The Beacon - Oct 10 - Issue 7

Vol. 115, Issue 7 October 10, 2013

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RISE campaign enters final stage

See more photos and videos from the fall dance

What are 2013 grads up to?

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Living, p. 8-9

Shutdown hits home for ROTC Government shutdown stops stipends for Army ROTC cadets Rebekah Markillie Staff Writer markilli17@up.edu The U.S. government shutdown that has frozen funding to “nonessential” government services is having a direct financial impact on University of Portland students in the Army ROTC program.

On Monday, Army cadets learned in an email sent out by Col. Matthew Little that they would not receive their stipends because of the shutdown.

“There is not authorized funding for their stipends,” Little told The Beacon.

Normally, the cadets receive a bimonthly stipend that gradually increases the longer the cadet is in the ROTC program. As of now,

they don’t know if the cadets will receive back pay.

According to senior Cadet Blaine Bradburn, the absent stipend isn’t the only source of stress. The shutdown is also affecting the Portland Battalion’s transportation to training and recruitment events. “(The) stipend which is really a small part of how (the shutdown has) affected ROTC,” Bradburn said. “One of the bigger ways is how it’s affected some of our training.”

The U.S. government provides vans for the cadets to get to training sites. Difficulties arise when the cadets try to coordinate transportation because a few of the cadets attend Portland State University. Because of the shutdown, they are not allowed to

Air Force and Army ROTC cadets stand for the Veteran’s Day ceremony in 2011. use the vans.

“So now we have to coordinate with just personal vehicles and getting people from different classes, different sides of campus, different campuses altogether, all at the same time,” Bradburn said. “It becomes a logistical nightmare, especially in this situation when we don’t have that much time to plan ahead.”

During the weekend of Nov. 15, Army ROTC has a field training planned at Camp Rilea on the Oregon coast. Without a congressional budget agreement, they have no way of getting the cadets there.

“The freshman cadets and the sophomore cadets would miss out on a huge opportunity and just

learning about a bunch of stuff we do,” Bradburn said.

The junior cadets, also called MS3s, use the training at Camp Rilea to help them do well at the Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC).

The LDAC is an evaluation that can determine what kind of job a cadet can get after graduation.

“If (cadets) miss out on training now, it will affect them then because they won’t have as much hands-on experience,” Bradburn said.

It’s not just the cadets who are being affected by lack of transportation.

“We have some vehicles we use to get around recruiting events. We are not able to use those vehicles. It has limited our

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operations,” Little said.

In addition to transportation and cadet stipends, the funds for ROTC scholarships have ended.

This doesn’t affect cadets who already have their scholarships, but it does affect cadets who are still waiting for their scholarships or who could qualify.

“We are unable to commit more money,” Little said.

The government shutdown may also affect UP students in Air Force ROTC Detachment 695.

“We have heard from our headquarters that the stipend may be delayed for some of our cadets due to the government shutdown,” Maj. Stephan Cummings said in an email Wednesday night.

Silent disco has low attendance, high ratings Sarah Hansell News Editor hansell14@up.edu Last Saturday, the fall dance, Nautical Nonsense, saw a lower turnout than fall dances in years past, with almost 450 students in attendance in comparison with around 700 students at last year’s fall dance, according to Campus Program Board (CPB).

With about 150 tickets sold by Friday night according to Late Night Programming Director Eric Luke, CPB made the decision to give away the remaining tickets for free, and refund those they had already sold.

“They thought that it would be most fair to make sure that if a lot of people were getting free tickets, those who had already paid would be refunded,” Luke said.

The dance was the first silent disco CPB has hosted and its first event at Jeld-Wen Field.

“Though the dance was a little rocky because it was our first try at it, it was a really cool venue

and there were a lot of positives to the event,” Assistant Director of Dances senior Joel Lara said.

“You got to see such a positive vibe from students who were there and who really embraced a new concept and were open to something new.”

Luke thinks the lack of advertising could have also played a role in the attendance.

“I think word could go out earlier,” he said.

However, CPB says the students who did attend had a great time.

“I think the most successful thing for us is hearing that great feedback, just that positive, ‘Oh I really had a good time,’ especially from the people who were like, ‘I wasn’t sure about it, and I came and I really liked it,’” CPB Director senior Evan Castro said.

Luke agrees.

“I do think there were some initial hesitations, but once people had headphones on and got the hang of it that they were having a good time,” he said.

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Students dance to the music coming through their headphones at the fall dance, Nautical Nonsense. It was CPB’s first silent disco, which is a dance where the DJ plays the music straight through to listeners’ wireless headphones.

There were also minimal problems with alcohol, which has been an issue at dances in the past, particularly at Dance of

the Decades. Two students were denied entrance due to alcohol but no other problems involving alcohol arose.

The venue also proved to be a success.

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The largest and most successful campaign in the University’s history, as well as the largest campaign ever for a private school in the Northwest, the RISE campaign, is set to finish May 9. The campaign was announced in December 2010 and is expected to raise $200 million, $25 million more than the goal set by UP. Thus far, the university has raised $163 million from 6,000 donors.

Before the campaign began, the University brought in an outside firm to generate a realistic

fundraising goal. The firm suggested $125 million.

“But we were maybe stupid, or audacious, as a University, and set a goal of $175 million,” said Vice President for University Relations Jim Lyons.

Lyons said he’s satisfied with the results of the campaign.

“It’s gone much much better than I ever thought it would go,” Lyons said. “I feel really good about it.”

Lyons was also surprised by the support the

campaign received – not only from students and alumni, but also from the surrounding community.

“That really speaks about the students who are going out in the community and spreading the word – not even by talking about (UP), but through their actions,” Lyons said. “And people say, ‘Wow, I want to be a part of something like that.’”

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Donald and Darlene Shile became involved with the of Portland, specifically t Campaign, because it was Don mater. Donald graduated fro 1951 from what is now called t P. Shiley School of Engine later went on to invent the Bj artificial heart valve. After her death in July 2010, Darlene co support UP. The Shileys are the biggest the campaign, having given million to the University. Bu gives more than money to th of UP. She gives hope, comp insight into the importance of and being a well-rounded perso “My philosophy on how I giving is kind of to spread bre in hopes that the Development the leaders will pick up the bre and find their way to where I to go,” Darlene said.

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the engineering program. But Darlene couldn’t leave the campaign unfinished.

After hearing about the campaign’s final push to raise more money for a Howard Hall replacement, Darlene decided to give again.

“I like to think that I started at the beginning and am bringing up the rear,” Darlene said. “That’s always how Donald and I operated. We’d either start a project, or if we thought it was lagging we’d jump start it in the middle, and then quite often (we’d) finish things off. I don’t like to see good things left undone.”

Darlene said one of the things that attracted her and Donald to UP was its emphasis on values-based education.

“Obviously all of the improvements are wonderful, but one of the things that hasn’t changed is that emphasis on valuesbased education,” Darlene said. “And I think that’s part of the education we impart. It’s kind of a holistic approach.

Yes, the education is vitally important, but rounding yourself out is important too.”

Darlene said if Donald were to see the progress made on campus through the RISE Campaign, he’d be “deliriously happy.” Donald may have been the

reason she first became familiar with UP, but Darlene has come to love the students, faculty, programs and leadership that make up the University.

Evident in her philanthropic work and her generous giving to UP, strong values drive Darlene’s actions. She said she hopes students learn the importance of doing good.

“Embrace as many opportunities as you can, be as good as you can, and serve as a positive influence wherever you can,” Darlene said. “I think that no matter what your talent is, you need to do something to make the world a better place.”

Darlene’s message also included reflection on relationships in life.

“I think if you’re really fortunate in life, as I consider myself to be, you find a mate that shares your philosophy of life,” Darlene said. “But you have to really love that person with everything you have. You don’t want to miss that person. My mother told me when I was younger, ‘Wait for the right one.’ And I remember (at age 28) asking her, ‘Gee, Mom, any chance I missed him? Maybe I was asleep … when he came.’ She’d say, ‘Oh no, you’ll know.’ And, boy I gotta tell ya, when he rolled down the street, I

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said, ‘Mom, you are so right.’”

