Vol. 115, Issue 21 March 27, 2014
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TWO-PLY AND WIFI FOR THE WIN Rebekah Markillie Staff Writer markilli17@up.edu
In a landslide victory, ASUP presidential challenger John Julius Muwulya and his vice presidential running mate Josh Cleary trounced current ASUP president Quin Chadwick and vice president Elvia Gaona, 68.4 percent to 28.7 percent. Forty percent of the student body voted. The two campaigns used very different approaches. Chadwick and Gaona focused more on broader themes such as diversity and changes to core requirements while Muwulya and Cleary emphasized more practical changes such as better WiFi and toilet paper, embodied by their campaign slogan: “two-ply and wifi.” “Our platform was really really concrete and ambitious, and I think both of us are really really excited to get on the ground running,” junior Muwulya said, a Uganda-born civil engineering major. Vice president-elect Cleary is a junior nursing major. “I think the toilet paper is definitely the first thing ... and tackling different issues with the WiFi. We’ve been doing a lot of research on solutions that other similar sized campuses have been going forth with their WiFi,” Cleary said. “We’ll be doing those practical things first.” Muwulya and Cleary also hope to kick off the school year
with a music festival on River Campus. Chadwick was disappointed with his and Gaona’s defeat but said he is also grateful. “Thank you for this opportunity for me to not only serve you, the students, but thank you for giving me the opportunity to grow and learn and develop myself as a human being,” Chadwick said. “That’s one of the best parts of this position is that it challenges you in ways you’d never thought you’d be challenged. I can walk out of this office and say I am a better person and a stronger individual after going through presidency.” He also offered some advice to his successor. “Be ready and be strong and be organized. iCal or google calendar, you’re going to need it!” Chadwick said. Muwulya and Cleary said they wanted to build on the work that Chadwick and Gaona have done over this past year. “We are really grateful that this community has been able to give us a chance,” he said. In other races, voters chose sophomore Mariah Wildgen over junior Matthew Sutherland for ASUP secretary and junior Sarah Berger over junior Bryan Chipman for CPB director. Junior Jessie Robinson ran unopposed and was re-elected as treasurer. As CPB director, Sarah Berger plans to add four main events a semester while keeping
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Juniors President-elect John Julius Muwulya and Vice President-elect Josh Cleary share a triumphant handshake as they hear the news of their almost 70 percent win for the ASUP presidential team of 20142015. current UP traditions such as Dance of the Decades. “There’s not a lack of programming on campus just with Pilots after Dark happening every Friday and Saturday. I think its CPB’s job to be more responsible with our funds and making sure we plan larger scale events,” Berger said. Resolution 13-13, which officially defines a non-traditional Senator, was passed.
ASUP Elections President/VP Muwulya/Cleary 68.4% Chadwick/Gaona 28.7% Treasurer Robinson 90.9% Secretary Wildgen 64.7% Sutherland 30.5%
CPB Director Berger 62.7% Chipman 31.8% Resolution 13-13 49.9% for 39.6% against 10.5% abstaining
Email block on “Redefine Purple Pride” lifted Maggie Smet Staff Writer smet14@up.edu Until March 19, an Information Services filter blocked emails containing the terms “Redefine Purple Pride” and “RPP” between UP email addresses. Redefine Purple Pride, the student movement that urged the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity in the Nondiscrimination Policy, used an online petition, social media and mass emails to faculty and staff to rally support last spring. According to Jim Ravelli, vice president of University Operations, those emails violated the University’s mass email policy, which states that emails sent to the entire University or sub-groups must be official University-sanctioned communication. When contacted by The Beacon last week, Chief Information Officer Curt Pederson had not heard of the
problem, but later said the block was taken down by that afternoon. Ravelli said it was not lifted sooner because of an oversight. “It wasn’t an issue of permanently banning that. It was an issue that we had not remembered to take it off,” Ravelli said. Ravelli said the University has had problems with realtors and other vendors sending mass emails to the UP server email addresses. “Regardless of the the type of business or the type of thing they are sending, if they’re sending large amounts of mail that is unsolicited, we tend to block those,” Ravelli said. “In fact that it is our policy to block that.” Ravelli said that it was the mode of communication, not the subject of the emails, that warranted the filter. “Regardless of the subject line, we’re trying to stop these mass mailings,” said Michelle Sunderland, director of Technical Services.
According to junior Maraya Sullivan, who was involved in the Redefine group, the first mass email was sent to faculty on Feb. 26, 2013, about the Redefine Purple Pride petition that was posted online Feb. 24, 2013. It also linked to videos about the movement, media coverage and faculty quotes about the movement. 2013 alumna Janie Oliphant, another Redefine activist, remembers after that email, they had problems with the UP email system for RPP announcements. They started using a Gmail account instead of their personal UP email accounts. “We started using a separate email because professors were saying they weren’t getting the messages,” Oliphant said. However, on April 8, 2013, an email about Redefine Purple Pride did go through again to another large portion of the campus community. The email gave an outline of the movement’s actions, including its petition, protest and a link to a video,
which read a letter the group sent to President Fr. Bill Beauchamp. Oliphant said she and others in the group never heard from administration that they were on a block list, but heard about it from other students. After members of the group became aware of the block, the group focused their attention on social media such as Facebook to get their word out, rather than through UP email. For Sullivan, it was her friend’s reaction that led her to talk to John Julius Muwulya and Quin Chadwick at Meet the Candidates night on March 5. “I showed (my friend), just for jokes, and he didn’t believe me, so I did it to prove it to him it was true,” Sullivan said. “And his reaction kind of startled me of how much he cared and how much it bothered him.” ASUP President Quin Chadwick investigated the block, and now that it’s down, is considering what steps ASUP want to take in reaction. “The next step is we’re going have to discuss in our Executive
Board meeting and see if there’s plans that we’d like to take,” Chadwick said. “I would just love for the University to let us know when it does things like this, so that students are aware why it’s happening.” Sullivan doesn’t understand why the block was put in place. “RPP was never meant to be an attack,” Sullivan said. “It was meant to spark dialogue and a different way of thinking to push UP to be a more diverse and inclusive community.” “It felt like Big Brother, like censorship,” Oliphant said. On Sept. 27, 2013, the Board of Regents added sexual orientation to the Nondiscrimination Policy. Ravelli said regardless of the content of messages, the school upholds its mass email policy. “I don’t know who was actually doing it, (someone) was spamming the campus with mail,” Ravelli said. “As we do with anyone who sends large amounts of unsolicited mail through the campus, we have a policy to block that.”
