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crushing victory over the Bearcats.

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Student Senate discusses variety of issues in finals for blog contest Kelley Hungerford Editor-in-chief

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Editorial .......................... 2 News ............................... 4 Features.............................7 Culture............................10 Sports .............................16

Sarah Hansen/Photo editor Junior Katie Patterson, vice president of the Associated Students of Linfield College, addresses senators Oct. 4 in Rilley Hall. ASLC voted for junior Bradley Keliinoi as president pro tempore, allowing him to substitute for Patterson should she be absent.

Productions.

The agenda item was presented to Senate last week (Sept.

27) for consideration and went to vote this week.

No discussion of the topic occurred at either meeting.

“I was shocked as well that there was no discussion,” Pat-

terson said.

This was likely either because senators understood the guidelines completely or they did not look at them. Patterson said it would be difficult to determine the reason.

“There’s no way for me to know if the senators are put-

ting in the time to read what I’m sending to them,” she said.

The Campus Improvement Committee received many concerns from the senators on topics such as bike racks, window >> Please see Senate page 6

Grade-point average causes job termination Septembre Russell Copy chief After organizing her third successful Cat Cab, which took place Sept. 23, sophomore Alyssa Hood was asked to attend a clandestine meeting Sept. 27.

Hood said she sat down with Director of Student Activities Dan Fergueson; senior Colin Jones, Associated Students of Linfield College president; and senior Nicole Bond, vice president of programming for the Linfield Activities Board.

Bond informed her that at the close of the meeting she would be released from her position as LAB musical entertainment chair,

Hood said.

The reason, she said, was that her grade-point average was too low. It was three-hundredths of a point shy of the GPA required for ASLC employment.

“When we are hiring, we look at someone’s cumulative gradepoint average,” Bond said. “It’s a standard. You have to have a 2.5 grade-point average.”

Fergueson, Bond said, verifies GPAs; she said she does not receive anyone’s specific GPA. “He tells me if people are above or below — that’s all we care about,” Bond said. “We have to cut if off somewhere. When you apply for LAB, we check your grade-point average. If it’s below

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2.5, you don’t get a position.”

Article III of the ASLC Bylaws states that at the time of election or appointment, candidates for any stipend-receiving position must have a cumulative gradepoint average of 2.5.

“The grade-point average requirement was passed by the general student population when those bylaws were enacted,” Fergueson said.

On the surface, the ASLC hiring standards appear to be cut and dried with no existence of any gray area, yet Bond, in an April 15 e-mail to Hood, offered her the position knowing that her GPA was below the requirement.

“We have a minimum grade-

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point average requirement of 2.5.

We were able to look at grades for everyone that we would like to hire and know that you had a rough time with a class last semester so you are just below it,” Bond wrote in the e-mail. “I am aware that you fall slightly below this level.”

Hood accepted the position.

She completed the training and became the LAB Musical Events Chair for fall 2010 — despite Article III of the ASLC Bylaws.

She said she was fully aware that her employment was “at will,” as defined by the ASLC >> Please see Firing page 6

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Features

With a play on the term, “Freshman 15,” the Huffington Post is holding a contest encouraging students to get the “Freshman 8” — eight hours of sleep a night, that is.

With a grand prize of a trip to New York City, the Post’s editors selected Linfield freshman Kate Woginrich as a finalist.

What began as a national competition more than a month ago, in honor of October’s National Sleep Month, has been reduced to six finalists, with Woginrich competing against Justine di Giovanni of St. Olaf College, Gordon Finnegan of the College of William and Mary, Patrick Finnegan of Whitman College and others.

She is currently in fourth place, with Justine di Giovanni, of St. Olaf’s College, in first.

Woginrich said she read about the competition in the Huffington Post a month ago.

“I read the Post everyday and just saw it on a page,” she said.

Inspired to attempt the challenge presented by the competition, Woginrich struggled to begin what experts consider a normal sleep cycle.

At first it was difficult, she said, and that she wasn’t accustomed to going to bed at 11:00 p.m. and waking up at 7:00 a.m. Woginrich said the first few days were extremely tough.

“But eventually I got used to having my sleep schedule on Pacific Standard Time,” she says in a video created for the competition.

Shortly after she changed her habits, Woginrich said she began to notice results. She received A’s on two history papers in a row and is no longer spending tons of money on coffee.

Throughout September,

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Matthew Sunderland Senior reporter

The Associated Students of Linfield College Senate covered much ground during its Oct. 4 meeting.

“I’m anticipating great things in the month of October from our Senate,” junior ASLC Vice President Katie Patterson said.

Senators voted junior Bradley Keliinoi as president pro tempore.

In this position, Keliinoi will fill in for Patterson in case of her absence. Keliinoi is also the Hawaiian Club senator and Senate Governance Committee co-chair.

The Whitman Hall senator expressed concern about Keliinoi’s other commitments to Senate, but Patterson isn’t worried.

“He knows the standing rules and bylaws pretty much better than anyone,” Patterson said of Keliinoi.

Keliinoi beat out freshman Marissa Cole for the position in a 37-8 vote.

Senate also voted unanimously to approve Communication Board Guidelines. The guidelines govern the relationship between ASLC and campus media: the Review, KSLC 90.3 FM, CAMAS and Wildcat

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It seems as though Linfield has its priorities mixed up when dealing with the college budget.

Sure, it’s nice to see fancy new promotional banners, new college signs and renovations to Northup Hall that will provide new facilities for the academic department. But what about projects that would improve student safety on campus?

Something needs to be done about the unlit area between the Nicholson Library and the Albertsons parking lot. The area has a high level of foot traffic from Linfield students because they head up to Albertsons in search of cheaper

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prices and more variety than what the Catty Shack has to offer. Yet no one seems to take the initative to make walking the distance safer for students.

We understand that a lot of the money used for renovations on campus comes from donations given by almuni or from their families.

We ask that alumni or any other person who chooses to donate to the college please be informed of the safety issue that comes with not having a lit street on campus.

In a Senate meeting Oct. 4, senior ASLC President Colin Jones said that lighting on that path would cost $15,000. We’re sure that if the

issue was put out in the open that people who plan to donate anyway will be prompted to help solve the issue.

This is an expensive college, and you would think that with students paying an arm and a leg to attend Linfield, student safety would be a top priority on all grounds of the campus that see heavy foot traffic.

Overall, a number of negative things could happen when students travel in non-lit areas after dark.

We ask that the college become more progressive when handling students’ safety on campus.

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OPINION

Guatemala experiments require reparations

Online editor Megan Myer

Senior reporter Matt Sunderland

Student safety’s worth the splurge

Photo editor Sarah Hansen

Illustrator Jenny Worcester

EDITORIAL

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Braden Smith Managing editor It was big news for a day or two: “U.S. sorry over deliberate sex infections in Guatemala,” read the headlines.

A researcher discovered that between 1946 and 1948, the United States Public Health Service was conducting experiments in Guatemala that involved intentionally infecting prisoners, soldiers and mental institution occupants with syphilis.

The aim of the study was to better understand treatment of the disease with penicillin and ideally develop a prophylaxis for it.

Many of the 696 infected individuals did not even know they were part of an experiment.

The study was a part of the infa-

mous “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” which ran from 1932 and 1972, in the U.S. (Note the word “untreated.”)

This particular experiment was unearthed by historian Susan M. Reverby of Wellesly College, and the details are made graphically clear in her report, which is available as a PDF file in the online coverage of the story by the New York Times and the BBC. You can read the report for yourself, but another aspect of this issue that should be analyzed is the U.S. response to the discoveries.

Officials were, of course, deeply troubled by the incident. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called the news “shocking,” “tragic” and “reprehensible.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a joint statement that they were “outraged” and called the experiments “abhorrent.”

These deserved denunciations were followed by sincere apologies, including a personal phone call from President Obama to Gua-

temalan President Alvaro Colom.

U.S. officials have been quite vociferous in their denunciations and apologies, but when it comes to Colom’s accusation of U.S. crimes against humanity and possible reparations, the White House has been silent.

These horrendous experiments may have taken place more than 60 years ago, and the current administration obviously had nothing to do with them. But is a simple apology the best we can do? If a man intentionally infects someone with an STD, does an apology make it all better?

It is long past due for the U.S. to start owning up to some of its past mistakes and abuses. The experiments are a thing of the past but that does not mean the government should not take responsibility for them. Our apologies, sincere as they may be, do not make up for a crime against humanity.

It seems crimes against humanity can only be committed by other, corrupt countries — never the righteous U.S. The experiments are not even

some contested issue like torture or extraordinary rendition. We have publicly condemned the experiments and apologized for them. All we have to do now is take it one step further.

