The Beacon - 2015 April 16 - Issue 24

The Beacon THE STUDENT VOICE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND SINCE 1935 April 16, 2015 • Volume 117 • Issue 24 • upbeacon.com

2015: CLASS ON THE CUSP

A line between a quiet North Portland nook and a university with a bold In 50 years, when an old priest in presence in the city. charge of the University archives looks A line between a conservative back and tries to figure out when UP community and the push for a more changed, he’ll draw a line at May 3, 2015. diverse, inclusive student body.

A line between UP the small Catholic See 2015, page 9 school and UP the West Coast institution.

By Cassie Sheridan & Philip Ellefson THE BEACON

Thomas Dempsey • THE BEACON

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Students get down at Rock the Bluff

Parker Shoaff • THE BEACON

Young the Giant performs at Rock The Bluff. The concert was well attended, with CPB distributing all 2,400 tickets that were printed.

By Philip Ellefson THE BEACON The thrumming anthems of Young the Giant and electronic grooves of Priory filled the Chiles Center Saturday at the fourth annual Rock The Bluff (RTB).

Samantha van den Berg, RTB co-coordinator and next year’s CPB director, said the event was a success. All 2,400 tickets printed for RTB were given away, and van den Berg estimates that about 1,800 students, staff and prospective students were in Chiles at any given time.

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(Young the Giant) was more of an exciting act. Andy Grammer was more of a swayer, but this one had the dancing, exciting vibe to it ... The bar was definitely set high for future years.

Katharina Cochran Senior

“Rock The Bluff is an event that can truly bring a huge mass of students together,” van den Berg said. “This year, we tried to create a culture where freshmen knew what Rock The Bluff was and would get excited about it.”

RTB began four years ago with a concert by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and has since grown into the largest student event on campus, both in terms of attendance and budget.

CPB spent all $138,000 of

the RTB budget - including $28,000 that rolled over from last year’s budget - on the concert. That’s more than the rest of CPB’s budget combined.

Snagging a big act like Young the Giant was an expensive ordeal. According to van den Berg, booking the band cost almost twice as much as previous acts Andy Grammer, Boys Like Girls and Macklemore.

Senior Katharina Cochran, a Corrado Hall RA, said the Young the Giant also performed better than previous RTB artists. “(Young the Giant) was more of an exciting act. Andy Grammer was more of a swayer, but this one had the dancing, exciting vibe to it.

Definitely more memorable,” Cochran said. “The bar was definitely set high for future years.”

On Monday, CPB also received about $28,000 extra for next year’s RTB, which came out of unspent Major Project Fund money. But van den Berg said RTB needs a steady, reliable source of funding in order to keep acts like Young the Giant coming.

“If Rock The Bluff is to remain as high quality as it was this year, something has to change,” van den Berg said.

Contact News Editor Philip Ellefson at ellefson15@up.edu.

Twitter: @PhilipEllefson

A GENTLE CRITIQUE OF ROCK THE BLUFF I started my Rock the Bluff experience mildly indignant for a couple of reasons.

First, I was put off Rachel Rippeto

by Young Freshman the Giant’s press policies: no interviews, no one backstage, only pictures for the first three songs.

I mean, what was the big deal? The venue was the gym of a Catholic college, what could they have been doing back there that they didn’t want us to see? Did they think we’d sell the interview to Rolling Stone for a couple grand? I didn’t get it.

Although I was frustrated, I had to keep my critic’s glasses on for the show. I had heard from friends that YTG was excellent live and I needed to make sure they lived up to the hype.

However, my indignation was not soothed for long. I made it to the Chiles Center entrance only to be told by the people in charge of security that I was not allowed to bring my purse in.

This was my second “You’ve got to be kidding me” moment of RTB. I’ve been to several venues in Portland and not one of them has had a problem with my small bag.

Although there could have a very valid reason behind it, tickets contained no information whatsoever about restrictions on bags.

Separated from half my friends, I marched back to my friend’s dorm in Mehling Hall to drop off my purse, yelling warnings to clusters of unknowing girls about to walk into the hellfires with their satchels.

By the time I got back to Chiles, my friends were nearly at the front of the stage, and it was already starting to get crowded. Panic crept in.

As I tried to reach my friends in the front, I was pushed, elbowed, stepped on and cursed at. I was far closer than I had ever wanted to unfamiliar classmates. The show hadn’t even started yet.

The “You’ve got to be kidding me” feeling was all too familiar at this point. Had any of these people been to a concert before? Neither band plays mosh pit music, and neither band was One Direction, so this made zero sense to me.

Finally, Priory came on, bursting with energy. They played with an upbeat tempo that I would have really enjoyed, except that I couldn’t move. The only thing I did even remotely resembling a dance was the swaying motion that came from the crowd of drunk people pushing against me.

While this was just a nuisance for me, it ruined the show for others. Freshman Ariel Haynes was disappointed and frightened by the tight and rowdy crowd as she watched one of her friends get trampled and sent to the ER. “It was honestly a really dangerous situation for a lot of people,” Haynes said. “I didn’t get a chance to enjoy the concert and I’m really sad about that.”

This didn’t go unnoticed by the event’s staff. CPB member Jacque Nelson says that as Rock The Bluff grows in size and popularity, safety is going to be a higher priority.

“One thing we would like to see next year is more respect for personal space and safety,” said Nelson. “We want everyone to have fun and let loose a little, but not at someone else’s expense.”

After a couple songs, I realized that despite the band’s effervescent stage presence, I wasn’t having fun either. I began to think that my front row view - more like fourth row - wasn’t worth it.

We made our way to the very back of the crowd and let me tell you, it was the best decision I made the entire night. I’ve never been so grateful for space. I could finally breathe again.

See RTB, page 6

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Seniors wrap up studies at Founders’ Day

By Jacob Fuhrer & Alina Rosenkranz THE BEACON Students dressed up on Tuesday to present and to attend presentations at Founders’ Day. For many students, Founders’ Day was just a day to pick up some extra knowledge (or sleep in). But for many seniors presenting their research, it was a day of culmination, a keystone to their studies. We talked to a few seniors about their research and where it’s leading them.

Students work to understand climate change on a local level

As the climate changes on a global scale, four UP students are trying to understand what that means for Oregonians and for our forests. In their project, which they presented on Founder’s Day, seniors Abigail Merrill, Kelsie Orikasa and Alex Russell and junior Audrey Huff explored climate change’s impact from a social and ecological position.

According to Merrill, it’s some of the first research examining climate change from a constructive, social perspective.

“It's an important issue that people need to pay attention to,” said Merrill. “Here in Portland, all of us like to go camping and hiking...but it's going to be impossible to do that if the forests are gone

or you're not able to access them.”

The group focused on something called social feedback loops, which according to Merrill, can be both destructive and constructive. The group is looking at constructive ways to mitigate or adapt so the destructive cycle of climate change can be stopped.

After a great deal of research, the team doesn’t feel optimistic.

“It’s so depressing, it really is,” Merrill said. “We are finding that there are a lot of laws right now as well as guidelines that help people to mitigate in their certain regions.”

But according to Orikasa, it’s not enough.

“It’s just really broad,” Orikasa said. “We don’t really know with climate change what will happen… and we try to have a management plan, but it’s not really specific.”

Merrill says it’s been tough to find solutions that can actually be put into practice but remains hopeful for the future.

“It’s just getting the time, the money, the resources to actually implement the rest of these goal which would be how to mitigate the issue,” Merrill said.

Searching for a hands-free keyboard alternative

Most college students type on a normal keyboard every day and think nothing of it. But for someone missing a hand, a keyboard is a big obstacle.

Senior Blair Pearson, a mechanical engineering major, is working on a keyboard interface that is supposed to make typing easier for someone with only one hand.

Pearson, who plans on getting a medical degree after his engineering degree, is especially interested in working in a field where both overlap. “(That’s) the real world version of what I’m doing, where you take a medical device and get it ready for the actual clinical use,” Pearson said.

According to Pearson, the device works through a motion, which causes a signal that goes from the nerve into the muscle. This signal can be used by a microprocessor.

Different motions correspond to different letters.

Pearson’s faculty advisor, Deborah Munro, said he works independently.

“He has done something really unique and special, where instead of using an opposing muscle groups he is using a single muscle with different contraction patterns to type,” Munro said.

See Founders’ Day, page 5

Seashells of the Red Sea

Thomas Dempsey • THE BEACON

Junior Audrey Huff presents findings of her environmental science research at Founders’ Day. Huff and her teammates sought to find out how climate change affects Portland on a local level.

David DiLoreto • THE BEACON

Seniors Taryn Delhotal, Lupita Carabes, Jonny Harper and Alvaro Garay demonstrate Linc, a piece of wearable technology that works like a long-range walkie-talkie. The engineering students presented their research on Founders’ Day.

ASUP reallocates massive surplus

UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND GARAVENTA CENTER

By Karen Garcia THE BEACON

TONIGHT! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! April 16 at 7:15 PM Holy Cross Lounge 3rd floor Franz Hall

Author and photographer Mary Lyn Rusmore-Villaume shares her favorite examples of the astonishing variety of sea life found in the Red Sea, a region close to Egypt’s barren desert….and her conviction that these fantastic creatures prove that God does indeed love a good laugh.

Lecture is part of the Beckman Humor Project  Free and open to all For ADA accommodations or questions, please contact Karen Eifler at eifler@up.edu

ASUP senators allocated the entire ASUP $80,000 surplus to several clubs, student organizations and student services on Monday at the last Senate meeting of the year.

The surplus was a result of a year-long discussion about the Major Project Fund (MPF). After administrators encouraged students to repurpose those funds for student activities, senators voted not to spend the money on major projects.

