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October 1, 2010 • Linfield College • McMinnville, Ore. • 116th Year • Issue No. 5
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Candidates address agriculture at forum
Joshua EnslerNews editor
Candidates running for the Oregon House of Representa-tives of District 24 met Sept. 28 to answer questions about agricul-tural policy under their admin-istrations. Only one Linfield stu-dent joined the citizens of Yamhill County attending the event.
Democratic candidate Susan Sokol Blosser and Republican incumbent Rep. Jim Wiedner fielded questions from the attend-ees, including one from Linfield senior Katherine Kann.
The question and answer ses-sion was preceded by a meet and greet.
Kann attended on behalf of Greenfield, a club dedicated to promoting sustainability.
She was in attendance with Linfield alumna Rose Holling-sworth, class of ’10. Both women said they were supporters of Sokol Blosser.
“I think that localization is an important path to creating a more sustainable living existence on our planet,” Kann said, explain-ing that she came to discover what the candidates’ stance was on the subject.
The candidates also fielded questions on farming and agri-cultural policy. Only 24 questions were asked.
Of those 24, nearly a third were about small farms, making it the most popular topic.
Other questions included ques-tions concerning farm subsidies, genetically modified foods and Grand Island’s new potential quarry.
Labeling herself a representa-tive of Linfield students, Kann asked about the food industry’s role in sustainability and climate change.
Three groups with an interest in Oregon’s farming communi-ties, Slow Food Oregon’s Yamhill County chapter, Friends of Fam-ily Farmers and Oregon Sustain-
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A McMinnville firefighter set fire to a mock residence hall in front of Linfield students, faculty and staff Sept. 30.
The fire department was on cam-pus conducting a fire safety demon-stration.
Fire Inspector Debbie McDermott addressed a crowd that stood in the field south of Renshaw Hall, which numbered about 200 people.
She explained that the Newberg Fire Department donated a burn shelter to use at the event.
The shelter was divided into two sides, and each side resembled a typ-ical room inside of a residence hall, each room contained a smoke detec-tor.
The room on the right side of the display was not equipped with a sprinkler but the opposite side was; the crowd was to view the impor-tance of the presence of a sprinkler.
Students tend to hang up tapes-
Robert Lisac/Freelancer
Top: A firefighter extinguishes the inferno in one of two fake dorm rooms Sept. 30.
Above: Fire consumes a room without a sprinkler system.
Right: The same room, moments later.
WEB EXCLUSIVE! Look for this article at www.linfieldreview.com to see video of the blaze!
Septembre RussellCopy chief
>> Please see Burnpage 6
Robert Lisac/Freelancer
Sarah Hansen/Photo editor
Linfield feels the
burn
“With Chinese food and karaoke, I had fun with my amazing friends tonight.” That’s kind of the way we usually say it on Facebook, not in an opinion story, right? However, for me this was more than a typical Saturday night. I say this because I regard it as victory — a victory against isolation.
Being away from a residence hall room this year and being away from plain Dillin food, I should be happy living in my apartment in the
Whites. But I am not. My small residence hall room let
me communicate with my neigh-bors more; Dillin tables let me see my friends more often.
Junior year began busily, and I always go to “two points and one line” — the place I have classes or study to the place I live, or vice ver-sa. I actually hate it when professors ask how the weekend was, because all I can answer is, “good.”
I thought I was only like that during the first week I hadn’t seen my friends, because there’s always that damn stereotype in my mind of being a foreigner.
I still remember the first colloqui-um class two years ago. It was the first morning I had been in the Uni ted States after a 17-hour flight with suitcases that were heavier than me and millions of stereotypes about
America and Americans. I was late for my first class and stood behind the door looking at my high-nose classmates. The professor found me and specially introduced me to the class, announcing that I am from China. I was thinking they should have applauded to welcome me, as I did in high school for American exchange students. But they didn’t.
Well, you must think I am com-plaining about culture shock, or even discrimination, right? No, not at all. Now I thank them for not making me “too special.”
I don’t want to answer the ques-tion if “too special” would isolate me, but I know I am not the only one who feels isolated to a certain degree.
During the second week of this semester, I started to meet my friends in Renshaw Hall (as it
becomes a good place to meet peo-ple besides Dillin). I realized that they, too, go “two points and one line.” We stopped our busy sched-ules and finally talked with one another.
“I am not a party animal.” “I am tired of meeting many new
people.” “I am frustrated by all my home-
work and assignments.” “I am working on my scholar-
ship applications.”We realized that we’re all too
busy to socialize, but we all know those are not excuses for us to become isolated, as we are juniors and seniors living in apartments.
The way we prove that we are not isolated doesn’t have to involve crazy behaviors.
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College is meant to be a place where students figure out who they are and what eventually they would like to become. Linfield, as a liberal arts college, offers many opportunities for students to explore broad areas of interest.
For example, there are a num-ber of clubs, IM sports teams and courses available to students who are willing to take advantage of all Linfield has to offer.
However, the problem is that too many students don’t take advantage of the opportunities that are sitting right at their finger tips.
It can definitely be easy to get caught in an impenetrable bubble when navigating your way through
college. For example, there are a number of classes in your major or minor which are required and can therefore take up a lot of time in your already jam-packed schedule.
But if you can find some room, try to expand your horizons and take a course simply because you are interested in the subject. What other time in your life will you be able to do that?
As far as clubs and IM sports go, make an effort to see what’s avail-able and to find out what they’re all about. Who knows, you might be good at a sport you never thought of playing before, and you may come across a hidden interest or passion in a club.
Joining a club or IM sports team exposes you to other students that may not live in your residence hall or apartment complex or be in your fraternity or sorority. This is a chance to meet people outside your usual social sphere. It’s a great way to meet new friends.
Overall, make your time at col-lege a time to challenge yourself not only academically but socially. It can be difficult to step outside of your comfort zone, but try to take some chances.
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OPINION
It’s OK to burst your isolation bubble now and then
CORRECTIONS
Sept. 24 issue: Executive Chef Noah Bekofsky is chopping the onion in the Sodexo photo. Sept. 24 issue: The News Brief information is attributed to an anonymous student, not Chief Director of Linfield College
Community Public Safety & Security Robert Cepeda.
Out of habit, I check the events calendar weekly. I’ve felt that the advertising was sufficient at Linfield, what with the repetitive nature of most of it. I don’t look up when I walk into Riley, I don’t check posters on the walls, and I don’t scrutinize every line of each Senate report I receive.
Event advertising, by and large, has become just another aspect of Linfield that I ignore. In my mind, I compare it to the People Fountain or the Observatory It was cool once, but now I’ve become largely indiffer-ent.
Repetition will do that to just about anything. It’s the Achilles’ heel of advertising, since it has to stay fresh and exciting for anyone to look your way.
This year, we’re seeing the opposite. Advertising of new events has been partic-ularly boring this year, even while plenty of really cool events have been occurring.
Look at the posters on bulletin boards. How many times did you look at your bulletin board when you lived in a residence hall? I never looked at that thing.
I’m fairly certain I didn’t attend a Cat Cab until the spring strictly because I had no knowledge of its exis-tence or who was playing on any given Thursday.
Repeatedly piling signs of bright colors is a great way to make sure no indi-vidual event stands out. Not the intended idea, I am sure.
Put them up in fresh new places — on doors, bath-rooms, and around some classes. Mix it up a bit. After
all, these signs are supposed to grab our attention. The more random they are the better chance they have of somebody spotting it. I mean consciously spotting it, not glossing over while trotting around campus with an iPod in.
Has anyone ever missed the bright sign the theater department puts up? That’s good advertising.
We also receive a com-piled list of weekly events instead of the daily e-mails we used to receive. It’s a list and one that’s almost identical to the one you can find online. Sending out a list of events early in the
week is not that helpful with remembering events for the next weekend. Weeks get busy quickly. Having an e-mail reminder the night before may have cluttered up the inbox, but it definite-ly worked.
And, no nobody reads Senate reports. The people who care about Senate go to Senate.
Let’s get some ingenu-ity here. One e-mail at the beginning of the week and a few fliers around campus aren’t going to cut it. We can’t all be proactive about finding out about events
for ourselves. Make some snazzy posters and send a
few extra e-mails to increase participation.
Don’t we have an elec-tronic arts major here? I wonder if they might be willing to get some valuable work experience. Work with RAs to inform residents and put some weekly sched-ules in The Linfeld Review. Have a few people come talk about the coming week and encourage senators to bring a list of events to their clubs.
The bottom line is stu-dents aren’t getting any information beyond a one-liner on Monday and a small poster in a wall of color.
