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Islands in the InlandIt’s the 43rd year Whitworth will take in the sights, tastes and sounds of Hawaii without leaving campus.

Introducing Whitworth’s new provost and EVP

Track and field teams sweep Sam Adams Classicp. 7

p. 3

p. 13

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR! e Whitworthian welcomes reader responses to articles or issues of interest to the Whitworth community. Send letters to [email protected]. Limit to 200 words.

!"#$%%&'(%)*#'+,(-.! e Whitworth bookstore is changing hands due to di" culties in making a pro# t, it will be run by Barnes & Noble College.

!/#0%)(.#&%)*1#(.)*1('North Korea’s Kim Jong Un makes threats to South Korea and the U.S., professors and students re$ ect on the implications.

!2#3%%4#3%)#155Restaurants close to campus have options for the gluten-free, lactose-free, vegetarian and vegan crowds.

6!#7*((,07#,0(%#5,(! e annual Get Lit! festival brings literature to life for Spokanites and students with activities such as readings and poetry slams.

66#81)),17*#8,'0%8*)Marriage is not the only way to ful# ll God’s will for our lives and there are instances where God calls people to stay single.

69##,0(*)0'.,:#;'<#=%$Internship providers should not be required to pay interns because they o% er invaluable experiences that money cannot buy.

6>##;,-(%),%?'#1(#.%8*Both Pirate track and # eld teams place # rst in the Sam Adams Classic at Boppell Track.

6/###-18:?'#-%00*-(,%0A look at the coaching careers of Ross Cutter and Paul Merkel, two iconic Pirate coaches who made valuable contributions to the Whitworth athletic program.

! e Whitworthian has served as the main source of news and sports coverage for the Whitworth community since 1905. ! e Whitworthian is an organization composed entirely by students which produces ! e Whitworthian weekly newspaper and thewhitworthian.com.

OUR MISSION! e Whitworthian sta% is dedicated to presenting accurate and relevant information in an innovative manner. Our goal is to be accountable while informing, entertaining and providing a forum for expressing the interests of the Whitworth community.

GENERAL INFORMATION! e print edition of ! e Whitworthian is published weekly, except during January and student vacations. ! e content is generated entirely by students. ! e college administration does not review the newspaper’s content. Opinions and ideas expressed in ! e Whitworthian are those of the individual artists, writers and student editors, and do not necessarily re$ ect the views of the Associated Students of Whitworth University (ASWU), the university, its administration, faculty/sta% or advertisers. ! e Whitworthian is paid for through advertising and subscription revenue and in part by student activity fees as budgeted by ASWU.

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Molly DanielsSta! Writer

Since January, there have been several incidents of vandalism on the Whitworth campus. Two letters were pried from the Whitworth University sign across from Cornerstone with a crowbar on March 1. " e letters have not been recovered.

“It’s happened before. A couple of years ago some kids stole some letters,” security services supervisor Jacquelyn Christensen said. “From what I understand this is a recurring problem.”

" e letters “T” and “H” were recently stolen. Chris-tensen said each letter costs $750.

" e facilities department must replace the letters whenever they are stolen, said Dick Pettis, the trade su-pervisor and manager of facilities maintenance.

“I’ve worked at Whitworth for over 18 years, and the most vandalism we get is on our letters,” Pettis said.

He said some people who have stolen letters have been caught before.

“Security found people just walking with the letters,” Pettis said.

People have also posted pictures on Facebook of themselves holding the letters, Christensen said.

“It seems like there’s some kind of status with steal-ing the letters,” she said.

In April 2011, a car crashed into the Whitworth sign. Junior Krisula Steiger remembers the accident.

“" e car crash took half the sign out. " ere were a few letters on the ground, and people started taking

those,” Steiger said. Steiger said that the sign remained in disrepair and

people began to take the letters left on the intact half of the sign. She said that people probably wouldn’t have started stealing the letters if the sign had been # xed earlier.

“" e crash happened on Good Friday, and they # xed it over the summer,” she said.

" e letters on the sign were made of solid brass at the time. Now they are made of a more slender metal, and they are backlit by LED lights.

Christensen said she thinks the format should be changed in order to deter people from taking the let-ters.

“It’s pretty common sense. If a door gets broken into, you lock it,” Christensen said.

Changing the format of the sign in order to drive down the cost of replacing letters would cost $20,000. Facilities services is considering reverting to the old solid letters and using ground lights to illuminate them. Possible alternative designs include cut-out steel letters and letters engraved in concrete.

“" e problem with those kind of letters is that they’re not brass; they’re not traditional,” Pettis said.

Pettis said that vandals need to realize the signi# -cance of the expense of their o! ense.

" e “H” and the “T” have not been replaced yet. In-stead, the old, solid-metal letters have been temporari-ly refastened. It would take a total of $2,054 to buy and refasten both letters. " e replacement of the “Founded in 1890” sign after it was vandalized cost $1,890, and it cost $2,934 to replace a “1” and a “0” on that sign.

“It doesn’t make a statement about Whitworth stu-dents. It’s just students making bad choices,” Chris-tensen said. “" e main concern is that the letters are obviously expensive.”

" ere are currently no suspects. " ere is an o! ered reward of $1,000 for information that leads to an arrest.

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Greg Moser | Photographer! e old “T” temporarily replaces the letter stolen from the Whitworth University sign March 1.

New provost and EVP specializes in ethics, philosophyKatherine KnollSta! Writer

Carol Simon begins next year as Whitworth’s provost and executive vice president.

Simon is coming to Whitworth from Hope College, where she spent 25 years as a professor of philosophy, as well as the associate dean of teaching and learning.

She said she was rooted in Michi-gan, but doesn’t mind the move to the Northwest.

“I grew up in the Paci# c Northwest,” Simon said. “In many ways it’s like coming home.”

Simon grew up near Portland, Ore. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon and her graduate studies at the University of Washington.

Simon, who begins her new position in July, said she will take the summer months to become acquainted with the school and the role.

“I don’t expect to make any major changes at all quickly,” Simon said. “Whitworth has a clear sense of its mis-sion. For the # rst several months, I’m going to make sure I know what Whit-worth is doing, to have enough back-ground to make decisions.”

Simon made her third visit to the Whitworth campus this March. She said she had a positive impression of the school.

“I think it’s a place that cares about excellence in athletics, journalism, academics and other areas, as well as

contributing to the broader culture,” Simon said.

Simon was introduced as a can-didate by the outside # rm Academic Search after she was nominated by one of her peers for the job. A committee of representatives from across campus composed the search committee that selected Simon. In mid-February, she was invited to campus, along with two other candidates.

Senior Macy Olivas was a student representative for the committee. She said part of her job was to assess the wants and needs of the student body.

“[Students want] someone on cam-pus who is visible, who understands the culture of Whitworth, and who gets work done, but gets it done in a very ethical way,” Olivas said.

In addition to faculty forums and interviews, the three # nalists each par-

ticipated in a student forum which al-lowed students to raise questions and concerns to candidates.

Olivas said Simon’s interest in stu-dents’ concerns made her a stand-out.

“She wanted to know how she could help in any way,” Olivas said. “What set Carol apart was her wanting to hear more from students.”

Simon said she was excited by how engaged students were during the fo-rum.