In the days leading up to the voting, ASUP advisor Jeromy Koffler said he urged senators to vote wisely and noted that he trusted their abilities to navigate through unique circumstance of the surplus.

“They’re not going to want to irresponsibly throw money at stuff,” Koffler said. “It’s great. You want student leaders to be prudent in their decisionmaking.”

Most of the approved funding items came from a list compiled by senators over the past few weeks from constituent suggestions, along with requests sent directly to Treasurer Jessie Robinson.

Senators spent nearly three

hours voting on requests that ranged from $550 to $60,000.

The largest sum of money approved for a single item was toward funding for next year’s Rock the Bluff at $28,397, followed by $13,000 for new Espresso UP coffee machines and $8,040 for the Villa Drum Squad’s new equipment and supplies.

The surplus consisted of 90 percent of 2014’s unspent MPF, fall semester’s unspent MPF, and this semester’s MPF. Before students passed Resolution 15-01 last month and replaced the MPF with the Campus Traditions Fund (CTF), 10 percent of the $85 fee paid by every student at the beginning of each semester went toward the MPF. If Senate had been unable to allocate the entire surplus on Monday, senators would have had to unanimously agree to bypass current Senate laws stating that leftover money at the end of a fiscal year must go into the ASUP endowment; pushing the remaining funds into next semester’s MPF. Contact Staff Writer Karen Garcia at garciaka17@up.edu.

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A Q&A with BeYou-ty Pageant panelists

By Rachel Rippetoe THE BEACON

On April 9, UP’s first ever BeYou-ty Pageant was held in Shiley 301. Seniors Britta Geisler and Irene Sutton organized the event, in which four women change-makers from the Portland area came together to share their experiences. The Beacon sat down with three of the panelists to talk business, beauty and feminism.

Danielle Knott

Lynn Le

Executive director, Render: Feminist Food & Culture Quarterly How did you get started working with Render?

A friend of mine, who knew I was passionate about female-focused media, put me in contact with Gaby, who is the founder of Render.It started with her developing and battling an eating disorder when she got to college in which she started having a more complex relationship with food...I got involved with the magazine. We started talking about a business plan. I presented the plan at the E-Scholars Venture Competition. After we both graduated, we wanted to continue to work on the magazine, because we had a lot of support and people were really excited about it.

What brought you to food? Why was food your choice of entrepreneurship?

The history of the relationship that women have had with food is very intriguing. The way that mainstream media today talks about women and food is something that we’re trying to push against with Render, this idea that it’s always about eating less or eating a certain way. We don’t want there to be any shame involved. I think that food for me is a really great way to combine politics and feminism.

What’s it like having a food magazine in Portland where there are so many people who are really into food and specific types of food.

What’s the response?

In Portland I think it’s especially obvious that the foodie culture is only really available or marketed to a certain privileged class of people. I think the misconception that all these hot cool new restaurants are what make Portland a “foodie town” is false. It might be a mecca for people who are looking to live out this glossy high-fashioned food experience, but there’s also a lot of great urban farming happening here and political activism around food.

What’s your definition of beauty?

I think for me, beauty is confidence. I’m always struck by people who are in control of themselves, of their bodies and of their minds...Sometimes that’s an outward display of beauty like them wearing something they feel confident in. You can kind of just feel that in their presence. I also think it’s beautiful when someone stands up for their rights and has the confidence to speak their mind.

Disabilities activist and Storyminders creator

Could you tell me a little bit more about Society Nine?

Can you tell me a little bit about StoryMinders? What do you ultimately want to achieve with it?

The inspiration came from my experience being a kickboxing instructor as well as a krav maga brown belt. I got really frustrated with all the pink crap that was in the market for women who fight. Especially because it was typically the low quality men’s stuff turned pink. I decided to do something about it because I wasn’t the only one who felt this way.

StoryMinders is really about centering and elevating disability culture through creating media.

Not just consuming it, because we are all very good at consuming media. The disability community is one that consumes more than it creates. Disabled people are not encouraged to go into media or performance.

StoryMinders is a place that makes media and encourages people to make media. A big thing that I do is I make other people’s media accessible. I do closed captioning. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the auto captions on YouTube. The automatic speech recognition on YouTube is terrible. It’s gibberish!

What’s it like being a young woman kickstarting a business?

It’s hard. It’s terrifying. It’s exciting. There’s a lot of adrenaline every day in different ways. It’s hard to keep up with everything. I probably work about typically 10 to 12 hour days and if things get really crazy, like 14 to 16 hours a day. It’s good and it’s bad, but it’s just a trade off of the experience, you know?

What inspired you to get started on this?

Since this whole thing is about beauty, what would you say your definition of beauty is?

Beauty and femininity to me is pure resilience and unbridled strength. For me, as a female fighter, that’s how I find beauty for myself. I have insecurities just like any other girl, body image issues or feeling like I had to keep up with a certain kind of look or whatever. Or oh my gosh, I’m 4’11”, I need to weigh this amount. I’m a victim of all that stuff too. Society Nine is my way of saying, “Well, I’m done.” I hope that Society Nine can help other women be like, “Yep, I’m done too. I’m just gonna do me. I know I work my ass off, and yeah, I am a badass woman. I fight for a lot.”

Why did you decide to get involved in the panel?

I’m a University of Portland alum, so it’s my way of giving back for sure, especially because I can’t buy a building yet. I told Dean (Robin) Anderson the other day, “Just give me a couple years and I’m going to buy that conference room.” It’s my way of paying back my dues or giving back. I remember being that student who would always raise their hand and would always introduce themselves to the speakers. It was those speakers, whoever it was that I networked with, who also helped coach me to this place. If I can now be that person and inspire one person to hustle or get after it, then I know that I have fulfilled a purpose.

April 11, 10:35 p.m.

Officers responded to a report of an intoxicated student near Chiles. Officers requested the assistance of Portland Police.

The student proved to be belligerent and uncooperative and was arrested by Portland Police.

April 11, 5:55 p.m.

Officers responded to a request from Portland Police regarding a noise complaint on the 6700 block of N. Yale.

Officers assisted clearing out the event, and no other complaints were received. upbeacon.com > News > UP Crime & Fire Log

Cheryl Green

Founder of Society Nine, a women’s sportswear company

CRIME LOG

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It was kind of a joke actually. I was in this group storytelling performance project for deaf and disabled people called “No One Wants to See the Wires.” And I made a short film for my piece kind of as a joke, but a lot of other people with traumatic brain injuries came up and were like, “That was me on the screen!

I’ve never seen me on a screen. I’ve never met anybody that even believes that my problems are real.

Everybody tells me I’m faking it.” To have people with disabilities or brain injuries say, “I’ve never seen myself on the screen before. You did that,” that was it. I was an unstoppable train at that point.

How do you think your work may be changing that abstract concept of beauty?

I engage in flaunting. One of my biggest collaborators is my best friend in the world, Caitlin Wood, who uses a power wheelchair, which frankly a lot of people find frightening and don’t want to look at her. The thing is, Caitlin kind of looks like a pinup model. But you put her in that power wheelchair and it’s very alienating and isolating. It’s just a wheelchair! What is this barrier about? So Caitlin and I flaunt.

What made you decide to get involved with the BeYou-ty Pageant panel?

Most everything I do is in the disability community. I almost never do anything that doesn’t involve a disability focus. I love that, but then I’m isolating. How am I supposed to get nondisabled people to pay attention if I’m not there? It was exciting for me to get to do something that’s nondisability related.

ON CAMPUS Pilots After Dark Lumberjack and Jill Party

Screening of Sophie Scholl

Friday, April 17 at 10 p.m. in the Pilot House. Wear your favorite flannel and enjoy flapjacks, a photo booth, lumber-crafting and live music by Pretty Gritty.

Thursday, April 16 at 7 p.m. in BC 163. The film narrates the courage and life of one of the White Rose’s leaders, Sophie Scholl.

Seashells of the Red Sea

Pilots After Dark Casino Night

Thursday, April 16 at 7:15 p.m. in the Holy Cross Lounge, Franz Hall 3rd floor. Author and photographer Mary Lyn RusmoreVillaume will share the variety of sea life to be found so near the desert in Egypt and her conviction that “God does indeed love a good laugh of delight.”

Saturday, April 18 in The Commons at 9 p.m.

Play Texas Hold Em, Blackjack, Roulette and other casino games for a chance to win many prizes including a Mountain Hardwear backpacking tent and a Longboard.

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Senior wins prestigious NSF fellowship

By Christine Menges THE BEACON When she enrolled at UP as a freshman, Chika Eke imagined becoming a doctor, not a mechanical engineer.

But through her involvement with student activities like the biomedical engineering club and Engineering World Health, Eke saw a chance to make a difference in another way.

“I realized how many opportunities there were to help people,” Eke said. “So that’s when I started doing research.”

Pretty soon, Eke, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, will step foot on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus as a graduate research fellow.

Eke was awarded the fellowship through the National Science Foundation, which accepted only 2,000 of 16,000 applicants. The fellowship will fund her for three years of graduate research.

Eke plans to use the funding to complete her master’s degree in mechanical engineering and then use her remaining two years to research abroad.

She has taken part in three different internships that have enabled her to try different fields within mechanical engineering. Most recently, she worked with the University of Pittsburgh on a research

project to improve wheelchair design. During this project, Eke said she performed statistical analysis on data from Indonesia.

“They give out a lot of free wheelchairs, and they’re not really specialized for each person. So a child will receive the same wheelchair as an adult,” Eke said. “We’re seeing how a new process would improve their mobility and improve their quality of life.”

