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Killgore implements change, fosters community feel

By Kaelia Neal

In his first year as athletic director, Garry Killgore has used his “all-in” philosophy to effect positive change.

One of his driving missions is fostering greater unity among athletes at Linfield, regardless of their sport or gender. And he feels he’s succeeding in that.

“The majority of the athletes know I’m serious, that it’s not fluff to me that I care about all the programs,” Killgore said. “What I’ve seen is more of the

teams being supportive of each other, which is what it should be like, especially at a small college like here.”

To help bolster him in that mission, he’s brought Amy Dames-Smith and Jodie Faulk into leadership roles in the department. And it’s paying off, he said.

“I expect and appreciate the people I get to work with every day do a great job,” he said. “I trust them, and that’s paramount if you’re trying for a winning combination of people.”

Another significant change, this one more visible to the broader community, is the development of Game Day festivities on Lever Street to celebrate home football games.

“Changing the Game Day experience, I think, was incredibly important to me,” Killgore said.

“Yes, it generates more revenue, which is awesome. We need to do that.

“But we also really have to show we can have fun. It’s OK to have a blast.”

Game Day is also a way for the col-

lege to attract recruits, improve retention and provide a positive experience for spectators, Killgore said.

“What is exceedingly gratifying is the reaction to it,” he said.

“I just got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago from one of our alums, who had celebrated his 50th Homecoming game. And he said, ‘I loved what you did with the Game Day experience.

It’s the best Homecoming ever.’

“And I thought, ‘Oh my gosh.’ That dang near made me cry.”

Killgore said he has received very few negative comments on the new ritual.

“In fact, Dr. Hellie said that even for a curmudgeon like him, that he’s been impressed by our Game Day experience,” Killgore said of Linfield President Thomas L. Hellie, laughing at the thought.

“That’s been exceedingly gratifying to me, because they definitely made me jump through a lot of hoops to >>see Killgore page 4

Review offers supplemental biannual college magazine

By The Review Editorial Board

Fiona Kelley

Members of the Sironka dance troup performing a traditional folk song of the Maasai, a tribal group from Kenya. They were joined by an enthusiastic audience on Wednesday night.

The Linfield Review has begun including magazine inserts­ —1858 The Linfield Review Magazine—to provide a place for investigative and longer feature stories.

The first magazine, found inside this issue, includes an interview with President Thomas Hellie regarding his retirement, and an investigation on what student diversity means at Linfield. Another magazine insert will be published in spring 2018.

We have created this magazine to give the Review staff a chance to write longer, more in-depth articles.

The format of a bi-weekly newspaper can be constricting, so the magazine has allowed us to expand our view.

The Review’s magazine offers a

perspective of Linfield specifically for current students. It is written by and for students.

We wanted to recognize Hellie’s 11 years of service as Linfield’s president before he retires June 30, 2018.

The Q&A format gave him the ability to express the highs and lows during his tenure, lessons he’s learned and advice for the future president in a direct and less formal manner.

After the U.S. News & World Report rankings were released, we felt it vital to draw attention to the college’s racial and ethnic diversity.

The accompanying graphic done by one of our graphic designers emphasizes the trends over time at Linfield. A graph is easier to comprehend than raw data.

We hope you’ll enjoy our first issue of 1858.

Athletes’ anxieties prevent some from reaching full potential

By Braelyn Swan and Kaho Akau The stress of school, work, and other responsibilities is often enough for students, and yet there are some who include sports in their busy schedules.

Student athletes face the stresses of time management and keeping their grades up to remain eligible, but there are also stressors that can come from sports themselves.

Anxiety disorder, anxiety attacks, and panic attacks can be extremely debilitating for anyone who suffers from them. They can prevent student athletes from performing well, or even at all.

Psychology professor Tanya Tompkins explained that the “increased and

pronounced” heart rate that comes with panic attacks can make students feel like they’re dying, even though they are young, healthy athletes.

She said that athletes at the college level are often heavily invested in the outcomes of their games, and although it feels good to win, the stakes can become too high. There is pressure from outside sources to consistently exceed expectations for fear of letting down the team or not producing a personal record. Tompkins described the U-curve (pictured right) as a point of reference for where nerves can go from helpful to hurtful.

“During my sophomore year I had super bad nerves,” he said. “I threw up before almost every game I pitched.”

Neely reports that his anxiety has since lessened and just become a part of his routine. “My first few starts, I threw up and was pretty frustrated about it because I thought I was past that,” Neely said.

He turned to professional athletes who also have anxiety, like Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch. “I’m no Beast Mode,” he said, “but I can still give it my all and that’s what I did.”

Other prominent athletes have reported having anxiety. Olympic medalist Michael Phelps opened up about his experience with anxiety in a new documentary about anxiety in adolescents called “Angst.” >>see Anxiety page 4

The Yerkes-Dodson Law, developed by Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908, states that an athlete’s performance improves with physiological or mental arousal up to a point.

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New tax plan would be disastrous for higher ed

The new Republican tax plan is a perplexing assortment of tax cuts and increases but one thing seems clear: colleges and universities are the enemy.

“In broad terms, the bill would eliminate or consolidate a number of tax benefits meant to offset the costs of higher education for individuals and companies . . . a credit for student-loan interest, and a $5,250 corporate deduction for education-assistance plans . . . The plan would also tax the tuition waivers that many graduate students receive when they work as teaching assistants or researchers,” surmised an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

For an administration that claims to care about working class Americans, “About 80 percent of the total benefit would accrue to taxpayers in the top 1 percent,” according to a report by Tax Policy Center.

Many are also afraid that this might lead to less people itemizing

their deductions as charitable gifts on their tax forms, which could mean less donations to colleges.

This tax proposal puts already struggling institutions of higher education in even more peril. Students are understandably distressed at the notion that they might be responsible for paying for even more of their high-priced education.

We will need educated citizens in the future even more than we do now. The way to a better society is through education, not making higher education almost impossible to access.

The fact that colleges are still under attack in this day and age is absurd. If history should have taught us anything, it’s that the country strives when its young people are allowed to flourish.

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Plastic bag ban. First bags, then what?

By Kyle Huizinga McMinnville has recently created a new city ordinance, which states businesses can no longer provide single-use plastic grocery bags. Many people within the McMinnville community have different opinions on this ordinance. Below I have shown some of the comments of those opposing the bag ban listed on various articles.

“Great, now instead of reusing a product and giving it new life, I will have to go buy a brand new item just to put my trash in to throw it away! The entire intent of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is defeated by this ban!”

“My personal problem with this plastic ban is that plastic is so much more functional. I can remember too many paper bags breaking through the bottom when getting wet. Banning the bags to solve the plastic problem is insignificant but it is a feel good therapy for those feeling the power.”

“This was all about presenting an image for our city council. This ban won’t make a drop in the bucket for the environment in McMinnville. The council likes to be thought of as on the cutting edge of progressive thinking. It is an ego trip for them and nothing more. They do these things because they feel the power.”

These responses are genuinely astonishing. If the people who were leaving these comments correctly used bags, there would be no need for a bag ban.

Plastic bags end up in the waterways, landfills and on the streets. The oceans are filled with plastics, and more marine life is put at risk each year as we dump more and more waste in the ocean. Our

consumption and use values are geared toward single-use products, which place a substantial burden on our local environment.

Plastic bags end up in waterways and the ocean of the Pacific Northwest. These bags then lead to the death of salmon, which then affect salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest. The pollution of single-use plastics is leading to the destruction of one of Oregon’s most important and historic industries.

Off-coast salmon fishing makes up a $144 million industry according to the Oregon State Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The local landfill in McMinnville is already having space issues, and the reduction of waste from community members needs to be taken seriously.

Plastic bags can’t be recycled, and they are considered too low a grade of plastic, which means they end up taking precious space within the landfill.

If the economic, social, and environmental reasonings are for the ban, why is there so much opposition? To support the bag ban means admitting that your actions directly affect the world around you.

It’s the fear of change that’s lighting the fire in those uncomfortable. It has no connection with the lack of trash bags or putting money in the pockets of businesses but it’s the knowledge with this one change that more changes may come. This fear speaks to a more substantial sociological issue of having to face the impact we’re creating on our environment. As a culture, we’re past the point where waiting for people to feel comfortable with change is an acceptable response.

The truth is, the ban is small and could be viewed as an insignificant environmental change within the community, but its importance is not found within the action of banning single-use bags. It’s seen as the symbolic representation of admitting that we need to do something to change our current practices.

Plastic bags are such a small mechanism that can have such a massive impact on the environmental health of our community. It’s our duty as conscious citizens to support the bag ban.

By Emma Knudson As an out-of-state student, I know that feeling.

After months of being away from home, and with Thanksgiving break so close yet so far away, home feels like the only place you want to be right now.

Even Oregon students can relate: no matter how close or far away your home is, you can still feel homesickness.

Homesickness is the equivalent of getting ready for the day only to find that every single pair of your underwear is dirty. At that point, there really isn’t much you can do, and whatever option you choose, it’s pretty uncomfortable. Only with homesickness, there isn’t much you can do to alleviate that sense of uncomfortable hollowness. Or is there?

Throughout my nearly four years of being a Linfield student in Oregon while being a Montana native, I’ve come up with some ways to cope with homesickness.

Calling your family and using Skype is a pretty obvious one. I’m sure that everyone does this, especially in times of desperation when all you want is your mom’s home-cooked meals. But setting a time each week, every two weeks, or any regular

schedule that works for both you and your family will help alleviate that sense of loneliness. When you have that connection home to look forward to, it makes the weeks go by faster.

Another way to cope with homesickness is to have keepsakes from home in your dorm. These may be posters, picture frames, baby blankets (no judging here). When I’m drowning in schoolwork, sometimes I’d like my only concerns to be if the snacks after recess are going to be those long crackers with the melted cheese on the side for dipping.

Or my baby blanket wasn’t in the washing machine when I got home from preschool. That’s all I cared about in those days.

Homemade gifts, mugs, jewelry, and a baseball you caught from the baseball game in your hometown, etc. Decorating your room with these items might make your dorm room feel more like home.

Another tactic is to keep yourself busy. If you find yourself homesick often, you know that it often hits hard when you’re laying in bed watching Family Guy while eating a bag of microwave popcorn and scrolling through Instagram only to see one of your close friends in a picture with his or her dog, which makes you miss your dog, which

makes you miss home.

But I know that, in times like those, the best thing I can do is pick myself up and do chores around my house, or ask a friend to hang out downtown, or go out for a run. A good balance should keep your homesickness relatively at bay.

Just know that home is just around the corner.

No matter how close or how far away from Linfield your home is, time passes and you’ll find yourself back home before you know it. But don’t wish your college years away for the next opportunity to go home. Because when you finally go home after years of being away, and all you did was miss home and try your best to return, you might regret not spending more of your time in the present moment. Take your college experience day by day, and make the most of your college experience.

