linfield review issue #12 april 25

April 25, 2016 • Linfield College • McMinnville, Ore. • 121st Year • Issue No. 12

Editorial .......... 2 News ............... 4Features............ 7Arts................... 8Sports................ 10

INSIDE ArtsLinfield’s Culture Show displays a wide range of traditions from countries across the globe.

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Linfield board of trustees member and wine maker Ronni LaCroute makes time to support the arts at Linfield.

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The Linfield Review

FeaturesThe Pi Kappa Alpha fra-ternity will be holding its annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event on April 30.

Students gather for annual burn

New loan scam targets college students

Graduation speaker announced

Griffin Yerian/Staff photographer

By Elizabeth StoegerStaff Writer

Michael Lindblad, Oregon Teacher of the Year and 1994 Linfield graduate, will be the com-mencement speaker at this year’s graduation ceremony.

Lindblad has been a high school bilingual teacher and coach for 20 years.

He developed Gresham High’s International Baccalaureate (IB) program in history and stressed outreach efforts aimed at minority students.

Lindblad also engineered a spe-cial IB history class for those learn-ing English as a second language that coupled the rigorous high standards of the IB program with an admiration and respect for the student’s own language and cul-ture.

Oregon State Teacher of the Year in 2015 and the 2013 Oregon Social Studies Teacher of the Year rank among his many accolades.

Lindblad graduated from Linfield with majors in history and mass communication. He was on the baseball team and found the time to study abroad in Notting-ham, England.

Studying abroad exposed Lind-blad to diverse cultures, “I learned more than I ever imagined and I realized I wanted to work with Latino students, increase aware-ness of different cultures and use my Spanish to create more equity in the schools,” he said in an inter-view with the Linfield Magazine in 2015.

Wanting his students to have a more engaging history course than he had as a high school student, Lindblad fashioned games like his-tory Jeopardy, had students sing songs, and create collages.

He said, “I swore that if I ever taught, I would make it fun through projects, debates, and discussions.”

His teaching philosophy centers on allowing students to form and voice their own opinions without much interference.

Commencement will be Sunday, May 29, at the 10 a.m. in the Oak Grove.

Elizabeth Stoeger can be reached at [email protected]

Kyle Huizinga/Photo editor

Students juggle fire sticks during the annual built to burn event. This year’s sculpture “Roots” was burned under a full moon on April 22.


Students in Corvallis, Eugene, and Salem have received calls from a fake number purporting to be from the State Treasury asking for loan payments.

Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler issued a statement warn-ing students of this new scam on Thursday.

Oregonians have reported receiving calls from a “threatening impersonator” who claims to be from the Oregon 529 Network at the State Treasury, according to the press release.

At least one person has report-edly pain $1,000 in nearly untrace-able gift cards.

The Oregon 529 Network is an office that assists people in creating

savings accounts devoted to educa-tional expenses. The scammers use technology to hide behind this false number and lure people into think-ing State loan collectors are seeking money.

The Treasury does not collect nor seek student loan payments.

The Linfield financial aid office has been notified of this most recent scam.

Keri Burke, Director of Financial Aid, said, “I would encourage any-one who receives a phone call of this nature to not provide any infor-mation, hang up and call the local police.”

No students affiliated with Linfield have been contacted so far, according to Burke.

Scams aimed at college students are nothing new. This is the third loan scam directed at students since

January. Two debt relief companies were

sent cease and desist orders for mis-representing their affiliation with the Department of Education (ED), implying the ED was associated to their programs.

The Consumer Financial Pro-tection Bureau (CFPB) took action against Student Aid Institute, Inc. in March for “illegally marketing debt relief to student loan borrow-ers struggling with their debt and misrepresenting that fees were required to participate in federal student loan programs that are, in fact, free,” according to the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) press release.

This came 15 days after another CFPB request to close Student Loan Processing.US for illegal practices,

which included charging its cus-tomers millions of dollars in fees for federal student loan services.

Wheeler said, “Students and recent graduates are just starting out and the last thing they need is to fall prey to a cynical scam . . . Pro-tect yourself and your finances and hang up.”

The Treasury Department rec-ommends hanging up immediately and contacting local police or the state Department of Justice if called by this scammer.

College students and recent graduates should stay vigilant, be aware that a plethora of schemes like this one exist, and notify the proper authorities if they are con-tacted.



North Carolina’s “bath-room bill” is not only an inexcusable act of discrimi-nation against the whole LGBTQ community but also yet another cruel, unwar-ranted action against the unoffending transgender population.

North Carolina pro-voked the ire of many, and the support of some, by passing a bill on March 23 which requires that people use the restroom and locker room that corresponds to the biological sex listed on their birth certificates, not based on gender identity.

The bill had unanimous Republication support in the Senate and Democrats protested by walking out.

When the passing of the

bill was announced, many public figures and corpora-tions condemned the new law.

Bruce Springsteen was one of the first to cancel a concert in the state.

Springsteen said in a statement, “Some things are more important than a rock show, and this fight against prejudice and big-otry, which is happening as I write, is one of them. It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in op-position to those who con-tinue to push us backwards instead of forwards.”

Musicians like Ringo Starr, Jimmy Buffett, Cyn-di Lauper, and the bands Mumford and Sons, Pearl Jam, and Duran Duran joined Springsteen in taking a stand against the discrimi-natory bathroom bill.

NBA commissioner

Adam Silver suggested that the All-Star Game could be relocated if the law contin-ued to limit protection for the LGBTQ community.

In perhaps the most sur-prising turn of events, pres-idential candidate Donald Trump split with the ma-jority of Republicans and came out against the bill while fellow nominee Ted Cruz harshly criticized him for doing so and supported North Carolina.

Almost a month after the bill was passed, President Obama said the laws in North Carolina and Missis-sippi that target the LGBTQ community are “wrong and should be overturned,” in a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Da-vid Cameron on a recent trip to London.

Those who support the bill cite the protection of

women and children as the primary factor motivating the bill.

“In the first two months of 2015, at least seven trans-gender women of color — al-most one a week — were murdered in the United States, from Miami to Los Angeles,” reported the Southern Poverty Law Cen-ter.

The transgender com-munity continues to be the target of horrific hate crimes and the suggestion that they would prey on women and children in bathrooms or locker rooms is a hideous insinuation and simply un-true.

“I don’t look at the per-son whose locker is directly below mine. I’m not in there to spy on your kids. I’m not in there for any other reason but to change in a place that is not completely separate

from everybody else,” said Elliot Yoder, a 14-year-old transgender boy who cre-ated an uproar at a Dallas, Oregon School Board meet-ing because he wanted to use the men’s locker room.

However, the fact that there is even a controversy like this in the 21st centu-ry is indicative of a larger problem of acceptance and ignorance.

The saying ‘separate but equal is still not equal’ can be applied directly to this situation where transgen-der people do not want to use separate facilities and be thrown into the ‘other category even further. They simply want to be included and accepted for who they feel they are on the inside.


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2 • www.thelinfieldreview.com April 25, 2016 Opinions

Editor-in-chief Jonathan Williams

Assistant EditorRoss Passeck

Copy editorSara Levering

News editorElizabeth Stoeger

Sports editorKaelia Neal

Arts & Entertainment

editorKellie Bowen

Features editorJenny Horniman

Opinion editorSamantha West

Photo editorMichaela Fujita

CartoonistHeidie Ambrose

Staff WritersEmma Bloomfield

Megan DitoreJoe Stuart

Cassandra Martinez

Staff PhotographersGriffin YerianMalia Riggs

John Christensen

AdviserBrad Thompson

Associate Professor of Mass

Communication

TheLINFIELDREVIEW

EDITORIAL

North Carolina transgender bill is inexcusable

Review stands committed to educating community

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The Review’s cover-age of the recent menin-gitis health scare caused a significant amount of confusion about what the role of student jour-nalism is on a college campus.

