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OPINION

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June 5, 2015

Chat with Barney

Editorial | We support the Powell/Division project

Drew Norman

chatwithbarney@gmail.com

“I don’t use it, it’s not worth using, but I have been able to get on it.”

“I have one, and I don’t use it. I know how to get on it, but it’s really hard to manage three emails. Usually things go to my gmail anyways - so I don’t really have a reason to use it.”

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the advocateEditor-in-Chief

Greg Leonov

Copy Editor

Adam Elwell

Assisstant News Editor

Sam Krause Lifestyle Editor

Adam Elwell

Opinion Editor

Emily Wintringham

Sports Editor

Brandon Raleigh

Assistant Opinion

Editor

Ivy Davis

Ad Manager

David Ahlson

Photo Editor

Beka Haugen

Graphic Designers

Heather Golan Shawnie Fortune

Video Editors

Aurora Angeles Thomas Stewart

Reporters

David Ahlson

ShaToyia Bentley

Ivy Davis

Nicole Kaadi

Steve Olson

David Teas

Advisers

Howard Buck, Dan ErnstBob Watkins

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The Advocate encourages readers to share their opinion by letters to the editor and guest columns for publication. All submissions must be typed and include the writer’s name and contact information. Contact information will not be printed unless requested. Original copies will not be returned to the author. The Advocate will not print any unsigned submission. Letters to the editor should not exceed 300 words and guest columns should not exceed 600. The decision to publish is at the discretion of the editorial board. The Advocate reserves the right to edit for style, punctuation, grammar and length. Please bring submissions to The Advocate in Room 1369, or e-mail them to advocatt@mhcc.edu. Submissions must be received by 5 p.m. Monday the week of publication to be considered for print. Opinions expressed in columns, letters to the editor or advertisements are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of The Advocate or MHCC.

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According to the TriMet website, public transit is becoming wildly more popular than ve-hicles. For one, transit is usually a cheaper option than a motor vehicle, gas, loan payments, main-tenance and everything that goes along with it.

Some college students, including at Mt. Hood, find it rather convenient to take TriMet to school, naturally. In fact, the 4-Division route and the 9-Powell route that travel east-west from Gresh-am to Portland serve 18,000-plus riders combined each weekday, according to OregonMetro.gov.

We at The Advocate are for this reason in solid support of the proposed Powell-Division Transit Project. Not only will this Bus Rapid Transit project provide students a safer and

more efficient route to their classes, it could very well encourage more area high school graduates to not forgo a higher education due to financial barriers, including transportation.

We all know that program and budget cuts at Mt. Hood have been made as a result of declining student enrollment. Perhaps many people who choose not to attend Mt. Hood do so because they live too far away and the com-mute is more difficult than it’s worth.

If you read the TriMet article in the May 22 issue of The Advocate, you would have picked up on the fact that MHCC is out in the “boonies,” compared to many of the campuses in the Portland metro area.

Currently, Stark Street, Sandy Boulevard, and Kane Drive are well-serviced. Bus lines 20, 80, and 81 make a stop directly in front of MHCC. Unfortunately, anyone living near Powell and Division has to make transfers at Gresham Station. And for others, traveling to campus can take well over an hour. This really has the potential to put a dent in enrollment.

Since no one can just uproot MHCC and plant it somewhere more central, we have to provide easier options for those living in the core of Multnomah County. It doesn’t appear that Portland or TriMet will be charging Mt. Hood for the additional routes, so it should only bring good for students and riders.

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This is the last issue of The Advocate for this academic year. What a year it’s been: We started off about a month before our first issue, then worked for two weeks before the first day of fall term to get our design down.

This year, we did something unusual to your weekly campus paper, and that was print-ing it in a tabloid format.

To some of you, it was probably a chal-lenge getting used to the new design, but I hope everyone ended up enjoying it, because I sure did. I think it makes for a convenient way to read the news, and the giant graphics look really cool on the cover.

