The Advocate, Issue 04 - Oct. 13, 2017

Independent Student Voice of MHCC

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OPINION EDITORIAL

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MEDIA VIOLENCE ROBS US BLIND OF OUR SENSITIVITY

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he last couple of years have been bloody, to say the least.

As a country, we’ve gotten ourselves into a pattern. We have choreographed a dance that we do as a nation anytime the orchestra of violence strikes up a tune.

Whenever a terrorist bombs a bus, or a maniac shoots up a nightclub, when a church or courthouse is lit on fire, or even an outdoor music festival explodes into a storm of gunfire, we react in the same way.

First, our phones start to collectively beep news alerts and warnings. Then every TV channel grinds to a halt, as talking heads peek through bright red “Breaking News” graphics, grasping for words that often fail to do the day’s tragic events justice on the 11 o’clock news.

We then see leaks of misinformation and false reporting spring across the internet and social media like a Dutch dike filling to capacity, which many people misread and misunderstand but they repeat across the world anyway, adding and subtracting information like the world’s largest game of “telephone.”

Then (real) journalists take

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their cue, as they begin crafting multimedia story packages stuffed with mp3s of screaming victims and bloodsoaked videos, pictures and eyewitness testimony that one would expect to see in the next “Saw” sequel.

This sick waltz that the American people do starts again nearly daily, and points to an increasingly difficult-to-deny conclusion: The American people are subjected to a staggering amount of violence, gore and horror, and we may be becoming desensitized to the world around us.

Desensitization leads to a lack of compassion and allows the suffering, pain, and disturbing events of the world to crash against deaf ears and stoic faces.

On top of that, this indifference toward people’s misfortune could lead to much bigger problems than just a hard heart.

Right now, if you were to go onto Google and search “witnesses watch assault without helping,” the first link that pops up will be to a news story from Kansas about a woman who is beaten, then raped.

Not only was there a video taken of the incident, but there was a security guard present.

According to a study by Jayne Gackenbach of Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada, the deadly nature of violent war games such as Call of Duty, Star Wars Battlefront, and Call of Duty: Black Ops help soldiers desensitize their own minds to violence, at least enough to help

These people watched, but no one helped. Not one person at this mall containing however many thousands of shoppers stopped to help this woman who was being assaulted.

When video games at home first became a thing, there was a crusade against them – claiming they were so bloody and gory that they were desensitizing kids to violence – led by an activist named Jack Thompson.

According to several interviews Thompson

gave and claims he made to the media, games were wrecking our youth and turning them into sadistic psychopaths who have no regard for the rest of humanity.

There were many studies published that declared those fears were unfounded, and that games were just harmless fun, but other research being done now with active military personnel claims quite the opposite.

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minimize nightmares and help them get better sleep.

This shows that even though the desensitization can be used in a “helpful” solution, the media diet of mayhem may have a more substantial impact on our behavior and mental state than we realize.

Video games are not the only culprits, either. The big boogeyman, television, has skin in the game of desensitization, as well. The American Psychological Association has released studies showing that children who watch a lot of TV become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others, more fearful to the world around them, and more likely to behave in harmful ways.

On top of all that, when the APA checked back with those kids, the ones who watched a lot of TV around age 8 were much more likely to be arrested and prosecuted for criminal acts.

With Halloween coming up – a holiday tied with violence, blood and gore, just for kicks – perhaps we all need to spend some time reflecting on ourselves, and how we view the world around us.

Do we think any of the stuff that used to be defined as scary is still a source of fear for us? Does a man with a bloody ice pick and a mask strike fear in our hearts anymore, or do we just shrug it off the same as we do most things, because nothing scares us? Nothing.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

OPINION | CLASSES SHOULD BE FREE OF ADVERTISEMENTS Kyle Venooker the advocate

If your instructor walked into class wearing a shirt that had a detergent company name emblazoned across it, you’d probably find yourself asking “The fuck is this, NASCAR?” If that teacher had the logo of a sports company printed on every handout they gave you, you’d probably start to wonder

why blatant advertising was being pushed down your throat in the middle of a class that you were paying for.

