deals with sexual assault include … whether there are sufficient consequences for those who commit sexual assault, whether having the same person [Romano] be a Greek advisor and the Dean of Students presents a conflict of interest and whether there are enough services provided by the college to aid sexual assault victims,” (“Candidates for dean to visit in May,” TLR, April 30). But Hopp’s expansive career in student affairs put her on top. “Susan brought a breadth of experience at a number of institutions,” Jones said. Smith’s experience, while impressive, stemmed almost exclusively from Concordia, Jones said. Vast experience Hopp brings to Linfield more than 30 years of experience in higher education administration. After graduating with a master’s in student affairs from Indiana University Bloomington, Hopp was hired as associate dean of students and director of housing at Eckerd College in Florida. She soon traveled west, working at Western Oregon University as director of residence life and then at Lewis & Clark College as assistant vice president and director of campus life. An opportunity for assis-
tant vice provost opened up at Portland State University, and Hopp leapt on the chance to work at a large institution. “I really learned a lot about curricular innovation, collaboration – sort of thinking about the student experience holistically,” Hopp said about her stint at PSU. “But I didn’t get to know students in the same way because it was so huge, and I was so removed from them.” Hopp eventually took the reigns as director of student services and academic support programs at Oregon State University when a joke among friends became reality. “We sort of had this longstanding joke about, ‘Well if they ever start a campus in Bend, we should all get our best friends together and go work there,’” she said. Hopp helped build the OSU Cascades Campus in Bend, all the while gathering skills that may help her at
Linfield. “We couldn’t even cash a student’s check the first day,” she said. “I was the registrar on Monday, student life on Tuesday, admissions on Thursday, academic planning on Friday. It was that kind of really fast-paced, fun environment.” But when the state of Oregon tightened its purse strings on public education system, Hopp moved on, this time moving east to Pennsylvania. “One of the things we were learning through all of our assessment projects at Bucknell was that students were having this incredible experience, but they weren’t attributing their experience to being at Bucknell,” she said. “And the same can be said of Linfield students or Lewis & Clark students, so something was missing.” To solve this problem, Hopp helped develop five key areas for student affairs to focus on: health and well-
ness, values and ethics, global citizenship, environmental sustainability and community leadership. “These domains were areas that we thought, in student affairs, that we could contribute [to] in the greatest way,” she said. Before Hopp could see the fruits of her labor, though, she came to Linfield, leaving the same year as the Bucknell president who hired her. “This is the year that things were going to happen, and that’s why it was hard to leave,” she said. “I wouldn’t have left if it hadn’t been for this job [at Linfield].” The student experience Hopp said she hopes to develop positive student experiences at Linfield. “One of the things I thought would be transferable [from Bucknell] is the way we developed student learning outcomes and organized everything we were doing around creating the best possible educational
Deans, dogs and daughters Don’t be surprised if you see Susan Hopp wandering around the Oak Grove with a “furry little thing” (her words) on a leash. Hopp said she walks her dog Charlie, a Lhasa Apso, around campus several times a day. And the Oak Grove is one of her favorite spots on campus. “It’s just really nice to be able to stand in the grove and look at the original buildings,” she said. “They’re so full of history.” Hopp, a Florida native, went to undergraduate school for English and humanities at Stetson College in Florida, where she was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority. She received a master’s in student affairs at Indiana University Bloomington and a doctorate in public policy and administration at Portland State University. Although she doesn’t have a long commute from her rental home in McMinnville to the campus, Hopp said
she has her radio dialed to NPR. When she’s not settling into her new job as dean of students, she likes to garden, cook and travel, she said. Hopp’s many years in student affairs provided her with experience connecting to students, but the mother of three can relate to parents as well. Her oldest daughter is an urban planner back in Florida, and her middle daughter is studying graphic design in New York. As for the youngest? She’s finishing up high school in Lewisburg, Pa., where Hopp worked at Bucknell University. “I’m doing the empty nest a year earlier than I had planned it,” Hopp said. She said she’s encouraging her daughter (and her daughter’s friends) to attend Linfield after graduation. ~Complied by Kelley Hungerford
experience for students,” she said. Hopp said part of this requires transforming students into superior professionals and community members. Working at the OSU Cascades Campus gave Hopp insights about handling student experiences on multiple campuses. She said this will help to make “students feel like they’re part of the bigger picture” on both the Linfield’s McMinnville and Portland campuses. Hopp said she will spend much of Fall Semester meeting with administrators and faculty to get input on how to implement her goals. But she wants to hear from students, too. “I want students to ask me questions like, ‘Well, how did this stupid policy get approved?’,” Hopp said. She said she will have open office hours for students to come and discuss topics on anything from food services to student government to judicial issues. Hansen’s ‘big shoes’ As Hopp settles into a routine at Linfield, many people may be wondering how she’ll handle the vacancy left by Dave Hansen, who stepped down as dean last year after a 22-year tenure in the position. “I have known Susan Hopp for quite some time and look forward to her being at Linfield,” Hansen said in an e-mail. “She comes with a wealth of experience, energy and ideas for enhancing the student experience.” While no one can doubt Hopp has big shoes to fill, Jones said he isn’t worried. In fact, he said Hopp’s energy and ideas will provide a welcomed new perspective on student affairs at Linfield. “I think we’ll see that it’s not much that she’s going to fill Hansen’s shoes,” Jones said. “She brought her own shoes.” Kelley Hungerford can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com.
