March 7, 2016 • Linfield College • McMinnville, Ore. • 121st Year • Issue No. 9

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

INSIDE ArtsThe Linfield Theater department is preparing for their production of “Almost, Maine” opening March 15.

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News

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Dillin hall’s executive chef Noah Bekofsky was named a ‘star chef’ and works to provide a variety of dishes for the Linfield community.

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The Linfield Review

FeaturesFaculty and students are working together to offer gender-neutral housing next fall.

Students dance at Viennese ball

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Tuition increase approved by Board of Trustees

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By Elizabeth StoegerStaff Writer

A committee composed of fac-ulty, administrators and students selected the Common Read book for the 2016 PLACE theme, “The Digital Society.”

The book, “The Circle,” a 2013 novel by Dave Eggers, will be the 2016-17 Common Read.

“The Digital Society” will be the PLACE theme for the next 2 years. Each year will have a subtheme, with the 2016-17 theme being “The Digital Self” and 2017-18 theme being “The Digital Citizen.”

“Broadly speaking, the next two years will look at the role of digital technology in our society both here in the U.S. and worldwide,” Susan Sivek, PLACE Coordinator and professor of mass communication said.

Specifically, next year will -

By Elizabeth StoegerStaff Writer

Tuition is expected to increase by about $1,000 in the 2016-17 academic year.

Mary Ann Rodriguez, Vice President for Finance and Administration, along with Ehren Cahill, Vice President of ASLC, presented the budget at the most recent ASLC meeting on March 1.

The Board of Trustees and the College Planning and Budget Council have already accepted the budget. The Budget Working Group Review (BWG), made up of faculty, staff, and students,

also endorsed the budget pro-posal.

According to President Hellie’s strategic plan goals, the budget will focus on compensa-tion, community distinctiveness, and stewardship.

It is a projected 12-month operating budget for the college. It needs to support Linfield’s 164 faculty members, 272 staff mem-bers, buildings, majors, students and other expenses.

The Linfield Nursing Cam-pus in Portland is almost at maximum capacity with 393 fully enrolled students.

They are projecting a fresh-man class of about 475 new stu-

dents, 85 transfer students with a freshman to sophomore retention rate of 85.5 percent.

The administration is expect-ing an increase in transfer stu-dents in the next few years due to free community college that has recently been implemented in Oregon.

Rodriguez said, “We want to make sure we have a clear path for those [transfer] students to come in..”

In order to cover expenses, tuition will increase 3.65 percent.

Rodriguez said, “The goal here is to try to keep tuition . . . between three and no more than 4 percent increase because what

we want is our students to be able to stay here and finish in 4 years with us.”

The financial aid discount rate for the McMinnville campus will increase by 3.5 percent. This is “how much, on average, students are getting on financial aid,” Cahill explained.

There is expected to be a 4.5 percent increase in residence hall expenses.

This is about a 4 percent increase across the board.

Linfield generates 73.3 percent of its revenue from tuition and 19 percent from dining and resi-dence halls.

The increases will support

and expand the Online and Continuing Education (OCE) marketing budget, McMinnville student admissions and recruit-ment, software for institutional advancement, alumni outreach, and athletic coaches and sports recruitment.

Plans for a new insurance plan are also in action.

Some of the items not funded by the proposed budget are new faculty positions and more funds for work-study and campus employment.

Elizabeth Stoeger can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

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Common Read selectedfor 2016-17

Residence hall behavior reflects problems in policy, community

Doug Sundmann and Arun Bajracharya pose at the photobooth outside of FML during the Viennese Ball on March 4 in FML.

By Malia Riggs and Aspen Brooks Staff Writers

During the fall semester, Miller Hall developed quite the reputa-tion for itself with a slew of college policy violations and incidents that have continued into the spring semester.

“I wouldn’t say Miller is typi-cally our problem hall. This year, in particular it tends to be, but I don’t think that means next year it will be,” said Jeff Mackay, Director of Residence Life.

“It’s just a good community that’s making some poor deci-sions,” Mackay said.

Out of 84 total citations given

for violations of the Student Code of Conduct during fall semester, 30 were given out in Miller Hall, according to Mackay.

These numbers are based on where citations were given out, not where the recipient lived, so they are not necessarily indicative of the behavior of all Miller residents alone.

Seventy-four of the citations were due to alcohol violations, the other 10 from drug, noise and other miscellaneous violations.

The Linfield Student Hand-book states, on page 78, “The use of alcohol on college owned or controlled property at events associated with Linfield programs is restricted to those of legal

drinking age in that locale.”During January, Linfield had

ten violations campus wide where the incident was directly related to alcohol and drugs, with five com-ing from Miller.

Miller Hall had five incident reports for the month of January

By Michaela FujitaStaff Writer

Linfield College has always prided itself on its vast array of clubs and organizations on campus.

Alongside the infa-mous motto, “the power of a small college,” Lin-field strongly encourages student involvement.

But is there actually strong leadership partici-pation on campus?

We often concentrate on the larger organiza-tions such as athletics, which is 28 percent of the student body, and Greek life, which is 30-33 percent. By doing this, the smaller clubs that

hold equal amounts of leadership opportunities get overshadowed.

Sophomore Peri Muellner, president of Greenfield, has also notice a decline in club and organization partici-pation.

“The reason is prob-ably because students sign up for a lot of activi-ties at the beginning of the year, and by second semester they are just burned out.” Muellner states, “A lot of students, and I am not excluding myself from this, just want to relax and watch Netflix after classes.”

We can all relate to the constant inclination to hide away from our re-

sponsibilities and binge watch the most recent Netflix series.

We work so hard academically, why would we commit even more time for an extracurricu-lar club or organization?

Getting involved on campus is an all-around beneficial experience.

Junior Heidie Am-brose, president of Circle K, thinks that student involvement is essential.

“Involvement pre-pares us to be active citizens. It is a way to connect to people over common interests and collective goals.” Am-brose said.

Ambrose stated that Circle K has allowed

her to build friend-ships, given her valuable leadership experience and taught her about the power of service.

Muellner had similar positive experiences. “Greenfield has impacted my college experience by connecting me with passionate people. They taught me how to expand my mind and re-alize that I can be a part of this movement that is bigger than myself.” Muellner said.

We are at an interest-ing chapter in our lives where we have the op-portunity to create an im-pact on our community and ourselves.

We are never going

to have the chance to be surrounded by our peers and possess accessible resources to make a movement.

Why would we disre-gard that occasion for the new season of House of Cards?

Therefore, I challenge Linfield students, to take advantage of these resources.

Get involved in all that you can, beyond academics, athletics and Greek life.

Take the chance to bet-ter your community.

Michaela Fujita can be reached at linfieldreviewo-pinion@gmail.com

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In the February 22 issue on page 5 the photo caption at the top of the page gives attribution to Michaela Fujita for the vertical photo. That photo was courtesy of Rosa Johnson.

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Students should stay involved all year

Power outage deserves adminstrative response

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A more active admin-istrative response to the recent power outage at Nicholson Library, Ford Hall and Facilities would have helped assuage and educate confused students.

Apart from numerous, informative emails from library director Susan Barnes Whyte, students had largely no idea what was happening with the library beyond the power outage.

The only substantial email sent to students was from director of Facilities Services Allison Horn, two days after the power out-age occurred.

The only buzz around the library came from word of mouth among students and reporting done by the Review. The Linfield com-munity was left without

the library’s resources from February 21st to the 26th, almost an entire week.

The library is the cor-nerstone at any academic institution. It is a destina-tion for students seeking a quiet refuge for studying, research for assignments and papers, and a way for students without laptops to access computers.

It is curious that such a vital component to the aca-demic community took as long as a week to see pow-er fully restored.

Renshaw was still available as a computer lab although study space was scarce and alter-nate resources were not expressed by the adminis-tration.

This is not the first time that the Linfield admin-istration has responded

slowly to building mainte-nance issues.

Along with the Library, Ford Hall was without power and theater rehears-als were halted.

Larsell has experienced numerous glitches with its fire alarms. Miller and Dana Hall both experi-enced extensive damage from sewage and flooding that took months to see repaired in full, and the Miller fine arts center is still using tarps to water-proof the roofs.

