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Volume 96 | Issue 14
MARCH 14, 2008
Cameroon riots force evacuation to Toulouse By Courtney Kandler ckandler@ups.edu News Writer
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Hosting a fireworks display at Log Jam in September 2007 was one of Hart Edmonson’s achievements as ASUPS President. Edmonson turned power over to his successor Thurs. night.
State of the associated students of UPS By Hart Edmonson hedmonson@ups.edu Former ASUPS President According to ASUPS bylaws, outgoing ASUPS Presidents must deliver a State of the ASUPS address through The Trail. Hello Loggers! We started by hiring an amazing group of Directors, Programmers and Media Heads. Matt Bonniwell [Vice President] and I did our absolute best to find good people to fill these positions, but they have done a tremendous job above and beyond even our high expectations. With this team, we threw what was the most memorable Log Jam yet. A campus wide capture the flag game, an awesome fireworks show, good music, neighborhood families, and all of you there to enjoy it with us. In other entertainment areas, our programmers brought great lecturers such as Angela Davis. We brought Index News.......................................1-3 Comics & Classifieds........4 Op/Eds...................................5-7 Features................................8-9 Arts & Entertainment....10-12 Combat Zone.......................13 Sports................................14-16
Blue Scholars and in April we are so excited to welcome Ben Folds. And we had a third Midnight Breakfast…no explanation needed there. While entertainment is a must, we also turned our attention to pressing matters. We advocated for, and nearly 800 of you supported, our Sexual Health Proposal to provide free HIV tests to students. Sadly, even after our developing a rock-solid argument, the university’s budget committee turned us down. But we started an important conversation. If there is anything I have learned in this job, it’s that apparent failures provide strange victories. Because of the good work we did, CHWS has decided to step up and help provide rapid HIV tests to students. If this conversation continues, I am confident that we will one day provide for necessary community health initiatives like STD testing. Noting that our campus needed to engage more with our surrounding community, we developed and handed out 1500 ASUPS Discount Cards which provide great deals at local shops and restaurants. We acted to amend all four ASUPS formal documents to bring them into line with current policies, and secured more storage space on campus for our campus clubs and organizations.
You elected a fantastic ASUPS Senate that has been busy with all kinds of campus projects from sustainable hand dryers and exit signs to T.V. broadcasting news for our campus. We are also in the process of advocating for banners with our university insignia to be installed on existing light poles on 11th and on Union. They will serve as a telling, tasteful reminder of the central place of UPS in the surrounding community. We worked really hard last year for you because you worked really hard for us. Most of all, at all our events from a homecoming student/ alumni mixer to Cellar speeches for election candidates, turnout has been higher than in any year previous. We certainly worked hard through publicity to get you there, but you have voted in elections and come to events in numbers unlike any year previous. Thanks for making our hard work worth it! It has been a pleasure UPS. To the new guys: You are going to be fabulous, just try to remember to elect only twelve senators. What can I say, my mom’s a baker. Thank you for teaching me so much and for allowing me and the rest of our ASUPS crew the opportunity to serve you. Good luck! Hart •
Students studying abroad in Cameroon were evacuated Mar. 2 to Toulouse, France after anti-government riots broke out in capital streets. On Feb. 25, the School for International Training (SIT) study abroad program was notified of public transport strikes in Cameroon. Two days later, an alert was issued because of anti-government riots in Yaoundé, the capital city. Rebels were protesting the high fuel and food prices, as well as Cameroon President Paul Biya’s proposal to prolong his 25-year term. A warden message was released by the U.S. embassy the following day warning American citizens to limit travel to the area due to violent demonstrations, barricading of city streets and brutal killings. On Feb. 29, a travel warning was finally issued, encouraging American citizens in Cameroon to leave the country as soon as possible. Among those American citizens urged to leave were three UPS students. “It was on Feb. 27 that all the students were moved from their homestays to a hotel next to the police station,” International programs Director Jannie Meisberger said. Once the travel warning was released SIT arranged flights for the students out of Cameroon. Although they were unable to move them to another African country, they were able to arrange relocation to Toulouse, France. Students were given the option of continuing with the study abroad program in France or returning to the States. On Mar. 1, fourteen out of the fifteen students decided to continue with the program and left
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Cameroon the night of Mar. 2. They arrived in France the following evening. SIT arranged credits and classes before students arrived, so they did not have long to wait before they were thrown into the mix of things. “I have class starting tomorrow, and I’ll be meeting my new home stay family on Thursday,” one of the students, junior Kim Greene, said the Monday they arrived. According to Meisberger, SIT not only arranged the flights and transition to the study abroad program in France, but they also covered all expenses, including hotel, evacuation flights, train rides, and even provided a small sum towards clothing for France’s colder climate. This, however, has not been the first time students studying abroad have had to adjust their programs because of some medical or political issue. In the 2002-2003 program, Pacific Rim students were unable to go to China because of the SARS crisis and inadequate medical facilities. As a result, had to stay in Bangok, Thailand. As Meisberger pointed out: “these things can happen anywhere. Nobody could have prepared the students for this.” •
The Situation in Cameroon • Protests against rising fuel and living costs began on Feb. 25 • Riots in 31 towns, including capital Yaoundé • Government reports 40 dead, Human rights org reports 100+ dead • 23.4 million dollars in damage; 30 service stations entirely or partly destroyed • 1500 arrests made • In response, government cut fuel prices, raised civil service pay and cut customs duties
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Two seniors set to study at Oxford in fall By Peter Stevenson pstevenson@ups.edu News Writer
during his years at UPS. Sheppard, a Classics major, and has focused his studies on the intersection of Greek and Latin languages This semester, The Trail will pro- in literature. He will attend a file several seniors and their postgraduate plans. This is the second two-year program at Oxford, which focuses on the mastery story in this series. of Greek and Latin language “Find your passion and go and culminates with a longterm research project. for it.” Sheppard expressed inThat was the message of two University of Puget credible gratitude to the Sound seniors, Eric Sch- UPS community. Being the neider and Chris Sheppard, first in his family to finish who were recently accepted college, he understands how into graduate programs at fortunate he is to have this experience. Oxford University. “I’m already feeling a little This October they will pack nostalgic for UPS. I very their bags and head to Engmuch love this place,” Shepland in order to pursue the passions each has cultivated pard said, “It has given me a
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Senior Chris Sheppard, a Classics major, will continue his studies of Classics at Oxford before pursuing a PhD in the U.S.
lot, and I am very thankful for it.” Sheppard was largely inspired by the renowned author, J.R.R. Tolkein, who was also a student and professor at Oxford. Throughout Sheppard’s life, he was fascinated by the Tolkein’s work, largely because it demonstrated a connection between literature and ancient language. UPS granted Sheppard the opportunity to continue exploring this connection. Sheppard discussed the challenges of studying a language which is no longer widely spoken. “Reading is your chance for conversation with the dead languages. They are foreign to us, yet so familiar,” Sheppard said. Upon finishing his degree at UPS, he hopes to return to the United States for a PhD and eventually become a professor. Eric Schneider took a relatively different path. When he arrived at UPS, he developed a passion for History. One of his greatest interests is making sense of the past. “History isn’t only about dates,” he said. “It’s like a complex puzzle and you have to put together the pieces.” For Schneider, the task of building a complete picture from historical documents is a daunting task, yet deserving of more attention in the academic world.
“One exciting aspect of studying at Oxford,” Schneider said, “is the choice of a thematic course of study, as opposed to looking at a single region or time period,” Schneider said. Schneider chose to focus on peasant studies, which views history from the perspective of the lower classes. This, however, makes his task even more difficult, since records often exist only in memorial surveys, or contractual documents that list basic information about residential tenants such as names, dates and economic transactions. “My work is a matter of starting with this rudimentary picture, and building something bigger,” Schneider said. One of the biggest advantages about studying in Oxford will be first hand access to primary source material, rather than translated photocopies. “These documents are a glimpse of the past,” Schneider said, “and to see them first hand will bring me that much closer to history.” A Masters Degree in Social and Economic History will provide Schneider with the theoretical and practical training to analyze these materials come one step closer to creating that bigger picture. Although eager to start their studies, Schneider and
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Senior Eric Schneider plans to focus on peasant studies while pursuing his Masters degree in social and economic history.
Sheppard are equally excited to become immersed in a new culture, especially, Schneider explained, considering the heat surrounding American politics in the upcoming election. “It will be interesting to see a different perspective on America and their politics,” Schneider said. When asked what advice they might offer other students on a similar path, both stressed the importance of using the resources at UPS, especially grants and scholarships. •
New ASUPS leadership inaugurated yesterday By Callie Johnson cmjohnson@ups.edu News Writer On Mar. 4, the results of the ASUPS election were announced. Across the board, one of the most prevalent themes in this year’s campaign were transparency and improved communication among the ASUPS senate and the student body. The Trail attempted to contact each of the newly elected members of the senate, but not all were available to provide information. Yusuf Word and Ross Heyman, the newly elected President and Vice-President, want to make ASUPS more accessible, holding open forums regularly to keep students informed and to give everyone an opportunity to offer input. “We want to maintain the dialogue that we began during our campaign and improve the communication between ASUPS and the students. We also intend to implement web surveys to ensure that we are
representing the needs of the student body.” Emmett Stanton, the newly elected Junior Senator, hopes to unify the Junior class and keep a sense of connection between its members and campus during a year in which many students go abroad. “I hope to keep the class informed of important things that are happening and changes that have been made in order to keep us unified when a large number of us are away,” Stanton said. “Similarly, I hope to keep the on-campus and off-campus community in touch with and aware of what all is happening at UPS. I hope to provide everyone with access to some form of communication that would be readily available and simple to use.” Improved communication not only figures into the relations between students in a given class but also between UPS and its alumni. The Student Alumni Association (SAA) is a new organization dedicated to engage students from their first day on campus until after
graduation. Every UPS student is a member, but the governing body consists of ten officers: a President, a Vice President, and two representatives from each class. Dana Wu, the first SAA President, said that a majority of students might not be entirely familiar with the organization right now due to its infancy, but that its visibility should increase as a result of its activity on campus. For example, the SAA hosted class events during the last week of February and enjoyed a good turnout; more than ten percent of each class attended. “We’re hoping to create opportunities for current students to build relationships with each other and to maintain those ties past graduation through events and programs. At the same time we’re coordinating opportunities for both alumni and students to connect to each other,” Wu said. Another theme in this year’s campaign was the allocation of money, including increased funding for clubs and organi-
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Senior Honors thesis culminates students’ achievement throughout 4 year program By Kapiolani Street kstreet@ups.edu Assistant News Editor An Honors thesis is the last step in completing the requirements for the Honors Program at UPS and attaining the distinction of Coolidge Otis Chapman Honors Scholar at graduation. The Honors Program, according to program director Professor Michael Curley, took on a recognizable form as a program in the late sixties and since that time has been revised several times. According to the Mission Statement, Goals, and Objectives of the Honors Program, the program is not a major, and it is not limited to a single discipline. It is an intensive, fouryear course of study designed to foster intellectual development and to realize the educational objectives of the University: breadth as well as depth in learning, acquisition of analytical abilities and intellectual autonomy, and refinement of writing and speaking skills. Curley states that the Honors Program functions in some ways much like UPS departments. It has a curriculum and faculty specially appointed to teach and administer the Honors Program. In other ways, the Honors Program, however, is more like a small college within the University; the UPS Honors Program has a defined cohort of students following a unique curriculum with a residential component and a series of group activities.
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said. “With that in mind, communication and collaboration between different clubs, media, and programmers is going to be crucial in the upcoming year,” Word and Heyman said; “ We as students must work together if we want to use our resources wisely.” All candidates were interested in increasing accessibility to officers.
