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Lice crawl through campus

Administration addresses theftsStudents express concern

about an increase in thefts

occurring on and off campus

Olive Marketplace and Café to open in former Merchants Ltd. space

by JOCELYN RICHARD News Editor

Popular with Whitman students for its lunch menu and casual environment, Merchants Ltd. was sold in 2009 to Tom Mac-carone and Chef Jake Crenshaw, co-owners of T. Maccarone’s res-taurant, who are taking over the reins of 21 Main Street from the Austin family. Scheduled to open early February 2010, the duo’s new business, Olive Marketplace and Café, will pay tribute to the 34-year-old delicatessen while of-fering new opportunities to Wal-la Walla diners. Maccarone and Crenshaw have extended Olive’s operating hours and designed a new menu to provide more ser-vices to patrons of the café and market.

Scheduled to be open daily from 6 a.m to 9 p.m. and until 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, many of Olive’s redesigns and additions will bene!t students looking for a convenient place to study or hang out from morning to night. Available a"er 11 a.m.,

the lunch and

evening menu will feature #at-bread pizzas, sandwiches, soups and many other items. Breakfast will be o$ered from 6 a.m. until 11 a.m., and a selection of bever-ages including espresso, tea, local and imported wines and beer on tap will be served all day.

“We want this to be a place where people can gather with friends to study or just hang out for a while,” said Maccarone. “We’ve added a bunch of new furniture upstairs, so you can get a large group of people together to study or enjoy some beer and pizza.”

Olive’s upper level will fea-ture a carpeted, well-lit lounge area furnished with new sofas, love seats and a conference table in accommodation of students needing a large space to study or meet in groups.

%e refurbished second #oor, explains Maccarone, is one of many renovations and aesthetic touch-ups builders have made in anticipation of Olive’s unveiling next month. He and Crenshaw have recon!gured the kitchen

by LEA NEGRIN Staff Reporter

A"er returning to Walla Walla from winter break to !nd her o$-campus house burglarized, senior Julie Grimm took action and organized a meeting with members of the Whitman administration to discuss students’ safety concerns. Along with Grimm, !ve other students met with Dean of Students Chuck Cleveland, Associate Dean of Students Nancy Tavelli and Director of Security Terry %ompson last %ursday, Jan. 21 to address strategies for recovering lost items, protecting personal property and preventing future burglaries.

Each student in attendance introduced him or herself at the outset of the meeting, all with the statement “I have been burglarized;” Grimm knew she was not alone in her frustration and fear.

Over the span of the college’s four-week winter break, Walla Walla experienced a 30 percent increase in burglar-ies, an increase that was also felt on the Whitman campus. Multiple o$-campus student houses were burglarized as well as the Environmental Interest House.

In previous years, the majority of burglaries occurred as a result of doors le" unlocked or windows le" open. %e recent burglaries, however, have been forced entries, leading to renewed fears about the state of security in the Whitman community.

Sophomore Lauren McCullough, the Environmental Interest House resident assistant, returned to the house on Jan. 7 to !nd her bedroom emptied of all valuables, including her laptop and digital camera. Electronics and cash have been common items stolen from students’ resi-dences.

“It’s made me feel a lot more aware because there is de!-nitely an emotional aspect to being burglarized,” said Mc-Cullough.

Senior Nadim Damluji, a student who attended last %ursday’s meeting, shared a similar sentiment.

“%e worst thing is feeling like a victim and feeling like we’re being watched,” he said during the meeting.”I don’t want to feel so hopeless.”

Damluji’s o$-campus house has been burglarized four times since the start of the academic year.

“You are being watched,” Director of Security Terry %ompson said in response.

Helping HaitiStudent efforts raise money to aid Red Cross and

Partners in Health relief efforts after earthquake

by JOSH GOODMAN Associate News Editor

Following the devastation of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, several Whitman students have sprung into action with fundraisers to raise money for disaster relief.

%e quake, which killed 200,000 people and displaced as many as 1.5 million Haitians, occurred on Jan. 12. %e American Red Cross said in a press release that they are using donations to provide clean drinking water and hygiene kits to those in need.

%e post-disaster situation and e$orts of the Red Cross in Haiti motivated junior Hayley Sampson to distribute dozens of Red Cross donation boxes across campus. %e boxes, which were available for a week,

by RACHEL ALEXANDER Staff Reporter

With a vote over the future of the Valley Transit system scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 9, and Walla Walla residents with vote-by-mail ballots in hand, a group of Whitman students have become in-volved in the Campaign for Valley Tran-sit, spending their weekend a"ernoons getting the word out to potential voters.

%e proposed Valley Transit measure would raise the sales tax by .03 percent, or three cents per 10 dollar purchase, in order to avoid a 50 percent cut in public transit services.

Senior Camila %orndike, who has gone doorbelling for the campaign, is trying to recruit fellow Whitman stu-dents to join her.

“It’s easy to be a part of and it’s really immediately rewarding,” she said.

%orndike got involved in the Cam-paign for Valley Transit through her work on an earlier campaign to oppose a coal plant from being built near Walla Walla. During that campaign, she met several people who now head the ef-fort to keep Valley Transit services from being cut. She also helped organize the Network for Young Walla Walla sum-mit that took place in December, and believes that saving Valley Transit !ts in with issues discussed there.

“%is campaign epitomizes what the summit themes were—economy, equity and environmental sustainability,” she said.

Senior Pedro Galvao has used the campaign to continue his previous out-reach e$orts to Latino voters. He has re-cruited other Whitman students, most of whom are members of Club Latino, to ring doorbells in primarily Latino

Students campaign for transit measure

by HADLEY JOLLEYStaff Reporter

Head lice have spread through-out campus, with three cases con!rmed by the Welty Student Health Center as well as multiple uncon!rmed cases within the past week. %ough cases have de-creased in recent days, students in both Jewett and Prentiss Halls

have been a$ected by the insects, known to lay eggs and cause itchi-ness to the scalp.

In Jewett Hall, residents began checking themselves for head lice on Jan. 20 a"er one resident in the Pit con!rmed that she had lice. Word—and lice—soon got around.

“It was one of the !rst big pieces

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iPad may enable

new education breakthroughsby BLAIR FRANKContributing Reporter

Apple yesterday announced the iPad, a new tablet com-puter that blends e-reader, office software and a general computing device. Its screen measures 9.1 inches on the diagonal, is half an inch thick and weighs in at one and a half pounds. That’s slightly smaller than Amazon’s Kindle DX, which is an apt comparison adue to the new iBook app that will ship with the iPad.

At $499, the entry level iPad (16 GB of storage and Wi-Fi) costs $10 more than the Kindle DX and boasts four times the storage capacity of Amazon’s e-reader. Couple the storage improvement with the versatility of the iPad, and it becomes a serious contender for textbooks, text-to-speech applications and other educational uses.

With the announcement of the iPad, Apple also intro-duced iWork for iPad, which brings the word processing, spreadsheet and presentation capabilities of their office suite to the new tablet. With iBooks and iWork, it’s pos-sible to use the iPad as an all-in-one textbook and note-book. In a lab setting, it would be possible to reference your digital textbook and record your data, all while lis-tening to music from your iTunes library.

The universal access features on the iPad include text-to-speech, as well as the ability to invert display colors for higher-contrast viewing. That creates potential benefits for people with learning differences.

Director of Academic Resources Juli Dunn is optimistic about the possibilities that the iPad holds.

“My prediction is that it will be a huge breakthrough for certain segments of the learning population and I am super-excited to see how it takes off and to what extent it can be utilized to support the principles of universal design learning,” she said.

The iPad should be available in late March.

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THEFTS, page 3LICE, page 2

MERCHANTS, page 3Merchants Ltd.’s former space gets a makeover as new owners prepare to

debut Olive Marketplace and Café in early February 2010.

A donation box for the American Red Cross on campus. Whitman students contributed about $900 to

this and similar boxes, in addition to over $500 to Partners in Health through a BSU fundraiser dance.

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Men’s b-ball pursues NWC

Despite four consecutive

NWC losses, the men’s bas-

ketball team prepares for a

run at the post season in an

attempt to make the NWC

playoffs for the first time in over 20 years.

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A crowning achievementAfter being recognized by the Columbia Scholastic

Press Association as one of the nation’s top 15 stu-

dent publications, Whitman’s premier arts and literary

magazine is now in the running for the prestigious

Gold Crown Award.

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virtual pedagogy: surviving the zombie apocalypse

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of gossip to go through the door,” said !rst-year Jewett resident Katie Haaheim.

Haaheim said that she did not know of anyone speci!cally a"ected with lice. Although uncon!rmed rumors circled around, she knew people who had been checked.

“We imagined the Pit as just crawling with lice,” said Haaheim.

She said she feared getting lice not only because of the hassle of getting rid of them, but also because of a perceived stigma.

“It goes back to elementary school and the lice checks, and you never wanted to be the kid where they went poking through you’re hair and said, ‘Oh,’” said Haaheim.

“Sara,” a Prentiss resident who spoke on the condition of anonymity, found out she had nits—lice eggs—in her hair a#er a friend contacted her to tell her she might have been exposed. Another friend, who had worked at a summer camp, checked

her out.“I’ve never had lice, but I’m guessing

it’s a lot itchier,” she said. “Having eggs, you don’t really suspect it.”

Sara bought anti-lice shampoo and used a !ne-tooth comb to get the eggs out. She also washed all of her bedding and clothes.

“$is whole thing reminds me of STDs. If you know of someone who has it, you worry that you have it, too,” Sara said.

Head lice, however, are easier to spread than sexually transmitted diseases.

“Lice have nits, little eggs, on the scalp. And they can stay there until they hatch,” said Claudia Ness, director of the health center. “But they can also stay on pillows, linens, blankets, stocking caps [and] scarves that we wear around our necks.”

Lice can spread by contact with any ob-ject the nits live on, including bedding.

“It’s hard in a dorm setting not to sit on someone’s bed when you go to their room,” said sophomore Sunithi Hinda-

golla, the Jewett resident assistant who dealt with the initial outbreak.

Ness said that the principal symptom of head lice is itching.

“O#entimes it’s di%cult to know with-out anyone inspecting it whether you just have dandru" or dry skin, or there’s an infestation of something in there,” said Ness.

She also said that people who suspect that they might have lice can come to the health center to !nd out.

Ness said that the lice outbreak is on the wane.

“We haven’t had much reference to it over the weekend or today,” she said Monday, Jan. 25.

According to Hindagolla, who started as an RA in Jewett this month, the lice outbreak did lead to something good: section bonding.

“It was kind of amusing and helped me bond with my girls a little bit more,” she said. “It was a weird bonding experience, though.”

LICE: Outbreak bonds students

MERCHANTS: Owners aim to improve

WINTERIM OFFERS NEW EXPERIENCES

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Above: Jenna Mukuno ‘11, Jamie Soukup ‘10 and Osta Davis ‘13; Below Left: Glory Bushey ‘11; Below Right: Cambria

Wethey ‘13. Students take part in Ukrainian egg decorating as part of Winterim. Ukrainian tradition involves using a stylus to

paint geometric and nature images on the eggs. Other Winterim activities included ice skating lessons, a DJing how-to and a

beginner’s game of Magic the Gathering. Winterim is an annual event organized by the Whitman Events Board.

Whitman welcomed new additions to the student community with the be-ginning of the 2010 spring semester. $e students who begin at Whitman in January—known as Jan-starts—moved onto campus for their orientation on Jan. 14 a#er spending last semester in a myriad of di"erent ways.

First-year Jack Lazar, from Portland, decided to be a Jan-start because he wanted a unique experience.

“I wanted to prove to myself that I could live in what I believed the real world was,” he said.

With the help of Admissions O%cer Victoria Lidzbarski, Lazar spent the past semester in Nepal with the cultur-al immersion program “Where $ere Be Dragons.”

Although initially hesitant to accept her o"er for spring—rather than fall—admission, !rst-year Rebecca Nevin accepted the Jan-start option and chose to travel to Bolivia with the same pro-gram as Lazar.

“I was really excited that that hap-pened because it forced me to get out,” said Nevin.

