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Heather Golan Shawnie Fortune

When was the last time that you truly questioned a rule?

I’m not talking about saying that you think that a rule is stupid or pointless or that you hate abiding by it. I mean giving truly meaningful brain time as to why a rule is there, and what is the reasoning behind the rule? Why do you continue to follow it? Is it really that wrong not to wait for that red light to turn green at 3:30 a.m. when you seriously have to go right now?!

In the course of writing one of my articles

recently, I asked myself this very question about a set of rules that we at The Advocate abide by called the Associated Press Style Guidelines.

According to AP Style, the only individuals who warrant the use of the style Dr. as a prefix are medical doctors. All other individuals who hold doctorate level degrees (e.g. Doctor of Psychology , Doctor of Philosophy, Juris Doctor) are entitled only to use post nominal letters such as Psy.D., PhD, JD.

My initial reaction was indignation. What makes medical professionals more worthy of the respect that the title Dr. commands? Why are they the only ones whom we should refer to as “Doctor” in our writing and speech? Do the accomplishments of a philosophy or a literature “doctor” merit less recognition? Have they somehow contributed less or unequally?

Why was this determination made?Ultimately, instead of confirming my

theory that it is some system of control (which it probably is,) I stumbled upon a much deeper realization. The rules that are adopted to govern our behaviors are ever only voluntary. Some exist for convenience, others for safety, and yet others still, for no good reason at all. Hence, I will carry on referring only to members of the medical community as “Doctor” if for no other reason than to simply avoid confusion.

I encourage you, also, to question your rules, your values, and your beliefs deeply and sincerely. Only by doing this for yourself will you truly understand and experience what you believe in a way that is real and meaningful to you. There is no substitute for reflection, and a living truth is usually preferable to a dead dogma.

Doctors and dead dogmas in AP style

Let’s pause momentarily for a sigh of relief. Kitten videos, brownie recipes and independent films are safe - for now. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently voted in favor of protecting the right to indiscriminate Internet service. This means that Congress and corporations like Verizon and Comcast cannot provide “fast lanes” to pump up their profits.

The equality in speed and filter of all websites is commonly referred to as net neutrality. It prevents Comcast from swallowing smaller fish like Hulu, Netflix and other, much smaller companies. If ISPs (internet service providers) got away with this, then instead of businesses like Netflix who charge just under $10 a month for their services, expect to pay more like $45.

If you were trying to start a blog, it would have been difficult to gain loyal readers who would wade the slow connection if big businesses were allowed to create shortcuts.

The argument allowing monopolies to create fast lanes as a part of the free market is invalid, because eventually it would be harder for young markets to enter the ring. That isn’t so free, now, is it?

At The Advocate, we are in favor of the

open Internet. We see net neutrality in synergy with freedom of speech, simply because the Internet is our main channel for globally communicating our ideas and perceptions.

What if big businesses didn’t care for certain political or ideological platforms? They could invest money into creating a fast circuit to steer consumers to the information they prefer to be dispersed.

So, we applaud the FCC for its sensitivity to the people’s demand for Internet equality, but that doesn’t mean we should bow down and kiss its members’ feet quite yet.

Unfortunately, the FCC has yet to release the official pertinent document detailing the rules protecting the equality of the public’s domain. Its lack of openness on the topic of open Internet is shady. What kind of a catch is there to keep the playing field level?

After we’ve gone hoarse voicing our concerns to the FCC and our ISPs, it looks like we must plead once more, only this time to know the details of the FCC’s decision. We have right to know who’s behind all of the policies. We have a right to know how those policies will affect our buffer, and how they will protect us against corporate fraud.

The government shouldn’t intrude on

our freedom of speech, or in this case, the outlet of free speech, unless it’s coupled with violence and danger, as in inciting riots. But that’s why we have a Constitution that lets the people know the basic legislations and our rights. Anything that is changed in terms of those basic laws should be updated in the Constitution as well as in other legal documents. It is therefore wrong for Congress to have rules in place, such as in Internet neutrality, without informing the public.

The Internet is a public domain. We, the people, own it. Not only would ISPs sacrifice trivial things like brownie recipes, but non-dominant groups, say, people of color, would lose their voice in the overbearing mass marketing flood the Internet has become. What if ISPs made the Internet more about expanding the market for profit, instead of sharing freedom fighter stories that help us understand and fight the injustices in the world? The Internet impacts our daily life and knowledge. If net neutrality were to be compromised, how much less attention would we pay to real world matters just because it’s easier to open Amazon and buy crap?

