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Taking the stage one last time

BY LAURA NASH
Arts Editor

SECURITY: AT WHAT COST?

Senior Theatre majors began PHOTO BY SAM MARGEVICIUS their thesis presentations Wednes-PHOTO BY LEO QIN day, inviting everyone to enjoy BY MARI YAMATO the culmination of their last four Features Editor years spent learning the ways of the Although the spring semester stage. Over the last three months, is winding down, Lewis & Clarks eleven seniors have worked tounique activities are still going gether to prepare a series of shows RADIO SHOWS CANCELLED FOR REMAINDER OF SEMESTER of strong. This Friday, attendants worthy of performance in Fir Acres the first Annual Beard Pageant will Theatre. celled for the remainder combing their way through a sea BY DREW LENIHAN be of While only seven of the Theatre Staff Writer the semester. of facial hair at the Bon. majors directed performances, all e remodel will allow Creators of the Beard Pageant, of them completed research projBY MICAH lent their skills In the best move since for easier access for Leo ,Fraser and Jen Schildmeyer, sta ects, and everyone LEINBACH Staff Writer excluding all Scandinavian students and teachers to be- been fostering this idea for have technically and in other ways. boy bands and the major- come DJs and participate ina year now. Luckily for stuover Casting began in February and e have continued since. ity of George Michael al- what KLC has to o er, said the original plan became dents, rehearsals Paci c Environmental Advocacy Center (PEAC), a minutes bums from its library in the Langum. more campus friendly. Each director has only 45 legal clinic that operates out of Lewis & Clarks early 2000s, KLC is having DespiteNATALIE BAKER reality the sad My original idea was called for their performance, meaning PHOTO BY Law School, recently won a multia much-needed overhaul of of no longer being able to Beards and Bluegrass, beBeers, they had to pare down their choice its facilities. KLC Board of tune into the hyphy slaps of those are three things that I PHOTOS BY LINDSEY BOSSE cause ofyear court battle that will also had scenes carefully. They require the Environmental create their sets Directors and General Man- Real Talk: e Cutty Hour, aspects of Pacific Northwest feel are expansive collection of CDs small budgets to Protection Agency The once illuminated KLC On-Air (EPA) totheir performers. regulate ballast water disager Becka Langum (11) the girly-pop sleepover of that go together and form a culture was outgrowing its organiand outfit window stays dark now that the racharge from ships engaged in intercalled for an overhaul of the Champagne Campaign or unit, said Fraser. while vinyl whole zation system, Wednesday evening, Annie AFTERdio studios renovationsAS DEAN OF STUDENTS,informing Jon Satins (12) charismatic records sat it best depths of THREE YEARS have be- KLC facilities, CELESTINO national trade. litigation her Fraser thought in the to just Fassler opened the eshow with marks gun. Pieces of old KLC equiptment a major victory Five Years: From LIMAS WILLpiles waiting to TOsold or their current DJs of the re- END KLC is long over duethethe studio,music aspects of MOVE ON be LAFAYETTE COLLEGE AT THE voice, keep beard and dusty and unrecproduction Lastfor opponents of the sit in spread of invasive species. model on Mar. 28. In order for the remodel. ings ognized duesincethe lack of his dream, especially to the locathe Golden Age of American OF THIS SEMESTER. thrown out, and radio shows have Ballast water,to Jason carried in which is Robert to make way for the remodel were looking grim when organization. tion changed to LC. Musical Theater been cancelled for the remainder the hulls and all that it entails, radio the main studios monitors Brown. of ships to increase their of the semester. BY LINDSEY BOSSE their way to Limas,broadcasts have house,can- Provost seem to work. CONTINUED | FEATURES 9 3 emphasizing stability, is known to with a invabeen said didnt Jane Atkine CONTINUED | NEWS The show is all sung carry reEditor in Chief his immense impact on campus son. Its a big job, to oversee the sive chronology:ese woman tells species. species enter versed the During a torrential downpour and how greatly he will be missed. division, and to take two people the ships ballast when the at the her side of the story starting water is on April 14, an email from the On Tuesday, April 12, Associate who already have hefty assignpumped relationship and workend of theinto the ship in one region Office of the Provost, ironically