I’m not sure if it’s just me, but it seems as if more and more students are making the trek to Nicholson Library to meet up with fellow class-mates to work on group
projects.I, for one, have never
been assigned so many group projects in my life, and from multiple courses I have in college.
I’m not saying group projects are counterproduc-tive; in fact, some students enjoy taking part in collab-orative work. The benefit is that the work can be divided up equally. We can pick the section we want to do and everyone’s skills can be used to their full potential. Not
to mention, a significant amount of stress is lifted from our already weighted shoulders.
Let’s be realistic. We are college students. How many of us have time outside of our already crazy, busy sched-ules to meet with our groups and figure out the logistics of a project? Many of us have an extensive course load, homework, sports, extracur-ricular activities, jobs, off-campus obligations, etc. It is hard enough finding a time
when you are available, let alone a time when everyone in the group is, as well. Plus, we are almost never given enough class time to work on the project.
What happens when one member of the group does not pull his or her weight on the project? Obviously, the rest of the group suffers and either has to compensate for that member or risk receiv-ing an undesirable grade. Even with group evalua-tions, the other members
still have to make up for that person’s lack of work, which creates stress for the whole group.
Speaking of grades, group projects always seem to be worth more points than individual assignments. This works out if the group does well on the project but not if it doesn’t. So, as a conse-quence, these points do not accurately reflect a student’s overall individual grade because no single person is in control of the entire proj-
ect.Now keep in mind that
not all group projects are a pain or are conducted in the same way; some professors are understanding about a group’s circumstances. But sure would be nice if we were assigned a lot less of them for each course and had more than a few days to do them, right?
Oh, group projects. You will be the death of me.
In today’s digital world, everyone has information at his or her fingertips. Be the information true, false or merely questionable — it’s fully available.
However, while having access to terabytes of infor-mation, it is just as easy to put out your own information. However, you may not want everyone seeing what you
post.With the popularity of
social networking websites and blogs, it has become all too easy to put personal infor-mation on public display. What many people don’t real-ize is that the world is bigger than they perceive and has more information than most would be comfortable with sharing.
One of my biggest peeves is listening to common Inter-net users blame the websites they use for posting their per-sonal information. Those idi-ots are the ones to provide it.
Websites have terms and conditions we should read
— though most people don’t and even have these bogus settings such as “privacy.” Who would have thought that you had a choice about what information you made available? People treat the Internet like the little brother who read a page of his sister’s journal when it was the sister who left it open on the table.
Are you going on vaca-tion? Why not announce it on your Facebook or Twit-ter? Why not tell all potential thieves exactly how long you will be gone?
Are you going to send a naughty picture of yourself to someone via phone, e-mail or
file transfer? Guess what, it is easy to copy and move from place to place. Don’t be sur-prised if someone you don’t know or like winds up with a copy.
Ever heard the term “Google it”? Guess what? You should try googling your name sometime. Oh, and don’t worry, I’m sure you weren’t the first person to search for it.
It seems like people have forgotten how easy it is to look someone up in a phone-book. Phonebooks are public information and have more than just numbers next to names. Addresses are in
there, too. Searchable phone-book databases are readily and easily available on the Internet. If someone knows part of your name and so much as what state you live in, it isn’t too difficult for that person to find out more about you. There are also many oth-er kinds of public information out there on the Internet that never used to be as readily available and easily accessed.
It doesn’t help that the news is always featuring hor-ror stories about some idiot who giving out too much personal information and suf-fered the consequences.
Part of the reason could be
that it is easier to trust people on the Internet or maybe that it just isn’t as scary as the outside world. However, you can’t trust every site or person you meet. Just think about how easy it is to fib about who you are. Guess what, it is for everyone else too. If it sounds too true — it probably is.
The next time you begin to say something about your-self on the Internet, be wary of who can see, find and use the information. Just take off your noob goggles and open your eyes. Alt+F4
October 1, 2010 www.linfieldreview.com • 3OpinionsOPINION
Lackluster publicity means limited attendance
Matt OlsonColumnist
Megan Meyer can be reached at [email protected].
Jessica ProkopCulture editor
Megan MeyerOnline editor
A group is only as strong as its least busy memberOPINION
Jessica Prokop can be reached at [email protected].
Matt Olson can be reached at [email protected].
Don’t open the door to strangers or give them too much infoOPINION
Jessica Prokop can be reached at [email protected].
Jenny Worcester/Illustrator
4 • www.linfieldreview.com October1,2010News
The Associated StudentsofLinfieldcollegeisrevamp-ing Homecoming Weekthis year in an attempt togetmore students involvedandoutshowingtheirWild-cat pride, ASLC PresidentseniorColinJonessaid.
This year, there will betwo days of competitioninstead of last year’s fivedays,Jonessaid.
He said that this newHomecoming curriculum isbased less on competitionthan in past years becauseASLC is hoping to bringmorestudentstogether.
“Providing new eventswill help integrate a widerportionofthestudentbody,”Jonessaid.
He also mentioned thatcompetition has a naturalwayof separating students,whichiswhatJonesandtheother ASLC members aretryingtoavoid.
Jones said that the SongandBannerandtheMr.andMrs. Linfield competitionsare in the Homecomingschedule this year because
they are traditional events.However,othercompetitioneventsofthepast,suchasatugofwar,willbe replacedwith a barbecue, pep rally,livebandanddance.
One student felt other-wise about the removal ofcompetition.
“I think that Homecom-ingisaboutschoolspirit,soIfeellikeithastobeacom-petition,” a Linfield junior,whowishedtoremainanon-ymous, said. “It makes itmoreexciting.”
Jones said that theSpazmaticswillperformliveat 8p.m.Oct. 15 on the IMfield.
The Spazmatics are an’80s-style cover band. Sincemanyofthealumnigrewuplistening to ’80s music andmany Linfield students arefansof “Glee,” it shouldbeagreatwaytounitealumniandstudents,Jonessaid.
Participation forms forthe two competitions aredue Oct. 11 before 5 p.m.in the ASLC office on thethird floor of Riley StudentCenter.
Homecoming changes reduce competition
Chelsea BowenOpinion editor
Chelsea Bowen can be reached at [email protected].
Bleach cleaners unite for cause
ableAgricultureLandTrustcollaborated to create theforum.
Theevent ran from6—8:30 p.m. and was held inthe McMinnville Commu-nityCenter. WilliamNew-man II, the representativeand co-founder of OSALT,moderatedtheevent.
“People have concernsthat have to do with foodand farming,” Newmansaid.“Aninformedelector-ate can make better choic-es.”
Accordingtoitswebsite,OSALTisdedicatedtopre-servingtheskillsandmind-setsnecessarytokeepsmallfarming alive fromgenera-tiontogeneration.
Michele Knause, whoattended for Friends ofFamily Farmers, said thather organization countedontheFood&FarmForumbringingattentiontoissuesaboutlocalfarmsandfarm-ers.
“We’re hoping that thepeople who attended wereable to draw attention tothese issues by the ques-tions they asked and thatthe candidate found outwhatpeoplefindimportantabout food and agricul-ture,”shesaid.
Family Farms aims tocreate unity among inde-pendentand family-ownedfarms, as well as peopleinterested in sustainabilityand nutrition, according totheorganization’swebsite.
“I thought it was fairlyeffective, but the questionsweredifficulttorespondto
in such a short time,” saidRob Tracy, a former mem-ber of the United StatesDepartment of Agricul-ture’s Natural Resourcesand Conservation Agency.“The responseswere fairlygeneric.”
The candidates had twominutestoanswertheques-
tions.The conservation agen-
cy’s website states that itsrole is to prevent degra-dation of the nation’s soilquality and avoid a repeatofthedustbowleffectfromthe1930s.
Forum: Farming was a hot topic at event<< Continued from page 1
Joshua Ensler can be reached at [email protected].
Katie Paysinger/Senior photographer
Democratic candidate Susan Sokol Blosser (left) and incumbent Republican Repre-sentative Jim Weidner (right) talk with William Newman II (center), the moderator of the forum.
Photo courtesy of Rachele Schulyer
Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority members clean Roads End Beach in Lincoln City, Ore., on Sept 23. Members spent three hours cleaning the beach but left early because a different group reached the beach before them. Stop Oregon Litter and Vandalism, a nonprofit group, called for Oregonians to clean up the beaches as part of a program to beautify Oregon by removing trash and litter. Other students from Linfield also participated through Linfield Activities Board.
