November 1, 2013 Volume 49 Issue 7

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Bike bandits on the campusBike thefts increase on the Gresham MHCC campus

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Left: Rachel Davis-Schnoor paints a pumpkin at Tuesday’s ASG pumpkin painting event. Right: Two decorated pumpkins sit in the sun.Photos by Heather Golan - The Advocate

Halloween festivities, pumpkins filled campus

The last day to withdraw from a class is Fri., Nov. 8

Are you a veteran? Stop by the MHCC Bookstore for a free coffee Friday.

Don’t forget to turn your clock back one hour Saturday night before you fall asleep.

Turn to page 3 for a story on future bike tourism

Properly lock your bike. Invest in a heavy duty U-lock. U-locks are available in the bookstore for $39.99.

Take ALL of your belongings with you.

-Take pictures of your bike.-Report all thefts to Public Safety at 503-491-7310

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Register your bike at National Bike Registry.http://www.nationalbikeregistry.com/

The serial number is usually located on the underside of the crank.

by Katelyn HilsenbeckThe Advocate

Eight bicycles have been reported stolen from the MHCC main campus since the second week of fall term.

It’s part of an uptick in bike thefts recorded at several, but not all, Portland-area community col-lege campuses this fall.

Bikes have been stolen from bike racks in park-ing lots around the Mt. Hood campus, including those near buildings 10, 12, 13, 17 and the HPE build-ing, and from the bike rack of a vehicle in Parking Lot D, Public Safety officials said. The thefts have all oc-curred since Sept. 30, with three occurring on Oct. 16.

Elsewhere, Portland Community College (PCC) has seen a record amount of bike thefts, with 10 bikes stolen in October alone.

During fall term, PCC has seen 13 bike thefts on all its campuses combined, said Ken Goodwin, PCC director of public safety.

Clackamas Community College (CCC has had only one bike theft since this school year began.

Suzy Ishlam, CCC campus safety director, said the CCC campuses may have had fewer bike thefts due to a smaller cyclist population.

The number of regular bike riders at Mt. Hood is not particularly large, making the impact of the thefts this term more profound.

From results of MHCC transportation survey taken in June 2012, it is estimated there are about 171 trips to campus each week by school staff either by bike or on foot, an average of 34 trips per day. No data is available on student bike trips.

Wayne Feagle, director of MHCC Public Safety, said his department is concentrating patrols on areas where the most crime occurs and is urging student volunteers to keep close watch on the bike racks.

Public Safety has also installed signs near the bike racks urging owners to take precautions, such

as locking their bike properly and with a secure lock.

All the bikes stolen at Mt. Hood were locked with cables.

Public Safety suggests that cyclists instead use heavy-duty locks, such as the U-locks sold in the Bookstore for $39.99.

Other precautions bike owners should take: reg-ister their bike at www.nationalbikeregistry.com; take photos of the bike; report suspicious activity; and take all valuables with them.

Both CCC and PCC re-port recommending similar measures.

Locally, bike theft hasn’t just been a Mt. Hood problem.

Feagle said the Gresham Police Department has recorded a recent increase in bike thefts and has been proactive, including ac-tively stopping cyclists to check if the bike they are riding is stolen.

Feagle said he believes bikes are being stolen not only because they are often an easy target, but also because their ownership is hard to prove if the owner does not register the bike or put distinctive marking on it.

Cameras are not currently aimed at the bike racks at MHCC, but are a priority as new funds be-come available, Feagle said.

PCC’s Goodwin said several racks are under video surveillance, but the images have not been able so far to identify the culprits.

Anyone who sees suspicious activity at around the Mt. Hood bike racks should call Public Safety at (503) 491-7911 if the crime is occurring.

Opinion2 Nov 1, 2013

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Editorial: Arming for the future

“I believe that Public Safety officers should be the ones to carry

a gun on campus.” Comment from Curtis Hooks on concealed carry video

The St. Helens School District board recently lifted its ban on teachers car-rying guns to school (with a concealed carry permit) and we are approaching the one-year anniversary of both the Sandy Hook and Clackamas Town Cen-ter shootings.

These events have gotten us think-ing: What happens if a shooter comes on campus? What can we do to protect ourselves?

We know that Mt. Hood is a relative-ly safe and crime-free campus (knock on wood), but none of the schools that have had shootings expected them, and being prepared for the worst is never a bad idea.

MHCC has been working on imple-menting a few active shooter drills, but we have been wondering what can be done if a more spontaneous life-threatening incident were to occur? It’s not like the Public Safety pepper spray and batons – which is all the campus security officers currently carry - are going to swiftly hault a nasty alterca-tion.

Obviously, we are thinking along the lines of guns.

Mt. Hood has been very clear rules about weapons on campus: They are not allowed, at all. Even though it would take a while for Public Safety and the administration to be persuaded other-wise, we think it would be a good com-promise to have the full-time Public Safety officers carry weapons, and be trained to use them.

We aren’t recommending a team of armed personnel but two armed of-ficers definitely should be around when things get intense. One officer would not be enough to defend the campus in a multiple-shooter situation.

