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VOLUME CXXVIII

THE STORY OF OUR WASTEFeature goes dumpster diving

in honor of Earth Week PAGE 5

U.S. veteran speaks out on the sacrifice of the armed forces

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Columnist Bryant Fong interviews a local veteran on his views o! the anti-war movement.

blue moon brings in the band

The Tallest Man on Earth and KWCW

help celebrate the literary arts magazine’s 24th

release.

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Part of Jea Alford’s thesis hangs in the Sheehan Gal-lery. Senior art majors received guidance from Port-land Art Museum Curator Bonnie Laing-Malcomson during the installation process.PHOTO BY BOWMAN

Co-op plans for move

o!-campus

ASWCapproves

‘11-12 budget

I! you’ve ever wanted to make mon-ey, save the planet or provide Whit-man students with more scholarships, Fred Liebrand has a project for you.

The Walla Walla University professor o! physics has been developing a community solar project which would take advantage o! generous state and feder-al tax incentives to install solar panels around Wal-la Walla, allowing local colleges to reap the bene!its.

After almost two years o! work on the project, Liebrand recently secured approval from the state for a 75-kilowatt installation at the Walla Walla Regional Airport. He hopes to use the power and money these panels produce to provide scholarships for Whit-man, Walla Walla University (WWU) and Wal-la Walla Community College (WWCC) students.

“At a time when it’s getting harder for stu-dents to go to college, I think the ability to replace some funding [for colleges] with programs that are not only good for the community, but good for the environment is the right thing to do,” he said.

At its core, a community solar project is an in-vestment opportunity. Interested parties could pur-chase panels and other equipment through the com-

munity solar project, which would be its own le-gal entity. The organizers would oversee all technical aspects o! the installation, from pur-chasing and maintaining panels to !illing out paperwork. Investors would receive a check for the state’s production incentives—cur-rently $1.08 per kilowatt hour for a com-munity project with panels made in-state. This money would be dispersed via local utilities, which are given a tax credit by the

state to cover the cost o! incentive payments.Over an eight-year period, Washington’s so-

lar incentives would more than pay for the cost o! the original installation, allowing investors to make a pro!it. Liebrand has estimated that from an orig-inal investment o! 10,000 dollars on a solar system, incentives would total approximately 21,000 dollars over an eight year period. Individuals electing not to keep these incentives could instead donate them to a college, where they would be used for scholarships.

The individual would be able to write of! the incentive donation for tax purpos-es, which would provide them with a tax bene-!it o! about 8000 dollars. Through this tax write-off, they would recapture most o! their orig-inal investment while providing a substan-tial amount o! scholarship money for the college.

Whitman remains uninvolved in a

no-risk community solar project that

could bring the college handsome

by KARAH KEMMERLY

Staff Reporter

Starting on Wednesday, June 1, the Daily Market Cooper-ative will move to a new lo-

cation of! o! the Whitman cam-pus, in the hopes o! reaching out to the Walla Walla com-munity by expanding the store.

The Co-op’s contract for their current location at 505 East Main Street -- a Whitman-owned house, expires at the end o! May and has forced The Co-op Board Members to make the de-cision to move its location in or-der to keep the store running.

The Co-op hopes to ex-pand the store by increasing bulk inventory, introduce a cool-er for fresh produce, and ex-pand its hours by hiring a regu-lar staff. According to Matt Ep-pelsheimer, president o! the Dai-ly Market Co-op Board, the ex-piration o! the contract was the extra push that the Co-op need-ed to expand and garner a more well-known reputation as a store.

“We have a great opportu-nity to use another location, and we !inally decided to take a risk,” he said. “Produce is some-thing we wanted to carry for awhile, and expanding will allow us to hire a regular staf! which will make that more possible.”

Created !ive years ago by a group o! Whitman students, in-cluding Eppelsheimer, the Co-op has quickly expanded. Busi-ness has particularly grown with the introduction o! the Made in Walla Walla boxes, which give subscribers a variety o! lo-cal food every week. The intro-duction o! the boxes this year has increased the Co-op’s populari-ty in the Walla Walla communi-ty and has increased foot traf!ic.

According to senior Eliz-abeth Bragg, one o! the Co-op’s volunteer coordinators, the store’s increased foot traf!ic was the main reason why Whit-man asked the Co-op to move.

“Whitman has asked us to move because we can’t reasona-bly have a grocery store operating out o! a house,” she said. “We’re getting too big for the space.”

The Co-op hopes to have the store moved to its new ad-dress, at Someone’s in the Kitchen’s former location, 132 West Rose Street, by June 1.

by SHELLY LE

Staff Reporter

Thousands o! dollars from next year’s student fees were divvied up when

the ASWC Senate passed the 2011-12 ASWC budget in their meeting on Sunday, April 17.

Though the decrease in the ASWC student fee from 320 to 316 dollars per person could po-tentially have strained the budg-et, ASWC was also budget-ing with an increase o! 15 stu-dents, and thus another 4,740 dol-lars. Overall the decrease in budg-et was small: it went from close to 485,000 dollars to 470,840 dollars.

Members o! ASWC are still pleased with their de-cision to decrease the stu-dent fund. As junior Fritz Sieg-ert, !inance chair elect, point-ed out, it did not cause problems.

“It didn’t affect the budg-et tremendously,” he said. “And ASWC wants to show the stu-dents that we understand they and their families are going through some tough !inancial times.”

Junior Matt Dittrich, current !inance chair and president elect, agrees.

“There were some surpluses last year, so lowering the student fee was logical. The greatest disservice we can do to students is not spend the money we took from them,” he said.

The entire budget endeav-or lasts just over a month, begin-ning with a request for campus clubs and organizations to turn in budget request forms, moving to a !inance committee meeting, two budget hearings and culminating with the Senate’s vote o! approval.

A notable change in this year’s budget was a total 25.16 percent increase in money given to media groups this year. This change is pri-marily because the newly-formed yearbook, Waiilatpu, received 15,409 dollars plus a 1,000 dol-lar stipend for its editor. quarterlife also received a 69 percent increase in funds in order to improve their publication. KWCW received a 12 percent increase in funding, blue moon a !ive percent increase and The Pioneer a two percent increase.

Dittrich says the purpose for increased funding stems from the positive reaction these or-ganizations receive from stu-dents and excellent leadership within the groups themselves.

CO-OP, PAGE 2ASWC BUDGET, PAGE 2

SOLAR PROJECT, PAGE 3

Fouts joins Sheehan to accommodate record number of studio art theses

Friday, April 22 marks the beginning o! the stu-dio art major thesis ex-

hibition at Sheehan Art Gal-ley and Fouts Center for Vis-ual Arts, an event that al-lows Whitman College sen-iors to ful!ill the “written” portion o! their thesis.

“Instead o! writing a for-mal dissertation, the students work over the course o! the ac-ademic year to produce a body o! work that supports a spe-ci!ic idea,” said Director o! the Sheehan Gallery Dawn Forbes. “Then they present aspects o! that body in the gallery.”

This year, the exhibition will feature more students

than have ever participated in the past. A total o! 17 stu-dio art majors will display their work, with the work o! 13 stu-dents at Sheehan Galley and four students at Fouts Center.

Forbes believes that this increased group o! students can be attributed to the in-crease in studio art professors.

“The studio art faculty ex-panded from essentially what was a two-person faculty to an art studio faculty o! nine,” said Forbes. “I think what you can see as a result o! that ex-

pansion is increased diversity in the students’ work because they get to work with a varie-ty o! different faculty and in a variety o! different mediums.”

Accordingly, there will be a wide range o! artistic mediums on display at the exhibitions.

“We have everything from cartoonish wallpaper to ambi-ent noise projections to ceram-ics,” said Exhibitions and Col-lections Manager Kynde Kie-fel. “Medium-wise, it is one o! our most diverse shows.”

Students have invested a great deal o! time into their respective art pieces, and the exhibition will show only a small portion o! the work they created throughout the course o! their senior year.

“Part o! the process is [that] the students have to edit their work. It’s an evolution; just like writing a paper, there are drafts and redrafts, false starts and tangents,” said Forbes.

by MCCAULAY SINGER-MILNES

Staff Reporter

ART MAJORS, PAGE 4

$1.08Washington state maximum solar production incentive

per kilowatt hour

by RACHEL ALEXANDER

News Editor

2NUMBERS IN THE NEWS

$1,218,567Total amount o! federal need-based grants awarded to Whit-man students for the 2010-11 school year.

$994,000,000Total amount allocated in the 2011 federal budget for higher education student aid.

9 millionNumber o! Americans receiving Pell Grants per year.

$5,550Maximum Pell Grant award for the 2010-11 school year.

