The Advocate, Issue 28 - May 17, 2019

Volume 53, Issue 28 MAY 17, 2019 advocate-online.net

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MHCC threat assessment PAGE 5

Softball jumps into NWACs PAGE 7

'CRUCIBLE' STILL BRINGS HEAT

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Hamblin juggles a full life

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NEWS

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VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTRUCTION CHOSEN Letter from the college president It is my pleasure to announce Alfred McQuarters has accepted the position of VPI, effective July 1, 2019.

Al is a champion of student success, with a history of collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. He has developed new, innovative, and inclusive programs in response to community needs, and has a commitment to closing achievement gaps. With a strong academic background, in the classroom and in leadership, he has worked in higher ed for 20 years. His career trajectory includes faculty and administrative positions at City Colleges of Chicago, Triton College, and Lansing Community College. For the last five years, he has served as Division Dean at Portland Community College.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology (Pennsylvania State University), a Master of Science degree in Cellular Biology (Howard University), and will soon receive his doctorate in Adult Higher Education - Community College Leadership, from Oregon State University.

Al’s interests extend into the community, including the North by Northwest Community Health Center Board of Director, the Saturday Academy Board of Directors, and the North Clackamas School District Bond Oversight Committee. He is also active in economic development, serving on the Clackamas Workforce Partnership and Oregon City Economic Development Commission.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the VPI Screening Committee for their great work: Linda Vigesaa, Chair David Arguello, Academic Advising Doctor Abio Ayeliya, Student Life Aylin Bunk, Instructor, Adult Basic Skills Allison deFreese, Instructor-PT, Adult Basic Skills Fardwosa Duale, Student, ASG Safety & Sustainability Representative JD Kiggins, Instructor, Broadcasting Susanne Rose, Analytics and Institutional Research Lori Wamsley, Faculty Librarian, Library Resource Center David Wright, Instructor, Humanities Lisa Skari, EdD President Mt. Hood Community College

NEWS BRIEFS with Chris Barney

OSAA 3A & 4A STATE TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Oregon state high school 3A and 4A state track and field championships will be held today-Saturday (May 17-18) at Earl Klapstein Stadium on the MHCC Gresham campus. Competition will start at 11 a.m. both days. One-day passes cost $12 for adults and $5 for students; two-day passes are $24 for adults, $10 for students.

2019 NWAC SOUTH SUPER REGIONAL BASEBALL PLAYOFFS

Mt. Hood, the No. 2 seed, will host the South super regional playoffs, part of the NWAC championship tournament, on its home Oslund Field, from Friday through Sunday (May 17-19).

At 7 p.m. Friday, Columbia Basin Community College will take on Centralia College. At 1 p.m.

Saturday, the Saints take on the winner of Friday’s game. A second game in the double-elimination bracket is set for 5 p.m. Saturday, with the final game at 1 p.m. Sunday (and 4 p.m., if necessary.)

Adult passes are $5, $4 for students and military, $3 for children age 12 and under and seniors; for MHCC students with ID, entry is free.

THE CRUCIBLE

The MHCC theatre department will perform Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” this weekend, Friday through Saturday (May 17-19). Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m., tonight and Saturday; Sunday’s show starts at 2 p.m.

Advance tickets are $6. Tickets purchased at the door are $8 for students, seniors, and staff, and $10 for adults.

2019 OMEA STATE JAZZ CHAMPIONSHIPS

The MHCC music department will host the 2019 OMEA State Jazz Championships on Saturday, May 18.

Performances will be held in the College and Visual Arts theatres, running from mid-morning into the evening. The event is open to the public, and free.

MAY CUT-A-THON

The MHCC cosmetology department will be holding its May Cut-A-Thon from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 18. Haircuts are first-come, first-served, and the price is free!

METRO HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION CLINIC The

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hazardous waste collection event will be held at MHCC, Lot N, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 18. For more information and rules on turning in hazardous waste: oregonmetro.gov/2019neighborhood-collection-event-schedule

SUMMER BLAST SERIES

The Columbia River Swim Team will host a summer swim meet series for youth competitors, starting at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, in MHCC’s 50-meter pool.