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Using food stamps to make it through college by Jaffy Xiao/Features editor
Two years into the current economic recession, we all need money, as times are tough. The number of Oregonians seeking assistance from the Food Stamp Program (renamed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Jan. 1) has increased 49 percent since June 2008, according to data on the Food Research and Action Center’s website. The food stamp program is provided by the government to help improve the health and well-being of low-income households and individuals, according to Oregon SNAP’s government website. Senior Zachary Hubbard has received food stamps for several years. He gets more than $200 a month in food stamps. This money is placed on a card, similar to a debit card, which is used to pay for food (see image at right). He said he usually goes to Winco and Albertsons to buy fresh food. But he is not allowed to buy cooked food. “I appreciate the food stamps program, which is good to save money,” Hubbard said. “Oregon is one of the few states that I know that has such a program.”
Mark of lower class?
Although food stamps are only given to people who make less than $150 per month, Hubbard said they don’t make him feel low class because many Linfield students he knows receive food stamps. He also said applying as a student has a completely different association with non-students. A senior male student said in an e-mail that he wouldn’t use food stamps if he didn’t need to, but he wouldn’t be embarrassed if a group of friends use them together. However, using food stamps still gives him an awkward feeling, which is why he chose to remain anonymous. Some of his friends make fun of him and try to eat his food because they think it was not purchased with
his money. He also said that he feels like there are non-students who are richer than college students but use food stamps, so he said he doesn’t see a problem with students who are struggling to pay for school using food stamps to purchase food.
Tips to apply for SNAP benefits
For Linfield students who apply for Oregon SNAP: Qualifications: • Must be an Oregon resident • Must have a federal work study job • Must not be on any meal plan • Must earn income of less than $150 per month (cash) and have bank accounts totaling less than $100. Steps of application: • Print an application from http://DHSforms.hr.state.or.us/ Forms/Served/DE0415F.pdf or call your local self-sufficiency office to have one mailed to you or pick one up at your local self-sufficiency office. • Fill out the application. • Turn in the application: You can mail, fax or drop the application off at your local selfsufficiency office. The McMinnville
office is at 368 NE Norton Lane. The Food Stamps Assistance office in McMinnville where most students applied for food stamps is at 330 NE Kirby St., which is in the parking lot of the movie theater off of Highway 18, across from the Willamette Valley Medical Center. • After you submit an application, make an appointment for an interview with a caseworker. The officer of SNAP may go over the application with you in an interview. What to bring to the interview: • Identification card • Social Security number or card • Proof of income, rent and mortgage payments (the pink copy of employment sheet from Linfield Human Resources Office) • Proof of your legal status or citizenship for those who want benefits *These tips are provided by the Application for Services from the Oregon Department of Human Services.
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Growing
Clockwise from above: (a) Senior Sammi Mack picks flowers from the Gardening Club’s Linfield Community Garden at a garden walk though Sept. 3. (b) A hand-painted sign marks a row of onions in the garden. Onions were some of the most popular produce at the garden walk besides carrots and cherry tomatoes. (c) A bowl of luscious cherry tomatoes tempts passers-by at the garden walk. Freshman Robin Fahy, Gardening Club co-president, said cherry tomatoes were one of the most successful crops in the garden this year. (d) A lone strawberry begs to be picked. Strawberries were harvested at their prime during the summer, so there weren’t many left Sept. 3. (e) Senior Katie Kann (right) discusses organic gardening with a fellow senior in the garden Sept. 3. (f) Giant zucchini-plant leaves blanket the ground of the Community Garden.