2Number o! grants students could receive per year for the 2010-11 academic year.

$4,705Maximum Pell Grant award for the 2011-12 school year in the House’s original budget.

$5,550Maximum Pell Grant award for the 2011-12 school year in the !inal budget.

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$1.3 billionTotal cuts to the Department o! Education in the 2011 budget.

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“This re!lects the overwhelm-ing student support for expand-ing literary publications. Peo-ple want things in print,” he said.

Sophomore Molly Este-ve, current layout editor o! quarterlife and future edi-tor-in-chief, said that despite the fact quarterlife original-ly asked for 9,500 dollars, they are pleased with the 6,700 dol-lars ASWC granted them.

“We de!initely support their efforts and agree with the amount allotted. They look out for Whitman’s media or-ganizations and we’re thank-ful for their con!idence that quarterlife will do great things with a larger budget,” she said.

quarterlife plans to use these extra funds to increase the size o! their publication from about 40 to 100 pages and to change the binding to what Esteve calls “less staples, more blue moon.”

As Esteve points out, next year will be a transition year for quarterlife: they will be print-ing two o! their four issues in the new binding. They hope that in two more years, all four issues will be in the improved format.

Esteve attributes quar-terlife’s success to its staff.

“The main factors con-tributing to quarterlife’s growth have been phenom-enal staf! members with am-bitious attitudes,” she said.

Senior Matt Bachmann, ed-

itor o! “Hey Man,” KWCW’s newly-established music mag-azine, is also pleased with the money KWCW received.

KWCW requested mon-ey from the Travel and Student Development Fund to produce “Hey Man” this semester. Next semester the publication’s costs are covered in KWCW’s budget.

“ASWC has been very sup-portive o! KWCW over the last couple years,” he said. “One thing I really appreciate about Whitman is that i! you have a good idea, ASWC will almost always work with you to make it happen.”

A handful o! groups, includ-ing BSU and the Whitman Col-lege Fencing Club, received fund-ing cuts o! several hundred dol-lars or more despite requesting increased funding. Several new groups received at least 1,000 dol-lars, including Challah for Hun-ger, Eye-to-Eye and Model U.N.

To view the entire ASWC 2011-12 budget, go to

http://bit.ly/edwteD.

While some con-sumers celebrat-ed the launch o! Ap-

ple’s iPad 2 by purchasing one for themselves, Whitman’s Ac-ademic Resource Center (ARC) had other plans. They recent-ly purchased a pair o! iPad 2s for student use on March 11.

Along with the iPads, the Ac-ademic Resource Center has a number o! different gadgets on hand to lend out to students who need them. They range from a Livescribe “smartpen,” which links recorded audio to written text in special notebooks, to an Intel Reader, which can read text back to the user based on a photo taken by the onboard camera. All o! them fall under the umbrella o! “assistive technology,” or tech-nology that allows people with learning differences or disabilities to more easily perform actions that would be dif!icult for them. Mary Claire Gegen, program co-ordinator for the ARC, said that the technology helps to pro-vide equal opportunities to those who need the extra advantage.

“Our philosophy with regards to technology is that it puts stu-dents on an equal playing !ield with other students,” she said.

Senior Natalie Tamburel-lo, an intern at the ARC, agrees.

“We’re just all trying to !it within this society that school cre-ates, and some o! us need to do dif-ferent things in order to do that.”

According to Juli Dunn, di-rector o! academic resources, the ARC provides disability sup-port services to about 10 per-cent o! the student body, in addi-tion to other services such as tu-toring, pre-major advising, and coordinating the Student Aca-demic Adviser (SA) program.

While spending near-

ly 1,200 dollars on a pair o! iP-ads may seem hefty, Dunn says the variety o! uses for the iP-ads will save the college money.

“The iPad is actually an in-credibly cost ef!icient way for our of!ice to let students sam-ple similar hardware -- Live-

scribe pen, sound ampli!ier, Intel Reader, AlphaSmart -- and soft-ware -- Dragon Dictation, Read-Hear, RFB&D, SpeakIt, phonet-ic spellers -- on their own terms.”

For many, assistive technology is what helps them get their work done. Tamburello, who is dyslex-

ic, said assistive technology plays a major part in her schooling.

“I mainly use text-to-speech software, and I’ve been us-ing that since high school,” Tamburello said. “It helps me with my processing o! lan-guage, because reading is such a strenuous process for me.”

MiKayla Briere, a !irst-year who uses a wheelchair, will be us-ing the iPads as a means o! mak-ing her geology !ield trips more accessible. Once Briere reach-es the farthest she can travel, an-other student carrying an iPad and a wireless broadband modem will move forward from there.

“We’ll establish a connec-tion between the two o! us and then we can video chat, so I can see the outcrop up close and personal,” she said.

The iPads have proven pop-ular. Since the ARC purchased them, they haven’t spent much time in the of!ice due to demand.

“There was this realization that the iPads aren’t going to be home very often,” said Dunn.

Any student can check out as-sistive hardware from the ARC, but priority is given to students with a documented need. For those who don’t know what tech-nology would help them most, Tamburello suggests meet-ing with someone in the ARC.

“You can have a meeting with Mary Claire or Juli and !igure out what’s best for you,” she said.

The ARC remains com-mitted to providing stu-dents with the best technolo-gy possible in the future, as well.

“Keeping up on the new tech-nology is a job in and o! itself,” Dunn said. “We want students to continue to use the equipment we have and any emerging technolo-gy that pops up on the horizon in such a way that it help them, and in turn us, realize the mission for the Academic Resource Center.”

The store will be twice the size as its current location, allowing for more room to expand. By intro-ducing more produce and hiring a regular staff, the Co-op also hopes to compete among other grocery stores in Walla Walla, and have a presence in the community.

“I feel like the move will real-ly bene!it the Co-op and give us more o! a presence in the Wal-la Walla community,” said !irst-year Molly Johanson, the Co-

op’s other volunteer coordinator. However, while the move will

help the Co-op reach out to the community, the new location’s distance from campus may deter Whitman students from shop-ping at the Co-op. However, the Co-op remains optimistic that the expansion o! produce and hours will encourage students to see the Co-op as an organized gro-cery store to regularly buy from.

“Students speci!ically, I feel, will be more receptive to the new location,” Johanson said. “The

goal for the move is for it to look more like a grocery store, to bring its identity from less o! a disorgan-ized jumble to an idyllic Co-op.”

Rather than seeing the expira-tion o! the contract as a hurdle for the Co-op, the board hopes to use the move to shape the perfect shop – appealing to both the Walla Walla and Whitman community.

“We’re excited because we’re moving in the direction o! the store we’ve always en-visioned,” Eppelsheimer said.

Mary Claire Gegen, the ARC’s program coordinator, shows off a Smart Pen and an Amazon Kindle, two of the assistive tools available for students.PHOTO BY LERCHIN

from CO-OP, PAGE 1

by BLAIR FRANK

Staff Reporter

from ASWC BUDGET, PAGE 1

Assistive technology helps Academic Resource Center support students

This reflects the

overwhelming support for

expanding literary publications. People want things in print.

MATT DITTRICH, '12

More money for mediaASWC also funds several new clubs

CO!OP TO HIRE PAID STAFF

EDITORIAL POLICYFounded before the turn o! 20th century, The Pioneer is Whitman College’s weekly, student-run newspaper. With a circulation o! over 1,200, The Pioneer serves both the Whitman College student body and its network o! faculty, staff, parents and alumni as well as the local Walla Walla community. The Pioneer publishes a weekly issue o! the latest news, arts and sports coverage and student editorials. The Pioneer is entirely student-run and serves as an open

forum for the student body as well as an outlet for gaining journalistic experience at a school that has no journalism program. The staf! receives guidance from a Board o! Advisors, a group o! campus and community leaders, including Whit-man College faculty and staf! with journalism expertise as well as members o! the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. The Pioneer strives to maintain the highest standards o! fairness, quality and journalistic integrity and is governed by a Code o! Ethics.

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The Code o! Ethics serves as The Pioneer’s established guidelines for the practice o! responsible journalism on campus, within reasonable interpretation o! the Edito-rial Board. These guidelines are subject to constant review and amendment by the current Editor-in-Chie! and Editorial Board. The Code o! Ethics is reviewed at least once per semester. To access the complete Code o! Ethics for The Pioneer, visit whitmanpioneer.com/about.

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A row of bulk spices at the Daily Market Co-op. The Co-op will be moving locations at the beginning of May, allowing them to stock a greater variety of foods and expand business. PHOTO BY VON HAFFTEN

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Planning to be in the South Puget Sound area

summer 2011?

Take courses at PLU to transfer back to

Whitman.

