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FEB 14, 2018
VOLUME 53, EDITION 7E
EUGENE, OREGON
BLM display / pages 2 Anti-abortion forum / page 3 Titans bury competition / page 4
Nat Geo pro gives photo tips
photos by DIana Baker / art director
National Geographic photographer and editor Krista Rossow discusses shooting at the “blue hour” during a presentation in Building 18 on Feb. 9. Rossow, a Lane County native who gets up early and goes to bed late, highlighted the irregular hours she keeps to maximize opportunities for photographs.
Through connections Rossow made with National Geographic photographers in Santa Fe, she got hired as a photo editor at National Geographic Traveler in 2006. P .W. Braunberger As an editor at Traveler, Rossow had to narrow the Reporter 10,000 photos submitted for each assignment down to 12. She learned how professionals worked. Her other Organizers scrambled to duties included searching through stock photos for bring more chairs as attendees images which taught her “how to approach a place filled Studio A in Building 18 in a new way because I’ve seen what’s been done a for a presentation by National million times before.” Geographic photographer and Rossow also shot photos for Traveler, working editor Krista Rossow, Feb. 9. up from small assignments to feature stories on “I was super excited to see a photographer from New Orleans and San Francisco. She left the photo National Geographic was editor job after seven years coming to campus,” said Krystal to do freelance assignments, Grube, an environmental studies covering South Africa, New “Make yourself projects, major. Grube got off work so she Zealand and Japan. She now put work on a blog, could hear Rossow speak and also leads trips for National start showing that you join the line of students getting Geographic Expeditions and can do it, and, as much photo critiques afterward. is editing her second book for as you can, get real-life Rossow, a Harrisburg, National Geographic. experience from working Oregon native, studied Spanish Rossow’s recommendations: with professionals.” and Fine Arts at the University Build connections with people of Oregon where photography before photographing them. -Krista Rossow, National became a main focus. Take classic photos of a place Geographic photographer, editor “Krista was an exceptional but also find something differand educator student of photography who ent. Set up at a location with an demonstrated her skill in comiconic background to wait for position and color and also took the action of a parade, march risks with her work,” said LCC instructor Camilla or race to arrive. Problem-solve to get good imagery Dussigner, who taught Rossow at the U of O. when weather is bad or destinations unreachable. Rossow also spent a year at the Santa Fe Above all, she recommends that professionals do Photographic Workshops. Rossow called SFW her the work they want to be hired for. version of graduate school. There, she experimented “Make yourself projects,” she said. “Put work on a with different types of photography. “I found myself blog. Start showing that you can do it, and, as much most drawn to the National Geographic style, the as you can, get real-life experience from working documentary and photojournalism,” she said. with professionals.”
Photographer Krista Rossow shares her adventures with LCC
From right, Krista Rossow gives a critique to Lane student Krystal Grube after her presentation on Feb. 9. Grube was moved by Rossow’s suggestion about waiting for the right moment to capture photos.
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Ryan Miller discuss the 80 Black Lives Matter posters hanging in Building 10. The posters were originally to be displayed at Churchill High School but were rejected by faculty for their sensitive content.
Rejected posters find home at Lane Exhibit mourning lives lost in police action put on display Fiona Corrigan Reporter The walls of LCC’s Building 10 are lined with eighty faces and stories of African-Americans killed by the police over the last 20 years. The posters are being displayed at Lane after being rejected by Churchill High School. Each poster has a portrait of a victim and a description of the interaction they had with the police. The interactions include police reacting to small accounts of theft, attempting drug-busts and even responding to an accidentally triggered life-aid necklace. Each story is unique, but they all conclude with the death of the victim as a result of the police’s actions. Underneath each interaction is a description of the repercussions the police faced
after the death, with 29 of them reading “no indictment.” The bottom of each poster states that the victim’s life matters. The reactions to the posters varied. “I wasn’t expecting to see them,” second-year student Nickolas Ketchum said. “I don’t think it will matter much at Lane. Most of us are left-leaning.” Another second-year student, Cedar Rogers, agreed. “As a general consensus, everyone at Lane thinks racism is bad.” Building 10 is the location of Early College & Career Opportunities, an alternative high school that offers a diploma through credit recovery opportunities. Jared Morton is a fifth-year senior at ECCO. “I think of Black Lives Matter as a hate group, in a way,” Morton said. “They are saying you should kill white cops. I think that, of course, all lives matter, but we kind of just glorify that black lives matter.” The posters have both male and female victims of various ages. One of the many stories is about 12-year-old DeAuntra Terrel Farrow. The poster describes how Farrow was walking down a street with his 14-year-old cousin, holding a toy gun, when he was shot and killed by a police
officer. The officer claimed to realize that the “gun Farrow was holding was a toy” only after he had shot him. The officer, like many, was not indicted. Another story describes how 68-yearold Kenneth Chamberlan accidentally called the police with his life-aid necklace in 2011. When they responded he refused to let them in, insisting that he did not need help. An officer called Chamberlan a “nigger,” and then they broke down his door. Chamberlan attempted to charge at them with a butcher knife and was tasered and shot. The officer responsible for Chamberlan’s death was not indicted. At Churchill High School, it was the faculty, not the students, who rejected the posters. “Churchill is the most diverse school in 4J, but the administration are white, and many of them are really conservative,” Jesse Kidd, a junior at Churchill, explained. “Black Lives Matter is an amazing organization. It does a lot to combat police brutality. White people are too scared, they need to get an education.” The posters are displayed to the public on the first and second story of Building 10 at Lane Community College.
