The Advocate, Issue 21 - April 7, 2017

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OPINION Editorial

The chilling cost of ICE

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CE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is the U.S. governmental department in charge of finding, arresting and deporting illegal and undocumented immigrants. If you keep up with the news, then you’ll know that recently there was an ICE crackdown in the Pacific Northwest, targeting and arresting undocumented immigrants, that resulted in the arrest of 84 people and will presumably lead to a majority, if not all of them, being deported.

What we at The Advocate want to talk about isn’t the morality of this issue. This editorial is not to debate if this enforcement is right or wrong; we’re leaving that up to our writers, who have voiced their own opinions in other articles this issue. What we are going to talk about is what this, and any follow-up crackdowns like it, are going to mean for everyone – each of us – regardless of where we fall on this controversial topic.

First, let’s talk about the thing that is always on people’s mind, money.

According to a recent Seattle Times news article, for President Trump’s new ICE policies to fully come into effect, and all of those who are here illegally to be arrested and deported, would cost roughly $5 billion in new ICE employees, jails, detention centers and staff.

This doesn’t include the other costs for travel to fly/drive these

people back to their countries of origin, nor the potential estimated $12 billion, at least, to build Trump’s proposed new border wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico boundary.

To give an idea of the scope of cost we are talking about, the city of Gary, Indiana, recently sought $80 million to build a detention center that would hold roughly 800 people. In Oregon right now, there are roughly 120,000 undocumented immigrants, so if it costs $80 million to allow for detention for 800, how much are we as individuals going to have to pay in taxes to house, feed, detain and ship 120,000 individuals?

Another thing to think about is those jobs some people are always complaining that the immigrants have taken.

A large amount of those jobs involve migrant farm work, picking fruits and veggies when harvest season comes around. It’s a job sector that just about any farmer will tell you is one that, even with the usual amount of migrant workers available, isn’t as well-staffed as most farmers and other producers would like.

If these crackdowns continue, and Oregon’s $5.4 billion annual agricultural industry loses the majority of its workforce, what would that mean to the average person? Well, with very few workers, very little produce is picked and processed for sale, and such farmers might lose their liveli-

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hood. On top of that, if there is very little food picked, either Oregon shoppers will have to pay a premium to import their produce from other states or we just won’t have access to it. Either way, the demand will far outweigh the supply and food prices will skyrocket. This doesn’t just cover produce at the grocery store, either.

Any food or drink that comes from the Northwest, whether it’s Franz Bakery bread made from local grain, to Burgerville, a locally sourced restaurant chain, or local microbreweries that use Oregon hops, will be hit with higher costs, meaning a higher cost to the consumer. This means more expensive bread, burgers and beer for you, and a declining economy for Oregon as a state.

Thirdly, this is all reminiscent of the weary and misguided “War on Drugs.” This could be another such war with no clearly defined endgame, and could also easily lead to a gross amount of government overspending, all against a phantom enemy.

The feds have not had a great track record in these kinds of campaigns with ill-defined goals, and we need to hold our government to a standard that won’t lead us to overzealous enforcement and police influence.

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April 7, 2017

Matana McIntire the advocate

I’m grateful that I can make mistakes and still be able to succeed.

I’m grateful that when my parents couldn’t pay for my schooling, I was able to receive federal student aid.

I’m grateful that I can go through most of my life without certain worries, including the fear of not being able to see any one member of my family for reasons outside of my control.

These are the privileges I hold because of my citizenship, among other reasons like race, social class, and gender.

As Kyle writes in his column, the language we use is powerful.

The world “privilege” has been one used and reused, on both liberal and conservative sides, and has in a way been sensationalized. You probably have a connotation to the word by now, but I implore you to consider

the recognized definition: privilege – a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.

My point is that you may have a privilege over immigrants in our community and if you are already not recognizing this, it is your job to do so. Realizing that your worldview and your circumstance may be privileged over others’ is your responsibility.

With that said, you should be able to look at the recent ICE activity in our community and identify that these individuals we considered our fellow community members don’t, in fact, have the same privileges as we citizens do.