The panels would also be donat-ed to the colleges after the eight-year period for production incentives ends, and colleges would be able to use the power the panels generate, thus reducing their electricity bills.

Whitman is currently not in-volved in the community solar pro-ject, though Bob Carson, profes-sor o! geology and environmen-tal studies, hopes to see this change.

“We can and should attempt to do more environmentally,” said Carson.

He believes the project is im-portant for environmental rea-sons, both as a tool to combat cli-mate change and as a way o! edu-cating Whitman students about the bene!its o! renewable energy. Even without the environmental bene!its, he stressed that Whitman stands to make money by participating.

“I! an alum gives all o! their savings and pro!its [from the project] to the college, the col-lege would do quite well,” he said.

Sustainability Coordina-tor senior Nat Clarke also hoped that the college would choose to participate in the project.

“It’s a meaningful project for Walla Walla,” he said. “It’s a mean-ingful project for Whitman, out-

side o! any !inancial bene!its.”Whitman Treasurer and Chie!

Financial Of!icer Peter Harvey said that the college is currently unable to spend time soliciting alumni partici-pation in the project, since the col-lege is focused on a major campaign to grow the endowment. However, Whitman may still choose to par-ticipate in some capacity. Liebrand is currently working with the Whitman administration to discuss this possibility. Even without active alum-ni recruitment, Liebrand said Whitman could still receive incentives from the project.

Another issue o! con-cern to Liebrand is so-lar project placement. Un-der existing state law, com-munity solar projects cannot be located on college and univer-sity campuses. A proposed bill in the Washington State legisla-ture, HB 1144 would have changed this by permit-ting projects on eligi-ble college campus-es. However, after passing the house, the bill was amend-ed substantially with very speci!ic require-ments for schools which

would be allowed to site projects. As written, none o! Walla Wal-la’s colleges would qualify for inclu-sion. The bill is currently in the State Senate’s Ways and Means Com-mittee and has not seen any ma-jor action since the end o! March.

Liebrand has lobbied

for previous versions o! the bill, but does not support the restrictions which make it impossible for Walla Walla schools to participate. He said that allowing installations on cam-puses would make it easier for stu-dents to learn about panel installa-tion and other technical aspects o! the project. This is especially o! in-

terest to WWU and WWCC stu-dents, since both schools have

technical programs focus-ing on renewable energy.

Even with its amend-ments, Liebrand believes budget concerns have im-

pacted the bill’s chanc-es o! passing, since more so-

lar projects mean more produc-tion incentives have to be paid out.

“There seems to be a fear [in Olympia] that i! they make it seem like [a community so-lar project] is an easy thing to do, a lot o! people will do it,” he said.

“It’s not an easy thing to do.”A representa-

tive from Senator Mike Hewitt’s of-!ice said that the sen-ator--who repre-sents Walla Wal-la--was in support o! the premise o! the bill, but would not

comment on Hewitt’s opinion o! the current version. He was also unsure o! the bill’s chances o! passing giv-en the state o! Washington’s budget.

“There’s not a lot o! appe-tite here to give money away for a tax exemption, howev-er noble it may be,” he said.

The representative said that the bill will likely not move out o! the Senate Ways and Means Committee without action from Senate Dem-ocrats, who are the majority par-ty. Thus far, they have not placed the bill on the committee’s agenda.

Regardless o! the outcome o! HB 1144, Liebrand is moving ahead with the project. Currently, he is so-liciting bids for the airport installa-tion, and will begin collecting mon-ey from investors once a bid is se-lected. He is optimistic that the pro-ject will be able to provide signi!i-cant bene!its for Walla Walla’s col-leges as well as serve as an edu-cational tool for the community.

Clarke also hopes to see the project grow, and believes Whit-man students will be instru-mental in determining the col-lege’s eventual role in the project.

“I really hope that stu-dents start discussing this,” he said. “[They] could help make this happen i! they wanted to.”

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from SOLAR PROJECT, PAGE 1

ILLUSTRATION BY SLOANE

Community solar project moves forward, Whitman’s involvement uncertain

POLITICAL PROTEST

i n Wa l l a Wa l l a

What’s wrong with the Unit-ed States government? For members o! the Wal-

la Walla Tea Party Patriots, it’s out o! control government spending.

The group held a tax day rally on Friday, April 15 to advocate the impor-tance o! !iscal responsibility and limit-ed government. Spokesperson Mar-tha Clinehens believes that the gov-ernment needs to make substantial cuts to address the growing federal de!icit.

“Hard, tough decisions are going to have to be made,” she said. “There are a lot o! things that I agree with and that you agree with that will have to be cut.”

For U.S. Uncut activists, the is-sue is corporate tax dodging. The group, which staged protests across the country in conjunction with Mo-veOn.org, rallied at Heritage Square Park on Monday, April 18 to object to government cuts in social services and to the many large American cor-porations that don’t pay income tax.

“The Republicans are cutting back and taxing working people,” said rally organizer June McKen-zie. “There are a lot o! corporations that aren’t feeling the pinch today.”

McKenzie said that many o! the U.S.’s largest corporations, includ-ing General Electric, Exxon-Mo-bil and Bank o! America, paid no in-come tax in the past year. She said that tax revenues from Bank o! Ameri-ca and other companies would bridge much o! the estimated 1.65 trillion dollar 2011 !iscal year budget de!icit.

Clinehens disagreed with this anal-ysis, saying that government spend-ing levels are simply too high for tax increases to make up for the de!icit.

“The federal government cannot tax its way out o! its !iscal problem,” she said. “A very serious look at reduc-ing or cutting programs is essential.”

The Tea Party rally presented this theme through speeches at their ral-ly, which drew about 150 people de-spite heavy rain. Keynote speaker Rev-erend Wayne Perryman said that pol-iticians in Washington, D.C. are out o! touch with average Americans.

“We need to remind the politi-cians who they work for,” he said. “The Tea Party is a movement that’s saying, ‘Enough is enough.’”

The Tea Party movement start-ed in 2009 as a grassroots move-ment o! !iscally-conservative Ameri-cans who are frustrated with D.C. in-siders, increasing taxes and govern-

ment spending. Much o! the move-ment’s success in numbers has been at-tributed to its ability to connect with voters who are frustrated by a political system dominated by special interests.

This attraction has been a source o! frustration for activists on the left. Since the 2008 election, Amer-ican liberals and the Democrat-ic Party have been criticized for lack-ing a cohesive narrative. Progres-sive and liberal writers and column-ists have said that the left needs a sto-ry to counter the Tea Party’s beliefs.

US Uncut protests across the coun-try might be the beginning o! a uni-!ied liberal narrative. The idea behind these protests — that corporations need to pay income tax like average citizens do — has its roots in a movement called U.K. Uncut, a loosely organized ac-tivist coalition which has staged pro-tests outside large businesses across the United Kingdom which don’t pay in-come tax. The idea has since spread to the U.S., where it tells a more liberal story: Government has an obligation to take care o! its citizens, and i! corpora-tions paid their fair share, the country will be able to look out for everyone.

In spite o! their ideological dif-ferences, the Tea Party and U.S. Un-cut share structural similarities. Both groups decry a government overrun with lobbyists and special interests. Both groups are clear about the changes they want to see happen, but are limited in their ability to make those changes happen. Even with the Republican and Tea Party victories in the 2010 elec-tions, Clinehens doesn’t feel that the political situation has improved much.

“I think overall, we’re still in a very bad position,” she said.

Though the Tea Party is portrayed as a conservative movement, Cline-hens and her fellow Tea Party ac-tivists were critical o! both parties’ lack o! action on reducing spending.

“There’s been a lot o! pointing !in-gers, but no agreed upon plan,” she said.

Attendees at the U.S. Un-cut rally were similarly frus-trated with the state o! politi-cal discourse in Washington, D.C.

“It’s not going to be a democra-cy i! [special interests] own Con-gress and the media,” said Wal-la Walla resident Norm Oster-man, who attended the rally.

For this fact to change, more Americans will need to be politi-cally engaged. Clinehens and Mc-Kenzie agreed that raising aware-ness was essential for solving polit-ical problems in the United States.

Osterman put it more bluntly.“People need to wake up,” he said.

by RACHEL ALEXANDER

News Editor

ABOVE Members of the U.S. Uncut protest march down Main Street chanting, “We want health care, not corporate welfare!” The group ended up outside of Bank of America at 111 Main Street, where protest organizers delivered a tax bill to the bank manager. PHOTO BY ALEXANDER

BELOW An attendee at the Walla Walla Tea Party Patriot rally stands to watch a Civil Air Patrol Cadet’s speech about the value of “strong character” and civil liberties. Like most of the rally speakers, the cadet spoke passionately about family values, repeating the patriotic refrain “from sea to shining sea.” PHOTO BY LERCHIN

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The exhibition also serves to include the public in the art process, serving as many stu-dents’ first experience with pro-fessional displays of their art.

