Junior Zach Manley and sophomore Zach Brandon wish to have special guests Taylor Swift, Robert Downey Jr. and Scott Brosius on their show. Kate Straube/Photo Editor

A student turns on her online radio and anxiously waits for the show to begin. She doesn’t know exactly what is going to happen on the show today, but she knows that the two guys who are hosting are going to do something entertaining. While listening, they start belting “A Thousand Miles” by Vanessa Carlton.

Dos Zaquis is a radio show that was started last semester by junior Zach Manley and sophomore Zach Brandon.

The show features the two talking about a variety of topics from relationships to sports and even activities to do around McMinnville. They tend to not have a set script for the show, but rather walk in with a topic and go from there.

Throughout the year, they have had special guests, such as senior softball player Jaydee Baxter and senior baseball player Ryan Larson.

“By bringing in athletes, it gives us a more in-depth look at the sport,” Brandon said.

Manley and Brandon met each other at summer baseball during Brandon’s sophomore year in high school and bonded each summer, while playing the game. Manley went to community college and decided that he wanted to go in a different path with his life, so he went to visit Linfield. Brandon ended up visiting at the same time. From there, they have been playing baseball together for the Wildcats.

The show began once Manley invited Brandon to join his two-hour time slot that he had to do for the Broadcast Practices class. After Brandon sat in one Friday, they decided to make it a regular thing. Prior to being called Dos Zaquis, the show was titled “Catching Z’s with Zach and Zach.”

Their main audience is 18 to 24-year-old females, and they have had listeners from Oregon State University, University of Oregon, Gonzaga and Boise State University.

“It’s cool to have friends from back home listen,” Manley said.

The dynamic duo complements each other while on the air. They each serve as a support system for the other, as Manley initiates the topic and Brandon gives his opinion.

“There are very few things that we disagree on,” Brandon said.

Freshman Chris Haddeland and senior Reed Nicholson have also helped with the show. Haddeland has assisted them with social networking by helping with Twitter and other aspects. Nicholson hosted a segment on their show called “Five Minutes with Reed,” which ended up lasting 15 minutes because of his detailed explanation of why people don’t talk to their dream girl or guy.

“We want to give the fans something that they would enjoy listening to on a regular basis,” Brandon said.

Brandon and Manley have also auctioned off dates with their friends to callers. Listeners have had the chance to win a date with Brandon, Haddeland, senior Colton Westfall and junior Tim Wilson.

The show plays a variety of music, including rap, pop and country.

“It’s more of a friendship [between Brandon and me] rather than an acquaintance on the baseball team,” Manley said.

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Ivanna Tucker/Sports editor
Ivanna Tucker can be reached at linfieldreviewsports@gmail.com

Brown recorded “Priorities” in the same studio that has produced works for Marilyn Manson and Elliott Smith, but don’t let the unique musical mix of artists fool you, his sound is definitely acoustic pop and soul.

Artists like Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz and John Mayer are just a few of Brown’s idols who inspired most of the sounds found on “Priorities.” His style can be classified as soul-pop as he gracefully combines drums, acoustic guitars and saxophones.

Brown, now 17, started producing his self-taught sounds at the young age of 10. Some of his songs describe his upbringing as young and playful with a country feel. The track “Passerby” has an upbeat rhythm with percussion that can make you get lost in the background.

Brown is not just a talented singer, but also a writer who writes most of his songs and plays many different instruments. In 2009, Brown was named “Artist with the Most Potential,” by the Hard Rock Café in Boston.

Even though his sound is inspired by many famous artists, Brown stands out for the simple fact that he can do it all. He can write it, play it and then sing it, making a one-of-a-kind song.

The track “House of Cards” pulls out a Jamaican feel as the song starts with the keys and drums creating a great separation from his usual sounds on the album. The saxophone throughout the piece also reminds you what real soul music should sound like.

“Priorities” is a perfect example of what real written music sounds like. Brown not only makes his original songs connect to the listener, but he also has relatable lyrics that truly make you think.

Garrett J. Brown can be found touring, online and at KSLC 90.3 FM. He is always interested in connecting with fans and newcomers so if you enjoy soulful sounds, you are definitely going to want to check him out.

To hear more songs and to check out Garrett J. Brown in “Priorities,” go to KSLC and listen.

We are now streaming online, so go to our website and listen to the Best in the Northwest Student Station, KSLC 90.3 FM, www.linfield.edu/kslcfm.

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Haydn Nason/KSLC 90.3 FM
Haydn Nason  can be reached at kslcmusic@gmail.com.