But you’ll be sitting at home on Christmas Break, listening to your mom and your siblings arguing, suddenly kept inside by your parents’ strict curfew despite the fact that you’re 21 years old, realizing that you’re so far away from your college friends, and ready to return back to Linfield. Trust me. Coming from my personal experience, you’ll be beyond ready.

Reusable bags such as this one are now required in the McMinnville community.

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Nov. 13, 2017

Five most memorable early 2000s cartoons

By Gabriel Nair When I think of my childhood, the first thing that I think of are the cartoons that I watched as a kid. They are, in my opinion, superior to the current cartoons today in every way.

The animation style and techniques of cartoons may have advanced farther since when I was a kid, but the content and the storytelling techniques have not.

I believe the cartoons today have actually regressed since the early 2000s. So here are my top five cartoons from the late 90s to early 2000s.

Before getting into the list, here are some honorable mentions: Ben 10, Danny Phantom, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Justice League, Samurai Jack, and What’s new, Scooby Doo. Coming at number five is Codename: Kids Next Door, which began airing in December of 2002.

This was a cartoon series about five kids who acted as spy agents and battle against the oppressive adults and teenagers.

The main characters were a group of five young kids codenamed “numbah” 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Next at number four is Batman Beyond. Batman Beyond first aired in 1999. Batman Beyond is set in the year 2039, 20 years after Bruce Wayne has given up the mantle of the batman.

The series follows Bruce Wayne’s newest protégé, Terry McGinnis. Terry’s transformation into the Batman is very similar to Dick Grayson’s transformation into the original Robin.

Terry’s father was killed by Derek Powers after stumbling upon information about illegal weapons. While Dick lost his parents to Tony Zucco after the circus manager refused to pay

Zucco “protection money.”

This set both on the path to becoming masked vigilantes as they sought to bring justice to their family killers.

This has been consistently one of my favorite DC cartoons, more so than the animated series in the early 2000s due to the darker tones, but also what I see as superior storytelling.

At number three is Power Rangers Ninja Storm which aired in 2003. This series holds a

special place in my heart. It was the first power ranger series that I ever watched. And in my opinion, it was probably the best.

I can’t say that it was the best power ranger series ever created. That honor goes to the first power ranger series: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

But Ninja Storm ranks higher than Mighty Morphin for me because of the sentimental value and the memories I have from my childhood.

At number two is Avatar: The Last Airbender, which aired in 2005. The show follows the journey of Aang, a young boy, awakening in a war-torn world of elemental magic as he undertakes a peril-filled mystic quest.

He tries to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar to bring peace and harmony back to the four nations.

This renditon of the series has got to be one of my favorites because it mixes both lighthearted tones with darker and more sinister tones.

The success that the series has had has inevitably led to a sequel: Legend of Korra.

And while that series was still great in its own right, it never came close to matching the success of the original series.

At number one is Teen Titans.

The Teen Titans show began airing in 2003. This show is what I would call a masterpiece that got a reboot went wrong.

Yes, I am referring to the mockery that is Teen Titans Go! That show is an insult to the original. It got so bad, that the show wrote an episode just to show how superior the original Teen Titans were.

The original series had character development, great storytelling, and wasn’t afraid to touch the darker tones of the plot.

But at the same time there were funny moments that gave kids the chance to laugh and smile at.

The reboot had absolutely nothing going for it except corny jokes, and those got old before the first episode was even over.

Teen Titans has been and will always be my favorite cartoon from my youth.

While other shows may come close, Teen Titans stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Jan Term upholds liberal arts ideals

By Liam Pickhardt It was 6:00 a.m. I was in fourth grade. My dad woke me up to feed the family animals and get ready for school.

As my dad repeatedly attempted to pull me from my deep sleep, I groggily rolled around, and refused to leave the comforts of my bed.

Eventually, I opened my eyes and looked over at my dad and quickly recognized the familiar sight of his cycling attire. Realizing what he was going to do, I begged him to let me skip school. All I wanted to do was play hooky and mountain bike with him.

Despite my begging efforts, my dad drove me to school and prepared to venture out to the trails without me. And against my wishes, I walked into school and watched him drive off.

See, at the time I felt confined by school. I disliked the idea of learning about subjects I had little to no interest in just to meet some seemingly arbitrary government quota—I am sure that my fourth grade self did not articulate it in that way. But the idea remains the same. The structure of class caused me to repeatedly move my eyes from the clock hung above the teacher’s desk to the exit door and back. I was just biding my time to go outside and ride my bike.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, I was generating my first desire to pursue a liberal arts education.

As I got older—specifically my later years of high school—I found myself most enthralled by classes that differed from the traditional “umbrella” high school classes of math, science and English.

I found that I loved finding ways to discover my creativity and go beyond the confining walls of a classroom.

With that in mind, it became clear that a liberal arts education would suit me best.

And as an advocate for the liberal arts education, I quickly fell in love with the idea of a January Term at Linfield. From my perspective, I see Jan Term as the quintessential example of the liberal arts education.

During the month of January, Linfield students are given the opportunity to focus solely on one class. With class lasting only a month, it is a low-risk opportunity for students to jump out of their comfort zone and take a class that interests them even though it may not be pertinent to their major. And students should take advantage of any opportunity to explore new endeavors.

As I look back on my educational past, I see how I have grown from a student that was unable to focus on school because I knew my mountain bike was waiting to someone that genuinely enjoys class. And I attribute a lot of that change to the liberal arts curriculum and Jan Term because those two things have allowed me to break up the somewhat monotonous routine of school and learn about things I thoroughly enjoy.

I realize that taking a class over Jan Term is not exactly synonymous to pursuing one’s favorite pastime—mountain biking in my case. But what it does perhaps offer is the chance to break up the often mundane routine of semester classes. And in that period of reprieve, it’s not uncommon for students to find new passions, new friends and new opportunities.

So, it seems obvious to me that every Linfield student should take advantage of Jan Term; the ability to explore other areas is positively uncanny and fosters intellectual growth.

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Save the flex

By Braelyn Swan With the end of the semester closer than many students realize—yes there are only four weeks of class remaining—some students are hanging on to the last three dollars for that emergency coffee during finals week.

While others still have more flex dollars to spend than they can handle.

If you’re a student who hasn’t

bought multiple pumpkin spice lattes and a handful of peppermint mochas already, there is no need to rush to throw your flex away.

Many students, especially freshmen, are unaware that flex dollars roll over from fall to spring semester.

Jan term however, does not work in same way. Flex from fall semester does not roll into Jan term.

But flex from Jan term also does not roll over into spring semester. The roll over only applies to fall to spring semester.

Although students have tried, Starbucks gift cards can’t be purchased with flex dollars anymore.

This is because the money that is paid with flex belongs to the school.

If a gift card was purchased using flex and then used at another Starbucks location, the college essentially loses that money.

If you do find yourself with extra flex dollars come spring, check out the Wildcat Express in Dillin Hall, they have cereal, candy, and snacks to stock up on for summer with the last few dollars in your account.

Alternatively you can use what you have left to buy Starbucks for those who help you move out at the end of the year.

Lastly you could treat your friends who were not as frugal as you are and be the hero they didn’t know they needed.

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Nov. 13, 2017

By Kyle Huizinga Climate change is about more than just the weather and climate. All organisms on Earth rely on climate and the balance of temperatures on the earth surface, which can lead to many unintended consequences for health all over the world.

Senior environmental policy major Hayden Cooksy said, “climate change is one of the most dangerous threats are earth currently faces.”

For the past several years, scientists have been warning against the global health crisis that will be caused by warmer average temperatures, more extreme weather, the spread of diseases, displacement of impoverished communities and more. The increase of these factors, however, is tough to correlate to climate specifically.

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To address this, scientists from around the globe came together to study the effects climate has on human health. They processed millions of sets of data in an attempt to link anthropogenic climate change with an increase in human health risks around the globe. The resulting report was published in the Lancet Journal.

The pimary risk of climate change on global health is an increase in heat.

A rise in temperature poses an incredibly dangerous threat for at-risk populations.

India’s 2015 heat wave killed a staggering 2500 people. Studies have shown that in Europe “deaths due to warming are projected to rise from 11 per million people a year to about 700 per million people a year,” as written in a 2017 Al Jazeera article.

The increased risk of extreme global weather conditions also poses an imminent threat. Climate change causes more extreme weather events like hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts through the warming of the ocean and heating of essential air cells. But scientists found that there has been an equal number of deaths due to extreme weather events.

They say this lack of correlation may be caused by a deficiency in data and a need for prolonged observation, but there are data to suggest that climate change has increased the number of extreme weather events which puts million of people at risk.

Another danger is an increase of the spread of diseases such as Dengue fever and Zika. These diseases use host species like mosquitoes and ticks

to spread. These organisms are usually limited by their ecological restraints such as temperature, humidity and elevation.

As temperatures rise, their reach becomes much broader and can affect areas and populations not previously accessible. These areas are often ill-prepared for such diseases.

Heat can also lead to the incubation period of these diseases within the host to be shortened. This creates more infected hosts, which can lead to more of that species being affected.

The more hosts a disease has, the more rapidly it can become a global health epidemic.

“Specifically, the team estimates that climate change has increased dengue transmission by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus by 3 per-

cent and 6 percent, respectively, since 1990,” an NPR reporter wrote. This is in addition to the increase in disease transmission caused by global travel and urbanization the World Health Organization has been reporting on.

Linfield senior and environmental policy major Peri Muellner recommends that everyone does their part and participates to try and alleviate contribution to climate change.

She says that a “lack of empathy and a general disconnection from the issue of climate change is a major problem.”

Head of Sustainability Duncan Reid agreed. He said that “action is important” and that educating people is important but the real change comes from acting against the forces that are destroying our environment.

First student from Mali Trustees unveil annual status report depicts country’s origin

By Elizabeth Stoeger In the ninth annual Board of Trustees report, the Board outlined their yearly progress.

The Board met with and without Linfield President Thomas Hellie to discuss his departure.

“Trustees used this as a time to encourage the President, to ask about any concerns the President might have, and to give feedback.

The Trustees then spend time without the President for reflection on their observations and discussion,” according to the report.

The Audit Committee presented its regular review of the College’s finances and financial processes.

“Linfield was commended by the auditors for having a clean financial operation and excellent financial statements,” the report

reads.

Linfield’s Endowment Fund ended the fiscal year exceeding $100 million in value.

The annual budget was approved and balanced for the 43rd consecutive year, “We are proud of this record,” reads the report.

New faculty and student trustees were elected, as were new officers for the 2017-18 year.

Killgore: New AD aims for sense of community among Wildcats >>from page 1 make it work, and rightfully so. They were trying to protect the best interests of the college.”

Game Day will be modified as needed to work for winter and spring sports. A similar version may be introduced for the conference track and field championships, to be held at Linfield in late April.