The Linfield Community Garden was scarcely more than a fenced-in plot of dirt and rolledup sod when Linfield students packed up their rooms and left for summer vacation in June. But the 40-by-50-foot garden transformed during the summer. The barely blooming space that students may remember now stands overgrown, green and flourishing – almost in mockery of the surrounding yellow grass of Renshaw Field. Much of the credit goes to Gardening Club members who volunteered to water and weed the garden during their summer vacations. “People came over on a daily basis to check on it, watering in the mornings, in the evenings, weeding when it was necessary,” senior club member Katie Kann said during a Sept. 3 walkthrough of the garden. This garden walk was an opportunity for students to explore the garden, pick produce and learn about the club and organic gardening, Kann said. Junior Grace Beckett said she had just purchased vegetables from Albertsons to make a stir-fry dinner when a friend texted her about the free produce that evening. “Just from my perspective, having that one walk through and getting a couple free meals worth of really good food — That’s really cool,” Beckett, who is not a member of the Gardening Club, said. “That’s like gold to a college student. I don’t know if other people realize there’s this stash of food there.” And it certainly is a large stash. “We have so much produce; we need people to help us eat it,” Kann said. Students may have noticed the corn stocks reaching over the garden’s fence. Inside the bar-
rier hides a wood signs cherry toma plants’ leav and big, rou harvest. “We kind recruitment said. Fahy and well, are th Junior Lily R is studying ter. “When s ing on the le had pretty c Fahy said, r who is a pai ities Service And the that betwee Fair, the clu The freshme “In Defense est in organ ship, she sai The broth year. In the plant hearty winter lettu the majority such as clo nutrients to said. Fahy and needs to b
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she [Ratliff] was thinking about passeadership, she knew that Lester and I close ties with gardening in our past,” referring to their dad, Michael Fahy, inter, carpenter and gardener in Faciles. shock value worked. Maxwell said en the walk through and the Activities ub’s e-mail list grew to 100 members. en common reading, Michael Pollen’s e of Food,” also sparked a wide internic gardening and, thus, club memberid. hers have big plans for the garden this e winter, Maxwell said the club will y crops, such as broccoli, garlic and uce that can endure cold weather. But y of the crops will be ground cover, over and rye grasses, which release o help balance nitrogen in the soil, he
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space. “People are so scared by that fenced-off area,” Maxwell said, explaining that a lot of produce goes to waste because students are not harvesting and eating the garden’s crops. To make it more accessible and approachable, Fahy said one of his goals is to develop the architectural landscape of the garden to fashion an outdoor oasis where people can go to eat and socialize. And the brothers said they plan to again harness the talents of seniors Sammi Mack and Libby Wilcox, who helped write a grant proposal that profited the club $2,000 from the ACES (Advisory Committee on the Environment and Sustainability) Committee’s Renewable Energy and Sustainability Fund last year. The garden also houses a compost machine, purchased with a $750 grant that Kann received last year from the sustainability fund. Maxwell said Kann plans to bolster the campus’s composting efforts this year by distributing five-gallon buckets to residents of the Hewlett-Packard apartments. Students can store compostable waste in the buckets before dumping it in the garden’s compost pile. “It feels amazing to be a part of that entire student operative on campus,” Maxwell said. “It just shows the power of the student body on campus and what they can do, what they’re capable of.” The Gardening Club will be hosting a work party at 2 p.m. Sept. 12 in the garden for people interested in harvesting, weeding or just eating food. For more information about the gardening club, contact gardenclub@linfield.edu. Kelley Hungerford can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com.
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September 10, 2010
Seasoned magician shares love for astonishment Jessica Prokop Culture editor A magician stunned and dumbfounded eager audience members with his mystifying feats in a packed Ice Auditorium on Sept. 1. Magician Nate Staniforth opened his show with footage of him performing magic tricks on students in Dillin Hall earlier in the day. Sophomore Haydn Nason, one of the students featured in the clip, experienced a card trick firsthand. “Dude, it was magic,” Nason said. “Even though my friend figured out how [Staniforth] did the trick, it was still magic.” Staniforth confounded a much larger group that night when he performed a trick that involved every audience member calling someone from a cell phone. The first three audience members to get a person on the line were instructed to stand. Then, the rest of the audience voted on which person to use for the trick. The audience voted for sophomore Talia Cowan, who had called her mother, Barbara. Cowan asked her mom to think of a playing card. Barbara chose the eight of clubs. Before the show, Staniforth had chosen a card and returned it to the deck upside down. After Cowan got off the phone with her mother, Staniforth brought her onstage and had her pull out the card that he had chosen earlier. It was the eight of clubs; her mother’s card. “He was positively impressive and entertaining,” sophomore Claudia Ramirez said. The next trick Staniforth performed required several volunteers. One volunteer
Sarah Hansen/Photo editor Magician Nate Staniforth demonstrates a Harry Houdini original magic trick. Staniforth swallowed thread and needles separately but was somehow able to regurgitate all of it back up with the needles on the thread. sat onstage with a secret object, given to her by Staniforth, so no one would see it. Staniforth then asked each audience member to take out a dollar bill. He picked a student’s bill at random and had the audience memorize the serial number on the bill: 34296866. Two other audience members initialed the bill and tore off a corner of it. The magician put the rest of the bill in an envelope, sealed it and set it on fire. Once the flames died, he asked the first volunteer to open her hands and reveal the object that she had been holding the entire time. It was a dollar bill with the same serial number, initials and torn corner that fit perfectly together with the