While Darlene gives insightful advice for others, she also recognizes her own desire to improve.

“I wish I was a better person than I am, I think most people do,” Darlene said. “But I’m pretty overall happy with what I’ve been able to do.”

Darlene said everything she does has been greatly influence by her late husband.

“I’ll just keep doing it because I’m the widow of a really incredible man and I don’t want him to be disappointed in me,” Darlene said. “And I think he’s watching over me. Every so often I ask him for a sign, like ‘Am I doing the right thing?’

And I honestly think sometimes things happen and they honestly speak to you. I think he guides me. I know he’s there. I have enough faith to know that.”

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Annual Public Safety report shows increase in drug use, few crimes overall Increase in drug referrals and decrease in alcohol referrals follows trend at UP Kathryn Walters Copy Editor walters14@up.edu The Department of Public Safety’s Annual Security Report for 2012 reported a significant increase in campus drug law violations, while liquor law violations continue to decline from past years.

Aside from these violations, the report indicated few to no incidents of crime overall.

“Really, our incidences of most violations are pretty low, and we like it that way and would like to be even lower,” Director of Public Safety Gerald Gregg said.

Each year, the University publishes this report in accordance with the Clery Act, which requires all colleges and universities to disclose their crime statistics to the public. The statistics reflect crime reported on and adjacent to campus from January to December 2012 and also lists statistics from 2011 and 2010. Public Safety gathers these statistics with the help of Residence Life and the Portland Police.

However, these statistics do not completely account for all crime at UP. Only cases that happen on campus, in residence halls, in UP-owned houses or directly bordering UP, such as the sidewalk on Willamette Blvd., are included in the report. The Clery Act requires the University to report

certain categories of crime, which means that bike theft and theft from a motor vehicle, which do not fit the Clery Act’s definition of burglary, are not included in the report.

One of the biggest changes from recent years was a sharp increase in drug law violations.

While drug law violation referrals have increased from year to year, the report showed that these numbers more than doubled from 15 campus disciplinary referrals in 2011 to 33 referrals in 2012.

Gregg said that increase accounted for a significant group of students last year that was involved with marijuana.

“We take a pretty firm line against drug use in the university community, and we basically got information and started investigating and referred them to the student conduct office,” Gregg said.

According to Natalie Shank, associate director for Community Standards, marijuana is the most commonly used drug on campus.

Her role in the disciplinary Student Conduct Process allows her to collect statistics of student conduct violations and share them with Public Safety.

“I think we are seeing more marijuana issues come to the surface, and I think that’s been common for our region in the last several years,” she said. “So I think we are on trend with what’s happening

with colleges and universities across the Pacific Northwest.”

Shank’s claim is substantiated by a nationwide trend in the increase of marijuana use among collegeage young adults. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, marijuana use in 18 to 25-yearolds increased from 16.6 percent in 2008 to 19 percent in 2011.

However, despite the rise of drug law violations on campus, senior Gabby Gorence hasn’t personally seen this trend at UP. “I actually don’t notice it, to be honest,” she said.

The report also indicated a continuing decrease in liquor law violations in the last few years. There were 66 campus referrals, down from 81 in 2011.

Gorence believes the decline in liquor law violations may be connected to the increased drug law violations on campus.

“I don’t think it’s surprising that alcohol’s gone down because I feel like Public Safety has been really strict about it,” she said.

“But maybe because they’ve been strict on that, people have been going to other things.”

Reported forcible sex offenses, which include rape, unwanted fondling and other forced sexual offenses, fell from two to one in 2012. However, the report does not include offcampus incidents of sexual assault unless they occurred on University-owned property and the victim reported it.

Although Gregg credits campus programs like Green Dot for increasing awareness of sexual violence, he still believes sexual assault is underreported at UP. “Obviously I would like zero incidences and thus zero reports, and part of the reason for the effort on Green Dot is to reduce sexual violence, so if they see something, they have the tools to intervene,” he said.

The number of reported burglaries decreased from four to zero in 2012. This statistic reflects the University’s strict definition of burglary, which adheres to the Clery Act’s specifications. For example, the theft of a cell phone from the library or a public area of a dorm could not be counted as a burglary because it happened in a public place where unlawful entry is not an issue. Also, a student who does not formally file a theft report cannot have that theft reported as a burglary.

According to Michael McNerney, Public Safety communication and technology coordinator, who co-authored the Annual Security Report, thefts originally reported as burglaries, on further investigation, could turn out to be unreportable because of circumstances not originally taken into account.

“It’s entirely possible that there were findings in the cases that made it unreportable,” he said. “What can happen,

Staying Safe Public Safety emergency: 503-943-4444 24-hour non-emergency: 503-943-7161 University Health Center: 503-943-7134 Campus SAFE Advocates: 503-943-7233 Portland Women’s 24hour Crisis Line: 5 03-235-5333 Portland Police Bureau: 911 non-emergency: 503-823-3333 because we don’t spell this out, is that the theft could have occurred in a non-residential part of the residence hall.”

But overall, low crime statistics reflect common opinion that UP is a safe place to be.

“I feel pretty safe here all the time,” Gorence said. “I mean, it’s probably bad to walk around campus all the time feeling invincible, but I feel really safe.”

Gregg said even though UP has few crime incidents, there is always room for improvement.

“We think it’s a safe environment but we’re not complacent about it and we’re going to work to make it better all the time,” he said.

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Gender studies minor one step from reality Academic Senate votes Oct. 22 on gender studies becoming UP’s newest minor Emily Neelon Staff Writer neelon17@up.edu After over a year of planning and gathering student feedback, a gender and women’s studies minor is on the verge of becoming a reality. On Sept. 25, the Curriculum Committee of the Academic Senate unanimously approved the proposal for the minor. The Academic Senate will make the final decision on the minor’s accreditation at its Oct. 22 meeting. If the Academic Senate votes in favor of the minor, it will be available starting next fall.

Students began to ask for a gender studies minor several years ago.

“A lot of students were already taking courses having to do with gender and women’s studies, but they weren’t getting a minor credit for it,” said philosophy professor Jeffrey Gauthier.

Faculty members from different disciplines within the College of Arts and Sciences

created an advisory committee to work on a proposal for the minor.

“This committee, as well as other faculty members, have invested a great deal of talent, time, insight and energy into developing and shaping the minor,” social work professor Anissa Rogers said. Rogers will organize these efforts as director of the committee. As a whole, the committee will develop, implement and evaluate the minor if approved.

“I became involved because of my interest and passion in the content area and because I am invested in seeing this minor become established,” Rogers said.

If ratified, the gender studies minor will consist of courses already offered at the university.

The committee has developed criteria that a class must meet if a faculty member wishes for their course to be included in the minor.

Gauthier and Rogers are eager

to see how the new minor will impact students.

“My hope is to get those students that are already interested in the area or already taking these classes to get some credit for what they’ve been doing,” Gauthier said.

Rogers hopes the minor will inspire students to transform their communities.

“The minor is inherently interdisciplinary, which offers students opportunities to examine issues from historical, ethical, theological, philosophical and socio-cultural content,” Rogers said. “I think this opportunity will only strengthen students’ ability to critically think about and analyze issues, develop leadership skills and inform the work they do in the future.”

Senior Danielle Knott, president of the Feminist Discussion Group, thinks that many students are unsure about taking gender studies classes.

“I think that a lot of students feel that if it’s not in their major,

they aren’t prepared enough in that field or they are intimidated,” Knott said. “The minor is really cool because it encourages students to take classes outside of their major which might help them discover they have interests in another field.”

Knott believes the minor is one that all students can profit from.