But, to be honest, to me these hypothetical circumstances are no different than having to sit through an advertisement during class time.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m a huge fan of incorporating visual media into class. I think there’s a multitude of different ways to learn, and I think watching videos in class can be beneficial for visual learners. I think there are some concepts that can be hard to grasp that can be better explained in a two-minute clip than in half-an-hour of lecturing. And, let’s face it, sometimes it’s nice to break things up with an informative cartoon. Sometimes the video’s just a song the instructor likes to use, to start class off on the right foot.

But when the service used to show these videos during class results in an advertisement, as is often the case with services like YouTube, that’s when things become problematic for me.

Most of my instructors have been pretty good about it.

Oftentimes when I sit down at the start of class, any YouTube videos to be used in the lesson will have already been pulled up and loaded, and the errant advertisement’s already played through. That’s great! Thank you.

But sometimes an instructor will need to pull something up on the fly, or the videos he or she preloaded will have to reload, and instead of learning about how the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell, suddenly I’m learning this insurance company will make

me safer, or that clothing company will make me sexier, or these snacks have fewer calories than ever. If the whole point of getting educated is to cultivate the capacity for critical thinking, doesn’t prefacing a lesson with some focus-grouped buzzwords geared to get you to purchase unthinkingly run contrary to the college’s entire mission?

Perhaps I’m coming across as melodramatic. What’s the big deal, right? It’s 15 seconds, 30 at the most! Okay. But let’s say we watch three videos in a week, each with an ad. We’ll say that’s a minute of ads. Over a 10-week term that’s 10 minutes, or 40 minutes over the course of a year. That’s half a class period being spent doing nothing but sitting there getting brainwashed by large corporations hell-bent on getting you to buy,

buy, buy their products!

Fuck that.

The way I see it, instructors have an ethical obligation to do one of two things: Either use a video service that doesn’t have advertisements, like Infobase (lol at me doing a plug in the middle of an opinion piece bashing advertising), or pay the premium for YouTube Red and ensure that everything you make us view during class is ad-free.

And yes, I know you teachers aren’t paid enough. I know that even asking you to cough up the few measly extra bucks out of your own pocket adds up. But let’s be real, YouTube Red is $10 a month.

If you’re going to use something as an educational tool, please don’t make students subsidize its cost by watching advertisements on their own dollar.

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TIFFANY BEMELLOW - PROFESSIONAL PROBLEM SOLVER Greg Leonov the advocate

Every fall, Mt. Hood’s theatre program produces a children’s production. This year, the play is Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book,” which calls for a dramatic background set – and a full crew to construct it.

At the center of the theatre department’s set design is Tiffany Bemellow, assistant tech director.

In the set design room – that’s Room 1112 on any campus map –

she facilitates and guides students as they build the various worlds of whatever stage production will run that school term.

As a technician, the best title for her position would be “problem solver,” said Bemellow. “There’s a lot of ‘How are we going to do this?’

You have to think about (how) structurally, it has to hold this many people – you have to make it safe for them.”

While Theatre Technical Director and instructor Daryl Harrison Carson comes up with

the concept that the audience will see, Bemellow works on everything behind the set. “I have to come up with the 3-D models to make it look like that,” she said.

Bemellow first got interested in theatre in the eighth grade when she saw a production of “Guys and Dolls.” After high school, she joined the theatre program at MHCC, then transferred to Portland State University and would graduate from there. “ ‘Guys and Dolls’ was a spectacular production. What

interested me when I saw it was the visual aspect that was happening, there was a lot of color happening, which is common in musicals,” said Bemellow.

Working as a theatre tech involves a lot of different tools, she said.

