The Advocate, Issue 28 - May 13, 2016

May 13, 2016

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Letter to the editor: Elections need work Donate soon: there’s no reason not to James Biederbeck MHCC student

What would you do for three votes?

Before I begin, I need to tell you that this isn’t about any one person, office, or candidate, or staff member.

And yet, this is something we all impact and are affected by. This is about a trend that I have observed in my time as a member of the Mt. Hood community. I’ve remained silent on this because I felt it was better to ask nicely, than to publicly criticize. But I’ve been asking nicely for a few years now, and so have my peers.

We need to talk about our student government elections. We have an election system that at the very least incentivizes cheating, a voting system vulnerable to hacking, and then there’s the fact that less than 1 percent of us vote.

All of this amounts to the fact that the average student at MHCC

has little sway over issues in which they are key stakeholders. No, I don’t think things are horrible for us, I just think we need to be more inclusive.

First there’s the issue of cheating.

If a candidate incurs three election rules violations, they’re out. What’s intended to be a three-strike policy is really a “Two Get out of Jail Free Cards” Policy. And the elections can be close. This year was within three votes. I bet at least three were from breaking campaign rules, accidentally or otherwise. And the rules are vague, like “Don’t campaign within 50 feet of a voting booth.” What’s a voting booth? An electronic device?

Only when it’s being used to vote?

How do I know if they’re voting?

The rules are uncomfortably subjective. So you look for the edge, or get punished by losing when you don’t.

What does that mean? Commit three violations, get sanctioned for only two of them, and you’ve won the election. Commit no violations

and you lose.

Then there’s the voting system. A significant number of people vote on their phones, over the Wi-Fi. Certainly at least three of them. Our voting form on the web sends that information in the clear, and so does our Wi-Fi. You don’t need to know the specifics of that to know that it means someone using software like Ettercap (go ahead, google it) could intercept your vote in a man-in-the-middle attack, change it, and nobody would know. The worst part: We have classes here that teach hacking. They have a heavy emphasis on ethics, but it only takes one unethical person to steal an election.

We need to fix these vulnerabilities before next year.

Finally, there is the issue of voter turnout. The people that vote are the people who are spoken to by candidates. We know this, because there’s a tight correlation between

number of candidates, and number of votes. This is a good method of increasing student engagement.

Unfortunately, candidates have a tendency to approach and canvas to people who look more like them, or lead similar lives. It’s just human nature. But whether it’s class rapping at high schools, in the theater department, posting on blackboard, or throwing pizza parties for sports teams, we’re engaging students, but only the 1 percent candidates feel like engaging.

If I took a poll of only those groups, it would be called biased, but our current policy calls an election like that “Fair.”

So, ask yourself: Did I vote for this president? 99-to-1 odds, the answer is ‘no.’ We need elections reform, greater turnout, and a runoff election for THIS YEAR with a zero-tolerance cheating policy.

And we need it badly.

A fresh perspective on business etiquette

London Howell-Farley the advocate

Business etiquette is constantly changing with technology and the workforce; this does not mean the basics have changed.

Being a millennial allows for a different perspective on the integration of different business processes by experiencing those processes.

And, whether it is interviews, training, internal communication, or general customer service, one thing is clear: There is not a cohesive understanding these days of business etiquette.

Interviews The beginning of a position, or perception of a business, primarily happens within the interview process. When the basics are not initially met, concern can set in.

Interviews will always be a learning process for both parties, but one would think that larger companies, such as chain businesses, would have a better understanding of this process. There have been interviews where the employer talked about a sass-filled environment and questioned how the employee would handle the situation. When this question is asked, I instantly think: Why would this business allow such chaos? The answer is: It shouldn’t.

What led businesses to the lack of focus towards unruly behavior?

There are many answers to this question. It could be looking past this behavior because this employee is the owner/manager’s friend, has been

there for a long time, or it might be that their supervisor is just lazy and does not want confrontation.

Training Once hired, the learning process in order to become a valuable employee begins. One would expect orderly and concise training.