The Review chose to release the name of the student who was believed to have con-tracted an unconfirmed but symptom matching case of meningitis.

Cody Oden, ’17, is an education and econom-ics double major. He is also a part of Linfield’s football team.

The Review never intended to cause any harm to Oden. The intention of the article was to help educate the community of who was ill as well as to alert his friends and the Linfield

community as a whole so they could support him by knowing who it was that had gotten sick.

Linfield administra-tion is held to different standards in regards to student privacy than journalistic entities are.

While the college is not able to release Oden’s name to the Lin-field community, the Review had an obliga-tion to inform its audi-ence of who was ill, since some people were already aware of who was ill due to posts on Facebook and Twitter.

The Review did not break any laws or jour-nalistic codes by pub-lishing Oden’s name. Publishing his name was an ethical and moral question rather than a legal one.

Members of the Review’s staff agreed that if the first time the Review published Oden’s name was if he died from his battle with his sickness that it would have been a tragedy to the community.

The Linfield commu-nity deserves and should know when a fellow stu-dent and friend is fight-ing for his life against an illness that can cause death.

Students and facul-ty expressed anxieties about the lack of infor-mation provided in the initial emails sent from the administration about the ill student and the planned antibiotic clinic.

By naming who the ill student was, the Review helped inform people if they needed to go to the

antibiotic clinic. The Review also pub-

lished additional follow up stories and ways to fight and prevent one’s self from contracting meningitis and other ill-nesses.

While some students argued that the Review should not have pub-lished Oden’s name, it remains clear that the article, and subsequent articles after it, helped educate the community on the situation as it developed.

The Review remains committed to informing the Linfield community of all news pertinent to each person’s daily life and their interactions with others.

- The Review Editorial Board

Sustainability

The recent meningi-tis conflict at Linfield highlights several short-comings of the Lin-field Administration’s approach toward ensur-ing the public health of both the faculty and the student body.

The Linfield Review was ultimately the one to release the name of the infected student, and only after a series of vague emails from the administration that resulted in over 400 stu-dents rushing to the Stu-dent Health center out of fear for the unknown chance of infection.

At a small residential campus like Linfield, the threat of infectious dis-ease is high. When that threat is coupled with the severity of meningi-tis, fear escalates.

It is not only the administration’s job to quell the public health threat, which by all stan-dards was appropriate, but it is also the job of the administration to adequately inform the students and faculty of the risk on campus.

Although bound by law, by not releasing the name of the student the administration indirect-

ly propelled the mys-tery of the conflict.

This mystery must be met with information pertaining to the risk involved. It was not.

An accusation of Lin-field’s lack of concern for the student body would be unfounded, however.

The point at issue here is not one of a degree of concern, but rather a failure to inform the population of the threat involved.

The fulcrum to the administrations folly, while perhaps uninten-tional, hinged on the

“informative” emails sent out, which con-sisted of a list of symp-toms such as “nau-sea,” “headache,” and “fever,” each of which is quite common and sub-ject to consideration.

What was not initially included was a descrip-tion of the way menin-gitis is transmitted, the likelihood of contrac-tion, or a timetable of the disease.

While releasing the name of the student may have helped some dismiss the the possibil-ity of infection, it was not ultimately necessary

to fulfill the informative role of the administra-tion.

By being both unin-formative and vague, the emails ran contrary to this end, and served to increase fear instead.

The severity of the disease may not be understood by many, but it was understood by the administration.

They went to great lengths to contact the appropriate agencies in response to the infec-tion, but they did not present that effort to the student body.

At the health screen-

ing the two questions students were immedi-ately asked were if you were on the football team and if you went to a party at some address.

If only the adminis-tration included more information in the emails, less students would have felt the need to go to the screening.

Hopefully this serves as a learning experience for the administration.

-Rachael Gernhardt, ‘16

Opinions

Earth week shows campus commitment for sustainability

Health scare reveals administrative shortcomings

Heidie Ambrose/Cartoonist

April 25, 2016 www.thelinfieldreview.com • 3

‘Ghost in the Shell’ casting ignites ethnic tensions

Letter to the Editor

By Duncan Reid Office of

Sustainability

This year Linfield cele-brated Earth Week through many diverse and dynamic events and workshops.

Linfield hosted bike rides, movie screenings, hands on DIY workshops where students made their own all-purpose cleaner, deodorant and toothpaste, lectures and presentations about climate change, fracking and sustainable agriculture, trivia night in Dillin Hall, discussions on sustainability, lunch with sustainability focused alumni, built a greenhouse in the garden and celebrat-ed it all with the Earth Day festival where we enjoyed music, food and activities with different clubs and organizations across cam-pus.

Thank you for those of you who participated in the events and helped sup-port the cause, even if you just stopped by the table to win a pen, pencil, bag or bottle.

We hope that you were able to participate in the Earth Week events this year and that you learned from them and enjoyed them.

We strive to support students in learning about their connections with their ecological and social com-munities and what they can do to fundamentally shift their relationships towards more sustainable

and regenerative relation-ships.

If you participated in events, we would love to hear what your thoughts were about them. If you did not, we would also like to hear from you about why you did not participate and what you would like to see in the future.

With the end of April approaching, finals week is all too close and our semes-ter is quickly drawing to a close.

With Earth Week behind us, we are looking forward to a few key events and programs that we would love your help with.

The first is the Give N Go program. We will be placing blue bins out in the residence halls and near campus apartments to col-lect donations of reusable items that you no longer need.

These will be going to local charities, so please make sure they are useable and clean items.

Secondly, we will once again feature reuseable “preserve ware” at Wild Stock this year.

Please remember to return the dishes to the dish station as we would like to continue using them.

And last but not least, there is always time to get involved with the garden during Saturday work par-ties from 9-noon. The Office of Sustainability can be reached at [email protected]

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By Cassandra Martinez

Staff Writer

Hollywood tends to cast actors of the wrong ethnic-ity when making films with a person-of-color lead.

Specifically, they cast white actors.

In the case of ‘Ghost in the Shell’, Hollywood has gone so far as to use CGI to make the lead actress, Scar-lett Johansson, appear more Asian.

Johansson may fit the archetype when it comes to tough and bionic women, such as Lucy from Lucy and Black Widow from Marvel. But Kusanagi from ‘Ghost in the Shell’ is Japanese.

‘Ghost in the Shell’ was originally published as a seinen-genre manga before it became a big hit in Japan.

This manga is important to Japan’s heritage, as it is fictionally representative of their industrialization after the war. It is Japan’s own style of comics, telling Japan’s own story.

White-washing is a cul-tural phenomenon in which roles that could easily be given to a person of color are given to a white one, or in its extreme, when roles that are written for some-one not-white are given to white actors.

The announcement of Johansson as the lead for this upcoming 2017 live-action adaptation sparked a lot of negativity on social media websites.

On Esquire Magazine’s website, staff writer Eve-lyn Wang stated that the studio allegedly ran CGI tests to make Johansson

more Asian, although they scrapped the idea soon after.

Apparently, Johansson didn’t know why tests were being done.

Has Hollywood not learned its lesson in white-washing films?

After failures such as ‘Pan and Aloha’ one would think they would see the trend. Many wonder if this controversy could have been avoided if the movie had changed the characters to make it more Western-ized, but the answer is it wouldn’t make a difference.

