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T H e
P u g e t
S o u n d
T R A I L
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND
September 30, 2011
Volume 101, Issue 2
Established 1910
‘a n i n s p i r i n g r a l l y ’
So many
peop l e s t i l l
see i t as a
g a y issue . . .
W e n ee d t o
sa y , ‘ T h is is
i m po r t a n t ,
n o t j us t
f o r us ,
but for
eve r y o n e . ’
—Emily Bader
PCAF hosts annual AIDS walk
With the second highest incidence rate in Washington state, PCAF
reaches out to more than 1,000 individuals affected by the disease.
By JOANNA LAMSTEIN & DANI SAGE
E
very year, groups of people gather in
downtown Tacoma to go for a walk. Some
people dress up, wearing crazy tutus or
hats, and this year there was even a Guinness beer
costume. Many wear shirts with a family member or friend’s face and name. There are strollers, signs, water bottles and dogs galore. Once the
clock hits 10:30, the woo-hooing carries the crowd
through the streets of Tacoma and the annual
AIDS Walk begins.
Saturday, Sept. 24 marked the 20th annual
Walk, an event sponsored by the Pierce County
AIDS Foundation (PCAF) that raises funds and
awareness about HIV/AIDS. According to PCAF,
see AIDS WALK page 6
PHOTO COURTESY / SHANA MURRAYWOLF
Showing support: Two students prepare to participate in the walk.
New group
seeks to
nominate
Presidential
candidates
directly
By JOHN DERKSEN
Americans Elect, a group seeking to use the Internet to directly
nominate a presidential candidate
in 2012, is opening a chapter on the
Puget Sound campus. With over 100
chapters in 35 states, the movement,
which hopes to engage the youth
vote at universities, grows with each
passing day as the season of party
primaries grows closer.
“Our only goal is to put a directly nominated ticket on the ballot in
2012,” reads the website, AmericansElect.org, which also eschews affiliation with political parties, lobbies
or special interests.
As a dynamic, interactive voting
process, Americans Elect is working to galvanize the youngest voting
generation, which, with the exception of the 2008 presidential election, has historically been among
the weakest in voter turnout. Users
create a profile in which they rank
broad issues by their importance,
including healthcare, economy, edusee ELECT page 2
RHA holds
elections,
welcomes
new execs
By KRISTIE DUTRA
Residence Hall Association (RHA)
elections this September yielded 30
new executive members, all of whom
are now part of the extensive Residence Life network. The RHA training retreat, hosted by the Resident
Student Association (RSA) at the end
of September, is designed to prepare
them for the job of managing overall
wellness in the dorms.
Wellness remains the primary
theme, but this year’s members plan
to approach this objective through
special emphasis on new programs
and regional participation. In the spirit of accessibility, RSA Advisor Jenni
Chadick has also created a website for
the program. Information about the
five RSA executive members (elected in February) can be found on the
website; however, RHA names and
contact information are not yet available online.
Each RHA has five executive positions including Green Advocate,
which is new this year. RSA ViceChair and Green Advocate Sarah Egger-Weiler created the manual for
see RHA page 2
Logger Nation organizes
school spirit
Blood donation regulation
unfair to gay men
Professor Spotlight:
Emelie Peine
Flaming Lips put on
great show at fair
Sports page 9
Opinions page 3
Features page 7
A&E page 11
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RHA
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this position, which allows RHAs to
facilitate sustainable practices in the
dorms. Green Advocates work directly with Sustainability Services to
promote the Loggers Live Green program.
All programs are designed according to the Residence Life Wellness
Wheel model. Each RHA-sponsored
program is supposed to fit into at least
one of the six areas represented on the
Wheel: physical, occupational, social,
emotional, intellectual and spiritual.
The comprehensive nature of this network is meant to ease the transition
from home to college, though some
wonder whether this kind of structure
only postpones tough, “real-world,”
adult lessons until graduation.
Social events, according to Chadick, tend to get more attention and
attract larger groups of students, but
RSA also hosts programs like yoga
for stress relief and Career & Employment Services workshops. Additionally, programs are often tailored to the
demographics of each community.
Two of the best-known social events
put on by RHAs are the Yule Ball and
the spring dance. Casino Night, an
RSA event that raises funds for the
Community Involvement & Action
Center (CIAC) program Kids Can
Do!, will be held on Oct. 22.
Correction:
Last week, we ran an article with the
headline “ASUPS disbands Christian Fellowship.” The headline itself, as well as a number of points
within the article, were erroneous
—the Christian Fellowship was not
‘disbanded’, but instead is simply no
longer recognized by ASUPS as an
official club. This decision was not
made because of the club’s policies,
as was reported, but rather because
the Fellowship failed to reapply for
recognition last April, as all clubs
are required to do.
ASUPS Photo Services/Courtney Ridgel
Preparation: The first few weeks of school has had high crime rates, according to Director of Security Todd Badham.
Security looks to quell campus crime
By MIKE KNAPE
This leads to what Badham says
is an oft-forgotten part of Security’s job: crime prevention and education. As of press time, there had
been no major security incidents
yet this year, and Badham believes
there are easy ways to make sure it
stays that way.
“There are basic, basic things
that we know to be successful. Extremely rarely do we have theft
from rooms with locked doors, for
example. Of the hundreds of bike
thefts we have had over time, only
one or two were bikes correctly using a U-bolt lock. So if we can convince people to do these things, we
will have made a big dent,” Badham
said.
Off-campus travel presents another possible risk, despite fewer
instances of off-campus crime. Security recommended traveling in
groups during normal hours of the
day. Planning ahead seems like the
T
hinking about walking
down to 7-11 for a slice of
pizza or a corndog later
this evening? Director of
Security Todd Badham wants you
to think again before making your
2:30 a.m. snack pilgrimage off campus.
This time of year has had some of
the highest crime rates in the past,
and Security Services would like to
help change that trend.
“This time of year can potentially be the biggest crime period
because there are a bunch of new
people that don’t know Tacoma or
haven’t lived by themselves before.
Around 25 percent of the campus
population…is new and that can
lead to problems,” Badham said.
“They might walk to Safeway at 1 or
2 a.m. and not realize that they are
at risk.”
ELECT
cation, and reform. Now considered
delegates, users then submit and
answer questions in these fields,
and are able to view the voting results for each question on a stateby-state basis. Using computers as a
tool for democratization, the group
hopes to bring a stronger public
voice to a system of party primaries
and presidential nominations that
currently leaves many states, citizens and political groups unhappy.
The Puget Sound chapter expects to be recognized as an official ASUPS club by October, when
it will begin work to obtain signa-
tures, volunteers and voters to participate in the organization’s nomination process.
“It’s a total restructuring of the
voting process,” said Kristie Dutra, president of the chapter at
Puget Sound. “The political implications of this move are huge and
far-reaching, especially for college
students.”
Bolstered by national exposure
on an August episode of the “Colbert Report” and a favorable article
in the “New York Times,” Americans Elect has collected over 1.85
million signatures to date and is in
the process of framing issues and
questions that those hoping to gain
its endorsement must approach.
“ ...If we can convince
people to do these things we
will have made a big dent. ”
—Todd Badham
most important and perhaps most
overlooked strategy. Security also
offers an escort service for travel
within a mile of campus, although
the policy should be reserved for
instances when students feel unsafe or uncomfortable instead of
just lazy.
“We have got a few regulars, the
frequent fliers. We are not in the
taxi cab business; do not use the security escort as a ride home,” Badham said. “If there is a genuine safety threat, that is what we are here
for. We want to support and continue to provide that service and so we
do not have time to be a taxi.”
While they may be more munThe number of participants is already well over half that necessary
to gain ballot access throughout the
United States.
Americans Elect has gained massive support in states like California
and New Jersey, which are often left
out of the decision-making process
in presidential primaries because
their elections occur later. The current system of primaries gives great
influence to the results in Iowa and
New Hampshire because they are
able to hold their elections earlier
than other states.
Bypassing the party primary
system allows users of Americans
Elect to cross party trenches and
force potential candidates to an-
dane in nature, there also exist the
day-to-day dangers of campus life.
One growing issue for the campus
community is mixed transportation on popular walkways. Commencement Walk, which Badham
likes to call the superhighway, has
played a central role in this growing problem.
“It is a concern for me because
there are golf carts, bikes, pedestrians and skateboarders all using the
same space, and often at an accelerated speed. There have been no
accidents so far, but people need
to slow down and be more aware
of what is going on around them,”
Badham said.
The university is looking into developing a policy to help decrease
the risk of accidents, according to
Badham. One option would be to
deem unsafe or reckless activity as
a disciplinary infraction enforced
by the student conduct process.
For more info:
http://www.americanselect.org
swer questions on difficult and important issues. To encourage bipartisanship, the winning candidate
out of the election of six is required
to choose a vice president of the opposing party.
Opponents of the group have
voiced some major concerns including the security of online voting
and the lack of transparency within the group’s leadership. Currently,
the Americans Elect Board of Directors has the power to change any
of the group’s bylaws, which would
allow them to overrule the wishes
of delegates and candidates.
Securit y Report
The following incidents occurred on campus and were
reported to Security Services between September 20
and September 26:
incident.
Crime Prevention Tips
Malicious Mischief/Vandalism
Drug Violations
· There are two reports of graffiti from the week.
Someone scratched/wrote offensive language on a
classroom arm chair in Wyatt hall and a poster was
offensively defaced in a residence hall.
· Never, ever, leave valuables in your vehicle. Doing
so attracts thieves.
· Do not leave personal property unsecured or
unattended on campus.
· Always lock your room and windows while you are
away and asleep.
· Use a U-bolt style lock to secure your bicycle.
· During the week Security responded to three
complaints of marijuana use inside residence halls.
Students were contacted and questioned in each
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Gay blood donation ban discriminatory
By HARRISON DIAMOND
A couple weeks ago, while
students returned from the buses parked outside Diversions
Café with newly acquired Tshirts touting selfless acts of
charity, I couldn’t help but feel a
sense of deep resentment.
As a gay man, or a man-whohas-sex-with-men (a.k.a. MSM
- a label the FDA finds more allencompassing), the law prohibits me from donating my blood.
A surprising number of Americans are entirely unaware of
this statute. In an era when sexual minority groups are gaining
rights across the board, with an
increasing number of states legalizing gay marriage and the
recent repeal of ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell,’ how can such an antiquated policy remain in force?
The simple answer is prejudice and irrational fear.
The United States first took
notice of the AIDS epidemic in
1981, when its rapid dissemination through gay communities around the country finally
brought the disease to the attention of scientists. Initially, they
called the virus gay-related immune deficiency (GRID) but
quickly changed its name after
realizing that more than half
the reported patients were heterosexual men.
While scientists correctly
pointed to the ease by which
HIV spreads through anal sex
and to the fact that gay men
have on average a greater number of sexual partners than their
hetero counterparts, the lack of
condom use in the gay community greatly increased the rate
of transmission. Though the
spread of HIV is still a threat
for many gay men, failure to
use or consider a condom has
become taboo in gay culture,
and safe sex is stressed at every level of our sexual education system.
Regardless of the current
facts and figures, the media
How can such an antiquated policy remain
in force? The simple
answer is prejudice
and irrational fear.
portrayal and social attitudes
towards the HIV virus during
the 1980’s has transformed a virus that affects every sexuality,
ethnicity and race alike into a
‘gay disease’.
To this day, the 1985 FDA
ban on MSM donors remains in
place. They cite a lack of concrete evidence in changing sexual practices and the perceived
risk of compromising blood
banks as sufficient reason to
avoid repeal. While it is true
that a larger percentage of the
gay population lives with HIV,
this does not mean that discriminatory practices based on
sexual orientation are warranted or necessary.
Blood donations are each
tested before being distributed throughout the nation. Participants submit to questioning aimed at ascertaining the
risk level of their recent sexual encounters. AIDS has become much easier and cheaper
to detect, with free clinics and
health centers providing testing to hundreds of patients every day.
The United States prides itself on freedoms, justice and
equality; yet gay and bisexual
men are repeatedly barred from
providing a much-needed service to the population at large.
The results of a study conducted at UCLA estimates that lifting the ban would inject 11,000
gallons of donated blood into
the national reserves annually.
Given that our hospitals experience periodic blood shortages
that threaten the lives of American citizens, a new wave of donations could alleviate the pressure on blood banks that often
struggle to meet their quotas.
