Every August, thousands of readers — including college appli-cants, parents, college admissions staff and even college presidents and boards of directors — antici-pate the release of the U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges,” the premiere ranking guide that surveys 1,400 colleges and universities nationwide in an effort to classify and order schools according to statistical data and name recognition.

Prospective freshmen and their families eagerly wait to discover which institutions are the “best” while the institutions hope their rankings will catch the attention of these restive eyes.

Linfield College, however, doesn’t even seem to hold its breath.

“We don’t wait until August to see how we did in the rankings,” President of College Relations Bruce Wyatt said. “When we are asked just how good Linfield is … we think we got a better feel of that.”

Since the rankings’ inception in 1983, U.S. News and World Report has drawn both praise and fire for its use of peer assessments, name recognition, financial data and applicant profiles to create a pecking order among American institutions of higher education.

Many colleges use the rankings as an outlet to provide abbrevi-ated information about their own unique attributes and to recruit students.

It is to make themselves known to potential buyers in an otherwise crowded marketplace. However, such as in the case of a Clemson University professor

admitting to the university’s dis-tortion of numbers and data to improve their rankings, the val-ues can have a superficial quality.

“It’s a beauty pageant,” Linfield College President Thom-as Hellie said. “I have heard of an East Coast college calling a West Coast college and saying, ‘Hey, we are not even competitors, but if you rank me higher than my peers in my region, I will do the same for you.’ There are even college boards of directors who ask their presidents to work on increasing the college’s rankings.”

In more recent times, there has been a growing movement among colleges and universities to not cooperate with U.S. News & World Report’s ranking survey.

In May 2007, the Annapolis Group, a national organization of liberal arts colleges, published an article on its website that includ-

ed statements from college presi-dents speaking out against col-lege rankings.

Shortly after the article’s pub-lication, the majority of the group voted against participating in the reputational part of the survey, which accounts for 25 percent of the rank.

As the current vice president of enrollment, Dan Preston is one of thousands of college administra-tors who receive the peer assess-ment survey in the mail and are asked to rank other schools.

“I rank one school [Linfield] and leave the rest as ‘I don’t know enough information,’” he said.

Preston has served at Linfield College since 1983, in both the admissions office and in his cur-rent position, and has observed

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Students repacked 1,000 pounds of oats Sept 18. at the Yamhill Community Action Partner-ship Food Bank. The oats will be distributed by YCAP to families in need in Yamhill County. The Office of Community Service sponsored the event within a day of community service called “Taste of Service.”

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Sodexo, Linfield’s food ser-vice provider, has chosen the col-lege to be a test campus for waste reduction.

The trial program examines pre-consumer food waste in an attempt to make Sodexo more sustainable.

Bill Masullo, general manager of Student Dining Services, said that the trial began at the start of Fall Semester and will last for three months.

The study measures food waste before it makes it to students. Cantaloupe rinds, for example, are paid for but left uneaten, making them food waste, Masullo said.

“It’s just kind of going to waste at this point,” he said.

Masullo said that Sodexo hopes trends and patterns will emerge from the study that will help them become more sustain-able.

“If I didn’t have to pay for food that would be thrown away in a landfill, we could reduce the number of trucks we have on the road,” he said.

Monica Zimmerman, director of public relations for Sodexo and creator of the sustainability cam-paign, echoed his sentiments.

“We spend all this time on how much it costs to grow and trans-port food, and then it gets thrown in the trash,” she said. “We need to think about food after it’s thrown out.”

Zimmerman described the waste reduction program as part of Sodexo’s Build a Better Tomor-row plan. The initiative aims to make the company more sustain-able, Zimmerman said.

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Last week, reporters from Comcast came to Linfield’s Nich-olson Library to interview faculty and staff members for a CNN news feature titled “Comcast Newsmakers.”

The program is set to run across the state of Oregon and Southern Washington and features seg-ments about different regions and local leaders within them.

Three Linfield leaders were interviewed to represent the school as part of the network’s Willamette Valley segment. They are Linfield College President Thomas Hellie, as the head of the school; Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Linder, for research work with children; and Scott Brosius, head coach of the baseball team, for his work with in athletics.

You know it’s a bad week when it’s lights out anytime between 3 and 5 a.m. and your alarm goes off at 6. But it’s just sleep, right?

I overbook myself — lots of stu-dents do. But as October creeps near, it seems to me that I see more zombified classmates than usual at this time of year. Perhaps we are having trouble with time manage-ment. For me, the issue is prioritiz-ing my workload within my time management plan.

It’s hard: I know I need to get stories done for the Review by Thursday at the latest or else some topic goes unreported and some page of the paper suddenly trans-forms into a half-page house ad saying, “Come work for us!” (Seri-ously, come work for us.)

But what about those 17 cred-its of class? Shouldn’t academics always come first?

Faculty, cover your ears (er, eyes); students, I’m here to tell you that, no, academics do not always come first. Why? I could say it’s because student interest lies else-where, and that would be true. I could say it’s because students don’t care as much about classes outside their major, and I wouldn’t be lying, either. But I have recently been reminded of another reason: dumb assignments.

The other night, I was stuck with

a bunch of homework. We’ve all been in that situation. It demands prioritizing. But what to do first? Read 80 pages of a textbook or con-duct research for a speech or draft documents for TLR staff?

Here’s what wasn’t on my pri-ority list: studying for a vocabu-lary test. Matching. For a 400-level class.

Perhaps I should be grateful for such an effortless assignment, but I was frustrated by it. Why should I waste my time on such a task? More importantly, why did the professor assign something as useless as a matching vocabulary quiz? As a hard-working, busy student at a prestigious college, I almost consider this an insult to my intelligence.

If I see another assignment that says “summarize” unaccompanied by the words “then analyze,” I’ll

… well, I’ll probably just hang my head, sigh and put it way low on my “to do” list.

But the point is this is college, people. As college students, we have hectic schedules and a lot on our plates. Don’t waste our time with tedious busy work that doesn’t challenge us. Give us assignments with purpose. It shouldn’t be easy for us to decide what homework might have to be left untouched during an all-nighter.

As faculty, you don’t want your time wasted with student work that was clearly done five minutes before class. So don’t assign us work that can be completed in that time.

Make it worth our time to try.

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It is without question that for many of us, college costs a great deal of money. When you calculate tuition, books and housing, it can add up to amounts that make your head spin.

Since so many college students are struggling to make ends meet, you would assume that Linfield would try to help students out and not make the price of its snacks in the Catty Shack and other campus dining services so high.

When walking through the Catty Shack, it may seem more like an overpriced snack shop in Hawaii instead of a snack shop at a small, Oregon college. $3.29 for a travel-size toothpaste? Are they

serious? Students could walk to Albertsons and get the same thing for $1.50. Not to mention students will be shelling out $5.99 at the Catty Shack for a box of Cheerios, Lucky Charms or Reeses Puffs cereal when they cost about $3.99 at Albertsons.

Also, since many students have declining balance dollars, it can be easy for students to simply swipe their card to purchase the over-priced items.

It almost seems like the high prices in the Catty Shack are a way for the school or Sodexo to take advantage of young college stu-dents who are chained to the meal plan.

The college should be looking out for the best interests of the stu-dents and not just the best inter-ests of Sodexo. It needs to stop.

We think that if the Catty Shack lowered its prices, then it would not only be helping students, but helping its own business, too. For example, if they brought the prices down just a tad, students would be more willing to spend their money at the Catty Shack as opposed to at outside stores.

Lowering prices at the Catty Shack will definitely make the store more college-budget friendly and a better overall experience for students.

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The Lin-field Review has a brand new col-umn: It’s essent ia l ly a “Dear Abby” col-umn where you write in with questions, and I answer them. But instead of the overused “Abby,”

I’ll use “Dear Bailey.” (My name is not Bailey, and to

anyone actually named Bai-ley, I am sorry.)

If the name change wasn’t an exciting enough reason for you to write in, then maybe the subject will get your attention: This advice column isn’t about just anything. It’s about sex.

This isn’t high school, and abstinence isn’t the theme of human health courses, sexual education or of everyone’s sexual practices. Understanding sex and practicing healthy habits is the goal now.

You’re an adult and sex will follow you throughout the rest of your life. How is abstinence going to work if you get married and don’t want children for a while or at all? As college students, you should be informed of what you want to know about sex, sexual health and anything you don’t understand about sex.

Let’s stop here for just a second. This is not a rela-tionship column or a how-to guide. I want you to feel free to ask questions about sex and healthy relation-ships, but this column does not deal with whether you should ask out so-and-so

or how do I do such-a n d - s u c h p o s i t i o n . Go buy a Kama S u t r a or “The Complete I d i o t ’ s

Guide to Amazing Sex.” Questions can, of course,

be asked in Dawn Graff-Haight’s Human Sexual-ity class or in the health department. But for what ever reason, not everyone feels comfortable with that approach. Reasons people don’t ask questions are often increased because sex is, unfortunately, such a hushed subject. Getting information is difficult when asking a question feels embarrassing or is in front of other people.

I won’t know who you are; you won’t ask me your questions in person. Some one else most likely has the same question that you do. This column is to help every one, and no one is going to get answers if no one asks.

Questions can be e-mailed to me at linfieldre-viewbailey@gmail.com, or if you would rather be com-pletely anonymous, you can write to “Dear Bailey,” at Unit #A518.

As a personal disclosure, I am not telling anyone to engage in sex or any other sexual activities. I am just providing information and facts that I have attained through research. The more questions you ask, the more answers everyone will get.