‘Ghost in the Shell’ has a huge cult following, and Hollywood probably cast Johansson in an effort to appeal to the masses, and to draw in new viewers.

With her popularity in The Avengers films, there’s

no doubt she was consid-ered a great choice. But in the end, the decision deval-ues the cultural significance of the film.

What is the more impor-tant choice for the indus-try? Obviously, the idea of losing money is worse to them than possibly mak-ing progress by, horror of all horrors, casting an unknown (well, to Ameri-cans, at least) actor.

It’s not wrong to want to share something great from another culture with the world, but changing what makes it inherently theirs is unforgivable, and our gen-eration knows it.

Cassandra Martinez can be reached at [email protected]

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Photo courtesy Saintmotel.com

Members of the band “Saint Motel” gather for a photo. The band will play at Wildstock on Friday, May 13.

By Samantha WestStaff Writer

Wildstock is the biggest celebration of the year, as past years have seen artists like Macklemore, Augustana, and Maddie & Tae take the stage at Linfield.

The American indie rock band Saint Motel will be per-forming at the 2016 Wildstock party.

They were chosen because of their appealing genre and availability. “We wanted a more alternative band,” said Heidi Ambrose, ‘16.

Then the ASLC board started checking tour dates and calling band managers, looking for one that would fit the school’s budget of $50 per Linfield student.

This year, the concert has an underwater theme, inspired by last year’s unin-tentionally country-themed roundup.

“We thought it was a fun way for people to more tangi-bly participate in the event,” said Ambrose. When asked if the event would require swimsuits, Ambrose said that they were an option, but not necessary. “You’re not going to get soaking wet,” she said.

Other attractions include a petting zoo and an inflat-able obstacle course, along with old favorites like face painting. Like last year, stu-dents can expect the same free meal of tacos or hamburgers, brought to Linfield by Pura Vida and Ribslayer.

In previous years, the

event has been open on the IM field. Last year, the event was fenced in. This year will con-tinue that tradition. “This is a student-only event,” Ambrose said, explaining that previ-ous security issues in the past have involved non-Linfield students. However, Ambrose is an advocate for opening the event to the public and charg-ing non-students a fee of $60 in order to be fair with what Linfield students pay.

ASLC estimates about 75 percent of the student body will attend, going off of previ-ous years. The event opens at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 13.

Samantha West can be reached at [email protected]

Wildstock band announced

By Gillian WilsonFor the Review

Students discussed the issue of objectification on the social media app Yik Yak and the pressure on women to be perfect in a forum on sexism and gen-der identity discrimination.The President’s Diversity Advisory Council spon-sored the student led panel on Thursday in Jonasson. “On Yik Yak there have been some really dispar-aging comments towards women,” said Alleta Weiss-Meier, ’18, President of Linfield’s Queer Student Union. Weiss-Meier said the sexist comments on the app are indicative of a big-ger problem. One example was the extremely negative reac-tion some Yik Yak users had in response to “Speak Like A Girl,” a feminist, spo-ken word poetry show at Linfield. Dawn Graff-Haight, Pro-fessor of Health Education at Linfield, added that sex-

ist comments on Yik Yak, as well as sexism itself, can be directed towards males as well as females. Female students also spoke about feeling that they have to try harder in order to be heard or taken seriously by male class-mates. Several female students at the forum said they felt like they had something extra to prove in compari-son to male classmates. Graff-Haight said that almost every female phys-ics major has raised the issue of feeling a “pressure to be extra” as women in the physics department. “In a lot of classrooms, it tends to be more male dom-inated when it comes to dis-cussions,” Diana Vazquez Duque said. Duque pointed out that this is the case even though Linfield’s student population is 60 percent females. Elizabeth Lukas added that it would help if profes-sors stood up for those who got interrupted.The forum also discussed

giving more gender spe-cific preparation for study abroad, as well as how the gender options on the hous-ing form are being updated for next year to be more inclusive. “The problem is that a lot of people don’t think there is a problem,” said Weiss-Meier. The first step to ending sexism is recognizing that it does exist. If members of the Linfield community reflect on unconscious bias-es, it will be a step in the right direction. Graff-Haight said that on Monday there will be a fac-ulty forum to discuss these same issues, facilitated by herself and other faculty members. If you would like to recommend a topic for an upcoming student forum, please send it to the Presi-dent’s Advisory Council ([email protected]).

Gillian Wilson can be reached at [email protected]

Panel highlights gender bias, sexism on campus

Griffin Yerian/staff photographer

Students and professor of health and human performance Dawn Graff-Haight (right) lead a discussion during the sexism panel discussion on Thursday, April 21.

Griffin Yerian/staff photographer

Taylor Brorby speaks to students during his presentation “The Future of Fracking: What your parents don’t want you to know about fracking” on April 21.

Speaker discusses fracking

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April 25, 2016 www.thelinfieldreview.com • 5 News

“I was in the shower and I was concerned that the power was going to go out!”

-Hope Flores-Austin,

Sophomore

“The lightening was far enough away that I got out my umbrella and stood out in the rain and watched.”

-Zoya Miller,

Sophomore

“I went outside in a t-shirt, leggings, and my socks and watched the storm in the pouring rain.”

-Makenna Jansen,

Sophomore

“I ran back to my dorm. . . I don’t like thunder and lightening.”

-Odalys Diaz,

Freshman

What did you do during the thunder and lightening storm?

By Michaela FujitaStaff Writer

Chinese culture was the main focus of the Linfield vis-iting professor’s lecture and attendees were greeted with homemade traditional dishes like, fried rice and a spicy tofu platter. On Wednesday, visiting Professor Lily Lin presented “China: More than Meets the Eye” in Riley 201. Lin began her presenta-tion by breaking any negative

stereotypes that Chinese indi-viduals face. It is commonly thought that Chinese people “all look the same.” However, Lin stated that China possesses over 56 different subcultures, all of which have distinctive facial features and customs. Han Zu is the largest of these groups within China. The rest, including inner Mongolians, Menggu Zu, Bai Zu and Hui Zu, and people of Muslim descent, are consid-ered the minorities in China.

Lin introduced her interna-tional program that allows students to travel abroad and learn the culture of Beijing. These classes are small and interactive with only five stu-dents per class. They are pro-vided with the opportunity to be absorbed in the Chinese culture, learn the language, some kung fu moves and travel to other areas in the country. Lin concluded her presen-tation with the discussion of traditional Chinese cuisine.

China possesses a variety of delicious foods, all flavored with garlic, ginger and green onion. Lin told the group that her favorite dish is whole, steamed fish. This dish is traditionally eaten during the new years spring festi-val, where it is traditionally believed to bring good luck. Students and faculty were able to get a taste of the Chi-nese culture and break any preexisting stereotypes. It became more of an interac-

tive discussion than a formal lecture. “Lin is such a kind person and has done so much for her students in the Chinese lan-guage and culture courses. We are so happy that she was able to share information about her country and culture with the larger Linfield community,” said Michele Tomseth, Assis-tant Director of the Interna-tional Programs Office (IPO). The International Programs Office sponsors these events to broaden the mind of the

Linfield student by introduc-ing new cultures. “IPO puts on two to three similar programs each semes-ter highlighting international students, visiting scholars, faculty, past study abroad participants and others. We are grateful to the individu-als who choose to share their experience with us,” Tomseth said.