However, the Honors program is somewhat unusual in that among its University Core requirements is a course in nonWestern culture; the thesis, a requirement of the Honors Program, is not a graduation requirement of all other UPS students. The Honors Program curriculum consists of two basic components. The first of these is a series of courses taken over three years, each one satisfying a University core requirement. The second component is the Honors Thesis, which is undertaken in the senior year. The Honors courses, the foundation of the program, provide students with a basic, commonly shared foundation of knowledge by means of close study of some foundational texts from the Western and Asian traditions. In practice, the subject matter of each year is fairly closely integrated: the freshman curriculum is tightly coordinated within historical periods and intellectual questions; the sophomore year’s focus is on scientific and mathematical paradigms; and the junior year curriculum gives special prominence to the Asian classics. The students’ mastery of an intellectual discipline is indicated in the Senior Honors thesis (most typically within the major), which for the majority of students is the most intensive engagement in writing and research during their university career and the greatest test of their intellectual autonomy. “The thesis topic is clearly defined, and substantial pre-
cont. from page 2 “The main reason we ran for office was to work for student needs and to actively seek out concerns that students have,” Word and Heyman said. “I am here for you to talk about your ideas, whatever they are,” Stanton said. “I know everyone is busy all the time, but feel free to drop me a line via email or Facebook and we’ll talk about what’s important to you.” •
Security Report The following incidents occurred on campus and were reported to Security Services between March 4 and March 10:
• A student reported his wallet was stolen from his coat pocket. He said he left his coat unattended for about 2 hours in the common area of a Union Avenue residence. When he returned, his wallet was missing. • A student reported equipment taken from his bicycle while it was locked in the Schiff Hall bike storage room. He said he noticed the small computer used to monitor speed and distance was missing when he went to use his bicycle. • Security staff responded to a complaint about a broken window in a Union Ave. residence. Apparently an unknown person threw a bottle through it from outside. There were no witnesses to the incident. Please contact Security at x3311 if you have any information about the incidents described above. If you are leaving campus for Spring Break, please make sure you secure your valuables. Do not leave expensive personal items in your vehicle. • Courtesy of Todd A. Badham, Director of Security Services.
liminary thesis research should be accomplished before September of the student’s senior year,” Curley said. Senior Megan Barter chose her topic based upon the research she conducted throughout the summer through this year. “In the middle of my junior year, I realized I wanted to conduct undergraduate research and I really enjoyed Organic Chemistry, so I decided to do research in Organic Chemistry synthesis and subsequently, it became my thesis,” Barter said. “My thesis topic was a method optimization for creating phosphinate esters,” Barter said. “Essentially, my research is evaluating the most effective way to synthesize phosphorouscarbon bonds.” Senior Rachel Gross conducted research based off of a project that interested her from a Native America history class taught by Professor Doug Sackman last semester. Gross titled her Honors thesis presentation, “Kla-how-ya: Re-evaluating Tacoma’s Native Past and Present.” “The author of the book Native Seattle, which we read in the class, came to visit on campus last semester,” Gross said. “I asked [the author], Coll Thrush what other cities’ histories could be reevaluated considering the kind of urban native history place stories he formed about Seattle [and] he said that Tacoma was one possibility, and I was intrigued by the idea of working on something close to the University community.” The Honors thesis begins to
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Senior Danielle Richards presented her Honors Senior thesis entitled “Anonymity, Affordability, and Accessibility: Pornography in the Computer Age. A Literature Review of Pornography and the Consumer.” take shape during the student’s junior year. Honors theses topics develop in any number of ways including summer and semester internships, foreign study and travel, and the student’s independent curiosity about things. As Barter’s research advisor, Chemistry Professor Dr. John Hanson aided Barter in developing her presentation. “The biggest challenge was explaining the chemistry and making it readily accessible to an audience who does not have a background in chemistry,” Barter said. “This is where Professor Hanson was pivotal due to the fact that he was able to guide me through the process of creating a presentation that
was technical and instructive.” Gross’ biggest challenge was finding the right sources. “I had to go to the downtown Tacoma public library’s Northwest room to find what I really needed,” Gross said. According to Barter, the Honors curriculum provided her with the foundation to express herself within her specific field of study. An Honors thesis needs to be of superior quality in order to earn for the student special designation at graduation. All members of the student’s thesis committee must approve the thesis for the student to be given the designation of Coolidge Otis Chapman Honors Scholar at graduation. •
Alumni organization hopes to improve class solidarity By Lan Nguyen lnguyen@ups.edu News Writer After five years of dabbling in work around Tacoma, Rebecca Harrison found herself back at UPS. The Class of 2001 alumna has re-established her role on campus, this time working as one of the school’s Assistant Director of Alumni Relations. Harrison is among a number of alumni who continue to stay engaged with the school– through employment, volunteer, or providing guidance to current students. Alumni make up approximately one-sixth of the total faculty and staff, and the school is currently undertaking initiatives to foster engagement between alumni and students. “I stayed in Tacoma and always loved it. I think it’s a great place,” Harrison said. “This opportunity came up and I thought I wanted to get back to the university and get connected.” Even though Harrison is happy to be back on campus, she also appreciates the time she spent exploring her options. “I needed the time away to make that transition from being a student to being staff,” Harrison said. In her short time as staff, Har-
rison said she has already found perks to being an alumna on working on campus. “I think the most striking thing to me is seeing a lot of the familiar faces of staff and faculty when I was here. It just shows their commitment to the university,” she said. The Office of Alumni and Parent Relations hopes to establish their reputation by increasing the connection between alumni and students. Their new group, the Student-Alumni Association, is aimed to bridge the gap between the two groups. The Student-Alumni Association is an initiative through the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, but is predominately student run. The president of the organization is junior Dana Wu. Officers include freshmen Elizabeth Card, John Elam, Lisa Griswold, Haylee Jenkins, and Hannah Jones. “The organization came about as a strategy and opportunity for students to have a voice in how alums connect back with the campus,” Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Jessica Carter said. The purpose of the organization is to build identity among classes, as well as a strong relationship between and alumni. According to Carter, one aim of the association is connecting students with others in their
class year. The organization focuses on this aspect because the school organizes alumni by their class year, so establishing that relationship now is a good opportunity to build connections with other students that they will be classified with once they graduate. “Now that we have a group of students [involved], they will breathe fire into it because they will know what students care about and how they want those connections between alumni to be made,” she said. “I would love to see every student on campus know what this organization is and being involved somehow.” The group has had a series of events this year and is planning an event for seniors on April 17, which will feature a slideshow and bar. Another avenue for students to connect with alumni is the ASK Network, which is a group of UPS graduates who volunteer to assist students and recent alumni in their search for information about specific careers and graduate school. ASK, which stands Alumni Sharing Knowledge, is run by Career and Employment Services. For more information on the Student Alumni Association, contact the Alumni and Parent Relations Office at 253.879.4636. •
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A sexual moderate’s cry for campus support
Majority of “sex talk” on campus extreme, under-representative of students By Isabelle Eyre ieyre@ups.edu Opinions Writer
A few days ago, I was sitting in my room minding my own business, when I heard a girl loudly asking if her friend knew what venereal disease she had. If I had heard this at the beginning of the year, I would have automatically assumed that this was just a very distasteful
joke. However, after a semester who would never yell about it, friends’ details — I like to call and a half at UPS, the idea that who don’t want their friends them the sexual moderates. someone might seriPerhaps, they don’t ously ask her friend loudly proclaim what STD she had in ‘Abstinence see any reason why it’s any less legitimate but they are! Only’, a public hallway, three forI don’t (gasp) person to feel slightly more closed off about a little embarrassed decibels above the sex athan it is for someone to be really open. norm, actually crossed about sex. And even my mind. Which though they may lead me to thinking not be a very loud about the unlucky group on campus, people who aren’t comfortable to know the details of it, who they exist — and deserve to be with this topic — the people don’t want to know about their both represented and respected
by our school’s sexual health and education programs. If you’re someone who wants to be very open about sex, you’re in luck here at UPS. There seems to be a sex talk once every two months on campus. On Mar. 6, Babeland did part two of their on-campus sex talk in Rausch auditorium. I went to
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Female representation low in ASUPS election By Seth B. Doherty sdoherty@ups.edu Opinions Writer
As I voted in this past ASUPS election, I suddenly noticed that out of eight candidates for President and Vice President, there was only one woman. In a school where the student body is majority female, (61 percent female to 39 percent male in the last incoming class) this breakdown of candidates implies that something is wrong. This seems to suggest there is a level of gender inequality that one would not expect to find at a liberal arts university on the west-side of the Pacific Northwest. This is a problem that affects the opportunities of female students but also affects all students, by perhaps denying us of a number of quality candidates. Throughout UPS, I see no lack of female leaders involved in a variety of activities. In fact, even within ASUPS, nearly half of all Senators are women. Yet, I am a senior and during my time here, despite a female Vice President for the 2006-2007 year, I have never seen a female ASUPS president, and I have seen very few female candidates for either position. There are several possible diagnoses, perhaps there is a belief, accurate or not, among possible female candidates that they would not get elected or perhaps there was not the encouragement from the student body. I would hope that this student body would just as willingly elect a female head of ASUPS as a male one, but the reality of who we have recently elected and who has run in the past suggests something very different. This seems odd considering the diversity, left-leaning campus of UPS is. This is especially odd since the campus has had no problem electing students from diverse groups that truly are minorities on campus to the ASUPS executive. This suggests that perhaps there is a level of subtle, but
unacceptable, sexism on campus that still discourages the sort of leadership represented by being ASUPS executives for campus women. Whatever the cause of the problem, it no doubt builds on itself. The longer UPS goes with a male-dominated executive, the more it is going to seem the norm, the more strange the alternative will seem and the more likely it will be that students will continue voting the status quo. With ASUPS occasionally making decisions that may affect students of different genders’ in different ways, like the Sexual Health Proposal, this constant absence of the majority gender on campus from the highest office of ASUPS may even begin to have an effect in policy. Also, who knows what kind of innovation and new ideas we as a student body are denying ourselves of by keeping more than half of the student body from striving for our student government’s highest positions. When our choices come from less than half the student population, there is an opportunity missed for all of us. We clearly have a campus where sexism is relatively rare, and students of all kinds are active in various activities, taking on leadership roles, but there apparently remains a problem. We need to take stock and be aware of what kinds of messages are being sent out and what kinds of opportunities are available for all students. As a male who has not ran for a student government position since middle school, I am in no position to be telling female students to get out there and run for office, but I congratulate Summer Nazer on her effort in this past election. I fear we have a situation where some women might not run if they wanted to, and that kind of environment is clearly something I can speak out against. • Seth B. Doherty’s spoon is too big.