Mt. Hood has 5,000 to 6,000 stu-dents here during most weekdays, ex-

cept for Friday (figures provided by MHCC officials). We believe that a pop-ulation this large warrants two effective personnel, at a minimum, to respond to an emergency, and be equipped for the worst. We do have local law enforce-ment agencies nearby, but a serious threat on campus calls for more imme-diate attention.

If we were to make this happen, it also wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a sign or advertisement announc-ing there is an armed presence at the school. That alone might deter nut jobs from getting any wise ideas.

Another solution would be what St. Helens did and allow teachers with con-cealed carry permits to have a gun.

This is definitely something to consider, and should be included in the conversation for teachers and stu-dents (if the proper preparations are made).

And we know that we are all (most-ly) adults here, but we are not exactly comfortable with allowing every stu-dent to carry a gun around campus. It’s not like there would be routine shoot-outs breaking out during the day, but it still doesn’t feel right.

We know why this seems appealing. If someone had a gun on them during a shooting, there is a chance they could end it right there.

However, we feel that if the gen-eral population on campus is given that

privilege, each individual would need to go through proper training and be checked for mental stability annually, beyond just having a concealed carry permit. It’s easy to talk the talk, but when you actually have to use a weap-on, that’s a different story. And in order to properly regulate this, it would give the college all kinds of new headaches it can’t really afford right now.

We are just worried that if the worst happens, we wouldn’t be properly equipped to handle it. We think that having full-time Public Safety officers carrying weapons would be a no-brain-er and that allowing others on campus to carry weapons, as well, should be discussed.

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It’s not the world, it’s youby Danny Perez-CrouseThe Advocate

It’s that time of year again. We are halfway through the term and the grades have started rolling in. You can almost feel the groans of disappoint-ment and denial ring throughout the college.

Doing badly in a class sucks. It can feel like you’re trapped in a bubble of confusion with no way out.

So whose fault is it? The instructor? The school? Your job? That chick next to you who won’t stop gnawing at her fingers? Life? God? Buddha? Emperor Zenu?

No, it’s you.I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad

news, but if you fail a class, it’s your fault. You can kick and scream all you want, but it’s time to face the facts.

Other people in your class are

somehow managing to pass the class, so there is a way to push through. But you have a lot of problems and things going on, don’t you? Well, let me tell you a little secret: Everybody has prob-lems.

I know this may blow your mind, but the universe did not perfectly align a specific amount of negative circum-stances so that you would be busy every second of every day. There is a point in your day when you have time to do your homework and study. It’s just a matter of whether you want to or if you are us-ing that time well.

It sounds very Darwinistic, but the people who rise above their problems prosper, and those who chose to blame the world don’t. I don’t care what any-one says, hard work will always pay back in spades.

True, things may come easier to others, but that’s because they paid at-tention and made sure they understood stuff. Even if you have to work a little harder, that’s just another obstacle you have to overcome. Unless you have mental challenges and/or learning dis-abilities, there is nothing you can’t learn or comprehend.

And there are plenty of resources out there to help you if you need it. The tutoring center is filled with people who are eager to help. Seriously, I’ve heard that they get bored up there. There are also student success seminars and al-most every instructor has office hours throughout the week.

I am a massive procrastinator myself. I understand that everything seems more interesting than what you are supposed to be doing. I still pro-crastinate a lot, and I don’t always get the best grades, but I’m fully aware that it’s my fault.

When I finally realized that it was my fault when I performed poorly in school, my misery was met with a rush of comfort and empowerment.

The world is not stopping me, I’m stopping me. I have such an amazing will that I can talk myself into watch-ing re-runs of South Park, rather than doing really important crap. If can I harness this power for good, than I can accomplish anything! I have the power!

My epiphany happened after I in-terviewed a student last year who came from Cuba, and he got a full-ride schol-arship to Stanford. He was paying for

his rent, taking 18 credits per term, had a full-time job and managed to get straight A’s. He said that he was not in-herently smart; he just kept his nose in the books and worked his butt off.

For a pretty big chunk of my life, I thought math was beyond me. I be-lieved it was some demonic language that would plague me for the rest of my life, and I would never be able to comprehend the dark arts known as algebra. But the truth is, I just gave up trying to understand it. When I finally buckled down and learned the formu-las, I did okay. I got a B in math, some-thing I thought I would never get. And

then I got another B. I’m having a little trouble in my latest math class, but only because I decided to watch a movie at 11 p.m., the night before an exam. I just have to focus a little more and I’m golden.

Understand that this is coming from a place of love. I hate to see other people procrastinate like me and try to pretend it’s not their fault.

So pull up your pants, block You-Tube, head straight for the library and do what you have to do! I know it’s cli-ché, but you can totally do this.

do what you have to do! I know it’s cliché, but you can totally do this.

Getting it right:On page two of the Oct. 25 issue, Elsie Preager’s title should have read ASG Chief of Staff.

On page 8 of the Oct. 25 issue, Emily Trosino’s best time to date should have read 10:20 at the Oak Knoll Loop Run.The Advocate regrets these errors.

