Approximately 5,000 people turned out for Canada’s “Defend our Coast” protests against tar sands, pipelines and tankers Oct. 22, including two Linfield stu-dents.

After reading about the event and hearing of others going, sophomore Andra Kovacs and junior Amanda Maxwell drove 11 hours Oct. 21 to Victoria, British Columbia, with another student

from the University of Oregon to protest against the tar sands, which is something that Kovacs feels fervently about.

“This issue is something that I feel incredibly passionate about doing whatever is in my power to stop it,” Kovacs said. “It was absolutely phenomenal to see so many people turn out for that.”

The three students first attend-ed training Oct. 21, in which they were designated to be marshals, a job that involved crowd control and dealing with the police and

media. They chose this job as to not risk getting arrested while in another country, Kovacs said.

Tar sands are a way of extract-ing oil that creates large deposits of oil that are damaging to the environment, Kovacs said. The extracting is happening in Cana-da on lands belonging to the first-nations people, which was the driving force of the protest that took place last week.

For students like Luis Figueroa-Mota, who works full-time to support a family, earning a bachelor’s degree is not only important to him but possible thanks to Linfield’s Adult Degree Program online.

Rising in popularity for stu-dents in similar situations to

Figueroa’s, Linfield’s online pro-gram experienced a 12 percent increase in enrollment this fall.

One reason Linfield’s program is so popular is because the school offers the “real” Linfield degree, whether students take courses on-campus or online. There is no distinction between the two methods of education or quality of the degree, said Janet Gifford, associate director of the Adult

Degree Program. In fact, one out of four Linfield

students completes their educa-tion through the Adult Degree Program, Gifford added.

“The benefits of online learn-ing are up to the individual stu-dent to evaluate for themselves. In my case, online classes are maybe even better because I am able to do the research and the learning without distraction,”

Figueroa said via email. Figueroa is majoring in mar-

keting, the newest major in the Adult Degree Program.

The program offers bachelor’s degrees in management, market-ing, accounting, nursing, inter-national business, and social and behavioral sciences. It also offers

“Experience brings learning,” Michael Vande Berg said, encour-aging students during a study abroad presentation Oct. 25 in Ice Auditorium.

As a speaker and trainer, Vande Berg encouraged students to acknowledge frames and spoke about how to handle ambiguity while abroad in the future in order to get the most out of their study abroad experiences.

“Simply going abroad is not a guarantee that students will gain those skills,” said Violeta Ram-say, associate professor of Modern Language-Spanish Language and Literature, via email. “They need to be fully prepared before depar-ture. They should know how they can effectively gain those desired skills.”

Through a series of activities, Vande Berg provided students with the opportunity to prepare them-selves with the necessary skills for studying abroad, including a better understanding of frames.

“[Frames are] ways that we perceive and organize the world,” Vande Berg said. “Those frames contain in them the emotional feel-ing, the certainty that the way that we perceive is the right way. And that conviction is very powerful.”

“Frames are not only a men-tal thing, but hugely emotional and behavioral,” Vande Berg said. “Coming into awareness and developing the capacity to frame shift offers us choices, it liberates us. The truth is, when we aren’t aware of this, we are locked into a way of thinking, a way of feeling, a way of acting.”

Vande Berg believes that in order to gain the most extraordi-nary studying abroad experience, students must know how to rec-ognize and react by frame-shifting.

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I think it’s important that we all keep the various areas of our lives balanced, a topic I mentioned in my last opinion article.

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about friend-ships and how it is essen-tial to keep them balanced as well.

When it comes to our friends, we have to give and take appropriately.

At the start of our first semester at Linfield, I’m sure many of us missed our family. It’s a little nerve-wracking to be surrounded by unfamiliar faces and feel the pressure to make new friends.

Being away at college can make you feel lone-some, but it probably wasn’t long until we made new friends who started to fill those lonely spaces.

It’s pretty widely under-stood that friends offer us great things. They improve everyday activities and special occasions alike.

They help us out, and we help them out in return.

However, sometimes I feel concerned about the pressure we put on our friends to make us happy, and vice versa. I think that college students treat their friends as stand-in family members.

And that’s OK, but only to a certain degree. We must remember that hav-ing friendships is a privi-lege. While friends can pro-vide the love and support that we’re missing from our families, we cannot depend on them to take care of us.

I frequently notice oth-

ers taking advantage of their friends. I hear nag-ging, whining and com-plaining, and think to myself how awful it would be to have to take care of another person while I feel like I can barely take care of myself.

I see people ask their friends to do their laundry, make them food, buy them things and the list goes on.

Asking for a little help is reasonable, but allocat-ing demands is selfish. I’ve seen girls be so upset about a friend not texting them back, I swear, you’d think the friend ran off with her boyfriend and got married.

I have to say it’s the negativity that really gets to me. Nobody wants to be around a negative Nancy, and nobody wants to be around someone who ruins a happy atmosphere.

So please, don’t be that person. If it’s been one of those days, venting to friends is normal and

acceptable. Just remem-ber that there is a fine line between venting and drag-ging others down with you.

I will be the first to admit I can be guilty of using my friends to assist me, and being much too negative at times.

We all go through phas-es of stress, and if you have good friends, they will understand. It’s just impor-tant not to drag out those stressful vent sessions. Spreading positivity is ideal, but nobody’s perfect, and acceptance is a large part of strong friendships.

Perhaps I’m just lucky that I have low-mainte-nance, balanced friendships because I have wonderful friends that put up with my scatterbrained traits.

I must acknowledge that each person has a different idea of the role friends play in their life. If an individual likes to have a more high-maintenance friendship, I just hope that they give as

much as they receive. It’s all well and good, as

long as you have a shared understanding of what you expect from each other.

I hate to be critical because I really do mean well. Friends are help-ful support systems, and I think it’s necessary that we all honor them with respect.

For those out there with friends who seem more like toddlers than college kids, perhaps you’ll agree with me.

Please just keep in mind that most college students are scrambling to keep their lives in order and may not have the time to dedicate everything to friendships.

Let’s all try to be posi-tive, and remember: just because you don’t have your mom’s parade to rain on at college, doesn’t mean you should rain on your friends’ instead.

Halloween is a time for kids to get dressed up and enjoy their time spent trying to get as much candy as pos-sible. Being at college, we are no longer exposed to the fun childlike side of Halloween.

Fortunately, students at Linfield have the opportu-nity to have a family-friend-ly Halloween away from home, while at the same time helping the McMinnville community. They do this by participating in Linfield’s annual trick-or-treating for McMinnville children.

“On October 31, the Residence Hall Association (RHA) members will lead the children around cam-pus to the designated rooms where the occupants [in cos-tume] will distribute candy. The trick-or-treating will start at 4 p.m. and goes until 7 p.m., but participants are able to take down their door

sign early if need be,” said Olivia Fragoso, a resident hall advisor.

However, some students have expressed their opinion that trick-or-treating in the dorms isn’t appropriate for little kids.

They believe that the col-lege students dress too scary, and in doing so, frighten the children. These people argue that it can be trau-matizing for children to see people dressed up because they can’t tell the difference between what is real and fake.

We disagree. We think that the annual trick-or-treat-ing is a great experience for McMinnville children and Linfield students. For many underpriveleged kids, the college is the only place that their parents can bring them to get candy. The college is safe in comparison to some

of the streets in McMinnville. Also, this is a great promo-tional activity for the college.

By exposing children and parents to the facilities, one day they might consider Lin-field in their future plans. It is also a great chance for Lin-field students to show that they care about the town they reside in.

“I used to baby-sit a lot in high school, so since being in college, I don’t get to spend as much time with kids, and I kind of miss it. This is a great opportunity to spend time in a family atmosphere that us college students are missing out on while being away from home,” sopho-more Riley Denson said.

However, those opposing trick-or-treating at Linfield do have a point that children can be easily frightened. This may seem obvious, how-ever, as college students who

celebrate a much more pro-vocative and scary adapta-tion of Halloween, we must remember that these are chil-dren we are giving candy to.

Don’t dress in pro-vocative or scary costumes because it isn’t appropriate for the kids. It could poten-tially give the college and its students a bad image.

If you want to keep the trick-or-treating going, it is crucial that you keep the costumes classy and age-appropriate.

Linfield’s trick-or-treat event ultimately helps kids have a fun and safe Hallow-een, while at the same time giving students a chance to do some good. Let’s keep this tradition around by keeping it family-friendly.

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For the past 12 years, music has been a huge part of my life, so much so that the two have become one in the same. While I’m sure everyone loves their partic-ular genre of music or the famous artist who wrote it, I think that music programs in schools are completely underrated by my peers.

Students should be more aware of how hard musi-cians on campus work and support their effort by going to more of the con-certs at Linfield.

Many of your favorite singers, DJs, and instru-mentalists started in a pro-gram at school or in the community, so it really is upsetting to see my fellow students not fully appre-ciating the music program here at Linfield. Some peo-ple seem to think that the music here is boring or that it isn’t their style, but there is a genre for everyone here.

You might not like clas-sical music from the choir and orchestra, but the band often plays jazz, and as we all know, Cat Cabs span

all the genres of music. One day, that really good soprano singer or awesome guitarist may be the next famous rock star.

Students disregard how beneficial being in a music class or activity can be, and I think that adults underes-timate this as well.

My experiences in orchestra have been some of my best to this day. It can teach a person how to express him or herself through a healthy outlet. It teaches memorization and is almost like learning another language. I think music is very helpful in developing cognitive skills.

“The musician is con-stantly adjusting deci-

sions on tempo, tone, style, rhythm, phrasing, and feel-ing—training the brain to become incredibly good at organizing and conduct-ing numerous activities at once. Dedicated practice of this orchestration can have a great payoff for life-long attention skills, intel-ligence, and an ability for self-knowledge and expres-sion,” said John Ratey in “A User’s Guide to the Brain.”

“Learning and perform-ing music actually exercises the brain—not merely by developing specific music skills, but also by strength-ening the synapses between brain cells… What is impor-tant is not how well a stu-dent plays but rather the simultaneous engagement of senses, muscles and intellect.

Brain scans taken dur-ing musical performances show that virtually the entire cerebral cortex is active while musicians are playing. Can you think of a better exercise for the mind? In short, making music actively engages the

brain synapses, and there is good reason to believe that it increases the brain’s capacity by increasing the strengths of connections among neurons,” said Nor-man Weinber in “The Music in Our Minds.”

I think it is complete-ly ignorant when people don’t recognize how hard musicians in a school set-ting work. Just because we aren’t famous doesn’t mean we don’t spend hours try-ing to make each piece per-fect.