“Ideally, the senior thesis ex-hibition is a means of opening a dialogue with the rest of the cam-pus, a way to shake off the insu-larity,” said contributing senior studio art major Noah Greene.

In addition, students re-ceive the benefit of advice from an experienced professional throughout the process of put-ting together their piece for the exhibition. Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, the curator for the Portland Art Museum, is this year’s resident expert and guest lecturer at the opening.

“[Working with a pro-fessional] is always a re-

ally valuable and reward-ing experience,” said Kiefel.

The event will begin with the lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the Shee-han Gallery and will move to the Fouts Critique Space at 7:30

p.m. to allow the students, fam-ily members and other mem-bers of the community in attend-ance to view the rest of the the-ses. The works will be on dis-play from April 22 to May 21.

On Tuesday, April 26 the music department will host the !inal performance

o! the Divertimento Chamber Orchestra with senior conductor Jackson Maberry before he heads of! to Cambridge University for a masters in choral conducting.

Maberry is a senior music ma-jor who began conducting the Di-vertimento ensemble !irst semes-ter o! his junior year. One o! the pieces which will be performed is his thesis, an 1876 overture by Elfrida Andree, which Maber-ry is turning into a modern per-formance edition score. The oth-er pieces include a choral requi-em by Whitman composer Emi-ly Allen and two violin concertos.

“This is my !irst semester do-ing [work with soloists],” said Maberry o! the concertos. “It’s a unique challenge to do a con-certo, or part o! a concerto, be-cause all o! a sudden you don’t have sole interpretive author-ity, you’re sharing interpre-tive authority with the soloist.”

Josh Melander, the !irst-year violin soloist in for the ensem-ble’s performance o! Beethoven’s

violin concerto in D major, also noted the dif!iculty o! join-ing soloist with orchestra.

“Usually in putting together a soloist and an orchestra, most o! the rehearsal time is spent … mak-ing sure that the soloist and the orchestra are on the same page,” said Melander. “And, so far I think Jackson has done a great job accommodating all o! the things that I’ve decided to do with it.”

It is not a sim-ple piece to interpret.

“The notes are ... not tech-nically dif!icult, but the more that I worked on it the more I realized that there are just so many possibilities in how to ex-ecute the pieces and what kind o! musical picture I want to paint with it,” said Maberry.

Senior vocalist McKen-na Milici, who will also per-form at the concert, has worked with Maberry several times during his conducting career.

“Jackson started out just learn-ing it, and really turned into quite a competent conductor. It’s re-ally cool to get to see his jour-ney as an artist,” said Milici.

For Maberry, that learn-ing process is a large part o! what has made working with

Divertimento so ful!illing.“With each passing [Diverti-

mento] concert that I have done, I have seen, both in the ensem-ble and in myself, mostly in my-self, great improvement,” said Maberry. “The orchestra’s always been fantastic, but I don’t think I would have ever learned as much about conducting i! it weren’t for working with these players.”

While a choral conduct-ing major he will pursue is a departure from his primari-ly orchestral repertoire, Milli-ci has great faith in his abilities.

“We’re all just super thrilled for him,” said Milici. “He’s got the perfect combina-tion o! good conducting tech-nique and sheer charisma; that is pretty much the two things you need to be a conductor.”

Wherever he goes from here, it is safe to say that Ma-berry will take his time with Divertimento with him.

“The entire experience o! working with this orchestra has just been one big best mo-ment o! my life,” said Maberry. “Every second o! it is magical.”

The concert will take place on Tuesday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Chism Hall.

Whitman’s annual liter-ary arts magazine, blue moon, teams up with

KWCW for its release party on Friday, April 22, bringing in folk artist The Tallest Man on Earth to play for the event.

blue moon, in its 24th year

under that name, is an award-win-ning annual literary magazine.

“Each spring we have a release party … This year I approached Matt [Bachmann, General Man-ager o! KWCW] early on in t h e year to see i!

[ K W C W ] w o u l d be in-

terested in co-sponsoring the event with us so we could get a good band and have a joint party,” said senior Lara Me-hling, editor o! blue moon.

They then brainstormed artists to bring in, and ap-proached The Tallest Man on Earth to play for the release.

“It worked out well, o! the bands we considered, Tallest Man is one o! the favorites on campus; people are really excited about him coming,” said Bachmann.

“He’s also going to be a great artist for this event par-ticularly because his music can be both really sort o! melodi-ous and low-key and can be

also really kind o! energet-ic and fun,” Mehling said.

Taking place in Reid basement, The Mumlers

will open at 9 p.m. and Tall-est Man will begin at 10 p.m. As o! April 14, the Facebook page for the event has 317 con-!irmed attendees, but Mehling and Bachmann chose the small-ish coffeehouse because it seemed more appropriate for this event, for these artists particularly.

“Part o! the advantage o! putting it in the coffeehouse is that it’s more feasible than a big dance !loor and more appropri-ate in keeping the focus on blue moon’s release,” said Bachmann.

Though the crowd size is a concern, since all-campus and cof-feehouse events are more dif!icult to regulate, Bachmann and Meh-ling have prepared for the crowd.

“I’m not too worried about it,” said Bachmann, “It could be a problem, but it’s almost a good thing … The thing I was most worried about is the speak-ers not being loud enough, but we’re getting bigger speakers.”

Bachmann and Mehling also cite greater publicity as part o! the reason for the sub-stantial interest and excite-ment that students are showing.

“People talk more about [Tall-est Man] than they [have for pre-vious artists that have come to campus]. He’s just the boss,” said Bachmann. “We put out the word early enough or something, peo-ple are getting really excited, the rumors have been spreading.”

blue moon and KWCW hope students take advantage o! the release party in celebrat-ing the con!luence o! literature, art and music that blue moon and this event hope to represent.

“We do publish a magazine for every student, although they’ll be available afterward and we’ll be tabling them in Reid. I just hope a lot o! people come out to get their magazines and cake and to see Tallest Man,” said Mehling.

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Student conductor brings 1876 to life

Remember that staple o! childhood, the Mag-ic 8-Ball whence all deci-

sions !lowed? Well, they’re mak-ing a movie. Not a documentary -- (What the hell would that en-tail?) -- but a full-blown movie, ru-mored to come out summer 2012. I think the only valid response to this troubling news is, “Wait. What?”

That’s right folks, “Magic 8-Ball” could be the family movie event o! 2012. (This must be the end o! the world those pesky Mayans acciden-tally prophesied by not !inishing their calendar.) Speaking o! mov-ies adapted from board games, also on the way is the Monopoly mov-ie, as well as Battleship and a Oui-ja Board movie in development.

What about last summer, when Chrisopher Nolan’s brainchild “In-ception” dominated box of!ic-es enough to become the second-highest grossing movie o! all time? Doesn’t that mean audiences are hungry for new content? Shouldn’t studios try to follow a new path, one devoid o! board game adapta-tions or 5th sequels? Actually, no.

“I think that there’s two ways to evaluate !ilms — you can eval-uate them as art or you can evalu-ate them as product,” said Associ-ate Professor o! Rhetoric and Film Studies Robert Sickels. “Every once in a while those two things align, but most o! the people involved in the business o! marketing mov-ies and paying for movies (which is different than making movies!) could care less whether a !ilm is art or not. Nobody who’s responsi-ble for !inancing ‘Transformers’ or ‘Transformers 2’ cares that it was one o! the worst-reviewed mov-ies in the history o! Hollywood.”

Indeed they do not. Both mov-ies were highly lucrative, not just in terms o! the movies themselves, but also in terms o! merchandising. Transformers was originally born from merchandise itself; before the movies was the popular television show, which in turn was adapt-ed from a line o! toys. Studio exec-utives must be extremely conserv-ative with their money, because the cost o! making movies and promoting them has risen to the point that, to green-light a movie, they need a built-in audience. For the same reason, studios love se-quels, because i! the audience liked

the !irst one, they’ll almost certain-ly come back for the second one.

“There’s no reason to believe that audiences want to see origi-nal material,” said Sickels. “I guess on the one hand you could ar-gue that audiences are hungry for movies and see what they’re al-lowed to see, what gets made. That said, the box of!ice is riddled with the casualties o! excellent !ilms that got some kind o! distribu-tion but that nobody went to see.”

As much as that depresses me (“Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “Scott Pil-grim vs. the World” are two such recent casualties, though both are actually adaptations o! written work), it is dif!icult to argue with the logic o! the !ilm studios. I! you desperately need a movie to make a pro!it, taking a chance on new, non-pre-sold content is a big stretch. In the end, what it comes down to is that movies designed only to en-tertain succeed because they do not aspire to be more than they are.

