The Advocate, Issue 26 - May 4th, 2018

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PEACE ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA? North and South Korea move towards historic agreement

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t’s hard to imagine that the man who threatened a sovereign nation with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” has been credited by several world leaders as a force for good and a candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize.

But, as anyone who’s familiar with media coverage of President Donald J. Trump could tell you, sometimes we just can’t make this shit up.

The sentiment was voiced by none other than South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the wake of a historic meeting with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un in Panmunjeom on April 27. Titled “The Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity, and Unification of the Korean Peninsula,” the meeting laid out a set of agreements that Koreans throughout both nations – not to mention the world at large – have been awaiting with bated breath since the Cold War cease-fire in 1953.

Though not a formal treaty, the new declaration contains encouraging stipulations, stating that “South and North Korea will reconnect the blood relations of the people” and agreeing to “completely cease all hostile acts against each other… that are the source of military tension and conflict” – not the least of which is the repeated testing of nuclear warheads and ballistic missile capabilities that in recent decades has constituted inter-Korean public relations.

Editor-in-Chief Matana McIntire Associate Editor/ News Editor Greg Leonov Copy Editor Position Open Co-Arts & Entertainment Editor Ryan Moore Co-Arts & Entertainment/ Social Media Manager Cassie Wilson

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On the nuclear note, the Panmunjeom declaration also states that “South and North Korea confirmed the common goal of realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.”

This is excellent news to fans

nuclear arsenal peaked at an all-time high of approximately 950 warheads in 1967. Since the last U.S. nuclear weapons were withdrawn from South Korea in 1991, the United States has protected South Korea and Japan under a ‘nuclear umbrel-

Possibly. It’s quite possible that the administration was able to use its political clout, coupled with explicit threats of annihilation, to bring about this historic, and honestly, extremely sudden, about-face.

It should be noted that the South

Graphic by Sheila Embers // the Advocate

A reimagining of the North and South Korean flags if they were combined into one.

of nuclear disarmament as a general approach to world peace, but it’s also a stark departure from Seoul’s foreign policy up to now. In the 2017 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris noted that the “South Korean-based

la,’ using nuclear bombers and submarines based elsewhere.”

So was the historic meeting really a result of the Trump administration’s “ ‘maximum pressure’ approach,” as President Moon was quoted, per the New York Times?

Korean president isn’t the only world leader Kim Jong Un has met with in recent weeks. Approximately a month ago, Kim made his first trip outside North Korea’s borders since assuming power seven years ago, meeting with Xi Jinping, the

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leader-and-maybe-sorta-now-dictator-for-life of China.

In Mr. Xi’s official statement on the pair’s meeting, he said, “This year there have been promising changes in the situation on the Korean Peninsula, and we express our appreciation for the major efforts that North Korea has made in this regard.”

And a unified Korean peninsula, especially one amenable to Chinese foreign policy (not to mention one without that pesky “nuclear umbrella” of the U.S. Navy) certainly behooves a China rapidly stepping up its overtures as a global, and especially maritime, power.

Still, who really knows what, if any, influence Xi had on these talks?

This is all relatively baseless conjecture.

All this assumes that the statements made in the Koreans’ joint declaration were made in good faith, and that both nations intend on following through. We could very well see more nuclear tests come November.

But, given the hermit kingdom’s willingness to march under a unified Korean flag in this year’s Winter Olympics, perhaps times really have changed. Perhaps the Cold War armistice that has shakily held the status quo ’til now is really just that, a holdover from the Cold War. Maybe, just maybe, we might actually see peace on the peninsula in our lifetimes.

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FINANCE COUNCIL RUNS SMOOTHLY Greg Leonov the advocate

The Student Finance Council has decided on how to split student fees collected in the 2018-19 academic year among activities groups on campus. And, thanks to an increase in fees (and revenues), groups were mostly satisfied with the result.