Just because our music program might not get as much media attention or national recognition as another program here at Linfield doesn’t mean we aren’t working hard and achieving a lot, because we definitely are.

I think students should be a little more aware of how hard musicians work, as well as show support for the music program at Linfield by attending more performances on campus.

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If you weren’t aware, the nice sunny, warm weather of our perfect Oregon sum-mer is gone. This means rain, cold and miserable grey skies for the foresee-able future.

Now, there are many ways to combat this harsh weather. Beanies, jackets and pants are the typical clothing items for most of us to stay warm for the five to 10 minute walk from our rooms to class.

Although these items cover the majority of our bodies, there is still one very sensitive area left unprotect-ed: our feet.

Socks and shoes do a

somewhat adequate job of keeping our 10 toes away from the elements, but noth-ing does this better than wool socks.

Wool socks are excellent at keeping feet warm and cozy. The socks are thick enough to keep feet warm, even worn with slip-on san-

dals, when temperatures drop into the “I don’t want to get out of bed” range. We all wear sweatshirts and sweatpants as we venture out to class, so it only makes sense that our feet get the same lazy, warm conditions.

Another amazing quality of wool socks is their ability to keep feet at the perfect temperature.

Never have I worn wool socks and thought, “My feet are way too warm.” Wool socks keep feet per-fectly insulated at an ideal temperature, making the experience like a little slice of heaven wrapped around your feet.

Many of our athletes even wear wool socks while participating in practices and other extracurricular activities, like intramural sports. With this in mind, overheating of the feet is just an unnecessary worry.

I have heard, while hav-ing discussions on this great piece of clothing, there is a stigma that wool socks are not cool, or even unfash-ionable. These accusations are outrageous and unin-telligent. Some of the most impressive looking socks I have ever seen are wool socks.

There are an infinite amount of wool sock

designs, and depending on what you picked out of your wardrobe in the morning, there is definitely a quality pair of wool socks to com-plement your outfit.

Now, if you are still in the minority that continues to believe wool socks do not look good, there is another option. Wear those comfort-able, lovable socks, and put your pants over the top of them.

Your friends and peers will be unable to see the wool socks, but your feet will remain cozy and your mind will be at ease know-ing you aren’t committing a fashion sin.

For those young women who choose to wear yoga pants to class, there is anoth-er sensible option for you to pursue. Sheepskin boots are a great tool for keeping your disastrous fashion deci-sion hidden from curious onlookers.

Your feet will be in a delightful trance while you can still strut your stuff without any distress of judgment.

So next time you are in a rush for class, don’t forget the most important choice of your clothing ensemble: wool socks.

Every year, the American adolescent will watch roughly 360,000 ads on television that try to sell anything from car insurance to body wash and everything in-between.

Some make us laugh with their wise talking Australian geckos, or make us somber when starving children and animals, and most recently, politicians, ask us for money.

Commercials not only affect how we spend our money, but also affect how we feel about others and our-selves.

Companies will spend anywhere from a few hun-dred dollars for a short local ad, to an estimated $2.4 mil-lion for 30 seconds on Super bowl Sunday.

It is understandable that people want to know the facts in some commercials, such as prices of cars, when Macy’s is having a sale and where they can get the new age-defying skin cream.

But why should pharma-ceutical companies tell the public why they need to take a product?

The people behind these persuasive ads are more interested in making a profit with their product than actu-ally helping the buyer. Doc-tors should know the best medication for their client and whether it is necessary.

They should be the ones telling their patients about the new diabetes testers or revo-lutionary new sleeping pills, not the commercials trying to shove their new product down your throat.

On the commercials, after the person has taken the “mir-acle drug,” they are happy and healthy, which makes the viewer even more excited to try it. This person is also usu-ally thin and self-confident.

Most commercials include the phrase “then ask your doctor about the drug.” So the

doctor is only present to write the prescription.

Then, the commercials are followed by a long stream of warnings and limitations said too quickly for the listener to comprehend. There is a rea-son for the incline of addic-tions and crime related to prescription drugs. Prescrip-tion drugs have become the biggest cause of drug-related deaths.

Not all of these people are the shady criminals that you would expect. A large num-ber of these deaths are from people who are taking medi-cation for a valid reason, and the overdose is accidental.

Children are growing up with the idea that problems can easily be fixed with pills. If they ever become over-weight, pills are the answer, not a healthy lifestyle.

More and more, people are looking to pills for the answers. In the future, this may lead people to believe that they won’t be able to do anything for themselves.

Why is it okay to advertise products like Viagra, or Cialis on national television where it can be viewed by any age group, including children?

It is not as bad when over the counter drugs are adver-tised because that is one of the best ways to inform indi-viduals about their warnings. However, prescription drugs belong in the doctor’s office, not our living rooms.

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Guest speaker DaveStraube shared his book,“Someday is Not a Plan,”with students and fac-ulty Oct. 25 in NicholsonLibrary’s Reading Room,revealing financial advicegeared toward people intheir20s.

“SomedayisNotaPlan”provides financial advicein a “no graphs, no charts”manner, while followinga conversation between20-somethingLarry andhisUncleRoger.

“It’s supposed to be aneasyread,”Straubesaid.“Ina nutshell, it’s a financialcoming-of-agestory.”

After experiencing hisown financial blunders asa young adult, Straubewasinspired towrite “SomedayisNotaPlan”whenhereal-ized that his children, nowin their 20s, had limitedknowledge of finance, justasheoncehad.

“Because of that lack ofeducation, I made everymistakeinmoneythatcouldbe made,” Straube said.“Part of the lessons in mybookarefrommyownlife.”

Straube’s “tongue-in-cheek and serious talk”stressed the importance ofstarting financial awarenessimmediately.

“Thelongeryouwait,the

moreit’sgoingtohurtyouinthe longrun,”Straubesaid.“People focus toomuch onthe short term and need tofocusonthelongterm.”

Straube explained his“Seven Rules of FinancialSuccess,” emphasizing theimportance of thinking

ahead,with“TaketheLongView”beinghisfirstrule.

“You have to get in thegameearlyandbeawareofwhatyou’redoingfinancial-ly,”Straubesaid.

Straube talk also includ-edfivewaystobuildwealth.He shared tips that helped

him become financiallyaware.

“Ask successful peoplequestions,”Straubesaid.“Inour culture, people aren’tcomfortable sharing theirfinancial information, butare willing to share theirfinancialknowledge.”

Additionally, Straubeencouraged audiencemem-bers to strive to educatethemselves.

“Ireadonefinancearticleperweek,”Straubesaid.

He also encouraged theaudience to read two finan-cialbooksayear.

“Be a financial studentforlife,”Straubesaid.

Formore informationonDaveStraubeandhisbook,“Someday is Not a Plan,”visit somedayisnotaplan.com

Dave Straube (left) speaks with a Linfield audience member after discussing with students the seven steps for financial independence.

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He conveyed this messagethrough three interactiveactivities.

“Acommonthemeamongthe activities was introduc-ingyou to theexperienceofwhatweashumanbeingsdoallthetime,whichisframe,”VandeBergsaid.“[By]intro-ducing this as a possibil-ity,wecanframe-shiftifwewant to and know that thisactionisinourcontrol.

“You’ve heard that peo-ple who are interculturalare really good at toleratingambiguity,”VandeBergsaid.“What [these activities] didwaspresentuswithambigu-

ity.Thewayweactinsitua-tionsof ambiguity tellsus alotaboutwhoweare.”

Havinganunderstandingofframeswillleadtoamorerewarding study abroadexperience, Vande Bergemphasized.

During his presentation,heprovidedalotofinforma-tion to audience membersbut there were a few mainpoints he hoped studentstookaway from the90-min-utepresentation.

“At least an increasedawarenessthatweashumanbeings frame, that’s the firstthing,”hesaid.“Thesecondthing, the idea that frame-shifting is possible and in[one’s]control.”

Sophomore Cody Pur-chase, who plans to studyabroadinJapannextfall,feltthat he had especially ben-efitedfromthepresentation.He has previously been toJapan,JordanandCostaRica.Hewasabletoreflectonhispast experiences while con-sideringthenewinformationVandeBergpresented.

“The presentation wasawesome,” Purchase said.“It gave me ways to recog-nize my own behavior andbetterit,aswellasthingstoconsider.ItorganizedallthethingsIhadfeltbeforeintoaconceptIcanrememberandhopetoutilize.

“InJapan,Ihadnoticedasortofpoliterestraintorlack

ofopeningupamongmanyof the people I met,” Pur-chasesaid.“Itwasnotimpo-litebutitdidmakemealittlehesitant,makingmewonderif I had perhaps said some-thing offensive or there hadbeen a miscommunicationof sorts. I eventually foundoutitisjustaculturalnorm.Asmoretimewentby,Iwasable to talk about more in-depththingsandwebecamefriendlier together. At firstthey were simply honoringme as their guest, but lateron,asIwantedittohappen,Ibecamemoreofapartofthefamily.”

Purchaseunderstandstheimportanceofframe-shiftingfromhisownfirsthandexpe-

riences and encourages hisfellow students to take noteonVandeBerg’sexpertise.

“One important point ofthis presentation was thepowerof thehumanbrain,”hesaid.“Notonlycanitpickup on such minute differ-ences and apply them to itsown “frame” of life, but itcanalso(withtime,patienceandpractice)becomeamoreglobally-minded brain, oneable to shift more lucidlyfrom frame to frame in thecontext ofdifferent cultures.Once you are able to trulyaccept a culture in thisway,youwilllearnmorethanyouwouldeverbeabletobysee-ingthetemples,ancientruins[andsoon].”

At the end of the night,students like Purchasewereglad they attended the pre-sentation.

Vande Berg trained stu-dents in such a way thatwould help them have themost fun and best learningexperience possible whileabroad.

“[With the ability toframe-shift]youwillcomeascloseasyoucangettoactu-allybeinganembodimentofthe culture,” Purchase said.“Maybeevenbeable to feeltheculturefromwithin,rath-erthanjustseeingitfromtheoutside.”

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two post-baccalaureate cer-tificates in accounting and human resource manage-ment.

Gifford said that enroll-ment increases are taking place in the majors that are related to family-wage jobs in those fields.

The increase in online learning is becoming a national trend.

“Adults know they need a college degree in order to get ahead,” Gifford said. “Students come into the program already knowing what they want to major in. They are more career-focused.”

The average age for stu-dents going through the Adult Degree Program is 38. The majority of these students already have jobs and family obligations, Gif-ford said.

