Volume 46, Issue 3 october 1, 2010

Sygielski is going to the White House3 Nevada native

runs to MHCC4 9Shop while enjoying the outdoors

who will win:energy drinks, coffee . . . or us?

Battle of the caffeinated Beverages

Pages 6-7

Editors-in-ChiefJen Ashenberner &Jordan Tichenor

Sports EditorJon Fuccillo

Advertising ManagerCopy EditorDavid Guida

Living Arts EditorDavid Gambill

Assistant Living Arts EditorAnevay Torrez

Photo EditorDevin Courtright

Opinion EditorL. John King

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2 OpiniOn The AdvocATe OctOber 1, 2010

Front-page artby Christopher Hernandez

Mt. Hood is a great community college, but there will come a time to drive off the campus and say “mission accomplished.” There would be no more fighting for a parking spot or spend-ing hours in line to pay for overpriced books. All this and more could all be yours when you graduate or earn your certificate.

Yes, graduate. It happens when people finish all their class requirements. Gradu-ates put on long robes and sit through a long ceremony and then get to throw those funny flat hats into the air. Then graduates leave and move on to the next chapter of their life. Taking years and years to finish a degree is like sitting through a three and a half-hour foreign film that should have mercifully ended at 90 minutes.

Life is calling. We all have other stuff we want to do.

Higher education is expensive in many ways. First of all, there is the cost of tuition, fees, books and increased transportation needs. Consider what a three-credit class that you have unnec-essarily taken has really cost you. Tuition and assorted student fees amount to around $100 a credit. Throw in a $100 book as well as the transportation costs of 12 weeks of driving to MHCC three times a week. That single three-credit class has actually cost you around $300.

There is also the cost of lost income; hours in school are hours away from a job. Perhaps more important, there are the personal costs. The time we spend in school is time away from our friends, family and other personal pursuits.

National statistics for completing a college education are disheartening. Completing one’s education is like running for an 80-yard touch-down. Life has a way of putting tacklers in the

way of any worthwhile goal. Economic issues, illness, a death in the family, relation-ship issues, the need to move out of the area and a score of other problems can stop a run for the graduation goal line. The best way to make that touchdown is to run down the field as fast as you possibly can.

There is a simple step that will help you get the heck outta Dodge: Schedule a meet-ing with an academic adviser. Discuss the educational and career direction you want to pursue and then ask your ad-viser to run a D.A.R.S. (Degree

Audit Reporting System) report. The D.A.R.S. will plot out the courses you need to complete your degree.

You can easily run a D.A.R.S. on your own to check your progress or to see how changing your major might affect you. Go to the mhcc.edu home page and click on the ‘Check Degree Progress’ link in the welcome section. Then click on the D.A.R.S. link and select the correct degree program in the scroll down menu. With-in seconds you will see exactly what you need to take to successfully graduate.

Registering early each quarter will help you get the required and elective classes you want. But the most important thing is to carefully follow the requirements of the D.A.R.S. recom-mendations and to speak often with your ad-viser.

Hot, sticky, sweaty, eeeuuuww: four adjectives describing how I felt while driving home Monday from school.

In addition to the desire to take a shower running through my mind, I kept thinking to myself, “Isn’t it September?”

‘Why is it so hot and humid?’ people are asking. According to Mark Nelson from Fox 12 News (I love that guy), the reason is due to southwest British Columbia getting hit with a warm and humid jet stream and rain. This means no rain for Oregon, but who needs rain when we can sweat enough to replenish the water supply because we are defi-

nitely getting the humidity. Fox 12 also declared Monday that we

matched Kona, Hawaii, for temperature and humidity level. I bet the people who “winter” in Hawaii are kicking them-selves for spending all that dough when they could have just stayed home. Suck-ers.

Finally getting decent weather, even in September, isn’t something to complain about when Oregonians get on average probably 20 days of warm weather per year. However, being in the beginning of fall (crisp wind, cooler tem-peratures, some rain), and then being thrown into 86 degrees with 76 percent humidity in a matter of one day has to create some climate shock.