“It’s always good to study what the perspective of someone else is. That’s important for any form of communication you might come across in a field that you’re working in,” she said. “There’s no harm in studying the way another person might identify. Having that knowledge, that everyone doesn’t feel the same way about themselves and their sexuality, is really important.”

Although Knott will not be able to participate in the gender studies minor, she feels that the classes she has taken relating to this subject are ones that will be helpful in the job market.

“Anyone will benefit, career-

Social work professor Anissa Rogers will organize the committee to implement the gender studies minor if it’s approved. wise, but I think that people that don’t actively put themselves in other people’s positions will benefit even more,” Knott said.

“It’s not just about women learning about themselves, it’s about understanding the whole spectrum of what gender is about.”

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DANCE: Volunteers helped make it possible Continued from page 1 “One of the things I was pleased with was at the end of the night Jeld-Wen security and staff approached me and just said that they were really pleased with the way students handled themselves and the way that the event went,” Luke said. “So at least from an adviser standpoint, that’s always good to hear.”

The dance was a community effort: it required about triple the amount of volunteers

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needed for many other dances, such as Dance of the Decades, doing jobs such as headphone distribution, registration and coat check. According to Lara, 60 to 70 percent of the volunteers were CPB members, and the others were their friends and housemates.

“If I were them, I would want to be on that dance floor, but they’re doing card swipers because they want to give back to the community,” Lara said.

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On On Campus Campus RESUME WORKSHOP

Thursday, Oct. 10: Tips and Strategies. 4 p.m. in Career Services in the lower level of Orrico Hall.

ANNUAL UP AUTHORS RECEPTION Thursday, Oct. 10: Celebrate and mingle with UP faculty, staff and student authors with refreshments and a chance to browse featured publications.

3 - 4:30 p.m. on the upper floor next to the Library Classroom.

ANNUAL ZAHM LECTURE Thursday Oct. 10: Jud Newborn speaks on heroes in the fight for human rights and highlights the White Rose movement in his talk, “Speaking Truth to Power” 7:30pm in Buckley Center Auditorium.

SPIRIT WEEK PARADE Saturday, Oct. 26: CPB’s spirit week parade will now be held on the same day as the Brigham Young University women’s soccer game.

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1. Oct. 4, 11:13 p.m. - Officers responded to a party complaint at the 5500 block of N. Harvard. The party was shut down and three residents were issued citations for violation of the noise ordinance and providing a place for minors to drink. Three additional citations were issued for MIP and violations to the University conduct policy.

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2. Oct. 5, 11:29 p.m. - Officers responded to a party complaint at the 5000 block of N. Syracuse. Officers made contact with the residents and asked that they shut down the party; they were compliant.

3. Oct. 5, 11:58 a.m. - Officers responded to a noise complaint at the 4700 block of N. Yale.

Officers advised the residents to quiet down and they were compliant.

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October 10, 2013

Engineers restore and explore art in Amsterdam Engineering students applied skills from the classroom to art restoration in Amsterdam Maggie Smet Staff Writer smet14@up.edu For most mechanical engineers, summer internships don’t include 400-year-old art, perusing museums and biking cobblestone streets. But for seniors Corey Trujillo and Jordan Lum, their summer included that and more.

Trujillo and Lum spent 10 weeks working with Dr. Bill Wei in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, applying their mechanical engineering skills to art conservation for the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE), or Cultural Heritage Agency of The Netherlands.

Their first week in Europe got off to a colorful start. A specific color, in fact.

“We didn’t know our hostel was in the middle of the red light district,” Trujillo said. “It was a Christian hostel and we chose it because it was safe and calm. The red light district is an interesting place, but to live there was awful.”

Finding a place to live for the summer was a part of the adventure. With a housing stipend from RCE, they moved around the city from a rented room from Kwela Hermanns, well known for her Ted Talk on educational innovation, to Craig Allen Smith, an industrial designer from Canada and eventually to a dorm sub-let.

Both found these new places and people an integral part of the cultural experience. Lum and Trujillo were also able to travel

with colleagues on the weekend around the Netherlands and Europe.

During their internship, Trujillo focused on silver restoration and Lum worked with paper.

They were the only undergraduates in the lab, working with graduate students and conservators from The Rijksmuseum, a Dutch national museum of history and art. Trujillo examined silver specimens under a powerful microscope and registered changes after restorative cleanings. Lum studied the effects of vibrations on pastel drawings, working with large subwoofers to understand the effect transportation has on these pieces.

“It’s not the typical mainstream field of engineering, but once I got there and saw how Dr. Wei was applying what we learned in school to this field. It was very insightful and mindbroadening that you can apply what you learn to anything.” Lum said.

This mind-broadening included weekly trips to museums across the Netherlands to see art and to critique displays and restorative efforts. The city of Amsterdam, with its canals, old buildings, modern art, and local delicacies including waffles and raw herring, though not together, proved to be an enriching part of their 10-week experience outside of the lab.

After this experience, both Lum and Trujillo are weighing their options for the future. Lum

is interested in renewable energy, but would love to one day work on art conservation. Trujillo is considering architecture as a career field. Ultimately, both came away with a broader sense of the world and their futures as engineers as they enter their senior year.

“I never really thought in the international, broader sense of the world,” Lum said. “But you really have to open your horizons and think about how you can be competitive in an international sense.”

Lum considers the experience the best experience of his life.

Dr. Bill Wei will be coming to campus Oct. 23 to speak to the Mechanical Engineering club about his work.

Photos courtesy of Corey Trujillo

(Above) Seniors Corey Trujillo and Jordan Lum stand with Dr. Bill Wei from the Cultural Heritage Agency of The Netherlands. Trujillo and Lum spent 10 weeks in Amsterdam touring Europe and learning how to restore art.

Students search for rush, not rough, of Greek system While UP has gone several decades without a Greek system, some students have borrowed aspects of Greek life to form strong community Maggie Smet Staff Writer smet14@up.edu “Bigs,” “littles,” rushing, symbols and parties: all the hallmarks of Greek culture seen at other schools and on The Bluff 25 years ago. While most students and administrators at UP don’t yearn for the days of Greek Life, some of the activities and connections previously forged at UP are making a comeback.

Greeks at UP Greek life at UP began in 1950 with the establishment of Upsilon Omega Pi fraternity, followed by various sororities and fraternities. According to archivist Fr. Jeffrey Schneibel, the administration encouraged these social organizations in the beginning, as they connected the large commuter student population to campus life.

There were never official houses for these organizations.

Members lived in dorms and used

symbols like sweaters and badges to distinguish themselves. During rush week, incoming members might have to carry a fraternity handbook or a large stone around campus to distinguish them as pledges of a certain chapter.

A Dec. 13, 1963 Beacon article describes the Rush or “Hell Week” pranks that both fraternity members and pledges played on each other.

One student, Ron Ayotte, was tied up by his fraternity brothers, covered in a bed sheet, taken to Portland State College and dumped in an ice bucket in the cafeteria.

A nearby dining hall worker tried to catch him – only to be left with a sheet in her hands and Ayotte running to the main dining room. Ayotte received raucous applause from the students of Portland State, and was quoted saying that he “loved every Becca Tabor | THE BEACON

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Sophomore Maryna Feldberg stands with freshman Anna Farello. Feldberg and Farello were partnered as “big” and “little” in Kenna as a way to connect students and form community.

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‘Due tomorrow, do tomorrow’ Mid-semester is often the time when students re-organize priorities, putting class and homework at the bottom of the to-do list Erika Murphy Staff Writer murphye15@up.edu “Due Tomorrow, Do Tomorrow” is junior Tommy Wilson’s infamous tagline. For Wilson, it’s more than wordplay – it’s a lifestyle. If the due date is far into the future, Wilson can’t resist “the pleasure of not doing it now.”

Many students can relate to the liberation of deciding to skip that seemingly trivial assignment.

Professors notice that just after the first month, students begin struggling to remain committed to school. Procrastinating on assignments often leads to skipping class altogether.