Eke hopes to continue applying mechanical engineering to medical research in her fellowship.

She’s researching several opportunities, such as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, which would apply biomechanics to solving issues related to musculoskeletal disorders. The Center for Injury Prevention Research is also a possibility, and Eke would research ways to improve the design of children’s car seats.

Eke is taking Deborah Munro’s automated manufacturing class, which Munro says is a popular elective, but very few female students take it. Eke is one of two female students in the class.

“She’s always in here asking for advice and questions on how she can improve her work,” Munro said. “She takes everything very seriously and wants to do well.”

Munro believes that Eke

is prepared for research at MIT, as she has taken part in Research Experiences for Undergraduates, doing graduate-level research.

“I think she will excel there,” Munro said. “I think our graduates are as good as any graduates anywhere.”

Those who know her on a personal level, like her friend senior Sarah Barr, said Eke shows a passion for helping others outside of academics.

“Chika loves doing service for other people. She’s one of the most humble, giving people I know,” Barr said.

According to Barr, rather than spending her weekends on Netflix or at parties, Eke will get up early to help feed the homeless or plant trees.

Barr also describes Eke as quirky and upbeat.

“It’s one of the reasons she and I get along,” Barr said.

“She loves to dance and sing and joke around.”

Eke feels similarly about her soon-to-be colleagues, some of whom she met a few during a recent visit to the MIT campus.

Eke said she was expecting them to be a little bit arrogant, but said she was pleasantly surprised.

“Everyone there is super awesome and laid-back,” Eke said.

Contact Staff Writer Christine Menges at menges15@up.edu.

Twitter: @ChristineyBird

Thomas Dempsey • THE BEACON

Senior Chika Eke won a prestigious NSF fellowship for graduate research and will study at MIT next year. She already has plenty of experience in biomedical engineering.

Founders’ Day: Seniors aren’t finished with research Continued from page 3 While Pearson says he has overcome most of the technological challenges, he is still working on making the device as comfortable as possible for potential users.

One of the goals is to make the user practice even when it gets frustrating. Most existing training environments are boring and ineffective, according to Pearson. In order to make the training with the device more enjoyable, Pearson connected it to flash games.

“If I can open up this whole world of games, suddenly I don’t have to make it entertaining,” Pearson said.

“There is this whole industry, this gaming industry. I just

have to bridge the gap between a regular controller and their limb. And that seems to work and I’m excited.”

Contact Staff Writer Jacob Fuhrer at fuhrer17@up.edu.

Twitter: @jacobfuhrer Contact Staff Writer Alina Rosenkranz at rosenkra17@up.edu.

Twitter: @alinarosa_alina

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IS considers switch to Office 365

By Luke Loranger THE BEACON

UP email accounts may no longer be hosted by Gmail next year if the students and faculty currently testing Office 365 enjoy it.

Information Services is exploring a shift from Google Drive to Office 365 to see if the collaboration tools offered in Office 365 would work better for the University. The program will go until early May, when results will start to be compiled.

The idea for using Office 365 came about roughly a year ago, when students, faculty and the provost expressed interest in a set of collaborative tools where documents and presentations could be shared freely. The current system is split between Google Tools for the students and Microsoft Outlook for the staff.

“We really want input from the faculty and students. Get them in Office 365 trying it out and see if it would meet their need for collaboration and calendar sharing,” director of Technical Services Michelle Sunderland said.

A total of 260 students and staff have signed up for Office 365 accounts so far,

a process which is open to everyone. Office 365 shares many of the same tools as Google Drive, except for a few key features. Office 365 is FERPA compliant, meaning the data stored cannot be used for advertising purposes, a key security feature that Gmail does not offer. Office 365 also includes one terabyte of storage, while Google Drive has only 15 gigabytes.

Office 365 also has social tools like Yammer, a collaborative utility that can be used to form groups and act essentially like a private social media platform. Another tool is Lync, which allows for video calls and meetings.

A general consensus on whether to move forward on the Office 365 demo across campus will be not be available until May. Two communications interns for Information Services are overseeing and compiling the feedback.

“There has been a range of results so far,” communications intern Mark Roetcisoender said. “You will always have people that really like Google or Microsoft, and there are people who are in the middle.

The big benefit of Office 365

Courtesy of office365-usa.com

The interface of Office 365 (above) looks a lot different from Gmail, the platform UP students currently use for email. Information Services is considering a switch from Gmail to Office 365 next year, and students are currently testing the potential new email server. is that students and faculty are still on the same system.”

However, not all feedback of Office 365 has been positive.

“The layout and functionality (of Office 365) are very clunky, especially on mobile devices. These same design flaws are apparent in

the cloud storage, a service I use a lot on Gmail,” said Jack Greenwood, who is currently studying in Galway, Ireland.

UP’s study abroad program in Galway uses Office 365 as their main email program.

Office 365 is available for use by any student or

staff member and can be downloaded at sites.up.edu/ office365/ until early May.

Contact Sports Writer Luke Loranger at loranger18@up.edu.

RTB: CPB did well Continued from page 2 I could see Priory better from the back and I actually had room to sway, even dance, to their energetic setlist. My night got significantly better.

Priory kept up the energy.

Band member Brandon Rush even made the best out of the god-awful mosh pit situation by performing a spontaneous crowd surf.

Young the Giant came on with an energy equal to that of Priory’s, with the crowd energy surpassing its alreadyderanged level of enthusiasm.

The band’s anthem-like songs, like “Cough Syrup,” “My Body,” “Mind Over Matter,” fit the large space of Chiles. The vivacity of the audience and the intensity of the lights all meshed in a way that had everyone embarrassingly dancing with their eyes closed.

However, most of YTG’s other songs aren’t meant for such a large venue. Although Sameer Gadhia on lead vocals has a large stage presence, much of the band’s music is so heavily based on vocals and acoustics that their sound is better appreciated in smaller spaces.

Freshman Julia Cramer also felt that the environment wasn’t best suited for the indie band.

“I saw Young the Giant once before, and it was amazing,” Cramer said. “But with the crowded and loud atmosphere and audience, they didn’t seem like they were playing their best.”

Young the Giant’s website

features a video of an acoustic version of “Mind Over Matter” performed in a cave. When I saw that video, Gadhia’s voice nearly had me in tears.

How dare you CPB? Why can’t we have Rock The Bluff in a cave where all 2,000 UP students and their pre-frosh can watch in an intimate performance?

In all seriousness, any hate that I’ve thrown at Rock The Bluff was completely out of CPB’s control and should in no way reflect the hard work they put in to make the event something that everyone could enjoy.

They can’t control the rowdy drunk crowd or the naive pre-frosh unaware of concert etiquette. They can’t control the band’s policies, and as far as I know, they can’t control the venue.

Thank you to CPB and everyone who pitched in.

After the concert, as I walked back to Kenna Hall exhausted, weak and bruised, I overheard a group of girls excitedly chattering about how amazing it was to be right near the stage singing every word to “My Body.”

I danced and had a good time at the show, despite having my critic’s glasses on. But as I eavesdropped on their elation, I dived into their moment. I wasn’t critical. I wasn’t indignant. I wasn’t claustrophobic. I was just there with them singing along, and it felt good.

Contact Staff Writer Rachel Rippetoe at rippetoe18@up.edu.

Twitter: @rachelrippz

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Annual scholarship luncheon fills Chiles Center

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During Tuesday’s Founders Day, 900 plus students and donors gathered tightly in the Chiles Center for the annual scholarship luncheon.

The scholarship luncheon is put on every Founders Day to honor the generous people that keep scholarships available to the vast majority of the

student populous.

The focus this year was on nursing and the relationship between The University of Portland and Providence Hospital.

Next year’s ASUP vice president, Grace Holmes spoke at the event about how her scholarship enabled

her to attend the University. Additionally Holmes spoke about how her gratitude for the opportunities she has had have motivated her to spread the word to underprivileged high schoolers that a college education is possible for them and can be affordable.

The Beacon celebrates 80th Birthday

By Maggie Hannon THE BEACON

It’s hard to imagine the University outside of the nautical theme. In 1935, what was once Columbia University, named after the Columbia River, became the University of Portland. Along with the new school name, came a new weekly school paper. Student Alan Kennedy won $3 for his idea, and on April 12, 1935, the first issue of The Beacon was published.

“The change of the name to the student publication removes our last link from the past. From now on it’s a clear path with The Beacon lighting the way,” Jack Macleay, a senior at the time, said in The Beacon’s first issue.

The Beacon, which was originally housed in Howard Hall, has seen many changes over its 80 years and it tracked the changes that took place within the University.

Up until the 1950s, The Beacon had advertisements for cigarettes that featured celebrities like Rita Hayworth and John Wayne. It was not until 1986 that The Beacon had its first colored page.

Several campus issues have been repeatedly addressed in The Beacon throughout the years. As early as 1970, The

Beacon wrote about students wanting a pub on campus and since the 1950s students wanted a new Howard Hall.

Fr. Bob Antonelli, former archivist for the University has seen these issues addressed in The Beacon, but has also seen a change in what is addressed in the paper.

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The Beacon always paid adequate attention to the good of what students were doing.

Fr. Bob Antonelli Archivist

“The Beacon really changed from a detailed photograph of what daily life was like on campus to as it is now, focused on issues,” Antonelli said.

“One thing that has been constant from probably the 1950s was the need for a new Howard Hall. So here we are finally.”