“" e community was extraordinari-ly engaged in the selection process,” Simon said. “" e very insightful ques-tions and comments from students made me excited about overseeing the academic program here at Whitworth.”

Simon said in her position as pro-vost, she wants students to feel free to communicate with her.

Olivas said Simon’s scholarship was

another factor that impressed both stu-dents and faculty alike.

“I was empowered by how much she knows,” Olivas said. “She’s a well-known philosopher. [It is empowering] not only to be well-known in your # eld, but also to be leading in other realms, and to be leading well.”

Simon, who specializes in ethics, has written several books. Her most recent is “Bringing Sex into Focus: " e Quest for Sexual Integrity,” which was pub-lished last year.

Simon will be taking over for Mi-chael Le Roy as Provost and EVP. Le Roy left Whitworth last year after 16 years at Whitworth, accepting the posi-tion of President of Calvin College.

Barbara Sanders has been acting as interim provost since Le Roy’s June 2012 departure. As former associate provost, Sanders worked with Le Roy to learn the details of the position before # lling the role while his replacement was found.

" ough not part of the hiring com-mittee herself, Sanders said she was impressed when she met Simon during the interview process.

“I think she’s a great hire,” Sanders said. “She’s bright, articulate, thought-ful and a committed Christian scholar.”

Sanders said she believes giving themselves a year for the hiring pro-cess was a wise decision.

“In retrospect, it was the right move,” Sanders said. “We had that time to real-ly # nd the right person.”

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Contact Katherine Knoll at [email protected]

Contact Molly Daniels at [email protected]

Catherine PorterSta! Writer

"e Whitworth University Bookstore will have a new operator this fall. With students now purchasing books via the internet or using e-books, the univer-sity decided it was time to obtain help in adapting to the constantly changing market.

“A lot of schools over the years have been grappling with doing their own auxiliary enterprise,” said Brian Benzel, vice president of #nance and adminis-tration.

An auxiliary enterprise is an outside business that o!ers services for academ-ic environments. Whitworth currently has three: Sodexo, the resident halls and now the bookstore.

"e university is under pressure to uti-lize the money that students pay to attend Whitworth. When stu-dents buy books from the bookstore, it brings down tuition because the money is utilized in an area that is mak-ing a pro#t. However, when students buy books from an out-side source, it increases tuition because the money put into buying books for the store is not being reimbursed and no pro#t is being made, Benzel said. By making the bookstore an auxiliary en-terprise, this problem should decrease, although Benzel said it is a problem that can never be fully #xed.

“"e university feels like we can stay a player by partnering with a bigger op-eration to get help,” bookstore manager Nancy Loomis said.

Loomis said that the topic of a new store operator has been mentioned

throughout the past few years but was discussed more thoroughly this past year. A committee was created which included Benzel, Loomis, two students and other faculty members. "e com-mittee came together in the fall of 2012 and met numerous times to discuss the topic and the steps necessary to address and #x the problem.

Four companies were invited by the university to propose their ideas to the committee. It was narrowed down to two companies, both of which presented in front of the committee and represen-tatives from both continuing studies and public relations. From this selection, Barnes & Noble College was chosen to be the new operator of the bookstore.

Barnes & Noble College is a separate branch of the Barnes & Noble franchise, according to their website. B&N College comes alongside uni-versities in order to enhance their book-stores and to make it an experience that am-pli#es students’ aca-demic and social lives. B&N College operates 14 stores in Washing-ton, according to their

website.One of the main features of the B&N

College operator is the management program that is o!ered at its college stores. A student could go through this program while working at the bookstore, and receive their certi#cate from Barnes & Noble. From there, they will automat-ically receive a job o!er to manage one of Barnes & Noble’s stores. "is will be available to any bookstore employee and can be completed while in school. Two employees from the B&N College store at Washington State University have gone through this program and are

now full time employees at Barnes & No-ble, Loomis said.

Barnes & Noble will also provide funding for the renovation of the book-store, Benzel said. It will be closed the week of May 27-31 and will reopen on June 3 operated by B&N College. Only some of the remodeling will take place during the summer. "e more extensive work will be done during fall of 2013.

Not only will the appearance of the store change, but the bookstore website will undergo changes as well. "ere will be an announcement on the Whitworth website when the changes have taken

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erated by a new company, the current bookstore sta! will remain next year and the years following. "is new operation will not require new management. Also, the bookstore will not change names.

“It is not a cookie cutter store” the bookstore assistant Jody Valentine, said. “It will not be a Barnes & Noble store; it will still be the Whitworth store.”

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Connor SoudaniSta! Writer

North Korea, or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as they are o"cially deemed, recently made provocative threats against the United States and South Korea. While North Korea has made similar threats in the past, the unpredictability of their young leader, Kim Jong Un, has kept the world on alert for what could come next.

#e statement initially issued by North Korea said that the nuclear threat posed by the U.S. would be “smashed by the strong will of all the united service personnel and people and cutting-edge small-er, lighter and diversi$ed nuclear strike means of the DPRK (North Korea) and the merciless oper-ation of its revolutionary armed forces.”

Despite the colorful rhetoric of this threat, Norman #orpe, a Whitworth adjunct faculty mem-ber who formerly reported for the Wall Street Journal in South Korea, said that there is something many people are missing.

“#ey’re not empty threats, but if you look at the way they are phrased, most of them are stated in a condi-tional or reactive framework,” #orpe said. “So they’re not empty threats but they don’t indicate, I don’t be-lieve, that North Korea is ready to launch all out war against South Korea or the United States at the current stage.”

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, according to CNN, ‘hinted at risks in reacting to North Korea, calling the tensions a “complicated, combustible situation”

that could “explode into a worse situation.”’Senior Hannah LeTourneau, who spent the fall of

2012 studying physics through International Student Exchange Programs at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, interpreted the situation di!erently. She said that after studying North Korea’s rocket technolo-gy, she was fairly certain that even if this situation did lead to war at some point, North Korea would not be

able to withstand any sustained con%ict.

“#ey can de$nitely launch something but I don’t think they have the economic background to hold out for any kind of long term thing whatsoever under the combined power of China, South Korea and the U.S.,” LeTourneau said. “He might do something crazy, but I don’t think it would be anything with a huge impact.”

Associate professor of Chinese history Anthony Clark wrote in an email that there is a good deal of evidence to support some addi-tional underlying motives behind this staunch rhetoric. Clark is cur-rently in China.

“Kim’s current rhetoric is not unlike what we have heard before,” Clark wrote. “My guess, though

one can’t know another’s inner intentions, is that he is appealing to his military, which is the center of his power.”

Additionally, #orpe said that while Kim Jong Un may be trying to consolidate power locally, this tactic isn’t new.

“Domestically he is trying to consolidate power and show himself as a militarily strong leader,” #orpe said. “So the threats are maybe a little stronger, the language might be a little stronger than we’ve heard from North Korea in recent years, but there were strong threats

voiced under previous leaders in North Korea also.”He suggested that Kim Jong Un is in fact speak-ing to his power base and his constituency in

North Korea more than to the United States or South Korea with his remarks

about retaliating.For South Korea, threats such as

these recently made from the North produce unease, because of previ-

ous attacks by North Korea most recently in 2010 with the sinking

of a South Korean battleship. However, LeTourneau said

that as far as South Korean citizens go, the amount of

frightened reactions to these threats is minimal.