Some may say we can’t afford to be throwing money around for reparations all over the world (although apparently we have money for an unending war in the Middle East), but we could at least admit to a clear crime against humanity. How about applying international law to ourselves for a change of pace?

The White House has a great opportunity here to actually do something about an atrocious, international offense. Hopefully, it will embrace the opportunity.

Unfortunately, it looks like this will be just another tragedy swept under the rug of history.

Guatemala has had a long and bloody history, made possible in no small part by the U.S. It would certainly be nice if this small chapter had a happy ending.

Braden Smith can be reached at linfieldrviewmanaging@gmail.com.

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Opinions

Maybe it’s time for some bathroom etiquette?

To the woman with the shiny black flats: I do so sincerely apologize for commenting on your business.

I came down with a cold Sunday evening. By Tuesday afternoon, my nose was behaving like a fountain. I escaped from my class upstairs in Melrose Hall before my nose had the chance to embarrass me in front of everyone — and my professor was sitting next to me.

I headed downstairs to tend to my nose and grab some more tissue rations

from the restroom to take back upstairs with me. Automatically, I assumed I was alone inside the women’s room and I said, “Whooo, it stinks in here!”

The comment was intended to be heard by one person — me. But once I grasped the stall door handle and couldn’t pull it toward myself, I realized three things: One, I had company; two, she was behind the door I was trying to open; and three, she heard what I said.

I know — embarrassing.

But who takes the prize for that one, me or her? I didn’t have time to rationalize whose cheeks should have been more red. I grabbed some toilet tissue and hightailed it back up to class. I couldn’t stop laughing.

True, I was mortified when it happened, especially since the girl in the

stall was banking on having a few moments of privacy (despite being inside of a ladies room located in a building in which a large amount of ladies work), and there I was, interrupting with my boorish aside.

I had to tell myself that there was a chance that she wasn’t offended because she wasn’t responsible for the cause of my comment, and it wasn’t as if I said, “Hey, you in the bathroom. You stink!”

Although I did, in a way.

I was laughing at my immediate and apparent embarrassment and the possibility of hers. All I could think of was the sound of my boots hitting the linoleum and the door closing behind me. I ran even after I was safely out of the bathroom. I felt as if my speedy exodus would somehow make up for my rather public announcement of the rest-

room’s state of being. I’m pleased that no one else was in another stall.

I gave it some thought and I laughed some more because I realized that women are very particular about where they conduct their business.

Some women will walk farther than necessary to accommodate their privacy needs or will often, as I have heard in several conversations, wait until they get home to, well, produce.

Sometimes you have to get in there and push past being uncomfortable, but I understand that there are women who seclude themselves as a public service.

I’m not trying to put my nose into another woman’s business literally. I like my privacy, too, but it sure tickled me to realize how, as women, we have particular Septembre Russell can be reached at linfieldreviewcopy@gmail.com.

OPINION

Waffles are better without the iron attached

Sarah Hansen Photo editor I like to go to brunch.

I like waking up late and eating at 11 or 12. The food in Dillin also seems better than normal. Maybe it’s the chocolate chip pancakes, the omelet or the eggs shaped like legos. Yeah, the eggs look weird, but they taste good. Regardless, I enjoy brunch.

My favorite part of brunch is making waffles.

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I like that you can make your own waffle with either wheat or vanilla waffle mix and put any kind of topping you want on it.

The only problem is the waffle irons. They never seem to work. You can’t make a waffle without it sticking to the pan.

What’s the solution then? Spray the waffle iron.

That’s exactly the problem.

The Dillin staff tells you not to use vegetable oil, so you use the special waffle iron spray to spray down the waffle iron. You carefully pour in just the right amount of waffle mixture in so that it doesn’t overflow. After about 3 minutes, you flip the iron back over

and try to open it. Not only does the waffle stick, but the iron doesn’t even open.

You attempt to use a fork to pry the waffle from the machine. It won’t budge.

The special waffle iron spray they tell you to use actually made the problem worse.

When you finally get your waffle out, it’s in pieces. Well, that’s just great. Nobody goes to the waffle station to get a waffle salad. This happens quite often. In fact, it probably happens every weekend. Why doesn’t the special waffle iron spray work?

Someone told me it was the type of waffle mixture

I was using. I don’t think that’s all of it. I’ve used both vanilla and wheat waffles, and it doesn’t seem to make a difference as to which sticks more.

No, I think it’s the quality of the waffle irons. I feel like we are wasting more food and more spray than it’s worth. I estimate we go through a bottle of spray per waffle iron in one weekend.

I think we need new waffle irons. It’s probably not on the top of the list of Dillin’s priorities, but I think it would prevent wasting food and the waffle iron spray.

Sarah Hansen can be reached at linfieldreviewphotos@gmail.com.

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am new to the college experience, in high school I was always taught abstinence. I didn’t get to learn much about condoms, let alone different types of contraception. Are condoms the best route to go?

Contraception and birth control are the perfect subject to begin with. There is a slight difference between the two.

While both prevent pregnancy, birth control is not always contraception (like a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square.)

Birth control prevents the beginning of pregnancy when the fertilized egg attaches to the wall of the uterus. Contraception prevents the meeting of the sperm and egg altogether.

The most effective method is, of course, abstinence. Again, this is not always the common practice. Even if abstinence until marriage was something that everyone practiced, what about after the wedding?

I know I mentioned this last time, but not everyone wants children right away.

More and more couples are choosing to have babies later in life. Some couples don’t want children at all.

And some people don’t even want to get married.

What then?

The most popular contraception — which I hope everyone knows about — is the condom.

They represent 18 percent (one third) of the contraception used in the United States today. Male condoms are 98 percent effective and female condoms are 95 percent effective only when used properly. In reality, they are 85 percent and 79 percent, respectively, as a result of error in usage.

Follow the directions, ask a friend or look up diagrams (no, seriously) to make sure you are using condoms properly. And put them on before intercourse, not after. When the condom is too loose, use a smaller one.

If it is loose because of post-

sex flaccidity, semen can still spill out, so lingering is not the best idea. These are some ways of not using them effectively.

While hormonal b i r t h control has its advan tages, con doms are probably the best for college students or any one who isn’t in a monogamous relationship.

They are provided for free inside the health services center in Walker Hall. Who could pass that up?

Condoms not only prevent conception, but they prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infection and STDs. So think about that when choosing a method. Of course, they can always be combined with hormonal birth control.

There are tons of options in terms of condoms. There are lubricated and nonlubricated,flavored,glow-in-thedark, textured, fire and ice, female and male, etc.

There are condoms with spermicide in them, but these are no more effective than regular condoms. In fact, they may be worse for preventing the spread of STIs. Keep in mind that not everything is 100 percent.

People have still become pregnant using birth control or condoms. Be sure you know what your risks are, and be prepared. Communicate with your partner. Birth control is most effective when there is open communication about its use, no matter what type is chosen. While some people are aware of this information, others may not be.

Awareness and safety is the key.

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Grant brings compost bins to Linfield Chelsea Bowen Opinion editor

Compost bin for students to drop their kitchen and assorted wastes are now available in the Linfield Community Garden next to Renshaw Hall.

Student composting on campus began when senior Katie Kann and junior Rachel Codd applied for a sustainability grant in the fall of 2009.

The two received the grant in December 2009 and purchased the compost tumbler in February 2010.

“The whole reason why I’m doing this is to get people educated and involved,” Kann said.

Students can put coffee grounds, fruit, egg shells, vegetables, hair and lint in the compost bins.

Dairy products, meat bones and oil should not be placed in the bins.

Once the material fills the compost bins, it will be transported to the compost tumbler, which is located next to the garden shed.

The material will be

Katie Paysinger/Senior photographer Compost bins sit in the Linfield Community Garden south of Renshaw Hall. The bins exist thanks to the efforts by senior Katie Kann and junior Rachel Codd. They hope to expand campus composting efforts by putting 5-gallon buckets in the suburbs for residents to put their waste in. mixed with dead plants and animal manure.

The compost tumbler is turned every other day and the material in the tumbler

recycles and transforms into compost in two weeks.

“The heat and the turning do the trick” Kann said.

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Trip fosters religious discovery, tolerance Gabi Nygaard Staff reporter Linfield students will visit Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Trappist abbey, on a Spiritual Discovery Trip, co-sponsored by the Chaplain’s Office and Linfield Activities Board, on Oct. 9.

The Trappist Abbey is regularly visited during the trips because of its location in the Yamhill Valley and an existing relationship between the college and a contact at the abbey who assists with classes at Linfield.

The abbey trip also addresses a widespread unfamiliarity with monastic life.

“Most people have heard of monks but don’t have a sense of their life. The trip blows away their preconceived notions of monastic life,” David Massey, chaplain and assistant professor of religious studies, said. “While the monks live a life of seclusion, they’re very engaged in the world.”