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For any of you who know me, this statement is going to be rather obvious: I’m a theater major. I practically live in Ford Hall. I have all my classes in this building, some thing that is unheard of with in many other departments at this school. I take the majority of my classes from the same two professors, both of whom I think of as mentors and parents.

I know that for other small departments on cam-pus, this is roughly the same story. I, for one, love my the-ater education at Linfield for precisely these reasons. However, there is one large problem that looms over the description of my major as presented above.

The problem is that the department is forced into it’s size as a result of unfair poli-cies.

Specifically, I mean the way in which the school hires new faculty and doles out money to departments seems to be a backward system that involves the smaller depart-ments getting pigeonholed. In my opinion, the system is rather similar to what Dawn Nowacki, chair of the Depart-ment of Political Science, said that if a department teaches classes with more students in them, they are given a higher priority when it comes to hir-ing new faculty. If a depart-ment teaches classes with smaller numbers, it is not given the funding to grow.

All right. The logic seems simple enough on paper.

However, there’s a fairly clear problem. Many depart-ments offer small classes, such as my theater classes, in which I’ve never seen more than 20 students and the vast majority of which have less than 10. I know this same story is true for other small departments. I also know these departments desire

more faculty to teach their students more effectively.

Perhaps some of you are seeing the Catch-22 in this situation. Without more faculty to teach the classes, there can’t be more students in them, but without more students in the classes, the departments aren’t given the funding to hire more profes-sors. Thus, departments such as theater and political sci-ence cannot grow for years until the school does as a whole.

When I first heard this from my political science professor, I wondered if I was overreacting and maybe it was just a problem that was isolated to one department. But in talking to other people from other departments, it seems to be an issue that sev-eral areas are chaffing under.

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts Janet Gupton agrees that this is true. Eight years ago, the new theater building, Ford Hall, opened providing a state-of-the-art theatrical venue to the cam-pus. New facilities led to an increase in students tak-ing classes and deciding to

be majors in theater, but the number of faculty remained the same. Gupton also noted that while larger depart-ments need funding for fac-ulty and equipment, a larger theater facility requires an increase in its operational budget as well. Especially for departments that are trying to get accredited.

Accreditation is a stamp of approval that demon-strates that a specific insti-tution is meeting national standards of excellence in its field. Many departments do not want to earn accredita-tion, since once it has been documented, it must be maintained. This leads to a department losing some of the autonomy that it would have otherwise.

However, for depart-ments such as theater that aspire to become accredited, understaffing is a large prob-lem. To receive the approval, it must have a minimum number of full-time faculty teaching in the department. Theater currently has two. Guess how many are needed for accreditation? Just one more.

“While faculty numbers aren’t the only thing holding back the department from accreditation, it is the hard-est thing to get around at the moment,” Gupton said.

You’d think that the administration would want to help out the departments that are so close to achieving the national program rec-

ognition. And to be fair, I’m sure the school does. But it needs to provide the money and support to the smaller departments to effectively do that.

Needless to say, a story such as this begs the ques-tion of where the funding comes from. We all know Washington’s don’t grow on trees. And I’m naïve enough to think that every depart-ment should get everything it wants all the time. I do think, however, that the col-lege could put funds away toward hiring additional staff members. And then there is spending money on things that, I think, are friv-olous — like watering the grounds every single night.

My point is that small departments are deprived of the ability to grow at Lin-field, at least for the moment. Class size is the reason why. I think that rather than being based on simple numbers, the growth in faculty should be on a need basis. This may seem simple, but if a depart-ment needs more staff it should receive it.

Of course it can’t happen over night, but a depart-ment that desperately needs another professor shouldn’t have to wait two decades to get one. How else can Lin-field provide the very best education possible?

I’m very happy with my experience here, but I know, too, that times are chang-ing and departments need to change along with them. It may not seem like much, but the growth of even one faculty member adds years of knowledge, training and experience to a department and ensures that Linfield is always at the top of its game.

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My point is that small departments are deprived of the ability to grow at Linfield, at least for the moment. ”

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ADVICE COLUMN

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Events highlight disability education at Linfield

Twentyyearsago,thefed-eral government signed intolawtheAmericanswithDis-abilitiesAct.

Nextweek,LearningSup-port Services will celebratethepassageof theactwithaseriesofeventsthatwilledu-cate students about lifewithdisabilities.

Cheri White, assistantdirector of learning supportservices, organized threedaysofawarenesseventssettobeginSept.29.

“I hope people will goawaywithmoreunderstand-ing of invisible disabilities,”White said. “What does itmean when you look twiceat someonebecause theyaredifferent?”

Invisible disabilities, likemultiple sclerosis, are notimmediately obvious to anobserver.

The jewel in the crown

ofWhite’s events is speakerKevin Michael Connolly, a23-year-old skiing champion,whowasbornwithout legs.Connolly will speak abouthisexperiencesat8p.m.Sept.29intheTedWilsonGymna-sium.

A seminar about seeing-eyedogswillbeat the11:30a.m.Sept.29intheFredMey-erLounge.

EileenDowty,coordinatorof learning support services,assembledsomeofLinfield’sfaculty and staff who havedisabilitiesforaquestionandanswersession.

“Thedifficulty is not thatthey are uncomfortable talk-ingabouttheirdisabilitiesbutthat they have class duringthequestionandanswerses-sion,”Dowtysaid.

Shesaidshehadmoresuc-cesswithLinfield’sstaff,whohave no schedule conflictswiththeevent,whichbeginsat 11:30 a.m. Sept. 30 in theFML.

“I’ve had more successwithstaffandadministratorsbecause they traditionallytake their lunch breaks fromnoonto1p.m.,”Dowtysaid.“They’re volunteering theirfreetimeforthis.”

She said she expects six

facultyandstaffmembers toattendthesessionandanswerquestions.

White said she consultedwith Dan Fergueson, direc-tor of college activities, onhow to encourage studentsto become involved with

theevent.Shesaidhisadvice—give

students a hands-on experi-ence—inspiredtheinforma-tionsession11:30a.m.Oct.1intheWalkerHallfoyer.

Dowty spoke at lengthabout the ADA, whichrequires Linfield to makesome accommodations topeoplewithdisabilities.

“The campus is alreadygeared for accommodationandaccess,”shesaid.

Examplesincludetheslop-ing ramps into the campusbuildings and the cutawayson the sidewalk curbs. andinterpretersfordeafstudentsandfaculty.

She also mentioned thatthe fire alarms have flash-inglightswiredintothemtowarnthehearingimpaired.

“If hearing-impaired stu-dents take out their hear-ing aids, they can’t hear thealarms,” Dowty said. “Thelightswakethemup.”

Dowty has experience

withindividualswithdisabil-ites.Herolderbrotherwasthefirst legally blind student intheNewMexicopublicschoolsystem.

“They toldmyparents toputhiminacorner,sendhimto the blind institute whenhe’s 6 and have more chil-dren,”Dowtysaid.“Mypar-ent’sdidn’tstandforthat.”

The celebration of theADA comprises two otherevents. “TempleGrandin,” abiographicalfilmaboutastill-living autistic woman earn-ing her doctorate in animalscience,willbescreenedat8p.m. Sept. 30 in Ice Audito-rium.

The final event is a playtitled “Not Until You KnowMy Story.” It’s based on 14interviews that address eth-nic,physical andmentaldif-ferences among people. Theplaywillopenat8p.m.Oct.1inIceAuditorium.

Joshua EnslerNews editor

Joshua Ensler can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

Rankings: Hellie decries college’s recent rankings

the effects of the rankingsonLinfieldCollege.

“Rankings just don’thave a direct correlation,”he said. “When we werethe No. 1 comprehensivecollege,wehada coupleofyears with lower numbers[of students enrolling] andhad a couple of years ofhighest numbers ever. Lastyear, we were ranked No.122,yetwehavethehighestenrollmentever.”

Preston said Linfieldrelies on what is real andauthentic.

“Students are cominghere,investingintheiredu-cation and graduating athighrates—thatiswhatismoreimportant.Ourgradu-ationrateishigherthanourpredicted rate,” Prestonsaid.

Forsomestudents,rank-ings did not have a sig-nificantrole in theircollegedecision.

“No[Ididn’tusecollegerankings],Ithinkmostpeo-plealreadyhavean ideaofwhat theywant,” freshmanJohnPortinsaid.

Freshman Walker Allensaid he went by word-of-mouth when he choseLinfield.

“I did know [Linfield]was a nationally rankedschool, but I didn’t look ituponline,”sophomoreKateMcMullansaid.

Wyatt credited studentswith the ability tomeasurethe true value of a collegeand ignore thebrandnamethat may be attected to aninstitution.

“Linfield’s constituencyis less ‘status-conscious,’”

he said. “They judge usbased on quality and bywhat they get — they arelessconcernedbyhowsomemagazine quantifies us.Alumni are more apprecia-tive of their professors andof thefriendstheymade—theyarenot intobrandrec-ognition.”

The incongruency ofrankingswith the complex-ity of a college communitymakes the simple answersthat these rankings seek toprovidequestionable.

“Overall, I think[collegerankings have] harmed theadmissions process — thetask of selecting a collegerequires a more nuancedand deeper look thanwhatrankings provide,” Helliesaid.

He saidhe is committedto not compromising Lin-field’s integrity by manip-ulating its ranking and,rather, tries to convey therankingsasworthless.

“The very fact that dif-ferentmagazines and orga-nizationsusedifferentwaysto rank colleges show howfoolish it is to rank colleg-

es,” he said. “Colleges can-notberanked.”