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To see student reactions about allowing guns, go to www.advocate-online.net

- Mt. Hood has a no-tolerence policy toward weapons on campus,

including Public Safety officers

- The St. Helens School District has lifted laws against teachers

being able to bring weapons to school

(with a concealed carry permit)

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Nov. 1, 2013 3News

ASG brings holiday events to campus

by Katelyn HilsenbeckThe Advocate

Cycling tourism may be com-ing to the MHCC campus.

The East County Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center is working on the East Multnomah Country Bicycle Tourism Initiative and trying to lure cycling-related com-merce to the region.

A statewide tourism bureau award-ed the local group a grant to research tourism in East County. The goal is to develop a program that would generate overnight stays, since funding of the grant originates from hotel taxes.

The initiative began about a year ago and is still in the research stages.

Coming next week: two bicycle tourism workshops, to be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Edgefield McMenamins and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Corbett Fire Hall.

The Chamber has met with MHCC staff, administrators and students to get their perspective on the potential bicycle niche in the East County.

“Everybody brought different per-

s p e c -tives to the table,” said Michelle Gregory, MHCC director of community involvement, who has been involved in the process for about a year.

“I think for the Chamber, the con-stant challenge was bringing the group discussion back to tourism, because there’s still a conversation that needs to happen in East County around basic commuting.”

Gregory said conversations took place on how to safely increase cycling, what role MHCC would play and if there are enough businesses locally that sup-port cycling and bike repair.

The target audience for the initia-tive would be avid cyclers who travel looking for “the next cool place to go cycling,” she said.

The Mt. Hood campus could serve as

a staging area, where cyclists park their cars (and unload their bikes); could of-fer classes in bike safety; or help to or-ganize a business certification program with which to market cycling and pro-mote bike-friendly options.

As for the recent spike in bike thefts at MHCC, Gregory said, “It’s probably not in itself a reason to look a way from the tourism effort” because the type of events taking place would bring crowds and a lot of eyes to campus.

There is also potential for the MHCC Hospitality and Tourism pro-gram to partner with new events hosted on campus.

MHCC has a system and checklist in place to decide which events would fit with the college mission statement and would work with the college’s availabil-ity. Overnight stays were an issue for the campus in the past, said Gregory.

“There are probably years of cul-tivating a bike tourism market, but it would be a good thing for the college, and it would be a good thing for East County,” she said. “We’re very sup-portive of anything that helps the re-gion.”

New tourism initiative may bring more bikes to campus

Left above: Students guess the weight of pumpkins in the Main Mall Wednesday. Left below: Steven Page, ASG wellness coordinator, leads breast cancer fact Jeopardy! in the Student Union Monday.Above: Keiko Downing, ASG member, thows a mini pumpkin to knock down cups at the pump-kin bowling event Monday.

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by Alexandra JamesThe Advocate

The Diversity Resource Center is hosting its official ribbon-cutting cer-emony at noon Wednesday in the Stu-dent Union.

Several guests will be speaking, including the school’s new president, Debra Derr, and a councilwoman from

the City of Gresham. Once the ribbon has been cut, visitors may go inside the new Diversity Resource Center to look at the wall tapestries.

Various MHCC organizations will be sponsoring hours after the ribbon cut-ting.

There will also be two presentations held today and Thursday, coordinated by ASG and the DRC and sponsored by

Oregon Humanities, From noon to 1:30 p.m. today,

there will be a presentation that will feature Courtney Campbell from Or-egon State University discussing “Grave Matters: Life and Death Across Cultures.”

The presentation Thursday, “White Out? The Future of Racial Di-versity in Oregon,” will feature Emily

Drew from Willamette University. It will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the DRC.

Drew’s talk will address “assump-tions of where we are in terms of racial diversity in Oregon,” and the larger picture of how Oregon is serving differ-ent ethnicities.

For both presentations, the first 25 guests will receive a free boxed lunch.

Melinda Bullen, coordinator of the DRC, said the college hopes to put on about 10 of these talks throughout the course of the year, while aiming to pro-vide opportunity for insight, ways of thinking.”

For more information on these and upcoming events, please visit the DRC’s facebook page, at www.facebook.com/mthoodDRC.

DRC opens its doors with ribbon cutting

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Living Arts4 Nov. 1, 2013

Viral Vid of the Week

Paranormal Activity Prank

In the mood for a laugh? As part of our new weekly feature, we will show you one awesome

video and tell you why you should watch it.

This week, it’s another prank video, because pranks are hilarious when you catch them on

camera. The Paranormal Activity Prank is great because one guy gets terrified while waiting

alone at his friend’s house. Lights shake, things fall off the walls and a chair with wheels goes shooting across the room. This guy’s level of

fear goes from ignoring the noise to on-the-floor screaming — you’ve got to see this to enjoy it.

Watch this viral video on YouTube; it already has more than 100k views in 48 hours!

Looking for something fun to do? Check out our revamped weekly calendar for

some fun ideas!

32 November

Planetarium Show

Tuesday, 6 p.m., 7:15 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.

Planetarium

This month’s 45-minute show will focus on “Comet

Fever and Comet ISON.” This show will be the last

show with the existing pro-jector, as the Dec. 3 show will debut the upgraded system. The show is free

for students and $2 for the general public. Check it

out for fun for the whole family.

