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You are entitled to your own heritage Don’t let textbooks define it for you, dig up your roots
Emily Wintringham the advocate
American History education, particularly that which is taught in K-12 schools, is grossly oversimplified, making it easy for some students to disengage with the lessons because it is unclear how their own heritage connects. In the eighth grade, I put myself in the basic “white” group by default, and aligned my identity with the position of the historical narrative of the curriculum. However, if you’re adopted or in foster care, you might understand the desire to research where your “biological” family came from. Many of us long to learn the trails and trials of our ancestors. After all, their story holds the key to our story. Unearthing History Had I not dug into my ancestry, I would not have discovered material the history books never mentioned. I came to the conclusion that hardly anyone from the U.S. – much less the world – is completely of a “pure race.” I’ve heard numerous claims such as “My great-great grandmother was
Pocahontas.” I think I have documentation that stated my own greatgreat grandmother was “full-blooded” Cherokee. While I agree that it’s not impossible that I could have a Cherokee ancestor, most likely it is not to the extreme of “full blood.” Again, that is a product of oversimplification with regards to early American society. In fact, I did a DNA test around March of last year so I could begin digging into my ancestral origins. It’s the birthday gift that keeps on giving. I wanted to correctly associate the many claims that tag along with my dysfunctional family background. The question that came to mind: Why does this all matter? Why is this such an amusement to the thousands who test at Ancestry DNA, 23 and Me, and Family Tree DNA? I believe it is the desire to find out why we are what, and who, we are. We had no choice over our own birthplaces, but we know there were reasons of why and from where our ancestors immigrated or were forced into this land. A Plot Twist As it turns out, I’m definitely not Native American. I’m pretty much a “white-bread” European (Irish, English, French, Norwegian) with the remaining 25 percent being a weird cluster of Iberian, Italian, Moroccan, and Middle Eastern (Turkish and Sephardic populations.) This seemed like the weirdest combination, so I began to research what I knew. Long story short, I traced my mother’s maternal line back to Kentucky in the 1800s. Her kin changed their names a lot, and they moved around – a lot. Before settling in America, they had come from
Switzerland, France, and Spain. All either Puritan or imperialist. This unimaginable that your textbook that is said is they kept escaping goes with African Americans, Latin proves to be just a SparkNotes of real religious persecution, the majority Americans, Native Americans, Asian American History. of suffered by Protestants during the Americans, and anyone else who has What does this all mean? I bebeen duped out of their true, color- lieve everyone should dig into their Spanish Inquisition. Based on some of the obscure ful legacy. The thing is, no matter own ancestry and take a DNA test, first names of my ancestors, what race one checks in the boxes on or at least be able to. It should be such as Mamad, Moise, Sedalia, scholarship applications, more than a right for every citizen to know Rozena, Zelma, Omar, Levona, likely there are secrets and untold their origins. Labon, Shem, Lecretia, Arizona, relationships, migrations, converWe will realize the story as a etc., I knew there was more to the sions, etc., that have contributed to whole and, hopefully, rid ourselves identity of these people than just the their family tree. of prejudices and abolish the notion usual “Puritans came, settled, and Many well-known celebrities of a “pure race.” This isn’t to discredit named their kid ‘John Johnson’ and who appear on TLC’s television series the uniqueness of culture, but to eventually, John Johnson owned a “Who Do You Think You Are?” are understand why we got where we are plantation” narrative. constantly surprised at what occurred and that things are nearly always more From the documentation it is in their family histories – stories so complicated than they are presented. evident that my ancestors were French Huguenots who escaped persecution and who had good relations with the Jews who also escaped France under persecution – many of whom assimilated with these Protestants and practiced their faith secretly. This also was the case with many Muslims. A Clash of Cultures Organized events 6 days a week This particular line of mine had unusual traditions that blended both oriental and western religious customs, like the naming pattern that included very few Christian names. They also brought with them their education and their trades, such as silk manufacturing, shoe making and gold smithing. Huguenots, as well as the mysterious “Melungeons,” (mixed people of various 27084 SE Stark St. ethnic backgrounds including AfriTroutdale, OR 97060 can, Native American, Iberian and Semetic origins who settled in the 503.328.8166 Appalachians) are all a significant Sun - Magic: The Gathering - Beginner & League part of the fowrmation of the United Mon - Mario Kart Mondays States we know of today. Wed - HeroClix / Magic the Gathering Draft Many “white” people, especially Thurs - Magic: The Gathering - Standard / Star Trek: Attack Wing those who are descended from the Fri - Pokemon / Friday Night Magic - Standard southern colonies, are deceived into Sat - Yu-Gi-Oh! / D&D Attack Wing / Star Wars: X-Wing thinking their heritage is inevitably
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MHCC bond campaign approaching the wire the advocate
The Mt. Hood bond measure effort is about to enter the eleventh hour, which is what Paige Richardson, hired as campaign manager, calls the “critical period” in the bond process. A big question riding supporters’ minds of late is whether or not the college’s PAC (political action committee) has raised enough money to make a strong enough media showing to help win over voters. According to Richardson, so far the campaign fundraising is going well. “We have another month, and we are on track,” she said. Many companies and individuals have been donating to the bond efforts recently. Jenzabar Inc., a technology conglomerate heavily integrated with higher education institutions (including Mt. Hood) donated $25,000 to the campaign. Other notable donations include $6,000 from the MHCC Faculty Association and $10,000 from the MHCC Foundation.