Aside from changing the dimensions of the paper itself, the workflow within the editorial team was great, for the most part. I really en-joyed working with the team and, moving on, hope to create more relationships like the ones

we have fostered this year.Despite the frustrations and last-minute

changing and editing under pressure to meet deadlines, this year there has seen a bit more flexibility. This allowed us to add more inter-esting touches and fun graphic content, but we still had a tough time making the paper look interesting due to an overflow of content – which is a good problem to have.

The biggest downside was taking too much time to get the final product finished on a Thurs-day afternoon before evening crept up. When we covered Arun Gandhi, the global peace ac-tivist who visited Mt. Hood on a Thursday af-ternoon-and-night, we weren’t out of the news-room until well after midnight.

Mt. Hood Community College is an inter-esting place, and there are a lot of different sto-ries here that might never have been covered

in other publications. The campus is just brim-ming with life and student engagement.

I feel like there has been a great relation-ship between our humble publication and the other student activities and clubs, too. This relationship went beyond student activities, and reached faculty, support staff, and other employees at the college.

The openness of the administration is to be commended because (from what I’ve heard) previous administrations were far from friendly with The Advocate.

This has been a great year, and after 31 is-sues, I am ready to take a short break before jumping back into a reporting capacity at PSU.

-Yours truly,Greg Leonov

Editor-in-Chief 2014-15

Letter from our Editor - a bid farewell

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NEWS

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June 5, 2015

Greg Leonovthe advocate

Since March, Mt. Hood’s Joint Leadership Council (JLC) has been meeting to discuss how to make the college more beneficial and efficient for its students and employees.

The JLC has a history, but with different names and functions. “It’s had different

iterations in the past,” said Rick

Doughty, MHCC vice president of administrative services, who serves as JLC chair.

The JLC is a council of councils. It consists of representatives from several other councils from around the campus, including the Budget Review Council, Sustainability Council, People Strategies Council, Community Engagement Council, and Facilities Council, among others, according to MHCC President Debbie Derr.

The JLC is an assembly “where information can be shared about the work of all of the other individual councils,” said Derr.

Doughty explained a recent meeting. “We got together and we said ‘Okay, what’s going on on the Sustainability Council, what’s going on on the People Strategies Council’ … (It) allows us to understand, allows us to communicate, allows us to input back,”

he said.

Mt. Hood’s administration has been working to make the college one in which everyone has a say in how it is run, said Doughty. The council setup is “an important aspect, in that we envision a participatory type of governance taking place over the years here,” he said.

Not only do MHCC staff members participate in the councils and in the JLC, but Mt. Hood students also contribute, said Derr. “They (the councils) are representative of all the employee groups and students are also assigned to be on those groups,” she said.

Administrators say the JLC is one of the tools in place to allow MHCC to function effectively as staff turnover occurs, over time.

“We have a concept here, that we want to promote systems here that are resilient and outlive persons and personalities, so that 20 years from now, Mt. Hood is a thriving,

energetic, successful college,” said Doughty.The JLC is a way to give more influence to

the other councils, Derr noted. “The idea is to provide a level of authority to those councils, that they don’t have to come to the president or the board for every single thing they do,” she said.

“It really is a governance structure to provide a way in which employees and students can be involved in decision making of this college. The idea is to empower our stakeholders in that decision making process,” she said.

The JLC held its final meeting of the academic year on Tuesday. Its next will come in the next academic year, to consist of planning for a proposed MHCC general obligation bond.

This story contains information contributed by

Sam Krause, assistant news editor at The Advocate.

Joint Leadership Council meets to build communication

Emily Wintringham & ShaToyia Bentleythe advocate

The Diversity Resource Center and ESL/ECC programs were able to bring the Mt. Hood campus together between 9 and 11 o’clock on a cloudy Wednesday morning at the Student Union by serving breakfast food items popular from many different countries.

The Global Breakfast event was for students and staff of all nationalities to celebrate the many cultures represented at MHCC.