Michaela Fujita can be reached at [email protected]

Visiting professor aims to break stereotypes of Chinese culture

Photo courtesy Office of Sustainability


Pi Kappa Alpha Frater-nity’s Delta Rho chapter at Linfield will host their annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event to combat sexual assault and violence against women. Fraternity members will walk a mile in high-heeled shoes “as a way to raise money and increase aware-ness to prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, and gender violence at Linfield, and throughout the world,” according to their Facebook page. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is an international organi-zation that has been work-ing to raise awareness of sexualized violence since 2001. “As a group we want to show our support for the fight against sexual assault. We raised over $5,800 last year for this cause and we are hoping to exceed our goal of $7,500 this year for

the Henderson House,” said Will Samp, ‘17, presi-dent of the Detla Rho chap-ter of Pi Kappa Alpha. Not only Linfield will participate, but cities and colleges around the globe will walk in support of women. From Rutger’s Medical School to John Cabot Uni-versity in Rome, men have traipsed around in high heels as a way “to open communication about sexu-alized violence,” according to the organization’s web-site. This light-hearted walk will be the second for Linfield. Last year, Pi Kap-pa Alpha raised $5,583, which all went to the Hen-derson house, a local shel-ter for victims of domestic violence. The event will be held on April 30 and will begin at 11 a.m. outside Riley Hall.


Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity to host walk against sexual violence

Lab results inconclusive for meningitisBy Jonathan Williams

Staff Writer

According to an email from the Dean of Students, lab results have not identified a bacterial cause for meningitis for Cody Oden, ’17, who was sent to Oregon Health & Sci-ences University last week

after experiencing symptoms related to meningitis.

Tom Eversole, Yamhill County Public health man-ager, told the News Register that the test results “did not allow certainty of diagnosis … (tests) can’t prove or rule out meningitis.”

No new cases have been

reported on campus.The college is still encour-

aging anyone who experi-ences “symptoms of fever, headache, stiff neck, nausea or vomiting” to see a medical provider for assessment.

“When there is potential exposure to meningitis bac-teria, antibiotic treatment

should be started as soon as possible and ideally within 24 hours,” said Tom Eversole, Yamhill County Public health manager.

Oden declined to comment.

Jonathan Williams can be reached at [email protected]

Students partcipate in the garden work party this past weekend put on by Greenfield and the Office of Sustainability. Students bring life to Linfield garden

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Photo by Malia Riggs/staff photographer

Teju Cole, a writer, critic and art historian stayed at Linfield for two days to discuss diversity with students and faculty.

Linfield student still missing

Writer, critic discusses American diversity struggle

By Emma BloomfieldStaff Writer

Almostalltheseatswerefilled as the speaker startedhisdiscussiononthemiracleofsharedspace.

Teju Cole is a writer, arthistorian,andphotographer.Cole is the author of twobooks:anovella,‘EveryDayis for the Thief’, and ‘OpenCity’, a novel that also fea-tured onnumerous book oftheyearlists.

Cole spoke on MondaynightinIceAuditorium.

He is a distinguishedwriter and a photographycriticoftheNewYorkTimesMagazine. He was born intheU.S.andraisedinNige-ria.

He made jokes through-out his speech and theaudience was thoroughlyengagedthroughout.

Coledidnot have a bar-rierwhenitcametodiscuss-ing the controversial topicsof white supremacy anddiversity.

“Diversity is not a bur-den,itisanadvantage,”said

Cole.Theproblemintoday’ssociety is that people aretrapped in history, and his-tory is trapped in them, hecontinued.

Hereadexcerptsfromhisbookstowardstheendofthelecture.

JamesBaldwin,acharac-ter in one of Cole’s books,wrote an essay called“Stranger in the Village”. Itrecounts the experience ofbeing black in an all whitevillage and portrays theAmerican racial situation inthe1950s.

To be a stranger is to belookedatbuttobeblackistobe looked at especially andpeopleofcolorwereseenas“livingwonders,”Colesaid.

“And yet I, born in theUnitedStatesandlivinghalfacenturyafterBaldwin,con-tinuetounderstandbecauseI have experienced in myown body the undimmedfury he felt about racism,”said Cole, reading from hisbook.

Hesaiddiversityisaboutthe fundamentals of a per-sonsuchaslove,sorrow,and

grief; the exterior is just alandscape.

This fantasy about thedisposabilityofblack lifehasbeen a constant inAmericanhistoryand thisdisposability

continuestoday.“It takes white people

a while to understand it, ittakes non-black people ofcolorawhiletounderstandit,andeveryoneelseawhile to

understandit,”saidCole.American racism has

many ruling parts and hashadmanycenturiesinwhichto evolve impressive camou-flage.Colesaidtheworstpart

isthatsomepeoplepretendtolooktheotherway.

Emma Bloomfield can be reached at [email protected]

By Jonathan WilliamsStaff Writer

A Linfield junior hasbeen missing since 3 a.m.on April 17 in the DepoeBay area on the Oregoncoast, according to theMcMinnvillePoliceDepart-ment.

Owen Woods, 22, is abrotherintheDeltaPsiDel-tafraternity.Heisoriginal-lyfromTroutdale,Oregon.

Kellie Bowen, ’18, whoisfriendswithWoods,saidthat one ofWoods’ friendswastoldthathiscellphoneand music playing devicewere found on the side oftheroadonhighway101.

Hewas driving a silver1995ToyotaTercelwhenhewent missing. The licenseplate number is XSP426,according to McMinnvillepolice.

His parents are con-

cerned for his well-beingsince he has a history ofdepression.

Anyone who has infor-mation regarding thewhereabouts ofWoods areasked to call CPS at 503-883-7233. People can alsoall the McMinnville Policedepartmentat503-434-6500with any information theyhave. His case number is16-1780.

Jonathan Williams can be reached at [email protected]

Scholar is hopeful for sustainable farmingBy Elizabeth Stoeger

Staff Writer

Tropical forests are beingdestroyed at the rate of oneacrepersecondandbiodiver-sity issimilarlyaffectedwithseven species going extincteveryday.

On the eve of Earth Day,Florence Reed presented herlecture,“MakingaRealDiffer-enceonEarthDayandEveryDay,”inIceAuditorium.

Reed is the 2016 Wood-rowWilsonVisitingFellow,aprogramthatbrings togethernon-academic specialists invarious fields with collegesacrossthenation.

In 1997, Reed foundedSustainable Harvest Interna-tional (SHI), an organizationthat aims to save the forestsand foster biodiversity byteaching farmers in Belize,Honduras, and Panama topractice organic, eco-friendlyfarming rather than slash-and-burnfarming.

Reedsaid,“Whenwetalkabout shifting cultivation,in many cases we’re talking

about slash-and-burn farm-ing.”

Slash-and-burn farmingis amethodwidely used byfarmers and consists of cut-ting down an area of forest,burningit,andusingtheashthat is leftas fertilizer.Whenthatiswashedaway,soisthesoilandthefarmerrepeatsthecycleinanotherareaofforestuntil eventually the soil iscompletely depleted and theforestcanneverberevived.

Inadditiontothedestruc-tive slash-and-burn method,the pesticides and chemicalfertilizers typically used infarming can cause variousforms of cancer in the farm-ers andbirthdefects in theirchildren.

Usingthesechemicalscanalso causedevastationof thetopsoil,deathofthemicroor-ganisms that live in the soil,and reduction in the overallviabilityofthesoil.Thisoftenleads to drought, flooding,and other disasters that fur-ther denigrate the environ-ment.

Despitethis,Reedbelieves

thereisstillhope.“I think that we still can

turn things around and getbacktohavingahealthyplan-etthatwillsupportallofus,”said Reed, “The reason thatI’m optimistic is because ofthe2,500farmerswhoarecur-rently or have been throughSustainable Harvest’s pro-gram.”