MHCC to host nonviolence conference Emily Wintringham the advocate
“Nonviolence: A Choice” is free today for all students who want to engage in conscious awareness activities such as yoga, dancing, communication, and more. For all other community members, admission is $5. All are welcome to participate in one or more activities. “Nonviolence” will include many notable speakers, including international advocate Ally Peerbocus. The conference, hosted in part by the Diversity Resource Center, will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Student Union. Co-hosting the event are TRIO-SSS, The International Sufi School for Peace and Service, and the Women’s Federation for world peace, with participation from the MHCC Associated Student Government. Roseann Kennett, TRIO adviser, said, “Whether you’re looking to calm anxiety, create healthier relationships, (or) spur social justice, this conference will provide tools for these and more.”
“A major vote of confidence,” as Richardson called it, came from Nike, Inc., which chipped in $5,000 that she said represents the firstever donation Nike has made to an East-Multnomah County cause. To date (Thursday), the PAC has raised $151,167.55, and currently has $79,028.52 to spend on the paid media scheduled to go out to voters three weeks before the May 17 election. (Full campaign finance information for the “Friends of Mt. Hood Community College” account is available at oregon. gov, under the committee database hosted on the Elections Division web page.) So far, the largest bulk of the money spent by this campaign has been utilized for public opinion research – going out to the community and seeing what citizens’ priorities for the bond are. Richardson said the campaign has 90 active volunteers, whose efforts include sending out literature to households and “walking and calling” to get the word out about
the bond. The campaign has about 350 more volunteers who are less active, and is still hoping to get at least 500 additional volunteers before May, she said. Richardson said the campaign has held back from spending a lot of the money received yet because it is not close enough to voting time. She said that “close to three weeks before the May election” is when a major effort to promote the bond is planned. That would come in the last week of April. Campaign staff are gathering their resources and preparing for the big advertising push coming in those three weeks, she said. Plans include communicating a large amount of bond information to unregistered voters in the community. “Some people think that (traditional) mail is a little ‘old school,’ and maybe it is, but it is the only way to get information directly into the hands of the voters,” she said. Prominent social media exposure is also a key strategy, Richardson said. These include a presence on Facebook, and both digital video and
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audio of a few past MHCC alumni, discussing their time at the college. One such alumnus, “Portlandia” television producer David Criss, studied at Mt. Hood under current Integrated Media director J.D. Kiggins. Richardson said Criss he really enjoyed his time here and is an
avid supporter of the college. Any support for the bond is appreciated, Richardson added. “Please volunteer your time, give a cash donation if you can. Tell your friends and neighbors to vote ‘yes,’ ” she said. “Anything that people can do to help ... we will be grateful for.”
College celebrates golden anniversary Gloria Saepharn the advocate
Mt. Hood Community College will be holding special events, starting this month and continuing through the summer, in honor of its ‘Golden Anniversary’ to celebrate 50 years as an institution. First among the special celebrations will be the Golden Anniversary Gala and Auction, to be held April 23 in the Yoshida Event Center. Many alumni are expected to attend. A lot has changed since the early 1960s, and the events will highlight that fact. Before the school was constructed, the ground surrounding the campus was used as a strawberry field, for which the present-day Strawberry Short Course Festival is named after, said MHCC President Debbie Derr. “When you look at some of the older pictures of the college, (the school) was nothing but (a) field... They (early settlers) logged it and then they planted cabbage and strawberries,” she said. Tricycle races were held by the Mt. Hood pond in the 1970s: Students would ride tricycles down a hill, down a ramp that would curl upward and direct the riders into MHCC’s pond.