Emergency contraception: safe, affordable, necessary By Glynnis Kirchmeier gkirchmeier@ups.edu Sex Columnist
Emergency contraception (EC) is an essential safer-sex tool. If you have unprotected sex, a condom breaks or you are forced to have sex, taking EC within five days can greatly reduce your chance of getting pregnant, though it is most effective if you start the dose within 72 hours. (Getting an IUD within five days after the sex achieves the same purpose, but for this column I’m going to limit the discussion to pill ECs.) In the United States, the only legal kind of EC is the progestin-based Plan B. It will reduce your risk of getting pregnant if taken within 72 hours by 89%. That does not mean that you would get pregnant 11% of the time if you took EC; rather, taking EC reduces by 89% the number of women one would expect to get pregnant after unprotected sex. If you take the pill within 24 hours, you can reduce your chances of getting pregnant by 95%. Regular birth control is more reliable in preventing pregnancy; this is an emergency method. One dose of Plan B is two pills. Traditional use is to take one pill as soon as possible after sex, and the second 12 hours later. There’s a lot of room for human error there, and some studies have found that taking both pills at once is just as effective. So some doctors and healthcare providers, such as Planned Parenthood, will advise you to take both pills at once even though the packaging says 12 hours apart. Confusing, I know. Pick one method or the other and you will be fine. Don’t take one pill, though, and then take the other 6 hours later or something not
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Plan B is the only emergency contraceptive pill approved for use in the United States, and can be found at most drugstores. recommended, because no one knows how that will turn out. You can get EC at CHWS for $14, the website reports. Other places are Planned Parenthood (cost $10 to $40), In the United States, the only legal kind of EC is the progestin-based Plan B. It will reduce your risk of getting pregnant if taken within 72 hours by 89%. Bartell Drugs ($40 without a prescription), and Walgreens ($42). If you take birth control in pill form, taking several at once will cause the same effect as EC. For guidance on how many to take depending on your brand, look in Vox’s Safer Sex guide or at the end of the Trussell and Raymond article. Some rabid pro-lifers started a rumor that emergency contraception is abortion. First off, no (I’ll talk about that in a minute). Second off, the way they came to that conclusion was with the understanding that pregnancy happens at fertilization, because medical
establishments (such as the FDA, the National Institute of Health, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) defines pregnancy as implantation of a fertilized egg into the uterine walls. Since fertilized eggs often fail to implant, it makes sense not to think of a woman as “pregnant” until they start receiving nutrients via the uterus. Also, is a fertilized egg in a petri dish a “pregnancy?” No. Third off, people who confuse conception with pregnancy are often doing so for political/religious, not medical, reasons, and therefore their opinions have no bearing on medical fact – certainly not when their opinion prevents someone else from making personal health choices. Here’s how EC works: Progestin and estrogen are both hormones that regulate the reproductive system in women (though male-bodied folks need them for regulation as well). The primary form that EC utilizes to prevent pregnancy is through delaying ovulation. That effect is well-documented. But the high rate of
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success suggests that there is another other mechanism by which EC prevents pregnancy (studies conflict on how this may happen, read Trussell and Raymond for a summary of the evidence). Possibilities include changing the uterine wall to be less receptive to a fertilized egg, alkalizing the uterus to immobilize sperm, thickening the cervical mucous to hinder sperm mobility, changing the way the fallopian tubes allow eggs and sperm to travel and actually interfering with fertilization somehow. If the last point bothers you, keep in mind there’s no clear evidence one way or another on that effect. But if it does, all that means is that you, personally, won’t take EC, because you are an ethical person who won’t inflict your beliefs about conception on other women, right? Right. Side effects could include breast tenderness, dizziness, abdominal tenderness, nausea, headache, and fatigue. These are usually mild and go away after a day. The most common side effect is a disruption of the menstrual cycle. If you are already pregnant, EC will do absolutely nothing to alter that fact, nor will it have any effect whatsoever on the fetus’ development. Everyone – by which I mean anyone who could be in any way directly responsible for a pregnancy – should have a dose of EC sitting in their drawer. Everyone. If you don’t get the gist, I mean that men need to be responsible for birth control, too. It’s cheaper than abortion, babies, adoption agency fees, or child support payments.
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“Evergreen Riot” in search of dialogue By Erick Peirson epeirson@ups.edu Opinions Writer
Any attempt to reduce the vents of Feb. 14 on the Evergreen campus to some central cause or “bottom line” would be at best naïve, and easily deceptive. This is evident in the wide range of reporting that has circulated throughout the Puget Sound region in the aftermath of what is now referred to as the “Evergreen Riot.” [You will find in this issue of the Trail a thoughtful critique of the journalism surrounding this event by Joe La Sac that should give us all reason to pause.] Most discourse centers around where the blame ought to be allocated for what has widely been labeled a “breakdown of order” resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in damage to Thurston County property and a dark cloud over the Evergreen campus community. These casual analyses are diverse: false accusations were made; the performers incited violence; the hype of the
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music robbed concertgoers of their reason; the arrest was racist; anarchists monopolized on a ripe situation; the police escalated the incident unnecessarily using violence; the rioters were out of control. What occurred that night is not reducible to single cause, but is the product of an emotional and irrational interaction between two equally fallible groups of humans. On one hand, a default reaction to an event such as the Evergreen Riot might be to characterize the rioters as delinquents, crazed by extreme music, striking out in naiveté and requiring the reluctant but firm hand of the police to restore order and serve justice. This position seems to be based on a premise that is deeply ingrained in American culture: the notion of the “to serve and protect” police officer; the noble knight of “Cops” and “America’s Most Wanted.” If something goes down and the police step in, we are conditioned to automatically presume the moral infallibility of the law. This is the assumption I grew up with. As a
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the first one, back in the fall, the quality of these workshops which, although well done is very high, don’t get me wrong, and highly organized, was very but I find they also lack diversity. open. No holds bar, no topic I guess I can’t say I’m surprised off-limits. And while I did not that there aren’t many conservahate the talk, I couldn’t possibly tive, completely-against-sex-besee the point in going to part fore-marriage type rallies, since two. In my mind, the person we definitely lean towards the couldn’t give any more details liberal side here. Even a workthat I wouldn’t feel awkward shop exploring the relationship hearing with people from my between sex, emotion, and intihistory class sitting three seats macy, rather than just the best • Glynnis Kirchmeier knows sex. in front of me. Blame it on up- positions and toys, would be bringing, or religion, but I don’t a welcome addition. Talking see any reason why it’s any less about the merits of waiting for legitimate for a person to feel someone you love, or why FWB References... slightly more closed off about (Friends With Benefits) isn’t alsex then it is for someone to be ways healthy — the blurry line • Davidoff, Frank, and James really open. between sex and emotion is an Trussell. “Plan B and the Politics I don’t see any reason why it’s under-represented issue. I apany less legitimate for a person preciate the emphasis on safe of Doubt.” Journal of the Amerito feel slightly sex we have can Medical Association. 296 more closed here on cam(2006): 1775-1778. < http:// off about sex pus (CHWS’s I realize college is about jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/ then it is for trying disappear ing new things, opening someone to be doors, exploring “the self ”, but condoms are full/296/14/1775?ijkey=qsS31 really open. practiRMdFZfdU&keytype=ref&site I honestly wonder how many both I realize col- people are actually hooking up cal and make id=amajnls>. lege is about every Saturday night, and how me laugh, well • “Emergency Contraceptive trying new many people are posturing for done), which is things, opening the sake of fulfilling a colle- a controversial Pills.” 2007. Office of Populadoors, explor- giate stereotype. issue for a lot tion Research & Association of ing “the self ”, of conservaReproductive Health Profesbut I honestly tive groups. I sionals. 8 March 2008. < http:// wonder how don’t think it’s ec.princeton.edu/info/ecp.html>. many people are actually hook- a controversial issue here. Most ing up every Saturday night, and of us have nothing against con• Trussell, James, and Elizahow many people are posturing doms. The sexual intimacy topics beth G. Raymond. “Emergency for the sake of fulfilling a col- are probably more controversial, Contraception: A Last Chance legiate stereotype. A sex survey really, and could stir up a lot of to Prevent Unintended Pregof about 300 university students interesting discussion. around the United States done I suppose a lot of people nancy.” February 2008. Office of by U. Magazine said that 29 will say that these subjects are Population Research, Princeton percent of those surveyed were preachy. I would argue that it’s University. 8 March 2008. < still virgins. Is UPS that differ- just as preachy to say that sex http://ec.princeton.edu/ quesent? I perused the CHWS web- is always okay if it’s safe, rather site and Student Health Aware- than the opposite. It would be tions/ec-review.pdf>. ness/Advocacy pages, trying to just as rewarding, less embar• Women’s Capital Corporafind a similar survey, but came rassing and equally interesting tion. “Plan B: FAQs.” 2008. up short. If UPS has done the to bring up the issues in a public Duramed Pharmaceuticals. 8 survey, it’s not easy to find. forum. Let’s see some diversity Hypothetically, though, say on what is preached. It will, if March 2008. <http://www. that 30 percent of UPS students nothing else, bring the sexual go2planb.com/ForConsumers/ were virgins – would they be ac- moderates out of their shells. TakingPlanB/faqs.aspx>. curately represented by our sexu• Isabelle Eyre actually is sex. al education workshops? I think
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child I interacted with Sheriff ’s deputies and city police officers regularly, and was on a first name basis with more than one. These were the people that attended my family’s church, that lived in my neighborhood, that I trusted. What a wonderful sense of security this paradigm affords us! To their credit, I still believe that the majority of police women and men do approximate to a high degree the noble stereotype that American culture has apportioned them. But the people that comprise the law enforcement community are just that: people. What reason do we have, therefore, to believe that the institutions of law enforcement in our community are insusceptible to the same breakdowns and dysfunctions as we readily acknowledge in every other agency or organization we have ever constructed? An equally indefensible reaction to the Evergreen Riot is to chalk it up to “yet another display of police brutality.” There is growing unrest among the youth of the present toward
law enforcement. In this sector of societal illusions about the moral infallibility of the police have eroded, and an anger is growing. Perhaps this phenomena can be attributed to the rebellion inherent in youth, or to the anti-establishment cultural messages that have the Tacoma government paranoid this month. These feelings often manifest themselves at rallies and protests, where attendees are hyper-vigilant (at times irrationally so) for anything resembling police brutality. The police are characterized as the enemy, perpetuating absolute authoritarianism and actively searching for ways to trample on the rights of the everyperson. Although there are certainly always exceptions, I find it highly unlikely that the average police officer – even the average riot cop – fits that description in the slightest. And yet violence is prevalent in interactions between politically conscientious youth and the police: pepper-spray, tear-
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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, The Trail missed an important piece in their article on the Dead Prez show postponement last week. On Feb. 14, Kaylen Williams, a black man, was a VIP at the Dead Prez show in Olympia who said in the Weekly Volcano that he was making sure the event went smoothly. When Olympia police arrested Williams for allegedly being involved in a fight that took place between white concert-goers, it was widely believed Williams was being scapegoated and that his arrest was racially-motivated. The concert-goers were not willing to allow this injustice to be carried out without confrontation, so after questioning and testifying they surrounded the police car and demanded Williams be released. Riot soon police arrived and what happened after we have all seen pictures of. I doubt very many students at UPS comprehended the underlying causes of this incident, and neither did the Trail. The Trail had two weeks to figure out what happened and all it could say was that a fight broke out and police cars overturned. Where does the presumption lie when you report on events in that way? It invariably cements the view that there was no justification for confronting the authorities. This kind of reporting ultimately justifies pro-authoritarianism; it is symptomatic of a much larger issue. The presumption-giving by the Trail is no different from what the corporate-influenced news organizations in the Puget Sound had already done through their lazy, misshapen version of journalistic integrity. Curiously, though a large part of the article was dedicated to
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the incident, the excuse given by the Trail was essentially to say that their presumption would be pro-authority given that their intention was only to explain ASUPS’s postponement of the concert. This abuse of casuistry is highly specious. If the Trail wanted only to explain the postponement then it could have at least mentioned it was leaving out ‘the other part’ of the story instead of halfway including the most already overused parts of that story. Perhaps the most journalistic integrity I’ve seen out of this was the article in the Tacoma Volcano, since they had actually interviewed Kaylen Williams himself. That standard should have been matched by every mainstream reporter. Unsurprisingly it was not. I am not saying the Trail has to go as far as the Volcano in its capacity as a short-staffed student organization which hardly takes itself seriously. Yet I fear that although our newspaper is far from a mass-media operation, the Trail has in fact modeled its standards after mass-media through its incorporation of presumptive voices and dodgy reporting. There is no sense that we are pushing academic boundaries, experimenting with new voices, or exploring our narrative freedom. Why the need to be so unoriginal? Why the need to accept faulty industry standards? If the Trail is your résumé-builder then that should be its tagline. Otherwise, quit promulgating these nontransparent ideologies and mass-media frameworks through indirect disguises. Dissatisfied, Joseph La Sac
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Vaccines still not cause of Autism
KUPS responds to “KUBS”
By Arjun Dhillon adhillon@ups.edu Health/Science Columnist