NWAC TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Northwest Athletic Conference Track and Field championships will be held Monday-Tuesday, May 20-21, at Mt. Hood’s Earl Klapstein Stadium and the MHCC soccer field. Events run from 10 a.m. until at least 3 p.m. both days. Cost for adults is $9, students with current I.D. $6, seniors $6, children age 7-12 $6, and children age 6 and under and military with I.D. get free entry.

For more details: nwacsports.org/trackandfield/ championship/

“AWAKE: A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK”

The MHCC Conservation Club will host a showing of “Awake: a Dream from Standing Rock,” from noon to 3 p.m. on Monday, May 20, in the Student Union. Come learn about the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s peaceful resistance against the U.S. governments plans to build the Keystone oil pipeline through its land.

MHCC CRIMINAL JUSTICE EVENT

On Wednesday, May 22, Mt. Hood will hold a ceremony, part of an annual national event, in the Visual Arts Theatre to honor law enforcement officers whose lives were lost in the previous year.

The event runs 7 to 8:30 p.m.

OSAA 5A & 6A STATE TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

A second weekend of running/jumping/ throwing brings the top-classification Oregon state high school 5A and 6A state track and field championships to Earl Klapstein Stadium on the MHCC Gresham campus. Competition starts at 11 a.m. on both Friday-Saturday (May 24-25). Oneday passes cost $12 for adults and $5 for students; two-day passes are $24 for adults, $10 for students.

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WORDS LEAD TO ACTIONS, TIME TO REGULATE DANGEROUS IDEAS

Omar Saradi the advocate

The internet can be a very terrifying place – maybe not as terrifying as the YouTube “dark web” videos that keep you up at night with the fear of assassination, snuff films and child pornography – but as of late, it’s getting close.

If anyone has paid attention to news in the last several weeks, in the midst of everything else that surrounds news media like political scandals and foreign affairs, there were the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand.

Everything surrounding this massacre terrifies me, not just as a Muslim, but also just as a human being!

A big topic, not just in this situation but internet-based media in general, is censorship.

The Christchurch shooter livestreamed the shooting on Facebook with a camera placed on his head.

Upon viewing it looks fake, like a video game, and that’s a problem.

On one hand of the problem, we have graphic (disturbing) media, such as the shooting, that are easily accessible and easily desensitizing.

On the other, we have things like

tweets from controversial figures that feed into ideologies, such as the infamous “alt-right.” In the case of the Christchurch shooting, the manifesto left by the shooter leads us to believe that he went down the alt-right rabbit hole to the point where he was radicalized.

One side of the problem, like the tweets and videos from publications, doesn’t necessarily cause the other problem (radicalization) – but the mosque

Graphic by Angeles Ramirez / the Advocate

shootings show us that it did, in this case. What happened after the shootings is a mixed bag: a reevaluation of social media policies that would tackle things like snuff films and graphic video being streamed or uploaded, and banning certain figures from their platforms altogether.

Many notable people associated with the banning situation call it censorship and bias, since most of those banned were outspoken for their right-wing views, but that shows me there is a bigger problem with explicit, controversial views that a group like the alt-right have in relation with the internet.

As the Christchurch shooting and the Charlottesville incident (white supremacist rally in August 2017) show us – these ideas, while acceptable in the context of free speech, are dangerous.

A corporation like Facebook or Twitter isn’t the government, and they are free to ban whomever they want. I understand there is the fear that such an action is a slippery slope to larger censorship, but with the stuff I see on Twitter and Facebook such as fake news articles, there needs to be some regulation for ideas that are dangerous.

Writing off alt-right rhetoric as “unpopular opinions” is normalizing internet-age tribalism, and puts platforms such as Twitter in an awkward position when it has to regulate media sources that caused the deaths of 51 people.

Until we stop describing neofascist views we see online as simply a “marketplace of ideas” contender, we will continue to see social media platforms digging themselves into a deep hole until nobody, including their users, can get out.

BUILDING A BETTER STUDENT EXPERIENCE Cassie Wilson the advocate

In addition to the new student services HUB and the New Student Experience which have heavily discussed the past couple years as they’ve taken shape, John Hamblin has also helped to revolutionize tech software and apps available to Mt. Hood students for registration and advising.

Nearly any MHCC student will tell you they struggle to register for classes, or don’t know what classes they’re supposed to take next.