“#ere’s only so much more that you can rea-sonably do, so, from what I’ve seen, it’s more about constantly being prepared rather than re-sponding too much to a speci$c incident,” Le-Tourneau said.

According to an article

titled “#reats of annihilation normal for South Kore-ans,” which illustrated South Koreans in Seoul smiling and going about their daily lives, the writer, Jim Clancy, made a connection.

Clancy said that after pausing in the city and exam-ining the landscape, he felt obligated to consider where he would seek shelter in the wake of a North Korean missile strike. After realizing that his best bet would be in the subway system and calculating much to his dis-comfort how long it would take for him to get there, he decided to think about something else.

Despite this history of relative inaction since the ar-mistice ending the Korean War, the South Korean gov-ernment has claimed, according to #e Guardian, that “South Korea also adopted more proactive deterrence strategy after attacks by the North in 2010, threatening to respond with disproportionate force to any future provocation.”

In the end, a lasting peace will be di"cult to obtain, as it has been historically.

#orpe said that North Korea most likely wants to have some kind of peaceful relationship with the U.S. and not have to worry about the United States as a pos-sible source of an attack. Despite this hopeful goal, #orpe also said that North Korea is going to want to continue to have its nuclear capability.

“[North Korea] says that that is not on the bargaining table because of events that it’s seen in the past. It feels safest to have [nuclear capabilities]. North Korea also wants the United States to take its troops out of South Korea. I don’t think the United States will do that. I think that’s probably not on the bargaining table ei-ther,” #orpe said. “If setting those two things aside, there’s someway to work things out more peacefully, that would certainly be to everyone’s advantage, but whether or not that will be possible, I don’t know.”

Clark wrote he believes that as East Asia has become more powerful, economically and militarily, the North Korea issue has become a problem of “face” for China.

“We also need to remember that China is growing more nationalistic and has reasserted its own Commu-nist paradigm,” Clark wrote. “My expectation is that China and North Korea, as Communist countries, will continue to rally together as defenders of Marxist ide-als.”

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Contact Connor Soudani at [email protected]

The threat of a dictator: Do we have something to fear?

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LED backlit letters for the Whitworth University sign on Waikiki. #e “T”

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#e Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), led by Kim Jong Un, made threats against the United States and South Korea.

A statement issued by North Korea claimed that the nuclear threat posed by the U.S. would be “smashed” by North Korea’s military and “cut-ting-edge, lighter and diversi$ed nuclear strike means.”

Similar threats have been made by North Ko-rea in the past.

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Supreme Court to weigh in on gay marriage in following months

!e Defense of Marriage Act, signed into e"ect in 1996, states that same-sex marriages would not be recognized, nor receive federal marriage bene#ts. Currently, same-sex marriage is legal in 12 states, including Washington. !e Supreme Court decided to discuss the law following increasing support for same-sex marriage on the national level.

Car bomb explosion leaves six dead, four injured in Kabul, Afghanistan

A suicide bomber attacked a NATO-led convoy last Saturday on its way to donate books to local schools. Governor Mohammad Ashraf Nasery said it was likely his vehicle was the intended target. !ree American soldiers, two American civilians, and one Afghan doctor are among the casualties. !e Taliban later claimed responsibility for the attack.

Police investigate Craigslist ad, 4-year-old boy for sale

A Spokane parent asked for $4,000 in exchange for a young boy identi#ed only as “Gavin” interned classi#eds site, Craigslist.com. !e sale of a child is illegal. !e advertisement has since been removed, and investigators have been unable to discover the whereabouts of the child.

Sources | United Press Incorporated, Reuters, KREM2

'$%&()'(*+)$,Rebekah BreseeSta" Writer

For the #rst time, the award-winning Whitworth fo-rensics team hosted the national debate champions of Ireland in an international debate exhibition Tuesday, April 2.

!e Friends of the Irish Debate Series was formed by Professor Gary Holbrook of Metropolitan State College in 1983 to sponsor an annual debate tour of U.S. universities for the win-ning team and individual speakers of Ireland.

“For 40 years, Irish debate teams have traveled to di"erent locations in the U.S. to showcase a debate ex-hibition,” director of forensics Mike Ingram said.

Before arriving in Spokane, the de-bate team had already visited schools in Denver, Colo., Sacramento, Calif., Helena, Mont. and Portland, Ore.

A frequent stop on the Irish Tour of America is Carroll College in Hele-na, where one of Ingram’s friends is a sta" member.

Ingram said his friend helped con-nect Ingram with the Irish debate team so he could suggest Whitworth as one of the tour stops. !e team obliged.

“!e event promotes cross-cul-tural friendships, displays di"erent styles of debate and provides an op-portunity to learn,” Ingram said.

!e teams consisted of three members who each presented a sev-en minute speech to support their position.

Representing Whitworth in the de-bate were freshman Hannah Tweet, sophomore Jonathan Kim and soph-omore Samuel Director.

“Coach Mike picked the three of us and asked if we would do this debate,” Kim said.

From Ireland, the individual national debate champi-on Kate Brady joined the national debate team champi-ons Liam Brophy and John Engle.

Brady, Brophy and Engle travel to high schools and universities throughout the U.S. to present workshops and engage in debate exhibitions.

!is competition is unique because it represents and blends the debating styles of two countries.

“!ey [the Irish champions] came to our class before-hand and talked about their style of debate,” Tweet said.

Tweet said the Whitworth forensics team presented

their style of debate and the Irish shared their style and perspectives on debate as well as American culture.

“It was a very interesting cultural exchange,” Director said. “!eir style is di"erent and we had to adapt to that.”

Director said the style of the debate was more relaxed in comparison to other debates.

In this debate, there was not as much response to the opposition. It consisted more of presenting positions and less of addressing the arguments.

“!is debate was unique because it was in front of an audience and we are used to debat-ing in front of a judge or just a small group of people,” Tweet said.

In addition to these changes, the teams were given two weeks to pre-pare their arguments whereas only 30 minutes of preparation time is al-lowed for a regular debate.

!e resolve of this debate was: “Education in the liberal arts is still important.”

!e Whitworth debate team’s stance was in the a$rmative while the Irish team argued against.

“I think it was important that the topic was relevant to college stu-dents,” Tweet said.

!e Whitworth forensics team argued that a liberal arts education better equips students to adapt to di"erent career #elds because it en-courages them to engage in courses outside their intended major and de-velops critical thinking.

To refute this position, the Irish champions claimed an education in the liberal arts is a waste of time and money because it does not allow the student to deeply engage in their chosen #eld and ill-equips them for the competition in the economic world.

“I am very pleased with how the debate went,” Ingram said. “People ought to hear a vari-ety of ideas and perspectives.”

!ough each side presented solid arguments with complete evidence and support of their positions, the debate was more of an exhibition than an actual com-petition.

“It was nice to have a civil debate and to hang out with them afterwards,” Director said. “I think it was a bene#-cial experience for everyone.”

!e Irish champions’ debate tour continues as they travel to Seattle and Miami before returning to Ireland.