“You get to work with electronics, lights, sound, soundboards and lighting boards and you learn all of these different things about how things work,” said Bemellow. “It translates a lot into real life handiwork and problem-

solving.”

Bemellow said her work is never boring: “You never know what you’re going work on.”

In this case, the adventure of set design will involve leaves and vines in, naturally, a jungle. “it’s pretty big; we’re doing backdrops, which we don’t normally do,” said Bemellow.

STAFF CAN GIVE BACK THROUGH PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS Antonio Edwards the advocate

Mt. Hood’s instructors and employees are close to a new milestone in fundraising to help students, with nearly $50,000 in donations pledged for 2017-18.

Started in 1968, the Be Cause Of You Foundation is a staff donation program at MHCC. Teachers and other workers can choose to donate to any of numerous different school program funds and scholarships.

From an adult basic skills fund

to a visual arts program fund, all benefit Mt. Hood students.

‘The Foundation’s purpose is to raise funds for student scholarships and classroom equipment. Our main purpose is to be the nonprofit that supports the college,” said Al Sigala, executive director of the MHCC Foundation since 2014.

“We do fundraising in various ways; one of those ways is by asking our employees to donate, to give back, even though they’re doing a lot anyway,” Sigala said.

“This is another way that staff can

help students and improve their programs, by giving through (a) payroll deduction.”

Employees have been encouraged to sign up during a kickoff lunch. Sigala said the foundation usually finds a sponsor to provide lunch for the event, during which employees are encouraged to sign up to begin monthly giving plans, to continue giving, or to increase their monthly giving.

“We also give away prizes just to make it fun,” said Sigala. “We had a

donor that donated a $500 gift card to Skamania Lodge so one of our lucky staff members will get to have a mini-vacation.”

As of this week, this year’s fundraiser has brought in $46,500.

That’s up from around $37,000 last year, Sigala said – and just shy of the $50,000 goal he set.

“Our employees have stepped up big time. Some people are giving $5 a month, and some people are giving as much as $100 a month,” he said.

More details on donating to

the Be Cause of You Foundation is available at mhcc.edu/foundation.

On the website, faculty and staff can donate a one-time, taxdeductible gift, or sign up to have a chosen amount deducted from their paycheck. Staff members can choose any program from the list provided, or they can choose to designate a gift to the greatest need.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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‘HORROR SC OPES’ FOR T ENTER DO NOT ENTER T HE HALLOW O N O D R E T EEN FANS DO NOT EN Read at your own risk...

SCORPIO You think you’re tough, huh? The typical Scorpio is a habitual thrill-seeker, and with Halloween around the corner I’m sure you’re jonesing for a fix. Well, how’s this for scary?

Existence is pain and your bestcase scenario is that you grow old and watch your loved ones die while your body slowly rots with you still in it. Also, don’t blink.

SAGITTARIUS This week you will receive a visit from Casper the friendly ghost. Don’t be surprised if he assaults your cat in front of you.

Hey, you’re the one reading a horoscope; who’s really being ridiculous here?

CAPRICORN Any true CapriKorn will be in L.A. for Korn with Linkin Park and friends this Halloween.

Hey, look, you can’t make social media posts hinting at selfdiagnosed mental illness and your manic pixie dream girl persona using astrology as an excuse as if it makes it okay, and then not go see Korn. You can’t

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just pick and choose what you want out of your sign. It’s in the stars, for Christ’s sake.

AQUARIUS

If anyone needs a boost of Halloween spirit this week it’s CapriKorns. Aquari feel better from helping others. Help a CapriKorn today by shouting Korn lyrics at them. My personal favorite is the modern classic, “Twist”: “YOUNOTRRRGHINGNAAARGHOOOORRGHNAAAARNGHNAPRIIIINNGRROOOUUAAWGGRH Twist, Twist, Twist.” Trust me, they’re gonna thank you.