For example, it seems like spiders are multiplying by the minute, and boy do they look healthy. Take a walk down through the tunnel entrance to the back

parking lots on the east side of campus; there are some meaty little spiders down there. Excuse me while I calm down my tremors.

And what about the poor birds? They pack up their feathers and flock south for winter (which is sooner in Oregon). I can just imagine how confused they were when, as they started to leave, they had to do a 180-degree turn only to find their nests had been taken over by the squirrels already. And we all know they will have to do it again in a week because this “nice” weather won’t stick around for long.

However, now that it’s over, I guess I am thankful for having experienced it. At least we all had something to talk about other than the financial crisis of every state agency, department, school district, college and the unemployed in Oregon.

Editorial

Remember the end goal: Graduate

By Jen AshenbernerThe Advocate

Tropical weather pays the Northwest a visit

OctOber 1, 2010

photo by Devin Courtright

By Mike MataThe Advocate

Radio host, self-taught pia-nist, avid sports fan, classical and contemporary music enthu-siast, and Associated Student Government president. These are all the hats that Larry Mor-gan-Collins must balance.

“I think balance is one of the most powerful words in the English language,” said Larry Collins-Morgan.

Balance is something that any ASG President would need — and Collins-Morgan is no ex-ception.

As the 2010-11 school year started and many new faces ar-rived on campus — faces that played no part either way in his election — Collins-Morgan has made an effort to be visible and approachable to anyone and ev-eryone,

“I dress in plainclothes and ask people what they think of the ASG and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, they just sit up in their offices’ and what they think of me, and then I’ll tell them who I am,” said Collins-Morgan.

Collins-Morgan and Vice President Jon Francis’ major goals this year in-clude an intramural sports league, more involvement with public safety, greater student awareness and in-creased interaction.

“We (also) just drafted a fight song and we have spirit week, homecom-ing, the podcast, more multi-cultural events and maybe a center for multi-

cultural events,” said Collins-Morgan of his agenda for the rest of the year.

“You tell me the person on the top and I’m going to shoot for five notches above that. So the person that comes behind me can go further. Like the javelin (in track & field),” said Collins.

However, he feels that unless they make sure that every student knows what is going on, they haven’t met

their goal. To this end, Collins-Mor-gan has been working on a podcast he hopes will enlighten students about campus news.

Besides leading the MHCC student body and keeping their best interests near to his heart, Collins-Morgan is also active in the Integrated Media program. He hosts his own show,

“Larry Live” on Fridays from 2 p.m.

to 3 p.m. with friend, co-host and fellow student politician BJ Perkins.

“He’s a real team player. He doesn’t make you feel like it’s just ‘Larry Live’,” said Per-kins.

Being an avid sports fan, Collins-Morgan is a football season ticket holder for Uni-versity of Oregon. He shows his love for Michael Jordan by wearing ‘Air Jordan’ obses-sively — he wore Air Jordan exclusively during his inter-view.

He enjoys commenting on the state of the Blazers — “Nicholas Batum is the future of the Blazers, not (Brandon) Roy.” He’s reconciled with Kobe Bryant — “I used to hate Bryant, but now I think he’s one of the greatest players” — and LeBron James’ move to Miami — “Just be up front about it. Say ‘Hey Cleveland, I’m going to the prom with you but dancing with Miami.’ ”

He’s also a staunch sup-porter of the Raiders — the Reynolds Raiders, that is. His devotion to Reynolds High

School runs so deep that becoming an honorary member of the Reyn-olds Class of 2009 brushes up next to his desire to become president of the United States on his bucket list.

Collins-Morgan prides himself on his determination and achievements.

“We’re are pushing the envelope, not just to push it but to see the end result,” he said.

ASG president as himself: student, friend, and leader

By Jen Ashenberner & Mike MataThe Advocate

MHCC President John Sygielski is going to the White House in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for the first-ever summit for community colleges.