Enhancing sexual pleasure is the most obvious claim for a toy. Men, don’t be afraid or worried about a toy. It’s there to—and I stress this—enhance, not replace. It is a lot more difficult for women to climax or achieve the same pleasure, and this can keep you on the same page.

Increasing self-esteem and body image are a little less obvious. I include these because using a toy on your own or with someone can help you be more aware of your body and what you like. Many women don’t feel comfortable with their bodies while having sex. Confidence in yourself can make a big difference in your enjoyment. Think of it this way: orgasms relieve stress. To orgasm well, you must know your body. Experimenting with different stimulators allows you to get to know your body and understand it. The better you understand your body, the more pleasure you can achieve. The more pleasure, the better you feel about yourself and the more comfortable you can be in your own skin.

Vibrators come in different shapes, sizes and textures. Many are waterproof for use in the shower and easy cleaning. A basic vibrator is slender, smooth metal, and can be long or short. This type’s primary use is to stimulate the clitoris not the inside of the vagina. For inside use there are more comfortably designed vibrators. These are textured differently—usually silicone or plastic—and are thicker than the simple vibrators. These can come with a curved tip for G-spot stimulation, ribs or veins, and can be in the shape of a penis. Length and width can vary.

Bullets are small, oval shaped vibrators that are used on the clitoris and are attached by a wire to the controller. A spin off of this is a bullet encased in silicone with or without ridges that has a ring on the end to be placed around a man’s penis. Another option that is more expensive (more than $100) is easier to maneuver around is the We-Vibe. The We-Vibe is a flexible, U-shaped vibrator that is designed for couples. One end is inserted into the vagina with the other placed on the clitoris. A tiny button to turn the toy on and off and to adjust the intensity or rhythm identifies the outside end. The toy gently hugs to stay in place and doesn’t come out during intercourse. The entire toy vibrates so he will feel it, too.

If a man isn’t available, there is a vibrator to remedy that. “Rabbits” are a style of vibrator that are designed to stimulate everything. The head of the toy spins inside the vagina, while its namesake, a small vibrator in the shape of a rabbit or some other animal, extends out to reach the clitoris.

There are many resources for toys, especially online. One popular retailer is Adam and Eve. It provides quality goodies like the We-Vibe. A more cost-friendly choice is DearLady.com where it constantly has sales on random items. Buying online can be tricky, though. To view and feel the toys before you buy them there are “Adult Stores” and “Megacastle.” Or contact a Pure Romance consultant or attend a party.

Keep in mind that when you buy a toy it must be cleaned. Find a good cleaner and use it after every toy use.

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Bailey can be reached at linfieldreviewbailey@gmail.com.

On May 12, nine Linfield students enjoyed the evening in McMinnville, eating dinner at Thai Country and watching “Seussical the Musical” at Gallery Theater, paying only $4 total.

“I told students that they could order anything on the menu, so we had a wide range of dishes including noodle dishes, stir fries, seafood, ice cream, Thai Iced Teas, rice dishes, and a lot more,” said senior Emily Jenkins, the on-campus programming chair.

Senior Matthea Brown signed up for the event because of how much she enjoys Thai Country.

“I ordered Yellow Chicken Curry and Pineapple Fried Rice with a Thai Iced Tea,” Brown said. “I shared my food with my friend Geoff who got Chicken Pad Thai. It was delicious and I highly recommend Thai Country to everyone I know.”

After enjoying dinner at Thai Country, the group headed to McMinnville’s Gallery Theater, on the corner of Ford and 2nd Street, to see “Seussical the Musical.”

“Seussical the Musical” is a popular Broadway musical, blending together characters and plots from many of Dr. Seuss’s books.

“It was a pleasant hodge-podge of many Seuss stories and it was fun to get to see characters from different stories interact with each other,” Brown said.

The main plot follows the story of “Horton Hears a Who,” but blends characters and events from other stories, such as “The Butter Battle Book,” “Green Eggs and Ham,” “The Cat in the Hat” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

“The show was very entertaining,” Jenkins said. “There were a lot of talented children in the play, and lots of fun songs that kept me smiling the whole time.”

Members in the community, featuring many young children, put on the musical.

“They were all very cute and talented,” international student Cassie Wong said. “The main character Jojo was my favorite as she had an amazing voice and was able to memorize the many lines that were more like verse than normal conversation.”

Although the play is aimed at children and their parents, the Linfield students who saw the show were able to enjoy it as well.

“My favorite character was probably Horton, because he’s so honest, genuine and lovable,” Brown said.

Jenkins, Brown and Wong would all recommend “Seussical the Musical” to other Linfield students.