Several changes to the University are seen through the pages of The Beacon. Stories about new residence halls and dining halls graced its pages for years. One of the most notable changes to the University was when women were admitted in 1951. Fr. Robert H. Sweeney, President at the time, addressed

See Birthday page 13 The Beacon

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KDUP secret show draws crowd

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Left: Biology major Aran Fagan plays an acoustic tune during the KDUP secret show in the Shipstad Hall Lounge. Right: Kris Orlowski returns to The Bluff and takes the stage solo after his performance two weeks ago. The secret show was organized by KDUP as a spontaneous music event. Although it was labeled “the secret show” it still drew quite a crowd.

Bathed in the rainbow glow of the Christmas lights illuminating the first floor lounge of Shipstad Hall, a crowd of students sat on couches and pressed against walls, listening to biology major Arran Fagan and Seattle singer/songwriter Kris Orlowski. The performers’ free acoustic show Monday night proved the perfect study break.

Fagan opened the show with a few original pieces off the album “My Friend, My Friend” with his band Back in the States. His unassuming songs about life and longing elicited looks of puppy dog love from female and male audience members alike.

“Normally I play for people I don’t know so it’s easier, but I know all of you,” Fagan admitted at the end of his set. “Thank you for letting me subject myself to sweating through my shirt.”

Despite Fagan’s nervous admissions, his songs, raw in emotion and thoughtful in

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nature, told stories that proved wisdom much greater than his years.

Following Fagan was Orlowski, who returned to The Bluff after his outdoor concert at UP on March 28.

“I come without a dog and four band members this time,” Orlowski chuckled.

Physically reminiscent of Marcus Mumford, Orlowski’s learned confidence and comfort on the stage transitioned into his perfectly simple songs.

Both performers had an unforced, uncomplicated quality to their songs. With nothing but the small stage and encouraging nods of the students crowding the balcony, they delivered a relaxed show that helped calm down a very stressed me.

With approaching finals chaining me to my chair in the library, KDUP’s acoustic show was the next best alternative to Coachella.

A Monday night well spent? I’d say so.

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Grad issue: Class of 2015

Who are we? Senior class by the numbers There are 843 graduating seniors. Below is a breakdown of where they came from.

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2015: Class marks end of an era Continued from page 1 The commencement ceremony for the Class of 2015 will mark not only the end of the graduates’ time on The Bluff, but also the end of an era at UP. Perhaps the most immediate evidence of the University’s change over the last four years is the physical changes to buildings and spaces across campus.

The Class of 2015 will be the last class who won’t use the Beauchamp Recreation & Wellness Center and the renovated Pilot House. A brochure about the changes coming to the Pilot House notes that it will complete a reorientation of social life on campus.

“There is a place for students to study with the new Clark Library,” the brochure reads, “a place to enjoy a meal together – Bauccio Commons; and soon, a place for health and wellness with the opening of the Beauchamp Recreation Center.”

The Pilot House, as a

dedicated social space, will be the keystone in this rethinking of campus. It’s not just a renovated Pilot House, it’s a renovated social scene at UP. This year’s graduates will be the last Pilots who won’t recognize this set-up. We’re the last ones who remember and used the old Library (and we’re grateful for it). We’re the last ones to suffer through four years worrying that Howard Hall might crumble around our stair steppers and weights.

We’re the last class who won’t know what it’s like to go to a college with an on-campus pub.

For that matter, we’re the last class to remember UP’s previously severe stance on drinking culture. When we entered as freshmen, Bon Appetit would never have served alcohol at student events. Now, students over 21 can buy a beer at on-campus events as casual as dorm trivia nights. Drinking culture has become more forgiving, more open and safer.

We are the last class that

remembers walking down to River Campus illicitly, before it was even considered a campus at all. Students from our class took samples of that soil and did surveys and planted greenery to reinvigorate a once desolate, polluted piece of land that now the University has big plans for.

We watched RISE commercials and were there when the largest fundraising campaign in University history wrapped up with a total of nearly $182 million.

But campus has not just changed around us. We’ve changed campus too. The University the Class of 2015 leaves behind is better.

We fought and spoke out against injustices. Soon movements like Redefine Purple Pride will be relics of the past, synonymous with a different UP. But student leaders in our class were on the forefront of the struggle for a more inclusive campus.

After then-President Fr. Bill Beauchamp made controversial comments about LGBTQ

faculty members, it was our classmates – along with activist students in previous classes – who protested in the Academic Quad to keep Beauchamp accountable for his words and push for a more inclusive nondiscrimination policy. Our class helped win that fight.

Following the student activism of Redefine Purple Pride, the senior class witnessed several landmarks in diversity and inclusion in the University. We saw Laurie Kelley enter the office of Vice President for University Relations as the first woman to reach UP’s upper administration. We helped elect the first black ASUP president, the first Muslim ASUP president and the first openly LGBTQ ASUP vice president.

Our freshman year was when Portlandia began.

Portland was hip, but like a strangely kept secret, the quirky younger sibling to Seattle. No longer.

Our campus has expanded socially as well as physically.

In 2011, when a student went downtown and said she went to the University of Portland, most people looked confused.

Fewer do now. There are more big-name visitors (Clarence Thomas, the Dalai Lama), more sporting events (basketball outreach, T2 Timbers play at Merlo) and more notoriety for campus in the greater Portland area.

Our class had the highest average GPA and SAT scores of any class in history when we walked onto The Bluff in the Fall of 2011 (not that it’s a competition). We walk away as a class in which 33 percent of students studied abroad, produced six Fulbright recipients, generated hundreds of cumulative hours of volunteer work and will be 843 graduates strong when we toss our caps in the Chiles Center on May 3.

And when this year’s graduates swing their tassels to the left side of their caps, the whole institution will be swinging a tassel as well.

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What’s changed?

The Class of 2015 has watched campus change drastically both physically and culturally o The map below serves as a timeline of the incredible growth and alteration that has occurr campus in the Fall of 2011.

Philip Ellefson• THE BEACON Cassie Sheridan• THE BEACON Pilot House

Starting next week, the Pilot House will be closed for the summer as renovations begin.

Opening next fall, the new Pilot House will include a pub and be a dedicated social space with room for concerts and other events.

Between The Commons (renovated in 2009), The Library, the Recreation Center and the Pilot House, the University’s student life will soon be organized differently.

Redefine Purple Pride

On Feb. 28, 2013, students, faculty and staff gathered in the Academic Quad holding signs and covering their mouths with duct tape in an effort to push for a change in the University’s nondiscrimination policy, which at that time did not cover sexual orientation.

The protest grew out of group of students uniting in the wake of what they saw was an insensitive remark about LGTBQ faculty from then-President Fr. Bill Beauchamp.

The Board of Regents changed the policy to include sexual orientation in fall 2013.

Tuition goes over $40,000

As UP’s reputation has gone up in the last decade, we’ve had to take the bad with the good. Tuition has increased at a steady pace of about 4.5 percent each year while the Class of 2015 was enrolled. The University announced in March that the 2015-2016 school year will be the first year that tuition will be more than $40,000 yearly.

KDUP: Revamped

When the Class of 2015 walked onto campus, KDUP was a pretty isolated space for music aficionados. In four years the organization has expanded to have a wider presence on campus. A partnership with Pilots after Dark and numerous larger and spontaneous music events have created another element to the UPortland social scene that previously was not in existence.

Library

In August 2013, UP opened the brand new Clark Library, which had not been updated since the ‘70s. The Class of 2015 suffered through sophomore year without a library (save for a cramped computer lab in the Terrace Room) and is the last class to remember studying in the old library.

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over their four years on The Bluff. red since graduates walked onto

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Tales from the T-Room

This year, the T-Room was nominated as one of the diviest bars in Portland and has been a staple of the UP social scene for decades. We asked the Class of 2015 to dish out some of their favorite and most epic T-Room stories and memories anonymously-because nothing is as serious as a good time.

River Campus

The University purchased the 35 acres on what is now the River Campus in 2008, but it sat undisturbed and grossly polluted for several years. In 2012, UP oversaw environmental cleanup and regrading of the land, which had been an EPA superfund site for years. Last August, students got the opportunity to use River Campus for the first time at the Riverboat, which CPB aims to make an annual tradition. Eventually, UP plans to build new facilities on River Campus.

My favorite memory of the T-Room was “ weeping tears of joy when I learned that T-Room was expanding $2 Tuesdays to also be $2 Thursdays.”

The best nights at T-Room always end with “tots.

If you leave the T-Room with no tots, something went seriously wrong with your night.”

Rec Center

In May 2014, the University broke ground on the Beauchamp Recreation & Wellness Center. It will open this August. The recreation center will replace Howard Hall, which was built in 1927, as the primary space for exercise and recreation on campus. While the Recreation Center will be remembered as a mainstay of life at UP, the Class of 2015 will have no memories of it.

On last year’s end of the year pub crawl, I “stood in line for 30 minutes to get into the

T-Room like it was some top notch club. I remember I kept pulling out money like I had to pay an entrance fee.”

My best night at the T-Room was a night “where the Fireball girls were visiting, and we

were all dancing around with Fireball swag, free Fireball shots and getting piggy-backs all over the T-Room.”

One time a friend of ours was holding a giant “tray of shots-we’re talking like 8-10 here-and

P-Safe strolled in looking for him to move his car out of a towaway zone. He’s standing there cheesing for a photograph as P-Safe is tapping him on the shoulder.”

three types of T-roomers: those that “playTherepool,arethose that watch others play pool and Women’s soccer loses steam

In August 2011, women’s soccer was a few years removed from the glory days of the 2002 and 2005 national championship-winning teams. But the team still had hope, going to the playoffs year after year. This year, women’s soccer skidded through the season, failing to make the WCC playoffs for the first time since 2000.

those that sit in the booths or chairs and eat tater tots.”

semester of senior year at the T-Room “is First always super fun because there’s not a lot of

juniors that have turned 21 yet, so T-Room kind of feels like this elite club. Then by the end of the year you look around and realize you recognize like 10 percent of people and that it must be time to graduate.”