Apart from offering the same quality of degrees to online students, Linfield also offers each student his or her own academic adviser. This adviser helps in mapping out the best

approach in pursuing a degree, Gifford said.

“Linfield has taken the best of what it is known for and provides the same ser-vices to students online,” Gifford said. “Advisers take the time and attention to support students.”

Students also have access to e-tutoring, library services and career services.

Some students even go abroad. For instance, more students working toward their Registered Nurse degrees are doing clinicals internationally, in places like Africa, Central Ameri-ca and Asia.

Typically, students take about eight credits per semester, participate in a January Term course, which runs for five weeks, and continue classes through the Summer Term.

“Most students think of their education as 12 months a year,” Gifford said. “The students who choose Linfield’s program want to excel. They have a higher level of expectations for the courses.”

The Defend our Coast action was one of the big-gest peaceful civil disobedi-ences that Canada has ever seen, according to Kovacs.

It involved going to the legislative building in Vic-toria, British Columbia, and filling the lawn in front of the building with protest-ers, a stage and black tarps that were approximately 770 feet long. They rep-resented the tankers that were used to transport the oil from the tar sands. Tank-ers are also a large threat to the environment because they take a large amount of excess energy to transport the tar sands.

“The possibility of the tankers leaking or some-thing going wrong with them is huge,” Kovacs said.

Protesters then proceed-ed to write messages on the tarp, a majority of them targeting two specific leg-islatures believed to have a large amount of power over what’s happening with the tar sands and to be abusing this power.

After setting up the pro-test, those who had turned out sat in solidarity around the legislative building in front of the tarp “tanker” and listened to speakers while the day progressed.

“It was hugely success-ful. Everything went flaw-lessly,” Kovacs said. “See-ing how well organized it was was incredible—it was really inspiring.”

Although police showed up for the protest, in the end there were no arrests made. They helped the pro-testors block off the main

street in front of the leg-islative building with the tarp and handed out candy throughout the event.

“It was amazing, there were no problems whatso-ever,” Kovacs said. “I’ve never gotten to be a part of such a huge-scale direct action before, and being able to do that for the first time with something that I feel so passionately about. It was absolutely phenom-enal.”

In addition to being involved with the tar sands

protests, Kovacs is also involved on campus as the service and sustainabil-ity coordinator, director of communications and pub-licity for Change Corps, member of Greenfield, member of the Advisory Committee for Environ-ment and Sustainability, and coordinator of the TAP That campaign.

Outside of Linfield, Kovacs also has recently become involved with the Sierra Student Coali-tion, which had helped her

become more involved in environmental issues on a national level.

“It was a really unique experience to get to see environmental activism taking place internationally and getting to see that per-spective too,” Kovacs said. “The empowering energy that I got from that made me so inspired, so alive and so ready to really create change here at Linfield.”

October 29, 2012 www.linfieldreview.com • 5News

A war veteran and wil-derness-lover shared his stories of grizzly bears and Vietnam with a book read-ing Oct. 23 and a lecture Oct. 24. Through his tales, Doug Peacock presented an urgent message about con-serving the Earth.

“He’s close friends with some of my heroes, and he’s one of my own heroes,” said David Sum-ner, assistant professor of English, before introducing Peacock.

Peacock is a nationally known author and envi-ronmental crusader. He has written several memoirs about his experiences in the wild and at war. He is also a strong advocate for pre-serving the environment, saying his legacy is the wil-derness and importance of conserving it. Peacock calls the environmental issues

today the real war of the world.

“No one is talking in these election days about the things I think are impor-tant: the health and econo-my of the planet,” Peacock said. “This underlies all human activities and what supports it. We’re not tak-ing a good look at what lies in the survival of our spe-cies: our planet, which is really in peril.”

Peacock quit college multiple times after every semester because he felt uncomfortable out of the wild. He wasn’t married or a full-time student, so after dodging the draft three times, he finally decided to enlist. He enjoyed the Central Highlands, which he describes as the most beautiful mountain range in Vietnam, but he looked at his map of Yellowstone almost every night.

“The war wasn’t always terrible. I loved the country,

I loved the people,” Pea-cock said.

After returning from the Vietnam War, where he served as a Green Beret

Medic for two years, Pea-cock found solace in the wilderness where he belonged. He headed back to the western wild, fre-quenting the Rocky Moun-tains and Yellowstone.

“I came back feeling out

of sorts, and I couldn’t be around people,” Peacock said.

Peacock took his refuge camping in the Yellowstone

wilderness, where he wit-nessed his first mother griz-zly bear.

He was soaking in a hot spring and trying to break a fever when he saw the bear and her cubs standing a mere 250 feet away. He

tried to escape and blacked out from the severe temper-ature change, smacking his head. He came to, climbed a tree and waited for them to go away, hoping they wouldn’t notice him, bleed-ing and freezing in the tree.

“So I started hanging out with the grizzlies,” Peacock said.

In 1968, he tracked an alpha grizzly for months. He became an advocate for the grizzlies when they were in trouble in Yellow-stone.

He filmed the bears and wrote about them, mak-ing their plight known to the public. He appeared on many national televi-sion shows and even took Arnold Schwarzenegger to see the bears, all in attempts to save them.

Author Edward Abbey, Peacock’s longtime friend and fellow environmental-ist, has said, “Now, more than ever before, the only

thing I can see worth saving is wilderness.”

Abbey and Peacock spent months together in the wilderness. Peacock was the inspiration for Abbey’s character George Washington Hayduke in his book “The Monkey Wrench Gang.” Abbey described Peacock as a “determined and crazy Vietnam vet.”

When Abbey died, Pea-cock and a few other friends buried him in the South-west Arizona desert in an illegal grave. After digging it, Peacock laid in the grave to determine if it was right. He decided it was meant to be when he saw Abbey’s spirit animal, the vulture, circling overhead.

“The lines between life and death had blurred for me,” Peacock said. “The real Hayduke was buried.”

Kelsey SuttonManaging editor

Kelsey Sutton can be reached at linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com.

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Author, veteran focuses on environment

Sophomore Andra Kovacs (left), junior Amanda Maxwell (center) and University of Oregon student Emma Newman (right) drove 11 hours to Canada to participate in protests against tar sands harming the environment Oct. 22.

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No one is talking in these election days about the things I think are important: the health and economy of the planet.

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Students, relatives enjoy Family Weekend

Freshman Morgan Gerke won the Alpha Phi Sorority Star Search on Oct. 26 with her country singing.

Families talk with representatives from different colleges during Linfield’s campus meet and greet Oct. 27 in Riley Hall.

Students and families gathered together for a barbeque Oct. 27 in the upstairs gymnasium in the Health, Human Performance and Athletics building.

Kate Straube/Photo editor

Make a Difference Day gives back to the community

On Oct. 27, upwardsof 150 people, consistingof individuals from theLinfield community andsurrounding area, joinedtogetherandsetouttoservethe greater community,taking part in the annualMakeaDifferenceDay—thenational day of helping intheU.S.thatwascreatedbyUSAWeekendMagazine.

“MakeADifferenceDayis the most encompass-ing national day of helpingothers. It is a celebrationofneighbors helping neigh-bors,” said Monique Ellef-son,VISTAstudentengage-mentcoordinator.

After an 8 a.m. checkin, the event began with akick-off in the Fred MeyerLounge.

Once in their volunteergroups, the participantstraveledtotheirprojectsitesaround Yamhill County toserve at a number of dif-ferent organizations andagencies, such as SalvationArmy, McMinnville SeniorCenter,Habitat forHuman-ity Restore, YCAP and theMcMinnville coat drive tonameafew.

“This year we have abunch of new sites thatwe’re very excited about,andagreatdealof familiesandgroupssignedup,”saidsophomore Andra Kovacs,director of communicationand publicity for Change

Corps, inanemail.“Wearejustnowbeginningtobuildsolid sustainable partner-ships with, for example,Hearthland Sanctuary andtheMcMinnville Center forCommunitySubsistence.”

AccordingtoKovacs,thealready strong support forMake a Difference Day inthe Linfield community is

continuingtogrow.“Wecontinuetoseemore

andmoreinterestinserviceatLinfield,andwiththepasttwo service days, we havehadmorepeople registeredthanwehavespots,”Kovacssaid. “In Change Corps,we’recontinuallylookingtoimprove,andsofarwehavereallyharnessedthatgoal.”

Onevolunteergroupthatmade that goal possible,including junior KristenUrsino,memberofMEChAwithLCLA/MEChA,servedMillerWoods.

“Therewere about 20 ofus to help out in the greenhouse and clean up MillerWoods.We helped fill con-tainers to plant acorns,

which would become oaktrees, planted plants nativeto the Pacific Northwestandhelpedtorecyclesoil,”Ursinosaid.“Overall,itwasagreatexperiencebecauseIwasabletogetoffcampustohelpoutinthecommunity.”

“Engaging with yourcommunityissuchanessen-tialpartoflifeandcanreally

change a persons’ collegeexperience in a positiveandbeautifulway,”Kovacssaid.

For more informationabout Make a DifferenceDay and getting involved,contactMoniqueEllefsonatmellefso@linfield.edu.

Chrissy ShaneFeatures editor

Chrissy Shane can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com.

Linfield students participate in Make a Difference Day on Oct. 27 with more than 150 people from the community joining together to serve in areas around Yamhill County, such as the Salvation Army, McMinnville Senior Center, Habitat for Humanity Restore and YCAP.

Kate Straube/Photo editor

Joel Ray/Senior photographer

Joel Ray/Senior photographer

October 29, 2012 www.linfieldreview.com • 7Features

Rocker

M.D.

by night

(in training)

by day

nstructors in anatomy labs spend a lot of their work hours clutching a scalpel. But in his off hours, Linfield’s Chris Hernandez likes to trade his scalpel for an instrument of a very different kind — an orange Turtex gui-tar pick.You would never guess it as he hoists a bag of frozen cat cadavers in his lab at Linfield, but he is simultane-ously harboring a pair of seemingly incongruous dreams — becoming a medical examiner as his weekday gig and a professional musician as his weekend gig.