“I would recommend the musical for people who enjoyed Dr. Seuss books, or who still do, like me, and are looking for a fun family performance,” Jenkins said.

“Seussical the Musical” is playing at the Gallery Theater until May 26.

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Meghan O’Rourke/Opinion editor
Meghan O’Rourke can be reached  at linfieldreviewopinion@gmail.com.

Playwright Rob Urbinati chats with audience members after his first lecture on May 9 in the Ford Hall lobby. Kate Straube/Photo editor

A three-day symposium marked the beginning of the Linfield Lacroute Arts Series, an interdisciplinary series of events designed to integrate the areas of music, visual art and theatre. The symposium ran from May 7 through May 9 and featured three artists who gave presentations, participated in a panel discussion and worked with students in the classroom.

Musician Thomas Lauderdale, photo historian Corey Dzenko and playwright Rob Urbinati started the symposium with a panel discussion about the role of the arts in social change. The panel took place on May 7 and was moderated by Susan Agre-Kippenhan, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Linfield.

Topics of the discussion included the role of the artist, the varied interpretations of art depending on context and audience, and the purpose of art, whether to entertain, inform, invoke or all three.

“A lot of times, artwork is dismissed because it’s entertaining,” Dzenko said. “People think it can’t be entertaining and meaningful at the same time.”

Lauderdale presented the first of the artists’ lectures, “Singer-Songwriter: Learn Your Craft” on May 7. He narrated the processes of writing several songs for his band, Pink Martini. He illustrated the lecture with piano riffs, photocopied handouts of scribbled sheets of lyrics and clips of the finished songs.

“When I’m writing a song, I’m not trying to write a hit,” Lauderdale said. “I try not to be concerned how people will like it. If I don’t like it, it wasn’t worth it, and no amount of money can make up for that.”

The second lecture, “The Cruel Optimism of Gregory Crewdson’s ‘Suburbs’ and Suzanne Opton’s ‘Soldiers’,” was presented by Dzenko on May 8. She discussed idealized images of suburbs, traditional  views of soldiers and the way Crewdson’s and Opton’s photos explore stereotypes in how people view the American dream and the American military.

Urbinati gave the last two lectures May 9 titled “Creating a Play: From Idea to Page to Stage, Part One,” which covered Urbinati’s typical writing process and what Urbinati called the development path, or what happens after you finish writing a play.

Urbinati’s second lecture, “Rebel Voices and Necessary Dialogues,” focused on the role of theatre in social change.

Urbinati said since his view was that of someone who has chosen a career in arts, he sees himself as an artist first. But, as he pointed out, artists can be activists.

“The most overtly political play I’ve ever written was ‘Rebel Voices,’” Urbinati said. “I was asked to adapt ‘Voices of a People’s History of the United States,’ the companion to Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States.’ It’s a collection of letters, speeches, poems and original documents in these minority voices.”

To illustrate his lecture, Urbinati invited junior Chris Forrer, sophomore Jacob Priester and senior Kanon Havens to read a selection from “Rebel Voices” that juxtaposed a poem by Allen Ginsberg, a U.S. military report and an eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Urbinati also discussed his next project, temporarily titled “The Linfield Project.” According to Urbinati, this play will cover topics of racism and racial stereotypes, multiculturalism, cyberbullying and the way students communicate using technology.

“I wanted to get a sense of how things like this would escalate,” Urbinati said. “I think it’s going to be very complicated and mixed up, like how things get interpreted wrong in real life online interactions and escalate way out of proportion.”

“The Linfield Project” is scheduled to be produced in March 2013. Urbinati said Linfield students will be able to see the development of it throughout the 2012 fall semester.

The Lacroute Arts Series is sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Fund, named for Linfield trustee Ronni Lacroute. The series will include four similar interdisciplinary arts programs over the next two years.

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Sharon Gollery/Culture editor
Sharon Gollery can be reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

Sophomore Timothy Prag plays a solo during the Jazz Night performance May 11 in Ice Auditorium. Alyssa Carano/Senior photographer

The Linfield Jazz Band and Double Vision, Linfield’s vocal jazz ensemble, performed for students, family and the public in Jazz Night on May 11 in Ice Auditorium.

The Jazz Band displayed all the power of a classic big band as it played original compositions and other jazz standards. The band members interacted with each other throughout the performance, encouraging the soloists as they played.

As is custom for jazz, there were many soloists featured, including sophomores Sylvan Tovar on bass and Katelyn Henson on baritone saxophone, freshman Christian Santangelo on drums and junior Timothy Prag on tenor saxophone.

Seniors Chelsea Janzen and Kayla Wilkens sang an Ella Fitzgerald song alongside the jazz band. They stayed true to character with costumes and stage presence.