Massey said Spiritual Discovery Trips such as this aim to promote the understanding of diverse religious traditions among students.

“The more experience we have in other traditions, the more we understand them and can break down and the better we can understand our own traditions,” Massey said.

The trips have a long tradition at Linfield, although

Massey current students may not be familiar with them.

“We started doing the trips about eight years ago,” Massey said. “They seem new because last year we had struggles getting them lined up. But this year, we’re back on track.”

Following the trip to the Trappist Abbey, the next Spiritual Discovery Trip will head to the Muslim Educational Trust in Portland on Oct. 30.

Past destinations have included Jewish synagogues, Islamic mosques, Sikh temples, Hindu temples and African-American pentecostal services.

“A lot of the strife in the world is in some manner related to religion, often because we don’t understand religions,” Massey said.

With the understanding of other religious traditions comes the discovery of common interests, values and

goals despite doctrinal differences and the ability to recognize common humanity and value the spiritual yearning of others, Massey said.

“It allows us to appreciate our differences — to be true to who [we] are but open to dialogue and finding common ground,” he said.

In the past, Massey recalled, students told him they were going to take Lent, a 40-day period for penance, seriously by spending time in prayer and fasting.

Their decision was made after witnessing Muslim students’ commitments to the same discipline during the holy month of Ramadan.

“They became clearer in their own discipleship and practices by witnessing this,” Massey said. “They didn’t have to agree, but value and respect [other traditions].”

He also stressed the importance of religion at school.

“At Linfield we don’t ask you to hang up your religion at the door,” Massey said.

“We want you to be anchored in your traditions and true to yourself. We ask you to be respectful and have this [sort of value].”

Spiritual Discovery Trips are free. Students can sign up for them in the Campus Information Center or contact the Chaplain’s office for more information.

Gabi Nygaard can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

self to fill and turn the compost tumbler.

The composted material will be spread in the campus garden, from which any

Linfield student, faculty and staff member can harvest produce.

“This garden is an example of that working,” Kann

said, referring to the success of the composting process and how it has positively affected the growth of the garden.

Kann and Codd said they are working on getting the campus apartment complexes buckets with lids so that students can place their compost material inside them.

Once the 5-gallon buckets are full, students can transfer composted material into the garden bins.

Student composting not only makes Linfield a greener campus, but it keeps material that could be composted out of the all ready over flowing land fills Kann said.

“Ideally all the food waste here would be composted, but that’s in the future” Codd said.

Contact Kann at kkann@ linfield.edu for more information about composting or to learn how to receive a 5-gallon bucket for at-home compost storage.

Chelsea Bowen can be reached at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com.

Creative costumes

Leah Rensel/Freelancer The Gallery Theater, McMinnville’s community theater, hosts a costume sale two weeks before Halloween. From Oct. 7-9, the heads of the Gallery’s wardrobe, Linda Prince and Antonia Osterhout, will sell costumes ranging from children’s clothing to professional-quality set pieces from innumerable eras and genres. The Gallery Theater is located on the corner of Second and Ford streets. ~ Compiled by Matt Sunderland

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Committee finds Battle for the boobs project objectives Kelley Hungerford Editor-in-chief The majority of discussion during the Oct. 4 Associated Students of Linfield College Senate meeting concerned the Campus Improvement Committee.

The group, one of four since ASLC’s committee restructuring, is tasked with fielding and addressing student concerns about the greater campus.

Committee chair senior Katie Kann heard many of those concerns during the Senate meeting. Kann said she was impressed by the outspoken underclassmen.

“It’s that kind of initiative that’s changing the dynamic of this school, and it’s a really positive thing,” she said.

Senators brought up several issues, including lighting on the path to Albertsons, water bottles, campus sculptures, window screens and bike racks.

After the Senate meeting adjourned, Kann gathered her committee to discuss possible focal projects, and they decided on four.

One project the committee will take on is increasing the number of bike racks on campus, as at least six senators mentioned their limited number.

“The issue about bike racks turned out to be a lot more important to students than I think any Cabinet member knew,” junior Katie Patterson, ASLC vice president, said about the discussion.

Sophomore Libby Sturges will spearhead the bike rack initiative.

Sophomores Nora Burnfield and Ayla Wood are working to create a community bulletin board.

The board will be an outlet for community members and businesses to post information about local events.

Having this space will foster town-and-gown relations, Kann said.

“It seems hypocritical for us to say we’re part of this McMinnville community when we don’t have an avenue for people in the McMinnville community to share what’s going on with the Linfield campus,” she said.

Junior Kate Koten will work on developing Linfield’s recycling program.

For example, Kann said that Koten will attempt to pair each trash can with a recycling bin.

The committee’s final project, obtaining permanent functioning screens for residence halls, falls to freshman Haritareddy

Lakireddy.

The project came out of a Grover Hall senator’s complaint about bugs entering residence halls through defective screens.

Area Director for Activities Josh Merrick said during the meeting that portable, expandable screens are available inside the Residence Life office, but the college is not going to purchase more permanent screens unless an initiative comes from Senate.

Kann said her committee is also looking into installing motion sensor lights in campus restrooms, although the project has temporarily been put on hold.

“It seems silly that lights should be left on,” she said.

“There’s no reason to be using that energy.”

Overall, Kann said she anticipates that her committee will accomplish a lot this year.

“I don’t like being told that I can’t do something, and I don’t think the students should be satisfied being told they can’t do something,” she said.

“There comes a point when you just have to stand up and take on the responsibility to do the work and make this change occur.”

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Sophomore Meghan Gillen competes in a yogurt-eating competition sponsored by the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority Oct. 8 in Dillin Hall. Contestants put on a spectacle to raise money and awareness for combating breast cancer.

Gillen won her round.

Kelley Hungerford can be reached at linfieldrevieweditor@gmail.com.

Running back wins big at online poker Chris Slezak Freelancer It would take the average Linfield student 8,750 hours to make $70,000.

Working a minimumwage work study job one hour a day, five days a week would take that same person roughly 400 months, or 44 years, to earn that amount.

But for one student, it took a focused, intense and ultimately satisfying 10 hours of online poker play.

Senior Simon Lamson, a running back for the football team, has been a member of the Full Tilt Poker community for close to two years.

It wasn’t until last summer that he reaped any serious financial benefits.

“I played a few tournaments during the spring maybe once a month, but I didn’t start playing consistently until the start of the summer when I had all my free time,” Lamson said.

“I’d say from June until September [that] I made $8,000.”

He also worked full time for Linfield’s conference and events planning.

But with steady cash flowing in from his hobby, the job was more of a way to occupy the day, making the hours fly by until night’s tournament.

Once the summer wound down, and the twin demands of football and school rolled around, the tournaments and games became less frequent.

Lamson was lucky to squeeze one tournament in every two weeks he said.

But on Sept. 26, he found himself with a free afternoon.

“I wanted to play in this tournament. I had $200 extra in my bankroll and used it for the buy-in. The total pot was $750,000, so I knew it wouldn’t be that hard to at least win back my buy-in,” he said. “Play got under way at 3 p.m.,

and the first couple hours weren’t anything special.

The tournament began with 3,500 people, and play was slow until there were 1,500 remaining, he said.

“I was winging it,” he said. “I was up and down with my chip stack, winning pretty average pot sizes.”

His profits shot up from that point.

“The chip average was at 9,000, I had just won two big hands and jumped up to about 25,000,” Lamson said.

“From then on, I was in the top 10 until the end of the tournament.”

During the next three hours, players began to fall by the wayside, their chip stacks exhausted and the tension heightened.

By then, Lamson’s three roommates had joined him around the computer screen, intent on the action.

Lamson’s eyes were set on making the final table.

“The top nine make the final table, and ninth place

was $10,000 grand,” he said.

As Lamson continued to focus on making the final table, and, as his roommates cheered him on, it became clear to him that he was on the way to making more money in one night than any one of them had made during their entire lives.

It was 11:30 p.m. when screams erupted from Lamson’s living room. He made it to the final nine, which guaranteed him $10,000, and only eight other people stood between him and the winner’s purse of $120,000.

In tournaments this size, there is a break every three hours. It couldn’t have come at a better time.

“Once I took that break it started to set in — how much money I was actually dealing with. I was fourth in chip stack, but I honestly wasn’t thinking about the money. I was kind of just going with the flow,” Lamson said.

After the break, fortified with a bottle of Vitamin

Water, Lamson got back to business.

“I felt like I could realistically make about $20,000, but that $50,000 plus mark just didn’t seem real,” he said. “When I knocked the final pro player out for fifth place, I felt like I could maybe win it,” he said.

Gradually, he moved up to fourth, with a guarantee of $40,000; then third, with a guarantee of $50,000. It was a surreal experience for not only Lamson but also his roommates.