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FEATURES Forum seeks input on graphic campus displays Council hears concerns about traveling anti-abortion installation Marek Belka and Sterling Gonzalez Reporter / Photojournalist The Lane Community College Council’s Bristow Square Task Force hosted an open forum on Feb. 7 to receive student and faculty input about the college’s handling of last fall’s anti-abortion display. Over two dozen students and faculty packed into a meeting room in the Center for Meeting and Learning to voice concerns about the college’s handling of the display. While many attendees at the forum sought to restrict when and where controversial content could be displayed on campus, several students and faculty held reservations about violating First Amendment speech protections. A unifying concern among the student and faculty voices at the Feb. 7 forum was the lack of warning from the college about the display. Many students had no advance warning, save for an orange sign that read “Caution: Genocide Photos Ahead” on the main approaches to Bristow Square. College administrators made a post on the MyLane website about the event, but most students did not receive any notice. Among those voices was LCC President Margaret Hamilton, who expressed dismay over the college’s poor communication. “I was appalled. I had never seen anything like that before,” Hamilton said in her opening remarks. “I didn’t even know about it! No one had communicated with me.” On the mornings of Oct. 9 and 10, 2017, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, an anti-abortion group notorious for their graphic displays on college campuses nationwide, set up their Genocide Awareness Project display in Bristow Square. The display likened the practice of abortion to genocide, depicting photos of aborted fetuses alongside photos of Holocaust victims and lynchings. Within hours, the display was the talk of the campus. On Oct. 10, students organized a protest in response to the display, surrounding the 8-foot-tall banners with posters and bedsheets to cover up the graphic images. The following days saw dozens of students bringing feelings of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder to counselors on campus. One of those students, Trisha King, shared her own experience during the forum. “For someone with PTSD, it was a hard thing to just ignore,” King said, to nods and murmurs of agreement. Brett Rowlett, the director of Public Affairs at the college, explained that a last-minute date change was largely to blame for the lack of advance notice. “Originally, they were supposed to arrive on Wednesday or Thursday of that week,” Rowlett said during the forum. “We didn’t know until the last minute that they had changed to Monday and Tuesday.” Though almost everyone at the forum agreed that the display was graphic and unsettling, several students and faculty defended the right to freedom of expression in public spaces. Judah Aptecker, a Lane student and member of the Oregon Student Association, noted that controversial displays can have some merit. “People have conflicting views, and some people don’t like seeing conflicting views, especially on a very liberal campus,” Aptecker said. “I think bringing in other views, even if they bring up emotions in the students at first, the overall value is very good.” Chris Rehn, who works in campus administration, noted the group’s constitutional right to demonstrate in public spaces. “You cannot restrict content,” Rehn said. “Hate speech is protected speech under the
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Mark Harris, a counselor and instructor at Lane Community College, discusses the impact of last October’s anti-abortion display on students and staff. Harris is a member of the Bristow Square Task Force that is seeking input on policy and procedural changes for future controversial demonstrations.
First Amendment … you’re going to run into real problems if you try to put [in] any kind of content restrictions.” Others cited the student demonstrations on Oct. 10 as a great example of community organizing. “I thought, personally, what happened on day two of the exhibit being on campus is what a college is all about,” Rowlett said. “Students came and let their side, their voices, their ideas be heard.” Students and faculty suggested many fixes to the college’s policies regarding outside groups demonstrating on campus, including specific free speech locations away from the center of campus, an improved notification system for potentially graphic exhibits, limitations on the size and scope of graphic exhibits and using controversial displays as educational materials in classrooms. The Bristow Square Task Force continues to seek suggestions from students and faculty as they compile a list of recommended policy and procedure changes. There is no set date for the release of the recommendations.