Each year, student representatives from athletics and different co-curricular activities – such as the Associated Student Government (ASG), the Advocate newspaper, and forensics team (speech/debate) – meet to vote on the student activities budget. The budget gets split in half, with about one-half going to athletics and the rest going to co-curricular.

The last four years, student representatives were forced to make cuts due to smaller budget forecasts, because of declining overall student

enrollment. This year, athletic programs made some spending cuts, while co-curricular activities were able to roll over last year’s budgets, or even secure increased funding. (Full disclosure: I represented both The Advocate and Venture magazine; the Advocate got increased funding.)

The process didn’t come without some hiccups.

Due to some staffing changes in the business office, ASG representatives didn’t receive budget projections for the activity fee until around the end of Winter Term, according to Nathan Skarphol, ASG vice president and director of finance. That delayed the work.

“Obviously, it would be rather foolish trying to create just a random budget with no budget projections, so we wanted to make sure we had those projections before we tried to create a budget,” said Skarphol.

Thanks to House Bill 2666,

approved by the Oregon Legislature in 2017, student governments at Oregon’s community colleges have the power to petition the college to raise student activity fees without the direction of the school’s board of education. Last year, the MHCC activity fee was increased by $.50 per credit. The fee was recently increased by another 50 cents per credit for the 2018-19 year.

For 2018-19, the total projected revenue that comes directly from activity fees is $754,623.

After accounting for fixed costs, the budget for the co-curricular side is projected to be $339,385 while athletics is projected at $373,067.

The final vote for the cocurricular budget was completed by email on the morning of April 18. An MHCC District board of education meeting later that day addressed the entire budget for the college.

HOW ALCOHOL INHIBITS FAT LOSS Kente Bates the advocate

With the knowledge of fat loss and the role that food and drink plays into it, it’s worth noting the role of adult beverages in the fatloss/lifestyle mix. Conventional wisdom suggests that beer bellies result from alcoholic calories being stored as fat. But recent studies have refuted this notion: Clinical trials show that alcohol actually reduces the amount of all fats that the body can burn as energy – among its primary pitfalls.

Here are more factoids on how alcohol inhibits fat loss: (These findings are based on one drink.)

• Some of the alcohol is stored as fat.

• Some of the alcohol is converted to acetate.

• Acetate produced from the alcohol gets into the bloodstream, replacing the fat that is used as fuel.

• Alcohol increases cortisol that accelerates muscle breakdown.

• Alcohol reduces testosterone, which stifles fat loss.

• Alcohol also reduces human growth hormone (hGh), stopping

fat loss.

• Alcohol almost ensures overeating by increasing appetite – sabotaging your overall health/ wellness regimen.

Alcohol supplies 7 calories per gram – among food/drink types, only fat has more calories per gram. Alcohol supplies at least two times the amount of calories of protein and carbs. Since alcohol is a byproduct of yeast digestion, it has irritating and disruptive effects on overall health, most notably the stomach lining and the liver, and can lead to health complications.

The weakening of the stomach lining affects digestion, which in turn affects the absorption of nutrients from food. The disruption of the stomach lining/digestive system by libations also affects metabolism – fat loss.

The liver, the processing center for toxins, as well as fats, is essential for having and maintaining a healthy body composition. Adult beverages, at their worst, interrupt and impede the detoxification process.

In closing, this article has discussed how harmful alcohol is to

your weight-loss regimen, based on only ONE drink. With the summer months approaching, holidays and vacations are to follow. Please, use your best judgment inside and outside the gym when it comes to drinking: If you must drink, drink in moderation. Alcohol is a destructive force for fitness regimens. Think before you drink!

FOUNDATION AUCTION RAISES LARGEST AMOUNT EVER Greg Leonov the advocate

The MHCC Foundation raised $312,000 at the college’s annual foundation dinner and auction, held Saturday, April 21.

That surpassed the goal of $300,000 and topped last year’s auction amount, $286,000.