You can’t put a price on humanity.

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An editing error deleted the first few para-graphs of the Feb. 27 story, “College to reach crucial milestone in time for bond,” on MHCC’s 50th anniversary, a proposed bond measure and the notebook of principal architect Donald Lutes.

Below is the start of the story as written. The complete story may be seen at www.advo-cate-online.net.

As of next school year, Mt. Hood Community College will have been around for 50 years.

However, 41 years will have passed since MHCC last got a thumbs-up from local voters, in the form of a community general obligation (GO) bond measure.

That could change by May 2016. While there’s no defined version of a new bond propos-al that would raise millions of dollars for campus improvements from a bump in local property tax-es, the college is taking steps to set up another bond plan.

The notebook of former principal architect Donald Lutes, recently turned over to Mt. Hood leaders, is playing an important role.

Among other things, the notebook describes “super steel” material used in construction of most MHCC main campus buildings that could minimize the need for costly fixes to reduce po-tential danger from seismic activity.

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Once the clones are rooted, typically after a week or two, they need to be culled. It’s a process of weighing benefits and cutting loss-es, selecting the few that make the cut. For a moment, I have to remove myself from my own body and look at the plants with an un-jaundiced eye. I appreciate the lessons learned from the clones that have died. I sit there satis-fied with my work so far; I’ve brought life into this work and now I must care for them and carry it further. They need me. After what can be hours, I’ve narrowed the dozens of clones down to merely half a dozen that will be flow-ered. They made it. Their leaves are green and glossy, the smell is slightly minty with undertones of skunkiness similar to Heineken or Corona, and their young soft branches are just sturdy enough to go on to the next stage

in their life.The potential energy that sits in an imma-

ture or unharvested plant is a beautiful thing. Whether indoor or outdoor, flowering is like mixing colors on a palette. In order to get the color and picture you want, you need to have the right proportions of other colors. This is the time when the plants need and use the most attention. Beyond fertilizing, pruning, lighting, and watering, the best part is to just be with the plants. To sit and literally watch the grass grow is meditative and sometimes it’s downright spiritual. I’ll sometimes sit in the garden with a cup of coffee in the morning and just stare. I swear that I have actually seen the growth, or my eyes are playing tricks on me; nonetheless, it’s calming and pleasing to take in the garden for what it is. In the three months that it takes for a marijuana plant to grow, it shoots from under a foot tall to almost 6 feet or more if not pruned correctly. Over

time, crystals will travel down the leaves, buds will develop between branches, and little hairs will weave their way through the buds. The smell at this point is unmistakable and lingers and bursts into the air if I happen to brush the plant. Some plants are fruity, oth-ers sour, but always with a distinct under-tone of skunk.

In the end, the buds have to be har-vested. Just before har-vest, the crystals are at their peak (ideally) and this is the time for

sunrises and sunsets. When the sun finds its way down past the horizon, but there’s

only a little blue in the sky, that’s when the buds look their

best. Months and months of care, planning and

attention are at their precipice. The plants will glow and radi-ate. I go around to each plant and size them up to note their strengths and

weaknesses. Maybe I’ll need to add sup-

port to branches about to snap under their own

weight or take out my jew-elers’ loupe to better inspect

the leaves, buds, stems, and branch-

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Adam Elwell & Antonio Pinedathe advocate

Former students’ art that incorporates pieces constructed in multiple mediums will be displayed in the Visual Arts Gallery in an exhibit titled “Re/Converge,” open for view-ing from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays through March 26.

The goal of the exhibit is to showcase for-mer Mt. Hood students’ art and inspire artists currently on campus to pursue their passions, with sculptures, paintings, jewelry, and other mediums featured. Those browsing the exhib-it have the ability to sample different artistic approaches and be inspired.

Within the showcase, a common theme of convergence can be seen. There are pieces that demonstrate this by contrasting nature with urban cityscapes; others that merge the artistic abilities of multiple artists; and others still that utilize a variety of textures and materials.

The result is a collection of works repre-sentative of their respective artists, integrating with one another and creating an organism of visual art.

Miles Brown, Visual Art Gallery director, brought together the artists featured as a way of reuniting them with their former campus, so they may share their work with students like themselves. Many of them have gone on to further their education in fine arts.