Hernandez, who graduated from Linfield in 2009 with a degree in athletic training, landed a job in Linfield’s anatomy lab in the spring of 2011. It’s ideal training for someone bent on earning his M.D. and becoming a medical ex-aminer. During the week, you can find him in the lab, wearing faded blue PF Flyers, a pair of Carhart jeans and seafoam green medical gloves. Armed with a scalpel, probe and tweezers, Hernandez helps current Linfield students navigate their way through the masseter muscles of freezer-burned felines. He can brief students with consummate ease on the muscles that allow our mouths to masticate food. Hernandez spends his weekends at venues like the Jackpot Recording Studio or the McMenamins White Eagle Saloon, playing guitar with Jack Ruby Presents. He can tune up his Fender Telecaster and churn out a rendition of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” with the ease that only comes with long experience and lots of prac-tice. The band consists of a coterie of Linfield students who first played together at a campus concert in the fall of 2007. “We had all been involved in groups during high school,” Hernandez said, “and we were all kind of missing it.” During Thanksgiving break of Hernandez’s sophomore year, Jack Ruby Presents went on tour, playing eight shows at venues along the West Coast. “I can’t remember who it was now, but somebody was sick on the trip,” Hernandez said. “By the time we played our Wednesday night show at the Caldera in Ashland, the vocals were severely lacking.” But the band went on to have a lot of success. As it experienced its fifth anniversary Oct. 25, it was also preparing for the release of its second album, “Pale Road.” “Every once and a while I’ll get an email from a student who addresses me as ‘Professor Hernandez’ because they don’t know me in person,” he joked, “and that kind of freaks me out.” Hernandez says that he enjoys “working with other people who enjoy what they’re working on and who they’re working with.” He also says that he has become more comfortable since he doesn’t know as many of the students in his classes, as he did when he first started teaching last spring. As far as these two different parts of Hernandez’s life go, he says there is little overlap between them. He doesn’t see much intertwining of the two big parts of his life, but says that he would one day like to record a song with some lyrics inspired by his work with the human body. Chris Hernandez is yet another representation of the dynamically diverse faculty and staff at Linfield College. Many have interests and passions that fall outside of their departmental designations. Hernandez, along with his band,

performed at the Pro Cat Cab on Oct. 25 in the Fred Meyer Lounge, exactly five years after the band’s inaugural meeting.

Nic Miles/For the ReviewChrissy Shane/Features editor

Chris Hernandez (left) performs with his band, Jack Ruby Presents during a 2010 Cat Cab.

Photo courtesy of Katie Paysinger

Anatomy Lab instructor, Chris Hernandez, class of ’09.

Nic Miles can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com

The 1,000-mile trek from their reservation in Southern Montana to Oregon has been one of the biggest jour-neys the Linfield women of the Northern Cheyenne tribe have ever embarked on. In their first time this far away from home, freshmen Nicole Wilson and twins Arianne and Julianna King set out on a new life adventure this fall. The Northern Cheyenne tribe sits on the 444,000-acre reservation and is made up of multiple towns, but is centered around Wilson’s hometown of Lame Deer, Mont. Julianna and Arianne King both lived in the neighbor-ing town of Busby. While the entire reservation is made up of almost 4,939 people, Lame Deer is the home to the majority of the reservation with 2,052 people, according to the 2010 census. The three had to travel off the reservation to attend school, often times traveling up to an hour every morning. “We did this for 12 years,” Wilson said. “I’d have to be on the bus by 7 a.m. or I wouldn’t make it.” With the towns on the reservation being small, there wasn’t always a lot to do for Wilson and the King sis-ters. “Since there wasn’t much to do, we all played sports throughout school,” Arianne King said. “That took up a lot of time, especially with commuting back and forth.” Other than school activities, the three participated and attended pow-wows. “There’s a big [pow-wow] every year on Fourth of July,” Julianna King said. “There’s dances and other per-formances to watch. A lot of people come from all around. It’s just like a big [gathering], where people come back after they moved away, and we get to see a lot of friends and family.” Both Arianne and Julianna King used to dance in the pow-wows when they were younger. “We both used to jingle dance, until we grew out of our outfits,” Julianna King said.

Although the three freshmen grew up to-gether on the small reservation, they were sur-prised by the differences between their home and Oregon. “It was a big shock,” Arianne King said. “We were used to a place where everything was so spread out. There are highways to take you to one point to another.” Coming from an area that doesn’t have consistent cell phone service, the busyness of the cities they’ve encountered has made for an exciting transition.

“The community [back home] is very

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Native pride builds community at Linfield

Photo courtesy of Nicole Wilson

(Left to Right) Freshmen Julianna King, Nicole Wilson and Arianne King are all graduates of Colstrip High School, class of 2012.

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October29,2012 • 9Features

tight-knit,” Arianne King said. “There, everyone knows what’s going on with everyone.”

“Everyone is also related to everyone,” Wilson said. While knowing each other most of their lives, Wilson and the

King sisters are all looking at following similar paths. All consider nursing as a possible major, but the three are still

undeclared. The biggest difference they’ve found is the lack of other Native Americans nearby.

“I’ve noticed there are not that many Natives around here,” Arianne King said. “I’m not used to it, because we used to

be surrounded by only Natives.” The three Cheyenne women are all members of the new Native American Student Association. “It’s made for a big transition,” Julianna King said. “But it’s a fun experience. I like getting to meet all the new people. It’s different, but I like it.”

Photo courtesy of Tommy Robinson

Pow-wows are a time when people from all over come and celebrate their culture.

Photo courtesy of Ann King

(Left to Right) Arianne King and Julianna King compete in a Cheyenne pow-wow at 3-years-old.

Nesaa’evatonesenehele vo’estaneheveheme-

tsemehaehesevo’estanehevetse. Tsemona’e vo’estanehevestotse

netosehene’enanone. Netaveestanonestse moxeestonemdheon-

dtse, nonohpa Neka ‘esko nehamaneo ‘o tseohketsehe’ohtseo ‘o.

Naa tsetdhene’enanove he’tohe tsemona’e vo’estanehevestotse.

We can no longer live the way we used to. There is a new way of life that we are go-

ing to know. Let us ask for schools, that way our children can attend them and learn this new way of life.

— Chief Dull Knife (Vooheheva)

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Mentalist Craig Karges mystifies audience with use of ESP

Communication or per-ception by means otherthan the physical senses.ThisishowLinfieldActivi-ties Board’s performer,Craig Karges, introducedhisperformanceOct.27.

As a mentalist, heexplained the importanceof extrasensory perception(ESP).

“EverythingbasedinthemindisESP,”Kargessaid.

Forhisfirstacts,hehadastudentfromtheaudiencelook through a book andpick a word. Then Kargestried to guess the selectedword.Hewroteonawhiteboard theword“photogra-pher,”andthenthestudentreplied that his word wasphotograph. The audiencewasspeechless.

Next,heputonablind-fold and asked a girl tobring up a Linfield photoI.D.,whichshedid.Hewasabletodescribethegirlpic-tured in the I.D.’s smile,hairandearrings,followedbyhername,onlybyhold-ingitinhishand.

With the blindfold stillon, Karges had a student

putametalspikeunderoneoffourStyrofoamcups.Hewas able to accurately tellwhichStyrofoamcuphadametalspikeunderit.Atthispoint in the performance,manystudentshadpuzzledlooksontheirfaces.

For his next act, he hadpeople write down theirname, birthday and a ran-

dom word or phrase on apiece of paper, then holdontoit. Heeasilyguesseda girl’s birthday and theword that she had chosen,“dolphin.”

A student had writ-ten down the phrase “NotSlytherin, not Slytherin,”whichKargesguessedper-fectly,aswellasthephrase

“Nerdy Star Trek guys.”Afterheguessedthephras-es correctly, students wereontheedgeoftheirseatsinamazement.

Perhapsoneofhismostastounding acts startedwith the phrase, “I amgoing to manipulate theblock of wood.” He set asmallblockofwoodslantedagainst a book.Hewalkedaway and began trying tomoveit.Sureenough,afterabout10seconds,theslant-ed block of wood sat upstraight.

“He’sawitch,”anaudi-encememberyelledout.

Later,Kargesbroughtupastudenttohelphimmoveawoodtable.Withnomag-netsorglue,theywereabletohavethetablemove,lev-itateandfloatwithonlythetips of his fingers makingcontactwith the top of thetable. At one point Kargeswasholding the tablewithjust the tips of his fingersof one hand. The audiencewasinpureastonishment.

He then called forfour random students todescribe their perfect car.The first student repliedwith a new Camaro. Thesecond described its color

as forest green. The thirdannouncedthelicenseplateas MP171, and the fourthlisteditspriceat$56,112.75.He then reached into hispocket, pulled out a noteandhad a random studentreaditaloud.

“Today I will visit Lin-fieldCollege. Iwill ask forfour students to describea car. It will be a forestgreenCamaro,licenseplateMP171andcost$56,112.75.”

The audience was leftspeechless by the identicaldescriptions.

Forhislastpresentation,KargeshadDanFergueson,director of college activi-ties,bringuphischeck.Hethen put it in an envelopeandputtworandompiecesofpaperintwootheriden-tical envelopes. He had astudent randomly numberthe envelopes and shufflethembehindhisback.Thenhehadthestudentpickoneenvelopetoholdonto.

Kargesthenputtheoth-er two envelopes througha portable paper shredder.He promised Linfield Col-lege that in the event thathehadshreddedhischeck,therewouldbenoneedforthemtopayhim.Finally,he

had the student open theenvelope and, in fact, hischeckwasinit.

Itwasclearbytheaudi-ence’s reaction that theshow was a huge success.Some students were stillskeptical of some of theacts,buttherewasnoclearanswer as to how theycouldbefabricated.

“During the wholeshow,Iwasthinkingaboutthesciencebehindhisacts.Itmakesyourethinkevery-thing we know about thehuman conscience,” juniorStephanieStovallsaid.

On the weekend beforeHalloween, the LinfieldActivates Board succeededinmystifyingstudentswiththeirperformer.

“We use 10 to 20 per-centofourmind. It ispos-sible to communicate withour minds and see thingswithout our eyes,” Kargessaid. “What capabilitiesdoyou holdwith yourmind?Technology is wonderful,butthemostamazingcom-puterisourmind,anditisonly limited by your ownimagination.”

The chance to studyabroadopensculturaldoorsfor Linfield students everyyear, bringing new oppor-tunities, as well as excitingnew experiences. Travelingacross the Atlantic Ocean,American and French stu-dents prepare for the cul-tural differences they findwaiting when they land inFranceandAmerica.

Although there are notmany customs in FrancethatAmericansfinddifficultto adjust to, there are somechanges that the averageLinfield student might findhardtomake.

JuniorKatherineThomasis studying in Marseille,France, and has noticedlittle things that she coulddo inAmericabuthasbeenwarned not to do in Mar-seille.

“Not looking at peoplewhen you walk down thestreet, notably men. If youlookaguyintheeyes,evenif by accident, it’s an invi-tation, if you know what Imean,” Thomas said. “Noteveryguywill try tohitonyouifyoudo,butespeciallyinMarseille,mostwill.”