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Dear Zack, I appreciate your concerns about the station, but I hope you will allow me to respond to what you brought up in your letter to the editor (“More like KUBS”). The rigid DJ selection process at KUPS is not for the sake of exclusivity, but for purposes of professionalism. Our goal is to promote independent music, and we maintain a competitive application process in order to continue accomplishing this as best we can. We interview each applicant – even returning DJs – to ensure that the process is thorough. It’s never easy choosing who gets a show each semester, but I am confident in the decisions of the Core Staff. I would also like to respond to a few of your suggestions about how the station should be run. You recommended that new DJs take preference over returning applicants, and on that matter, I disagree. DJs know that doing a good job and going the extra mile to support the station gives them a better chance at being rehired. This incentive keeps DJs working hard, ensuring that they perform to the best of their ability and don’t take the station for granted. Another criticism you had was our lack of bias toward upperclassmen. We don’t discriminate by seniority. Instead, we select the applicants we feel are the most qualified, regardless of class. You also suggested that we cut two hour shows down to a single hour. Again, this leads back to our objective of professionalism. More airtime gives DJs more experience. KUPS is not so much a service to DJs as it is to the entire UPS and Tacoma community. If you believe that KUPS can provide only airtime for you, then I think you share values different than those of the station. It’s also too bad that you believe you could only experience the radio through being a DJ. The goal of the station is to increase listeners on a day to day basis. KUPS does not just serve as an outlet for students to be a DJ, but to provide new, local, and independent music to the campus and Tacoma communities. Again, it’s unfortunate that we could not schedule every single applicant in. Admittedly, there were many qualified DJs that didn’t get a show because of schedule conflicts and space limitations, but I think compromising the ambitions and aspirations of the station to accommodate your needs would be a mistake. Sincerely, Greg Merrell KUPS General Manager
The US government recently decided to compensate the parents of a girl who had developed autism-like symptoms shortly after receiving a series of immunizations as a young child. For people who believe that autism is caused by vaccines, this decision has been perceived as an important victory. But to believe that this case provides evidence for a link between immunizations and autism is pure fantasy. Proponents of the vaccine-autism hypothesis have ignored the real reasoning behind this decision, just as they ignore the scientific evidence disputing their claims. Terry and Jon Poling, the parents of the child involved in this case, explain that their daughter started to display a host of health problems a few days after receiving eight immunizations more than eight years ago. They claim that a mercury additive in the vaccines caused these problems and ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in their child. The Polings and their supporters argue that the vaccineautism connection is proven by two main pieces of evidence: the similarities between symptoms of autism and those of mercury poisoning, and the increased rate of autism after the introduction of mercury containing vaccines in the 1970s. However,
this support is scavenged from distorted historic trends and mischaracterized chemical effects. While it does not seem to sway the believers, a large body of scientific evidence and expert examination has firmly refuted these claims. Mercury poisoning and autism do indeed have some similar symptoms, but the connection seems to stop there. Multiple controlled studies demonstrate that there is no difference in mercury levels between autistic children and those without the disorder. Researchers have also shown that mercury levels in vaccines were well below the federal safety limits. In fact, a new study by the University of Rochester demonstrates that what little mercury is present in the vaccines is excreted from the body much faster than previously thought. The vaccine additive leaves the system more than ten times as fast as the mercury ingested from eating fish. The historic correlation between autism and vaccines is a similarly faulty argument. Just because autism rates started to increase throughout the time when mercury additives were used doesn’t mean that these two events are related. You could just as easily draw this connection with the increase of greenhouse gas emission during this time or the proliferation of microwave ovens in US households. Studies of children who received vaccines without the mercury additive further dis-
credit this historic correlation. The rate of autism in Denmark has been increasing since they eliminated mercury from their vaccines fifteen years ago. California has also seen an increasing rate of autism since mercury was removed from their vaccines in 2001, and a nationwide study demonstrated that different levels of mercury additives had no effect on autism rates. In 2005 the Chochrane Library did the most comprehensive review ever conducted of scientific literature on the autism-vaccine link. They found absolutely no credible evidence that supported this connection. With so much evidence that refutes the link between vaccines and autism, why did the scientific community decide to compensate Terry and Jon Poling for their daughter’s struggle with autism? The answer is simple: they didn’t. The Polings’ daughter suffers from a rare genetic disorder that affects mitochondrial function in the cell. The decision made by government officials is that the vaccines may have exasperated this underlying medical condition. The officials did not say that the vaccines caused autism, that they caused the mitochondrial disorder, or that the mercury additives were the culprit. Furthermore, this concession was made without the support of scientific evidence. There has been no research that demonstrates a link between vaccines and this mitochondrial disorder, and many researchers and pub-
RIOT gas and batons are common fare at many protests. Even highschool students are finding themselves drawn into this pattern, as exemplified by the protest-turn-bloodbath at Miami Edison High School on Feb. 29. But does the noble-cop vs. insolent-youth paradigm truly capture what is going on here? How do we account for the fact that student-reporters wielding only cameras were singled out and attacked by officers at the incident in Florida last month? Consider the pandemonium of last spring’s protest at the Port of Tacoma: I myself (attending as an observer and videographer) watched as riot police – without warning of any kind – fired tear gas and pepper-pray at a group of protesters who were doing nothing more than sitting on a side-street (which had been blockaded by the police since before the protestors arrived) singing peace songs. Clearly there is something going on here. Could it be that truly unnecessary acts of violence by members of the police force are growing more numerous as a result of deleterious cultural evolution within a relatively autonomous human system? This has nothing to do with the integrity and intentions of those within the system; these it is most emphatically not my intent to impugn. But is it such a preposterous notion that a
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group of rational humans might exhibit corporate irrationality? Similarly, rhetoric about alleged police brutality is becoming increasingly common among politically conscientious youth. YouTube videos alleging police brutality grow more numerous on a weekly basis. Anti-police slogans can be heard at many protests. On our own campus, an anti-police brutality march was planned as part of the Northwest SDS Convention last fall. There is a vast amount of emotion behind all of this, and it is cumulative in the greatest degree. In order to adequately understand the Evergreen Riot, we cannot rely on a simple causal paradigm. At protests and rallies around the country youth find themselves toe-to-toe with police. As a function of their humanity these two groups are susceptible to the same irrationality, the same alarmism, the same propensity to overreact. Anger and frustration toward violent police tactics (justified or not) manifests itself in the language and posture of protestors. This public agitation can be equally exaggerated in the perception of the police, and consequently “less-lethal” reactions on their part might seem to them to be quite reasonable. This assessment is demonstrable: the TPD and supporting agencies were praised by their peers for their “restraint”
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in the Port of Tacoma incident described above, and police representatives to the media passed on blatantly fabricated information about the incident without seeking even a cursory confirmation of the evidence. In the other camp, exaggerated allegations of police brutality are not rare. These two groups do not understand each other in the slightest – their views are incommensurable – and they have not yet found a way to communicate. Mediators between the police and protestors were not present at the Port of Tacoma, and I suspect that this is the norm. Following the Port of Tacoma incident last spring students and police commenced preliminary dialogue to debrief, but this fell through in its early stages. On the night of Feb. 14 an agitated crowd confronted the arrest of a man widely believed to be innocent. In extracting their trapped and overwhelmed comrades police used “lesslethal” weapons to disperse the crowd. The scene exploded. Seattle Times writer Nick Perry quotes Thurston County officer April Meyers describing the situation as “Lord of the Fliesesque.” Evergreen Professor Peter Bohmer (in the same article) described the police as “the original aggressors” who “came in swinging.” The crowd was certainly irrational that night, nearly all accounts agree. But
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lic officials have condemned this decision as being baseless. The Center for Disease Control was quick to respond to this ruling by emphasizing that no scientific link between autism and immunizations exist. It is important to examine our public health policies for risky practices, but insisting that this connection exists in the face of so much contrary evidence is absurd. It distracts the scientific community from exploring other causes, and deceives the public into believing that immunizations – which save countless lives every year – are dangerous.
• Arjun Dhillon is fully vaccinated.
References... Mercury and autism http://jcn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/6/431 http://www.urmc.rochester. edu/pr/news/story.cfm?id=1848 Population studies of vaccines and autism http://www.slate.com/ id/2123647/ Review of scientific literature on autism-vaccine link http://www.cochrane.org/press/ MMR_final.pdf Responses from scientific community on compensation ruling http://www.upi.com/ NewsTrack/Science/2008/03/07/ doctors_defend_safety_of_vaccinations/8485/
cont. from page 6 the police were equally irrational in their implementation of weapons that they knew were powerful icons in the youth-police dichotomy. The aftermath is a witch-hunt that the Thurston County sheriff department has all but stated is retaliatory, and the perpetuity of troubled emotions toward the police among the Evergreen community and its sympathizers. As youth in the middle of this tumultuous relationship it is critical that we (I most emphatically do include myself in this group) evaluate ourselves corporately, and tease out the roots of the intense emotions toward law enforcement growing within us. By the same token, this cycle cannot end without open and honest introspection on the part of the law enforcement community regarding their policies and practices. The public perception of the disintegration of civil rights and privacy on a national level, with the passage of PATRIOT-esque legislation and revelations of potentially unconstitutional surveillance rampant in press, only aggravates this need. Unless critical and honest dialogue regarding protest violence between and within these groups occurs, we can expect only an increase in violent confrontation between youth and the police.
• Erick Peirson hopes to avoid violent riots on his spring break.
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Relay for Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature event their website, Relay for Life was started 25 years ago by Dr. Gord wanted to raise awareness about cancer and raise money for his ican Cancer Society chapter. He ran 83 miles on UPS very own Ba track over the course of 24 hours throughout which friends paid run with him for half an hour. This event grew over the years an the largest fund-raising event in the country, being held at more 4,800 locations nationwide. Its main goals are to raise awarenes cancer, honor survivors and raise money to support research for During each 24-hour event, 8 to 15-member teams of participa take turns walking or running laps. Each team must keep at leas person on the track at all times. The first lap is traditionally tak by cancer survivors, and subsequent laps are taken by their team members and supporters. A luminaria ceremony is also held to commemorate people who lost their lives to cancer. The ultimat goal of the American Cancer Society and the cause to which the Relay dollars contribute is the elimination of cancer as a major health threat. Callie Johnson • Features Writer • cmjohnson@ups.edu
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The UPS Relay for Life is back on campus this year! This year’s event will take place on April 11 on Baker Field and will last from 5 p.m. until 12 p.m. the following day. In order to “create a vibrant atmosphere and to pick up speed,” says Eric Schneider, student chair for the UPS branch of Relay for Life, entertainment will be provided throughout the night. Relay is bringing in bands through KUPS, showing movies, hosting activities like sports, and having a BBQ. They are also providing tents for the team members who are not on the track. The idea is to have everyone enjoy themselves throughout the night. In addition, a luminaria ceremony, in which people are invited to decorate candle-lit paper bags in commemoration of people who had or have cancer, will contribute a more serious note to the evening. You can either join a team or start one of your own. You can also use this website for fund-raising by sending emails directly to people with a link to your program through which they can donate directly. Last year, the UPS program raised $24,000 alone and aims to do even better this year. Interested? It’s easy to get involved. Visit their website: www.relayforlifeofups.com After all, who doesn’t want to help out with the cancer fight? Meredith Lawrence • Features Writer • malawrence@ups.edu
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All Boys Club parody captures real life By David Lev dlev@ups.edu A&E Writer
one another and make enough money to pay rent. The show combines scripted scenes that propel the story with interviews with the various house There are a lot of opportuni- members that are both improties to see all different types of vised and incredibly funny. theater here at the University “It’s like a reality show in of Puget Sound: short plays, which we look at males livlong plays, musicals, comedies, ing with males, and the ups tragedies, improv, student- and downs of living on one’s written and professional plays. own after college,” Hancock But before this year, there said, who in addition to being really wasn’t that much in co-creator, writer, and director the way of long-form acting, plays the character of Terrence where the story is continuous Underman. and goes on beyond one per“Travis and I have an idea formance. of how an episode is going to That was before the All Boys play out. It’s fun to see it play Club. out in a completely different The brainstorm of sopho- way because of the actors’ inmore Travis Hancock and terpretations,” Wolf said. junior David Wolf, with the Wolf also plays the character assistance of senior Clayton of Jake, in addition to directWeller, the All Boys Club ing and writing episodes. (ABC) is a “television show” The characters were created produced, written, directed first and then the cameras were and performed by UPS stu- turned on to capture the drama dents. The All Boys Club pro- as the characters evolved and duces about one episode each began to shape the story. month and is now in its second The main aim of ABC is to season. All of the first season get the audience to laugh, so can be seen on YouTube if you much of the plot deals in the search for “All Boys Club.” kind of uncomfortable awkAlthough they initially ward humor of “The Office” thought about associating and Christopher Guest films, ABC with Ubiquitous They, where viewers laugh because the UPS improv troupe, the the awkwardness is true to creators later decided to elicit life. the help of senior John Espey The fact that the story is of Praxis Imago as cameraman largely character-driven is easy and to turn it into a format re- to see, as all of the characters sembling a television show. are quirky and interesting. The Wolf and Hancock both cite various odd places that the as influences such shows as story travels, from exorcisms “The Office,” “Arrested De- to disputes over food to cleanvelopment,” “Always Sunny in ing up the bathroom, are all Philadelphia” and the films of explicable by its unique charChristopher Guest. acters. ABC takes the form of a “You’re guaranteed to laugh,” mockumentary, or faux real- Hancock said. ity show, about a house full Sophomore Jenny Tate, who of young men who have all plays June Whitaker (literally recently graduated from col- the girl next door to the main lege. The show follows the house in ABC), is quite encharacters as they start rela- thusiastic about the show. tionships, attempt to deal with
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In the student-directed TV show “All Boys Club,” recent college grads crowd into a single house.