Mt. Hood art instructor Lori Lorion said that “hanging their work here is an inspiration to students, to see and give them ideas about what it is that they can do.

“There is nothing I love more than being in a room surrounded by art, devoted to art, like a cathedral to art,” she said.

“Not all shows really feed me, but this one does. There’s something really wonderful about seeing a person starting to launch and having the courage to follow what it is they want to do,” she said of the aspiring former MHCC students.

Nancy Daboub and Nathan Turner are two former students and painters featured in the exhibit. They collaborated on the piece “Heal,” painted with acrylic and spray paint on a wood panel.

After the couple joked about Daboub’s dis-like for talking about her work, Turner said a lot of his work is done with spray paint, as he started out as a graffiti artist “for seven or eight years.”

Turner described “Heal” as a truly joint ef-fort, one that was “love-inspired.”

The various forms of artwork are careful-ly arranged, allowing the viewer an intimate glimpse into the world of the artist.

Creating this link with an audience is an intimate gesture which allows others to praise or critique, but above all gives the ability to express oneself.

“You have to have that kind of toughness, and you have to be absolutely wide open,” Lo-rion said of the artistic process. “There’s a fine line to walk. Nobody can tell you how to do it.

“It’s a journey, and I think it is important for students to see them take the first steps on that journey.”

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Photo by Beka Haugen - the advocateNancy Daboub and Nathan Turner’s painting “Heal,” is on display in the visual arts gallery along with other previous students work.

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I guess I don’t have to fight for your attention on this one. The term “Black Jew,” is typically a head-turner. And for good reason, there’s an el-ephant in the room, and the more we ignore it, the bigger it gets. So say it with us: “Slavery.” That wasn’t so hard, was it? Now let’s try another one: “Holocaust.”

Believe me, you weren’t the only one slightly apprehensive addressing this topic. In case you haven’t met us, we are two relatively average white guys – typically the perpetrators in history.

But as soon as we set foot in the Visual Arts Theater on Thursday – for something called the “Black-Jew Dialogues,” a visiting production hosted by Mt. Hood’s Diversity Resource Center – it became clear that we weren’t there to refer to any person generally, except maybe that blond guy who was the butt of a Nazi joke. If there was anything that the audience was expected to take away from this, it was that there is no white his-tory, or black history, or Jewish history – there is just history. Every race has been on the receiving end of an atrocity if you go back far enough in time.

That being said, it was the presentation’s de-livery that was truly impressive. It was one thing to talk about racism in theory; it’s entirely differ-ent to watch a middle-aged black man play a slave in an SNL-style skit. At first you’re not even sure

what to think about it, but the moment you feel comfortable is the same time that you know the presenters’ message is effective.

Ron and Simon, the two actors, for lack of a better term, have a way of putting everybody at ease, even if it means grinding up on a defense-less student in what I want to call a body suit fashioned after a granny (but the bosom itself looked like its own suit). Ron is a middle-aged black man who easily connected with the crowd, playing off it quite frequently. Simon is a young-er Jewish man who seemed to let Ron take the lead, but came in with a lot of funny one-liners as well. His joke about how the alleged “Jewish guilt” can make everyone feel bad had the entire theater laughing.

After putting the crowd at ease the team brings up the hard topics, such as how to deal with bigotry.

This approach worked with most everyone at the event. People laughed at how the only famous Jew is Woody Allen, but listened atten-tively when they brought up picture slides of The Holocaust. Personally I felt a little awkward, wishing my lingering smile from the previous joke would fade while looking at mutilating scars on a slave’s back.

The discussion afterwards had students ask-ing questions about how they could get this mes-sage out to their community. Ron and Simon re-sponded in a bittersweet tone that they just need

to try and get the word out. Ron even brought to attention how he could fit everybody attending in the first three rows of the Visual Arts Theater.

As awkward as these moments might have seemed to us, it fit their theme. Humor, at least to us, is always about power. Typically, if you find something funny, one of two things is happen-ing. One way is when someone degrades them-selves in front of you - so now you feel comfort-able. The second, is that you’re friendly, or find someone nonthreatening enough so that they can make a joke at your expense, but you find it humorous anyway because it’s a sign that you’re comfortable with this person (and, ergo, have power over them).

I don’t think I need to explain to anyone how racism is also a system of power. This is why you hear so many racist jokes, not in the BJD sense, but in the derogatory, “ha-ha-I-have-it-better-than-this-group” sense. It is also why promoting equality through comedy is so hard, because ev-eryone needs to feel comfortable first.