Each member of the band kept the energy going until the last song. They never missed a single beat and showed their expertise while paying special attention to dynamics and mood.

Steve Kravitz, director of the Jazz Band and adjunct professor of music, honored junior Evan O’Kelly with the most outstanding musician award, as voted by his peers.

Double Vision picked up the energy as it took to the stage. The ensemble kept everyone in the audience moving and tapping along to the music. The singers made the scatting solos seem effortless. Soloists included seniors Jeremy Moll, Jesse Goergen, Logan Freitas and Chelsea Janzen.

The singers fed off of each other’s energies, and they worked well with the bass, drum and piano combo.

Double Vision said farewell to Dana Libonati, adjunct professor of music and director of the jazz ensemble, after 21 years of teaching and directing.

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Kelsey Sutton/Managing editor
Kelsey  Sutton can be reached at linfieldreviewmanaging@gmail.com.

The class showcase featured three plays, “These Shining Lives” by Melanie Marnich and directed by Dossett; “Tone Clusters” by Joyce Carol Oates and directed by Forrer; and “Saturn Returns” by Noah Haidle and directed by Havens. Each night, different pairings of two of these plays were performed.

“These Shining Lives” is set in Ottawa and Chicago, Ill., from 1922 to 1938. It follows the protagonist Catherine and her friends in the course of getting infected with radium poisoning from work and suing their company for hiding the truth from its employees. According to Dossett, it “emphasizes the strength of four women as they overcome adversity and the touch of time.”

With only six actors and actresses, the play has more than 10 roles.

“Tone Clusters” is set in a television studio in 1990. It features an interview of the parents of a murder suspect, who are forced to accept the truth despite their self-deception of how the media wrongly portrayed their son.

Forrer said the beauty of the play lies in “a hard truth about the human condition and people’s inability to see what lies right in front of them when their contentment degrades into apathy.”

There was a voiceover throughout the play, which the director described as a “technical sensory overload.”

“Saturn Returns” is a story that follows a man who lost his wife and daughter at different stages of his life and how he became nostalgic and lonely afterward.

Havens said it is a simple but elegantly written “story of love and loss” and the play was delicately crafted.

In the play, there are three actors portraying the main character at ages 28, 58 and 88 as well as an actress portraying the man’s wife, daughter and nurse.

In addition to the directors, the cast and most of the crew are students who volunteered to assist with the productions.

Throughout the production, the directors had to refine their communication skills so they could be understood by the entire cast and crew.

“You learn how to get along with others in the theatre, and learn even more about yourself through collaborating,” Havens said. “Theatre is really not only about the end product. It’s also about all the realizations you make and gain as a human being through rehearsals.”

The theatre and communication arts department will have two more class showcases at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on May 20. They respectively feature the dialect scenes by the intermediate acting class and contemporary scenes by the beginning acting class.

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Cassie Wong/For the Review
Cassie Wong can be  reached at linfieldreviewculture@gmail.com.

The Review’s biggest competition was The Beacon from The University of Portland and The Hill Top from Howard University.

The Hilltop received first place in general excellence and The Beacon received second place.

They also placed high in best section and best writing.

The Review placed in best writing, series, feature photo, design, sports photo, headline writing, cartooning, house ad, web site, news story, photography and special section.

The Review earned three first place spots in headline writing, sports photo, cartooning and house ad.

In addition to placing in these sections, The Review received second for best news section, best features section, best headline writing, best news story, best photography and best website.

Overall, The Linfield Review received honorable mention in general excellence.

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Samantha Sigler/News editor

Morgan Lundblad, 18, a senior at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, sits at desk in her Spanish classroom in Flossmoor, Illinois, April 5, 2012. She applied to 12 colleges and got accepted to some, denied by others and is on the wait-listed for Harvard, her dream school. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

After months in limbo, Morgan Lundblad recently opened her long-awaited email from Harvard University to find only more uncertainty.

She had been wait-listed.

The senior at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Chicago had applied to a dozen of the nation’s most elite colleges. When the smoke cleared, Lunblad still did not have a definitive path forward. Of the schools where she was accepted, she narrowed her choices to the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. Still, she can’t quite let go of Harvard, which had a record low 5.9 percent acceptance rate for this fall. She may not know her fate until mid-summer.

“It’s not really a rejection, but it kind of is,” she said. “It just doesn’t help you too much. I need to make a decision.”

While no one tracks the number of college applicants nationwide who are wait-listed, admissions experts and high school guidance counselors agree the ranks have swelled in the last five years. That leaves more students consigned to the half-way house of admissions, where they are unable to fully celebrate an admission or properly mourn a denial.