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HONORING CESAR CHAVEZ: MECHA CELEBRATION Friday, March 28, 5 p.m. in St. Mary’s Lounge. M.E.Ch.A. will be hosting a party honoring Cesar Chavez by making gifts for the 240 workers of Physical Plant and Bon Appetit. PILOTS AFTER DARK Friday, March 28, 10-11:30 p.m. Power Struggle. 11:30 p.m. – 1 a.m. Team Trivia Night Saturday, March 29, 10-11:30 p.m. Crown of Corrado. 11:30 p.m. – 1 a.m. DJ Otto Steckler AKA Fidel Cashflow CPB PRESENTS “SAVING MR. BANKS” Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, 9 p.m. in BC Auditorium. “FLY BE FREE” Student performance art piece on Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, 7:30 p.m. in Mago Hunt Recital Hall. FISH HIKE IN THE GORGE Saturday, March 29, meet in front of Pilot House at 8:45 a.m. back around 2 p.m. 4.8 miles roundtrip. Sign up by Thursday by emailing Clare Busch at buschc16@up.edu. Accuracy in The Beacon
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Andy Grammer and Tyler Ward to “Rock The Bluff” Kathryn Walters Copy Editor walters14@up.edu As the school year winds down and finals loom on the horizon, UP students now have a reason to “keep their heads up.” UP’s Campus Program Board announced Monday at its reveal party in Bauccio Commons that Andy Grammer and Tyler Ward will perform at this year’s annual Rock The Bluff concert on April 12 at 8 p.m. in the Chiles Center. Andy Grammer is a singersongwriter from Los Angeles best known for his hit “Keep Your Head Up,” which has been popular on the Billboard Hot 100 and was featured in the movie “Pitch Perfect.” Tyler Ward will be the opener for Grammer and is an independent artist who posts his songs to YouTube. He also performs many covers of popular songs on his YouTube channel, such as Imagine Dragons’ “Demons” and Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse.” Students crowded in the Bauccio Commons at dinnertime to find out which artists had been chosen to perform on The Bluff. CPB created a video of CPB Director Evan Castro gradually making his way across campus to St. Mary’s Student Lounge, where he ultimately revealed the performers on a piece of paper. At the moment of the big reveal,
UP’s dance team took the floor and performed a routine while an Andy Grammer music video played behind them. Castro said that Alex G, another YouTube star who sings covers and who often collaborates with Ward, will also perform. “She sings some stuff with Tyler Ward as well, so it’s going to be a great show,” Castro said. “The artists are excited to come, so we’re really excited.” The selection process started in November, when Castro and other members of CPB started reaching out to music industry agents and seeing who was available during April. CPB had to seek approval from the University for these artists to come to The Bluff. CPB also sent out a survey to UP’s student body asking for suggestions on musical genres they would like to see at the concert. The budget for this year’s Rock The Bluff concert was significantly higher than past years, at $94,000. This year, the student government fee that each student pays was increased by $15, which ASUP allocated to CPB for the Major Project Fund. CPB uses this money to put on Rock The Bluff. Castro said this bigger budget was helpful in the planning process. “Just having that amount of
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Andy Grammer, singer of the hit “Keep Your Head Up” is the headliner for this year’s Rock the Bluff show. money available and not having to search for funds everywhere was such a nice thing for us to do. It made me stress so much less,” Castro said. “Last year they had to squeeze money from all the events we had, and this year we could actually go, hey, look at these bigger bands, let’s look at these people that are up and coming.” Students at the reveal party were excited by the Rock The Bluff reveal. Sophomore and transfer student Sophia Coletti looks forward to her first Rock The Bluff concert. “I’m really excited,” she
said. “He’s (Andy Grammer) not Macklemore, but I still think it will be a fun time.” However, freshman Laura McDonagh is unfamiliar with Tyler Ward and said she will start listening to his music in preparation for the concert, but still thinks the concert will be fun. “I think it’ll be an upbeat concert,” she said. “Any concert is really fun.” According to Castro, students will be able to pick up their free tickets for the concert starting next Monday in the Chiles Center box office.
Decorative library elevator doors replaced Kathryn Walters Copy Editor walters14@up.edu Over spring break, the first floor Clark Library elevator doors, which formerly displayed a decorative cover of famous writers and cultural icons such as Adam Smith, Miguel de Cervantes and Clara Barton, were replaced due to complaints about which writers were and weren’t included on the door. The door covers are now blank to match the other elevator doors. A letter dated March 6, signed by University President Fr. Bill Beauchamp and Provost Thomas Greene, was displayed next to the newly replaced doors. It stated that the administration received complaints that “the doors have suggested to many that we are somehow attempting to be arbiters of certain ideas and authors. This, of course, was not the intention.” According to Beauchamp, who spoke about the doors at the March 18 Academic Senate meeting, these comments came from a variety of sources, such as benefactors, alumni and people on campus. “It was meant to be a decorative item but it became very controversial who was and who wasn’t on it. Why is this name on, why isn’t this name on, including from some benefactors and different people,” Beauchamp
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The former elevator doors in Clark Library have been replaced by plain doors due to complaints from benefactors and others regarding the ideas the names on the door seemed to promote, President Fr. Bill Beauchamp said.
said. “It wasn’t meant to indicate the only things we study or the only people who are important at the university or anything like that, it was just a broad spectrum of different areas.” According to Dean of the Library Drew Harrington, before the doors were constructed, the Library sought feedback from academic disciplines about who they thought should be included on the door.
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Students shave heads for childhood cancer
McKena Miyashiro Staff Writer miyashir17@up.edu
Sixty-five more UP students are walking around campus bald this week. On March 21, students shaved their heads to spread awareness of childhood cancer as part of the first-ever on-campus event through St. Baldrick’s Foundation. UP raised $7,652: $1,900 from the head-shaving event and talent show on March 21 and $5,752 through online fundraising. People are still able to donate to the event via St. Baldrick’s website. “I’m just so happy that we were able to help out in any way possible and able to get the buy-in from the university and the huge support from all these people who didn’t really know about the foundation,” junior Derek Boggs said. Though the men’s soccer team has participated in St. Baldrick’s events off-campus since 2009, Boggs coordinated the event to be on campus for the first time this year. St. Baldrick’s Foundation promotes awareness of childhood cancer through charitable fundraising that supports research to fight the disease. According to the foundation, more children die from cancer in the U.S. than any other disease. Unfortunately, childhood cancer
receives only 4 percent of U.S. federal funding for research. St. Baldrick’s Foundation is hoping to augment this funding. Over the past few months, the UP men’s soccer team has been accepting donations via St. Baldrick’s website to raise money for the organization. Their efforts culminated with St. Baldrick’s signature event: head-shaving. “Shavees” shave their heads to stand in solidarity for children with cancer, many of whom lose their hair during treatment. After months of planning, Boggs was both excited and relieved for the actual event to take place outside of Buckley Center Auditorium. Following the shavings, the athletic teams put on a talent show in the auditorium. In the audience were Joe Farrar and his son Ramsey, who are strong participants in St. Baldrick’s events throughout Portland. In 2009, Ramsey was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: The year that the men’s soccer team met the Farrars at their first shaving event. Ramsey’s dad, Joe, wanted to support his son’s undergoing chemotherapy by also shaving his head. As of February 2009, Ramsey is cancer free. “It’s been a thing of our team of giving back … one to Ramsey and his dad, Joe, cause they’re great and support the team. And
the reason I brought it here on campus was because I knew the buy-in would be great here,” Boggs said. Boggs was also very excited to have so many walk-ins on the day of the event. Sophomore Joe Cahill was one of these walk-ins. “I’m not a cancer patient but I suppose it can be a big deal for them just to show our empathy,” Cahill said. There were also five women walk-ins that chose to shave their heads in support “I love when we get a girl to buy into it. They’re such an inspiration and a rockstar and the message that they send to a little girl who has cancer is huge,” Boggs said. Volunteer sophomore Kelsey Kincaid chose not to shave her head, but was able to surpass her fundraising goal of $250 by raising awareness about St. Baldrick’s Foundation. “I think cancer is a thing that a lot of people have either dealt with directly in their family or through close friends. It’s so prevalent and it’s something that touches close to home. Especially childhood cancer,” Kincaid said. Boggs is exciting for the St. Baldrick’s event to become an annual staple at UP. “Now it’s going to be something that we do every year that’s kind of a part of the DNA of this university,” Boggs said.