There should be someone of great knowledge passing down what they know, and there should be a specific amount of time based on the complexity of the position. Too often, this is not the case.

There are times when employers will essentially let the new hire have at it the first day. Unless there is extensive experience in this position, it is hard for an employee to know all of the policies and procedures to correctly accomplish tasks at hand.

When an employee is left in this situation, the business can quickly begin to crumble. It seems as though a lot of businesses are doing the bare

minimum to get by.

Ideally, where there is an allotted time for training, an employee would also expect to learn from examples by the supervisor/manager.

If the trainer curses or speaks poorly to other colleagues in front of clients, does this give the new employee the right to do so, as well? Profanity and rude behavior are not high ethical standards in the workplace, and new hires should question them.

I believe training is supposed to give me the correct tools to do my job as well as supply me with confidence, and not the other way around. Poor training can leave me, as well as the business, looking inadequate.

I dislike that feeling and so do clients.

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Tomorrow, Saturday the 14th, marks the start and finish of Oregon’s largest annual, single-day food drive.

The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive has been going on for 24 years now, and since The Advocate is published the day before the drive this year, we couldn’t think of a better time to raise awareness.

Last year, 1.1 million pounds of food were collected. This year’s goal is 1.3 million pounds.

Stamp Out Hunger is run in collaboration with the National Association of Letter Carriers, so all you have to do to donate is leave a bag of food by your mailbox Saturday morning.

We know you have a can of pinto beans in the back of your cabinet. When was the last time you ate pinto beans? For most of our staff members, the answer isn’t in recent memory.

Donating to this drive requires so little effort. Just take that lonely can of pinto beans, and set it by the curb when you take your mail out.

You already have the beans, and you were already going to the curb. The opportunity cost of feeding a hungry person here is literally just the time it would take to reach into the back of your cabinet.

In 2015 Oregon was No. 3 in the nation in growth of food insecurity.

The program is timed right before the end of the school year, since summer means no food, via school programs, for a lot of children. Give a hungry child your pinto beans.

We’re not saying you’re a bad person if you don’t, but on the same note we’ve never heard of Hitler donating to any food banks.

For more information see www. oregonfoodbank.org, the food bank that will distribute the collected food.

the advocate Editor-in-Chief Adam Elwell Associate Editor Hayden Hunter Arts+Entertainment Editor Ivy Davis News Editor Gloria Saepharn

Sports Editor Clay Vitale

Opinion Editor Adam Elwell

Graphic Designers Cody Holcombe Ayla Buckner

Public Relations Manager Emily Wintringham

Photo Editor Nick Pelster

Video Editor Chuck Masi

Video Team Members Kristina Strickland

Copy Editor Greg Leonov

Ad Manager Joseph Frantz

Staff Writers Nicole Kaadi Glenn Dyer Jon Fuccillo

Assistant Ad Manager London HowellFarley

Web Editor Matana McIntire

Advisers Howard Buck Dan Ernst E-mail: advocatt@mhcc.edu Phone: 503-491-7250 www.advocate-online.net #mhccadvocate Mt. Hood Community College 26000 SE Stark Street Gresham, Oregon 97030

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Mt. Hood weathers Storm Hope Chemeketa drowns Lane, opening door for first place Clay Vitale

the advocate As the Saints enter their final series of the regular season, one can’t help but look ahead to what’s in store, beginning May 26: The NWAC baseball championship tournament in Longview, Wash.

Currently saddled with a No. 6 Rating Percentage Index, or RPI, in conference, Mt. Hood travels to Coos Bay for a four-game set with Southwestern Oregon this weekend.

The matchup looms large, as Lane sits just one game ahead of the second-place Saints in the South, and Linn-Benton just two games behind. Coincidentally, the Saints have a higher RPI than both the Titans (10) and Roadrunners (14).

The Mt. Hood men beat back the Chemeketa Storm, three games to one, in a home-and-home series May 6-7, and now hope the Storm can turn around and pound the Titans. If the Saints can take care of business against SWOCC and Chemeketa wins at least once against Lane, it will give Mt. Hood a shot at a regional title, which would be its seventh during head coach Bryan Donohue’s regime.