PISCES What’s Halloween without a scary movie? This would be a good week to have a scary movie-marathon with your friends, and for the pièce de résistance, the 2006 instant classic, American-Christian drama, “Facing the Giants.” For maximum scare points, wait till the climax: Right after the game-winning field goal, sneak up behind your friends and softly whisper, “Have you heard the good news?” They’re gonna shit a brick, I promise.

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ARIES Oh, yeah – you know, you actually have like a super-cordial week. No issues here. Definitely not any scary clowns. Just like go to your day job, hang out with the fam, you know, just the hunky-dory norm, what could go wrong? Nothing! I don’t even know why I asked.

your face. Sprinkling, even. Is it... sand? NO!!! It’s KFC crumbs falling out of his neck-gina!

There is no god.

CANCER That’s weird. The stars don’t have anything for you this week.

It’s just blank. Good luck with that.

TAURUS

LEO

You want to hear something scary? The average life span of a Taurus is only 180,000 miles.

Existence is pain and your bestcase scenario is that you grow old only to slowly break one piece at a time and have your owner care marginally less for you by the day. Also, BOO! You’re a car. SpooOOoky.

Your week takes a wild turn when you find out you’re actually an android. But I mean the iPhone X doesn’t even have a headphone jack now, so things could be worse I guess.

GEMINI This Halloween proves to be the scariest of your life when you dream you’re Melania Trump. You’re in bed with The Donald. You’re on the bottom again. At first you thought you could retreat to your happy place with practiced meditation like you normally do, but then you feel something falling onto

LIBRA If you think you’ve seen scary, imagine being caught in a limbo of bureaucracy and menial writing for a general populace who couldn’t care less. And even though it’s your comfort zone, you know it’s a lackluster existence that leaves you unfulfilled. At times you wonder if you’re just diving through a hoop meant to further separate the middle-class on a bell-curve based on who has the most money. But hey, it’s for a better job which will give me a better quality of life or at

VIRGO It’s best to avoid shellfish this week – not because they could re-animate and crawl out of your stomach, Alien-style. It’s just like, why do they need so many tiny legs?

Why not just have a few normal-sized legs?

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DO NOT ENT G N I D N U O ER DO NOT E P T R A E H R U N O T Y E S R T D E O G ’ N X O D T P E R NTER A E F E H ‘T Haunted house in northeast Portland open for the month of October

Hanna Benson the advocate

4 out of 5 stars

Step alongside the abandoned wrecking yard and take a spot in line while terrifying monsters wander around, getting up-closeand-personal until it’s finally dark enough to open the horrid doors of The Fear PDX. Located in northeast Portland, The Fear PDX is a series of haunted houses with tremendous detail set

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up to make you jump out of your socks.

It opens at 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, through Oct. 29, with four more nights of horror on Oct. 30-31 and Nov. 3-4.

The Fear PDX features six haunted houses to help your anxiety levels spike through the roof: the Decayed, the Condemned, the Harvest, the Pit, the Carnage, and last, but not least frightening, the Slaughter.

Yes, welcome to your worst nightmares all rolled into one event.

Just when you think you’ve hit the scariest part of the haunted house, there’s more.

You’ll walk through an asylum, encounter criminals, zombies, evil doctors, scare crows, clowns and even more. You’ll spot shadows in the corner, and just when you decide it’s nothing to be afraid of – SCREECH – it jumps out at you.

The Fear PDX has

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amazing props and lots of detail in its settings and actors. It feels as if you are in a real horror movie.

This is no ten-minute walkthrough. Mentally prepare yourself for approximately an hour of fear and trembling once you have passed the entrance gates. Enjoy heavy heart pounding as an actor rips the guts from a realistic body only inches from your face. Suffer immediate claustrophobia as you squeeze your body through a twisted version of a bouncy castle.

It’s almost like an obstacle course: You must wander around in pitch darkness, known as the Pit, while squeezing and crawling through tight spaces, and you’ll have to move the hanging bodies out of the way to continue – if you can handle it.