A GQ article entitled “The Day The Movies Died” argues that, “for the studios, a good new idea has be-come just too scary a road to trav-el. ‘Inception’, they will tell you, is an exceptional movie. And mov-ies that need to be exceptional to succeed are bad business. ‘The scab you’re picking at is called ex-ecution,’ says legendary produc-er Scott Rudin (‘The Social Net-work’, ‘True Grit’). ‘Studios are hardwired not to bet on execution, and the terrible thing is, they’re right. Because in terms o! execu-tion, most movies disappoint.’”

Now, I don’t know i! I would go that far, since even mediocre mov-ies can be a blast to watch. But in terms o! pro!itability, adaptations o! board-games, for example, will always be made over “Inception” or “Source Code” (a good, new, orig-inal thriller that I reviewed last week). This speaks to the dif!icul-ty o! crafting narrative and o! the art o! !ilmmaking; but i! a mov-ie is already pre-sold to the point that an audience is all but guaran-teed, it does not matter i! said mov-ie disappoints on the level o! art.

So stop complaining about Hol-lywood’s perennial sequelitis and lack o! original material — it is an incredibly smart business move, and not one that’s likely to change. And hey, “Magic 8-Ball” could be good — and I might see it even i! it is not. Suck on that, hipsters.

PIO PICKSEach Thursday, The Pioneer

highlights several events happening on campus or in Walla Walla

during the weekend. Here are this week’s picks:

D"##$%& '( B$))* C)(+%,-WEB presents a music ex-travaganza featuring Dabbles in Bloom alongside Whitman’s Slam Poetry Team Almighty Ink and The Turkish Royals. As part o! their summer West Coast tour fundraiser, Dabbles in Bloom will accept donations at the concert. Thursday, April 21, 9

p.m. Reid Ballroom.

W.'-*"( O,+.%&-," / C."*0#%, S'(1%,& S2,'(1 C)(+%,-The music department presents the spring concert for the Whit-man Orchestra and Chamber Singers. The Orchestra will perform Proko!iev’s “Classical” symphony and Finzi’s “Eclogue,” and Chamber Singers will perform, among other pieces, Melissa Dunphy’s “What Do You Think I Fought For at Omaha Beach?” This song’s text derives from the 2009 testimony o! WWII veteran Philip Spooner, who spoke out in support o! marriage equality. Saturday, April

23, 7:30 p.m. Chism Recital Hall.

A N'1.- '( A,1%(-'("Mecca, La Casa and ASWC invite students interested in learning about and celebrating Argentina to swing by La Casa for tango lessons, dulce de leche-based alfajores and more. Thurs-

day, April 21, 7 p.m. 412 Boyer.

Board game-­based movies reveal business side of art

blue moon celebrates release with Tallest Man on Earth

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by TANEEKA HANSENStaff Reporter

by KATE ROBINETTEStaff Reporter

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Recycling programs and fa-cilities are a bragging right o! the Whitman College

community. However, they de-pend on student participation, which often is less than perfect.

Sophomore Andrew Strong, Resident Adviser o! the Environ-mental House (otherwise known as the Outhouse) said that of-ten people do not clean food of! o! their recycled containers, which makes them un-recyclable.

“It’s the little things that add up,” said Outhouse resident soph-omore Danielle Broida. “I’m sure about 50 percent o! what could be recycled is not, and it is up to stu-dents to put in the extra efforts that will later make a difference.”

Whitman Landscape Spe-

cialist and Recycling Coordina-tor Bob Biles and residents o! the Outhouse head the college’s recy-cling efforts. The Outhouse col-lects and sorts recycling from eve-ry residence hall on campus. All fra-ternity and Interest House recy-cling goes directly to Walla Wal-la Recycling and eventually makes its way to a plant in Tacoma.

“The closest recycling facili-ty is in Tacoma — not very ef!i-cient in terms o! carbon emissions, but it is all there is,” said Broida.

Strong added that Walla Wal-la Recycling works to decrease the amount o! waste it exports.

“They will try to sell this accu-mulated waste locally before taking it to the [Tacoma] plant. For exam-ple, paper is sold to WWR, [which] then [sells] it to a paper company in Spokane, from which the Un-ion-Bulletin buys its paper,” he said.

Flushed waste accounts for a large portion o! Whit-man College’s refuse output.

According to the City o! Wal-la Walla, the Wastewater Treat-ment Plant processes approxi-mately four to eight million gal-lons o! wastewater everyday. During the summer, when water usage is at its peak, Walla Wal-la uses 22 million gallons o! wa-ter per day. The Wastewater Treatment Plant, located on Mill Creek, is a subsidiary o! the City o! Walla Walla and overseen by several national and state agencies such as the Environmental Pro-tection Agency and the Washing-ton State Department o! Ecology.

Once you !lush your toilet or drain your sink, there are sever-al steps to the treatment o! this sewage. Sewage !irst goes through primary and secondary treat-ments that !ilter out solids. Next, solids are transported to a land-!ill, where they are picked up by local farmers to be used as fer-tilizer. The wastewater is treat-ed with chlorine and UV rays and eventually released into two res-ervoirs: Mill Creek from Decem-ber 1 to May 1, and the Blalock and Gose irrigation districts for the remainder o! the year. How-ever, the water is only treated for human waste and is not test-ed for chemicals from house-hold cleaning products, drugs or other potential contaminants.

The Wastewater Treatment Plant is working with the city’s

composting program to eventu-ally make these biosolids avail-able to the general public. Ac-cording to of!icials at the Waste-water Treatment Plant, a part-nership between the two de-partments would require the city to double their compost-ing facility. As a result, the pro-ject has been put on the back

burner due to city budget cuts.The Campus Climate Chal-

lenge group is on a mission to re-duce campus wastewater. New dual !lush toilets have been in-stalled in the Reid Campus Cent-er bathrooms and will be imple-mented in the academic build-ings and residence halls depend-ing on the success o! this trial run.

In a study o! food waste from January to April 2010, Prent-iss Dining Hall produced

an average o! 2,007 pounds o! waste per week. In comparison, in 2007, 5,488 pounds o! food waste were generated by Whit-man’s dining halls and Reid. This !igure is more than the weight o! an average vehicle in the Unit-ed States. The decrease is the re-sult o! efforts to reduce the waste made by students, admin-istration and food services alike.

Recently Whitman’s “Green Fund”, !inanced primarily by ASWC, granted 16,000 dol-lars to build a large industri-al compost worm-wigwam sys-

tem. The project was headed by the Whitman Sustainability Co-ordinator and interns. The food waste will be thrown into com-post bins outside o! Jewett Din-ing Hall, then transferred over to a larger compost system which will be near the Physical Plant.

This new compost sys-tem will take up to 100 to 150 pounds a day, which is approx-imately a !ifth o! the food waste produced by Jewett. This com-post will be used by the Physi-cal Plant in landscaping and by Student Agriculture at Whit-man for the microgreens project.

This initiative expands on pre-vious composting efforts. In the past, residence hall section Green Leaders, !irst-years hired by Cam-pus Climate Challenge to push for

low carbon emissions on campus, built up small composting systems outside o! residence halls. How-ever, this project was short-lived.

“An excess o! waste and the cold winter months se-verely halted the decomposi-tion process,” said Sustainabili-ty Intern junior Katie Radosevic.

Previously, in a project start-ed by senior Peter Gurche, the Organic Garden Club picked up some o! the waste from the din-ing halls and used it for compost.

As an additional effort to re-duce food waste, the Walla Wal-la Senior Citizens Center comes to Prentiss Dining Hall to pick up leftover food, which is con-sumed both at the center and used for its Meals on Wheels Program.

Whitman College deliv-ered a total o! 314,280 pounds o! solid waste

to the Walla Walla Sudbury Road Land!ill in 2008. This number doesn’t tell the whole story, how-

ever. It includes the waste that Whitman collects from the ac-ademic buildings and residence halls and delivers to the land-!ill, but not the trash that Wal-la Walla’s sanitation services pick up from Reid Campus Center, the dining halls and the interest hous-es. There is also waste generated

from construction and set strik-ing at Harper Joy Theatre, not to mention garbage from frater-nities and off-campus housing.

“That’s part o! the story too,” said Bob Biles, Whitman’s land-scape specialist and recycling co-ordinator. “It’s really dif!icult to keep track o! all that stuff.”

Garbage generation spikes at the beginning and end o! the school year. In the month o! September alone, about 70,000 pounds o! trash are collect-ed, up from an average o! 50,000 pounds from October through April. Moving out and gradua-tion spur a refuse upsurge in May.