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“We can’t do that now, of course. There would be a big liability issue,” said Derr. The character of the school has changed over the years, through technology, faculty and demographics of the people living around the college. “Students have changed a lot. If you go back to the early years, there was very little diversity. People that lived out here tended to be very middle-class,” said Derr. “I look at how students and demographics have changed. I think it’s one of the
greatest opportunities we have – to embrace that, and to work with those communities, so our students are successful. “Back in 1966, we were very white. There were far more men going to school than women, there were far more middle-class students than the students that are financially needy now,” Derr continued. “There are lots that have changed, but all those changes center around who students are.” She also mentioned technology that wasn’t around back then: some
forms of transportation and how the Internet wasn’t around. First of the celebrations will be the April 23 Gala and Auction. In June, campus officials will dig up a time capsule left from students, staff, faculty, and members of the community in 1966. The capsule will be unveiled on June 18, the day of this year’s Strawberry Short Course festival. Derr said the school is planning to create a 2016 time capsule that will be reburied with “instructions to the future” to be dug up in another 50 years. Another MHCC Foundation Gala will be held in September to honor a group of 50 “diamond” alumni. “We’ll be looking at people who have made a mark in the world and went to Mt. Hood Community College,” said Derr. The September gala may also be a fundraiser for the school, but plans for that haven’t been confirmed. Derr’s vision for Mt. Hood, looking forward, is to “be the best community college in the world” and for the school to be more diverse than it was when it first started, she said. Throughout the next year, students should expect to see more updates on the 50-year anniversary web page, as well as posters around the school that promote events.
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Advocates pulled; Derr cites miscommunication Adam Elwell the advocate
Issues of the April 1 edition of the Advocate were returned home to their distribution boxes on campus Wednesday, five days after they were removed and held by MHCC officials. On Friday, April 1, the Advocate published an April Fool’s edition, which was greeted with a mixed reception due to a satirical story on the school’s upcoming attempt to pass a general obligation bond measure. Mt. Hood President Debbie Derr said she asked the college mailroom on Friday to secure about 80 issues that are mailed weekly outside the campus, to local high school and college journalism programs and others. In the meantime, multiple school officials, including board member Jim Zordich, and a mailroom employee who said he was instructed to “pull everything you see that looks like this,” confiscated hundreds of issues of the Advocate from all distribution boxes on campus, first on Friday afternoon, and again on Monday afternoon after they had been restocked. The Advocate staff investigated and found they were being held in the MHCC mailroom, upon the president’s request. About 600 issues were taken, minus issues some students did have the chance to obtain. Derr met with the Advocate editorial staff on Tuesday and explained that she would “never attempt to censor” the newspaper. She said she instead intended to hold the (80-some) issues from being mailed until she could voice her concerns directly to the
Advocate staff, but gave no order to take issues directly from the boxes. She also said Zordich was under no directive from her office to confiscate copies. “I would never do that,” (act to censor the Advocate), Derr told the newspaper staff. Derr reiterated: “I would not censor. I would not confiscate. I did hold, because I wanted to talk to you.” Campus response But some on the Mt. Hood campus called the officials’ response on April 1 troubling. “Seizing them is a form of censorship.” said Pat Casey, MHCC social science instructor who has taught journalism previously. Case law on student newspapers does not distinguish between holding or confiscating, notes the Student Press Law Center, based in Arlington, Va. Since public colleges are considered an arm of the state, they may not exercise the power of a private publisher over a school newspaper, such as censoring or confiscating. There have been multiple court rulings to back this up (Joyner v. Whiting; Schiff v. Williams; Leuth v. St. Clair Comm. College), the SPLC notes. The organization’s web page states, at splc.org/page/collegefaqs: “The courts have ruled that if