“I think week five defines you as a student,” communication studies professor Jennette Lovejoy told her class during the fifth week of school. “I think it defines you because it’s when you start making the commitment and demonstrating to the professor what kind of student you are.”

English professor William Hannon, a former high school teacher, wants to give college students the freedom they deserve as adults, yet he misses them when they’re not there.

“When (students) aren’t in class, we’re impoverished by their absence,” Hannon said.

Lovejoy does not expect perfect attendance of her students,

but she does expect that when they are present, they show up.

“That doesn’t mean you have to be gregarious or outspoken or unafraid to speak in public. I have plenty of students who show up and never speak in class,” Lovejoy said. “And then other students show up and … really drive the conversation.”

Lovejoy said she notices when students disengage.

“What’s crazy is … I miss that student if they’re not in class.

I miss their face or their attention. In the same way, I miss them when they’re tired and sleeping in class,” Lovejoy said.

Students say they tend to miss class because they are sick or have too many procrastinated assignments to catch up on. Other times, skipping class is accidental. Freshman Deanna Wright accidentally overslept the morning after attending the Noah and the Whales concert. She quickly got over the panic of having skipped statistics class with the consolation of having gone to the concert.

“Noah and the Whales or stats? I mean c’mon!” Wright said.

If junior John Hongel chooses to skip class or an assignment, it’s often intentional.

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be doing homework, but really that’s not true for me,” Hongel said.

Theology professor Candace McLean warns about the dangers of excessive procrastination, particularly in reading-embedded courses. “(Procrastination) doesn’t allow you to use other strategies that help you understand the reading, like reading the footnotes or taking notes while you read,” McLean said.

Especially for students in upper-division courses, reading can be difficult because often students aren’t held accountable until the

exam.

“I feel really uncomfortable doing homework if I don’t have to yet … It’s hard for me to stay concentrated, because I’d much rather be doing anything else,” Wilson said. “It’s an instant gratification tendency … What it comes down to is how much you’re willing to risk for that gratification. I’m willing to risk a lot.”

Wilson worked hard to get a 4.0 GPA in high school, but realized he could be doing 90 percent less work. Many high-achieving students find it difficult to maintain the pressure and rigors for

long. For Wilson it has become “a very balanced calculation of what you can afford to not do.”

McLean finds that neglecting assignments leads to students becoming “overwhelmed with words and ideas.”

Wilson and Hongel are unafraid of the effects of procrastination. Hongel claims to learn the material eventually.

“It’s not motivated out of laziness, per se. It’s just a reorganization of priorities. And that’s what’s most misunderstood about procrastination,” Hongel said.

GREEK: Students find community minute of it.”

According to Schneibel, the popularity of fraternities and sororities on campus ebbed and flowed throughout the years. In 1989, six chapters were on campus, some locally founded and others affiliated with national organizations.

After hazing incidents involving Psi Chi Eta and Iota Kappa Pi, UP implemented anti-hazing rules. These incidents included underage drinking, inappropriate charade games and other activities to initiate new members. As a result, local fraternities with no national governance could not have a traditional pledging week, and hazing was expressly forbidden.

Leaders of each organization had to work closely with student activities to establish yearly goals and conduct evaluations of their efforts. By 1993, all the fraternities and sororities had left. This was due to a lower membership rates, pressure from national Greek organizations and general distaste for the new guidelines.

Although it’s been 20 years since there was Greek life at UP, you can still hear some students refer to their “big sister” or “fraternity brother” because of connections forged through dorms and academic fraternities.

Big Sisters and Little Sisters in Kenna

Kenna Hall may be a dorm, not a sorority, but girls living in RA Gwen Getchell’s hall can choose to be a “big” or “little” sister to help build community in the residence halls.

Getchell wanted to find a way to connect upper and underclassmen on equal terms and discourage cliques in Kenna during her first year as RA. As the year goes on, she plans to do events like girls’ nights out and yoga for big and little sisters. For now, pairs hang out, leave notes and treats for each other and get to know each other better.

Sophomore Maryna Feldberg and her little sister freshman Anna Farello never had plans to join a sorority in college, but enjoy the connection they’ve established as hallmates.

“I remember when I came to UP, thinking ‘I wish I knew more people in Kenna because I saw them everyday, but I just didn’t know ‘Who are you, what year are you?’” Feldberg said.

For Getchell, this program offers an alternative to the “superficial” nature of sororities that pick their members. Instead, she sees her program as an opportunity for everyone to be involved and get to know the people they live with.

Brotherhood and Business There is one fraternity that outlasted the social fraternities on

Photo courtesy of Alpha Kappa Psi

Business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi is a coed organization that focuses on professional development and networking.

The Bluff. Business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi is a coed, national organization focused on professional development and networking in the business field.

In some aspects Alpha Kappa Psi is similar to fraternities at other schools. Membership is gained by rushing, which includes different events, interviews and quizzes. They do service with local organizations such as Friends of Trees. They also have a strong

alumni base which helps with networking after graduation, much like a social fraternity.

This year Alpha Kappa Psi has 41 members and is open to students of all majors.

Although Alpha Kappa Psi has rush, President senior Arvin Ticzon stresses the importance of never hazing members and being vigilant of that behavior, especially in the wake of hazing scandals across the country. They have a

judiciary committee of students and a faculty advisor that makes sure all members follow the rules.

“We do kind of party, but not excessively like a social fraternity would,” Ticzon said.

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“I was enamored with Portland and I thought it would take a lot to steal my heart away,” Spitz said. “But Seattle’s doing a pretty good job. There’s so much vibrancy, so much to do.”

Spitz has been freelance writing and instructing yoga. Spitz is also interviewing with a PR firm that she has been in contact with since the spring. However her schedule has been busy with all her yoga classes.

“I’m leading a yoga teacher training and teaching 12 classes a week. But I’m also working at two other yoga studios in Seattle,” Spitz said.

She said the freelance lifestyle can mean juggling a lot of different jobs. However it can also give her a certain freedom.

“Sometimes it can be really tiring when I’m working anywhere from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.,” Spitz said. “I can give myself a random Wednesday off, which is needed when I’m doing such physical work.”

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Moving on doesn’t have to mean moving away.

Corey Fawcett lives in St. Johns and works in the Portland area. Fawcett is a community manager at Sparkloft Media, a social media agency that works primarily with travel and tourism. She began making the local connections while still attending UP. “I was an intern there my last semester of senior year,” Fawcett said. “I stayed on as an intern during the summer full time and was hired on at the end of August.”

Fawcett attributed her employment opportunity to this internship, which allowed her to gain trust within the company.

“They have 200 to 300 applicants per position and I didn’t have any real professional, social media experience,” Fawcett said. “It would have been way harder to get this position without getting the internship which was basically training for community manager.”

The right internship helped Fawcett make the transition from intern to employee - a strategy she suggests to other UP students.

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hers rather suddenly. She and her boyfriend launched their life in Seattle with a massive cross-country roadtrip.

“I went on a 10-day road trip from where (my boyfriend) was stationed in Mississippi all the way up to Seattle. We went all through St. Louis, Colorado, Yellowstone and Montana. That totally threw me into summer mode after graduating,” Spitz said.

After the whirlwind of the road trip, she already had new and important things to focus on.

“We had to find an apartment right away.

There was so much to be worried and be excited about that I didn’t have time to think about how big of a deal it was,” Spitz said.

She attributed her happiness in her postUP life to her swift exit off The Bluff.

“I think I would have felt different about graduation if I had stayed in Portland and watched everyone else leave,” she said. “Having something else to funnel your energy into is either a distraction or a stepforward.”

make an unpaid internship, you should take that opportunity. Anything creative or artistic, or with liberal arts degree, you should try to find an internship and try to make that work,” Fawcett said.

However not all transitions can be so smooth.

“It feels a little awkward being so close to campus,” Fawcett said. “I have friends who are in the senior class but I feel as if I’m officially in a different phase of my life.”