“I’ve never been a part of anything like that, and when we found out how much money was actually at stake, it was like we were all playing in the tournament,” senior Bryce Comfort, his roommate, said.

“Plus, I needed some new headphones, and I heard he had recently bought a pair for himself and one other person who supported him through his last tournament cash,” he said.

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dropped out, leaving Lamson in the top three and a guaranteed $50,000.

After 10 hands, the players made a deal to divide the pot based on chip ratio.

“When it was finally over, I didn’t know what to think. I immediately started planning what to do with it but in more of a business sense,” he said. “I never looked at it as if I had a random $70,000, I knew it was important that I did something beneficial with it,” he said.

He will receive payments by check through bank wire transfers until the total paid off.

As for what he’s going to do with the money?

“I’m giving $40,000 back to my parents to pay for school, and sitting on the rest — probably in a highinterest savings account,” he said. “Oh, and maybe finally buy matching socks and new shoes.”

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Firing: ASLC enforces employment policy << Continued from page 1 Employment Policy.

What remains unclear, she said, is what caused the three-week delay.

“They knew [my GPA] before they hired me,” Hood said. “They waited so long when they could have re-checked it during the summer, but they didn’t.

They let me go on my merry way making plans and sending e-mails.”

Bond sent out a campus-wide e-mail detailing the employment vacancy in what Hood said was between hours and days following the Sept. 27 meeting.

“People were asking before I had a chance to tell anybody that I’d been fired,” Hood said.

Those who questioned her wondered if she was looking for a co-chair.

Hood said Bond didn’t tell the other LAB chairs, either, and that she had to explain to them that she had been fired.

“I’m performing the duties of the job until I hire someone new,” Bond said.

All pertinent e-mails, files and information were turned over to Bond in an organized manner, Hood said.

“I put them all on her computer, and I did a runthrough with her about who needs to be e-mailed and when, what’s going on with

this and that,” Hood said.

“It isn’t as if I gave her a jumbled mess to deal with.”

Yet band managers and contacts still e-mail Hood.

She said they ask her about contracts and why they have yet to receive them or if the plans that have been set up have changed or not.

Hood said she answers the e-mails, addresses the employment change and forwards their inquiries to Bond with notes about important information such as due dates.

“Nicole is busy with her programming, and now she’s got my job,” Hood said. “How is she going to hire and train a new person?

That places all the weight of everything on her. I don’t know why she would do this to herself. It seems a bit ridiculous to me.”

ASLC employees are instructed to follow the employee policy, Fergueson said. It spells out how disciplinary actions should be taken.

“That’s what happens in business: Someone gets fired and the other workers have to pick up the slack,” Fergueson said. “It’s a realworld application that students are learning.”

There is somewhat of an appeals process within ASLC — akin to the real world.

“A couple years ago, there was somebody who

wanted to run for an ASLC position and they did not have the grade-point average,” Bond said. “They went to Senate for an exemption to the rule. That’s been done before.”

Hood said she was not made aware of her options.

“It just didn’t seem like there was going to be any way to try to fix it,” Hood said. “They were just done with me and that was it.”

Whether Bond will continue with the entertainment planning Hood has already completed remains to be seen, Hood said.

“I’ve already worked almost everything out to where all she needs to do is sign and send a contract back,” she said. “I gave her all the stuff that I had planned and ready to go, and it doesn’t even seem like she’s going with that.”

Bond has ignored Hood’s text messages and phone calls, Hood said.

“It seems like they don’t want any help from me in training a new person or helping hand over the position,” Hood said. “I am just completely pushed out of the picture. It’s not like I stole anything or did something dishonorable where I shouldn’t be associated anymore. It’s as if I’m a leper or something. You don’t meet the standards, goodbye; see you — off to Leper Island with you.”

Still, Hood is willing to

Graphic by Sarah Hansen/Photo editor

LAB Vice President of Programming senior Nicole Bond fired sophomore Alyssa Hood from her position as LAB musical entertainment chair because Hood’s gradepoint average was too low. help, she said, but she is not sure who would want to jump into the middle of things and attempt to pick up where she left off. “[The position] will be filled,” Bond said. “We’re not worried about that. We have interested applicants.”

No one has been hired

Senate: Chair urges Contest: Huffington student attendance Post chooses Linfield at food committee student as a finalist << Continued from page 1 screens and lighting on campus.

Sophomore senator Karen Cole raised concerns about lighting the path to Albertsons, a topic that Senate has discussed in the past.

Senior ASLC President Colin Jones said the school abandoned the project because of a hefty price tag: $15,000.

Patterson said she understands the college’s decision but thinks it’s an issue that needs to be addressed.

“I will definitely be bringing it up with the board of trustees when I meet with them in November,” she said.

Campus Liaison Committee Chair sophomore Wesley Allegre encouraged senators to attend Sodexo Food Committee meetings Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in

Dillin Hall.

Allegre said no students attended last month’s meeting.

Keliinoi was curious about how Sodexo publicized the meetings because he had never heard of them.

Publicity Director Bri Reichelt said publicity for those meetings, which is handled by Sodexo, has been limited.

Allegre attended the food meeting Oct. 6 and the only other student to attend was Student Center Director senior Evan Hilberg, he said in an e-mail.

IM Sports Director senior Marissa Van Diest announced the first official tournament to be held on the sand volleyball court, the 2009-10 ASLC Cabinet’s project for campus.

The tournament will take place at 11 a.m. Oct. 10.

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<< Continued from page 1 when the competition transpired, Woginrich had to keep a log of her sleep times, as well as any notes accompanying each night’s sleep.

At the end of the month, she received an e-mail from the editor of the Huffington Post.

It said she was a finalist in the contest, earning one of the coveted spots because of her dedication to the competition and the creativity of the notes in her log.

She was then instructed to make a short video about her experience, which appears on the Huffington Post’s website, “The Huffington Posts Freshman 8 Sleep Contest: Who Should Win a Trip to New York?”

Her video is being voted on across the country.

“The trip to New York was kind of an incentive,”

she said.

If she wins, Woginrich will fly to New York City on Oct. 28, to attend the Huffington Post’s Game Changers Event.

The event is a conference featuring 100 visionaries and intellectuals who are saluted for changing the way the world works.

Woginrich would be honored as one of the visionaries, alongside Oprah Winfrey, Vice President Joseph Biden and the “Old Spice Guy,” Isaiah Mustafa.

To vote for Woginrich, become a fan of the Huffington Post on Facebook, and then search for the competition.

The Huffington Post hosts the contest on its website at www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/04/ freshman-8-sleep-contest_n_749162.html.

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to replace Hood as musical entertainment chair.

The position opening is advertised campus-wide on LAB bulletin boards. Bond is accepting résumés and cover letters until 5 p.m.

Oct. 11.

“If applicants are nervous about their grade-

point average in applying, if they think that they might be in danger of getting below a 2.5, I would probably encourage them not to apply and to focus on their grades,” Bond said.

Hood said a smoother departure would have suited her better.

She said Bond determined that her studies required more of her attention even though the semester was only three weeks underway.

“That felt kind of rude just to assume that I am a poor student for that reason alone and that there couldn’t have possibly been anything else going on,” Hood said. “They did not ask me what my personal reasons were for doing so poorly in one class last year.

Instead I’m portrayed as a no-good, terrible, rotten student.”

Hood’s question concerning why she maintained the position for three weeks into this semester remains unanswered, she said.

She also said she doesn’t know why Bond offered her the position if she knew that her GPA was below a 2.5.

“I could have been let go, and they could have found a new person before we got into this and before I invested so much time in doing the job,” Hood said.

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Need help studying for midterms? Eat these late-night snacks for energy and foucus. Snacks are a necessity for the occassional all-nighter. Take care of your brain and stomach: Find a “snack mate” and hit the books!

Here are some tips: • It’s normal for us to feel hungry late at night, so don’t be too worried about calories when you have to spend a long night studying.

• For snack choices, the key is what you eat not when you eat it.

• Don’t eat fatty foods — they will make you sleepy.

• Get up and walk around after you eat snacks.

Barbecue-flavored chips & soda Tasty index: ***** Health index: * Calories: 140 (1 oz) + 100 (1 cup) = 240 Classic-flavored chips with soda are for either a movie night or study night. Like coffee and tea, icy soda can keep you awake. Try a Max Pepsi if you are concerned about calories.

Banana & vanilla ice cream Tasty index: ***** Health index: ** Calories: 200 + 125 (.5 cup) = 325 A suggestion from a Korean exchange student: peel a banana, spoon ice cream onto the banana and add some chocolate chips. You can try it in Dillin Hall first with the ice cream machine.