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SPORTS
Titans drown Lakers Bench lifts Lane past SWOCC Noah Noteboom Reporter The Lane women welcomed the Southwestern Oregon Lakers to Eugene for a double-header with the men’s team following them. The Titans beat the Lakers by 24 last time these two teams played. A 3-pointer for SWOCC after the opening tip got the scoring started Wednesday night. Sophomore Rachel Fielder evened the score when she drained her first 3-pointer. It was the Lane full-court pressure causing problems for Southwestern Oregon. Halfway through the first quarter, the Titans led 16-8. A pick-and-roll play between Khadija Smith and Sierra Carrier ended in an open layup for Carrier to extend the Titan lead to double digits. A Laker zone defense was no match for the Titans’ ball movement as Lane took a 28-12 first quarter lead. Asha Tullock seemed to still have the hot hand from Saturday’s win against Clark as she made three of her four attempts from behind the arc in the first half. The Lakers briefly found their momentum and cut the deficit to just eight on a corner 3-pointer. But Lane continued to full-court press and find gaps in the Laker defense holding a halftime lead of 45-32. Tullock led the halftime scoring with all of her nine points coming off 3-pointers. Unfortunately, Tullock
went down after an apparent knee injury and did not return for the rest of the game. As the third quarter got underway, Megan Still opened the second half, scoring with her second 3-pointer of the night. Still made another 3-pointer to give the Titans their biggest lead of the night, leading 57-40. The Titans continued to outplay the Lakers and extended their lead to 66-47 heading into the final quarter of play. Amber Lease dove on the floor for a loose ball and managed to get it to a teammate who found Still in the corner for her third 3-pointer of the evening. That bucket put Lane ahead by 25 with eight minutes remaining in regulation. In the end, the Titans took home the victory winning handily 87-58. Hall and Still led the Titans with 17 and 16 points, respectively. Hall added 10 rebounds and two blocks while Still recorded five rebounds and two assists. Lease only had five points but dished out a seasonhigh 11 assists and seven steals. “The past few weeks, we’ve been taking steps forward and were just hoping to continue doing that,” Lease said after her team swept the season series with SWOCC, winning both games by an average of 27 points. After Wednesday night’s victory, Lane moved to 17 wins and 6 losses overall, with a 9-2 conference record. Over the weekend, the Titans traveled to Chemeketa and defeated them by a score of 98-70. Lane plays second-place Clackamas to try and snag the second place position in the Southern Region on Saturday.
Sophomore point guard Amber Lease drives to the bucket for an easy score. While only finishing with five points, Lease racked up 11 assists and seven steals, helping the Titans to a 87-58 victory over SWOCC photos by Sterling S. Gonzalez / photojournalist
Lane takes down Southwestern Oregon Titans now only 2 games out of fourth place in the Southern Region Noah Noteboom Reporter The Titans had a showdown with Southwestern Oregon Lakers Wednesday evening in front of a raucous crowd. The Titans were looking to get revenge after their two-point overtime loss on Jan. 10 in Coos Bay. The Titans won the tip and managed to get the first points on the scoreboard. In fact, the Titans scored the first nine points, opening the game on a 12-4 run, during which Kylor Kelley scored five points. The Lakers held the Titans scoreless for over five minutes in the first half, but the Lane defense stood strong. With five minutes remaining, Tayler Marteliz pulled up from deep and sunk his first 3-pointer of the evening. On the next possession, Keaton McKay followed suit and converted a floater from just outside the key. After a basket from Keiron Goodwin, the Titans led by eight with momentum building. A few possessions later, coming out of a timeout, Goodwin made his first 3-point attempt and kept the Titans ahead by eight. Two free throws by Lane point guard Tre’Var Holland gave the Titans a 10-point halftime lead, but it was Goodwin who led the scoring at halftime with 13. Kelley opened the second half scoring with a lefty hook shot over his defender for
Titans power forward, Kylor Kelley, makes a two-point shot against the Southwestern Oregon Lakers, on Wednesday, Feb. 7. Kelley ended up scoring 19 points, 11 rebounds with two blocks throughout the game. The Titans won the game 83-76. photos by Nathan Calkins / photojournalist
his 12th and 13th points of the night. On the next trip down the court, McKay made a quick hesitation move to free up some space for a step-back jump shot. Another Titan fast-break score gave the Titans a 17-point lead just three minutes into the second half, their biggest of the game. Within a three-minute span, the Lakers cut the lead to just nine on an open corner 3-pointer, forcing Lane head coach Bruce Chavka to call a timeout and regroup his players. Gabe Sorber grabbed an offensive rebound and made an up-and-under move
to evade the Southwestern defense. Coming off the bench, Sorber provided some muchneeded energy for the Titans. “My job is to bring energy whether it’s in practice or coming off the bench,” Sorber said on his contribution to the team. With just under eight minutes left in regulation, the Titans held a 12-point lead after an elbow jumper from Holland. Another smooth spin move in the paint for two from Goodwin put the Titans up seven with just over one minute left in regulation. The Titans finished strong and won 83-76, behind 25 points from Goodwin and 19 from Kelley.
Holland contributed 14 points, nine assists and five rebounds in the Titans’ second straight win. Marteliz finished with eight points, eight rebounds, three assists and one blocked shot. McKay scored nine points and added one steal. The Titans couldn’t continue their winning streak after they lost to Chemeketa 79-95 on Feb. 10. The Titans record fell to 12 wins and 11 losses, with a 4-7 conference record. As the playoff push begins for the Titans, they will look to close the gap in the standings when they travel to Clackamas on Sat. Feb. 17.