SHI teachesorganic farm-ing practices through a five-phaseprogram.

The program begins byhavingfarmersmakerealisticgoalsforthefarm.Nextfarm-erslearnthepracticesthatwilltransformtheirfarmbywork-ingwithafieldtrainer.

Themottooftheprogramisthat“healthysoilsarewhatcreate healthy crops” andenvironmental health “allstartswiththesoil.”

Thethirdphasedealswithwaystoincreasetheeconom-ic income of the farm. Forexample, the herb Culantrocanoftenfetchaconsiderablesum ofmoney eachweek atlocalmarkets.

Thentheyfocusondevel-

oping the entrepreneurialskills of the farmers andencourage them to take partincommunityleadership.

The last phase is gradua-tionfromtheprogram,whichtakes about 5 years to com-plete.

Oneprimeexampleofthepower of SHI to transformboththe localecosystemandthe lives of the farmers theyassististhestoryofEdilbertoMendoza.

Mendoza inherited apiece of farmland he wastold would never yield anycrops.BygraduationfromtheSHIprogram,hehadathriv-ingfarmthatgrewdozensofdifferent crops, was able toimprovehisfamily’sdiet,andmadeenoughmoneytosendhisdaughterstohighschool.

In the 18 years since SHIwas established, they haveplanted3.7milliontreesandsaved about 90,000 acres oftropicalforest.


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Wine maker finds joy in arts, supports Linfield

Photo courtesy Oregon Wine press and Linfield College Archives

Top: Ronni LaCroute stands on the deck of the tasting room at her WillaKenzie Estate winery. Left: LaCroute supports stu-dents at a wine history project presentation at Linfield.

By Jenny HornimanStaff Writer

Though her primary pro-fession is acting as the own-er of WillaKenzie Estate, a winery in Yamhill, Ronni La-Croute has been a passionate and impactful supporter of the arts programs at Linfield for the past several years.

LaCroute’s influence has gone as far as to coin the La-Croute Annual Art Series, a display of various visual arts that connect to social change and address issues such as diversity and multicultural appreciation.

This art series is some-what of an embodiment of LaCroute’s thoughts and feelings toward art. “Art in itself is aesthetically beauti-ful, but art with a real mean-ing attached to it - that’s what touches the heart and engages the mind,” she said.

LaCroute is also a mem-ber of the Linfield Board of Trustees.

She brings an innovative outlook, and encourages all different types and forms of art taught at Linfield.

Despite the fact that she has been involved in over 125 non-profits in the past year, and spends three to four days in Portland per week, it is rare that she ever misses the opportunity to see a performance or art dis-play put on at Linfield.

Her dedication to the school, its programs, and its students is felt both by stu-dents and staff members.

“Ronni has brought so

much to Linfield with her support of theatre, music and art in addition to the wine archives” said Susan Barnes Whyte. “Plus she’s terrifically bright and fun to speak with. She’s such an engaged person in her own life and brings this energy to her work with the Linfield community.”

LaCroute has a color-ful past, from attending a boarding school in Geneva, Switzerland in her youth, to eventually moving to Or-egon to pursue a longtime dream of owning a winery. Between the two has been a whirlwind of homes and passions and occupations.

She attended Cornell University until her junior year of college, at which point she transferred to a university in Paris with an intended double major in International Relations and French. She then attended the University of Michigan for grad school.

Since then, she has taught both French and Spanish at a high academic level in sever-al places, which she admits could be one of the reasons that she enjoys being in-volved at Linfield.

She is very passionate about teaching and misses being involved with stu-dents, and here she can do that while fulfilling her dreams of owning a winery.

“In addition to running WillaKenzie, she plays a huge philanthropic role in the theater and arts com-munity at Linfield and in Portland,” said Linfield ar-

chivist Rachael Woody. “It’s no wonder she was Oregon Wine Press’ person of the year in 2011, which honors people who make significant community contributions.”

Woody also made com-ments about LaCroute’s generous donations of time and energy, apart from just the financial support she provides.

LaCroute says that, “All students should have access to the arts, it is an experience that no one should live with-out.”

Many theatres in Port-land have asked her to get involved with their pro-grams or at least give them her opinions, particularly on social equity projects.

Some of her expertise in the area comes from having attended lots of world class theatre when she was living in Europe with her family.

LaCroute has also been involved in a youth orches-tra in an economically poor area of Portland, and she reports seeing the program “change [the student’s] lives through passion”.

LaCroute has made her-self very well known and respected in several areas of society, her impact has been felt and appreciated by many.

Despite being spread so thin, she still manages to pri-oritize Linfield and shows unwavering support for its programs.

Jenny Horniman can be reached at [email protected]

A student plays the saxophone at the Culture Show on Friday, April 22, in Ice auditorium.

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All photos Griffin Yerian/staff photographerLeft: The “Roots” sculpture burns during the built to burn event. Top right: a student writes a message on the sculpture. Above: Professor of art Totem Shriver talks to stu-dents and community members during the event on Friday, April 22.

John Christensen/Staff Writer

By Kate SeaholmStaff Writter

Guests traveled to eightcountries in one hour anddove right into differentcultures at the CultureShowFriday.

Emcees cracked jokesabout racking up air mile-age points from the longflights we were takingacrosscontinents.

The Culture Show, anannual traditionput onbyASLCandtheInternationalClub, consisted of dances,songs and a fashion showfrom cultures representedatLinfield.

The night began witha Taiko performance thatincluded three pieces oftraditional Japanese drum-ming.

Then,ClémentHossaertandArun Bajracharya per-formed “La Valse à MilleTemps,” an old Frenchsong.

KhaingSandeeLynnhada beautiful performance ofa Burmese dance wearingtraditionalcostume.

The3Wildgirls,consist-ingoftwosaxophonesanda flute, played an instru-mentalJapanesepiece.

Xiaochuan (Amanda)Ma sang an emotionallydeep song about the wantto return home and seelovedonesagain.Shesangthe themesongof theChi-neseanimation,“TheLotusLamp”.

Linfield’s Spanish Clubhadacomedicperformancethatrepresentedmusicanddance from Mexico, theDominican Republic, CubaandSpain.

Sarah-Michael Gaston,president of the LinfieldBlack Student Union, puttogether an informationalvideowithinterviewsfromLinfield students askingwhat black stereotypestheyknow.Italsoincludedconversations with blackstudents about their per-spective on the black com-munity.

In Arun Bajracharya’ssecond performance of thenighthesangapoeticNep-alesesongtitled“PahiloJu-nima”whichmeans“previ-

ouslife/existence.”The newly founded

Waltz Club danced a sixperson Viennese Waltz toStrauss’s“BlueDanube.”

Ending on a high note,Natalie Nguyen, AyaOkawauchi and Anh Vosang and played piano toa Vietnamese song, “TinhVeNoiDau (Where dowego?)”.

After the student per-formanceswerecompleted,theemceesreturnedtonar-rate a fashion showwhichincluded students in tradi-tionalattiresfromdifferentcultures such as Germany,Thailand, China and Bur-ma.

Performers and audi-ence members then pro-ceeded down to JonassonHall for an array of freefoodfromtheculturesrep-resentedintheshow.

Kate Seaholm can be reached at [email protected]

Culture show transports audience across globe

Built to Burn sculpture lights up the night

Entertainment

Malia Riggs/Staff photographer

Anna Vanderschaegen, ‘18, plays at the cello extravaganza concert on April 24.

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Music soars at cello concert

Linfield Oscars shows off student talent Logan Mays, ‘16, sings during the Linfield Oscars event in FML on April 21.