October 1, 2010 www.linfieldreview.com • 5News
Guest speaker describes guide dog training
Students, faculty and staff gathered Sept. 29 in Fred Meyer Lounge to listen to Jeannie Gretz talk about Guide Dogs for the Blind, an organization that teaches the blind and trains guide dogs.
The event was one of three that took place during the week and was put on in honor of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is cel-ebrating its 20th anniversary in September.
Cheri White, assistant director of learning support services, introduced Gretz by giving a short description of how the intelligent dogs assist the blind.
“People put their lives in the hands of a harness on and a dog,” White said. “They expect them to keep them safe and alive without being harmed.”
Gretz described the two Guide Dogs for the Blind campuses.
One is in Boring, Ore., and the other is located in San Rafael, Calif.
Each campus houses blind students and trains guide dogs for students who are in need of assistance.
The first campus was established in 1942 to serve veterans blinded in World War II.
“The first thing I want to tell everyone that is so important is that our dogs are for people who are sight-
impaired,” Gretz said. “There is no charge for the dog, the training or staying at one of our beautiful campuses.”
Each dog is a golden retriever, a Labrador retriever or a mix of both breeds.
The dogs are trained to learn intelligent obedience beginning when they are young puppies.
A volunteer, called a “puppy raiser,” takes a dog from the organization start-ing when they are 8 weeks old.
The dog learns basic obe-dience from the family.
There are many guidelines that the volunteer has to fol-low in order to shape a well-rounded pup to be sent off to one of the campuses when they are 3 or 4 months old.
After completing train-ing, most dogs go to someone who has “been in the dark” for far too long, Gertz said.
Some dogs don’t meet the qualifications even after training; those dogs become obedient pets.
An audience member asked Gretz how anyone could give the puppy up for training.
Gretz said that the answer is at graduation, when the dog is finally paired with someone in need.
She described the event as tear-filled and said that seeing that person receive “walking eyes” is a reward all in itself.
During the entire speech, Gretz’s 5-year-old Labrador,
Haley, relaxed on the floor. Haley was helping a wom-
an in Kansas, but because of certain guidelines that Haley could no longer meet, she was given to the Gretz family in Oregon.
Gretz said she started out as a volunteer dog-walker and tour guide at the Oregon campus. She now speaks to the public about Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Gretz’s eyes watered as she told a heart-warming sto-ry about one of the dogs for Guide Dogs for the Blind that helped a man walk down
the stairs in the Twin Towers during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
As the man and the dog made their way down, fire-fighters passed them on their way up to douse the flames and help others. Each fire-fighter pet the dog as he or she passed.
For most of them, it was a last act of love, as many of them perished soon after.
“They really are angel dogs,” Gretz said.
Lauren OstromFreelancer
Lauren Ostrom can be reached at [email protected].
Joel Ray/Freelancer
Jennie Gretz, a representative of Guide Dogs for the Blind, teaches about the training and education of Guide Dogs for the Blind on Sept. 29 in the Fred Meyer Lounge as part of Learning Support Service’s celebra-tion of the Americans with Disabilities Act. LSS held the Hands-on Informational Event in Walker Hall’s foyer, and will host “Not Until You Know My Story,” a play about differences, will be performed at 8 p.m. Oct. 1 in Ice Auditorium.
Katie Paysinger/Senior photographer
Kevin Michael Connolly speaks in Ted Willson Gymnasium on Sept. 29. Connolly was born with no legs but became a champion skiier and photographer.
News6 • www.linfieldreview.com October1,2010
tryandanexcessiveamountof decorations, McDermottsaid.
Sheadvisedthecrowdtorefrainfromhangingobjectsfromtheirsprinklersastheymay break and causewaterdamage and also not tocover the smoke detectorsinsideofrooms.
The controlled burningdisplayedacrucialaspectoffiredanger—smokeinhala-tion.
“Most people die fromsmoke inhalation and notfromtheactualfire,”McDer-mottsaidattheevent.
Therightsideoftheroom
wassetaflameandatimerinfront of the display chroni-cled the fire’s emergence asMcDermottnarrated.
With 11 seconds on thetimer, the room was filledwith smoke. At a minute,the room was engulfed inthefire.Noonewouldhaveescaped,McDermottsaid.
“The right side burnedin 1 minute because therewas no sprinkler inside theroom,” Holm said. “Therewasn’t much time to getout.”
The smoke from the firstfirepartlyblockedthesun’srays.The fire seton the leftsidesetoffthesmokedetec-torinlessthan15seconds.
A minute later, the fire
filledonlyonecornerof theroom; McDermott said thatthesituationwassurvivable.
The sprinkler head acti-vated 15 seconds later andkept the fire in check, shesaid.
“It was scary thinkingabout how fast fire burns,”sophomoreKatharineHolmsaidaftertheevent.
Since the spring,McDer-mott and Gordon Kroemer,director of environmen-tal health and safety, havebeen working together tosetuptheevent,whichwasinspired byYouTubevideosof the same subject matter,Kroemersaid.
Sophomore Rosika Neessaid she was interested in
seeingthedisplay.She said it made her
appreciate the sprinklersinsidetheresidencehalls.
“I think we showed stu-dents what actually occursduringafire,”Kroemersaid.“It’s easy to get disorientedwhenyou’repanicking,youcan end upmaking a lot ofmistakes.”
Afterthefirewasputout,the walls were black, andthedesk,bookshelf,bedandchairwerecharred.
“The mock burn waseducational,” junior JoshuaHarper said. “Now I knowwhatabunchofjunkinyourroomcanleadto.”
Burn: Sprinklers are key for safety
<< Continued from page 1
Septembre Russell can be reached at [email protected].
SarahHansen/Photo editor
A fake residence hall room after McMinnville’s fire department sits in ruin after it was lit it on fire to demonstrate how quickly fire can spread at a mock burn Sept 30. The room was consumed by fire in less than 2 mintues.
The newly formedLinfield SustainabilityCouncilheld its firstmeet-ingSept.29.
The councilwas formedlast year to help allocatefunds given in the StudentSustainability&RenewableEnergyFund.
In addition to the Sept.29meeting,itwillholdtwomore during the next twomonthstodiscussthewaysinwhich the fundswill beused to help sustainabilityand an eco-friendly envi-ronmentatLinfield.
In 2009, a petition was
createdbyvariousstudentsto raise the campus activ-ity fee by $10 in order tosupport sustainability atLinfield.
Students created thepetition to give themmore control over thefunds, which were origi-nally controlled by faculty,Associated Students ofLinfield College Presidentsenior Colin Jones said inane-mail.
Jones said in an e-mailhefelt that itdidnotmakesensetohavestaffmemberscontrollingfundsthatweregranted by students andput toward student activi-ties.
“The SustainabilityCouncil now consid-ers grants from studentsand other members of theLinfield Community tofund projects related tobroadly defined sustain-ability,” he said in thee-mail.
Jones is the head of thecouncil and senior SarahValentine, ASLC commu-nity outreach and envi-ronmental education coor-dinator, takes the lead oncouncilactivitiesandmeet-ings.
Valentinehasbeenorga-nizing a series of work-shops aimed at educatingstudentsabout thesustain-
ability funds, and train-ing them on how to usethe money to best serveLinfield.
The workshop that washeld on Sept. 29 was thefirst of three thatwill takeplacethissemester.
“[It was a] brainstorm-ing session to get people’sideas flowing about pos-sibleprojects,”Jonessaidinane-mail.
Proposedideasincludedexpanding compost andrecycling options on cam-pus, encouraging the useof reusable water bottlesanddevelopingtheGardenClub’scommunitygarden.
Thenexttwoworkshops
will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 10.andNov. 17. Locations forthese meetings have notbeendecidedyet.
When asked aboutrumors that the Sustain-abilityCouncilhasreplacedLinfield’s Environmentalactivist group, Greenfield,Jones was quick to pointout the falsehood of suchrumors.
No direct connectionlies between the councilandGreenfield,andinfact,Jonessaid,thereisreallynoformal connectionbetweenany of the campus’s envi-ronmental groups andGreenfield.
“Some of the students
who participate in Green-field alsoworked on someof these initiatives, but anumber of students whohaveneverbeentoaGreen-field meeting were alsointegral in making thesethings happen,” Jones saidinane-mail.
Ifinterestedinbecominginvolved with the councilandthesustainabilityfundsthey, Jonesencourages stu-dents to come to a work-shop during the next twomonthsortocontactValen-tineatsvalent@linfield.eduformoreinformation.
Matthew Sunderland can be reached at [email protected].
MatthewSunderlandSenior reporter
Council meets to generate fresh ideas
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Looking for a good music festival? Interested in finding the best bratwurst this side of the Mississippi? Young, single college students seeking dancing partners? All of the above?