One of the novel ways the pair set everyone at ease, while addressing this issue was saying, lip syncing, or even shouting a certain word. We can’t say it, but you know which one (hint: it rhymes with tigger). From there, it was an absolute joy to watch these two interact. I don’t know if it’s a compliment to say there’s no one I would rather look at holocaust pictures with, but it’s definitely true.

‘Black-Jew Dialogues’ uses humor to fight fear

Student budget council’s ethics, decisions scrutinizedEmily Wintringhamthe advocate

Thursday’s student activities budget forum revealed the concerns of co-curricular represen-tatives and students alike.

A group of around 20 people, mostly student Finance Council representatives and attendees, met at noon in the Student Union. The origin of controversy was that a majority of the Finance Council was uneasy with the final vote a week earlier. Several Council members said they were uncomfortable making the final decision.

“At the end, we all felt it wasn’t right,” said one participant.

There was a consensus that the Forensics representative had generated a lot of the hos-tility, geared towards ASG (Associated Student Government) and SAB (Student Activities Board). This prompted the Council to reluc-tantly decide to make additional cuts: “It was like a gun to their head. It was them or no one,” someone else mentioned.

While agreeing to the varying levels of “transparency” regarding how groups negotiat-ed their cuts, David Sussman - MHCC manager

for the Student Union and specialized Student Support services - reminded everyone that the Council worked to balance the budget. In that regard, the budget process had turned out to be a success.

Sussman encouraged those at the forum to consider the “bigger picture.” He said that $1,700 (the amount in dispute), in respect to the $1 million of the whole fund, wasn’t worth hassling ASG to reject the approved budget and start all over again. If ASG did not ratify the budget, both the athletics and co-curricular representatives would have had to meet again to reform the budget.

One representative at the forum ques-tioned if a “nuclear option” was available. (As in the U.S. Congress, a nuclear option would allow the supermajority of the representatives to force one group – specifically in this case, Forensics – to make additional cuts the group declined, by voting that they do so.)

Sussman noted that unlike some co-curricu-lar groups, Forensics came into the process with a proposed budget that reflected a 4 percent cut.

It was argued that Forensics could have afforded a bigger cut. Another argument was

that it was more ethical for Forensics to make additional cuts because according to council by-laws, the group could request more money from the student senate they needed it.

Other groups needing funds cannot go di-rectly to Forensics to request it.

Another concern expressed at the close of the forum was that Athletics has not been ad-vertising its events and is largely disjointed from campus life. It would be more worth the funding granted to Athletics if the group worked harder to promote its sporting image, it was said.

Sussman noted that community college students, especially those heavily involved in co-curricular and athletics, “don’t have the op-tion to just hang out.” He said that MHCC is fortunate for the student fee autonomy system, which is more of a university model.

A big part of the student autonomy includes open budget hearings much like Thursday’s – with concerns raised and opinions aired – and one set for Monday, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Student Union.

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It’s called The Black Jew Dialogues, we’re only so creative people.

OP-es. Using the jewelers’ loupe, a compact magnifying glass, is when I am truly enfolded in the beauty of the plant.

The crystals pop out against the green backdrop, rang-ing in color from amber to clear to milky white. They all glisten and shimmer as the plant and my body move to the rhythm of my heart beat. It’s a moment difficult to recre-ate, making it that much more enjoyable.

The plants are cut down and trimmed. Trimming is dull, tedious, and many other synonyms for “boring.” It doesn’t bring anyone joy, but after that comes drying and curing the plant. It’s a craft all in itself. It took me years to cure marijuana correctly, and that can be the difference between a good smoke and a harsh coughing fit. This step is one that makes growing fun and crafty, like I’m in an episode of Martha Stewart Living. The dried plant is put into mason jars, then the jars are put into a cedar chest.

Then two times a day for two weeks, the jars are “burped” or opened for a few minutes, resealed and put back in the box. Once that is done, the bud is ready for smoking, pro-cessing or storing. These two weeks are where the bud really develops its flavor profile, and each day offers a new smell. It’s a real treat for the nose, a journey for the olfac-tory senses. The first day the bud smells like chlorophyll or cut grass, maybe even the second day. Slowly, it starts to smell like rotten fruit and it stays that way for about a week. Then the pungent aromas smooth out; they don’t quite attack the nose anymore.