Many other Jan-starts spent the last semester experiencing new cultures and developing a sense of con!dence. First-year Jan-starts Sarah Schaefer and Emma Newton spent last semes-ter within the United States, but by no means uneventfully. Newton spent time volunteering with Mercy Corps while Schaefer was in Kentucky volun-teering with the Christian Appalachian Project.

Exciting fall semesters aside, coming to Whitman mid-school year proved challenging to many.

“Everyone here already knows peo-ple,” Nevin said.

Newton agreed.“It’s been a little hard meeting peo-

ple, I’m not going to lie,” she said.Jan-starts took part in a three-day

orientation that included a snow shoe trip at Horseshoe Prairie, bowling and broomball. Although this allowed Jan-starts to get to know one another well, it did not do much to help them interact with the Whitman community. Lazar suggested having the option to attend S.C.O.R.E. and Scramble summer pro-grams that were open to last semester’s !rst-years.

“Being able to go on the Scrambles

would have made it feel more like we were part of the class, just taking a se-mester o", rather than adding into it late,” said Lazar.

Another issue that Jan-starts experi-enced was enrolling in classes. Schaefer mentioned having to sit in on waitlisted classes and plead for entry while Lazar said that he would have really appreci-ated being able to speak to an adviser prior to pre-registration to help get him get on track with the other students.

Although not simple, the transition to Whitman has proved possible for these Jan-starts, whose arrival has not gone unnoticed.

“It was hard at !rst but I think I’ve de!nitely gotten to meet people this weekend,” said Schaefer, a week a#er moving onto campus.

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According to !ompson, the predict-ability of students’ class schedules and ac-tivities, coupled with Whitman students’ high perception of security, led to the op-portunity for burglaries.

In response to students’ concerns, Cleveland proposed various measures the college plans to take to prevent Whitman students from being future targets.

“!ere are more resources that we need to take advantage of as individuals and as a college,” he said.

One such measure is the hiring of an additional Whitman security guard to help patrol the immediate campus and surrounding area. !e college currently employs four full-time security guards.

Cleveland has also asked campus secu-rity to step up patrols through the interest house community and around campus rental houses.

He enlisted the help of Walla Walla Po-lice Department Crime Prevention Coor-dinator Vicki Ruley. Ruley has agreed to conduct free safety and security reviews of

students’ residents, informing them what safety features—such as locks, windows and porch lights—need to be attended to.

Walla Walla Crime Prevention O"-cer Robert Reed noted that burglars can identify vulnerable residences, an impor-tant reason why students should upgrade their houses’ security features.

“I can easily walk through a neighbor-hood and tell you who’s home, who’s not, and which homes are an easy target. !at means that burglars can too,” said Reed.

Junior Teresa Hughes’ residence, the site of another burglary, was entered from a window that did not properly lock. She had known of the window issue but not of her landlord’s responsibility to #x it due to safety measures.

“I needed to know that I could ask my landlord. I never thought to ask,” said Hughes.

Reed advises students that one of the best defensive strategies is to adopt a more assertive attitude. He says that Whitman students are o$en “too nice,” recalling stories of students hesitating to call the police about suspicious activity.

“!e worst thing that could happen is you’re wrong. But 99 percent of the time your instincts are right,” said Reed, en-couraging students to respond as soon as they perceive a threat.

Yet Grimm felt that the police did not properly handle her calls.

“A few times [the police] told me that the burglary did not happen or wasn’t re-ported, but it was reported,” she said. “I don’t know if they don’t see me as a real victim or they’re not concerned enough . . . but I feel frustrated talking to them about it because they don’t take me seriously.”

Cleveland promised to help facilitate police department and student commu-nication in light of students’ complaints of di"culty working with the police.

According to Ruley, crime near cam-pus is not uncommon. Her hope is that the community will become aware of the facts so that residents won’t risk the safety of their property and person in the fu-ture.

“It’s up to us as a community to keep ourselves safe,” she said.

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Unveiled to the public on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the new Glover Alston Cen-ter o%ers space for Whitman community members and organizations to host meet-ings and gatherings, sponsor private and public events or just relax. Spearheaded by the Intercultural Center, planning for the Glover Alston Center’s design began in 2007 in collaboration with Whitman students, faculty, sta%, trustees and college overseers. !e parties reviewed similar projects on other college campuses to de-cide on the best blueprint for promoting inclusiveness within the community and encouraging diverse ideas on campus.

“!e center originally was intended as a safe space for multicultural groups to gather on campus, but its usefulness

and capacity has greatly expanded from the time of its conception to the #nished product,” said Ben Wu, program manager for the Intercultural Center and manager of the Glover Alston Center.

!e two-story house features a combi-nation of open and intimate spaces. !e #rst &oor serves as a communal space, including two lounge areas furnished with couches and chairs. One lounge houses a television, and the other features a #re-place. Situated behind the lounges is a fully-equipped kitchen that includes two stoves, refrigerators and a microwave. !e second &oor accommodates a spirituality or quiet room for meditation and prayer and #ve other rooms that o%er more privacy.

Wu commented on the importance of having private and comfortable areas to talk openly with one another.

“Before the Glover Alston Center, the

only available meeting spaces were the Reid basement, an upstairs conference room in Reid, or the living room of a house in the Interest House Community, all of which lacked comfort,” Wu said. “And in the case of a living room in the IHC, it’s someone else’s living room.”

Since the Glover Alston Center’s debut, the Intercultural Center has continued to work with students and groups to coor-dinate events and potential meetings. !e Black Student Union and the residents of La Maison Française have already used the center for group-related activities. !e space is also available to host academic meetings and seminars.

“!e center is the end result of much hard work and deliberation,” said Wu. !e house is open to all students, faculty and sta% of the college to “hang out, study or take a nap even.”

!e Glover Alston Center is located at 26 Boyer Ave., between Boyer House and the Whitman Dance Studio. Operat-

ing hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Glover Alston Center opens, provides new

meeting space for intercultural groupsby ROBERT CRENSHAW Staff Reporter

and added more counter seating, built a new raised seating area on the main &oor and created a new wine depart-ment and tasting area. !e café’s overall look and atmosphere will not undergo a drastic change, said Maccarone.

“People are worried we’re going to transform Merchants into this up-scale, pricey place,” said Maccarone. “We’re not changing Merchants; we’re just mak-ing it better. We’re repainting and #nish-ing the café, #xing doors and adding new restrooms, but Olive will still have the same casual atmosphere.”

In addition to its new hours and ex-panded menu, Olive will add to its pre-decessor’s services by o%ering in-house and carry-out dining as well as retailing a variety of ingredients from the café’s marketplace.

“We make everything from scratch at T. Maccarone’s, and we’re excited to now retail many of these products for our customers to use in their own kitchens,” said Crenshaw. “We’ll o%er fresh pastas

and our signature sauces, house-cured meats and sausages, and even fresh sea-food and local cuts of meats. Olive will be an amazing resource for any home cook.”

For those loyal to Merchants’ sand-wich and lunch foods, Olive’s reformu-lated bill of fare will supplement selec-

tions from T. Maccarone’s established lunch and breakfast menus with new sandwiches, pizzas and other foods.

“From students, to local businesses, to people picking up meals for home, Olive will o%er something for everyone,” said Maccarone. “It’s going to be really cool.”

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Construction is underway at Olive. The restaurant plans to open next month in place of

Merchants Ltd.’s, and will feature an menu of breakfast food, sandwiches and pizza as well as

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neighborhoods.“Everybody else is targeting the non-

Latinos,” he said. His interest in en-couraging Latino voting stems from his work with a group called Commitment to Community over the summer. Going door-to-door to collect survey data for the organization, Galvao realized that Latino voters in Walla Walla o$en didn’t participate in elections, and that out-reach e%orts were o$en absent.

“!ey were really sporadic,” he said. “!e last major e%ort was in the ‘70s or ‘80s.”

Both Galvao and !orndike said that reaction to the campaign has been over-whelmingly positive.

“Nobody said, ‘No way, no thanks,’ and slammed the door,” said !orndike. Compared to campaigning for partisan o"ces, such as with the state representa-tive race last fall, asking people to vote for Valley Transit is much easier, she

said.Campaign Manager Dan Clark said

that he’s seen a lot of Whitman students helping with the campaign.

“Over the last few years, Whitman stu-dents have gotten much more involved in the community,” he said.

Clark attended Whitman in the 1960s, and said that at that time, there was al-most no community involvement on the part of students. He attributes the change in part to the establishment of the Cen-ter for Community Service.

!orndike hopes to see more students get involved in this campaign, as well as in political issues in general.

“I’m de#nitely one to think that voting isn’t enough,” she said. “I think that our democracy depends on everyday citizens taking the next step to keep it alive.”

Besides that, she feels that the Val-ley Transit issue is simple and relatively noncontroversial.

“You’ll either have a bus a$er this, or you’ll have half a bus,” she said.

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raised around $900, exceeding her $500 goal.

“I looked on the listserv to see if anyone was doing anything student-based and it didn’t look like anyone was, so I decided to make a bunch of donation boxes and distribute them around campus,” she said.

ShopKo donated supplies for the boxes, which Sampson placed in aca-demic buildings, residence halls and Reid Campus Center. Sampson’s effort got a boost from the Saturday, Jan. 23, men’s and women’s basketball games against Linfield; all gate proceeds were donated to her cause.

The Red Cross boxes aren’t the only student disaster relief project. Sopho-more Adam Delgado spearheaded an effort for the Black Student Union to raise funds through a dance that took place last Saturday, Jan. 23.

“I was very impressed with most of the student body who realized that while the dance was primarily for en-tertainment, their donations would go to a good cause,” he said. “People gave [from] pennies to twenty dollar bills. It exceeded all of our expectations.”

The dance raised $523.44 for Part-ners in Health, an organization that provides healthcare to impoverished areas, including Haiti.

Sophomore Yonas Fikas, who at-tended the dance and is a member of the BSU, commented on the success of the dance.

“It was a good thing to do overall,” he said. “I think it brought the club to-gether. It had a common goal.”

With separate fundraising events complete, Delgado, Sampson and first-year Jack Lazar have started an effort called Haiti Relief Initiative @ Whitman. The group will sell fried plantains and lemonade in Reid one day next week, with proceeds going to Partners in Health. A special Haiti Re-lief Initiative @ Whitman fundraising page on the Partners in Health web-site notes the group’s goal of raising $3,000; as of Wednesday night, they had raised $190.

Delgado said he is interested in making Haiti “a long-term commit-ment.” In addition to raising funds throughout the coming months, Haiti Relief Initiative @ Whitman hopes to raise awareness through a “Wear Red for Haiti” day, student meetings and a candlelight vigil.

Though initial efforts were various and unconsolidated, Sampson felt that the high level of interest in fundraising and awareness programs was good.

“I know there [were] a lot of dispa-rate efforts going on and they [were] not unified, but it’s great that the dis-parate efforts [were] going on,” she said.

For students interested in helping out, you can donate to the Red Cross at http://tinyurl.com/yhy577o or to Haiti Relief Initiative @ Whitman’s fundraising page through Partners in Health at http://tinyurl.com/yglghec.

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“Yes!” exclaimed sophomore Jessi Whalen, grinning as she checked her text messages. “I just got invited to a ‘Jersey Shore’ party.”

“Jersey Shore” is an MTV reality show about eight Italian-Americans living together for the summer in a house on the New Jersey Shore.

“. . . Imagine if MTV staged ‘Real World’ on the Jersey Shore with eight characters, with names like ‘The Sit-uation’ and ‘Jwoww,’ who combine steroids, fake tans and hair gel to make some of the trashiest television I’ve ever seen. This is an epic level of douchery that may not be matched in pop culture ever,” describes the “Jersey Shore” nickname generator, a Web site outfitted to provide visitors with their own reality TV name.

Despite the apparent depravity of the show, it is something of a guilty pleasure for Whalen.

“I’m a little bit embarrassed that I watch it,” she said. “All the girls are just trashy and slutty and all the boys are just total douchebags. But it’s so ridiculous and it’s so far from my life that it’s fun to watch.”