missing piece. “During my tour I stopped in Georgia for a show, and a guy in the audience called me the devil,” Staniforth said. Staniforth has been practicing magic tricks since he was 8 years old. At the age of 10, he read a book about Harry Houdini and one of his famous magical feats. Since then, he has practiced and performed the trick, which turned out to be his next act. “If you are young and impressionable, do not try this yourself; if you are old and impressionable, there is nothing I can do for you,” Staniforth said about the trick. He pulled out a spool
of thread and swallowed a line of it. Next, he produced a packet of needles from his pocket. Once the audience was satisfied that they were sharp, he swallowed the needles to the sound of people’s horrified gasps. Audience members in the front row checked his mouth to prove that he swallowed the needles. Then he regurgitated the thread. Astonishingly, all of the needles he swallowed were threaded on the line of string. “If astonishment could come in a pill form, I would be an astonishment junkie,” Staniforth said. The next trick Staniforth performed was one he had been working on since high school. He had a volunteer
stand on the right side of the stage and another on the left, so they were nowhere near each other. He gave one student the four of spades from a deck of cards. To prove that there wasn’t a duplicate card, he had her sign it, fold it up and hold it tightly in her hands. Then, he gave the other student the king of diamonds and had him do the same thing. Staniforth asked the first volunteer to imagine her card changing into the other volunteer’s card. When she opened her hands, the other volunteer’s card, signature and all emerged, and vice versa. Staniforth ended the night with an act that required everyone in the
audience to write down a color, a number between one and 100 and a moderately well-known city on a note card. To select an audience member’s card to use for the trick, he crumpled up a poster and tossed it into the audience. The student who caught it on the third toss was chosen. On his card, he had written “orange,” “43” and “Detroit.” Staniforth then had a different audience member come onstage and check a phone book he had taken from a California hotel to make sure it was not rigged. The volunteer closed her eyes, ran her finger down a residential page and stopped on a random phone number. Staniforth wrote the phone number down and instructed another volunteer, junior Andrew Carpenter, to prank call the number on speaker phone. He asked the volunteer to say that he was a psychology student from Linfield College doing an experiment for a class. Carpenter called the number and a man answered, explaining that the people Carpenter asked for had recently moved. But he agreed to do the experiment himself. When asked a color, he said orange. When asked a number he said 16 — not the volunteer’s number. But, when asked to pick a city, the man no longer wanted to participate and said that if he wanted to get a hold of the last owners, they had moved to Detroit — the volunteer’s city. For more information about magician Nate Staniforth, visit his website at http://natestaniforth.com/. Jessica Prokop can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.
Welcome-back dance gets an Irish twist
Joel Ray/Freelancer Sam Keator teaches students Irish Ceili dancing, a traditional native dance of Ireland, Sept. 3 in the Fred Meyer Lounge.
September 10, 2010
Text art reflects light and ‘smoke and mirrors’ in Linfield Gallery Braden Smith Managing editor
The new exhibit in the Linfield Gallery, “like smoke and holy water,” by Kartz Ucci is a non-traditional, artistic response to the area of the actual gallery space. The work features text made of a highly reflective material hung across the three walls of the gallery. The text is intended to reflect the natural light streaming into the space and elicit a psycho-physiological response from the viewer, Ucci said. The text ascends around the walls of the gallery with the words “like smoke” at eye-level on one wall, “and holy” moving up diagonally on the next wall and “water” closer to the ceiling on the last wall, across from the windows. Ucci said that arranging the text in a circle
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created a sort of activation as viewers start reading and spin around in a circle to finish. Ucci said she was struck by the light of the room when she came to the gallery to decide what kind of piece to make. Because of this, she said she couldn’t show video and instead decided to work with text as an image. “This space is so filled with light,” she said. “I decided I would use the room as a screen.” Ucci also said the light in the room made her think of the smoke and mirrors metaphor. This initially encouraged her to cover the floor in mirrors as part of her work. She eventually decided to do something simpler. Thinking of smoke and mirrors, she decided to use the text “like smoke and holy water.”
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Megan Myer/Online editor Nawal Alaoui, former student of artist Kartz Ucci and graduate of the University of Oregon, inspects the “like smoke and holy water” exhibit at the artist reception Sept. 1 in the Miller Fine Arts Gallery. “I wanted some text that “I really enjoy [Ucci’s] “You can see your reflec- in the Linfield Gallery in the referred to the space,” she art,” former student of tion through it, whereas James F. Miller Fine Arts said. Ucci’s and UofO graduate in the ‘water,’ it’s the same Center from Tuesday, August Ucci said the text evoked Liz Bayan said at the recep- thing; it’s not changing,” 31 to Saturday, October 9. the idea of magic, a recurring tion for the artist Sept. 1. Alaoui said. “The ‘like Gallery hours are Monday theme in her recent works, “It’s very minimalist; it’s smoke’ is constantly chang- through Friday from 9 a.m. but also highlighted how very, very conceptual, which ing depending on who’s in to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from there is a falseness about it. is something that has rubbed the room and how they’re noon to 5 p.m. Each letter was drawn indi- off a lot on me.” interacting with it.” To learn more about vidually using a font that Bayan and Nawal Alaoui, Bayan felt similarly. Kartz Ucci and to see Ucci designed herself. another former student of “It kind of encompasses more of her work, visit Ucci has taught at multi- Ucci’s and UofO graduate you and surrounds you, www.kartzucci.com. ple universities and has been at the reception, said they which is really nice,” she Braden Smith can be reached at teaching at the University of were drawn to the “like said. Oregon since 2004. smoke” part of the piece. The work will be featured linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com.