“I expected to be invited since I am the chair-man of the board of the American Association of Community Colleges” Sygielski said Thursday. “I am pleased to be able to have a voice for community colleges in general, and for Mt. Hood Community College in particular.”

Maggie Huffman, MHCC director of communica-tions, said it’s an honor for the president to be able to go the White House. “He’s the only person from Oregon and the Pacific Northwest to go,” she said.

Topics of discussion at the summit include college completion rates, financial aid issues, innovation, partnerships with businesses, supporting small businesses, and service to military, military fami-lies, and veterans, according to Huffman.

“There are some significant benefits to be gained from each of those topics,” said Huffman.

Sygielski in an email Thursday, said, “Our agen-da is to ensure people in attendance at the summit, including the president and his administration,

learn more about the college, many of our highly-ac-claimed programs, our goals for the future and our needs to ensure we accomplish those goals.

“The White House is taking this summit very seri-ously,” he said. “For example, summit participants include Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Sec-retary of Labor Hilda Solis; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen; Melinda Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation, and others.” “MHCC will become better known for many of

its highly acclaimed programs in addition to having an opportunity to meet a variety of business, educa-tion and government leaders who we may be able to engage in discussions to learn more about potential resources that could assist us in accomplishing our college’s three core themes of teaching and learn-ing, community engagement and resource develop-ment,” Sygielski said. “Since this opportunity is in-tended to benefit the College, in general, I do not see it benefiting me, personally.”

On Wednesday, students in the Integrated Me-dia Program took advantage of the opportunity to have student voices heard in Washington, D.C., by setting up video equipment in the Main Mall and recording students speaking about their experience at community college in 30 seconds or less.

Students who did not get the opportunity to re-cord their story on Wednesday can submit their own video recording at www.whitehouse.gov/communi-tycollege and follow the links.

The summit will be Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST and will be simulcast at the above referenced website.

Larry Collins-Morgan offers a closer look at his interests and aspirations

Sygielski to represent community colleges at White House

‘‘I am pleased to be able to have a voice for community colleges... "

John SygielskiMHCC president

Larry Collins-Morgan, right, works with B.J. Perkins on the radio show Larry Live. The show has about 300 listeners.

OctOber 1, 20104 Living Arts

By Grant Jacobson The Advocate

Weezer’s new album, “Hur-ley,” released Sept. 14, attempts to relive the glory days of the alternative rock band, but in-stead serves as a disappoint-ment to fans and critics alike.

The album, named after the character from ABC’s television show, “Lost,” opens with “Mem-ories,” a nostalgic piece written of the band’s former huge suc-cess. “Memories,” may be a hit song from the new album, along

with “Ruling Me,” a catchy tune about how “everyone needs someone they can dream about all night long.”

The song “Where’s My Sex” was evidently an inside joke in lead singer Rivers Cuomo’s family, where his daughter accidentally said sex instead of socks according to the A.V. Club. The lyrics include sexual euphemisms with the inside joke creating an embarrassing and simply annoying song.

Weezer intends to release a

few more albums within the fol-lowing year such as, “Pinkerton Deluxe” a re-issue of the old al-bum, which will include a few previously unreleased songs.

“I was talking to the produc-er and he was saying, ‘These songs sound totally different from ‘Hurley.’ ‘Hurley’ was kind of dark, and the new songs sound like you’re 16, riding your bicycle to get a Slurpee,” said Cuomo in an interview with the A.V. Club.

The band also intends to re-

lease songs that didn’t make it onto their eight other albums because they were too weird or too different from the band’s style. Both albums are planned for release on Nov. 2.

We must hope that the new albums do not fail, as “Hurley” did, to deliver the once much-loved style that made the band popular. Although the style in “Hurley” is different, there is still promise that a few of the tracks will be received well by fans.

Review: A trip to the Gresham Farmers' Market

CD Review: Weezer's new album, 'Hurley,' hits and misses

Weezer's 8th studio album, "Hurley," was released on September 14, 2010. Above is the cover art for the album.