a school creates a student news medium and allows students to serve as editors, the First Amendment drastically limits the school’s ability to censor. Among the censoring actions the courts have prohibited are confiscating copies of publications, requiring prior review, removing objectionable material, limiting circulation, suspending editors and withdrawing or reducing financial support.” Mixed messages Derr told the Advocate she was specifically concerned about potential consequences if a reader did not realize a story on the upcoming bond measure was satirical. “I do not want any mixed messages in the community, period,” said Derr in reference to the lead story titled, “Bond hurdle set high, MHCC unable to clear,” referred to on the cover as “A Bump in the Road.” Said Derr, “My concern is that this is a mixed message” given the college’s nonstop effort to raise support for the bond measure. Susie Jones, MHCC Board of Directors chair, said she believed Zordich was thinking along the same lines and took the papers “purely to protect the college.” A bin filled with the papers removed by Zordich wound up in the president’s office, by Monday, Derr said. Zordich declined to talk with the Advocate about the episode. Jones said she is a supporter of journalism and that it is “vital to democracy.” She said Zordich was operating independent of the board, but also that she did not view his actions as censorship. “Well, maybe that was his
freedom of speech; a reaction against somebody else’s freedom of speech,” Jones said. She said there would be no reprimand from the board issued to Zordich. On Wednesday, MHCC Board colleague and media firm owner Michael Calcagno said, “I feel as though the college, whether it’s the board, or the administration, or faculty should not be hindering free speech or first amendment rights, and I fully support the Advocate and whatever they decide to publish,” in reference to free speech issues. Story concerns The satirical bond story in question was accompanied by a separate disclaimer on the same page, and all the April Fool’s stories posted online were labeled as such, as well. In the problematic story, the Advocate wrote that new opinion polls showed the bond losing favor among voters, that the college aborted the effort to pass the measure, and in a tough financial climate accepted a donation from a fictional character named “Yunki Joshida,” and renamed the school in his honor, among other satirical elements. Learning of administrators’ concerns on April 1, the Advocate agreed to remove the online version of the story by midday. Derr said that she initially was concerned the satire could be construed as a slight against Junki Yoshida, an actual benefactor of the college, and the fear that it could result in a loss of funds. She told the Advocate on Tuesday she had spoken with Yoshida and was no longer worried about losing his support. After meeting with the
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Advocate, Derr issued an all-staff email on Wednesday that reminded MHCC officials, staff, and students that removing issues of the paper “could be viewed as censorship and even theft” and described the unfolding of events as a valuable “learning experience.” In an interview with The Oregonian on Wednesday, she reiterated support for the Advocate but again faulted the satirical story. “They spent so much time trying to make this story, this farce about how the bond didn’t pass and on and on, that they did not think,” she told Oregonian writer Andrew Theen. Moving forward Other MHCC faculty concurred that it was a learning experience, indeed. Mt. Hood philosophy instructor Chris Jackson called the school’s action “outrageous.” Jackson said, “When I was working as a loss prevention agent in college, it wasn’t okay just to return it, (in case of theft). This is something that is obviously theft.” “Just not liking something is not grounds for suppressing it,” said Casey. He said he had seen the April 1 issue, realized it was a hoax when he saw Yoshida’s name misspelled, which was a “dead giveaway,” but wasn’t aware of any censorship until the president’s all-staff email on Wednesday. Asked how the school could make reparations, Casey suggested hosting a workshop for high school journalism programs in the area, on the subject of free speech and the press. Jones concluded at the end of her interview, “Hopefully we can just put this behind us and say this was a little ‘bump in the road.’”
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There was a very loud cheer when his part finished. Other parts from the video included Aaron Herrington with a lot of New York footage and very stylish lines. My favorite trick from his part has to be his huge bump to bar ollie with almost no speed. Hjalte Halberg’s part included an array of crazy ledge tricks and a nuts back 360 over this bump. My favorite montage from the video has to be the blobby crew footage. The editing Pontus Alv does in the montage is amazing. The names being edited into neon signs and flashing while night skating clips are going is amazing. The last part in the video went to Polar’s newest pro, Kevin Rodrigues. Kevin is one of those skaters that blow your mind every time you see his footage. He did not disappoint at all. He did tricks that I have never seen before. His ender had to be my favorite trick in the video. It was an ollie to no hand nose pick on the front of a hand rail then he went into nose grind down the rail. I don’t know how it was possible but he did it. Overall, I have to give the Polar video a 5/5 because the music, editing, filming, and skating were so on point, it was nuts. As soon as this video comes out, I will be buying!