The United Kingdom has re-
sponded to public pressure and
decided to reform their laws to
allow blood donations from gay
men who have refrained from
sex with other men for a period of 12 months. Spain and
Italy have taken a more progressive approach and adjusted
their policies to discriminate
only against potential male donors who have engaged in unsafe sexual acts, regardless of
his partner’s gender.
How does this policy, which
bans only men who have sex
with men, relate to women who have sex with men?
Well, it doesn’t. A female who
has engaged in sexual intercourse with an HIV positive
male (who may in fact have had
man-on-man action in his lifetime) is just as likely to donate
her tainted blood to the Red
Cross, and yet is not precluded
from her act of charity.
Though extreme, the answer
might be for those who support gay rights and equality
to boycott blood drives. In the
last 10 years, University of Vermont, Iowa State, Sonoma State
and the City University of New
York have all held boycotts in
protest of discrimination. If a
united force were to stymie the
flow of blood to the extent that
no other options remained, our
country might just reevaluate
its prejudicial policies.
September 30, 2011
Let t er to
t h e E di tor
Last week, an article in The Trail entitled “ASUPS disbands Christian Fellowship” claimed that a Christian group on
campus had its ASUPS-recognition taken away because their evaluation of potential leaders using “biblical standards”
could potentially discriminate against
someone of an alternative religious belief. The entire premise of the article was
false, and had ASUPS been approached
beforehand we would have given the following explanations:
-ASUPS never actively disbanded
UPS Christian Fellowship and, despite
multiple attempts to reach out to them,
as of the publication of The Trail last
week we had not had a response from
the leaders of Underground Christian
Fellowship.
-UPS Christian Fellowship did not
re-register as a club last April. This is a
process that all clubs are required to go
through; any club that fails to do so automatically lose recognition and must
reapply. The leaders of UPS Christian
Fellowship may choose whether or not
to disclose the reason they did not reregister.
-ASUPS does not comment on university policy violations, investigations
or sanctions conducted by the Office of
the Dean of Students.
- ASUPS has a non-discrimination
policy that echoes that of the university’s, prohibiting discrimination by characteristics including, but not limited to,
race, religion, sex, sexual orientation
and gender identity.
- ASUPS is always open to conversation about any and all student issues. If
you have further questions about this
topic, please do not hesitate to e-mail
me at asupspresident@pugetsound.edu.
Marcus Luther
ASUPS President
The new freshman fifteen An unjust execution
By CHELSEA NOACK
PHOTO COURTESY / CHRIS PUTNAM
Convenient: New site allows coeds to cruise campus from the comfort of their dorm rooms.
By CAROLEA CASAS
Whatever happened to old-fashioned courtship? We’ve all heard admonitions against going to college
with a significant other, and how serious relationships aren’t conducive
to a youthful lifestyle ...but when did
dating become a problem?
Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve
never given up on chivalry or monogamous relationships. It’s not that
I think dating around is necessarily a
bad thing – there is nothing wrong
with it all. But I will admit that I was
a little surprised to uncover a recent
advancement in co-ed relations –
eduHookups.com.
The site is exactly what it sounds
like. A website completely devoted
to pairing up students that submit a
valid university email address with
casual sex partners. It’s like any other
online dating site…without the obligation to buy your date dinner first.
The service, created by students
at the University of Chicago, pairs
sexually-charged young scholars
up based on a number of criteria –
body type, living arrangements, social group, year, personality label,
involvement in Greek life and the
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“ideal hookup” (one night stand,
friend with benefits, etc). It even asks
users to rate their bodies on a scale
of 1 to 10.
So what about this site makes it
attractive to college students? The
layout is relatively nondescript. It
doesn’t feature testimonials or even
user-geared advertisements.
I suppose the draw must simply
be the lifestyle that the website promotes, but even that doesn’t seem an
adequate explanation, for as Jay Leno
put it a few years ago, “You know
what, we already have a place where
college students can hook up for casual sex—it’s called college.”
Perhaps it’s the greater degree of
anonymity that is so appealing. Internet hookups do not necessitate
one to be especially selective, and
peers can’t pass judgment if they
aren’t able to see the ‘sideways-mamsee FIFTEEN page 4
On Sept. 21, Troy Anthony Davis spent his last moments staring into the eyes of the MacPhail
family. Davis reasserted his innocence, and urged the family to
continue the search for the true
murderer of the late Officer Mark
MacPhail. Moments later, at 11:08
p.m., Davis was injected with lethal poison and executed by the
state of Georgia.
Our supposedly civilized society sanctioned the death of a man
whose case had too much reasonable doubt to justify his punishment.
Something is wrong here.
In 1989, Davis was convicted of
the murder of Officer MacPhail,
who was attempting to aid an assaulted homeless man. Neither
physical evidence nor any weapon was found linking Davis to the
crime. Seven out of the nine witnesses linking Davis to the homicide even recanted their statements by 2010, admitting to being
coerced by law enforcement.
According to the “Huffington
Post,” Judge William T. Moore
stated that Davis had to first cast
doubt upon the evidence against
him and then give “clear and
compelling” proof of his innocence.
Hang on, what?
Since when do Americans have
to prove that we are innocent?
The famous assertion that makes
the American judicial system so
respected to this day, “innocent
until proven guilty,” is based on
the premise that we are assumed
innocent as citizens of the United
States, and that the burden rests
on the courts to prove guilt beyond any reasonable doubt.
The MacPhail family and the
community deserve justice for
the Officer’s murder, and his legacy also deserves truth. To grant
someone a sentence so irreversible as death on the basis of corrupted evidence is equally as heinous as the act of murder itself.
Fortunately, the media has had
a positive effect in the courtroom.
In the case of Davis, social networking sites around the world
overflowed with condemnation
of his so-called “due process.”
“Democracy Now”, a daily news
program hosted by Amy Goodman, live-streamed the entire Davis trial from outside of the Georgia courthouse on the evening of
Sept. 21 and garnered approximately 38,000 viewers in total.
The problem is that we still do
not know whether Davis was innocent or not. Thousands of people worldwide protested for Davis’s right—as a long-term death
row prisoner with tainted witness
accusations—for due process.
However, it remains important
to note that the state of Georgia
actually executed two men on
Sept. 21. White supremacist Lawrence Russell Brewer was put to
death on the same night as Davis.
His story, however, is different.
The murder was recorded on
video in 1998, showing Brewer
dragging James Byrd, Jr. (a black
man) to his death behind his
pickup truck. Even for those who
are adamantly against the death
sentence, it’s probably extremely
difficult to generate sympathy for
Brewer and his actions.
Some would say no, that even
though Brewer committed an
atrocious act that made him appear to the world a racist slug,
death is an improper punishment
for a civilized society to impose
on a civilian.
So what is a country such as
ours to do?
We pride ourselves on the
principle that every man, woman and child deserves a fair trial, but what do we do in the case
of a premeditated and gruesome
homicide such as the murder of
Byrd, Jr.?
Do we send perpetrators to an
isolated island for the rest of their
lives?
Do we submit them to torture?
The moral question of capital
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Drinking policy to blame for cancellation of breakfast
bo’ propositions in your inbox.
In the first month of its existence,
eduHookups.com hosted over 1,300
private conversations between university students.
One student from New York’s
Fordham University, Kathleen Adams, said in an interview on college
sexuality with USA Today, “You just
don’t date in college.”
Especially if you have a service
that ensures you don’t have to.
The site is just one of many developments rising from the changing sexual culture of emerging
adulthood. Now there seems to be
a negative stigma attached to being
a “college virgin.” Livescience.com
stated that 54 percent of college students questioned admitted to having
“hooked up” with someone in the
past year, and 84 percent said such
hookups often fall into the realm of
casual.
That’s just it—sexual freedom is
one of the many privileges of entering adulthood. Discussing one’s personal sex life with classmates used to
be seen as taboo, but now sex seems
to be a hot topic for public conversation. Sex is fun to talk about. However, there’s a fine line between talking a big game and going in for the
home run with someone you’ve just
met online.
Maybe I am over thinking it, but it
seems that something so personal as
sexual relations ought to have some
sort of value other than physicality.
While crawling in bed with someone you don’t know can exciting, it is
certainly a big risk to take both emotionally and physically.
Courtship seems to be declining
these days, so maybe I’m just behind
the times (to be clear, I’m certainly
not advocating embracing prudish
values), but it seems that eduHookups.com, useful as it may be to some,
sends a skewed message about intimacy and safe sex to the next generation. It represents the harbinger of
cavalier promiscuity that I, for one,
hardly find attractive.
By SCOTT MILLER
In recent years, Puget Sound
students have enjoyed a feast of
celebration with their peers at
the end of each semester. Last semester, however, we were denied
our festivities. The administration cancelled Midnight Breakfast for 2011’s spring semester
because of some students’ behavioral problems at the previous event in the fall.
The ASUPS Senate and Executives met with the Midnight
Breakfast Committee in the winter and spring to address the issues raised by the fall event. The
committee was composed of the
ASUPS President and Vice President along with six members of
Puget Sound faculty and staff.
As they explained to the leaders of ASUPS, the Midnight
Breakfast Committee would not
support the event without significant changes. The hope of
the Senate and executives was
to modify the evening’s ambience and activities to encourage
safer and more responsible conduct. The committee agreed that
the proposed changes would be
acceptable, but still insisted that
Midnight Breakfast would not
happen during the spring semester of 2011.
I agree with the sentiments of
many students that the administration was wrong to cancel
our celebratory breakfast, but
for different reasons. Many students I have spoken with feel entitled to Midnight Breakfast—
which, of course, they are not.
My strong belief is that a small
group of students, by acting out,
have lost the entire student body
the privilege of attending Midnight Breakfast. Cancelling the
spring breakfast was a logical
decision by the committee, but
I—and most of the other ASUPS
senators and executives—believe that it was unfair and potentially dangerous to cancel it
when a compromise seemed to
have been reached.
Midnight Breakfast requires
volunteer support from some of
Puget Sound’s dedicated staff.
Both drunken and sober breakfast-goers owe it to them to
make the event run as smoothly
as possible. No one expects students to be on their best behavior, but sneaking alcohol into
an event where it is prohibited, throwing bottles at staff and
starting fights represent absolutely unacceptable conduct for
young adults. This behavior illuminated an
issue that I have with drinking
in general at Puget Sound. Students often act like they are not
living on someone else’s property and that they are not a liability for the administration. In
turn, the administration treats
students like they are incapable
of making responsible choices.
Both sides need to respect one
another and understand that alcohol consumption policies are
in fact a gray area—one that
the administration cannot legally condone, but that students
should not push too hard for
risk of losing privileges entirely.
This cycle of rebellion and authoritarianism must end, starting with the students. It boils
down to the following principles. To the students: if you want
to be treated like adults, drink
and behave like adults. Being
drunk is never a valid excuse for
being stupid. And to the administration: if you want your student body to be as intelligent,
diverse and reputable as the nation’s top-tier schools, give them
the same respect. And for the
love of God, let’s have some latenight pancakes at the end of the
semester.
PHOTO COURTESY / MAX HONCH
Wasted: Midnight Breakfast will face changes in coming semesters.
Execution
punishment has yet to be answered
by American politicians. Lately, it
seems to be an increasingly popular and controversial topic of debate. The policy looks even more
uncivilized when examining the
types of countries that still use the
death penalty as a form of punishment.
According to the “Global Report
on Death Penalty,” released by Amnesty International, China has performed the largest amounts of ex-
ecutions in the last year, followed
by Iran, North Korea and Yemen.
Then, coming in at number five,
sits the United States.
These statistics were from 2010.
Davis was the 52nd person to be
executed in the state of Georgia.
The judicial system in the country that we live in proved to be
faulty and incompetent last week.
To the approximately 3,260 death
row prisoners in the United States
at this very moment, whether
guilty or not, I hope your voices are
heard when the time comes, lest
you suffer the same fate as Davis.
Radical Tea Party ideology threatens lower class America
By MEGAN EVANS
Everyone knows that saving
money is good. Taking money
away from people who depend on
it during a sticky economic time is
morally unacceptable, yet the Tea
Party is calling for exactly that.
The Tea Party, a populist political movement rooted in radical conservative values, has a platform consisting of three major
goals.