Platt-Howard & Hartzie Dean of Students Jeff Feld-Gore ments and ask them to do more of the world, and can be released ing her way towards the beginning, matching the solemn weather, and Associate Dean of Students made better sense with the idea of when the ballast water is beginwhile the man starts at the pumped graced every students inbox. The and Director of Multicultural Af- a partnership. out andanother towards In 1999, a in moves region. the end. ning first wave of students who read fairs Latricia Brand were updated BY JERRED BLANCHARD NEWS 4 I think I am most scared of student led the middle for one They meet in the PEAC to petition the story by The Source that was Staff Writer on his transition and asked to take there being a real sense from the the on their weddingan exemption EPA to remove day, wrote song to the Clean Water Act that al- linked in the email quickly up- his place as Dean of Students as entire community that theyve truFassler, describing the two person dated their Facebook statuses with lowed musical discharges. Every year at Lewis & Clark co-deans. Dean of the Graduate ly lost an advocate that they wont chamberfor vessel she directed. varying emotional responses to theof School Scott Fletcher was asked to be able to regain, in some way, at litigation directed A Alison Stake, who was success- College, the Ho man Gallery ful, and the EPA the to require news that Dean of Students and be Chief Diversity Officer, which said Brand. We all understand the Contemporary Art hosts the SeMetamorphosis of beganHeart in Chief Diversity Officer Celestino FEATURES 9 permits for ballast Metamorphowater to be dis- nior Art Exhibition, which gallery he, like Brand and Feld-Gore, ac- unique space that Celestino occuMary Zuckermans Limas would be leaving Lewis & cepted. The decision was made pied, so I think there are a lot of charged. But according directed curator Tesner culses, and Ro Mehtar, whoto a PEAC Clark to Linda a new calls the as take position quickly after Limas announced his concerns from the campus comstatement Disaster: Rosencrantz mination of a Death and on the case, e permit Vice President year-long process for failed to meet federal requirements the graduatingfor Campusthe Art switch to Lafayette College, with- munity who dont understand how seniors in Life and Guildenstern, also presented and Senior Diversity Officer at Laout the consult of any committees. big of a void there is going to be. because, among three perforDepartment. e grand Wednesday. These other reasons, it fayette College. Since the opening news, It seemed pretty obvious we still allowed ships to discharge at un- occurred last Friday, April 1. mances will be repeated tonight responsesannual continually found needed to be using people inhave event is characterized CONTINUED | NEWS 3 e ARTS 12 7,treated 9 p.m. respectively. 8 and ballast water containing invasive species. opened Thursby all of the seniors clad in their nRachel Erickson day In 2009, the PEACof Shakewith her version pressed the est garb with excited expressions on case again,Tempest. calling for the their faces. eir pieces, after semesspeares The this time EPAwastake speci have a very enI to lucky to c actions to regu- ters of toiling and sweating within BY LINDSEY BOSSE ent for organization, said Daniel late ballast water. is litigation was their respective mediums, were disThe annual Senior Art Exhibition opened thusiastic and open-minded cast Editor in Chief Shaver (13). I hopeon display for the successful due to a coordinated legal played in di erent areas of the gallast Friday and will be that putting who were willing to experiment After 30 years of coaching at on the best of the in the NWC willon e ort byrisks when IStanford Envi- lery, except for one piece, which was PEAC, the asked them remainder meets semester. Pieces and take Lewis & Clark College and nu- remain as part Secrets and Lies by Toni display include of Coach Fixs legtoronmental Law Clinic,said National performed outside. try strange things, the Erickmerous years of watching his fa- acy. Resources brought the methods a Defense Council and 13 graduating seniors were in Ruotsalainen (bottom), Survival is a Conson, who ther coach before that, David Fix On Saturday, despite Groesbeck fusing Attempt by Katherine the hail ofrange of other high pro to her redirector Peter Brook le environ- the show. Before even entering the will be leaving the Pioneer running and unpleasant weather, and a team mental organizations. building, attendees were greeted (top left), and FUZZMUCK the Things