“It’s a two-week party clean-up,” Biles said, and added that the high school debate tournament is another big trash weekend.

Overall rough estimate? “Whitman generates

about a million pounds o! re-fuse per year,” said Biles.

aste W On average, the Walla Walla Sudbury Road Landfill receives 55,000 to 60,000 tons of refuse per year. In 2010 there was an 18 percent drop in tonnage as a result of decreased consumption stemming from the economic recession.

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Whitman’s sewage flows to Walla Walla’s Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes 4 to 8 million gallons of wastewater daily. PHOTO BY KLAG

Students living in the Outhouse collect and sort Whitman’s recycling before it is trucked to a recycling plant in Tacoma, Wash. PHOTO BY VON HAFFTEN

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With housing options be-ing discussed and sorted out for the coming year,

Whitman College athletes fre-quently choose to live with team-mates. But is this a wise decision?

Off-campus houses, Greek residences and &irst-year dorms are &illed with student athletes. Whether this is a good idea or not generates a fair amount o& de-bate, especially for &irst-years, who are in a unique position be-cause they have less choice deter-mining with whom they live than sophomores, juniors and seniors.

“Coach Jef& Northam prefers that we don’t live together,” said sophomore tennis player Matt Tesmond. “I don’t think it’s a spoken rule, but none o& the &irst-year [ten-nis players] live in the same section — three o& them are spread out across two dorms. None o& the other players but Quinn Miller and [ R o b -ert] Conor H o l t o n -Burke live t o g e t h e r . ”

W i t h so much time spent togeth-er as teammates, it can be too much for some to also share a living space.

“It’s hard when you’re com-petitive with each other on the court and you’re pitted against each other for seed, and you some-times need space away from the team. Also, i& your living situa-tion doesn’t work out, that can cause problems,” said Tesmond.

First-year rugby play-er Frankie Cochran agrees.

“You can be great friends and not good roommates,” Cochran said.

Opinions on the idea o& athletes living together vary among coaches. There are those, like Northam, who see it as a potential concern, while others welcome and encourage it. Still, some decide not to be involved in this aspect o& their athletes’ lives.

“Honestly, our coach doesn’t care i& we live together or not,” said sophomore swimmer Rebecca Ryle.

“[During our] &irst-year, &ive or six basketball players and three soc-cer players lived in my section in Anderson,” said sophomore Nathan Abrams. “All o& the basketball play-ers roomed together and two o& the soccer players roomed together. The basketba l l p l a y e r s s e e m e d

to be close.

The line was blurred be-tween team-mate and friend.

I think that is a good thing and that both teams ben-e&ited from [the tight bond be-tween player-roommates].”

Coaches recognize how liv-ing together can affect players’ re-lationships with other teammates. Frustration, arising from constant interaction during practice and at home, can manifest itsel& in train-ing and in games. Friendship, stem-ming from that same contact, fu-els social interactions and mu-

tual understanding: it can cre-ate verve and desire for the sport that doesn’t come with practice.

Some student-athletes wor-ry about maintaining their in-dependence and lifestyle, and choose to room alone.

“I think that all the guys on the lacrosse team are awesome — some o& the closest friends I have — but that doesn’t mean that I would want to room with any o& them,” said

sophomore lacrosse de-fender John Tarzan Mighell. “Charlie [Kistler] is my best

friend and a great teammate, but he’s messy and

I’m neat, so he would drive

me crazy. S o m e -times I n e e d m y s p a c e a n d m y t i m e a n d room-

i n g alone is

the best for me. Laying ground rules [with house-mates] is def-initely impor-

tant and it’s hard to do that with teammates and friends. But it’s nec-essary. You don’t want your living situation to mess with your friend-ship or your work on the &ield.”

Sophomores, juniors and sen-iors frequently &ind their best friends are their teammates; thus, they do not see living or rooming togeth-er as an infringement o& their in-dependence, but rather as a chance to live with their closest friends.

“You can get really close to your teammates living togeth-er,” said Ryle. “I think it can be re-ally good i& you can work it out. I know that a bunch o& the [sopho-mores on the] men’s team live to-gether in a suite in Douglas, and it seems to work for them well.”

Greek life can offer one way for athletes to live together with-out rooming together or deal-ing with the bills and cleanli-ness that can come with off-cam-pus housing or residence halls.

“Living in a frat house is real-ly tight because I’m not just with my teammates,” said Mighell. “I can hang out and get alone time. I don’t really think o& the guys as team-mates. I think o& them more as bud-dies. You can chill with your bros and still have your personal space.”

This past weekend the women’s lacrosse team made Whitman histo-

ry with their winning achieve-ments on Ankeny Field as they played for the Northwest Con-ference Championship title.

Captained by seniors Diane Feuillet, Hannah LaCroix and Sa-rah Evans, and junior Krista Garrett, the team fought its way through three matches against Division I opponents over two days to claim third place overall in the Northwest Women’s Lacrosse League cham-pionships, the highest Whitman has &inished in the history o& the club. The NWLL champi-

onships were hosted by Whitman, and the team was eager to protect

home-&ield advantage.

“Our expecta-tions were to play well and re-

ally give it our all,” said Feuil-let. “We’ve never made it to

the championship game, so o& course that is always the goal. [We] always think positively.”

“Going into this week-end we were expecting to play our game, play it hard and have a good time doing it,” added Evans.

After defeating Boise State Uni-versity 12-8 on Saturday morning, the team learned that its next op-ponent would be the University o& Washington, the top-ranked team among the ten teams in the divi-sion. Although a 15-5 loss to UW ended Whitman’s chances at win-ning the championship title, the team was proud o& the way it per-formed against a formidable oppo-nent that they were not expecting.

“We had to play UW, which was not expected, but we real-ly put our best effort into the game and had some good plays and some solid defense,” said Feuillet.

After falling against UW, Whit-man played Gonzaga University on Sunday morning in the third/fourth place match-up. With 10-7 victory over the Bulldogs, Whitman claimed third place in the NWLL champi-onship tournament, the highest the Missionaries have ever &inished.

“We played a really great third place game against Gonzaga,” said

Feuillet. “That was a re-ally great game be-cause we were hav-ing fun and playing our best. It was a good

way to end the season.”“I think it’s really exciting [&in-

ishing third] because it means a lot for the future o& the team,” said &irst-year Allie Wilson. “The team is real-ly young, we have a lot o& &irst-years. It’s really exciting just seeing how fast the &irst-years have improved.”

The mixture o& young and ex-perienced players and the dedica-tion all o& the women helped make this season one o& the most success-ful in the team’s history. The team proved that it can not only stand up against highly ranked state schools, but also be competitive and success-ful enough to &inish third out o& 10 teams in the NWLL. Needless to say, this will be a season and a group o& players that the Whitman wom-en’s lacrosse team won’t soon forget.

“We were able to play our hard-

est on the &ield while still joking around and having a good time,” said Evans. “I think it is really phenome-nal that our team, coming from not only the smallest school in our divi-sion but also as the only self-coached and student-run team, came out in third place. It really shows how hard we work as a team and how passion-ate we are about playing lacrosse.”

“The quality o& play in the league has really risen in the four years I have been playing at Whit-man and so all the teams are com-petitive,” said Feuillet. “I think the best part o& the season is knowing that we can have fun and also com-pete with some very skilled teams.”

On Friday and Saturday April 22 and 23, the Whit-man men’s gol& team looks

to break out o& the middle o& the conference and stand among the best at the NWC Champi-onships at Canyon Lakes Gol& Course in Kennewick, Wash.

The conference champion-ship is the third and &inal ma-jor tournament for NWC gol& teams. Whitman currently sits in &ifth place out o& the nine teams in the conference after taking &ifth at the &irst two tournaments.

Despite &inishing right in the middle o& the conference at the other major tournaments, head coach Peter McClure believes that his team has the potential to pro-gress up the conference ladder.

“We really think that we can move up into the top third or at least up one spot,” McClure said.

The Missionaries have good reason to think that they can move up. On Saturday April 9, Whit-man beat Paci&ic 334-318 at the three-team Whitman Gol& Invi-tational, with Whitworth taking the overall victory shooting a com-bined 304. Currently Paci&ic and Whitworth are third and fourth in the conference respectively.

According to sophomore Pe-ter Clark, the team is motivat-ed by this recent performance.

“We just beat Paci&ic and we are really pumped to make a move up,” Clark said. “We are look-ing to overtake Whitworth.”

Since the beginning o& the sea-son it has been the team’s goal to &in-ish in the top third o& the conference,

but Clark believes that they have not lived up to their full potential.