Killgore makes it his priority to attend as many sporting events as possible. On his visits, he encourages athletes to get excited about what they’re doing and to put their best foot forward.

“I like walking out on the deck and

seeing the swimmers get so pumped,” he said. “They’re so bizarre.

“They say, ‘AD on the deck!’ It’s like, ‘Oh my God. Wow. That’s kind of cool.”

In fact, he gets frustrated when he has to miss competitive events. “I try to get to every one, but it’s not physically possible,” he said.

Killgore’s goal is to continue building a sense of unity and family at Linfield. Along the way, he’s bent on encouraging coaches and athletes to overcome adversity and never be satisfied.

“What really shows our true character, if we’re in a corner, is how are we

going to react to that?” he said.

“Personally, I think we should take it on as a challenge, and say, “Is that all you’ve got? You’ve got do better than that if you want to beat me.

“That’s a good attitude to have.”

>>from page 1 Phelps has become an advocate for mental health. He emphasized how important it is to encourage people to ask for help. “The conversation surrounding mental health really hits home for me,” he said.

“Many people don’t understand how debilitating mental illness truly can be, and even more than that, how common it is, yet people are afraid to have the serious discussions about it.”

Asking for help isn’t an easy step to take but the Linfield health, wellness, and counseling center is staffed with

professionals with the training and experience to help students understand and cope with their anxiety.

Counselor Scott Kimura addressed how anxiety can affect athletic performance.

He said that although some anxiety can be beneficial to an athlete’s performance, too much can be debilitating.

“Experiencing worry about doing well in front of an audience, not making mistakes, or the pressure to live up to certain expectations can be uncomfortable and distracting,” Kimura said.

“These thoughts can lead to self-defeating behaviors in the moment, such as not warming up properly, poor pacing, or inattentiveness to form.”

Linfield counselors work with students to turn negative thoughts into positive ones like “I’m going to get a base hit” or “I’m going to win, but even if I don’t, that’s okay.”

Another way to cope with feelings of anxiety is to “learn to control your thoughts and emotions,” Kimura said.

“Focus on deep breathing to bring yourself into a state of relaxation.”

Anxiety: Counselors address athletes’ worries, offer suggestions for grappling with anxiety

By Alex Gogan Sophomore Mohamed Toure is the first student from Mali at Linfield.

He is a proud dual citizen of Mali and the United States and was born in New Orleans but returned to Mali.

Mali is quite a large country, almost twice the size of Texas, with a population of 18 million. Toure laid out the geography and pointed out that Mali has regions.

The politics in Mali can be a volatile topic, as the country has witnessed three coups and a dictatorship. Toure commented that the politics are “not very stable.”

In Mali, French is the official language and Islam is the main religion.

Toure is from the city of Bamako, which is the capital and largest city of Mali. The agriculture, mining, and cotton industries all contribute to the economic landscape in Mali.

Toure revealed the surprising fact

that Mali is meant to mean “Hippo.”

The story behind the name has been passed down orally. Mali Sadio is translated as two colored hippo. The story is meant to represent the connection between the Malian people and animals.

The capital, Bamako, also has a meaning behind its name. Bamako represents a river of crocodiles in Bambaro.

The flag of Mali contains three colors, which also have symbolic meaning. The green symbolizes prosperity and fertility, yellow symbolizes the wealth of the people and the land, and red is to represent the fighting which has occurred in Mali. Red is also is a symbol of blood and power.

But Mali, like any other country, is more complicated than any presentation could hope to capture. Toure said, “I’m one person, and Mali is more complex than I can explain.”

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By Emma Knudson and Elizabeth Stoeger In the aftermath of the mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Linfield professor and Texas native José Araguz contemplated the dire situation.

“This is an American situation, not just a Texas situation, not just a mental health situation, and not just a guns situation,” he said.

This attack claimed the lives of 26 people, from 18 months to 77 years old, according to a Texas state official.

The shooter, Devin P. Kelley, had a troubled history of mental illness and abuse, multiple brush-ups with the law, and received a “bad conduct” discharge

from the Air Force.

“When I heard about the shootings on Sunday, my wife and I mapped out where the community was located,” Araguz said.

A member of the Sutherland Springs community for about 70 years, Beulah Wilson told the New York Times, “Everybody knew everybody,” Wilson said.

“You didn’t keep your doors locked or your cars locked, unless you lived on the main street. We had no crime here.”

While there may have been no crime, they still had to deal with the cultural stereotypes associated with Texas.

“What I do have are concerns of what will be left out as the oversimplifications continue both around this mass shooting and the country in general,” said Araguz.

Araguz has been forced to contend with the stereotypes associated with Texas throughout his life.

“From cowboy hats and belt buckles to statements about how I ‘don’t sound’ like I’m from Texas, time and again I’ve experienced the reflection of nothing that I grew up around, but rather of what people have decided to pay attention to and associate with a place.”

This stereotyping and distortion of Texas has not stopped since the shooting but only gotten worse.

“Oversimplification of this kind happens when people don’t want to bother acknowledging or dwelling on the com-

By Leina Panui Students, families, and faculty were invited to Ice Auditorium Wednesday night to learn and observe the Maasai, a tribal group from Kenya.

“Maasai’s goal is to share the culture and belief the native people have in Kenya that is why we have this group of people who are from the rural areas of Kenya,” said Emos, one of the performers.

Lights dimmed as the five performers, Nancy, Tupes, Ann, Samuel, and Emos took the stage. The performers don’t have last names because they carry their tribe’s name. Emos wasn’t comfortable divulging the name of their tribes.

They enlightened the audience with

their first performance of the Numba, a welcoming song. This is usually sung when a tribe enters a new place and wants to thank and welcome everyone.

During this performance, the dancers sang acapella to demonstrate that their voices are the instruments. All five dancers performed the skitsa dance move, rolling their bodies and nodding their heads.

The group also introduced a competition their tribes do when they’re singing.

It’s a jumping competition, but also a way to celebrate.

In celebration of their culture, the dancers went into the crowd and brought audience members up to stage their own

competition.

“It was so impressive and I had fun jumping with them,” shared Japanese international student Kiki Hara.

Other audience members were also fascinated by the whistled performance of the shepherd’s song, a lullaby the women

plexities before them,” Araguz said.

Maasai share culture, joy through dance

in the village will sing to their infants.

“Each story was told in a magnificent way and I hope people understood the life in Africa and its culture,” shared freshman Isis Hatcher. “My favorite part was to be able to experience a different culture entirely.”

The group ended their performance singing a song about their beliefs and welcomed audience members on stage.

All Florida State fraternity and sorority activities suspended after pledge’s death FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (TNS)— The death of a 20-year-old fraternity pledge from Pompano Beach led Florida State University to shut down all Greek life activities Monday. Alcohol is suspected of playing a role in the death of Andrew Coffey, whose body was found Friday - the morning after a gathering of more than 50 people at a house near campus, police said Monday.

Reacting to his death, the university on Monday indefinitely suspended all 54 fraternities and sororities, said Florida State University President John Thrasher.

He also banned alcohol at student events, which includes those run by more than 700 organizations outside the Greek community, according to a news release.

“For this suspension to end, there will need to be a new normal for Greek life at the university,” Thrasher said. “There must be a new culture, and our students must be full participants in creating it.”

Coffey was trying to become a full member of the FSU chapter of Pi Kappa Phi. The fraternity has faced disciplinary action in the past five years for hazing, alcohol violations and unspecified misconduct, according to disciplinary logs maintained by the national fraternity. In 2012, the fraternity’s national office sanctioned the chapter for hazing, and in 2014 the chapter faced university sanctions for unspecified conduct that violated university policy. The circumstances of Coffey’s death have remained a mystery.

“Although there are indicators that al-

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Campus Briefs Faculty votes to eliminate San Diego State Aztec mascot

SAN DIEGO—The move to do away with San Diego State University’s Aztec mascot has resurfaced, taking opponents and even some supporters by surprise.

The latest gyration in the yearslong dispute occured Tuesday night when the University Senate overwhelmingly voted to retire the Aztec Warrior and related symbols.

Just seven months ago the Associated Students council agreed to keep the mascot and logo by a narrow vote.

The Senate resolution, which is nonbinding and is an advisory to the university president, called to do away with the human representation of an Aztec and the use of spears or other “weapons that connote barbaric representations of the Aztec culture.” The Senate also called for creating a task force to investigate and make recommendations about the appropriateness of the continued usage of the Aztec moniker.

Many schools and teams in recent years have dropped mascots the depict different cultures among growing objections that they are insensitive and racist.

While the Aztec mascot hasn’t been retired, the school has responded by making some changes to the image, including dropping the old Monty Montezuma mascot in favor of an Ambassador Montezuma in 2002.

Student faces hate crime charge in case involving former roommate HARTFORD, Conn.—Brianna Rae Brochu faces a hate crime charge in a case involving her former roommate at the University of Hartford. Brochu, 18, was arrested after admitting to police that she licked her roommate’s dining utensils and smeared bodily fluid on the woman’s backpack.

University President Greg Woodward, in a press statement, said Brochu’s conduct was “reprehensible” and she “is no longer a student at the University of Hartford.”

He also said that the University of Hartford “took action immediately” once allegations were brought to the university’s attention.

Brochu did not comment during a brief appearence in Hartford Community Court. Brochu told police she “began to lash out due to a ‘hostile environment’ caused by (the victim’s) rude behavior.” Brochu did admit she licked her former roomate’s plate, fork and spoon and smeared her own bodily fluid on the victim’s backpack, but denied other accusations.

Police arrest protestors, supporters at Yiannopoulos speaking event

Florida State’s Pi Kappa Phi house. cohol may have been a factor in this case, we are waiting for the results of an autopsy so no cause of death has been determined,” Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo said Monday.

Police reportedly collected beer bottles from the porch as evidence.

Authorities found Coffey unresponsive at 10:23 a.m. Friday at a house about a mile from campus, Tallahassee police said.

Police said Monday they have inter-

Joe Rondone/Democrat viewed more than 50 people and have more interviews planned.

Pi Kappa Phi’s national office suspended the FSU chapter’s operations following the death, said a Pi Kappa Phi spokesman.

In 2015, the chapter had to enroll in a remedial program for an alcohol violation. But in the past year, in which the national disciplinary log recorded 60 misconduct allegations against chapters around the country, there were none involving the FSU chapter.

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FULLERTON, Calif.—Seven people were arrested as California State, Fullerton on Tuesday night during tense protests on campus as conservatice firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos spoke on campus.

At least two arrests were the result of a scuffle between left-wing protesters and right-wing counter-protestors, said university spokesman Jeff Cook. It’s unclear what led to the other arrests.

Early on, police intervened when someone in the crowd, which included about 50 protestors and one Yiannopoulos supporter, shot pepper spray into the air, said Capt. Scot Wiley of the university’s Police Department. It’s unclear who used the pepper spray, or why. One woman sought treatment from fire officials. Confrontations and profenity-laced shouting matches broke out later in the evening.