Rather,hesaid,itisaboutfindingtherightfit.

“One time, I went to astore to buy a suit, and Iwanted to buy this name-brand suit,” Hellie said.“Butthepeopleinthestoresaid,‘No,youshouldn’tbuythat suitbecause the shoul-ders are too narrow. Youshould buy this suit.’ I didbuy that suit— selecting acollegeiskindoflikethat.”

While rankings can beuseful for sifting throughthe mountain of informa-tion regarding colleges, attheendoftheday,it’saboutlooking at the data beyondthenumbers,Prestonsaid.

“Thedata[rankings]col-lect on schools is accurate,the calculation formulathey choose is generallyobjective and the formu-las have sound calculablemathematical principle tothem,”he said. “But is thata reallygoodway to figureoutwhereyouwanttogotoschool?”Joshua Crisp can be reached at linfieldreviewnews@gmail.com.

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Promoting healthy lives

Katie Paysinger/Senior photographer

Junior Nick Rawlins (front) visits a Wellness Week booth on Sept. 21. Robb Henry (left), a counseling intern from Portland State University joined Fusion representative junior Katie McKay (right) to teach stu-dents about healthy behaviors in college.

Overall, I think [college rankings have] harmed the admissions process — the task of selecting a college requires a more nuanced and deeper look than what rankings provide.

-Thomas Hellie president ”

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AMcMinnvilleresidentattemptedtobreakintotheCollegeAvenueApartmentsonSept.3andtoldastudentthathewantedtostoreamicrowaveinherroomuntillater that night. He then attempted to break into different apartments once theresidentrefused.

ThemanhasbeenidentifiedasCharlesBiddle.TheincidentledtoBiddlebeingbannedfromcampusbyLinfieldCollegeCommunityPublicSafety&Security.

BiddleisCaucasianandabout6’0”tallwithaslenderbuild.Heisinhislate30swithdarkhairandglasses,accordingtoChiefRobertCepeda,headofLCCPS.

AnyonewhoseesBiddleisadvisednottocomeintocontactwithhimandtocallLCCPSat503-883-7233.

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Schedule of events

Sept. 2911a.m.,GuideDogSeminar,FredMeyerLounge8p.m.,KevinMichaelConnolly,TedWilsonGymnasium

Sept. 3011:30a.m.,Q&Asessionwithfacultyandstaff,FredMeyerLounge8p.m.,“TempleGrandin,”IceAuditorium

Oct. 111:30a.m.,Hands-OnInformationalEvent,WalkerHallFoyer8p.m.,“NotUntilYouKnowMyStory,”IceAuditorium

The McMinnville Fire Department will set fire to a replica of a residence hall bedroom at 4 p.m. Sept. 30 to demonstrate how quickly a fire can spread.

Students, faculty and the community can gather on the IM Field to watch the event, which coincides with Campus Fire Safety Month.

The controlled burn will include examples of resi-dence hall rooms set up in two side-by-side trailers. One room will contain a fire sprinkler; the other will not.

The fire department intends to demonstrate the effectiveness of a sprinkler in an actual fire.

The rooms will not include any out-of-the-ordi-nary combustibles, such as gasoline or matches.

McMinnville Fire Mar-shal Eric McMullen will set fire to a piece of paper in each room’s trash bin, and the flames will grow from there.

McMullen said the pur-pose of the controlled burn is to give a real-life dem-onstration of fire and how quickly it can spread.

“We can go into a class-room and meet with groups all day and try to explain to people what it’s all about,” he said. “It gives the option to feel the power of the fire.”

McMullen has been working with McMinnville Fire Inspector Debbie McDermott and Gordon Kroemer, director of Linfield environmental health and safety, to organize the event.

Although this will be the

first controlled burn event on campus, Linfield is not the first school in the North-west to host such an event.

George Fox University has been conducting sur-prise controlled burns on a yearly basis, leaving the students shocked when they witness a replica of a dorm room in flames.

Kroemer said a tragic event that occurred in 2000 in New Jersey inspired the controlled burns.

“Three students were killed and more than 50 were injured in a fire at Seton Hall University,” he said. “The fire had a dra-matic impact on fire safety across the nation. Two stu-dents were severely burned in the fire and had to under-go extensive treatment in a burn center.”

After the tragedy, a pro-gram, titled igot2know, was developed. The program was created by the People’s Burn Foundation under a Department of Homeland Security Fire Prevention and Safety Grant to cre-ate awareness of fire safety among the public.

People can educate themselves about campus fire safety by visiting www.igot2know.org.

Visit www.igot2know.org and complete all three modules and view the main fire safety video to automat-ically be entered to win priz-es, including a new iPad, at the Sept. 30 event.

For more information about Campus Fire Safety Month, visit www.campus-firesafety.com.

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Nadene LeCheminant, director of media relations for Linfield, said that the idea behind the program is to provide viewers with a better understanding of leaders, organizations and prominent places in differ-ent regions of the state.

Linfield was chosen because of its prestige as a college where students are provided with the high-est academic excellence for a fair price, LeCheminant said.

“Linfield is being per-ceived more and more as a college offering high edu-cation that is worth the tuition,” she said.

The three faculty mem-bers were interviewed for different reasons and asked a range of questions. Presi-dent Hellie, as de facto leader of the college, was interviewed about Linfield

and its successes as a whole. The reporter who con-

ducted the interview focused the majority on the president’s background before Linfield, which includes serving as a pro-fessor of theater and Eng-lish at Hiram College in Ohio, as well as president and executive director of the James S. Kemper Foun-dation in Chicago.

Hellie has also studied and taught in four different continents throughout his career and received various awards and merits from colleges in those locations.

The president spoke briefly about Linfield’s student-to-faculty ratio, its focus on international edu-cation and the International Pinot Noir Celebration that is hosted at the college each year.

Questions for Linder focused on her current research projects moreso than on her teaching at

Linfield. Linder said she has been

conducting research on the effects of violent TV on the development of children and their relationship to one another.

Brosius, one of the more decorated members of Lin-field’s athletics, was asked about his glory days and why he came to Linfield, LeCheminant said.

Brosius attended Linfield in the mid 1980s, but left in 1987 after being selected by the Oakland Athletics in the amateur baseball draft.

He went on to play for the Yankees and the Giants and won three World Series titles for the Yankees dur-ing the late ’90s and early 2000s.

He returned to Linfield after retiring from baseball and received his degree in business in 2002.

Brosius became the head baseball coach in 2008.

He was asked about his experiences during his interview as well as about the life of a student athlete at the college and the bal-ance between athletics and academics.

Interviews were also conducted at the Capi-tol Building of Oregon, the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Willamette University, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and other locations.

Public figures such as Gov. Ted Kulongoski, U.S. Reps. Brian Baird and Dar-lene Hooley, Speaker of the House Rep. Jeff Merk-ley and Springfield Mayor Sid Leiken were also inter-viewed.

“Comcast Newsmakers” will air 5 minutes before the hour, except during prime time, starting Oct. 4 on CNN, Channel 45.

CNN: Linfield picked for excellence

Controlled burn to flare up on campus

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The Jazzman’s coffee cart will not operate in Nicholson Library this year because of a lack of profit.

“I hate it,” sophmore Anna Statz said about the shop’s closure. “It was what got me through all my tests and finals.”

General Manager of Student Dining Services Bill Masullo said the reason the coffee stand was removed is that it cost Sodexo too much money to justify its exis-tence.

One reason the coffee stand may not have done well is that it used

a “point system,” students could earn points to use toward the items they wanted, he said.

Masullo said that the hours of the coffee stand were dictated by the school, preventing Sodexo from changing its operating hours. The cart originally closed at 10 p.m.

A traffic counter concluded that the library had the most foot traf-fic during the coffee stand’s hours of operation, which is what caused them to choose the cart’s original hours.

Masullo also mentioned that Linfield is a small campus, so students can easily to walk to the Catty Shack, which is open until midnight, if they are looking to get

a late-night beverage or snack. Even though there are reasons

the coffee stand won’t make its way back into the library, it will still be missed by students.

“I think the Jazzman’s stand in the library facilitated a more friendly environment, and it gave people the ability to stay in the library for long hours without hav-ing to leave to get food,” junior Daniel Woolley said.

Masullo also mentioned possi-bly combining Dillin and the Catty Shack. He said it would be a venue in which students could gather late at night. Chelsea Bowen can be reached at l inf ieldreviewopinion@gmail.com.

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From coffee to wine: An exhibit about wine history replaces the Jazzman’s coffee cart inside Nicholson Library. Sodexo determined that the cart was not turning a profit and removed it from the library.

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(Above) Sodexo employee David Epping chops meat for a salad, (Right) Sodexo is studying its food-buying and preparation habits. Christy Cook, sustainability support for Campus Services, said Linfield is acting as a testing area to see how much food is wasted by the company. The graphic shows what Sodexo perceives to be the base of a sustain-ability plan: reduce the food waste it creates when running its business.

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at blogs.sodexousa.com/bettertomorrow, describesit as a Green Marketingprogram.

Zimmerman said thatSodexo aims at influenc-ing futurepublicpolicybyimplementing sustainabil-ityprogramsatcolleges.

“We look at students as

tomorrow’s leaders,” shesaid. “Wewant them to beleaders in the food revolu-tion.”

Christy Cook, sustain-abilitysupportforCampusServices, said that the testcollegeswerechosenbasedongeographiclocationandsustainablepolicies.