In any event, the Saints stand a solid chance of advancing to the playoffs, with the top two teams in each division advancing, followed by the next best eight in RPI to round out the tournament of 16. In true tournament fashion, the higher seeds play the lower seeds from top to bottom, in a round-robin, four-day

extravaganza at David Story Field.

In the home-and-home series vs. Chemeketa last weekend, The Saints poured on the offense in Salem, routing the Storm 25-11 over the first two games on Friday.

They started off strong at home on Saturday, winning their third game in a row, 9-5, before Chemeketa pushed back and limited the Saints’ offense to salvage the last game of the series, 2-1.

SWOCC is only 5-15 in the region, compared to the Saints’ 14-6 mark, so MHCC has a golden opportunity to capitalize on the last of the regular season schedule by preying on a weaker opponent. They have the confidence, the ability, the instruction, now they just need to see an open path leading to glory.

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Mt. Hood infielder Jay Becker drives a Clark offering as both benches look on. The Saints and Penguins played to a four-game split the weekend of April 30 - May 1.

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Sophomores look to go out on top

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Most importantly, when you’re done at the end of the day, you can say that you left it all on the field, had fun and played as a family.

- Meadow McWhorter Saints head softball coach

Saints ‘hit’ their stride, named South Region champions Photos by Nick Pelster

LEFT: The Saints softball players are announced before the start of the first game of a double header against Lower Columbia on Tuesday. RIGHT: Mt. Hood gives a cheer while taking the field in the first inning.

Luck is simply described as opportunity meeting preparation, but that doesn’t sound like luck at all. No, because opportunities can be generated, and preparedness is controllable. And a program built around “Controlling the Controllables” – that so-called luck sounds more like Mt. Hood softball’s

job to finish the play,” said Saints head coach Meadow McWhorter.

She added, “We never had any back-to-back errors, and if we did commit an error, we did a good job of settling and refocusing.” These were lessons learned from a tough loss to Clackamas, when five errors put them in a hole they wouldn’t get out of, producing the Saints’ only defeat in the last ten games.

They’d tighten the screws against

Devils by six hits and seven runs on the day.

This would be the Saints’ final series at home, and it was a big one.

With the sweep, Mt. Hood clinched the South Region for the seventh time under McWhorter, and officially punched its ticket to the NWAC softball championship tournament the weekend of May 2022. They’ll use the last two games of the upcoming series at Clark College to

Courtney Cabana is congratulated by excited teammates at home plate.

Kayla Byers tosses a strike against LCC in the top of the second on Tuesday.

Catcher Darian Lindsey awaits the pitch, taking ball four and drawing a base on balls. She went on to advance to second, steal third and safely cross home plate.

Teammates hug it out as sophomores play their last home game.

standard operating procedure: Where creating opportunity is the name of the game, and the Saints women are coached to capitalize on those chances.

In the circle, if a pitch is properly executed, probability is higher that pitcher has created her desired outcome, baiting the hitter to make an out. At the dish, a hitter is taught how to be selective and when to be aggressive, and if those two work in tandem, her level of talent will produce more quality at-bats.

“Whomever we had on the mound created situations where we got the hitter to hit the pitch we wanted them to hit, and it was the defense’s

Lower Columbia in a two-game set at Saints Field on Tuesday.

At the plate, Mt. Hood’s offense kept a lot of pressure on the Devils infielders by producing tons of ground balls, putting LCC in a position to hurt themselves by increasing the opportunity for errors.

“We know Lower Columbia can hit, we have a lot of respect for the offense they have, and so we just had the mentality that we needed to go and hit right along with them,” said McWhorter. That mentality produced a 4-3 victory in the first game and produced 13 runs in the second game, outpacing the Red

do some fine tuning, with McWhorter saying, “We’re continuing to build momentum and play the way we need to play.” Then, next week will give MHCC a little time to rest up in advance of the tournament.