But academic planning through the Navigate software – due to go “live” as of today – should change all that.

“Academic planning allows students to build a multi-year schedule of classes for their program. So, instead of filling out a maximum time frame appeal, now you get to start off on the right track,” said Hamblin, executive dean of student development for Mt. Hood.

It also allows students to more easily communicate with advisers and plan their schedules, perhaps eliminating the need for an inperson meeting, because students can receive feedback directly through Navigate.

In addition, it creates a better tracking system. Advisers can see how a student did in their classes, to be able to reach out if they don’t pass a course, to help get them back on track. They can also put a referral in to another department

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and keep track whenever a students goes and meets with someone they were referred to in order to solve a problem, and then close that case.

“Within a couple years of students using this, we’ll see fewer and fewer maximum time frame appeals, we’ll see more students completing their degrees on time with fewer excess credits and fewer unused credits, because they were on a better path,” said Hamblin.

He said that Christi Hart, director of student development technology, has been working on this major improvement for about three years. Navigate was first “demo-ed” three years ago and it’s been an ongoing process since then.

Navigate was due to launch today (Friday, May 17). It should be found in the links on the right side of the MyMHCC portal. June 10 will bring launch of a singleclick registration feature, based on each student’s multi-year schedule plan.

Hamblin said another great thing about this system is that because students will be planning out all their time at MHCC in advance, it will be easier to know how many are set to take particular courses, and so managers can better see how many class sections will be needed and during which terms.

“We better pay attention to who we’re here to serve and what we’re here to do, and make it the best experience ever,” said Hamblin.

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A LIFE DEVOTED TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE Cassie Wilson the advocate

By exceeding his self-expectations in his personal education and career, John Hamblin, executive dean of student development, is working to improve what students can expect from their own experience at MHCC. Hamblin knows firsthand what being a student in 2019 means, as he completes his doctorate program in community college leadership and prepares to graduate from Oregon State University next month.

He will unfortunately miss the MHCC commencement on June 15, but that’s because he will be at his own graduation in Corvallis that day, because his doctorate work will be finished by September.

Hamblin has worked at Mt. Hood for seven years. Initially hired as the manager overseeing admissions, registration, and records, he has undergone a lot of change and growth in his roles on campus. Even though his position was shifting frequently, he found stability in his current role three years ago.

In addition to his day job, Hamblin is a Sandy City Council member. He first got involved with the city’s budget committee, but then his wife encouraged him to pursue a council seat. When a member left and their position opened, he was called about an appointment to the panel. He thought it would be a quick process, but instead was surprised by a couple rounds of public interviews; a council vote; a swearing-in, and finally, re-election by the public for a fouryear term that ends Dec. 31, 2020.

That’s not the only thing he’s known for in Sandy.

Hamblin also programs a holiday light show at his house every Halloween and Christmas, where lights change in sync with music. It’s a huge time commitment, but he said the hundreds of cars that stop by to watch every year make the effort worth it.

He is clearly an active member of the community, a husband to his wife, Katie, and a father to his 8-year-old son.

EDUCATION Hamblin’s educational journey truly found its footing at Lane Community College, in Eugene. He said, “Lane is where my story started.”

Hamblin was a first-generation college student, but he wasn’t new to being the first in his family to try new things. He was the first to dabble in new sports like baseball and track and field in high school, however.

At Lane, his chemistry instructor Gary Mort helped get Hamblin on a solid path.

“He pulled me aside and said, ‘John, you remind me a lot of myself. I feel like you’re trying to go somewhere, but you really don’t know where you’re trying to go, and I want to help you.’ He was not a faculty adviser, this was not his responsibility, he just reached PA G E 4

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I REALLY LOVE WHERE I’M AT AND WHAT I’M DOING.” -JOHN HAMBLIN

EXECUTIVE DEAN OF STUDENT DEVELOPMENT Photo by Fletcher Wold / the Advocate

John Hamblin, executive dean of student development, graduates with his doctorate in community college leadership from Oregon State next month while MHCC students graduate from their programs.

out to me and offered to help out and about six months later I graduated from Lane,” said Hamblin.

He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix campus in Salem, then earned his master’s degree in college student services administration from OSU. He kept that momentum going to apply for his doctorate.