The number of schools using wait lists is on the rise, according to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. In 2010, 48 percent of colleges reported using a wait list, up from 39 percent in 2009 and 35 percent in 2008. At the same time, the number of students plucked from standby decreased, from 34 percent to 28 percent.

The trend is driven by the lingering economic downturn, along with the unpredictability of the admissions process, experts said. Many schools are seeing more and more applicants as seniors cast a wider net, applying to more institutions to hedge their bets.

Also, the recession has interjected its own volatility to the match game. Over the summer, a parent can get laid off or reassess skyrocketing tuition costs in tough times, triggering a last-minute shift from private school to State U.

As a result, it has become increasingly difficult for admissions officers to predict who actually will show up in the fall, so schools have countered with an insurance policy: a larger reserve pool to manage their enrollment, officials say.

“It’s become a ping-pong game that both sides play with each other,” said Barmak Nassirian of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. “And it’s totally gotten out of hand.”

The end result is that many are left dangling.

“It’s insane…This year has been the absolute worst, with more kids on the wait list than ever,” said Laura Docherty, college counselor at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Ill. “It’s just painful … and it really drags out the process.”

Because many institutions closely guard their wait-list numbers, cracking the code of how many eventually get a coveted fat envelope is a subject of intense speculation on online message boards. Some schools declined to provide data to the Tribune, but statistics could be gleaned from college websites and other sources.

Northwestern University’s wait list shrunk from about 3,500 last year to 2,857 for 2012. Still, this year’s wait list is about 1,300 names longer than six years ago, school officials said.

MIT’s wait list fluctuated between roughly 450 and 740 from 2007-10, then it shot up to 1,000 in 2011. Wait lists at some smaller schools grew as well. Grinnell College in Iowa said its roster rose from 541 last year to 1,189 in 2012. Bates College in Maine has not yet released its most recent data, but the wait list increased from 871 in 2010 to 1,305 in 2011.

How many back-ups will be admitted varies from year to year, school officials said. Although it’s tempting to cling to a fantasy, most experts suggest applicants should regard their limbo status with a hefty dose of realism.

At Vanderbilt University, for example, 9.4 percent from the wait list were accepted—a number that has held steady for the last four years. Last year, MIT plucked only 26 students for acceptance from its reserve pool of 1,000.

Northwestern said it admitted no one from its wait list in 2011. The year before, it accepted just 21 out of 3,204.

Said Nassirian: “I tell them to think of a wait list as a ‘no.’”

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Bonnie Miller Rubin/Chicago Tribune

It has raised more than $45,000 for the dummy and hopes to meet its goal by the end of June.

The current dummy, dubbed Eric, has gone through more than 5,000 simulations and more than 1,000 students.

“When a group of us from College Relations was visiting the Portland campus, Jana Taylor, who is the director of the simulation lab, expressed that Eric’s warranty is about to run out. He’s kind of on his last leg, and they really needed a new mannequin,” said Christina Diss, director of annual giving. “And my boss, Bruce Wyatt, thought, ‘Wow, this is a great way to engage some Portland alums in philanthropy.’”

There has been a huge outpouring of support from faculty, students and alums.

It has received donations from more than 100 Portland alumni, in addition to donations from McMinnville alumni, faculty and staff.

College Relations also hopes to raise money for this cause through the Spring Fling event, where students will pay for the opportunity to throw pies in the faces of their professors.

Eric is just one of the training tools used in the Portland campus’ Experiential Learning Center. The ELC is a facility within the Portland nursing campus where student nurses are able to practice the skills they have learned without putting human lives at risk.

According to the Linfield website, the ELC used 12 hospital beds, 10 adult-sized mannequins, 12 infant mannequins, two pediatric mannequins and a variety of specialized equipment, such as IV training arms and catheterization models.

In addition, the facility has three high fidelity training dummies, including Eric.

Of all the equipment available, none is as immersive as the high fidelity training dummies.

“You can inject medicine into it, you can take its blood pressure, you can start IVs,” Diss said. “It gives students an opportunity to practice medicine in a safe environment before they start out on their clinicals.”

Not only does the ELC lab prepare students for their clinicals, but time spent in the ELC counts toward their clinical hours.

“We just feel like experiential learning is such an integral part of the Linfield college experience for all students, and obviously, especially critical for the nursing students,” Diss said.

In a mock letter from the training dummy, Eric writes, “Though a price can’t be put on a human life, it can on my replacement—$50,000.”

Just like a human life, the experience provided by Eric’s replacement will prove invaluable to future nursing students.

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Joel Ray/Senior photographer