Disrepair is a fair word to describe the state of a handful of buildings on campus and the admin-istration could have informed students about what is being done to address those issues.

On a small campus like Linfield’s an issue with

one building is magnified tenfold.

When multiple build-ings are damaged the entire campus’ structural integrity comes into ques-tion.

Students need to be reassured by the admin-istration that the sums of money they give to this school are being utilized to maximize their experience and education at Linfield.

Rain is a threat to any building’s structure in Ore-gon.

When problems arise swift response is expected by Linfield students and perhaps preemptive mea-sures should be imple-mented to avoid future disarray.

-The Review editorial board

By Jonathan WilliamsStaff Writer

Writing shouldn’t have to be painful. Cre-ating a unique, individ-ualized creative space can help and improve the cultivation of an essay.

It is challenging to channel one’s inner thoughts when people are constantly in contact with each other, leaving little room for student writers, and writers in general, to fully craft an essay that demonstrates one’s abilities as a writ-

er and his or her medita-tion on the subject.

To produce some-thing that one is proud of likely comes from a period of struggle that results in a break-through or a finished essay.

Struggling is certain-ly a feeling and activ-ity most people hope to avoid, but finding what one truly thinks about a subject during those moments of adversity can ultimately shape and positively alter the outcome of an essay.

One way to ignite this process is to spend a

good deal of time mus-ing on whatever it is you are writing about.

Thinking critically about an area you are writing about will sig-nificantly impact the overall scope and range of what you want to include in your essay.

Musing on a subject alone will not take away from the actual writing process itself: putting pen to paper or hand to keyboard has to occur at some point.

Outlining what you want to include in your essay as well as making a list of words that will

help increase the power of each sentence and paragraph will have a significant effect on the overall outcome of the essay.

The most substantial change or addition one can make or add to their writing process is where they write.

Finding a space that is unique and comfort-able to one’s own needs will significantly benefit the paper.

Many people under-estimate the effects of place on a person’s abili-ty to produce something uniquely their own.

If you are in a loud or crowded space your essay and thoughts may also be cluttered and in need of a space where they can be fully fleshed out.

Studying with friends can be enjoyable but writing in a space by yourself gives you the solitude and chance to actively engage in the subject matter you are working with.

After completing the essay, or even while you are still writing it, talking about it with a friend or professor in an informal or formal set-

ting can also help one work through his or her thoughts on the subject.

Going through an outline upon the com-pletion of the essay will also help to see if overarching concepts or themes changed during the conception of the essay.

Everyone deserves to find his or her own cre-ative space that allows for stronger and more thoughtful writing.

Jonathan Williams can be reached at linfieldre-vieweditor@gmail.com

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By Megan DitoreStaff Writer

Linfield is ranked among the top twenty colleges of its size in the US for the number of students who study abroad each year. Over 50% of Linfield students spend time abroad by the time they graduate.

The re-entry program is designed to ease stu-dent anxiety when they return to the US. Prepar-ing to return home can sometimes be just as difficult as preparing to travel abroad.

Many students find

that re-entry can be a lonely experience. To help with the transition back, Linfield has a man-datory re-entry class for all students who have gone abroad.

Junior Mary Beth, who traveled to Aix-en-Provence France during fall semester, said, “I found that IPO fully supports students before, during, and after their time abroad.” She said the evening session was fun and helpful as she and other students who went abroad were able to reflect and look at how they will be able to use their new skills in

the future.Junior Cruz Morey

studied in Vienna last semester and said, “The re-entry session we had to participate in was beneficial but not at the same time.

It was nice to get together with all of the people who studied in the Fall but we were un-der the impression that the session would help us cope with the reverse culture shock.

Instead, we talked about how we could help others in the fu-ture.”

Elizabeth Gibson also went to Aix-en-Provence

France over fall semester. She said, “The re-entry session was all right, not the most fun thing I’ve ever done or the worst. We learned how to ap-ply our time abroad to be applicable to skills on our resumes. Then we split into groups to discuss things that we learned abroad, which was nice getting to talk about our experiences again to students who could better relate to what we went through.”

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Awareness, involvement in climate justice vital

Hall: living community has issues to address-all together, including

drugs and alcohol, but not limited to other events.

“We don’t issue citations for usage of Drugs and Alcohol, we refer students to Student Affairs,” said Ron Noble, Director of Linfield College Public Safety, “If we see something that is a safety issue, which means it is threatening a student’s or campus safety, we then take action.”

“The situation has obvi-ously grown disruptive enough to capture the atten-tion of The Review … this fuels unhealthy stigmas of Miller being a party hall and Res Life policing the student body,” said Joel Wenrich, a Resident Life member.

Early in the fall semester, a couch from Miller was moved by unidentified individuals and left outside in the rain. Residence Life, in accordance with school policy, warned the hall that if nobody stepped forward or provided information about who moved the couch, the entire hall would receive a fine.

“Unfortunately, we have had those kinds of things before, but to be honest, we deal with much less vandal-ism, purposeful, willful damage, than other institu-tions,” Mackay said.

“I think basically whenever you have an

entire dorm full of fresh-man and they are finally ‘free’ the freedom can go to your head,” said Katherine Anderson, ’19, a resident of Miller.

When asked why the entire second floor was breathalyzed, Mackay said, “There was a large party involving lots of residents, and when we responded many of the residents left one location and went back to their rooms, so we went around to determine who was in violation of alcohol during that time.”

Rumors had been float-ing around the student body that the entire hall was breathalyzed, but Mackay clarified that that was not the case.

Residents of the second floor expressed concern that the administration is focused more on strictly adhering to the rules rather than ensuring student safe-ty, since students who were in violation of the rules but were being safe and non-disruptive received citations due to this sweeping action.

Dean of Students Susan Hopp declined to comment on this story and said ques-tions should be directed to Mackay.

Due to the concern-ing amount of citations being handed out in Miller, Mackay decided to move all residents with multiple

strikes out of the hall, all of whom were on the second floor.

The Residence Guide to Living warns students, “Additional sanctions may include, but are not limited to, community restitution hours, educational pro-grams, fines and/or exclu-sion from College residence halls or apartments.”

However, Mackay said he “got a lot of push back from [the Miller residents].”

“Miller has a reputation but it’s not really as bad as the reputation speaks to. I honestly enjoy living in Miller and the people are always nice and really funny. I’ve never thought about moving,” Anderson said.

The students were open to making changes instead of moving out. After meeting with most residents of the second floor and exchanging a flurry of emails, Mackay agreed to make the floor substance-free instead of removing residents.

The new rules in Miller state, “Violations of resi-dence life policies in the Guide to Living at Linfield will result in a relocation of the student to a differ-ent residence hall and the student will be banned from the residential floors of Miller for the remainder of the academic year.”

Mackay said that a non-substance related violation by an individual with no prior violations would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

He refuted rumors that an individual had accumu-lated up to seven strikes. “I can’t speak to individual student conduct matters,” he said, “but if they even got near that many, they would not just be removed from the hall, but they would be removed from the institu-tion.”

Although all students that Mackay worked with in January were allowed to stay, Mackay said, “There were students that we moved in the middle, in fall semester,” due to excessive violations.

“It is rare for us to have somebody that gets repeat violations within the same semester, or within a close time period. So we are going to have to look at what we are doing within our con-duct system for our sanc-tions,” Mackay said.

“I’m concerned about [Miller], and I want to make that community better. So we’re doing some things specifically with that com-munity,” Mackay said.

Aspen Brooks and Malia Riggs can be reached at linfieldre-viewnews@gmail.com

By Gillian WilsonFor the Review

An Oregon climate con-servation group supported making the fossil fuel indus-try pay for their pollution and said it is a step towards solving the problem of cli-mate change.

Camila Thorndike, head of Oregon Climate, spoke about climate change and how to combat it during her lecture, “Millennials: #PutA-PriceOnIt for Climate Jus-tice” on Thursday evening in Ice Auditorium.

Thorndike said the car-bon pricing policy would encourage clean energy by holding companies account-able for their pollution.

She explained that there are two different ways to price carbon.

The first is a cap set on carbon emissions by the gov-ernment.

If companies exceed that amount, they will essentially have to pay more to continue polluting.