Debate promotes a cultural exchange

-&%.((./0123In their meeting April 3, ASWU focused on Spokane Block Party and heard from Mabel Elsom of Lutheran Community Services about how donations could be used to help human tra$cking victims. A number of requisitions have taken place in recent weeks, leaving $10,200 in the unallocated account.

ASWU allocated $1,500 total to buy student tickets for basketball playo" games to allow the #rst students who arrived to attend for free.

An independent student group requisitioned $200 for a prom-style dance in April.

ASWU granted $600 to Students For Educa-tion Reform to attend a conference in Seattle. !e money will include part of the transport, housing and food costs for 30 students.

At the ASWU meeting Wednesday April 10, ASWU will vote whether or not to allocate $2,000 to bring the band He Is We to Whit-worth for a concert.

Finally, the Whitworth gardening club Kipos, in cooperation with Sodexo, was given $460 to start a hydroponics program in the cafeteria. !e produce grown in the cafeteria will later be served to students.

Contact Rebekah Bresee at [email protected]

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"e 43rd annual lu’au put on by Whitworth’s Hawai-ian Club is going back to the basics and sticking to the theme of traditional Hawaiian culture. In recent years, the lu’au has brought in a few more modern dances and music. "is year, though, the whole event will be of a more traditional style.

Senior Anthony Gaspar, president of the Hawaiian Club, said the purpose of the change in this year’s show is to give an accurate representation of what one would actually see at a lu’au.

“Everything about the lu’au screams Hawaiian culture,” Gaspar said. “It’s a great way to show ourselves to the Whit-worth community and to the greater Spokane community.”

Gaspar said that what is meant by “traditional” is that they are not sacri-#cing the cultural integrity of the show. "e goal of the event is to represent Ha-waiian culture, not to please the audi-ence with alterations and additions, he said.

In previous years, some of the dances were modi#ed to accomodate the vari-ous skill levels of performers, as well as the limited amount of preparation time. "at is not so this year.

“"e level of the performances won’t be sacri#ced just to put on an easier show,” Gaspar said.

"e songs chosen for the dances aren’t necessarily easy, but are ones everyone should be able to learn. "is year’s lu’au consists of the most performers ever to be in-volved — around 80 dancers — and Gaspar said that in a short amount of time, everyone has done well because of a combination of skill level and dedication.

"e haka dance in particular is a traditional dance

performed with ancestral war chants, which will be re-worked to be more what you would see at a real Hawai-ian lu’au.

“People should leave knowing, ‘Wow, that was the haka,’” Gaspar said.

Senior Kathrine Tadeo, who will be dancing as well as serving food at the lu’au, said preparation for the event has been intense. "ere have been practices every week-end since the beginning of February, and the week of the event practices are every day.

While Tadeo is a performer in the lu’au, she said she is most excited about the food.

Traditional Hawaiian food is a ma-jor part of the lu’au. Every year the menu stays traditional and basical-ly the same. Two typical dishes in-clude the lomi salmon and the shoyu chicken. "e lomi salmon is $avored with chopped green onions, diced tomatoes and salt. "e shoyu chick-en is sweeter and covered with soy sauce.

“It is bu!et-style and all-you-can-eat so you can de#nitely go back for thirds and fourths,” Gasper said.

Senior Aaron Kurashima was put in charge of the food for this year’s lu’au. He ordered all the food through Sodexo, but will be preparing the dishes along with about 16 addition-al workers. Food preparation will be

an all day process, from 7 a.m. up until the start of the event.

However, Kurashima said that he will be cooking the kalua pig, a favorite Hawaiian dish, in advance. "e pro-cess consists of rubbing salt and liquid smoke (a sea-soning) on pork shoulder and cooking it in the oven for several hours. "en it is shredded by hand.

“Hawaiian food is something that everyone should try

and enjoy,” Kurashima said. "e #nal touch to this aspect of the event are the slices

of pineapple on each table, which lu’au members con-stantly replenish.

"e overall decoration of the lu’au will be simple because of the huge area, said Vickie Puente, who is in charge of decor and attire. "ere will be a lot of $owers and foliage. Since the $owers are actually from Hawaii, Puente had to make sure the $owers would be delivered at the right date to be fresh for the event.

“I’m really proud of how the lu’au is shaping up this year,” Gaspar said.

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Tanner Scholten | PhotographerVickie Puente, senior Anthony Gaspar, and junior Cassie Kaleohano-Hauanio will perform at the 43rd annual lu’au in these traditional kahiko garments.

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Finding foods tailored for special di-etary needs is tough, especially when dining out. In Spokane, the majority of restaurants that cater to restrictions such as gluten-free, lactose-free, vegan and vegetarian are located downtown. However, below is a list of accommo-dating restaurants nearby Whitworth’s campus.

Most are independently run restau-rants, started by Spokane residents who understand the trouble it takes to dine out with a speci" c diet. However, includ-ed in the list are a surprising number of chain restaurants that recognize the growing need for special menu items. Diners should note that the restaurants listed also handle wheat # our and other gluten products in their kitchens.

Lasagna’s-On-Ya521 E. Holland Ave.1.3 miles from campus467-9100

Dan and Jennifer Shorts opened Lasa-gna’s-On-Ya in October 2010 and make their fresh lasagna from scratch daily. $ eir lasagna comes in four di! erent sizes (from smallest to largest): unpoco, coppia, piccoli and grande. $ e take-and-bake kitchen also o! ers artisan breads, salads and desserts. When plac-ing an order, gluten-free or lactose-free lasagna can be requested for an addi-tional charge of $2 for unpoco, $3 for

coppia, $4 for piccoli and $5 for grande. Owner Jennifer Shorts said the reason allergy-conscious alternatives are of-fered is because there is a high demand for them.

“I personally have friends that have celiac [disease], so it was very easy for me to incorporate [accommodations],” Shorts said. “$ ere’s more and more people for one reason or another that can’t do gluten, so I’ve kind of geared our menu to be able to accommodate di! erent allergies.”

Mackenzie River Pizza Co.9225 N. Nevada St.1.8 miles from campus413-1043

Mackenzie River Pizza Co. may spe-cialize in pizza, as their name indicates, but they also o! er comfort food entrees such as burgers, " sh and steak. Mack-enzie River’s wide selection of signature pizzas includes gluten-free pizza crust, which means customers are able to cre-ate a specially customized pizza with dozens of toppings. $ ere is also a selec-tion of vegetarian dishes, such as their Veggie Wrap and Sequoia or Athenian pizza, some of which can be made vegan if requested upon ordering.

“[Mackenzie River] recognizes that Spokane has a diverse community of needs, and we look forward to provid-ing an enjoyable meal [keeping in mind] dietary needs,” assistant manager Jessie Rogers, who is a vegetarian herself, said.

$ e kitchen is not an o% cially glu-ten-free facility, but customers with food allergies or dietary needs are encour-aged to contact the manager before or-dering. $ at way the kitchen can accom-modate for customers’ speci" c needs.

Twigs Bistro9820 N. Nevada St.1.3 miles from campus468-9820

$ e Twigs north location was added in August 2012 to the family of Twigs restaurants located around Spokane. $ e bistro is ideal for a quality dinner with family and friends, and is able to create delicious gluten-free appetizers, sandwiches, pizzas, desserts and en-trees, such as their Tru& e Penne or Crab Mac and Cheese.