By Michaela Fujita Staff Writer

On Thursday evening, Linfield students crowded into the Fred Meyer Lounge to watch the OSCARS.

The Original Student Created Artwork Reveal-ing Showcase (OSCARS) is where six student groups performed their creative writing pieces, personally written music and choreo-graphed dances.

To the side of the room were a beautiful presentation

of visual arts: pottery, paint-ings and other graphics.

These artists are judged by Professor Anton Belov, ASLC President Alex Ogle and College Activities and Greek Life Program Assistant Sarah Fuller.

Angelina Saplan, ‘16, who was the winner of the Oscars, will get the opportunity to open for the opener band, My Brothers and I, at Wild-stock.

Saplan will also receive a free shirt and get to be first in line for all the activities

and food. Saplan performed two beautifully constructed poems. Her poems portrayed a raw and painful emotion.

Due to the amount of tal-ent this event brought, the judges decided to reward the runner up with the oppor-tunity to perform one song during Wildstock. The band, The Floors, comprised of Luke Carter, Matt Munyon, Luke Gershlinger and Kellie Bowen, was announced the runner up.

Although there were two winners tonight, FML

exploded with unbelievable talent. Ben Bartu, ‘18, enter-tained the audience with his theatrical yet emotionally deep creative writing piec-es. Arun Bajracharya per-formed his own composed instrumental song on his electric guitar. The Wildcat Dance Team comprised of Kate Seaholm, Miranda Gill, Erynn Friend, Hannah Flom, Maddy McCormack, Mary Smalley and Nizhoni Garcia moved the audience both physically and literally. Andy “the Admiral” Nelson hyped

up the crowd with his rap titled “CatDome.” The night closed with the band, Jone-sing for Hope, comprised of Maggie Harlow, Matthew Piikea Kailio, Hope Hudson, Nathan Pellatz, Adrian Clif-ford, Joel Wenrich, Cramer Harlow and Lucas Balala.

“I think the event was a great display of the diversity of talent and cultures here at Linfield,” Hedie Ambrose, ‘16, said.

The event was a great way for all areas of Linfield stu-dent body to come together

and appreciate each other’s talent.

“It was great seeing the Linfield community come out and support their fellow wildcats. Everybody who performed did great tonight. I can’t wait to do more events like this in the future,” said newly elected ASLC Vice President of Programming Cruz Morey, ‘17.

Michaela Fujita can be reached at [email protected]

John Christensen/Staff Photographer John Christensen/Staff Photographer

Oscar winner Angelina Saplan, ‘16, looks at the crowd after reading from her poetry.

By Mickayla-Bay WashingtonStaff Writer

Costa Rica’s leading 20th century poet, Eunice Odio, was introduced to a new gen-eration of listeners.

Keith Ekiss and Sonia Ticas have taken the time and effort to translate a majority of Eunice Odio’s magnificent works.

Unfortunately, Mr. Ekiss could not make it to the poet-ry reading, on Wednesday night, due to sudden illness.

Yet his counterpart Sonia Ticas seamlessly made up for his absence.

The event started off with Ticas explaining who Eunice

Odio was. As well as why Odio’s work had such strong opinions concerning women and politics.

“She wrote in the Demo-cratic Spring,” said Ticas, referring to the period in which dictatorships were con-tinuously being toppled in Central American countries.

This affected Eunice’s work in a positive fashion.

Making her aware of social issues as well as other promi-nent poets of the time.

Ticas selected four pieces to read.

Two of those pieces were short and mainly described observations she made about nature.

Selections from one of

Odio’s most famous collec-tions, “Los Elementos Ter-restres,” were read in the original spanish text then in an English translation.

After the readings con-cluded, Sonia was greeted with applause and questions concerning the other poetic works she plans on translat-ing next.

In all, every student that attended the event was intro-duced to a great poet that contributed to the expansion of her particular genre.

Mickayla-Bay Washington can be reached at [email protected]

Professor’s translation reveals poet’s social issue opinions

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Track makes noise at NWC Champs

Ana Ramirez/For the ReviewAmanda Gibbon/For the Review

Junior Kane Kennedy hands the baton off to sophomore Ryan Orlandini during the 4X100-meter relay. The team, which also consisted of junior Spencer Payne and junior Jake Mihelich tied their career best time of 42.26 seconds to finish

By Ross Passeck Staff Writer

The Linfield Wildcats had many top performanc-es at the Northwest Confer-ence Championships, which was held on April 22 and 23 at Lewis and Clark College.

Both the men and wom-en’s teams finished among the top-three teams over-all. The men had a score of 105.5 points and the women scored 97 points.

Whitworth took the vic-tory on both the men and women’s side.

From the Wildcat men’s team, the upper classmen lead the charge.

Junior Jake Mihelich took first in the 200-meters and 400m dash with a time of 21.50 and 47.88 seconds.

Mihelich anchored the runner-up 4X100m relay and the runner-up 4X400m relay.

The men’s 4X100m relay, which consisted of Kane Kennedy, Ryan Orlandini, Spencer Payne and Mihe-lich, placed second in a time of 42.26.

The men’s 4X400m relay consisted of Steven Hol-land, Manuel Finley, Ken-nedy and Mihelich and also finished second in a time of 3:17.57, which puts the team among the top-10 all time at Linfield.

Other members of the re-lay also contributed to team points by placing in their individual events.

Finley placed second in the 800m with a time of 1:54.34 seconds, and Hol-land placed seventh in the high jump with a clearance of 1.89 meters.

Senior JC Grim placed fifth in the men’s high jump, clearing the bar at 1.94 me-ters. Grim also placed third in the long jump in a dis-tance of 6.82m and fifth in

the triple jump with a mark of 13.18m.

Junior Taylor Vicknair placed seventh in the men’s 110m hurdles in a time of 16.10.

Junior Dallas Fagen placed fourth in the pole vault, clearing the bar at 4.28m, and Junior Hayden Davisson tied for fifth with a height of 4.13m.

In the men’s shot put, sophomore Jeff Lieder threw 14.26m for a fourth place effort. Sophomore Ryne Fuhrmark placed sixth with a mark of 13.67m and junior Scott Ander-son threw 13.07m to finish eighth.

Lieder also placed sev-enth in the men’s discus with a mark of 41.07m.

Senior Morgunn Ewing placed fifth in the men’s jav-elin with a mark of 56.33m. Close behind were team-mates Senior Chris Beres-ford, who placed sixth with

a mark of 55.34m, and Grim who placed seventh, throw-ing 54.28m.

On the women’s side, junior Dallas Edge placed fourth in the women’s 100m in a time of 12.84 and won the women’s 100m hurdles in a time of 14.86.

Freshman Kycie Rich-wine and sophomore Olivia Bannerot placed seventh and eighth in the hurdles. Richwine had a time of 15.74 and Bannerot ran 16.72.

Senior Brenna Gomez snuck some points in for the ’Cats by placing eighth in the women’s 100m in a time of 13.02. Gomez also placed seventh in the wom-en’s 200m in a time of 26.22 and seventh in the women’s long jump in a distance of 5.31m.

Bannerot also placed fourth in the long jump with a mark of 5.46m and third in the javelin with a throw of 41.53m.

Sophomore Kaelia Neal and freshman Courtney Beard represented the dis-tances on the women’s side.

Neal third in the wom-en’s 1500m in a time of 4:44.59 and fifth in the 800m in a time of 2:20.25 while Beard placed sev-enth in both the 5000m and 10000m. Her 5000m time was 18:54.98 and her 10000 time was 39:30.66.