“We’ve probably done a lit-tle worse than we would have liked to, but just a little,” Clark said.

Whitman could improve its performance by playing more con-sistently over both days o& the two day major tournaments. At both the Fall and Spring Classics, the teams shot much better dur-ing the second day o& competition.

In the fall after starting with a four-golfer combined score o& 340, the team came back to shoot a 323. This trend was even more pronounced at the Spring Clas-sic, partly due to weather, when the team followed a &irst day 344 with a 318 on the second day.

The upcoming conference championship marks the end o& lone senior Brian Barton’s colle-giate gol& career. During his four years, Barton has consistently been Whitman’s top golfer. Barton of-ten shoots among the best golfers in the conference, highlighted by me-dalist honors at the NWC Northern Colleges Men’s Gol& Tournament during the fall o& his junior year.

Despite losing its top play-er at the end o& the season, the team is optimistic about its future.

“Brian is our leader. He is our man. He is who we look to every tournament,” said Clark. “But, everybody is learn-ing how to play tournament gol& which we can use for next year.”

“I am very optimistic about our future although Brian has been the best player the past couple o& years,” McClure said. “We have three golfers here for admitted stu-dents’ weekend. I& we could get two o& three that would be great.”

This past weekend on April 16-17 the Whitman men’s tennis team faced

of& against the top teams in the Northwest Conference Champi-onships. As the top seed, Whit-man hosted the match. On Sat-urday they cruised by fourth-ranked Paci&ic 5-0 to secure a spot in the &inals. The next day Whitman faced Willamette in a battle for the conference crown. Backed by a crowd o& roar-ing fans,Whitman swept dou-bles and clinched a 5-0 win with singles victories from &irst-year Andrew La Cava and sopho-more Jef& Tolman. As tourna-ment champions, Whitman completed a perfect 12-0 NWC season and earned an automat-ic berth to nationals in May.

Women’s lacrosse closes successful seasonby PAMELA LONDONStaff Reporter

TENNIS CLAIMS FIFTH STRAIGHT NWC TITLE

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Men’s golf aims to move upWhitman athletes find benefits, challenges in living with teammates

Whittie cyclists competed last weekend at the annu-al Tour o& Walla Walla, taking home honors on both the men’s and women’s sides. The three-stage race in-

cluded a 1.1 mile criterium loop through downtown Walla Wal-la and Whitman campus. Eloise Zimbelman ‘11, pictured above, and Chelsea Momany ‘11 &inished the weekend in 8th and 4th place over-all in their category; Jay Barlow ‘14 took 9th place in his category.

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Recently, I had a great op-portunity to interview a local active duty Staff

Sargent William Jones. He has been on nine tours around the world with the Navy, Army and National Guard and has probably seen a lot more than you. Through talking with him, I better understood his point of view on the U.S. mil-itary’s operations around the world. Fundamentally, I real-ized that the U.S. military ex-ists to protect the freedom that us citizens use to criticize it.

According to SSG Jones, the military’s mission around the world is to “defend free-dom of speech and expres-sion, even if that means peo-

ple treat soldiers like shit ‘cause they have freedoms they don’t appreciate. Freedom in gen-eral is an inalienable right, it is constitutional right.”

At times people use these freedoms when groups pro-tested against the current con-flicts in the Middle East. They used mock coffins and demon-strations against the soldiers to make their point. Just check out Iraq protests on Wikipe-dia. If soldiers fight to pro-tect their citizens why do citi-zens react in this way I asked? Instead, the protestors should direct their anger at the pol-iticians and not the soldiers.

Jones said that while sol-diers risk their lives to “pro-tect assholes and rights so that [the protesters] can do these things,” they themselves are “not allowed to take a politi-cal stand, they will follow or-ders, orders in preserving the freedoms of the world.”

Jones says that he described protesters that way because “so many people want the pilot dead for killing one civilian, but then 15 bad guys were killed.”

SSG Jones also believes

that the media “‘puts a nega-tive spin’ on the war effort,” and does not even look at the schools, medical services or sick people that the soldiers help.

For example, one time on a patrol in Iraq, he and his fellow soldiers gave a five-year-old kid a foot split because there was no doctor around. It was refresh-ing to hear of soldiers help-ing civilians after all the nega-tive press I read in the news. On another tour in Somalia, Jones witnessed other soldiers giving a single cracker to each child because humanitarian aid was not getting through and that was all the soldiers had to give.

“It wasn’t chocolate or pantyhose, just a crack-er that gave those children the grateful look that made it worthwhile,” said Jones.

For Jones, he made many good friends serving multiple tours of duty because “there is nothing like it, and the long-er you are deployed, the more friends you make ... some you keep for life, you rely on each other. It does not matter what race, breed, color one is.”

After an hour of conver-

sation, we ended on the top-ic of what are we willing to do to protect our freedom. Sol-diers serve their country to protect our freedom around the world. They are will-ing to die for it. The ques-tion is what you are willing to do to protect your freedom?

So if and when you go on a protest against the war, think of how you can be hurt-ing the soldiers, since as Jones said you “impress upon eve-ry soldier your opinion.”

I want to thank SSG Wil-liam Jones for the interview, and all those who have served in the armed forces. I appreci-ate Alasdair Stewart of the Un-ion-Bulletin and Roxanne Hin-kle, local veterans advocate, for setting up the interview.

Bryant Fong is a chemis-try major from Corvallis, Ore. He enjoys writing about poli-tics and general current events presenting a perspective that is not represented on campus.

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Obama’s budget compromises must be

reciprocated by congressional Republicans

Freedom depends on e!orts of US military

ALEX BROTTColumnist

DIVERSITY IS HAVING A

GROUP OF STUDENTS

FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. BACKGROUNDS

INCLUDING RELIGION, RACE, FINANCIAL STANDING, EVEN

THINGS LIKE ATHLETICISM.

RaniaMussa First-year

IT DOESN’T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE A

DIFFERENCE IN RACE, IT

CAN ALSO BE FISCAL BACKGROUND,

ETHNICITY OF COURSE, REALLY JUST THE

DIFFERING CULTURES THAT PEOPLE GREW UP

IN.

PhilipDickinsonFirst-year

DIVERSITY AT WHITMAN IS…

HONESTLY IT’S JUST THE DIVERSITY OF

PERSONALITIES ON CAMPUS.

ElliottCraneFirst-year

WHITMAN’S DIVERSITY IS

IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC

AND POLITICAL BACKGROUNDS OF THE

STUDENT BODY MORE SO THAN IT CAN BE SEEN IN THE ETHNICITIES OF THE

STUDENT BODY.

LivingstonMartinFirst-year

DIVERSITY MEANS VASTLY

DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES

AND EXPERIENCES. AT WHITMAN I

ENCOUNTER DIVERSTIY IN CONVERSATION

WITH FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES ABOUT

WHERE THEY COME FROM AND WHERE THEY HAVE

BEEN.

AnniqueRiceFirst-year

OPINIONS from the STUDENT BODY What does diversity mean at Whitman?by ETHAN PARISH

President Obama has taken some heat o! late for com-promising on some Re-

publican demands regarding the current budg-et situation. This sort o! com-promise is acceptable, but only i! Obama pushes for compro-mise in return from Republi-cans. I! he is to continue mak-ing concessions, he needs to use them as a political tool to help advance his own agenda.

Within the budget debate, an important way Obama can push for change is by working to craft !iscally conservative budg-ets that still provide important government services. Re-discov-ering and embracing true !iscal conservatism can not only get

the U.S. out o! its current budg-et dif!iculties and maintain def-icit-free budgets, but can jus-tify a socially productive gov-ernment open to compromise.

American government has lost a sense o! !iscal conserva-tism, especially among supposed conservatives. Since the 1980s, Reagan’s and both Bushs’ pres-idencies have overseen massive increases in national debt, while Clinton alone managed a sur-plus while still supporting so-cial programs and cutting tax-es for the poorest Americans.

A large part o! what kept these Republican

presidents from balancing a

budget is the misplaced

logic o!

‘trickle-down’ economics that tax cuts need not be accounted for in the federal budget. In the words o! former Chair o! the Senate Budget Committee Judd Gregg, “These tax cuts pay for them-selves.” That is to say, a decrease in revenue need not be offset by a similar decrease in spending.

The supply side econom-ic logic insists that tax cuts en-courage spending, which has not been the reality. More often than not, the wealthy receiving breaks simply hold onto their money rather than reinvest in industries which would directly bene!it working-class Americans. Ac-cording to studies by Bush’s own treasury, increased revenue from his cuts repaid at most 10 per-cent o! their cost to the federal budget, meaning they have cer-tainly not paid for themselves.