Then Oktoberfest is the event for you.“I’ve been to Oktoberfest [in Mount Angel, Ore.,] every year since
I can remember,” junior Katrina Amsberry said. “It’s just a lot of fun. I’m definitely going again next year.”
What is Oktoberfest?Oktoberfest is a traditional harvest festival originating from a Ger-
man tradition that began in Munich on Oct. 12, 1810. According to www.ofest.com, a young royal couple was getting married and hosted a horse-racing tournament to celebrate. It was so popular that they decided to repeat it again the following year. Thus, Oktoberfest was born.
Oktoberfest in Munich is the largest festival in the world and lasts for 16 days. This year is the 200th anniversary of the festival.
“Only wars and cholera epidemics have briefly interrupted the year-ly beer celebration,” according to www.ofest.com.
Why does Oktoberfest take place in September?The festival in Munich traditionally begins 16-18 days before the
first Sunday in October. In many American towns, Oktoberfest lasts fewer days but begins at the same time.
In Mount Angel, Oktoberfest took place from Sept. 16-19.Amsberry, Linfield Activities Board cultural events chair,
took a group of students, includ- ing sophomore Kate McMullan, to Oktoberfest on Sept. 18.
What is there to see at Oktoberfest?
“The whole atmosphere was amazing,” McMullan said. “Lots of German music from the different bands scattered around, lots of beer places, lots of good food.”
Since 1810, Oktoberfest has grown into more than a horserace. The Mount
8 • www.linfieldreview.com October1,2010Features
Celebrate German culture at Oktoberfest
Counterclockwise from the top:
(a) Kids in Lederhosen, knee-length traditional German shorts that often attached to suspenders, have fun at Oktoberfest in Mount Angel, Ore.(b) Thousands of visitors attend Oktoberfest every year for the food, entertainment and good spirits. (c) Two performers play German horn’s. (d) Portland dancers Emily Ernst McLaughlin and Joshua McLaughlin twirl in a traditional German dance.
All photos courtesy of Jerry Lauzon
Looking for a good music festival? Interested in finding the best bratwurst this side of the Mississippi? Young, single college students seeking dancing partners? All of the above?
Then Oktoberfest is the event for you.“I’ve been to Oktoberfest [in Mount Angel, Ore.,] every year since
I can remember,” junior Katrina Amsberry said. “It’s just a lot of fun. I’m definitely going again next year.”
What is Oktoberfest?Oktoberfest is a traditional harvest festival originating from a Ger-
man tradition that began in Munich on Oct. 12, 1810. According to www.ofest.com, a young royal couple was getting married and hosted a horse-racing tournament to celebrate. It was so popular that they decided to repeat it again the following year. Thus, Oktoberfest was born.
Oktoberfest in Munich is the largest festival in the world and lasts for 16 days. This year is the 200th anniversary of the festival.
“Only wars and cholera epidemics have briefly interrupted the year-ly beer celebration,” according to www.ofest.com.
Why does Oktoberfest take place in September?The festival in Munich traditionally begins 16-18 days before the
first Sunday in October. In many American towns, Oktoberfest lasts fewer days but begins at the same time.
In Mount Angel, Oktoberfest took place from Sept. 16-19.Amsberry, Linfield Activities Board cultural events chair,
took a group of students, includ- ing sophomore Kate McMullan, to Oktoberfest on Sept. 18.
What is there to see at Oktoberfest?
“The whole atmosphere was amazing,” McMullan said. “Lots of German music from the different bands scattered around, lots of beer places, lots of good food.”
Since 1810, Oktoberfest has grown into more than a horserace. The Mount
Angel festival consistently offers spectacles such as:• Webentanz (cute kids in German costumes dancing around the Maypole)• Arts and crafts (It’s never too early to buy Mom’s Christmas gift)• Biergarten (Food, live music, beer and dancing: What more can you need?) • Weingarten (Biergarten but G-rated)• Alpinegarten (Weingarten without the food)• Kindergarten (children’s entertainment for the inner — or outer — children in us.)• Die fruchtsaule (a monument in the center of the festival that symbolizes the harvest and the beauty of creation)• St. Mary Church concerts Sports competitions, including softball, volleyball, golf and 10K/5K runs.• Cruz-n Car Show• Bandstand (polka dancing in the streets and amateurs attempting to yodel)
’Cats at the fest“You can pick and choose what you want to do while you are there,”
Amsberry said. “Dancing, music, food, looking at crafts and vendors.”Amsberry said she has been attending Oktoberfest since chiled-
hood. She volunteered in an ice cream booth that benefits St. Michael the Archangel for the Salem Right to Life.
“My parents were involved, and it was fun, so I kept doing it,” Amsberry said. “It’s fun to take a group of friends to help. We get to eat all the mess-ups and the special creations that blossom from the mess-ups.”
She said that the booth makes ice cream cones, mari-onberry sundaes, shortcake and cinnamon rolls.
“The cinnamon rolls are the main thing,” she said. “They are the best rolls ever.”
McMullan agreed. “Not all the food was Ger-
man food,” she said. “There was bratwurst, but the ice
cream and cinnamon rolls were really good. We got a lot of free food.”Amsberry said that she likes to take a group that is willing to help
in the ice cream booth and then take time to walk around and enjoy the festivities.
Many of the vendors at the Mount Angel Oktoberfest are raising money for nonprofit organization, as Amsberry’s family raises money for the Salem Right to Life. Mount Angel Oktoberfest has donated more than $2.25 million to civic organizations, hospitals, schools and other nonprofits. Oktoberfest is the largest fundraiser for many indi-vidual charities that run food booths, such as the ice cream booth for Salem Right to Life. In 2009, groups made a gross profit of $638,000.
McMullan said she also enjoyed walking around and seeing each part of the festival.
“People were getting really into it,” she said. “It was crowded all day.”
Both McMullan and Amsberry said that they enjoyed people-watch-ing and seeing the traditional costumes.
“There were a lot of people wearing lederhosen [knee-length tradi-tional German shorts, often attached to suspenders],” she said. “There were even shops where you could buy your own.”
The people of the town take pride in their German heritage, and that is reflected in the authenticity of their festival. White and blue loz-enge flags hang from buildings, just as they do in Munich. Their Glock-enspiel is located in the center of town, celebrating “Mount Angel’s rich history, Germanic culture, and [their] world famous Oktoberfest,” according to www.Oktoberfest.org. It features a giant clock on top that plays music every day at 11 a.m. and at 1, 4 and 7 p.m. and features beautifully carved figures and designs below.
Mount Angel was founded by German immigrants in the 1830s. Its name comes from the German name Engelberg, the city in Switzerland in which Mount Angel’s first reverend received his theological training.
The Mount Angel Oktoberfest began in 1966 and is Oregon’s oldest harvest festival. In 2010, its 45th anniversary was a smashing success. The 2011 festival will begin Sept. 15.
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story by Rachel Mills/Freelancer
Rachel Mills can be reached at [email protected].
Celebrate German culture at Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest in Brookings, OreWhen: Oct. 6 - 10, 2010What: German Film FestivalConcert of German MusicRoyal Oktoberfest WeddingOktoberfest GartenArt ExhibitsCulinary DelightsWhere: various locationsFor more information, visit www.brookings-oktoberfest.info or call Leslie Wolf at 541-412-8707.
Prost! Oktoberfest Bier CompetitionWhen: Oct. 2-3 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 a.m.What: Celebrate Oktoberfest with a weekend of German beer, food and music that will culminate in an Oregon brewers’ beer competition that will be judged by customers, critics and local experts at the event.Where: 4237 N Mississippi Ave., PortlandFor more information, visit www.prostportland.com or call 541-915-3779.
10 • www.linfieldreview.com October1,2010Culture
Speech celebrates Torah, Jewish culture
Linfield College heldits first celebration of the200-year-old Torah scroll ofYemen with a lecture andblessingceremonyconductedbyguestspeakerRabbiGaryEllisononSept.28inNichol-sonLibrary.
The Antiquarian Manu-script Hebrew Sefer TorahScroll,wasdonated toLin-fieldinDecember2009byawomanlivingintheSeattle,Wash.,area.Thewomandidnot specify why she chosetodonateittoLinfield.
Library Director SusanBarnes Whyte said thedonor wished to remainanonymous.
Sometime after the col-lege received the Torahscroll, Andrew Webber,classof ’10,beganworkingalongside William Millar,professor and chair of theDepartment of ReligiousStudies,tocreateanexhibitforit.