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Before they left The Bluff, we collected nominations for the wisest individuals of the Class of 2015. To view all senior wisdoms visit upbeacon.com/category/senior-wisdoms/ Name: Elvia Gaona Hometown: Hillsboro,Ore. Major: Political Science What is your UP claim to fame?

Most people on campus know me because of my involvement with ASUP (student government) and other clubs on campus.

When I was a freshman…

I never went to bed before 2 a.m. (to be clear, this was not because of homework or studying.) There was always something to do with roommates and friends, like binge-watching TV shows on Netflix.

Best piece of advice you received from someone Name: Jordan Zettle III Hometown: Bend, Ore. Major: English; philosophy and entrepreneurship minors.

What is your UP claim to fame?

Most handsome dog on campus and best steelhead fisherman to come through UP since Jarold Doremus ’84.

When I was a freshman….

I didn’t know what spooning was. I hadn’t yet met ALL of my best friends (I had met some and those “some” know who they are LOGAN.) I didn’t impart wisdom - I just parted my hair. I didn’t know what to do with my free time. I didn’t know that I would be sad for college to end. I was naive then. I thought.

during your time here?

It is important to recognize how much you have grown during your time at UP, regardless of how satisfied or unsatisfied you are at the moment. Personal growth (no matter how incremental) is something that no one can take away from you. –Dr. Matt Baasten What are three pieces of wisdom you learned during your time at UPortland that you want to impart to those coming next?

1. Find something to identify with and be a part of it. (i.e. Mock Trial, Intramurals, Hall Council, Campus Ministry, etc.)

2. Go talk to professors during office hours. I’m not talking about going and asking for extra help or an extension, like actually go talk to them and get to know them!

3. You can never call your parents too early, too late, or too soon.

Best piece of advice you received from someone during your time here?

Experience everything, and don’t let the little things get you into the dumplings. This, too, shall pass.

What are three pieces of wisdom you learned during your time at UPortland that you want to impart to those coming next?

1. The vegan wraps from Bon Appetit are complete bologna.

2. Toilet paper in Waldschmidt Hall is soft, delicate, and multi-ply, and it simultaneously brings about an air of knowledge, history and depth. This was likely given to me by the ghost of Waldschmidt.

3. You’ll find good friends here, and it may take time.

I bought my way into friendship with my dog when I was a junior, for instance. Also, do E-Scholars.

The Commons or The Cove?

The Cove, but don’t put the guacamole on your burger because it costs extra and I never had that many points except towards the end of the semester when I did have enough points so I’d put the guacamole onto my

The Commons or The Cove?

I prefer The Cove for a quick breakfast and The Commons for everything else. But let’s be real: Franz bagels are the shit.

Best advice for experiencing Portland?

Learn how to use public transit (seriously), and more bus lines than just the 44 and 35. TriMet is awesome and you can do so much in the Portland metro area if you take the time to explore!

The infamous… what’s next?

I plan on attending law school in the fall, ideally in San Francisco or Washington D.C. Any regrets?

Absolutely not!

hamburglars. Wraps!

Best advice for experiencing Portland?

Swim in the river. Become different. Enjoy the beauty around you, and enter into the realm of nature. Visit the breweries around. Enjoy time with friends there. Visit Pine State the next morning. Have fun in all the parks around here because I like them.

Grab a bike and ride it to Sauvie Island and feel again.

The infamous… what’s next?

I might Huck Finn down the Willamette. The best way to get a job is to have something famous to attach yourself to. Forest Gump did this when he ran all over the world.

Any regrets?

Study abroad!! Not only did it suck, but also I didn’t even do it.

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Heart Beat

conversations about relationships with Cassie Sheridan

The Beacon

Larry Mueller, class of 1973, types a Beacon story on an old typewriter. Larry was editor-in-chief of The Beacon 1973 and had previously served as copy editor and maganging editor. He has worked for Caterpiller, Inc. since 1995.

Continued from page 7 this significant change on the front page of The Beacon.

“The University will not compromise for anything less than the conduct becoming Christian gentleman and ladies,” Sweeney said. “I believe it superfluous to emphasize that a diluted moral atmosphere, which is something attributed to secular colleges, will never be at home here.”

While the paper originally published mainly campus events, it grew to write more about issues that affect the larger community. “(The University) started reaching out and that was reflected in the type of articles that would go in The Beacon,” Antonelli said. “It showed that the University itself was more and more conscious of being a place of sort of service to the community, and not just to the students.”

In its history, The Beacon

has published articles about World War II, Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, protests of the Vietnam War and a visit from Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968.

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The Beacon really changed from a detailed photograph of what daily life was like on campus to as it is now, focused on issues.

Fr. Bob Antonelli Archivist

In more recent years, The Beacon has moved its pages online. The first website came in 2007, but a new website was built in the summer of 2014.

The paper debuted its mobile app last fall. The Beacon is also active on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

The Beacon has also received many journalism awards in recent years including awards from the Society for Professional Journalists, Associated Collegiate Press, the Columbia Scholastic Press

Association, the College Media Association and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.

Although The Beacon has seen a lot of changes in its 80 years, some things have remained the same. One constant is the reminder to students about the effects of alcohol. The Beacon has advised students about ways to deal with stress and resources at the Health Center.

According to Antonelli, another aspect of the paper that has not changed is the emphasis on student and faculty achievement.

“The Beacon, always paid adequate attention to the good of what students were doing,” Antonelli said. “They gave affirmation, confirmation, and support to individual students or teams who were showing excellence and from that point of view, they were showing what is possible to everyone else.”

Beacon alums reflect on their time at the paper Blair Thomas (Class of 2007)

Photo courtesy of Blair Thomas

“I am amazed by how The Beacon has this uncanny ability to attract uber-talented students to work for them.

When I see and hear about what people are doing, I honestly cannot say that I am shocked by their success. If you spent 30 minutes in St. Mary’s on a night when everyone was working, you just knew that they would be stars in whatever career choices they made.

Sitting on those gaudy 1970s couches was often inspring for this reason, and it is a tribute to the people and advisers that have served on the paper.”

Kathryn Walters (Class of 2014)

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Walters

“Being on The Beacon gave me some of the strangest, most challenging, yet fun memories of college. Being a reporter, I was forced to push past my introverted nature and get to the bottom of what was happening on campus and in Portland. I got to meet so many different people at UP because of The Beacon, and learn more about UP than I ever would have as a normal student.

Working the late hours of Wednesday night into the early hours of Thursday morning to put the paper to bed was always an adventure.”

Maia Nolan-Partnow (Class of 2001)

Photo courtesy of Maia Nolan-Partnow

“It wasn’t until I became editor-in-chief that I really appreciated the impact The Beacon has on the campus community. A single controversial column kicked off a campuswide discussion. An editor resigned. Administrators got involved. It came up in classroom discussions and among my neighbors and friends. It became a talking point in the ASUP election.

Every day I was confronted with reminders that what we did at The Beacon was important to people, and that it was important that we do it well.”

For more Beacon alum stories visit upbeacon.com

My first column described the goal of this series “to be about love, and relationships, and college, and hook-up culture, and emotional deprivation, and salvation, and how, maybe, we can all do better.”

And I tried. There are no easy answers for any of these subjects, but I approached them. And I hope that in small and simple ways some of my words helped you make sense of your own heart.

When I proposed writing this column last semester it came from a desire to give better words to the problems we are all grappling with emotionally and romantically. I wanted to take the pulse of college dating culture, and also give voice to thoughts a great many of us tend to keep inside.

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Demand recognition of your desires and sexuality. Expect compassion and care and nothing less.

Cassie Sheridan senior

I wanted to open the shutters on people’s hearts.

I’m still not Carrie Bradshaw or Dear Abby, but I feel like I’m walking away from this having given life and voice to a lot of things about our contemporary heartbeats that no one else was speaking about honestly.

My first column opened with me putting myself and my romantic endeavors and experiences out there as an invitation for people to be emotionally vulnerable along with me.

I wanted, and still want, everyone to experience sexuality with vulnerability and compassion. I wanted

to use this columns as a place for people to allow themselves to feel things, because I think there are very few places for this emotional honesty to be expressed in a real, raw, true way.

I talked about a great deal of subjects, and whether any of what I wrote spoke to you or not, I hope you can walk away with a few things.

Don’t be afraid of how you feel, and don’t be afraid to feel it.

Demand recognition of your desires and sexuality.

Expect compassion and care and nothing less.

Say what you feel.

Vocalize it. Allow it to escape from your heart, whether it’s a whisper or a scream.

You’re not alone.

None of this is easy, but know you’re not alone in being lonely or emotionally starving. Know you’re not alone in loving someone that is far away from you.

You are not alone in being overwhelmingly happy or unbelievably terrified.

I hope you all find what you’re looking for, and if you’re not actively looking, I hope whatever you want finds you.

It’s been fun, and I’ve loved every word and sentence and moment engaging with you all through the Heart Beat.

Contact Living Editor Cassie Sheridan at sheridan15@up.edu.

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Emily Neelon Faith & Fellowship Editor neelon17@up.edu

By Kimmy Kavanaugh The Camino de Santiago, also referred to as the Way of St. James, is a pilgrimage that winds through nearly 500 miles of the northern Spanish countryside. A pilgrimage is a spiritual journey to a sacred place. Individuals commonly undertake such a journey in order to seek a greater connection with God. In the case of the Camino de Santiago, pilgrims from all over the world travel to Spain to walk this ancient route every year for various reasons.