Executive chef Steven Stermer said that nearly everything on the menu has a gluten-free alternative. He said Twigs’

decision to o! er such a wide range of gluten-free items started in 2007, and has increased because of Spokane’s high number of residents with gluten intoler-ance.

Red Dragon3011 E. Diamond Ave.5.6 miles from campus483-6700

Although Red Dragon specializes in delicious Chinese delivery food, they also o! er dine-in for lunch and dinner. $ eir extensive menu is cooked fresh daily, and includes a special section with 19 vegetarian options. Upon request Red Dragon will turn their vegetarian dishes, such as their General’s Battered Tofu or Teriyaki Vegetable Stir-Fry, into a veg-an-friendly feast. Many items may be made gluten-free if so speci" ed.

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Peter DuellSta! Writer

Whitworth junior Seth Owens be-gan singing in sixth grade and hasn’t stopped since. Owens recently played a set opening for Tyrone Wells at Whit-worth on Feb. 27, which continued his nine-year involvement in music.

“I started singing in sixth grade, prompted by a school musical produc-tion,” Owens said. “I started playing gui-tar in eighth grade so that I could join my church worship team.”

Owens writes his own lyrics and mu-sic (and does some covers when he plays concerts), but he didn’t begin writing his acoustic-style music as soon as he start-ed singing. In fact, he didn’t intend to write until he had a reason.

“I started actually writing music in ninth grade because I had some thoughts that I felt might be useful to share,” Owens said. “My journey of faith and relationship with God are de"nitely the biggest in#uence on my songwriting.”

Owens places high value in people and his relationships with them. $ose who are close to him make this evident.

“Seth is the epitome of a good dude,” junior Ethan Johnson, one of Owens’ housemates said. “He cares a lot about the people in his life. He is very inten-tional with his music. His messages re-#ect what he believes.”

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spire Owens in his songwriting and mu-sic.

“Each of the members of my imme-diate family have been inspirations for songs,” Owens said. “Also, my girlfriend, Mikyah, has been the theme of four or so of the 15 originals that I still perform. I write and perform to encourage people to think about where they are in life.”

Owens performs on campus, in co!ee houses and in other small, personal ven-ues. Owens said he prefers small, per-sonal atmospheres.

“Seth is very relaxed and humble at shows,” Johnson said. “He always talks to the crowd and is very thankful of the audience and those who helped him with the show.”

Personal spaces allow an artist to in-teract with an audience in a way that

large venues can’t. $ey allow the musi-cian to know the au-dience and dig deep-er than just musical notes and lyrics.

“I don’t really feel like I’m in the spot-light,” Owens said. “I’ve only played Whitworth shows and at a few co!ee shops and communi-

ty events. I hope that the questions and statements in my songs prompt people to set aside, for a moment, the trivial concerns of daily life and consider the deeper and more di%cult topics of real-ity.”

Owens is a full-time student at Whit-worth, majoring in marketing and minoring in Spanish. He plays shows during the year, but they tend to be spo-

radic. $e last time he performed was at Whitworth and he is already planning his schedule for next fall.

As of now, he said his next show isn’t scheduled until September, where he will play at the University of Idaho.

“I hope to play at local venues throughout this spring and summer though,” Owens said. “My performance schedule is pretty random.”

$e biggest struggle for him is one that many, if not all, musicians face as they "rst get started. $e population is simply unaware of him and his music.

“I’ll have two shows in the same week and then none for a month or more,” Owens said. “I’d like to play shows as of-ten as possible, but it’s hard when your name isn’t quite recognizable in town.”

Owens has, however, played in the Spokane area with some established musicians.

“I’ve opened for Tyrone Wells and Matt & Toby [of Emery],” Owens said.

“I’ve played in and with small bands, such as Lucky Tongue and $irstyper-fecT. Most of my music experience has been either on my own or with a worship team for the church my parents pastor in Coeur d’ Alene.”

An album is currently in the works for Owens. He said he already has some very basic recordings, but now wants to make a higher quality album.

Owens is a musician, but looking into the future he places something that he sees as more important before his mu-sic.

“My greatest ambition for the future, though, is to be a good husband and fa-ther,” he said. “As a career, I want to be a marriage and family counselor after re-ceiving my master’s degree in that disci-pline. I’ll always have music, but I do not foresee it being a full-time gig.”

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Lindsie TregoSta! Writer

" ousands of literature and writing enthusiasts have gathered this week to hear from nationally-recognized writers as a part of the Get Lit! Festival, put on by Eastern Washington University. During the festival, which started Tuesday and goes through Sunday, Spokanites will have the opportunity to attend readings and panels, participate in poetry slams and take part in writing workshops.

One of the main highlights from the festival is “An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates” on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Bing Crosby " eater. Oates, an award-winning author, has received such honors as the National Book Award.

“" ese are people who are in love with language, who are there to share their love of language,” professor of English Vic Bobb said. “You don’t get much better than Joyce Carol Oates.”

" e festival features major Northwest writers with Pulitzer Prize # nalists, New York Times bestsellers and National Books Critics award-winners among them. Some of the writers involved include Kim Barnes, David Shields and Major Jackson.

An Inland Northwest faculty reading will also be part of the festival and will include a reading by Whitworth assistant professor of English Nicole Sheets.

“I’m really looking forward to it — especially Kim Jones, who teaches at University of Idaho,” Sheets said. “She writes non-# ction and memoir, which is my jam.”

" e festival is a great opportunity for students to get o! -campus and head downtown, Sheets said.

“I think [students who have attended in the past] are delightfully surprised for the big names the festival attracts,” Sheets said. She compared attending readings of big-name writers to attending concerts of popular musicians.

In addition to attending the readings that will occur as a part of the festival, students can attend writing workshops, in which local authors teach small groups about di! erent facets of writing. Some workshop topics include revising, building story setting and writing graphic novels. Students can purchase workshop

tickets for $20 on the Get Lit! website and will need to bring a valid ID.

Another way students can get involved in the festival is through the college poetry slam, which will take place on " ursday at 6 p.m. in the Kress Gallery at River Park Square. In the slam, college students from across the area will have the chance to compete with their originally-crafted poems. Students can register for the slam

at 5:30 p.m. that night. Both Sheets and Bobb said the

festival serves as a reminder for students of the ample opportunities the Spokane community provides for them to get extra-curricular learning.

“" is is a place of rich opportunities,” Bobb said. “" e fact that they’re free sweetens the deal.”

Tickets are available in the Whitworth bookstore for Whitworth students to obtain in order to attend the readings and poetry slams free of charge.

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Everything in society directs us toward marriage. Either something special will happen when you get married or perhaps you have to travel here or experience something magni!cent.

But what about the people that God speci!cally calls not to get married?

"e Bible says, “"en the word of the Lord came to me: ‘you must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place’, Jeremiah 16:1-2. In 1 Corinthians 7:8, Paul says, “Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: it is good for them to stay unmar-ried, as I am.”

Why does everything have to point to the di-rection of ‘when peo-ple get married’, when that might not be the path an individual is supposed to take? "roughout the Bible, there are examples of individuals who never got married, many who were called to live single lives: individuals such as Jeremiah, Paul, Dan-iel, Mary and Martha, the disciples and, of course, Jesus were all unmarried.