My hope is that while recognizing your privileges as a citizen, you also recognize that what has happened is wrong. On Sunday, March 26, both Emmanuel Ayala Frutos and Francisco Dominguez were arrested by ICE, without warrants, and detained across state lines in a Tacoma, Washington, holding facility. Dominguez was a former MHCC student and has since been released; Ayala Frutos is still detained in Tacoma. I hope you see that those were unjust arrests.

So, I implore you to question what you see and hear. I implore you to consider your privileges. And most importantly, listen to those in our community who may not have those same privileges.

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Advocate staff speaks out about recent ICE crackdown ICE should be crushed; ideals frozen in the past

Greg Leonov the advocate

Imagine waking up one morning to an obnoxious knocking at your door. As you open it to see what the hell is going on, you get handcuffed, then whisked away to an unfamiliar location for some sort of processing. Your only crime: not having a stamp of approval by authorities allowing you to live in the place you call home.

Imagine having some complications to your health, and getting taken into custody for the same fake crimes by a forceful group of militant law enforcement individuals tasked with restricting the movement of those not stamped with permission to travel across an arbitrary line on the ground. Now, picture these power-hungry federal agents denying you your medication and mobility devices.

These situations just happened to two community members in Portland, Oregon - itself a sanctuary state prohibiting state law enforcement from exerting any sort of energy to capture those who have not been able to jump through bureaucratic hoops in order to gain “citizenship” or documentation “allowing” individuals to work where they live.

Actions carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are counter to Oregon’s laws and the values that members of our community hold.

The oppressive Trump regime may be a crew of dysfunctional cronies, but I ask that they contain that dysfunction to the White House, and fuck off when it comes to people living their lives and working day-

to-day to provide a decent life for their families.

ICE actions should be condemned by the state of Oregon and all activity and presence of members of this organization should be banned from within state lines as long as they are working in capacity as ICE agents, because it must take a special type of person to pursue employment that requires one to tear apart families and terrorize minority groups simply because their papers aren’t in order. “Undocumented” immigrants, especially DACA recipients, work legitimate jobs, and pay taxes. They contribute their share of work just like any citizen, and just want to live their lives.

Ideas like “citizenship” and “national identity” are constructed fictions designed to separate people.

Ideas like “citizenship” and “national identity” are constructed fictions designed to separate people.

This often makes one group think it is better than the other, and that group decides to demonstrate its superiority, sometimes in violent ways, like the rise of “alt-right” groups that would more accurately be described as Nazi radicals leading a sort of insurgency that is penetrating the halls of power at a federal level. The best example is Stephen Bannon, former editor-in-chief of a fake news website, who was recently booted from the National Security Council.

Bannon is an individual obsessed with war, and a serious ha-

tred of Islam. He is motivated by a crusading mentality to confirm the idea that U.S. culture is rooted in Christian values. In truth, the U.S. is not rooted in any religious movement. Bannon and many conservatives I encounter seem to be forgetting that the U.S. is rooted on the idea of separation of church and state.

When a regime that empowers racists and violent nationalist comes to power, it is time for the people to seriously assess their values and lifestyles, because in a democratic state like the U.S., the left is just as responsible as the “alt-right” for bringing Trump to power.

The media gave him a platform and more free attention than he could have ever asked for. By giving him and his message so much coverage, they legitimized him and basically handed him the election.

His disconnect and disassociation to the daily struggles of “the common man” is best illustrated by the way he has “drained the swamp.”

He named Mike Flynn, a man on the payroll of the Turkish and Russian governments, both oppressive nations, as his presidential national security adviser; we all remember what happened to him. Trump picked Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General. Sessions has a history of pursuing civil rights workers and basically trying to suppress African Americans from voting.

Trump handed control of the EPA to someone who denies the dangers of global warming. He gave control of the education department to AMWAY billionaire Betsy DeVos, who is obsessed with intertwining Christianity and education.

The list of methods Trump’s administration is using to undermine the needs of the people on this land can go on and on, but when it comes to protecting ourselves and members of the community, the people of this state should take a stand and vocalize our values and mobilize to bury and choke the modern-day fascist movement(s) and not allow people pushing these ideologies to have a platform to preach hate and oppression of those culturally different than them.