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After almost six years in the making, Polar Skateboards finished its first-ever full length skate video. With one of the team riders, Dane Brady, being from Portland, of course there was a kick-ass premiere screening planned. And I wouldn’t miss a special showing at Cal’s Pharmacy Skate Shop on Burnside for all the kids under 21. I arrived at the shop with my two friends a little early, so all the other guys were skating around on the street outside. When 7:30 finally hit, everyone rushed the front doors and waited for Cal’s to let us in. Finally they opened the doors and let all us skater kids in. Inside there were about 40 or more chairs set up in rows and the video was shown from a projector to a large piece of paper on the wall. Cal’s had bought Sizzle Pie for everyone, so we got free piz-
za and drinks. We sat down in the front row and the video started. The film kicks off with some interesting music choices and a skatepark montage featuring most of the team cruising a park. Brady, the hometown hero, has the first part in the video. He kicks off his part by showing us his house, his dog and the curb he skates outside his Portland home. The video is very humorous and made a lot of people laugh. Dane’s part included some mind-bending tricks, including a nose manual on grass, a board slide up to switch 5050 at the Pearl bump and his ender, which blew everyone’s mind, was a breakneck fast speed ollie through a swing. The filming in his part was on point, and it flowed together very nicely – easily the best segment of the video, in my opinion.
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on campus to enjoy the sun
As the sun is starting to shine upon us we are eager to enjoy our time outside while on break from class. Here are some great places to chill out and explore while you’re away from classes.
A bench cozied between blooming flora, dedicated to former instructor Shelie Macias.
The big field between the Student Union and the pond.
At the mouth of the pond there are about six large boulders to sit on.
The lone bench facing the forest.
Ah, the forest behind the Visual Arts Gallery. A treasure trove of cool spots.
Honorable mentions
Our personal favorites, Albertsons deli and the Advocate newsroom.
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Soul searching the basis of ‘Man From Nebraska’ Ivy Davis
the advocate This term, MHCC’s performing arts group will present the play “Man From Nebraska,” a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist. “Man From Nebraska” is about a man named Ken Carpenter who wakes up one morning to find that he no longer believes in God, and sets out to confront his new faith crisis. The character will be played by Ian Booth, an MHCC theater veteran. Carpenter leaves his wife, daughter, and Baptist family to go and journey by his lonesome. The play progresses as he wanders through London in an attempt to find what he’s looking for. There will be 9 actors total in the play. Mt. Hood Theater Director
Mace Archer said “there will probably be as many as 20 technicians who will work on the play during the rehearsal process and performances.” Besides the actors, technicians, and Archer, there will be a few others working on the play. Daryl Harrison Carson leads the tech efforts. He also designs the lights for the show, making sure all actors have their own special spotlight. The set is designed by Tiffany Demello, a recent graduate of the program, said Archer. Current student Sarah Swislow is designing costumes for the production. During the play the setting changes from London to the countryside of Nebraska. Archer explains the set as a series of moving panels allowing the crew to set up scenes even while other scenes are playing.
“The scenery is inspired by the raw wood of the Midwest, old barns and houses,” said Archer. Because of the moving panels, scenes will be able to take place in different parts of the theater simultaneously. “Man From Nebraska” will be in the school’s Studio Theater, which gives the play a very dramatic and intimate feeling, he said. Archer is currently working with his students to identify major parts of the play along with searching for the best way to make the theme of the story resonate with the audience. A special showing will be held for MHCC alumni on May 14, with other show dates being May 13, 14, 19, 20, and 21 at 7:30 p.m. along with May 15 at 2 p.m. in the studio theater
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Spring movie releases Batman v. Superman: Good? The Jungle Book - April 15 Fantasy/Drama One of our classic childhood movies brought back to life with CGI and real actors. Fan - April 15 Drama/Thriller Imagine your doppelganger being a movie star. The Huntsman - April 22 Fantasy/Drama Charlize Theron is back as an evil queen, but this time it’s all sibling rivalry. Ratchet and Clank April 29 Action/Adventure One of our favorite PlayStation 2 games from 2006 is hitting the big screen. Captain America: Civil War - May 6 Fantasy/Science Fiction A movie we’re all on the edge of our seats for; could it make or break Marvel? Neighbors 2 - May 20 Comedy The first Neighbors movie was hilarious, but this second one shows us how much worse sororities are. Angry Birds - May 20 Action/Comedy They actually made it a movie... X-Men Apocalypse - May 27 Fantasy/Science Fiction If you weren’t excited for Captain America, you should be excited for X-Men.
Alice Through the Looking Glass - May 17 Fantasy/Adventure Alice returns to wonderland in this sequel. Me Before You - June 3 Drama Classic chick flick, don’t forget to bring your mom. The Conjuring 2 - June 10 Horror I’m sure you get the gist here. Central Intelligence - June 17 It’s Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson in one movie where The Rock is fat. Finding Dory June 17 Action/Adventure Another one of those movies that producers had waited years to give us. Anyone ever wonder about The Incredibles? The Shallows - June 24 Drama/Thriller Surfing gone wrong. Free State of Jones - June 24 Drama/Action Inspired by Newton Knight and the confederacy. Independence Day: Resurgence - June 24 Fantasy/Science Fiction Aliens. The BFG - July 1 Fantasy/Family If you don’t know what BFG stands for, it’s the Big Friendly Giant.