NACAC College Fair

Today 9 a.m. - noon Saturday 1– 5 p.m.

Oregon Convention CenterPortland

Looking for a school to trans-fer to when you finish at

Mt. Hood? Then you should definitely check out the col-leges in our area. Colleges

in attendance at the fair this weekend include Concordia, Warner Pacific, Southern Or-egon University, PSU, U of O and many more national and

international institutions.

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TO BE DETERMINED

4 Weekend Movie Pick:Ender’s Game

Starring Asa Butterfield/Harrison FordIn theaters today

First ThursdayRebecca Kilgore

with Dave Frishberg

Thursday, noon - 1 p.m.

Student Union

Kilgore, a traditional jazz vocalist, and Frishberg, a

musician/composer, are two internationally recognized musical talents. For more information, visit Rebec-

cakilgore.com and davefr-ishberg.net.

by Greg LeonovThe Advocate

The mystery of Wonderland is expected to spark curiosity through the characteristics of the taunting Cheshire Cat.

Tootsie West, who will play the cat in MHCC’s adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland,” enjoys “be-

ing a little snippy” when she portrays the cat’s attitude. “I ask her [Alice] questions and I pa-tronize her a little bit,” said West, “to make her excited about Wonderland. Not really excited, but just more curious.”

West was cast as the Cheshire Cat because she was open to the challenge of acting with a puppet. “Some people were not open to it because it’s a puppet and they don’t like acting with puppets.

“Alice talks to the cat, not me, but I’m acting as if I was the cat, and I walk as if I’m the cat and I have to disappear and then reappear every now and then.”

She sees acting with a puppet as a learning ex-perience. “It’s fun cause it’s more challenging,” but she said sometimes she finds it stressful.

The puppet is the cat’s face with a mouth that West can move. She said her costume is just the cat’s head which is connected to “a belt and then there’s this metal thing that comes out and this stick that holds the whole thing.”

Most of the cast members play props, as well as characters. West plays a table leg, a mush-room, a card and a door. “I like that I am so many different things. I think it’s really fun that I get to

be on stage and be every different thing.”West’s favorite scenes are the ones that in-

volve a group of characters. “I usually tend to like the group numbers, in musicals or in plays. When everyone’s on stage together, it’s really good en-ergy,” she said.

West started acting as a child when her moth-er would put her into shows. She stopped for a few years, but got back into it when she was in eighth grade and has been acting since. She has acted with MHCC for a year and said she prefers musi-cals to straight plays.

She said acting has enriched her life and made her “more open to new things, more accepting of others, more understanding, more outgoing and willing to accept if they’re wrong or not. It made me understand people more,” she said. “Every-one should do it.”

West believes that everyone can benefit from acting. “Everyone should be in at least one show in their life,” she said. “I feel like everyone needs to be more accepting of everybody.”

After “Alice in Wonderland,” West said she is looking forward to performing in MHCC’s winter production of “Footloose.”

Tootsie West

Fans of the book have anxiously awaited the release of the bestseller “Ender’s Game.” The military science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card is set in Earth’s future after the

planet is invaded by aliens. In the book, children are trained as soldiers to fight the invad-ing aliens. The movie is rated PG-13 and appears to be an entertaining film for fans of the

book as well as sci-fi lovers.

Graphics by Heather Golan - The Advocate

Nov. 1, 2013 5Living Arts

Joshua Mather

by Rebecca GaulkeThe Advocate

Joshua Mather brings “good times” in his portrayal of the March Hare to the Children’s Theatre Production of “Alice In Wonderland,” which begins a two-week run on Monday.

Mather, technically a first-year Mt. Hood student after attending off-and-on the last few years, read for a few other parts before landing on March Hare. “I kept reading his lines… and he has these really great lines where he says rude stuff to Alice,” he said.

His dream is to be “either an actor or a reality star,” he said. When he was 4, he wanted to be a mermaid, but at age 7 he was in the play, “Cinderella.”

“I was kind of shy before that, but then I did Cinderella and it like let me out of my box, and I wanted to be an ac-tor,” Mather said. “I came alive on stage,

I didn’t know what living was ‘til I found the stage.”

He tries to put his own spin on the role, such as lightly “twerking” as he en-ters the stage. He says he’s not a mean person in real life, but enjoys it onstage, including his role of the Rat in last year’s Children’s Theatre Production of “Fan-tastic Mr. Fox,” where he also played the young badger.

In high school productions, Mather has played many parts, including a Nazi in “Anne Frank” and a dancer in “Music Man.” Mather also has tried some chal-lenging auditions, such as “American Idol” a few years ago. Though he didn’t make the cut that day, he said he had fun trying.

In different versions of the play, March Hare has typically been portrayed as more rabbit-like than human. For this performance, Mather said, “I am more human-like than rabbit-like… I got

style.” He said he and the other “Alice” ac-

tors have been trying to find their “inner laugh,” since they are constantly laugh-ing on stage. ”That’s interesting, ’cause you have to find a laugh for your char-acter instead of your (own) laugh, so it doesn’t sound fake,” he said.