The promotion of federal fiscal
responsibility, governmental adherence to a strict interpretation
of the Constitution, and neoliberal
free market policies represent the
Tea Party platform. These ideas
are appealing to some in theory,
but the realistic implementation
of these hard-line policies would
have a hugely negative impact on
a large portion of society. Those
on the lower rungs of America’s
economic ladder would bear the
brunt of these negative consequences, and they are the group
that needs the most protection
right now.
Some of the budget cuts that
the Tea Party supports are entirely reasonable. The Department of
Defense and the Department of
Transportation, for example, can
and should find ways to tighten their belts. The current policy
of acting as if America’s spending
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Misguided: Tea Partiers protest government policies that serve America’s most needy citizens.
habits, both individual and governmental, are not out of control
is very harmful to our society as a
whole. However, even more harmful is this attitude of “every man for
himself.” America needs an intervention, not encouragement.
One relatively famous clip from a
recent debate, hosted by CNN, is a
perfect example of how unhealthy
this attitude is. The clip essentially
shows Wolf Blitzer asking Ron Paul
if society should be responsible for
an individual who is in a coma with
no insurance, and no one to take
care of him financially.
After Ron Paul uttered something about privatization and the
greater good, Blitzer retorted, “Are
you saying that society should just
let him die?”
Members of the crowd responded with applause and agreement.
It seems like the Tea Party has
forgotten the golden rule: do unto
others as you would have others do unto you. Whether or not
some Americans would like to admit it, each and every facet of society depends on government sup-
port and spending, and eliminating
that support is not going to make
the problem go away, but will only
serve to augment it.
An article in the “New York
Times” said, “[Socioeconomically],
the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million
Americans.”
Income and wealth are becoming increasingly stratified, and cutting support to the people who
are struggling to prevent the richest from shouldering the burden is
only going to increase that stratification. What’s surprising is that
many supporters of the Tea Party
movement are included in America’s lowest economic ranks. They
march and rally in support of policies that would prove detrimental
to their respective self-interest.
A Good Samaritan law should be
enacted against these policies, one
that prevents the least fortunate
member of our society from bearing the brunt of radical ideological warfare. America is not a poor
country; we have the resources to
prevent the ground from opening up below the feet of its poorest in the interests of the rich. Tax
the ultra-wealthy—they can surely
afford it. Cut funding to the excessively inflated parts of our federal
government, but leave the money
that goes towards helping people in
need alone.
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Gender Studies minor realizes he’s male, despicable
By GILES FERGUSON
Hunter Richardson, ‘12, considered himself an OK guy. He recycles, goes to church on Sunday and
logs off when someone leaves their
Facebook open on his computer.
But after three years as a Gender
Studies minor, he made a disturbing discovery. Hunter Richardson
is a man. And men are bastards.
“I’m shocked,” Richardson said.
“I figured I was okay. I had no idea
I was just another throbbing tool of
the patriarchy. I’m still grappling
with it. I know I’ve only tasted the
tip of the big, phallic iceberg.”
When Hunter entered his first
Gender Studies class in the fall of
2008, he was met with a surprise.
“I was the only guy in the room,”
Life in
Sexile
With VONNIE KEATSGUTS
Dear Sexile Expert,
My roommate seems upset with
me when I text her about staying
away for a while so I can screw her
ex-boyfriend. I think she’s angry
because it’s always a text, instead
of something more engaging and
fun. What should I do?
From,
Hapless in Harrington
he said. “At first, it was intimidating. But as I soon found out, everyone else there was just as scared
of me as I was of them. Probably
more so. After all, I’m a whiskeydrinking, football-watching, skirtchasing man. I’ve been conditioned by an entrenched patriarchy
to demean, objectify and subjugate
“ That gay part sounded
really bad. Don’t print
that... ”
—Hunter Richardson
women everywhere. But it took the
Gender Studies department to really show me that. One day, watchPerceptive, Hapless, very perceptive. Texts suck. That’s why my
roommate and I have established
an extensive network of specially bred messenger pigeons. Anywhere on campus, they can find
me simply by tracking my unique
aura of desperate loneliness.
It’s sweet! There’s nothing quite
like being shat on figuratively by
my roommate and literally by a
bird at the same time. Contemplating the irony of it is almost as
much fun as the wild sex I’m not
having!
Regards,
V. Keatsguts
ing “Anchorman” in class, it just hit
me.”
But it’s not just Richardson’s Ychromosome that makes him a
sorry human being. There is a long
history of gender oppression for
which he must now answer.
“It turns out men have been bastards to women for essentially all
of history. I guess it’s just been really easy. I mean, we’re like way
stronger than them. It’s not even
fair.... Hold up, I’m sorry. That’s
not right. Old habits, you know?”
Making up for several thousand years worth of oppression
is a heavy burden to take on, but
Richardson has some advice for
men seeking to atone.
“Honestly, try being gay. Pretty
much all the jerky things men do
are intended to impress women.
But gay guys aren’t sexist. I don’t
even think that’s possible. Beyond
that, there really isn’t much you
can do. Most men are lost causes.
Wait. That gay part sounded really
bad. Don’t print that, all right? It’s
more ambiguous than how it just
came out.”
Hunter’s revelation has earned
him praise from his professors and
fellow students. Heidi Schwanzbender, Hunter’s advisor, said in
an interview: “The purpose of any
good Gender Studies program is to
examine, in the fairest, most evenhanded way possible, the systematic evils inflicted on the world by
men. Hunter has somehow managed to turn his otherwise brutal
instincts inward in ruthless self-
reflection. He has come to terms
with his true nature. Rotten and
phallocentric as he is, he has taken
an important step toward enlightenment.”
With his newfound insight,
Richardson intends to raise bastard awareness wherever he can.
“As a guy, I think I can show
other guys the importance of not
being a jerk,” Richardson said.
He’ll start with a bartending job
in the sweaty wasteland of Texas.
“Drunk dudes are jerks. Texans
are jerks. I like a challenge.”
After pausing a moment, Richardson proceeded to apologize for
using the word ‘bastard’, as it implies that a woman is base for having a child out of wedlock.
Notice From Campus Security
Students,
We write today to address a significant issue that has developed on campus regarding your administration’s fundamental misunderstanding of the laws of supply and demand, as well as its serious deficiencies in fourth grade mathematics. With high frequency, bicycles were getting locked to
the emergency bike racks (henceforth referred to as “hand railings”) around campus. While it may
seem that reconstruction of the library entrance over the summer would have given Facilities ample opportunity to provide a sufficient number of bike racks, I can assure you that was not the case.
Furthermore, you are stupid for thinking we would. We would like to reiterate the sentiments expressed in our previous notification, as well as explain the logic behind our decisions regarding this
grave issue.
During the planning of the Commencement Walk we puzzled over the number of bike racks to
place around the school. The argument was made that an active, ecologically-minded student body
would require a great deal of bicycle parking. However, we quickly realized that placing bike racks
would be detrimental to the aesthetic we desire to cultivate here at Puget Sound. In building the
Commencement Walk we sought to create a meadow-like haven for the checkbooks of alumni and
prospective students’ parents. We knew that, above all, we could not let our Walk fall victim to the
scourge that has claimed so many of our school’s great landmarks. I speak, of course, of dirty bikeriding hippies.
So a decision was made. The best way to contain the hippie menace was to confine them to their
rooms. The bike rack fund was emptied and spent on providing the student body with free cable. We
felt that if we could isolate students in their rooms our Walk would remain clean.
But we were wrong. We found we could not make students stay indoors. Students began locking
their bicycles to the purely decorative hand railings, upsetting the serene environment that studies
have shown most conducive to encouraging donations. We tried to bargain with you, tried to keep
you out of sight with endless reruns of “Family Guy,” but we soon saw that more drastic measures
were needed.
So, as you already know, Security Services will now impound bicycles that are locked on the ramp
side of railings on building access ramps. The first impound will be considered a warning and the bicycle will be recycled and forged into more hand railings. Subsequent bicycle locking violations and
impoundments will initiate a conduct process culminating in enrollment in mandatory vehicular reeducation camps for the offending student and their family. Upon completion of the re-education
curriculum students will be issued one (1) Razor scooter so they may join their fellow students in
commuting to class by the most obnoxious means possible.
Remember, bicycle racks are available off campus and we will be adding additional hand railings
as early as next week. Please take an extra minute to locate available bicycle racks at the Proctor and
Pearl Safeways. There is a large covered rack on the South East corner of the Wheelock Student Center that will keep your filth appropriately separated from the campus proper.
We regret the need for these actions, but you leave us no choice. Thank you for your compliance.
Rodd Z. Bahdmahn ‘69
Director of Security
Courtesy of Ford Dent
New Emergency management Proto c ols
With school shootings and bombings increasing around the country, Puget Sound has taken new steps towards assuring the security of its students and staff. Here is a list of some of those steps:
•The glass surrounding Oppenheimer Café glass has been reinforced with a layer of 3-inch thick steel plating.
•Ron Thom has been given a maroon and white set of Iron Man armor, and will now be known as ‘Logger
Man.’
•New grass of a carnivorous variety has been planted on Todd Field and around Weyerhauser Hall.
•All Faculty and Staff have been taught the 5-point palm exploding heart technique.
•Grizz the Logger has been replaced by a real-axe wielding attack grizzly.
•A new course, “PHYS 222: Theories and Techniques in Bomb Diffusion” has been developed.
•The university will sacrifice “diversity” and resume racial profiling as a part of the admissions process.
•In the case of a shooting, copies of Martin Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” will be left outside
of classrooms. Intrigued, the shooter will stop his rampage to read the letter. The shooter, studying the messages of non-violence and love for fellow humans, will fail to realize he is about to be beaten to death by a
professor with a salmon-colored “emergency folder.”
•From now on, Dean of Students Mike Segawa will only be allowed to hunt crows with his crossbow
between May and August.
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Security Measures: New axe-wielding attack
grizzly has been instated as school mascot in order
to ensure high-level campus security.
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AIDS Walk
Pierce County has the second-highest incidence of AIDS in
Washington State. The Foundation
reaches out to more than 1,000
people who have been affected by
AIDS/HIV.
From start to finish, the AIDS
Walk is not only an educational
experience, but is also a great opportunity for the community to
come together and have fun. Volunteers provide breakfast and encourage walkers to visit various
stands set up along 11th Street. A
live band plays in the background
while people can view the his-
tory of AIDS/HIV displayed on
large boards along the grassy plaza
where the event is hosted. The registration table passes out t-shirts
commemorating the Walk’s 20th
year.
Puget Sound has long been an
enthusiastic supporter of the Walk.
The school became officially involved in 2006. However, various
campus clubs have been involved
for longer.
“We wanted it to be an institutional commitment,” Dave Wright,
University Director of Spirituality, Service and Social Justice, said,
who helped launch the campaign
for organized university involvement in the Walk in 2006.
Clay Thompson, ‘09, created
Professor spotlight:
Getting to know IPE’s
Emelie Peine
By MARINA BALLERIA
Emelie Peine does not fit the typical image of a professor. After obtaining her undergraduate degree at
Evergreen, she pursued her dream
of rock stardom, playing trombone
in a ska band and received a Ph.D.
from Cornell University’s Rural Sociology program with a focus on
the development of the soybean industry in Brazil. This past summer
she biked across Spain and Portugal and researched the emerging
Chinese pork industry. On campus,
Professor Peine (pronounced pineee) focuses on international agriculture issues, teaching a course on
the international political economy
of food and hunger, and is getting
started as the faculty advisor for the
Garden Club.
What led you to become a professor? Why IPE?
I went to the Evergreen State College where you don’t choose majors,
so I really forged a path for myself
that started when I studied abroad
in Thailand and realized I was interested in international development.
Then I graduated college and decided I wanted to try to be a rock
star. At that point I was playing
trombone in a ska band called Engine 54. We did tour and put out a
couple albums, which you can still
find somewhere out there in the
ether. But, after a year or so, I realized it probably wasn’t going to go
anywhere, so I tried to figure out
what I was going to do next.
I went back to Evergreen and one
of my professors suggested the Rural Sociology program at Cornell. I
decided to go there because I definitely had a strong interest in rural community issues, the program
“I went to Brazil for a year.
I was in Rio, Sao Paolo and
Brasilia each for a month,
but really I spent most of
my time in Montogrosso,
which is like the Iowa of
Brazil; it’s flat as a pancake
and soybeans as far as the
eye can see.”