“Jersey Shore” is one of the five shows that Whalen watches regular-ly, all of which are available online via a combination of the host net-works’ Web sites and Web sites such as www.sidereel.com or www.surfth-echannel.com, which direct visitors to TV episodes uploaded onto video hosting Web sites such as www.mega-video.com or www.youku.com.

“These are shows that I never watched [live],” said Whalen. “I didn’t watch any TV in high school.”

The availability of shows on the Internet has led to expanded audi-ences. Downloading and streaming television shows has also made it easier for people to get up to date with current shows by making older episodes accessible.

One anonymous student said that she uses BitTorrent, a program that allows users to download large files, often illegally, within a peer-to-peer network. The program helped in-troduce her to shows like the ABC series “Castle,” which she might not have gotten into otherwise.

“I just started watching ‘Castle’ this year and it’s in its second season, but I was able to go back and catch up,” she said. “Now I’m watching it every time it comes out.”

Annie Petersen, visiting profes-sor of rhetoric and film studies and instructor of TV and American Cul-ture, confirmed that it was for this reason that networks have allowed their shows to be streamed on Netf-lix, as is the case with “Lost,” an ABC show about a group of plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island.

“It encourages people to catch up. ABC recognizes that, ‘Sure, we’re losing money from people who aren’t renting from us, but we’re gaining people who are going to become die-hard fans of the show,’” said Pe-tersen.

Another way that networks have adapted to the phenomenon of watching TV on the Internet is through the creation of Hulu. Hulu is a Web site that streams shows up-loaded by major television networks including NBC, Fox and ABC. Un-like many videos uploaded to Web sites such as www.megavideo.com

and www.youku.com, the videos on Hulu are completely legal and there-fore always accessible—at the cost of periodic advertisements during the episode. The site allows more people to reliably access TV shows on their computers at their own con-venience.

Still, appointment viewing (watch-ing shows on TV as they air) and group viewing are popular practic-es, made easier in a college setting. Sometimes watching TV in a group gets people to watch shows they wouldn’t watch of their own accord.

One group of first-years makes an effort to watch “Glee,” in the Jewett lounge every Wednesday when the show airs. The Fox series is about a

high school glee club and is highly popular among Whitman first-years.

“It’s fun to observe different peo-ples’ reactions,” said first-year Peter Burrows. “I wouldn’t watch it on my own.”

High anticipation of a show often encourages appointment viewing. When conducting a diagnostic sur-vey of the students in her TV and American Culture class, Petersen found that this was the case with “Lost.”

“I was actually really surprised when people took this diagnos-tic—I would say that the thing that most students have said that they’ve watched all of and are dedicated viewers of, and even appointment view and plan to appointment view, is ‘Lost,’” she said.

Sophomore Kyla Flaten agrees. For her, the appeal of the show lies as much in the discussion of it as it does in the viewing.

“‘Lost’ is the best night of the week,” she said. “Half the fun of ‘Lost’ is watching it with your friends. You need to talk about it with other peo-ple in order to fully understand its ridiculousness.”

Internet TV sites expand

audiences, foster new addictionsby AMI TIAN Staff Reporter

First-year Andrew Hawkins watches an episode of 30 Rock on the Web site Hulu, which allows users to legally

watch streaming videos uploaded by major television networks such as NBC, Fox and ABC.

BULLION

Despite new efforts to reach out to Whitman students, such as adver-tising on Whitman’s campus and in-cluding a Whitman professor on this year’s line-up of speakers, the Walla Walla Public Library’s 14-year-old “Booked for Winter” series drew only a handful of young people, and no Whitman students to its first event, held Thursday, Jan. 21.

“I think the audience was fairly representative of what we usually get at the library,” said Alexis Ro-degerdts, the library’s public service specialist, who helped to organize the series for the first time this year. “There were a lot of older, probably retired people, who maybe have more leisure time to spend at the library, attending events in the eve-ning. I know students are often re-ally busy with school and events on campus, so maybe that’s part of the reason. But it would be really nice to get more young people, and es-pecially Whitman students to these events.”

“‘Booked for Winter’ is an adult reading program designed to mir-ror what we do in the summer for kids,” explained Martha Van Pelt, the library’s director. “The whole idea is to have adults rediscover the pleasure of reading.”

At the first of four events in this year’s series, Walla Walla Commu-nity College English Instructor Brad LaFran read from and presented on "About Love and Other Stories," a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov.

“A lot of young people are very busy, of course, but I’d like to see

more of them here,” he said about the poor turnout among Whitman students.

“I don’t know how the library could have gotten the word out any better than they already did. I know, for example, that they sent out a no-tice on the Whitman network. I also had the opportunity to invite my stu-dents at the community college, but I did tell them that there wouldn’t be any extra credit or anything, so maybe that’s why they didn’t come,” LaFran said with a laugh.

“At a typical event, a majority of the audience is probably 30 and up,” said Van Pelt. “It’s usually an older group of people, although some-times there are a handful of college-aged students.”

But while recognizing the dif-ficulty in attracting Whitman stu-dents to events such as the “Booked for Winter” series, she is happy to see that they are frequently making use of the library itself.

“I think a lot of Whitman students are coming in here to the library these days,” she said. “Whitman has a fabulous library, but it doesn’t

have a lot of things that we offer; it doesn’t have the magazines you want, it doesn’t have the DVDs you want, and it often doesn’t have the fiction you want. We’re really more of a pop culture library, and that’s not really what Whitman does—they’re really more academic.”

Perhaps because of this increased usage, both she and Rodegerdts re-main optimistic about the series’ potential to attract Whitman stu-dents in the future.

“Hopefully as the series goes on this year, we’ll see more people showing up,” said Rodegerdts. “I think the first one is always tough. I’m particularly excited for the next event, which is going to be with a Walla Walla Community College Pastry Chef, Greg Schnorr.”

Schnorr will speak Thursday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. on Isabel Al-lende’s "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses"—a “journal of food experi-ences” as he writes in his preview of the event.

For more information on the se-ries, visit www.wallawallapublicli-brary.org.

The next Booked for Winter event will be a reading by Walla Walla Com-

munity College Pastry Chef Greg Schnorr and will take place Thursday,

Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. The following event will be Mar. 25 at 7 p.m. Whitman

Assistant Professor of Art History Matt Reynolds will present on “Still Life

with Oysters and Lemon” by Mark Doty.

Library program makes new effort to attract Whitman students

by CONNOR GUYA&E Editor

Each !ursday, !e Pioneer high-lights three events happening on campus or in Walla Walla over the weekend. Here are this week’s picks: Da! Punk v. Lady GaGa: Friday Night DanceIn honor of national Lady GaGa day, a Facebook event that is nearing 100,000 con"rmed guests, Whitman Events Board has enlisted the help of DJ duo !e Indestructible Space Hamsters to mix a set that they call “a sick infusion of Lady Gaga and Da# Punk.” !ough the WEB par-ty’s Facebook event has a mere 200 con"rmed guests, with another 200 “maybe attending,” the dance is sure to bring enough guests to pack the con"nes of Reid’s basement. Friday, Jan. 29, 9-11 p.m. Free. Fridays at Four: "e Matt Bachmann SextetTalented Whitman jazz students come together under bassist Matt Bachmann’s leadership for this con-cert as part of the regular “Fridays at Four” recital series. Other group members include sophomores Peter Qualtere-Burcher and Sam Epstein on saxophone, junior Charlie Procknow on guitar, "rst-year Ethan Maier on piano and senior James Franz on drums. Friday, Jan. 29, at 4 p.m. in Hunter Conservatory’s Kim-ball !eater. Free. Joanna Swan’s Art at Walla Walla RoasterySenior studio art major Joanna Swan’s art will be on display at the Walla Walla Roastery, near the air-port. She concentrates in painting, and according to her blog, she is a classically trained pianist, and "nds that music in$uences her painting. A reception will be held Friday, Jan. 29, 3-5 p.m. 290 A Street. Free.

Steve Miller Art ReceptionArtist Steve Miller, who attended and graduated from Walla Walla Univer-sity (then Walla Walla College) in 2001, and has taught there intermit-tently in recent years, will show his paintings and ceramic works from Jan. 29 through Mar. 26 in Memo-rial Building. He has shown his art in galleries throughout the Walla Walla and Yakima valleys. And Opening reception will be held Friday, Jan. 29, at 4 p.m. Memorial Building, 3rd "oor. Free.

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January 28, 2010 A&E 5

Teen Dream is Beach House's best al-bum. There is no question about this; the Baltimore duo's first album for Seattle's superindie label, Sub Pop, sees the band finally shake all of its inappropriately tacked-on points of reference, like Galaxie 500 and Mazzy Star, and become an entity that is wholly and uniquely its own, with its strongest, most accomplished and grandest songs yet.

Unlike its predecessor Devotion, which sounded like a refinement of the band's self-titled debut, Teen Dream's songs retain the band's sig-nature instrumental palette of organ-guitar-voice, but they rarely ever sound narcotized or subdued. This is obvious from the opening minute of the first track "Zebra," where for the first time in the band's history their drum sounds are actually pushing the song forward, rather than merely decorating it. Alex Scally's guitar lead no longer sounds like the product of early-morning experimentation, and Victoria Legrand's voice sounds more confident and nowhere near as hazy as it once did. The song builds to a huge chorus and ends with the sound of a crash cymbal and a riff strik-ingly similar to the one at the heart of Weezer's "No Other One." "Nor-way" is dominated by these drums and Legrand's breathy backup vocals, which become addictive through their insistence. "Lover Of Mine" is practically '80s dance-pop stripped of all of the clichés of 2000s approaches to '80s dance-pop. This leaves it more reminiscent of David Lynch and An-gelo Badalamenti's songs for "Twin Peaks" and Blue Velvet, soundtrack-ing some sort of intense and deeply warped teenage love. There are mo-ments that still make them sound like a girl group on downers (consider "Walk in the Park" and "Silver Soul," the moments closest to treading wa-ter, saved predominantly by melodic strength), but these new songs are almost never formulaic, and this is a very good thing.

If there's an easy way to demon-strate the band's growth over the course of a year, it's likely "Used To Be," a rerecorded version that comes halfway through the album. It was originally released as a single on the band's old label, Carpark, with a much sparser arrangement and with-out the coda. Its sleepiness has been replaced with driving rhythms, cre-scendos and Legrand's vocals, which are far less uniform in delivery than they ever were before. There's also "10 Mile Stereo," the loudest, most insistent and quite possibly strongest song the band has delivered to date. It opens to picked guitar, but a wall of subdued noise and organ chords compete directly with Legrand's voice, which is ultimately overtaken by organ and insistent, driving drum machines pushing it further and fur-ther away from the conventions of their sound. When she sings "they say we will go far, but they don't know how far we'll go," it's hard not to see her speaking directly about her band, which has proven just how much po-tential it has.

In almost every way, Teen Dream makes good on its ambitions. It's the most intense, most affecting record of the band's career, the first good pop record of 2010 and proof that Beach House doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the bands they are so frequently compared to. Unlike Galaxie 500 and Mazzy Star, Beach House is making progress, and that's something worth celebrating.

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MUSIC REVIEW

by ANDREW HALL Music Reviewer

Love it or hate it, "Avatar," James Cam-eron's latest venture into exorbitant-budget cinema, is a bad movie. Let me explain: "Avatar" is, at best, half a movie. !e 3D visuals are as breathtak-ing as the plot is insipid. Most of you, by now, either plan to see it or shun it. However, if you plan on waiting for the DVD release of "Avatar," don't waste your time (unless you plan on purchas-ing one of those $2,000 3D TVs set for release this spring). Watching it in 3D is the only way you will get anything out of it. Which gets me back to my initial point: "Avatar" is a bad movie.

To give credit where credit is due, Cameron wrote the screenplay for the "lm (i.e. the ideas behind the movie are his and his alone), which is some-thing most of his fellow American and so-called 'Oscar worthy' directors like David Fincher ("Fight Club," "Zodiac" or "!e Curious Case of Benjamin But-ton") can't say about their own "lms. Cameron's "lms, however, have rarely enjoyed good screenplays and "Avatar" may be his worst yet.