We all started in the same boat

Kyle Venooker the advocate

As of its 2010 national survey, the U.S. Census Bureau states that 0.9 percent of America’s population identifies as American Indian, Inuit, or Aleut. If you, like myself, make up the other 99.1 percent of Americans, that means that at some point, someone in your family was an immigrant.

I urge you to ask yourself whether this initial ancestor of yours, who braved countless hurdles to make it to this continent, was a person. Did they have hopes? Dreams? Did they deserve respect?

I believe the answer to these questions is a firm, resounding yes.

I think that humans deserve respect.

Conversations about “what to do with all these damn immigrants” often become heated. Issues resting at the intersection of politics, morals and economics almost always do. But I often see a disturbing trend in these sort of debates: When the word “immigrant” enters the conversation, the people in question are almost immediately dehumanized.

Words are important. The language we use shapes the way we think, which shapes the way we act, which shapes the world around us. Words like “inner-city,” “the gays,” “immigrants,” “conservatives.”

Words like these obscure the very people they seek to describe. They cease to be autonomous humans and are relegated to a collection, a category, a faceless group of bodies.

They become objects.

This dehumanization has proved extremely useful, biologically. Humans like to put things in boxes; it’s a mental shorthand that allows us to make incredibly complex calculations

and predict what will happen in the future very quickly. It’s also extremely dangerous. As a person of Jewish descent, I am not able to forget what happens when you dehumanize a category of people.

Some of you may be saying “Whoa, dude, pump the brakes.” I am not calling anyone a Nazi, or a fascist, or a racist. I’ve heard many decent, reasonable people who I respect point to a variety of valid economic issues in which illegal immigration plays a role. I am not discounting these. This country is facing a slew of economic concerns, and you have every right to worry about them. You should worry about them.

What I am doing is asking you to set your politics or other personal beliefs aside for a moment. I’m asking you to step outside the life you’re used to, and put yourself inside the life of someone for whom the fear of deportation is very real. I’m asking you to consider what it’s like, briefly, to worry about going into a public place. I’m asking you to wonder if your mother got arrested on her way to pick you up because she’s 10 minutes late and you haven’t heard from her. I’m asking you to imagine knocking on your best friend’s door to find that they were arrested without a warrant last night, and are detained 300 miles away. I’m asking you to picture not being able to call the police to report a crime because you’re more worried about the questions they’ll ask you.

I’m asking you to step outside of the security that being an American citizen guarantees.

Because, after all, there was a time not too long ago when your family couldn’t count on these guarantees.

That’s why they came here. The only reason you are sitting where you are, reading these words is because someone in your family had the courage to leave everything and everyone they knew and move to a country where they didn’t know the language or the customs.

You can argue about legality, you can argue about politics, you can argue about work ethic, you can argue about whatever you damn well please. All I ask is that you keep in mind that you’re talking about people. Real, living, breathing people.

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DACA recipients taken from home Community rallies, sends message to ICE

Kyle Venooker the advocate

Francisco Dominguez has had a tumultuous couple of weeks.

The former Mt. Hood student, 25, was arrested on Sunday, March 26, by federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at his home. He was subsequently detained in Tacoma, Washington, at the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, though the agents in question did not have a warrant for his arrest.

Francisco is one of many undocumented people protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) act, an executive order put into place by former President Barack Obama.

DACA is a voluntary program which allows the children of people who emigrated to America illegally to work legally and get a driver’s license, and promises a suspension for deportation.

Almost “immediately after his arrest, we got a call,” says Andrea Williams, executive director of

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Francisco addresses the crowd assembled at Santa Cruz Episcopal Church.

Causa, a group that calls itself “Oregon’s Latino immigrant rights organization.” She said, “We started to figure out what to do, (how) to take action and we spent most of Sunday morning trying to figure out how (could) we get him out of Tacoma?”

Williams said that together with the ACLU and Latino Network, Dominguez’s current employer, Causa put out a “call to action asking

community members to call ICE and demand for his release. And then attorneys stepped in, and the media came in and then, lo and behold, (he) was released!”