The second way is a car-bon tax on sale and produc-tion of fossil fuels.

Putting a price on pollu-tion not only gives a solution for climate problems, it also

gives people an incentive to support it.

Both carbon pricing poli-cies would result in a return of up to $1500 given back to every Oregon taxpayer.

“We focus on the solution, not the problem,” Thorndike said. The reason Oregon Cli-mate is effective is because it sets achievable goals.

However, to achieve the addition of a bill to Oregon legislature it must have the support of the people.

“We feel small, wonder-ing how our actions can make a difference, but it’s up to each of us to decide to break that cycle,” Thorndike said, encouraging citizens to get involved.

“Three years ago [Ore-gon Climate] was just five friends in a living room, and now we are 5,000 strong,” Thorndike said.

Oregon Climate has gained momentum over the years, and has introduced three bills into the Oregon legislature.

“I think we need every-one involved,” Linfield sophomore Peri Muellner said in reference to climate conservation efforts.

The importance of getting youth to become politically

Arun Bajracharya, ‘16, talks to McMinnville resident during the climate justice lecture on March 3.

involved was highlighted in Thorndike’s presentation.

“Oregon is big enough to make a difference, and small enough to organize effective-ly,” Thorndike said.

If the carbon pricing leg-islation passes in Oregon, she hopes it will serve as an

example for other states.Oregon Climate says

that about 40 countries are already using carbon pric-ing, and others are still con-sidering it. In British Colum-bia, the tax has reduced carbon consumption as well as helping the economy.

Thorndike said that overall, 12 percent of world pollution has decreased due to carbon pricing.

“Earth needs the kind of love that won’t give up,” Thorndike said. She said that if nothing else, people should fight for future gen-

erations so that they can lead a good life unburdened by the problems of climate change and pollution.

Gillian Wilson can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Common read: book focuses on technology

examine “how individuals relate to technology, how we form our identity with tech-nology, how it affects our rela-tionships, all kinds of issues related to individuals and their lives,” said Sivek.

The following year will explore “the role of digital technology in government, activism, global concerns.”

The Common Read book is always connected to the PLACE theme and is meant to engage the entire campus, especially freshmen, in dis-cussion.

Library Director Susan Barnes Whyte said, “We chose ‘The Circle’ because it fit so well with the scope of PLACE next year. We hope that first year students will be able to connect with this novel’s questioning technol-ogy’s potential to take over/control our lives, in both the public sphere and the private sphere.”

“[The novel] asks how we as individuals are affected by the way that we engage in technology and the way that technology is designed,” Sivek said.

Sivek hopes the book will get students thinking, “The book raises a lot of really good and interesting questions about how much technology we want in our lives and what role we want it to play.”

“The Circle” follows Mae Holland, a woman in her 20s, at her new job with a com-pany ominously known as the Circle. The Three Wise Men control the Circle and their aim is to make everything and everyone transparent, to eliminate privacy.

In her review of the book in The New York Times, Ellen Ullman wrote, “The Circle’s goal is to have all aspects of human existence – from voting to love affairs – flow through its portal, the sole such portal in the world.”

Mae blindly follows the Circle and its mission with rel-ish and pride before meeting Kalden, who is an enigmatic figure with strong feelings against the Circle.

“[It’s] hard to put down, it’s suspenseful, it keeps you reading. It’s got a lot of depth to it but it’s also written in a style that’s very engaging and fun,” Sivek said about the novel.

It forces us to realize “that the way technology is built isn’t completely value free . . . that there are decisions that are made in designing differ-ent technologies that commu-nicate certain values and that value some things over oth-ers,” Sivek said.

Elizabeth Stoeger can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

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“It’ll probably be fine but I’m not thrilled about it.”

-Arielle Mazzuca,

Sophomore

“I feel that it’s dumb and that we already pay a ridic-ulous amount for tuition.”

-Madison Mitchell,

Sophomore

“My family is taking out loans and pushing it as it is so this is definitely going to cause a strain.”

-Miriam Kilian, Sophomore

“It makes me ask more questions in class and real-ly fight for my education to hear how expensive it is.”

-Zia Shonk, Sophomore

How do you feel about Linfield’s tuition increase?

Meet the ASLC president and vice president candidatesElections for ASLC President and Vice President are happening on Tuesday, March 8, with votes

being counted from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., according to ASLC.The candidates for ASLC President are Patty Roberts, ’17, and Nathan Pellatz ’17, while Mikenna Whatley, ’17, is the lone candidate running for Vice President.

Story by Cassandra Martinez/staff writer

Photo courtesy Rosa Johnson Michaela Fujita/photo editor Michaela Fujita/photo editor

Presidential candidatePatty Roberts Nathan Pellatz

Presidential candidate

Mikenna Whatley Vice presidential candidate

Patty Roberts is a junior, with a double major in psy-chology and economics.

“I’m running for ASLC President because I have a lot of amazing opportunities here at Linfield. I want to help by giving back to the community and what better way to be a president that serves all of the students. I’m really excited about student government and I have other leadership experiences, but I’ve never been involved in student gov-ernment before, and I think this is an amazing opportu-nity and I’m really excited to give back and make Linfield the best it can be,” Roberts said.

She also mentioned the great opportunities that small liberal arts colleges like Linfield offer and how they make it accessible for all stu-dents.

“I’m involved in Greek life and a bunch of other organi-zations on campus, so I have a lot of connections. I feel I can offer my personality, I’m very bubbly and open.” Rob-erts’ leadership background consists of running an Alter-native Spring Break last year as a student leader. She was also a FirstClas leader,

which helps incoming fresh-man learn about the campus, make friends, and help out the McMinnville community before classes start.

Roberts was also hall presi-dent both her freshman and sophomore year. She is a men-tor at Duniway middle school and helps encourage students to continue an education and find their passion.

“I think Patty would be a great candidate for ASLC President, because she is a very involved person on campus. One way she was thinking about doing that is through various means of contacting students and get-ting us more excited about the opportunities that Linfield has to offer,” said Heather McNutt-Kaestner, a co-work-er of Roberts at the Career Development office.

“My ultimate goal is to increase the communication between students and faculty. I also have an idea that if none of the systems of communica-tions are working, is creating a texting app where students can sign up to receive updates from clubs, sororities or frater-nities that they are interested in joining,” Roberts said.

Nathan Pelltaz, who is also running for ASLC Pres-ident, is a junior finance major with a double minor in economics and sports management. He has some experience in positions of leadership. He was hall president freshman year, an RA sophomore year, and joined the team of Student Ambassadors in the Admis-sions office.

“My platform for run-ning for office is student involvement. That is across the board. From athletic events to theatre produc-tions, to poetry recitals, to LCAT Events, I would love to see more people get involved around campus and really take advantage of all of the great activities that we have here. If I win office, my goal would be more student involvement at events by effectively communicating with stu-dents in a way that will get them excited about things and give incentives so that people want to go to events even more. Support at this school can be a powerful thing and I’d love to see more of it being shared by all the students,” said

Pelltaz. “Nathan is one of those people who is friends with everyone. In order to be successful, he needs to connect well with the stu-dent body, which I have no doubt he will easily be able to do. Nathan is a positive light around campus. He is great for so many reasons, but I think his ability to connect with people and bring high energy to cam-pus is one of the major rea-sons why he would be such an amazing president,” said Maggie Flood.

“The students can count on me being responsible and responsive in their interests. They can expect that if they have an idea for the betterment of the college, that idea will be heard at the next Senate meeting and possibly taken forward and put to action. I really stress hearing peo-ple’s ideas about the col-lege because if this college government is made for the students but isn’t open to student suggestions and isn’t willing to work and be present for the students, then there isn’t really a rea-son to have a student gov-ernment,” Pelltaz said.

Mikenna Whatley, ’17, is running for Vice President and is a psychology major with a music minor.

“I am running for stu-dent body vice president because I believe it is the perfect way to capstone my leadership experience here at Linfield. I, like all of the candidates running for ASLC office, want to see as much positive change at Linfield as possible. I’ve loved every minute of my college experience and I hope that by being the stu-dent voice in ASLC and the Board of Trustees I can help the student body have just as an amazing experience as I did,” Whatley said.