Let's start with the obvious: the char-acters. !e meat of Cameron's previous stories have been the characters, but in "Avatar" they provide merely a back-drop for layers upon layers of allegory. My fellow cine"le, Whitman sopho-more Alex Pearson, reminded me that even in "Titanic," a "lm I loathe to this day, Cameron made Kate Winslet's character interesting enough to root for and, halfway in, you are struck by the fact that the entire story is unique-ly driven by a non-stereotyped female character—feats that, lamentably, most movies fail to achieve. Conversely, "Av-atar" is recklessly carried by a growling colonel (Stephen Lang), an uninspiring

hero (Sam Worthington) and "Na'vi For Dummies" manual (Zoe Saldana): three items I would not take to a for-eign world like Pandora.

Next, we have the never-ending en-nui (what others call the "lm's plot). Unlike his better "lms, namely "Termi-nator" and "Aliens," Cameron heaves the plot of "Avatar" into the Pandora (allegory: Iraq) rain forest exceptional-ly prematurely. All we are told is that a corporation that employs marines (al-legory: Blackwater) seeks to exploit the reserves of a valuable mineral called unobtanium (allegory: oil) before we endure an hour-and-30-minute-long encyclopedic explanation of our hero's interactions with all the mundane ele-ments of that world.

What the "rst half of the movie un-fortunately demonstrates is how the impossible can not only become pos-sible, but boring, when introduced in large quantities. Furthermore, stories of encounters (take note "rst-years!) are recycled without nuance by each generation: As a recent post on the ever-wonderful FAIL Blog points out, the plot of "Avatar" is eerily familiar to that of Disney's "Pocahontas" so as to almost constitute plagiarism.

It's unfortunate that Cameron chose to marry pathetic plot devices (and a terrible narrative) to beautiful visuals that nearly forced me to over-come my acrophobia. What's more

remarkable is the way "Avatar" uses 3D to accentuate depth instead of the proximity of objects to one's head. Most 3D movies, until now, find hu-mor in throwing objects or sticking things out of the picture at the audi-ence: Even Henry Selick's gorgeous adaptation of "Coraline," arguably the film that most effectively used 3D un-til "Avatar," hinged on things popping out at its audience.

Fundamentally, a "lm consists of

two elements: an audio-visual one and a narrative one. "Avatar" only has a good audio-visual component and that is why it is a bad movie. A half-movie is not a good movie at all. Like "Titanic," "Avatar" is not even a mediocre movie because it lacks the half that gives it any purpose, emotion or drive. But also, like "Titanic," it is one that will force future cinematographers to reconsider the ways in which they employ techno-logical advances in their "lms.

Heavy-handed allegories, pathetic plot

hinder Cameron’s blockbuster ‘Avatar’by BECQER MEDAK-SEGUINMovie Reviewer

MOVIE REVIEW

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When Rolling Stone proclaimed Adam Lambert “The Wild Idol” six months ago, the “American Idol” runner-up had a lot to live up to. Since then, he has continued to earn the name, throughout the sum-mer Idols Tour and with the Nov. 23 release of his new album, For Your Entertainment.

This album fuses old school glam rock with futuristic electronica. It’s packed with pop anthems from a wide spectrum of the industry’s top producers. The influences on each song are all over the place—from track to track Lambert’s voice chameleons freely between his own signature acrobatics and stylings of everyone from Freddie Mercury to Lady Gaga.Confusing but interesting, this medley comes from a vast array of collaborators. One almost wonders if Lambert has given too much cre-ative control to his famous produc-ers and composers. Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy’s work comes through clearly in the frenetic rock orchestrals of “Soaked.” Lady Gaga’s

unmistakable sound is stamped all over “Fever”—the track bears her style of idiosyncratic lyrics and stutters, as well as her conta-

gious, electronic dance beats. Wee-zer’s Rivers Cuomo also leaves his mark on the quirky synth-rock of “Pick U Up.” But despite the range of sounds, Adam’s flamboyant per-sonality still manages to dominate the album, in every defiant, exuber-ant lyric and soaring vocalization.

However, the multitude of power producers on this album—from hit-maker Max Martin, to Kara Dio-guardi on “Strut” and three of Tokio

Hotel’s long-time collaborative pro-ducers along with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder on “Master Plan”—might prove problematic should Lambert ever decide to try for a cohesive concept album. Hopefully, his future releases will evolve along with a more consistent creative team.

The main strength of the album is its overwhelming catchiness—the title track “For Your Entertainment” attaches itself to your mind at first listen. With kinky handcuffs. Of course, there are a few misses. “Time for Miracles” falls rather flatly in the bland realm of ultra soft rock, while “Music Again” is way over

the top without much synthesis. They are redeemed by the enchant-ingly hypnotic “Broken Open” and the album’s two strongest tracks, “Sleepwalker” and “Aftermath.” The former is edgier, with addictive, heavily harmonied choruses, while the latter shines in the pure strength of its pop-rock anthem sound. Its emotional message is directed es-pecially to young people struggling with their identity, sexual or other-wise. Subtle female backup vocals in the mid-track enhance its sweet poignancy.

The album has already had a transformative impact on American pop culture. For Your Entertainment sold 198,000 copies in its first week, leaving Idol winner Kris Allen’s al-bum in the dust at 80,000. Lambert has since embarked on a whirlwind of promotion and has continued to be fearlessly open about his sexual-ity, cheerfully discussing his celeb-rity crush on Tokio Hotel frontman Bill Kaulitz, flirting with male fans on Twitter and instigating a nation-al media scandal with his brashly sexual performance at the Ameri-can Music Awards.

Adam Lambert is definitely here for our entertainment.

‘For Your Entertainment’

modernizes glam rock

by CAITLIN HARDEEStaff Reporter

MUSIC REVIEW

Das Weiße Band (!e White Ribbon) – Dir. Michael HanekeHaneke has upped his own ante (which was already set at an astronomical level following his 2005 tour-de-force "Ca-ché") this year with a #awlessly com-posed, black-and-white, pre-World War I anecdote that ambitiously stud-ies Germany's past and, within it, the origins of the the most devastating evil of the 20th century the world has come to know.

Goodbye Solo – Dir. Ramin BahraniFor such a small picture, "Goodbye Solo" reverberates stronger than that 3,000-pipe custom-build organ inside Cordin-er: each scene is so carefully intertwined with the next and each performance is so audaciously a$ecting that the "lm's "nal frames (which masterfully sum up the "lm itself) reveal the uncanny nature of what most take for granted in our every-day lives.

Where the Wild !ings Are – Dir. Spike JonzeNo "lm I can think of in my encyclope-dic knowledge of cinema better captures a glimpse of the emotionally tumultu-ous, unintelligibly complex journey of childhood than Spike Jonze's beautiful adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic. Period.

La mujer sin cabeza (!e Headless Woman) – Dir. Lucrecia MartelA quotidian drama that delves into the psychological underpinnings of the bourgeoisie, Martel, the Wonder Woman social critic from Argentina, artfully de-livers horror without the blood, confu-sion without the chaos, and conversation without the words in a "lm that should be required viewing for James Cameron and his fellow directors who have yet to take Screenwriting 101.

Gomorra (Gomorrah) – Dir. Matteo GarroneForget the glori"ed ma"a of the "!e Sopranos" and "!e Godfather"; Gar-rone's neorealist "lm "Gomorrah" al-lows you to appreciate the "ne line be-tween life and death as its characters incessantly tread it, "nally giving each word, each movement, and each hesita-tion the importance it deserves in the lethal, temporal chaos we've come to know as the world of organized crime.

In the Loop – Dir. Armando IannucciHands down the best comedy I've seen in the past "ve years. !ere is something to be said about the e%cacy, accuracy, and poignancy of satire when it works on both the level of entertainment and the level of intelligent criticism; "In the Loop" exquisitely exposes the fatuity of those formerly sacrosanct individuals whose power was taken for granted at the mercy of many lives by presenting scenes that could pass for a verbatim re-cord of what happened in, say, 2003.

Tulpan – Dir. Sergey DvortsevoyLove knows no boundaries, though, this year, you'll have to go as far as Kazakh-stan to "nd a worthy "lm that evokes that same feeling; emotive force, artistic inquiry, and visual beauty have not been so gracefully combined in "lm since the days of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Le silence de Lorna (Lorna’s Silence) – Dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne!e neorealist Coen brothers of Belgium, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne com-mand attention with every new feature they release: !is one, "Lorna's Silence," is so subtly imaginative that it's super-lative combination of border con#ict, marriage convenience, and murder looks and feels next-door-normal, a lo&y task few directors are capable of cinematically realizing.

!e Hurt Locker – Dir. Kathryn Big-elowI may have to give up on even watching the Oscars if this "lm somehow doesn't win Best Motion Picture and Kathryn Bigelow somehow doesn't win Best Di-rector; she has taken the most di%cult topic in American "lm (!e Iraq War) and produced a memorable and unfor-giving landscape that manipulates the characters like pieces on a chessboard. Who knew a "lm could give its setting such unconditional agency.

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire – Dir. Lee DanielsIf you want to see but one "lm that will undoubtedly move you, see Lee Daniels's "Precious": no frills, no pretension, no cheap laughs, no special e$ects, no glo-ry, no wasted words, no unintelligence, no happy endings, no bullshit; rather, a careful, singular story that treats its char-acters like the human beings they are.

Top 10 films of 2009

Adam Lambert is definitely here for our entertainment.

Pioneer Movie Reviewer Bécquer Medak-Seguín

picks his favorite 2009 films. For more of his re-

views, and his top 20 films of the decade see his blog, Reel Analysis, at whitmanpioneer.com/blogs/reel-analysis

It’s unfortunate that Cameron chose to mar-ry pathetic plot devices (and a terrible narrative) to beautiful visuals.

6 A&E January 28, 2010

Opinion“Critical Junctures,” the first of the 2010 exhibitions in the Donald Shee-han Gallery, features a genre unusual to the space. Sculpture and installa-tion art pieces by Eileen Doktorski were unveiled at an opening recep-tion on Friday, Jan. 22, and will re-main there until the exhibit closes on Feb. 19. Dawn Forbes, Sheehan Gallery director, pointed out that Doktorski is one of only a few instal-lation artists ever to have had work showcased there.

“We do installations, but not as regularly as I like, in part because they take a tremendous amount of work and space,” Forbes said. “We haven’t had an exhibition like this in quite some time.”

Doktorski, who received her bach-elor’s degree from Parsons School of Design and her master’s from Yale, served as a visiting assistant profes-sor at Whitman about eight years ago and is currently head of the art department at San Jacinto College in Southern California. She has had more than 15 solo exhibitions over the last several years and has achieved a number of awards and honors.

Forbes worked to bring in this par-ticular exhibition, but they are gen-erally decided upon by a selection committee, and come from a variety of sources.

The gallery currently showcases three of Doktorski’s pieces: “Obliv-ion,” “Domestic Arsenal” and “Arti-facts of Affluence.” Doktorski self-identifies as a social-political artist and said that the pieces currently on display reflect a number of social and political themes. “Oblivion” and “The Artifacts of Affluence” speak to ecological and environmental issues, she said, while “Domestic Arsenal” addresses the trauma of family and domestic abuse.

“Artifacts of Affluence” features brightly lit, bronzed casts of items that one might find in a landfill rang-ing from discarded bicycle tires to the head and organs of a calf.

“I found the juxtaposition between the well-defined, easily identifiable objects, such as a book or lipstick and the surrounding rubble to be very visually pleasing,” said sopho-more Emma O’Rourke Powell.

A number of visitors to the gallery found “Domestic Arsenal” particu-larly provocative; the piece is a me-morial to victims of family violence, according to Doktorski. “Domestic

Arsenal” is displayed in a smaller room within the gallery and in or-der to see it the viewer must enter

the room. The piece is comprised of a mountain of household items and was inspired by the mounds of personal belongings Doktorski saw when she visited the Auschwitz mu-seum in Poland.

According to Doktorski, most of the items used in this piece are cast

and Raku-fired, giving them an iri-descent glow which lures the viewer into the room. The iridescence is not only mimics the after-effects of a fire, she said, but also represents the resil-ience of the human spirit.