University police were out in force on campus, with extra officers on hand from several agencies. Helicopters hovered over campus. Those waiting to get into the venue had to go through security screenings, including metal detectors, Cook said.

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Fresh perspective for HHPA faculty

By Camille Botello The Linfield Health and Human Performance department is welcoming a new assistant professor to their team.

Professor Cisco Reyes came to Oregon as a college freshman from Moscow, Idaho, to play baseball at Pacific University in Forest Grove. After receiving his undergraduate degrees in Exercise Science and Coaching he returned to Moscow and got his master’s in physical education from the University of Idaho and his Ph.D. in education.

“I wanted to be a part of a collegial department with top-notch academics in their respective fields of HHPA where everyone is supported by their colleagues. Because of my educational background and professional experiences, I wanted to come help bridge the gap between academics and athletics in order to fully educate, engage and empower HHPA students with evidence-based methods of Health and Human Performance,” Reyes said.

He emphasized that he wanted to teach at an institution with not only a strong athletic program, but also high caliber academics as well.

“I wanted to associate with a college with high athletic and academic success, as well as one that displays institutional organization and stability,” he said.

Reyes also does research about sports performance, writes and releases his findings, and speaks at conferences about the data he has collected.

“Currently I am examining Velocity-Based Training and how movement speed across a variety of different resistances in a given strength training exercise can aid human performance professionals to tailor resistance training programs towards specific neuro-

muscular goals, as well as using velocity-based measurements to control for neuromuscular fatigue and daily state of training readiness,” he said.

Apart from Linfield’s academic success, Reyes was also very attracted to Linfield athletics. “It is very hard to ignore Linfield’s athletic success and that is one reason why I wanted to be here at Linfield,” he said.

Students come from all over the country and the world to participate in Linfield athletics. In fact, 34 percent of all students play at least one of the 19 varsity sports offered, according to the Linfield fact sheet.

Wildcat football is one of Linfield’s many points of pride, just having achieved their 62nd consecutive winning season.

Since the athletic program began in 1896, Wildcats have won nine national championships and many conference titles.

“The athletic department is constantly raising the bar to continue to improve and to make the rest of the conference and region keep up with what Linfield athletics is doing. The coaches have high expectations for their student athletes both athletically and academically, which creates high-quality professionals who will represent what it truly means to be a Linfield Wildcat,” Reyes said.

The new professor is excited about continuing his research and teaching students about exercise strategy.

“As a new faculty member, I have been blown away by the support and warmth from everyone on campus. It makes coming to work easy and provides me a lot of ammunition to brag about the environ- Cisco Reyes is a first year professor at Linfield. ment here at Linfield,” Reyes concluded.

Photo courtesy Claire St. Marie

Claire St. Marie, a nursing student at Linfield, has had a pacemaker since she was 14.

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Fletcher Wilkin

Setting the pace, with heart, student leads an active life

By Malia Riggs “I’m battery-operated,” Linfield student Claire St. Marie, acknowledged. “This is me. I’m kind of like Iron Man. At least that sounds the most cool when I tell people I have a pacemaker.”

St. Marie is a junior nursing major on Linfield's Portland campus. She's also a member of the school swimming team, but she doesn’t let having a pacemaker slow her down. She suffers from a condition called heart block. This is when the heart beats too slow and the electrical signal in the two chambers of the heart does not connect. This makes it so the heart does not beat in sync.

St. Marie is a resident of the Seattle area, and she's been skiing competitively since the age of 10. She has also competed in swimming and water polo, two other highly strenuous activities, since an early age. All while she has unknowingly had the heart condition.

Having competed in athletics almost all her life, St. Marie wasn't expecting any problems with her first high school sports physical.

However, during the exam her resting heart rate ran only about 45 beats per minute, compared to a normal rate of 60 to 100. An EKG was performed, and the results were sent

to Seattle Children’s Hospital for analysis.

“It was 9 a.m on a Sunday morning when my mom answered the phone,” St. Claire recalled. “It was Children’s Hospital telling my mom to rush me up as fast as she could.”

Her mother woke her up to tell her she needed to get her to the hospital right away. “All I could think was, ‘That's not how this works, Mom. You can't just wake me up and declare we’re going to the emergency room.

I’m sleeping.’”

At Children's Hospital, a specialist told St. Marie that she had a serious heart condition. If she didn't want to live in a constant fear of spontaneous death, she would have to have a battery-powered pacemaker implanted.

“I’m 14, and I'm sitting in the hospital thinking, ‘Pacemaker or death.

Cool.’ Obviously, I went with the pacemaker,” she recalled.

The procedure and recovery cut her freshman year of swimming short in high school. But the pacemaker keeps her heart beating normally, allowing her to continue competing.

St. Marie doesn't let having a pacemaker hinder her from living out her life, athletically or otherwise.

However, it does impose some rather peculiar restrictions. For example, individuals with pacemakers

can't undergo security screening at airports because the electromagnetic waves used to detect metal objects can a disrupt the programing.

“Some other weird restrictions I have are that I can't go into a radio tower. I don't know why I would want to, but now I can’t. I also can’t jump on trampolines, which at 14 kind of sucked,” she said.

“I can either look at it by living in constant fear or I can look at this in a positive light. Hell yes, I have a pacemaker. This doesn't define my life or me though. It’s just something cool and unique about me.”

“The mindset around pacemakers is that people are inactive and the device enables them to do things. That is because pacemakers usually go in, like, 80-year-olds.

“My pacemaker helps me be a better athlete. It allows me to function to my highest ability. So it is more of a help than a hindrance.”

St. Marie also said having a pacemaker has opened her eyes to other athletes and the struggles they might be facing. “You just don't know what other athletes racing in the lane next to you are dealing with,” she said.

“I bet the person that I race next to me isn’t thinking, ‘A chick with a pacemaker is beating me,’” St. Marie said.

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President Hellie sits for an interview Student diversity at an all-time high

Farewell, Dr. H

19th president to retire after 11 years. He takes pride in raising money

By Kaelia Neal After an 11-year tenure at Linfield College, President Thomas L. Hellie will retire on June 30, 2018. He is the 19th president since the college was founded in 1858.

During Hellie’s time, Linfield’s diversity increased to 32 percent students of color, its endowment grew to $117 million and the college added several new programs, including offering a wine studies minor and expanding the nursing RN to BSN program. Several buildings were renovated, including TJ Day, Dillin, Melrose, Riley, Taylor and Walker halls, and athletic facilities were enhanced with the resurfacing of Maxwell Field, Roy Helser Field and the track.

While he still has seven months left, Hellie is preparing to say goodbye to students and colleagues he says he has come to consider family.

Hellie agreed to sit down for an hour interview with the Review Oct. 6 in his office in the northeast corner of the first floor of Melrose Hall. The interview transcript has been edited slightly for brevity and clarity.

Q: What made you decide on Linfield and stay as long as you did?

A: I thought that it was a good fit when I applied for the job and it turned out it was a good fit. … Once I looked at the college more closely … I was impressed by several things. For one thing, the college had physically expanded

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a lot … and secondly, it was in solid financial shape. And then, as I began asking around, I heard good things about the faculty.

I was also struck by the fact that the college seemed to be enrolling a fairly large number of young people who were the first in their families to go to college. In fact, I was the first in my family to go to college.

I grew up on a farm in Minnesota. Some of the Linfield students grew up on ranches in southern Oregon. It didn’t hurt, of course, that we were in the middle of pinot noir country. So I applied, and the more I got to know the college, the better it felt.

Of course, they had to decide that I was the right person, and I always felt very fortunate that I was selected.

Why have I stayed for as long as I have? There are still things here that I would like to be done. I guess there always will be.

Q: What’s different compared to when you started at Linfield?

A: When I started, what is now TJ Day Hall was a building that was in bad shape. It was the old library, and it was being used for storage. Fortunately, we were able to raise money and renovate that building in order to make it into a very useful building for the college.

Something else that I think has changed is that our student body is, in certain ways, similar, but in certain

ways, different.

When I interviewed at Linfield, I asked why it seemed it had such a small number of students of color. They conceded that Linfield had not done as good a job as it could in reaching out to multicultural populations, and so that became one of my top priorities. I’m really proud of the fact that we now have three times as many students of color than when I arrived.

Another change is that wine and activities related to wine have become much more identifiable.… At the time I arrived, the college had no interactions with the wine industry. Now, I think, we have flipped that. It’s a distinguishing factor for Linfield. And I think we’ve hired just some great faculty over the last 10 years or so.

Q: What was your toughest year here?

A: The toughest year was the year that Parker Archie Moore died, and that’s probably self-explanatory. We’ve had other student deaths as well, three during my time here, and all of them very upsetting. But that one was so crazy and so tragic. That was really, really difficult.

I don’t know that the whole year was my worst year, but that was certainly the worst period of my time here, because … you feel a sense of responsibility for your students, and when something like that happens, even when you can’t really prevent it, I suppose, you still feel like somehow you’ve failed.

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y, increasing diversity.

Photos by Kyle Huizinga Q: What was your best time or your favorite year at Linfield?

A: There have been a lot of really, really good times at Linfield. I have been so proud of so many student achievements.

My first really good, over-the-top moment at Linfield was when our softball team won the national championship in 2007. I had nothing to do with that, of course, but I knew a number of the players.

It was the first women’s team championship in the history of the college. I was proud that it happened at all and especially proud that it happened while I was president.

But there have been so many things that we have to be proud of: faculty accomplishments … students who have excelled in all sorts of ways.

Q: What are you proud of?

A: During my time here, we have been able to raise, I think, more than $11 million to endow and create more faculty positions. That was something Linfield had not done very much of before I came.

Personally and professionally, I am also proud of having been elected chair of the board of the Council of Independent Colleges. It’s a national organization of all small, private colleges. I was elected by other presidents … and that’s just been a great honor for me.

Q: How has the political climate changed on campus?

A: We’re a more liberal institution than when I came.

However, we still, I think more than a lot of places, have a variety of political opinions on this campus.

It’s very important that we provide opportunities for people with different political opinions to voice those opinions and to be able to discuss them with each other. I think that’s a really important thing for the college.

Q: What do you think the future will hold for liberal arts colleges?

A: I think that liberal arts education is as important as it’s ever been. People who have this kind of education make better citizens. They are also, nine times out of 10, more successful professionally than people who have very narrow, specific educations that teach certain skills that become out of date in five years.

Liberal arts students learn how to learn. And they spend the rest of their lives learning. They also learn how to communicate and interact with other people and how to work in teams.

If you ask any group of people who are in mid-career, if you ask how many of them are in a field directly related to their college major, you’ll be lucky if half of them raise their hands. So having this kind of education that’s well-rounded that helps you to learn how to learn is going to be very valuable because people keep changing careers throughout all of their lives.