Mather called this his “most fun and funniest” role yet.

“March Hare is just fun and wants to have a good time, and I think I do a good job of that,” he said.

The cast is busy with last minute preparations, including an all-day re-hearsal on Saturday. “We’re getting prepared. It’s coming along smoothly,” Mather said.

The play opens Monday for school groups only, and continues throughout the week. The lone performance open to the general public will be at 2 p.m. on Nov. 16.

Check back next week for our review of the play!

by Greg LeonovThe Advocate

The white rabbit guides spectators through the wonders and mysteries of Wonderland in a rush to be on time for his very important date.

“It’s really the most energetic part I’ve ever played,” said London Bauman, who will be the rabbit in MHCC’s adap-tation of “Alice in Wonderland.”

Playing the rabbit, he is learning to channel the energy it requires to por-tray different types of roles: “In terms of the next part that I may play in my

life, it makes me think (that) even if you’re in a situation where it’s like

a drama and everything’s silent, you’ve still gotta be energetic internally to keep the audi-ence’s attention.”

Bauman’s life as a rabbit in MHCC’s production of “Al-ice in Wonderland” is “weird

cause I’m not a person, I’m a rabbit. So, especially in theater,

you really have to go big with that so people will get it. It’s a workout,

every single rehearsal. I have to jump around, and run, and hop, chase Alice.”

In MHCC’s version, Lewis Carroll turns into the white rabbit. “Know-ing that he’s Lewis Carroll, I sort of imbue myself with a sense of, like, I know everything that is actually going on, because it’s Lewis Carroll’s world, and when I’m the White Rabbit, I feel like I’m leading Alice everywhere,” said Bauman.

“I know where she’s gonna go. It feels like I’m almost more powerful than the Queen of Hearts. It’s kind of a weird power thing going on, but physi-cally, I just love to be energetic with this character ‘cause you can’t really go too big with it. It also helps contrast play-ing Lewis Carroll at the beginning of the play because he’s sort of an old man,” said Bauman.

The rabbit often distracts Alice from the wonders taking place in Won-derland. “Alice is trying to chase him multiple times, but when she doesn’t chase him, she sees all of this crazy awesome stuff that is going on in Won-derland.

“I think it might be something like, slow down, stop and smell the roses because the White Rabbit is definitely not happy at all. He’s just neurotic and crazy. He’s just rushing around, and you’ve gotta slow down and take time to enjoy the moment.

“I’m really more like a theatrical tool than a character. I mean, the only person I interact with is Alice through-out the whole play, and it’s mostly her just running after me, so I’m just kind of driving her and her decision forward in a lot of ways. I don’t make a lot of big character choices through the play,” said Bauman.

The question of what it is that the rabbit is late for is a mystery that Bau-man said “never really gets resolved. Maybe we’re all late to something.

“I am sort of an anxious kind of guy. I never like to be late to things,” said Bauman describing his personal con-nection to the White Rabbit. “I think it’s interesting that it’s also Lewis Car-roll because it shows that everyone kind of has a yin-yang thing going on inside themselves, and I’m sure everyone can relate to that.”

Bauman’s sense of Alice is a feeling that follows him. “I’m sure we could relate to something, we feel like some-thing’s chasing us, we feel like we have to go there, maybe we don’t know why. You don’t want to be late, you don’t know what for, but you know you can’t stay still – college student life,” he said.

Bauman first developed an inter-est in acting when his fifth grade class went to see “The Giver” performed by the Oregon Children’s Theater. “I saw people not much older than me, and I

thought, ‘Oh, this is possible for me to do in like a few years,’ and so I could do it in middle school or in high school,” he said.

He started acting when he was a freshman in high school and has per-formed in more than a dozen plays. “I started doing as many shows as pos-sible and never really stopped,” he said.

Bauman said acting is a way to transcend social norms. “When you’re in high school, or any school or even in college, there’s all these social con-structs and norms you have to adhere to around people. Then when you go into a theater with these people, you run around and act like a rabbit, or a caterpillar, and act ridiculous. There’s really no reason to judge anybody. And it’s just hanging out as human beings. I feel like that’s really hard to find in a lot of circles.

“I’ve noticed that a lot of theater students are really shy, which is weird because it’s theater, and a lot of people just let opportunities pass them by,” he said. “I almost didn’t take this class be-cause I knew I wouldn’t know anyone in it, but if you know you want to do some-thing you’ve got to do it — and just know if it’s embarrassing, then it prob-ably was a really good performance.”

London Bauman

The play opens for grade

school groups only at 10:30

a.m. on Mon. Nov. 4, and

continues on Nov. 6, 8, 13

and 15. A performance for

the general public will be

at 2 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 16.

News6 Nov. 1, 2013

by Katelyn HilsenbeckThe Advocate

The Black Student Union is again active at MHCC, and the president, Erica Fuller, hopes to advocate for Af-rican Americans and other minorities.

Fuller was inspired to revive the club after she served as ASG director of clubs two years ago and was astounded to find there was not a Black Student Union (BSU) on campus.

“I wanted to make sure that Af-rican Americans feel like they know each other on campus,” she said.