Several people performed music or a dance that is dear to them for the crowd.

“Folk music is in the soul of the people,” said Natalia Baranova, a teacher from Reed College invited to the event by a friend to sing folk songs from Russia. “I wish there was more events like this at Mt. Hood,” said Baranova.

“Every dance we do is to honor Mother Nature,” said one of the Aztec dance performers in the visiting group Vida y Movimiento (in the Aztec language, Ollin Yolliztli).

While performing, Aztec dancers wear traditional costumes, called “chachayotls,” that include head-dresses made of feathers and seed-leggings that make lots of noise as they move.

The Aztec dancers were the topic of most conversation among the impressed guests. “We can understand each other without knowing the language,” Baranova said about appreciating the Aztec dancers and folk songs.

As each MHCC student entered the event, they were asked to put a dot on a global map to show where they are from. “Many people come from Mexico, Portland, Oregon, Vietnam,” said Malado Keita, from Mt. Hood’s ESL/ECC program and in charge of

the booth.Several participants had lots of positive

things to say about the event. “I loved it! I am a vegan, so there was a

lot of food for me. I like the Native American dancers,” said Patricia Matteri, the writing specialist (coach) at MHCC.

“I like the singing and the music is so beautiful. The food is delicious and I see my old friends,” said Liya Kot, a Mt. Hood student whose native language is Russian.

David Dahl was the last performer of the morning. He wore Vietnamese attire called Aodio, a traditional blue robe with stylized gold circles the size of oranges.

“I’ve been a musician all my life,” he said, after performing a selection of Vietnamese songs on a instrument called the dandau. (A dandau is a stringed instrument, plucked using a type of pick in one hand with the pitch changed using a lever in the other hand.)

There were different booths on display for guests to learn more about each country represented at Mt. Hood. At the China booth, people were able to trace Chinese symbols representing different objects.

Tenzin Yangchen, Associated Student Government (ASG) director of diversity resources, had a booth selling T-shirts. The T-shirt sales are going to MercyCorps, the Portland-based international aid agency, to help Nepal earthquake victims. “One dollar will feed a family,” said Yangchen.

An estimated 225 people came to the event. Debbie Derr, MHCC president, said she was amazed by the turnout.

“I was overwhelmed by the number of people that were there. I was like, ‘Woah! This is awesome,’ to celebrate the global diversity that we have at the college, which is very reflective of the global diversity that we have in our district,” she said.

Global breakfast celebrates cultural diversity at MHCC

The flower beds between the Student Union and the Visual Arts Center will soon re-ceive a comprehensive makeover.

On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, ASG members will be working to beautify the plant boxes.

Jhoselyn Hernandez, ASG director of com-munity affairs, will manage the process of weeding and replanting the fixture.

“That flower bed is adopted. I took initia-tive to beautify it because of all the nasty plants and stuff, it’s very visible to everyone,” she said.

ASG purchased shovels, rakes, towels and other equipment for the project.

Bill Pasley, head groundskeeper at MHCC, will use his expertise to pick out plants that are both gorgeous and long-lasting.

ASG will station a new plaque somewhere near the flower bed.

“We are figuring that out, but it will be dif-ferent. We want a formal plaque, and possibly a colored one instead of a normal brown one,” said Hernandez.

She said that ASG will formalize staff re-sponsibility for the flower box maintenance next year, so that it is kept up year-round.

-Emily Wintringham

Nutshell NewsFlower beds get refreshed by ASG

Graphic by Emily Wintringham & Heather Golan - the advocate

There has been an increase of car break-ins on the Mt. Hood campus over the past month, according to campus Public Safety officials.

On May 15 alone there were five car break-ins reported and, according to Wayne Feagle, manager of Public Safety, they have become a regular occurrence.

He said there doesn’t seem to be any pat-tern, except for one.

“It’s more of people leaving stuff out in plain view. Leaving stuff in the car is what it is,” said Feagle. “If we can get people to not leave stuff in the car that would prevent it, that’s how easy it is.”