Resident pianist travels, teaches abroad in France Jessica Prokop Culture editor Dr. Jill Timmons, artist-in residence for the Vivian Bull Music Center, served as the artistic director for Musique à Beaumont, an international piano institute in France this past summer. Timmons, who was on sabbatical during Spring Semester, spent time in France from March to the middle of August. During this period, she devoted her time to completing two projects. One was wrapping up a book she wrote about how to have a career in music. Her second project was leading master classes at the 12-day immersion institute. The classes, which were designed for professional piano teachers, concentrated on two-piano repertoire and piano duets, which performers played together on one piano. “I love visiting other parts of the world and seeing how they are different and the same; it allows me to perform and teach my favorite thing,” Timmons said. At the end of the program, participants performed in a concert demonstrating the skills and techniques they developed at the institute. Performers also received feedback from professional critics on what they had accomplished during their time at the institute.
Participants in the program used it as a personal retreat as well as an opportunity for historical and cultural sightseeing, Timmons said. “We were right in the middle of castle country, where there were about 350 castles in the Val de Loire [Loire Valley],” she said. “In fact, we stayed at the Domaine de Beaumont, a castle that had its out buildings turned into bed and breakfasts.” One of the most memorable experiences, Timmons said, was visiting the estate of Frédéric Chopin, a late famous composer and virtuoso pianist, and late author George Sand in the town of Nohant. This was not Timmons first trip to France. In fact, her husband, Sylvain Frémaux, is from France. He served as the executive director of the program. Timmons plans to conduct a short musical tour in March and June of 2011. “It’s a real passion for me, this repertoire,” she said. Timmons, who has played the piano since the age of 5, comes from a musical family in which every member played an instrument. She begged for piano lessons and quickly made progress with a lot of practice and help from a great concert pianist, she said. However, there was a
time when Timmons seriously contemplated pursuing a career in science, and she even visited the Oregon Primate Center during her senior year of high school, she said. “I was such a science nerd, and I still am; I love watching the Discovery Channel,” Timmons said. But she won a piano competition that same year and played a Mozart piece in an orchestra instead. Timmons attended the University of Washington and earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Music in performance. She then went on to Boston University, where she received a Master of Music and then returned to the University of Washington for a Doctor of Musical Arts. During her schooling, she worked by playing and teaching piano. Shortly after finishing her dissertation, Timmons saw that Linfield College was looking to hire a pianist. She read the job description, auditioned and has been at Linfield since 1981. “Sometimes it feels like yesterday, but I’ve never looked back,” Timmons said. Chris Engbretson, now Timmons’ colleague, met Timmons at the University of Washington. “Jill does the perfect amount of nurturing and mothering but sets clear
expectations,” Engbretson said. Engbretson was taking a master class with his teacher, Judith Cohan, who happened to be playing two piano concerts with Timmons at the time. It was Cohan’s recommendation that the two meet, and they have kept in touch ever since, Engbretson said. “We have never had a bad lesson or walked away from one feeling unhappy about it,” he said. “[Timmons] is a fabulous pianist and has always made me feel great about my progress.” Timmons’ career as a pianist has changed throughout the years. She started as a soloist on the road, then became interested in recording and did more collaborative work. Now she is focusing on her two-piano repertoire, she said. Timmons has performed at places such as Carnegie Recital Hall in Manhattan, N.Y., the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Tanglewood Music Festival. Throughout her career, she has traveled across the world and has visited many countries in Europe, as well as Chile, and most of the states in America.