“Her determination and her ability to overcome challenges … working on ASLC with her this past year, I can already tell that she is capable of taking direction, going with it, leading a group, and mak-ing things her own,” said Cruz Morey.

Whatley has been part of student government at Linfield for the past 2 years. She also has past leader-

ship experiences including a position in her sorority, in the Linfield Panhellenic Council (LPC), being a CATS presenter, writing for the Linfield Review, participating in an intern-ship at the Yamhill County District Attorney’s Office as a Crime Victim Advocate, serving on ASLC Senate, and ASLC Cabinet.

“Even when she is pre-sented with challenges, deadlines, or working with people that aren’t respond-ing, anything like that, she is able to take it her own way and overcome that challenge and makes it suc-cessful,” said Morey.

Whatley said, “My plat-form for student body vice president consists of three main goals - improving campus safety, increasing student involvement, and giving more responsibility to the senate.”

Whatley is also involved in Greek life, choir, a cap-pella, the psychology department and Psi Chi Honors Society.

Cassandra Martinez can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

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for new stories, blog posts, photos and videos.

Gender-neutral housing will arrive at Linfield

By Emma BloomfieldStaff Writer

Gender-neutral housingis for the needs of studentswho do not identify asmaleor female to feel comfortablewith their living situations,but its acceptance at Linfieldhasnothappenedyet.

More schools are startingto add gender-neutral hous-ingoptionsforstudentslivingoncampus.Ithastraditionallybeenthatgirlsroomwithgirlsandguyswithguys,butthoseoptionsformanystudentsarechanging.

Meanwhile, studentsresiding off-campus can livewithwhoever theywant. It’supto thestudents tomakeachange if theywant a say intheirlivingsituations.

CampusPrideTransPolicyClearinghouse says that 149schools in our nation havegender-neutral housing, andinOregontherearesix.

Some schools like Willa-mette andOregonStateUni-

versity offer apartment-stylehousing,LewisandClarkhasdoubleroomsavailable,ReedCollege has gender-neutralhousing all throughout cam-pus, Southern Oregon Uni-versityhasasmallareawhereit is available, and Univer-sityofOregonhasahousingbuildingwithgenderneutralroomsandbathrooms.

Theseschoolshavestartedasearlyas2005ingettinggen-der neutral housing on theircampuses.

“This is over due and along time coming, there’s nodoubtaboutthat.Butthetan-gibility of this possibility isincrediblyexcitingrightnow.I’mveryproudtobeapartofthismovementandI’mgrate-ful foreveryone thathasputinefforttogethere,”saidthePresident of Fusion, AlletaMaier.

Dean of Students, SusanHoppsaid,“Wearegoing todoourbesttoimplementandextend gender-neutral hous-ing for next fall.”While it is

goingtobehardtogetroomselection available for stu-dents with housing applica-tionsforfallcomingupsoon,Susanbelievestheycandoit.

Studentgroupshavebeenworking alongside facultyonaproposaltofinalizegen-der-neutral housing on theLinfieldcampus.

“Wethinkitwillworkhereas long as students under-stand what it is for, how itworks,andwhichareasitwillinhabit,”saidSusanHopp.

Limited somewhat bythephysical structuresof thedorms and apartment build-ings, faculty are going to trytodothebesttheycanforthefirst year, and feedback willhelpfacultydeterminehowtomake itbetter for the follow-ing years depending on stu-dentinput.

Emma Bloomfield can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Contribution of women in workforce celebrated with discussion By Malia Riggs

Staff Writer

March will commenceWomen’s History Month,wheregenerationsofwomenarepaidtributetoaroundtheworld.

Linfield started off thismonth by recognizing a fewsuccessful women graduates

intheworkforce.The panel discussion,

titled“ThatCouldBeMe:Suc-cessfulLinfieldWomenintheWorkforce,” was given lastThursdayinJonassonHall.

Students of both genderswere encouraged to comewith questions and learnaboutwhatittakestobeasuc-cessfulwomanwhostrivesto

betterhercareer.There were many gradu-

ates that came to the gather-ing, among them were 2006graduate Stephanie Ken-worth,who studiedbusinessandmanagement.Sheworkedmanyjobsthatgainedherthepositionsheholdsnow.

She is currently workingat OHSU as the director of

events.Kenworthraisesmoneyfor

research,planseventsfor thefoundationandraisesmoneyfordifferentoperations.

Some of these events getover $1 million and boastssponsorssuchasPhilKnight,the owner and founder ofNike.

Womeninthisdayandage

are beginning to enjoy moreprominencearoundtheworldand are even holding higherstandings in various societ-ies.

“History is his story, andweneedtotellherstorymoreoften,” said Heidi Ambrose,Linfield studentwho attend-edtheevent.

“Women are not in the

minority background any-more,we’refinallystartingtosee more prominent womenin history, and its in historywhereweseeabetterfuture,”saidAmbrose.

Malia Riggs can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com

Malia Riggs/staff photographerLinfield alumnae stands to give her advice on how women can be successful in the future in the career development discussion on March 3 in Jonasson Hall.

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Linfield’s resident rising star chef in the spotlight

Photos by Michaela Fujita/Photo editor

From top: Noah Bekofsky grills some vegetables in the kitchen at Dillin hall. Be-low: chef Bekofsky talks another chef at Dillin while working in the kitchen.

Jenny HornimanStaff Writer

Dillin dining hall is un-like other college food services, not just in the food that it serves but in the chefs that serve it. Un-known to many students on campus, Linfield’s own Ex-ecutive Chef was named a Rising Star Chef of Chicago in 2005.

Rising Star Chefs are named due to their out-standing culinary phi-losophies and their com-mitment to enhancing the overall culinary commu-nity.

Noah Bekofsky became aware of his calling as a chef at the age of 14 while making salads and wash-ing dishes at a four star res-taurant. Although he was raised in the Pacific North-west, his passion and talent has taken him all over the world.

When he was still fairly young, he travelled to Eu-rope to expand his ideas and ended up working at a hotel in Germany before returning to Oregon.

In 1994, Bekofsky attend-ed the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, where he would later graduate with hon-ors. This education paired with his other experiences would open many doors for him in the culinary world.

Jobs prior to his current position include Execu-tive Chef at two resorts in Hawaii, a lodge and golf resort along the Oregon coast, Aria restaurant at Chicago’s Fairmount Hotel and the Fairmount Scotts-dale Princess in Arizona.

The transition from high end resorts and restaurants

to a college dining hall was due to the 80 plus hour work weeks that kept him from spending time with his wife and two children. Bekofsky deemed Linfield a “great opportunity” with the added bonus of being closer to family and where he and his wife grew up. He recalls thinking that he “could make an impact on a college food operation in a positive way and influence it in a way that it had not been done in the past.”

Bekofsky has also sat on the Chef Advisory Board of Common Threads, a not-for-profit program teaching at-risk children about toler-ance and diversity through food and nutrition.

Star Chefs described his style as “both culturally inspired and comfortably American, reflecting culi-nary and cultural traditions that transcend any one cui-sine.”

This style is exemplified at Dillin, where Bekofsky creates menus that appeal to both the natural comfort palates of the Pacific North-west, as well as the more adventurous palates of in-ternational cuisines.

One of the more unique traits that Bekofsky brings to Linfield is his dedication to producing eco-friendly meals, using as many local food suppliers as possible in meal preparation and ensuring that food wastes turn into compost that go back to local farms.

Sous Chef Kevin Bak-erson has been working with Bekofsky for the past four years, and says that “[Bekofsky] brings a higher end quality to the meals than what we’ve had in the past.”

Hundreds of students go to Dillin multiple times a day, almost every day of ev-ery week of the school year. Bekofsky reports that Dil-lin serves upward of 1,800 meals per day. It is of the utmost importance that the food provided is prepared with quality and is nutri-tionally and environmen-tally beneficial.

The impressive back-ground of Dillin’s executive chef often comes as a sur-prise to students, who do not necessarily feel that the food exemplifies the same restaurant quality that they may expect from such an experienced chef. However, Bekofsky’s skills become significantly more appar-ent during special occasion meals, whether it is for staff meetings or for the annual Thanksgiving or Christmas feasts.