Feagle said usually a thief will look first for unlocked cars. In the most recent incidents, locked cars have had their windows broken, however.

Paris Norris, ASG director of public safe-ty and campus sustainability, said there are more steps to protecting yourself and others on campus.

“Always be on the lookout for similar threats around you,” Norris said. “You may very well be the Good Samaritan (who) spots a break-in … and alerts Public Safety to help stop it.”

Items reported taken from vehicles in-cludes money, personally identifiable infor-mation (state identification, credit cards, and mail), laptops, and entire school bags.

In a campuswide email, Feagle recom-mends that people leave their cars “showroom clean” and to avoid leaving anything that even looks valuable in plain sight.

-Sam Krause

Prowlers plague cars on campus

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June 5, 2015

Greg Leonovthe advocate

For two-and-a-half months now, Mt. Hood Community College has been sending all college-related email correspondence exclusively through its “Saints email” system, via Microsoft’s Office365 service.

MHCC has had Saints email available for use for over three years, according to Don Adams, the college’s manager of IT programming and systems. He said the main reasons for the college’s decision to use Saints email exclusively were improved security, and making sure that all students receive all emails sent.

“We kind of control, a little bit better, where it’s going ... where if I go to Google, I have no control at all,” Adams said of relying on the Microsoft program.

Using the Saints email system, the college can send out mass emails without relying on a different party to send them out, for a price. “We can do that through another system we have, but we’re trying to save that cost,” said Adams.

Saints email also keeps Mt. Hood’s emails from being marked as spam. Using third-party services is a risk because they might already be recognized as spam services, according to Adams.

Another reason for the change was to make sure Mt. Hood is able to send all students emails to an address that doesn’t change. “Students change their email address many times on a fairly regular basis, and then we don’t have the new email address, so they’re not getting the email from us,” said Adams.

“We thought that by going to ‘Saints,’

we can guarantee mail delivery without all the hassles of going through everyone’s individual emails.”

The Saints email system is a service Microsoft offers at no cost to all schools that use their products, according to Adams, so there was no cost involved. Mt. Hood has Microsoft platforms licensed throughout its entire campus.

Some perks that come with having a Saints email account include five downloads of Microsoft Office for five separate computers for free. The service does come with restrictions. “It’s for your use… but you can’t transfer that license to someone that isn’t a student,” said Adams.

If students want emails from Mt. Hood to be sent to another email address, they have the option to have the Saints email forward everything to any desired in-box. Forwarding

emails comes with a risk, though, said Adams. “I’m only guaranteeing it gets to your Saints email account. If the forwarding fails for some reason, that’s not going to be the college’s issue and we’re going to assume that you received the email, which could be your financial aid or something rather important,” he said.

Any questions or concerns with Saints email may be addressed at multiple different locations.

The Orientation Center offers help, the Learning Center is available, and the help desk in the Library can give help.

If a user is not on campus, questions and concerns about Saints email can be sent to: email.admin@mhcc.edu. “We check that multiple times a day looking for challenges,” said Adams. “We’re always interested in how we can improve it to make it better.”

Saints email used to ensure delivery of email at MHCC

Sam Krausethe advocate

In what began as a passion project in the summer of 2014, Andrew Schaffer, an MHCC Integrated Media student has produced three episodes of a live music program called “Rain-box” on the college campus.

“My goal was to create a platform that bands can launch themselves from and I want this to be a place where people come (to hear them),” said Shaffer.

The genesis of the idea, said Shaffer, was called “Bands in a Van,” a YouTube.com proj-ect that was supported mostly by himself and volunteers. After a failed Kickstarter campaign and after producing only a few segments, that

project fell apart, but the idea stayed together.“Eventually we got down to something

I could actually do, which was the Rainbox,” said Schaffer.

Rainbox has generated three episodes, starring as many bands. Schaffer has another episode in the works and has volunteers to help him produce episodes throughout the summer.