Dominguez was arrested regarding a DUI misdemeanor charge he received last year.

While being convicted of a crime disqualifies a person for DACA eligibility, he had entered a diversion program whose completion would

restore that eligibility.

A rally at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Rockwood (Gresham) on March 27, originally planned to be such a call to action, instead was transformed into a welcome home party for Dominguez.

Among the speakers was Jared Hoffman, an Active Children Portland co-worker who emphasized the impact the arrest had on him.

“To hear about someone who just gives so much back to those in need, to hear that their door got knocked in on Sunday… when we woke up on Monday we were very, very upset,” he said.

A Latino Network co-worker, Carmen Rubio, decried the tactics used by ICE, specifically regarding their agents’ lack of a warrant: “We are living in a time when justice as we know it is under assault.

Our civil rights in our immigrant communities are under assault… across the country,” she said.

Citing her personal experiences as his supervisor Rubio said that, as far as she knew, “all his life Francisco played by the rules. As a so-called

“DREAMer” student, he registered with the federal government through DACA in 2013 under the promise that disclosing his information provided him legal status to live and work in this country.

Now, “that very information is currently being used to target and detain contributing and law-abiding members of the community,” Rubio said.

Dominguez himself closed out the rally with a brief speech in which he thanked “everyone that took the time out of their day to join us here.

“It’s been a rough week and I just want to thank the community and everyone who had my back and was showing their support for me. We’ve shown that as a community, if we come together, we can accomplish anything,” he said.

Padre (Father) Roberto Maldonado informed those in attendance that citizenship classes would be held at the church Holy Cross/Santa Cruz at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, on Saturday, April 15.

A ‘DREAM’ deferred in Tacoma, indefinitely Kyle Venooker the advocate

While local community members celebrated on March 29 at a Rockwood Church the prior release of Francisco Dominguez from a federal detention facility, the celebration started with a much more somber tone.

Rocio Ayala distributed a press release regarding the March 26 arrest of her brother, Emmanuel Ayala Frutos.

Just like Dominguez, Ayala Frutos, 21, is an undocumented man protected under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and, like Dominguez, he was arrested and subsequently detained in Tacoma

by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents without a warrant on the same Sunday.

According to ACLU lawyer Mat Dos Santos, Emmanuel entered a plea in February, in Clark County, Washington, “for possessing a butterfly knife in November. This is a misdemeanor. The (Clark County) judge found that because it was his sole offense and because he’s actively PA G E 4

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Rocio Ayala, Emmanuel’s sister speaking on behalf of the family. She asks the community to help and ask those in power to release her injured brother.

enrolled in a rehabilitation program, he was not a danger to the community.”

Ayala gave an emotional account of her brother. “[We’re] really close… and having him be so far away in a place like that has been hard for my family,”

she said. “He was recently diagnosed with bipolar disease, type 2…and we just want him home where we feel he’s safest.”

Recounting Emmanuel’s arrest, Ayala said “he wasn’t sure whether he would be detained. (The ICE officers) didn’t have any documents...

(they said) ‘We came to get you.’

He got to the immigration offices downtown and called me.

He said, ‘Bring me my (bipolar) medication,” (so) we took him his medication (but) the people there, I’m not sure who it was, said, ‘We can’t give him this,’ ” she explained.

While Ayala has ascertained via phone that her brother has received some medication since, she said he still needed a wheelchair. He continues to recover from being struck by a car, and as of last Wednesday, still had not received one, she said.

[By Wednesday, ICE formally disputed some of Ayala’s account.

ICE spokeswoman Rose Richeson said Ayala Frutos had chosen to bring only his walker, and a walking boot, at the time of his arrest, and shortly after had been allowed to contact his family in order to get his medication, which was delivered to Tacoma, according to an OregonLive.com report.]

Andrea Williams, with Latino immigrant rights group Causa, criticized the arrest, saying that “detaining a 21-year-old DREAMer who has gone to Portland public schools

since kindergarten…makes nobody more safe right now.

“This is shameful, and cruel, and goes against our values as a nation.