Along with the absenceofthe“LinfieldHello,”otherdifferencesincludealackofopennessinFrance.

“The ‘private sphere’ inFranceismuchmoreprivatethan in the U.S., includingthe home,” Thomas said.“Forexample,myhostmomhas asked me to keep mycurtainsalwaysclosedinmy

room, so that theneighborsacross the street can’t seeinside. To me, I don’t carewho sees inside my home,especially if it’s my ownroom.Buthere,seeinginsidethe home is the equivalentofseeinginsideyourprivatelife.Forthesamereasons,itisnotaseasytoinviteguestsover.Ofcourseeveryfamilyisdifferent, but that’s ‘typi-cal’fortheFrench.”

Whiletherearemanydif-ferencesbetweencustomsinFranceandAmerica,Thom-as has found many thingssheenjoysinFrance.

“I think for me it’s thesatisfactionandconfidenceIhaveknowingI’mcreatingalittle lifehere.AsmuchasImissLinfield,afterthisyearis over I know I will havetwo homes,” Thomas said.“SpeakingFrencheverydayisawesome. Icannevergetenoughofit.I’vemadesomewonderful friends, FrenchandAmerican.

“There’s little aspects ofthe French andMarseillaiseculturethatIlove,likegoingto have a coffee at a cafewith friends after school at4o’clock,orwalkingevery-where,” Thomas said. “Inthe two months I’ve beenhere I can count the num-ber of times I’ve been in acaron twohands.That’s it![And] the fashion here andhow you greet people [by]kissing eachother’s cheeks.It’s really just the simplethings.”

Thomas is spendingthe entire school year inFrance.TherearethreeotherLinfield students attend-

ing schools in France forthe exchange program thissemester and an additionalthree will travel to spendtheirSpringSemester there.The students will study inAngers,AixandMarseille.

This year, there are noexchange students fromFranceatLinfield,butthereisoneFrenchteachingassis-tant,StephanieOhren.

Ohren describes Ameri-canfoodasoneofthehard-

est adjustments she had tomakeuponarriving.

“Therearecandiesevery-where and some things wedo not have in Europe andFrance,soofcourseIwouldlike to try them while I’mhere,”Ohrensaid.“Thesiz-esofthepackages[are]waybigger,soitimpliesanadap-tation to how to cook andwhatquantitytobuy.”

Another differenceOhren has observed is the

living situations and inde-pendenceofthestudents.

“There is not as muchadvice [and] support bythe teachers,” Ohren said.“French students are muchmoreindependent,especial-lybecauseyoudon’tliveonthe campus. It’s just build-ings and students go andleaveandhaveanapartmentor live with roommates.Dorm buildings exist buttheyaremanagedbypublic

organizationsandnotbytheuniversity.”

WhileinAmerica,Ohrenhascometoappreciatewhatit “means to be an Ameri-can. The culture of the bigcars,thecampuses,theland-scapes,thefood.”

“It’slikewatchingamov-ie, but it is reality,” Ohrensaid.

France offers new opportunities for studentKaylyn Peterson

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linfieldreviewcopy@gmail.com.

Photocourtesyof JenniferDerke

JuniorJenniferDerkestandsinfrontof TheLeovreMuseuminParis,France.DerkestudiedabroadinFranceduringtheFallSemesterof 2011.

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MentalistCraigKargesreadsaudiencemember’smindsduringhisperformanceOct.27inIceAuditorium.KargesusedESPtoperformallof histricks.

The Fred Meyer Lounge was dimly lit, Halloween- themed and packed with fans as the band Jack Ruby Presents performed during the Pro Cat Cab on Oct. 25.

The band includes members Chris Hernan-dez, Melissa Davaz, Aaron Owens and Jesse Hughey. The event marked their five-year anniversary of performing at Linfield Col-lege.

“It was really great to hear some of Jack Ruby’s newer songs, along with a handful of songs from their first album,” junior Melissa Green, an avid fan of the band, said in an email.

Throughout the concert, the band passed percussion instruments out to people in the crowd, and all the while, audience members sang along.

A crowd favorite was Jack Ruby Present’s origi-nal song, “Strange Fruit/

Three Men Hanging,” dur-ing which members of the audience appeared to become mesmerized by the music.

“Every time I’ve seen them perform that one live, the whole room goes dead silent as soon as Melissa Davaz starts singing,” Green said. “It’s beautiful.”

Green has been a fan of the band for a few years and has been to other concerts around McMin-nville where it’s performed at, such as the concerts at McMenamin’s and at friends’ houses.

“I really love the ener-gy at all of their shows. They’ve got a killer folk rock sound,” Green said. “With Jesse Hughey’s rougher voice contrasting beautifully with the pure sound of Melissa Davaz’s voice, it definitely speaks to me and gets me dancing.”

During the Cat Cab, Hughey mentioned them being ideally a house party band, with that being the

environment they are com-pletely in their element in.

“They are truly talented song-writers and musi-cians, and we are so lucky

to have this connection with them,” Green said.

A group of Linfield stu-dents were invited to be in the audience of a live radio show featuring author Sher-man Alexie on Oct. 24 in Portland. The show was held in the Literary Arts Space in downtown Portland so the audience could be involved and ask questions.

Alexie’s literary works include a dozen books of poetry, four novels, four short story collections and two screenplays. He is often described as the greatest explorer and exploder of Native American stereotypes.

He began the program dis-cussing what it means to be a “real” Indian and what kind of implications that stigma has.

“I was the first person in the family to leave the reser-vation,” Alexie said, address-ing what he calls a necessary betrayal.

“I had to leave to survive. The alternative would’ve

been substance abuse and emotional suffering.”

The only way to survive on a reservation is to be tradi-tional, he said, embracing the roots of the tribe and practic-ing old ways. “I’m not sure I would’ve been that guy,” he said.

Alexie said Indians are obsessed with authenticity. People’s ideas often drift in and out of what authenticity actually is.

“It makes you question what you are and aren’t,” Alexie said.

Stereotypes dictate that Indians are supposed to love nature, but Alexie is “so aller-gic to the outdoors.”

Indians are often regarded as highly spiritual people. However, Alexie describes himself as somewhat of an Atheist.

He said Indians are either judged harshly or praised intensely for whatever they do. There is often no escaping these kinds of stereotypes.

“I was born for the city. Born to hear helicopters and

wander the street with 10,000 strangers,” Alexie said. “The reservation is a white cre-ation, a rural concentration camp.”

He added that most Indian writers don’t live on a reser-vation.

An audience member asked Alexie what advice he had for writers. He empha-sized the importance of read-ing. Growing up, his father shared all of his books with him. The first literary novel he read, “The Basketball Diaries,” opened his mind to more kinds of books. His grandmother frequently brought him books from garage sales.

“My grandma was always bringing me those romance novels. I thought they were awesome,” he said. “Back then, I thought every book was real. It seemed like a dream world that existed out-side of the reservation.” He soon discovered that every-body’s life is valuable enough to write about.

“I loved poetry books,

short stories and novels, but I never felt connected to them. It was through reading work by Indians that I realized I could be in there too,” he said.

One particular line by a Paiute Indian poet, Adrian Louis, summed it all up for him.

“‘I’m in the reservation of my mind.’ One could argue I’ve just been writing that line over and over again,” he said.

Alexie was recently named the 2013 Everybody Reads author for Multnomah County Library. To him, this means a chance to reach out to young readers.

“Young, poor, brown males need to be reading the most. ‘It’s the only book I’ve ever finished.’ I hear that all the time,” Alexie said. “The only things that are going to save you are books because it

transports you outside your circumstances. You fall in love with the outside and dream about going there. Reading is like a passport.”

Some audience mem-bers were Native American, and Alexie picked them out immediately. He made jokes with them and called it iden-tity sharing.

“‘You’re an Indian, aren’t you?’ It’s a tribal identifica-tion thing. It’s like the most exclusive club in the world. It’s a connection. Most Indi-ans spend all their time being the only Indian in the room,” he said.

He gave his advice for writing about Indians.

“Quit making us so dang smart. Quit idealizing. We’re portrayed as these incredibly wise, gentle Indians, almost like superheroes. Make them

interesting,” Alexie said. According to Alexie,

there are two kinds of writ-ers. There are those who love their writing and those who hate it. Alexie is among those who are never happy with their work.

“I want to abuse my writ-ing about 32 seconds after I write it. Nothing is ever as good as I want it to be, or fits into what I imagined. I’m a self-loathing kind of writer,” he said. “It keeps me motivat-ed, never being comfortable.”

After counting on his fin-gers, he proclaimed that he only loves four of the short stories in his most recent col-lection.

“Everything else needs to get punched,” Alexie said.

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Students interact with author on live radio show

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“Think Out Loud” host Dave Miller (right) reads from Sherman Alexie’s most recent book “Blasphemy.” When asked about his inspiration Alexie said, “I wander the Earth telling stories. Watching the world influences me.”

Crowd participates during Pro Cat Cab

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Jesse Hughey, lead singer of Jack Ruby Presents, performs Oct. 25 in the Fred Meyer Lounge. Jack Ruby Presents played folk music and got the audience involved by giving out percussion instruments to play along with.

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Miller and Alexie laugh with the audience during “Think Out Loud” on Oct. 24. Alexie joked that he was, “broadcasting to 180,000 vegans right now.”

Culture BriefsFaculty recital

Chris Engbretson, visiting professor of music and alumnus, performed during Family Weekend on Oct. 27 in Ice Auditorium. Engbretson played the piano, performing music by Antonio Soler, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt and Lowell Liebermann.

The event was held by the Music Department.

A hidden cultural gem: Wales

Clara Martinez discussed the cultural gem of Wales. In her presentation, she explored the academ-ic programs offered, national wonders and the Welsh culture. Martinez shared her experience in a Welsh summer program she attended and was accompa-nied by Cerys Bartlett, a representative from Cardiff

University in Wales, UK.

~ Compiled by Chris Haddeland/Culture editor

When I turned my ears to Annie Bany’s “Barefoot & Young,” I knew her voice sounded similar to Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott, and someone we’ve been hearing a lot about lately, Taylor Swift. Barefoot & Young, Bany’s debut album, was independently released in August 2011.

Bany, an Oregon native, wrote and co-wrote every track on the album, as song-writing comes naturally for her.

Growing up in Wilson-ville, Ore., she wrote stories and songs and soon devel-oped a love for music after receiving her first guitar. Performing has always been her passion. Bany’s spark of imagination and creation has led to the debut of her first studio album.