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Sophomore Joe Cahill (above), freshman Rory Johnston (middle) and freshman Jordan Baeza (below) get their heads shaved to support St. Baldrick’s cause of raising awareness and funds to fight childhood cancer.
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English professor couple granted Fulbrights Nastacia Voisin Staff Writer voisin15@up.edu Chosen over hundreds of scholars applying for a handful of highly competitive placements, English professors Lars Larson and Molly Hiro have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Teaching Grants to India. They’ll be embarking to the south Asian country in August with their two daughters to teach comparative American literature courses and enjoy the international experience as a family. It’s unusual for couples to be selected for Fulbright awards to the same country in the same year, and Hiro and Larson are honored and excited to be able to spend five months of their sabbatical teaching together in India. “We wanted the challenge,” Larson said. “We wanted to figure out what questions we were not asking in life. To step outside of the American bubble, and see what it means to be human outside of that definition.” Only recently alerted of their successful applications, Hiro and Larson are making practical preparations as they wait for details about their placements. They hope to be assigned the same university in New Delhi, teaching courses in their respective areas of interest and allowing India to revitalize their intellectual and personal perspectives. “One of the downsides of working in American literature is that you don’t have global interests,” Hiro said. “As a professor, I’m very excited to allow this to change my scholarship.” It was Hiro’s wanderlust that inspired the couple to apply for Fulbrights. Neither she nor Larson studied abroad as undergraduates, so after attending a Fulbright workshop in summer 2012, Hiro saw a second chance for travel. The couple chose India as their destination not because of research interests, but in hopes that the vast number of grants offered in that country would increase their chances of both being selected. And pragmatic
considerations aside, they expect their experience in India to be a mix of work and vacation. Last summer Hiro and Larson researched India through books, films and histories in order to craft intelligent application proposals, but they recognize there’s a limit to what they can prepare for. They are swift to note the diverse challenges they’ll face: language barriers, infrastructure troubles, bureaucratic red tape, sickness from exposure to unfamiliar foods and microbes, the relentless heat, cultural misunderstandings and possibly adjusting their teaching styles. Also their two children – soon to be 7 and 10 – have never left the country and may be five months without formal education. Since American and international schools in India have long waitlists, Hiro and Larson might prefer their daughters to learn by exploring the cultural and historical aspects day-to-day of India. “We fully expect, from how different life in India is – how hot it is, how crowded, how conspicuous they’ll be – they won’t think it’s fun on a daily basis,” Hiro said. “But we hope and believe that they’ll look back with a kind of fondness and feel like they’ve learned a lot.” Senior English major Cerice Keller, who worked as Hiro’s research assistant and also spent a year in Salzburg, said Larson and Hiro’s humility and selfawareness will help them adapt to life in India. “They are so deserving of this,” Keller said. “I can’t wait to hear about their experiences when they get back.” Hiro said the English department has been very supportive, despite how unusual it is to lose two professors to sabbatical at once. English professor Geneviève Brassard will replace Hiro as department chair July 1, and a one-year replacement with a doctorate will be hired as an adjunct to teach American and introductory literature courses. An additional adjunct will be brought on if necessary next fall. Hiro and Larson plan to return to the States in early January, and spend the second half of
their sabbatical researching and writing. They’re excited to discover how taking American literature abroad will reshape their viewpoints, and how a semester in a foreign country will bring them closer together as a family. It’s that challenge of defamiliarization, according to Larson, that’s central to this Fulbright teaching experience. “Portland, as everybody knows, is a comfortable town, it’s smug and self-conscious,” Larson said. “We want to get outside of this pristine zone and maybe bring back some things Portland may have forgotten.”
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English professors Lars Larson and Molly Hiro are excited to depart to India on Fulbright grants this summer with their two daughters.
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Celebrating women’s history on The Bluff Cassie Sheridan Staff Writer sheridan15@up.edu
On Jan. 24, 1951, the University of Portland opened the campus to women, officially making the University fully co-educational. There were no female dorms, no female administrators and very few female role models. It was the beginning of the 50s, a time when women historically attended universities to gain their Mrs. degree. By 1964 however, the female pop-
ulation would make up 40 percent of the student body. Today there are coed residence halls, over 50 percent female enrollment, and a huge amount of women excelling academically. To celebrate Women’s History Month, The Beacon put together a timeline of women at UP to see just how far women have come since their invitation to The Bluff 63 years ago. Photo courtesy of University Museum
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Oct. 1, 1934
Nursing students invited to the University
Jan. 24, 1951
St. Vincent Hospital and the University of Portland sign an agreement which would permit nursing students an opportunity to enroll in collegiate courses.
Co-Education extended to all departments
Sept. 1, 1956
Aug. 1, 1971
First woman to enroll in School of Engineering
Sister Hildegarde becomes the first woman to enroll in the School of Engineering.
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Fifty years after the doors were first opened to male students, the University opened all academic programs to women. There were 234 women enrolled: 139 in nursing; 72 in music; 17 in liberal arts; four in business administration; and two in science. Female students were commuters as there was no place on campus for females to live.
First woman to receive a full professorship
Lillian Pereyra becomes the first woman to receive a full professorship in history. Previously Pereyra had also been the first female editor of the University of Portland Review from 1968-1970.
April 24, 1972
First women (non-students) to serve on Board of Regents
First UP nurse commissioned for AFROTC
Ellen Stevens became the first UP nursing student to be commissioned in the AFROTC program and head for the air. It was the 27th year for the AFROTC program at UP.
Miss Mary A. McCravey and Miss Marilyn Moylan become the first non-student females to serve on the Board of Regents.
Sept. 22, 1978
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First woman inducted into athletic hall of fame
First female president of ASUP
Kevin Hamaker became the first female president of ASUP. June 13, 1991
Lorena Legarde became the first woman inducted into the UP athletic hall of fame for her basketball performance from 19811985.
First female dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Professor Marlene Moore became the first female dean of CAS. She would hold this position for the following 11 years.