Hamblin’s parents had high expectations for his education, but he went far beyond those.

“I told my mom I was applying for this doctorate program and she responded, ‘Well, John, do you really need to do that?’ and immediately in my head I said, ‘I just exceeded expectations,’ ” he said.

It was a big life moment, especially to be doing something truly for himself, motivated by his own drive to learn more, he realized.

“I actually kind of broke down on the side of the road on the drive there, realizing this is way bigger than anything I thought I’d accomplish. I thought I would do something somewhat big in my life, but doing that was a real big deal,” he said.

CAREER With impactful educational experiences and mentors supporting him, Hamblin found his way on a career path that has allowed him to give back to other students and leave typical college-student type retail jobs in the past.

Reflecting on his gratefulness for Mort’s mentorship, Hamblin said, “That impact on my life – I wanted to be able to have that impact on others.”

He worked as the enrollment services adviser at Lane and as he began feeling the positive effect he could have, realized he was doing what he was meant to do.

“My passion is community colleges,” said

Hamblin.

After some organizational changes at Lane, he decided to seek out new opportunities where he’d have room to grow, so he came to Mt. Hood, where he’s done just that. “As my job has changed, my ability to impact change is growing,” he said.

Not only is his job more stable now, but he said he’s helped stabilize the division as a whole and filled vacancies to better support students.

Most students who are involved on campus assume that Hamblin’s primary job is overseeing Student Life (Associated Student Government and other activities/ clubs at Mt. Hood) because he’s always around to support various student groups.

He said he loves that students feel that much support, because it means he’s doing his job, but Student Life is only one piece of what he does.

In reality, Hamblin oversees anything to do with student affairs and student development. Every service available to students on campus reports back to Hamblin, whether it be advising, AVID, Accessible Education Services, TRIO, Financial Aid, and more.

Hamblin usually starts his day off each morning at 5:30 a.m. Coffee plays a big role.

He said, “I love Dutch Bros. I bought my own espresso machine and I make my own iced quad Kahlúa kicker every morning.”

Then he starts on some emails, hops on his exercise bike, gets ready for work, and then heads into meetings for most of the day.

A typical week in his role can include 25-35 meetings. He juggles those meetings and the work that comes from them, but also finds time to make sure he takes care of himself, he said. He rarely has any quiet time on campus, but when he does, he likes to fill it by visiting with students.

Hamblin prioritizes spending time with his family and makes sure to get home at a reasonable time every day, and tries to disengage from work to be “present” with his wife and son, he added.

He said he looks forward to coming to work every day because of the people around him, and especially, seeing students succeed.

Things aren’t always easy. Hamblin sometimes has to make hard decisions that no one else wants to make or face problems that nothing in his past could’ve prepared him, he noted.

He goes out of his way to offer support to anyone who needs it, meantime. Whether it’s reaching out to students and their families during hard times or getting a pink Mohawk as a way to encourage a greater student government voter turnout, he is doing what he can to make sure students feel like they had the best experience possible coming to a community college.

THE FUTURE When talking about further career goals, Hamblin, 39, said, “I really love where I’m at and what I’m doing.”

He said he wouldn’t be opposed to getting the opportunity to be a community college president somewhere, someday, but he also can see himself retiring from MHCC in his current position, because he always finds new ways to grow and improve what he’s doing.

Hamblin cares a lot about making sure his son doesn’t have a disrupted K-12 experience, and is more open to the idea of new opportunities in another 10 years, after his high school graduation.

“I’ve got an awesome job,” he said. “I’ve got an awesome team that I work with and I wouldn’t trade that for anything, so I’ve got a lot of things to be very happy about and very thankful about.”

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LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO FIGHT THREATS Jennifer Salazar the advocate

Last year, Mt. Hood students took part in a survey where campus safety was revealed as one of their top concerns.

In response, campus leaders created an Active Threat Awareness event: Fardwosa Duale, campus safety and sustainability representative for MHCC’s Associated Student Government (ASG), wanted students and staff to be better informed on what to actually do in an active shooter or similar threat.

“We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow so we should be ready for anything,” said Duale.

That point was made again just two days earlier, in another fatal high school shooting near Denver, Colorado.

Duale, along with Wayne Feagle, from Mt. Hood’s Public Safety department, led the Awareness event on May 9 in the Student Union.