“As far as I know, no one else is doing something like this, so it’s a good opportunity to see something new. It’s also really entertaining to see boys doing crazy things,” she said. As for what is coming next, it is hard to say. The first season ended with a big shake up that left fans at a huge cliffhanger. One character died and another character moved out. The first episode of the second season introduced new
characters and new additions to the house, accompanied by new complications and craziness. The cast members interviewed were appropriately mysterious about what will happen next, but Tate promised “lots of changes, lots of character development, and more crazy shenanigans.” Hancock promised more tension between characters, intensification of love triangles,
competition over jobs and an all-cast air band. Episodes of the All Boys Club premiere the last Friday of every month in the Rendezvous and afterwards are put on YouTube, where they can be accessed at www.youtube. com/allboysclub. • David Lev had his own concept for a TV show, where everyone DIES! It didn’t get off the ground.
Collins Memorial hides cinematic secrets
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Students can use the campus library for free movie rentals.
By Elyssa Dahl edahl@ups.edu A&E Writer The idea of spending time in the library is not a particularly thrilling one, but there are plenty of undiscovered gems to make your time worthwhile. If you happen to wander into the forgotten depths of Collins Memorial Library, while avoiding homework, you may un-
cover a hidden vault of DVDs for your viewing pleasure. You may have to weed through outdated VHS and sexual harassment videos, but the library stocks plenty of entertaining films for when the schoolwork gets too mindnumbing. Best of all, no ridiculous rental fees. A simple search through SIMON will return plenty of options, but here are some your best bets. Director Alfonso Cuarón’s beautiful film Y Tu Mamá También depicts the passion of youth as seen through the eyes of two teenage boys on a road trip through Mexico. Accompanied by a beautiful older woman, they learn what it means to live and not be afraid to love. Y Tu Mamá También is entirely in Spanish and is visually stunning. It is not inhibited by MPAA ratings and finds an artful way to tell an endearing story. I would recommend this film for any mood, but it certainly forces the viewer to invest more than the typical blockbuster. James McTeigue’s V for Vendetta considers a future that looks strangely like George
Orwell’s estimation. It tells the tale of Evey, a young woman given a crash course in what it means to defend your beliefs. Her life is violently altered when she meets V, a masked man who harnesses radicalism as a means to wake people up from the conformity they accept. This movie has all the right cinematic effects, visually and otherwise, to keep you engaged throughout. It has a good combination of social commentary and movie magic to make it a great choice no matter what type of movie you feel like watching. The Virgin Suicides, the debut movie of director Sofia Coppola, is an eerie tale of five sisters as based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. The young boys in the neighborhood cannot get enough of the girls’ youthful grace and invest their adolescence in trying to discover a disturbing secret. I may be partial to this movie because of Air’s flawless soundtrack, but even without the genius music, it would still be a great pick. Calling it “slow paced” is not fair, but there is a sense of lethargy that makes this movie a
good one if you plan on dozing off afterward. Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries is based on the true life story of Ernesto “Che” Guevera. It depicts his journey across Latin America on the back of a motorcycle along with his buddy Alberto Granado. The camera work in this film is breathtaking and reflects the life-changing journey of the two men. It is certainly different than any other road trip movie and is worth a shot if you are willing to mix things up. Frank Miller’s Sin City is certainly not everyone’s cup of tea, but it looks vastly different than most action films. Shot in black and white with some highlighted colors, it aims to replicate the appearance of the graphic novel it is based on. There is no lack of guns or violence or blood, and it will keep you on the edge of your seat without a doubt. Honestly, the plot suffers so that every possible means of killing can be explored, but it is a great diversion if you are not in the mood for figuring out the deeper meaning. American Splendor, directed by Shari Springer Berman and
Robert Pulcini, tells the hilariously ordinary story of Harvey Pekar, a comic writer from Ohio. It fuses together spoken accounts of real life along with actor Paul Giamatti’s portrayal. Superimposed over many shots are comic book headings and a jazzy soundtrack to keep things fun. The story is endearing and very American, with characters that are a more complex version of the common man. Nominated for an Oscar, American Splendor is worth a watch, but maybe not if you are in the mood for outrageous special effects or for thrilling action scenes. But the films mentioned above are not the only ones worthwhile. Nods for best movies to check out go out to Hairspray!, Apocalypse Now, On The Waterfront, The Sea Inside, and plenty of old musicals. No matter what you are in the mood for, you are covered. Instead of Netflixing everything or making the trek to Blockbuster for the absurd price of $4.95, check out the far left corner of the library. You may be pleasantly surprised. • Elyssa Dahl likes movies with meaning.
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Shakabrah Java’s tasty breakfasts, coffee, and baked goods delight loyal customers By Gina Tzodikov gtzodikov@ups.edu A&E Writer Looking for a change of pace from the weekend morning waffles at the S.U.B? In just a fifteen minute walk from campus you can find yourself at Shakabrah Java café located at 2618 6th Avenue. This vintage style café features fantastic egg concoctions ranging from standard omelets to interesting dishes called skillets. For those not a fan of such large breakfast servings, you can get smaller orders of eggs prepared almost any way you like. There are other items on the breakfast menu besides these delicious egg dishes. You can get other dishes like large pancakes and orders of French toast, and though I did not have room to sample these, I could tell that they would satisfy any craving for a filling Sunday brunch. The décor of this restaurant adds to its personality as a local Tacoma brunch joint. The color of the tables and chairs are similar to those found at children’s arts and crafts classes, though they are designed to accommodate larger people. The first thing you notice when you walk in is the bustling kitchen. Smells of sizzling omelets, toast and breakfast potatoes fill the restaurant
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Shakabrah Java serves huge pastries and full breakfasts, as well as steaming coffee, in a unique venue that UPS students have come to depend upon for their caffeine fixes and musical needs.
and make your mouth water as soon as you enter. There is also a case of baked goods located to the right of the kitchen that is just as enticing as the incredible smells. The huge cinnamon rolls caught my eye; the next time I come back to this café I hope to share one. The breakfast menu is quite extensive and overwhelming;
Herban cafe brunch menu disappoints By Merissa Moeller mmoeller@ups.edu A&E Editor
immediately greeted by the eager and welcoming owner, Steve, whose orange golf shirt matched the creamsicle walls as if it had been planned. Whenever I’m forced to orWe liked Steve right away. der from a six page menu, I get He looked like a Steve. a little stressed out. Because I Throughout our visit, he busam spending money, I feel tled around like a good host, pressured to make exactly the making sure his customers right decision, to order some- were happy. thing different from everyone Steve seated us at a round else at the table, and to enjoy garden table and began to my meal more than I might list all of our current and fuactually be in the mood to do. ture dining options and all of Sometimes I don’t want my the related contingency plans, food to be that much work. which resulted in some conThe Herban Café on Sixth fusion about what we could Avenue meets the need for and could not order at 10 on a low-maintenance, unassum- Sunday morning. ing food. Owned by a husband He also candidly asked, and wife duo, the Herban re- “Are any of you old enough to cently relocated to Tacoma drink liquor?” I have to admit, from nearby Sumner. I actually liked this approach. The café has been open for Many restaurants around UPS four weeks and focuses main- are really awkward about their ly on lunch and dinner, but liquor licenses because they serves brunch on Sundays. The don’t want to offend any cusHerban (it sounds like “urban” tomers, to the effect that if –– it’s a garden-themed café, you’re under 21 you feel like get it?) is attached to Pinwheel a criminal before you’ve even Catering and serves organic had the opportunity to break fare, although this aspect is a law. not well advertised in the resAfter being bombarded with taurant itself. so much information about I went to the Herban on a the menu, we were a little flusSunday morning with two tered, so we chose to center companions, one of whom ourselves with caffeine. seemed determined to outscowl Oscar the Grouch. We See HERBAN page 12 entered the café and were
it took me a while to decide what I wanted to order. I finally chose the sun dried tomato and spinach skillet. Although similar to an omelet, skillets are cooked so that all of the ingredients are mixed within the eggs. Omelets simply have the ingredients folded into the center of the egg surrounding.
The skillet was served with my choice of toast and a large helping of breakfast potatoes which were diced into small cubes instead of into shreds or larger pieces. The skillet I ordered was mixed with slices of delicious sun dried tomatoes, spinach and parmesan cheese. I loved this dish and I highly recom-
mend it. If you are a vegetarian or dining with vegetarians Shakabrah Java has enough options to satisfy non-meat eaters. The servings at this café are large and allow you the option of taking home some of your food. If you eat a meal at Shakabrah Java, it may be the only meal needed for that day. The food is filling; you definitely get your money’s worth when dining here. A unique characteristic of Shakabrah Java is their concert space local bands play, a detail that makes this diner-style café stand out from other restaurants of their same caliber. I would like to come back to this restaurant to check what type of music scene they attract. The service at this restaurant is good and you do not have to wait too long, provided you assert yourself and your party when you initially walk in to be seated. My overall experience at Shakabrah Java was positive. I would also be interested in coming back to try their lunch menu. • Gina Tzodikov is in Dubai.
At a glance... Shakabrah is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and serves food until 3 p.m.
The Collegiate Connoisseur As good as pancakes are with syrup, they can get a little bit boring, since you can find them at almost any breakfast restaurant. To mix it up a little bit, I’m giving you a recipe for a German pancake that is sweet and buttery. This pancake is also slightly different since it is cooked in the oven, rather than just a skillet. I think you’ll really enjoy it! -Matt Hoffman
German Pancakes Ingredients:
Necessary Equipment:
1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup evaporated milk 3 eggs 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons powdered sugar Fruit preserves for topping (strawberry, boysenberry, huckleberry)
12” skillet that can be put into an oven (a handle that will not melt)
Instructions: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Mix the flour, salt and evaporated milk in a mixing bowl. While melting the butter in the skillet, whisk the eggs into the batter one at a time. Stir the batter vigorously. When all of the butter is melted, pour the batter into the hot skillet. Let the batter set at the bottom of the pan, and run a knife across the bottom making an X. Put the skillet in the oven and let bake for about 15 minutes. Add powdered sugar and serve with warm preserves.
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Ready for a break? STAYING ON CAMPUS FOR SPRING BREAK? NEED SOMETHING TO KEEP YOURSELF OCCUPIED FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS? FROM MUSEUMS AND MUSICALS TO SPORTING EVENTS AND HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES, SPRING BREAK IS A GREAT TIME TO GET OUT AND TO EXPLORE THE SEATTLE-TACOMA AREA. National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence
For those of you stuck at UPS during Spring Break, consider going to the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence (NPTE), happening Mar. 15 and 16. This is one of the most prestigious college debate tournaments in the U.S., and it’s being held here at UPS, in Wyatt and Thompson. Come to support the UPS debate team, or just to see masterful debaters debate on a plethora of topics. Locations of specific debates to be announced later.