Now, what we have happening right now in the United States is challenging for liberal arts colleges, because politicians, policymakers, and even members of the general public don’t seem to fully understand the value of this kind of education. It’s understandable … but the fact is, many of the jobs that exist now won’t exist in 20 years, and many new jobs and careers will be created that you and I can’t even imagine.

Q: How is the role of the small, residential liberal arts college changing in the face of the emphasis on STEM and other employment-focused pressures?

A: First of all it’s important to know that science and math, which make up two of the four parts of STEM, are traditional liberal arts disciplines. In fact, they’re among the very oldest liberal arts disciplines. A little known fact is that small, liberal arts colleges actually provide a highly disproportionate number of people who go on to get Ph.D.s or M.D.s. Many more by percentage than would be true at a large university. That’s because … of the research experiences that our undergraduate students have here that they just can’t have at a big place.

Q: If enacted, how would government-funded free community colleges, such as presidential candidate Bernie Sanders proposed, affect Linfield and similar private schools?

A: We already have free community college in Oregon.

It’s called the Oregon Promise and I believe it’s having an impact on enrollment. If it were enacted for the entire country, it would make it very challenging for private colleges.

On the other hand, it’s not at all clear to me how it’s affordable for the government to do it without dramatically increasing taxes or dramatically reducing the quality of public higher education. It’s one of those ideas that sound really good until you look at what the real costs are.

Q: What lessons have you learned?

A: I would say that over the course of my career, and not just at Linfield … I have learned how important listening is. I have learned that even when I’m convinced I’m right, I’m not always. It’s very important that I listen to other opinions before I make a final decision.

I already knew that things were not black and white when I came here. But now I’m even more aware of how gray some issues can be.

Q: Do you have any advice for the incoming president?

A: My advice is that people at Linfield really love their community, and everyone here wants this place to be better, even if they don’t always agree on what that means or how we get there. That there’s just a fierce loyalty and dedication to this college, not only among the people who are working here and living here, but also the people who have graduated from here. And that their love for the college should be something that is cherished and appreciated and encouraged.

I think that there are a lot of specific things that I will talk to the new president about—any particular issues that the college might be facing, any particular things that are in process that haven’t yet been finished.

Q: There’re some projects you said you still need to complete before you’re done.

A: I’m especially working on trying to raise funds for the college to continue increasing our endowment, because your endowment produces revenue every year that could go into supporting student scholarships, which is where we really are going to need to continue to do a lot.

I also want to work on raising money for science facilities. We’re hoping to renovate Murdock and Graf, and to take down Mac Hall and build a new science building. It will all be connected, and it’s, like, a $45 million project. I want very much to raise funds for that.

Also, I want to make sure that wine studies is firmly established and funded before I retire, if at all possible.

I think we also have opportunities—challenges, but also opportunities—to think about how we can recruit more students to the college.

Q: If you had to say one last thing to students, what would that be?

A: One last thing? I’m going to say two things.

The first is, make the most of your time at Linfield, which means not just studying one subject and getting out of here, but finding ways to try new things and stretch yourself and take full advantage of all the opportunities the college has.

The second thing, which is just as important to the college and somewhat important to you, is don’t forget about Linfield. It’s to your own benefit that the college stays strong and gets stronger, because it will enhance the reputation of your degree. But also I hope that many people here at least will appreciate, even though I know it’s expensive to go to college here, the fact is that the full cost is not being paid here by our students. It’s that other people are giving. People who went here before are giving money to make it possible to come.

That’s not the only way I’m hoping people don’t forget about the college, but there are things that are really important to make sure other people will have the same opportunity in the future.

I really believe in this college. Even though my wife, Julie, and I are going to be living off campus in nine months, and are going to be in Portland, and thus no longer directly involved in the college, we will be supporters of this college as long as we live. In fact, this college is the main beneficiary of our estate, because I believe it is such a great place and does such great things for students.

Q: You kind of answered it already, but what’s next for you?

A: We’re moving to Portland. We’re going to live in Northwest Portland. And right now, I actually plan to retire.

I think I’m going to take at least a few months after I finish my work at Linfield to relax and read and maybe travel a little bit. My plan right now is not to commit myself to anything for a while.

This job has been the most important professional experience in my life, but it’s also been the busiest, I’d say.

I want to take a rest, then figure out what comes next.

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The Color Purple

Wildcats rank high in racial and ethnic diversity, but it’s just a starting point.

By Olivia Gomez Linfield is reported to have become one of the two most ethnically diverse higher education institutions in the Pacific Northwest. Administrators are proud of the progress, whether called diversity or inclusivity, but say the college isn’t done yet.

Thirty-two percent of the Wildcats were students of color in 2016-’17, the latest year for which figures are available, according to Linfield’s annual report.

This figure was 19 percent in 2010, when the federal government began to require schools to use specific race and ethnicity categories to count students.

The determinations are based on how students self-reported their racial identities. Those who identify as a race or ethnicity other than white, or as white and another category, are recorded as students of color.

Although the population of students of color has grown, each racial group is following its own trend. More than 130 Hispanic or Latino students attended Linfield last academic year, a 71 percent increase from a low of 78 students in 2013-’14. The number of African-American students per year has fluctuated around 40, reaching a low of 35 in 2009-’10 and 2012-’13 and a high of 47 three years later. Linfield saw 208 Asian-American students in 2009-’10 but no more than 150 since 2013-’14.

The Native American or Native Alaskan population has experienced a similar decline, having decreased from 43 in 2010-’11 to 18 last year.

But race and ethnicity are not the only characteristics that go into creating a truly diverse student body, according to Gerardo Ochoa, assistant dean of diversity and community partnerships.

“People think of the word ‘diversity’ and they think of race,” Ochoa said. “But our definition of diversity is and needs to be more broad, because we’re talking about gender and sexuality, we’re talking about faith, we’re talking about socioeconomic status, and a lot of those things are very difficult to capture on paper.”

However, Linfield’s students’ genders, both overall and by race and ethnicity, are known. Almost 68 percent of the cardinal and purple’s students were women in 2016-’17. And anyone with

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a Linfield email address can access data on age, home residence, enrollment of Oregon-based students, participation in athletics and housing. Although data on socioeconomic status and other diversity indicators are not available for public or student online access, anyone who has filed a FAFSA form knows that administrators have household savings and income records they use to calculate financial aid.

“In a lot of ways, we tie [diversity] to skin color,” said Dan Preston, vice president of enrollment management. But it’s more than skin deep--the varied experiences students have create a diverse student body. “We want to have a wide variety of students from all backgrounds, so that the experience is good.”

President Thomas L. Hellie, who is retiring at the end of the current academic year, has made the pursuit of diversity one of his key goals. To help carry it out, he created the Diversity Advisory Committee. It carried ad hoc status for several years, but was given a permanent place in the college’s governing structure in January 2013.

Officials have struggled to reach a consensus on exactly what “diversity” means. If the college were to represent just Oregon, Preston said, its student body would be less diverse. But reflecting Oregon’s predominantly white demographics is not the point; the point is to

represent a broader public.

Ochoa said the college needs to focus on inclusion as well. “Just because you’re a diverse campus doesn’t mean everybody feels included,” he said. “Diversity is what you look like. Inclusion is what you feel when you’re there.”

Dean of Students Susan Hopp emphasized the role of students in ensuring inclusivity, a word she favors over “diversity.” She said it is vital that students make administrators aware of any instances in which they feel isolated.

The importance of inclusivity carries over to the recruitment process. The admissions staff uses a model based on students who have already enrolled to predict who might want to attend in the future. Based on the model, students who meet specific criteria are targeted with advertising material. However, Preston said the school can’t allow the model to exclude particular racial or ethnic groups, just because they are currently underrepresented. That would only serve to perpetuate their underrepresentation.

Despite Linfield’s annual celebration of Hawaiian culture with the luau, only 12 Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders were among the total students enrolled last year. But that does not keep the college from continuing to solicit applications from that demographic.

Populations of some non-white high

school students are growing, Hopp said.

Increasing the racial diversity of the college comes naturally with demographic changes like this.

Linfield and Willamette University were the most ethnically diverse liberal arts schools in the Pacific Northwest and among the most diverse nationally in a recent analysis by U.S. News & World Report.

The two schools tied for 34th nationally with a diversity index of 0.54 on a scale ranging from 0 to 1. The index was created by the magazine to measure the proportion of students of color in relation to the collective student body, excluding international students.

Interestingly, Ochoa said, some students see Linfield as the most diverse environment they have known, while others see only a pale reflection of the larger community. The latter, he said, suggests there is work yet to be done. “I think a lot of us would be very honest and say we’re not where we want to be when it comes to diversity and inclusion.”

People will make mistakes when addressing diversity, Ochoa said--what matters is self-correcting afterward. “As long as we can acknowledge that we are not perfect humans, that we make mistakes, and as long as we can allow ourselves the opportunity to be corrected, and to self-correct, I think we’re headed in the right direction.”

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Thank you for your service

Cason Cunningham, 35, throws a pitch in a previous game for the ‘Cats last baseball season.

By Kaho Akau He sat in a booth at a local Denny’s in San Clemente, California. A platoon mate joined him as he devoured his Lumberjack Slam, each bite of bacon, eggs and pancakes more delicious than those that preceded.

Then their waitress walked over to the table with a smile. She pointed across the diner.

“That man over there would like to pay for your meals today,” she said.

Cason Cunningham’s friends often tell him, “Thank you for your service,” as they see him walking around the Linfield College campus. They say it playfully, almost as if to annoy him.

But to Cunningham, it holds greater meaning.

Now a junior at Linfield, Cunningham was a U.S. Marine at the time. To this day, he recalls the incident.

“It feels good to know people respect the military,” he said.

During his tour, Cunningham was assigned to the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based in San Diego.

After sailing to Hawaii, the Philippines, Singapore, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Djibouti, the unit was posted for six months in Darwin, Australia.

“Singapore was fun,” he said. “And the Philippines was interesting, because we got to go through jungle warfare training with the Philippine military.”

Cunningham learned to appreciate life in the U.S. a lot more through his travels. He reminds himself every day not to take for granted the simple pleasures in life, such as hot meals and the opportunity to see family on a regular basis.

That really hit home for him when he got to spend a few days at Disneyland with his two sisters, in celebration of his parents’ 25th wedding anniversary.

Patriotism can hold a different meaning for each individual, Cunningham noted. He defines it as doing, or at least wanting, what is best for one’s country, which requires ac-

knowledging no country is perfect.

“Instead of bad-mouthing, people need to attempt to fix things,” he said.

Cunningham landed at Linfield almost by accident.

Hoping to some day return to Sheldon High School in Eugene as a history teacher and baseball coach, he made the decision to attend college at age 23. He figured his playing days were over, so had shifted his focus from pitching to coaching.

But Cunningham’s high school coach, Stan Manley, had become an assistant at Linfield. And he extended Cunningham an invitation to consider playing at Linfield while working toward his degree.

