Amber McKenna

Editor in chief

Early evening on Sept. 15 a Linfield Campus Security officer detained a man on the corner of College Ave. and Cowls St.
Director of Campus Safety Mike Dressel said the man was stopped and asked to produce identification. He failed to cooperate with the officer.
“We make the general assumption that if someone doesn’t cooperate with us there is a reason,”
Dressel said.
The McMinnville Police Department arrived on the scene after LCS called for assistance, and took over.
Similar situations occurred several times last year. Dressel said some people do not realize they are on private property and are agitated when they are stopped by LCS.
On Wednesday, Sept. 17, LCS responded to a report from a student who heard her window shatter. The call was made by junior Aila Wallace.
Wallace said she was sitting in her living room in Dana Hall when, at 9:56 p.m., she heard the sound of breaking glass.
Immediately, Wallace called campus safety. Officers investigated the area but found no evidence of what caused the window to break.
“It kind of looks like a bullet hole,” Wallace said. “But [LCS] couldn’t find anything that could have gone though the window.”
If anyone has any information regarding the window in Dana Hall, please contact Linfield Campus Safety at 503-883-5300.

Lizzie Martinez

Senior reporter

Applications for the Alternative Spring Break program will be accepted through Sept. 26. Spots are available to travel to New Orleans and work with the St. Bernard Project, rebuilding homes  for families whose homes were devastated by Hurricane Katrina.  Spots are also open to travel to Portland to learn about and serve the homeless community in partnership with Multnomah County’s 10-year plan to end homelessness. Applications are available in the Career Library in Walker 124 or online at http://www.linfield.edu/ccs/community_service/alt_spring_break/volunteer.php.

Paloma Dale

Review staff writer

Take Care of Oregon Day is a large-scale volunteer initiative, created for the state’s sesquicentennial. More than 500 various volunteer endeavors are in the process of preparing for the event, and it is projected that more than 20,000 people will be involved. Linfield students are beginning to prepare for the occasion as well. On Sept. 17, a volunteer training presentation was held on campus in Riley Hall. 

Specific decisions have yet to be made regarding the exact volunteer projects Linfield members will be participating in; however, a neighborhood clean up and community mural could be in the works.

“The experience is an opportunity to pay tribute to the state, but more importantly give back to the community that hosts you nine, 10 months out of the year,” Linfield Community Service Coordinator Jessica Wade said .

Take Care of Oregon Day is expected to be the biggest volunteer program the state has ever seen, and will occur on and around May 16, 2009.

For more information regarding volunteer opportunities contact Wade at jwade@linfield.edu. There will also be a student leadership training held on September 30, from 5-6 p.m. in Walker 203.

Dominic Baez

Managing editor

Despite the rumors running rampant on campus, Pi Kappa Alpha’s fraternity house is not condemned but deep in a highly needed renovation.

With no sanctions from either the city or the school, the choice to restrict live-ins was a choice made by the fraternity members and its housing corp., senior Nathan Solly, president of tPi Kappa Alpha, said.

The house is still open for brotherhood meetings and social events. For example, the house was open for the Graffiti Party, which was permitted by the college.

Solly said most major issues, such as the first floor bathroom and electrical problems, have been taken care of. All that remains are minor details and expansive renovation projects, such as the roof, which will take time, he said.

“There are some things we can’t do by ourselves, such as the roof,” Solly said. “Our housing corps has the funds needed to hire people for that.”

The goal is to complete all changes by next semester so fraternity members can move back into the main house, Solly said.

The two annexes are available for members to live in. The main house is restricted to just one person, who serves as a guard against theft and accidents.

“Our housing corps made this decision,” Solly said. “Only one guy will live in right now until renovations are complete.” Solly said the situation has not adversely affected the fraternity.

“Those who wanted to live in the house got to. Instead of living in one of the main rooms, though, they are living in the annexes.”

One of the major hurdles was cleaning everything, Solly said. The ensuing sweep of the house resulted in two full trash containers.

On Sept. 22, the house will go under inspection by a representative from the fraternity’s housing corps, Director of Residence Life Jeff Mackay and Dean of Students Dave Hansen. They will check on the progress that has beenmade and what remains to be done.

The fraternity will need its housing corps approval before members can start moving back into the house.

“It’s not quite ready [to] live in. But this just shows us that our housing corps is serious about us staying up on [maintaining] our house,” Solly said.