“TheTorahisagreatgifttohaveatLinfieldandasapart of its [Linfield’s] heri-tage,”Millarsaid.
Although Webber wasnotabletoattendthededi-cationceremonybecauseofhisgraduatestudiesatYaleUniversity, Barnes Whytesaidthathiscountlesshoursofhardworkontheexhibitdidnotgounrecognized.
Ellison, who shed lighton the Torah’s and Jewishhistory, began the celebra-tion with the recognitionof Sukkot, or “the Feast ofBooths,” a Jewish holidaythat takes place from lateSeptembertolateOctober.
He acknowledged theholiday by conducting aspecialceremonyusing theFour Species, traditionalJewish symbols, which areLulav, a frond from a date
palm tree; Hadass, boughsfrom the myrtle tree; Ara-vah, branches from a wil-lowtree;andEtrog,fruitofacitrontree.
Ellison held the FourSpeciestogetherandshookthemineachdirection,firsteast then west, north andsouth, as well as towardthe sky and ground. ThewavingoftheFourSpeciessymbolizesservicetoGod.
“I didn’t expect thiswhen I became the adviserto Jewishstudentsoncam-pus,” Ellison said aboutbeing the keynote speakerfortheTorahcelebration.
He went on to explainthe meaning of the Torahand made the distinctionbetween how it is written.Ifthewordiscapitalized,itmeans todirector instruct;ifthewordislowercased,itmeans any piece of Jewishknowledge.
TheTorah, a part of theHebrew Bible, Tanakh,contains the Five Booksof Moses, which includeGenesis,Exodus,Leviticus,Numbers and Deuterono-my.These are the first fivebooks of the Jewish Bibleand the Old Testament oftheChristianBible.Itisalsothesourceofthe613JewishCommandments.
“I thought the fact thatthereare365‘shallnot’soutof the 613Commandmentswas interesting becausethereisoneforeverydayofthe year,” audience mem-berfreshmanDanielleLun-grensaid.
The Yemenite SeferTorahscroll’snamederivesfrom the Hebrew word“Sofer,” which is a trainedscribe.
Traditionally, only Jew-ish men have scribedtorahs. However, withinthe last 20 years, womenhavebeentrainedtofixand
scribetorahs,Ellisonsaid.Torahs that are still
in use must be in perfectcondition and are housedin the Holy Ark of Jewishsynagogues. When theyare removed, a ritual pro-cession is performed. If aTorah is dropped, 40 daysoffastingarerequired.
Typically, torahs areused on the Shabbat, atfestivals andonholydays.TheTorahisalmostalwayschanted when read and aYad,apointerstick,isusedto follow along, Ellisonsaid.
Although it is uncertainhow the Jews arrived inYemen,theearliestsignsoftheirpresencedateback to400CE.Theydidnotwritedown much of their his-tory;instead,itwaspasseddownorally,Ellisonsaid.
WhatisknownabouttheYemenitesisthattheywereartisans and crafts peoplewho ledsimple lives.Mostprayedintheirownhomesoratneighbors’homesandwere often treated as sec-ond-class citizens requiredby theirMuslim neighborsto wear ear locks, Ellisonsaid.
Ellison wrapped uphis presentation by tyingit back to the Torah scrollthat Linfield received andconcluded the celebrationof theTorah exhibitwith ablessing.
“The Jewish peoplewithout Torah are like abodywithout a soul,” Elli-sonsaid.
Since itsarrivaloncam-pus, the Yemenite Torahscroll has been housed inthe special collections sec-tion of Nicholson Libraryand will return there oncetheexhibitisover.
Jessica ProkopCultureeditor
Jessica Prokop can be reached at
Sarah Hansen/Photoeditor
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Actors to read from student playwright’s script
SophomoreChrisForrerislookingforwardtotakingthenextstepincreatinghisplay,“Checkmate,”afterholdingastagedreadingofhisplayOct.1intheMarshallTheatre.
Astagedreading involvesactorsreadingthescriptonastage.
“They stepoutof theboxofreadingfrombehindmusicstands,”Forrersaid.
He will use the stagedreading to develop his scriptandsubmitittotheKennedyCenter American CollegeTheatre Festival Region VII,agatheringforaspiringplay-wrightsintheNorthwest.
Lastyear,Forrer’s10-min-ute play “The Smoker” wasoneofsixplaysthatreceivedastagedreadingatthefestival.It also appeared in CAMAS,Linfield’sJournalofArt&Lit-erature.
Forrerhasalsowrittensev-eralother10-minuteplays.
Forrer said the idea for“Checkmate” dates backto high school drama class.While practicing move-ment scenes, he said hewasinspired by the concept ofactorsbeingonlyabletomovelikechesspieces.
“Checkmate”isaspoofofthe noir genre that tells thestory of personified boardgamepieces.
Detective Sam Bishop
is trying to bring down thecrimelord,“Queen,”withthehelp of his assistant Megan“Rookie”CastleandSgt.Pat-rickMcKnight.
Along the way, theyencounter a rough gangof checkers, some illiterate
Scrabble letters and othercharacters.
AssociateProfessorofThe-atreArtsandresidentdirectorJanetGuptoncontactedForrerduring the summer hopingto do a project this fall. For-rersentheradraftinJulybutsaidhehasbeenworkingon“Checkmate”foraboutayear.
“ItwasfungettingtoworkwithJanet,”Forrersaid.
Gupton is directing thestaged reading. She cast italong with Forrer. The castfeaturesanumberof studentactors.
Forrersaidthecastingpro-cess at this stage is all aboutvoice.
“Astagedreadingismeantto feel like the play is being
read for the first time, notstagedorperformed,hesaid.”
Ifheweretomovetowardperforming“Checkmate”asaplay,hewouldmakesureallthecharactersmoveliketheirchess counterpart, and evenpaint the stage to look like agiantgameboard,hesaid.
Forrer is a theater andpoliticalsciencedoublemajor.In addition to writing plays,he saidhe is involved in theDoubleVisionJazzChoirandtheForensicsprogram.
The reading is scheduledfor7:30p.m.Oct.1intheMar-shall Theatre of Ford Hall.Admissionisfree.
Sean LemmeStaff reporter
Sean Lemme can be reached at
KeynotespeakerRabbiGaryEllisonshedslightonJewishhistoryandtheYemeniteTorahScrollduringtheTorahcelebrationonSept.28inNicholsonLibrary.
SophomoreKaliIngersonandRabbiGaryEllisontaketimeaftertheblessingtoviewtheYemeniteTorahScrollonSept.28.
Forrer
October 1, 2010 www.linfieldreview.com • 11Culture
McMinnville, a city renowned for its seat in wine country and sig-nificant use of local ingre-dients, was named one of “America’s Foodiest Towns” by national food magazine Bon Appétit in September.
According to the maga-zine’s website, the annual report on “America’s Foodi-est Town” requires that towns have fewer than 250,000 people and be home to “quality farmers markets, concerned farmers, dedi-cated food media, first-rate restaurants, talented food artisans and a community of food lovers.”
The Oregonian got wind
of the honor and published an article highlighting five McMinnville food attrac-tions: the International Pinot Noir Celebration, Thistle, La Rambla Restau-rant & Bar, Golden Valley Brewery & Restaurant and Tacos El Paraíso. These food and culture hubs range from a high class wine-and-tapas affair to a mobile taco cart.
The International Pinot Noir Celebration, a focal point in Bon Appétit’s rec-ognition of McMinnville, is an annual three-day event. The ticket price for 2011 is $895 for the full weekend of July 29-31, and is likely a major deterrent to the col-lege student population.
However, Linfield students, such as sopho-
more Meagan Gear, who worked as a server at the 2010 event, can still catch a glimpse — and a taste — of the food festivities, from the Salmon Bake to the Champagne Brunch.
“The food was amaz-ing. There were three days of meals catered by chefs from everywhere using local ingredients and wine,” Gear said. “There were about 50 tables, each with a designated winery representative sitting at the table to tell guests about their wines.”
McMinnville’s other, more familiar but no less delicious, food venues, including Golden Valley Brewery’s fare of local beef burgers, may be more suc-cessful in attracting Linfield
patrons.Golden Valley Brewery
has had a long relationship with Linfield, hiring stu-dents and attracting profes-sors and other college cus-tomers, owner Peter Kircher said. Kircher volunteers with Partners in Progress for the college.
“I had a super-cheesy fettuccine alfredo at Golden
Valley. It was good. It was a little bit pricey but not bad,” sophomore Rachel Go said. “If you go there, I’d bring about $20. It’d be enough for an entree and a drink.”