Feagle first discussed the “RunHide-Fight” guidelines adopted from the federal Department of Homeland Security, with the help of a video. The guidelines go over techniques that can be used by anyone in the event of an active threat: RUN – is described as running away from the threat, but it is recommended to do this only if you know where the threat is: Make sure you are running away from the threat, and not toward it!

HIDE - hide behind or inside anything that will allow your whole body to not be visible. Stay quiet and silence all electronics.

FIGHT - if the threat seems to be getting closer to where you are, the best option is to fight. Pick up any large item like a chair, desk, etc. and improvise, using it as a weapon to defend yourself and those with you.

Feagle noted, “Our biggest concern is that people may just ‘freeze’ if something like this happens. We hope everyone now understand there are ways to survive in an event like this.”

As for heading off potential danger before anything actually

happens, Feagle also explained the Threat Assessment of Students of Concern.

This assessment is used when a person feels that an individual may be a threat to themselves or to the school. Threats can include threatening behaviors, relationship violence, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, stalking, discrimination, hate crime, bullying, academic dishonesty, or other student misconduct.

If anyone on campus is having these concerns, they can bring it to the threat assessment

NEW GALLERIES ON CAMPUS Sadie Klein

the advocate An MHCC student exhibit is being held in the Visual Arts Gallery currently, through Thursday, June 6. An artists’ reception was held on Thursday. In the showcase, students taking painting, sculpture,

metalsmithing, drawing, ceramics, printmaking and photoshop-digital art courses at Mt. Hood have contributed to bring this exhibit to life.

In the Fireplace Gallery, there is currently a showcase of work by Miya Sukune titled “Get Together,” an exploration of oil paint, mainly on wood panels. Fireplace Gallery hours

in the Student Union are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday (8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays).

To view more of Sukune’s work, visit her website at: miyasukune.com.

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team, found in the Public Safety office (Room 2330) or by calling 503-491-7911. Concerns can also be submitted online at mhcc.edu – find the Public Safety tab and click on Threat Assessment of Students of Concern and a link to fill out the form will be prompted.

The team will then evaluate the actions needed.

Feagle emphasized the importance of bringing concerns to authorities: “Realize there are threats out there. The more knowledge you have, the better prepared you will be to save your life and even the lives of others,” he said.

Duale recommended that students to get to know their college very well, and be updated on RAVE alerts (via phone or other device) to be informed of any current threats.

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VISUAL AND LITERARY ART COMMUNICATE Kaleb Moring the advocate

Stephen O’Donnell and his wife, Gigi Little, were the hosts for the Mouths of Others speaker event on May 8 at MHCC, titled “The Untold Gaze.”

The husband-wife team began working on this 160-page book of the same name about five years ago.

In it, they turn 33 paintings over to various writers, who produced original, creative narratives inspired by the pieces.

O’Donnell told the audience in the Visual Arts Theatre that the goal in creating this work was to “take visual art and literary art, and find a way to communicate it with each other.”

He said pair first approached nonfiction writers, “but we didn’t feel there was a way to tie that in.

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who might respond if they would like to play, and I think everyone said ‘Yes.’ ” O’Donnell comes from an artistic background, and with Little having a graphic design-illustration background, the two create a dynamic duo.

The more than 30 different writers for the paintings were instructed by O’Donnell: “Do whatever you want to do, respond however. If you see some color and you want to go with that, if that’s the prompt for the story that you want to come up with, fine.”

And, looking at the content of the book, it’s clear that that’s what they did. The book shows beautiful, detailed illustrations that makes your mind see a different passion through each of the paintings.

That came through even more when some of the authors who attended the event gave live

readings of their stories on stage.

Little explained to the Mt. Hood crowd how difficult it was to put the book together.

“It was hard because you don’t want three similar kinds of paintings together, and all the stories about children together,” she said. “You also don’t want all the funny stuff over here and the sad stuff over here, or the really sad one next to the really funny one.”

The next Mouths of Others guest appearance, sponsored by the Mt. Hood humanities department, May 29. Astoria-based writer Diana Kirk will read from her collection of essays, “Licking Flames,” a series of essays about growing up and facing adulthood, described as “raw, unfiltered stories told with compassion and wit.”