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September 10, 2010
Wolf Parade album barks out the wrong tune Philip Yovetich KSLC 90.3 FM “Expo 86” is the perfect title for Canadian indie rock group Wolf Parade’s most recent release, as the band clearly has a hard-on for the mid-’80s. The album was released late June on everybody’s favorite Northwest indie label, Sub Pop. Before the music even starts, you get a sense as to where this CD is going. The cover features a grainy, sepia-toned picture of alienated youth of old — what seems to be a common theme among indie rockers (e.g., Manchester Orchestra, Belle and Sebastian, etc.), while the album packaging wants you to believe that there’s a classy vinyl record waiting for you inside. (It’s
packaged all nice-like in various sleeves and slides and whatnot.) Everything about the case wants you believe it’s a breakthrough in retroflashback-isms. It’s not. Within mere moments of hitting play, the listener barraged by what sounds like a lost b-side from some unreleased “Talking Heads” album that maybe should have just stayed hidden. (Lets play a game called “Substitute Dan Boekner’s quirky lyrics for ‘you may find yourself sitting behind the wheel of a large automobile.’” Try it! It works.) After we recover from that first minor abrasion, we muster up just enough energy to listen to the next couple of songs. This seems to be about how much effort the band spent writing them. The lyrics are slightly smoth-
ered behind unimaginative instrumentation and horrendously repetitive drumming. (Hitting a snare in rhythm is not drumming, why do you think we haven’t heard new White Stripes in a while, hmm?) The middle of the album is where the meat is, and things pick up a bit around track five, “In The Direction Of The Moon.” With deep bass groves and light synths working in and out of ethereal down tempos and vivacious vamping, we manage to distance ourselves from the mediocre first few tracks. Still, we find our Canadian friends channeling the mid-’80s with some Cureesque warbles (“In The Direction Of The Moon”) and some Depeche Modey synth and bass (“Ghost Pressure”). And we even
Photo courtesy of Google Wolf Parade’s “Expo 86” focuses on mid-’80s indie rock. get some hard driving rock songs (“Nobody’s Perfect,” “Two Men In New Tuxedoes”) to round it out. However, just because it reminds you of music you’ve
enjoyed in the past doesn’t mean that it’s going to be memorable. The lyrics and melodies are not the kind that have you singing along, and the music itself lacks the
depth that its predecessors had. Many of the songs start with good intentions but end up falling into the same repetitive nonsense present in all the other songs. (And I actually thought that we were going to hear some real drumming on “Two Men In New Tuxedoes.” Silly me.) Rather than working its way into our memories, it instead finds itself in our subconscious (but not the cool, Freudian kind; the kind that finds you volunteering to do something else so you don’t have to focus on the music). While the very core of this album wants you to believe that we’re right there with the band at that 1986 Vancouver World’s Fair, it actually leaves us washing dishes instead.
Philip Yovetich can be reached at kslcmusic@gmail.com.
Cat Cab Bonanza
Sarah Hansen/Photo editor The Curtis Peoples concert marks the end of the first day of classes for students Aug. 31.
Sarah Hansen/Photo editor Curtis Peoples performs at a Aug. 31 Cat Cab, in the Fred Meyer Lounge.
Sarah Hansen/Photo editor After opening for Tyrone Wells last spring, Tony Lucca makes a second appearance at Linfield at a Sept. 2 Cat Cab in the Fred Meyer Lounge.
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Time should be up for ‘Big Ben’ over rape charges
Sports Commentary Chris Forrer Freelancer Hey ’Cats. Seeing as this is my first column for the Review, I was hoping to spend it writing about the best football team on Earth (the Oregon Ducks, of course). But recent developments with a certain Duck alumnus directed my interest toward the NFL. I recently developed an interest in professional football after years of avoiding what my mother once called
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the “overpaid sissies” that populate the league. (She has since reformed her opinions, NFL loyal, so no hate mail directed at my dear mother.) But I digress. I’ve been loosely monitoring former Duck Dennis Dixon since he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers a few years back. Last season, I cheered for him in his first NFL start (an overtime loss to the Baltimore Ravens in which he played admirably), and this week he was named the Steelers’ starter for the first four games of the season. After a little more digging into what enabled his sudden ascension, I stumbled on “Big Ben” Roethlisberger’s suspension and immediately knew what I had to write about. As the NFL loyal know,
shouldn’t ever be allowed to throw a football again. But let me back up for a second before the handful of Steelers faithful on campus start firebombing my bedroom. While everybody knows about this incident and it’s still decorating the ESPN.com home page months after it’s occurrence, there is a staggering lack of any mention of the first time “Big Ben” was accused of rape. That’s right, NFL fans: “Big Ben” can’t keep his “Little Ben” in his pants. In 2006, he was accused of rape by a similar-aged student in Tahoe. He went to court and the charges were dropped. Sound familiar? On the subject of the more recent charge and subsequent suspension: I can’t blame Goodell for reducing it. As a close friend of mine
pointed out, he wasn’t convicted, so the league couldn’t have justified losing one of its top moneymakers for the full length of the suspension. What I blame, in this case are the media and the U.S. justice system. The media want “Big Ben,” and the media are going to get him, even if it means the power of celebrity yet again deludes the workings of the U.S. justice system. How many times have we seen celebrities dodge major convictions? OJ did it; MJ did it; and now Roethelisberger has done it, twice. And that’s not all. After the second rape accusation last summer, dozens of teammates came forward with testimonies about his terrible locker-room attitude, his hugely inflated ego and his lack of any sort of responsi-
bility. “Big Ben plays for Big Ben” was the overwhelming message that poured from the Steelers camp. “Big Ben” has got a very, very big head, because he knows the people want to see him. He knows that he’s a celebrity, and he knows that he can get away with whatever he wants. Do you see the writing on the wall yet, folks? Mike Tomlin does. This week he wouldn’t confirm with the media that Roethelisberger will get his starting job back when he returns. I couldn’t agree more; Dixon is young, talented, has tremendous upside and, unlike “Big Ben,”is a team player. That’s why I think it’s time to let the clock strike 12 on “Big Ben” and let Dixon take over this Steelers team. Chris Forrer can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.