According to Bany’s web-site, Barefoot & Young is “alternative country-pop.” Immediately as the opening track, “Sweet Escape,” start-ed playing, my mind went

to Taylor Swift. Much like Swift, it’s difficult to iden-tify Bany as a country artist, or one-genre artist for that matter. Her songs are here and there, and you become unsure of what kind of songs you’re listening to. Is it coun-try infused with pop? Maybe it’s alternative with some hints of country and pop? Or is it pop with sprinkles of country and rock? Nonethe-less, Barefoot & Young con-tains a little bit of everything,

which could be ear- pleasing or off-putting for listeners.

Barefoot & Young con-tains themes regarding Bany’s experiences with life, love, and hope for the future. Bany writes about the abil-ity to overcome challenges in tracks, such as “Leap” and “Through the Storm,” and she writes about the understanding of love and heartbreak in “Here We Go Again” and “Too Far.” “I know this night won’t last

forever, is this the last we’ll have together?” Bany haunt-ingly asks in “Let Me Down Easy.” Though the title track, “Barefoot & Young,” is underwhelming, the produc-tion strengthens the light-hearted mood of the song.

But could Bay be the next up-and-coming country-pop star? She has potential, but there’s a missing spark. The album contains lyrics that have more style over substance. With more heart, soul, honesty and personal experiences, Bany could go far in the music industry.

With the help of her producer and friend, Rob Shrock, Barefoot & Young has a variety of songs. While Bany does sound best with country, only time and experience will reward her growth with a great second album.

Tune into KSLC 90.3 FM to hear Annie Bany’s Bare-foot & Young. You can also listen online at www.linfield.edu/kslcfm or stream the station on iTunes.

Tina Fey’s autobiogra-phy, “Bossypants,” gives the reader a look into the world of sketch comedy through a series of sophisticatedly sar-castic stories.

I have always felt as though Tina Fey, star and writer of NBC’s “30 Rock,” can do no wrong. Therefore, I went into “Bossypants” with the highest of expectations and the only disappointment

was that the autobiography is only 275 pages long.

Tina Fey wrote the book as if telling her story to an old friend over drinks and a large amount of fried appetizers.

Fey shares stories start-ing from her childhood, such as when she had her face cut open by a random maniac, and continuing on to when she was simultaneously film-ing and writing a television series while planning her young daughter’s birthday party.

Mixed in with her per-sonal stories, Fey shares her opinions on topics, such as body image vs. Photoshop, meeting Sarah Palin (the woman that she famously impersonated), motherhood and fashion.

Scattered along with the stories, Fey includes pictures from her childhood and fam-ily, the set of “30 Rock,” and magazine covers, as well as original scripts from “Satur-day Night Live.”

“It’s a fair representation

of Ms. Fey’s self-image as a smart, unyielding woman who has forced her way to the top of what is usually a man’s profession,” wrote the New York Times’ Janet Maslin. “‘Only in comedy,’ she writes, about interview-ing for a writing job on ‘Sat-urday Night Live’ in 1997, ‘does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.’”

From beginning to end, “Bossypants” will keep a smile on the reader’s face

with its witty and intelligent writing.

In my experience read-ing “Bossypants” there were many occasions where I had to set the book down to have my own little laugh riot and then calm myself down before continuing.

However, not all of “Bossypants” is comedic gold. A number of Fey’s sto-ries are focused on her expe-riences and how she got the world view and morals that she has, which forces the

reader to think about how they feel about some contro-versial topics.

Hopefully now, with the last season of “30 Rock” underway, Fey will spend more time enriching the world with her literary works.

Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” is definitely a feel-good read that will brighten anyone’s day.

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Assistantmusicdirector

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“Barefoot&Young”albumcover

Oregon native sings about life, love and hope

Dear Bailey,In middle school and high

school, students are taught about abuse in health classes. The classes usually seemed to make it sound like one would know without a doubt that they were being abused. But is this enough information for students when they get out of school?

I don’t think it is. What about emotional abuse? I per-sonally don’t remember hear-ing much about it in school. To discover if I was in an unhealthy relationship, I did some research. What I found had been happening but went almost unnoticed. The things people say and do that are considered emotional abuse happen slowly and start out small.

Of course I knew it was possible, but I had always envisioned it as not so subtle, and I would know when my partner was being abusive and be able to do something about it. Health class made it

sound much easier than it is.Some people feel that

emotional abuse is not as bad as physical abuse. Whether it is or is not isn’t as impor-tant as the fact that it is still abuse. Unlike physical abuse, there are no easy signs, such as bruises that can be photo-graphed and documented. Emotional abuse is internal. Its effects can manifest physi-cally, like weight loss, but they can also be within the per-son’s personality or mental health. Becoming depressed, withdrawing from friends or change in self-esteem are common for people being abused.

Emotional abuse is an

attempt to gain control over another person or to feel pow-erful, just like any other form of abuse. It is verbal but it can also be financial control or jealousy.

When the abuser takes control over someone else’s money, it is a way for them to control what the other person is able to do and to prevent them from being financially stable enough to leave.

Jealousy is a way for them to make their partner feel guilty for hanging out with friends or going places with-out them. It gives the abuser the image of the victim and the abused the image of the careless partner.

There are lists of abusive tendencies online at differ-ent organizations’ websites. Above most lists is a statement saying that if you answer “yes” to anything listed, you might be in an unhealthy relationship. The lists include things, such as your partner threatens you, your family, or your pets, and your partner

puts you down or constantly wants to know where you are and who you’re with.

Henderson House is McMinnville’s abuse center. The organization’s website has a list, and the building is not located far from campus. It is a good outside resource for students.

Many of the signs listed on these websites are what some-one would know as abuse, but the problem, and the area I think education in school needs to improve on, is how hard it can be to spot, how slow it can happen and how easy it is to excuse someone you care about.

This type of abuse may not happen right away or quickly. By starting out small, the abuser is able to get away with more as time goes on. Familiarize yourself with the signs, and take time to evalu-ate your relationships.

Bailey can be reached at

linfieldreviewbailey@gmail.com.

Paige JurgensenStaff writer

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Fey’s autobiography leaves reader wanting more

Abuse education needs improvement

a field goal attempt from 46 yards wide right and senior punter Josh Repp had a kick blocked, giving the Bearcats a short field at the Linfield 15-yard line. Willamette capitalized on a 14-yard run by quarterback Josh Dean that knotted the score at 7-7. The Bearcats briefly took the lead on a 28-yard field goal, but Kay responded by converting a 35-yard attempt of his own to bring the score to 10-10. After one half of football, the ’Cats had limited Wil-lamette to a mere 50 total yards of offense but had only mustered 132 of their own.

“The weather was defi-nitely a factor,” freshman running back Jonathan Shaffer said. “I give credit to the Bearcats’ defense, they came to play and they did.”

A five-minute stretch in the third quarter broke the game open for Linfield.

Senior quarterback Mickey Inns found junior receiver Deidre Wiersma for a five-yard scoring strike just before junior safety Colin Forman blocked a Bearcat punt and chased the ball 38 yards into the end zone for a touchdown.

Junior middle linebacker Kyle Wright then snatched a Dean pass out of the air, setting up a 38-yard missile from Inns to sophomore receiver Charlie Poppen that ballooned the Wild-cats’ lead to 31-10.

“Our defense and spe-cial teams is what sparked us in that third quarter,”

Shaffer said. “Forman’s blocked punt really got us going.”

The game was put away in the fourth on another Inns-to-Poppen touch-down, this one from three yards.

With the game safely out of reach at 38-10, the reserve ’Cats saw game action and was able to capi-talize. Shortly after another Dean pass was intercepted by junior linebacker Domi-nique Forrest, Yoder led a drive downfield that was capped by junior running back Mikkel Smythe’s one-yard plunge.

The Linfield defense continued to be unbreak-able, preserving the final margin at 45-10, while lim-iting Willamette to just four of 29 third-down conver-sions throughout the game.

“Being a freshman, I didn’t realize how impor-tant this game was until Thursday or Friday,” Shaf-fer said. “To take it to them was a good feeling.”

Linfield, sitting atop the NWC at 7-0 (4-0 NWC) with just two games remaining, is in prime position for a fourth consecutive confer-ence title and playoff berth.

Only the University of Puget Sound and Pacific University remain, teams occupying the NWC cellar with a combined record of 3-11.

Linfield travels north to take on Puget Sound on the road Nov. 3 before return-ing home Nov. 10 to face Pacific in the Hall of Fame game.

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Wildcat Sports Schedule

Friday, Nov. 2

Women’s Soccer

Swimming Volleyball

Saturday, Nov. 3

Women’s Soccer

Football

Swimming

Men’s Soccer

Volleyball

noon

6 p.m.

7 p.m.

noon

1 p.m.

1 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

5 p.m.

@ Whitman

@ Whitman

vs. Whitman

@ Whitworth

@ Puget Sound

@ Whitworth

@ Willamette

vs. Whitworth

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Football: ’Cats out work Bearcats in second half<<Continued from page 16

Soccer: Missionaries take win, 4-3

Five minutes after the block, senior Tyler Sedlacek sent in a couple crosses to try to tie the score with a strong offensive side, but was blocked by a Pirate defender.

Senior Danny Snelgrow and freshman Domenico Del Prete both made shots at the goal for the Wildcats.

The Wildcats took on a tough loss against Whitman, losing 4-3 with a last minute

goal costing them the game.In the first half, the Mis-

sionaries scored the sole goal for the half. Both teams

had trouble keeping posses-sion of the ball because of the harsh weather making field conditions poor.

Del Prete took a shot at the goal early on into the game, appearing to have went in, but the referee sig-naled to continue playing.

Sophomore Grant Lori-aux made a diving save after the Missionaries attempted a lest shot.

In the second half, the Wildcats charged in three goals, with Snelgrow setting the tone with the first goal.

The Missionaries answered with two addi-tional goals and a game-winning goal two minutes near the end.

There was not enough time for the Wildcats to tie the game, causing them to have a close loss against the Missionaries.

The Wildcats will appear in their final match of the season against Willamette on Nov. 3 at 1:30 p.m. in Salem, Ore.

<<Continued from page 16

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The Linfield women’s soccer team walked away from its weekend games with a feeling quite different than it’s used to. The Pacific Boxers terminated the ‘Cats seven game winning streak Oct. 28.

The 2-1 loss against the Boxers was the first for the ‘Cats in five weeks, and their second of the season.

“We played really well today. We had control of the ball basically the whole time. Losses happen some-times and there’s not much you can do,” junior captain Emily Fellows said.