For an interactive and more detailed timeline of women at UP, visit upbeacon. com/womenup
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First female vice president
Laurie Kelley becomes the first female vice president for the University and the first woman in upper administration.
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A love-Haiti relationship: Hall director proposed to in Haiti A spring break service trip became the location of Gina Loschiavo’s engagement Emily Neelon Staff Writer neelon17@up.edu Two weeks ago, Mehling Hall Director Gina Loschiavo was rowing a boat in the ocean off the coast of Haiti, taking in the sunny skies and sandy beaches, when she spotted a group of people holding signs on the shore. She squinted, and made out the words “Will you marry me Gina?” And suddenly, her boyfriend of almost one year proposed to her. When Loschiavo boarded the plane at the commencement of spring break to go on a service immersion trip to Haiti with UP students, she had no idea she would come back with not only great memories serving abroad, but a diamond ring on her finger. Loschiavo and her fiance James Donovan have been dating since late last May and met through mutual friends. Donovan had been in the works of asking Loschiavo to marry him for over four months, and enlisted the help of others on the service trip. Donovan had a difficult time keeping his engagement plans a secret from Loschiavo, putting the plan into action once he decided to propose in Haiti. “It was hard for me to keep it quiet and wait months before I could do anything with (the ring),” Donovan said. Loschiavo had the suspicion
that Donovan would propose, but had no idea he would do it on the beach in Haiti. “I thought he was going to do it on my birthday weekend, but I was wrong,” said Loschiavo. Senior Amanda Ewing, who led the service trip to Haiti, was in on the plan. “I was so excited I just couldn’t keep it in,” Ewing said. “It was really cool to be a part of (the proposal).” Ewing, who has known Loschiavo since she began working as Mehling Hall director in August 2012, was an advocate for the relationship since its start and after meeting James in early May 2013, was in support of the couple. “Gina, you have to date this guy,” Ewing said she recalls saying to Loschiavo. Corrado Hall Director Michael Wode was also present at the proposal. “He proposed in a humble location in Haiti which says a lot about their relationship,” Wode said. “It’s built on service towards others and each other.” The engagement doesn’t feel like reality for Loschiavo, who hopes to get married in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher next summer. “It hasn’t sunk in yet. I always look at (the ring) and think ‘this is so weird! How is that on my finger?’”
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(Above) James Donovan stands with newly engaged fiancee Gina Loschiavo, the Mehling Hall director. Donovan proposed to Loschiavo during the spring break Haiti service trip. (Left) Students and staff help Donovan propose to Loschiavo by standing on the beach in Haiti with signs, reading “Will you marry me Gina?”
Return of the poet: alum to read from published works Lilah Hegnauer got her start in poetry in Dr. Asarnow’s poetry workshop, a class which now studies her poems Clare Duffy Staff Writer duffy17@up.edu Spring time of most students’ senior year is filled with severe cases of senioritis, job hunting or receiving acceptance letters from graduate school. By the spring of UP alumna and poet Lilah Hegnauer’s senior year, she had published her first book of poetry. Hegnauer will be reading her poetry at UP March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in BC 163. The reading is in honor of her second book, “Pantry,” which was published in February of this year and has already won the Hub City Press New Southern Voices Poetry Award. Hegnauer’s poetry career began in English professor Herman Asarnow’s poetry workshop class during her junior year. Her first
“I think that people who write poetry write it because they cannot not write it.” Lilah Hegnauer UP alum
book of poetry was published soon after, on the first of January her senior year. “Dark Under Kiganda Stars” was written as her honors senior thesis and reflected on her experience doing service work in Africa the previous summer. Her love of poetry has since taken her in a variety of directions after graduating in 2005 as an English major, from teaching poetry at several universities to living in the house of another well-known poet. Her work has been widely recognized, having been published in journals such as Poetry Northwest and The Kenyon Review, but that’s not the reason she continues to write poetry. “I think that people who write poetry write it because they cannot not write it,” Hegnauer said. “But by the same token, it’s very nice to be recognized for the thing that is your lifeblood, the actual reason for your existence.” Her most recent book’s publication came after six months spent being paid to live and write in the home of American poet Amy Clampitt, who passed away in 1994, as part of the Amy Clampitt
Listen to poet Lilah Hegnauer speak When: March 31, 7:30 p.m. Where: BC 163 Poet Residency in Lenox, Mass. “It was the most amazing blessing ever because, not only were (my husband, new baby and I) able to live off of my residency for those six months, but it was just amazing to live in Amy Clampitt’s house. Her entire library was intact, and every book she wrote, every book she read had marginalia in it,” Hegnauer said. “Her sofas, her blankets, her great aunt’s china … it was really amazing to just sort of step into her household.” Asarnow became close friends with Hegnauer during her time at UP, as they would often spend
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Poet and 2005 UP alum Lilah Hegnauer will be reading from her poetry Monday evening. Hegnauer’s poetry is award-winning and has been published in several journals. hours discussing poetry for her senior thesis. Her work at UP has come full circle, as Asarnow is currently teaching “Pantry” in his poetry workshop class. He said that one of the things that makes Hegnauer stand out as a poet is that her work is easily accessible
and challenging all at the same time. “Lilah’s a very powerful, risktaking person,” Asarnow said. “She manages to use being absoSee POET, page 11
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UP alum and girlfriend to teach marriage class Margie Smelt Beacon Cookie Baker meetinginterrupter@up.edu Romance is coming to The Bluff, in the form of two famous new instructors who fell in love in front of millions on national television. Craig Signalfried and Desire Heartstop, who both appeared on BAC’s long running dating show, “The Single Gal” will take Professor Duffer’s position teaching the popular Marriage: Social and Ethical Dimensions. Professor Bastille, who will be co-teaching with Signalfried and Heartstop thinks the new instructors will bring a new perspective about dating in the digital age. “They have a unique journey and perspective when it comes to the marriage partnership. They have a lot to share with students about modern marriage and dating,” Bastille said. Signalfried is excited about what he and Heartstop will bring to the class. They are already planning changes to the class syllabus to highlight their unique knowledge. They’re replacing topics like co-habitation and work family balance with tutorials on how to profess love in front of a camera, undermining other potential suitors and juggling multiple men. “Yeah, we’re going to talk about how to date on a reality show and stuff. It’s going to help some people, especially athletes-models-poets like me,” Signalfried said. Signalfried will also introduce poetry into the class. His bestselling book of poetry “Emeralds and Hands” is now on the required reading list. Students will analyze the book, looking for themes of love, commitment
and partnership that are integral to the marriage class. “Poems and roses, diamonds and things like that are really important in a relationship. I think we want to teach students about that,” Heartstop said. Some students, like sophomore Sally Lovelace, are eagerly awaiting Signalfried and Heartstop’s arrival back on The Bluff as instructors. “I watched every single episode and I am so psyched!” Lovelace said. “They really love each other, so they’re the perfect teachers!” Other students are not excited about the changes to the class, and the personal choices of Signalfried and Heartstop. Junior Jacob Justice is an avid fan of the show, and sees a major problem in choosing Signalfried and Heartstop as instructors and role models for the UP community. “I totally thought Heartstop should’ve picked the other guy on the show, so I’m boycotting the class because of that. I just can’t agree with Heartstop and the University’s choices,” said Justice. Despite disagreement between students over the change, the class is attracting lots of interest from outside the UP community. The registrar’s office reported an uptick in calls regarding nontraditional students from outside the university wanting to take the class. “I get like 10 calls a day from middle aged women all over the country wanting to take that class,” said Irma Dunflap, who works at the registrar’s office “They sit on the line for half an hour talking about how much they think Craig and Desire are beautiful soulmates. I just start coloring.”