“I mean, yes, we walk past each other in the hallways, but we don’t really know each other. We don’t have that group to come together, advocate, help each other academi-cally (or) know about other cultures” including those with African roots, she said.

One of her goals for the year is to “really help with the leadership in showing African Americans and our allies that we can be leaders,” she said. “We can do anything we put our minds to.”

Fuller refers to participants who are from African descent as “allies.”

“Just because it says ‘Black Stu-dent Union’ on there doesn’t mean it’s just for blacks. We encourage all allies,” she said, gesturing toward the group’s office.

“I want to make sure people feel comfortable to come in. Your voice is just as important as any others’ voic-es,” she said.

Growing up, Fuller was told she

was neither black enough, nor white enough, she said.

“We are all mixed,” she said. “What’s going to help us all grow stronger for minorities is making sure we are all working together. That in-cludes Caucasians, too.”

She graduated in June with a gen-eral studies associates degree from MHCC, but has returned with plans to transfer to pursue a bachelor’s degree in public administration.

Fuller said the club will focus on positives.

“We’re not trying to start any ten-sion on campus. We’re just trying to advocate and build minorities up and students in general,” she said.

The BSU will host its own hour at the Diversity Resource Center (DRC) ribbon cutting ceremony, set for 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

Club meetings are planned for 10 to 11 a .m. every Tuesday in the DRC.

Erica FullerBSU President

Black Student Union accepts all

by Lindsay FrostThe Advocate

The MHCC speech and debate team captured second place in the Community College Team Sweep-stakes award at the season’s first designated tournament for the Northwest Forensics Conference.

Held at Lewis & Clark College in Portland on Oct. 11-13, the Steve Hunt Classic involved 46 teams from 13 states.

Today and Saturday, the team heads north to compete at the Lower Columbia College Smelt Classic in Longview, Wash.

Shannon Valdivia, veteran coach of the Mt. Hood speech team, has re-turned from a year of leave to lead a unit she says has great potential.

“I’d like to see our team perform well at nationals this spring while also being a strong dominating force regionally,” she said.

She said her strategy will be to

“take it one tournament at a time and build upon the successes as we go.”

Some highlights from the North-west Forensics Conference include first place in Novice Poetry by Eva Sanchez; second place in Novice in-formation by Greg Burgess; third place in Novice Impromptu and fourth place in Novice Prose by Tyler Garcia; and fourth place Novice Prose and third in Novice Poetry by Karas-alla Fale.

by Katelyn HilsenbeckThe Advocate

Twenty-four classes on the MHCC campus have been relocated due to construction issues, whether that be noise or temperature concerns.

The HVAC (heating and air con-ditioning replacement) project is on time and now in phase three, which began Oct. 21. All levels of buildings 10 through 12, which include the Stu-dent Union, Student Services and the Bookstore, are the areas currently af-fected.

Phase two, which affected build-ings 13 to 15, was scheduled to end Fri. Oct. 25.

Beth Sammons, writing instruc-tor, said her class is “toughing it out.” Their primary problem in AC1583 is the noise from construction, but Wednesday, Sammons said the room

was so cold she cut her class short. She and her students had “cold

fingers and toes” and she described the room as less than comfortable.

Her primary reason for not mov-ing the class was that as a 10 a.m. class, she thought they would have nowhere else to go.

Two students, Kate Spittle and Rachel Welke, reported the 1600s to be particularly chilly the past week.

Mary Burlingame, an MHCC bookkeeper, has been cold lately, but does not feel it is totally the fault of the HVAC construction. She attri-butes some of the problems to being

in the way of the cold air stream from the doors of the Student Union and sitting at a desk all day.

“It’ll be worth it to have fresh air pumped into our building when this is done,” Burlingame said.

MHCC student Rebekah Mitchell has noticed cold air blowing in the Career Planning Center in addition to the already cold temperatures out-side.

Several ASG members, Skye Troy and Joy Smith, said that if they have noticed any temperature change, their office has gotten warmer in-stead of colder.

The HVAC repair is expected to be completed by Nov. 27.

The loud noises that may be heard from the fans should clear once all construction is complete, said Maggie Huffman, MHCC director of commu-nications.

Feeling chilly?Classes relocated

24 classes have been relocated

Speech team places second, moves forward

MHCC’s MEChA club will be hosting Dia de los Muertos events in the Student Union on Tuesday, from noon to 2 p.m.

All are invited to participate in the free event, which features Latino art, music, food, and sugar skull decorating.

- Cameron Miller

Dia de los MuertosNews Brief

7Nov. 1, 2013

Saints go back-to-back in tournament playby Cameron MillerThe Advocate

MHCC (30-6, 6-0 in league) clinched an the Saints volleyball team (30-6, 6-0 in league) clinched an NWAACC tourna-ment position with a five-match sweep in the Dorian Harris Classic Tournament last weekend.

The Dorian Harris is an annual Hal-loween tournament where the players and coaches are invited to participate in a costume competition. This year the Saints chose the theme “Jazzercise” but Clacka-mas Community College won the contest with their “Globe Trotters” garb.

This is the second straight tourna-ment the Saints have won, highlighting their consistent play as of late.