Despite aggressive offen-sive play from the Wildcats, including five corner kicks and eight shots in the first half, the Boxers pulled out the win with perhaps a little bit of luck.

The Boxers shot a mea-sly total of four times, and managed to score twice in a somewhat unusual way.

The first goal was scored on their one and only shot taken in the half.

“It was just a fluke. It was

literally the only shot they had all game,” Fellows said.

A goal scored by Fellows 75 minutes into the game tied up the score for another eight minutes. A free kick from 35 yards out accounted for the Boxer’s second goal and solidified their win.

The Boxers may not be the only ones experiencing good fortune, as the ‘Cats still have an opportunity to finish first in conference, and therefore continue on to the playoffs. Whitworth, who was sharing the top spot in conference alongside the ‘Cats, suffered a loss to Lewis and Clark. Therefore, Linfield and Whitworth remain in first place with Puget Sound in a close sec-ond.

“We have to focus on winning both weekend games. We want UPS to lose its game against Whitworth, and if we win out, we will win conference hopefully,” Fellows said.

To continue on a brighter note, the Wildcats achieved a 1-0 win against the George Fox Bruins on Oct. 27.

While the ‘Cats are proud of the win, they were expect-ing a little bit more, playing a notoriously weaker team in the conference.

“We didn’t come out with very much fight. George Fox isn’t the best team, and we had the attitude that we were better than them,” Fel-lows said.

Freshman Emma Vukic supplied an opportune pass

to Fellows, allowing her to allocate her 15th goal of the season. Fellows was the lone scorer for both teams, while Linfield amassed 15 shots to George Fox’s five.

Junior Taylor Collin-sworth made three saves during the game. After a tough weekend, the ‘Cats still look onward with a hopeful attitude.

“Hopefully it will push us to come out and win this weekend. Hopefully, we will come out and leave it all on the field,” Fellows said.

Next, the Wildcats face Whitworth and Whitman on the road for their final con-ference games Nov. 2 and Nov. 3.

Wildcats hope to finish top in conferenceCarrie Skuzeski Senior reporter

Fellows Vukic Collinsworth

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Del Prete

The Wildcat volleyball team came up empty-hand-ed in its last two matches.

The Wildcats faced off against 14th-ranked Uni-versity of Puget Sound and Pacific University in the second to last week of con-ference play.

The Wildcats traveled to Tacoma, Wash., on Oct. 27 to play nationally ranked Puget Sound. The Loggers started off strong, taking the first two sets 25-21 and 25-12.

The Wildcats respond-ed after the intermission, keeping up with the Log-gers, tying the set up at 23-23.

The ’Cats would take the next two points on a kill from junior Kelsey Ludin and a Logger error, win-ning the set 23-25.

“We won the third game because our offense really stepped up and made aggressive plays to score, rather than just waiting for the other team to make mis-takes,” sophomore setter

Audrey Frazier said.The Loggers would not

be denied their 11th confer-ence win, taking the fourth, and final set 25-19.

The Loggers were espe-cially dominant at the net, out-hitting the Wildcats .263 to .105 and winning the total block battle 7-1.

“We knew they were a strong hitting team and our defense adapted really well and picked up a lot of tough shots,” Frazier said.

Sophomore Kailana Ritte-Camara led the Wild-cats with 13 kills, Frazier added 36 assists and six aces, and freshman Court-ney Uyeda had 26 digs.

On Oct. 24, the Wildcats played the Pacific Boxers at home.

The ’Cats started out strong, jumping out to a 18-10 lead. The Wildcats would eventually take the first set 25-17.

The Boxers responded, taking the second set 20-25, hitting .211 during the set, the most efficient kill per-centage out of either team all night.

The next two sets after

the intermission were rela-tively similar. The Boxers took the third and fourth set with scores of 20-25 in both sets.

The Wildcats were inef-ficient with their hits, post-ing attack percentages of .078 and -.036.

The Wildcats once again had trouble at the net, post-ing an attack percentage of .068 and were out-blocked 11-5.5.

Sophomore Leimomi Hookano led the Wildcats with 14 kills, Frazier added 36 assists and Uyeda had 26 digs.

“We played really well against UPS, so I’m hoping we can carry that over to our last weekend,” Frazier said.

The Wildcats play their final two games of the sea-son at home. The first game is Nov. 2 against Whitman and the final game is Nov. 3 against Whitworth. Both games are at 7 p.m. in Ted Wilson Gymnasium.

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Ivanna TuckerSports editor

We all have confessions to make.

Some of us actually take a deep breath and make the confession, like Ross admitting to Rachel that he hooked up with the copy store girl on “Friends.” Some of us pull luck out of nowhere and don’t have to make an admission (I’m looking at you, O.J. Simp-son), and some of us will never make the admission no matter how long we live, like Chone Figgins.

Chone Figgins has to have been a mole from the Angels. They are paying him under the table. You can’t prove me wrong, and if you try to prove me wrong, I will show you his putrid Mariners stats and give you a place to throw up.

The crux of the matter is, admissions are hard, so I have one to share with you.

I tend to take our football team for granted.

I am not saying that they don’t get enough credit. We have football memorabilia and information plastered all over the gym, the football stadium, our recruitment packages and even in this newspaper.

But I need to take a quick moment to marvel at this team and this program.

Never mind the 56 (now

57) straight winning seasons or the video game type final scores.

The offense loses the guy who may have been their best player, senior Josh Hill, to injury, and they continue to roll on, with 63 points two weekends ago, and 45 points against Willamette last weekend.

Their defense… wow, the defense. They have also had some devastating injuries to some good players, and like the offense, it contin-ues to do its best Division-III impression of the Seattle Seahawks.

Willamette’s quarter-back comes into the game with 2,500 yards passing and a completion percent-age in the upper 60s. He had thrown 29 touchdowns. It was almost as if he was Colt Brennan running the Hawaii offense from a few years back. This would be Lin-

field’s sternest test yet.I think they passed the

test with flying colors. Willamette’s quarter-

back went 13-30 with just 96 yards passing. He threw two picks and was sacked seven times. For a guy who has an efficiency rating of 156.40 for the season, his game against Linfield (56.88 rating) is the outlier of the year.

Except, if you know Lin-field football, it’s not an out-lier at all. The defense was one of the best in the coun-try last year, and it is most definitely rounding into form this year. Could this team add on to the school’s storied history?

They are ranked number three in the country. The defense just shut down one of the best quarterbacks in the country. The offense has not missed a beat.

I don’t want to get too overzealous with the predic-tions. Anything can happen in football. Florida State lost to North Carolina State a few weeks ago. Washington beat the Beavers on Oct. 27. That’s right, Beaver fans, the Dawgs just ruined your magical season. Bow down (but please beat the Ducks in the Civil War, that would be magnificent).

Do you happen to remember Oklahoma State

losing to Iowa State last year, thereby dashing its national title hopes? Or UCLA beating USC 13-9 in 2006 to derail USC’s hopes during John David Booty’s last season?

You know the difference between all of those upsets and Linfield, however? This team takes care of business. They could get tripped up every year by lesser oppo-nents in conference play, and yet they always make the necessary adjustments. They were tied at halftime yesterday, and they came out and scored 35 points unanswered in the second half. The best teams make in-game adjustments, and this team does that beauti-fully.

So, my admission is embarrassing. I shouldn’t take this team for granted. Its last game was impres-sive, and we will see what it can do to end the year. All I know is that I have full confidence in the squad (for what my opinion is worth, which is about as much as a signed Heathcliff Slocumb baseball) just as I have full confidence that Chone Fig-gins is a well-placed mole.

Curse you, Mike Scioscia.

Tyler Bradley can be reached at

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Lady ’Cats continue to struggle on court

Sophomore Kailana Ritte-Camara jumps for an attack during a match. The Wildcats still continue to have issues gaining an overall win. They have been able to gain individual game wins but not enough to win the entire match.

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The cross country team saw individual improve-ments at the Northwest Con-ference Championships on Oct. 27.

Junior Joe Gladow fin-ished with a career-high time of 26 minutes, 20 seconds. Gladow did not allow the wet weather to affect his per-formance, placing seventh overall in the conference. The top Wildcat runner also received first team all-league honors.

Sophomore Calvin How-ell was Linfield’s second runner to finish in the top-20. Howell completed the course in 26 minutes, 59 seconds, placing 18th in the confer-ence. He was only four spots away from receiving second team all-league honors.

Compared to the previ-ous season, junior Jason Hight finished the course more than 30 places higher than in last year’s champion-ships.

Freshmen Alex Mangan and Frankie Moncada fin-ished 38th and 48th in their first conference champion-

ships appearance. Willamette junior Parker

Bennett won the individual title, and the Bearcats also earned the team conference title.

On the women’s side, sophomore Brooke Niemann was noted as Linfield’s top runner, finishing fourth at the championships. This is Niemann’s second time earning the top spot for the Wildcats. She received sec-ond team all-league honors for her 12th place finish, completing the course in 23 minutes, 34 seconds.

Sophomores Siena Noe and Audrey Lichten also placed in the top-20 overall. Both almost finished back-to-back, with Noe placing 18th and Lichten placing 20th.

Lewis and Clark claimed the individual and team con-ference titles. This is its third straight year of receiving the titles.

Both teams placed lower than their previous appear-ances in the conference championships in 2011.

Wildcats finish season in top 10 of conference

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The Wildcats golf teams finished the fall season Oct. 28 with the Northwest Fall Classic at Tri Mountain Golf Course in Ridgefield Wash.

The men’s team tied for fourth with Whitman in the conference tournament.

The team shot a 613, 37 over par, on the weekend. The men improved drastical-ly on the second day, improv-ing from a 318, 30 over par, to a 295, seven over par.

The men were led by

sophomore Connor Magnu-son who shot a 151, seven over par, on the weekend.

Magnuson improved his first day score of 81, nine over par, to a 70, two under par. Magnuson’s weekend was good enough to place 12th overall.

Sophomore Taylor Klopp shot the second lowest score for Linfield with a 152, eight over par, tying for 13th.

Sophomore Ryan Noland shot a 154, 10 over par, tying for 17th. Sophomore Taylor Pirnke shot a 158, 14 over par, tying for 24. Junior A.J. Tay-

lor rounded out the Wildcats’ team, shooting a 160, 16 over par, tying for 28.

The women’s team fin-

ished fifth in the conference tournament with a 705, 129 over par.

The Wildcats were led by

freshman Maggie Harlow and junior Alexandria Smith. The two shot 170, 26 over par, on the weekend, tying for

10th.Senior Sophie Corr scored

the third lowest score for the Wildcats, posting a 177, 33 over par.