Apple & peanut butter Tasty index: **** Health index: *** Calories: 65 + 150 (1 tbsp) = 215 Peel an apple, cut it into pieces and spread on as much peanut butter as you want.

Canned soup & saltine crackers Tasty index: **** Health index: *** Calories: 100 + 250 (1 cup) = 350 This is the best option for filling an empty stomach.

Baked sweet potato & cinnamon sugar Tasty index: ** Health index: **** Calories: 180 (about 10 oz) + 100 = 280 Here, you have a chance to use your hall oven.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees, bake entire sweet potato for an hour (depending on potato size), slice potato down the center and add cinnamon and sugar.

Despite their high caloric content, plain baked sweet potatoes still tastes great.

Breakfast cereal & milk Tasty index: ** Health index: ***** Calories: 120 (1 cup) + 130 (1 cup of 2% milk) = 250 This is the simplest way to munch for those who don’t want to go shopping for late night snacks.

Fresh strawberries & milk Tasty index: *** Health index: ***** Calories: 50 (1 cup) + 130 (1 cup of 2% milk) = 180 Here is another great pair with milk: fresh strawberries. Sprinkle in a little sugar if you have sweet tooth.

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Tying the knot:

Alessa & Ben

Wildcat couples that made a committment

by Rachel Mills/Freelancer

The average female in the United States marries at age 25 and the average male at age 27. The average Linfield student graduates at age 22. The idea of marriage is a foreign concept to most students, the majority of whom don’t even get engaged until after graduation.

There are the select few, however, who defy the norm and head toward the world of matrimony while still in school. Seniors Erick Loden, Ben Edmonds and Alessa Karlin are blissfully married or engaged and looking forward to the next step with their partners by their sides.

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Loden proposed to Alicia Zook, a sophomore at Chemeketa Community College, on Labor Day of this year.

“We’d been talking about getting married for a few months, so I wanted to do something really special for the engagement,” Loden said.

He said that Zook loves fireworks, so he surprised her with a trip to Reno, Nev., to watch the Labor Day fireworks over Lake Tahoe.

“I proposed as the finale was going off behind me,” Loden said.

“She, of course, said yes.”

The couple has been dating since March of 2010 and has set a wedding date for June of 2011.

Ben and Heidi

Ben Edmonds is the most recent addition to the list of engaged students; he proposed to alumna Heidi Vanden Bos, class of ’10, Sept. 25 with a surprise proposal in a helicopter.

“I’d always wanted to go on a helicopter ride,” Edmonds said. “I’d asked Heidi in the past if she’d go with me, and she said ‘I’ll go if you go.’ I figured there was no better time.”

Edmonds said that he and Vanden Bos were going out to dinner to celebrate his birthday. Instead, he drove to the airport.

“I told her that I didn’t remember exactly where the restaurant was, but I thought it was near there,” Edmonds said. “We went to the helicopter and met the pilot. At that point, she knew something was up.”

Edmonds said that the helicopter ride took them over Glacier Rock, where he and his roommate had, earlier that day, laid out black tablecloths painted with the words “Will you?”

“I just finished the sentence,” Edmonds said.

He said that when they got back to campus, word of their engagement had already spread.

“It was a little embarrassing but cool, too,” he said.

Edmonds and Vanden Bos met in 2007 during Campus Crusade for Christ, a campus-based religious organization.

“I was particularly trying to remember girls’ names,” Edmonds said. “I told her I wouldn’t forget her name, and I didn’t.”

They two plan to get married in the summer of 2011.

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Alessa and Ben

Alessa Karlin has gone one step further than the other students: She and her fiancée, alunmus Ben Karlin, class of ’05, were married July 24.

“It was the hottest day of the year,” she said. “But the wedding went well anyway. There’s nothing about it I would change.”

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The Karlins met during a theater production in 2008.

“Rehearsals finished late, and I lived on the other side of campus,” she said. “I didn’t know [Ben] well, but he volunteered to walk me home.”

They dated for five months before the proposal, Karlin said.

“We had been arguing about whether or not we wanted to be together,” she said. “A week later, he just said, ‘So, you want to get married?’ and I said, ‘Yes.’” She said that both of them knew within two months that they were perfect for each other.

“I met his family, and his grandpa told his mom later that he knew we were going to get married,” she said.

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All three couples have seen changes in their lives since their engagements began.

“I have less time now, even less than when we were just dating,” Loden said.

He said that between his classes, his job and volunteering, it is difficult to find time to plan a wedding.

“I have been balancing it all well, but it is definitely a strain,” he said. “I know Alicia wishes I had more time to spend with her.”

In the early months of her relationship, Karlin had the opposite problem.

“At first, I was all about Ben [Karlin],” she said. “I didn’t have a life outside him, and we were together too much.”

As their relationship has progressed, Karlin has learned her lesson.

“It is good for us to spend time with our friends and away from each other,” she said. “It makes our time together more special.”

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Stress of real life

Balancing wedding plans or married life along with the normal stress of school and work isn’t easy, but these future brides and grooms don’t regret it.

“It is less of a question of where you are in school but rather [of] where you are in life,” Loden said.

He said that a serious relationship will always make life more complicated.

“Unless you have life under control and are very solid in what you are doing, it will be difficult to pursue a quality relationship,” he said.

All of them stressed the importance of communication and having fun with their partners and with others.

“Make friends you don’t share,” Karlin advised. “Spend some time apart and some time together.”

Edmonds said that he and Vanden Bos would plan group events with mutual friends, such as game nights or dinners.

“If you want to get to know someone, you should,” he said. “But don’t just seclude yourself with that one person.”

Although Linfield students tend to shy away from diamond rings until after graduation, these three couples are successfully balancing their relationships and their schoolwork and are preparing to take the next step in the walk of life.

Alicia & Erick

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Tour showcases local art galleries, artists Chelsea Ploof Freelancer Jessica Prokop Culture editor Beginning Oct. 1, McMinnville kicked off its annual Art Harvest Studio Tour.

From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., people from Yamhill County toured art studios and watched artists at work. Some of the studios included Third Street’s Currents Gallery, Hidden Treasures and Pacific Frame.

The event was sponsored by the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County. James Dowlen, an artist and member of the AAYC, participated in the tour.

“This is my fifth year.

I have a lot of fun doing it, he said. “It’s really pleasant.

It attracts people who are tuned in to your artwork.”

The event has taken place for close to 19 years. This year, Dowlen served as tour coordinator and acts as the primary communication between the artists and the AAYC. He encourages students to come check out the event.

“Everyone is welcome to come join the tour — especially art students,” he said.

Another artist in the stu-

dio tour was Jess Anderson.

This was Anderson’s first year with the tour.

“I got my first set of paints when I was 11,” Anderson said via e-mail. “I can’t remember when I didn’t do art; it has always been an important part of my life.”

Anderson attended commercial art schools and pursued that part of the business for approximately 20 years.

He also taught at Chemeketa Community College and at state and federal prisons off and on for 30 years, he said via e-mail.

“I made some fine artists out of guys who had never traveled that road,” Anderson said via e-mail. “[They were] was some of my best experiences.”

One of Anderson’s most notable works in the tour is his oil painting “American Gothic Goats.”

Anderson’s other pieces for this year’s studio tour include “Aristocat,” “Painted Utopia” and “Salvador Doggie.”

“I always welcome guests who want to visit my studio,” Anderson said via e-mail.

The Arts Alliance was formed in the 1980s and is a nonprofit arts organization that strives to raise aware-

ness of the visual arts.

The AAYC welcomes anyone who loves the arts and is mainly comprised of volunteers. There are members and an executive board. Associate Professor of Mass Communication Lisa Weidman is the alliance’s president.

“The primary goal is to nourish the creative spirit in everyone,” she said. “The president just keeps the wheels turning.”

The Arts Alliance promotes the arts, supports arts programs and arts education. However, the artists do most of their own fundraising.

Some of the works in the tour include ceramics, photography, paintings, jewelry, paper art and woodwork.

The tour runs Oct. 8-10 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

For more information about the AAYC, visit to www.artsallianceyamhillco. org.

For more information about Dowlen’s art visit www.dowelnartworks.com.

For more information about Anderson’s art visit www.jessanderson.com.

Chelsea Ploof and Jessica Prokop can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

Family entertainment

Sarah Hansen/Photo editor

The Comedy Sportz improv troupe performed scenes, played games and sang songs for students and their families during Family Weekend on Oct. 2 in Ice Auditorium. Two teams competed in the games, and audience members determined the winning team, the funniest, by cheering. For more information about the Comedy Sportz teams, visit www.comedysportz.com/.

Photo courtesy of Jess Anderson Above: An array of artwork done by Anderson hangs on a wall inside his studio.

Left: “American Gothic Goats,” by Anderson, is one of his more popular oil paintings. The piece was featured in the Art Harvest Studio Tour’s catalog.