I’ve never been the guy that wears Rastafarian colors, spouts pro-marijuana propaganda, or acts like a typical stoner. I’m not one to advertise my beliefs unsolicited. It’s not my beliefs, or clothes, or politics that bring me joy while gardening; it’s the process of growing and the me-ticulous crafting that keeps my attention.

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Mt. Hood’s Clay Club president, Amber Meyer, finds time to maintain straight As while juggling two jobs, work-study, 16 cred-its, and six children – on top of being a mem-ber of Rho Theta and Trio.

Meyer first went to cosmetology school at the age of 17 at the Beau Monde College of Hair Design in Portland a year after having her first child, but soon ended up working dead-end jobs.

“By the time I had my third child, I didn’t want to work,” she said. “My husband was, luckily, working just enough to pay all of the bills so I decided to stay home. All of my (sala-ry) was paying for daycare - there was no point of me working.”

After her husband got injured on the job, he and Meyer agreed it was time for him to pursue a career change. “I was like, ‘Okay, we’ll sacrifice, you go to school, get a career change,’ ” she said.

It was as she worked with her husband to fill out financial aid forms that she realized she qualified for a grant-funded education at Mt. Hood, she said.

While he was attending Mt. Hood to seek his associate’s degree, she was spending that time thinking about what degree she her-self would pursue. She settled on becoming a business major. “I was thinking ‘What can

I do?’ What degree can I get that would be a well-rounded degree so that whatever I chose in the future, it would carry with me?” she said.

“I admittedly do not like working for other people. I don’t think anybody does. I ultimately want to run my own business, so I was, like, that’s the perfect degree right there.”

When Meyer entered MHCC, she went through the Transitions program and took a ceramics class to fulfill her humanities require-ments. “I was looking at all of the art classes and I was like ‘Hmm, I can’t draw, I can’t paint’ – sculpture seemed intimidating.”

She decided to go with ceramics because she had taken a pottery class in high school and was familiar with it. She took the class her first term at Mt. Hood, and picked up a work-study position as well.

Meyer also joined the Ceramics Club (now the MHCC Clay Club) during her first term and got involved gradually while “assisting last year’s president with everything she was do-ing, with the intention of taking over for this year,” she said.

She hopes her positivity about the club is noticed by others “and they want to join, too, because they see that it can be fun,” she said.

At home, Meyer’s children have taken on clay work as well. As a work-study student, she gets to take clay that’s left over from Mt. Hood classes and gives it to her kids for their own personal projects, she said. She some-times glazes their work, using the extra kiln space at MHCC.

“Since they’re almost always little projects, they squeeze into void space between all the other stuff that’s not taking away from any of the students.” She said her children “get excited - they don’t make that many pieces that make it all the way through the process.”

Meyer hopes to attend a four-year univer-sity in Portland to finish her business degree, with an eye on business management. She is unsure of where, exactly, but has been accept-ed to almost all of the schools she applied to, she said.

With her busy schedule as a mom and full-time student, Meyer still manages to find time for herself.

Once she finally tucks her kids into bed, she likes to unwind. “I probably stay up til midnight. From 10 to whenever, I watch a TV show to relax, or I read a book, or if I didn’t manage to get my homework done, I do my homework,” she said.

Will Darkinsthe advocate

She sits in her office, shrouded in books that sit on shelves.

Scanning along the periphery of this, a visitor finds that each spine reads with something relating to design. Post-It notes hang on adhesive limbs to each page and its partner, while neon pink and yellow bleed through the exposed top of them: highlighted sections of material, each with its own design and purpose. Everything in order.

For Chris Maier, director of Mt. Hood’s Graphic Design program, this is far from how earlier events in her life played out.

After 27 years of teaching at MHCC, Maier will retire from the classroom this spring – although she plans to lead an online course or two, into the fall.

When she originally arrived in 1988, the Integrated Media (IM) department structure looked vastly different.

“When I arrived, graphic design was the only career technical program in a department (full) of other transfer fine art classes,” she said. “Eventually Jack Schomer, the broadcasting director, and I converged all of these studies together to create an IM program.”

The next four years saw the addition of a photo program to round out a broad range of studies within IM.

The most rewarding feeling for her, as she

reflects on her Mt. Hood career, was hearing of students’ success after they graduated from the program. “When I come across a mention of a former student on the news or Internet, it really makes me think of how far they have come with just the experience of the two-year program,” she said.