“Linfield was chosenbecause the leadership oncampus and the dining

team are known for theirenthusiasm for sustainabil-ity,”Cooksaid.

Sodexo chose LeanPath,a Portland-based companythat provides food wastetracking systems, to facili-tatetheprogram.

Andrew Shakman, co-founder and president ofthe company, said Lean-Path provided automatedfoodtrackingdevices,such

as scales, touch screen ter-minals and reporting soft-ware.

“LeanPath is based inPortland,soweareparticu-larlyexcitedtoseeLinfieldselectedasoneofeightsitesacross the United Statesto participate in this pro-gram,”Shakmansaidinane-mail.

According to an e-mailfrom MS&L Worldwide, a

public relations companycontracted by Sodexo, theother colleges in the pro-gram are Coe College inCedar Rapids, Iowa; Cali-fornia State University ofMonterey Bay in Seaside,Calif.; Juniata College inHuntingdon, Pa.; MaristCollege in Poughkeepsie,N.Y.; Pomona College inClaremont, Calif.; Univer-sity of California at Davis,

Calif.; and University ofWisconsin in River Falls,Wis.

Thee-mailalsosaidthatSodexo is, among otherprojectstomaketheircom-pany for sustainable, nowsourcing food locally toreduce transport costs andthecompany’scarbonfoot-print.

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unearthed verse

liner notesBy Jordan Jacobo, senior

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. — T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land oh, but we’ve had enough of these Odyssean wanderings, we’ve heard enough of Aegean’s constant, hushed sound, we’ve wept enough for innocence, for the facade that’s been peeled away, faded, tattered, the stale yellow wallpaper of a forgotten, forlorn aesthetic and you—you tell us to have hope, you want us to look forward without fear, to stare out at ocean waves on clear, moonlit nights and not be sad for the things that have slipped away silently and surely.

we’re resolute in this view of the ever-changing, windswept, maddened world,where no man (or woman) can discover any unknown lands. all the treasures we hold are known and the thoughts we have are built upon the mouldering foundations of ragged generations, for the air here is musty, there is chaos in the mind, as the squalid people sit with cups of coffee and newspapers that go unread, echoing the calls for lost truths that will never return to us. —let us go then, leave this place and not look back, for the friends and former lovers we abandon will forgive us, will forget us. time, ticking away will take us to tomorrow.

setting the AlarmBy Lex Runciman, professor of English  Late arc of stars and clouds in slow revolve, six hours to fall asleep and stay asleep dreaming – but I’ve been reading about fear, and now spring, 1963, I’m 12, walking from school to my Aunt’s house.  No busses after a nuclear bomb: this is practice for walking somewhere safe in half an hour.  (If it’s not practice, my father is dead.) The road turns and dips, all downhill.  My toes bump at the ends of my shoes. The knuckles and bones of each hand swing. Body and toes, and this mailbox and this mailbox, and that broken glass and those tall grasses and that crumpled paper will all go white, white hot to ash, white hot to ash, white hot to ash – it’s just a rhythm, nothing happens.   Sky to the west is clouds, crazy tops increasing out of themselves, flat bottoms widening and almost black.  I walk.  They drift this way, east and north.  Soundless.  Slow.  They just float.

cloud GazingBy Sammi Mack, senior

Meadow flowers fragment and float downwind scattered dust, leaving wishes like ashes, gently dissolving.Skyward, popcorn kernels burst to life, caught by rays that slant and bend round bulbous curves, melting butter yellow across smooth smoky curls.Pop!Curious, I reach aloft and pluck those soft, airy cambers that bloom brilliant in their blue bowl— while sweet summer sunshine melts like light on my tongue.

indivisibleBy Lauren Funtanilla, senior

Evening lights the pier as peopleretire to husbands and to wivesleaving the woodened walkway vacant  except for you. You, wihose shadow lurksamid the city’s silhouette reflectedin the bay’s drowsy, rocking blue.  Strangers. Seekers of solace. Steppinglightly together and without words,our silence pulls us close  and holds Time’s hands still.Our bodies immobile by an invisible sailfolded, tucked and tightened  ’round like the sea’s breeze. I breathewisps of rain, waiting for the morrowcarried in the undercurrents  of an organic moment. Heartbeatspulsing in harmony, in and out,matching the rhythm of the tide  a moon-tide lullaby like echoing quartzweathering at the bottom of the sea.

Your eyes lock to mine, unlocking my lies.

And I haven’t the courage to notblink. Releasing me from you,saved from becoming indivisible  like water. The self left wholeas my feet, instructed by the mind,carry me away.

real EstateBy Stephen Dennis, senior

We have only so muchspace inside our heads.Facts slide around like butteron a hot plate, effortlessly movingto the periphery of memory inorder to accommodate the pushcreated by an order for a tall,non-fat, double soy, vanilla latte oryour mother’s birthday.

My Bible stories are hazy and I don’tremember the generals of Gettysburg,but I can recite Collins’ Aristotle bymemory and I know she turnsfifty-seven on February 23rd.

Eventually Collins will glide to a corner,making room for two or three sets of ninedigit numbers and we won’t do anythingspecial on the 23rd of February.

All I will remember then of now is thedryer running at your apartment,tumbling my socks and shorts while I satin your kitchen watching you makelesson plans. That, and the giantoak in the corner of my grandparent’slawn, rising like a sylvan Hiroshimaover the block.

Fall arrives on campus as acorns litter Linfield’s sidewalks and leaves blanket the ground. The season calls for a warm cup of chai or spiced cider. It puts us at the Review in the mood to snuggle up with our steaming mugs and read a good poem. We dug up the work of a few of Linfield’s well-versed poets to put you into an autumn state of mind, too. So grab your mug and your softest blanket, and cozy up to these poems:

compiled by Kelley Hungerford/Editor-in-chief

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With autumns arrival, we take off our sunglasses and don our raincoats and shiny rain boots; we make warm soups and welcome good

friends. With these soup recipes, you can spend 20 minutes making a healthy lunch or take a Saturday afternoon to have an exotic dinner

from Eastern Asia. Try your hand at being a gourmet chef or just feed your roommates during a long night of studying.

Phó (Vietnamese beef & rice-noodle soup) Ingredients:4 quarts beef broth1 large onion, sliced into rings6 slices fresh ginger root1 lemon grass1 cinnamon stick1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns1 pound sirloin tip, cut into thin slices1/2 pound bean sprouts

Method:1. In a large soup pot, combine broth, onion, ginger, lemon grass, cinnamon and peppercorns. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and cover. Simmer for 1 hour.2. Arrange bean sprouts, mint, basil and cilantro on a platter with chilis and lime.3. Soak the noodles in hot water and cover for 15 minutes or until soft. Drain. Place equal portions of noodles into 6 large soup bowls, and place raw beef on top. Ladle hot broth over noodles and beef. Pass platter with garnishes and sauces and enjoy.

Bacon & leek soup with a twistIngredients:1 packet of bacon bits2 leeks2 chicken bouillon cubesCurry powderWater

Method:1. Chop leeks up into chunks, as small or as large as preferred.2. Fry bacon bits and chopped leeks together. Meanwhile, measure as much as water as desired for soup base, then place water into a stockpan, and bring it to boil.3. Once bacon is ready, pour the boiling water into a pot and add bacon bits, chopped leeks and chicken bouillon cubes.Tip: Crumble cubes in your hand before you throw them in.4. Stir the soup a bit and put the lid on. Let boil. Stir occasionally.5. Sprinkle in some curry powder once it’s boiling, or add it to your bowl once it’s out of the pot. Stir. Enjoy.

—Based on a recipe from www.studentrecipes.com

Tex-Mex tortilla soupIngredients:2 light or fat-free flour tortillas, halved and cut into 1/4 inch strips4 cups low-sodium chicken stock12 tomatillos, husked and chopped2 cloves garlic, finely minced1 small onion, chopped1 teaspoon chile powder3 fresh green Anaheim chiles, stemmed, seeded and chopped

Method:1. Combine chicken broth, tomatillos, garlic cloves, onion, chili powder and Anaheim chiles in a large saucepan and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes.2. Puree soup mixture in a food processor or blender. Return it to the saucepan and add tomatoes, parsley and chicken. Simmer for 15 minutes, and season to taste.3. Place tortilla strips on an ungreased baking pan, and spray lightly with vegetable spray. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, or until lightly browned.4. Ladle soup into bowls. Top with tortilla strips and cheese. Serve immediately with poppy seed cheese chips, if desired.

—Based on a recipe from www.mexgrocer.com

Soup up the season

1 cup fresh basil leaves1 cup fresh mint leaves1 cup loosely packed cilantro leaves3 fresh jalapeño peppers, sliced into rings2 limes, cut into wedges2 8-ounce packages dried rice noodles1/2 tablespoon hoisin sauce1 dash hot pepper sauce3 tablespoons fish sauce

1 large tomato, chopped1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped1 cup cooked chicken breast, skinned and shredded1 ounce lowfat cheddar cheese, shredded Salt and pepper to tasteVegetable oil or cooking spray

—Based ona a recipe from www.allrecipes.com

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With autumns arrival, we take off our sunglasses and don our raincoats and shiny rain boots; we make warm soups and welcome good

friends. With these soup recipes, you can spend 20 minutes making a healthy lunch or take a Saturday afternoon to have an exotic dinner

from Eastern Asia. Try your hand at being a gourmet chef or just feed your roommates during a long night of studying.

compiled by Jaffy Xiao/Features editor

Jaffy Xiao can be reached at linfieldreviewfeatures@gmail.com.