Go enjoys food locations in McMinnville, but said she was surprised to hear about its recent honor.
“There are a lot of good places to eat on Third Street,
like Thai Country, Seren-dipity Ice Cream and Hon-est Chocolates. But I didn’t know McMinnville was such a food town,” she said. “Now that I know about McMinnville’s reputation, I’ll definitely go out and try more restaurants.”
Place: Golden Valley Brewery offers suburban food. Some dishes are prepared with natural beef products from its ranch and fresh produce from its organic garden.Time: Open Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Location: 980 NE 4th Street Recommended dish: Owner Peter Kirchner recommends the chicken pot pie made with fresh pastry and lots of vegetables ($14.95).
Place: Tacos El Paraíso is a taco cart with an emphasis on cooking with offal — parts of the animal that might normally be considered waste.Location: In the AutoZone parking lot at, 101 NW 15th Street.Recommended dish: Beef tripe tacos, brains, juicy chunks of tongue, pork stomach, skin and mild goat.
Place: Thistle serves food dubbed “Modern American” cuisine. Time: Open 5:30 - 10 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Location: 228 NE Evans Street Recommended dish: Thistle’s menu changes every day. Entrees run at about $19.
Place: La Rambla offers Northwest-inspired Spanish cuisine. Time: Open for lunch daily 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; for dinner from 5 - 9 p.m. Open 11:30 a.m. - 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.Location: 238 NE Third StreetRecommended dish: La Rambla Sous Chef James Airaudi recom-mends the chicharones, deep-fried pork skins served with bacon crème fraiche ($6) the traditional paella ($19) or the Bodegas platter that includes Serrano ham, chorizo, three imported cheeses and bread from Red Fox Bakery ($18).
What’s on the menu in Mac?
McMinnville named second ‘foodiest’ town in the U.S.
Gabi NygaardStaff reporter
Gabi Nygaard can be reached at
It seems completely safe to say that Dark Dark Dark’s sophomore effort, “Wild Go,” feels like it was con-cocted by circus people in a back-stall after the cotton candy lost its lift.
Lopsided and strange, almost as if it was recorded on a merry-go-round, “Wild Go” just sounds peculiar. Whether that’s a good thing depends on the time of day and the amount of drugs in your system.
If you aren’t prepared for it, “Wild Go” can make you a little uncomfortable.
Consequently, after the first track the listener is prepared for something dif-ferent, but, unfortunately, creativity doesn’t seem to be a major focus of this album. Dark’s sound is unoriginal and lyrically. There’s noth-ing special going on behind the scenes — no poetry or deeper meaning.
Sadly, creativity isn’t only lacking in these areas. Throughout, it sounds as though the band is attempt-ing to channel a bit of The Dresden Dolls or The Cure (so much so that I actually thought that they may have been a cover band for either of these). If that’s what they
were going for, they pulled it off beautifully. Fearful yet annoyingly self-satisfied, the lead singer, Nona Marie, oozes her fear and suffering into her songs befitting the best of the goth genre.
In this way, it’s not all bad, for although there are no truly strong points in this album, there aren’t any extremely weak ones either. It’s middling mediocrity throughout.
However, criticisms aside, there’s no denying that Dark’s musicians made a good call on some aspects — most noticeably the treatment of its vocalist’s sound: a silky, growling voice that sounds
as though she has been smok-ing several packs of cigarettes a day and downing shots of warm gravy. Pair this with heavily padded, thudding beats, and you’ve arrived at the sort of music that Tim Bur-ton listened to as a child.
Keeping in mind that they are signed to an indie label, Dark seems to dis-tance itself so much from
being just indie that it’s almost comical. Apparently indie is just too mainstream a genre for a band that flirts with cabaret and goth influ-ences.
This mistrust of its label seems confusing until we remember where Dark is from: Minneapolis. Given its geographic misfortune, it’s perhaps not at all surpris-
ing that Dark sounds a little weird and removed from it’s roots. It’s harder to stay true to a genre when that genre is located mostly in West Coast basement garages where no one’s even heard of ice fishing.
All this skips over the most telling part of the album: the cover. The cover art, as with most albums, defines what you’re listen-ing to. In Dark’s case, it’s a picture of a naked woman looking over her left shoul-der, judging your counter-culture naivete in a way only the indie rockers can. The cover of “Wild Go,” naked, overweight and sar-donic is a perfect metaphor of everything that went wrong with the punk move-ment and this album.
We should care that “Wild Go” doesn’t measure up or that it could be better, but, frankly, it doesn’t really seem worth our time.
“Wild Go” comes out Oct. 5 through Supply and Demand Music.
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Hey ’Cats. This week I’ve got something of a pub-lic service announcement for you. So listen up, and listen good, because what I have to say could very well change the face of Linfield football for the better.
This weekend, our nationally ranked Wildcats come home for their first game at Maxwell Field. It’s the first time in more than 20 years that our boys did not play a home game in the month of September, and it certainly has taken its toll.
Our squad brings a 1-1 record and a No. 16 rank-ing into this weekend’s game, along with a lot of road weariness and a lot of doubt. On top of that, Saturday’s game is against Willamette, our perennial rivals and top challenge to repeating Northwest Con-ference championship and making the playoffs again. Willamette, incidentally, is ranked No. 15, so Satur-day’s game will be a match-up of Top 25 teams.
I don’t say this to criti-cize the team, but if you look at the box scores of both games thus far in the season you’ll see some star-tling numbers.
You see a contest in which we basically handed the game over in the second half to a team we should have defeated by all accounts and a win against a team that we prob-ably should have beat by more than 40 or 50 points but could only put up 30
against. Our offense did well but
laid a lot of eggs in the red zone that should have been points. Defensively, the sec-ond game was an improve-ment, but it was against a team that hasn’t won a game in about 26 months, so you have to take it with a grain of salt.
Willamette, meanwhile, knocked off a team ranked in the Top 5 in the nation in the first week of play this season, then dropped a game on the road before winning last weekend. They bring the complicated and barely used fly offense to the table, which requires an intricate and specific set of preparations to combat on defense, and it’s looked pretty damn good so far this year.
Honestly, this game is starting to look really scary on paper.
This season’s Wildcats are good, make no mistake. They may not be in the
same dominating form as last year just yet, but they’re beginning to heat up as a cohesive unit, and I believe that at home this weekend they can knock off Willa-mette. But, and I’m going to put this in all caps so you get the point, THEY NEED OUR HELP.
Last season, game attendance was pitiful. The student section sat largely empty even after our boys beat the No. 4 team in the nation in the season opener and never looked back. We put up absurd point totals game after game, blowing out opponents by 40 and 50 points even with our sec-ond string guys in for an entire half. We never trailed an opponent until the sev-enth game of the season for goodness sake.
The team was hot, but the fans were noticeably absent.
I understand that foot-ball snobs ignore our team just because it’s Division-III,
Seriously? Everybody went to their high school’s foot-ball games because that’s just what you do, whether your team was state champ or bottom of the barrel every year. And now that you get to college, you sud-denly stop because it’s not a high-profile, Division-I school? Come on, Wildcats, you can do better than this, and you know it.
’Cat fans, this is our eleventh hour. This game is the final, real test for our boys. If they win, the NWC crown is all but assured and a playoff berth almost guar-anteed, but unless we show up in force and get raucous real fast, they might as well be playing on the road again.
Our team badly needs us for this game, they need their home crowd to be big-ger than it’s ever been and louder than all of you think possible.
This may not be Autzen, but if we had a thousand
fans swarming the student section by the fences, you can bet your life it’s going to make a difference.
And frankly, a thousand fans should not be hard to muster for a school that made it to the national semi-finals in last year’s NCAA Division-III playoffs.
Maybe, just maybe, when you see that there is something to be excited about, the Catdome will be bursting at the seams every home game.
So I issue this procla-mation to every student at Linfield College: I chal-lenge you, I dare you, to show up this Saturday at 1; I dare you to bring your red and purple gear; I dare you to scream your head off on every 3rd and 4th down defensive stand; I dare you to jump around and get cra-zy after every score; I dare you to make a difference.
After finishing the weekend with a 1-1 record the men’s soccer team resumes conference play this week. The men lost a physical match to Pacific University on Sept. 25, before regrouping to beat George Fox University on Sept. 26.
The ’Cats lost 0-1 to the Boxers. Pacific didn’t hesi-tate to get physical, hitting the ’Cats often and hard. Between both teams, 26 fouls were called.
Linfield couldn’t get past the violent Boxer defense despite holding a 13-8 shot advantage.
Pacific scored a goal on a penalty kick midway through the first half.