—Emelie Peine
had a record of doing international
work and they had an international
agriculture institute.
I quickly realized that they were
going to make me become a sociologist whether I wanted to or not. I
ultimately felt like it fit with the way
that I see the world. Of the different trajectories in the department,
I gravitated towards political economy and started working with Philip McMicheal, who was my disser-
the Loggers of Love logo, the official logo of the Puget Sound AIDS
“ “Each year... there’s a
hundred people milling
about... in good spirits
waiting for the walk. It’s
really meant to be an
inspiring rally.”
—Dave Wright
Walk team, in 2007.
Once the walk begins, walkers grab green sticks as they pass
tation advisor. So, it was really in
grad school that I took up political
economy.
Did you grow up in a rural area?
I did, I grew up in a really rural
area of East Tennessee. I grew up
on...not exactly a farm or a homestead, but we had a big garden and
orchard, and my mom was always
canning.
What are some memorable jobs
that you have worked?
I worked on an oyster farm in
Shelton, Wash. I worked at a county music theatre in Pigeon Forge,
Tennessee, and also at a one-hour
photo shop. What did you write your Ph. D.
thesis on?
For my research I went to Brazil
for a year. I was in Rio, Sao Paolo
and Brasilia each for a month, but
really I spent most of my time in
Montogrosso, which is like the Iowa
of Brazil; it’s flat as a pancake and
soybeans as far as the eye can see.
I did qualitative research where I
interviewed soybean farmers, agricultural service providers and people who worked for the big transnationals like Cargill and ADM. I
asked about how the agribusiness
companies are structuring the soybean industry in Brazil to feed into
the global soybean market that they
have already created elsewhere.
You’re going on sabbatical next
year. What are your plans?
I’m now looking at the connections between the Brazilian soybean industry and the Chinese
pork industry. I just finished a
project looking at transnational agribusiness in China and how
they are helping organize a commodity market that’s bringing soybeans from Brazil into the animal
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under the arch of balloons, each
sporting a red ribbon and a name.
Some more exuberant walkers
grab more than a few, carrying
with them the names of those who
have been affected.
One of the clubs that has been
involved in the AIDS Walk since
before the school’s official participation is B-GLAD. It is well
known that AIDS used to be associated exclusively with homosexuals and was even once known as
GRID, Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. Emily Bader, the Co-President of B-GLAD, says HIV/AIDS
is an issue that is particularly important to the queer community,
but because HIV can also be transmitted through heterosexual sex
and intravenous needles, it’s not
just a queer issue.
“So many people still see it as a
gay issue that I feel that if the queer
community doesn’t find it important, other people won’t find it important,” Bader said. “We need to
say, ‘This is important, not just for
us, but for everyone.’”
Along the Puget Sound, participants can pause for a bottle of water. Several stands and tables are
set up that allow walkers to learn
more about PCAF.
There are also stands set up
that provide activities for walkers
to help honor the people they are
walking for or anyone they might
want to remember. After a break,
the turning point in the walk begins to head back to its beginning. Following the Glass Museum stairs, members nearing the
end of their almost two-mile path
are continually cheered on, being
promised free lunch and a relaxing
end. Red ribbons decorate many
parts of the path, leading sporadic
groups along.
Though the last leg of the Walk
is up the steep hills characteristic of the downtown Tacoma area,
walkers triumph when they come
back to the familiar balloon arch.
Music still plays in the background
and the smell of cooking hot dogs
pervades the air.
Bader first went to the AIDS
Walk as a freshman, and she said,
“It was an interesting experience
because it was so soon after the semester had started, I wasn’t close
to any of the members of B-GLAD
yet. It was a great bonding experience. That was one of the moments
where I felt I was really part of the
B-GLAD community.”
Wright said the AIDS Walk is
one of his favorite events of the
year, citing the vendor booths with
information about AIDS and related resources, speeches by local politicians and entertainment by local
musical artists.
“Each year… there’s a hundred
people milling about… in good
spirits, waiting for the walk. It’s re-
Tips for study abroad
By MAYA AUGUSTON
For some students, college is as far
from home as they have ever been,
and sometimes it is as far as they
want to go. Others, however, make
the choice to study abroad. During the 2008-09 academic year approximately 260,300 American students spent time studying abroad.
Around 47 percent of them were in
Europe, according to the Institute of
International Education. According to the Puget Sound website, in
the spring of 2011, 135 Puget Sound
students studied abroad in 31 different countries.
Georgia Cohen, a Theatre Arts
major at Puget Sound who spent
fall of 2010 in Dublin, Ireland, described her experience as nothing
short of “incredible.” While abroad,
Cohen was enrolled at the Gaiety
School of Acting, where she spent
eight to ten hours in classes each day
studying alongside Irish students.
“My favorite thing was getting so
immersed in the culture. Since I was
with Irish students everyday…I really felt like I got to know them and
they gave me and all the Americans
a really authentic Irish experience. I
honestly feel like Dublin is a second
home now,” Cohen said.
Alongside other American students, she was also able to volunteer
at the Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival.
Similarly, Teddi Hamel participated in a program involving both
classroom learning and field experience. For Hamel, who spent fall of
2010 in India, the experience was
unique.
“The world literally became our
classroom,” she said. “It was some of
the most engaging learning I’ve ever
done—beyond academics, to another level of human experience.”
In her program with SIT, Hamel
spent two months studying in Delhi,
followed by four weeks in southern
India doing independent research.
According to Hamel, the idea of
her research was “to find a correlation between Hindu text and actual
social understanding of the natural
world in a real-life setting.”
For many students, the social and
cultural experience can be just as
important as the academic experience during time abroad.
Cohen, who shared an apartment
with three other girls, believes that
“living independently meant that we
were able to live like Irish citizens
and really develop a connection to
the country and our neighborhood.”
Hamel, on the other hand, expressed the witnessing of noticeable
cultural differences as a very valuable part of the experience: “Seeing
this dichotomy of familiar and comfortable alongside the absolutely unfamiliar and challenging—it helped
me develop as a person and helped
me come to have a more inclusive,
expanded perspective,” she said.
The Director of International
Programs at Puget Sound, Roy Robinson, also cites personal growth as
one major advantage of participation in study abroad.
“You open your mind a little and
see, ‘Wow. There’s a much bigger
world than what we surround ourselves with right here,’” Robinson
said.
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Worth a closer look: Morris collection
PHOTO COURTESY / MEGAN CHAMBERS
By LAURA HOLLISTER
Walking through the doors of
the Collins Memorial Library, most
of us speed past the reading room
and the circulation desk and head
straight to the Learning Commons
computers. Typing out those last
few pages of the paper due in less
than an hour or printing out the
reading materials for a class that we
just remembered, we often neglect
to look at the constant rotation of
displays in front of the circulation
desk. Fortunately, there is still time
for you to view the “William Morris
and the Art of the Book” collection
currently on display in the library
through Oct. 14.
The William Morris showcase
contains books and printings by
Morris and his publishing company Kelmscott Press Books, as well as
items from the private collection of
avid Morris enthusiast and collec-
tor Jack Walsdorf. Also on display
is an amalgamation of printed volumes influenced by Morris’ life and
accomplishments.
Who is William Morris, and why
has a collector like Jack Walsdorf attained nearly 6,000 books on his life,
works, and influences? Morris was a
man of many trades from architecture to social reform, as well as a historic preservationist. For the purpose of the library display, Morris is
a printer, publisher, writer and illuminator. Influenced by a love of nature, wildlife illustrations cover and
frame his intricately designed works
in a way reminiscent of the décor of
medieval texts.
Morris’ love of literature and the
printed word finds a temporary
home in our own library. As a printer and publisher, Morris’ goal was
to produce books that were both
beautiful and legible. His attention
to detail in creating what he dubbed
the “ideal book” can clearly be seen
Oppenheimer hours
By CONRAD WHARTON
Oppenheimer Café is now open until 9 p.m., giving students a new evening hangout alternative to Diversions.
A bustling terrarium by day, the Café
is transformed at night into a softly lit
space at the south end of the Harned
courtyard. Inside, the hanging light fixtures reflect endlessly off the glass facets of the building, making for a starry night even on cloudy evenings. As
usual, a cooling breeze flows from the
fans above, and the doors sit propped
open to let in air and undercaffeinated
customers.
Located inside the science-oriented fortress of Thompson and Harned,
Oppenheimer has exploded in popularity since its opening in 2006. Lines
often reach to the doors during peak
hours, with multiple employees cranking out drinks at a rapid rate. The late
hours are also attracting plenty of customers, with sales records showing
from 90 to 100 students per day served
between the hours of 5 and 9 p.m. This
is up dramatically from the first day of
school, when the Café served only 25
customers over the course of an evening.
Although the Café seemed subdued
on a recent Thursday evening, word of
the new hours appears to be spreading
among students with a variety of academic interests.
Andy Bingle, a Politics and Government major, explained some of the advantages to working in Oppenheimer:
“It’s such a pretty part of campus. It
feels like you’re outside, even though
you’re not.”
“I’m really happy it’s open later,” Bingle continued, but he also noted that
the limited food selection was a problem. The Café does not re-stock food
items in the evenings, leaving even less
substantial food choices than are available in the morning hours.
Paige Phillips, the Café and Cel-
lar Coordinator, said that the Café is
“looking at a tracking system” in order
to balance issues of food waste with the
need to serve hungry customers late.
One major change this year is that
the food service in Oppenheimer
is now catered in-house. Most togo items are made at the S.U.B. each
morning and brought to the Café for
sale during the day. This process is
meant to ensure quality, variety and
tastiness.
“The Diner is making all our sandwiches fresh... We can customize what
we need by the day,” Phillips said.
Previously, food had to be brought
in from an outside catering company.
Science majors are also excited
about the expanded service; Andrew
Clark, a Biochemistry major, said that
the later hours are a bonus as he “ended up being here late more often than
not.”
He also praised how quickly Oppenheimer turned out drinks, saying,
“They are very efficient.”
Westry Page, an employee of the
Café, said that in the future the Cafémay host an open-mic night, and that
the supervisors seemed “pretty open”
to the idea of live music in the evenings. Although the Café plays music
from a set of speakers in the corner, a
live quartet would certainly make for
an even more relaxed atmosphere. It
would also give students another venue to show off their talents in an informal setting on campus.
If you haven’t checked out Oppenheimer yet, go. Try out a new study
spot, a new drink or just enjoy reading your favorite campus newspaper at
a location outside the normal routine.
And if you are a morning regular, try
sticking around for a while after the
sun sets.
As to the possibility of even later
hours, Phillips said, “We’ll see. People
are utilizing the space...it’s a nice, quiet
study hangout—it’s very unique.”
in the meticulous care he took in
forming and publishing his works.
Appreciation for his work is evidenced by the love and time put into
the collection of his books by enthusiasts such as Jack Walsdorf.
Original copies of Morris’s works
such as the essay “A Factory As
It Might Be” and “The Kelmscott
Chaucer” can be found in the library
display cases, along with literary
works of those influenced by Morris’ style, and literature such as volumes from Elbert Hubbard’s press.
This colorful display demonstrates the great breadth of influence of the unique Morris. From the
teachers that influenced him, to his
own works and to those artists and
works that came after him, the quick
nine-display collection gives the visitor a large basis upon which to understand the effect of Morris on the
literary and decorative world.
The exhibit has intrigue for all interests. If you have a love for liter-
Spotlight
ature and literary history, then the
rare items on display will surely
tickle your fancy. However, the display not only shows printed works
but also gives insight into Morris’
personal life, which was surprisingly
full of matrimonial scandal. In addition, the display showcases works
that demonstrate how Morris and
his followers used his style of decoration for various social campaigns.
The collection on display combines the simple beauty of literature
and art in a seamless and informative manner. Through the items, you
can see the amount of time and love
invested by collector Jack Walsdorf
as he assembled his collection.
So don’t pass by yet another of the
many displays rolling in and out of
the library and miss the opportunity to learn something new about
such a prominent figure in the history of literature as William Morris. Collins Library frequently offers us the chance to enjoy and learn
from unique and prestigious exhibits such as the one currently occupying the foyer. You can also learn
something new in the library you
frequent daily, such as the origins of
the newly acquired antique printing
press also on display with the William Morris collection. Remember
to take the time to look up as you
pass by the circulation desk and
spend a few minutes appreciating
everything that the library has to offer, starting with the “William Morris and the Art of the Book” exhibit,
around until Oct. 14.