Soup up the season

Thai pumpkin soupIngredients:1/4 cup of red curry paste2 17-ounce cans pumpkin soup2 13-ounce cans coconut milk1 cup chicken stockBarbecued chicken breast, shredded

Method:1. Heat curry paste in a medium saucepan until fragrant.2. Add pumpkin soup, coconut milk and stock to the curry paste. Stir, and bring to a boil until slightly thickened.3. Stir in shredded, barbecued chicken before serving.

—Based on a recipe from www.studentrecipes.com

Yummy homemade “tommy” soupIngredients:4-6 tomatoes2 carrots1 parsnipHalf an onion, choppedSaltGround black pepperPaprikaChicken stockWorcestershire sauceButter1 tube tomato pureeFresh basil, chopped

Method:1. Chop onion, and peel and chop the carrots and parsnip.2. Peel the tomatoes. Tip: The easiest way to do this is to pour boiling water over the tomatoes and let them sit for 5 minutes. Then drain off the water, and pour cold water over them. Nick the tomato with a knife, and the skin peels right off.3. After tomatoes have been peeled, chop them in half and scoop out the seeds with a spoon.4. Add some butter to a frying pan and lightly fry the onions, carrots and parsnip until onions turn slightly brown and everything has slightly softened.5. Add chicken stock and to stockpot and boil gently.6. Add carrots, parsnips, onions and tomatoes to the pot. Put in a large squeeze of tomato puree (about half a tube), a few pinches of salt and as much Worcestershire sauce, paprika and black pep-per as desired. 7. Chop a few basil leaves, and add them to the pot. 8. Let simmer lightly for about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Tip: Cover and stir every 10 minutes or so to make sure nothing burns or sticks to the pot.9. Cool, and whisk using a hand blender or normal blender. If you prefer chunky soup, serve as is.

—Based on a recipe from www.studentrecipes.com

The rich history of the early wine industry in the Willamette Valley is on dis-play in an exhibit by the Linfield Center for North-west Studies. The display is featured in Nicholson Library.

The exhibit, entitled “Bringing Vines to the Val-ley,” is the first in the Ore-gon Wine History Project, an undertaking by a collab-oration of Linfield students and faculty.

Linfield seniors Barrett Dahl, Sara Juergensen and Dulce Kersting worked on the project during the sum-mer, completing archival work, creating video and collecting artifacts to bring the project to fruition.

The exhibit features documents and photos com-piled on panels, industry

artifacts displayed in a glass case and videos available for viewing related to the early history of pinot noir in Yamhill Valley and Oregon wine pioneers.

“These are artifacts most people haven’t seen but that are big in the industry,” Juergensen said to an audi-ence of Partners in Prog-ress donors that viewed the exhibit Sept. 21.

Many local winery own-ers contributed to the proj-ect, including those from Ponzi Vineyards, Sokol Blosser Winery, Adelsheim Vineyard, Erath Winery, Amity Vineyards and Eyrie Vineyards.

Each winery included in the exhibit has its own panel, showcasing the different areas in which the winery owners specialize and are proud of, Juergensen said.

Juergensen, a history major, said she valued the

opportunity to do hands-on history work, use primary sources, touch artifacts and interview local winery own-ers to collect an oral history.

“We were able to apply skills we picked up in the past four years at Linfield,” Dahl, an anthropology major, said. “[The Oregon Wine History Project] is the guinea pig project for the Linfield Center for the Northwest.”

The project is part of a series scheduled to become annual. Next year’s research topic is slated to be the 25th anniversary of McMin-nville’s International Pinot Noir Celebration.

The purpose of the Lin-field Center for the North-west is to build a connection between the Pacific North-west and the campus, Kerst-ing said.

The objective of the cen-

ter, according to its website, is to establish long-term experiential learning prac-tices with students and to focus on local, regional and global intersections with the Pacific Northwest.

As a method of achiev-ing this objective, the center promotes regionally oriented field experiences and collab-orative research projects. The Oregon Wine History Project, in addition to three summer

research projects in the fields of biology, education and mass communication serve as the center’s pilot projects.

The center will move to Northup Hall when the building’s renovations are complete.

“Bringing Vines to the Valley” will be exhibited in Nicholson Library through Oct. 31.

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Display archives historic Willamette Valley wine roots

Gabi NygaardStaff reporter

Sarah Hansen/Photoeditor

Theexhibit,“BringingVinestotheValley,”ahistoryprojectontheWillametteValleywineindustry,willbeondisplayinNicholsonLibraryuntilOct.31.

Gabi Nygaard can be reached at

linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

An associate professor of English read from her new book, “The PostColonial Citi-zen: The Intellectual Migrant,” during a Sept. 23 lecture in the Nicholson Library.

“[This book] took me 10 years to write,” Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, associate profes-sor of English and creative writing, said.

She explained the hard work that went into her work.

The lecture was intended to bring the audience to recog-nize that people all come from somewhere and to under-stand what it means to have a home — to have citizenship, she said.

“Writing a book is a very long journey,” Dutt-Baller-stadt said. “I always describe it as a very long pregnancy.”

She discussed her journey to America in the early ’90s. Once she arrived, she said she did not want to dwell in the past but instead made an effort to anticipate the future. She said she felt there was a force that wanted her to move out.

She said she felt trans-formed by the time she arrived in America. Her suit-case was so full of American designer clothes purchased for her by her aunt that she had to take out her heritage clothing, Dutt-Ballerstadt said. Her only link to home,

she said, was her language, which she rarely got the opportunity to speak.

“One cannot forget the past; it’s what you do with it,” Dutt-Ballerstadt said.

Her first day experienc-ing the bitter cold of Minne-sota shocked her so much that she wished to see her mother again, she said.

She is now considered a visitor in the country in which she was born. Her own citi-zenship from India was “can-celed without prejudice” from

America, she said. Each time she renews her passport, she gets further and further from her Indian roots and becomes closer to being an American. She said she does not really consider anywhere her home.

“My home is everywhere and nowhere,” Dutt-Baller-stadt said.

By the end of the lecture, she explained how she loves America and cannot see her-self anywhere else.

Exploring Hispanic culture

Timothy Marl can be reached at

linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

Joel Ray/Freelancer

HispanicdancersdressupintraditionalclothingandperformforHispanicHeritageDayonSept.18intheTedWilsonGymnasium.

Professor lectures about home, new book

Timothy MarlStaff reporter

Joel Ray/Freelancer

Professorof EnglishDutt-Ballerstadtreadsfromherbook“ThePostColonialCitizen:TheIntellectualMigrant”onSept.23intheNicholsonLibrary.

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Off year for Banned Books WeekThe Nicholson Library staff will not create a display in celebration of next

week’s Banned Books Week for the 2010 school year.“I generally organize our Banned Books Week display here in the library

every other year,” Reference & Instruction Librarian Jean Caspers said via e-mail. “This year would be our ‘skip’ year, and therefore there is another [dis-play] in the library now on a totally different theme — the early history of pinot noir wine in the Willamette Valley.”

Banned Books Week, which runs from Sept. 25 to Oct. 2, is sponsored nationally by the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksell-ers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association (ALA),

the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Association of American Publishers and the National Association of College Stores. It is also endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.

This year’s slogan is “Think for Yourself and Let Others Do the Same.” A banned book is one that has been removed from a library or school sys-

tem, and a challenged book is one that people have attempted to ban because of its controversial material, according to the ALA website. A list of the Top 100 Banned and/or Challenged Books is available on websites such as www.ala.org/bbooks.

For more information on Banned Books Week, visit the ALA website.

Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books of 2000-2009:1. “Harry Potter” (series) by J.K. Rowling2. “Alice” series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor3. “The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier4. “And Tango Makes Three” by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell5. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck6. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou7. “Scary Stories” (series) by Alvin Schwartz8. “His Dark Materials” (series) by Philip Pullman9. “TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R” (series) by Lauren Myracle10. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky11. “Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers12. “It’s Perfectly Normal” by Robie Harris13. “Captain Underpants” (series) by Dav Pilkey14. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain15. “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison16. “Forever” by Judy Blume17. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker18. “Go Ask Alice” by Anonymous19. “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger20. “King and King” by Linda de Haan21. “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee22. “Gossip Girl” (series) by Cecily von Ziegesar23. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry24. “In the Night Kitchen” by Maurice Sendak

25. “Killing Mr. Griffen” by Lois Duncan26. “Beloved” by Toni Morrison27. “My Brother Sam Is Dead” by James Lincoln Collier28. “Bridge To Terabithia” by Kath-erine Paterson29. “The Face on the Milk Carton” by Caroline B. Cooney30. “We All Fall Down” by Robert Cormier31. “What My Mother Doesn’t Know” by Sonya Sones32. “Bless Me, Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya33. “Snow Falling on Cedars” by David Guterson34. “The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things” by Carolyn Mackler35. “Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging” by Louise Rennison36. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley37. “It’s So Amazing” by Robie Harris38. “Arming America” by Michael Bellasiles39. “Kaffir Boy” by Mark Mathabane40. “Life is Funny” by E.R. Frank41. “Whale Talk” by Chris Crutcher42. “The Fighting Ground” by Avi43. “Blubber” by Judy Blume44. “Athletic Shorts” by Chris Crutcher45. “Crazy Lady” by Jane Leslie Conly46. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut47. “The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby” by George Beard48. “Rainbow Boys” by Alex Sanchez49. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey50. “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini51. “Daughters of Eve” by Lois