Junior Madison Glad-ding placed sixth in the 400m hurdles in a time of 1:06.63.

Sophomore Patricia Reeves placed fifth in the women’s high jump, clear-ing the bar at 1.56m, and sophomore Kailey Wright placed fifth in the women’s hammer throw with a mark of 43.43m.

Overall, freshmen highly contributed to Linfield’s success, especially on the jumps side.

Freshman Olivia Mc-

Daniel placed sixth in the women’s pole vault in a height of 3.16m, and fresh-man Mehana Sabado-Halp-ern placed second in the women’s triple jump with a mark of 11.20m.

The women’s 4X100m relay consisted of Gladding, Gomez, Jade Everage and Edge. The team finished third in a time of 48.97.

The women’s 4X400m relay consisted of Gladding, Taylor Petersen, Sabado-Halpern and Gomez. The Wildcats placed fourth in a time of 4:05.49.

Based on the outstand-ing performances, several Wildcats now have a shot of making it to the DIII nation-al championships in May.

Ross Passeck can be reached at [email protected]

Ana Ramirez/For the ReviewAna Ramirez/For the Review

Junior Jake Mihelich stands on the podium as the men’s 200m champion at the Northwest Conference Champion-ships. He was also the winner of the men’s 400m dash.

Four Wildcats represented Linfield in the women’s 10,000-meters run at the Northwest Conference Championships. Freshman Courtney Beard placed among the top-eight competitors by placing sev-enth in a time of 39:30.66. Whitworth’s Allison Wood won the race in a time of 37:35.55.

The women’s 4X100-meter relay team, which consisted of (left to right) junior Dallas Edge, senior Brenna Gomez, junior Madison Gladding and sophomore Jade Everage, placed third at the NWC Championships in a time of 48.97 seconds. Willamette won in a time of 48.44.

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Women’s tennis drops matches, eliminated from NWC tournament

Sara LeveringStaff Writer

The Linfield Wildcats entered the tournament as the number three seed for the Northwest Conference Tennis Tournament.

The ’Cats played short-handed and were elimi-nated from the Northwest Conference Women’s Ten-nis Tournament by Whit-man. Whitman notched a 5-0 victory over the ’Cats at the Lewis and Clark Tennis Dome in Portland, Oregon.

“Whitman is a strong team with many respect-able qualities. Our team fought hard and gave it their all, which is all I could ask for as a captain. Although we fell short of making it to the final, we never fell short of playing with heart and grit,” Junior Courtney Mostul said.

The Whitman Mission-aries swept doubles 3-0. They continued to sweep second and fourth singles flights easily to get the vic-tory over Linfield.

Sophomore Ella Riddle who makes up half of the number one doubles team and had consistently held the number one singles po-sition over the entire sea-son was out due to an inju-ry, leaving only six healthy and available players to take on Whitman.

Mostul filled in for Riddle with freshman Elsa Harris in the number one

doubles position. The duo struggled against a tough Whitman number one duo 8-3.

Number two doubles consisting of the power sophomore duo, Marisa Doveri and Basia Kopecka were in reach of taking the match and putting Lin-field on the scoreboard, but it slipped away, losing a tough-fought battle 8-6.

In number three dou-bles, junior Marisa Kume and sophomore Sierra Lemon struggled and were defeated 8-3, which gave Whitman their 3-0 lead to begin singles.

In singles action, only four singles matches began. Two were needed to close out the match for Whit-man, that was done fairly easily. First to go down was Doveri 6-1, 6-2. The match that ultimately gave Whit-man the win came from fourth singles, Kume, who lost 6-1, 6-1.

Harris moved up to play number one singles and had lost the first set in a tough-fought set 6-4 and play ended after the first set. Also, third singles played by Kopecka who also went down after a tough-fought set 6-4, she too did not con-tinue to play, due to the match being already won by Whitman.

Sara Levering can be reached at [email protected]

Malia Riggs/Staff Photographer

Junior Courtney Mostul attacks the ball. Mostul filled in for sophomore Ella Riddle as freshman Elsa Harris’ doubles partner. The team lost to Whitman at the Northwest Con-ference Tournament and has been eliminated.

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Linfield athletic events

By Joe StuartStaff Writer

Linfield Wildcats men’s soccer head coach Chuck Bechtol has stepped down from his position, as an-nounced Tuesday on the Linfield Athletics website.

Bechtol was fresh off his best finish in his four years at the helm of the program, with a 9-11-0 record, and 5-9-0 in Northwest Confer-ence play, good enough for a sixth place finish.

Bechtol, a Linfield alum, was All-Conference Honor-able Mention as a player in 1989, and First Team All-Conference in 1991.

He holds the record for the fourth most points in a career in program history with 70, and fourth all time in program history in goals with 29.

The Wildcats compiled a 30-42-2 overall record and a 19-35-2 record in confer-ence play in the four years under Bechtol.

Bechtol reportedly re-signed due to increasing demands from his full-time career.

2007 Linfield alum and former Linfield Wildcats women’s soccer assistant coach Adam Howard has been named Bechtol’s re-placement as the new men’s head coach, effective immediately.

“I am excited for this great opportunity to be part of a program I played in,”

Howard said, as quoted in the press release posted by the Linfield Athletic De-partment.

“As a former student-athlete at Linfield, I have a ton of pride in the Wildcat soccer programs,” he said.

Howard lettered three times in his playing days at Linfield and was a member of Linfield’s 2003 North-west Conference Champi-onship team, one of two in program history.

Before his two seasons with the Linfield women’s team, Howard has previ-ously been the head coach for the Yamhill-Carlton High School men’s soccer team and the McMinnville High School women’s soc-cer team.

Howard’s team will be well equipped for the 2016 season, with the Wildcats returning seven seniors when their season starts next September.

“I have been fortunate to be a part of the women’s side where the program has been a conference title con-tender for several years,” said Howard, as quoted in the press release posted by the Linfield Athletic De-partment.

“And I hope to carry that success over to the men’s side and continue building on what Chuck has started,” he said.

Joe Stuart can be reached at [email protected]

Sara LeveringStaff Writer

The Linfield Wildcats traveled to Seattle to face Seattle University and might have played their best tennis and saved their best performance for last, even though it resulted in a loss. They came out on the

losing side of the match, getting defeated 9-0.

At one doubles, senior Tim Hawkins and freshman Trent Prussing performed well, before getting de-feated 6-2. In number two doubles, the freshmen duo of Jacob Mangan and Carter Pentz battled, but also fell 6-3.

Third doubles duo of

junior Charlie Farrenkopf and Liam Spearnak were the lone doubles team to grab a victory for Linfield, winning 6-4.

In singles ac-tion, Prussing went down in straight sets 6-1, 6-1 at number one singles. In sec-ond singles, Mangan was defeated 6-0, 6-1. Third singles played by Hawkins,

but he was defeated in straight sets 6-0, 6-0.

In the bottom flight of singles, junior Alec Wis-thoff played four singles and went down in straight sets 6-2, 6-2. Farrenkopf played five singles and was beat 6-2, 6-1. At six singles, freshman Eric Rutherford was beat easily 6-0, 6-0.

This concludes

Coach Belletto’s first season as a coach at Linfield with a 4-14 record.

“I’m so excited with the way everyone competed. I’m sad the season has come to a close, but next season will be special and I can’t wait for fall,” Belletto said.

“Things we could have done better are not play a D1 team and I think we

could have done better in singles and been more ag-gressive,” Spearnak said.

“It’s been a great season overall and I wouldn’t want to share it with a different group of guys,” he said.