Gresham Farmers’ Market patrons find fresh produce every Saturday from May until the end of October.

Photos by Anevay Torrez and Devin Courtright/The Advocate

Market Price Comparison Food Item Farmers' Market Fred Meyer Safeway Corn 4/$1 3/$1 3/$1

Cauliflower $1.75 ea. $.99 lb. $1.29 lb.

Coffee (12 oz.) $1.50 $4.99 $6.99

Raspberries (Pint) $3.00 $5.98 $6.99

Organic $1.99 lb. $1.79 lb. $2.39 lb. Gala apples Honey (Pint) $7.99 $5.39 $3.99

Prices are from the farmers market on 9/25/10 and the grocery stores on 9/29/10. Numbers reflect the lowest price for all brands observed.

By Anevay TorrezThe Advocate

While many view Saturday as a day for rest, relaxation and recharg-ing from the long week just complet-ed, Gresham is offering something new and local.

The Gresham Farmers’ Market is held seasonally downtown from May 8 to the end of October. It is a great resource for MHCC students because of the great deals on food, bags, gifts and home improvement products that can help struggling students survive the hard economic times.

Cherie Williams, who owns Adorn-ments By Cherie, is one of the ven-dors. “Students come here, but not often,” she said, which is surpris-ing since there are around 97 ven-dors who come around a broad area

— from Canby, The Dalles and cities in between. Some vendors said they bring with them family recipes, and cultural influences from regions in Oregon that they hail from.

The Gresham Farmers’ Market is an opportunity to get out of the comfort zone of the familiar and the spending atmo-sphere of a supermarket. It is a great way to practice meeting new and inter-esting people, as well as learning how to get your money’s worth when it comes to food, which goes hand in hand with Gresham Farmers’ Market’s mission statement.

The mission statement is “to provide growers of agricultural products, pre-pared foods and crafts, with facilities, sites and services to market their prod-ucts; to provide consumers with a mar-ket for purchasing farm products directly from the producer as well as educate the public about the benefits of fresh local produce, plants, foods and crafts and provide a sense of community where the residents can gather socially,”

There are different options to buying products at the market with food stamps as well as Oregon Farm Direct Nutri-tion Program checks and Visa cards be-ing accepted. This comes in handy when you want buy in bulk because you find seedless watermelon selling for 50 cents a pound or for fresh yellow corn on a cob for a dollar.

The vendors are also helpful with questions about ingredients. They will even sometimes let you in on their se-crets and experiences with food. It’s also nice to be able to try something before buying it. “Especially if you’re thinking of buying goat cheese. It’s best to try a sample before buying because we offer a variety of goat cheese besides just plain cheese,” said Alsea Acre, a goat cheese vendor.

The Gresham Farmers’ Market is lo-cated on Miller at 3rd Street and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. There’s also is the Midweek Market at Gresham Station every Wednesday from 4-8 p.m.

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OctOber 1, 2010 Living Arts 5

Reading turned into hobby by campus discussion group

A pair of Welsh writers will be speaking at noon Wednes-day in MHCC’s Town and Gown Room.

Niall Griffiths and Chris Keil will be attending Portland’s Wordstock, an annual festival of books, writers and storytell-ing. The writers will be part of a panel on Welsh identity and literature, according to MHCC English instructor Jonathan Morrow.

Griffiths’ accomplishments include nine books, as well as credits as a travel writer and restaurant and book reviewer (as listed on contemporarywrit-ers.com). He won the 2004 Arts Council of Wales Book of the

Year Award and the 2004 Welsh Books Council Book of the Year for “Stump.”

Keil, according to his web-site www.chriskeil.eu, has run a sheep farm, worked in jour-nalism and taught English as a foreign language. Keil’s works include the books, “The French Thing” and “Liminal.”

Morrow said the writers will read from their works and dis-cuss their writing during their MHCC visit.