Despite menu rotations and the addition of new meals every now and then, students are bound to find their meal options a little repetitive and less than exciting at times. Bekofsky once said in a past inter-view with the Review, “if you eat at your favorite res-taurant every day for two years, it’s not going to be your favorite anymore.”

However, there is no doubt that Linfield is lucky to have such a well re-nowned and friendly chef with such innovative ideas and practices to keep its populace sustained, happy, and healthy. As Bekofsky says, “We can all make a difference and have great food at the same time.”

Jenny Horniman can be reached at linfieldreviewfea-tures@gmail.com

8 • www.thelinfieldreview.com March7,2016Arts

Sarah LeveringStaff Writer

ThreestudentsfromtheEnglishdepartmenthadtheirpapersacceptedtoanationalliteratureconven-tioninMinneapolis,MN.

CamilleWeber,16’,AngeliaSaplan,16’,andKeriDixonpresentedtheirpapersatSigmaTauDelta’snationalliteratureconven-tion.

SigmaTauDeltaisaninternationalhonorssocietyforundergraduateEnglishliteraturemajors.

Theconventioncreatesawayforstudentstoshow-casetheirworkeitherinliterarystudiesorcreativewriting.

Theconferencealsoprovidesvarioustypesofworkshopsincludinginfor-mationongraduateschools,publishingandscholar-ships.

Weber’spaperdoesaclosereadingofapassagefrom“JaneEyre”whereshefocusedontheconstruc-tionofidentitythroughthebalanceofrationalandspirituallaw.

Saplanreadacollection

ofpoemstitled,“VoicingtheVoiceless.”Herpoemsfocusedontopicsofsuicide,sexualassault,domesticviolenceandstalkingwiththeintenttoinformreadersandempowerthem.

“Writinggrantsusamediumtospeakwhenwearesilenced,tofindavoicewhenwearevoice-less,andthecouragewithinourselvestobeginagain,”Saplansaid.

DixonpresentedacriticalanalysisofanAnneFinchpoem“ALettertoDaph-nis,”wheresheaddressedtheroleofsexandpowerinmarriage.

Aswellasattendingtheconferenceandhavingtheprivilegeofpresentingtheirindividualselections,theyattendedcreativewritingpanelsformemoirsandflashfiction.

Theyalsowenttoroundtablesfocusedonmentalhealthentitled“Representa-tionsofMentalIllnessinLiterature.”

“It’sanhonortobehereandspeaktootherstu-dentsabouttheirwriting.Everyonehereissofulloftalenteitherscholarlyorcreatively.“Attendingthis

By Kellie Bowen Staff Writer

Thefirstthingpeopledowhilewaitingforthecon-certtobeginisflipthroughtheprogram.Rightawayitisclearthattheperformerisversatileintheclarinetfamily.

QuillanBourassa,’16,

playedonthebassclarinet,theEflatclarinetandthetraditionalclarinet.Unfor-tunately,Bourassahadsometechnicaldifficultieswithhisbassclarinetonthefirstsong,“FlowersofSt.Fran-cis”byDanielDorff.

Bourassawentbackstagetofixtheproblem.How-ever,theclarinetwentoutasecondtimeinthesecond

movementofthefirstsong.Thetechnicalitywasaloosescrew.Aftergoingbackstagetotrytofixhisinstrumentasecondtime,hefinishedthefirstsongwiththelasttwomovements.

Thesecondsong,“SonataforClarinetandBassoon”byFrancisPoulenc,wasathreemovementpiece.JasmineLibertaccompanied

Bourassaonthebassoon.Itstartedlightandmerry,wenttoasmoothlegato,andendedwithalively,mysterioustune.

“WhiteBird”byGabrielJacksonwasplayedontheEflatclarinet.SusanMcDan-ielaccompaniedBourassaonthepiano.TheEflatclarinetgaveoffashrilltonetoresemblethebird

depictedinthesong.CellistAnnaVander-

schaegen,’18,joinedBourassaandMcDanielinthenextsong,“FantasyTrio”byRobertMuczynski.Thecelloaddedadarktonetothesong.

Thefinalsongwasabub-bly,four-movementnumberontheclarinetandthepiano.“Cooked”byKenji

Bunchexploredthetastebudsofsound.

ThecontemporarysongsBourassachosemadeforamodernandclassyseniorrecital.

Kellie Bowen can be reached at linfieldreviewarts@gmail.com

John Christensen/Staff Photographer

Senior recital starts rough, finishes smoothFrom left: cellist Anna Vanderschaegen, ‘18, accompanist Susan McDaniel and clarinetist Quillan Bourassa ‘16 perform at Bourassa’s senior recital on March 5 in Ice auditorium.

John Christensen/Staff Photographer

Photo courtesy Camille Weber Camille Weber, ‘16, Angelina Saplan, ‘16, Professor Barbara Seidman and Keri Dixon pose at the Sigma Tau Delta na-tional literature convetion in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Weber, Saplan and Dixon all presented their work at the convention.

Bourassa performs on his bass clarinet on March 5.

Students present critical papers, poems at national convention

conventioninspiresmetocontinuetakingmystudiesseriouslyandhasgivenmeevengreaterconfidencetosharemyworkwithbigger

audiences,”Webersaid.Shealsosaidthatevery-

onethatwasattheconfer-encewasextremelysup-portiveanditwasgreatto

beinanenvironmentwhereeveryoneissupportive.“ItwasanamazingatmosphereandIcannotwaittocomebackandtellmychapter

aboutthisamazingexperi-encethispastweek.”Sara Levering can be reached at linfieldreviewarts@gmail.com

EntertainmentMarch 7, 2016 www.thelinfieldreview.com • 9

Streaming music impacts local stores, musicians

Griffin Yerian/Staff PhotograherStudents in “Almost, Maine” take directions from director Thomas Gressler. The show opens March 15 and will run through the 18th will performances starting at 7:30 p.m.

By Cassandra Martinez Staff Writer

The Linfield Theatre Department’s winter pro-duction and the first play of the spring semester tackles the contemporary side of the theatre world. “Almost, Maine” is a montage of sto-ries about different couples, and all of them have one thing in common: Love.

There is more to the story than love, but rather the many different types of love and the hardships that these characters go though in a little town called Almost, Maine.

“It’s a show about love, in every form. Falling in, falling out, losing it, and trying to get it. This show has a little piece of love for everyone,” says Alyssa Lawrence, a junior and

theatre arts major. The show is in promising

shape. “The show is slowly coming together. … The director [Thomas Gressler] has a way of pulling out the smallest details, which make the scenes and the emotion within it pop,” said Lawer-ence.

Senior Travis McKenna, junior Joella Cordell, and freshman Glenn B. Rust are some of Linfield’s students

that are acting in the pro-duction.

Since Professor Janet Gupton is currently on sab-batical, these actors have a new director to work with. The Linfield theatre depart-ment has aquired the assis-tance of Thomas Gressler or Dr. G as the actors call him.

“Dr. G is absolutely amazing and we have a great time with him. He’s very much a hands on

director, who knows what he wants which is good. It’s good to have that difference from Janet, it’s like free-flow so it’s been interesting,” said McKenna.

The actors mentioned the play is not the typical romantic comedy. Cordell said that there is a scene for everyone. One of the scenes has an LGBT couple in the scene called “They Fell,” where two female best

friends fall in love with each other.

“Almost, Maine” will be performed on March 15, 16, 17 and 18 at the Marshall Theater. Remember to bring tissues because it’s going to be a roller coaster of emo-tions.

Cassandra Martinez can be reached at linfieldreviewarts@gmail.com

Theater deparment gears up for ‘Almost, Maine’

John Christiensen/Staff PhotograherKyle Huizinga, ‘18, sings and plays the guitar at the student Cat Cab on March 3.

Students perform at Cat Cab

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By Kellie Bowen Staff Writer

There is a lot of con-troversy over whether or not digitalizing music is a good thing or not for the music industry.

On one hand, being able to stream music on outlets like Spotify and YouTube allows some bands to get great exposure, but a lot of people don’t buy the albums if they can stream the music or download it for free.

Scott Ian of Anthrax said in an interview with Blabbermouth, “If Spotify would pay more money to the bands for the art they’re creating, I think just in general people would have a better view of music and think it was worth more. Music should be worth something. It is worth something.”