This feeling may come from an ingrained sense of satisfaction that most teachers covet while shaping young minds, but for Maier it has stayed with her from the beginning of her education and teaching career.

She was born and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, alongside six brothers and sisters. “My dad sent us all to Penn State (University), but I had applied to a school in Arizona and really wanted to go there,” she said. “I originally wanted to major in fine arts and study pottery ... it just lost interest, though, because I wasn’t able to see the results quickly. There wasn’t enough control.”

From pottery, Maier moved on to graphic design. Penn State has a very good school for this study, but the instructors did not share her same values. “Unfortunately, the male teacher in charge of that department was acting very inappropriately, and I knew I couldn’t stay there,” she said. Instead, she set her sights on the West.

“I transferred to Arizona State (University) and it was the best thing I ever did,” she said. “I was back in Arizona where I wanted to be originally.” After graduating

from ASU, Maier continued her education at the University of Kansas, where she served as a part-time instructor. The flat lands and gray skies of the wheat state didn’t provide enough inspiration for long, however.

“I had to get out of Kansas. I wanted more from my life and I knew I wouldn’t find it there,” Maier said. “I decided to go back to the University of Arizona and teach,” she said. It was there she met her husband, David Maier, and afterwards she moved to Oregon to teach at Mt. Hood.

For 27 years, it would turn out.“The reason I stayed here so long was

because I was always felt I was able to speak my mind and let my student’s voices be heard,” Maier said.

Now, Maier plans to unplug from the academic world and kick back.

“After more than 50 years of being in school, either as a student or an educator, I want to follow a non-academic calendar, spend a lot of time outside – off the grid – and explore the West,” she said.

Clay Club president molds her own future

Graphic design director plans to retire and unplug

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Freshman Dalton Reimers throws pitch in Saints practice on Wednesday.

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Time to break out the peanuts and cracker-jack: Baseball season is upon us.

As the Saints start their preseason games, Mt. Hood’s baseball coach, Bryan Donohue, talked about his high hopes for the team com-ing into the 2015 season.

Although Mt. Hood went 1-3 in two dou-bleheaders over last weekend, Donohue liked what he saw from his team in the lone win and knows what they need to work on for the upcoming season. He sees this team as one of the best he’s coached since being here and can’t wait to start the regular season, he said.

The Saints currently have two players who will move on to Division 1 college baseball next season. They are pitcher-outfielder Joe Balfour, headed to San Jose State, and first baseman Tommy Lane, set to play at Marshall University. In 2014, Lane led the Saints in RBIs (18) and home runs (4).

Newcomers to watch this season are Tay-lor Travess, a utility player who can pitch and play multiple positions, shortstop Jay Rogers, and pitchers Aaron Clift and Seth Rayburn.

Donohue also listed redshirt sophomore

catcher Louis Wolf as a player to watch. Wolf led the team in batting percentage last season at .329 and added 28 hits.

Last season, the Saints finished 16-14 in conference play, and 19-23 overall. But they hope to have a season more like 2012, when they won the South Region and tied a 42-year-old record with 39 wins.

In the last three years, Mt. Hood has won two South Region titles, most recently in 2013. Back in 2000, the Saints won the NWAC championship.

Donohue said that this year’s Saints are one of the fastest and most athletic groups he has ever coached. The team showed strong a lot of potential during fall ball.

If they put it all together, he said the Saints have a real chance to win another NWAC ti-tle, the ultimate goal for every Mt. Hood team. This is a group that can win a lot of games if they play to their potential, which they showed during a good fall ball season, he said.

The Saints take on the Everett CC Trojans on their home Oslund Field in a pair of dou-bleheaders this weekend.

The two teams will play two, starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday, and starting again at 11 a.m. on Sunday.

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March 6, 2015

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Last Saturday, the Saints men’s basketball team suffered a tough 86-81 overtime road loss to Umpqua CC in their season finale – but is headed for the NWAC championship tournament this weekend, anyway.

In a shocking turn of events, the Saints learned before their game that they were in the playoffs. Due to the use of an ineligible player, the South Region-leading Chemeketa Storm had to forfeit all 29 of their games. That propelled the Saints into the fourth and final South Region tournament slot, regardless of the outcome against the Riverhawks.