“Thank you to the Foundation board,” said Al Sigala, executive director for the MHCC Foundation & Alumni Relations, giving credit for securing auction items. “They are integral to the success and their sponsorships brought in most of the gifts.”

The auction consisted of various items and opportunities.

Trips to Hawaii, Mexico, and a coastal beach house were auctioned, as well as an opportunity to go fishing on a large sea vessel, and the opportunity to build a whiskey collection.

“The auction is the key to the (Foundation-funded) scholarships provided to students,” said Sigala.

Foundation Development Officer Judianne Charman was the coordinator for the auction.

She was responsible for turning the Yoshida Event Center (MHCC gymnasium) into a gala event. “It’s not an easy task,” said Sigala.

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NOTE: This article is not a substitute for sound medical advice.

Please consult your primary medical provider for all health/wellness needs.

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REEMA ZAMAN LIVES THROUGH HER VOICE Guest speaker shares story of former silence Cassie Wilson the advocate

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PROGRESS IN THIS WORLD IS OURS TO ARCHITECT. WE MUST SET OUR VOICES FREE.”

Reema Zaman turned life challenges and inequity into the driving force of her career. Once she found her voice after being pushed into silence, she now speaks in the spotlight for a living.

An author, actress, and public speaker, Zaman said, “I live through my voice,” and explained just how during the most recent “Mouths of Others” event, held in MHCC’s College Theatre on April 26.

With a background in acting, Zaman’s presentation wholly embodied her story, and made it blossom with life.

She told the story of her voice through vivid imagery of unstable living quarters and unhealthy people. Her stories of love and heartbreak were described through the old barn she and her ex-husband lived in, and through heart-shaped cakes, gifts and Valentine’s Day nightgowns that went ignored while he talked about the other women in his life.

Zaman’s mindset at the time was, “If I was so stupid to let this happen, I don’t deserve better.”

She was born in Bangladesh, briefly lived in Hawaii, primarily grew up in Thailand, and moved to the United States when she was 18.

Throughout her life, she had a recurring theme of being made to feel unequal to men. At age 11, her cousin tried to molest her, but, “Boys will be boys,” she was told.

At 20, she was disowned and reowned for speaking out assertively.

She would submit to become more palatable until the point of becoming invisible. At 23, she was raped, but didn’t speak up out of shame.

As an actress, Zaman decided to speak only the words that were assigned to her, but it was the night that she sat in bed with her husband in her Valentine’s Day nightgown that she found her voice again.

Zaman said, “No.” It confused her husband because she interrupted him speaking about other women, so she repeated herself. He laughed, and then got Photo by Lisa Sellers // the Advocate

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angry, but she finally felt happy.

She left him and left the life of acting in sexist roles and modeling to become an author and a speaker.

Zaman realized that, “My true purpose is to use my voice to bring to life others’. Telling your story will set someone else free from their story,” she said.

She allowed every adversity to be an anniversary for her next talent. Instead of being quiet in the name of family, she decided to speak up for thousands.

Speaking out on sexual assault is extremely dangerous in a lot of countries, but in particular, Bangladesh. Zaman is one of just a handful of authors who have written on this subject. She was set to visit her birth country, but then she and her family decided it would be too dangerous.

“Progress in this world is ours to architect,” said Zaman. “We must set our voices free.”

Concluding her Mt. Hood presentation, she accepted audience questions. At the beginning of the event, by a show of hands, those attending learned that most of the audience was there for extra credit in one class or another – but, based on the questions that were asked, it was hard to believe.

Assault survivors and those close to survivors asked deeply personal questions, all centered around growth and the want to help others find their voices.

Zaman talked about how she relied on books to provide company in times when she couldn’t use her voice, but then started writing her own words that she needed to hear.

She saw how strong the woman in her writing was, and aimed to become that person.

Zaman was the recipient of the 2018 Literary Fellowship, and teaches at (former Mt. Hood writing instructor) Lidia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing Center in Portland.