Grey Patterson, ’18, who focuses on music technol-ogy, says that iTunes, in its core, is beneficial to independent musicians be-cause Apple takes only 30 percent of the purchases.

“The reason I don’t use Spotify is I just don’t agree with the formula for how they pay people,” Patterson said. “It’s based on who gets listened to

overall.” Patterson said that this

is how Spotify controls where the money is going.

Even if someone was to only listen to less popular, independent music, they would still be paying the most listened to artists more.

The Internet dictates the pay and attention that cer-tain musicians do or do not get. Social media seems to decide who becomes popu-lar. Kanye West, Beyoncé, Adele, Taylor Swift, and Justin Bieber are a handful of the most popular musi-cians in the world.

All artists have a strong social media presence.

Since today’s generation of teens and college stu-dents have a common taste in music and use social me-dia every day, they amplify the media content of their favorite musicians.

Social media has a strangle hold on main stream music.

This means that bands and other genres that are still trying to survive in the music industry are being overlooked.

The Vortex, a music store on Third Street, is the only record store in Yam-hill County.

Before coming to McMinnville, the owners,

Bruce Laverne and assis-tant Aaron Schroeder, were in Longview, Washington. They came to McMinnville because McMinnville was an improving area eco-nomically.

Laverne and Schroeder said that they realized that they needed to sell and buy more accessories and novelties five years ago.

However, the Vortex currently sells about 50 percent music and 50 per-cent novelties.

The Vortex was able to stay afloat through the digital age by not overbuy-ing CDS and vinyl.

“Tower Records [for example], all of those major names, they couldn’t change fast enough to react to the changes in the market, and little stores tend to have the capac-ity to change a lot faster,” Laverne said.

Record stores are almost gone.

If physical music for-mats were to disappear, this will cut back record sales for everyone.

Some will be better off than others.

Kellie Bowen can be reached at linfeildreviewarts@gmail.com

10 • www.thelinfieldreview.com March 7, 2016Sports

’Cats win third straight match in conference play

By Sara LeveringStaff Writer

Linfield women’s tennis defeated Pacific 8-1, a famil-iar feeling for these Wildcats as they did the same two weeks prior but this time in Forest Grove.

In doubles action, Ella Riddle, ’18, and Elsa Harris, ’18, had a close match but came out with the win 8-6.

In second flight, Sierra Lemon, ’18, and Marisa Do-veri, ’18, won easily 8-2.

Finally, Marisa Kume, ’17, and Courtney Mostul, ’17, won in a close match 8-6 as well.

In singles, the highlight was Harris at the number

two position who made a three set comeback win for the Wildcats 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Riddle again topped the same opponent who she defeated two weeks ago, this time a bit closer though, clinching in straight sets 6-4, 7-5.

Kume also grabbed a victory fairly seamlessly winning 6-2, 6-4.

Lemon at the fifth singles position grabbed a victory 6-0, 7-5. Mostul cap-tured a victory as well with little complication, 6-1, 6-1.

“I think we played very tough against Pacific,” Lemon said.

“All of the matches were pretty much battles and we

managed to have the most grit and pulled them out,” she said.

On Elsa’s three-set comeback she commented, “Elsa demonstrated a lot of strength and determination in fighting for her match and clinching us the fifth match to win overall.”

The Wildcats improved 7-3 overall and 4-3 against Northwest Conference op-ponents.

Next weekend, the ’Cats face Whitworth at 11 a.m. on March 12 and Whitman at 10 a.m. on March 13.

Sara Levering can be reached at linfieldreviews-ports@gmail.com

By Sara LeveringStaff Writer

Linfield men’s tennis fell 9-0 to the Pacific University Boxers on a rainy Saturday afternoon. The Boxers re-main unbeaten in North-west Conference play.

Linfield had some great opportunities to earn team points.

The first chance was at the third doubles posi-tion consisting of Charlie Farrenkopf, ’17, and Carter Pentz, ’19, who battled back and fourth against Pa-cific’s duo but eventually fell 9-8, in a tiebreaker

At number two doubles, Tim Hawkins, ’16, and Trent Prussing, ’19, pushed toward a win but fell in an 8-4 loss. In top flight doubles, Ben McNair, ’18, and Jacob Mangan, ’19, were blanked 8-0.

In singles action, the Boxers won all six flights in straight sets.

Liam Spearnak, ’18, put up a great fight at number six before falling 6-3, 7-5. McNair also put up a good fight before residing him-

self 6-3, 6-2. Prussing in the two

singles position fell 6-1, 6-1. Pentz at third fell 6-0, 6-2. Mangan was defeated 6-4, 6-1 at number four and Farrenkopf fell 6-1, 6-1 at number five.

“Play went well, we did a good job of compet-ing, especially in doubles. Our two and three doubles had tight matches and put themselves in good posi-tion to win,” Mangan said.

“[The team] just needs to get better and we’ll get there,” Mangan said.

Head coach Ben Bel-letto said, “We competed well throughout the day, with chances at No. 2 and 3 doubles. We were up a break at two and lost three doubles in a tiebreaker.”

“We’re getting closer to being in that conversation and the opportunity to play with a lead,” he said.

Sara Levering can be reached at linfieldreviews-ports@gmail.com

Griffin Yerian/Staff Photographer

Men’s tennis falls to undefeated Boxers

By Ross PasseckStaff Writer

The men’s and women’s golf teams experienced bipolar weather conditions this weekend.

Saturday was a relatively easy day; come Sunday, team members found them-selves battling the elements.

Despite adverse weather conditions, the Wildcats managed to maintain con-sistent scores as a whole.

Sophomore Lucas Balala placed second on the team playing as an individual earning t-15th overall. He shot 77 Saturday and im-proved despite the torment of wind and rain to 75 on Sunday for a total of 152.

Logan Davis, ’18, and Kyle Hargrave, ’16, tied for third on the team with a score of 158 over the two days putting them both tied

for 30th in the tournament. The true story of this

tournament came in the form freshman Jackson Hval.

In his first away tourna-ment, Hval put on a display for the team, shooting 78 the first day and even par on the second.

A par round, which was made all the more impres-sive by terrible winds and a ball that hit the fairway but buried itself in the softened ground, forcing Hval to take another swing from the tee.

Overall, the team fin-ished sixth in the tourna-ment with a team total of 624 strokes. Olympic Col-lege placed first with a score of 577.

Meanwhile the women’s golf team placed 5th overall, 92 strokes behind the first place Whitman College with an overall score of 717.

Madeline Rice, 18, played consistently through the weather shooting an 86 on both Saturday and Sunday. Her score of 172 was the lowest on the team. 172 earned Rice 18th place in the tournament.

Tiana Yamaoka, 18, shot the second lowest on the team scoring 89 on Saturday and improving to 87 on Sun-day. Yamaoka was 4 strokes behind Rice with a 176 and came in tied for 21st.

With a sixth place finish from the men and a fifth place finish from the women both of Linfield’s golf teams have room for improvement with many capable players.

Ross Passeck can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Freshman golfer performs despite ’Cats team finish

Michaela Fujita/Staff PhotographerIsaac Grebisz, ‘19, finishes off the second hole at the Willamette Cup tournament.

Double partners Trent Prussing, ’19, and Tim Hawkins, ’16, consult with assistant coach Brent Kingzett in the tennis match against Pacific University on March 5.

Check out the Review’s website for updates,

previews and scores for all

Linfield athletic events.

SportsMarch 7, 2016 www.thelinfieldreview.com • 11

Wildcats takes series with dominant wins

Brasil bound for DIII nationals, hopes to make finals By Sara Levering

Staff Writer

For the second consecu-tive year, sophomore Victor Brasil will compete at the Division III National Cham-pionships.

This year, the meet will be held on March 16-20 in Greensboro, North Caro-lina.

Brasil is a two-time Northwest Conference champion in his best event, 100-yard breaststroke. Last year, he placed 18th overall.

This year he has quali-fied for the 100 breast and 200 breast.

He is ranked 15th re-spectively in the 100 breast.

Being the only swim-mer on Linfield’s squad to qualify, “Coach Kyle can focus and pay attention to just me,” Brasil said.