Bad weather forced cancellation of Kirk’s scheduled visit earlier this year.

THE BENEFITS OF TRIO Corwin Benedict the advocate

You might have seen their fliers around campus for TRIO-SSS, or TRIO student support services: With 133 students currently enrolled, and another 34 spots still open for TRIO participation, the Advocate sat down with two ambassadors of TRIO. Our goal: to help Mt. Hood students know more about these interesting programs, and how they might be able to help you.

TRIO is designed to help students from low-income families, first-generation (first in their family to attend college) students, and students with a documented disability take the necessary steps required to transfer to a fouryear college.

TRIO regularly plans tours to four-year colleges, and has a dedicated staff ready to help MHCC students with any questions they might have.

This staff includes special advisers and tutors that work with the program.

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Sienna Tunison, who has been in TRIO since high school, and Chris Barney, who helped to found TRIO here at Mt. Hood, are two of the current ambassadors in the program. Their job is to reach out to MHCC’s student population and help it understand what TRIO is, and the help the program provides to students.

“While in TRIO you will be assigned an adviser, who you will be able to meet with through the entire time you are in TRIO. They help you with your academic plans, or your personal goals,” said Tunison.

“Whatever you may need help with, they are there for you.” There also are textbooks, laptops, calculators, clickers, pencils, and pens available – “whatever you need as a student,” she said.

There are many workshops that TRIO provides, some taught by the ambassadors themselves. Coming up is one workshop that helps individuals deal with stress management.

“I love TRIO,” Tunison

continued. “Upstairs in the TRIO area, there is an entire area for TRIO students to come do homework (or simply hang out). There is a whiteboard, a huge table and there are some laptops for students to use… which is amazing. I feel like it is something that could be used more than it is, but it’s still there.”

As ambassadors for the wider Mt. Hood student population, they are happy to help students if they have any questions, said Tunison and Barney.

“My favorite part (about TRIO is) the people,” Tunison said. “They’re so nice and they care about your success, which helps me a lot, knowing that they care about my future.”

This program is completely free, so anyone interested can go to the upper floor (mezzanine level) of the MHCC Library and check TRIO out, to see if it’s right for them. The TRIO team will be happy to help in any way needed.

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SAINTS LIFTED BY TEAM CHEMISTRY Julia Empleo the advocate

The Mt. Hood softball team went 32-7 overall and 26-2 in the South Region this season, taking first place in the South.

Now the Saints start play in the 16-team, double-elimination NWAC championship tournament in Spokane as the overall No. 2 seed. Their first game is set for 10 a.m. today, May 17, against No. 15 Spokane.

(Tournament bracket/live stats/ livestream available at: nwacsports. org/softball/championship.php) The Saints lost their final doubleheader of the season at Centralia, on Saturday, May 11.

While they might have not finished undefeated in the South, this team is “special,” as described by third-year head coach Brittany Hendrickson.

Looking back on this season, the Saints gutted out a win against that same team, Centralia, back in April where they were down, 13-5, early on.

“That game showed what this team is all about,” said Hendrickson. The Saints “showed heart and passion, (and) always think that they are never out of the game, even though they are down by 15 runs,” she said. The team overcame adversity, battling with a couple key injuries and having freshmen stepping up to take bigger roles this season.

Also, this team grieved over the loss of a former coach. Geri Ann Glasco, assistant coach for Mt. Hood during 2018, died in January in a Louisiana traffic accident –and the sophomores play every game for her, Hendrickson said.

Hendrickson called the sophomore class “unreal” because of how it keeps this core together and maintains the team’s culture. With 14 freshman due to join the Saints next year, she’s hoping to keep the same culture, and same run, going strong.

But Mt. Hood has unfinished business to get to, this weekend, before we get to talk about next season!

SEASON STATS OVERALL 32-7 PCT. .821 CONF. 26-2

PCT. .929 HOME 17-1 AWAY 12-4

GAMES 39

ON BASE % .475

RUNS 395

SLUGGING % .676

BATTING AVG. .410

HOME RUNS 66

Photos by Fletcher Wold / the Advocate

MHCC athletes Raven Laine, Kennedy Jantzi, Kathryn Bradford and McKenzie Pierce take a photo with Head Coach Brittany Hendrickson on the softball field. The Saints will be competing in the NWAC tournament this weekend.