But for Fawcett, the post-UP life means more room for activities.

“Everyone says that graduating is really scary and it definitely is,” she said. “But since graduating I’ve actually had time for creative writing and submitting to creative writing contests. I mean, I’ve actually been able to read the books that I want to.”

After four years spent memorizing the best path to classes, the teachers that assign lightest reading and all the friendly UP faces, it might seem impossible that one could ever adjust to life outside the of radius of

Portland to Brooklyn, N.Y. is a popular move these days and Talley Carlston has jumped on the bandwagon, currently living with friends in a Brooklyn apartment.

Despite the rumor that finding a job in New York is impossible, Carlston said he found a surprising amount of success.

“I don’t mean to sound full of it but I’ve found six jobs out here,” Carlston said.

“I’m a freelance graphic designer and art director, helping to rebrand a company for the younger generation. I’m coming up with concepts and designs that will come out in 2014.”

Among other things, Carlston is also freelance advertising and working with an architecture firm. He attributes part of his success to LinkedIn, a professional social network. Carlston’s freelancing schedule is full of hard work.

“I’ve been working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. which is exhausting,” Carlston said. “But still, moving to New York has been the best thing that has ever happened.”

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The Bluff. Yet, as anxious as it makes upperclassmen (and worrisome underclassmen), it turns out that life goes on after graduation. Five ‘13 graduates talk about moving on and moving away from UP. These are stories about the awkwardness, the loneliness but also the rewards of making a whole new life after graduation.

T h e community living integrated into the JVC program has provided McCracken with emotional support.

“I get along with my housemates really well and it’s been such a learning experience to live with five other people who are having similar struggles,” McCracken said McCracken will work with the JVC until August and then look for work involving her major, civil engineering, either in Portland or in New York.

McCracken said her choice to spend a year working with children and serving the community was more than a gap year or time off.

“I consider this a spiritual and learning experience. I wanted to take a year off but also make that a year of service,” she said. “I have the rest of my life to do civil engineering. There’s not always lot of opportunities like this.”

Ian Clark started a new leg of his academic journey at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Moving to a foreign city has been a hard process for Clark.

He left mid-August with some friends for Ireland and the struggles started immediately.

It began with a delayed flight that caused him to miss an important train connection in New York.

This train would take him to his friends in Connecticut where they would leave for their international flight to Ireland.

“I thought I would be stuck there for hours,” Clark said. “It was a weird experience standing there in Grand Central Station, looking up at the murals of constellations that were painted up there on the ceiling and realizing that I had absolutely no home and had no idea what I was doing and was just sort of abroad in the world.”

Clark caught the next train and made his Irelandbound flight on time. But there were more hurdles for Clark in store.

“We were homeless for two weeks, living in a hostel until we found a place. And it was really hard to find a place,” Clark said. “So we were living out of this hostel for almost a month. It makes me value having a home now.”

The trap that caught him was an expatriate’s nightmare.

“I had to get a bank account but in order to get a bank account I had to have a permanent address. But in order to get a permanent address I had to have a bank

statement from an Irish bank account,” Clark said.

However, Clark maneuvered around this catch-22 and has settled into his new place. Since then, Clark began literature classes at Trinity, such as Perspectives in Irish Literature.

He said he spends much of his free time exploring the Irish countryside, rock climbing, drinking tea or writing for pleasure. Unlike Clark’s time spent abroad while attending UP, he said this first year is full of important decisions.

“I really have to figure out what I’m doing. This is a big transition period,” Clark said. “It’s not like I can just come back to UP and figure this all out later.”

Clark has begun to meet the Trinity student body which, while largely Irish, has a significant number of international students.

“It can definitely feel lonely, but I think the first year at a college is hard no matter what you do,” Clark said . “I think it’s much better to do something that is totally new because then you feel like you’re growing.”

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FAITH & FELLOWSHIP

October 10, 2013

Putting faith on air Catholic radio station KBVM broadcasts from UP’s campus W.C. Lawson Staff Writer lawson14@up.edu There is a hidden gem on campus where a small staff comes together each day to bring blessings to those who tune in. The Catholic Radio Station, KBVM (Blessed Virgin Mary, 88.3 FM) can be found just down the hill from the Career Services Center.

“My mail is overflowing with letters,” said Station Director Tony Galati. “From youth to the elderly, these letters are across the board.”

“God has really blessed this channel as it all started from broadcasting a prayer.”

Tony Galati Director of KBVM Although it consists of a short staff, they are busy everyday with local, live recorded programming that includes Christian liturgical and sacred music, live interviews with Holy Cross priests, apologetics, prayer, devotion and even Portland Pilot sports updates.

The radio station was originally

formed and built to broadcast the rosary prayer from Holy Rosary Church.

“We are just a collection of individuals that ended up here, but God has really blessed this channel as it all started from broadcasting a prayer,” Galati said.

Early in the 60s and 70s as programming schedules became more and more refined, it became difficult to buy time for the 15-minute prayer. However, in 1988, the station raised money and the University decided to house a full use Holy Cross Catholic Radio Station on campus. Even though the University does not fund the station, KBVM is appreciative to have a place on campus to cast their signal.

“We like being here (at the University of Portland),” Galati said. “There is a certain calm, peace and tranquility with this place.”

Being on The Bluff also gives the station an opportunity to broadcast daily sports updates with David Endres.

“It’s nice to be here on the campus,” Endres said. “I can just walk up the street to the Chiles Center if I need to speak to a coach or a player.”

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David Endres gives his daily sports update. Endres is part of KBVM’s team that broadcasts from their station near Career Services and Physical Plant.

Galati said that this broadcast has really hit its stride. The station holds a huge reach around the area as their radio waves reach as far north as Chehalis, Wash. and as far south as Eugene, Ore. “There are even certain peo-

ple who tune in to the station and set their clocks according to the programming!” Galati said.

Even though Galati thinks that the station hasn’t made a large impact on the student community here at UP, he feels blessed to be

here on campus and spread the Lord’s message.

“There is an art dimension to this radio station that really makes it worthwhile,” Galati said.

OPINIONS EDITORIAL Portland is an exceptional place to experience the arts. Venues like the Crystal Ballroom and the Roseland Theater constantly have big-name acts coming into town, the Portland Art Museum has some great work in its collections and there’s no shortage of funky galleries in our hip arts districts. We have a symphony, a ballet company and an opera company.

With all these opportunities to see and hear fascinating works of art in the city, it’s easy to forget that we also have top-notch arts events going on around campus. Last weekend, the drama department put on “Barefoot in the Park,” the Bluffoons gave a comedy improv show, and the orchestra, wind symphony, jazz band, University Singers and women’s chorale all performed in Buckley Center Auditorium.

It’s a shame that student attendance tends to be low at oncampus performances. Many students, it seems, go to the one required concert for Fine Arts 207 and never again attend another performance at UP. And fantastic things happen

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in these performances. During “Barefoot in the Park,” a surprise appearance from French professor Madame Booth elicited uproarious laughter and applause. At the orchestra concert, sophomore Cem Inan brought the audience to their feet after a riveting performance of a Rachmaninoff piano concerto. The wind symphony performed the world premiere of a song by upand-coming composer Anthony O’Toole.

Of course, many college students are ambivalent about traditional art forms like theater and orchestral or choral music. It’s easy to get excited about a Lumineers concert, but a jazz band performance might seem like a less relatable event.

But there’s really no reason not to experience UP’s arts offerings. Unlike off-campus concert tickets, the concerts are free.

Student tickets to theater productions are only $5 (and some nights, they have free tickets for students).

Furthermore, the more enthusiasm students have for their peers’ work in the arts, the better

our programs will be. Higher attendance would encourage even more creativity and excellence in the University’s musicians, actors, singers and artists.

Unfortunately, the first wave of this year’s performances at UP passed over the weekend.