Her debut memoir, “I am Yours,” is due out in January 2019, and her speech here on campus provided a glimpse into the beautiful and emotional transformation readers can expect to discover.

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LIVE JAZZ IS HERE TO EASE YOUR EVENING MHCC faculty comes together for exceptional jazz jams Lukas Brito

the advocate I am a guy, and unlike most girls, I cannot multitask for the life of me, with one exception: eating and listening to music. I think that can count as multitasking, right? At least, in my book it does.

Actually, I listen to music just about when I do anything, from homework, cleaning, and working, to running – you get the point. But, I must say, when you are eating a delicious meal and conversing over the table, I highly encourage you to turn on some music and let the melody aid your digestion.

But you know what’s better that just turning on Spotify while eating? Well, I will tell you.

Not too long ago, I was at The Way Out Inn – and while I was eating my delicious pizza, I had the special privilege to eat in serenity, because I got to eat and listen to live music. Like I said before, listening to music while eating is great, but listening to live music is better! Especially when it’s played by local bands such as the Mt. Hood Faculty Trio jazz band.

That’s right: music faculty members from our own MHCC. Dan Davey (piano), Tim Gilson (bass), and Tim Rap (drums) share at least 100 years of music experience between them. So these guys know what they’re doing. With that much background, you would think they would know everything about jazz. But Davey begs to differ.

“With jazz, you never quite get there,” Davey said of knowing it all. “It’s overwhelming, but

Photo provided by Danielle Davey

Mt. Hood Faculty Trio jazz band: Tim Rap (left), Tim Gilson (center), Dan Davey (right), jamming it out. The group plans to play at least once a month at The Way Out Inn in downtown Troudale.

yet intriguing. It never ends, but I’ve never been bored.”

Whether you’re a fan of jazz or not, you may or may not know jazz for the most part is improvised. That explains how Davey’s answer when asked when the group first performed together. “(Tonight) was only our second time with only the three of us playing – Tim Gilson and I have played together quite a bit in the last

two years, and Tim Rap and I have only played together twice,” he said. I was astonished hearing this, especially with how well they performed as I ate. They sounded like they had played together since Day One. Davey explained why this is so easy for jazz players to do.

“Jazz is an improvisational music, so it’s easy for jazz musicians to get with each other and play without rehearsing. Just in the same way as you and I are getting together and talking right now without a script, because I know English and you know English. And we (the trio) have a common thing that we are talking about, so we’re able to have a conversation – all three of us have training, and background in music, so we can make some dialogue around whatever tune it is.”

The way the band came together was quite simple.

“Well, [the Tims] are both great musicians, and we’re here [at MHCC], so why not get together and play?” Davey said. “It can be almost like child’s play, like that kind of fun.

When you’re an adult musician, it’s not like, ‘Hey, let’s get go to the park.’ It’s more like, ‘Hey, let’s get together and play (music).’

“I don’t always have the time to do it as often as I would like to, but it’s

such an important part of who I am and what I do, that I try to do it as often as I can,” he continued. “So having Tim Rap and Tim Gilson here is kind of an obvious match of putting a trio together, and putting something out there.”

The Mt. Hood Faculty Trio is a great band to spend your time listening to. Whether you are wanting to eat while being entertained, or solely want to listen to some great music, I highly encourage you come out and listen to some exceptional jazz. They’re due to play once a month on a Sunday at the The Way Out Inn. Just check the Inn’s Facebook page for the exact dates.

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AMUSING STAGECRAFT INSPIRES THRILLS Cassie Wilson the advocate

Mt. Hood’s spring theatre arts production, “Peter and the Starcatcher,” is setting up to be the most comedic and imaginative play that Mt. Hood has produced this year.

Last term, students took part in a very serious production, “Spring Awakening,” which dealt deeply with mental health. So, a comedy is a welcome follow-up.