Sara Levering can be reached at [email protected]

Men’s soccer head coach steps down

Wildcats fall to Seattle University in last match of season

Seniors leave with a proper sendoff By Ross Passeck

Staff Writer

Linfield golf managed to finish strong in its final tournament of the year. Men’s golf left the North-west Conference Champi-onship at Crosswater Club in Sunriver, Oregon with a fourth place finish while the women earned a sixth place finish.

Kyle Hargrave, ’16, and Mason Krieger, ’19, led the team finishing ad-jacent to each other in 10th and 11th place respectively. Meanwhile Tiana Yamaoka, ’18, and Maggie Harlow, ’16, finished tied for 23rd with a score of 170 over two rounds.

Both Hargrave and Harlow led their teams in what would be the final

tournament of their careers at Linfield. Hargrave shot 77 the first day and finished strong with 73 the second day for a collective score of 130. Harlow shot 82 the first day but was unable to match her first score with an 88 the second day.

The fantastic scores of these two seniors do not do justice for the dif-ficulty of the course condi-tions, particularly for the first day.

“The weather had our number for the first day. My face is wind burnt from the first day. In the end we made the necessary adjustments to finish well,” Logan Davis, ’18, said.

The temperature was also a factor, “It was around freezing both days so conditions were tough both days,” Hargrave said.

All in all the story of this tournament was Hargrave punctuating his career here at Linfield with an exclamation point.

“My mentality was just to enjoy my last round as a Wildcat and not to wor-ry,” Hargrave said. “It was a mix of relaxed, positive mentality, and playing con-fidently.”

Hargrave looked back at his career as a Wild-cat with pride.

“I don’t think I could have done much bet-ter. Also my whole family was there to watch so I’m glad I could cap off my career with a pretty solid round,” Hargrave said.

Ross Passeck can be reached at [email protected]

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BaseballNWC Overall

Whitworth 17-7 27-10Pacific Lutheran 15-9 25-16

Pacific 14-10 24-16

Linfield 14-10 22-15

George Fox 14-10 21-17Willamette 11-13 18-18

Puget Sound 11-13 15-22

Whitman 8-16 13-25

Softball NWC Overall

Whitworth 20-8 29-13

Linfield 18-10 29-13

George Fox 18-10 30-14

Pacific 17-11 25-16-1

Pacific Lutheran 14-14 22-16

Lewis and Clark 11-17 17-23

Willamette 10-18 14-19


Men’s TennisNWC Overall

Pacific 11-1 18-4

Whitman 11-1 19-8


Whitworth 8-4 12-8

George Fox 6-6 9-10

Linfield 3-9 4-12

Willamette 3-9 3-10


Women’s TennisNWC Overall


Whitman 10-2 14-10

Linfield 9-3 12-6

George Fox 7-5 12-9

Whitworth 6-6 7-12

Pacific 5-7 7-10

Pacific Lutheran 4-8 5-10


Northwest Conference Rankings


By Joe StuartStaff Writer

The Linfield Wildcats soft-ball program grabbed their 11th straight Northwest Conference Championship this weekend, de-feating their opponents in domi-nant fashion.

The 11 straight championships have all been under head coach Jackson Vaughn, now in his 15th year with the team.

In game one, Linfield, the three-seed in the tourney, had strong pitching and hitting, win-ning in a 9-0 shutout against the two-seed George Fox University Bruins.

Shelby Saylors, ’19, threw all six innings for her 10th complete game of the season. She only al-lowed two hits and walked four batters while striking out three.

The first burst of offense for Linfield of the weekend came in the top of the third inning, when Cheyenne Fletcher, ’18, hit a two-RBI double to score Jacinda Swiger, ’19, and Emily Allen, ’18.

Fletcher was then brought home thanks to an RBI base hit by Melanie Oord, ’18, to put the ’Cats up 3-0.

They tacked on another in the fourth inning, when Paige Smoth-erman, ’19, scored from third off a single by Swiger.

Swiger would finish with three hits on the day, a high for either team.

With the game already well in hand, Linfield put emphasis on their win in the top of the ninth, scoring five runs.

The first two were scored off a sacrifice and errors, but were fol-lowed by a three-run home run by Erin Tauscher, ’17, to create the final score of 9-0.

Game two would pose a dif-ficult opposition in the one-seed Whitworth Pirates, who had fin-ished the regular season in first place and were the hosts of the tournament.

Brynn Lio, ’17, started in the second game of the tourney, but would only last two and one-thirds innings, allowing five runs off of eight hits and two walks.

Whitworth scored all six of their runs through the first four innings of play, with Linfield only scoring one off a solo home run by Oord.

Linfield’s bats came alive in the top of the fifth, starting with a three-run homer by Erin Kinney, ’18. Tauscher then homered to go back-to-back and cut the lead to just one run.

Saylors would come in as a re-lief pitcher in the bottom of the fifth, and shut down the Pirates, allowing just one hit and one walk in her three innings. She would be awarded her second win of the season.

Shortly after Saylors took the mound, severe thunder and light-ning caused the game to be sus-pended and delayed until Satur-day morning with the score at 6-5, in Whitworth’s favor.

When play resumed the next morning, the Pirates bats went quiet, but Linfield was able to take advantage, scoring two runs in the seventh inning to put them-selves in a 7-6 lead.

Saylors would retire the three Whitworth batters in the bottom of the seventh, completing one of the greatest comebacks in Linfield history and sending the Wildcats to the championship game to face George Fox again.

Saylors started in the champi-onship game, and continued her dominance with another com-

Pacific Lutheran 1-11 1-15 Willamette 0-12 0-15

Photo courtesy Mikaela Viloria

Catball dominates at NWC tournament

(Left to right) Mikaela Viloria, Danielle Duman, Erin Tauscher, Alissa Buss, and Alex Andreotti stand together after winning the Northwest Conference Championship in Spokane, Washington.

Photo courtesy Mikaela Viloria

The Linfield softball team beat Whitworth and George Fox in the NWC tournament, making the Wildcats the champions with a bid to the DIII softball NCAA playoffs.

plete game, and putting her re-cord at 17-4 on the season.

The 17 wins put her tied for second on the season in the NWC in her freshman campaign. Say-lors also finished her freshman campaign with 73 strikeouts, fourth in the conference.

The championship game start-ed out slow, with Linfield going up 2-0 through the fifth inning.

The first run came when Fletcher hit an RBI triple to left field to score Alissa Buss, ’17. It was Fletcher’s third triple of the season, a team high.

The second run came in the fourth, when Kenzie Schmoll, ’18, bunted to score Jessica Woodruff,

’18 on a squeeze play.What seemed like a close game

was blown open in the sixth in-ning by Linfield.

Led off with a solo home run by slugger Daniel Duman, ’16, the ’Cats scored five runs to make the game 7-0.

The scoring continued in the seventh, with Linfield putting another five on the board, three scoring off of wild pitches.

Going into the bottom of the seventh, the Bruins were in a 12-0 hole, seemingly insurmountable lead.

George Fox was able to put two runs across the board, but the large lead was too much to over-

come, as Linfield clinched the Northwest Conference title 12-2.

“It has been a really up and down season, but our team is peaking at the right time, and now we are pumped for region-als,” Mikaela Viloria, ’17, said.

With an 11th conference trophy in the case, Linfield will now get set to play in the NCAA Division-III Regionals, starting May 13th.

“This group of girls has heart and fire and winning the tourna-ment has only fueled us,” Smoth-erman said. “I’d be afraid to be in the other dugout.”

Joe Stuart can be reached at [email protected]

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