The ’Cats had oppor-tunities to score during the game’s final minutes, but Pacific senior goal-keeper Andrew Stevermer deflected shot after shot.
Despite the tough loss, Linfield senior goalkeeper Jon Thompson remained confident in the team.
“Although we didn’t get the result we wanted, I think that battling against the No. 1 team in the con-ference opened our eyes,” Thompson said. “We can compete against any team in this league, and we were one penalty away from at least going to overtime.”
While the team’s defense was solid, the offense was missing as the ’Cats were held scoreless for the first time this sea-son.
Sophomore forward Danny Snelgrow offered a reason for the offensive
struggle against Pacific.“We couldn’t score
because we weren’t focus-ing when we got our opportunities,” Snelgrow said.
After a disappointing loss to Pacific, the ’Cats let out their frustration to the tune of a 7-0 victory over the Bruins.
Snelgrow dissected the Bruins’ defense with surgi-cal precision Sept. 26. He scored his first goal of the game off of an assist from senior midfielder Kevin Donato and pounded in a second goal before half-time. The ’Cats outshot the Bruins 18-1 during the first 45 minutes.
Snelgrow said that his second goal gave him faith.
“I knew everything was clicking when I hit that sec-ond goal,” Snelgrow said. “There was usually a wall holding me back from scor-ing, but I felt like I battled through it and with my confidence felt like I could score anything.”
The ’Cats built their lead in the second half as Snelgrow’s onslaught con-tinued. Donato recorded his second assist of the game in the 49th minute, setting up a third goal for Snelgrow.
Snelgrow zipped in his fourth goal off of an assist from senior midfielder Colin Bebee. Senior mid-fielder Michel Camacho added to the lead with a goal of his own. Cama-cho’s goal was followed by another from Snelgrow, which put the ’Cats ahead 6-0.
Sophomore midfielder Cody Escott completed
Linfield’s scoring with a goal in the 73rd minute.
Snelgrow finished the game with five goals, tying a Linfield record for goals scored in a single game. Snelgrow shares the record with Jeff Brooks, class of ’85, who set it in 1984.
Thompson said the
’Cats played with a sense of urgency after dropping a close game to Pacific.
“I feel like our team knew that we had to win the game to compete, and we showed our offensive flair,” Thompson said. “We played together as a team and got the big win.”
Next up for Linfield is a match with visiting Whitworth University on Oct. 2. The Pirates started the season strong with a 5-2-1 record. Thompson stressed the importance of beating a formidable Whit-worth team.
“Whitworth is going to
be a tough match. They are always at the top of the table and always have a good team,” he said. “This could be our defining match. If we can come up big and get two wins, then we are right on track.”
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Whitworth to provide worthy competition
Upping game attendance makes a positive difference
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Victor Zhu/ FreelancerSenior Michel Camacho charges to the ball against George Fox University freshman Steven Haga at home Sept. 26.
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During the Pacific game, senior goalkeeper Kelsey Hasselblad had her first shutout with four saves in the goal.
“It feels good not to get scored on, no doubt,” Has-selblad said. “We had three years of a lot of that hap-pening so it’s great to take a break from the ego blows of 4-nil losses.”
The women’s soccer team had the win against Lewis & Clark at home Sept. 26. The Wildcat’s out-scored the Pioneers and won 3-0.
Fellows had the first goal off an assist from senior midfielder Sara Blake, for the ’Cats putting them to a 1-0 advantage. Sophomore midfielder Anna Sours kept the lead with the second goal, while senior Rennika Doty scored the final goal in the 84th minute.
Hasselblad saved four shots on goal at Pacific, while saving two shots on goal in the game against Lewis & Clark, making it her second shutout of the weekend.
Hasselblad was named Northwest Conference Women’s Soccer Defen-sive Student-Athlete of the
Week on Sept. 28. “There is no way a
goalkeeper could win that award without her defenders,” Hasselblad said. “They are the ones that keep me bored back there — the way a keeper likes to be.”
The women will host Whitworth University on Oct. 2 and Whitman Col-lege on Oct. 3. The women play both games at noon.
“This weekend we have great competition against both Whitworth and Whit-man,” Blake said. “It will be a good test for us.”
time, however, the ’Cats responded to the challenge and took the second game, 25-21.
After losing the third game 20-25 the Wildcats had their backs against the wall knowing that another loss would drop them to 2-2 in the conference.
Looking down and out, the Wildcats rallied behind the heart and hustle that Lau and the rest of the team
have come to embrace and won the final two games 25-20 and 15-11, respectively.
“We put all our heart in those two games,” she said. “We played to win and played all out because we didn’t want to lose.”
With this win, Linfield is right in the thick of NWC play, stuck in a three-way tie for second and just one game out of first place.
After two weeks of play, Kimura said he is hap-py with where the team
stands but also knows there are things that need to be improved.
“We’re three-and-one. The matches we have won were all close. The team has a resilience out there,” he said. “We can be down but bounce back and come through. We need to try to be better starters though.”
The next two opponents for the ’Cats are Whit-man College and Whit-worth University on Oct. 1 and 2. Whitman is 0-4 in conference, and Whitworth is part of the three-team tie for second at 3-1.
Both games should be close, with each presenting its own challenges. Kimu-ra said he knows there is some tough competition ahead.
“Whitman is a pretty young team, but very ath-letic,” he said. “Whitworth is a solid team. They have some strong returning players so it should be a pretty good match.”
Including these two matches, Linfield has three more home games before hitting the road for a week. After the women host Whitman and Whitworth, they host George Fox Uni-veristy on Oct. 9. All games are at 7 p.m.
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Wildcat sports schedule
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Cross country
Football
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Willamette Three-Way
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Soccer: Goalie blocks attacks, earns award
Katie Paysinger/Senior photographer
Kelsey Ludin (left) and junior Jordan Johnson jump to block the ball in the game against University of Puget Sound on Sept. 24. The Wildcats lost to the Loggers.
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Sophomore Julia Vaughan aggressively competes for the ball against Lewis & Clark College sophomore Maddie Harper on Sept. 26 at home. The Wildcats won 3-0.
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Following a tough open-ing-week loss, the Wildcat football squad got exactly what it needed Sept. 25 on the road against the Uni-versity of La Verne: an emphatic win.
Riding a stifling defense that nearly secured a shut-out, Linfield defeated the Leopards 30-3. The defense forced three turnovers, and the offense outgained the Leopards in yardage 427-78.
Head coach Joseph Smith said he was satis-fied with his team’s overall improvement in the two weeks following the initial loss.
“I’m very pleased statis-tically,” Smith said. “Any time you have a 20-to-3 advantage on first downs and a 400-yard advantage, you know things are going well.”
The Sept. 25 game was never close. In the first half, the Wildcat offense found the end zone on three sepa-rate occasions.
Senior running back Simon Lamson thundered into the end zone from one yard out on Linfield’s open-ing drive, three plays after senior quarterback Aaron Boehme connected with senior receiver Chris Slezak for a 42-yard shot down-field.
Boehme finished with 241-yards passing, one touchdown and one inter-ception, which came on a desperate throw from his own end zone to prevent a safety.
“His decision mak-ing was much better in
game two,” Smith said of Boehme. “He took care of the football nicely, but he took too many hits for my liking. That’s something that we’ll really focus on this week.”
Boehme’s lone touch-down strike came on a 15-yard pass to junior Deidre Wiersma at the top of the second quarter. In the middle of the quarter, senior running back Tay-lor Avritt powered in for a score from the 1-yard line to bring the Wildcat advan-tage to 21-0.
While the ’Cats couldn’t convert in the red zone for the remainder of the game, sophomore kicker Josh Kay, a transfer student from Whitworth University, booted field goals of 20, 37 and 25 yards and was 3-3 on point after kicks.
“It was a great feeling to get out there again and kick field goals and pats,” Kay said. “Last year at Whit-worth, I was limited to just the kickoff duties, and now that I have the opportunity to do both.”
La Verne’s only points came on a field goal imme-diately following Boehme’s interception.
With a victory under their belts, the ’Cats turn their gaze toward the Cat-dome for a showdown with perennial rival Willamette University at 1 p.m. on Oct. 2.
“I come from Salem, so I know how intense this rivalry is and how much it means to us, the coaches, our school and our whole community,” Kay said. “Willamette is a talented squad, and it is going to be a battle, to say the least.”
The Bearcats bring a 2-1 record and a No. 15 rank-ing in the www.d3football.com’s Top 25 poll.
Smith said preparing for an offense that the team will only see once in the season is a sizable task to do in only one week.