Anderson’s other pieces are included in this year’s Annual Art Harvest Studio Tour of Yamhill County.

The tour, which is in its 18th year, features 40 Yamhill County artists such as James Dowlen, Phyllice Bradner, Clare Carver and Betty Frownfelter.

The tour began Oct. 1-3 and will conclude on Oct. 8-10.

Photo courtesy of Jess Anderson

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Alumni band returns to the ‘Cat Cab’ scene Tim Marl Staff reporter Braden Smith Managing editor

Katie Paysinger/Senior photographer Jack Ruby Presents returns to Linfield to perform during a Cat Cab on Oct. 7. The band has been touring across Oregon ever since band members Jesse Hughey and Chris Hernandez graduated from Linfield in 2010.

Jack Ruby Presents returned to its stomping grounds Oct. 7 to perform a Cat Cab in front of a large, enthusiastic audience of new and old fans.

The band opened with a mellow song but exploded into an upbeat tune immediately following it. The audience was drawn in by the band’s sound and at the request of front man Jesse Hughey, class of ’10.

“How ’bout everybody take two steps closer,” Hughey said.

The audience moved closer together and began to dance. Others simply stood smiling, enjoying the music.

“I think they have a really unique sound,” junior Bonnie Hastings said.

The audience comprised long-time fans and others who had never heard of the band.

“I’m excited to be introduced to a new genre of music,” freshman Kate Straube said.

The audience was large and fans were pleased to

see their old friends performing again.

“I like that they are good friends, and they’re really good performers,” senior Sarah Mcmillen said. “They play awesome music.”

Senior Melissa Davaz said she enjoys making music with her friends. “[I enjoy] performing and being on stage because that’s where I’m comfortable,” Davaz said. “It’s such an organic and comfortable setting being with them.”

The band’s first performance at Linfield took place in 2007, and it performed frequently before Hughey and band members Chris Hernandez and Aaron Owens graduated in 2010. Before leaving, the band released its first fulllength album, “Over Wires and White Plains,” in May. The band will continue touring across Oregon — starting with a free show at 9 p.m. Oct. 8 at Buffalo Gap in Portland.

For more tour information, visit www.jackrubypresents.com/shows.

Tim Marl and Braden Smith can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

Step up to the mic

Katie Paysinger/Senior photographer Junior Greg Larson reads a piece of original work during the CAMAS Open Mic night Oct. 6 in the Fred Meyer Lounge.

CAMAS is the campus’ journal of art and literature.

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N.Y. duo puts forth disco funk ‘Social Network’ exceeds viewers’ expectations Philip Yovetich KSLC 90.3 FM

Listen up all you Linfield Review readers, you. You are strong in mind and soul.

So keep that up. But I’d like to take this opportunity to urge you to support two other members of the Underappreciated Aspects of Easily Attainable and Completely Affordable Entertainment Crew (UAEACAEC for short).

The first, of course, is KSLC. Radio is a dying breed and commercial-free radio is the “dyingest” of all. But here at 90.3 FM, we few, we happy few, we band of college kids, we are doing what we can to bring you quality entertainment and information right here at Linfield.

Every hour of the day. And guess what — it’s free and we provide you with good, new music, which leads me to the second member and the subject of today’s music review.

The Hundred In The Hands is a dark, disco-house duet from New York composed of the groovy Jason Friedman (guitar, bass and programing) and the lovely Eleanore Everdell (vocals, keys and synth). The selftitled, debut album, released late September on indie Eng-

lish label Warp Records, is a fresh breath of crisp autumn air that is just in time for the coming months of Northwest overcastness.

It’s opening track, “Young Aren’t Young,” lulls us in with cool acid chimes and thumping funk bass which set the stage perfectly for the song that unfolds.

The track sounds like a sort of hip, flashy, sexy, nighttime Cadillac commercial.

Only the Caddy is the song and the neon nighttime streets are your arteries, carrying The Hundred In The Hands’ infectious music all the way into that special place in your heart.

Rather than losing themselves in the inconsequential repetitions of modern ambient beats and techno break-downs, the duo draws upon their expansive talents and influences (which span all the way from New Order and The Cure to De La Soul and Black Star, including french house music, dub, disco and post punk) and bring together a myriad of sounds and styles to give us a darn good album.

Highlights include “Pigeon,” an anthem for latenighters that is a perfect song to kick off a Friday night or to cap off a 4:30 a.m.-Sunday-

Sean Lemme Staff reporter

Photo courtesy of www.thehundredinthehands.com

The Hundred In the Hands’ debut album was released Sept. 20 on Warp Records. morning-that-still-somehow-qualifies-as-a-Saturday night. “Commotion” and “Gold Blood” also stand out.

Lowlights are few, and are limited to only “Killing It,” a song that feels like it’s the three and a half minute outro to a song that we didn’t hear, and to “This Day Made,” which talks about zombies and vampires for a while, something that I thought went out of fashion during the 90s.

I eagerly await the subsequent releases from this

duo as I am excited to see where they go and how they improve and mature.

Now, how is this underappreciated aspect of entertainment both easily attainable and completely affordable?

They will be playing in Portland at The Woods. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door.

Make sure to tune in to KSLC 90.3 FM to hear The Hundred in the Hands.

Philip Yovetich can be reached at kslcmusic@gmail.com.

Jenny Worcester/Illustrator

Everyone knows how popular Facebook is today, what with its addictive nature, privacy issues and massive influence. So initially the idea of “Facebook: The Movie” did not present itself to be the worthiest project for talents such as writer Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher.

But “The Social Network” is far more than a movie about a website.

Indeed, Facebook itself is hardly featured. The filmmakers focus instead on the real-life drama that was involved in the website’s development.

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is the genius who co-founded Facebook with the help of fellow Harvard students. He is involved in two legal battles: one against his former best friend and one involving three other students who claim they are the originators of the idea for Facebook.

The film travels back a few years and fills in how each lawsuit arose.

After his girlfriend dumps him, a drunken Zuckerberg creates a website titled “FaceMash,” which takes pictures of female students from online Harvard dorm face books and allows browsers to choose which one is the most attractive.

The page is quickly shut down but lasts long enough to attract the interest of some other students looking to create a social network exclusively for Harvard students.

Zuckerberg begins to work for them but finds himself developing a separate idea that eventually becomes what is now known as Facebook.

None of the background story sounds particularly interesting, but Sorkin’s script’s witty banter makes it riveting. It is enhanced

by Fincher’s excellent direction, which always places the camera in the optimum position.

The soundtrack, by Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor, makes it clear that the characters aren’t simply nerds who spend all their time in front of computer screens but are actually the rock stars of our time.

Despite his tremendous intellect, Zuckerberg has trouble connecting with people. Eisenberg’s performance is wonderful in that it portrays Zuckerberg as somewhat sympathetic but also as a huge jerk. He handles Sorkin’s dialogue with ease and quells any debate of whether Eisenberg is the indie Michael Cera.

The rest of the cast, including new Spider-Man Andrew Garfield as Zuckerberg’s best friend Eduardo Saverin, aptly perform. Justin Timberlake is extremely charismatic as Sean Parker, who created Napster and is apparently the coolest guy in the world of Internet entrepreneurialism. Also worth noting is Armie Hammer, who plays both Winklevoss twins, two stereotypical but amusing Harvard men.

In some ways, “The Social Network” is old fashioned.

It is a classical, accessible tale of a rise to power — full of greed, lust and betrayal.

That the film makes that story about subjects as complex as computer programming and depositions worthwhile is remarkable.

Sean Lemme can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

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Men split wins, prepare for Willamette Matt Bayley Staff reporter The men’s soccer team battled against two formidable teams, losing to Whitworth University on Oct. 2 and beating Whitman College on Oct. 3.

Linfield finished the weekend with a 3-3 conference record and a 4-5-1 overall record.

The ’Cats faced a stern challenge with the arrival of the Whitworth on Oct. 2.

The Pirates drew first blood, with Whitworth sophomore forward Kekoa Mountcastle scoring in the 12th minute.

Whitworth junior forward Jessie Retan slipped in a goal 10 minutes later to give the Pirates a 2-0 lead at halftime.

Linfield struggled to score during the game, managing only six shots at the goal.

Senior midfielder Colin Bebee attempted half of the team’s shots. His closest was a header in the 26th minute.

Senior midfielder Michel Camacho offered a reason for the lack of shot attempts.

“We came out strong, but as the game progressed, we struggled to keep up with the tempo of the game as well as keep possession of the ball,” he said. “That created the

chances they got and was probably a reason why we got so few chances.”