When ICE uses these types of brutal tactics, it just makes people who are part of our communities more scared to live their daily lives,” Williams said. “No young person who grew up in Oregon should ever have to worry about being separated from their family.”

Dos Santos, the ACLU attorney, said that Ayala’ Frutos’s family was “in the process of getting his DACA renewed. They had sent in the application in January which was returned for insufficient funds because (fees) had increased, but they were actively engaged in the process” at the time of Emmanuel’s arrest, he said.

It costs $495 to get DACA status renewed for two years.

“We are calling on the community to get him released so he can get home and heal,” said Williams.

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Starting pitcher Vance leads the way for the Saints biggest factor for my softball career.”

N o r m Cheyenne Vance has loved softVance was alball for most of her life, playing it for ways trying to the past 14 years. do as much to And this spring, the sophomore help as he could is helping lead the Mt. Hood softand be as close ball team. She’s one of two starting Web Photo to the action as pitchers for the Saints, along with possible, Cheyenne said. fellow sophomore Sammie Byron.

“Even when I had a different A right-hander, Vance has started nine of Mt. Hood’s 20 games this head coach for a tournament he season and has an overall record of 6 was always the assistant, so he was wins, 3 losses, with one save, and a always there,” she said. She knew in 3.58 ERA overall. She has struck out high school that she wanted to play college softball and began to work 27 batters and walked only seven.

Vance grew up in Troutdale and toward that goal. So, she began to attended Reynolds High School. Her hang around the Mt. Hood powerfather, Norm, is a big reason she got house program. “I took, like, two into softball and still plays today, she years and I would come to any practices I could on my off-time in high said.

“I think I’ve always loved it but school and stuff.”

Because of Vance’s dedication to he helped me, like, keep playing it and just further that emotion I had the game, former Mt. Hood softball for it,” Vance said, describing how coach Meadow McWhorter gave her her father has been one of the big- a scholarship to play for the Saints.

This year, because Vance knew gest supporters of her playing days.

“He always showed up to every McWhorter for so long, the Saints’ practice, everything, he was always head coaching change was difficult there. I think he’s the only person for Vance, but she is happy about the who hasn’t missed anything for soft- new coach, Brittany Hendrickson. men’sthe 400m(McWhorter hurdles took the head coach ball,” she said. “He was definitely

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job at Portland State University.)

“She has done super good at transitioning and adapting to it, she has been taking our traditions but putting her own little spin on it,” Vance said about Hendrickson. “I think it’s a good new change.”

The pitcher likes that while she’s playing, all other problems in the world are gone, she explains: “When I’m in the circle or I’m up to bat, I just feel like everything stopped, like it slows down the world, kind of.”

The bond that the Saints created early on between the players and the coaching staff last fall is helpful for all the players in different ways, Vance said. For herself, it has helped her be able to trust her team. “Knowing my team has my back and I can trust them is awesome,” she said.

Out on the field, Vance wants to help all her teammates improve. “If someone needs help I’ll help them, if I have an opinion on something and I feel like someone needs to know about it, then I’ll say it,” she said.

Although she’s a vocal person, she and her coach also describe her as someone who leads by example. Hendrickson said she admires Vance’s game and appreciates what timeis always sheplaced brings to the team.“She

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working 110 percent, she brings lots of passion for the game,” Hendrickson said.

That passion she has for the game comes out whenever she’s in the circle, teammate Makiah Johnson, shortstop for the Saints, said.

“When she’s pitching you can see the fire she has when she’s playing.

There’s never a time when she shows the face of defeat,” Johnson said.

The Saints have gotten off to an 11-9 start overall, and stand 3-6 in the South Region, good for fifth place. They hope to ride their current two-game win streak on Saturday for a home doubleheader against Clark College, starting at noon.

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Sophomore pitcher Cheyenne Vance allowed only three hits while earning her sixth win for the Saints on Tuesday, defeating Grays Harbor, 12-3.

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April 7, 2017

Campus retrofit to bring the salmon back

Greg Leonov the advocate

Mt. Hood is the first community college anywhere to achieve Salmon Safe status, according to Steve Wise, executive director of the Sandy River Basin Watershed Council.

Kelly Creek and Beaver Creek flow through the campus grounds.