Many decide to partake in this long walk to forge a deeper relationship with God, others to seek inner peace and some do it for the pure adventure and challenge the Camino provides.

However, despite the various stories that bring pilgrims to walk the Camino de Santiago, we all share one common goal: to arrive at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela where it is believed the remains of St. James the Apostle are held.

Preparing for the Camino de Santiago requires more than just physical training. It also is

Walking the Camino very important to be spiritually prepared. We will be walking twelve to 18 miles a day while carrying, roughly, a 25 pound backpack. Preparation for the physical component of this pilgrimage includes long hikes through Forest Park to break in my hiking boots and prepare my body for the extensive mileage we will be walking while en route.

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I actively seek peace in my daily life despite the various stressors I encounter as a college student.

Kimmy Kavanaugh Junior

For me, spiritually preparation for this pilgrimage is essential. To ready myself for the spiritual trials and highs I may find on the Camino, I actively seek peace in my daily life despite the various stressors I encounter as a college student.

Walking the Camino de Santiago has been a dream of mine for a long time.

Ultimately, I desire to further enhance my relationship with God and become more connected with myself and the

Photo by Beth Barsotti

The Camino de Santiago is a 500 mile pilgrimage through the northern Spanish countryside. For Kimmy Kavanaugh, who will be walking the Camino this summer, preparation for the journey is both physical and spiritual. individual I strive to be through God. Furthermore, I love to be outside and to witness the beauty of God hidden within the natural landscape. The overwhelming magnificence from God’s creation and the serenity I find in geography

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On April 11, 2015, the Congregation of Holy Cross celebrated the Ordination of six new priests at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame: Rev. David Halm, C.S.C. Rev. Matthew Fase, C.S.C. Rev. Daniel Ponisciak, C.S.C.

Rev. Timothy Mouton, C.S.C. Rev. Stephen Chase Pepper, C.S.C. Rev. Christopher Rehagen, C.S.C.

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further contributed in my decision to walk the Camino.

Ultimately, I believe that I can always work on enhancing my relationship with God and I truly believe that walking the Camino de Santiago will provide me with a lifeenhancing experience that will

forever enrich my love for God and for myself.

Kimmy Kavanaugh is a junior nusring major and member of Army ROTC. Contact Kavanaugh at kavanaug16@ up.edu.

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Opinion

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Problems with HeForShe

Nearly seven months ago, Emma Watson gave a speech about feminism to the United Nations that many called revolutionary.

She invited Rachel Rippetoe Freshman men into the feminist movement, assuring them that the misogynistic paradigm of the world we live in affects them too.

I didn’t want to be unsupportive of the movement.

I liked that feminism was getting attention in the media.

I liked that the stigma around the word “feminist” was deteriorating. I wasn’t against men being included.

However, ever since I heard Watson’s speech, a pit formed in my stomach. Something wasn’t right.

Before I go any further, I want to point out that my respect for Watson and others who have put HeForShe in motion is not diminished by my disagreement.

However, there is a problem here, and it’s a big one. I realized that the uncertainty in the pit of my stomach came from how part of HeForShe is a giant explicit invitation given to men, in contrast to the implied one that is given to marginalized women.

I have no problem with men being included in feminism.

Watson’s correct in saying that gender roles negatively impact men all the time. I don’t even think that the movement is actively trying to exclude women of different races or sexualities, but it’s naive.

In a perfect world, transgender women and women of all colors and all sexual orientations would be included in a women’s

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Lydia Laythe Opinion Editor layth16@up.edu

Women can have it all

FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD

It’s okay

Two more weeks.

Dead week, finals week and then we’re done.

For some, graduation is awaited eagerly, just weeks away.

For others, it looms ominously, too close for comfort.

For some, the summer promises dream-come-true jobs or internships.

For others, months of applications have only yielded the same jobs at Dairy Queen they’ve worked for the past four summers.

For some, our future plans are open, flexible and exciting.

For others, our plans are calculated, structured and secure.

And for others still, our plans include doing our laundry before school gets out… and that’s about it.

Whatever thoughts or feelings you’re having right now, whatever you’re excited or anxious about, whatever you’ve chosen not to think about until you absolutely have to - whatever it is - you’re going to be okay.

If you have a job already lined up for after graduation great.

If you have a sub-par internship set up for the summer - great.

If you have no job, no internship and no plan - great.

Whatever you’re doing, it’s okay.

The important thing is to embrace whatever your reality is.Embrace your reality unapologetically and wholeheartedly.

You don’t need to make excuses and apologies for what you are choosing to do.

If you’re working at your dream job, embrace it.

Take this time to learn as much as you can from the seasoned employees around you.

Make connections, take advantage of every opportunity and enjoy this moment in time.

If you’re working at a lessthan-ideal job or internship,

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embrace it too. Meet new people, learn a new skill, and be determined to do your best - even if that means making the best Oreo milkshake ever. Enjoy the stories and experiences you’re gaining from working where you are.

If you’re totally free, without any future-oriented work, please embrace it.

If you’re taking time off to breathe, to explore, or to travel, you don’t need to apologize or make excuses for why it’s okay. Do what matters to you.

You don’t have to have to feel beholden to the expectations of others around you. Try something new, reconnect with old friends, do something creative or introspective. Every moment will be what you make of it. So make your free

time count - make your time something memorable.

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It’s okay to read a trashy romantic novel instead of reading about some abstract philosophical concept.

It’s okay.

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Last week, Sports Editor Malika Andrews wrote an editorial she entitled, “Women can’t have it all... yet.”

Laurie Kelley The article VP of University Relations stressed that women are forced to choose between motherhood and a successful career. She inferred that it is impossible to have a thriving career while also succeeding in the roles of wife and mother, while men do not face the same pressures.

I’m writing to dispute these claims.

It is possible for both men and women to “have it all,” but first you need to define what having it all means for you.

At UP, there are hundreds of working parents who excel at their jobs and in their lives beyond career.

In terms of women who, in traditional terms, “have it all” there are so many examples.

In academics there are women at the top of their respective fields: Deans Joanne Warner, Drew Harrington and Sharon Jones.

In management, to name just a few, there numerous leaders including Bryn Sopko in human resources, Rachel Barry-Arquit in marketing and communications, Janet Turner in financial aid, Karen Peters, senior associate athletic director, and Danielle Hermanny, general counsel and assistant to the President.

At The Beacon there is Nancy Copic, former news anchor, and now your talented advisor.

There are dozens and dozens of stellar professors – Karen Eifler, Lauretta Frederking, Loretta Krautscheid, Jennette Lovejoy, Laurie McClary, Lisa Reed, Stephanie Salomone,

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Breaking the silence and cycle Editor’s Note: Beacon editors took great time and care deliberating whether to publish this submission. We realize that the subject matter in this piece could be a trigger for survivors of incest and other forms of sexual abuse, and we never want to inflict harm on our readers. That said, we also believe open, responsible discussion of important, sensitive topics can be a powerful healing agent, that survivors can find strength in breaking their silence, and their stories can give comfort and strength to those with similar experiences. If this submission does trigger painful emotions, you can contact the Health Center at 503-943-7134 or Campus Ministry at 503-943-7131.

I’ve been sexually assaulted.

Four of my friends at the University of Portland have been raped. And Carolyn Munro their stories Senior go along the same lines: It was at a party, both people were drinking, it was someone the victim knew, they said no and he kept going.

I’m never told the perpetrators’ names, and my friends never prosecuted.

Several years after the assault, my friends are still attending counseling. They won’t let anyone close to their hearts, and they feel scared for their lives.

I cannot express the pain that I feel for having gone through my own experience, but I’ve also seen friends go through similar experiences.

After a friend recently confided to me that someone she knew raped her, I realized that I

couldn’t expect my friends to speak out if I wasn’t willing to speak myself.

I was 10 years old when my father came into my room and told me he wanted to show me something. He sexually assaulted me. And when he was done he told me to not tell my mother, and that it was between us. The following weeks my dad slipped into my room where I pretended to be asleep.

It didn’t matter. It happened again and again, each time more severe than the last.

I thought at least it was only happening to me, and not to anyone else. It wasn’t until my late teens that I confided in a friend about what was happening at home. She luckily told her mother who said to me, “How would you feel if he did this to your sister or anyone else?”

As painful as it was to come out with my story, I knew that if I didn’t say anything, he would possibly harm the people I cared about most. I went to the police and they removed

him from our home.

However, until proven guilty, he was still loose, and he stalked me literally and in my dreams. I was tormented with nightmares, hallucinations and often went into uncontrollable fits of PTSD. I hated my body, and used sharp pins to damage my appearance so I wouldn’t be attractive.

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Speak out.

Break the silence.

Break the cycle.

Carolyn Munro Senior

Two years later, they put my dad on trial and he was convicted.

But my story doesn’t end there. I went through several counselors, some of whom cried when I told them my story. When I tried to speak with friends and peers about what happened, they didn’t want to hear about it.

I lacked motivation for school or life in general, and my grades and health suffered greatly. I attempted to kill myself, because I felt like no

one would care if I lived or died. It wasn’t until five years after the police removed my dad from our house that I started to enjoy life again.

I prosecuted my father so he couldn’t hurt anyone else. But that isn’t enough. Too many violators are going free, and too many victims suffer for the rest of their lives. My story has a happy ending, but for so many people it does not.

About 293,000 people a year are sexually assaulted, two-thirds of the violators were someone the victim knew, and 68 percent of cases are never reported (RAINN: Rape Abuse and Incest National Network).

One out of six women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime.