"ese were individuals from both the Old and New Testament that were either directly called by God to stay single, or God’s plan simply lead them through life being single by default. God used each

of them in mighty ways. He took them where they were, without the pressure of having to get married and they were able to pursue God without that distraction. I am by no means saying that marriage is bad and everyone should be single; I just do not think that society and our culture should put so much emphasis and pres-sure on the idea of marriage as the end goal for everyone.

Romans 12:2 says, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. "en you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – His

good, pleasing, and per-fect will.”

We’re living in a cul-ture that is making it hard to trust God’s plan because each day we are told what to do, where to invest our hearts and how to live. "is concept goes beyond marriage and understanding that God can call someone to be single their entire life.

It is all about trusting God to take care of every

aspect of our life, and we can do that by looking at the way He worked and moved in the lives of those in the Bible.

!"#$#!$%Gap year gives students better grasp of the world

During senior year of high school and throughout your time in college, you are faced with a ton of decisions that will greatly impact your future. Do you apply here or there? Stay at this school or transfer? Do you at-tend college right away or wait and try something new?

One of my favorite journalists, Nicholas Kristof, writes for the New York Times and recently posted on Facebook and Twitter about the pos-itive outcomes of taking a gap year in between high school and college.

“You can accept and then defer en-trance for a year, and then use the time to learn a language or travel or work or volunteer,” Kristof writes on Facebook. “It’s silly to study a language on campus when you can do so abroad.”

Taking a gap year was something I considered and quickly dismissed be-cause of my parents and my own no-tions that after high school you go to college and after college you get a job. I listened to the fears of missing out on scholarships, not connecting with my peers and possibly becoming com-placent and never actually attending college.

I am still certain that I made the right choice by attending college, but I do think the gap year option should have received a little bit more atten-tion and consideration on my part.

A gap year does not only apply to the time between high school and college, a gap year can also be during college.

You can take a year o# and travel, volunteer in another country or even work. Kristof recommends a variety of options, but advises choosing an op-

tion that is the most opposite to your comfort zone or wherever you live be-cause it should be an experience that is totally new to you.

Apparently, students who take gap years are happier. "e Amer-ican Gap Association reports that “Students who have taken a gap year overwhelmingly report being satis!ed with their jobs.”

Also, according to the American Gap association, they are less sel!sh and have a better sense of who they are as a person as well as what is im-portant to them.

"ey also say that 90 percent of gap-year students return or attend college within a year, which surprised me.

"e college advice site, College Con!dential, recommended a gap year that would consist of working

for students whose families cannot af-ford their expected family contribu-tion.

“I spent part of my gap year work-ing on a farm in France, and my sons have taken gap years in China,” Kristof writes. “It’s much cheaper than a year in college—you may well learn

more and you can also work and earn some money and get some job expe-rience.”

Like I said, I don’t regret my choice to attend college after high school. However, a gap year in the future now looks like a more feasible option.

I found that there are organizations to assist with gap year activities and funding. It’s something that I will keep in mind as I continue at Whitworth.

CARTER is a sophomore majoring in communication. Comments can be sent to [email protected].

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Internships have become an integral part of the college experience. !ey o"er students an excel-lent opportunity to enter the workforce while still in school, thus allowing them exposure to di"erent careers.

!e reality is that most internships are unpaid. !e most important aspect of an internship is ex-perience.

Anya Kamenetz criticizes the unpaid internship model in a New York Times article titled “Take !is Internship and Shove It.”

She claims that the op-portunity cost of an unpaid internship is too great, because students must pay for cost of living and give up the wages they could make in a paid position. She also claims that “unpaid internships are not jobs, only simulations.”

!us, they do not prepare students well enough for real jobs, she says. In a later interview with John Stossel of Fox Busi-ness Network, she claims that businesses need to follow minimum wage laws when hiring interns.

However, regardless of pay, internships great-ly bene#t the student. According to CNN, some of the major bene#ts include the chance to try out dif-ferent careers, to network among future employers, bond with mentors and learn about the intricacies of daily life in the real world.

Further explaining the bene#ts of internships, Steve Cohen writes in the Wall Street Journal that “the most valuable purpose is exposure. Interns get to see the real work that real people do, and to see how disparate pieces come together to make an or-ganization function.”

As students begin to think about careers of inter-

est to them, this kind of exposure is incredibly valu-able.

Internships can also signi#cantly enhance one’s resume.

According to Melissa Benca, director of career services at Marymount Manhattan College, “intern-ships have become key in today’s economy.” Em-ployers want to see that students have relevant work experience, so they will certainly check to see if the student has completed an internship.

Since internships have become so important, I believe that more businesses need to allow as many students as possible the opportunity to complete one.

If we require all employers to pay their interns, they will o"er fewer internships because many com-panies, particularly smaller ones, cannot a"ord to pay additional wages. Fewer opportunities would be detrimental to students.

Additionally, an essential aspect of the free mar-ket economy is the ability for two people to enter

a contract. If an intern signs a contract to work

for free, the government should not be allowed to prevent him or

her from doing so. Interns are perfectly capable of decid-ing for themselves whether

or not to take on an unpaid internship. According to a study by Internships.com,

“72 percent of students c o n s i d e r compensa-

tion to be the least important factor when consider-ing an internship.”

!us, students will likely choose to apply for and take on unpaid internships.

If they feel exploited by working for free, then they have every right to turn down the internship and ei-ther #nd a paid one or a job. In the words of John Stossel, “Butt out, federal bullies. Grown-ups can take care of ourselves.”

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Due to the rising competitiveness of the workforce and the lack of abundant jobs for bachelor’s degree holders, many believe that a liberal arts education is a waste of time and money. However, a recent international debate exhibition by Whitworth’s forensic team points to reasons why liberal arts is still important, which is the position that this board upholds.

First and foremost, members of society need to be well-rounded. Liberal arts degrees give people the ability to see life from various stances and understand di"erent viewpoints on important matters. A liberal arts education also makes people more adaptable. Many students end up working outside of their degrees because they have backgrounds in other areas and can e"ectively do multi-ple jobs. Employers are also looking for people who have skills in liberal arts such as e"ective communication and adaptability.

However, this board acknowledges that there are some negatives to a liberal arts education. One argument against liberal arts is that people are wasting money on a degree that won’t produce high return. !ey say the costs essentially outweigh the bene#ts. Some also argue that this type of education forces students to learn about things that are not particularly in line with their interests and can be seen as super#cial because it doesn’t allow for an in depth understanding of issues.

While these arguments pose bene#cial perspectives, this board believes that a liberal arts education cannot be proven unimportant based on this evidence. One may not dive deeply into certain subjects, but the lack of top expertise in a subject doesn’t mean it isn’t useful knowl-edge. Not only does this type of education make one an open-minded citizen, it allows for increased understand-ing of others.

While many see liberal arts as an unnecessary educa-tion in today’s society, many things point to the conclu-sion that a liberal arts education is still important. It fos-ters well-roundedness and sends people into society with knowledge of di"erent perspectives and life outlooks. Lib-eral arts education allows for a development of the mind and heart and Whitworth does this well.