The creeks flow into the Sandy River which is home to four species of wild endangered salmon: spring chinook, fall chinook, coho, and steelhead.

Currently, a dam separates Beaver Creek and MHCC’s pond. The dam causes the water to get too warm to be healthy for salmon. “The water doesn’t flow through as fast as it flows in, and so sits and absorbs sunlight,” said Wise. “Bypassing or removing the dam (would) reconnect the flow from the upstream end to the downstream end, (and) the water (would) move along on its own pace without staying in place as long.”

When the campus was originally built, the raised walkway between the main Academic Center and the P.E. building was “envisioned” to have a suspension bridge, but plans changed and the dam was placed. “There are other designs besides completely removing the dam where some of the pond might stay in place but most of the water would flow through,” said Wise.

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ABOVE: A depiction of the MHCC northern courtyard. BELOW: Proposed design of parking lots E, F, G and H. Graphics taken from www.mhcc.edu, courtesy of Herrera Environmental Consultants.

The ultimate goal is to lower the pond’s temperature so that it is habitable for salmon. “Both Beaver Creek and Kelly Creek and parts of the Sandy (River) are on the state’s impaired list for temperature, for a lot of reasons,” said Wise.

To offset temperature and pollution to the creeks, and to divert millions of gallons of rainwater runoff at MHCC, over 20 different projects are planned around the campus.

One plan to address both problems would be to transform some parking lots. Lots A, E, F, G, and H would have slanted parking spaces with a pedestrian walkway and bioswales (rain gardens), said Wise.

The lots would be repaved with permeable pavement, using material

similar to what lots are already paved with but that are porous, so water can flow through more easily. Bacterial colonies under the pavement would digest a lot of the pollution from parking lots, making the water

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flowing into the creeks cleaner, according to Wise.

“You can make it into a filter on purpose for particular pollutants including some of the stuff that runs off a parking lots, like the oil and grease

that comes off of cars,” he said. Permeable pavement is “more expensive than opening up an area and planting it, but it provides a surface that you can use in the industrial way, or the edge of the parking lot,” he said.

Another proposal for diverting rainwater is to dig up a million-gallon tank buried in the Building 17 courtyard. The tank was intended to be used as a cooling system, but one of the pump mechanisms early on, said Wise. The tank would be retrofitted to collect, filter, and disperse rainwater. “If you had a million-gallon storage tank linked to roof runoff, you could irrigate a lot of places some parts of the year, and save on fresh water.”

The idea of a retrofit is important

because it would be much less expensive than starting the project from scratch, Wise said.

The Salmon Safe and rain runoff project is intended to be an “educational laboratory” as well as a cost-effective way to make the college more ecologically sustainable, he noted.

To carry out and fund the work, MHCC is partnering with Metro, the City of Gresham, the Sandy River Basin Watershed Council, and other organizations. “You have regional agencies, you have the city, you have the college, which is a separate, independent organization within the watershed council, working together because none of us can quite do it separately, and that’s how watershed restoration works,” said Wise.

Faculty president brings kindness to new role Noah Guillen the advocate

You’re probably familiar with the phrase “kind eyes.” Cheryl Johnson, newly elected full-time faculty association president for Mt. Hood, has a “kind presence.”

Meeting her was slightly jarring, as she wasn’t the stern and to-thepoint personality I had composited from our brief email conversation to set up an interview. The English instructor, a Portland native with an affinity for felines, was not who I expected, in many regards. Polite and inviting, by the time we started the interview she had inquired about my major, how I was enjoying MHCC, and whether or not I had an adviser.

Make no mistake, Johnson is someone who cares, and carries herself with a pride in her work and the school with which she works. Which is why, effective this PA G E 6

“I’m a teacher first. I don’t plan on losing that.”

- Cheryl Johnson

term, she has taken over as faculty president, succeeding mathematics instructor Tambi Boyle.

“I’ve been involved in our union leadership for the past three years... so it just seemed like a good time to step up, as our current president (Boyle) is interested in moving on,”

Johnson said.

“I personally think that Tambi and I will work pretty closely together,” she said. “The way our union is structured is that we have a position for the past president to stay on and advise – just to make sure there’s continuity.”