Senior Brinn Hovde shot a 188, 44 over par and fresh-man Erin Heltsley rounded out the Wildcats, shooting 217, 73 over par.

The Wildcats improved nine strokes, shooting 357 during the first round and 348 for the final round.

This football season, Doug Hire’s 13th coaching the Lin-field Wildcats, is a special year for him and his family.

Not long ago, his family would come to every game, even when he coached at Wil-lamette, to watch him, includ-ing Willamette’s away game at Linfield. At that game, Doug’s wife Teresa was sit-ting with his two kids, Aaron and Miranda, when a man came up to them in Linfield gear.

He talked to Teresa for a time before bidding the fam-ily good luck.

As the man was leaving, Aaron stood up and said, “My daddy’s team is gonna beat your team.”

Little did Aaron know, that man was Ad Rutschman, the hall of fame coach that led Linfield to three national titles, two of which Doug was a part of, and who would one day be his coach.

As Doug now stands on the sideline as a coach for his alma mater, he can’t help but think how special this place is.

He looks down the side-line to see his son, Aaron, now a wide receiver for the Wildcats in his senior year. He looks to the stands to see his wife, an alumna just like him, and his daughter, who is now a freshman at Linfield, truly making this place a “Hire call-ing.”

Doug Hire is a household name for all those familiar with Linfield football. He has made an incredible impact on the program since he came to Linfield in the fall of ’93, recruited to play football.

“One of the best class-rooms and the best classes I’ve taken is being a part of the football program,” Hire said. “Coming to Linfield gave me opportunities entirely, men-tally and physically.”

Although Hire excelled at Linfield, playing college ball wasn’t always considered an option for him. When Hire was in high school, he was diagnosed with Leukemia, which limited his college offers.

Upon coming to Linfield,

he still had three more years of chemotherapy treatment to complete.

“The coaches knew I had it when they recruited me,” Hire said. “I went and did regular blood work at OHSU in Portland and would have to head up to the Madigan Army Medical Center in Taco-ma for other treatment.”

But that didn’t stop Hire. He pushed through that to become one of the most respected athletes and coach-es in Linfield history with three national championship rings to prove it.

With the hectic sched-ule of a football coach, Hire wasn’t always around dur-ing his kids’ childhood activi-ties. Now, however, he loves getting to sneak away to see his daughter’s soccer games or take his kids out to lunch whenever he feels like it.

“It’s a sweet reward for the many hours and years he’s invested at Linfield,” Hire’s wife, Teresa, said. “It’s his turn.”

It was the fall of 1984 when Teresa Hire came to Linfield for a liberal arts education and to play soccer.

Back then, women athletes coming to college wasn’t as common as men, but Teresa is proud that her daughter has followed in her footsteps, becoming one of few female legacy athletes at Linfield.

With her special achieve-ments and everything she has done for them, Teresa’s children describe her as a role model and the glue that keeps everything together.

“She’s the one who did the real hard work,” Aaron Hire said. “She worked and handled all the finances, rides, doctors visits and food, which was especially important dur-ing football season.”

Doug Hire agreed, saying she is the reason they made it through all the long hours and taught them what they know.

She even would practice with Aaron before big games when Doug was at work.

Aaron Hire was born into the Linfield football program.

With his dad a presti-gious alumnus and his fam-ily attending every Linfield home game, always in the far

corner of the south end zone, it was no wonder he ended up here.

Aaron always wanted to be like is dad. So, as a young child, his mom bought him a football helmet.

“I remember it was red with a blue strip,” Aaron Hire said, remembering the excite-ment of his first piece of foot-ball equipment. “But I was so mad that it was blue. I made my mom paint the stripe purple so it would be like Lin-field.”

Linfield wasn’t always Aaron’s first choice of school, though. He first played foot-ball at Foothill Junior College in California.

Within his first year, how-ever, he decided he wanted to transfer to Linfield. He grew up around the program and knew how much team, attitude and good, positive coaching was stressed.

“I’ve never felt any pres-sure from them to go here, they’ve always supported me in whatever my decision was going to be,” Aaron Hire said.

Even being the coach’s son, Aaron says he has never felt pressure or preferential treatment from his dad.

“I’ve earned whatever I’ve gotten,” he said. “I uphold

what he’s taught me and never take the pressure from judgmental outside people to heart.”

Now with his sister here as well, Aaron believes that these family values, and this red and purple clad school, have brought their family closer.

“It’s a full Linfield house now,” he said.

Even though he wasn’t always supportive of Miran-da completing the Hire-Lin-field connection, he has taken it upon himself to be support-ive, in some ways.

“I said a lot to Miranda when she decided to come here,” Aaron Hire said with a slight laugh. “But I made sure to let the football guys know that she is off limits.”

That was said with no laugh.

Miranda said that even with his protective nature, she likes having her brother here and being able to go up and talk to him whenever she’d like.

“It’s nice having someone to look up to and know that they’ve got my back,” Miran-da Hire said. “Even if he is protective a little too much with boys.”

Miranda Hire, a freshman on the women’s soccer team,

was valedictorian of her high school and had her choice of schools, one in particular in New York that really caught her attention.

“At one point, I was seri-ously considering going to RIT in New York,” she said. “I visited Rochester last spring, and I really liked it. It was a good fit, but I didn’t know if that was too far away for me.”

“When I came back to Oregon, I walked into my house and my dad had pur-chased a ton of Linfield gear. Glasses, mugs, sweatshirts, hats, sweatpants, shot glasses, stickers… I couldn’t help but crack a smile.”

Although he claimed it was all on sale, Miranda knew he wanted to keep her close.

“I never wanted to push her,” Doug Hire said. “But it’s pretty awesome getting to see my kids everyday.”

Teresa agreed.“In a selfish way, I was

pleased that she ended up choosing Linfield,” she said. “I am delighted that my daughter has the opportunity to compete, and to be a part of a winning program.”

Miranda knows she made the right decision. She says that their family has Wildcat blood running through its

veins and she considers her-self to be one of the biggest Linfield fans there is, especial-ly when it comes to football.

“Pride is the first word that comes to mind,” Miranda Hire said. “I am proud to be a Linfield Wildcat. I’ve grown up with that mentality, and I know it will always stick with me.”

It was 1984 when the Hire parents met at Linfield. She was a young freshman with a boyfriend. He was a sophomore football star in the making. Friends at first, they didn’t expect how their story would turn out.

Now, it’s 2012. A long way from when they met, a lot has changed for them, but more importantly, one thing remains the same.

Doug Hire stands on the sideline of the place that not only has become home for him, but for the rest of his family as well.

“It’s my hope that, to some small degree, people will also see the contributions we as a family have made to Linfield,” Teresa Hire said. “That’s how families operate, give and take. The Hires and Linfield. We’re family.”

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Keeping the Linfield tradition in the family

Noland Harlow

(Left to right) Teresa Hire, senior Aaron Hire, freshman Miranda Hire and Doug Hire all have or are attending Linfield. Doug Hire serves as the assistant head coach for the football team, Aaron Hire plays wide receiver for the Wildcats and Miranda Hire plays for the women’s soccer team. Teresa Hire used to play soccer for the Wildcats as well.

Photo courtesy of Aaron Hire

Chris HaddelandCulture editor

Chris Haddeland can be reached at

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Golf teams show improvement at tournament

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Eight seniors on the men’s soc-cer team appeared in their last home matches this weekend and had to face two close losses.

The match against Whitworth had to be delayed and relocated to McMinnville High School because of the harsh weather making the

field difficult to play on.The Wildcats faced the No. 10

team in the division, Whitworth, losing 1-0. The sole goal was made by Pirate freshman Karl Muelheim in the second half.

In the first half, both teams worked to keep possession of the ball but the Pirates had the lead in shots and corner kicks.

Senior Cody Escott pushed a

shot toward the goal but Whit-worth’s keeper made a quick save. The Pirates rebutted with a shot, but it went right over the crossbar.

Sophomore Scott Goodman recorded two saves and was able to stop a close direct shot at the goal.

At the beginning of the 2012-13 season, many questions sur-rounded the Linfield football program’s defensive unit. After its performance in the Wildcats’ 45-10 win against Willamette

University, it appears those ques-tions can be fully put to rest. The defense throttled its chief North-west Conference rivals in soak-ing conditions at Maxwell Field, holding the Bearcats to only 108 total yards, while picking up two interceptions and amassing seven sacks for 53 lost yards, three by

junior defensive end Brynnan Hyland.

“Our initial plan was to stop the running game,” junior cor-nerback Ian Zarosinski said. “The [defensive] line and the line-backers really dominated in the trenches.”

The first half of play was a

struggle, as both teams’ offenses repeatedly stalled in the pouring rain. Linfield struck first on junior quarterback Josh Yoder’s one-yard scamper into the end zone. Senior kicker Josh Kay pulled

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Wildcats flood Bearcats, 45-10

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Lady Wildcats split weekendThe women’s soccer team took in one win against George Fox and a loss against Pacific See page 13>>

Sports scheduleCheck out the sports schedule to see when your favorite teams play this weekend.See page 13>>

Football team pulls throughSports columnist Tyler Bradley discusses how even though the football team lost some of its strong players, the Wildcats still remain a strong competitor in the division.See page 14>>

Hire family lives onThe Hire family has been involved in the Linfield commu-nity for years as a coach, athletes and students.See page 15>>

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Wildcats take in two tough losses

Ivanna TuckerSports editor

Senior forward Danny Snelgrow tries to dribble past the opposing team during the match against Whitman on Oct. 27, losing 4-3.

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Chris ForrerFor the Review

Freshman running back John Shaffer attempts to rush the football past an opponent during the game against Willamette on Oct. 27, beating the Bearcats 45-10. Shaffer rushed 23 times throughout the game with 59 yards gained.

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Swim team plunges head first into season

Sarah MasonStaff writer

It was a strong weekend of competition for the Linfield swim teams. They competed in a Penta-thalon on Oct. 27 at Pacific Uni-versity and a relay meet Oct. 28 at Lewis and Clark College.

Freshman swimmers stepped up to compete during the meets. Ian White, Nikki Overton and Liz Fry were just some of the young swimmers that stood out this past weekend.

Senior Sean Iwamasa was also a strong contender for the Wild-cats.

“Sean is a sprinter,” sophomore AJ Wagoner said. “It definitely showed during Saturday’s sprint meet.”

The Wildcats made a strong appearance during their first pre-season meet.

“We showed promise and potential for our first meet,” Wag-oner said. “Unfortunately we were still dominated by powerhouses Whitman and Whitworth.”