“If this were just totally flat black it would look very dead,” Doktorski said, “But it’s not dead. People have been through incredible trauma and they’re still survivors.”

Also among the items cast are chil-dren’s toys, objects such as hockey sticks and shoes and the six weapon pieces from the game “Clue.” Dok-torski researched cases of family vio-lence in which household items had been used to injure or kill another person and put those items into the piece.

“I’m hoping [this piece] has a re-sidual effect of people understanding the horror of what it must be to live in a home where you were afraid of the objects,” she said.

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by KARL WALLULISPuzzlemaster

Matt Coleman ‘12 inspects “Oblivion,” one of Doktorski’s three installa-

tion pieces currently on display in the Sheehan Gallery. The others include

“Domestic Arsenal” and “Artifacts of Affluence.”

‘Critical Junctures’ brings

installation art to Sheehan Gallery

VON HAFFTEN

by MEHERA NORIStaff Reporter

!e outstanding quality of submissions to last year's "blue moon," volume 22, recently secured the magazine a major distinction when, in late December, it won the Columbia Scholastic Press As-sociation's Gold Medal award, and ad-vanced as a "nalist with approximately 15 other publications in the running for CSPA's prestigious Gold Crown. !e magazine's editors stressed that the suc-cess of the volume came primarily from the excellence in and number of submis-sions, which were due one year ago this Sunday, Jan. 31.

Junior and co-editor of last year's vol-ume Jenna Mukuno was #attered by the honor, but not entirely surprised, explain-ing the di$erent factors that combined to make volume 22 particularly strong.

“I would say that the greatest strengths of issue 22 were our sense of restraint and our innovation with the new DVD insert,” said Mukuno in an e-mail. “!is past year, we found that the sta$ was . . . more se-lective with what went into the magazine. !e DVD insert was also a major accom-plishment. Both Glory [Bushey, junior and volume 22 co-editor] and I were quite clueless about the process of making a DVD, and we had to be pretty fearless about taking it on.”

Current co-editor senior Jane Collins agreed that the DVD insert was key to success.

“I believe the de"ning aspect of volume 22 was the addition of the [DVD] that in-cluded new digital media art created by Whitman students," she said. "!is inno-vative attitude is something that [co-editor senior Marcy Manker] and I are hoping to continue with the publication of issue 23.”

“!is is the second time in three years that we’ve been Gold Crown "nalists,” said Manker. “It’s yet to be seen if we’re going to get Gold or Silver Crown this time around, but it’s still a pretty big ac-complishment to be a "nalist. Out of the 1,500 high school and college publications that they accept, there’s something like 15 college magazines that get Gold Crown "nalist.”

Mukuno, who oversaw last year’s lengthy selection and compilation process provided some insight as to how the pro-cess works.

“Each submission pool, whether art, prose, poetry or new media, is so varied from one another that it's always interest-ing to see how the "nal product comes together as a cohesive magazine,” said Mukuno. “I think it's partly how our sta$

selected the pieces, but also how, for ex-ample, a piece of visual art interacts with a poem on the opposing page. At times, we had control over those sources of ten-sion, but other times it's completely out of our control how two works converse on the page. !ere are also strict param-eters within layout that sometimes force us to alter our initial decision to have the order of submissions a particular way. All sorts of factors can con"ne ‘what the sta$ wants.’”

Assistant Professor of English and “blue moon” advisor Scott Elliott credits the nomination to Whitman’s liberal arts culture as well as the oversight and editing of the magazine's sta$.

“On the basis of this award, [the CSPA] invited me to their conference to speak about advising literary magazines. !eir assumption is that, because we’ve been successful for so many years. . . ” Elliott said, shrugging self-deprecatingly. “But I think the success of ‘blue moon’ comes from the atmosphere on campus, and from the talent of the students coming here. It’s not [me] at all. I think we do real-ly well because of the healthy culture that’s been established. !e fact that we are, year a%er year, in the running, says a lot about the quality of the literary and visual arts here on campus.”

Both Manker and Mukuno spoke hopefully of volume 22’s chances at the Gold Crown, but emphasized the honor of nomination and multi-year recogni-tion by the Columbia Scholastic Press As-sociation.

“It’s national recognition and our name is on the Columbia Scholastic Press As-sociation with only [15] other names as "nalists—I think maybe the school would want to give us more money for getting our name out there and getting recog-nized consistently,” Manker said with a laugh. “But the school has never actually [told us], ‘Good job! Here’s more money.’”

Mukuno concluded with her hopes for widespread campus submissions to the next volume, which are due Sunday, Jan. 31.

“What's great about ‘blue moon’ is that each year a new sta$ comes together and collaborates on a new issue. For all the advice I was given before I was co-editor, sometimes there's absolutely no way of predicting how things will go,” said Mu-kuno. “!is year's sta$ has a di$erent vibe than last year's sta$, and I can already tell that next issue will be di$erent from the last. As far as students working on future submissions, I'd say be fearless and sub-mit to the magazine. Submit! Submit! Submit!”

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If this were just totally flat black it would look very dead. But it’s not dead. People have been through incredible trauma and they’re still survivors.

Eileen Doktorski

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JAN. 28, 2010

Page 7Opinion

BLAIR HAN-LEY FRANK

Columnist

Over winter break, I spent a lot of time play-ing video games, which led me to think about all the important life lessons I’ve acquired from my time spent in front of a screen. So, I compiled a list of helpful tips that I’ve culled

from my years of gaming experience:

1. Watch your backThis one’s pretty simple, but it’s so

important that I figured it warranted its own heading. Enemies will always appear where you least expected them: behind you in a dead-end hallway, in the corner of the room you didn’t check and just about anywhere else you didn’t look. Keep your head on a swivel, and make sure that you watch out.

2. Giant corporations are badThis always seems to be a recurring

theme in video games: The corpora-tion that’s out there to save the world and help humanity ends up unleash-ing some evil that you’re brought in to clean up. Generally, this involves some sort of super-soldier or mind control device that goes horribly wrong. (See also: “T-Virus.”)

3. Fog never helps anythingIn the real world, fog can lead to car

crashes, boat accidents and a general inability to see where you’re going. In the world of video games, fog is much more insidious. It can be used to hide hordes of zombies, carry poison or

form hideous monsters.Corollary: If you come to a small,

deserted town shrouded in fog, run—or better yet, drive—in the opposite direction as quickly as humanly pos-sible. (See also: “Silent Hill.”)

4. The zombie apocalypse (more col-loquially, the “zombpocalypse”) is right around the corner at all times

Undead hordes are always nearby, scratching at the door of reality, waiting to burst in and wreak total havoc on our poor, sheltered lives. At any moment, a tor-rent of brain-consuming husks of former humans could be upon us. So, don’t forget to plan ahead. One or many well-thought-out zombie plans could be the di!erence between life and undeath for you.

5. If your science experiment could possibly open an interdimensional rift, DON’T DO IT

Seriously, has anything good ever come out of an interdimensional portal? Especially if that rift goes to some “dark” version of this planet (or another one for that matter), portals to another dimension never help the situation. To all you science majors: If you ever have an experiment where there is a chance to open a rift to an-other dimension, first ask yourself, “Am I prepared to have the destruc-tion and/or complete enslavement of the majority of humanity on my hands?” (See also: “Resonance Cas-cade.”)

6. Conserve ammunitionFacing down multitudes of enemies

is hard, but doing it with limited sup-plies is harder. Hardest of all is when you’re out of firepower. While it may be fun to empty a few magazines of bullets into a room of baddies, you won’t be enjoying things too much when you’re out of bullets a few rooms later. Bullets don’t grow on trees, so make sure you do the most with what you have.

So, there you have it. Six important life lessons from the land of gaming. I hope they serve you well. If you have useful tidbits from your gaming career (extensive or otherwise, leave a com-ment at www.whitmanpioneer.com).

Everything I ever needed to

know I learned from video games

SLOANE

Dec. 18, 2009, will be remembered as a failure of the in-ternational system. Fi"een years of ne-gotiations, 22 years of research with 97 percent of clima-tologists convinced that humans are causing the climate to change, the larg-

est day of political action in history calling for climate action, 117 heads of state in attendance—none of this prevented the re-cent climate negotiations in Copenhagen from being a total and complete failure.

As a U.S. youth delegate, I watched the tone of the negotiations change from cheesily optimistic predictions of “Hopen-hagen” to a grim acknowledgment of the deep divisions between the negotiators, turning Hopenhagen into “Nopenhagen.” While it’s fun to invent catchy nicknames for Denmark’s capital, it was far less enjoy-able to watch the high-level negotiations of 192 countries deteriorate into a scene more be#tting of a elementary school playground with rampant accusations of “China did it” or “It’s the United States’ fault.”

Signs of the impending failure began early in the #rst week. Tuvalu, a small is-land nation four inches above sea level, caused an upheaval by proposing a new process under the Kyoto Protocol for in-creased transparency and reducing control of rich countries. Many smaller developing nations rallied around Tuvalu’s move while countries like China were against it, say-ing “we don’t have time for a new debate.” Finally, Tuvalu used its power to suspend the high-level negotiations, although nu-merous side negotiations continued to run simultaneously.

Shortly therea"er, the Association of Small Island States announced that they refused to accept the “suicide pact” of the current negotiations and instead wanted to limit emissions to 350 parts per million of CO2 as a “survival pact.” $is would mean heavy emissions reductions since the

world is well over 387 parts per million. A business as usual scenario would put us at 800 parts per million, a scenario scientists say would almost certainly devastate civi-lization.

$e divide between the rich and poor countries continued to worsen over the second week when delegates of the de-veloping countries (known as the G77) walked out of the negotiations, claim-ing that the rich countries are working to weaken the agreement.

$e United States remained silent throughout the protests, failing to respond to a claim by Tuvalu’s negotiator that the entire international negotiating process “is being held up by a handful of United States senators.” As I wrote in a previous column, the U.S. negotiators openly admitted that they are incredibly limited by what the sen-ate will accept.

On Wednesday of the second week, all 15,000 members of civil society were kicked out of the conference center as world leaders began to arrive. Our youth delegation moved to a separate space where we worked with members of the Kenyan youth delegation and White House sta!ers to present President Obama with a packet of letters from youth in his Midwestern homeland and his ancestral land of Kenya.

Meanwhile, inside the conference cen-ter, negotiators began to scramble for agreement, continuing the negotiations well into the night with the goal of having a text ready for the leaders of the world to sign. $e sleepless nights failed to induce compromise and world leaders were ush-ered into the conference with grim faces and sleeves rolled. $en things really got dirty.

President Obama arrived on the #nal day of negotiations. Sensing failure—and the mockery Republicans would make of a second disaster in the Danish capital—Obama immediately cleared his schedule. Circumventing the international system, our President focused on meeting with a handful of the major players.

Obama largely focused on China, push-ing transparency—the willingness of Chi-

na to submit itself to an international re-gime that would monitor it to make sure it was cutting its emissions as promised. $e Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, said that such a measure would threaten Chi-na’s sovereignty. When Obama said that China’s stance on accountability would equate to “empty words on the page,” Jia-bao walked out of the conference center.

Later, in an emergency meeting of 30 heads of state, China sent a lowly proto-col o%cer as a snub to Obama. President Obama then walked in—uninvited—to a meeting of China, Brazil, India and South Africa.

$e #nal text emerged shortly before midnight. $e two and a half page political agreement—known as the Copenhagen Accord—is vaguely worded, not legally binding and leaves emissions targets and #nancing up to individual countries who are supposed to write numbers in an ap-pendix.

Even such a weak document proved near impossible for the entire body to ac-cept, with chief British negotiator Ed Mili-band returning to the conference center at 4 a.m. to persuade a handful of countries to accept the accord. Eventually, all 192 countries agreed to “note” the accord—not “accept” but “note.”

Copenhagen illustrated all too clear-ly that the international system is not equipped to handle a problem like climate change. When countries as small as Tuvalu and as big as China are put together in the small grouping of “developing countries”—and their emissions targets are treated as such—we know that something is wrong. While the Copenhagen Accord was the #rst time developing countries have agreed on emissions cuts and the #rst time the world has agreed on #nancing, the accord still leaves much to be desired.