Brasil is hoping to im-prove immensely.

In preparation for nationals, he is swimming every day and working with weights a bit just for strength.

He is not swimming as many yards as he did during the season, but the quality of the yards he is swimming is making a dif-ference.

Brasil joked that he is old said, “my body doesn’t recover as fast now.”

He is focusing on endur-ance, which will come in handy, especially for the 200 breast.

In Brazil, he normally swims the 50 and 100 breast exclusively so adding the 200 breast is new to him.

“I intend to swim my best and see what hap-pens,” Brasil said about the 200 breast.

He has much higher hopes for his specialty event, the 100 breast. He hopes to place in the top eight, the finals.

“To qualify for top-eight, I am going to have to swim 55.40 [seconds] and to make top five, I have to swim 54.90,” Brasil said.

He said these two races are entirely different be-cause the “100 is swimming strong the entire race and

the 200 is a different pace.” During the season, in the

400 medley relay, he swam a 54.50 on the 100 breast leg so he is hoping to get a time similar to that.

“Victor is a great leader on the team,” Coach Kyle Kimball said.

He has encountered many challenges this year as an international student but has overcome them and has qualified for the second year in a row,” he said.

When asked what it would take for Brasil to qualify for the top eight, Kimball said, “Victor is doing some fine tuning cur-rently in the pool that we hope will help him swim a little faster at Nationals.

“He will enter the meet having the experience from being there last year and that will help.

“Victor just needs to swim confident and let it happen,” Coach Kimball said.

Sara Levering can be reached at linfieldreviews-ports@gmail.com Victor Brasil, ‘17, dives into the pool at the King County Aquatic Center during the NWC

swimming championships. Brasil will represent Linfield at D III nationals March 16-20.

By Joe Stuart Staff Writer Linfield baseball played

with a vengeance after dropping the first of their three game series in extra innings to the Lewis and Clark Pioneers (3-3, 7-9), routing the Pios in the second two games.

Game one’s 4-3 final through 10 innings was the first extra innings game for the Wildcats (5-4, 11-6).

Cal Neely, ’18, started for the Wildcats and threw eight innings. Striking out eight batters, he only allowed scoring in the second inning, when the Pios scored three runs off five hits.

Linfield’s offense came in small amounts, with three single-run innings.

Ryan Pladson, ’17, scored the first run for Linfield in the top of the

second, crossing home after a hit by Kekoa Kaulukuki, ’16, was turned into an error by Lewis and Clark third baseman Connor Eggleston.

Linfield catcher Jake Gellos, ’18, cut into the deficit singlehandedly with a solo home run in the fourth inning, making the score 3-2. It was Gellos’ first career home run as a Wildcat.

The Wildcats tied the score in the sixth inning, after Ryan Ross, ’18, scored, with David Mason, ’19, credited with the RBI. Kaulukuki also tried to score the go-ahead run on the play but was thrown out at home to end the inning.

Dylan Peters, ’18, was called in to pitch for Neely, entering the game in the bottom of the ninth inning.

After neither side scored in the ninth, Linfield was

not able to capitalize on two base runners, leav-ing two runners in scoring position.

In a dramatic, bases loaded situation in the bot-tom of the 10th, Lewis and Clark scored the winning run with Cameron Pater, who came in as a desig-nated hitter, scored off of a fielder’s choice for Linfield, giving the Pios the win in game one.

The Wildcats came back reenergized in game two, with Riley Newman, ’18, on the mound. Newman pitched his first complete game of the season, which was the first complete game by any pitchers on the Linfield staff.

Newman allowed five hits and had five strikeouts with two walks.

Linfield got off to a hot start, scoring seven runs in the top of the first inning, the most they have scored

in one inning this season.Four Wildcats recorded

RBIs in the first inning, with Mason recording two.

The immense offense led to 10 at-bats for Linfield, and Lewis and Clark being forced to pull their starter, Bradley Bourdase, for Jack Silva before the inning even ended.

Linfield scored again in the second, with Ben Andrews, ’18, slapping an RBI double to right field, scoring Eric Lawson, ’16.

Andrews was then able to score off a sacrifice-fly by Ross to put the ’Cats up 9-0.

Lawson continued to contribute to the scoring in the third inning, with a RBI single that brought home Finn McMichael, ’16.

Lawson would finish the game with four hits, three RBIs, and three runs scored.

Linfield would go quiet for most of the middle of the game, but finished strong with two runs in the eighth inning and three runs in the ninth.

Both runs in the eighth came from an RBI base-hit by Andrews, scoring Law-son and Scott Hilpert, ’18.

The explosive 15-2 win carried over into game three, where the Wildcats won in another dominant victory 9-0.

Cason Cunningham, ’19, got his third win after pitching four innings, with the final five being split between four relievers for the combined shutout.

The Wildcats scored in six different innings, and scored two runs in the first, eighth and ninth inning.

Linfield’s red hot of-fense saw five batters have a multi-hit game, with six recording at least one RBI.

Gellos was the only

Linfield player to record multiple RBIs, with two.

McMichael was one of the Wildcats with multiple hits, giving him 30 on the season. Through the series, McMichael now has a hit through every game of the season.

Linfield’s 11-6 record, with 5-4 in conference play, puts them at third place in the conference standings.

The Wildcats will hit the road next weekend with a trip to California. Their next game will be against Webster University, the first of a three game series.

The next Linfield baseball home game is on March 19 against Pacific University.Joe Stuart can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Joe Stuart can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.

Joe StuartStaff Writer

The Linfield softball team split their first two home games of the season on Saturday, beating the Willamette Bearcats (5-1, 5-1) 3-2 in game one in thrilling fashion, but losing game two 8-5.

The Wildcats (3-3, 6-4) sent Maddy Dunn, ’19, to the mound in the home opener, and Dunn recorded her third win of the season in her fifth appearance.

Dunn threw a complete game, allowing five hits with three walks and four strikeouts.

Both teams were score-less till the top of the fourth inning, when the Bearcats took a 2-0 lead.

Both runs were un-earned, with Willamette batters Steffany Dunn and Promise Burnett reaching and recording RBIs thanks to Linfield errors.

Things looked dire for Linfield late in the game, still down 2-0 going into the bottom of the seventh inning.

Jacinda Swiger, ’19, led off for the Wildcats and started off strong with a base hit.

Linfield then benefited from clutch power-hitting when Danielle Duman, ’18, homered to tie the game at 2-2.

It was Duman’s first home run of the season. Last year she hit a NCAA Division-III leading 20 home runs.

Following Duman’s

home run, it looked like the game could go to extra in-nings, with the next to Lin-field batters flying out.

But even with two outs, Linfield leadoff hitter Alis-sa Buss, ’17, was able to draw a walk. A single from Cheyenne Fletcher, ’18, put Buss in scoring position on second for Melanie Oord, ’18.

A quick single to right field from Oord was all Buss needed to score and give her team the win.

Game two saw early of-fense from both teams.

In the top of the first, Willamette was able to load the bases on Linfield pitch-er Brooke Chapman, ’18. Chapman then hit Bearcats leftfielder Danielle Saun-ders with a pitch to give Willamette their first run.

Victoria Bradshaw then came to the plate for Wil-lamette and singled to right field.

Strong defense from Lin-field only allowed one run on the bases loaded play, getting an out on a play at the plate.

Linfield’s lone run in the first came when Paige Smotherman, ’19, singled to bring in Fletcher who had doubled.

Willamette’s offense saw big production in inning two to extend their lead.

With runners on first and second, Bearcats catch-er Alex Shield singled, but an error by Linfield center-fielder Darian Stedman, ’19, allowed Shields to advance to third and score both base runners.

After allowing two more

base runners following Stedman’s error, and with still only one out, Chapman was pulled early for Shelby Saylors, ’19.

Saylors allowed one more run in the second in-ning off of a RBI base hit by Saunders to put Willamette up 5-1.

Thanks to sacrifice plays by Kenzie Schmoll, ’18, and Buss, Linfield was able to cut into the deficit and make the game close again at 5-3.

Linfield tied the game up when Erin Tauscher, ’18, hit a home run with Smoth-erman on base to make the game five all.