Lizze Martinez

Senior reporter

Polish poetry may seem obscure to the average college student, but for translator Claire Cavanagh, it is as normal as Facebook. Having worked with two Nobel Prize-winning poets, she is a celebrity in the Polish literature community and passionate about language, life and culture.
During the week of Sept. 15, Cavanagh, Associate professor of Slavic languages and literature at Northwestern University, visited with six Linfield classes and spoke at the Nicholson Library, sharing her love of linguistics, literature and translation.
“She is so articulate and energetic,” senior Kate Kilcup said of Cavanagh. “It’s always fun to be around someone who is so passionate about her subject.”
In her speech Sept. 17, Cavanagh debunked the myth that Polish poetry is far removed from American culture. Her speech centered around the poem, “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, which was printed on the back cover of the first issue of the New Yorker after Sept. 11, 2001, and which Cavanagh translated.
However, the poem never mentions Poland or America by name, nor does it include any cultural references. In fact, it was written before Sept. 11, 2001.
After the terrorist attack, Zagajewski’s poem spoke to Americans about enduring something horrible and how to find solace, something the Polish are well-acquainted with.
“For me, it’s the way I have always seen the world,” Zagajewski said in an interview with New Europe in 2002. “When I was growing up, I saw a lot of ruins in postwar Poland. Somehow it stayed with me, this feeling that the world is wounded or mutilated. The poem reflects a philosophical conviction more than an event.”
The history of Poland is one of war, oppression and subjugation. For much of the past century, Poland did not exist, having been appropriated by various countries such as Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary.
“In Poland, poetry was a way of keeping the people and the language alive when [Poland] did not exist geopolitically,” Cavanagh said.
For the Polish, poetry has more significance than Americans can understand, she said. Because of this emphasis, her work as a translator is prized for sharing Polish poems with English readers.
Though translators are not well-known in the United States, Cavanagh has become something of a celebrity in Poland. She has appeared on talk shows and is well-known for her
literature.
“As Americans, we assume everyone speaks English, and everything will come to us eventually,” she said. “Poland knows [Polish] is not a language anyone has ever needed to know. They know their literature is only experienced because of translation.
Her translations helped Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996. The prizes are intended to facilitate global dialogue in the arts and sciences. Some members of the committee who chose the winners relied on the English translations of her poems, Cavanagh said.
At that time, Cavanagh and poet Stanislaw Baranczak just completed a translation of Szymborska’s poems, which was mentioned by the Nobel Prize Committee. As such, she was invited to the ceremony in Stockholm.
“I was terrified [that] I’d make my first mistake in Polish,” Cavanagh said. “And then the people would think, ‘This is the person who translated our most famous poet’s works?’”
For Cavanagh, translating is not a solitary endeavor. She works alongside poets to match cultural contexts, an especially difficult job in poetry because poets often play with language and idioms to make a point.
“All sorts of ordinary objects and things you absolutely take for granted seem not radically different, but pragmatically different,” Cavanagh said.
Cavanagh said colloquialisms are one of the hardest parts to translate because they are often illogical. She said some poems are simply impossible to translate.
“She’s too modest to say it, but she has to be a kind of poet herself to translate these poems,” Kilcup said. “The ideas are already there, but she has to kinda write the poem again.”
With a background in linguistics and both Russian and Polish language and literature, Cavanagh had the perfect background to begin translating creative works. Though she said she stumbled into the field through a series of flukes, she also said she loves what she does.
“[Linguistics] is like doing a really, incredibly hard crossword puzzle that you can’t finish.” Cavanagh said. “It’s figuring out how the language works and why it deviates. I love that language is in constant motion.”
In 2000, Cavanagh met the 1980 Nobel Prize for literature winner, Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. For Milosz, poetry was a way to preserve the multiethnic, multilingual community that existed in Poland before World War II.
Through her work with Zagajewski, Szymborska and Milosz, Cavanagh has introduced a new set of readers to the wonders of
Polish poetry.

Katie Armes

Review staff writer

Linfield will adopt a new dining program, The Balanced Way, through Sodexo on Sept. 23 to help students make healthy food choices.
The Balanced Way offers a variety of dining options, but all meals will have similar proportions. Fruits and vegetables make up 50 percent of the meal, whole grains 25 percent and protein the last 25 percent.
“It’s based off of the food pyramid, so it’s taking that thinking as far as a way to eat and putting it on a plate,” Sodexo Catering and Retail Manager Jason Briles said.
In addition to emphasizing what food groups students are served, all meals contain fewer than 600 calories, at least three grams of fiber and fewer than 800 milligrams of sodium. The food will not contain trans fats either.
“We’ve probably been doing something like this for years, we just haven’t highlighted it as much,” Sodexo General Manager Bill Masullo said.
The program is based on the book “Fill Up, Not Out” by Franceen Friefeld, a nutritionist who works
with Sodexo.
Beginning Sept. 23, Balanced Way options will be available at one or two of the food stations for dinner. As the program catches on, elements of the eating plan will be incorporated into all of the stations, identified by an icon on the menu. Eventually, it may spread into retail locations such as O’Riley’s.
“I think it’s a really good idea because with a crazy schedule and how fast paced students’ lives are, it can be really easy to eat unhealthily on the run,” freshman Brenna Peterson said. “Especially at a college like Linfield that’s really astute, it’s another little perk.”
Another goal of the program is to give students the information they need to make good eating choices in and out of the dining hall.
“I think it’s good because it’s harder in college to get that nutrition,” sophomore Jenny Worcester said.
Other than adding new menu items, The Balanced Way will not cause many changes at Dillin. The program cost Linfield little to put into place, Masullo said. The system of food stations will remain intact and student jobs at Dillin will remain the same.
The program is being publicized in Dillin Hall with a contest to win a mini-fridge. Friedfeld will also be visiting campus in October to speak about the program.