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Do you bleed? Well, you’ll probably want to, after sitting through this mess of a movie. “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” is the sequel/spin off/cash grab of the Superman film “Man of Steel.” It stars Ben Affleck as Batmurderer, a ruthless vigilante who slaughters crooks by the dozens and desires vengeance against Superman for poorly defined reasons. Since this is also a rushed setup for a “Justice League” movie, the film also features Wonder Woman. However, she hardly makes an appearance, so I will not mention her again. The movie is so fundamentally flawed that it is a perfect gold mine for critics like me. I will never be able to list everything wrong with it, so I will just go with some of my favorite complaints. First up, the plot: From the very beginning, the film is hard to follow and frustrating. The whole thing is littered with scenes and sequences that go nowhere and seem to have nothing to do with Photo from Web Ratchet and Clank from movie posters. the sto-
ryline. The most notable of these are the many dream sequences Batman has, in order to give the semblance of character. Next is the cast. While Ben Affleck as Batman is a distressing choice for some fans, he is probably the only lead that seems fine in his role. Jesse Eisenberg delivers an absolutely atrocious performance as Lex Luthor, apparently attempting to be somewhere in between a genius and a jokester, but ending up just plain annoying. Jeremy Irons plays Batman’s assistant, Alfred, and though it is not worst portrayal of the character, it certainly leaves a lot to be desired. Lastly, it was a very strange move to cast the troll from “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” as Doomsday, the legendary Superman villain, although compared to Eisenberg, he isn’t too bad. Finally, we have the style. “Man of Steel” divided audiences back in 2013 for its incredibly dark take on what was traditionally a very lighthearted superhero. In this film, it seems the producers have taken the worst parts o f
that and amplified them tenfold. It is utterly devoid of character and humanity, mindlessly transitioning from overblown action scene to overblown action scene, with little reason to care for anyone or anything. In a movie whose very title promises a battle between two legendary superheroes, we are given little to no reason to root for anyone to win. Batman kills without batting an eye or listening to reason, and Superman has little identity. The Christopher Nolan “Batman” films took a dark tone in order to emphasize their various themes and characters, but here it feels like darkness is working against them both, as this installment desperately tries to separate itself from the Marvel films. As of today, the film has broken a box office record: It has seen the most dramatic decrease in profits from its first weekend to its second, a whopping 81 percent drop. While the film will still break even, on paper, we should hope that Warner Brothers will learn from this and deliver more competent projects in the future. The DC Comics universe has a lot of potential, but right now, it needs a lot of work. Overall score: 1 out of 5 on the Super-Bat scale.
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Volleyball coach moves on
Saints coach doing just fine
Mt. Hood Athletic Department soon, officials said. Although he had a dismal record of 6-16 in the South Region of the NWAC and 21-51 overall during his tenure with the Saints, he firmly believes the program is headed in the right direction. He has few regrets, other than he didn’t feel as though his won-loss record reflected his coaching, he said. “I wish I had a better opportunity to prove myself a little bit more while I was at Mt. Hood,” he said. “But I had some circumstances to deal with that were out of my hands... I still had a great time at Mt. Hood.” Clifton said the hardest part about this change will be leaving behind Mt. Hood, where his wife and he really enjoyed their time.