F o r more i n f o r m a t i o n
o n th e Wi l l i a m M o r r i s
b o o k ga l l e r y, s e e
CO L L E C TO R J A C K
WAL S D O R F, p a g e 11
erything that I teach is in someway related to the political reality
that we live in. Beyond that, it is my
responsibility to contribute to the
feed industry in China, which ends
broader conversation. I do things
up feeding into the pork industry.
like write blog posts for organizaSo I’m hoping to go back to Brazil
tions like the Institute of Agriculin the fall.
ture and Trade Policy (IATP), [and]
What has your involvement been
I was on “Week Day,” the KUOW
in the on-campus garden so far?
NPR show.
When I first came here, there
So besides dealing with all of
was a core group of students that
these issues inside and outside the
were really dedicated and involved,
classroom, how do you stay sane?
but they graduated. So my interWhat do you do in your free time?
est is providing continuity—I don’t
I play music, either by myself
leave after four years. Recently, faor with others.
cilities has conI haven’t been
tributed a lot;
playing tromthey built all the
“I went to the Evergreen
bone lately; I reraised beds, a
cently learned
State
College,
where
you
trellis for raspto play clawberries and the
don’t choose majors, so
hammer bannew compost
I
really
forged
a
path
for
jo, I play guibin. That’s been
I played
myself that started when I tar,
a great transthe washboard
formation and studied abroad in Thailand
for many years
I want to take
and I’ve played
and
realized
I
was
that momendrums in bands.
tum and keep it
interested in international I also took telegoing.
mark [skiing]
development.”
There are a
lessons last year,
lot of students
—Emelie Peine which was fun,
that are really
but I can’t say
excited about
I telemark yet;
using this space,
I can get down
but they feel like they don’t have the
the hill, doing it right, sort of. But
experience or knowledge to know
I’m looking forward to practicing
what to do with it. I’m meeting with
this winter. This summer, I rode
the Garden Club to make a consismy bike across Spain and Portugal.
tent schedule of garden workdays
Mainly, I just try to get outside a lot,
so that there are two or three people
hiking [and] rock climbing a lot.
who know what they’re doing and
THREE TOP THREES:
what the projects are so that other
3 Things to do on a Saturday:
people can just show up and work
Watch college football, especially
on whatever there is.
the University of Tennessee VolunIn your research you’ve learned
teers, ride my bike out to Vashon
a lot of the problems that exist in
Island, cook a very elaborate meal. the world, but now you’re off in the
3 Pet peeves: People who don’t use
ivory tower. How do you reconcile
their turn signals, bad grammar,
that?
American cheese.
I feel like it is my responsibility to
3 Favorite musicians: Sam Cooke,
remain engaged with all of those isThe Carter Family, Neko Case (a
sues and not teach the same things
Tacoma legend!)
over and over every semester. Ev-
September 30, 2011
being abroad
perience a kind of self-discovery
while abroad.
“We see students come back, and
maybe something on that program
caught their eye and they want to
study that more in depth here, or
they want to pursue something related to that, or it might have even
been that they had an interaction
with a group there and they want to
try to get involved with a community like that back here,” one student
said.
Although one traditional purpose
of study abroad is the development
of foreign language skills, Robinson
believes it can be just as beneficial
to pursue other academic interests
as well.
“Language is kind of an obvious
one, and it’s a strong one, but if you’re
a biology major, you can go see how
someone is doing something differently there…or study some marine
biology that you wouldn’t be able to
here,” Robinson said.
However, for students going
abroad to improve their language
skills, Robinson recommends staying with a host family.
“Living with a host family versus in an apartment, surrounding
yourself and immersing yourself
in that culture, is going to help you
find out more about that place and
make stronger connections,” Robinson said.
This was very true for Mike
Knape, an International Political
Economy major and Spanish minor
who lived with a host family in Santiago, Chile during fall of 2010.
For Knape, the best part of the
experience was “traveling and living
in a very different culture from my
own, and being so detached from
U.S. culture.”
Though Robinson finds that
most, if not all, students find the experience of studying abroad to be a
positive one, there are struggles that
students face.
“I think there are ups and downs
while you’re on the program; I don’t
think it’s a honeymoon the whole
time you’re there…but as for the
overall experience I don’t find many
students coming back saying it was
a negative,” Robinson said.
Fear of missing experiences on
campus while abroad can also be a
deterrent for students.
“I don’t think you’re missing out,”
said Robinson. “I think you’re adding to whatever your interests are
while you’re there.”
Homesickness was a problem that
both Cohen and Hamel dealt with,
and one that Robinson considers
fairly common. In order to cope
with homesickness, Hamel suggests
keeping a journal.
“It can be really hard to pinpoint
why you are feeling something on a
normal day at UPS, so imagine how
hard it is to figure out your thoughts
in a different country,” Hamel said.
“Writing definitely kept me sane
through the struggles, helped me
solidify all my happy memories, and
allows me to look back on any given
day and replay it in my head.”
Despite any obstacles students
must overcome, it is important to
appreciate where you are.
“You have to take advantage of
this experience, because it’s over so
quickly,” Cohen said.
Similarly, Knape advises students
going abroad to “get off of the beaten track and really challenge yourself. Stay away from other Americans and take time to travel when
you can.”
In this day and age, the development of a world perspective and an
understanding of other cultures is
invaluable.
Cohen said, “Studying abroad is
an incredible experience, and if you
can make it work, I highly suggest
going!”
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Loggers battle multiple injuries to stay in the game
By MAYA HECK
Despite recent injuries which
have sidelined veteran players, the
women’s soccer team displayed resilience and a fierce competitive
spirit Saturday, Sept. 24 and Sunday Sept. 25 against Whitworth
and Whitman. Playmaker Christine Isabella (Salt Lake City, Utah)
is one of five healthy seniors on
the roster.
She has been an impact player
since the start of this season with
a hat trick and an assist against
Willamette.
“Though we’re only in our second week of conference play, this
season has already been a hard
one. We’ve been forced to change
our system and lineup multiple
times as a result of injuries,” Isabella said.
Key players and senior leaders
on the field Theresa Henle (Issaquah, Wash.) and Stefani Vert
(Burien, Wash.) were badly injured earlier this season. “In addition, we have a goalkeeper with
a dislocated thumb, a freshman
with an ankle injury and another
with a broken collarbone, and we
have had illnesses here and there
that have kept girls out of games.
Needless to say, everyone on this
team has been taking on unexpected roles this season,” Isabella
said.
“Currently, our healthy roster
consists of five seniors, six sophomores, and eight first-year players.
It’s been exciting to see so many
young players with versatility and
willingness to learn new positions
and step up to fill the necessary
roles on and off the field.
“With only six returning starters from last year’s team, it’s taken a lot of time and hard work to
put the pieces together, but we’re
learning each weekend what we
need to work on to be the very
best we can with this year’s team.
Based on the progress we’ve made
in the three short weeks since our
first game against Cal Lutheran,
I’m looking forward to seeing us
reach our full potential,” Isabella
said.
On Sept. 24 the Logger women came out strong against Whitworth. Sophomore Kylie Beeson
(Everett, Wash.) found the net
early with a goal in the ninth minute. In the 29th minute, senior
Mikaela Freeman (Alameda, Calif.) shot a beautiful ball from 25
yards out. Isabella scored to give
the Loggers a 3-0 lead from a corner kick sent by freshman Maddie
Janssen (Lakewood, Colo.)
The Loggers carried their momentum into Sunday’s game
against the Whitman Missionaries. Even though they were outshot by the Missionaries 20-8, it
was the Loggers who were able to
capitalize on their only shot on
goal during the match. Isabella
once again found the back of the
net in the last six minutes of the
game with the help of sophomore
Lauren Swanson (Eagle, Idaho)
and senior Abby Goss (Spokane,
Wash.) Sophomore Kara Merfeld
(Bellingham, Wash.) made nine
saves in the match to earn her second shutout of the season.
Next Wednesday the Loggers
(5-2, 3-1 NWC) will travel to play
cross-town rival Pacific Lutheran and return home for a game
against George Fox on Saturday.
PHOTO COURTESY/CHRIS PUTNAM
Fighting Through: The Loggers stand strong despite injuries.
Men’s soccer juggles Hitting the ground running
wins and losses
By ANGEL JOHNSON
PHOTO COURTESY/ELI SPIEGEL
Juggling: Goalkeeper Chris McDonald shuts out the Missionaries.
This past weekend on Saturday, Sept. 24 the Puget Sound
cross country team competed at
the Sundodger Invitational. The
Sundodger Invitational is a meet
hosted by the University of Washington in Seattle, and was the second meet for the Logger cross
country team.
The men and women’s teams
both had great advancements
during the meet with multiple
runners making new personal records. Both teams competed in
an open division where the women placed 12th out of 17 teams
and the men placed 16th out of
21 teams.
Junior Carrie Keith (Erie,
Colo.) was the top finisher for
the women’s team and led the
Loggers with a 39th place finish
in the 6K. Keith also ran a new
personal best with an impressive
time of 23:16.69 which placed her
sixth on the Loggers all-time list.
Freshman Molly Bradbury (Boise,
Idaho) and Laura Leach (Alamo,
Calif.) also ran new personal best
times during the Sundodger Invitational last weekend.
Bradbury placed 53rd with a
finishing time of 23:37.64, and
Leach placed 69th with a time
of 23:50.97; both times scored
points towards the Loggers 12th
place finish. The Logger women were able to secure 315 points
and defeat PLU and George Fox,
teams in the same conference as
the Loggers.
Senior Brooke Peaden (Aurora,
Colo.) ran a 25:46.4 for the Logger women’s cross country team.
When asked about her own
goals for her senior season and
Last weekend’s matches against Whitworth, Whitman
leave Loggers with a conference record of 3-1
By STEPHEN HAMWAY
Logger men’s soccer experienced mixed results last week,
going 1-1 on a road trip that saw
them take on the Whitworth Pirates and the Whitman Missionaries over the weekend of Sept. 24
to 25.
The Loggers went into their
game on Saturday, Sept. 24 with
plenty of confidence, having won
their last three games, including
two against Williamette and Linfield to open conference play.
Thus, the stage was set for a
battle between two teams with
undefeated conference records, as
the Loggers travelled to Spokane
to take on the Whitworth Pirates.
Unfortunately, the Loggers
were simply outplayed by the Pirates, as they only managed one
shot on goal in the entire match,
and eventually lost to Whitworth
3-0.
From the beginning, the Logger defense was on its heels
against the Pirates, allowing the
Pirates to collect 13 shots, nine of
which were on goal.
The Pirates finally broke
through in the 35th minute, as
JT Meyer dribbled the ball along
the left sideline before arcing a
shot past the Logger goalie, junior Chris McDonald (Newton,
Mass.) into the right corner of the
net, putting his team up 1-0.
Perhaps the Loggers’ best
chance at scoring came at the end
of the first half, as the Loggers
had four corner kicks before the
half, but couldn’t convert any of
their opportunities.
The Pirates eventually broke
the game open in the 83rd minute, where they scored two goals
in 32 seconds. The first goal
came as Pirate midfielder Cameron Bushey served the ball into
the middle of the pitch, and Nate
Spangler was able to finish, putting the ball in the lower left corner of the net.
Bushey also set up the next
goal, passing the ball to midfielder Sam Selisch, who was able to
get another shot past McDonald less than a minute later. This
gave the Pirates a commanding
3-0 lead that they wouldn’t relinquish.
Luckily, the Loggers were able
Despite the setback
at Whitworth, the
Loggers’ conference
record stands at
to bounce back the next day
against Whitman, as they defeated the Missionaries 4-0 on goals
from four different Logger players.
The Missionaries looked to be
in good position after the first period, which ended in a scoreless
tie. The Loggers had a number
of chances early, accumulating 10
shots in the first period, but failed
to convert in the first half of play.
However, they finally broke
through in the 54th minute, as
freshman Connor LeFerriere (Tacoma, Wash.) thrust the ball into
the net following an assist from
senior Peter Russell (Beavercreek,
Ore.) to put Puget Sound on top
of the Missionaries.