While he can’t pinpoint exactly why he chose live music, he said that live performance has always been a part of his life.

“I just gravitate towards it. I’ve been in a band before, I’ve played live music, I know how hard it can be to get yourself out there,” said Schaffer. “I tend to gravitate towards it. I come from a live theater background, and I guess that’s part of it.”

He said his personal motivation for creat-

ing Rainbox was to gain more experience in live broadcasting.

“In a live situation you hear the band for what they are and there’s no getting around it, and so we go live on YouTube and live on KMHD2 (the campus-produced radio station). It’s not delayed, it’s live,” said Schaffer, who aspires to work on “Saturday Night Live” one day.

Going live isn’t without its pitfalls. The second Rainbox episode lacks a vocal track for the lead singer, and some of the transitions are jumpy, but Schaffer said that is all part of the process.

Jack Schommer, director of the Integrated Media program at Mt. Hood and Schaffer’s ad-viser for the project, said what’s unique about Rainbox is that it’s music and live streaming television.

“Every year, students do music related vid-eos … frequently,” said Schommer. “Five or six years ago, we used to do sports regularly.” Those efforts were limited in their scope, he said.

“(Rainbox) is on YouTube and simulcast on the radio station. Those two things are a nice approach,” said Schommer. He noted that the college was recently able to upgrade some of its video equipment to support live-streaming.

Schaffer will graduate from Mt. Hood this year, and has already moved into a position that fits his talents.

“I’m a producer at a stock video production company in Oregon City called Uber Stock. I’m organizing every shoot,” he said. He start-ed at the company in April 2014 as an intern, then made his way up to the producer role in March this year.

Graphic by Heather Golan -the advocate

‘A platform bands can launch themselves from’ -Andrew Schaffer

Left: Film students record Wil Kinky performing.

Top: MHCC film student Hannah Mohrmann operating the livestream camera board.

Bottom: Andrew Schaffer oversees the production of his brainchild: Rainbox, a live stream music website.

Photos by Aurora Angeles - the advocate

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LIFESTYLE

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Ivy Davisthe advocate

Imagine having an orgasm, in your mouth, as you eat fries, of all things. Now that you have that mental picture, add teriyaki sauce, pineapple, and Swiss cheese – on a burger.

Now that you’re probably drooling- unless you don’t like pineapple, in which case you’re crazy – I’ll tell you about TILT. Like many great restaurants in the area, TILT is tucked away in Portland, at 14th and Everett. It’s a burger place, if you haven’t figured that one out from the first paragraph.

Aesthetically, it seems, TILT is trying a lit-tle too hard to look industrial. Everything is made out of metal or hard wood with nuts and bolts showing. The owners took the industrial look all the way into the rest rooms. On the bright side, you know when someone is in a stall because of the huge clang sound the stalls make when being literally bolted shut. (TILT did do one thing right: reusable napkins – you know, the red rags every contractor uses be-

cause they’re cheap.) For God’s sake, this is trying way too hard to be hip – and hip isn’t even in, anymore!

Secondly, TILT burgers are mouthwatering. After attempting to fit my burger into my mouth, with success on the third try, I forgave TILT for its overuse of steel and metal decorations. I had the Island Truck-er burger. The Trucker includes a chuck pat-ty, sweet ham, onion ring, grilled pineapple, house teriyaki sauce, Swiss cheese, lettuce, and mayo. Honestly, if it wasn’t for the squishable chuck patty, this burger would have never fit into my mouth. The combo of the pineapple, teriyaki, onion ring, and ham was to die for.