Mt. Hood head coach Geoff Gibor explained the Chemeketa matter: “Guess they had a guy who played in some sort of a summer pro-league a few years back. (The guy didn’t) receive any financial benefits or anything like that, but apparently when you play in that league you give away your amateur status,” he said.

The Saints’ gain was clearly a pain for the Storm, Gibor added.

“It’s unfortunate for their program because I like those guys,” he added. “I’m really close to their coaches, so it’s unfortunate.”

In Mt. Hood’s game in Roseburg on Saturday, the first half was nothing special for either side. Mt. Hood took a 34-33 advantage over Umpqua at halftime after shooting a lackluster 38 percent from the field.

However, the Saints came out in the second half strong and built as much as a 10-point lead. A late rally by the Riverhawks forced the game into overtime, at 69 all.

Umpqua had the upper hand in the overtime period, outscoring the Saints 17-12 to walk away with the comeback victory.

Gibor pointed to second-chance points as the Saints’ back-breaker. Although the stat sheet said Umpqua had 20 second-chance points for Umpqua, he said he believes the actual number was closer to 30 points.

The Saints did get solid production from sophomores Oleg Marandyuk and Jason Wallace, and freshman Jamal Muhammad.

Muhammad finished with a near double-double, with a total of 24 points and nine rebounds. Marandyuk provided 18 points and six rebounds, while Wallace added 15 points and five rebounds.

The loss stung a lot less, after the Saints learned earlier in the day about Chemeketa’s forfeits – giving them the fourth and final South Region playoff spot, regardless of Saturday’s outcome.

Marandyuk said the news jolted the team heading into the Umpqua game. “It was kind of weird because we found out the whole situation with Chemeketa, so I think that some guys might have lost a little focus just because they knew we were in.”

Following the Umpqua loss, and credited with the forfeited games, Mt. Hood’s revised record stood at 9-5 in league play, and 12-13 overall.

As a result, the Saints will face Edmonds CC in the first round of playoffs at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Toyota Center, in Kennewick, Wash.

Edmonds (12-2 in league play, 24-5 overall) finished with the second-best overall record in the NWAC, behind North Region rival Bellevue CC (25-4).

Gibor discussed his team’s chances, and keys to success.

“Everyone’s got to be on the same page for us. With the intensity we had against Clackamas that night (a crucial 85-76 Saints win on Feb. 25). It has to be the same mentality going into the tournament,” he said. “We’ve got to be about playing defense and getting rebounds.

“(Edmonds) are the number one team in the NWAC. They’re good. They’re athletic ... We’re going to have to make them take tough shots and make sure we only give them one opportunity to take a shot per possession by getting rebounds.”

Ultimately, Gibor believes the game will come down to who wins the “battle of the boards” and the “battle in the paint.”

Saints sophomore guard and First-Team All-Defense South Region selection Kylelle Brown spoke on the Saints’ focus heading into the impending challenge.

“A few huge things we’re focusing on is getting back on defense, rebounding, and taking care of the ball because they are a transition team,” Brown said about Edmonds. “If we can eliminate that part of their game we should be fine.”

The championship tournament runs Saturday through Tuesday. The Saints hope to make the best of their somewhat-surprise chance.

“For us, we’ve been given an opportunity and we got to take advantage of it,” said Gibor.

Saints make playoffs, despite loss to Umpqua

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Kody Kennedy and Kylelle Brown prepare for rebound against Umpqua CC back on Jan. 31. The Saints lost to Umpqua on Saturday 86-81, but still made the NWAC playoffs.

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Last Saturday, the Mt. Hood women’s basketball season came to a close with a 78-36 loss to Umpqua CC in Roseburg.

In her final game with the Saints, Marley

Yates led the team with 11 points and totaled four rebounds. Freshman Madison Weaver added eight points and three rebounds.

The loss dropped the Saints’ season record to 1-11 in league play, and 5-22 overall.

Along with the loss, came the news that head basketball coach Tyler Rose was stepping

down from the program.Rose began as assistant coach for the

woman’s basketball program under head coach Jocelyn McIntire in the 2012-13 season. After McIntire stepped down a year later, Rose was promoted to head coach.

In his two seasons as head coach, Rose

finished 7-45 overall, 1-23 in league play.Rose told the Advocate he resigned in

order to focus on the coming birth of his first child, but wouldn’t elaborate any further.

Mt. Hood Community College has already posted a job opening on the NWAC website.

Following Saints loss, Coach Rose steps down

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