The Loggers then doubled
their lead just 15 minutes later,
as junior forward Ryan Rash intercepted a pass and moved the
ball ahead to sophomore Carson
Swope, who took advantage of the
Missionaries’ defensive position
by scoring a second goal.
Ryan Rash eventually added a
goal of his own in the 69th minute, scoring on a header following
a cross from sophomore Matthew
Durland. Sophomore Geoffrey
Cleveland scored his first goal
of the season in the 86th minute,
ending the scoring and allowing
the Loggers to finish on top of the
Missionaries 4-0.
While the weekend was obviously a very mixed bag for the
Loggers, they have to be satisfied
with the end result.
Despite a brief lapse in the
83rd minute in the Whitworth
game, the Loggers’ defense, lead
by goalie Chris McDonald, was
largely solid, as they only allowed
one other goal, and McDonald
collected nine saves.
And despite the setback at
Whitworth, the Loggers’ conference record stands at 3-1, putting
them in great position as they
continue NWC play against Pacific University on Saturday, Oct. 1.
the team overall, she said, “I
would like to improve upon my
pr [personal record] and I would
like to stay healthy and competitive the entire season. My goals
for the team are for us to do well
at conference and to send a full
team to regionals. I am really
excited with how well the team
is working together so far and I
think we can all really improve
this season.”
The Puget Sound men’s team
also had a great showing at the
Sundodger Invitational. Freshman Josh Seekatz (Philomath,
Ore.) PRed and led the Loggers
with the highest finish. Seekatz
placed 51st out of 200 at the meet
with a time of 26:03.3.
Junior Matthew Klein (Portsee Cross page 9
Upcoming Events
Oct. 1:
Women’s Volleyball @
Whitman
7 p.m.
Women’s Soccer vs. George
Fox
12 p.m.
Men’s Soccer vs. Pacific
(Ore.)
2:30 p.m.
Football @ PLU
Rival Game,
12:30 p.m.
Cross Country
Chuck Bowl Invitational
9:30 p.m.
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Loggers struggle to gain ground this season
By ANGEL JOHNSON
Saturday’s football game in
California against Whittier ended in a 48-66 loss for the Loggers,
in spite of the 456 yards made
by the team. From the score of
the game it is apparent that the
Loggers fought hard against the
Whittier Poets, but lost in the
end, making their current record 0-3. Even with another loss,
the Loggers still made important
game plays throughout the game.
Senior wide receiver Adam
Kniffin (Salem, Ore.) was a key
player in the Whittier game.
During the game, Kniffin broke
a 42-year-old school record by
catching his career 20-second
touchdown. Kniffin caught a 79yard touchdown pass along with
a 50-yard and 25-yard touchdown pass, adding 18 points to
the Logger’s score.
At the end of the game Kniffin
was six yards away from breaking another Logger football record. He had 216 receiving yards
needed 222 to tie the record,
which was made in 1982.
He is definitely one of the
many players to watch this sea-
PHOTO COURTESY/LAURENCE STACK
Encouragement: Although they suffered a loss, the Loggers show promise this season.
son. Other important players for
the Loggers this game were Cody
Petro–Sakuma (Honolulu, Hawaii) and Casey Coberly (Boise, Idaho). Petro-Sakuma led the
Logger defense with 13 tackles,
and Coberly had 10 tackles. Both
were important for the defense
during the Whittier game.
The game started well for the
Loggers, even though Whittier scored the first touchdown
of the game. The Loggers quickly caught up thanks to Kupono
Park’s (Waimanalo, Hawaii) run
to tie the game 7-7. The Loggers
stayed on par with the Whittier Poets ending the first quarter
with a score of 14-14.
Within the second quarter,
Whittier slowly took the lead
away from the Loggers, until
Tieler Souza (Camarillo, Calif.)
ran 93 yards for a touchdown
from a kick off. Souza’s return
was the first kick return for a
touchdown since 2006. George
Kaai (Aiea, Hawaii) threw a
seven-yard touchdown to Ryan
Rodgers (Tacoma, Wash.) to try
to keep the Loggers in the game.
However, Whittier scored several more times during the half and
ended the half 42-27 in Whittier’s favor.
“Next week we are heading into
conference play, so our sights
are completely set on PLU next
week. 0-3 isn’t where we wanted to be at this point in the season, but non-league games have
no impact on conference standings. We need to take care of a
few things and start conference
off with a win in order to keep
our goals of a conference championship alive,” senior Tyler Vlasak (Sumner, Wash.) said.
The Loggers are not focusing
on their most recent losses, but
moving ahead in the right direction as they finally begin conference games this weekend on Oct.
1. They will be facing cross-town
rivals PLU at Sparks Stadium in
Puyallup.
All my life I want to be a Logger Lose some, win some
By ANTHEA AASEN
PHOTO COURTESY/LAURENCE STACK
Chop Chop: Logger fans don maroon and white to support athletics on the campus.
By ANTHEA AASEN
Unless you’ve been hiding out on
the fourth floor of Collins Library,
you’ve probably heard of the movement that is Logger Nation. Logger
Nation, co-founded by junior Katy
Appleby and senior Casey Coberly, is an all-inclusive fan group
that supports both varsity and club
sports. After a long period of unorganized cheering sections, Logger
Nation is a breath of fresh air for
Puget Sound’s athletic community.
Logger Nation has been in the
works since this summer when
ASUPS President Marcus Luther
approached Appleby to talk about
her idea for a united student cheering section. “Katy Appleby cornered me in the S.U.B. last spring
after I was elected and started telling me about her vision of a Logger
fan club on campus. She planted a
seed in my head that kept growing
all summer, and towards the end
of July I reached out to her asking
whether she was interested in making her idea a reality. Her exact re-
Cross
land, Ore.) and freshman Justin Higa (Pearl City, Hawaii)
both ran their personal best and
scored major points. Klein placed
75th at the Sundodger Invitational and clocked a time of 26:22.4.
sponse was: ‘I’m so down!’” Luther
said. Together they have created a
fully functioning club that has been
very popular on campus. Logger
Nation shirts, which pay for a Logger Nation membership fee of $10,
flew off the ASUPS shelves when
they came in.
“Student athletes, as cliché as
it sounds, work really hard in the
classroom and on their respective fields. I think that the athletes
on campus deserve student support, no matter how good they are.
School spirit has less to do with
athletics and more to do with having pride in your school,” Appleby
said.
Appleby is a fixture at sporting events. She travels to away volleyball games, watches live stats
of football games, and will be the
loudest voice in the crowd at soccer
games. She has an appreciation for
all sports on campus.
As a current varsity athlete himself, Coberly is a standout on the
football field as team captain and
also is very invested in making this
club work “I think that a D3 athlete
Meanwhile, Higa finished his
race with a time of 27.43.1.
Overall, the Logger men’s team
finished with 412 points, almost
beating conference teams Whitman and PLU.
The next meet for the Puget
Sound cross country team will be
on Oct. 1 in Salem, Ore. at Bush
Park, where they will be com-
is the ultimate form of athlete and
play because they love it, so I think
that all of them deserve to be supported,” Coberly said.
As a former varsity athlete herself, Appleby knows what it is like
to be both a student and an athlete
and how much a supporting community makes all the difference,
“It’s always really great to be able to
show all your hard work and dedication off to your friends. Logger
Nation wants to be able to provide
this community to all athletes.” Appleby said.
Logger Nation has an exciting future. As Luther points out, it has already made a large impact on campus. “I believe that the experience
of competing as an athlete is greatly
enhanced by having a strong base
of support from fans. Logger Nation has the potential to give our
student-athletes the support that
they are so deserving of, and for
that I am relentlessly proud of the
work that Katy and her group of
leaders have already accomplished.
And I cannot wait to see where it
goes,” Luther said.
peting in the Chuck Bowles Invitational. The men and women’s team are both showing a lot
of potential and setting the bar
for their season by having many
members of both teams PR early this season. The cross country
team should only improve further from here on out.
The women’s volleyball team
has been on a roller coaster of
emotions over last the week. After clinching a win against 19th
ranked Pacific Lutheran, the Loggers seemed untouchable. However, in their next away game at
Pacific University, the Loggers
suffered a tough loss to the Boxers.
Last Wednesday, the Loggers,
ranked 16th, were undefeated going into their toughest match yet.
Pacific Lutheran is also nationally
ranked, creating a match-up that
was bound to be phenomenal.
The Loggers made quick work of
the Lutes, putting them away in
three decisive sets. Seniors Brynn
Blickenstaff (Eagle, Idaho.), Erika
Greene (Sandy, Utah) and Jamie
Ecklund (Tacoma, Wash.) each
had high numbers or blocks and
kills.
Blickenstaff and Greene had
five block assists each and Ecklund racked up four. Blickenstaff
also had seven kills for the Loggers after being aided by a couple of Greene’s 25 assists. “After
Wednesday we were all very proud
of each other. We had a game plan
and executed every aspect of it.
We played as a team and beat PLU
together; we needed every single
one of us to do that,” Greene said.
The games did not go as well
the following Saturday when the
Loggers took on Pacific University. As their first loss, the Loggers definitely had their thoughts
on what could have gone wrong.
“The difference between the PLU
game and the Pacific game was
our concentration and focus. We
did not attack Pacific the way we
planned and the way we know we
can. Everyone had it out for us
and we needed to stay focused to
stay on top and we didn’t do that,”
Greene said.
The hitting wasn’t there in the
first set but the loggers managed
to rally their team to take the second set from the Boxers. Sophomore Jackie Harvey (Santa Barbara, Calif.) led the team in kills
with nine right alongside Harvey
was Blickenstaff, putting up eight
kills. Greene outplayed her previous performance with 38 assists and 12 digs, however it was
not enough. The Boxer took out
the Loggers in four games. “After beating PLU, I think we underestimated how hard we had to
work for the next match. Pacific
is a team that has been doing well
lately but has been mediocre in
the past so we did not come into
the match with the same intensity and focus that we had walking into our game on Wednesday,”
Blickenstaff said.
The Loggers have a week to
digest what happened and they
come back to play undefeated
Whitworth in Walla Walla on Friday, Sept. 30. “From these past
two games we have learned that
we need to be consistent in our
approach to every match, carrying
the same intensity, mental focus,
and confidence that we had in the
PLU game. Our focus is to play
like the nationally-ranked team
that we know we are every week
and work even harder in practice
to reach the our potential,” Blickenstaff said.
PHOTO COURTESY/DANIEL PENDLETON
Rollercoaster: The Loggers attempt to regain their footing after a
loss this past weekend.
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A Weekly Sex Column
Making the bedroom a “happier” place...
The lowdown on male fluids Literotica should
be funny, not stiff
By SUZY SPONGEWORTHY
I am practically jizzing in my
pants over this week’s topic: male
fluids. As one wise man once
said, “male fluids are a beautiful,
beautiful thing.”
While the word “sexpert“ is
awesome, I am obviously not an
expert on male fluids largely due
to my lacking of a dick. But, as a
straight female, I have on several
occasions interacted with and, at
the risk of being presumptuous,
been the cause of male ejaculation.
Different preferences,
insecurities and experiences
make this a highly variable topic
for both the penis-owner and
his partner. Thus, this column
presents some suggestions to
experiment with.
Ejaculate is the proper term for
what I refer to as “jizz” or “cum.”
I mean no disrespect by these
colloquialisms, especially since
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“jizz” is just so fun to say and
mime.
Even so, it can be tough
to talk about ejaculation in a
straightforward way. It is often
more of an actions-speak-louderthan-words type of thing. But it
helps to discuss how each person
feels and what becomes of the
fluid once it is released.
During a conversation revolving
around handjobs vs. blowjobs, a
guy friend of mine was arguing
blowjobs are preferred for a
couple of reasons. One of these is
the messiness factor.
More important than a few stains
that would be incriminating
on Room Raiders is the issue of
cumming on one’s partner. Some
people do not mind cum on them.
Some prefer for it to go in their
mouth in order to swallow. And
others don’t like being around
it at all. All of these things are
fine. A simple inquiry about it
saves loads of trouble (no pun
intended).
Comfort, respect
and consent of both partners are
essential here.
Even if a guy cums inside the
vagina, having a spare towel or
something close by is a smart idea
because gravity can bring it back
down. Sometimes waddling to
the bathroom for a standard postcoital pee (to avoid UTIs from
bacteria in the area of the sterile
urethra) is not timely enough.