Duncan52. “The Great Gilly Hopkins” by Katherine Paterson53. “You Hear Me?” by Betsy Franco54. “The Facts Speak for Themselves” by Brock Cole55. “Summer of My German Soldier” by Bette Green56. “When Dad Killed Mom” by Julius Lester57.” Blood and Chocolate” by Annette Curtis Klause58. “Fat Kid Rules the World” by K.L. Going59. “Olive’s Ocean” by Kevin Henkes60. “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson61. “Draw Me A Star” by Eric Carle62. “The Stupids” (series) by Harry Allard63. “The Terrorist” by Caroline B. Cooney64. “Mick Harte Was Here” by Barbara Park65. “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien66. “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” by Mildred Taylor67. “A Time to Kill” by John Grisham68. “Always Running” by Luis Rodriguez69. “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury70. “Harris and Me” by Gary Paulsen71. “Junie B. Jones” (series) by Barbara Park72. “Song of Solomon” by Toni Morrison73 “What’s Happening to My Body Book” by Lynda Madaras74. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold75. “Anastasia” (series) by Lois Lowry76. “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving77. “Crazy: A Novel” by Benjamin Lebert

78. “The Joy of Gay Sex” by Dr. Charles Silverstein79. “The Upstairs Room” by Johanna Reiss80. “A Day No Pigs Would Die” by Robert Newton Peck81. “Black Boy” by Richard Wright82. “Deal With It!” by Esther Drill83. “Detour for Emmy” by Marilyn Reynolds84. “So Far From the Bamboo Grove” by Yoko Watkins85. “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes” by Chris Crutcher86. “Cut” by Patricia McCormick87. “Tiger Eyes” by Judy Blume88. “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Mar-garet Atwood89. “Friday Night Lights” by H.G. Bissenger90. “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle91. “Julie of the Wolves” by Jean Graighead George92 “The Boy Who Lost His Face” by Louis Sachar93. “Bumps in the Night” by Harry Allard94. “Goosebumps” (series) by R.L. Stine95. “Shade’s Children” by Garth Nix96. “Grendel” by John Gardner97. “The House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende98. “I Saw Esau” by Iona Opte99. “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” by Judy Blume100. “America: A Novel” by E.R. Frank

~List courtesy of ALA ~Compiled by Jessica Prokop

Comedian shows Linfield how to laugh at itselfStand-up comedian Pete

Lee had Linfield students rolling in the aisles when he performed in Ice Audito-rium on Sept. 18.

“He was edgy and very funny,” senior Geoff Porter said.

Lee opened his set by making fun of the names “McMinnville,” “Linfield” and “Linfield Activities Board.”

As the night went on, Lee was more than willing to self-deprecate and brought down his friends, family and everyone else in his life.

To demonstrate his own lack of toughness, Lee talked about his name.

“You can’t be tough with the name ‘Pete Lee’ because

my name has four Es in it,” he said.

He continued to com-pare his name to the sound of a weak car alarm.

Lee suggested that other masculine stereotypes are not true. He talked about the flir-tatious relationship between a catcher and pitcher in base-ball, his favorite sport.

At one point Lee described a negative shop-ping experience at an appar-el retailer. After an employee assumed Lee could not afford a pair of pants, he insulted her. As she began to cry, Lee told her, “You look fat when you cry.”

A shirt with the same catchphrase was available for purchase after the show.

The audience gave the comedian a warm recep-tion, laughing loudly and

often.Although mostly respect-

ful, there was some interplay between the comedian and his audience. Lee singled out some members of the audi-ence and asked them ques-tions that encouraged some heckling toward the end of the show, which prevented Lee from telling at least one joke.

By the last part of the show, neither Lee nor the stu-dents wanted it to end.

Lee called the crowd in Ice Auditorium one of the best audiences he has performed for and admitted to stalling a bit before telling his last joke.

After the show he stayed to talk to fans and sell T-shirts.

Lee tweeted his thanks to Linfield. He also praised the state for feeding him

an “Oregon Burrito” and attached a photo of himself in the bathroom.

A semi-finalist on season six of the NBC series “Last Comic Standing,” Lee also had a special on Comedy Central and appeared on the network’s “Premium Blend.”

He placed 12th in the “Comedy Central Presents Stand Up Showdown,” a countdown of viewer-vot-ed best comedians, and was voted Country Music Tele-vision’s “Next Big Comic.”

Lee’s CD, “Gasmoney,” is in regular rotation on XM and Sirius Satellite Radio.

For more information about Lee and his comedy, visit www.petelee.net.

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Sean LemmeStaff reporter

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Comedian Pete Lee uses friends and family as the brunt of his jokes during his Sept. 18 show in Ice Auditorium.

The Chapin Sisters’ sophomore album, “Two” displays the folk duo’s raw vocal talent in a range of emotions as they continue their successful momentum since the release of their first album, “Lake Bottom LP,” in 2008.

These ladies can sing, and they know how to show it. The first track, “Sweet Light,” opens with strong and dark singing, followed by eerie instrumentation. It seems a little disconcert-ing at first, but it holds your attention and leaves you in a state of wonder.

Their voices are haunt-ing yet comforting, and they harmonize beautifully.

Many of the songs on the album follow this example with powerful vocals and light, but profound, music backing them. Often only two or three instruments are used in a song.

“Paradise,” for example, features just a sweet, melan-choly piano melody backed by a soft tambourine beat. It’s simple but holds interest and creates an appropriate atmosphere for the sad lyr-ics.

While most of the album has a somber tone to it, none of the songs are utterly depressing. The Chapin Sis-ters effectively emote sub-jects of loss and heartache without immersing them-

selves in them.The sadness also has

a beauty to it, which the vocals certainly enhance. It’s doubtful that anyone can make lyrics like, “Why do I keep trying at romance? I am hopeless; I’ll never suc-ceed,” sound as sweet as the Chapin Sisters do.

However, the album has a genuinely happy end-ing as it takes a more lively turn with the last two songs, “Left All Alone” and “Trou-ble.”

The melodies in “Left All Alone” are fun and simple and the lyrics are almost playful.

“Trouble” is even more upbeat and includes a superbly utilized banjo and

calls for some serious foot-tapping.

The emotions in every song on “Two” are easy to connect with, sometimes amusingly so, and create a strong relationship with the listener. This makes it a personal experience to listen through the whole album.

Abigail and Lily Chapin certainly have musical talent in their genes as they are the nieces of the late, popular folk musician, Harry Chapin (“Cat’s in the Cradle”).

They also often perform with their half sister, Jessica Craven, the daughter of film director and writer Wes Cra-ven (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”).

It seems the Chapin Sis-

ters will continue the legacy of artistic success with their sophomore album being just as good as their popular debut album.

Be sure to tune in to

KSLC 90.3 FM to hear tracks from the Chapin Sisters’ new album, “Two.”

The CD is available at www.thechapinsisters.com, and the sisters will perform

Dec. 2 in Portland; a long way off but worth remem-bering.

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Sister singers deliver on sophomore album

Lily(left)andAbigailChapinwillbeperformingDec.2inPortlandtopromotetheirnewalbum,“Two.”

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A California band rocked the Fred Meyer Lounge on Sept. 23 in a professional Cat Cab.

Wildcats from all groups gathered into the FML to hear The Union Line bring the house down. With col-orful stage lighting and crowd favorites, The Union Line had a lot to give. It even tested out a new song on the audience.

“They were pretty good,” freshman Annika Yates said. “Their music is very interesting; it’s a blend of a lot of different styles.”

The Union Line has only been around for two years. In January 2008, what began as a casual jam ses-sion quickly became the inspiration for what is now The Union Line.

Some of the members were childhood friends. Others simply found their way into the mix. Richard Thiesen, Johnny Wilson and Tony Tancredi have been friends for years. Jor-dan Sabolick and Adam Sabolick, on the other hand, were going solo in a band of their own but needed a

manager. And so it began. It can be labeled as fate, but once the members came together, there was no turn-ing back.

Why “The Union Line”? The name was inspired from old posters of railroad stations hanging in one of the guy’s room. The mem-bers liked the format and everything fell into place

from there. Of course, The Union Line has no associa-tion with a train station. It has made an identity of its own. In fact, the band is on tour.

“We were asked to per-form and we thought, sure why not? We leave for Seattle tomorrow,” a band member said.

As for its style, the band’s

music can be described as a fusion of soul and roman-tic ’60s pop. Its old stuff was all about rocking the soul while their new music focuses on modernizing the love portrayed through ’60s music. The Union Line also incorporates many differ-ent instruments. Electron-ica, bass, everyday sound effects — it has an all-inclu-

siveness style. The performance was

made possible by Linfield Activities Board Musical Events Chair sophomore Alyssa Hood. Hood said she was excited for the event and with good rea-son. She has a personal con-nection with the band.

“They are from my

hometown, San Juan Cap-istrano, Calif.,” Hood said.

To hear more from The Union Line visit its myspace page at http://w w w . m y s p a c e . c o m /theunionline.

TheChapinsisters’newalbum,“Two,”wasreleasedSept.14.

Photocourtesyof www.thechapinsisters.com

Band stops in FML on tourChelsea PloofFreelancer

TheUnionLineperformsaprofessionalCatCabSept.23intheFredMeyerLounge. TheUnionLine,whocomefromSanJuanCapistrano,Calif.,havebeenplayingtogetherforabouttwoyears.

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Hey ’Cats. This week I

thoughtI’dtakeabreakfromfootball and shift the focusto my other love: the Port-land Trail Blazers. After all,withabyeweekforLinfieldthisweekend,whatelseamIgoingtowriteabout?