“It’s clear we cannot rely on the govern-mental sector on its own to act in time. World leaders are failing to respond with the urgency which the science demands,” said Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the No-bel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “If there was ever a time

Why we failed in Copenhagen

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That illustrious line ended Scott Brown’s victory speech, as he became the 41st Republican in the Senate and likely prevented the proposed health care bill from getting far in its current legislative form.

Apparently comments like that are the kind of macho rabble-rousing that helps one get elected to the most aristocratic bastion of American de-mocracy these days.

Our distinguished gentleman sen-ator from Massachusetts also posed nude for “Cosmo” in 1982 and appar-ently wouldn’t mind if his college-aged daughters did the same since he advertised them as “available” in another painfully awkward moment of his victory speech.

Not exactly what the Moral Major-ity had in mind this time.

Yet however much we might ques-tion Brown’s personal and rhetorical refinement, surely he is a better alter-native to the hand-picked, reluctant-to-campaign Democratic shoe-in Martha Coakley.

Perhaps populism is simply in the air. Brown may very well have been elected on the pure genius of one comment in response to David Ger-

gen’s question during a debate ask-ing if Brown was willing to sit in Ted Kennedy’s seat and block the Demo-crats’ health care bill. Brown now fa-mously—or infamously—responded, “Well, with all due respect, it’s not the Kennedys’ seat and it’s not the Demo-crats’ seat; it’s the people’s seat . . .”

And indeed it is. There has been much pandering among the talking-heads and spin-artists about the meaning of Scott Brown, all tangled up with discussions of surging popu-lism on Left and Right, Progressive condemnation of Senate procedures as anti-democratic, the Democrat’s notoriously ill-strategized campaigns . . . it goes on and on.

But what this spin-doctor saw in the Brown election was a ringing en-dorsement of the inherent conserva-tism of the American people. It’s not the conservatism of Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or any other peddler of sound-bites and half-truths, but the conservatism of Madison and the founding fathers.

The Senate is not meant to be the place where “bills go to die,” but it is meant to temper the impetuousness of our democracy to pass sweeping legislation as soon as a majority can be assembled.

Re: Health care bill.The American people recognize

that the best kind of government is a deliberative one, not one that des-perately clutches at radical change.

The American people recognize that government controlled by one party is antithetical to sound public poli-cy. They realized this in 1994 when they elected a Republican congress to offset President Clinton and in 2006 when they elected a Democratic con-gress to offset Presi-dent Bush.

The American people are quickly realizing again, and predictably, that they are better off tempering Obama’s “change” with a Republican congress. Not because they are Republicans or even like Re-publicans, but because their instincts tell them not to trust any single group with too much power.

Americans, like all good conser-vatives, are fearful of the concen-tration of power. On the Right they express this in the fear of a large federal government. On the Left they express this in the fear of large multi-national corporations.

What is clear to me is that one party and one man have too much power in our na-tion and Scott Brown was in the right place at the right time to change that, at least until we can really institute some checks and balances in the 2012 mid-term elections.

DOUGLAS

ALEXPOTTER

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I’m Scott Brown... I drive a truck

The images pouring from e a r t h q u a k e -devastated Haiti onto the Inter-net and televi-sion are heart wrenching. The nightly news shows New York City firefighters crawling over downed build-ings in search of survivors,

crowds of survivors clambering for food and water or U.S. soldiers carry-ing injured children into helicopters for treatment.

U.S. troops have been instrumental in providing aid to countless injured and newly homeless Haitians. But a few Latin American leaders are up-set that the American military, with 16,000 troops now in Haiti, has taken such a prominent role in the relief ef-fort. Bolivian President Evo Morales declared last week that the United States “cannot use a natural disaster to occupy Haiti.”

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez repeated Morales’ accusation in stronger terms, accusing “the grin-gos” of “militarily occupying Haiti.”

Other voices have joined left-leaning Latin American leaders in

criticizing the U.S. military presence in Haiti. A recent column in The Guardian accused the United States of prioritizing security over more urgent needs like drinking water, shelter and food. The column also indicted the United States for driv-ing Haitian rice farmers into poverty by exporting vast quantities of sub-sidized American rice. In short, the author diagnosed Washington with a fear of Haitian self-government cur-able only by occupation.

So are Morales, Chavez and Brit-ish opinion columnists simply taking potshots at the big, bad American military? Or do they have a point?

Morales and Chavez have been too quick to criticize the U.S. response, which is rooted in compassion and has saved thousands of lives. Un-fortunately, some of their criticisms strike home.

When Navy helicopters disgorged U.S. Marines onto the lawn of the de-stroyed Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince last week, it was not the first time they stood guard there. The United States occupied Haiti from 1915 until 1934, and Washington supported a brutal dictatorship that ruled Haiti until 1986.

The United States was poised to invade Haiti again in 1994 to depose a military government. Troops were already in the air when Jimmy Carter

and Colin Powell secured an 11th hour agreement with the Haitian government to allow them to land peacefully.

In 2004, another military coup overthrew the Haitian government, forcing President Jean-Bertrande Aristide into exile in South Africa. The Haitian government accused the United States, along with Canada and France, of masterminding the rebel-lion. Aristide accused the U.S. mili-tary of forcing him onto an American plane and flying him to the Central African Republic.

With such a dramatic history, it’s easy to see how some observers are wary of a U.S. presence in Haiti. But by acting carefully, the Obama ad-ministration can keep those senti-ments from spreading.

The U.S. military should focus on providing essential aid such as wa-ter, food, shelter and medical care. The U.S. military can provide these urgently-needed supplies better than any other agency.

The U.N. peacekeeping force, and not American soldiers, should be responsible for providing security throughout Haiti. Most importantly, American troops should not remain in Haiti longer than necessary. Given the history of U.S.-Haiti relations, a prolonged U.S. military presence would seem like an occupation.

U.S. military should

step lightly in Haiti

JAMES SLEDD

Columnist

Everyone has a story.

Being me, I talk to myself. A lot. $is is a (slightly embar-rassing) fact. I do it o"en enough that I suspect that someday, some-where, someone will catch me at it in earnest and shoot me a quiz-

zical look, the look that disinterested strangers &ash whenever they encoun-ter something that’s not quite what they expected.

And it’ll be palpably awkward for a second. My face will get red as a brick house, and I’ll say something to the e!ect of “Just, uhh, just talkin’ to my-self.”

And the stranger will smile, thinking they’ve bested me. $ey’ll say some-thing pithy, like “Don’t worry about it,” or “I can see that,” or even “You’re a stupid idiot.” Or maybe they’ll just smile. Whatever happens, they will walk away from that encounter with a feeling of superiority, possibly thinking that I’m mildly insane.

But I’m not crazy. Really. I just talk to myself. I have my reasons, and no mildly embarrassing encounter could ever stop me.

As you can probably tell, I enjoy talking to myself. But the reason I bring all of this up is more complicat-ed: I believe every human being has an interesting story to tell. One aspect of my story revolves around my re&exive, and seemingly pointless discussions with myself.

When I was in third grade, my par-ents had me tested for a learning dis-ability. $e testing occurred because of my tremendous struggle to learn to write by hand, which surprised them because I had learned to read at #ve. I took an IQ test with both a verbal and nonverbal component. And the results, according to the woman who tested me, were eye-opening.

On the verbal portion of the test, I did fantastically. I don’t know the exact score, but my mother later told me it was extremely high. Genius level, even. But the nonverbal portion told a di!er-ent story. I scored more than two stan-dard deviations below what is consid-ered “average.” $at means that without such a high verbal score to compensate, I would be considered developmentally disabled. $e woman who tested me—who spends her waking hours testing kids—said she had never seen a gap in

scores as large as mine.

$e IQ test is a stable test, which means that this isn’t something I could just “get over.” $is was, and is, some-thing with which I have to live. I will always have trouble with little, minus-cule things like tying my shoes, put-ting things into my backpack, build-ing towers with blocks or packing my suitcase.

I learned that I have a learning dis-ability called dysgraphia, a #ne motor issue that wrecks any chance of good or fast handwriting. It is augmented by a non-verbal disability that makes it dif-#cult for me to process visual signals, like body language.

When I try to explain this to my peers, many of them laugh and appear to remain skeptical that these are ac-tual problems.

“Who ever heard of somebody who has trouble tying shoes, anyway?” they say. “Besides, I would’ve never guessed you even had this problem.”

In fairness to my peers, this is a com-pliment (dare I say it?) to my personal genius.

My extremely high verbal score lets me overcome some of the challenges I mentioned, and it explains why I talk to myself the way that I do. I don’t talk to myself because I’m trying to be weird, or because I’m a little crazy. I do it because the instinct to talk (even to myself) is wired into my system.

So, the inevitable time someone catches me speaking when no one else is around, they’ll feel superior. But they’ll know nothing about me,aAbout what my talking to myself says about my character, or about my personal narrative.

But the reverse is also true. When-ever I meet someone, I know nothing about his or her story. In fact, the idea that everyone even has one is not easy to accept. Our individual universes re-volve around ourselves, and we only make strangers a priority when they interact with us. As the late David Fos-ter Wallace said in a brilliant speech to Kenyon College, this is our “default” setting.

But no one’s life means nothing. No one’s life is without a jumbled collec-tion of events that compose a sort of story. We need to recognize and care for all these stories—not just those of our friends or our family, but the sto-ries of acquaintances and strangers too.

I’m not there yet. But I have taken the #rst step: I recognize that a certain odd habit of mine demonstrates an interesting aspect of my personal plot line. And I recognize too that other people’s quirks mean the same thing.

$at’s my story. What’s yours?

A frequent

conversation

(with myself)

WILLIAM WITWERColumnist

O. JOHNSON

8 OPINION January 28, 2010January 28, 2010 OPINION 9

Maybe you haven’t heard, but Google has found a new adver-sary a"er vanquishing Yahoo and M i c r o s o f t : China’s Com-munist Party!

G o o g l e recently an-

nounced (on its o%cial blog no less) that it is threatening to pull out of Chi-na. Its public reason is that it has traced hackers, perhaps operating under the support if not consent of China’s Com-munist Party, attacking its computer systems. $e hackers stole not just mil-itary secrets but the Gmail passwords, e-mails and other personal informa-tion of Chinese human rights activ-ists. Apparently, the computer sys-tems of 32 other companies were compromised as well.

Just last month, China’s govern-ment sentenced prominent democ-racy advocate Liu Xiao Bo to 11 years in jail for “sedition.” Google’s o%cial motto “don’t be evil” has been sorely tested in cooperating with the commu-nist party’s censors on search results.

I tested the censors on China’s most popular search engine, baidu.com. Typing in “Tiananmen massa-cre,” the #rst link is a headline stating “China rights questioned weeks before Olympics.” $e next two are random

links. Only six Web sites come up and none of them have anything to do with what actually happened. Censor-ship is real and a necessary part of the

Chinese Communist Party’s attempt at so-cial control.

It’s too bad we’re missing the bigger

picture. In the U.S. media, China comes up when we talk about out-

sourcing, human rights and our debt.

We owe them hundreds of bil-lions and they make all the stu! w e

buy. We want China to help prevent Iran from getting the bomb and they want us to do what exactly? Continue what we’ve been doing.

Invading Iraq and #ghting a global war on terror (ie. continued U.S. in-volvement in the Middle East) tied down our time, energy and money. Meanwhile, China’s been busy harvest-ing resources in Africa, developing ties to Latin America and Australia and positioning itself as a leader on global

climate change.On the other hand, the small-

ness of our politics means one of the two major

political parties in this country doesn’t believe

or want to mitigate cli-mate change.

My 84-year-old grandmother even told me that Scott Brown, the new Re-publican senator from Massachusetts, once posed naked for “Cosmo.” How

silly. Democracy sure looks great when people abroad hear about how petty it can be. $is pettiness is threatening to become dangerous as it blinds us to what’s going on across the Paci#c.