It seems wrong to boil down the complexities o! the U.S.

budget to such a sim-ple point

as tax cuts for the wealthy, but it is important to note that accord-ing to the Center on Budget Pol-icy and Priorities, the Bush tax cuts account for 49 percent o! the de!icits during his presidency.

Despite the persistence o! facts and logic, Republicans in Congress refuse to allow these tax cuts to expire. This leads me to the theoretically simple solu-tion o! compromise. The U.S. political system could use more compromise, and I think the current budget discussions are a great place to start. Obama needs to take a more aggressive stance, when the time is right,

and use this ammo to push for signi!icant budget overhaul.

Compromise has become something o! a dirty word re-cently in reference to some o! Obama’s concessions to Republi-can leaders in the budget discus-sions, yet is a crucial part o! the democratic process. Republican do, after all, currently represent around 50 percent o! the country, and our democracy should not arbitrarily nullify their interests.

At the same time, Republi-cans need to be open to compro-mise when facts and evidence are not on their side. It should not be unrealistic to hope that com-promise now could beget com-promise later. Ideological com-promises could be, in a sense, stored up for larger, more im-portant victories in the future, such as ensuring the Bush tax cuts are not renewed in 2012.

The current budget discus-sion provides an important space for Obama to make strategic compromises with Republicans. Reduced spending and increased taxes need not be mutually ex-clusive routes to reduced budgets and !iscal conservatism, a goal both parties share. While I dis-cuss the Bush tax cuts at length, they are just one example o! a ma-jor concession worth trading for.

Here, there is an opportunity for a culture shift in Washington, D.C. where compromise is no longer stigmatized, but a normal part o! the democratic process. It remains to be seen i! the Repub-lican leadership can accept the realities o! their economic beliefs and reciprocate the compromis-es Obama has already made. The shared goal o! reducing national debt should be achieved through compromises on both sides, which will improve the econ-omy, and hopefully the politi-cal culture, o! the United States.

Alex Brott is an environmental studies-politics major who is pas-sionate about politics, economics and the environment. He enjoys an-ything outdoors and making music.

Whitman prides itsel! on promoting environ-mental consciousness

-- a goal which shapes classroom learning and campus life. The crea-tion o! the Sustainability Revolving Loan Fund (SRLF) in 2009 demon-strated, for example, the college’s commitment to green projects while promoting environmental initia-tives which save the college money.

Yet, past environmental in-itiatives at Whitman have car-ried the potential o! !inancial sav-ings, but many have risked an in-itial investment i! the project did not turn out as planned. Every SR-LF-funded project to date — mi-crogreens, recycled letterhead notebooks, ef!icient water fau-cets — has required a capital invest-ment by Whitman to get started.

In contrast, the community solar project from Fred Liebrand has the potential to make Whitman a large amount o! money with no !inancial investment from the college. (For details on the project, see “The Solar Gold Mine” on page 1.) In spite o! this fact, Whitman has yet to com-mit to participating in the project.

The state o!Washington has one o! the most generous solar power incentive programs in the country. Because o! rising energy demand, the state has recognized that it makes !iscal sense to invest in small-scale, renewable power generation. Utility companies save money by not building new power plants to meet growing demand. Washing-ton workers who manufacture pan-els, inverters and engines for gen-eration are able to make a good liv-ing. Carbon emissions from pow-er production are reduced. And the person or group installing the pan-els can actually make money by tak-ing advantage o! federal rebates and state production incentives.

Liebrand’s project is an innova-tive way to capture these bene!its for Walla Walla’s colleges. In addi-tion to !inancial returns, a commu-nity solar project has signi!icant ed-ucational bene!its, allowing inter-ested students to learn about pan-el installation and maintenance. Plus, the presence o! solar pan-els serves as a visual reminder o! renewable energy development.

Understandably, the college has concerns about fundraising for the project, wanting instead to fo-cus the development of!ice’s en-ergy on growing Whitman’s en-dowment. These concerns, howev-er, should not prevent the admin-istration from making a clear state-ment that they intend to work with Liebrand to help the project succeed.

Whitman students and alum-ni are an environmentally con-scious group. Many who would not normally donate to a fundrais-ing campaign i! contacted by the development of!ice would glad-ly put their money into a solar sys-tem. Active recruitment o! inves-tors is not a requirement to partic-ipate in the project at all—Whit-man could help as it is able, with-out devoting staf! time to calling alumni and asking for money. Stu-dent groups may also be willing to reach out to investors, as they did to raise money for the Bratton Ten-nis Center solar panel installation.

The simple fact is that right now, solar makes sense. Most o! us know about the environmen-tal bene!its o! solar, but Liebrand has shown that a community solar project can also provide a substan-tial return on investment. Whit-man wants to be green: it wants to make money and save the plan-et. It’s a rare opportunity that so clearly allows us to do both.

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The Backpage team couldn’t help but no-tice that a lot of people weren’t getting into the classes they wanted during pre-registra-tion. Lucky for you, we’ve combed through the online Search for Classes feature to !ind some courses that still have room for the fall 2011 semester. This should help, in case your Stoner Studies individually-planned major doesn’t get approved.

Bio 208 - The Science of Sleep

This class explores the importance o! sleep to the human body, the circadian rhythm and the science o! each o! the sleep phases. Students will have the opportunity to use electroencepha-lographs (EEGs) to study the phases o! sleep in laboratory mice. Meets four times weekly at 7 a.m.

Marijuana on the Human Body

This seminar explores what happens on 4/21, after a hearty 4/20. This course discusses the gateway drug theory, examines the long-term damage o! marijuana and culminates in a trip to oh-my-gosh there is a ginormous bowl o! Ra-men in front o! me. Nom nom nom.

German is spoken by over 200 million people worldwide and is the original language o! many in!luential texts. Learn more about this fascinat-ing language -- you might become so fascinated that you decide to major in German Studies and help save our department.

Party like it’s the 4th grade again. Take record-er lessons!

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Patrice Williams, mastermind behind Ark Mu-sic Factory and the song “Friday”, recently told the L.A. Times that he attended Whitman Col-lege to study the business o! the entertainment industry. This fabrication made us think maybe we should have a class on the business o! the en-tertainment industry. In this class, you will learn how to get rich by exploiting average 7th-grade girls and using Auto-Tune to make them sound like pop superstars. However, since it’s Whit-man, we’ll have to throw in stuf! about how the music industry is like colonialism and how the price o! hiring Ark Music Factory affects the so-cioeconomic and racial demographics o! its cli-ents.

This course surveys texts previously included in Encounters and the classic Core class. Texts in-

clude William Harvey’s “On the Motion o! the Heart and Blood in Animals”, “The Epic o! Gil-gamesh”, and selected poems from the “Roman-tic English Poetry” anthology. Includes a !inal project tying together at least four o! the dis-carded texts into a single thesis.

Torture is a chie! method o! intimidation and punishment throughout the world, but can have many negative consequences, including post-traumatic stress disorder. This course examines methods o! torture, how these methods work to harm victims and the legal status o! torture worldwide. Includes a !ield trip to the Washing-ton State Penitentiary. Co-requisite: Psyc 345L.

In the lab portion o! this class, students will im-plement basic torture techniques learned in class by practicing them on lab partners. Techniques include sensory deprivation, lengthy interroga-tions and waterboarding. Meets Mon-Fri at 5 a.m.

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COMIC

"Kush rolled, glass full. I prefer the better things."

- Drake

Happy holidaze! It's the most wonderful time o! the year! Here at the Backpage, we decided to chronicle a day in the life o! the average Whittie on 4/20. It seems not much happens, but quality over quantity, right? Holla!

11 a.m. Skip bio and have a couple holiday treats.

12 p.m. Lunch in Jewett. Thank god for unlimited desserts and Froot Loops.

1-2:20 p.m. Art history, which was unusually interesting.

3 p.m. Smoke and be merry.

4:20 p.m. Listen to "Dark Side o! the Moon", watch "Wizard o! Oz" without volume.

6 p.m. Dinner o! pizza and burrrrrr (beer).

8 p.m. Get some friends; Rebelution, and pass it.

10 p.m. Goodnight bowl, goodnight's sleep.

Backpage Celebrates 4/20

Diary of a Blazed Whittie

Dear Slut-lovers,

I’m not even going to try to excuse mysel! through a quasi-narrative puzzle-slut format. I just didn’t have time to make a crossword this weekend. Being a slut takes a toll on time, y’know, and time is just something I didn’t have this weekend.

So here’s a jumble. Cross-word to come next week.

Apologies,Adam “Failure o! a Slut” Brayton

P.S. I recognize I screwed up the last puzzle. The lack o! clues for the down section was a vast oversight that won’t happen again.

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Q: What is life without geometry?

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Giggles!