Wordstock is held in several locations around Portland Oct. 7-10. For a schedule of locations, times and prices, see www.wordstockfestival2010.sched.org. Several events are free.

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By David GambillThe Advocate

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The City of Gresham hosted its 28th annual Teddy Bear Parade in downtown Gresham Saturday. Local businesses, schools and organizations entered floats, dressed in Teddy Bear costumes and carried stuffed Teddy Bears. This year’s parade was the largest Teddy Bear Parade in Gresham, according to KATU.com.

Teddy Bear ParadeDuring lunchtime on a warm Tues-

day afternoon, Samantha Mayfield was sitting on a bench in the Main Mall reading a book.

“I love reading,” she said.The book is “The First Part Last”

by Angelina Johnson, a short fic-tion about a teenaged dad. She came across this novel in the library and thought she just had to read it.

“I don’t ever think that my sched-ule is too busy to read,” said Mayfield, who is studying medical billing and coding at Mt. Hood Community Col-lege. “It’s like an escape.”

However, this ambition for read-ing leisurely may not be the case for many students, according to political

science instructor Janet Campbell, who organizes the Read for Fun meet-ings every term.

Read for Fun is an activity where one reads a designated book and dis-cusses it with others. One reason Campbell started Read for Fun was she noticed in her classes that “the reading levels among students are low.”

“When you get good at (read-ing), it’s not hard, it’s relaxing,” said Campbell. “It’s a skill you have to keep practicing.”

Anyone can join in Nov. 5 for the next Read for Fun meeting. They will be discussing “A Long Way Gone,” by Ishmael Beah, in the Bob Scott Room from noon to 1 p.m. The book is a nonfiction memoir of the Sierra Le-one conflict from a boy soldier’s per-spective. All the books are pre-read by Campbell.

“It’s like a communal read,” said Campbell.

Most meetings last about 50 min-utes and have about eight to 10 par-ticipants, including students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members.

“It also demonstrates that reading doesn’t stop at school,” said Campbell.

She makes sure the books are a relatively easy read, interesting and teach something to the reader.

Past books include “1984” by George Orwell and Sherman Alexie’s “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.”

This reading group is approaching its third year. It originally was part of the Teaching and Learning Coop-erative and received a grant from the school.

“But people were busy and it went away,” said Campbell.

She changed the name to Read for Fun and decided to hold the meetings just once a term instead of every two weeks.

Campbell has enjoyed reading books throughout her life, but re-ally started loving it during graduate school.

She spent about 10 years living overseas, and has traveled to more than 40 countries. One of her favorite authors is Graham Greene, a British writer who wrote about class issues in Britain, which reflects the three years Campbell spent in Scotland working on her doctorate.

Campbell also said reading is a rel-atively cheap and easy way to experi-ence different cultures and intimate lives of other people, such as travel-ing without the expenses.

photo by Devin Courtright

Janet Campbell in her office displaying the book “ A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah.

“It also demonstrates that reading doesn’t stop at school."

Janet Campbell

OctOber 1, 20106 News6 News

Are we addicted to caffeine?

If you crave caffeine in your coffee or energy drinks to help get you through the day, you’re not alone in this busy world full of deadlines and sleep depriva-tion.

According to the National Cof-fee Association, 68 percent of Americans say they’re “hooked on coffee.” What does that say for the other 32 percent? No one re-ally knows.

At Mt. Hood Community Col-lege, there are close to 10,000 students enrolled each term, and the number continues to increase due to the economic turmoil that the country has been dealing with for a hand-ful of years now.

That means an estimated 6,800 students are drink cof-fee at some point throughout the day.

Now consider this statis-tic: 65 percent of energy drink (Red Bull, Monster, Rock Star, Amp, etc.) users are in the 13-35 age group. The Mintel International Group, a mar-ket research firm, found out that since 2005, energy drink sales have increased 136 percent.

During an informal poll con-ducted over the past two weeks, The Advocate spoke with 153 students on campus to see where students were getting their caf-feine. The survey indicated that 75 students (49 percent) prefer coffee for their boost and 36 stu-dents (23 percent) preferred en-ergy drinks.