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Saints head track and field coach Doug Bowman showed up at Mt. Hood’s running track around 6 a.m. on Saturday, March 12. The 63-year-old was preparing for the team’s annual Saints Open meet, which started at 10 a.m. Instead, by 10:30 a.m. the coach was on his way to the Providence Medical Center hospital in Portland with his wife of 13 years, Cheryl. “They said I was lacking concentration and not pulling things together,” said Bowman in his office Wednesday afternoon, referring to worried colleagues trying to inform him of his behavior that morning. “It’s weird... You feel fine and then out of nowhere, it’s like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ That’s the scary part about it, because I felt absolutely fine (that day) and still do,” he said. Good thing Cheryl was convincing in getting her stubborn husband to listen when she laid down the hammer and forced him to go to Providence. A CT scan showed a cancerous tumor in his brain. “At first I was thinking ‘Why the hell am I here?’ ” said Bowman. “I literally felt nothing, but my wife was putting two and two together. I have way too much life to live. My entire family has lived long lives. I still have a lot to do.” Lucky for Bowman, Dr. Oisin O’Neil was on call that sunny morning. From Providence, Bowman was rushed to the St. Vincent Hospital’s Neurological Critical Care Unit, where O’Neil and his team run the show. “I got real lucky with this doctor,” said Bowman. “Thank God he happened to be on call that day.” What O’Neil found was a fast growing brain tumor called glioblastoma, which according to Bowman probably grew in his brain within two weeks. “This cancer goes from 0-to4, it’s crazy,” he said. “There are symptoms out there, but I have nothing.” O’Neil and “a team of 30,” according to Bowman, operated on his brain at around 12:30 p.m. the
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following Monday and he left Wednesday morning. “The food was really good there,” said a rosy cheeked Bowman this week. “While I was there, I had five MRIs and three (CT) scans... I think I lived on that table for a while.” Bowman added, “My body is clean, based on the last MRI I had before leaving the hospital.” As for the surgery, he made light of it and said, “I feel absolutely nothing. I just went in quickly for a haircut and then left.” Bowman will begin chemotherapy and radiation on Tuesday, scheduled for six weeks. “I will meet with the doctor once a week. They are trying to find out whether they can stop (what might be left of the tumor). Because each week, it’s either going to get better or worse. “Right now, I’m totally confident I’m cancer-free. I feel like a million bucks,” he said. Bowman said it has been hard on him having so many people feeling bad for him, though he appreciates the support. “It drives you nuts and puts you in a bubble,” said Bowman. “I feel fine... No pain... No nothing... Leave me alone. The craziness about all of this is if people can’t see you physically, their imagination runs for the worst.” Bowman said he hates the idea of feeling alone. That’s why he’s keeping himself busy and he sure doesn’t feel bad for himself. “There are times that all of us feel like we’re on an island and feel by yourself,” the coach said. “People everywhere are going through the same shit.” After leaving the hospital, Bowman said the first thing he did was stop by the track at Mt. Hood. “We left and I wanted to go there and check things out,” said Bowman. “My wife and I even got out of the car and helped with some stuff on the track.”
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Next man (or woman) up: The revolving carousel of coaches continues at MHCC. After a two-year stint at the helm of the Saints volleyball program, head coach Andrew Clifton will depart to take the head coaching position at Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls. Clifton applied for the position back on March 7, but didn’t sign the dotted line until last week, he said. “I am really happy with this,” said Clifton. “I like this level a lot and it will be better for me to have players for four years so I can develop them.” Clifton’s replacement in Gresham will be announced by the
“It’s tough to leave the girls. That’s the hardest part of the whole thing. I really wish all of them luck. Hopefully I can keep in touch with all of them and I’ll be following them and their stats online. And if it works out, I would like to catch a (match).” He added, “I left the (Saints) program running; it’s not at a dead spot. They will do just fine.” Clifton replaces interim OIT head coach Joey Parnell. The Owls are apart of the Cascade Conference and compete at the NAIA level, for four-year universities.
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Saints pile on the W’s, prepare for South Region
TOP LEFT: Kayla Byers pitches during fielding drills on the Mt. Hood softball field. TOP RIGHT: Freshman catcher Darian Lindsey finished up receiving mock throws.