Speaking of the tournament, this is the first season the NWAC has implemented a new system, with softball being the guinea pig before other sports possibly adopt it.

In years past, the top four teams in each of four regions would advance to the postseason, and that was it, pretty cut and dry. But as McWhorter pointed out, that didn’t always deliver the best softball to the tournament. Some regions are

Rutledge thank the coaching staff, line up with loved ones on the infield, and share hugs with teammates. It’s an emotional tribute that the program endures each and every season.

One sophomore in particular has been honored another way: Rutledge was appointed to the Oregon Community College Association’s all-academic team for her excellence in the classroom. She is a 4.0 student here, and has been throughout her high school career, while graduating valedictorian of her class. She’s in the medical program at Mt. Hood and is looking to transfer to continue her studies in radiology.

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simply weaker than others, and may feature a playoff team that would have been “run-ruled” by a team in a stronger division that didn’t even qualify for the playoffs.

So, the conference instilled the Rating Percentage Index used throughout other collegiate athletics.

The system calculates each team’s win percentage vs. their opponents, and those opponents’ win percentage versus all their opponents, and

done at the end of the day, you can say that you left it all on the field, had fun and played as a family,” McWhorter said.

Saints honor sophomores The Mt. Hood sophomore players were honored between games on Tuesday.

Friends and family gathered to watch Kayla Byers, Courtney Cabana, Kendal Cox, Reeghan Lehnert, Megan Marcy and Rachel

Photo by Clay Vitale

spits out a rating per school. Now, the top two teams per region are automatically slotted for the tournament, and the final eight slots are filled by schools selected by RPI. Currently, Mt. Hood softball is ranked third in the NWAC, behind Bellevue and Douglas community colleges, which would gain them entrance to the tournament had they not finished in either first or second place in the South.

Seeing as the Saints have already clinched the division, they’re automatically in. Whatever happens, though, the coaching staff believes in more than simply winning or losing.

“Most importantly, when you’re

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Student leaders aim to thrive from student success Chuck Masi

the advocate MHCC students have elected Kelly Bernardino for ASG president and Santiago Velasco as Associated Student Government vice president for the 2016-17 school year.

Bernardino and Velasco won with 242 votes with Peter Camacho and Cayman Linson trailing by three votes. Michael Tippery and Michael Potts came in third with 154 votes, and Carrissa Baer and Jada Salmon followed with 134 votes.

Results of the weeklong vote were announced on Monday.

Soon after, president-elect Bernardino outlined several projects she and Velasco plan to work on as they enter office.

“I’m really big on student input,” she said. “We are acknowledging students and getting input from them… seeing what they want us to work on, as opposed to just working

on projects that we think that they will need.”

Helping MHCC administration create a clear path to graduation is one such project Velasco is working on so that students know exactly how many credits they need to take and what classes they need to take to graduate.

Outgoing ASG President Seth Albert is going to be transferring to a college that has such a program. He will provide information and guidance on implementing a clear path to graduation program at MHCC. Bernardino and Velasco will step into their new roles after graduation on June 13.

Kelly and Velasco also want to focus on catering to undocumented students. “We do have a big place in our hearts for that community,” Bernardino said.

Kelly Bernardino is a MHCC student and a third term ASG member, having served as the Administrative

Photo by Chuck Masi

Newly-elected ASG vice president Santiago Velasco and ASG president Kelly Bernardino smile as they discuss their plans for student government.

Assistant for the Executive Cabinet and Student Organizations Council.

This has given her the opportunity to work with the various Directors, Coordinators, Administrative Assistants, as well and the President and Vice president of MHCC. She said she believes that everyone deserves an opportunity

at low-cost education, regardless of factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.

“Everyone deserves to have a voice,” said Bernardino, “and for that voice to be heard.”

Velasco vividly remembers the day when he first came to MHCC. His father brought him and his

younger brother to a track and field meet on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

“We walked down to the track,” he recalled, “and I saw athletes competing from MHCC, and at that instant I began thinking of becoming a part of MHCC.” When he enrolled at Mt. Hood, he got involved as an athlete in both track and field and cross country.