“I got an email from Coach Manley while I was in Australia, and he offered me a tryout at Linfield,” Cunningham recalled. He took to the school immediately, saying, “The atmosphere and school spirit make Linfield special. I feel like I know most of the students and faculty, and everyone is always friendly.”

Since promoted to head coach, Manley is delighted to have Cunningham on board.

“I think the world of him,” Manley said. “He’s a good player, but an even better person. His head doesn’t get big when he’s successful, and I think he’s a good guy to look up to.”

Cunningham has rewarded Manley by emerging as the ace of the Wildcat pitching staff.

He earned All-American honorable mention and Northwest Conference Pitcher of the Year honors last year, and led Linfield to a conference championship.

“Dog-piling with the team felt like all of the team’s hard work had finally paid off,” he said.

Cunningham attributes his success, both on and off the field, to the faith others around him have placed in him. They have come to count on him, and he’s determined not to let them down.

“As a leader on the team, Cason is a guy we are confident in every time he

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takes the mound,” said fellow pitcher Carter Buuck.

Best friends, they sport friendship necklaces proclaiming, “Catch partners for life.”

While people often look to him as a mentor or role model, Cunningham keeps his feet firmly planted on the ground. He said he has as many quirks as anyone.

His collection of more than 4,000 baseball cards is his pride and joy, but he doesn’t just collect cards.

“I hoard pens and pencils, if I go somewhere that offers them for free,” he acknowledged. “It could be a bank, store or pretty much anywhere. I just take one.”

“Oh, and I can wiggle my ears,” he said while simultaneously doing so.

Saturday marked Veterans Day. When asked about what the holiday meant to him, Cunningham said, “It’s a chance to look back and reflect on everyone who came before, as well as give me a reason to call up old buddies and see how they’re doing.”

Arts and Entertainment Student embraces Middle Eastern heritage in theater 8 Nov. 13, 2017

By Elizabeth Stoeger

Junior Melory Mirashrafi was born in Hillsboro to Iranian parents and spent her childhood living between Portland and Tehran, the capital of Iran.

“I didn’t know that Oregon summers were warm until my junior year of high school,” Mirashrafi said with a laugh.

She graduated from Hillsboro High School and it was there that she found Linfield. Mirashrafi spent the first two years of her undergraduate studies as a biochemistry major intending to become a medical professional.

“Theater had always been something I was interested in,” said Mirashrafi, but it was only after a life-changing internship with Bag & Baggage that she made the decision to concentrate on theater.

Bag & Baggage is a professional theater group in Hillsboro that reached out to Farsi-speaking Mirashrafi this summer when they needed a translator for a ground-breaking production of “Romeo and Juliet” that would be combined with the 12th Century Persian love poem, “Layla and Majnun,”

by Nizami Ganjavi.

She acted as translator and assistant director. As translator, the challenge was “translating it with the context of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in mind” with the added knowledge that “Layla and Majnun” predates Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” by a few centuries.

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tled “Romeo and Juliet (Layla and Majnun)” and was about half “Romeo and Juliet” and half “Layla and Majnun.”

Juliet’s side of the family was Roman Catholic and Romeo was Bedouin.

It opened to “an overwhelmingly positive response from both the Iranian community in Portland and from everybody else,” an incredible feat which was not lost on Mirashrafi.

“I learned a lot about how to market to different communities,” Mirashrafi said.

Promoting a Muslim-Sha ke speare mashup to a predominately white community was no small feat. “It’s kind of like a bait and switch,” she said. They come for traditional “Romeo and Juliet” but “little do they know they’re going to show up to this Muslim extravaganza.

They don’t even see it coming with this cast full of people of color.”

The success of the show and the simple fact that it was even produced was personally meaningful to Mirashrafi. “It was really powerful for

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der her belt, she threw herself into the theater department at Linfield and became a theater major with a music and gender studies minor.

She recently completed her run as Ada in “Ada and the Engine” by Lauren Gunderson. The play highlighted Ada Byron Lovelace and her contributions to computer science and engineering.

“She was and is one of those students that when you saw perform, you knew that she could make it in a professional world,” said castmate Marcos Galvez, ’18.

Photo courtesy Melory Mirashrafi “Melory is a me because I never get to see that part fantastic person to act with. It feels of who I am on stage.” like you’re carrying on a completely “When else had Hillsboro had a normal conversation and helps to dilittle Muslim kid praying in the mid- minish any nerves you have,” said Koa dle of a public plaza to the Adhan, Tomich, ’21. the Muslim call to prayer, and had an The cast was made up of largeaudience of upwards of 200 people, ly people of color, a change that has mostly white people, watching and made the play all the more rewarding understanding or trying to under- for those involved in its production. “I stand and being there for the art of think it’s been really empowering for it?” she said. all of us,” she said. “Telling the history With this experience already un- of then with the voices that we have

now.”

Mirashrafi’s dedication to representation in theater began with “Romeo and Juliet (Layla and Majnun),” where she saw audiences and production crew alike try to understand and give credit to a culture that has been misrepresented and vilified in today’s cultural climate.

“Seeing a production that has not only Middle Eastern faces but people of all colors represented and working together to tell this truth, this truth of, ‘This is the story that came first and it was appropriated by this culture and that culture.’ Just getting people to acknowledge that was really important and quite the experience for me,” she said.

However, her Middle Eastern roots are not as acknowledged here at Linfield. “I don’t get any diversity scholarships because Middle Eastern people don’t have a box to check off so we get no diversity scholarship which is ridiculous.”

As disheartening and exasperating as this is for Mirashrafi, she refuses to let this taint her college experience.

An experience which has been a struggle against ignorance for Mirashrafi.“People don’t know things because they don’t ask. I feel like just asking things will make you a more culturally sensitive person.”

But Mirashrafi also has faith that theater can translate into something larger and ultimately affect everyone, “Cultural change happens in the arts and cultural change shifts to political change and shifts to world wide change.”

be construed as offensive to any reasonable non-actual-Nazi person, regardless of political affiliation. Unless, of course, they are offended by gratuitous violence, blood and gore because there is a lot of that.

I enjoyed “Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus” far more than I expected.

Where it really shines is its story. You control Billy Blaskowicz, rebel hero, or according to the Nazis, Terror-Billy, the mass murderer. The game takes place in a twisted version of 1960s America in which the Nazis won World War II. The game has a diverse cast of characters that are believable and play off one another well in their interactions. The villain, Frau Engel, is pure evil and easy to hate. Without spoiling too much of the story, you get to steal a U-boat, deliver a nuclear bomb, infiltrate a Nazi base on Venus, ride a giant robot dog and audition for the role of yourself in a show for Nazi television. “The New Colossus” carries on the series tradition of vulgar dialogue and contains plenty of comic relief from its dark universe.

The gunplay is well crafted and each of the 11 weapons play a unique role in combat. Unlike some other first person shooters, Wolfenstein does not turn enemies into bullet sponges on higher difficulties. It seems the only difference between the “Can I play, Daddy?” and “I am Death Incarnate!” difficulty settings is how much dam-

age the player takes. Harder difficulties require stealth tactics. If an enemy reaches an alarm switch you’re probably toast.

I have two problems with Wolfenstein 2: environment construction and variety. I have no problem with linear level design. It is more effective for precise storytelling than open world design. But, don’t put up invisible walls that artificially block alternate routes to the objective. There are too many places in the game world that appear accessible that simply are not.

The overall environment of the game can be summed up in one word, steel. The vast majority of gameplay takes place inside steel structures with steel floors and steel walls. Each area is still unique, the airship has a different style than the bunker, which has a different style than the tower, but it is all Nazi-decorated steel. The game takes place in America, yet, apart from one short section of one mission, there are no landmarks or distinguishing feature that would suggest so.

The game lacks a multiplayer mode but it has some replay-ability; postgame missions re-use areas from the campaign for hunting Nazi officers, and challenge mode lets you repeat missions for high scores. My original plan was to finish the game and resell it before it dropped in price, but I think it may be worth keeping to experience the DLC.

‘Wolfenstein’ sequel fascist smashing fiction

By Grant Beltrami “Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus,” which released on Oct. 27, had a bit of controversy surrounding its advertising campaign.

Critics of the games marketing campaign, which included the slogans “Make America Nazi free again,” “Not in my America,” and “No more Nazis,” accuse the developers of pushing leftist propaganda.

Some critics go so far as to claim the game is supportive of violent Antifa groups. It is hard not to laugh at the accusations. “The New Colossus” is the 11th game in a 36-year-old game franchise about killing Nazis. It is by definition anti-fascist, but since when is that a bad thing?

This installment is no different than any other in the series, except that it is the first to take place in America. Other than the marketing slogan being a riff off “Make America great again” there isn’t anything within the game that pokes fun at the current Republican party. There is however a scene that does exactly the opposite. A Nazi defector expresses her anguish at being called a Nazi by the other rebels.

The scene illustrates how I imagine moderate American conservatives feel in today’s political climate.

There is no pseudo-Trump villain, or any other game content, that could

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‘Stranger Things 2’ excels with old and new

By Angel Rosas

Netflix’s nostalgia filled global phenomenon is back and we can rest easy because it is everything it needed to be and then some.

“Stranger Things 2,” created by the Duffer Brothers, takes us back with the boys of the AV club to once again confront the creatures of the upside down.

The second season brings more monsters, more memorable lines, and even more heart. Every episode builds off the other perfectly, which forces you to keep watching and skip the end credits.

The comedy in the second season is also at a much higher standard.

Even though the stakes are significantly higher in the second season the show finds a way to gives you time for hysterical jokes and one-liners that I

Arts and Entertainment can only assume are going to become part of many memes.

The returning characters are still as charming and interesting as ever.

But what made this season even more interesting was how the writers partnered characters that we don’t usually see together and forced them to work together.

There is so much that “Stranger Things 2” does right that at first glance it seems to be perfect.

However, stepping back a little and looking at it through a critical lens there are, if only a few, blemishes.

The most noticeable of these is the tacked on 7th episode titled, “The Lost Sister.” The episode is by no means awful and I had some fun with it, but it just didn’t fit with the feel of the season.

The location change that happens is interesting but is so noticeably different, it makes you feel like you are watching a different show.

Besides that, and the slow build up in the beginning of the season the “Stranger Things 2” is great. The characters are memorable, the story keeps you wanting more, and the music is killer.

I hate to be one of those people but you need to watch “Stranger Things.”

Nov. 13, 2017

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Greek life crowns a new king of hearts

By Kyle Huizinga On Friday, Nov. 10, Alpha Phi hosted a King of Hearts event to raise money for women’s cardiovascular disease awareness.

Each fraternity elected one or two representatives to raise money throughout the week.

The participants then had to perform a talent and answer questions during the night’s preceding’s.

In true pageantry style, each contestant would be judged on their performance and answers, for which the scores would get added to their monetary total.