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Craig Signalfried and Desire Heartstop look forward to teaching a marriage class this fall after Professor Duffer’s departure.
Student’s mom found living in dorm during Mehling fire drill Emma Nelson Totes Adorbs Beacon Writer totesadorbs@up.edu During a fire drill in Mehling Hall on Friday, the alarm elicited not only 800 students onto the west quad, but a mother who had been secretly staying in the hall for the entire school year. The discovery of this mom, who resisted authorities with bribes of fresh-baked cookies and hand-knitted sweaters, was removed by Public Safety soon after the secret unraveled. Ashley Parker, mother to freshman Jessica Parker, admits that she has been sleeping under her daughter’s bed since the end of orientation in August. “I just couldn’t let go. So I quit my job, packed up my things, and have been living with Jessica
ever since,” Ashley said. Upon further questioning, Jessica admits that her mom has been writing her essays, doing her laundry and managing her Tinder account. “My mom’s always done everything for me, so it seemed right for her to follow me to college,” Jessica said. Rumors about the stay-atdorm mom have been running rampant through the tampon tower over the past few weeks after the sighting of a middleaged woman taking a shower on the fifth floor. “I had just woken up and was walking towards the bathroom when I saw an older woman in a bathrobe creeping down the hallway. It just didn’t seem right,” See MEHLING, page 8
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Billbeau leaves The Shire
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After spending the past eleven(ty-one) years in The Shire, President Fr. Billbeau has announced he will leave at the end of the 2013-2014 academic year. In an email addressed to The Shire community, Billbeau said he would remain in his hole in Bag End Hall until the RISE Campaign is complete and the RING Campaign has begun. “I think the time is right, and as much as I enjoy this job, enjoy working here and really love The Shire, I think there does come a time when it’s appropriate to leave. And I want to see mountains, again,” Billbeau said. “Mountains! And then find somewhere I can rest, like South Bend, Ind.” The Board of Regents has already narrowed down the search for The Shire’s next president to two candidates: Billbeau’s nephew, Frodo, and Executive Vice President Fr. Mark Richman. Billbeau said he does not expect the decision to take long. “Both hobbits are impressive candidates for the position,” Billbeau said. “Fr. Mark has shown himself to be a wonderful leader here at The Shire, but I’d trust Frodo with my precio – with my most valuable possessions.” During Billbeau’s 11(1)year presidency, he has made a name for The Shire all over Middle Earth. Among his accomplishments during his
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presidency are finding the One Ring, restoring a dwarf kingdom and building Fields and Schoenfeldt Hall. Many of Billbeau’s friends and colleagues praise his selfless leadership as president of The Shire. “When Thorin, son of Thrain, son of Thror, King Under the
Mountain was killed in the Battle of Five Armies, he tried to give Billbeau a great portion of his treasure. Billbeau only took a little pocketful of gold, and he gave that all to the RISE Campaign,” said Gloin, a dwarf. As the era of Billbeau’s presidency and the RISE Campaign come to a close, many
in The Shire community wonder what is in store. Magic Professor Gandalf The Grey said the next president has big shoes to fill. “On top of overseeing the building of the River Campus and continuing to foster academic excellence, our next president needs to be able to protect The Shire from the growing power of
Sauron,” The Grey said. Although his future plans are not yet set in stone, Billbeau said he will likely spend time in Rivendell before sailing on an elven ship to South Bend, Ind. Once he has settled down, he hopes to finish his book, tentatively titled “There and Back Again to Notre Dame.”
MEHLING: overprotective mother found living with daughter Continued from page 7
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A mother of a freshman girl was found to be living in Mehling during a fire drill last week. Public Safety uncovered that the mother in question had been living under her daughter’s bed for the past seven months while spending her days cleaning her daughter’s room, sanitizing the bathroom and baking cookies for the fifth floor.
said Mehling resident Sarah Jones. The conspiracy theories continued as countless students spotted Parker and her mom eating dinner every night in the shadows of the quiet side of the Commons. Additionally, the smell of cookies and guilt continuously wafted up and down the hallway of the fifth floor and the bathrooms were already spotless every day before the housekeepers came to clean them. “I knew something was off,” said housekeeper Melinda Andrews. “Teenage girls are never this clean.” Psychology professor Matthew Jordan believes that this dependency will be detrimental to Jessica’s success in the long run. “Jessica hasn’t been able to get her first taste of the real world because her mother has taken care of everything for her. It is highly likely that she will suffer from separation-anxiety disorder and an inability to develop cognitively and socially,” Jordan said. Questions about how the
mom and daughter were able to get away with this feat remain unanswered, but Public Safety believes someone in administration was in on the operation and allowed Jessica’s mother access to the residence hall. Additionally, Parker was allotted a single room, even though freshman students must live with a roommate. Some students believe that the fire drill was planned as way to reveal the Parker family’s scheme. After hours of questioning, Ashley was told she was banned from entering school grounds and departed in her minivan. The University is still deliberating on what legal actions to take against the Parkers and is considering the expulsion of the freshman daughter. They are also investigating Residence Life and Public Safety in the hopes of finding out who in administration allowed for this to happen. “I don’t think I did anything wrong,” said Ashley. “I would do anything for my daughter, even if that means breaking all the rules to live with her.”
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Library to remove glass doors due to student casualties Kathy Sheraton Sex Expert sheraton15@up.edu Countless text messages sent from the library in high volume stating “just killllllllll meeeeeee” have been unfortunately answered by the sliding glass doors outside of the Library. In a fate worse than failing their organic chemistry exam, students have been running into the glass doors and sustaining injuries after studying for long hours. The high injury rate has forced the administration to replace the glass doors with something more visible to a sleep-deprived student. “The glass door just came out of nowhere,” said a student survivor of an accident two fortnights ago. “I stumbled with exhaustion into what I thought was the opening but was instead the glass window.” Stories similar to this one involve students either suffering from Library-induced cabin fever or students barreling through the exit late to turn in a paper. “I was late to hand in my two page paper for English 112,” said a foolish freshman survivor. “I was rushing out of the Library, almost knocked down two people and then smashed right into the glass door.” The administration and Physical Plant have tried various ways to fix the problem. An early idea was to keep the glass increasingly dirty in an effort to
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Reports of students running into the sliding doors of the Library is forcing UP administration to replace the doors with a more visible material. Students like junior Robin Splat (right) have sustained serious concussions after walking into the doors in a sleep-deprived stupor. make it more visible to students. Despite successes from this approach, the administration concluded it was making prefrosh and helicopter parents disgusted. “Visitation groups were
complaining and we cannot have that,” an insider told The Bacon exclusively. “When we control the weather to be sunny, it makes the filth on the glass doors even more obvious.” After more injuries, the
administration has agreed the only viable option is to remove the glass doors completely. The task force heading the project called “no more student injuries from glass doors” or NMSIFGD for short, is in talks to decide what
the replacement will be. They are at present leaning toward heavy wooden cathedral doors, which coincidentally was the original desire of the administration. It looks as if their prayers have been answered.