Overall, “Peter” serves as a prequel to “Peter Pan.” The play is an adaptation by Rick Elice of a book, “Peter and the Starcatchers” by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. It tells the tale of how Peter Pan came to be.

There are 17 students acting on stage, and over 20 who are working backstage on costumes, sets and props.

The lead roles are Boy (Peter) played by Josh Smith; Molly, played

by Liana Tarasenko: and Black Stache, played by Chris Wolf.

While not every student is active in each production over the school year, the theatre department does have a core group of students who are. The latter can be seen

participating in different levels of roles throughout the year.

“If people have seen all three plays this year, they’ll recognize a lot of actors in very different roles because we do have consistency,” said MHCC Theatre Director Mace Archer.

Students truly get to push their imaginations and those of the audience with this play.

“It’s the kind of play where you create water by waving fabric on stage, so creating illusions with the cast and figuring out how we’re going to do these things creatively, in our imaginations, rather than making them realistic has been the fun of this,” said Archer.

At one point in “Peter” the ensemble creates the illusion that someone is floating. Archer explained, “It’s not like going to a Vegas magic show where you’re trying to figure out how they did it.

You can see how it’s being done, and it still is funny and magical.”

Despite the laughs and fun in creating illusions, there have been some challenges that allow students to continue growing in new ways.

Archer said that’s because of many moving parts to this show, including

a few musical numbers, some choreography, and narration where actors had to assign lines because it’s not predetermined in the script.

Just like “Spring Awakening,” “Peter” will be staged in the smaller Studio Theatre. Archer is looking forward to sitting among the moreintimate theatre and watching and listening to the crowd’s reactions as is discovers how the myth of “Peter Pan” came into existence.

“A lot of the things don’t happen in the way that we think they happened from the original ‘Peter Pan’ story. Like, how Captain Hook lost his hand is different in this play than we all think,” said Archer.

Tickets to “Peter and the Starcatcher” are on sale now. If you buy your tickets early, it’s only $5. At the door, tickets are $7 for students/ seniors/MHCC faculty/staff, and $10 for adults. Remember that the Studio Theatre is a smaller space, so buying a ticket in advance will secure your spot. Visit mhcc.edu/ theatreboxoffice/.

Shows are 7:30 on May 11-12 and May 18-19, and at 2 p.m. on May 13 and 20.

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CIGARETTES AFTER SEX PLAYS PORTLAND Performance rapport leaves fan less than impressed Anonymous the advocate

“Nothing’s gonna hurt you baby.”

I used to listen to these lyrics over and over when I felt down.

It was my anthem song, my “Fuck you” to all the unfairness and faults I had experienced in my small, overwhelmingly pathetic high school love life.

Four years removed, I saw this spring that Cigarettes After Sex was coming to Portland, and the tickets were wicked cheap, making me feel more than obligated to go. Now, in a different mindset, this was my chance to see what they were really all about.

On April 24, I made the trek to downtown Portland with my boyfriend. We arrived at the Wonder Ballroom an hour early, hoping for not the closest spots, PA G E 6

but decent ones. The audience was noticeable, right off the bat: young teenage girls, wearing dark tones of makeup and fishnet tights. I was instantly reminded of my young teenage self. I know I am still young, but come on – high school feels like an eternity away, am I right?

Anyway, I was sure those girls were there for all the same reasons that I had gravitated towards the band in the first place: Heartbreak.

We anxiously awaited 8 o’clock, which was supposed to be the beginning of the show. Come 8:15, 8:30, 8:45, then 9 o’clock, and the only thing that changed was the dimness of the lights and the mugginess of the room. Finally, 9:15 on the dot, and three dark figures approached the stage, the crowd roared into squeals and squirms, friends threw their arms around each other, hands were held and the

lyrics rolled off the stage like candy: “I know that you say I get mean when I’m drinking But then again sometimes I get really sweet So what does it mean if I tell you to go fuck yourself Or if I say that you’re beautiful to me,” I was surprised to hear these

lyrics, because I was expecting an opener band, or two. But I was not complaining and I know no one else was, either. This is who we were here for.