I’m one of those women, and there are hundreds of thousands of women like me.

It was very hard for me to speak out about my abuse, but it was one of the best things I’ve ever done. It has allowed for my mom, sister and I to be safe. Speaking out protects those you love and protects any

other potential victims.

If you are a victim, please speak out or your violator could potentially cause pain to someone else. If a victim speaks to you about being assaulted, please encourage them to tell a professional, a Green Dot counselor, the Health Center, or call a sexual assault hotline.

Support them through the hardship so they don’t have to face the abuse alone.

Sexual assault will continue if we remain silent, and more lives will be ruined because of it. The more we encourage victims to talk and the more consequences there are for violators, the less abuse will happen in the future.

It’s not just a victims’ problem to deal with, it’s a perpetrator problem. But everyone should be speaking out about sexual assault, because it affects all of us.

Speak out. Break the silence.

Break the cycle.

Carolyn Munro is a senior English major and can be reached at munro15@up.edu.

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Remembering the Armenian Genocide I turned to a friend the other day, as fellow UP students set up posters and roses around the library Dylan Vahradian Junior preparing for a week of Holocaust Remembrance, and explained the irony of a week of remembrance for the Jews nearly 100 years to the day after the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

“The what?”

I have gotten this response my whole life: the what, the who, the where, the when. Beginning April 24, 1915, 1.5 million dead. A culture nearly extinct, a people decimated, and “Who does now remember the Armenians?”

The words spoken by Adolf Hitler, though in an attempt to garner support for his own genocide, sadly are true.

Who does now remember the Armenians? I do. My grandfather, Hovsep, whose mother, Armenouhi, and father, Miran, managed to escape and flee to the United States, do.

I do not write this to condemn the Holocaust Remembrance, but instead to bring light to a tragedy that has gone unrecognized for far too long. Atrocities are atrocities. There can be no number placed on suffering, no ranking of evils. A million and a half Armenians, 6 million Jews, 8 hundred thousand Rwandans, all deserve acknowledgement and remembrance.

The Turkish government still denies the Armenian Genocide, but my ancestors tell a different story. Pope Francis says: “Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it,” in response to Turkish silence.

I hope that you will all take the time to understand a story that, for too long, has gone unheard.

Dylan Vahradian can be reached at vahradia16@ up.edu.

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All: Everyone can have it all

Nathan DeVaughn • THE BEACON

Continued from page 15 Elayne Shapiro, Susan Stilwell, Jacquie Van Hoomissen, and so many more, who manage children and thriving careers.

While having children has been among the biggest blessings of my life, I have numerous friends who did not marry or have children, and their lives are fulfilling, successful and important. I would say they “have it all” too.

There are so many ways to

lead a happy and successful life.

Young women today have many more options than were present for Boomers and even Gen X’ers. And professionally successful men have shown to be perfectly capable and willing to do their share at home.

I disagree that men do not feel the same pressures. Most men I know want to be with their children and support their spouses. And today, increasingly, men might stay home with the children.

Last month during a lecture

in Buckley Center Auditorium, New Seasons CEO Wendie Collie explained she was an executive at Starbucks and her husband was an attorney. For them, Collie noted, the best choice was to have one parent stay home with their children.

She continued her career rise while her husband became the stay-at-home spouse.

Options are open.

Find a partner who supports your aspirations and life goals.

Malika and other women (and men) of your generation,

please don’t worry that you cannot have it all. You absolutely can. Just decide what “having it all” means for you and then make it happen.

Anything is possible if you believe in yourself, work hard and take advantage of the opportunities that come your way.

Laurie Kelley is Vice President of University Relations and can be reached at kelleyl@up.edu.

SheForShe: Need for internal invitation Continued from page 15 movement without question.

But we don’t live in that world.

In the U.S, 1 out of 12 transgender people is murdered. Ninety percent of those victims are in the maleto-female spectrum and 70 percent of them are women of color.

When we talk about the injustice of women earning $0.78 to a man’s dollar, we’re actually talking about white women. Black women earn $0.64 and hispanic women earn $0.54.

These women have been fighting for attention from

the feminist movement for decades, and have largely been ignored. So as much as I don’t consider myself a “man-hater,” I see it as a slap in their face that the HeForShe attention was simply handed to men.

An implied invitation is not enough. Anyone who has ever received one knows this.

Let’s say you’re back in high school and someone is throwing a party. They hand out invitations. You wait and wait for yours, and feel let down when you realize it’s never coming.

All your friends go and post pictures on social media, make a big deal about what a great

time they had. Then, when you come back to school, they turn to you and ask, “Why weren’t you there?” You tell them you weren’t invited. They say, “Don’t be silly! Of course you were, it was implied.”

Maybe this is a petty example, but on a larger scale, that feeling of disappointment turns into hopelessness.

These women are treated like an afterthought. They’re invited after the party’s over, and they deserve more than that.

I don’t want to flip through Elle’s feminist issue and see a white Emma Watson and then a bunch of white men. I want

to see women of color. I want to see women with disabilities.

I want to see transgender women and plus-sized women.

It’s great that men want to support us, but before we rally for that support we need to rally for internal recognition and acceptance. Women need to support all women, or this doesn’t work.

We need to fight for SheForShe before we fight for HeForShe.

Rachel Rippetoe is a reporter for The Beacon. She can be reached at rippetoe18@ up.edu

FACES ON THE BLUFF Hannah Baade • THE BEACON

What’s your summer job?

Mara Midiere Freshman Organizational Communication Studies Major “I will be brewing and selling Kombucha from the comfort of my home”

Marshall Smith Freshman Business Major

John Roussos Freshman Business Major

Patrick Prior Junior German Major

Trevor Peralta Sophomore Political Science Major

“Going to Michigan to work the cherry harvest”

“Pending”

“Im going to month long training camp in Fort Knox Kentucky”

“Going to airborne school in Fort Benning in Georgia”

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Basketball after Chiles

Kristen Garcia • THE BEACON

(Above) From left to right seniors Kari Luttinen, Cassandra Brown and Cassandra Thompson huddle up. Brown and Luttinen plan to play professionally after graduaion.

(Below) Senior Kevin Bailey prepares to shoot a free throw. Bailey, Thomas van der Mars and Riley Barker also hope to play professionally.

By Molly Vincent THE BEACON As many Pilots head to The Bluff from overseas, a few basketball players will be looking to head from Portland to Europe or other continents to continue their athletic careers.

First, the players must sign with an agency in order to get offers. After getting representation, the players hope to get offers to play pro ball.

While the players have been contacted by agents, they are all still in the process of selecting an agency.

Center Thomas van der Mars believes his height, athleticism and European citizenship will benefit him in getting offers. He hopes to play in Italy, Spain or France.

His teammate, Riley Barker, also hopes to play professionally in Europe.

He believes his years at UP have prepared him for the professional world of basketball.

“It gives you exposure and the opportunity to get recognized by agents,” Barker said.

Guard Kevin Bailey would prefer to play in the United States, but believes playing overseas is a great option.

Bailey is waiting to sign with an agent, but hopes to play this upcoming season. He says that playing for UP has helped his technique and skillset.

By playing professionally, Barker, Bailey and van der Mars would join other Pilots that have gone professional over the past few years including Ryan Nicholas who signed a contract to play overseas in Germany and currently plays in Lithuania.

Guard Cassandra Brown has

wanted to play professionally since she was young. She has narrowed down her options of agencies and hopes to sign within the next month.

Brown added to her basketball resume by sinking 21 3-pointers to win the NCAA 3-point contest on April 2.

“Her 3-point shooting really elevated her stock,” head coach Cheryl Sorenson said.

Brown hopes to play overseas, particularly in France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal or Australia.

“I’ve always wanted to travel my whole life,” Brown said.

“I obviously love basketball so I don’t know what could be better than to travel to world and play basketball and have it all paid for.”

Sorenson has seen four players in the past four years, including ReZina TecleMariam (who played professionally until she was injured) and Natalie Day (a 2012 graduate who plays in Denmark), move on to the pros.

Sorenson says she has high hopes for both Brown and her teammate Kari Luttinen, saying they both have the potential to play for a long time.

“It’s a great representation of our program,” Sorenson said. “I love that when you graduate college it’s not the end of your playing years.”

She says she is especially excited to see what Brown and Luttinen can do overseas.

“Being 6-foot-2 (Brown) handles the ball like a guard,” Sorenson said. “She can also score inside and has really worked on that mid-range shot.”

On the other hand, Luttinen’s sharp shooting and ability to create an open shot will be an asset in her quest to

sign with a European team. “(Luttinen) loves the left crossover pull-ups from midrange,” Sorenson said. “Both are very skilled scorers. I see them both being successful wherever they end up and they have to potential to really play for a long time if they want to.”

The NCAA allows players to commit to play professionally once their season is over. Typically, players sign contracts over the summer before the season begins in the fall. While no players have signed with agents, a quick turnaround between signing with an agent and being picked up by a professional team isn’t far out of reach.

Contact Sports Writer Molly Vincent at vincentm17@up.edu.

Twitter: @mollyvincent19

Kristen Garcia • THE BEACON

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New recruits to kick off the season

By Molly McSweyn

The women’s soccer team added five incoming freshmen to its 2015 roster. On the men’s side, the team will welcome six athletes to Merlo. The players will begin practicing with the team during the first week of August. Both teams hope the new talent will fill in gaps that may have been lacking in previous seasons and aim to have these new players help build on the foundation that the Pilots have been working on this spring.

Hanna Armendariz West Covina, Calif.

Rachel Lusby Beaverton, Ore.

Taylor Babcock Northville, Mich.