Holy hot tub: Rec Center to get Catholic-themed pools Princess Lydia Etiquette Coach missmanners@up.edu With deflated pool toys and equally deflated hopes for the future, UP students were disappointed to discover they might be without a pool in the new Rec Center breaking
ground this spring. But through a “miraculous” turn of events, students will enjoy a pool in the Rec Center after all. Marketing and Development made a creative “branding” pitch last week to donors for a Catholicthemed pool. Several uberCatholic donors stepped forward to support the plans, promising
the University a gazillion dollars. Plans include an Olympic “Sea of Galilee” holy water pool, a waterinto-wine fountain, “Loaves & Fishes” snack bar, a “Walk-onWater” wading pool and “Fireand-Brimstone” hot tub. Senior associate vice president of Development, Mister Strangeo, said the new plans broaden
UP’s Catholic identity into new areas of everyday life. “The new plans for the Rec Center allow for our Catholic identity to expand beyond intellectual, spiritual and emotional areas,” Strange-o said. “Our Catholic identity can now be present in a more physical way.”
Student response is positive overall. John Hunky, a junior, said he’s looking forward to the new pools. “I work out all the time, I practically live there.” Hunky said. “So it’ll be good to be more spiritual while I’m getting hella swoll.” Ann Truong | THE BEACON
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Commons removes tacos permanently Fiona Ogre Queen of the Swamp onionshavelayers@up.edu Last Wednesday, the Commons issued a formal statement to the student body that, due to the consistent losses sustained by student theft, Bon Appetit has removed tacos from the menu indefinitely. According to the press release, theft rates in Bauccio Commons and The Cove leave the local business with a net gain of negative $2,500 a week on average. Captain of The Commons Kirt Mustache said the recent decision to refer those caught stealing to the student conduct process was ineffective and, that very week, he actually saw a spike in theft. “Basically, our recent decision to withhold the beloved tacos was in reaction to our absurd losses. We needed to devise a way to prevent theft, and when regular punishment wasn’t working, we decided to skip on over to the next step: total emotional retribution,” Mustache said. The decision to pull tacos has been part of a larger move by Bon Appetit to start reacting to the campus theft. The Meal Detectors, a new type of body scanner, put into the north and southwest entrance and exits have provided the business with “startling” new data.
“We were honestly shocked to find out, not just the level of student theft that we were dealing with, but that priests and professors too were often caught red-handed with our meal detectors,” Mustache said. “I had to escort Fr. Aardvark off the premises after we found an entire salad in his golf cap.” Students, who come to the Commons with hopes of purchasing tacos, will now be served with locally sourced vegetables wrapped in butter lettuce. Sophomore James Potter said that was not at all what he wanted. “I just really love tacos,” Potter said. “What I don’t get is that it’s not like people were stealing tacos. I tried once and got beans and rice all down my pants.” Mustache said that this decision, to withhold tacos, has caused a lot of stir. However, he saw a massive decrease in losses this week alone, with little to no theft since Wednesday. “I’m pleased with the results, so I can definitively say right now that if we see theft start to rise again, I will start pulling other items too,” Mustache said. “Thieves won’t feel so tough when there’s no coffee and pizza, either.”
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It is not uncommon to see a student stealing food from the Commons. Commons workers have reported seeing students shoving pizza down their shirts as well as tacos down their pants. With the high cost of food at the Commons, students are becoming more desperate and blatant in their stealing methods.
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Above (left) senior Pansy Filcher disapproves of the new security that the Commons has added to protect the tacos. Tacos such as the ones seen above will no longer be sold at the Commons due to the increases in theft. Captain of the Commons Kirt Mustache said that he will start taking other items away too if the thievery doesn’t cease. 1. Feb. 30, 2:06 a.m. - Public Safety officers responded to a call from neighbors complaining of students blasting the “Frozen” soundtrack on repeat. The students were asked to turn down the music and seriously reconsider their music tastes.
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2. Feb. 31, 11:26 p.m. - Public Safety officers responded to a medical call on the Bluff. Drunk students believed it had snowed and tried to sled down the Bluff on stolen trays from the Commons.
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4. Mar. 32, 11:17 p.m. - Student reported a group selling baked goods outside of the Pilot House that reportedly contained drug paraphenalia. Upon further investigation, officers concluded that the baked goods were just that delicious.
Entertain Me Dystopian film “Divergent” has kissing, lacks depth After the “Hunger Games” took theaters by storm with a badass female lead, the dystopian movement has taken off among young adult novels and movies and “Divergent” isn’t any different. “Divergent” is set in a postwar Chicago where the society has been split into five factions based on characteristics that drive the inhabitants of each group. Tris, our main character, chooses to leave her faction Abnegation, the selfless, and join Dauntless, the brave. It is here that she discovers that people like her, Divergents, who could belong to a number of the factions, are being eradicated because they cannot be controlled. For those of you who have read the book, expect what book lovers always expect when watching an adaptation: some disappointment. The movie spends a lot of time on Tris and Four’s relationship, her trainer/lover, and there are gaps in the plot because they never develop her relationships with other people. If you haven’t read the book expect a decent plot line, a great acting performance by Shailene Woodley, who plays Tris, and a small amount of violence. Oh, and the kissing scenes,
which are a staple in movies these days. On the plus side, the film was shot beautifully. There were some amazing sets used and the cinematography and acting was overall impressive, that is, if you don’t mind that pretty much all of the supporting characters were never fully developed and basically served no purpose. If the trailer looked intriguing, I would recommend going to see it, but make sure you set aside a good three hours of your time considering the movie itself is two hours and 20 minutes. It wasn’t a bad movie, but as a reader who loved the book, I was pretty upset when they botched the characterization and changed the ending. While “Hunger Games” hit the nail on the head and captivated audiences, I think “Divergent” just falls short of being the next great dystopian movie. -Shellie Adams
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POET: inspiring students Continued from page 6 lutely present wherever the mind of the poem is, the mind of the speaker, and bringing together things you would never think of, to create this sense of being alive and of what it is to think through or feel through or live through various important things.” Freshman English major Sara Coito is currently in the poetry workshop class, and agrees with Asarnow that the courage Hegnauer displays in her writing makes her especially unique. Additionally, Coito feels that she has somewhat of a special connection with Hegnauer, being that she’s in
“Lilah’s a very powerful, risk-taking person. She manages ... bringing together things you would never think of, to create this sense of being alive and of what it is to think through or feel through or live thorugh various important things.”