Well, Google is paying attention. Our foreign policy t h i n k -ers are paying a t -tention. Our politicians are not. Yet, Chi-n a ’ s

rise is not inevitable nor neces-sarily hostile to U.S. interests. It has its own problems that are too o"en ignored by our media.

Last week, I went downtown in Kun-ming, a city of 7 million people, to see the bus-tling shopping centers. Multiple malls seven stories high lined with restaurants and shops &anked an enormous concrete plaza. $ere was everything from an IMAX theater playing “Avatar” to multiple Vero Moda shops. Chinese consumers were

funneling into the Nike Factory Shop from the sidewalk.

And just outside that Nike Factory Shop there lay a man, hairless and sun-burned on the ground. He was miss-ing an arm and was resting his body on newspaper and a page of text writ-ten in Chinese calligraphy. Next to his head lay a paper shopping bag with some Chinese bills that strangers had donated. He was less than 10 feet away

from the steps into the store. For me, this jarring juxtaposition painfully

illustrates the contradictions bubbling beneath China’s pub-

lic image.A population of 1.3 bil-

lion living in an area less than half the size of the United States. A minimal social safety net. Glitter-ing cities on the coast

and persistent abject poverty in the coun-tryside. And don’t get

me started on the pollu-tion.

Yes, China is really complicated. Pay at-

tention. It’s not just about the cuisine

or Yao Ming.

China: Complicated is an understatement

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Before coming to Madrid, I never imagined I would use the verb tener (“to have”) so many times each day. Yet with my transition from classroom Span-ish to conversa-tional castellano, I’ve realized that the way people relate to one an-

other is more or less simplistic, in any language. Do you have class now? I have to go home for a nap. Does any-one have plans tonight? I don’t have

any idea where we are. Do you have a map? Because I’m a writer and a fan of words, I had thought that being here and trying to adjust to new ones would be frustrating, and it has been. But I’ve also realized how much you can say in few words. $en again, if you lack the right word for a certain situation, your entire meaning might be lost. As a study abroad student, I aspire to attain both new experiences and the words to de-scribe them.

Antes de mi llegada a Madrid, nunca pensé que estaría utilizando la palabra “tener” tantas veces. Durante mi tran-sición del español tradicional al castellano coloquial y cotidiano, he aprendido que

la manera en que la gente se relaciona es más o menos sencilla, sin importar el len-guaje. ¿Tienes clase ahora? Tengo que ir a mi piso para una siesta. ¿Tenéis algún plan para esta noche? No tengo ninguna idea dónde estamos. ¿Tienes una mapa? Porque soy escritora y me encantan las palabras, creía que venir aquí y tratar de adaptarme a un léxico extranjero sería frustrante, y sí es un desafío. Sin em-bargo, me he dado cuenta que también se puede decir mucho con pocas palabras. Por otro lado, si hace falta la palabra cor-recta para una situación particular, la intención se puede confundir o perder . Mientras estudio y vivo en Madrid, es-pero tener muchas experiencias y poder encontrar las palabras para describirlas.

Tener: a mission statement

GILLIAN FREW

Columnist

CONTRIBUTED BY DUJIE TAHAT

MOLLY SMITH

Editor-in-Chief

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!e PioneerISSUE 14

JAN. 28, 2010

Page 10 SportsJanuary 28, 2010 SPORTS 11

!is past Saturday, Jan. 23, Whitman’s hopes of a perfect season were abruptly halted as Whitworth University man-handled both the men and women, 139-66. !is loss comes at the hands of the reigning Northwest Conference champions. !e Whitworth Pirates bested the Missionaries in nearly every race.

For the women, the only light came in the shape of sophomore Monica Boshart, who won the 100-yard breast-stroke in 1:12.92. She fought o" Whit-worth’s upstart #rst-year Melissa Bar-ringer and took the race with over a half-second de#cit.

“Monica swam an inspired race in the 100 breast this weekend,” said Head Coach Jennifer Blomme. “[She] is a #erce competitor and I was not at all surprised to see her race so well, bringing home our only individual event win.”

Despite her success, Boshart re-mained focused on the future of the team.

“I don’t think that my race was par-ticularly special. I made a decision to go a$er the person in the lane next to me and it paid o" . . . !ere will be oth-er races, most likely against those same girls, where the outcome will probably change. If anything, it just showed that there is still a chance to bring down a strong team like Whitworth,” Boshart said.

!e Whitman women #nished o" the meet by winning the 200-yard free-style relay in 1:44.06. !e relay team was led by junior Lauren Flynn and includes #rst-years Charlotte Graham, Helen Jenne and Katie Chapman.

!e men’s side bene#ted from a small mental error from Whitworth’s 200-yard freestyle relay team. In the very last event of the meet, the Pirates committed a false start, disqualifying them from the race and giving the men their only victory of the a$ernoon. Whitman’s relay team consisted of se-niors Eric Molnar and Nick Hurlburt and #rst-years Adam Brayton and Paul Chang. !ey took the race in 1:33.13.

!is past Saturday’s meet was a

unique learning experience for the Missionaries. With an established powerhouse team in the Pirates—who boast a roster which includes senior Natalie Turner, who placed fourth in the 200-yard freestyle at the NCAA Division III National Tournament last March; the up-and-coming Whitman swimmers knew they were in for a challenge. Despite Whitworth’s depth and talent, the Missionaries remained hopeful, if somewhat battle-ready.

“Going in to the meet, all we had in our minds was that we weren’t going down without a #ght; we weren’t going to just hand them the win,” said Chap-man.

!is sentiment was echoed by the

rest of the team, but despite the posi-tive attitude, Saturday ended with a bitter taste in the mouths of Whitman swimmers. Yet for some, their loss was not quite as bitter. Sophomore Matt Liedtke swam a 54.7 in the 100-yard butter%y, a personal best. Under most circumstances, that’s enough to win the race, but against Whitworth, he fell short by a quarter of a second.

Graham, last week’s Northwest Con-ference Swimmer of the Week, set a season best in the 200-yard freestyle with a 1:59.26, despite the #ve-second loss to the Pirate’s Turner.

!e sting of defeat is a rare one for the Missionaries, but in this particular contest Coach Blomme pointed out the many positives that came from it.

“At the end of the day we went home with some season best times and even a lifetime best or two, which is practi-cally unheard of at this time of the sea-son. So we were extremely happy with our performance as a team,” she said.

Despite this single blemish, the team remains optimistic for its season.

“If anything, our swimmers are even more focused and more excited about the championships coming up in Feb-ruary,” said Blomme.

But before the Missionaries set their sights on the Northwest Conference Championships February 12-14 they’ll have to contend with the University of Puget Sound Loggers this week-end. !e Loggers and Whitworth’s Pi-rates are the only teams undefeated in Northwest Conference action.

Swimmers sink in battle of Whits

by DUJIE TAHATSports Editor

WOMEN WIN: White, Peterson lead charge

Deep into the second half of its game against conference rival Lin#eld College, the Whitman women’s basketball team saw what had once been an 18-point ad-vantage dwindle to just #ve. Despite the scare, the Missionaries triumphed 71-63 over Lin#eld College in Sherwood last Saturday night, Jan. 23. Unfortunately for the Whitman women, the late game let down is a familiar scenario.

!e women’s basketball team came into its game on Saturday having lost four games in a row by a combined to-tal of just 12 points, despite having leads late in those games as well.

Fortunately, the Missionaries were able to break that habit Saturday night. Fighting o" multiple rallies by the Lin#eld women down the stretch, the Missionaries managed to close out the game, winning a game that they hope will provide momentum as they ap-proach the second half of their confer-ence schedule.

“We kept up our momentum and didn’t play to not lose, but to win,” said senior forward Michelle Krall, who paced Whitman early with a triumvirate of three-pointers in the #rst 10 minutes of the game, #nishing with 11 points.

With the victory, the Whitman wom-en improved to 2-6 in the Northwest Conference and 7-10 overall. !e Lin-#eld Wildcats also move to 2-6 in con-ference and 4-13 on the season.

!e Missionaries were led by #rst team, all-conference senior Hilary White and #rst-year guard Kelly Peter-son, both of whom tallied 16 points and six rebounds.

While White made crucial baskets near the end, it was perhaps the play of the #rst-year tandem of Peterson and Mary Madden that helped Whitman maintain its intensity and aggressive-

ness in the face of losing another late lead. !e energetic duo combined for 26 points and 12 rebounds, but more im-portantly, made it to the charity stripe 16 times, constantly drawing fouls and putting pressure on Lin#eld’s defense in the paint. It was Petersen who stepped up with just under two minutes le$ in the game to sink a three-pointer that e"ectively de%ated the Wildcats’ #nal comeback push.

With eight more games le$ on the schedule and a depleted roster, the play of the younger members of the team will be crucial to whether or not the Missionaries will be able to build upon this victory and #nish the season strong.

!e losses of juniors Anna Forge and Jenele Petersen prior to the opening of the conference schedule was a devastat-ing blow to a team with high expecta-tions, but that hasn’t prevented them from competing night in and night out or, perhaps more importantly, believ-ing in themselves.

“We have had to change the way we play and we do not have the depth other teams do with only 10 players . . . But I am proud of the way this team has competed. We were on the road a lot in the #rst round and have had a chance to win almost every time out, losing by three points or less four out of #ve games. If we can keep improving we have a chance to do well in the second round of [the conference],” said Head Coach Michelle Ferenz.

With conference foes Lewis and Clark College and Willamette Univer-sity coming into town this weekend, it is an opportune time to build some momentum for the rest of the season. !ey are not automatic wins by any means, but if the intensity and gritti-ness that were on display in the George Ball Court on Saturday night is any indication of things to come, the Mis-sionaries are in good shape.

by BIDNAM LEE and JAY GOLD Staff Reporters

Kelly Peterson ‘13 splits the defense and attacks the hoop. Compensating for a roster depleted by injury,

she stepped up her game and took charge against Linfield College, scoring 16 points on 4 of 8 shooting.

Chris Bendix ‘12 took third in the 500-yard freestyle against Whitworth

University with a time of 5:01.93, more or less a typical result las Saturday.

JACOBSON

JACOBSON

by MAX RAUSCHSports Editor

Coaches go barefoot

On Saturday, Jan. 27, Whitman basketball coaches Michelle Ferenz and Eric Bridge-land will coach barefoot in their games against Northwest Conference rival Wil-lamette University to raise awareness for the over 300 million children word-wide who are at risk of contracting foot-borne diseases due to their lack of shoes. Bridge-land and Ferenz will shed their shoes in support of Charlotte, N.C.-based non-pro#t Samaritan's Feet's Barefoot for Bare-feet Coaches Initiative.

Samaritan’s Feet is a humanitarian relief organization founded in 2003 by former college basketball player and Nigerian im-migrant Manny Ohonme with the inten-tion of putting shoes on the feet of 10 mil-lion impoverished children in 10 years.

Given Ohonme’s basketball pedigree, the Barefoot for Barefeet Coaches Initia-tive was a natural step for Samaritan’s Feet. It began in November 2007 when Indiana University-Purdue University In-dianapolis Head Coach Ron Hunter went barefoot. Since then, thousands of college, high school and professional coaches have followed in his footsteps.

!e idea to participate in the Barefoot for Barefeet Initiative originated with Bridgeland’s wife, Brie, and was put into action by sophomore Jen Keyes, a guard on the women’s team and the co-president of Whitman’s Student Athlete Advisory Council. All gate proceeds from Saturday's games will be donated to Samaritan’s Feet. !e women play at 6 p.m. followed by the men at 8 p.m.

More information about Samaritan’s Feet can be found at www.samaritansfeet.org. Additionally, $5 donations can be made by texting ‘SHOES’ to 85944.

Whitman swimmers’ previously-unblemished record was tarnished last weekend as perrenial Northwest Conference powerhouse Whitworth came to Walla Walla and torpedoed the Missionaries; winning in convincing fashion 139-66.