“I’d rather [this game] come in a few weeks, as we’re still finding our-selves, particularly on offense,” he said. “It’s going to be a difficult, good football game against the most talented team we’ve played so far. We’ll have to play our ‘A’ game to be suc-cessful.”
Willamette runs the obscure and intricate fly offense, which can give opposing defenses fits if not prepared for properly. However, the ’Cats have had success against the fly in the past, and Smith remains confident that they will find victory.
The winner of the game will also likely end up as the Northwest Conference champion, as ’Cats and Willamette has traded conference titles for the past few years depend-ing on which team was victorious.
The players are fired up for a high-profile game and are brimming with confi-dence about their chances.
“All we can do in our respective units and as individuals is execute our jobs to the best of our abil-ity and take care of busi-ness,” Kay said. “I believe that the team who wants it the most is going to come away with this win. And I know that that’s us.”
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Golfers keep momentum
’Cats leave La Verne Leopards in the lurch
The men’s golf team posted positive results Sept. 24. It earned a top spot during the Linfield Invitational hosted at Michelbook Country Club in McMinnville. The women’s team did well, too, Sept. 18 and 19.
Men’s golf received first place with a score of 300, beating out Pacific University.
Junior Alex Fitch set a personal record. He hit his career-first sub-par round. He began with three birdies on the first four holes and then by the 18th hole Fitch obtained another birdie, setting his record. He claimed third place at the Invitational.
Many of his teammates placed in the Top 25, too. Freshman A.J. Taylor tied for seventh place; senior Yutaro Sakamoto placed eighth; senior Evan Wallace received 22nd; and freshman Tommy Shmitz tied for 24th.
The women’s golf team earned second place during the Pacific Fall Invitational on Sept. 18 and 19 at Quail Valley Golf Course in Banks, Ore. They finished just five shots behind winner Whitworth University.
In the women’s team, two golfers placed in the Top 10. Senior Brynn Hurdus came in second place, and sophomore Brinn Hovde finished at ninth.
The Wildcats return to action Oct. 1 at the Willamette Three-Way scheduled for Salem’s Illahe Hills Country Club.
~Compiled by Tim Marl
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Photo courtesy of Kelly Bird
Senior quarterback Cole Bixenman chucks the ball to a teammate in a game against University of La Verne on Sept. 25 in California.
Junior Jason Erwin tees off during the Linfield Invitational, where many of the team placed in the Top 25.
Katie Paysinger/ Senior photographer
The Wildcat volleyball team entered week two of conference play with confidence and a great chance to take control of the NWC standings. The Wildcats were off to a 2-0 start with a streak of five con-secutive home matches, but they lost Sept. 24 against University of Puget Sound.
The ’Cats also proved they are a tough group of players, with all of their conference wins up to this point lasting five matches. This spirit has become a theme that junior Tara Hill hopes opponents will catch on to.
“Every game matters for us,” she said. “We are willing to play five games to show the other team how determined we are and how much heart we have.”
The opponents for the ’Cats were the nationally ranked Puget Sound Loggers on Sept. 24, and Lewis & Clark College on Sept. 25.
The game against the Loggers was as close as they come. In a back-and-forth game, both teams had stretches when they appeared to gain control, only to lose the serve and their momentum.
With the score tied at 22, the Loggers took advantage of two Linfield errors to pull ahead and eventually win the game 25-23.
After that, the Wildcats never seemed to find their stride, drop-ping the second game, 12-25, and the third, 20-25.
While the Loggers played well, coach Shane Kimura was quick to recognize that his team can’t give up easy points when playing a team like UPS.
“We just had too many physical mistakes and gave up double digit points in each game,” he said. “We have to cut down on the unforced mistakes.”
The ’Cats didn’t have much time to think about their loss, because less then 24 hours later, the team was back in the gym play-ing against Lewis & Clark.
Kimura and junior outside hit-ter and libero Samantha Lau were thankful for the chance to get back on track so quickly, they said.
“We were excited for that match, and we wanted it,” Lau said.
The key to the match, was mak-ing the Pioneers earn their points and not give up too many unforced errors, Kimura said.
“Right now, the key is we don’t want to beat ourselves,” he said. “Our goal for this week is to cut down on those physical mistakes.”
The Wildcats started off in what was becoming the norm for them, by losing the first game 17-25. This
The women’s soccer team is still the top-ranked team in the Northwest Conference.
The team traveled to Forest Grove to take on Pacific Univer-sity on Sept. 25 and hosted Lewis & Clark College on Sept. 26.
The women are 4-0 in the NWC and stand in first place for the second week in a row, as the team remains undefeated.
Freshman Emily Fellows scored the only goal for the win against Pacific. Fellows headed the ball into the back of the net with less than 3 minutes to spare in the second half.
“Being undefeated is a good feeling, but we have a big week-end coming up and we’ll be tested,” senior Sara Blake said. “We just have to take this season game by game and get the job done.”
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Northwest
Conference
standings
FootballWhitworth 1-0 1.000
Pacific Lutheran 0-0 .000
Willamette 0-0 .000
Linfield 0-0 .000
Puget Sound 0-0 .000
Pacific 0-0 .000
Lewis & Clark 0-1 .000
VolleyballPacific Lutheran 4-0 1.000
Puget Sound 3-1 .750
Whitworth 3-1 .750
Linfield 3-1 .750
Willamette 2-2 .500
Lewis & Clark 2-2 .500
George Fox 1-3 .250
Whitman 0-4 .000
Pacific 0-4 .000 Women’s soccerLinfield 4-0 1.000
Whitworth 4-1 .800
Puget Sound 3-1 .750
Willamette 2-2 .500
Pacific 2-2 .500
Whitman 2-3 .400
George Fox 1-3 .250
Pacific Lutheran 1-3 .250
Lewis & Clark 0-4 .000
Men’s soccer Pacific 4-0 1.000
Whitworth 2-1-1 .625
Puget Sound 2-1-1 .625
Whitman 2-2 .500
Linfield 2-2 .500
Pacific Lutheran 2-2 .500
Willamette 1-3 .250
George Fox 0-4 .000
Golf swings for the topMany of the men were placed in the Top 25 at the Linfield Invitational on Sept. 24. The women’s team finished sec-ond in the Pacific Fall Invita-tional on Sept. 18 and 19. See page 15 >>
Men in middle of the packWith a record of 2-2, the men’s soccer team has the weekend to move up in the Northwest Conference as they play at home.See page 15 >>
’Cats at home for conferenceThe Wildcats football team go head to head with archri-val Willamette University in the Catdome for Linfield’s conference opener Oct. 2 at 1:30 p.m.See page 15 >>
Sports scheduleWant to take your family to a sporting event this weekend?Check out the sports schedule.See page 14>>
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’Cats strut No.1 spot
Runners grab 2nd, 3rd place
Split successes reveal need for improvement
Linfield competed in the Willa-mette Grass Course on Sept. 17, with the men’s cross country team finish-ing second, close behind the first place team, Willamette University.
The women’s team placed third, trailing top finishers, Willamette and out-of-league competition Univer-sity of California, Santa Cruz.
The runners have high expecta-tions for the season, with young, ambitious runners replacing last year’s top competitors.
Junior Scott Gage was the men’s top placer, receiving sixth place over-all. Eight other Wildcat competitors finished in the top 40.
Freshman Mimi Seeley took sec-ond place for the women’s team and eight members took Top-40 stand-ings.
“I love running for Linfield,” See-ley said. “It’s exciting that the team is running so well.”
The Wildcats hosted a six-team Linfield Preview meet at Willamette Mission State Park the weekend of Sept. 25.
On the men’s side, senior Scott Pinske landed the second-place spot in the competition with a time of 26 minutes, 36 seconds — only 5 seconds behind the first-place run-ner.
As a team, ’Cats took second place overall.
The Linfield women clenched the third-place title. Seeley won the gru-eling race with a time of 23:23.
Along with many new runners, the team also has a new head coach, Travis Olson, who has coached track and field at Linfield for 12 years. Chris McIsaac, class of ’10, ran cross country during his four years at Linfield and was welcomed as the new assistant coach.
“I’m excited for the second half of the season and to see how the new faces will improve,” Olson said.
Despite a slow beginning, the remaining season looks bright.
Linfield will compete in the Wil-lamette Open at Bush’s Pasture Park in Salem.
Katey BargerStaff reporter
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Senior midfielder Rennika Doty (left), sophomore midfielder Anna Sours (middle) and freshman forward Emily Fellows gather to celebrate a goal against Lewis & Clark College on Sept. 26.