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the same position Hegnauer was in several years ago. “I think it’s really cool to see that (the students in the class) could be in (Hegnauer’s) position 10 to 15 years from now, which gives us something to look forward to,” Coito said. “I’m really looking forward to her reading … and to hearing how she perceives her own lines.” Hegnauer, too, is looking forward to coming back to UP and reconnecting with the community and the students with whom she feels a close sense of identification. She’s also excited to enjoy some of the spring weather that, living in Boston, she’s not getting at home yet. “I’ve been teaching at big state schools mostly, and their college experience is different than mine was (at UP),” Hegnauer said. “I’m excited to come back and feel that sense of recognition with the students there.”
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OPINIONS EDITORIAL How many Facebook likes would you get on a profile picture with a child in Haiti? Fifty? Seventy-five? Maybe 100? It’s a no-brainer to click that like button when a picture of someone on a service immersion trip shows up. Especially if there’s a cute child in the picture, we have a tendency to see our service-minded friends as virtuous, admirable people. And they certainly are. But how many Facebook likes would you get on a profile picture with an elderly homeless man from Portland? At a university that so values serving communities both locally and internationally, we must as a community always be questioning the purpose of service. And our obsession with our friends’ service trip Facebook photos points to a strange understanding of service. We tend to admire our peers
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for traveling to remote places and helping distant impoverished people, but we rarely stop to think about what actually goes on during overseas service trips. Junior Clara LeeWays, who went to Haiti with a group of UP students and staff over spring break, acknowledged this problem: “Short-term mission trips are really hard to get your head around,” LeeWays said. “You’re spending all of this money, but are you really impacting people’s lives?” She raises a good question. Another question: Would the lives of Haitians be changed more if instead of spending money on plane tickets to see them, we donated all that money to foundations based in Haiti? Of course, there’s more to the trip than some measurable outcome of change. Senior Amanda Ewing, who helped plan the trip to Haiti, realizes the impact may
be greater on the servants than on the served. “My goal wasn’t so much to bring a huge team to serve, but to have people understand what it looks like to go and have your life changed,” Ewing said. If the goal of a mission trip is to learn about global issues and decentralize our Western perspective, a global service opportunity might be the best way to do that. Ewing realizes this. She knows that by flying to Haiti and hanging out with Haitians, UP students will probably be changed more than the people they meet. But those of us who click the like button – do we understand that? Or do we idolize the idea of serving in “exotic” places? We must remember there are people in our local communities who need help just as much as children in developing countries. Every Thursday night, a group
of UP students drives downtown to St. Andre Bessette Catholic Church to meet with and serve Portlanders who lack food and shelter. But for some reason, local service is viewed only as a benevolent act, not a heroic mission. Maybe this is because those we serve in Portland are close to us. Maybe because they’re not all cute children. Maybe because they smell bad and make us feel uncomfortable. That’s the problem: We assume those of us who are journeying to unfamiliar places are doing something grander than those serving at home. But if a group of students spends one week abroad, what is their impact compared to students who go back and back again to serve the same population? This is not to diminish the serving hearts of those UP students who went to Haiti over
spring break. Nor is it to say there is anything wrong with having a Haitian child in a Facebook picture. The group who went to Haiti over spring break came back changed, and the Haitian population they met likely found the service benevolent and helpful. But we should consider how service might function in our everyday opportunities, and we must not think of overseas service trips as the epitome of admirable service. And perhaps, when we see our Facebook friends’ faces show up on the screen next to children in the developing world, we should appreciate them not for their world-changing service, but for their willingness to have their lives changed.
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Broadcast media botched Flight 370 coverage Mitchell Gilbert Staff Commentary For the past two weeks, the focus of the American media has been upon the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370. For those of you who somehow do not know, Flight 370 was a plane flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane disappeared on March 8, and it is presumed to have crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean. This was a tragic and horrific
event, and I hope that by some miracle all of the 239 people onboard the aircraft are found and all are able to return home safely. However, the media coverage of this event has been nothing short of preposterous and insane. Specifically, I’m referring to the coverage done by CNN. CNN began its coverage announcing the disappearance of Flight 370, but it did not just stop there and wait for updates on the situation. No, that was not nearly enough. Its coverage spiraled out of control, slowly falling away from news broadcast and into a work of fiction, theories and entertainment. It is not CNN’s job to report upon theories. It is CNN’s job to
report facts. It is CNN’s job to inform the citizens of the United States about the issues going on around the world, and to make sure that we, as American voters, can remain an informed electorate. News is not about entertainment. Yet CNN and FOX reported upon the Malaysia Flight as if they were speculating upon whether or not Cody Simpson was going to be eliminated from “Dancing with the Stars” this week. So what is an example of one of their absurd theories? CNN commentator Don Lemon theorized that Flight 370 had been sucked into a black hole. It seems highly unlikely to me that the plane was lost in some sort of in-
tergalactic vortex. Sure, it could have happened. I’m not the one to speculate upon whether or not it did. It just seems unlikely that Flight 370 went down the same way Captain Kirk’s dad’s ship did in the first “Star Trek” movie. The most ridiculous thing about all of this coverage is simply the timing. How could CNN spend more than a full day covering the disappearance of a plane over the Indian Ocean while Russia is annexing a section of Ukraine? This is the single greatest foreign policy challenge in the six years of President Obama’s presidency. And yet, as long as this plane is missing, we will hear little of it on CNN. We will hear little about the protests in Vene-
zuela, the civil war in Syria or the Supreme Court ruling on whether or not businesses can be given the same religious rights as people. The missing Malaysia flight is an important news story, but theorizing on what might have happened to Flight 370 is not news. The media are often referred to as the fourth arm of the American government. I would like to see the major media media outlets like CNN, FOX and MSNBC taking that job a bit more seriously. Mitchell Gilbert is a sophomore business major. He can be reached at gilbert16@up.edu.
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Ban Bossy: Beyonce blessed Emily Strocher Staff Commentary “Classrooms are trying to ban the b-word,” the newscaster said, “but it’s not what you think,” and my youth-detecting spideysenses kicked in. My dad started to guess things like Bieber, but I already knew what that other bword was. Maybe it was from being an education major, maybe it was from reading a few too many feminist rants on Tumblr, but I called it. Ban Bossy is the sensation spreading across the nation. Leaders Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, and the Girl Scouts, see “bossy” as being a sort of gateway adjective. Try to think back to your playground days. If one of your female classmates started taking charge of a group, what would you call her? Bossy. When does bossy ever have a positive connotation? More importantly, how often would you use bossy in reference to a guy? No young girl is going to want to be called bossy, so she’ll stop doing whatever behavior caused
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her to be called that. The use of “bossy” creates a cycle of fear. It stigmatizes the qualities of female leadership. According to the Ban Bossy website, between elementary and high school, girls’ self-esteem drops 3.5 times more than boys’. When you don’t feel comfortable in your own skin, you’re hardly going to put yourself out on display for the world to judge. The effects of this can clearly be seen if you look at women in the world of business. Of the 2013 Fortune 500, women held 4.6 percent of those CEO positions. Bump that list up to the Fortune 1000, and the percentage stays the same.