Johnson added that Boyle has “done a really fantastic job making sure that faculty voice is represented.

I really respect the work she’s done and look forward to working with her.”

She notes that MHCC, on an administrative level, has undergone a lot of changes, so there’s a lot to keep up with. “For faculty, we have a lot of initiatives that come at us, all the time,” she explained. Her intent is to see those initiatives through, she said.

The trick in doing that is the large number of faculty members in all the MHCC departments that are represented by Johnson. She

said, “I’m planning to go around the college and meet faculty from different areas. I know a lot of the transfer faculty, but I feel like (the) CTE programs, I don’t know that well.

“After that, I’ll have a better idea about things that should be accomplished or things that could be done,” she said.

Possibly the most impressive feature of Johnson upon an initial encounter isn’t her ambition or will, but her sense of priority.

“I’ve only been a teacher. My whole career has been focused on education,” she said. “So if we talk about identities? I’m a teacher first.

I don’t plan on losing that.”

Johnson has been a highly regarded English teacher for several years at MHCC. She’s a bookworm, as could be expected. “I love reading, actually… that might not be a huge surprise. I love young adult fiction.

I think it gets to the point faster, but

“I’ve been involved in our union leadership for the past three years... so it just seemed like a good time to step up.”

- Johnson still deals with big themes.”

Her favorite author, however, is not a young adult fiction writer, but Milan Kundera.

“One book of his that I find I come back to quite a bit is ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ ” she said. “He’s really changed some of my ideas about what fiction had to be.”

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‘Beastly’ recreation of classic animation Glenn Dyer

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Rating 1 out of 5 stars

This film was the undisputed top of the box office charts for TWO WEEKS. It was finally surpassed by “The Boss Baby,” but not by much.

This is the world we live in. This is the world we created. And now we have to live with a tale as old as a greedy executive’s mandate, the new remake of “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.” From Bill Condon, the director of “Twilight: Breaking Dawn,” (that’s right, they couldn’t even get the GOOD Twilight director) comes yet another entry in the increasingly distressing list of pointless liveaction remakes of classic Disney films. However, this one is a special snowflake in its own way, as it is the only one so far that is not even trying to pretend like it has a reason

to be made, other than fabulous box office results. “Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass” were technically sequels, “Maleficent” was a re-imagining from a different character’s point of view, “Pete’s Dragon” and “The Jungle Book” added a different style and themes, and “Cinderella” ...was also pointless, but at least the original Cinderella film wasn’t exactly the pinnacle of craftsmanship. “Beauty and the Beast,” on the other hand, was the very first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, featured fantastic songs from legendary c o m p o s e r H o w a r d Ashman, and is

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generally considered to be one of the greatest family movies of all time.

We better add a pissing dog joke to that.

But let’s get down to the specifics.

The new movie is almost a shot-forshot, word-for-word remake of the original classic, with about a halfhour of mediocre original songs and dialogue added to stop comparisons to the Vince Vaughn remake of “Psycho.”

From the very beginning, the movie makes a terrible first impression with its opening number, mostly due to one fact that plagues the entire film: Emma Watson cannot sing. This is not an opinion, this is a fact.

Each

and every one of her musical numbers is auto-tuned to such an extreme degree that I wonder if it would not have been better to just have the computer generate a completely new voice from scratch.

To say she is miscast here would be an horrendous understatement.

Most of the sets look like they were pulled straight out of “Galavant.” Don’t get me wrong, I think Galavant is a fine TV show.

But that is the big problem: This is a high-budget theatrical film, so it should not bear any resemblance to a satirical television program that was specifically designed to look cheap.

It was clear that the majority of the budget went to costume design and the CGI beast, who looks like the offspring of Fabio and Grumpy Cat. While it does become slightly less awful in the third act, it is still an absolute slog to sit through, from beginning to end. Belle and the Beast seem to have no chemistry on screen, most of the new dialogue is extremely arduous, and the mixing on most of the musical numbers

Glenn’s Corner adds far too much power to the instrumentals, which tends to drown out the singers. Although I suppose that is a blessing in disguise, when it comes to Watson’s songs…

In short, taken as its own product, the film is an oafish, poorly directed, badly written mess with almost no positive qualities to speak of. Taken as a successor to one of the most beloved cinematic masterpieces of the last 30 years, it is an atrocity.