As for my date’s sandwich, from which I stole a bite when he was taking a break, I can say it too was divine. The Groundhog burg-er was made up of a chuck patty, grilled ba-con-honey mushrooms, bacon, grilled onions, and Swiss cheese. This burger, though not as good as the Island Trucker in my opinion, was

well worth drooling over. The mushrooms really pulled it togeth-er. I only wish my date

would have stayed in the bath-room longer so I could take

more bites. I’ve always been a potato person; I like be-

ing a couch potato when I can and I like eating potatoes in any form. Though not my all-time favorite fry, the Original Beer Battered House Fries at TILT also were orgasm-worthy. I couldn’t stop drooling over the taste and fresh crispness. I couldn’t stop shoveling the fries into my face, either. The house sauce they came with, though interesting to the taste buds, was not my favorite, either. In all honesty, the fries were so good they didn’t need sauce. Though TILT’s look just isn’t my thing, their food is – so, 4 stars from me. The restaurant has many burgers, salads, biscuits, sides, and PIES. So if you’re ever in downtown Portland and feeling for burgers and fries, go enjoy TILT.

TILT is at 1355 N.W. Everett St.

Lea BeckwithPublic Safety Intern

Most of us probably know someone who has been the victim of sexual violence. Wheth-er it happened to someone we know or per-sonally, sexual violence is a problem across the country. From my life experience, I have discovered many people close to me who have been victims of sexual assault, dating violence, harassment, etc.

The vast array of offenses that people ex-perience regularly is appalling and unaccept-able. Yet we live in a culture where discuss-ing the problem and implementing solutions is often messy and taboo. Victim-blaming is a common occurrence, and more often than not, individuals take on the guilt and burden of these devastating experiences.

Through my courses of study during my undergraduate and graduate education, I have

focused my research interests on sexual assault and fear of crime in various settings. During my senior year of college, numerous military recruiters were contacting me encouraging me to join their branches of service. At this time, media coverage of the reports about sexual as-sault in the military were also increasing. My mother reminded me before each meeting to be sure I discuss sexual assault issues and re-sponses. I recall saying to her one day, “I don’t want to ask about it, I feel weird asking about it.” My mom stopped me there. Her following words have resonated with me since: “If you aren’t going to ask about it, then who will?”

My mother is right. If someone doesn’t cause a few waves and asks the uncomfortable questions, then what changes? Every person has a right to feel safe and secure while at-tending school without the threat of sexual violence. As students, our learning may be ad-vanced. However, I believe a better measure of

our education is not that we simply have it, but rather what we do with it.

Fostering a discussion about sexual vio-lence on college campuses begins to address larger societal issues. On March 7, 2013, Pres-ident Obama signed the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. The passage of this amendment updated the Clery Act to include dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking. Both the Clery Act and the Vi-olence Against Women Act amendments are governed under Title IX. Established in 1972, Title IX ensures equality for boys and girls in any federally funded education program.

With the Violence Against Women Re-authorization Act coming into effect July 1 of this year, now is an appropriate time for stu-dents to engage with public safety departments and Title IX coordinators. At Mt. Hood Com-munity College, officials are working together to ensure student resources are up-to-date and

compliant with Clery Act standards. Student engagement opportunities concerning sexu-al violence on campus will be coming to Mt. Hood during the 2015-2016 school year.

Emergency Resources:

In case of an emergency, dial 911

• Title IX Coordinator—

Randy Wardlow

o 503-491-7530

• MHCC Public Safety Department

o 503-491-7911

• MHCC counselors

o 503-491-7432

• Gresham Police Department

o 503-823-3333—non-emergency line

• Portland Women’s Crisis Line

o 503-235-5333

Nicole Kaadithe advocate

MHCC’s recently published literary jour-nal, Perceptions Magazine of the Arts, is now available for $15 in the Humanities depart-ment office. Instructors Jonathan Morrow or Lydia Yuknavitch can assist with purchasing.

During finals week, there will be a sale in front of the campus bookstore.

Perceptions is a compilation of art, liter-ature, poetry, photography, and short films. Work is submitted by students and other as-piring individuals who would like their work published.

Work selected for publication isn’t from just one genre, or theme. The contents range from happy to sad, dark to light, straightfor-ward to the abstract, and encompass a variety for most types of readers.