January 28, 2010 SPORTS 11

While most Whitties spend winter break sitting on couches in a blissful state of comatose, the young and dynamic men’s basketball team jumped out to a 3-3 Northwest Conference record, their best in recent memory, with victories over western rivals Willamette, George Fox and Paci!c University. "e young and furiously-energetic Missionaries led the conference in scoring. With junior Justin Artis throwing down 29 points in a game, sophomore David Michaels slamming and jamming, !rst-year Peter Clark’s deadly three ball and sophomore Bran-don Shaw’s #oaters in the lane, the Mis-sionaries have too many o$ensive threats for many Northwest Conference teams. In short, these guys have been ballin’ harder than Lil’ Wayne.

"eir potential is unmatched, but in the last couple of weeks their record has taken a turn for the worse. Going into their Sat-urday, Jan. 23, home game against the Lin-!eld College Wildcats, they had lost three consecutive conference games, putting the team at 9-7 overall, 3-4 in conference play. Many of their losses have been lopsided; however, the most piercing defeat was nail-biter—a 88-86 loss to Head Coach Eric Bridgeland’s former team, the Uni-versity to Puget Sound on Jan. 16.

Whitman’s struggles continued during Saturday’s game as the visiting Wildcats beat the Missionaries 85-81, dropping Whitman to 3-5 in conference play.

"e Missionaries can take some solace

in the fact that their latest loss was not for a lack of e$ort.

“Sometimes you can give your best ef-fort and not come out on top,” said Bridge-land. “I thought this was the case on Sat-urday.”

Despite the recent losing streak, Bridge-land is still optimistic about the remainder of the season, mentioning converting free throws and committing fewer turnovers as the primary keys to future success. "e Whitman squad is !ghting to stay in con-tention for a playo$ spot as it reaches the midway point of conference play occupy-ing sixth place out of nine teams. In or-der for Whitman to make the conference playo$s for the !rst time in over 15 years they must leapfrog Lewis and Clark and Paci!c Lutheran in the standings to move into forth place.

"e Sherwood center was rockin’ Sat-urday, Jan. 23, as the men’s team battled a large and athletic Wildcat team. "e constantly-dancing, crazy-hat enthusiast sitting a few rows up from the Whitman bench provided additional inspiration for an already riled up crowd. Right from the tip-o$, the intensity was high on both ends of the court.

Bridgeland was particularly happy with the Missionaries’ e$ort on defense.

“I thought our pressure was really good—maybe the best of the season,” he said. “If we had a couple more bodies, or healthy bodies, we could have sustained it down the stretch.”

"e home team applied full court pres-sure the entire game and forced 25 Wild-cat turnovers in what turned out to be a fast-paced, up-and-down game. "e ma-

jority of the Missionary o$ense came from beyond the three-point arc with Clark leading the way. Clark !nished six for 10 from the three-point range and almost single-handedly kept his team in the game in the !rst half.

In the second half, Lin!eld adjusted its defense to compensate for Clark’s hot hand; however, other Missionaries were able to step up and contribute. Shaw !n-ished with a team-high of 21 points, hit-ting nine of 13 from the !eld.

However, Whitman had no way of slowing down Lin!eld big-man K.C. Wis-er—aka Sir Dunks-A Lot—who scored 35 points, several coming o$ of two-handed slams. Despite Wiser’s huge game and a seven-point de!cit with 3:20 to go, the Missionaries stayed in it until the closing seconds. However, late turnovers foiled the home team in the forth quarter.

With 1:20 le% and the Missionaries trailing 79-75, Whitman had possession and a chance to cut the lead to two. How-ever, Shaw turned it over, dribbling the ball o$ his foot in the backcourt. Senior Jordan Wheeler hit a clutch three-pointer with 27 seconds le% to cut the Wildcat lead to 81-79, but it proved to be too little too late.

"e most exciting sequence of the game came midway through the second half when Wheeler made an athletic move to pin a Lin!eld lay-up high on the glass which resulted in a transition three by Ar-tis.

"e Missionaries host Lewis and Clark College and Willamette University this Friday, Jan. 29, and Saturday, Jan. 30, re-spectively; both games take place at 8 p.m in the Sherwood Athletic Center.

by DOYLE McCARTHY and GABRIEL CAHN Staff Reporters

Over the last decade, cycling has made its mark on campus as a club sport. Former and current riders have ranked nationally in competitive racing during their time here as Whitman students and years a%er in the professional arena as alumni. "e strength of the club can be attributed to successful recruitments at beginning of the year that have brought beginners into the fold of a highly expe-rienced team.

“We have about 40 members on the team and almost half of them are fresh-men or !rst-year riders,” said senior Colin Gibson, a former member of the Whitman swim team. Gibson is the cur-rent president of the club and an experi-enced rider who has competed nation-ally.

Usually dominated by athletes from other sports, the current cycling team features many former varsity athletes including Nordic skiers, swimmers, runners and other athletes who have competed on the college-level. "e large membership of beginner-level riders is unusual, but a promising sign for the energy of the team.

When senior and fellow nationals competitor Ben Chaddock decided to design a cycling course for students to take for credit, he kept in mind the needs of new riders who would be con-tinuing on the success of the club. Like Gibson, Chaddock will be graduating this year.

“We’re all leaving this year and we don’t want to see the team fall apart,” said Chaddock. “Cyclical movements happen in all club sports where you’ll see ups and downs come and go.”

In an e$ort to open riding experience to the Whitman community as well as allow students to train for credit, this SSRA course is team taught by Chad-dock and Malcolm Dunn, head coach of the cross country team. Dunn has been teaching endurance training at Whitman for the last !ve years and is supportive of the cycling team’s athletic e$orts.

“It’s not something that’s done too o%en,” said Dunn of the collaboratively designed course. “When a student has an interest beyond what the course cat-alog has to o$er, they must petition for a class like this to be included.”

Along with the help of Athletic Di-rector Dean Snider, Chaddock and Dunn were able to establish a one-credit conditioning class this semester for 15 cyclists, with the prerequisite being that each student must have his or her own road bike to use. Although not exclusively for club members, the majority of the students in this class are the team’s !rst-year riders.

“It’s pretty much a crash course in everything from proper recovery, ath-letic lifestyle philosophy and how you should apply training,” said Chaddock. He noted the bene!t of having Dunn team-teaching the class because of his experience with coaching and teaching in the classroom setting.

“"is class is unique because every-one in the class is very motivated to pick up the skills and apply them this cycling season,” said Dunn.

"e cycling course meets twice a week with Tuesdays mainly devoted to classroom time and "ursdays allotted for actual training. "is includes every-thing from working out in the gym to going on actual rides.

For this year’s students and new rid-ers, Chaddock hopes his fellow team members avoid the cyclical movement that most clubs experience, facing waves of successes and failures.

“If we can keep the team running consistently physically and on an educa-tional level, we can avoid that movement and experience continued success,” said Chaddock.

Seasoned riders like junior Roxy Pierson have the experience level that is hard for any new beginner to keep up with. A%er being abroad last fall, Pier-son is excited to meet the new members and work with them as racing season approaches.

“It’s nice to have new riders who are willing to work to get on the same level as others on the team,” said Pierson, who will lead the club when she becomes a senior.

Although Chaddock will not be pres-ent for future o$erings of this class, Dunn hopes to have it continue.

“I’d like to o$er it to an even larger au-dience. Everyone in the class right now has an interest in becoming a competi-tive rider, but it might be nice to give it a broader scope and also include the rec-reational rider,” said Dunn.

For more information on the Whit-man cycling team, check out www.whit-man.edu/cycling.

Wildcats nip Missionaries

Cycling team establishes classby MELISSA NAVARROStaff Reporter

LuQuam Thompson ‘13 is met at the rim by Linfield’s all Northwest

Conference defender, K.C. Wiser ‘11. Thompson struggled against

Linfield from the field hitting only 1 of 8 shots and tallying only 2

points—significantly less than his 10.9 points per game season aver-

age.

Men's Tennis"e proli!c Missionaries will commence team play this Friday, Jan. 29, at 1 p.m. against Lewis-Clark State in the Walter A. Bratton Tennis Center. "e Warriors are looking to build on a 9-0 sweep of Whitworth University. "e follow-ing day, Whitman will have to bounce back and take on the University of Cal-ifornia—Santa Cruz Banana Slugs. "e Slugs have won three of the last !ve na-tional NCAA titles—2005, 2007, 2009—and are currently the reigning national champions.

Swimming"e Whitman swimmers will try and re-bound from a thrashing by Whitworth

University this Friday at 5 p.m. against the University of Puget Sound Loggers at the Paul Harvey Pool. "is will be the second week in a row that the Mission-aries are facing an opponent undefeated in Northwest Conference play.

Women's BasketballThe Whitman women have an op-portunity to put themselves in playoff contention this weekend with wins over Lewis and Clark College and Wil-lamette University. The Missionaries will face the Lewis and Clark Pioneers this Friday at 6 p.m. on George Ball Court. The next day, Whitman will take on the Willamette Bearcats at the same place, same time.

Men's BasketballThe Whit men have a difficult week-end ahead of them as they take on the second- and first-place teams in the Northwest Conference this Fri-day and Saturday, respectively. This couldn’t come at a worse time, as the Missionaries have lost back-to-back conference games. On Friday at 8 p.m. on George Ball court, they take on Lewis and Clark College. With a victory, they put themselves one position out of playoffs. The fol-lowing day, Whitman will play Wil-lamette University, ranked 18th in the country in Division III, at 8 p.m. on George Ball Court.

SCHEDULE

SCOREBOARD

JACOBSON

Women's BasketballPaci!c University vs. Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. on Saturday, Jan. 9Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (6-7, 1-3 NWC) 32 38 70Paci!c University (5-6, 2-2 NWC) 34 37 71

Paci!c Lutheran University vs. Whit-man College in Tacoma, Wash. on Fri-day, Jan. 15Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (6-8, 1-4 NWC) 20 32 52Paci!c Lutheran University (4-10, 2-3 NWC) 23 35 58

University of Puget Sound vs. Whitman College in Tacoma, Wash. on Saturday, Jan. 16Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (6-9, 1-5 NWC) 31 35 66University of Puget Sound (13-2, 5-1 NWC) 29 39 68

Whitworth University vs. Whitman College in Spokane, Wash. on Tuesday, Jan. 19Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (6-10, 1-6 NWC) 38 34 72

Whitworth University (7-9, 3-4 NWC) 37 38 75

Lin!eld College vs. Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. on Saturday, Jan. 23

Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (7-10, 2-6 NWC) 32 39 71Lin!eld College (4-13, 2-6 NWC) 24 41 63

Men’s BasketballPaci!c University vs. Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. on Saturday, Jan. 9Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (9-4, 3-1 NWC) 44 49 93Paci!c University (4-9, 0-4 NWC) 37 52 89

Paci!c Lutheran University vs. Whit-man College in Tacoma, Wash. on Fri-day, Jan. 15Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (9-5, 3-2 NWC) 38 38 76Paci!c Lutheran University (6-6, 4-1NWC) 42 42 84

University of Puget Sound vs. Whitman College in Tacoma, Wash. on Saturday, Jan. 16Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (9-6, 3-3 NWC) 32 34 66University of Puget Sound (6-9, 2-4 NWC) 47 41 88

Whitworth University vs. Whitman College in Spokane, Wash. on Tuesday, Jan. 19Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (9-7, 3-4NWC)

38 45 83Whitworth University (7-9, 3-4 NWC) 65 55 110

Lin!eld College vs. Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. on Saturday, Jan. 23Points by Half1 2 TotWhitman College (9-8, 3-5 NWC) 36 45 81Lin!eld College (9-7, 7-1 NWC) 44 41 85

SwimmingLewis and Clark College vs. Whitman College in Portland, Ore. on Friday, Jan. 15Team Score: Men WomenWhitman College 147 125Lewis and Clark College 57 80

Willamette University vs. Whitman Col-lege in Salem, Ore. on Saturday, Jan. 16Team Score:Men WomenWhitman College60 146Willamette University20 50

Whitworth University vs. Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. on Satur-day, Jan. 23Team Score:Men WomenWhitman College66 66Whitworth University139 139

COURTESY OF WHITMAN

COLLEGE CYCLING

Eloise Zimbleman ‘11 rides for

the powerhouse Whitman cycling

team. Their recent success has

transformed into a student-led class.