Though it is clearly too late to stop this thing’s box office success, I nonetheless urge you to avoid laying eyes upon this utter dumpster fire of a movie.

‘Rick and Morty’ is back for its third season

And thanks to it, McDonald’s Szechuan sauce may also return Megan Phelps the advocate

What up, my Glip Glops!

Which, I say to you in the most nonoffensive way possible.

Unless you’re a die-hard fan of “Rick and Morty” and live on the internet for a majority of your free time, you might not know that the first episode of Season Three was released for several hours on April 1.

At first I thought it was an April Fool’s joke, but this was for real.

The episode was streamed on Adult Swim on loop, as well as online.

Unfortunately, the episode is no longer available to view on Adult Swim, but there are other ways to get your hands on it if you choose to go that route.

For those of you that don’t know what Rick and Morty is, it’s a mature-content animated scifi comedy series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. It was initially online but was bought out by Adult Swim and Cartoon Network.

In this series Rick Sanchez, a genius scientist who invented a portal gun, goes on insane adventures with his grandson, Morty.

To catch up with the ending of last season, Rick has turned himself into the Galactic Government for the sake of allowing his family to have a life back on Earth rather than on a measly dwarf planet that can be explored in a day with a screaming sun with days that last 48 hours. (*CAUTION: SPOILERS): In the new episode, you initially get a sense of inception; Rick’s brain is being probed by members of the Galactic Government in attempt to get knowledge from him, specifically, how he created the portal gun.

This is where shit gets crazy interesting in this episode. It turns out the memory Rick shows the Government isn’t really a memory, but a made-up simulation with a virus that takes over the machine controlling him, which is called a Brainalizer. Through this, he transports his brain content to the Government Alien Official’s brain, leaving behind a number of parts of his brain that to Rick seem non-useful. (List includes his fear of wicker furniture, desire to play the trumpet, his tentative plans to purchase a hat, and six years of improvisation workshops.)

At this point the show cuts back and forth between life on Earth for the Ricks family, and thankfully, Summer is frantically trying to rescue her grandpa (Rick) from Galactic prison, which are

enjoyable parts of the show, in my humble opinion.

This is important because the other Ricks from multiple dimensions come to kill Rick C-137.

From here, Rick travels to multiple other Rick bodies in order to get back to his grandchildren, who are being held at The Citadel, which is a city of Ricks where all the Ricks from all the different realities got together to hide from the government.

Since in this episode Rick destroys the Galactic Government, he then destroys almost all of the remaining Ricks. His purpose for this whole ordeal is revealed at the end of the episode, along with his deep desire to have the McDonald’s special-made sauce that came out with the 1998 release of the Disney film “Mulan.”

It’s possible McDonald’s will attempt to bring back this special sauce with the live-action release of Mulan, coming out in 2018. As of now, a change.org petition has almost 30,000 signatures of people pleading to bring back the chicken nugget Szechuan sauce. The official McDonald’s Twitter account has even tweeted about the possibility

of being open to bringing it back; hopefully, it’s sooner than nine more seasons of Rick and Morty.

As always this was a great episode, filled with the harsh reality of having Rick Sanchez as a family member. In the same episode you also finally see Rick’s wife, Diane, for the first time ever. I’m not sure if it’s really what his wife was like, but it happens in the simulation in his brain. On the bright side, Beth might be single from here on out!

Honestly, who likes Jerry, anyway?

Beth could do so much better! In the concluding remarks of the episode it seems this will be a bleak season for the show because of this change, especially for Morty.

Sadly the official release of Season Three is still up in the air since it is not yet fully completed.

If you are interested in watching seasons One or Two, they are available on Adult Swim and on Hulu. You can also purchase the two seasons on Amazon and on Blu-Ray. Peace out, my schwifty peeps; stay squanchy. As Rick would say, “And that’s the waaaaay the news goes!”

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