Swallowing cum is another
area that has wide ranges of
responses. Personally, I enjoy it
but it depends on my mood and
relationship to my partner. What
I find most helpful to note is that
jizz is actually good for you. I
don’t recommend it as one’s only
dietary intake, but it is incredibly
nutritious.
As cited by dontspitswallow.com,
swallowing cum is equivalent to
eating egg whites due to the high
protein content. In addition to
protein, it is a source of creatine,
phosphorous, zinc, magnesium,
calcium potassium, urea (the
content in urine with health
benefits that uropathy believers
drink their own pee for, like
Ghandi), Vitamins C and B12.
Some people are turned off by
the taste. However, there are some
dietary adjustments one can make
to improve the taste of one’s own
cum. On the foods-to-avoid list,
as cited by Orgasmpower.com,
are high-protein foods (meat and
dairy products) coffee, garlic,
onions and high sulfur goods
(broccoli, nuts,and again, meat).
If limiting your diet doesn’t
appeal to you or you are not
looking to go vegan, eat foods
such as pineapple, celery, fruit
(especially melons, which can
make semen taste sweet) and
cinnamon to improve your flavor
du jour.
Another thing to keep in mind
is the angle at which a penis is in
one’s mouth. To illustrate: once
during a slightly tipsy blowie I
was not paying attention and got
a little pre-cum in the back of my
throat. It can be very surprising
especially when one forgets precum occurs early. Experiment
and keep in mind what works or
does not work for you.
Seminal fluid is basic in pH
to counteract the acidic nature
of the vagina (thus ensuring safe
travels for the little swimmers).
Basic substances, like acidic
substances which more people
are familiar with, can be
irritating to skin. The basicity
also lends itself to the slippery
feel of cum. This makes sense
given that soap, for example, is
basic and slippery.
Some studies have found that
a component of male ejaculate
can be absorbed through the
vaginal walls and can have an
antidepressant effect. While
this is totally bitchin,’ one of my
most important beliefs is safe
sex. Even if a chica is on birth
control, rubbers are strongly
recommended as STI prevention
and
contraceptive
backup.
The slightly elevated mood is
not worth the risk of STIs or
pregnancy, so wrap it before you
tap it. Plus, no one wants to be a
jizz junkie.
Suzy Jizzworthy OUT!
By ANNA FAPMAN
During high school, my guy
friends and I loved nothing
more than to kneel in the corner
of the Borders erotica section
and whisper the most sordid sex
stories to each other. Nothing
like a few “torn bodices”
and “throbbing members” to
brighten up your after-school
experience!
Flipping through a book
It plays to our basest
desires, suspending us
in fantasies that may be
unachievable, or even
unwanted, in real life.
of short stories, a veritable
Hemingway oeuvre of innuendo,
I came upon an exceptionally
ridiculous tale (pun intended).
In some sort of unforeseen,
sexy future, a woman was
being held captive by two wellendowed men in loin cloths. The
burly babes dragged her into a
dungeon and tied her to ropes
suspended from the ceiling.
A practically poetic internal
monologue assured the reader
that the captive was enjoying
herself. I love it when the future
is consensual!
One of the men pulled out a
bag of supplies. First a canister
of whipped cream, which he
shook up and squirted inside of
her—apparently, yeast infections
don’t apply to fantasy. Then
the other grabbed a banana,
peeled it, and somehow stuffed
it inside her without turning it
into a smoothie. What a woman!
Invincible to infection and
flaccid fruit!
Eventually, as these things go,
gratuitous boning ensued. It was
comic and creative. Goofy and
highly unlikely.
That’s what fantasy is all about:
a complete suspension of belief.
It’s a pure—not practical—point
of sexuality, so that you may
explore what really gets you
going. And it was at that precise
point that I realized I was far
more turned on than my male
compatriots. When I read the
excerpt out loud to my friends,
they howled with laughter.
I laughed along, because it
really was silly. But I realized
they weren’t just laughing at the
absurdity of it all. They were
laughing because they were
disgusted. Those giggles were
not just for the fruit, but for
the very idea. The humiliation,
the overpowering—that’s what
hooks the reader. The rest is just
(de)flowery details. My friends
didn’t understand how someone
could get turned on by all that.
Meanwhile, here I was in the
corner of Borders desperately
trying to cover my ladyjuices
with laughter.
I’m not ashamed, damn
it! Yeah, I got turned on by a
futuristic dessert dungeon. But
all erotica is silly (count porn in,
too). That’s sort of the point.
It plays to our basest desires,
suspending us in fantasies that
may be unachievable, or even
unwanted, in real life. Do I really
want to be trapped against my
will in a dungeon and violated
with an overripe banana? No.
But a fantasy can be as perfectly
absurd as one wants it to be, and
while you can sit in the corner of
a Borders and quietly snigger at
it, you’ve also got to remember
that somebody is reading it and
getting off.
Don’t let a couple extra
“pounding members” make
you lose your sensitivity to the
unique spectrum of sexuality.
September 30, 2011
arts & entertainment
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Indie release “Hesher” falls flat despite outstanding cast
By JACK GILBERT
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Hesher: The film was
screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and
released to select theaters
this spring with virtually no
advertising or promotion.
I’m a self-proclaimed film critic, so
when I heard that “Hesher,” a 2010
independent film, starred Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman
and Rainn Wilson as a borderline
psychotic metalhead, a grocery
store clerk and a grieving father, I
knew I’d have to watch it.
Now that I’ve seen it I almost
wish I hadn’t.
I’ll start with the good: “Hesher”
is an engaging, well-paced movie
from start to finish.
Gordon-Levitt plays the title
role, Hesher, an out-of-control and
apparently homeless high school
student who drives a beat-up black
van and whose CD collection is
composed entirely of Metallica.
Portman takes on the role of Nicole, a broke 20-something who
lives on her own and doesn’t seem
to have much in the way of friends
or family.
Wilson, an unshaven and severely depressed widow who is trying
to cope with the recent loss of his
wife, is father to the silent protago-
nist of the film, TJ.
Watching Gordon-Levitt and
Wilson perform in roles so dramatically different than what we’re
used to was great.
Wilson pulls off serious so well
that it’s hard to believe he plays
Dwight Schrute in “The Office.”
Gordon-Levitt, who I’m so used
to seeing act the tragic lover, pulls
off hardcore punk with ease, and
every scene he’s in is at the very
least interesting.
Natalie Portman does her best
Taylor Swift impersonation and
tries to be a dork, but she’s not fooling anybody when she says things
like, “Sometimes I think if I died no
one would even notice!”
Sorry Natalie, Nicole, whatever;
I don’t buy it.
Let’s get on with the bad.
“Hesher” has a heart, but it’s about
10 sizes too small.
It revolves around TJ, a preteen
boy who for some reason goes to
high school with Hesher. He is bullied by an older student and falls in
love with Nicole after she rescues
him.
Through all of this TJ is guided
along by Hesher, who helps him exact revenge on his bully, puts him
in a “romantic” situation with Nicole (which is expectedly awkward,
but for all the wrong reasons), and
smokes a bong with his grandma
(it’s medical).
When TJ’s grandma dies of natural
causes, Hesher provides a drunken
motivational speech which rejuvenates TJ’s father and brings the two
closer together. With his long hair
and extreme awesomeness, Hesher
almost becomes TJ’s own personal
Jesus.
Unfortunately TJ is stricken
with a disease called pensiveness,
or perhaps teen angst, or maybe
it’s just puberty, and as a result he
rarely says anything besides, “I
don’t know,” “Leave me alone” or
an occasional (and emphatic) “F***
you!”
It’s rather unlucky that he’s the
focal point of every nearly every
scene, because, to be quite honest, he hardly qualifies as a character.
Throughout the film, TJ’s goal is
to buy a smashed up red car from
a junkyard.
The movie doesn’t explain why
until the very end (it’s the car his
mother died in), but the revelation is so painfully obvious that
I couldn’t help but laugh during
what should have been a very
touching scene.
As the movie ends, TJ, his father
and Hesher all finally go on a walk
with the deceased grandma, which
amounts to rolling a casket around
town.
It would have been a beautiful
moment, but the “town” it gets
rolled around in is downtown Los
Angeles, and again I found myself
laughing.
When reviewing movies I always
ask myself, “Would I recommend
this to a friend?” “Hesher,” I would
not.
If you want to see Rainn Wilson
and Joseph Gordon-Levitt perform well in strange new roles, the
movie is enjoyable enough to warrant a watch, but if you’re looking
for real quality, you’d best look
elsewhere.
Gears of War 3 plays well but
fulfills nasty gaming stereotypes
By WALT MITCHELL
Make no mistake, EPIC Games’
conclusion to the hugely popular
“Gears of War” trilogy plays
magnificently well, in the same
way that Cheetos taste great and
Facebook birthday wishes make one
feel loved—good, but in a hollow
sort of way.
And “Gears of War 3” really is
good: EPIC games has preserved
the golden formula of cover-based
combat that (according to USA
Today) sold 13 million copies of
the first two installments combined
and inspired over 1.3 million preorder sales of “Gears 3” before it was
released on Tuesday, Sept. 24.
In fact, I might as well call it “high
octane,” “action-packed” and a “riprollicking rollercoaster,” because
“Gears” seems as obsessed with
cliché as it is with gore—more on
that later.
Players reunite with the ever-angry
John Travolta lookalike and soul
patch poster child Marcus Fenix, as
before accompanied by his boulderbiceped brothers (and sisters, new
to “Gears 3”) in their ongoing
campaign to defend humanity
from the cave-dwelling Locust and
their irradiated counterparts, the
Lambent. The war is brutal and
unpredictable, making for involved
firefights of give-and-take strategy,
breakneck races, and monstrous
Go Bowling
boss battles.
But a discussion of what “Gears”
gets right is a little redundant,
because what makes “Gears” great
is what made it great in 2006—the
exhilarating, balanced multiplayer,
for example. Worth discussing is
what happened in the interim to
cheapen the experience, because in
spite of itself, “Gears 3” disappoints.
The story has an “Avatar” brand
of shallowness to it: visually
stunning, technically impressive
and extravagantly dramatic as it
is, one often feels that “Gears” is
merely going through the motions,
that plotlines were solely intended
to escort players from one bloody
skirmish (wow, so much blood) to
the next.
Granted, a thin plot is forgivable
in a point-and-shoot game like
“Gears”—or at least it might have
been, had EPIC not felt so satisfied
with the success of the franchise
that they over-indulged in sappy
cutscenes, endless inside jokes from
earlier episodes, and strained, overthe-top dialogue to make even the
most camp-hardened action junkie
wince.
Really though, the dialogue is
very, very bad: “I’m not much of a
conversationalist,” Marcus admits
early on, and we’ll just stop him
there. The Gears rattle off clichés as
enthusiastically as they apply their
chainsaws to mutant ribcages, with
results just as gruesome.
These goofy one-liners take the
edge off the action, changing
“Gears” from the dystopian “Saving
Private Ryan” it could have been
into a hackneyed “Rambo III,”
which is fine, but “Gears” doesn’t
seem at all aware of how corny it
comes across—honestly EPIC, even
Duke Nukem is sort of ironic about
being such a meathead.
Still, none of these complaints fully
explain that bad taste in my mouth,
and it might be something less
material.
“Gears 3” seems to be exactly what
people who won’t approve of video
games think all video games are:
needlessly violent, absurdly macho
and marketed to angsty, angry
12-year-olds.
The game’s rave reviews are
troubling because they give the
impression that gamers really are
the kind of aggressive people they
are too often painted as.
I would rather attribute its high
scores (an average of 9.1 from 30
gaming websites and a ridiculous
10 out of 10 from Official Xbox
Magazine) to an admiration of
its technical successes or even to
the decidedly shady connections
between reviewers and big-time
developers than to the character of
the gaming masses.
To be fair, every medium has
its tales of explosions and pissed
off dudes with guns, so maybe I’m
being too hard on “Gears”—it’s just
that EPIC is giving ammunition to
those who would have you believe
that blood is all that gaming has to
offer.
Polished and streamlined as it is,
“Gears 3” is still a narrow-minded
shooter tailored to a demographic
that I can’t say I’m sorry to have
outgrown—in the game’s own trite
language, I’m too old for this s***.