“Through my experience as an athlete, I met admirable people such as coaches, teammates, and people from the community who support MHCC,” he said.

Bernardino said she looks forward to inspiring similar teamwork.

“I’m just really excited to have this opportunity to be able to grow with the new ASG team and get to know them, to have this big voice and be able to voice our opinions and the opinions of students,” she said. “I’m really grateful for this opportunity.”

New students to pay for tuition increase next year Gloria Saepharn the advocate

A 2016-17 budget plan for MHCC moved one step closer to approval Wednesday.

It includes another tuition increase for new students, but also $125 million in new capital facility funds – assuming next week’s bond measure wins voter support.

Members of the Mt. Hood Board of directors’ budget committee (made up of all seven members of the board) voted unanimously to adopt their own $357.8 million budget plan.

Final, complete board approval is expected to come on June 8.

The proposed budget responds

to a continued decrease in student enrollment at Mt. Hood; it anticipates another 8 percent decrease next year. The decrease in the current year for full-time students is nearly 10 percent.

To help make up lost revenue, the budget calls for a $2 per-credit hour tuition increase for all new incoming students, effective for Summer Term. (Tuition rates will remain steady for all current MHCC students who complete their studies within four years.)

The budget plan looks for ways to improve enrollment: $195,000 will be spent on increased on marketing the college, especially reaching out to local high school students.

Another $165,000 will pay

to add more employees at Mt. Hood’s advising office, which is “understaffed” according to a written budget statement by President Debbie Derr.

And $95,000 has been set aside to add a mechatronics program that “combines multidisciplinary engineering fields and applies those skills to the complex systems involved in the design and manufacture of products.” These include systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, control engineering and computer engineering.

Also, $47,000 will go for new catalogue software to help students better learn about courses.

There weren’t any members of the public or greater MHCC community attending the meeting, which included an opportunity for public input.

Jennifer DeMent, Mt. Hood Community College budget officer, explained the budget plan to the board and others who attended.

Tambi Boyle, MHCC’s Full-time Faculty Association president, and Derr signed an agreement to extend the full-time instructors’ current collective bargaining agreement through the 2017-18 school year.

Classified workers are not so pleased with the budget process this spring.

Cory Huston, the Classified Employee Association president,

voiced frustration about how his group wasn’t able to speak at last month’s board meeting.

“My staff were prepared to present and we were removed from the (initial) agenda that was changed during the pre-board meeting,” said Huston.

On Thursday, representatives for the classified group and the administration met to continue to discuss their stance.

Derr also told the board that Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Democrat from Portland, will be the main speaker at Mt. Hood’s commencement ceremony on June. 11.

Photo by Nick Pelster

Last week, Mt. Hood Community College hosted a spring cleanup day that encouraged school staff, faculty and students to beautify the Gresham campus.

The event was held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. John Hamblin, MHCC director of management enrollment, was a leader at this event.

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Open Educational Resources aim to reduce costs

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Mt. Hood’s Associated Student Government (ASG) teamed up with the Textbook Affordability Council (TAC) to throw a busy festival in the Main Mall Wednesday to bring awareness to students about free and low-cost alternatives to traditionally published textbooks.

The focus of the festival, which ran from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., was Open Educational Resources (OER).

Heather White, Mt. Hood’s Library Technical Services Coordinator and TAC chair, explained what OER is during a noon gathering in the Mall: Basically, OER is modeled after the open source movement, which is prevalent in the computer

Photos by Gloria Saepharn

software industry.

OER materials are available for instructors to change and adapt to their course needs, she said.

“You can make copies, you can make changes, you can share, all in the spirit of creativity and sharing knowledge, and coming up with the best content possible to meet whatever need arises,” said White.

ASG President Seth Albert explained OER a bit more specifically.