By Jon Fuccillo and Jordan Tichenor

OctOber 1, 2010 News 7

Are we addicted to caffeine?

If you crave caffeine in your coffee or energy drinks to help get you through the day, you’re not alone in this busy world full of deadlines and sleep depriva-tion.

According to the National Cof-fee Association, 68 percent of Americans say they’re “hooked on coffee.” What does that say for the other 32 percent? No one re-ally knows.

At Mt. Hood Community Col-lege, there are close to 10,000 students enrolled each term, and the number continues to increase due to the economic turmoil that the country has been dealing with for a hand-ful of years now.

That means an estimated 6,800 students are drink cof-fee at some point throughout the day.

Now consider this statis-tic: 65 percent of energy drink (Red Bull, Monster, Rock Star, Amp, etc.) users are in the 13-35 age group. The Mintel International Group, a mar-ket research firm, found out that since 2005, energy drink sales have increased 136 percent.

During an informal poll con-ducted over the past two weeks, The Advocate spoke with 153 students on campus to see where students were getting their caf-feine. The survey indicated that 75 students (49 percent) prefer coffee for their boost and 36 stu-dents (23 percent) preferred en-ergy drinks.

Forty-two students (27 per-cent) selected the “other” catego-ry: water, orange juice, milk, etc.

What are Mt. Hood students saying around campus?

• “Most days I drink in the morning,” 20-year old student Bryan Crawley said of his coffee habits.

• “Mainly just water,” 20-year old student Trina Shaw said. “I might go to Starbucks for a quick burst of caffeine (and) soda later in the day.”

• “I usually drink in the after-

noon,” 45-year old student An-gel Priest said of energy drinks. “Energy drinks at school, coffee on the way to school. I’m trying to avoid drinking them.”

• “Sometimes I drink coffee in the morning,” 18-year old stu-dent Edison Zhen said. “Usually just (with) breakfast.”

In an interview conducted Wednesday night with Jody Bab-son, a registered dietitian from Mount Hood Medical Center in

Gresham, she explained her ex-perience in the research portion of her job.

“(When you) use in modera-tion, caffeine may help improve performance,” said Babson.

Asked why she thought the use of caffeine as a pick-me-up is on the rise, Babson said, “The public is thirsty for health on the go.”

She said that in excess, caf-feine can interfere with normal sleeping patterns. When people have less sleep, they are often

hungrier as well.Babson suggested sleep, ex-

ercise, and healthy diet as bet-ter alternatives to boost your energy.

Many may not know an 8-ounce cup of black coffee contains no calories.

Comparatively, a 24-ounce can of Monster energy drink contains 324 calories from 16 teaspoons of sugar, and con-tains the same amount of caf-feine as an 8-ounce cup of cof-fee. “We shouldn’t be drinking our

calories unless it’s a nutrient-dense beverage like 2 percent milk,” said Babson.

“They (energy drinks) are marketed as having many ben-efits, many of which might not be proven,” she said. “These on-the-go items further remove us from the idea of needing healthy options and sleep.”

Caffeine may improve: -alertness -ConCentration -energy -Clear-headedness -feelings of soCiability

Caffeine may reduCe the risk of: -parkinson’s disease -liver disease -ColoreCtal CanCer -type 2 diabetes

Pros

ConsWithdraWal symptoms inClude: -headaChe -fatigue -anxiety -irritability -depressed mood -diffiCulty ConCentrating

-Caffeine Consumed later in the day Can interfere With sleep, and Can Cause nervousness and gastrointestinal upset -high amounts of Caffeine during pregnanCy Can Cause an inCreased risk for a misCarriage

“These on-the-go items further remove us from the idea of needing healthy options and sleep.”