Wildcat sports schedule
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Sept. 10-11 Sept. 11
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Sept. 11
Women’s golf
Sept. 12
Cross Country
“Big Ben” was suspended for 4-6 games by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after he was accused of raping a 20-year-old college student during the summer. The accuser claimed Roethlisberger asked the young woman, a worker at a resort the player was staying at, to check on his TV, which he claimed wasn’t working. He then proceeded to kiss her forcefully, undress her and force her to have sex with him. After a quick stint in court, the charges were dropped by the student, who didn’t want to attract too much attention to herself. Shortly following, the suspension was handed down, and last week it was reduced from six games to four. In this reporter’s opinion, it wasn’t enough. He
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Opponent or event Corban
Colorado College Invitational Cal Lutheran Concordia
Lewis & Clark Invitational George Fox Invitational
Location
McMinnville
Colorado Spings, Col.
Time 7 p.m
Noon
Thousand Oaks, Cali.
1:00 p.m.
Oregon City
10 a.m.
McMinnville
Chehalem Glenn
6 p.m.
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Men’s soccer battles through the preseason Corrina Crocker Sports editor With only two games under their belt, the men still have the weekend to prepare for the conference season that is quickly approaching. The men’s first preseason game resulted in a tie against Evergreen State, 2-2. Freshman Tyler Repic had both goals against Evergreen, Sept. 1. T h e second g a m e was not as hopeful for the men a n d resulted in a loss against Northwest Christian, 2-1. Senior Michel Camacho scored the only goal against Northwest Christian. “It’s still early. We’re only two games in and I think we have the right mix of players and it’s a matter of a few games until we get it figured out as a unit,” Camacho said. In addition to a new season, the men’s team added a familiar face to the coaching staff. A senior who graduated last year, Travis Issacs joined the team, not as a player, but as an assistant coach.
“It’s tough because I want to play, but I enjoy being a part of the team, and I feel that I have enough knowledge that I can benefit the team, and the guys respect that so the transition is easy,” Issacs said. As an experienced alum himself, Issacs knows what the players are capable of and what they should expect of themselves. “I expect them to compete in the top half of the league. T h e y have the p a r t s t h e y need to put them together,” Issacs said. Expectations are high for the men this year as the conference season approaches. “You always want to aim high for a conference championship, but a top three finish is very possible,” Camacho said. “Its going to be a dog fight and, like the previous years, its going to come down to who can take advantage of the game.” The men’s soccer team plays both Sept. 10 and 11 to wrap up the preseason.
always want “You to aim high for a conference championship.
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-Michel Camacho
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Joel Ray/Freelancer Senior midfielder Carter Elhabbassi heads the ball for distance during the men’s first home game against Evergreen State College. The men tied the game 2-2.
Soccer: high expectations for women’s conference << Continued from page 16 “For the rest of the season, I want to keep working hard to improve as a team and individually and hopefully we can all have a successful season,” Fellows said. The last preseason game wrapped up at home against Warner Pacific with a score of 4-0. Freshman Emily Fellows had all four goals for Linfield. The third goal was taken by Fellows as well, after being fouled in the box. “As a team we have been working together, but we’re always looking to improve every day in practice and at games,” Fellows added. The girls had a good start and maintained it, overcoming a weekend of upset as the women had traveled to Corban and Southern Oregon and lost
both games. “I definitely think we have started the season off well,” senior and captain Sara Blake said. “We have set high standards for ourselves as a team, but we still have a lot of learning and
growing to do.” The women’s team kicks off the conference season against Willamette University, September 15 at 5 p.m.
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Joel Ray/Freelancer Senior MacKenzie Doty drives down the field solo during the team’s last preseason game against Warner Pacific.