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the advocate The Saints softball squad entered regional play on April 6 with an overall mark of 14-3, good for a default third-place seating in the South Region of the NWAC. That’s simply because Southwestern Oregon (16-3) and Clackamas (16-3) have each played two more games and won them both. Lower Columbia sits in fourth at 14-4, a testament to just how good the South truly is this year. Mt. Hood took both games of its
double header against the Chemeketa Storm on Wednesday, the final test before its toughest stretch of the year, with six straight games against the aforementioned divisional foes, the Clackamas Cougars, SWOCC Lakers and the Lower Columbia College Red Devils. There may be some added intrigue to the Clackamas series, considering the Saints dispatched the Cougars in the 2015 NWAC championship tournament semifinals. Mt. Hood has not only found ways to win (the Saints are 8-2 over their last ten games), its has
emphatically shut the door on just about every opponent faced. An immensely talented team was recently acknowledged by the NWAC, as the conference awarded both Megan Marcy and Kayla Byers with co-players of the week honors for their performances during the week of March 28. The two played integral roles in two victories over Pierce College, and Marcy, the Saints’ sophomore shortstop, is currently slashing .517 at the plate, with five home runs, 25 RBI and 23 runs scored in just 17 games this season. Byers, the Eastern Florida State College transfer, has thoroughly impressed since her Mt. Hood debut, pitching to the tune of a 5-0 record, a 0.70 ERA (which leads the conference) and a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 46-4 on the year. It’s tough to find a good pitcher without a solid catcher, though, and the Saints’ Darian Lindsey is one of the best. Coach McWhorter referenced all of the trio’s contributions in the series, saying, “Kayla did an exceptional job of attacking hitters and getting them to hit the pitches she wanted them to hit. “Our defense did a solid job finishing the plays created by her and Darian, who also deserves a
lot of the credit as well because she calls her own game. Those two were always on the same page, they were fun to watch.” As for Marcy, McWhorter said, “Megan has been seeing the ball extremely well and had been disciplined at the plate. She works very hard on her swing and it has been nice to see her hard work pay off.” In the games against Pierce, the coach still identified things the Saints needed work on. “In game one, we did not execute called plays at the plate, but we did in game two. It was nice to see the adjustments made, but as we get into league, we need to be consistent for both games of the doubleheader.” The team’s last defeat was against a good Bellevue College team in on March 19 in Bellevue, Wash. The Bulldogs are in first place in the North Region. “We were off in the Bellevue game”, said McWhorter. “We were swinging out of our shoes, pushing too much for hits and our pitch selection was off. Credit is due to the Bellevue team, their pitcher threw well, they played solid defense and they hit the ball. “We look forward to the next match-up against them because we know it will be a better game,” the coach said.
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Mt. Hood did not have any games scheduled last weekend. Instead, McWhorter challenged her team in practice with a continued focus of improving each day. “We have put a lot of emphasis on being in the moment and not taking this time for granted. This team really respects and appreciates one another, we know what we have is special,” she said. “We want to take in every moment, challenging or not, and be grateful for the time we have together.” With the grueling stretch ahead, the Saints remain tenacious and unwavering, approaching each game the same. As McWhorter explained, “Our plan of attack doesn’t change, just slow the game down, and attack one pitch at a time.”
Message delivered, Saints baseball gets hyped
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TOP LEFT: Pitching coach Riley Barr talks shop during the Saints’ first outdoor practice. TOP MIDDLE: Nate Hunter throwing inside at the Yoshida Event Center. TOP RIGHT: Mitchell Rose runs onto Oslund Field.
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the advocate Mt. Hood’s baseball team has won each of its last four games, including an 11-inning affair against the Concordia University JV squad. Head coach Bryan Donohue’s club is playing with a level of excitement that has really come on in the last couple of weeks. “That series felt different, our guys were really jazzed up”, said Donohue. The Saints start regional play in the NWAC today, and the way the
league is set up, the schedule makes it difficult to sweep a series, which is exactly what the Saints will try to do in four games against the Linn-Benton Roadrunners over the weekend. “There’s more of a buildup, and every team we play now is standing in our way,” said Donohue. Early on in the season, the Saints had a propensity to shoot themselves in the foot by not getting the big hit they needed, or executing the proper pitch according to the hitter’s count, their coach said. Lately, they’ve tightened the screws a bit.
Donohue said, “The little things that drive coaches nuts have decreased.” Success comes when a team learns to control the controllables, like getting down a bunt or limiting errors in the field, he noted. “Our Achilles heel has been eliminating the ‘big inning,’ Donohue said. “We’ve been allowing too many crooked numbers.” For instance, the Saints’ team BAA (batting average against, which tracks the number of batted balls in play that go for hits) is a little high, but these things have a
tendency to level out over the course of the season. The schedule now becomes more routine within league play, although there is little-to-no turnaround between weekend games. Friday road games mean the team won’t be back home until after 9 p.m. most nights, and have to be ready at its home park at 9 a.m. for the next doubleheader. “We just have to try and stay sharp, keep fresh,” said Donohue. The work this ball club has put in is providing dividends, the coach said. In the two victories over Lower
Columbia, the Saints “outhit the Red Devils like crazy,” he said. He also has been adamant about the message he’s delivered to his team, telling it “ ‘This is what we need to do if we want to play in a championship game,’ ” he said. The message has been received. “In big situations, say with two outs, a runner on second and full count at the plate, the dugout just gets pumped for that big out,” Donohue said. The Saints are hyped, with the coach adding, “When we come to play, we mean it.”