Editorials in the “In the Loop” section re$ect the majority opinion of the Editorial Board, comprised of #ve editors.

WHITWORTH OUTSPEA

KS Do you think the Core program adds value to the university? Why or why not?

“Yes; it inspires critical thinking even if there’s a lot of memorizing. !ere’s still opportunity to engage in what we believe and work to understand how that inspires action. You also get to meet a lot of professors.” —Taylor Blake, senior

“Its intent is good. It’s important to educate students about di"erent worldviews but it does tend to scare students away and they form a negative opinion of the Christian church. It should be continued, but Core should be changed and grow with more feedback.” —Heather Billings, junior

“I think it does, but at the same time it should be an optional class for multiple reasons. It’s time-consuming, it’s not major speci#c and also it’s only Whitworth speci#c.” —Zach Autry, senior

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“I de#nitely think that it frames di"erent worldview perspectives through a Christian one and introduces students to various other religious histories or foundations. With each section, they do a good job summing up what a Christian thinks and how to act on it.” —Izze Ginley, freshman

Tiara Pajimola Sta! Writer

Women’s track

Sophomore Christina Dobbins helped lead Whit-worth to an overall win at the eighth annual Sam Ad-ams Meet last Saturday with a team score of 73.5. Dob-bins won the long jump with a distance of 17-5 1/4, the high jump with a clearance of 5-2 1/2, and was part of the winning 4x400 relay team crossing at 4:15.80.

Dobbins felt good about her performances and those of her team despite the weather they encountered.

“For the most part I actually felt we got pretty lucky because right when the meet ended it started to rain a lot harder,” Dobbins said. “Everyone did really well and stepped up and competed regardless of the weather.”

Dobbins remains "fth in the national rankings for the high jump.

Freshman Kerry Wright was among the four individ-uals who won their respective events. Wright threw a 137-11 to win the javelin.

“It was a little windy so it didn’t help when throwing the javelin,” Wright said. “For the most part it was de-cent compared to what we thought it was going to be so it was good.”

When it came to the overall team performance, Wright was pleased with their e!ort.

“We came out to compete and I think we are all ready for conference,” Wright said.

Wright remains at the No. 1 position in the national ranking for javelin at the Division III level.

Freshman Maddye Dinsmore was also a part of the winning 4x400 relay.

“I feel like [our performance] was a big step in the right direction,” Dinsmore said. “We all went out very powerful against Gonzaga and we had good splits.”

Dinsmore was also content with her own perfor-mances as well as her team’s overall performance.

“I think we did a great job given the weather,” Dins-more said. “We got a lot of [personal records] and school records and national marks so it was awesome.”

#e women will continue this Saturday, April 13, at World War #5 hosted by Spo-kane Falls Community College.

Men’s track

Senior Carter Comito broke his own school records at the eighth annual Sam Adams Clas-sic last Saturday leading Whit-worth to an overall win with 87 points. Comito competed in the opening "eld events while the sun was out and before the sideways rain, hail, wind began.

“I threw early in the day and it was really sunny so it wasn’t too bad when I competed,” Comito said. “I felt really good.”

Comito’s previous record in discus was set at the Buc Scoring Invite with a throw of 193-1. He broke that by more than 10 feet throwing 203-5.

“It’s been awhile since I’ve had a [personal record] in discus so I was very happy,” Comito said.

Comito took "rst place in both shot put (58-6 3/4) and discus. He holds both school and track records and remains "rst in the national rankings. He hopes to build upon his early success later in the season when it counts, he said.

Also contributing to the team success were the "ve oth-er individuals who won their events. Freshman Nate Stenson cleared 6-6 in high jump, soph-omore Joseph Green cleared 15-1 in pole vault, and soph-omore Chase Wright threw 207-5 in the javelin. Junior Keegan Shea won the hammer event and senior Steve Acosta claimed Whitworth’s sole track win in the 800-meter race.

Shea competed in the hammer and not only won the event, but broke his previous record set earlier this month at the Buc Scoring Invite. Shea threw 195-7

and is now positioned in third place in the Division III national rankings.

“It felt great,” Shea said. “It’s something that I’ve been working on for a while.”

Shea said he competed in one of the few opportuni-ties while the sun was out.

“#ere was about a 10-minute window of sun and that was when I had my good throw,” Shea said.

Weather conditions the team endured didn’t have a major impact on their performance and drive.

“I think that’s one thing we do really well as a team; we control the things we can control and the rest is whatever,” Shea said. “I thought everybody did really well not letting [the weather] get to them.”

Acosta crossed the "nish line in "rst for the 800-me-ter run with a time of 1:56.36.

“I felt good under the conditions,” Acosta said. “I’m usually a pretty strong "nisher but I had a bigger kick than usual in that race because I had a slower "rst half. However the weather didn’t change how I prepared for it.”

Whitworth will compete in World War #5 at Spokane Falls Community College this Saturday, April 13.

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Juliana Zajicek | PhotographerSophomore Christina Dobbins hand the baton o! to freshman Joey Hope during 4x400 relay last Saturday at Boppell Track. Whitworth won the race with a time of 4:15.80 to edge Gonzaga.

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!e men’s golf team competed in !e West Cup in Jurupa Valley, Calif., over spring break at the Goose Creek Golf Club. Whitworth placed third out of 15 teams. As a team, the Pirates shot a 34 over par and freshman Oliver Rudnicki shot a one under par to lead Whitworth. Junior Jesse Salzwedel placed second for the Pirates with an eight over par.

Men’s Golf

Over the break the men competed in the Buc Scoring Invite and junior Keegan Shea broke the school record in the hammer with a throw of 186-10 and senior Carter Comito tied the track record for discus with a throw of 193-1. !ey continued the following week to compete at the Peyton Scoring Meet and a handful of the men’s team broke nine meet records including Comito’s two wins in the shot put (55-9) and discus (186-8).

Men’s Track and Field

!e Bucs baseball team played a pair of three-game series against Lin"eld and George Fox over spring break and su#ered a six-game losing streak. !e Bucs scored just 16 runs over the two series after plating 18 runs in the previous two games prior to spring break. In the "nal game against George Fox, the Pirates nearly broke the winning streak but lost 5-4 with a walk-o# home run by George Fox in extra innings.

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!e men’s tennis team spent spring break in California and had three matches against non-conference teams. !e men started out strong with a 7-2 win over Caltech. !e following two matches ended in defeat, with the Bucs losing to College of the Desert 7-2 and to Occidental 9-0.

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!e Whitworth women’s golf team "nished tied for second at the Ohana Classic in Hawaii over spring break, "nishing just behind Northwest Conference foe Willamette. !e Pirates were led by senior Emily Guthrie and freshman Chelsea Bayley, who both earned points for Whitworth in match play.

Women’s Golf

!e women competed in the Buc Scoring Invite over Spring Break where freshman Kellyn Roiko’s 18:21.63 5000-meter run was the second fastest time in the Northwest Conference so far this year. !e team competed in the Peyton Scoring Meet, in which Roiko set a new meet record in the 3000- meter steeplechase with a time of 11:39.98. Senior Rebekah Daniels broke another meet record in the hammer with a throw of 156-3.