I digress. This week, Iwant to talk about one ofthe (formerly)most belovedBlazers,aplayerwhoflexedhis immense potential forone shining season, thenfell victim to injury, becamegrouchy about playing time

andnow sits languishing inbasketball hell awaiting atrade. I’m referring toRudyFernandez.

In Rudy’s rookie season,he became an instant Port-landcelebrity.Beforeheevenbegan playing, a contingentof fans, includingdozens ofhigh school students whodumped class, mobbed thePortlandairport togreet thenewsuperstar.

He shattered the rookierecord for 3-pointers in asingle season; he electrifiedtheRoseGardenwith thun-deringdunksandalley-oopsto fellow Spaniard SergioRodriguez; heck, he waseven in the NBA all-starweekend’s slam dunk con-test.Rudywasa celebrity, aherotoPortlanders.

Whenhewasfouledhardby Trevor Ariza at homeagainst the Lakers, I wasscared that the fans at theGarden might charge ontothecourtandtaketheoffend-

ingplayerbyforce.Oh,howthemightyhave

fallen.This summer, Rudy

requested a trade. It wasapparent by the end ofthe season that he wasn’thappy with his minutes orhis role in Nate McMillan’sschematic.Hesaidhewasn’tbeing given the number ofminutesthatsomeoneofhisabilitydeserves.

Rookie general managerWhat’s-His-Name(Irefusetoacknowledge him by nameuntiltheseasonstarts;inK.P.I will forever trust) said hewould shop theguard,whowas now popularly beingreferred to as “disgruntled”bythemedia.

Fair enough. I haveno problem with playersrequesting a trade whenthey’re unhappy, so long asthey’recivilaboutitandstayfair to the organization thattheystillcallhome.Portlandfans bemoaned his possible

loss,butlifecarriedon.Then things got ugly.

Rudydemandedatrade.HetoldcoachMcMillantoshoveit,toldtheBlazerstoshoveit,and his agent basically toldthe team that Rudy wouldrefusetoplayasingleminutefortheteamifhewasn’ttrad-edrightaway.Hethreatenedto walk out on his contractand go to Spain. But here’smy favorite part:His agent,one of those mucky-muckHollywoodtypes,saidthatiftheBlazersdidn’tstartlisten-ingtohisdemands,thattheirfarewithother internationalplayersmightstartslipping.

I think, Mr. Agent, thatperhapsRudyought topullhisheadoutfromwherethesundoesn’t shinebefore therest of the NBA ships himbacktoSpainwithaone-wayticket.RequestingatradeisacompletelynormalactionforanunhappyNBAplayer,buttrashing their current fran-chisetodoitnotonlymakes

them look terrible to themedia but also makes theiroptions with other teamsplummet.

GeneralManagerWhat’s-His-Name is still shoppingRudy but hasn’t found atradethatworksyet. Idon’tthink one will ever comebased on that and the factthatRudyrejectedapossibletrade to the New OrleansHornetsrecently.

There is just no way tomakethisguyhappy.Maybeit’salanguagebarrierthing;Idon’tknow.WhatIdoknowisthatI’mhurt,onaveryper-sonallevel,byRudy’sactionsthis summer. I, like the restofPortland, lovedhimfromthe moment he arrived. Inonly one season, therewerelegionsofscreamingwomenof all ages at every home(and road) contest for theBlazers, and he was by fartheflashiestplayertowatch;nobody ever knewwhat hewasgoingtodo.

Now he spurns us formore playing time.Does heeven realize the crap stormhe’s causing in the city andorganization?Doesherealizethat this franchise is only afewyearsremovedfromtheJail Blazers era? His actionscall to mind the antics ofBonzi, Mighty Mouse andSheed,andyoubetterbelieveeveryBlazersfanisnowcon-nectingthedotsbetweenthetwo.

Well, Mr. Fernandez, Isayfietotheeandgoodrid-dance. This city has takenenoughbasketballabuseandwe don’t need your skinnybutt to stink up our benchany longer. I agree with arecentcolumnbyOregoniansportswriter JohnCanzano:Rudyshouldrotuntilwecanfinda tradewe like.Hehasearnednothingless.

Conference play for themen’s soccer team beganSept.18and19.LinfieldlosttoUniversityofPugetSoundand beat Pacific LutheranUniversity to finish theweekend with a 1-1 confer-encerecord.

The Wildcats droppedtheir first conference gameagainstPuget Sound, 1-2, ina muddy, rainy battle. TheLoggers got on the score-board early with two firsthalfgoalsonjustfourshots.

But Wildcat seniorsMichel Camacho and JonThompsonsaidtheyweren’tconvinced that the goalsshould have counted. Theyagreedthattherefereeincor-rectly called a handball ona Wildcat, and that PugetSound’s second goal wasscored after time expired inthefirsthalf.

“The two goals scoredon us were questionable,”Camachosaid.

In spite of the unclearcalls, he said that the teamwasn’tuptopar.

“Overall, I thought theteam didn’t play well,”Camachosaid.

Linfield scored its onlygoalinthesecondhalf.Cama-cho sent a pass to freshmanMichaelSwain,whoslipped

ashotinpastthePugetSoundgoalkeeper. The ’Cats failedto score again, despite out-shootingtheLoggers,16-13.

“I felt like we lackedfocus,whichendedupcost-ing us the game,” Camachosaid.“Wecouldn’tfinishthechances we got in the firsthalf.”

Thompsonagreed.“Wedugourowngrave,”

he said. “At the same time,we got sucked into theirgame.”

Linfield bounced backagainst Pacific Lutheran onSept. 19. After losing theirprevious six meetings withthe Lutes, theWildcats pre-vailed3-2.

Although Pacific Luther-anoutshotLinfieldbyawidemargin(20-9),the’Catsbuilta 3-0 lead. Camacho scoredLinfield’s firstgoaloffofanassist from freshman TylerRepic. In the second half,the’Catsquicklyscoredtwomoregoals, one fromseniorCarter Elhabbassi, whichwas assisted by freshmanAndreBrobakken,andasec-ond from freshman HarperTaylor—hisfirstgoaloftheseason.

In the second half, thegame’s momentum turnedin favorofPacificLutheran.Outshooting the 'Cats 14-3,the Lutes rattled off twogoalslateinthegame.

ThompsonsaidthatPacif-ic Lutheranwas the aggres-sor in the second half andthat the teambeganplayingbackontheirheels.

“They took advantageof us sitting back,” Thomp-sonsaid.“Wedon’twant toletup.Wecan’t justshutoffduringthoselast20minutes;itneedstobeafull90-minuteeffort.”

The Wildcats withstooda barrage of shots from theLutes in theclosingminutesandwon3-2.

Linfield competes withNorthwestconferenceleaderPacificUniversityinthe’Catshome-openerat2:30p.m.onSept.25.Witha6-0-1recordthis season, the Boxers willprovideastrongtest.

However, Camacho saidthat,whentheyareontopoftheirgame,Linfieldcanbeatanybody.

“Pacificisalwaysabattle.In the end it’s still going tocomedown tohowwellweexecute our game plan andif we can show up for thegame,”hesaid.“Weshowedit this weekend by beatingPLU,ateamwehaven’tbeatinalongtime.Notonlycanwe playwith anyone in theleaguebutwecanbeatany-oneintheleague.”

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Rudy Fernadez: Sit down and shut up

’Cats snatch 1-1 recordMatt Bayley

Staff reporter

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Katie Paysinger/Senior photographer

Freshman Michael Swain prepares for a fall after a slide tackle from a Concordia University playing during the Sept. 11 game at home.

Katie Paysinger/Senior photographerSophomore Danny Snelgrow attacks the ball with two Concordia players on his tail. The Wildcats lost at home 1-2 in the last preseason game.

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Golf: Team finds hope in close loss

Sport Date Opponent or event Location Time

Wildcat sports schedule

Men’s golf

Volleyball

Cross country

Football

Men’s soccer

Women’s soccer

Volleyball

Men’s soccer

Women’s soccer

Sept. 24

Sept. 24

Sept. 25

Sept. 25

Sept. 25

Sept. 25

Sept. 25

Sept. 26

Sept. 26

Linfield Invitational

Puget Sound

Linfield Preview

La Verne

Pacific

Pacific

Lewis & Clark

George Fox

Lewis & Clark

McMinnville

McMinnville

Brooks, Ore.

La Verne, Calif.

McMinnville

Forest Grove, Ore.

McMinnville

McMinnville

McMinnville

All day

7 p.m.

12:30 p.m.

Noon

2:30 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

Noon

Noon

Soccer: Good things to come

Junior Alex Fitch led the Wildcats, finishing third. Junior Beau Slayton and senior Yutaro Sakamoto ended with a three-way tie for fifth place, while fresh-man A.J. Taylor came in eighth place.

“The conditions were tough,” Taylor said about the Pacific tournament. “It was windy and the greens were pretty fast.”

A final score of 606 landed Linfield a second-place spot. Pacific University came out on top with a score of 604. Corban College took third place with 617 points.

Whitworth and Pacific universities will be Linfield’s toughest competition this season, Copeland said.

“Teams are improving,” he said. “We don’t know who has acquired strong players. But we have the tal-ent to win conference.”

Linfield is hosting the next invitational at Michelbook Country Club on Sept. 24 at 1 p.m.

Despite poor weather conditions, the women’s team placed second out of six during the Pacific Fall Invitational on Sept. 18 and 19.