“OER can be edited by teachers, there’s no licensing on it, so it can be freely distributed, and say, somebody from Harvard wanted to write something, and post that as OER. Somebody from Mt. Hood could use that and tweak that for their class,” Albert said.

“It’s completely open for shar-

ing; the only cost to students would be if you wanted to print it. Otherwise it’s just a PDF teachers can post on the (MHCC) portal,” he said.

TAC co-chair David Pontius urged students to talk to their instructors about considering OER in their courses, if they don’t already.

“I encourage you – be assertive.

Talk with your instructors about this, put the notion and the thought in their head, in their ear,” said Pontius urgently.

MHCC President Debbie Derr talked to the students at the event and gave her support for OER. “An open educational resource is a strategy; it’s a way that our instructors can work to bring down cost of textbooks through a variety of needs,” Derr said. “Some of those include creating their own resources, some of those include using resources that are available online.”

To help Mt. Hood’s instructors with developing OER, Derr and the TAC set aside $10,000 of Junki and Linda Yoshida’s donation money (a

Mascot winner: Prisma Flores London Howell-Farley the advocate

Mt. Hood has a new “Barney Bernard” mascot design, the creation of student Prisma Flores.

Photo by Kristina Strickland

Graphic design winner Prisma Flores won a free tuition for a term for her Barney logo mascot design (right).

On Monday, the Associated Student Government announced the winner of a student vote that wrapped up a months-long competition among submissions by current MHCC student-artists. Flores’ design won 426 out of 845 votes.

The three finalists, named in April, worked with the college’s (professional) graphic designer to finalize

their mascot logo submissions. Voting began at the beginning of May. The three finalists that students voted on were Prisma Flores, Eric Rodbell and Long Nguyen.

Flores won the competition and was notified via phone call from Meadow McWhorter, Student Life coordinator, and Seth Albert, current ASG president. She receives a full tuition waiver for one term at Mt. Hood.

Flores said she “was joyful, of course,” when she found out she won – and said there still might be a few more small changes to come.

“I believe I created a competitive design, however I would still like to make revisions for improvement,” she said.

Flores is a graphic design major, though that is not what her initial major was when she started at Mt. Hood in the Winter Term of 2012. She was working instead on pre-requisites and program-related courses to get into the Respiratory Therapy program and

“changed my major recently,” she said.

Others recommended that she enter the mascot competition, and she decided to jump in only after the deadline for submissions was extended.

Flores said the design process for her logo began with “referencing Saint Bernards on Google and mascot logos on Pinterest to try and come up with a stylized version of our mascot animal.” Once she obtained her idea, she “made many thumbnails and sketches and eventually committed to this one design,” she said.

Flores said the competition was “an exciting opportunity for students and for the college.” During the design process she did not see the other submissions until voting week when she saw them in the Advocate (Apr. 22 issue, page 4), she said.

“I love Mt. Hood. This place has been a major positive influence on my journey and I wanted to give back,” she said.

$1 million pledge given in September 2014) to the MHCC Foundation to aid in that venture.

During the noon event in the Main Mall, Albert, and ASG Vice President Lindsay Patiño passed out certificates to several faculty and staff members, recognizing them for using and being involved with OER. Albert and Patiño also hosted a variation of “The Price is Right” game, where students had to guess the prices of various textbooks, and winners got MHCC merchandise.

A Chromebook was awarded to the winner of the last round.

OER has been something Mt. Hood’s

ASG has been prioritizing all year.

“This is just a festival to celebrate all the (progress) that we’ve made, and TAC council has so much more that they’ve been working on, and how they’re going to be working with the bookstore,” said Patiño.

Top left: Textbooks on display at the OER confrence for a guessing game based on “The Price is Right.” In total, the textbooks cost $615.

Below: Students were encouraged to write down different things they would buy if they didn’t have to spend so much of their money on textbooks.

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Thespians perform forty shows in twenty-one days Ivy Davis

the advocate Longtime friends London Bauman and Hunter McAndrew are preparing for an exciting summer of acting on tour.

The two thespians have known one another since grade school.