Whitworth junior goalkeeper Brian Sherpe caught Bebee’s header, and a later goal by Pirates’ midfielder Cameron Bushey put the game out of reach. Sherpe finished the game with four saves, and Whitworth defeated Linfield 3-0.

“Whitworth is probably the best team in the league right now,” Camacho said.

“They’re definitely organized and technical. It was difficult matching up with them.”

On Oct. 3, the ’Cats regrouped to defeat Whitman 2-1. After a scoreless first half, Camacho chipped in a goal past Whitman senior goalkeeper Tim Shu during the 70th minute to give the ’Cats a 1-0 lead.

Whitman then scored on its own goal a few minutes later when a Whitman defender attempted to clear the ball but knocked it into the net instead.

A goal by Whitman midfielder Sam Freedman during the 78th minute put the score at 2-1 in favor of Linfield, and the Missionaries would get no closer.

Camacho said he felt like the team improved on its

performance from the day before.

“We came out strong. We were able to control the game more by keeping the ball — something we couldn’t do against Whitworth,” he said.

Next up for the ’Cats is a match with the Willamette University. Willamette holds a 3-6-2 overall record and a 1-4-1 conference record.

Linfield can attempt plenty of shots against a Bearcats team that has been badly outshot by opponents this season. Overall, the Bearcats have attempted 88 shots, while their competition has attempted 181 — a 93-shot difference.

On the other hand, Linfield has outshot its competition this season. The ’Cats have attempted 147 shots this season to the competition’s 128. Linfield has also outscored its opponents 19-16, while Willamette has been outscored 10-14.

Camacho and sophomore forward Danny Snelgrow lead the team in shot attempts with 35 and 34, respectively.

The ’Cats have allowed 16 goals this season, which is not bad. But for a team that has been stressing defense all season, it’s a number they will have to keep down. For

Victor Zhu/Freelancer Junior midfielder Wil Hiles defends the goal Oct. 3 against Whitman College. perspective, the top two teams in the conference, Pacific and Whitworth universities, have both allowed fewer than 10 goals by the competition.

The ’Cats have a chance to even up their overall record

with a win against Willamette University on Oct. 9.

Camacho said he knows that Linfield is capable of beating the Bearcats, but it will be up to the team to show up and take the game.

“It will by no means be an

easy game. They’re strong in the back but have had some trouble scoring goals, like us,” Camacho said. “It’s just a matter of us going out and taking care of the game.”

Matt Bayley can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

Team’s respect is well deserved

Sports Commentary Chris Forrer Freelancer Hey ’Cats. I’ve got a confession to make. This may shock some of you for, as you’ve seen, I can be very passionate about this thing they call sports. However, this week I’m here to say to you, and to the world: Sometimes things are just more important than throwing a ball around a little piece of grass or shooting a ball at a little metal circle with some rope hanging from it.

This thought has always existed somewhere in my subconscious, although heaven knows that once September rolls around, it’s difficult to find me on game days.

But something I heard in this week’s football press conference, mentioned almost off-handedly by coach Smith, sparked something within me.

As we were packing up and preparing to leave the media room on the second floor of the Health, Human Performance and Athletic Building, Director of Sports Information Kelly Bird asked Smith how the fundraising effort was going.

Smith replied that it was going well, and he hoped to present the money raised to the young man’s family at the upcoming football game against the University of Puget Sound.

Naturally, I became curious, and I began to look into what the exchange was about. Soon after, I learned about Corey Obungen. Ever heard of him? Didn’t think so. After all, why would you know the name of one of the defensive backs on UPS’ football team? I certainly hadn’t.

But over the summer, Corey was on vacation in

Hawaii for his cousin’s high school graduation. During a trip to the beach with some of his teammates, he dove into the water and landed on his head, snapping his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the waist down.

Faster than you could blink, his football career and his life as he knew it were gone.

Yet, despite losing the ability to walk, Obungen says he just feels lucky to be alive. And he promises that he will walk again one day.

Here’s the Linfield connection: Obungen went to the same high school as senior quarterback Cole Bixenman. The Linfield football team organized a fundraising effort to help pay for Obungen’s medical bills and help him realize his dream to get up and move around on his own two feet.

This is the kind of thing I just don’t see enough of in sports today. Teams that play in the same league rarely send so much as a getwell-soon card to opposing players, even if they were injured on the field while

playing against them.

Sure, NBA and NFL players have their charities, their philanthropic organizations devoted to feeding the starving, clothing the naked or helping underprivileged children play sports. That’s wonderful, don’t get me wrong, but where is sportsmanship like this in today’s athletic world?

Linfield has the respect of a sports nation, whether you know it or not. The Wildcats are universally known as a class act in everything that they do, and I can think of no better example than this to highlight why. It’s not because of the national championships in football and softball or because of “The Streak” or because we perennially challenge for league and national fame.

It’s because we know what matters most and constantly strive to achieve it.

After all, football is just a ball, some boys and some grass; it’s just a game.

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

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Danyelle Myers/Freelancer Linfield lines up against the Bearcat defense as junior Wildcat linebacker Axel Cederberg prepares to hike the ball for the kick to earn the point after a touchdown against Willamette University at home Oct. 2 for the conference opener.

Football: Offensive line backs Boehme << Continued from page 16 muscles. After Willamette sophomore quarterback Brian Widing found sophomore receiver Jake Knecht wide open and launched a pass downfield for 64 yards, the ’Cats held strong and stuffed the touted fly offense on three consecutive plays for no gain.

Willamette freshman kicker Kyle Derby missed a chip-shot 26-yard field goal on the ensuing play.

Then, after the Bearcats picked off a high Boehme pass shortly after, Derby missed another attempt —

this one from 42 yards deep.

The kick barely had enough power to roll meekly out of the end zone.

“For the defense, it is a huge confidence booster and allows you to get momentum going,” senior linebacker Eric Hedin said. “Everyone plays better and has a lot of confidence.”

The teams traded scores to close the first quarter. A Bearcat touchdown followed a fumble by senior running back Simon Lamson.

The Wildcat defense shut out Willamette for the rest of the contest, and also

piled up six sacks while constantly harassing Widing as he dropped back to pass.

Offensively, however, the ’Cats were far from finished.

“The offense flat got it done,” Smith said. “They did an excellent job of mixing in the pass and the rush and keeping them off-balance.”

Boehme piled on three more scores before the day was done. At the top of the second quarter, he hit senior receiver Chris Slezak with a short screen pass, and Slezak burst through several Willamette defend-

ers to pick up 44 yards on the play.

The ’Cats plunged deeper into Bearcat territory before Boehme knifed into the end zone on the 1-yard line and put Linfield up 21-7.

Early in the third quarter, it was the same story with a different back.

Boehme dumped a short pass to junior running back Aaron Williams, who blasted up the right sideline while breaking tackle after tackle to gain a whopping 42 yards. Boehme then jogged in for another score from the 3-yard line.

Boehme’s success can

partly be attributed to the solid play of the Wildcat offensive line, which kept him from being hit or sacked the entire contest, he said.

“It takes a little while for the main players to come to the top and for them to gel,” Boehme said. “But right now they’re really rolling. It gives me a ton of confidence going forward that they are playing well.”

Boehme tacked on a 12-yard shot to junior Deidre Wiersma to set the final scoring margin of 35-7.

The game’s only low note came at the start of the fourth quarter when Wil-

liams was tackled and gave up a fumble while falling awkwardly under several defenders. He left the field suffering from an unspecified injury and did not return.

The ’Cats head north to Tacoma, Wash., on Oct. 9 to take on the University of Puget Sound Loggers. They return home the following week to face Pacific University at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 16 for the Linfield Homecoming game.

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

Wildcat sports schedule Sport

Date

Opponent or event

Location

Time

Football

Oct. 9

Puget Sound

Tacoma, Wash.

1 p.m.

Men’s golf

Oct. 9

George Fox Invitational

McMinnville

All day

Men’s soccer

Oct. 9

Willamette

Salem

All day

Women’s soccer

Oct. 9

Puget Sound

Tacoma, Wash.

Noon

Volleyball

Oct. 9

George Fox

McMinnville

7 p.m.

Men’s golf

Oct. 10

George Fox Invitational

McMinnville

All day

Women’s golf

Oct. 10

Whitworth Invitational

McMinnville

All day

Women’s soccer

Oct. 10

George Fox

McMinnville

Noon

Volleyball

Oct. 10

Pacific Lutheran

Tacoma, Wash.

4 p.m.

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’Cats to regroup, bring energy to future games Jerry Young Freelancer

Victor Zhu/Freelancer Junior middle blocker Rosa Gimson jumps to spike the ball on Oct. 1 against Whitworth University.

The Linfield Wildcat Volleyball team entered its third week of Northwest Conference play in good shape.

However, week four brought a mix of good and bad.