Although actors are not allowed to touch any participants, they still succeed in making you want to throw a punch. They’ll threaten to pull your teeth out, chainsaw you in half, and serve you on a platter.

It’s gory, it’s disturbing, and it’s humorous.

Oh yes, imagine a Pennywise look-alike screaming knock-knock jokes as it pries the bars off its cage.

Or the clown getting offended you won’t listen to his punchline and jumping over barriers to ask you why.

You’ll experience the paranormal, be completely relieved when it’s over, and yet long for the opportunity to go again.

Purchase your tickets online at www.fearpdx.com

‘Horror Scopes’ continued... least create pressure to spend money on things I think will make me happy in the little time I do

have away from a job I wouldn’t have if money weren’t a factor.

Actually, you’re already at a community college. I’m pretty sure you could empathize.

– ADAM ELWELL

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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BUCKET-WEARING GUITARIST ROCKS PORTLAND Ryan Moore the advocate

For performing musicians, image can have a lot to do with how their audience engages and puts a face to their music. But for some artists, like underground solo guitarist Brian Carroll, better known by his stage name, Buckethead, many followers have never seen a face at all. This is due to Carrol’s onstage persona, in which he dons a white, faceless mask and a KFC bucket atop his head as he shreds the electric guitar.

I had the chance to see Buckethead last year, and the enigmatic guitarist returned to Portland again on Oct. 3 for another mesmerizing show at Revolution Hall.

The venue itself is relatively small, which makes for a much more intimate concert experience, especially for those on the main floor standing just beneath the stage. As fans in the pit shouted, “Buckethead!”, waiting for him to emerge, the stage filled with an impressive amount of smoke. Though he normally performs solo at his shows, this time he was accompanied by drummer Brian “Brain” Mantia and bassist Del Rey Brewer.

This allowed for more variety during the show compared to last year when Buckethead was all by himself. Instead of his usual backing tracks, Buckethead had two bandmates to play alongside, and they even made time for a few bass guitar solos and a drum solo.

One of the most enjoyable things about Buckethead’s performance is his ability to make such dramatic transitions across different playing styles. During this show

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Buckethead would begin with a slow heavy metal riff then suddenly jump into a quick jazzy breakdown that drew lots of cheering and applause from both the crowd, myself included.

Buckethead is a unique example of the aptly named “masked musician” in that he is far from what is considered mainstream.

However, across many different genres of music there are artists who make the choice to put on a certain face or persona, in order to hide their true identity. This is seen in all different degrees, from the spooky masks worn by members of the heavy metal band Slipknot to when the members of KISS hid their identities through the flashy, black-and-

white makeup and costumes they wore for their concerts.

More recently there have been numerous DJs who have followed suit with this theme.

They include Marshmello, who dresses in all white and wears a big, white marshmallowshaped helmet with a stylized smiley face for both his shows and his Instagram page, and the legendary electronic music duo, Daft Punk, arguably among the pioneers to this idea in the dance music genre with their signature, robotic-looking helmets.

While the types of music may be different for these faceless musicians, the concept of going to see these mysterious performers raises a similar question from their respective fans: Why wear the mask in the first place?

Though this brings up an array of fascinating backstories that explain the origins of each persona, there are values that many artists like this share in common. In Daft Punk’s case it was simply a method for them to escape the pressures of stardom because that part of their fame felt meaningless to them, and it also allowed fans to be more immersed in the music.

As for Carroll, he is an artist so deeply dedicated to the character of Buckethead that when MTV News asked about his mask he replied, “There is no mask.” And, although a few of his bigger hits were missing from this particular show, there was certainly no shortage of headbanging riffs and blistering solos he’s known for.