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Volleyball digs deep against top teams The volleyball team is two for two as the team travels to Colorado for the Colorado College Invitational this weekend. The women face off on Friday and Saturday against Wheaton College, Eastern University and nationally ranked Colorado College. It’s the women’s last weekend to get matches in preseason before conference starts against Pacific University at home on Sept. 15. Linfield’s last matches were at the Boxer Kickoff hosted by Pacific. The women brought their A-game as they won two of three matches. Juniors Samantha Lau and Tara Hill and sophomore Cora Hall all led the team to a victory. The women had a good comeback from losing their first home match against Northwest Christian University, 22-25, 25-21, 25-14 and 25-15. Although it was a sad loss for the Wildcats, it was a night of celebration for coach Shane Kimura as he coached his 1,000th match that night. Lau and junior Bethany Dickey tied for 17 digs that night.
~Complied by Corrina Crocker
Above: Junior Tara Hill makes the drop shot as junior Kelsey Franklin looks on in hope of a point for the Wildcats during the first home game. Far left: Junior Samantha Lau reaches to service the ball during the first home game against Northwest Christian University. Left: Junior Rosa Gimson jumps up to help teammate freshman Shaylai Coppock to block and defend the ball, also during the first home game. The Wildcats lost three of the matches against NWC 22-25, 25-21, 2514 and 25-15. All photos by Victor Zhu/ Freelancer
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Catline ’Cats end preseason in top five Northwest Conference preseason standings Football Puget Sound
1-0
1.000
Willamette
1-0
1.000
Lewis & Clark
0
.000
Linfield
0
.000
Pacific Lutheran
0
.000
Pacific
0-1
.000
Whitworth
0-1
.000
Volleyball Pacific Lutheran
5-0
George Fox
3-2
1.000 .600
Willamette
3-2
.600
Linfield
2-2
.500
Puget Sound
2-2
.500
Whitman
2-2
.500
Whitworth
3-3
.500
Lewis & Clark
2-3
.500
Pacfic
1-3
.250
Women’s soccer Puget Sound
2-0
1.000
Whitman
1-0
1.000
Lewis & Clark
1-0-2
.667
George Fox
0-1-2
.333
Linfield
1-2
.333
Willamette
1-2
.333
0-1-1
.250
Pacific Pacific Lutheran
0-2
.000
Whitworth
0-2
.000
Men’s soccer Pacific
2-0
1.000
Whitworth
2-0
1.000
Willamette
2-0-1
.833
Puget Sound
2-1-1
.625
Whitman
1-2
.333
Linfield
0-1-1
.250
Pacific Lutheran
0-2-1
.167
0-2
.000
George Fox
Volleyball digs deep After a battle at home, the volleyball team heads to Colorado to prove what they have before conference begins. See page 15 >> High hopes for men’s soccer The Wildcats are two and two for preseason, although they have two more preseason games back-to-back and quickly approaching. A new, alumnus coach gives his perspective. See page 14 >> Weekend events Football kicks off preseason against Cal Lutheran University in California, on Sept. 11. Check to see upcoming sporting events with the sports schedule. See page 13 >>
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Joel Ray/Freelancer Junior Jenna Quiring (left) lends defensive support to freshman Danielle Scott (far right) as they maintain possession against Northwest Christian University senior Kori Wilgus on Sept. 1. The Wildcats beat the Beacons 5-0 and had 27 shots on goal.
Corrina Crocker Sports editor No two games are the same — the Linfield women’s soccer team can attest to that. With a mixed bag of results during preseason, conference season is right around the corner, and the polls suggest Linfield is expected to win fourth. The high number of women that came out this year brought talent to the team. Freshman Emily Fellows was picked for last week’s Northwest Conference Offensive Student-Athlete of the Week. The award earned her a starting position in all games so far. She concluded the preseason with seven goals and two assists in four games. >> Please see Soccer page 15
Bridgette Gigear/Freelancer Freshman Stephanie Socotch (right) attempts to steal the ball from an opponent during a Sept. 7 game at home against Warner Pacific University. Linfield took the win with a score of 4-0.
New coach hired amid lawsuit This summer, the Linfield athletics department hired a former Montana State University coach following an arduous search for a new women’s head basketball coach. But close to the hiring date, a lawsuit that new coach Robin Potera-Haskins filed against MSU was settled by the NCAA primarily in favor of the institution. The lawsuit surrounded the disparity in treatment and funding between the men’s and women’s basketball programs at MSU, among other issues. Potera-Haskins said she has plans to pursue an appeal. A hiring committee made up of athletic director Scott Carnahan, men’s basketball coach Larry Doty, track and field coach Gary Kilgore, senior administrator Dawn Graff-Haight and several members of the women’s basketball team screened many candidates before deciding on Potera-Haskins. She was hired for her wealth of experience, especially in turning around sagging programs. Carnahan said he has no doubt the new coach can turn the women’s basketball program into a formidable team in a few years, and Potera-Haskins said she is thrilled at the challenge. Look for a full story on her history, her outlook on her new job and player thoughts on the new coach in next week’s issue of The Linfield Review. ~Compiled by Chris Forrer ~Photo courtesy of Kelly Bird