The ’Cats finsished the week 1-1, making them 4-2 overall and third place in NWC play.

First up on Oct. 1 were the Whitman College Missionaries from Walla Walla, Wash. Linfield easily controlled the first two games, winning 25-16 and 25-17. Its success marked the first time this year that Linfield wasn’t tied or trailing after the first two games.

While the Wildcats were well in control, coach Shane Kimura said he knows how important it is not to lose focus.

“You have to be aggressive and you can’t let up,” he said.

This aggressivness was echoed in junior Rosa Gimson, one of the Wildcats’ veteran players.

“Once you get ahead, you can’t relax,” she said. “You just have to keep pushing and playing your game no matter who is on the other side of the net.”

Linfield stumbled during the third game, losing 23-25, but Whitman couldn’t overcome the deficit. The ’Cats prevailed in the fourth, 25-21.

With a comfortable victory in their rearview mirror,

the ’Cats shifted their focus to the Whitworth University Pirates, who were also 4-1 in conference play.

The ’Cats were strong out of the gate. They quickly grabbed the first two games 25-17 and then won a thriller of a second game, 28-26, in which the teams battled back and forth for the lead.

With a 2-0 lead going into half-time, the Wildcats only needed to win one of the next three games in order to take down the skilled Whitworth team.

But Whitworth found its stride during the third game, and Linfield made some of the mental mistakes that had haunted them in their match against University of Puget Sound on Sept. 24.

Trailing 8-9, the Whitworth offense exploded and took a 19-9 lead, which was too much for Linfield to recover from. The ’Cats lost the game 18-25.

Linfield never regained its stride, losing the fourth game 12-25 and the fifth game 6-15.

Junior Kelsey Franklin was quick to acknowledge that errors got to the young team yet again.

“Whitworth definitely cut back on there unforced errors, and we increased our unforced errors,” she said.

“They just played smarter and tougher.”

After such a gut-wrenching loss, a team can begin to lose confidence. What is important, Gimson said, is

that the team find positives in a match like such as that one.

“We need to take away that we can compete with a really good team, and we can’t get down on ourselves when we make some mistakes,” she said. “We have to learn how to stay constant and keep a strong mentality against teams who are as good as us.”

With the loss, the Wildcats moved into third place in conference and have a tough road ahead. Six of their next seven matches are on the road.

Franklin and Kimura explained that energy is the key to success away from home.

“You’re not playing in your gym,” he said. “The big difference is that you have to bring more energy and enthusiasm because you don’t have the crowd behind you,” Kimura said.

The ’Cats have one more match at home Oct. 9 against George Fox University before hitting the road to take on the 6-0 Pacific Lutheran University Lutes.

Gimson said that both matches will be tough.

“George Fox has some big hitters and is really scrappy, and PLU is just a good team all around,” she said.

After facing Pacific Lutheran, Linfield will return home for a match against Willamette University on Oct. 15.

Jerry Young can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

Top still in sight for soccer Katey Barger Staff reporter Women’s soccer played against tough competition during two home games against Whitworth University and Whitman College on Oct. 2 and 3, respectively.

The battle against Whitworth on Saturday ended in a 0-1 loss. The one Whitworth goal was scored with 4 minutes remaining in double overtime.

“The [Whitworth] game was tough. They are a good team,” head coach Dominic Doty said. “We didn’t show what our team can do.”

On Sunday, Linfield played Whitman. Even though the team had a tough game the day before, the fatigue didn’t set in, and the Wildcats dominated.

Whitman sophomore forward Julianne Masser scored her team’s only goal after 15 minutes of game play. Linfield senior Rachel Miles scored the first Lin-

field goal 1 minute later.

Nearing the end of the first half, freshmen forwards Emily Fellows and Megan Kearns each scored within 3 minutes of each other and put Linfield at a 3-1 lead at the half.

Fellows and senior forward Emily Schulte scored during the second half. The ’Cats ended the game 5-1.

“Playing Whitworth was tough, but we showed a lot of heart the next day in the game against Whitman,” sophomore forward Julia Vaughan said.

Next weekend, the Wildcats travel to Tacoma, Wash., to play University of Puget Sound on Oct. 9 at noon. They return to McMinnville on Oct. 10 at noon to compete against George Fox University.

“Puget Sound will be a tough game, especially since we play there, but the girls are ready to prove themselves,” Doty said.

Vaughan and sophomore

Junior defender Jenna Quiring clears the ball to the offensive half on Oct. 3 against Whiman College.

to win away games also.

“We want to go and compete,” Sours said. “We’re coming off a good win against Whitman. We have a chance to go and make a statement.”

The ’Cats will continue to take the season one day at a time. Consistency and perseverance are crucial for their success.

“We have a ton of talent; we just need to outwork our opponents,” Vaughan said.

Linfield is ranked second in the Northwest Conference standings — a tie with Puget Sound. They each have 5-1 overall records, just trailing top-ranked Whitworth (6-1).

“After this weekend, we’ll be halfway through the season,” Doty said.

“The season has been going the way we want it to, but we can’t get too content. We have high hopes.”

midfielder Anna Sours both said they are eager for the game against Puget Sound.

Katey Barger can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com.

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Sours said that one of the teams main expectations is not only to win at home but

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Catline

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Northwest Conference standings Football Pacific Lutheran

1-0

1.000

Linfield

1-0

1.000

Whitworth

1-0

1.000

Lewis & Clark

1-1

.500

Willamette

0-1

.000

Puget Sound

0-1

.000

Pacific

0-1

.000

Pacific Lutheran

6-0

1.000

Puget Sound

5-1

.833

Whitworth

5-1

.833

Volleyball

Linfield

4-2

.667

Lewis & Clark

3-3

.500

Willamette

2-4

.333

George Fox

1-5

.167

Pacific

1-5

.167

Whitman

0-6

.000

Women’s soccer Whitworth

6-1

.857

Puget Sound

5-1

.833

Linfield

5-1

.833

Pacific

4-2

.667

Willamette

3-3

.500

George Fox

2-4

.333

Whitman

2-5

.286

Pacific Lutheran

1-5

.167

Lewis & Clark

0-6

.000

Pacific

4-1-1

.750

Whitworth

4-1-1

.750

4-2

.667

Men’s soccer

Pacific Lutheran Puget Sound Linfield

3-1-2

.667

3-3

.500

Whitman

2-3-1

.417

Willamette

1-4-1

.250

George Fox

0-4

.000

’Cats ready to hit the road Volleyball plays at home Oct. 9 before traveling to Pacific Lutheran University for a game Oct. 10.

See page 15 >> Soccer still stuck in middle The men’s soccer team is still 3-3 in Northwest Conference play. The Wildcats compete away against the Willamette University Bearcats on Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. in Salem.

See page 13 >> Wildcats are tied for first The women’s soccer team is tied for first place after a tough weekend on Oct. 2 and 3. The ’Cats faced their first loss this season against Whitworth University on Oct. 2.

See page 15 >> Sports schedule Missed out on the sporting events last weekend? Check out the sports schedule to see your favorite teams play this weekend.

See page 14>> Follow The Linfield Review on Twitter for Wildcat sports updates: @Linfield_Review.

Danyelle Myers/Freelancer Senior wide receiver Ryan Henderson pushes off Willamette University junior Harmon Bruno on Oct. 2 against the Bearcats. The Wildcats dominated the season opener at home, 35-7.

Wildcats give Willamette the Bearcat blues Chris Forrer Freelancer After a shaky 1-1 start to the 2010 season, the Linfield football team needed a strong performance to open Northwest Conference play. They achieved that goal and more in a 35-7 trouncing of the Willamette University Bearcats on Oct. 2.

The game, which head football coach Joseph Smith called a “statement win,” is sure to send a powerful message to the rest of the teams in the NWC: Watch out for the Wildcats.

“Our guys have been pretty frustrated until now,” Smith said.

“We hadn’t played up to our level yet, but we put it together Saturday and got it right.”

Willamette won the toss and deferred to the second half, which allowed senior quarterback Aaron Boehme and the Linfield offense

to take the field first.

The ’Cats efficiently moved the ball downfield in less than 3 minutes, aided by an early pass interference call against the Bearcats. Boehme then found junior tight end Chris Saunders from 15 yards out to put his team up 7-0.

Boehme was back in dominant form, finishing with 277 yards passing and two touchdowns as well as 52 yards on the ground with another three rushing scores and only one interception.

“I love playing at home,” Boehme said. “I felt prepared and comfortable, [quarterback] coach [Brett] Elliot had a great game plan and the line played very well.”

The Linfield defense had an early opportunity to flex its >> Please see Football page 14

Danyelle Myers/Freelancer Senior cornerback Bryce Comfort jumps to receive a pass above Willamette University sophomore Jake Knecht on Oct. 2.