Sophomore hitter and outspoken leader Lihau Perreira has earned the tournament MVP award twice in the last two weeks. Head coach Chelsie Speer said, “Lihau has always had the skills, but for the belief in herself – the rec-ognition allows her to believe – she de-serves all the credit she’s getting.”

Freshman Xayna Robinson has also received recognition, drawing attention with two all-tournament team awards in the same two-week span.

The five matches MHCC won in the tournament pushes their win streak to 18 matches. During the five matches over the weekend, MHCC only lost one set. That one set was lost to Olympic College, which has maintained the best record in the NWAACC standings (37-4).

The tournament featured multiple teams at or near the top of the stand-ings in their respective divisions. These teams included the Olympic Rangers, Linn-Benton (27-11), Clackamas (27-11), Tacoma (26-10), and the Saints.

Perreira said, “We took care of every team, each match one at a time.” Rob-inson added, “On the whole, we played very well.”

This proved to be one of the most competitive opportunities the Saints likely will have before they host the NWAACC Tournament Nov. 21-24.

That being said, the Saints had a for-tunate draw for the first day of the tour-nament, playing Whatcom (2-23) and Wenatchee Valley (6-22) and sweeping both teams.

Speer said, “We started out strong. I thought they set the tempo from the very first match.”

The second day proved to be more difficult. After sweeping Umpqua (7-28) in their first match, the Saints advanced to play Tacoma, who is tied for first place in the West Region with Highline (both 7-1 in league play).

Although they swept the Titans of Tacoma, the Saints struggled more than they had with the first two sets being separated by three points or less. They then advanced to play Olympic by de-feating Tacoma 25-18 in their third set, completing the fourth straight sweep of the tournament.

“We knew that they [Olympic and Tacoma] were top-runners in the tour-nament. It’s always nice to watch (scout) a team,” said Perreira.

Olympic also had an easy-going tournament to start with, sweeping both Chemeketa and Umpqua on Friday. On the Rangers’ second day of the tourna-ment, they swept Wenatchee Valley be-fore dropping their first set of the tour-nament to MHCC’s South Region rival Clackamas.

Olympic then won the next three sets and advanced to the champion-ship match against the Saints.

The Saints de-feated Olympic in four sets (25-23, 25-22, 20-25, 25-20) to claim the champi-onship. Robinson said, “They ran a lot of quick sets but we played really well mentally. Wins against good competi-tion give us a lot of confidence.”

The victory marks MHCC’s first vic-

tory against a team with 30+ wins and could be a significant win against a likely championship opponent. “I was im-pressed with how confident we were, and how much of the match we controlled,” said Speer.

Olympic went into the tournament with only three losses on the season, two of them against Blue Mountain who maintains the top ranking in the

East Region stand-ings (33-4). Blue Mountain is the only other team to clinch an NWAACC tournament berth (through Thurs-day).

The Saints have been flying under the radar, not re-ceiving much rec-ognition for most of the season. In the

latest coaches poll, Olympic remained at the second spot in the rankings while MHCC maintained third place. Being ranked below Olympic, the team they just beat, doesn’t seem to bother the

players thus far.Perreira said, “We’re climbing this

mountain, and our ultimate goal is the championship at the top, but it’s little steps.” Speer echoed those thoughts by saying, “I think winning two tourna-ments in a row and beating Linn-Ben-ton in the middle shows that we’re still climbing.”

The Saints play two away match-

es over the next two days, including Umpqua Friday and Southwestern Or-egon Community College (SWOCC) on Saturday. Perreira said of the SWOCC fans, “They always have a rowdy crowd. They do whatever they can to screw you up.”

The Saints will return home next week with another rivalry game against Clackamas on Friday, Nov. 8.

Cross country has eyes set on NWAACCs

by Edgard ValenciaThe Advocate

When all six rivals gathered for the 2013 NWAACC Southern Region Championship meet on Oct. 26, the MHCC women’s and men’s cross country runners showed they could compete with anyone.

The Saints ran on the Clackamas Community College course, familiar ground after they raced in the Mike Hodges Invitational on the same lay-out two weeks before.

“It is always helpful to understand the course and the unique character-istics each course offers,” said Matt Hart, Saints head coach.

In the 5k women’s event, the Saints tied for second with Treasure Valley with 83 total points. It was a striking result since Mt. Hood had struggled all season to grab any top spots.

Freshman Haley McDonald fin-ished with a time of 20:06, her sec-ond-best time of the year, only 17 sec-onds behind her time for the Oak Knoll Loop Run in late September.

But, fellow freshman Emily Trosino stole the show, placing second overall with a season-best time of 19:13.

“Emily is loaded with talent and is eager to improve every day,” Hart said. “Her training and communication is very strong and she is a delight to have on our women’s team.”

The men’s results in the 8k contest were more predictable.

Once again, freshman Brandon Raleigh led the Saints, finishing 12th with a time of 26:51. He wasn’t satis-fied, but said he felt better than he has while fighting injury in recent weeks.

“I think I should have been a little farther up,” Raleigh said. “I tried to

hold on for as long as possible, but I kind of fell back a little bit. I am never satisfied, but I do feel like I should have gotten fifth place or around there.”