Women’s Track and Field

!e Whitworth softball team went 6-4 over spring break, taking three of four against Lewis & Clark and going 3-3 in National Training Center Spring Games in Florida. Senior Jamie Brunner accounted for 16 hits and 17 RBIs through the 10 games.

Softball

Over spring break, the women’s tennis team traveled to California to compete with three schools outside the Northwest Conference. !e Bucs were swept by MIT 9-0, but followed it up with a 5-4 win over Caltech. !e women ended the week with a 6-3 loss against Westmont.

Women’s tennis

Korey HopeSta! Writer

Ross Cutter

Whitworth athletics has had more ups and downs than a monitor dis-playing a healthy heartbeat — from a national championship in 1960 and 45 Northwest Conference titles in just the last 10 years, to almost be-ing dropped from all sports compe-tition in their conference almost 50 years ago.

Notable among the history of Whitworth athletics are Ross Cut-ter and Paul Merkel, both of whom coached at Whitworth.

Cutter "rst got a job as a physical education professor at Whitworth College in 1958, and then found himself coach-ing tennis for the Pirates in his second year with the school.

“I just kind of fell into the job,” Cutter said.

#e dean at the time was Al-vin Quall, who was also the coach of the ten-nis team in 1958. Quall, having a signi"cant amount of responsibility on campus already, told Cutter he would coach the team beginning the next year.

“#is was the middle of my "rst year,” Cutter said. “I’m not going to say I won’t.”

So, the Cal-Berkeley grad took over the Whitworth tennis program in 1959. Although he claims not to have had a tennis background "t for coaching, Cutter saw great suc-cess in his "rst few years as its head, which included a couple of tennis

players making it into national semi-"nal spotlight. #e tennis team also had victories over big-name schools such as Oregon State and Washing-ton State, and gave the University of Washington a healthy scare in a dan-gerously close 4-3 loss, he said.

“#ere were just some great play-ers when I got the job,” Cutter said.

Cutter continued to coach for more than 30 years, instilling team-building traditions such as in-viting a campus "gure, such as well-known professors or administrators, to handle the ceremonial opening of the game balls with a few words of encouragement before a home match, or urging his players to take their opponents to Graves Gym for a soda after their match, no mat-ter how hard-fought or heated the

match may have been.

#e team’s suc-cess drew a huge part of the student body to matches, especially their barn-burner at home against the University of Washington, Cut-ter said. Each one of the team-build-ing activities all the way up to the success that Cut-

ter brought to this program, played a small part in bringing the Whitworth community closer together, he said. Whitworth’s Cutter Tennis Courts are named in honor of Cutter’s con-tributions to the school.

Paul Merkel

Paul Merkel was the coach of Whitworth’s "rst and only nation-al championship team. Merkel lettered 11 times in football, bas-ketball, baseball and tennis while

earning two degrees at Whitworth. Beginning in 1955, Merkel coached Whitworth baseball and played oth-er major roles for Whitworth until his retirement in 1990, according to #e Spokesman-Review.

It wasn’t until the 1972 season that Pirate baseball joined the North-west Conference. Merkel saw the program he formerly coached win a total of "ve NWC championships in the program’s "rst 12 years in the conference. #at record was bested only by Lin"eld’s eight consecutive titles from 1959 to 1966, the longest such streak in 85 years of Northwest Conference baseball, according to the Northwest Conference website archives.

On top of his accomplishments with the baseball team, Merkel’s signi"cant work behind the scenes ensured that Whitworth would con-tinue to have an athletic program. When the school was still a part of the Evergreen Conference in the 1960s, Pirate athletics were about to be dropped from all sports compe-tition due to failure in reaching the minimum number of sports needed to stay in the conference, according to #e Spokesman-Review.

Merkel, Whitworth’s athletic director at the time, decided the school would form a swim team to save athletics. Merkel put a swim team in place and coached it him-self, on top of being a large part of the baseball program as well as the athletic director. Merkel died Aug. 24, 2002 at the age of 80.

#ough his time at Whitworth has come and gone, his name re-mains a part of Whitworth athletics. Whitworth’s baseball "eld is named Merkel Field in remembrance of Merkel’s services to the university.

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Note: Standings as of April 7, 2013

BASEBALLWhitworth at Paci!c - noon and 3 p.m. Saturday, April 13

SOFTBALLGeorge Fox at Whitworth - noon and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13

MEN’S TENNISWhitworth at Paci!c Lutheran - 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 12

WOMEN’S TENNISPuget Sound at Whitworth - 4 p.m. Friday, April 12

TRACK AND FIELDWhitworth at World War #5 at Spokane Falls -time TBA, Saturday, April 13

MEN’S GOLFWhitworth at Washington Cup in Moses Lake, Wash. - noon, Saturday, April 13

WOMEN’S GOLFWhitworth at Spokane CC at Indian Canyon - 1 p.m. Saturday, April 13

BASEBALLNWC ALL

LINFIELD 15-3 22-5

GEORGE FOX 13-3 20-8

PACIFIC LUTHERAN 7-8 16-11

PUGET SOUND 6-7 11-16

WILLAMETTE 6-9 11-17

PACIFIC (ORE.) 6-9 9-18

WHITMAN 7-11 12-16

WHITWORTH 5-10 10-17-1

LEWIS & CLARK 5-10 8-22

SOFTBALLNWC ALL

LINFIELD 20-2 28-5

PACIFIC LUTHERAN 15-7 22-12

WHITWORTH 13-9 19-15

PACIFIC (ORE.) 10-10 15-15

GEORGE FOX 12-12 15-21

WILLAMETTE 9-11 13-17

LEWIS & CLARK 7-15 13-19

PUGET SOUND 0-20 0-31

MEN’S TENNISNWC ALL

WHITMAN 9-0 12-6

GEORGE FOX 9-1 11-4

PACIFIC LUTHERAN 8-1 10-5

WILLAMETTE 6-4 6-9

LEWIS & CLARK 5-7 6-11

WHITWORTH 4-6 5-12

PACIFIC (ORE.) 4-7 5-9

PUGET SOUND 1-9 2-12

LINFIELD 0-11 0-11

WOMEN’S TENNISNWC ALL

WHITMAN 10-0 13-3

LEWIS & CLARK 11-1 15-4

PUGET SOUND 7-3 13-3

LINFIELD 6-5 7-9

PACIFIC LUTHERAN 5-5 7-8

WHITWORTH 5-5 6-8

GEORGE FOX 2-8 5-11

WILLAMETTE 1-9 1-13

PACIFIC (ORE.) 0-11 3-13

Keely Cooper | File PhotoMerkel Field was named after former Whitworth student-athlete and coach Paul Merkel. !e baseball "eld was renovated this past o#-season. Merkel’s name is displayed on the out"eld scoreboard.

“I just kind of fell into the job.”

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in 1959. He held the job for more than 30 years.

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LEFT: Sophomore Samantha Keating’s transportation of choice is longboarding. Beth Crabtree | Photographer

ABOVE: Freshman Ellie Larson is part of a group of rollerbladers that take advantage of Whitworth’s pathways.

Juliana Zajicek | Photographer

BELOW RIGHT: Junior Trevor Zajicek rides to the loop on his unicycle.Gabrielle Lee | Photographer

BELOW LEFT: Heelies, a rare sight around Whitworth, are worn by junior Andy Rowland.

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