But throughout the rest of the semester, there will be another play and more performances from each of the University’s music ensembles.

In addition to performances, the University brings in speakers from all fields and disciplines. This evening, cultural anthropologist Jud Newborn will give a multimedia presentation about anti-Nazi movements for the annual Zahm Lecture. On Oct. 24, novelist and essayist David James Duncan will give a reading of his work as part of Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers series.

While students wait for the next wave of dramatic and musical events, they can experience art at UP by stopping in the Buckley Center gallery before class. It’s easy to look past the pieces of art in the gallery while

Upcoming Events

Oct. 10 : Zahm Lecture 7:30 p.m., Buckley Center Auditorium

Nov. 24 : Jazz Band and Combos 3 p.m., Buckley Center Auditorium

Oct. 24 : James Duncan -Schoenfeldt Distinguished Authors series 7 p.m., Buckley Center Auditorium

Nov. 26 : Chamber Ensembles 6 p.m., Mago Hunt Recital Hall

Nov. 8-10 and 14-16: “Alkestis” Shows at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinee only at 2:00 p.m.

Dec. 3 : Orchestra 7:30 p.m., Buckley Center Auditorium Dec. 7 : Annual Advent Concert (free, but tickets are required) 8:00 p.m., St. Mary's Cathedral

Nov. 23 : Wind Symphony and Women's Chorale 7:30 p.m., Buckley Center Auditorium rushing to class, but many distinguished painters, photographers and sculptors have displayed work there. Right now, the gallery features an eclectic collection of paintings and sculptures by contemporary Native American artists.

Go see a play or a concert.

Stop to look at paintings in Buckley Center or the library. There’s art all around our campus. Take advantage of it.

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Opinions create legitimacy, so be judicious Megan Lester Staff Commentary Opinions are a form of currency. Politicians spend obscene amounts of money to curry favor with the populace. Books are instant bestsellers if Oprah likes them. Once Myspace stopped being “cool” its net worth was diminished by over $500 million.

Your opinion is money. What are you investing in?

Our opinions – good or bad – give things power, meaning and importance. The media know this and demand that we invest in judging others. If we didn’t bother forming opinions about a “real” housewife of New Jersey, the franchise would disappear.

Consider this: by continually assessing how you feel about twerking, you become someone who cares about twerking. If we didn’t care, it wouldn’t matter.

True, opinions about Miley Cyrus can start conversations

about gender issues or cultural appropriation, but so can news stories, friendship, literature and a million other things that don’t betray our society as one that values fame regardless of talent and appearance above character.

I concede that conversations are vital regardless of their beginnings. It’s true, too, that pop culture icons are an accessible vehicle for the general public, and thus effective in starting large-scale dialogue. But Cyrus is only a pop culture icon because we made her one. She is only an effective example because people

talk about her (including myself, right now).

“By continually assessing how you feel about twerking, you become someone who cares about twerking.

If we didn’t care, it wouldn’t matter.”

Megan Lester junior

When we stop delineating

what we think about people we don’t know, we stop caring about the intricacies of their lives, and we start focusing on important issues. Three percent of our federal budget goes toward education … who cares if Nicki Minaj got butt implants?

I know what I’m advocating here isn’t foolproof. Having opinions is not the only way social change can take place, and watching women act like middle school girls on television can be See OPINION, page 13

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October 10, 2013

The end of Pax Americana Ryan Gillespie Guest Commentary On or about Oct. 17, the U.S. will hit its statutory borrowing limit. Most people think the government is already shut down which is partially true - but it will truly shut down and stop making payments when it is no longer allowed to issue debt to cover payments.

Let’s imagine a reality where the U.S., forced by the borrowing/ debt limit, cannot pay its debts on government bonds. What will likely happen? The interest rate on those bonds will skyrocket.

Besides increasing the rates required for the U.S. government to borrow money (we’re talking tens, maybe hundreds of millions in extra interest payments each year solely due to increased default risk included in the rate of return on treasuries), interest rates on credit card, mortgage and other consumer debts that have interest linked to U.S. government rates will all skyrocket as well, making it more expensive for all of us to borrow.

But the government is saving money in the meantime, since it

will have been forced to shutter its doors during the shutdown and after the debt limit, right?

Not exactly – the House of Representatives has voted in favor of back-paying federal workers so they will not lose pay during the shutdown. This means the government really isn’t saving all that much from this little shoot-

“The biggest irony of all is that this whole situation is brought about by the want to defund Obamacare, but the Affordable Care Act is funded through separate appropriations.”

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out on Capitol Hill.

Moreover, the general hit to the economy is huge, with an estimated $160 million being lost each day; this in turn lowers the amount of income shared

by Americans, decreasing the amount of taxable income in the United States, and thereby reducing federal tax revenues. So the government, while shuttered, is actually not saving much money and is lowering the amount of money it takes in through taxes.

The biggest irony of all is that this whole situation is brought

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about by the want to defund Obamacare, but the Affordable Care Act is funded through separate appropriations! So while the rest of the federal government is shut down, Obamacare actually keeps going!

This seems like a no-brainer for those in Washington – keeping the government shut down and hitting the debt limit is a lose-lose situation. When Social Security, veteran and unemployment benefits are all skipped out on because the Speaker of the

House will not let a clean bill come to the floor (yes, there really are enough votes in the House for a debt ceiling and spending bill to pass, but Speaker Boehner has yet to let a vote be taken), the U.S. will transition from being an international political laughingstock to an international political horror story.

The full effects of defaulting on sovereign debt are unknowable, as there is no such precedent in U.S. history. If Washington decides to enable what may be the

most awesome economic experiment in modern history (I predict that they will), then Pax Americana as we have known it for the past century will come to an end.

Ryan Gillespie is a senior accounting major. He can be reached at gillespi14@up.edu.

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by Kristen Garcia entertaining.

But I still think we apply our hyper-criticism to too many areas of life. The cosmetic industry is banking on our harsh opinions.

We are subliminally trained to dislike ourselves. If everyone saw they were already easy, breezy and beautiful, Americans wouldn’t be spending $11 billion on cosmetics and weeks of our

What are you most looking forward to about fall break?

Jaime Rompel, junior, nursing

“If everyone saw they were already easy, breezy and beautiful, Americans wouldn’t be spending $11 billion on cosmetics and weeks of our lives in front of a mirror.”

Megan Lester junior

lives in front of a mirror.

In summary, yes, please have informed opinions about important things or things that are of interest to you, but don’t let your opinion subsidize a damaging aspect of society. Maybe when we

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stop asking ourselves, “What do I think about this?” we’ll find that it really doesn’t matter.

This opinion piece may seem like a cop-out because however you feel about it is nullified by my

saying we should be less critical of others. It may also seem counterintuitive that I should spend time writing an opinion piece about abandoning opinions. ...Yeah…well, that’s just, like,

“I’m just excited to relax and hang out with friends, and not feel rushed with school work.”

Corey Flynn, freshman, secondary education

your opinion, man.

Megan Lester is a junior English and German major.

She can be reached at lester15@ up.edu.

The social network isn’t so social

Tori Dunlap is a sophomore communication studies major.

She can be reached at dunlapv16@up.edu.

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All my friends have a Facebook, and I am stuck wondering what it is like to know instantly who’s dating who, who likes what and what toppings went on someone’s

“The saddest thing in the world is to sit down and talk to your best friend through a computer screen using grammatically incorrect language.”

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sundae last night at Baskin Robbins. I just found out last month that two of my friends had been dating for weeks before I discovered this fact. Now, this is not because I am a self-absorbed narcissist. No, it was because it was posted on Facebook, and what was absent was the verbal announcement of this detail.

Yes, sometimes I wish I had a Facebook, especially when the above occurs, but when you think about it, the saddest thing in the world is to sit down and talk to your best friend through a computer screen using grammatically incorrect language. There is no heard laughter, no seen smiles.