Right behind came MHCC fresh-man Taylor Hybl, with a time of 27:09. Auston Burns finished third for the Saints, at 27:27.

The three men helped Mt. Hood finish in fourth place, with an average time of 27:26.

Next up for the Saints are the season-ending NWAACC Champion-ships on Nov. 9, to be staged at Battle Ground, Wash.

It’s the last chance this season for all runners to give all they’ve got, and they know it.

“It’s my last race, it’s my last op-portunity. Can’t regret anything,” said Raleigh.

Photos by Carole Riggs - The Advocate

The women’s cross country team takes a picture with Treasue Valley’s cross country team. The teams tied for second place in the Southern region championships on Oct. 26. Freshman Brandon Raleigh strides to the finish line in the Southern region championships.

Photos by Cameron Miller - The Advocate

Top: Sophomore outside hitter Lihau Perreira leaps up for the tip during championship match against Olympic College.Bottom: Saints volleyball team gathers for a picture after winning the Dorian Harris Classic Oct. 26.

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Blazers upgrade over off-seasonAaron MarshallThe Advocate

After the Portland Trail Blazers slumped to a 33-49 record last season, it’s no surprise that many observers are holding higher ex-pectations for the new year.

The Blazers did finish the preseason with a 5-2 record, winning their last five games, although Portland lost its first regular season game Wednesday to the Phoenix Suns 104-91. Damian Lillard (Pictured) had game-high 32 points and LaMarcus Aldridge scored 28. No one else significantly contributed in scor-ing but Nicolas Batum added 13 rebounds in the away game.

Nevertheless, based on what I’ve seen during the off-season and preseason, I’m excited for what’s in store for 2013-14 sea-son.

Portland has upgraded its bench since last season and added a lot of depth. New players Thomas Robinson, Mo Williams, Dorell Wright and Robin Lopez will contrib-ute significantly, compared to last season’s bench that included Luke Babbit, Nolan Smith and Sasha Pavlovic.

None of those players had a future in Portland, and now Babbitt and Smith are

playing overseas.Having veteran point guard Williams

come off the bench this year should be a big boost to the bench, which was dead last in the league last season in scoring 18.5 points per game.

(By comparison, the Dallas Mavericks bench averaged the most points per game last season, scoring an average of 41.5.)

In 10 years, Williams has an NBA scor-ing average of 13 points per game. In his best season, he averaged 17 points for the Cleve-land Cavaliers, playing with LeBron James on the 2008-09 team that finished a league-best 66-16.

Losing free agent J.J. Hickson this summer to the Denver Nug-gets was a blow, since he was a big piece of the Blazer offense last season, averaging a dou-ble-double with 12 points and 10 boards a game.

Former New Orleans center Robin Lopez is taking over the center position and he is a good fit. At 7 feet tall, he is an ideally sized center and is expected to make his presence felt on defense.

I was surprised at how well Lopez played this preseason. In seven games, he

averaged nine points and nine rebounds.Besides a weak bench, the Blazers’ main

weaknesses last season were poor defense and inconsistency.

There was much talk this summer that Lillard, reigning NBA rookie of the year, was working tremendously hard to improve his defense.

In Portland’s last warm-up game against the Golden State Warriors, Lillard held All-

Star snub Stephen Curry to 17 points and only 31 percent shooting from the field. Lillard scored 21 points

and shot 43 percent from the field that night.

If all goes well, other Blazers will pick up

their “D” as well.Not all the

preseason news has been good,

however.In the June NBA

draft, Portland selected Lehigh combo guard C.J.

McCollum. McCollum averaged 23 points his senior year before

breaking his left foot in

January. He was among the nation’s leading scorers before his season was cut short.

During the Blazers’ training camp, Mc-Collum suffered the same bone fracture in the same foot during a fluke accident. He is out indefinitely, and will miss at least the first six weeks of the season.

Second-year big man Meyers Leonard, drafted five spots behind Lillard in the 2012 draft, has struggled to improve.

Blazers head coach Terry Stotts said that backup center Joel Freeland will move up on the depth chart, bumping Leonard down to third string.

Leonard, only 21, has great potential at 7 foot, 1 inch, but remains inconsistent. His raw, subpar defense has been exposed again this preseason and in summer league play in July.

Ultimately, Portland should be able to battle for the seventh or eighth playoff seed in the loaded Western Conference.

Led by two-time All-Star Aldridge, Lil-lard, and veterans Batum and Wesley Mat-thews, it will be interesting to see how well the Blazers can do.

If the parts come together, and players stay healthy, Portland could be playing post-season ball for the first time since April 2011.

The Advocate’s

PredictionsMVP- LeBron James, Miami Heat

Coach Of The Year- Frank Vogel, Indiana PacersRookie Of The Year- Michael Carter-Williams,

Philadelphia 76ersDefensive Player Of The Year- Dwight Howard, Houston

RocketsSixth Man Of The Year- Jamal Crawford, Los Angeles

ClippersMost Improved Player- Andre Drummond, Detroit

PistonsNBA Finals Winner- Miami Heat

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