“No young girl is going to want to be called bossy, so she’ll stop doing whatever behavior caused her to be called that. The use of ‘bossy’ creates a cycle of fear.” Emily Strocher junior
As much as I wanted to instantly throw my support behind the Ban Bossy movement, I also wanted to make an informed decision. My decision was quickly informed by my frustration with
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an article against the ban. You’re concerned about the lack of mention of boys and men? Use your 30 more cents on the dollar of pay to buy yourself some therapy to get over it. My opinion was slightly more swayed by a headline about Helena Bonham Carter being against the movement until I questioned why I was holding Helena up as some kind of feminist paragon. Sorry Helena, loved you in “Harry Potter,” but I’m going to go with the high-power businesswoman. If you want to make your informed decision based on celebrity backers, Beyonce supports the ban. If it’s good enough for the Queen B, it’s good enough for me. In the words of someone who is actually known for being a strong, independent woman, “I’m not bossy, I’m the boss.”
Putting politics aside, let’s talk about how terrible of a word bossy is. I’m not talking about the connotations of it. This is purely linguistic. Bossy is a weak word. If you are still using that word today, I’m sorry, but you need to invest in a thesaurus. Bossy is kid language. You can practically hear it in a tiny voice. Let’s ban bossy because people should have more advanced vocabularies. Let’s ban bossy because there’s nothing wrong with an assertive woman. Let’s ban bossy because anyone can be a boss. Emily Strocher is a junior secondary education and history major. She can be reached at strocher15@up.edu.
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Up to 8 teams will be performing, including Curious Comedy, Sharkbite, The Dead Parrots Society, and The Bluffoons “Geazy. He’s really West Coast.”
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This week in sports Baseball
Women’s Tennis
The Pilots dropped all three games of a home series against St. Mary’s last weekend as well as a game against Seattle U on Wednesday. This brought the Pilots to 5-19 overall. The team heads to Pepperdine this Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Pilots continued their win streak this weekend, bringing it up to four games with wins over Gonzaga and No. 70 ranked Idaho. They are now 5-2 on the season. They travel to Calif. to play three games, first against St. Mary’s on Friday at 2 p.m., Pacific on Saturday at 11 a.m. and UC Davis on Sunday at 10 a.m.
Track & Field The Oregon Preview yielded high results for many Pilots, including triple jumper Katherine Maus who tied her own school record. The teams head to the Willamette Invitational on Saturday in Salem, Ore.
Men’s Tennis The Pilots came out on top of WCC rival Gonzaga 6-1 in their first conference match last weekend. They are now 6-4 overall. Four home games are next on the schedule as the Pilots play Hawaii today at 1 p.m., St. Mary’s Friday at 11 a.m., Pacific Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and Idaho Monday at 9 a.m.
Rowing The spring season begins for the Pilots in the Cascade Sprints in Lakewood, Wash. on Sunday. (courtesy portlandpilots.com, WCCsports.com)
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Austin Kelly wins Oregon Prep Baseball Player of the Year Maggie Hannon Staff Writer hannon15@up.edu The glamor of the red carpet and the grittiness of athletics are two things that people wouldn’t normally associate with each other. On March 9, though, freshman pitcher Austin Kelly walked the red carpet for his nomination and win at the Nike-sponsored Oregon Sports Awards (OSA) for the best Prep Baseball Player of 2013. This win was for his work during his senior year at Clackamas High School. The televised, red carpet event was hosted by Oregon native and SportsCenter anchor Neil Everett who awarded high school, college and professional athletes at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton. This is the second year that the OSA decided to put more of a focus on high school athletes and expanded the award categories in order to include more high school winners. Kelly beat out over 70 nominees and two other finalists from Sheldon and Clackamas High Schools, who were also former club teammates. It was not until Kelly was called up on stage that he knew he won the award. “I was pretty excited because it was one of the biggest awards that I’d gotten that year,” Kelly said. “It looked like the Academy Awards, like they call you up on stage and give you an award. It was really well done.” Kelly also won the award for Gatorade’s Oregon Baseball Player of the Year. Since senior catcher Bo Cornish saw Kelly play during his senior year of high school, Cornish was not totally surprised that
Kelly had won the award. Cornish and pitching coach Larry Casian attended a showcase for seniors last spring. Casian could not stay to watch Kelly pitch, but he told Cornish to text him if Cornish thought he could throw for the UP team. “He goes in there and I think in the first three batters he faced, they were playing with wood bats, and he broke three bats,” Cornish said. “I saw him throw a couple pitches and it was great. I knew immediately he could throw for us.” Now that Kelly is a Pilot, he is setting his focus on pitching more than hitting, although he did both in high school. Kelly has noticed a change in his pitching style, relying more on defense by pitching to contact rather than focusing on strikeouts. Casian, who Kelly noted as one of the reasons he decided to play for UP, also noticed some improvement in Kelly’s pitching style and his value as a pitcher for the team. “We’ve got him more just pitching, right now we need him more on the mound,” Casian said. “So he’s made some big strides. He’s changed some arm action, his arm angle, and it’s made his pitching a little better.” Kelly likes to keep his energy light before games in order to stay relaxed and not get too tight in his pitching. Cornish and Casian found that Kelly had a lot of confidence for such a young player on the team and saw Kelly’s maturity in his carefree attitude. “He brings a presence where he almost seems like a veteran the way he goes out there and throws and he’s not scared of anybody,” Cornish said. “We
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Freshman Austin Kelly has pitched 36 innings this season with 15 strikeouts and an ERA of 3.50. Kelly won the Oregon Prep Baseball Player of the Year and Gatorade’s Oregon Baseball Player of the Year. went and played UCLA who won the national championship last year and he went in and played like they were just another team of just nobodies.” Although the team is not doing as well as Kelly would hope, he is optimistic for the future and the rest of conference play.
“We’ve got a lot of young guys on the team doing well. We may not be having the best year right now but in the future we’ll be good, and we still have conference play which we can turn around very fast,” Kelly said. While playing for UP, Kelly has some broad goals for his
baseball career. “I’d like to just keep being a leader on the team. From a team aspect, I’d like to get a conference championship and I think we can do that in the next couple years,” Kelly said.
Student-athletes show talents out of their Pilots uniforms
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(Above) The men’s cross country team shows off their dance moves led by redshirt freshman Alex Dillard (right center). (Top right) Junior Colleen Olinger sings with her teammates on the women’s basketball team. (Bottom right) The men’s soccer team shaved their heads to support cancer survivor Ramsey Farrar (center yellow shirt) and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. See more online: http://upbeacon.com/2014/03/24/student-athlete-talent-show-fundraiser