BLADE RUNNER 2049: AVANT-GARDE JOURNEY Noah Guillen the advocate

4.5 out of 5 stars

The trouble with belated sequels – such as the nearly 20-year delay on Indiana Jones’s follow-up, or even the more-than-10-year gap between “Star Wars” sequels/prequels – is that often filmmakers aspire to capture the original flair of the source material while disregarding purpose.

Filmmakers forfeit quality for novelty.

“Blade Runner 2049” is the rare exception. Director Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to the 1982 noir cult classic could be considered a stand-alone masterpiece that doesn’t exploit the original, but rather realizes the initial vision. Though the movie PA G E 6

often seems slow (much like the original), compelling performances and stunning cinematography solidify Villeneuve’s place as one of the greatest directors in the industry.

The themes explored in the first “Blade Runner” are expanded in different ways through this latest installment. Humanity and identity are still the driving point of conversation.

However, instead of focusing primarily on unknown factors to fuel the characters, Villeneuve chooses to focus on what is known, often even spoiling developing

mystery for the sake of focus.

This can often make otherwise compelling developments in the plot seem dull, which the film counterbalances with a few exciting moments. The film’s more actionpacked moments do excel, however briefly.

The characters also grip the audience, with a few surprising exceptions.

Again, Villeneuve sacrifices substance for purpose, with lead Ryan Gosling’s character, Officer K. Like many characters Gosling has portrayed in the past, Officer K is often very plain. The actor’s performance shines only in subtle moments.

Even Harrison Ford’s return to

the role of Rick Deckard seems too simplistic at times, leaving out his character’s key personality from the previous film.

Really, the most notable performance can be accredited to Sylvia Hoeks’s Luv. In contrast to Gosling’s distant persona, Hoeks portrays the (arguably primary) antagonist as hyper-emotional and erratic, while retaining a sympathetic tie to the audience. Her

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performance is complimented by Jared Leto’s performance as god-complex mastermind Niander Wallace, consistently unsettling in the role.

The world created is a thrill to experience. Cinematographer Roger Deakins’s capture of the predominantly practical-effects set is breathtaking. Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack sets an uneasy tone that perfectly blends hyper-complicated, avant-garde electronica and nostalgic synth. The two sounds effectively drag the audience into a specific environment that is frequently compelling and fascinating.

Though not truly the blockbuster to entertain the masses, Blade Runner 2049 is a stunning piece of art put to purpose that it thoroughly delivers on. The film pays notable homage to its predecessor while retaining its artistic integrity in a manner both entertaining and compelling for moviegoers.

OCTOBER 13, 2017

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SPORTS

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MEET YOUR SAINTS BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Conor Geiger #21

AGE: 19 YEAR: Sophomore POSITION: Wing HEIGHT: 6'5" MAJOR: Engineering HOMETOWN: Eugene, OR HIGH SCHOOL: Churchill OFFENSIVE GOALS: "To be a dominant passer, a dominant scorer, and dominant as an offensive team player."

AGE: 19 YEAR: Freshman POSITION: Anything 1-5 HEIGHT: 6'6" MAJOR: Phys ed.

HOMETOWN: Augusta, GA HIGH SCHOOL: Butler High HOW HAS THE COACHING STAFF HELPED YOU?: "By pushing me, they don't tell me what I did right, they tell me what I can do, that there's always room for improvement."

Steven Fair #22

Terrell Walker #40

AGE: 22 YEAR: Sophomore POSITION: Guard HEIGHT: 6'3" MAJOR: Communications HOMETOWN: Fresno, CA HIGH SCHOOL: Alliance WHAT MAKES THE TEAM STRONG: "The height is pretty nice this year. We work."

Player interviews conducted by Donovan Sargent

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Kyler Haynes #25

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AGE: 20 YEAR: Freshman POSITION: Center HEIGHT: 6'7" MAJOR: General Studies HOMETOWN: Las Vegas, NV HIGH SCHOOL: Cimarron Memorial ROLE ON THE TEAM: "To lead, being one of the older guys I need to lead."

Graphic by Fletcher Wold