Both grew up finding joy in the fine arts, performing in plays from high school on. Talking with both of them, it seems as if they do everything together. Both work at 60 Minutes to Escape where they entertain many intoxicated people, and normal people, by locking them in a room filled with clues.

When they aren’t working, they attend MHCC, go to their many play rehearsals, and hang out with one another, making music and writing their own screenplays.

After auditioning at the Portland Area Theater Auditions (PATA), Bauman got a callback from the Traveling Lantern Theater Company. The company hires

actors for a number of traveling shows, with a goal to educate and entertain young kids in a fun way by sending actors to different locations across the U.S. There is a show for every season in the Northeast, Midwest, Northwest, and Southwest regions; this production will cover the Northwest.

Upon getting the role of Vladimir in “Vladimir Goes for Gold,” Bauman was asked if he knew anyone who would be a good fit for the second acting part in the play – which brings in McAndrew.

The play “Vladimir Goes for Gold” was written by Traveling Lantern to fit with this year’s summer reading theme being the upcoming summer Olympics, and is getting its world premiere. The story follows Vladimir going to the Olympics to play badminton. On his way there, the athlete has a dream that sends him back in the past to the very first Olympic games.

Bauman’s character will be teaming up with the audience to explore

Locally created ‘Green Room’ thrills Glenn Dyer

the advocate For those of you who were too busy last week watching “The Jungle Book” reboot or the “Ratchet & Clank” reboot or the “Snow White” remake of the reboot reimagined in Imax 3D, there was actually a real gem of a film that came out with a much more limited release, “Green Room.” From writer/director Jeremy Saulnier comes a thriller about a punk rock band trying to hold out against a group of really angry white supremacists. It stars Anton Yelchin and Patrick Stewart in the leading roles, making this the single greatest Star Trek crossover movie of all time.

Despite what sounds like a pretty cliché plot, Green Room is anything but ordinary. All of the characters are intelligent yet realistic, its use of practical blood effects is stunning, and it maintains a very fast-paced and tense atmosphere through its entire runtime.

Sometimes the characters are so intelligent, it surprised me. For instance, there is a scene early on where a character walks into a place he isn’t supposed to be and witnesses a horrific crime in progress. In most films like this, the character would sit there dumbfounded while the antagonist gets the upper hand.

In this film, however, the character immediately whips out his phone and calls the police without a moment’s hesitation, managing to spout out the address and situation to the cops before anyone can take the phone away from him. This one moment, alone, already puts the movie higher than anything Blumhouse Productions has ever put out, but the film is filled to the brim with moments just as clever and satisfying, making this easily the best of its type I have seen in a long time.

The only problem I have with the film, and it is a minor one, is that sometimes the dialogue is a little difficult to make out. A few more tweaks at the sound mixing board certainly wouldn’t have hurt. However, the movie is still extremely easy to understand, and I have no doubt that many people will hardly notice it as they watch.

It is really a shame that this film does not have a wider release, but the travel distance to your local independent theater is a small price to pay for such an amazing experience. I recommend that everyone who hasn’t seen Green Room yet, and isn’t too squeamish about blood, should go out and watch it right away.

Heck, even if you have already seen it, watch it again! It’s that good.

Overall 5/5.

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the original Olympic Games and teach children in an interactive way.

And McAndrew will be playing “everyone who is not Vladimir,” he said.

“I have five to seven characters,” said McAndrew, listing off “the president of the country Vladimir is from, his longtime rival, the Olympic Harold, and a hostess.”

The production is really just the two thespians on the road. Bauman and McAndrew will be setting stuff up, acting, breaking it down, and moving on to the next show, all by themselves. Most days the actors will perform two shows, driving from one to the other and them to the next town. On the bright side, both are left-handed, so during their quick lunch breaks they won’t bump elbows in the car.

In their free time, the actors dream of having their own theater company someday.

“There is so much favoritism, and hoops to jump through,” said Bauman regarding the acting world.