The Bearcats broke the tie in the fifth inning when Kathryn Moore hit a three-RBI double for Willamette to put them up 8-5.

It would be all Willa-mette needed to get the win, as the Wildcats could not rally in the final three innings.

A rubber match was scheduled for Sunday, but was canceled due to inclem-ent weather conditions.

Linfield travels to Geor-gia next weekend for the 2016 NFCA Division-III leadoff classic. They’ll start the tournament by playing Trine University.

When the Wildcats re-turn to the west coast, they will take on Pacific Univer-sity in Forest Grove, then return home for a series with Lewis and Clark.

Joe Stuart can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Linfield softball splits doubleheader, game three postponed

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BaseballNWC Overall

Whitworth 4-2 12-2Geroge Fox 6-3 10-7Linfield 5-4 11-6

Pacific Lutheran 5-4 9-8

Lewis and Clark 3-3 7-9

Pacific 4-5 8-9

Puget Sound 4-5 6-10

Willamette 3-6 8-10

Softball NWC Overall

Willamette 5-1 5-1

Whitworth 6-2 9-3

Pacific 6-2 14-5-1

Linfield 3-3 6-4

George Fox 4-4 7-5

Pacific Lutheran 3-4 11-6

Lewis and Clark 1-6 6-9

Puget Sound 1-7 1-11

Men’s TennisNWC Overall

Pacific 6-0 8-1

Whitman 4-0 6-3

Lewis and Clark 3-1 4-4

Whitworth 3-2 3-4

George Fox 1-2 2-4

Willamette 1-3 1-4

Linfield 1-4 2-7

Pacific Lutheran 1-4 0-4

Women’s TennisNWC Overall

Lewis and Clark 5-0 7-0

Linfield 4-1 7-3

Whitman 4-1 5-5

George Fox 3-1 4-2

Pacific Lutheran 3-2 4-3

Pacific 2-3 2-3

Whitworth 1-4 1-6

Willamette 0-5 0-5

Northwest Conference Rankings

Whitman 2-4 5-13

’Cats race to victories in first track meet

By Mickayla-Bay Washington

and Kaelia NealStaff Writers

As expected our Wildcats showed up and showed off at the annual Linfield Erik Anderson Memorial Icebreaker.

The invitational started with the 10,000-meters on Friday, March 4 and continued with the rest of the events on Saturday, March 5.

On the women’s side, Emma Knudson finished seventh place among 20 runners with a time of 39 minutes, 55.88 seconds and was the top Wildcat finisher in the 10k.

“My race went really well. I’ve always loved the atmosphere of the Icebreaker 10k. Having that support really pushed me through when my race got dif-ficult,” Knudson said.

Courtney Beard finished 10th in 40:50.71 and Sarah Rasmussen-Rehkopf finished 15th in 41:45.30.

All three women qualified for the conference meet, which will be on April 23 and 24 at Lewis and Clark.

Chris Roth led Linfield in the 10k with a time of 33:46.11 finish-ing 29th among 48 competitors. Chris Poole followed, placing

37th in 34:13.47 with Adrian Clif-ford close behind in 38th place in a time of 34:17.78.

Roth, Poole and Clifford all qualified for the conference meet. Freshman Calvin Ong placed 46th in his 10k debut in a time of 35:48.68.

The ’Cats started Saturday on the right foot by winning both the men’s and women’s 4X100-meter relay.

The women, who consisted of Dallas Edge, Madison Gladding, Brenna Gomez and Jade Everage, beat out runner-up Corban Uni-versity by finishing with a time of 49.22 seconds. Their time ties for seventh on Linfield’s All-Time Top 10 Records.

The men’s team, Kane Ken-nedy, Jake Mihelich, Ryan Orlan-dini and Spencer Payne bested the second place finisher, Pacific, by almost a full second with a time of 42.68.

Edge and Mihelich both per-formed exceptionally well as the anchors for the teams.

Edge also continued on to place first in both the women’s 100m dash and the 100m hurdles in 12.64 and 14.95.

Gladding, who also helped the ’Cats with the relay win, finished fourth in the women’s 100m in a time of 12.94.

Mihelich snatched the 200m

in a time of 21.44, which ties his personal best in that race.

It was no surprise the 2015 na-tional champion easily won the 400m dash by over a second. The exceptional time of 47.03 is a new personal record for Mihelich.

Mihelich said he “felt good about the performances yester-day” but he wanted to finally run 46 seconds in the 400m.

This coming weekend, Mihe-lich leaves to Grinell, Iowa for indoor nationals.

“Right now there is nothing else I can do to get faster before nationals. I just need to make sure I’m rested and ready to go,” Mihelich said.

“I have a strategy for both prelims and finals, so I am feeling confident. And obviously I want to win it all,” he said.

Kane Kennedy also ran well as he placed in the top-five in the men’s 200m with a time of 22.41.

Manuel Finley easily won his heat of the men’s 1500m run in a time of 4:04.74, which is over 15 seconds faster than the last 1500m he ran. He placed fourth overall in the 1500m.

Kaelia Neal also ran well in the 1500m by finishing fifth place overall in a time of 4:53.65.

Olivia Bannerot took the field placing second in the high jump at 1.53m and third in the

Madison Gladding is set in blocks for the 4X400-meter relay. Other team members included Olivia Ban-nerot, Rachael Gernhart and Taylor Petersen. The team finished fourth in a time of 4:10.37 seconds.

Lacrosse takes tough loss, team remains optimisticBy Malia Riggs

Staff Writer

The Linfield women’s lacrosse team had a tragic loss of 19-4 against Pacific on Saturday.

Pacific took control of the match right from the start, scor-ing within the first two minutes of the game and keeping the goals consistent throughout the match.

In the first half of the game the

Boxers scored 15 goals in com-parison to the ’Cats’ two.

The goals came from Kelsey Dammarell, ’16, and Mae Seifert, ’19.

“Kelsey and Mae always have a good game, they fight for the ball and never give up,” Kaylee Combs, ’19 said.

Dammarell had a great game with a grand total of three turn-overs, two caused turnovers and five shots on goal overall.

Seifert also had three shots on

goal, seven turnovers and three caused turnovers.

In general the team showed persistent defense throughout the match.

“We began to figure out our defense and adjust throughout the game,” Vanessa Van Horn, ’19, said.

Statistically, the ’Cats showed their defensive capabilities with 13 total saves by goal keepers Maria nelson, ’18, who had eight saves the first period and Rebecca

Kimball, ’18, who had five the second.

“Yesterday’s game was a great learning experience for us,” Van Horn said.

“Pacific is at the top of our league and they are a good pro-gram,” she said.

The second period of the game started off with the third goal of the match made by Seifert.

Although the Boxers contin-ued to bring the pressure, the ’Cats held their ground with

12 turnovers and five saves the second half.

“I think everyone gave it their best and went 100 percent the whole time,” Combs said.

Although Linfield had a dif-ficult loss, hopes are high for their next home game at 7 p.m. on March 8 against Berry College.

Malia Riggs can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Puget Sound 0-4 0-4 Puget Sound 0-5 0-8

Griffin Yerian/Staff PhotographerFreshman Mehana Sabado-Halpern competed in both the long jump and triple jump. She placed 10th in the long jump with a mark of 4.88 meters and seventh in the triple jump with a mark of 10.50 meters.

long jump at 5.15m.J.C. Grim also competed well

in the long jump, high jump and javelin as he had top-eight finishes in these events. His performance in the men’s long jump was the most notable as he placed second with a mark of 6.81m.

Olivia McDaniel had a top performance in the pole vault as she tied for second place with a height of 3.28m. Hayden Davisson competed well for Linfield in the pole vault as well by placing fifth with a height of 4.08m.

Rachael Gernhart was another top performer for Linfield as she placed fourth in the women’s triple jump with a mark of 10.63m

On the other side of the field Jeff Lieder put in a major effort, launching his shot put 14.15m, which turned into his first place ranking in the event.

“I felt really good about my performance. All the work in practice paid off,” Lieder said.

The meet has the ’Cats looking toward the rest of the season.

“Overall, I’d say the meet went well and we are all feeling ready to tackle our goals and finish out the season strong,” Knudson said.

Mickayla-Bay and Kaelia Neal can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

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