hearsals. program. Last Saturday marked ended the meet looking forward to by quiet, costumed individuals Thingness by Lydia Cardenas (above). Jon Wash, who prepared Art: his last meet at Fix Track, along the upcoming conference meet. CONTINUED | FEATURES 8 participating in the performance Identity and Association, Grace with a slew of seniors: Richie LeI think we are in a good posiart of Katherine Groesbecks piece Wedgwood, who prepared The Donne, Michael Pryor, Cheyenne tion to move up the conference this Survival is a Confusing Attempt. of photographs by Kevin Brown Magic of Marisol, and Petra LamFeliz, Katherine Groesbeck, Chris- year, said LeDonne. e piece explores the futility of called 972xx No. 1--No. 6, involvberson, who prepared The Fever: tina Herring, Amy Madden and Shaver contributed, We dont existence through strange costumes ing six 24 x 30 inch photographs Entering the Mind, also presented Liz Johnson. Regardless of his de- yet have the numbers with humanly that make the performer faceof people juxtaposed necessary to yesterday and will present again parture from the position of head compete at the head of the conconstructed environments in comCLOSED Saturday night.FOR SUMMER less and distant, yet human all the coach, Fix promises to stay con- ference, solitude. have many indisame. plete but we Brown explained The performances exhibited the nected to the program. vidually amazing athletes acting as NEWS 4 had in eyre fun because they dont that the people were who are passion that each student PHOTO BY MAGGIE OLIVER However, I continued to real- seeded at the topenvironments more really take (11) has been seriously.speed and strength since her injury in the fall. themselves regaining I parts of their or near the top of their work. As with most final events Illana Livstrom also like& Clark Invatational last weekend showed some of her better times of the ize how effectively run our home theirthan with or against them. it how theyre relatable and so events. on campus, the final plays showed The Lewis meets are due to Coach Fixs talmoving,women finished eighth while the men finished in the no. 15 spot. explained Groesbeck. Also in the show is a set 14 all the hard work of students. CONTINUED | SPORTSpaintseason; the Upon entering the gallery, one ings exploring imaginary rePHOTOS BY LINDSEY BOSSE is witness to two sets of paintings, alities by Sandy Fujita, a set of two installations and one set of which are 105 completely di er- standing wood spikes. seven monochrome C-print phophotographs. ent paintings as separate interAlso on display is Lydia Carde- tographs by Jarr Lyman called OPINIONS 6 e paintings consist of Ty- pretations of the artists emotions nas installation called FUZZMUCK Beneath the Waking Life and an ler Reeses What Destruction Be- each day. and a ings ing-ness, consisting installation of di erent plaster gun, featuring three gures with Prominently standing in the of a surreal set of furniture MENS ULTIMATE gold couchesFALLS and wall women on FRISBEE with one BARRY GLASSNER SHARES SOME intricate textures behind them, middle of the gallery is a sculpture decoration combining synthetic plaster man atop a ladder sni ng TO WHITMAN, COMES IN SECOND PERSONAL Grounding, by Shannon individually named REFLECTIONS ON HIS Wu called Breathing: natural and natural synthetic mate- a gold wig called Platinum Musing Reluctance and e Forgiven the silent resonance of spirits, which rials installed in front of a AT REGIONAL TOURNAMENT IN perfectly by Elizabeth Jaeger. FIRST YEAR AS PRESIDENT AT Generations, and Eleanor Bald- is an exploration of chi through pinkish wall. TACOMA | SPORTS 14 SPORTS 15 PHOTO BY NATALIEwins LEWIS & CLARK | 1-105, a sculpture of crochet yarns and Self Portraits No. OPINIONS 7 CONTINUED | ARTS 12 Last in the front room is a set BAKER PHOTO COURTESY OF SAM BARBER

A RECAP OF THE DEBATE ON THE LACK OF ACCURATE INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC | NEWS 4

SENIORS LEAVE THEIR FINAL MUSICAL MARK ON THE WALLS BON HOSTS FIRST ANNUAL OF EVANS DURING THEIR FINAL BEARD COMPETITION RECITALS FOR COMMUNITY | ARTS 13

PLETHORAS OF RECITALS

Fuzzy faces

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PEAC wins prolonged court battle

KLC GETS A MAKEOVER

FAREWELL, CELESTINO

Senior Art Exhibition showcases talent say goodbye

CALM READING DAYS AT WATZEK

No need for aloe

Sunburn:

Coach Fix, seniors finish careers at track

FRED MEYER

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CREW TEAMS MAKE WAVES

PRESIDENTIAL PERSPECTIVE

BACCHUS ON TO NATIONALS