Bronze Works
Everybody knows about the free tickets every third Thursday at the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Museum of Glass, but very few people have been to the Bronze Works. On the third Thursday of the month (Mar. 20), they open up their entire workshop so that visitors can see all of the work that goes into creating bronze sculptures. Throughout the day, they will do pours of molten bronze into the casts, which is a pretty interesting process to witness, regardless of your artistic capabilities. It is a little bit off of the beaten path from the other museums, but is located up the hill, at 2506 Fawcett Ave downtown. It is accessible by bus, and is a free activity.
Films, Music, Art and comedy
Catch up on your culture this week. Off-the-wall films The Savages, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Juno run all week at Grand Cinemas. On Mar. 15, band Presidents of the United States of America will perform at the Paramount in Seattle. Kaki King will perform at Tractor Tavern in Seattle on Mar. 21. Need a laugh? Nobodies of Comedy will bring down the house Mar. 22 at Pantages Theater. The Tacoma Art Museum’s photography exhibit Small to Big, Past to Present also runs this week.
“Mama MIa” in Seattle
Playing Mar. 18 through Mar. 23, Mama Mia will show at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. The story centers around the marriage of Sophia who secretly invites her mother’s three former boyfriends to the celebration. Sophia copes with the mystery of her true father’s identity and her mother faces her guilt for not being a better mother as this hilarious musical plays out to a merry conclusion. Tickets are $20.
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Celebrate the Irish By Bailey Douglass bdouglass@ups.edu A&E Guest Writer
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Don’t worry sports fans, there is still track and field, tennis, and lacrosse to keep you entertained. At noon on Saturday Mar. 15, men’s tennis faces
Linfield. Women’s Lacrosse will be playing Fontbonne and one and track and field runs all day.
Annual Flea Market at UPS fieldhouse
This annual event, sponsored by the University of Puget Sound’s Women’s League, is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 22 and Sunday, Mar. 23. Price of admission is $1 and the shopping is unlimited and cheap.
Easter
Easter falls on Sunday, Mar. 23 and is the perfect way to end Spring Break — with enough chocolate Easter eggs to make the thought of going back to school bearable.
St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is Mar. 17 and for those of you over 21, you don’t have to worry about a hangover in class the next morning. See the article to the left for some celebratory ideas
Explore Seattle
A week without school is the perfect time to explore Seattle. Check out the Underground Tour and look at the old streets of Seattle or hang out at the Rock and Roll Museum. The Space Needle is famous but the cost is $16 a person. Maybe just take a picture of that one.
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Our coffee came in cute little Easter egg cups with matching saucers. The coffee was excellent: it was hot and it was not bitter or sour. There was no need to cover anything up with cream or sugar. I exposed my embarrassingly vast knowledge of Jimmy Buffet songs while singing along with the background music for a while, then finally decided to go with the breakfast buffet option for $5.75. It had all of the usual components of an American style breakfast. The Sasquatch scramble was decent, as were the sausage patty and the biscuits and gravy, although the gravy lacked the pepper and the consistent thickness that would make my Southern father proud. The potatoes were particularly disappointing; they were bland and the condensation from the buffet dish had made soggy what was probably not a very crispy potato to begin with. My grouchy friend chose to curb his angst with a waffle for $3.75. Unfortunately for his companions, it was an ineffective waffle. He rated the S.U.B. waffles to be superior and then continued to glower
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This Monday, UPS students will take a break from their spring break tanning to celebrate an Irish icon — and drink lots of beer. St. Patrick’s day began as a celebration of the life of a wellknown saint, on the day that is thought to be the day of his death. In the 1800s, it turned into a day of solidarity for widely mistreated Irish immigrants in the United States. Today, it is more of a celebration of Irish heritage, leprechauns, wearing green and pinching those who aren’t, and imbibing in lots of Guinness and Bailey’s Irish Cream. For students who choose to stay in the Seattle-Tacoma area for Spring Break, there is as much Irish inspired-entertainment as gold at the end of a rainbow, whether they desire family activities or something a little more adult, all weekend. This Saturday, St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Seattle starts the weekend by proclaiming Irish pride to anyone willing to listen. The Irish Wolfhound Club, numerous drill teams, Irish step dancing groups and pipe bands, and the Seattle Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline are among the eclectic marchers. European Ambassador to the United States and former Irish Prime Minister will preside as Grand Marshall of this family-oriented event. The parade travels from 4th Ave. at Jefferson St. to Westlake Park. It will conclude with closing ceremonies at the Seattle Center at 2 p.m. Here in Tacoma, one of the hottest spots for Guinness and Irish soda bread will be Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub. The Pub has an entire week-
end of festivities planned, including “St. Practice Day” on Saturday, “Trip to Ireland Day” on Sunday, where the pub will raffle two tickets to Ireland, and the big event — Saint Patrick’s Day on Monday. Paddy Coyne’s is opening at 9 a.m. on Monday so patrons can begin to imbibe early, with traditional Irish fare, beer, and live music all day and night. Over the weekend it will host musicians including Leo MacNamara, Randall Bays, Tom Cregan, Dale Russ, Mike Saunders, Dave Cory, Dan Possumato, Jim Bailey and Martin Ross. Irish Pubs in Tacoma Doyle’s Public House 208 Saint Helens Avenue Tacoma, WA 98402 (253) 272-7468 This downtown bar features American favorite bar food with specialties from across the pond and opens early for patrons to watch British soccer games broadcast live. O’Malley’s Irish Pub 2403 6th Ave Tacoma, WA 98406 (253) 383-3144 Pinball machines and dartboards add to the slightly seedy atmosphere at this 6th Avenue watering hole. Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub 815 Pacific Avenue Tacoma WA 98402. (253)-272-6963 Often featuring live music, and serving meals, this pub, located in the historic Hotel Olympus is fine for the under 21 set too. • Bailey Douglass hates the obvious Irish Cream connection.
CONT. FROM PAGE 11 at his plate for the next thirty minutes. The Herban offers classic Eggs Benedict, as well as Eggs Florentine and a variation that substitutes lobster for the ham. Both of my cohorts claimed to detest seafood and we felt that $12.75 was a little steep for a breakfast entrée, so the third member of our dining party decided to end her Eggs Benedict virginity and went with the classic version. In my experience, Eggs Benedict is almost always the best indicator of a restaurant’s overall caliber. It is a dish that is difficult to do well: you want a well–toasted English muffin, a thick slice of salty ham, a perfectly poached egg, and smooth, sleek Hollandaise that is a glossy pale yellow. Good Eggs Benny is everything that you thought sex would be. This Eggs Benedict was like losing your virginity in the bed of a truck. The eggs were overcooked with a chalky yolk, and the Hollandaise was too heavy on the lemon. While the emulsion did hold, it was at the expense of being thick, pasty and depressing. The orange wedge and cantaloupe slice on each plate cheered us up. It was a cute,
nurturing touch that reminded us of something a parent would do to ensure a balanced meal and it summed up what we liked most about the Herban café: It feels like home. Everything about the atmosphere, from the no-nonsense food presentation, to the children reading the Sunday comics had me briefly convinced that I was sitting at my own kitchen table and that my own dad was making me breakfast. The prices are high (about $10 for a sandwich or a salad) and the breakfast was completely average, but it was a nice change from food that is served with an ice cream scoop. Our trip to the Herban Café was like a mini vacation home before returning to the artificial world of midterms and swipe cards. I left the café humming “Fly Like an Eagle” and feeling pleasantly caffeinated. One friend quietly tried to come to terms with her awkward Eggs Benedict experience and one friend remained cranky and bitter. And that was ok. • Merissa Moeller is slightly concerned that her grandmother might read this review.
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Enviro-riots erupt on campus Conglomerates merge, you couldn’t care less By Phil M.E. Moore CZ Pseudo-Biz Guy
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A Schiff hippy chucks an environmentally friendly explosive at the glass doors of Harned Hall.
By Mr. McGillicuddy CZ Green Thumb Last week, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) set fire to the Street of Dreams, a small collection of state-ofthe-art homes north of Seattle, contesting the claim that the homes were environmentally friendly. The group left a spray painted sign near the burned buildings claiming responsibility for the act. ELF also declared that any homes not made out of ginger bread were an abomination. We here at the Combat Zone giggled at the silly ELF group, their car bombing ways and their candy cane swords. But, when the campus sustainability groups whipped themselves up into a creamy frosting of impotent rage and anger, we knew it wouldn’t be long before the violence came here to campus. The next day, the Sustainability groups on campus met for an emergency meeting to discuss their supposed environmentally friendly brethren. “We’re tired of being just a front for the school to skimp on building costs. Making the walls of Harned out of cardboard really hurts our feelings, and obviously isn’t safe,” one member simpered.
Others echoed this sentiment. “Ron Thom will just sign anything you put in front of him,” one crusty hairball said. The calls for change just kept getting higher pitched and louder. “We want change, but no one takes us seriously! We need to totally stem all the waste that we’re creating, we need to stop all of the harm we’ve done to the environment!” a man clothed only in Crocs said. As the complaining escalated, the group mentality turned. This was not the self-masturbatory sessions that usually occurred, this had the air of a gang-rape. “We must suckle from the teet of Shiva, goddess of Death,” one member proclaimed. “Through destruction comes rebirth. We must burn down this oppressive institution and build again!” Right after this, they attempted to burn down Jones Hall and Collins Memorial Library. After storming from Trimble Forum, the enraged students gathered on Karlen Quad and began chanting for the Green Age to begin. Some enterprising ruffian in the crowd began chucking Molotov cocktails at the symbols of our higher education,
constructing them out of their stashed hooch and clothing. Many students inside Collins itself began quietly shushing the crowd outside, while the Theatre department complained about the noisy avantgarde performance without any form of official consent. Other groups saw this as a time to unite themselves. In the type of showing usually reserved for flash mobs, SDS gathered to protest the fact that an angry mob did not constitute an equal opportunity environment. Shortly after, members from BSU declared that they were being excluded from the riot because of their race. When the rioting students shed their clothes, dowsed themselves in green war paint, and invited BSU and SDS to join them, the groups seemed bewildered that anyone had heard them at all. After more goading they politely declined. When the war drums moved towards the SUB, Security showed up. Fearful of any sort of authority, the rioters fled from the threat of pepper spray, and went back to their old ways of cringing and whining. Truly, a great success for the environmental movement was had that day. • Mr. McGillicuddy loves his Mother Earth!
PRESS RELEASE New York, NY In a move that comes as no surprise to investors, Fluitorf (the media giant and refrigerator door conglomerate) has acquired Micronorf (a media and freezer technology global corporate enterprise) for $3.8 billion. Fluitorf has long eyed America’s number three freezer technology developers, made apparent when Micronorf ’s CEO Vince Karma suggested his fondness for chilled food at the 5th Annual Chilled Food Conference in Chicago. It had been purported that company officials met during this conference and discussed possible acquisition/merger deals. Speculation of a merger was brought upon when Lisa Turlo, a spokesperson of Fluitorf said in April 2003, “Micronorf has a lot in common with Fluitorf. We both like our foods chilled or frozen. We both produce dominating media. I’m sure that we will be working together in the future,” adding a wink, and making a suggestive hand motion with her index finger and a circle formed by her opposite finger and thumb. In May of 2007, Micronorf announced a formal partnership with Fluitorf, not long before today’s news which has been confirmed by Fluitorf ’s CEO Gurd Assman at a conference in Atlanta.
“Fluitorf is happy to announce our acquisition of the freezer technology leader Micronorf. We believe that together, we can offer a more exciting and vivid refrigerator door and freezer experience for our consumers. We decided that it would be much easier for customers to see us as one company, not Fluitorf and Micronorf separately, but Fluitorf and Micronorf: A uniGlobal-bi-corporate-organizational Enterprise, the leader in freezer and refrigerator door production.” When asked about the predicted success of Fluitorf ’s media department from the acquisition, Mr. Assman replied, “Oh yeah. Our media will probably benefit as well.” The acquisition/merger has already boosted stocks and success in both companies’ media sectors. Yet, it has been long unknown why both companies, although incredibly successful with their media branches, have chosen to hold onto their alternative production areas, refrigerator doors and freezers respectively. Nevertheless, when questioned about what the future holds for Fluitorf/Micronorf, Assman said, “We’re looking into full refrigerator production, not just freezers and doors. We think that this acquisition has allowed us to make a step in the right direction.” • Phil has an Associate Bachelors of Socio-Business degree from the Online School of Economic SocioBusiness Affairs Institute.