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Walsdorf: Bibliophile Jack Walsdorf shared his experiences in
book collecting in a lecture and in the Art 280 course.
Collector Jack Walsdorf
comes to Collins
By MICHELLE CURRY
Collins Memorial Library is currently
host to an exhibit of rare and limited
books printed on the Kelmscott Press,
created by William Morris. Morris is
a true artist, his abilities not limited
to the intricate illustrations currently
on display. We are privileged to
have this exhibit, brought to us by
Jack Walsdorf, a lifelong collector
and enthusiast of Morris and the
Kelmscott Press. His lecture on Sept.
20 was thoroughly enjoyed and
informed the audience of his journey
as a book collector, always on the
hunt for Morris’ work.
Walsdorf ’s adventures in collecting
began during his undergraduate
years at the University of WisconsinMadison. A professor brought
examples of books printed off the
Kelmscott Press to class, and his “love
affair” with Morris and the press was
ignited.
In his twenties Walsdorf interned
at a library in Oxford, lucky enough
to be only 20 miles away from Morris’
country home, which is where he
purchased his first Morris book and
began his career as a collector. The
book was only a fragment of the
actual book, “The Heavenly Earth,”
the third volume of, but held enough
value that his lifelong passion for
collecting Morris’ books was set.
While Morris worked for the Oxford
library he made weekend trips to
London to learn even more about
Morris’ work. In Walsdorf ’s first year
of collecting, his personal library
totaled 88 books, three of which
were Kelmscott. Within 16 years, in
1983, Walsdorf ’s library of Morris
summed 1,000 books. He grew tired
of his quest to collect Kelmscott Press
books and sold his collection. “They would be in a good home,
where students and scholars can put
them to use,” Walsdorf said.
He sold the lot in 1985 to the
University of Maryland. His passion
for collecting dwindled for less than a
year but in secret he once again began
collecting.
Walsdorf shared the opening line of
his next book, written in 1984, “With
this book I start my second quest for
Morris.” His love of Morris and the
hunt for books was too strong for him
to deny.
In his lifetime Walsdorf has
collected over 9,960 books, averaging
226 books a year. The most books he
collected in a single year was 400, the
lowest number collected dipped at 14.
Walsdorf believed everyone should
have a passion for something; he
quoted Socrates and stressed the
importance of having a passion.
“The unexamined life is not worth
living, part of life is examining...it’s
a wonderful thing to have a passion
for something,” Walsdorf said. “Book
collecting is a passion, the joy is the
hunt. I’m still on the hunt.”
The exhibit “William Morris and
the Art of the Book” will be on display
until Oct. 14. This unique exhibit
holds limited editions of books
printed on Morris’ own Kelmscott
Press.
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arts & entertainment
September 30, 2011
The Flaming Lips sizzle the crowd at Puyallup State Fair
By TOMMY STONE
Although the Puyallup State Fair
ended this past Sunday, it certainly
went out with a resounding bang.
Among the fair’s list of performers
were Counting Crows, Larry the Cable Guy, Never Shout Never and finally, the Flaming Lips. Last Wednesday,
Oklahoma City’s renowned psychedelic rockers dazzled their audience
with stunning aesthetics and lush,
mind-altering soundscapes.
The opening band, the Butcherettes,
took the stage first and immediately
erupted into dissonance and unidentifiable noises, as if to prove that their
eccentricity was on par with that of
the Flaming Lips. Throughout the
set, the Mexican trio’s frontwoman,
dressed in a bloody apron and a pendrawn mustache, ran in place as she
whacked violently on her guitar and
bellowed like any charismatic punk
singer.
During the set change in between
bands, the Flaming Lips’ lead singer,
Wayne Coyne, appeared onstage
briefly to give a hug to someone in
the front row. But like a 21st-century
equivalent of David Bowie, he did not
stay long when roughly one hundred
eager fans stampeded toward him,
hoping to bask in his rock star brilliance.
Suddenly, an air raid siren began
as the lights dimmed and the crowd
roared in anticipation. The crowd
watched as a neon orange woman in
space came onscreen with a pulsing
white light emitting from her cosmic
vagina, through which four members
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Flaming Lips: Lead singer Wayne Coyne dances onstage amid man-sized balloons before
jumping into the crowd inside one of the balloons.
of the Flaming Lips emerged using a
door.
As always, the Lips made quite the
spectacle of themselves as they began
their first song with explosive neon
confetti and man-sized balloons, “like
magical stuff shot out of some Great
Dragon’s ass,” Coyne mused later.
Costumed dancers came onstage as
Coyne jumped out into the audience
in his inflated “space bubble,” smiling
as he passed over peoples’ heads.
When Coyne returned to the stage,
he picked up the microphone and
said, “Well it’s great to be here at this
beautiful State Fair in a place that we
can’t pronounce. Pwallup?”
A fan in the front row corrected
him and he repeated the word again
self-consciously as he lead into “The
Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” from the Flaming Lips’ 2006 release, “At War With
The Mystics.” Every time Coyne sang
“yeah” throughout the song, the word
appeared in different languages onscreen in-tempo for a nice effect. The
whole crowd sang along as the Flam-
ing Lips played “She Don’t Use Jelly,”
their bouncy radio hit from 1993’s
“Transmissions From The Satellite
Heart.” The energy slowed down as
Coyne introduced two of their strongest acoustic ballads, “Yoshimi Battles
the Pink Robots” and “Ego Tripping
at the Gates of Hell” from 2002’s “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.”
They played some newer material before an echoing piano riff introduced, “What Is The Light?” a
psychedelic anthem from 1999’s “The
Soft Bulletin.”
The Flaming Lips left the stage before performing their fantastic cover
of “Brain Damage,” my personal favorite from the Pink Floyd album,
“Dark Side of the Moon.”
They left the stage and returned
again for a second encore to play, “Do
You Realize??” their beautiful single
from “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.”
As always, the Flaming Lips reminded everyone of the cleansing
power of music.
Looking around the audience, it
was easy to see how deeply the song
had affected people, as fathers hugged
their sons, friends laughed with each
other and lovers kissed.
“I’m sure there are people out there
who have experienced deep sadness
recently in their lives and maybe
they’ve come here to escape that sadness, even just for a little while. So
everyone who came here tonight to
enjoy music and to enjoy each other,
thank you. You may have just changed
someone else’s life,” Coyne said as he
introduced their final song.
For St. Vincent,
champagne birthday
not all that bubbly
Faculty show and tell
exhibit brightens Kittredge
By SAMI ROSS
By MOLLY BROWN
For a woman who looks more doeeyed and cutesy than Zooey Deschanel, Annie Clark, otherwise known as
St. Vincent, has a lot on her mind. At
28 years old, Clark makes it clear on
her third album, “Strange Mercy,” that
with age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes disappointment.
Clark, whose voice sounds like a
powerful hybrid of Karen O, Regina
Spektor and Corin Tucker, pairs her
pipes with fierce guitar licks and nicely
synthesized beats. The musical arrangements are spectacular and neatly
organized, but it is Clark’s haunting
lyrics that showcase her growth as an
artist. Throughout the album, Clark
struggles to make sense of the aging
process and her own personal metamorphosis.
The album kicks off with a French
new-wave inspired track, “Chloe in the
Afternoon.” It seems like Clark is establishing her credibility as an artist with a
dark side. Based on the 1972 film of the
same name, this track places Clark in
the shoes of a married businessperson
who steps out of the office for quick
romps with a lover, who is yielding a
“horse-hair whip,” of course.
In the songs “Cruel” and “Cheerleader,” Clark reflects upon her own insecurities. It is easy to see how a woman
with a feminine voice and babydoll
features could feel labeled by the music industry as a bubbly indie-pop rock
artist.
She confessed in “Cheerleader,” “I’ve
played dumb when I knew better, tried
so hard just to be clever.”
Clark does not want to be a cheerleader anymore. In fact, as she purred
in the eerie track, “Surgeon,” “I spent
the summer on my back.”
At first listen, that opener sounds
blatantly sexual. However, as she repeated, “…just to get along,” at the end
of every stanza, it becomes clear that
this is a song about depression. As she
does frequently on this album, Clark
reminds listeners that she is not to be
taken lightly.
The next track, “Northern Lights,” is
the first time that aging comes into play
on the album. In 2010, Clark celebrated
her golden birthday, otherwise known
as her champagne year. Through lyrics like, “It’s a champagne year, full of
sober months,” Clark admits her dissatisfaction towards the changes in her
life. Over an arrangement that screams
surf-rock, perhaps this is her last-ditch
attempt at youthfulness. Clark tells
herself that she has “gotta get young
fast, gotta get young quick, gotta make
this last.”
“Strange Mercy,” “Neutered Fruit”
and “Champagne Year” are some of the
most notable songs on the album. Musically, they sound experimental, but
they differ from the earlier tracks because they are softer and less new wave.
The lyrics are also some of Clark’s finest. She may be struggling with feelings
of disenchantment, but she will find a
way to survive. In “Champagne Year”
she admitted that, “I’ll make a living
telling people what they wanna hear,
it’s not a killing but it’s enough to keep
the cobwebs clear.” “Strange Mercy” may not have a happy ending, but it possesses a beautiful
rawness that could only come from an
artist who is determined to share nothing but the truth.
Though St. Vincent strives to remove
the listener’s rose-colored glasses, never fear, for an album of this caliber suggests that the music industry is on the
upswing, and with that in mind, is life
really so bad?
St. Vincent will be playing at the Neptune Theater in Seattle on Oct. 31.
Puget Sound art professors inspire
The Kittredge Gallery sits tucked
next to the Student Diversity Center
and the ceramics building. Within it,
until Nov. 5, the University of Puget
Sound faculty has a chance to “Show
and Tell” in their own art exhibit.
Professor of Art John McCuistion,
Associate Professor Janet Marcavage, Professor of Sculpture Michael
Johnson, Associate Professor of Art
Elise Richman and Professor Becky
Frehse are all showcasing their personal work in a vast range of mediums.
“Each of them has something different to offer,” Gallery attendant Jill
Sanford said. “It’s interesting to see
how different the styles of the professors are.”
In the large gallery Rehse, McCuisition, and Johnson present a
refreshing perspective and vision of
plywood, ceramics and musical instruments.
Upon entering the gallery, you are
greeted by the vision of professor of
Sculpture, Johnson’s work. The diverse flows and creations of plywood
give a unique and finished quality
to his work, with a serene sense to
them as well.
To the left of the large gallery, Mc
Cuisition’s ceramic creations are displayed. The ceramic figures feature
different mediums accenting the ceramic figure like cloth, paint, feathers and duct tape.
In line with the “Show and Tell”
theme, McCuisition tells the story of
others from his own perspective.
“These sculptures, part of my ‘G.I.
Series,’ were inspired by what I felt
was disingenuous information on
the part of the U.S. government,”
McCuisition said in his artistic statement displayed in the gallery.
The right of the gallery features
Rehse’s “instrumental” recreations,
which showcase various musical instruments transformed into works
of art. Some instruments are rearranged physically, or feature artistic
accents within them.
One of her pieces, entitled, “Playing by Heart,” is a cello painted lavishly in cool colors, and by peering
within the cello you can see a “hidden treasure” of trinkets.
The smaller gallery presents a
very bright and colorful collection
of artwork. Richman and Marcavage
“show and tell” their various pieces
that utilize paint and printed patterns.
Elise Richman’s collection uses
water-based, oil and acrylic paint in
a way that very few people have seen
it used. Instead of painting few layers, Richman’s use of paint gives the
spectator a three-dimensional per-
spective of the painting itself.
Richman’s art “reflects the forces of
nature and captures a state of flux,”
her artistic statement said.
The rest of the small gallery features Marcavage’s prints.
Many of the prints feature checkered, striped, cloudy or floral patterns mixed with different “homey”
motifs.
A print entitled “Home,” mixes
images of stripes, clouds and checkered patterns to create a bright and
whimsical feel.
The display of the faculty’s artwork
is a privilege that does not arrive
often, so make use of the time you
have to see it.
Visit the “Show and Tell” exhibit at
Kittredge Gallery Monday through
Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. or on Saturday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit will
close Nov. 5.
PHOTO COURTESY/KATHY GINSBURG
Faculty: Professor Becky Frehse’s work “Playing by Heart” is
just one example of the stunning and inspiring pieces currently
on display in the faculty showcase in Kittredge Gallery.

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