Amber McKenna

Editor in chief

Sophomore David Kellner-Rode never thought anything interesting would happen in his hometown. In fact, no one expected much of Wasilla, Alaska.
“We call it the itty-bitty-shitty city,” Kellner-Rode said. “It’s a nothing town with no city planning, but it’s in a beautiful location.”
That was before an unexpected spotlight shown on the town in the form of Sarah Palin, former mayor of Wasilla and Republican vice presidential candidate.
Kellner-Rode graduated from Wasilla High School before coming to Linfield last fall. Coincidently, he grew-up alongside Track Palin, 19, the oldest child of Alaska Governor Palin. The two boys were good friends in middle school and classmates in high school. Kellner-Rode said they never spoke of Palin’s career, namely because of their different political ideologies.
Kellner-Rode’s younger sister is a close friend of Bristol, Palin’s 17-year-old daughter. He said his sister was upset at the high media attention about her friend’s pregnancy.
Kellner-Rode said he thinks it is a shame Bristol and the baby’s father, Levi Johnson, are getting married because of the pregnancy.
“I went to high school with him,” he said. “He’s a redneck and a womanizer.”
As someone who has seen the family first-hand, Kellner-Rode said for a politician who is so big on family values, Palin was never at home.
Kellner-Rode said he sometimes felt like a minority as a Democrat in a Republican-dominated area. LaFrance, whose brother played hockey alongside Track, from Palmer, Alaska, a near by town of Wasilla, completely agrees.
“I wouldn’t vote Palin for governor of Alaska,” LaFrance said. “I won’t be voting for her for vice
president.”
“She’s the luckiest person in the world,” LaFrance said. “It’s like [Palin] stumbles into these things.”
As the result of another coincidence, Kellner-Rode is the nephew of California superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention Rachel Binah. It was through this family tie that Kellner-Rode had the opportunity to work as a page for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean at the convention last month in Denver, Colo.
The presence of many college-aged students and groups is something he said was impressive. Kellner-Rode described the DNC as a people-packed, whirlwind experience.
“I basically stood for seven days straight,” he said.
But all of the busywork was worth it for him.
“I got to stand near the podium when Biden made his speech, and I saw Will.i.am perform,” Kellner-Rode said. “Everything was really exciting.”
When it comes down to it, Wasilla is just Kellner-Rode’s hometown, and Track, who was deployed to Iraq on Sept. 11, is someone he knows and cares for.
“It’s scary having someone you know go to Iraq,” he said.
No matter the outcome of the election, Kellner-Rode said he does not think this will be the last the country hears of Palin.
“I think the Republicans have been grooming her,” he said. “She’s a rising star, like [Barack] Obama was four years ago.”
LaFrance said she thinks people are putting almost too much focus on Palin lately, when the true limelight of the election should be elsewhere.
“Voting for Sarah Palin is voting for [John] McCain,” she said.
Kellner-Rode said he predicts that after the election Wasilla will go back to being another unheard-of
Alaskan town.
“It’s for the better,” he said.