Headlines in Brief • The Rofunda: is it fun enough for us? • Student texts suicide note from toilet stall, shits self to death • Professor of Irish Studies demands keg of Guinness in lieu of mid-term exams • Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama face off in mud-wrestling match, Bill not sure who to attribute his boner to
Martial law instated across campus By Alex Goya Political Analyst
It seems that this year’s ASUPS election had implications far beyond merely electing a new president. In fact, these elections might not even of generated that. The office of the president of ASUPS has officially declared the election’s results invalid, and no offices will be exchanged as a result of this election. The president has issued this statement: “Since the integrity of the election is found to be in such question, I have judged fit that in order to protect this campus we need to hold the current regime over until a new election can be held.” He went on to add, “To ensure a smooth transition in
these harsh times we have deemed it necessary to declare marshal law at the University of Puget Sound. Rest assured however, this is only temporary and will not affect the day-today lives of the general student population.” Under the new authority that the office of presidency has declared upon itself, the ASUPS president has mandated several new measures under a four point “necessary and proper” plan. First of all, any bill that the president proposes deemed “of utmost priority” no longer needs senate approval to pass. Second, the president has the sole authority to declare a new election. Third, student disciplinary hearings will no longer occur as they have. Any case that the
office of the president deems “of importance” will instead be tried in closed tribunals by specially appointed judges. Fourth, the office of the president has the authority to issue press blackouts at any time. To date this provision has only been enacted in once instance; the president ordered that names from his office no longer appear in print. In a press conference Monday, ASUPS vice-president stressed that these changes are, “nothing to worry about,” and that, “There are free sandwiches in the back.” One correspondent asked about the necessity of such actions to which the VP replied, “Next question.” No date for new elections has been announced. • Alex has a four-point plan for just about everything.
Elliot Trotter Disclaimer: The Combat Zone is a work of satire and does not reflect the views or opinions of The Trail, its staff or the administration. In fact, the Combat Zone doesn’t really represent the opinions of anyone. Please send complaints to trail@ups.edu.
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Golf teams start season with strong performance By Brian Walker btwalker@ups.edu Sports Writer The men’s and women’s golf teams opened their Spring season last Thursday, Mar. 6, with the first round of a two-day invitational. The Loggers teed-off at challenging Fircrest Golf Course to sunny weather and stiff competition. They squared off against golfers from Willamette, Pacific Lutheran and Linfield in the UPS-sponsored Logger Invitational. The tournament was scored by combining the course total of each golfer into a one team stroke total. Sophomore Mikey Pannier (Salt Lake, Utah) reports that the men’s team should be better this year than in the past. “We have the most talent we have had in years and the addition of senior Greg Swanson should help us out a lot,” Pannier said. Swanson (University Place, Wash.) joined the team this year after playing soccer throughout his UPS career. He proved valuable indeed, coming in second overall in the tournament and shooting a 146 over both days. With Swanson at the helm, the men’s team got off to a good start. Swanson was followed by sophomore Jordan Hodge (Tucson, Ariz.) who finished Thursday at 77. After the first day of play, the Loggers sat in second place behind Linfield but ahead of Willamette and rival Pacific Lutheran. The men maintained a thin lead of only 3 strokes going into Friday’s continuation of the tournament but looked
to improve upon their lead and dislodge the Wildcats from first place. But UPS still had a lot of work ahead of them. “A tournament is never won on the first day of competition,” Pannier said. In this spirit, the men made a valiant run at the lead. Tim Bartz (University Place, Wash.) who had shot an 81 on Thursday, found his groove and finished out Friday’s play shooting 70, one under par for the course, earning him a third place finish. Despite Bartz’ heroic effort and the steady play of Swanson, the Loggers fell short of their goal, coming in second to Linfield by a mere 3 strokes. “We all thought we could have played better [on Thursday] so we liked our chances going into the final round,” Pannier said. Unfortunately it wasn’t in the cards for the men, who saw the second place team finish as a building experience. “With all of the talent we have on our team, there is no reason we can’t contend for first place, especially since Fircrest is probably one of our toughest courses,” Pannier said at the conclusion of Friday’s competition. The men move on to the Willamette Invitational, March 16-17 in Salem in hopes of moving up the conference ladder. As impressive as the men may have been in the tournament, the Logger Women stole the show. And shining apart from the rest was senior Kristine Juhola (Milwaukie, Ore.). Juhola shot a solid 89 on day one, but she put the icing on the cake with a jaw-drop-
ping hole-in-one on the eigth hole—a 165 yard par 3. “I still can’t really believe it actually happened,” Juhola said. “I feel like maybe it’s time for retirement; you can’t really get better than that one.” Luckily for the team, she didn’t follow-through on her retirement plans, but instead went on to finish the tournament. Not surprisingly, news of the shot spread like wildfire from fairway to fairway. “News travels faster on a golf course than it does on campus,” Juhola later commented. As the first day of competition came to a close, UPS sat atop the women’s scoreboard by a commanding 27 teamstroke lead. The difficulty came when Juhola had to move past the excitement of her ace and finish the day and the tournament. “I was a little rattled by #8 but eventually I settled down. I try to focus on one shot at a time and not get too caught up on day two,” she said. And the team moved on with her, finishing 29 strokes ahead of the competition. With two golfers tied for top-five finishes, senior Maresa Jenson (Whitefish, Mont.) sharing first place for the whole tournament and Juhola splitting third, the Logger’s never looked back. Instead, they are looking forward. “We have a lot of potential and when we bring our ‘A-game’ we are a very strong team,” Juhola said. The women will travel to Salem for the Willamette Invitational. The men will play a day earlier from Mar. 15-16. • Brian Walker claims that free throws are the strongest facet of his basketball game.
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Sophomore Hillary Rice steals a home run from Pacific in a win.
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shot at Pacific U. TACOMA, Wash. - After nearly being shut out in game one, the Puget Sound Loggers handed the Pacific Boxers their first loss of the season in game two of a Northwest Conference softball doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Logger Softball Field in Tacoma, Wash. The Boxers picked up an 8-2 win in the game one and the Loggers earned the 4-3 win in the nightcap. In the first game, Pacific’s Miranda McNealy gave the Logger hitters fits, striking out 12 while walking six. The Boxers nearly collected the nohitter but sophomore Amelia Kurashige-Elliott (Berkeley, Calif.) hit a two-out single in the bottom of the seventh to spoil the attempt and start a two-run UPS rally. Auriel Sperberg (Tacoma, Wash.) took the loss for the Loggers, allowing seven runs on eight hits in four and one-third innings. In the second game, the
Loggers got on the board early when Valarie Barone (San Jose, Calif.) singled in Lindsay Fujita (Honolulu, Hawaii) to give UPS the 1-0 lead. After Pacific scored one of their own in the top of the second, the Loggers retook the lead in the bottom of the inning when Fujita singled in Noelle Vallescorsa (Federal Way, Wash.) and then Meghan Watson (Brier, Wash.) drove in Kurashige-Elliott. The Loggers got their final run of the afternoon in the bottom of the sixth when Victoria Raeburn (Portland, Ore.) drew a bases-loaded walk that scored Hilary Rice (St. Paul, Minn.). The Boxers put together a brief rally in the top of the seventh, started by a Brooke Toy home run to center, but it wasn’t enough to stay undefeated as the Loggers handed Pacific the 4-3 loss. Freshman Bijou Felder (Berkely, Calif.) got the win for UPS, allowing three runs on eight hits.
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Women’s basketball advances to 2nd round; fell short to GFU, ends storybook season By Brian Walker btwalker@ups.edu Sports Writer It was in 1969 that Three Dog Night originally declared one is the loneliest number. Nearly two decades later, the UPS women’s basketball squad couldn’t agree more. After securing home-court advantage for the first two rounds of the NCAA Division III national tournament, a place they had gone 16-0 at during the regular season and a place the NCAA tournament hadn’t been in at least 26 years, and pulverizing La Verne in the first round 74-58, one measly 72-66 defeat at the hands of conference rival George Fox assured the Loggers would leave the Fieldhouse a bit lonely, without another date to the Big Dance. And it was 1782 when Pierre Choderlos de Laclos first claimed revenge is a dish best served cold.
It’s hard to think that some two odd centuries later the Bruin women would disagree. After being downed in the second round of the NCAA tournament on their home court last year by the Loggers, George Fox proved that this year it was they who had the ice in their veins, coolly sprinting out to 38-23 halftime lead and extinguishing the fire of a late Logger rally. “We played so well at home all year only to lose to them,” Harter said. “We have a bitter taste in our mouths every time we lose to George Fox, and you get the feeling that if it had been someone else it wouldn’t have stung so bad,” senior Melissa Cain echoed. “So I won’t be tipping my cap to them. They played great but this is a rivalry. And I definitely wanted at least one more week.” The women of La Verne likely had similar aspirations, but UPS denied them early on. “I think we out-matched
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Senior Hirsh carried the Loggers.
them a little bit,” Cain said. “There tallest player was 5-9 where we have some very solid post players and most of our guards are taller than 5-9.” But while they were a tad on the short side, Harter and UPS didn’t take the Leopards, full of quick guards and three-point shooters, lightly. “We didn’t want to play their up-tempo style game with them,” Harter said. “When we execute our sets on offense
and are very methodical, that’s when we’re unstoppable. So we wanted to slow them down and make them play our style of basketball.” After jumping out to an early 36-25 halftime lead, largely aided by a 16-3 run in the middle of the half, the Leopards would never cut the deficit to single digits and the outcome of the game seemed like a forgone conclusion. “Our bench was amazing,” Harter said. “Andrea (Edwards) in particular played with a lot of confidence. She came off the bench and grabbed some big rebounds for us. Those kinds of contributions help a lot and it’s easy to see that from the out come of the game.” However, any advantage the Loggers held against the Leopards disappeared quickly when the Bruins, a team UPS was facing for the fourth time this year and the eighth time in the past two years, came knocking. “We’re very similar teams,” Harter said. “They’re post game
is really strong but they also have a lot of people that can score from the outside. And in a lot of ways that’s similar to what we’ve done this year and why we’ve been so successful.” Cain agreed that the teams do seem to be almost mirror images of each other. “I think we match up pretty well with George Fox,” Cain said. “And I think that’s probably why we split the series with them this year.” When teams are so equal and so familiar with each other, often times it comes down to which team is able to execute. After shooting 11-18 from beyond the arc, going to the free throw line twice as many times as UPS – converting on 17 of 22 of those opportunities – and out-rebounding the Loggers by ten, it’s safe to say the Bruins were executing more often than a French Revolutionist. And as a cherry on top, their see Women’s hoops pg. 15
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Softball After a doubleheader split on Saturday, the Puget Sound Loggers dropped both games of Sunday’s twinbill, 8-1 and 13-6, to the Pacific Boxers in Northwest Conference softball on Sunday afternoon at Logger Softball Field in Tacoma, Wash. In the first game, the Boxers (11-1, 5-1 NWC) used a four-run first inning to build a lead over the Loggers (6-6, 4-4 NWC). After Pacific added two more in the fifth and one more in the sixth, senior Lindsay Fujita went yard for the Loggers, hitting a solo home run to center field in the bottom of the six to put the score at 7-1. The Boxers added one more run in the top of the seventh to collect their 10th win of the season. Miranda McNealy collected the win for Pacific, striking out eight and walking just one in seven innings pitched. Auriel Sperberg (Tacoma, Wash.) took the loss for UPS, allowing six runs on five hits in
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five innings while striking out four. In game two, the Boxers again took an early lead, picking up a single run in the top of the second and five more in the third. In the fourth, the Loggers nearly tied it up, getting five runs across after taking advantage of a pair of Pacific errors. The Boxers punched ahead again with a single run in the fifth and then exploded for six runs in the sixth to pull ahead 13-5. The Loggers added a single run in the sixth when Victoria Raeburn (Portland, Ore.) singled to left field to score Kelli Ishii (Aiea, Hawaii). McNealy earned the win in game two as well after pitching three and one-third innings of relief. Felder took the loss, allowing six runs on nine hits in six innings pitched. The Loggers hit the road next week, traveling to Willamette on Saturday and Linfield on Sunday. -UPS SPORTS INFO.