“We have the tenacity and ability – so we should just make our own theater.” Though the two have this great opportunity, they still have trouble balancing work, school, and “weird rehearsals times, from 10 p.m. to midnight.”

They explained that most people don’t realize that being an actor isn’t just fun and games; it takes hard work.

“I grew up in a single-income household. Constantly moving place to place – it’s hard dealing

with those issues while trying to be an active artist,” said McAndrew.

In fourth grade, Bauman saw “The Giver” and knew he wanted to be an actor, which is why he believes being able to travel and teach kids new things in a fun and entertaining way can change lives.

In McAndrew’s words, “Art is an important outlet, and that’s the beauty of having theater in our schools.”

Currently Bauman is working with the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven theater group on a play called “Beirut.” Beirut will be showing at 7 p.m. on May 26-28 and June 2-4.

McAndrew is a part of MHCC’s spring production, “Man From Nebraska,” which kicks off 7:30 tonight and Saturday night and runs again at 2 p.m. Sunday and at 7:30 p.m. on May 19-21.

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Left: Actors Hunter McAndrew and London Bauman.

‘Lemonade’ is redemption Matana McIntire the advocate

I’ve been in a funk. I mean, it’s the end of a very long school year – burnouts right now are understandable. So, I admit that I’ve been slacking on a Lemonade review.

But it’s okay. It doesn’t matter how long you wait to listen, it’s the fact that you managed to listen at all.

First, there’s the movie; then there’s the music. They are best enjoyed together, but there is also something of merit for just having a track available to listen to while you walk or drive. Because the music is bomb. I already want the tracks on a CD, in my car right now, available to blast as I enjoy this nice weather and oncoming summer.

The movie: It’s just over an hour long and includes each track on the album. In between music, you hear Beyoncé’s raspy, raw voice reciting spoken word, written by prolific poet Warsan Shire. I’m in awe at Beyoncé’s ability to put such thick, intimate emotion into those words as she spoke them. In fact, I’m so moved by the spoken word interludes that it’s honestly my favorite part about Lemonade (and this comes from a prolific poetry hater).

I’ll provide full transcriptions of those interludes at the bottom of the story, which each and every one of you should read. And possibly print out and hang on your wall.

Then, as the backdrop to everything – the music, the spoken word, the sound of cicadas chirping – are some of the most beautiful and compelling video shots I have seen in awhile. For each track, the accompanying mini-music video (within the extended music movie) has a distinct style that mirrors the music.

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It brings the project that extra mile, it sucker punches the point right into your heart, your memory, hard.

Like the mothers of victims of police violence, holding pictures of their sons. We’ve all heard the names Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, but few know the names of Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon’s mother; Lesley McSpadden, Michael’s mother; Gwen Carr, Eric’s mother.

And then, at the end, Beyoncé recites a recipe. All this time, for the whole hour, I had been loving what I was seeing and hearing, but still the title ‘Lemonade’ did not make sense to me. Beyoncé went through the recipe clearly, slowly, revealing word by word it was a lemonade recipe. It was her grandmother’s recipe, you found out as the recipe

bled into more spoken word. It was her grandmother (or rather, is it Jay Z’s grandmother, Hattie, who shows up shortly in a found-footage clip of her 90th birthday, talking lemons and lemonade analogies) who passed down the recipe, who “spun gold out of this hard life, conjured beauty from the things left behind, found healing where it did not live.”

If you watch through the movie, if you listen through the album track by track, you’ll find Beyoncé has laid out a journey of growth. Her process of dealing with what we can only assume is her husband’s infidelity. Intuition; denial; anger; apathy; emptiness. Accountability; reformation; forgiveness; resurrection; hope.

Redemption. Redemption is Lemonade. It’s all a metaphor, the most overused cliché of them all, but only because it rings true time and again.

Beyoncé had lemons, and she chose to make lemonade.

There is so much more.

All I can say is that Lemonade is a profound experience, one that is worth your eyes and ears. It’s available on Tidal ($24.99/month, $12.99 for lower quality version), or on iTunes, for $17.99.

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