Jody Babsonregistered dietitian

By Jon Fuccillo and Jordan Tichenor

News 7

-Information was also gathered by John Tkebuchava

Pros

Cons

OctOber 1, 20108 SpOrtS

Gameday returns to Autzen Stadium for clash of the titans

By Jon FuccilloThe Advocate

College Gameday got it right when they decided to head to Eugene Saturday for a war be-tween two Top-10 teams from the Pac-10.

Oregon is the No. 4 team in the nation and the Cardinal is No. 9 according to the most re-cent AP and USA Today polls.

Week five usually doesn’t provide such a big treat for col-lege football fans, especially die-hard Duckies. But in this case it means the very opposite: every-thing with a cherry on top.

If this game doesn’t have the smell of “roses” all over it, then I don’t know what Pac-10 clash does. Both teams are led by high-powered offenses and smart coaches, Chip Kelly for the Ducks and Jim Harbaugh for the Cardinal.

There’s a bit of bad blood be-tween the two. Last year on Nov. 7, the Cardinal upset then-No. 7 Ducks with a 51-42 victory, slap-ping the Ducks with their first (and only) loss in conference play.

Both teams took big hits dur-ing the offseason. The Ducks lost thief, doper and quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, now with Ole Miss after a thousand different chances to make things right with Oregon. And the Cardinal lost Heisman finalist running-back Toby Gerhart to the NFL draft; he’s now an “up the gut” tailback and backup to Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vi-kings.

The only thing certain is that someone’s undefeated season comes to an end Saturday night. Who will it be?

Prediction: Stanford will fall short to the Ducks. They don’t have enough gunpower to hang with the Ducks (offense, defense and special teams). Don’t get it twisted. We know which of the two teams are smarter (Stan-ford). It’s going to be another shootout one way or another.

Who has the advantages:Quarterback – Cardinal (An-

drew Luck isn’t the next big thing for no reason)

Running backs – Ducks (“LaHeisman” James, Remene Alston and Kenjon Barner)

Receivers – TieDefensive line – Ducks Offensive line – Cardinal Special teams – (Cliff Harris

and Kenjon Barner)Score: Ducks 49, Cardinal 31

Softball to tackle four-year schools this weekend

Sophomore pitcher Kayla Anderson (shown last spring) helped lead the Saints softball team to consecutive NWAACC titles. Today the Saints play at the University of Washington with a scheduled 3 p.m. game against the Bellevue Community College Bulldogs then again at 7 p.m. in a game to be determined. “It’s going to be awesome,” coach Meadow McWhorter said, “to play under the lights on a Friday night at UW.”

File photo/Brett Stanley

By Riley HindsThe Advocate

The back-to-back NWAACC champion softball team starts fall action today at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The Saints will play six games over the next three days, and then add a double-header on Oct. 16.

The Saints start com-petition today against the Bellevue Community Col-lege Bulldogs at 3 p.m., and then play again at 7 p.m. (team to be deter-mined).

The Saturday games will also be at the Univer-sity of Washington, where MHCC will face the Bull-dogs again at 9 a.m., fol-lowed by a 1 p.m. start against the Division-I Seattle Uni-versity Redhawks. Last season the Redhawks finished with an overall record of 16-32-1.

The Saints head back down from Seattle Sunday to play on the road against Division-I Portland State University Vikings at 2 p.m. Downtown, Portland. The Vikings were 30-27 last year.

On Oct. 16 the Saints play a doubleheader at Western Oregon University versus the Corban College Warriors, The NAIA school finished last season with a record of 24-23.

“We are one of the top three (hardest working) programs within the NWAACC for softball,” two-time coach of the

year Meadow McWhorter said. “My student athletes work extremely hard.

“We talk about, from day one, that every player, whether they’re on the field or on the bench, plays a role in our suc-cess.”

Some key returners to look out for are Co-Southern Re-gion Player of the Year 5-foot-2 outfielder Jessica Guy, and starting pitch-ers Kayla Anderson and Chelsea Schriber, who both came up big in last years NWAACC title run.