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UPS Women’s Lacrosse is off to a great start to the 2008 season.
Women’s lacrosse blasts Pacific Univ. O’Brien leads 19-4 route TACOMA, Wash. - Led by six goals from junior Lindsay O’Brien (Reading, Vt./Westminster) and five more from junior Jessica Knight (Portland, Ore./Grant), the Puget Sound Loggers made easy work of the Pacific Boxers, 21-4, in a NCAA Division III women’s lacrosse match on Sunday afternoon at Peyton Field in Tacoma, Wash. The Loggers (1-1) opened play by scoring the first eight goals of the match to take a commanding lead early. Pacific (0-1) finally got on the board with 6:59 remaining in the first half but the Loggers scored four more goals to push the lead to 12-1 heading into halftime. In the second half, the Loggers scored just over two goals for every Pacific goal as Puget Sound picked up their first victory of the season.
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Besides the six from O’Brien and five from Knight, the Loggers also had three goals from freshman Sofia Lama (Laguna Niguel, Calif./Torrey Pines) and two from sophomore Elizabeth Butt (Eugene, Ore./ Sheldon). Freshman goalie Ana Calciano (Farmington, Conn./Miss Porter’s School) made 11 saves to collect her first collegiate victory. Pacific was led by two goals from Johannah Wong. Lori Hanken also netted a score for Pacific, as did Molly Bailey. Boxer goalkeeper Valerie Nelson made 18 saves, including 14 in the first half. The Loggers will next take the field on Saturday when they play host to Fontbonne, beginning a 1:00 p.m. on Peyton Field in Tacoma. -UPS SPORTS INFORMATION
Men’s track and field finish 3rd; women 6th By Zack Stoddard zstoddard@ups.edu Sports Writer UPS hosted its first two meets of the season: a trimeet with Seattle Pacific and Lewis and Clark on Mar. 1 and the Joe Peyton Invitational on Mar. 8. After sweeping the tri-meet, the UPS men’s and women’s teams finished third and sixth respectively in the 7 team field at the Peyton Invite. Both the men and women beat Lewis and Clark by a landslide in the first meet of the season, placing first in 29 of the 37 events. The competition elevated in the second meet, which included NCAA Division II teams from Western Washington University and Central Washington University. The men’s team finished third, behind only Division II teams Western Washington and Central Washington. Senior Pete Van Sant (Santa Cruz, Calif.) finished second in the 100 meter dash in 11.18 seconds, sophomore Francis Reynolds (Palo Alto, Calif.) finished second in the 5000 meter run with a personal best of 15:14 and junior Matt Maze (Kailua Kona, Hawaii) was second in the high jump with a mark of 6’2.75” (1.90m). Freshman Jesse Baldridge (Piedmont, Calif.) also impressed in the 3000m steeplechase, struggling over the last barrier using his hands and finishing second in 10:08, good for third best of all NWC competitors. On the women’s side, junior sprinter Janece Levien (Beaverton, Ore.) won the 100 meter dash in 12.43 seconds and sophomore Caitlin McGrane (Colville, Wash.) won the 100 meter hurdles in 15.30 seconds. Both Levien
and McGrane are serious competitors for the conference titles in their respective events. Levien, who is in her first season on the track and field team, became the third fastest 100 meter sprinter of all time at UPS with her mark of 12.43. She is less than a tenth of a second from provisionally qualifying for the national meet in that event; the time she needs is 12.35. Automatic qualification is 12 seconds flat. Levien is better known for her prominence on the UPS soccer team (last season she set the school record for goals in a single season with 25), but she ran track in high school and decided to pick it
This year, I hope to compete for the conference title.” - Caitlin McGrane, ‘10 up again this year. “It was something different and I kind of missed running from when I did it back in high school,” she said. “The reason why I did not do it my first two years here was because I felt I was pretty busy and had a lot on my plate.” Levien has set modest goals, focusing on contributing to team success by doing her best in the 4 x 100 meter relay and the 100 and 200 meter races. McGrane’s 15.30 is a meet record in the 100 meter hurdles. As a freshman last year, she finished second in the Northwest Conference in 15.07, 7 hundredths of a second away from provisionally qualifying for nationals. McGrane says her success in hurdles “has just fueled the fire to get better and faster at a race that I have loved since 7th grade.”
Women’s Hoops post, NWC player of the year Katy Campbell, was one rebound short of a triple-double. “They shot lights out and probably played their best game of the year,” Cain said. “And we didn’t so it was difficult to keep up.” But even with a monstrous 20 point deficit facing them with just under 11 minutes left to play, the Loggers refused to back down. “I was at the point where I was going to do anything I could to try and help bring us back into the game,” Cain said. “I had the mindset that I was going to leave it all out there if this was going to be our last game. I just wanted to win.” Her teammates recognized the look in her eye and kept feeding her the ball. “I knew every couple of times I was giving her passes she was scoring, and I could see that they weren’t able to stop her” Harter said. “In my head I was telling myself ‘keep giving her the ball.” After the smoke had cleared
and a George Fox timeout had been called, The Loggers had gone on a 15-0 run keyed by Cain’s seven points, and were down five with just under five minutes to play. UPS would cut the lead to two over those final five minutes but that’s as close as they’d get. Despite the loss, Harter’s logic seems to tell her that UPS has nothing to hang their heads about. “They played the game of their lives and we hung right there with them despite struggling at times,” Harter said. “It wasn’t for lack of effort so you can’t really be upset. You can be disappointed, but not upset.” It’s easy to understand why Harter, Cain and their senior teammates Laura Hirsh and Heidi Covington all seem to be sharing the same sorts of bittersweet feelings. The quartet all were chiefly responsible for bringing UPS to a level of national prominence over the past four years. “People ask me why I came
McGrane also focuses on the heptathlon (which includes the 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m dash, long jump, javelin, and 800m race). She finished fourth in the NWC last year after never having competed in five of the seven events before this season. “Coming back for my sophomore year with a year of experience in all the events of the heptathlon has made a huge difference,” she said. “I am able to train in the events and actually get better as opposed to just learning the simplest technique for the first time. This year, I hope to compete for the conference title in both the heptathlon and the hurdles as well as qualify for nationals in both events.” The Joe Peyton Invitational is named in honor of UPS alumnus Joe Peyton, who was an athlete, coach, and faculty member. As the track and field head coach for 29 years, he coached over 50 All-Americans. Peyton was diagnosed with brain cancer and passed away on July 2, 2003. Two athletes also competed in an indoor meet at the University of Washington: senior distance runner Brittany Hodgson (Grants Pass, Ore.) and junior thrower A.J. Middleton (Lakewood Wash.). Hodgson set the school record in the indoor 5000m with a time of 17:52, while Middleton threw the shot put an impressive 47’6.25”. Last season, the men’s team finished fourth in the NWC behind Linfield, Willamette, and Whitworth. The women’s team finished fifth behind Willamette, George Fox, Linfield, and Whitworth. • Zack Stoddard thinks that if Dino had been a velociraptor, he would have eaten the Flintstones.
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•Will Holden has an uncanny resemblance to Kirk Hinrich.
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Logger baseball is back Team is 8-3 for the season
By Brian A. Ames bames@ups.edu Sports Writer
in the third, the home team decided to make a statement in the fourth. After freshman second baseman Dakota Resnick (Bellevue, Wash.) grounded out to short, Olsen crushed a change-up, sending it over the left center fence. On the very next pitch, Newland hit what sophomore baseball fan Andrew Kitchel described as
In the bottom of the third, sophomore Whitman pitcher Joe Rodhouse (Phoenix, Ariz.) faced the entire Logger lineup, giving up six runs off of four hits. The Whitman MissionarAfter a solo-homer by Olsies traveled across the state in en in the bottom of the fourth, search of their first Northwest the Loggers’ lead was pushed Conference win last weekend. to ten. But Whitman would Unfortunately for the visitnot go away empty handed as ing squad, the Loggers were they scored their only run of able to sweep the series, movthe day in the fifth. ing to 6-2 in league play and After the Loggers notched 8-3 overall. With strong hit“I hit my spots today and ting performances by seniors it was good to get the ‘W’. two runs in the seventh and Joe Newland (Tulalip, Wash.), Now I can concentrate eighth, the home team came away with the 14-1 victory. Michael Olsen (Niwot, Colo.) and Gregorio Beck (Chico, on bringing my best stuff Newland, Olsen and Beck Calif.), the Loggers outscored against the quality oppo- each homered in the second the Missionaries 40-10 on the nents we will face in the next game, batting a combined 9-for-13 and driving in nine weekend, sending the visiting couple of weeks,” runs. Sophomore pitcher team home with a 2-10 record -Dustin Kauflin ‘10 Dusty Kauflin (Boulder, for their season. Colo.) baffled opposing hitIn the first of the 4-game series, the Logger hitters wasted “the longest ball ever,” over the ters for his second straight no time, scoring three runs in Tennis Pavillion in left center. start, pitching seven innings The Loggers kept the Mis- while not allowing a baserunthe top of the first inning. After both teams scored one run sionaries out of the game af- ner until the fifth. “I hit my spots today and it a piece in the second and none ter their strong fourth inning, eventually winning 8-4. Newland and Olsen led the Logger offense, reaching base in nine out of their ten plate appearances and accounting for five of the eight Logger runs. Senior pitcher Tom Glassman (Tacoma, Wash.) got the win for the Loggers, pitching seven and twothirds innings, allowing three runs on seven hits. Senior Ryan Gustafson (Bellevue, Wash.) was awarded the save, pitching one and one-third innings. In Saturday’s second game, after quickly retiring three hitters in the top of the first, the Logger hitters once again put on a field day. Newland again chose his spot, firing a three run homer over the left asups Photo services / ARchives asups Photo services / Archives Senior Mike Olson OF - 3 Hitter center fence. Senior Joe Newland 1B - 4 Hitter
was good to get the ‘W’. Now I can concentrate on bringing my best stuff against the quality opponents we will face in the next couple of weeks,” Kauflin added after his solid pitching performance. In the first seven-inning game on Sunday, the Loggers jumped out on top early, scoring one run in the bottom of the first.
the second, the Loggers scored three again with Newland hitting his third homerun of the series, driving in two runs. After scoring one run in the third, the home team scored three more in the fourth. The Missionaries recorded their only runs of the game in the sixth, plating three against fan-favorite senior pitcher Trevor Pease (Usk, Wash.). Sophomore pitcher CamerOn the very next pitch, on Duvall (Lakewood, Wash.) the 10-3 decision, pitching Newland hit what sopho- got in five scoreless innings. Olmore baseball fan Andrew sen, Newland and freshman Kitchel described as “the pinch-hitter David Thirlby longest ball ever,” over the (Seattle, Wash.) each batted Tennis Pavillion in left cen- in two runners in the Logger ter. victory. The Loggers will travel to California next weekend to After a no run second inning take on Claremont, UMassfor both teams, Whitman took Dartmouth, Redlands, and their only lead of the series in Occidental on the road. the third, scoring two runs on • Brian Ames does not consider four hits. himself a lady in the aristocratic But the lead didn’t last long sense. as Olsen hit a three-run homer to left field, putting the Loggers ahead 4-2 after three. The home team scored the final runs of the game in the sixth, scoring four, giving them the 8-2 win. Senior shortstop Shaun Kiriu (Honolulu, Hawaii) led the Logger offensive attack, going two-for-three with two RBI’s. Olsen tacked on four RBI’s to his impressive season numbers. Sophomore pitcher Jarvis Nohara (Honolulu, Hawaii) got the win in four and one-third innings after replacing sophomore starter Tim Fogarty (Pacifica, Calif.). In the final game of the series, the Loggers dominated again scoring three runs in asups Photo services / Andrew Sheridan the bottom half of the first. In Senior G Beck CF - 5 Hitter
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