Linfield finished the tour-nament with a total score of 681, only five shots behind the first place team, Whit-worth.

“The scores were really close,” coach Brian Trow-bridge said. “First place was only five shots off. That’s almost one shot per golfer. We’re right there.”

Sophomore Brinn Hovde, was pleased by the teams’ performance and is optimis-tic about the season.

“We should have won,” Hovde said. “We have potential to go far.”

Three strong golfers placed in the top 10. Senior Brynn Hurdus finished the tournament in second place, scoring 80 on the first day and 81 on the second. Hovde and freshman Han-nah Christianson showcased their talent with scores of 172 and 167, respectively.

Trowbridge has high expectations for the season.

“We’re going to try to place top three in confer-ence,” he said. “There have been a lot of changes this season, but the girls are adapting well.”

Christianson agreed with Trowbridge.

“We will do well in con-ference,” she said. “We have a lot of strong players. We definitely have a chance to be right up there in the com-petition.”

The Wildcats will com-pete next at the Willamette Three-Way on Oct. 1 in Salem at Illahe Hills.

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ity of the women’s soccer program, a junior varsity team has been added. Win-ter, class of ’09, is the head coach of the junior var-sity team and the assistant coaching on the varsity

team. “I think having a JV team

has been huge because girls that may not have gotten a lot of playing time on var-sity are able to get game time that they otherwise wouldn’t,” Winter said.

This weekend the wom-en face off against both

Pacific and Lewis & Clark Universities.

“If we keep the inten-sity level and our work rate high, we will do well this weekend,” Quiring said. “When we’re working together, offensively and defensively, good things happen.”

The women’s game against Pacific will take place at noon Sept. 25 in Forest Grove, and at noon on Sept. 26, the women will take on Lewis & Clark College at home.

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Freshman Emily Fellows sets up to shoot on Willamette University during the conference opener at home on Sept.

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Cross -country touts new leaders

Team is 2-0 in conference with crucial next five matches

After wins against Pacif-ic and Willamette universi-ties, the Linfield volleyball team is in a three-way tie for first place along with the University of Puget Sound and Lewis & Clark College.

Both matches were close, and the Wildcats were forced to play to five games in each. In the fifth games, the matches were up for grabs.

Head coach Shane Kimu-ra said he has prepared his teams for these types of matches.

“I think it helps that we played some tough teams in preseason, so the kids know that we can compete at that level,” he said. “They worked hard in the gym, and it is nice to start 2-0 in conference.”

After their win against Pacific on Sept. 15, the Wild-cats traveled to Salem for a tough road game against the Willamette Bearcats on Sept. 17.

Kimura was quick to acknowledge that the ’Cats weren’t at their best.

“We did not play very good ball the first game,” he said. “We pretty much got hammered.”

Kimura said he and the rest of the team knew that they were not out of a game yet.

Linfield regrouped and rallied. It won the following two games; the second one was close, 25-21.

In the third game, the young team found its stride, dominating 25-12.

Junior Samantha Lau, Linfield’s returning all-conference libero, said she believes that being mentally tough is key when falling behind early.

“It takes a while to get started. In our huddles, you hear everyone saying, ‘We have to stay strong; step it

up,’” she said.Willamette fought back

and won the fourth game, 25-23, setting the stage for a fifth game to decide the winner.

Kimura said that his players need to avoid sim-ple mistakes when games come down to just a few points.

“We didn’t give up easy points in the fifth and I think that made a big differ-ence in us coming back,” he said.

In a back-and-forth fifth game, the Wildcats came out on top with a 16-14 vic-tory.

With this 2-0 start in con-

ference, the next five match-es are crucial in the ’Cats’ quest for a conference title. All five are played at home, where the team will have the support of the Wildcat crowd.

Lau said that having this type of home stretch gives them a large confidence boost.

“We love playing at home, we definitely feed off the crowd,” she said. “All of the games are gonna be tough this year, so it is gon-na help to be at home.”

The next two matches Linfield will be played Sept. 24 and 25 against Puget Sound and Lewis &

Clark. Both will present challenges for Linfield.

“UPS is a nationally ranked team that came in second in conference last season,” Lau said. “Lewis & Clark is really tall. We just have to go out there and play our game.”

With the next five games scheduled at home, there are plenty of opportunities to come out and cheer on the team. Games will be Sept. 24 and 25, and Oct. 1, 2 and 9, all at 7 p.m. in the Ted Wilson Gymnasium.

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Although it has been an equally slow start for both the men’s and women’s cross country teams, they have more to show than merely wins and losses.

Two new coaches have been added to the roster. New head coach Tra-vis Olson, who served as Linfield track and field coach for 12 years and worked as an assistant to Garry Kilgore, chair of the Health, Human, Performance and Athletics Department. Chris McIsaac, class of ’10, is the new assistant coach.

A lack of experience has set both teams back, although the inexpe-rience has been turned into shock factor. Former baseball player senior Scott Pinske is new to the team. Pinske performed well, taking sec-ond place in his first meet against Lewis & Clark College on Sept. 1, in Portland.

Freshman Mimi Seeley has also been making headlines. She placed seventh out of 43 at the Lewis & Clark Invitational on Sept. 11, and also placed second out of 53 at the Willamette Grass Course on Sept. 17.

The season is well underway, and the team has ample time to prove itself. The men’s and women’s teams will next compete in the Linfield Preview on Sept. 25 in Brooks, Ore.

Katie Paysinger/Senior photographer

Katie Paysinger/Senior photographerJunior Tara Hill (center) rallies the Wildcats together for a quick pep-talk between points against Pacific University at the season opener Sept. 15.

Senior Rae Smith (left) and freshman Kelsey Ludin jump to block the ball during the Pacific University match. The ’Cats won the first conference match.

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Katey BargerStaff reporter

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Northwest

Conference

standings

Football (preseason)Pacific Lutheran 2-0 1.000

Willamette 2-1 1.000

Lewis & Clark 1-1 .500

Puget Sound 1-1 .500

Whitworth 1-2 .333

Linfield 0-1 .000

Pacific 0-2 .000

VolleyballPacific Lutheran 2-0 1.000

Lewis & Clark 2-0 1 .000

Linfield 2-0 1.000

Puget Sound 1-1 .500

Willamette 1-1 .500

Whitworth 1-1 .500

George Fox 0-2 .000

Whitman 0-2 .000

Pacfic 0-2 .000 Women’s soccerPuget Sound 2-0 1.000

Linfield 2-0 1.000

Whitworth 2-1 .667

Pacific 2-1 .667

Pacific Lutheran 1-1 .500

Whitman 1-2 .333

George Fox 1-2 .333

Lewis & Clark 0-2 .000

Willamette 0-2 .000

Men’s soccer Pacific 2-0 1.000

Puget Sound 2-0 1.000

Whitworth 1-1 .500

Whitman 1-1 .500

Linfield 1-1 .500

Pacific Lutheran 1-1 .500

Willamette 0-2 .000

George Fox 0-2 .000

Men’s soccer aims highWildcats are one-for-one with Northwest Conference games as the season is underway.See page 13 >>

Volleyball tied for first placeThe Wildcats start off the season in a three-way tie for first place in the Northwest Conference.See page 15 >>

Cross Country runs for goldWith a young team, the cross country runners disregard inexperience as they finish on top.See page 15 >>

’Cats in Calif. once againFootball travels to La Verne, Calif. to take on the Leopards at the University of La Verne for its last preseason game on Sept. 25 at noon.

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>> Please see Golfpage 14

’Cats punt their way to No. 1 spot

Victor Zhu/Freelancer

Effective plays bring top results during opening tournament

The men’s and women’s golf teams are off to a good start for the season, with both teams finishing near the top.

Men’s golf earned second place during its first tournament last weekend during the Pacific Fall Invitational.

“We have many new faces this year,” coach Greg Copeland said. “I was pleased by how they played.”

The men’s team comprises 10 athletes, six of which travel and compete in invitationals. Four Lin-field athletes landed top scores.

>> Please see Soccerpage 14

One week was all it took for the women’s soccer team to reach the No. 1 spot in the Northwest Conference.

The women’s team traveled to Tacoma on Sept. 19 to beat Pacific Lutheran University on its own turf. The women outscored the Lutes, 5-2.

Five Wildcats pushed balls into the back of the net. Senior

Rachel Miles scored the first goal for the ’Cats, followed by fresh-men Megan Kearns and Stepha-nie Socotch. Freshman Emily Fel-lows and sophomore Anna Sours capped the game with the fourth and fifth goals, respectively.

After finishing last season tied for fourth place, the women’s team is sitting pretty.

“It is what it is. Standing doesn’t mean anything as of now. We are focusing on the weekend,” junior Jenna Quiring said about

the Sept. 19 statistics.The conference season just

began, but expectations are already high for the women’s team. Letting this get to their heads is not an option, senior Sara Blake said.

“It is definitely a good feeling to be in first, but in no way can we be content. We have many more games to play and a lot of things to prove to others and ourselves,” she said.

Staying focused is key for the

women, but improving is essen-tial to remaining in the top spot.

“I think they are slowly improving each game which is all we can ask for right now,” assistant coach Spencer Winter said. “I think as a team, we have high standards for ourselves this year and no one wants to let anyone else on the team down.”

With the increased popular-

Photo courtesy of Kelly Bird

Senior Rachel Miles (left) runs to compete for the ball against Northwest Christian University junior Kara Nelson. The Wildcats defeated the Beacons 5-0 at home Sept. 1.

Junior Alex Fitch tees off for the Wildcats in the new season.