Sarah Jones Clackamas, Ore.

Lauren Marin Laguna Hills, Calif.

Midfielder Hanna Armendariz earned two firstteam all-league honors after being awarded second-team all-league in 2012. In 2011, she trained with the U.S. U-14 National Team, and in 2014 she was awarded the Bishop Amat Impact Athlete Award.

“She is a very talented and skilled ball player and we are really excited about having her. She already bleeds purple and her style of play fits ours perfectly,” Chambers said. In 2013, Armendariz’s Slammers FC club team was a finalist at the 2013 ECNL National League Championship.

5-foot-9 goalkeeper Rachel Lusby has been voted First Team All-Metro League twice. She has played with FC Portland since 2004, Region IV ODP in 2011 and Oregon ODP from 2007 to 2012. With Lusby, FC won a regional title in 2013 and claimed the state championship in 2014.

“She is ready to learn,” Chamers said. “She is a local kid and has been around the program and is an awesome get for us. It is great to have someone come in and challenge for a starting spot right away when we only have one goalkeeper.”

Taylor Babcock is a 5-foot4 midfielder entering into her senior season at Mercy High School. She has been named team MVP twice and was rookie of the year in 2012.

Babcock has played with the Michigan Rush for the past nine years and her club teams have reached several State Cup finals, winning the Michigan State Cup in 2013.

“Taylor comes from an athletic and sports background.

Her dad is a coach in the NHL. She has a great leadership and presence about her in sports,” Chambers said.

5-foot-7 midfielder, Sarah Jones is a two-time First Team All-Mount Hood Conference selection. She won league titles in 2011 and 2013. “She’s a local player, she is athletic and quick in and around the ball,” Chambers said. “She is hard in tackling and she, I think, has a huge capacity for growth.

I think she is going to grow and grow in this program.”

In 2013, Jones’ FC Portland club team won a Regional Championship and reached the semifinals of the NPL Champions Cup. In 2014, her FC Portland team won the state championship.

5-foot-4 forward Lauren Marin, was a four-year starter on varsity for Laguna Hills high school. As a team captain, she earned First Team All-Sea View League after leading her team in goals scored.“Lauren Marin really wants to be a part of this program and is really excited about it and I think she is going to be willing to do whatever she needs to do to help this program succeed and has a great positive energy,” Chambers said. Marin won the Southern California State Cup with her club team in 2010 before winning the Regional Championship.

Joey Jones Omaha, Calif.

Reid Baez Salem, Ore.

Shane Aranda Phoenix, Ariz.

Jones, a 5-foot-11 forward, led his high school team in goals for the past three seasons and was also named the team’s offensive MVP all three years. Jones helped his team win the North Coast Section Championship in 2013 and 2014. He played with the Region I ODP Team in 2010 and the Region II ODP team in 2011. While playing club, Jones won two regional championships and he advanced to the US Youth Soccer National Finals in Arizona in 2011.

“Jones is also another very good athlete, who for me, is a wild card on how quickly he translates and figures out the college pace of the game,” McNeil said.

Baez, who earned second-team all-league honors as a freshman playing for the Sprague Olympians, is a 5-foot-9 midfielder/forward.

“Reid is very technical, midfield player who plays forward,” McNeil said. “His read and feel of the game is very good.” He also played with Oregon ODP and Region IV in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Since 2013, Baez has played with the Portland Timbers Academy. He is a top-three goal scorer in the history of the Academy and he is ranked in Top Drawer Soccer’s Top 150 Players for the 2015 class. Baez was also named to the All-West Coast Team.

Aranda is a 5-foot-10 midfielder who hails from Arizona. He led his North High School Mustangs to a national ranking of No. 17 with 14 goals and 22 assists. In Aranda’s three years on the varsity team, the Mustangs reached the playoffs twice. He also played for Arizona’s 97 ODP team from 2009-12 and in 2014. Aranda’s Sereno Club team won a state championship before going to the regional finals in 2014.

“Shane Aranda is holding midfielder, said McNeil said. “He does all the dirty work and all of the little things that go unnoticed on a stat sheet.”

Mills is a 5-foot-11 defender who was named the MIL Player of the year in 2013 and landed on the all-league first team in 2013 and 2014. He was the 2014 College Camp MVP and he was on the Portland Timbers U-18 roster in 2014. Mills also played in the Hawaii ODP in 2013 and 2014 and won the golden ball with the Region IV ODP in 2013.

“Lionel is very athletic, left-footed,” McNeil said. “We are super excited about the athleticism that he brings to our back line.”

Lionel Mills Kula, Hawaii

Brennan Weber Gresham, Ore.

As a senior, Weber was named Oregon’s 6A Player of the Year. He landed first team All-State and lead his high school team to the Oregon State Championship. Last year, he was named the league’s best offensive player. Weber played for both the Portland Timbers Academy and the Eastside Timbers club. Additionally, Weber, a 6-foot-2 midfielder has some history with the Pilots.

“Brennan’s dad played here,” McNeil said.

“He is left-footed and will probably play on the left side, either midfield or at the back. He has played on very good teams that have played at a national level.”

Jellah played for his high school team for two years while also playing for the CCV Stars 97 Boys Black club team. Jellah was named to the AIA AllSection DI First Team for Section IV while also being named the outstanding junior during the 2013-14 season. With his club team, Jellah won multiple Arizona State Championships and won three straight Arizona State League 1 titles.

“Jackson has the ability to be electric and a goal-scoring, dribbling threat that teams will have to respect,” McNeil said.

Jackson Jellah Phoenix, Ariz.

All photos courtesy of UP Athletics

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Malika Andrews Sports Editor andrewsm17@up.edu

Basketball recruits have big shoes to fill

Kristen Garcia • THE BEACON

The women’s basketball team is losing five seniors this year. Head coach Cheryl Sorenson’s goal in recruiting new players is to replace these seniors’ ball handling and shooting skills .

By Jimmy Sheldrup THE BEACON With the academic year coming to a close, seniors prepare to graduate and leave us for the real world. This years’ class features a number of notable players from both the men’s and women’s basketball programs.

The graduating athletes were integral cogs, and will need to be replaced.

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams enjoyed successful, capable freshmen throughout their seasons, and now as the seniors depart, they hope to fill in the gaps with new freshmen.

The men’s team currently has four players committed for the upcoming season: point guard Jazz Johnson, and forwards Colin Russell, Chiir Maker and Jarrel Marshall.

Russell is an aggressive power forward from Folsom, California. He will look to beef up a depleted frontcourt.

With numerous post players graduating, Russell’s size will be needed. He is a skilled player, and figures to get some rotation minutes off the bench.

Maker, born in Sudan, moved to Australia in the seventh grade. Since his arrival in Australia, Maker has blossomed into a skilled perimeter player. He is explosive, and also has a great shooting touch.

“He is a really dynamic wing player,” head coach Eric Reveno said. “It will be really exciting to watch his progress.”

Jazz Johnson graduates from Lake Oswego later this year, and looks to make an immediate impact. Johnson, although undersized at 5-foot-

11, is a highly skilled, strong point guard. Despite his lack in height, Johnson is a creator, getting open shots for either himself or his teammates.

He once scored 44 points in a game against the best high school team in the country, Montverde Academy. Johnson will likely get a lot of minutes off the bench this upcoming season.

“All three of those guys are well suited to fit in here at UP,” Reveno said. “By that I mean that they are going to fit in on campus, they will take full advantage of the academic opportunity, and embrace the campus life and community.”

Marshall signed with the Pilots yesterday. Marshall had played at Palm Beach State Junior College for the past two years, earning first team honors in the All-Southern conference in both years.

Marshall is a 6-foot-6 forward

who averaged 18.4 points and 7.1 rebounds per game this year. He is versatile, capable of playing both forward positions. He shot three pointers at a 42 percent clip this year, in addition to pulling in 7.1 rebounds. He will be a welcome site for the Pilots, who are looking for depth down low.

On the women’s side, recruiting has a very different emphasis. With several perimeter players graduating, the goal of this recruiting season was to replace those holes, building around the nucleus the team currently has.

The incoming class features three players who have already committed to playing for the Pilots.There will be anywhere from two to four more players from either high school, junior colleges, or transfers added.

Darian Slaga from Phoenix, Arizona is a shooting guard.

Skilled at attacking the basket, Slaga will look to continue to develop other aspects of her game.

“She is really athletic,” head coach Cheryl Sorenson said. “She is a slasher and a shooter, and it kinda looks into a combination of Jdub (Jazmine Wooten) and Kari (Luttinen).”

Ellie Warner is small forward from Sammamish, Washington. A long, lanky player, Warner is something of a jack of all trades. She is capable at scoring, defending, rebounding, etc. Her ability to develop and specialize on offense though, will be what makes her special.

Julie Spencer, from nearby Chehalis, Wash. is an athletic post player. At 6-foot-2 Spencer is more athletic than many of her opponents. She replaces Cassandra Thompson who was a very accomplished shooter for the Pilots. Spencer

will need to develop her jumper, but given her frame and athleticism, she looks to be a good addition for the team.

Both teams are continuing to build around the current recruits. The men are looking to use a few more scholarships, while the women plan on adding a couple more players to their roster. From high schoolers to junior college to transfer players, players from all different backgrounds will be looked at to complete the rosters.

The men need to find depth down low, while the women rebound from a disappointing season. Both teams have lost a great number of skilled seniors, and replacing them is a tall order, but it looks like both teams will be coming back fully loaded for next season.

Becca Tabor• THE BEACON

The men’s basketball team will welcome six new players to their roster including Jazz Johnson, Colin Russell, Chiir Maker and Jarrel Marshall.