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Kathryn Bradford Kathryn is a freshman pursuing a career in respiratory therapy after having a glimpse of it through a mentorship in high school. She has so much passion that she cannot see herself not going further in softball. Transitioning from (The Dalles) high school to college might be challenging for some, but she said the Saints are like family and have given her the most fun she’s ever had. “I consider them all like sisters,” she said of her teammates. She has never been on a team that has worked and communicated well together and looks forward to carrying that on to the next season.

Raven Laine Raven is a sophomore finishing up in general studies and looking to take a year off after this season. Raven is also a barista at Dutch Bros. Being a studentathlete can be “really hard,’ but she’s learned how to manage her time and was able to learn how to communicate with her instructors better after doing it for two years. She’s glad that she was able to play for Mt. Hood since she is from here (Reynolds High School) and was able to continue to live at home. In 10 years, she would like to be a coach, she said. “I want to be a coach to make a positive impact in someone’s life.”

Kennedy Jantzi Kennedy is a sophomore finishing her associate’s degree and will transfer to Concordia University to play softball next year. As a student-athlete, she had to find time to fit everything into each day. She also learned the importance of hard work and how to work well with others. She describe the sophomores on her team as a “special class.” Her goal coming into this year was to have an undefeated season – and the Saints came close. In 10 years, she’s looking forward to move back to her hometown, Albany, and teach at her high school (West Albany) and be a softball coach.

McKenzie Pierce McKenzie is a sophomore pursuing a career in physical therapy, to be able to make impact on other athletes.

“I injured myself many times and I can understand the difficulty of being hurt,” she explained. She has not decided what four-year college she’s attending, but is looking to further her career in softball. In 10 years, she is looking forward to go back to her high school (Sam Barlow) and help coach softball, she said.

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‘CRUCIBLE’ EXPLORES ORIGINAL WITCH HUNT

Photos by Fletcher Wold / The Advocate

Kurt Larson the advocate Yes, you guessed it: That book you were forced to read in high school is now a play being performed on campus.

But, I promise, it’s actually worth your time!

Based on true events, the classic 1953 play by Arthur Miller, “The Crucible,” is a dramatization of the infamous 1692-93 Salem witch trials.

The horrors experienced by this

small, colonial Massachusetts village serve as far more than a simple tale of suffering, however, as Miller’s adaptation of events presents itself as a powerful allegory for not only the communist witch hunt going on in America at the time of the play’s writing, but also current political and social movements in 2019 that echo the same mass hysteria as Salem.

Truly, Miller’s play is a timeless classic, no matter how you feel about it.

There are plenty of undeniable

moments that appeal to the base drama instinct in all of us and MHCC’s Theatre department has done a fantastic job of bringing that drama to the stage.

Theatre Director Mace Archer has put on another sublime show with the help of a stunning main cast. Wyatt Fisher and Kathryn Kellett star as the two leads, John and Elizabeth Proctor, respectively, with Sable Van Meter playing the rather despicable Abigail Williams.

All three are wonderful to see perform throughout the show, with

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the two Proctors putting on an exceptionally dramatic display, giving this classic tale a much-needed boost of energy.

When I sat down to see this play, I went in expecting to hear the same somewhat boring story I had heard so many times before. But once the cast filled the stage and the first lines were spoken, the performances slowly drew me in, making the whole show worth it.

By the conclusion, the presence in the room was heavy, still steeped in the emotional weight of John

Proctor’s final scene. There’s always something to be said for the transformative abilities of the actors performing the material.

While not everyone might be a fan of stage plays, if you can appreciate a well-executed production, you’ll most certainly find some enjoyment in The Crucible.

If you’re interested in revisiting this tale through a new lens, then come see a showing at the MHCC Studio Theatre: at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Friday) and Saturday, May 17-18; or at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 19.

MAY 30, 2019 10AM - 12PM & 4PM - 7PM Marquis Mill Park 1475 SE 100th Ave. Portland, OR 97216

We are expanding our 5-Star CMS Rated facility in Portland, and we are actively looking to fill 25 positions.

New grads welcome!

Join us for a job fair with your resume in hand and the opportunity to interview on-site!

If you are unable to attend, check us out at

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