Isn’t that what you talk to your best friend for, to make you feel happy, to hear her laugh? You only get impersonal words typed on a computer screen with social networking; you cannot see a raised brow or a confused look that tells you so much about what a person is thinking and feeling.

There is no body language, a tool

“I’m just excited to go back home and see my parents and dog. And then visiting the beach and friends from high school.”

Jacob Alvord, senior, civil engineering

“I’m just going to work full time for the company I did a summer internship at. Just catching up financially and taking a break from homework.”

Olivia Scott, sophomore, nursing

“This is kind of ridiculous, but my cat is having kittens! And I have a friend coming home.”

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CROSS COUNTRY: Men look toward nationals Continued from page 16 “It is so much easier for us to do well when we can rely on our teammates. I know that if they are giving their best effort I need to give my best effort as well,” said redshirt senior Marit Tegelaar.

It is apparent that this strong sense of community is paying off, with teams that have been improving steadily over the last few years.

“I think that we are in a unique position. We are right on the bubble of becoming a national caliber team,” junior Tansey Lynstad said. “We are on the upswing.”

Lynstad competed this past weekend in Eugene, Ore. at the Bill Dellinger Invitational. She

said she understands the challenges that becoming a nationally ranked team entails.

“We ran this weekend against some very fast girls from all different schools in the region,” Lynstad said. “It was hard not to focus on how fast some of the girls were, but it is important to put that in the back of our minds and focus solely upon improving ourselves.”

However, there also have been some great achievements for these women runners this season. They raced against BYU, one of the best teams in the region, and only lost by a small margin.

“It got us super excited to begin racing again and I think we will definitely be ready to face

them again at conference later this year,” Lynstad said.

The men’s cross country team is in a different situation, having already earned national recognition.

“We try not to focus upon the big lofty goals, and rather what we can control. Improving everyday both individually and as a team,” Poland said.

“We understand that if we want to improve and do well in races we are going to have to work hard,” Poland said. “We have potential to be one of the best teams in UP’s history, and if we focus upon improving ourselves everyday we can meet that potential.”

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Senior Gina Paletta, who finished 17th, and sophomore Anne Luijten, who finished 19th, aim to lead the Pilots to a strong season.

Pilots race, volunteer at Portland Marathon

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(Left) Junior Katie Kerr runs the marathon Sunday morning paced by fellow Pilot junior Josh Cleary. (Center) Volunteers filled the streets and sidewalks of Willamette Blvd to hand out water and cheer on the runners. (Right) Junior Maria Etheridge is accompanied by her father and the rest of her family. They came to cheer her on as she runs the half marathon.

Cassie Sheridan Staff Writer sheridan15@up.edu There is something inexplicable about the magic of a marathon. Maybe it’s 10,000 sets of Nikes hitting the pavement in unison. Maybe it’s imagining the amount of miles logged by those bodies in months and years of training. Regardless, on Sunday, Willamette Blvd. was part of that magic. For some students, the Portland Marathon meant a frustrating detour and roadblocks.

For others, it was a day that had been circled for months on their calendar.

The true spirit of the marathon doesn’t occur on race day, it happens in the months before. That’s when the stories and events that brought all those individuals together for the ultimate test of mental and physical endurance occur. These stories are the reason people run.

On Sunday, UP students, whether they were runners, pacers or volunteers contributed a little bit of their own magic to the Portland Marathon.

Marathon For senior Colin Root, the Portland Marathon represented the opportunity to set a goal and beat it.

“Last year, I decided my goal was to get under 3 hours,” Root said. “I love to test myself and my body. There is something special about going out there and doing something you don’t think you are capable of.”

Root certainly was able to accomplish something most individuals are not capable of.

“I kept a really solid 6:30 mile pace,” Root said. “When I crossed the finish, I was disoriented but knew I had gotten under 3 hours.

It’s awesome to know I will always be able to say ‘In college I ran a 3-hour marathon’ even if I never run one again.”

Root said his ROTC training was essential to his preparation and ROTC provided a great support team.

Root had senior Vince Datoon meet him at mile 20 and help him keep pace for what is traditionally perceived as the hardest three to five miles of the marathon.

“I hit runner’s wall at mile 20 and Vince met me there and ran with me,” Root said. “I was hurting and wanting to slow down but he helped me keep pace, which was essential.”

A 3-hour marathon placed Root within the top handful of finishers.

Root said he was just happy

to find a good outlet for all the ROTC training.

For junior Katie Kerr, this year’s marathon was far tougher than her last.

“Last year when I ran the marathon, I trained so much,” Kerr said. “This year was a lot harder run. Luckily, I had two great friends run with me to help me stay motivated.”

Kerr loves to run the Portland Marathon because it is such a positive environment.

“All my housemates came out and cheered for me,” Kerr said.

“I had junior Josh Cleary run 10 miles with me and keep me motivated and Vince came back from running with Colin to help me too. The support made it so wonderful, despite the tough run.”

Kerr believes anyone can run a marathon, if they set a goal and just work towards it.

“The awesome thing about running is accessibility,” Kerr said. “Anyone can get out there and just run. I want everybody to run a marathon. It is such a positive experience.”

Half Marathon Ten years ago, junior Maria Etheridge lost her grandma.

Coincidentally, 10 years later, Etheridge was considering running her first half marathon.

“I never thought I could run

that much,” Etheridge said.

“Then I just had a rough spring and really needed something to work towards. I told my dad about my goal and he told me he would run it with me. We then found out the race was the same date as my grandma’s death and it just felt like something incredible that my dad and I could do together in honor of her.”

Etheridge said the overwhelming support from her friends and family helped her achieve her goal.

“It was so special for every reason. My whole family came down from Washington to watch and cheer for us,” Etheridge said.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better day.”

Pacers Senior Vincent Dato-on ran alongside not just one marathoner, but two. Dato-on met Root at the St. Johns Bridge and ran around four miles with him before looping back around and meeting Kerr to run another three miles.

“I ran the marathon last year,” said Dato-on. “However, this year I really wanted to just help motivate people to accomplish their goals. I knew Colin really wanted to get that 3-hour finish and so it was awesome to be able to help motivate him to finish

strong.”

Junior Josh Cleary has never ran an official marathon, but thinks with the amount of miles he has logged pacing people he may as well have. This year, Cleary helped pace junior Katie Kerr.

“I don’t have an official finisher shirt,” Cleary said. “I feel like I should though. I have almost run the whole thing a couple of times. It’s so much easier to have someone there running with you than trying to keep that pace all by yourself.”

Volunteers For most college students, waking up at 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning is the last thing on their to-do list. However, bright and early on Willamette Blvd., about 20 UP students crowded around Richard Gritta, a business professor who has ran the marathon many times in the past, to volunteer.

Despite the chilly morning dew and the late supply delivery truck, volunteers persevered and handed out water until noon.

“It was really special to see so many other students come out at 7 a.m. on a Sunday morning,” said junior volunteer Megan Tienken.

“Everyone worked together and collaborated to make our water station successful.”

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Pilot in the Spotlight

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Jason Dodson

Goalkeeper Redshirt Senior Lake Oswego, Ore

Why did you choose UP after four years at Stanford?

When I was doing the recruiting process originally, it was one of the front runners for schools and I’ve known (head coach Bill Irwin) for a long time. I love the area, would love to come back closer to home. It just seemed like it would be a good fit for me.

What would you like to do after this year?

I probably want to go into PR or marketing. I’d love to work at a sports company, maybe Nike or Adidas. One thing that appealed to me is that it was so broad, that you could go into a lot of fields.

How was your experience with the Timbers U-23 team?

I’ve been around the Timbers a lot growing up.

I learned a lot of professionalism from that experience, just watching those players in that environment.

And that helped me in college, stepping up to that next level.

Would you think about pursuing a professional soccer career?

Obviously it’s a rough, rough barrier to entry there, but if the opportunity presented itself I’d love to give

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it a shot. It’s something I’ve been dreaming about since I was yea tall.