Senior Jake Handran, for his talent portion, sang a rendition of the classic Italian ballad “Por Ti Volare.”

The energetic crowd was exploding with laughter and applause as he belted the sweet, harmonious chorus.

Other participant’s talents included stand-up comedy, juggling, impersonation, and catching food in their mouth.

All the participants were enter-

The night came to a close with a money dance in which participants would dance around the room collecting spare change and donations from the audience members.

These last-minute donations would then be added to the total of each participant’s donations.

The Fraternity member with the most money wins the event.

In the end, despite a wonderful effort from all the participants, junior Theta Chi member Ryan Blass took home the title and first prize as Linfield’s 2017 King of Hearts.

After receiving his crown and title, Blass said, “It feels great, and I am honored, I’m glad I could raise the money for women’s heart health.”

This issue is important to Ryan Kyle Huizinga since his grandmother was affected by Jake Handran, ‘18, sings his ren- cardiovascular disease.

Second place was awarded to sedition of ballad “Por Ti Volare” at nior Theta Chi member Jake HanAlpha Phi’s King of Hearts. dran, and Junior Pi Kappa Alpha taining and the hosts, seniors Natalie member, Ivan George, took third.

Kelly and Mike Sanders, kept the Overall, the night was a huge sucpreceding’s in check despite the ram- cess and raised money for a very imbunctious crowd. portant cause.

Backstage brilliance forges intricate mechanical set

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Savannah Hurst, ‘18, presents her miniature set model for the Linfield Theater’s production of “Ada and the Engine.”

By Olivia Gomez Hers is the first student-designed set used to stage a theatrical production in three years. Her colleagues called it the most unusual they’ve ever seen, and the most challenging to work with, but also the most rewarding.

Senior theater major Savannah Hurst designed the set for Linfield’s production of “Ada and the Engine,” which completed its run Saturday night.

Hurst expressed an interest in set design her freshman year. She gained experience working as an assistant to professor Tyrone Marshall as a sophomore and junior.

She has been building scale models of her designs for three years. The first one took her 74 hours to complete.

Two of her designs won awards at

the Kennedy Center American Theater Festival. But this is the first one used to build a full-scale production set.

The process began in July, when Hurst got her first look at the script.

Design meetings began the first week of September and continued on at least a weekly basis.

By the third week, the production team had enough details in place to begin construction.

“Ada and the Engine” had only been performed twice previously, and both productions featured sets inspired by houses.

Hurst didn’t think that made sense, as the story takes place in a variety of locations. Instead, she envisioned the action taking place inside a machine.

The set Hurst foresaw featured gear-shaped platforms and multiple turntables set in front of a stage-width machine replica featuring spiked col-

umns. And with only five weeks to go before the first tech rehearsal, where all elements of a show are supposed to come together, the crew faced serious time constraints.

Junior biochemistry major Liam Home, who helped build the set and served as lighting technician for the show, said the team barely made its deadline.

Home has worked on sets for five Linfield productions, and he considers the “Ada” set the most challenging.

He said he clocked in 60 hours in a single week at one point.

“Not every element of each set is new,” Home said. The theater department stores pieces that can be repurposed for another production.

“The turntable at the highest point on the set was one of the elements the team already had on hand. Without that, it might not have been able to pull the project off,” Home said.

Building the gears took a long time, Home said. But the most challenging piece of all was the mechanical engine from which the play takes its “Ada and the Engine” name.

It features cylindrical columns, each adorned with wooden spokes.

Between the columns are stacks of plywood strips cut to different lengths.

Home said he put in a 12-hour day cutting them all.

“Much of what the audience sees consists of elements that have been repurposed,” Marshall said. “The trick is to not make them look like stock pieces.”

“The motor and chains used to power the turntables were already on hand,” he said.

“Even the spellbinding finale, featuring layered light and sound effects suggesting the machine coming to life at last, depends more on ‘old-fashioned stagecraft’ than anything else,”

Marshall said. He said assistant stage managers spent four minutes behind the stage pulling cords to help create the desired effect.

Junior theater major Alyx Enanoria, who served as stage manager, said she was proud of her colleagues’ work.

Her job was to communicate with every person involved in the show, so she witnessed firsthand every effort that went into it. She was also responsible for communicating with the director and designers when problems arose, especially those related to the set.

“I like to say the stage manager’s like the mom,” Enanoria said.

Enanoria had to constantly monitor the actors’ safety, as the spinning turntables could disorient them, causing them to fall through the gears.

One actor’s dress posed a tripping

hazard on the platforms, so Enanoria adjusted her stage movements to keep her on the ground.

But the most challenging part for Enanoria was coordinating all of the production elements during tech rehearsal. The hours are long and stressful, she said.

Hurst seconded that. But she said it’s all part of the learning experience.

“Theater is a lot about teaching through experience,” Hurst said.

“That gives students an opportunity to actually practice the principles they have learned in class.”

Theater majors are required to take classes in all aspects of production, including set design. But Hurst made design her special focus, and was rewarded for it.

“It was a lot of work but it’s worth it if you love it,” Hurst said.

I wish whatever is under my bed would stop breathing.

Co-authored: Ben Bartu / Melory Mirashrafi

The Linfield Review offered a contest for students to submit a 10-word novel to earn a prize. Ben Bartu and Melory Mirashrafi co-authored the novel above. For winning the competition, Bartu and Mirashrafi won an XL two-topping pizza voucher from Odd Moe’s Pizza. Congratulations!

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Head coach Kimura ends 40-year career

By Kaelia Neal It took just $300 to induce firstyear Linfield College student Shane Kimura to take over as head volleyball coach in 1974.

At first, he didn't get much respect from the upperclassmen players. But he developed a love for coaching and it became a big part of his life from there on.

When he was only in his 20s, Linfield volleyball was the runner-up at the national championship meet.

After more than 40 years of coaching volleyball at Linfield, Kimura turned in his official retirement letter Nov. 2. He's decided it's time for him to move on.

“It’s been a good run, but it’s been a long time,” he said. “It’s time for that next chapter, that next adventure. I’m looking forward to that too.”

Kimura said it was tough telling the players about his retirement plans. There was simply no good time or way to address it, he said.

He received many congratulations in response. That extended to former players as well as colleagues and current players.

In his honor, the final volleyball game of the 2017 season was dubbed, “Shane Night.”

This year's squad features no seniors, so every player faces having to work with a new coach next season.

“When Coach Shane announced his retirement, I was shocked," said junior Eryka Keoho. "I couldn’t hold back my tears.

“I’m sad that he won’t be coaching my last year. But I know he will be there to support us every game he can be at.”

Although he's retiring, Kimura is looking forward to staying connected with the Linfield community. “I think for me, this place is in my blood," he said.

"I went to school here, I coached here for a long time and we live in the community," he said, referencing his wife, Donna. "I’m going to miss it for sure.

"I’ll still be around and supporting the kids on the team currently, because a lot of them, we recruited. I hope to be back their next three senior nights.”

His advice for the new coach? “Enjoy the relationships you have with the players, because I think those are the ones that you’re going to take with you. Some of those memories are going to be long-lasting ones.”

Athletic Director Garry Killgore

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Volleyball season had bittersweet final note

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Coach Shane Kimura meets with his team between plays during a home game against Whitworth on Nov. 4. The game was Kimura’s final coaching experience after 40 years of coaching. said the college is developing a search plan. Ideally, it will be able to name a new coach by Jan. 1.

Killgore said his children grew up with Kimura’s, so saying good bye won't be easy.

“The thing that I admire the most about Shane is that he’s a professional," Killgore said. "He’s an excellent teammate to have. He really understands and appreciates being part of a bigger thing."

Kimura leaves Linfield with a 664-

520 record and five Northwest Conference titles. The titles came in 1980, 1983, 1989, 2003 and 2006.

Once retired, Kimura plans to travel with his wife.

He also wants to dedicate time to his grandchildren.

“It’s been an awesome experience being here,” he said.

“I don’t think it’s hit me yet that I’m not going to be here. But when it does, I think I’ve got some good things to look back on.”

Despite exhausting weekend in Washington, ’Cats sense blood in the water for season’s second half

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Neirton Oliveria, ‘19, launches off the blocks to start his 50 yard freestyle against PLU on Saturday.

Across the board Linfield’s swim team’s energy was drained for their two meets in Tacoma, Wash., but strong individual performances kept the Wildcats full of hope for their coming meets.

The first of their two meets came with a split against the Puget Sound Loggers with the men winning 11683.

“Friday, against UPS, went well.

We just needed to work on our finishes and ended up getting the win on the men’s side,” senior Matt Hanson said.

Unfortunately, the women were edged out by just nine points by the Loggers, 107-98.

Neither team was as successful at Pacific Lutheran as the Lutes defeated

both the men and the women. The depleted energy on the men’s side showed in a losing score of 130-75. “”On Saturday, that meet did not go as well against PLU. They kind of caught us off guard a little bit and they were prepared to swim fast,” Hanson said.

The women remained in closer competition, but fell 117-88.

This weekend marked the first dual defeat for the women’s swim team this season.

The women are ranked fourth in the Northwest Conference while the men are ranked fifth. Both teams have a record of 2-2.

“UPS and PLU have some very fast swimmers and they swam very well this weekend. We were the only school they had to focus on so they were well rested and ready,” sophomore Molli Hartzell said.

The ‘Cats were at a clear disadvantage this weekend, however, their remains plenty of optimism for the meets to come and for the team’s improvement.

“I am really looking forward to the Husky Open meet. I’m excited to get back into it. I’m also pumped to see how these incoming freshman help our team at conference,” Hartzell said.

Sophomore Noah Cutting shared a similar passion for the Husky Open, which is Friday, Dec. 1, through Sunday, Dec. 3, in Federal Way, Wash.

But he was proud of what the team has accomplished in this challenging first half.

“I think finishing the first half of the season with 2 wins and 2 losses is not as bad as it may seem to others.

“The first half of our season is always the toughest for us, and knowing that Washington teams think of us as a threat is a positive reinforce and good motivator for the swim team,” Cutting said.

By Kaelia Neal The Linfield volleyball team concluded its season to place seventh in the Northwest Conference with a 5-11 record.

“I feel that this season was definitely a learning experience,” junior Taylor Peterson said.

“Growing pains is what I like to call it.”

Head coach Shane Kimura ended 40 years of coaching at Linfield with an upset against the No. 2 ranked Whitworth Pirates on Nov. 4.

“Shane leaving is without a doubt a definite loss to the program but behind him, he’s leaving a legacy and a standard of excellence that we all need to uphold whether he’s our coach or not,” sophomore Taylor Souza said.

Throughout the season, the Wildcats had highs and lows. They started off the season with a six-game winning streak.

Later, they went on a seven-game losing streak, which wasn’t broken until a 3-1 win against Lewis and Clark Oct. 14.

From there, the Wildcats went on another losing streak, but redeemed themselves by upsetting No. 4 ranked Whitman on Nov. 3 and No. 2 ranked Whit- Taylor Souza worth on Nov. 4.