Cigarettes After Sex started with one of their most popular songs, “Affection,” and they did not disappoint. Phillip Tubbs, the main vocalist, stood almost awkwardly straight, clenching the microphone.

The rest of his body seemed tense as the lyrics flowed out of his entire being. Fog spewed from the sides of the stage. In that moment if I would have closed my eyes I would have thought I was back in my high school parking lot, sitting in my car, listening to the same song.

Tubbs jumped from song to song, not skipping a beat. Eight or nine songs in, I was thoroughly impressed with how similar they sounded live, but it was not until

then that I had realized that all their songs sounded the same. Same pitch, same style. Tubbs had a few “I love you, Portlands” in between, but nothing more than that, making the show seem a bit impersonal.

The group really did fill the ambient pop genre, the drums and bass were eerie, Tubbs’s voice was low and quiet, and the combination of the two was almost hypnotizing.

The show soon came to a close, and while it was fun, his lack of positive stage presence, and interactions with the crowd was off-putting.

He did not seem to make much eye contact with the crowd, making him come off as not interested and almost cocky, making it difficult to be likable.

While the show was fun and nostalgic, I think I am going to stick to listening to him over my car speakers.

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NEXT HOME GAME: Saturday, May 5 against Clackamas Community College at noon.

SOFTBALL SLIDES TO THIRD South Region

PCT

Conf.

PCT

Overall

Lower Columbia

0.818

18-4

0.750

30-10

SW Oregon

0.684

13-6

0.641

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Mt. Hood

0.682

15-7

0.639

23-13

Centralia

0.591

19-9

0.543

19-16

Clackamas

0.556

10-8

0.500

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by Megan Phelps

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This Saturday, May 5, Mt. Hood will host the 40th Northwest Jazz Band Festival on campus. The event, primarily competition among middle school and high school jazz bands, is free and open to the public. Learn more at mhcc.edu/JazzFestival.

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Multiple Day Event Mt. Hood’s May Planetarium show is “Icy Worlds: Is There Life Elsewhere Within Our Solar System?” hosted by Pat Hanrihan, Planetarium director. Shows run at 6 and 7:15 p.m. on both Tuesday, May 8, and Friday, May 11.

Update! Omar El Akkad of Portland won the 2018 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction for his book, “American War,” at the Oregon Book Awards event held on April 30. Among the four other finalists up for the award were former Mt. Hood writing instructor Lydia Yuknavitch, for her novel, “The Book of Joan,” and current Mt. Hood writing instructor Matthew Robinson for his book, “The Horse Latitudes.”

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Mt. Hood’s Fourth Annual Global Breakfast will take place in the Vista Dining Room (Riverview Café), from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 10. The breakfast is free for MHCC students, a $3 donation asked of staff and faculty members. Proceeds support student scholarships.

Attention all MHCC students who drive: Pavement removal, for installation of pollution-trapping rain gardens, will start in parking lots E-H on May 17. As a result, the school recommends parking in the back lots (M, N, or P) which you can access off Stark Street.

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The Student Activities Board will host a slam poetry community event from 11 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, May 8, in the Student Union.

It will feature nationally recognized performance artist and poet Lady Caress. MHCC students, faculty and staff have the opportunity to present their own work. To become a part of the event, sign up now in the Student Union.

The Community Conservation and Repair Fair will take place on Saturday, May 12, in the Yoshida Event Center (Mt. Hood gymnasium).

If you know someone who might be interested in being a vendor, exhibitor or workshop coordinator, contact the committee here by email at greshamconservation@gmail.com.

A community event will take place on Saturday, May 19, from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., to assist the pavement removal.

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Therese Nahimana ran a personal record of 26.24 in the 200-meter dash, placing fourth in the Cougar Open two weeks ago.

This result has her third in the NWAC standings and earns her a spot in the NWAC Track and Field Championships.