What does it do for the team’s confidence after a shutout?

Obviously getting shutouts is great. We emphasize on this team that we have so much firepower going forward that we’re going to score goals. It’s going to be really hard for teams to keep us out, so if we can keep goals out, we’re gonna win games.

Do you and fellow fifth year senior goalkeeper Justin Baarts feel like you need to be leaders on the field and in the locker room?

Definitely. There’s that dynamic. Justin’s been here a lot. I feel like my job is to be on the field, be present.

But I feel like setting a tone is something that’s expected of the seniors.

What are your expectations for this season?

I think if we do what we’re supposed to do on the field, I think we have a really good shot at taking the title this year. I know a lot of people say that, but I really think we have the potential this season.

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SOCCER: Conference battle continues Continued from page 16 of the Month honors. “But I have to keep doing my job, and my job is to score. If you score goals, you get recognized, but I’m just doing my job.”

The women’s side entered their first conference match on the crest of a five-game winning streak, gathering momentum and confidence both at home and on the road. A dominant 3-0 win against the University of Washington in Seattle set the tone for the Pilots as they looked to the beginning of conference play.

“As a team, I think it’s nice that we’re finally starting to score goals and put teams away and we started that with UW,” Capelle said. “I think if we continue that, that’d be nice. If we put teams away in the beginning we won’t have to worry about that one, two to zero lead, because people can always come back from that.”

Though they understand every match will be hard fought, the Pilots have a few matches circled for their significance in the coming weeks.

“Santa Clara’s always a big one because they’re our rival in the conference,” McCluskie said.

“That’s always going to be a tough, physical game and they’re having a good season. BYU is another team we like to come and fight against. As the years go on, everyone in the conference is getting better and better, so it’s definitely going to be tough. Every game is going to be a fight.”

The women’s soccer team

plays its next match on Oct. 19 against Gonzaga on Merlo Field.

Men’s soccer

The men’s side opened up conference play last Friday against a strong University of San Francisco squad and managed a 3-2 win, after freshman Eddie Sanchez buried his second goal of the evening in the 83rd minute. Two days later, the Pilots played the Saint Mary’s Gaels, and found themselves on the wrong end of another 3-2 result in an overtime loss.

After a tough 2012 season, the Pilots began their 2013 conference play coming off a solid start, going 4-2-0 prior to last weekend’s matches.

“Everybody’s floating a little bit on their toes, everybody has

a little confidence,” junior midfielder Derek Boggs said. “Coming into the conference now, we’ve just got to keep that going, just keep getting the ball to the people who have been scoring goals and keep holding down that back line, we’ll be fine.”

The Bay Area provided a stage just big enough for freshman Eddie Sanchez’s conference debut as he notched three goals over two matches, making him the leading scorer in the WCC with seven goals during preconference and conference play.

Despite a loss against the rival Gaels, the Pilots remain hopeful given their resplendent play against a fierce opponent.

“Saint Mary’s, you always know you’re going to get bloody

war,” Boggs said.

The men’s side will continue their conference campaign this Friday and Sunday with matches against San Diego and Loyola Marymount at home. The home stint will give the Pilots an opportunity to solidify their footing in the second week of conference play. LMU arrives at Merlo Field after their 4-0 thumping of Santa Clara last Sunday. Needless to say, the Pilots look forward to returning to their home turf.

“Any game at home, at Merlo.

Every Friday night we can get out there, get the Villa Drum Squad out there,” said Boggs. “You play for those moments.”

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The men’s soccer team celebrates a goal against state rival Oregon State. The Pilots play at home Friday.

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This week in sports Women’s Soccer The Pilots took the first game of conference play this past weekend against Pacific in a 1-0 victory. This puts them in first place in the WCC and they are now ranked No. 7 nationally. The next WCC opponent is Loyola Marymount Friday at 7 p.m. and Pepperdine Sunday at 1 p.m. Both games are away.

Men’s Soccer The start of conference play was a split series for the Pilots.

They beat San Francisco 3-2 and lost to St. Mary’s in overtime 2-3. The team is fourth in the WCC. They take on San Diego Friday on Merlo Field at 7 p.m. and Loyola Marymount Sunday at 1 p.m.

Cross Country The men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the Dellinger Invitational this past weekend. The men took third and women took fourth. The Pilots had five runners in the top 31 spots, the highest being 12th place from redshirt junior Chris Borg.

Volleyball The Pilots fell to Santa Clara 1-3 and San Francisco 0-3 on their latest road trip. They battle Gonzaga Saturday in the Chiles Center at 1 p.m. (courtesy portlandpilots.com, WCCsports.com)

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Redshirt freshman Jordan Baeza jumps up to battle for the ball.

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Peter Gallagher Staff Writer gallaghp16@up.edu The opening weekend of WCC soccer provided a dramatic and contentious preview of the play the Pilots will encounter as they began the most important six-week stretch of their season last weekend with away matches in the Bay Area.

The WCC is a notoriously open field in which bitter rivalries develop over the course of a season as teams pursue the single qualifying spot for the NCAA tournament atop the conference standings.

Women’s soccer

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(Top) The women’s team celebrates after a goal during one of their 10 wins they have so far this season. (Above) Freshman midfielder Ellie Boon goes to strike the ball in a game vs. Nevada.

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The women’s team began their campaign against University of the Pacific, a new addition to the WCC located in

Stockton, Calif. last Saturday at Knoles Field.

“This is (Pacific’s) first year in our conference, so we’ve never played them, don’t really know much about them,” said junior defender Lorielle McCluskie. “It’s exciting to play a team we don’t really know a lot about.”

The Pilots had no trouble conquering the unknown as senior Micaela Capelle, WCC Player of the Month for September, notched her seventh goal in the past five matches and the Pilots downed the Pacific Tigers in a 1-0 victory.

“I guess awards are nice,” Capelle said of her WCC Player See SOCCER, page 15

Cross country teams drive each other to greatness Mitchell Gilbert Staff Writer gilbert16@up.edu

ma. “We are all friends with one another and as a result we hold each other accountable.”

At many schools around the country, cross country is a sport focused primarily around the performance of individuals rather than the team.

However for both the men’s and women’s teams at UP, a strong community atmosphere and hard work ethic across the board are their greatest strengths.

With a men’s team that is ranked first in the WCC and seventh in the nation, and a women’s team that is hoping to make a run into the national spotlight, UP’s cross country program is looking to take steps toward earning more recognition in the national spotlight.

Over the past few years they have begun to improve drastically, both as a team and as individuals.

“It feels as though our team is really a tight-knit group,” said Ryan Poland, a transfer student from the University of Oklaho-

“It is so much easier for us to do well when we can rely on our teammates. I know that if they are giving their best effort I need to give my best effort as well.”

Marit Tegelaar redshirt senior

While both teams have a strong community, competition within the team is an important aspect of the team’s improvement as a unit. Each of the runners competes constantly for the top seven or nine spots on the teams’ roster. If they can earn their spot, they receive a spot in the coming race. By focusing on improving the team as a whole, UP’s teams avoid a potentially hostile situation.

On both teams runners said they understand that they may need to sacrifice their position on varsity in order to benefit the team as a whole. This year’s top runners, Woody Kincaid and Scott Fauble for the men’s team and Laura Hottentrot and Gina Paletta on the women’s, have worked hard to earn their spots as the teams’ elite runners.

Poland experienced this competition firsthand. Having redshirted as a freshman at the University of Oklahoma, Poland has seen what it is like to run at a different, and much larger, school.

“At University of Portland the races are not focused primarily upon individual success,” Poland said. “Here we focus on the team bringing out the best in the individual, not the individual bringing out the best in the team.”

This idea is also prevalent with the UP women’s cross country team.

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Redshirt freshman Alex Dillard, who finished 19th, and teammate freshman Timo Goehler, who finished 31st, pass an opponent from one of nine other schools running in the Dellinger Invitational.