Both games were won 3-1.

Linfield ended its season with an overall record of 11-12. The team finished ahead of No. 8 Willamette and No. 9 Lewis and Clark. Pacific Lutheran led the conference with a record of 14-2.

“While the wins and losses don’t exactly represent how I feel we did, by looking at the improvements we made individually and as a team, our season was extremely successful,” Souza said.

“As a team we learned how to be resilient. We learned how to take the losses and move on. As our coach would say, we learned how to ‘Win the next play.’”

Souza also found individual success as she earned herself a starting spot this season.

With no seniors on the team and the retirement of Kimura, Linfield volleyball is in a rebuilding state. Athletic director Garry Killgore said he hopes to select and announce the new coach by Jan. 1.

“I’m excited for what’s to come.

There will be an abundance of change, that’s for sure, but I know it will be good for the program,” Peterson said.

“I’m sad to see Shane leave, but I know it is an exciting time in his life.

So it’s very bittersweet.”

Sports XC women take third; Beard, Neal head to nationals Nov. 13, 2017

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By Alex Jensen Linfield’s women’s cross country team ranked third in the west region at the NCAA Regional Championship. Head Coach Mike Blackmore said it’s the highest NCAA regionals team finish in Linfield history.

“I was extremely pleased with our performance at regionals,” said Travis Olson, director of cross country and track.

The team flew down to Southern California over the weekend for the regional meet. Pomona-Pitzer hosted the event.

The women’s group competed against 20 different schools and 138 racers in the 6k to score 129 points.

Linfield had three racers on the finish in the top 20.

Junior Courtney Beard led the Wildcat’s pack finishing seventh with a time of 22:05.1. It was the best individual finish for a Wildcat in regionals since 2009 when Marci Klimek finished fourth.

Teammate senior Kaelia Neal was right on Beard’s heels just two tenths

of a second behind her finishing eighth. Senior Emma Knudson was barely behind her teammates finishing 11th with a time of 22:11.5.

“Going into the race I knew it would be a fight for the top 10 finishers but I have worked incredibly hard this season balancing nursing school and running,” Beard said.

“I knew that I was determined more than ever to qualify for nationals and place in the top seven at regionals.”

Beard brought in a First Team All-Region Honors because of her placement.

And Neal and Knudson earned Second Team Honors. All three finishes were career bests for a regional champion- Neal ship competition.

Senior Jamie Rodden and Ana Ramirez beat out half of the racers finishing 49th and 54th. Rodden had

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and vice versa.

Miller topped the ranks during the mix up, throwing a baseball 85 yards and a lacrosse ball 41 yards.

“I did not expect the javelin thrower to throw a lacrosse ball that far,” Peterson said.

Next came Popp trying his hand by throwing a baseball 61 yards.

Then the punting battle commenced.

Peckham led the pack by punting 38 yards. Reimer came next at 28 yards. Peterson switched from throwing to kicking and got it to the 23-yard-line without shoes.

Ramos drop-kicked 41 yards, saying afterwards that it felt awkward kicking a soccer ball.

Reimer said that people usually think she can kick a football and football player Ramos said the same about throwing a soccer ball.

Sadly, Allen was tripped up throwing the javelin and his demanding lead did not follow through into the mix up. But he did his best and threw 21 yards.

The group all agreed with Popp when he said that trying a different sport felt so foreign. “[I] thought watching a kicking sport athlete try to throw something was probably the funniest and most awkward,” Peckham said.

Peterson thought it was interesting that a lot of the sports involved similar motions but because the ball compositions differ so greatly they all fly differently.

“It was interesting how mechanics play such a big role. I thought it was funny watching people try other sports because they don’t practice them,” Ramos said.

a time of 23:57.8 and Ramirez had a time of 24:07.2.

Freshmen Kelsey Kuhns and Nicole Bissey finished next to each other in 87th and 89th place.

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps won the regional meet with 58 points.

Bryn McKillop, who was individual champion with a time of 21:07.6, led the team. Whitworth placed second with 109 points.

To advance to the national championship meet, the runners on the top-two teams at the regional meet advanced. The next seven individuals also punch a ticket.

Sixteen teams from the eight division III regions automatically qualify and 16 more teams are selected as an at-large bid. After being ranked among the top 35 in the national polls this season and placing third at the regional meet, the women’s team was hoping to earn an at-large bid.

“Unfortunately, the NCAA committee did not choose the team for an at-large bid. I’m certainty disappointed for them, as we have been

nationally ranked almost all year,” Blackmore said.

Since they placed among the top seven competitors, excluding those from Claremont and Whitworth, both Neal and Beard were chosen to rep- Beard resent Linfield at the NCAA National Championships Nov. 18 in Elsah, Illinois. Coach Travis Olson said he’s confident that they will finish well.

Blackmore said that Knudson sadly missed individual contention by one place but that she ran a great race.

He said this year happens to have a lot of top individuals who are not on a team attending the national meet.

The men’s team placed 16 out of 18 teams with 414 points among 124 competitors.

Lone senior on the men’s team Jeff Lee led the Wildcats pack in the 8k. He finished 31st with a time of

26:31.2 to earn all-region honors. The top 35 competitors receive all-region recognition.

Lee’s 31st place was a huge improvement from his 70th place finish a year ago.

“It was a great way for Jeff Lee to finish his XC career as an all-region performer,” Olson said.

Junior Calvin Ong placed 66th, sophomore Liam Pickhardt 98th, sophomore Asa Richerson 112nd, sophomore Grant Blodgette 133rd and freshman Josh Ramirez 124th.

Pomona-Pitzer’s men’s team won with 35 points. Leading the team was Andy Reischling, who was individual champion in a time of 25:04.1.

The team is going to take a short break before gearing up for track season.

It will be Neal’s second national meet. In 2015, as a sophomore, she placed 77th. This will be Beard’s first national championship appearance.

The NCAA National Championship women’s race begins at 10:15 a.m. Pacific time on Nov. 18.

Athletes switch it up, try other sports; who will go farthest?

By Alex Jensen The Wildcats’ throwing and kicking abilities were put to the test in a cross-sport challenge, testing which Wildcat could get the highest mark.

Athletes in baseball, soccer, football, lacrosse and javelin were all determined to get the farthest distance.

Maya Peterson, sophomore lacrosse player, started it all off by chucking the ball 48 yards. Freshman Colton Ramos, punter for the football team, also threw 48 yards.

Then there was a battle between the soccer goalies.

Freshman Madi Reimer started things off by drop kicking the soccer ball 38 yards. But Senior Eli Peckham did her one better by drop kicking it 39 yards. Freshman Griffin Popp took their call and raised them 52 yards.

Unfortunately, Reimer was not able to redeem herself after her second 41-yard kick.

Freshman javelin thrower Alec Miller came out with a good show, throwing 53 yards with a fin flyer, which is a type of practice javelin.

Sophomore Ayden Allen, catcher for the baseball team, catapulted the competition by throwing the baseball 91 yards.

The mix up: After all the athletes threw and kicked the object involved in their own sport, it was time to switch things up.

Soccer goalies attempted punting a football and Ramos tried his hand at drop kicking. Miller gave both lacrosse and baseball a whirl. Allen gave the javelin his best shot. Peterson and Popp both decided to switch it up entirely, going from throwing to kicking

Malia Riggs Sophomore Ayden Allen, catcher for the baseball team, tries his hand at throwing a javelin.

Freshman Madi Reimer, goalkeeper, tries punting a football for the first time.

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Another perfect conference record

By Kaho Akau With a Northwest Conference title and a spot in the playoffs already reserved, the Wildcats concluded their regular season with a 35-7 win over Pacific.

The Wildcats dominated the Boxers on both sides of the ball.

Wyatt Smith, ’21, started at quarterback for the second week in a row, throwing 10 for 14 on the day with three touchdowns and an interception.

“He really started to gain more and more confidence and has been improving every week,” said J.D. Lasswell, ’19. “He had a great game and controlled the ball well.”

Lasswell, the team’s leading receiver, caught his eighth and ninth touchdown receptions of the season.

With 6:34 left in the first quarter, Smith found Lasswell with a 38-yard pass for Lasswell’s first touchdown of the day. His second touchdown reception was a 31-yard pass, also from Smith, with 7:42 left in the second quarter.

After losing a handful of receivers due to graduation last year, the Wildcats looked to Lasswell and Kyle Kimball, ’21, to fill in the gaps.

With 9:26 on the clock in the third quarter, Smith found Kimball in the end zone for his third touchdown reception of the season.

Chidubem Nnoli, ’20, also recorded two touchdowns in Saturday’s win.

The leading rusher for the Wildcats finished his regular season with nine rushing touchdowns.

On the defensive side of things, the Wildcats were able to limit the Boxers to just 147 total yards. Wade Ransom, ’18, led the way with eight tackles, followed by Jason Farlow, ’18, with

Photo courtesy Trevis Fong, The Pacific Index

Chidubem Nnoli, ’20, fends off the Boxer’s in a 4-yard touchdown carry with 11:17 on the clock in the third quarter; giving Linfield an outstanding 28-0 lead over Pacific. seven.

“We finished conference giving up just 8.6 points per game and with that kind of dominance, it leaves us with a good chance of winning games,” Farlow said.

One concern for Linfield fans was the large amount of penalties. The Wildcats received 11 penalties for 117 yards while the Boxers received just six penalties for 56 yards.

Wanting to finish the regular season strong, players on both the of-

fense and defense let the heat of the moment get to them at times.

“We have to fix that going into playoffs,” Farlow said. “But any extra possession a team gets can be key when competition is lifted towards the end of the season.”

The program extended its winning season streak to 62 consecutive seasons in 2017. The team finished with an overall record of 8-1 and a perfect conference record of 7-0. The only team to hand the Wildcats a loss this

season was defending national champion, Mary Hardin-Baylor.

With playoffs on the rise, the Wildcats look to do nothing different than what they have been doing all season long to prepare.

“Whether we play the No. 1 team or the No. 32 team, we will be ready to play,” Farlow said.

The Wildcats look forward to a first-round game on Saturday, Nov. 18. against Hardin Simmons at Maxwell Field.

Graphic by Alex Jensen and Joshua Galbraith

How far can a baseball player throw a javelin?

The Wildcats’ throwing abilities were put to the test in a cross-sport challenge. The black border around the pictures shows the athetes’ distances in their own sports, and the red border shows them in their non-sport. From left to right red bordered: Sophomore Ayden Allen (baseball) threw javelin, sophomore Maya Petersen (lacrosse) punted, Senior Eli Peckham (soccer) punted, freshman Colton Ramos (football) drop kicked, freshman Madi Reimer (soccer) punted, freshman Alec Miller (javelin) threw a lacrosse ball and freshman Griffen Popp (soccer) threw a baseball. >> see story page 11

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