Cat Grunbaum

Review staff writer

Once again it is the time of year when young adults from all over the country head off to college to begin a new chapter of their lives.
Although this is an exciting time, it can also be overwhelming and stressful. Going through changes, such as moving away from home and into a dorm, means more people, new situations and, therefore, more opportunities to get into unhealthy habits.
Wellness Week is held to help instill healthy habits. Tables at both Walker Hall and Withnell Commons offer an array of information about topics that students will inevitably cross paths with.
“Wellness Week provides information and skills for students to take charge of their health and make good choices,” Christina Ries, Health Promotion and Student Wellness Coordinator said. “Wellness Week is important, but it’s just one piece of the puzzle that students should continue to build upon.”
Although Wellness Week has been a tradition at Linfield for some time, there was a tremendous amount of support from the student body this year. More than 26 groups, including clubs, classes and Greek life, were involved in handing out information regarding mental health, relationships and sexual health, substance abuse, nutrition and physical health.
Kits handed out included stress reduction tools, safe sex supplies, smoking cessation methods, multivitamins and first aid kits.
One of the events during Wellness Week was the Purple Plague, an activity that demonstrates how quickly disease can spread.
One way disease can spread is through direct contact, such as touching an infected person, kissing or having sex. Another way is through indirect contact, such as touching a contaminated object, ingesting contaminated food or water, getting bitten by an insect or through the air, the Purple Plague demonstrates.
Students are encouraged to get vaccinated to prevent diseases, wash their hands frequently, avoid contact with infected people, get regular exercise, eat a balanced diet, focusing on fruits and vegetables, manage stress, get adequate sleep and not to smoke cigarettes or hookah.
Students can see if their wristband won a prize by checking the e-mail distributed by Ries. Winners can pick up their prizes at the Student Health Center.
Even though there was much involvement with Wellness Week, numerous students said they believe it was not enough to make much of a difference.
“Tables should be open for more than 11 a.m.-2 p.m. since the majority of students are in class during those times,” senior Sydney Abbott said. “Also, wellness needs to be taught more than once a year to be effective.”
Other students said they believe Wellness Week events are not engaging to their demographic.
“It would be nice to see something different for once,” senior Jena Miller said. “It’s always the same thing every year.”
Ries asks those with ideas for next year’s Wellness Week to e-mail suggestions to cries@linfield.edu or stop by the Wellness Center.

Amber McKenna

Editor in chief

A long-time interest in learning about space travel is sending Martin Bode, class of 2008, to Stuttgart, Germany, on a Fulbright Scholarship for the current academic year.

Bode left this week for the Institute of Space Systems,  where he will study xenon particles and temperature in plasma ion engines and work on developing more efficient technology for space exploration.

The Fulbright program is intended to further understanding of cultures world wide through study, research and teaching. Since 1999, 16 Linfield students have received these prestigious awards.

Bode graduated last spring with an applied physics major and minors in math and music.

Deborah Olsen, Bode’s Fulbright adviser, said he was adamant about obtaining this award.

“We would be e-mailing each other at all hours of the night and day,” Olsen said.

Bode’s extra effort to achieve the Fulbright award showed in his commitment to taking beginning German during his senior year at Linfield, which he continued this summer at Oregon State University in his hometown of Corvallis.

Previously, Bode did research alongside Linfield professors and as part of the Pennsylvania State University Student Space Programs. While at Linfield he participated in Residence Life, ASLC Senate, Sigma Pi Sigma, Alpha Lambda Delta, concert choir, jazz band, concert band and Ultimate Frisbee.

“Marty is a fine saxophone player and he hopes to join an ensemble in Germany,” Olsen said.

After staying in Stuttgart, Bode plans to do his doctoral studies at Purdue University.

Professor visits India, returns with goal to inspire others at Linfield through experience

Amber McKenna

Editor in chief

Third-world poverty, passionate educators and famous sites are a few of the things Associate Professor of Education Nancy Drickey experienced in India this summer.

She visited India as part of the Fulbright Specialists Program, which is focused on providing short-term academic opportunities for U.S. professionals. After a competitive application process, Drickey and 10 other faculty members from around the country were selected to visit the cities of Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.

“The program was action-packed from the moment we got [to India],” Drickey said.

She visited schools, colleges and government agencies to learn about the education issues plaguing India.

“In Southern India we saw the poorest schools,” Drickey said. “They had no doors, no windows and no electricity or water.”

The group of scholars also had the opportunity to visit the orphanages where the legendary Mother Teresa lived and worked.

Drickey said visiting these third-world facilities helped her understand the similarities between problems in the U.S. education system and those in India.

“All of their problems are on a different scale,” she said. “[In India], they don’t have compulsory education and less than half of the children go to school.”

According to Drickey, the extreme poverty in India is impossible to avoid.

“I’ve seen poverty in China and Mexico, and it doesn’t even compare to India,” she said.

When visiting orphanages and schools, Drickey said she was impressed by the number of volunteers, many of who were students from abroad. In 2010, Drickey aims to bring Linfield students to India on a January Term course to study the education and culture of India, as well as to do some volunteer work.

Drickey said she believes that if the people of India can get educated, they can get out of the rut they are currently in.

“[Being there] changed the way I view the world,” she said. Drickey will present a speech on her trip, titled  “Education: An Agent for Change,” as one of the many  “Three Cups of Tea” events October 6 at 7 p.m. in Jonasson Hall.