“At the beginning of every term, except summer, the editorial staff invites any artist and writer who would like to get something published to submit some work,” said David Ahlson, Perceptions managing editor and di-rector.

“Each week the editors choose one or two of the submitted works without knowing the names of the hopefuls that are going to be published in the next compilation.

If an artist feels their style of art is differ-ent, they should submit it anyway. This pub-lication show various organic natures of hu-manity and appreciates all different forms and styles of art and literature,” Ahlson said.

Anyone seeking a chance to get work pub-lished or who has additional questions should email Perceptions at perceptions@mhcc.com.

Perceptions magazine releases 46th annual edition

Sex Violence on campus needs dialogue

TILT burgers do not disappoint, orgasm-worthy

TILT burgers: 4/5 stars

Portland burger joint TILT’s “Big TILT burger”

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SPORTS

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June 5, 2015

Tradition.Family.Success.(...again)

To read about Saints baseball player Tommy Lane’s MLB draft status, be sure to visit www.advocate-online.net.

David Teasthe advocate

Softball head coach Meadow McWhorter has done a lot of winning while at the helm for the Saints. So it would only make sense that her expectations were set high heading into the 2015 regular season.

The team finished the regular season 14-6 in South Region play and 35-11 overall. Not a bad follow-up, con-sidering the Saints were fresh off an NWAC champion-ship in 2014 but also had lost many of its top players, due to graduation.

According to McWhorter, many assumed this year’s squad would fall short of her past success. Instead, the Saints battled some early setbacks and came all the way back to finish the as NWAC runners-up, second in the championship tourney.

The Saints showed heart, toughness, and were “re-silient,” she said.

Midway through the season, the Saints squared off with rival Southwestern Oregon CC (who would fin-ish 14-6 in South play, 35-11 overall) in Coos Bay. The Saints dropped both tight games, 1-0 and 6-5. This didn’t leave a nice taste in McWhorter’s mouth.

“I was really hard on them, probably the hardest I have ever been,” said McWhorter of her postgame re-marks to her players. That’s saying something, as she has led the Saints for 13 years, racking up four champion-ships in the past seven seasons alone.

McWhorter said the players’ response made that in-cident quite the turning point in the season.

“We started picking it up and winning games late and all of our home games. That’s when I started to realize this team has fight,” she said.

The Saints would win 17 of 21 games, and qualified as the No. 4 overall seed heading into this year’s NWAC tournament at Delta Park in north Portland.

Mt. Hood lost in second-round action against South-western Oregon 5-2 on May 15, then rebounded to win five straight games before falling to Spokane CC in the championship showdown.

“It was a heck of a weekend,” said McWhorter. “We got everything we could’ve gotten out of our players this year.”

With a new crop of freshmen coming in next season and the experience of her soon-to-be-sophomores, Mt. Hood should again be a team that is taken seriously, she said.

As long as McWhorter is leading the way, success seems sure to follow the Saints – given her career record of 418 wins and 142 losses, along with those four cham-pionship trophies.

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- Athletic Banquet Awards -

Female Athlete of the Year

Female Scholar Athlete of the Year

Assistant Coach of the Year Fernando FantroyTrack

Coach of the Year Bryan DonohueBaseball

Special Recognition

Geoff Gibor for his service as the head men’s basketball coachTyler Rose for his service as head women’s basketball coach

Newcomer of the Year Jim SatterfieldCross Country

Joe BalfourBaseball

Nick Gawley Baseball

Georgia GlovatskyCross Country

Male Athletes of the Year

Male Scholar Athlete of the Year

Brandon RaleighCross Country/Track

Emily TrosinoCross Country/Track

MT. HOOD SAINTS

Photos contributed by Beka Haugen, David Teas, Doug Bowman, and Sam Krause

Celebrating the 2014-2015 year

Saints volleyball team stands during 2015 MHCC Athletic Banquet as coach Andrew Clifton talks about the program and his athletes.

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