“Kayla and Chelsea are perfectionists, which can be good and bad as a pitcher,” said McWhorter. “But they grew so much as freshmen that I expect big things out of them as

sophomores.”Newcomers include 5A 2010 all-state outfielder Jessi

Lindsey, a freshman from Pendleton High, freshman Mack-enize Samuelson from Vancouver, Wash., who grew up at-tending MHCC softball clinics, and Kendra Groom, a start-ing pitcher from Gresham High School.

McWhorter has been coaching here for nine years and is also the student events coordinator on campus.

Asked about her future at Mt. Hood, McWhorter said, “I’ve had several offers to move on, and I just feel that this level really needs people who are passionate about coaching community college athletes.”

Cross country prepares for Salem meetBy John TkebuchavaThe Advocate

The MHCC cross country season is now in full throttle and the teams are beginning to take on a solid form, ac-cording to assistant coach Keith Mane-val.

“So far so good; we’re making lots of progress,” Maneval said Tuesday. “We’re continuing to progress through the season.”

On the men’s side, Maneval men-

tioned a handful of freshmen — Don-nie Coulson, Jonathon Butcher, Chris Newell and Troy Prettyman — and said their ability to “pack up” pushes each other to excel in both practice and meets.

On the women’s side, Maneval said he is particularly pleased with sopho-more leader Amanda Faggard and freshman Gabriella Diaz, who he says shows a lot of promise. He also said the entire women’s team should be pretty

strong by season’s end.Since the men run 8000-meter races

and the women run 5000 meters, prac-tices have emphasized base training for most of the week, along with in-tense interval workouts twice a week.

The next meet is the Charles Bowles Invitation Saturday hosted by Willa-mette University. There will be up to

"We talk about, from day one, that every player, whether they're on the field or on the beach, plays a role in our success."

Meadow McWhorterSoftball head coach

Please see MEET, page 10

OctOber 1, 2010

Height and home no problem for newcomer

By Jon FuccilloThe Advocate

5-foot-2 isn’t a typical size for cross country competitors, but freshman Gabriela Diaz doesn’t let that slow her down.

Instead of depending on long legs and long strides, the Sparks, Nev., native uses her mental toughness to push the limits of what is possible.

“It hasn’t been an issue (so far),” Diaz said of her height. “I don’t have those long strides (like most runners). I just have to be faster than everyone.”

Not only is she traditionally short for this sport, but the freshman has never competed in cross-country until this sea-son.

“Though she is new to cross country, she has an innate athleticism and a determination to improve,” said head coach Matt Hart, “while also enjoying the sport.”

In two meets this season, she has finished in the top two for Saints runners. On Sept. 10 at the West Coast Confer-ence Preview, she finished in 19:58.24 in the 5K distance and a week later, on Sept. 18, she crossed the finish line at the Sundodger Open, with a time of 24:14.35 in the 6K distance.

At Sparks High School, Diaz was a four-year letter winner in track and field, along with three letters in volleyball and basketball.

Diaz said she almost went out for the Saints volleyball team but decided that cross country would best get her in track and field shape and would keep her legs warm for spring competition.

“It’s a lot of running,” Diaz said about the 6K distance. “They recruited me for track and field and asked if I wanted to join the cross country team and I said yeah. I did it to stay in shape for track.”

As a senior in high school she competed in the 4x200m, 4x400m, 800m and the 1500m. She was the 2A Nevada state champion in the 800m and 1500m.

How did someone from the Reno area find out about Mt. Hood?

Diaz and Hart each said it started with the help of as-sistant coach Mark Sellers, who deals with a large portion of the recruiting process.

“Mark Sellers found her and recruited her,” Hart said. “We often find good student-athletes from Nevada. It seems like a state that a lot of coaches overlook.”

Sellers added that Nevada as a state has next to nothing to offer women for track and field and cross country at the community college level.

“(I) looked at the state results the year before and con-tacted their coach (from Sparks High),” said Sellers on find-ing Diaz. “Three or four weeks later Gabriela contacted me.”

Diaz made official visits in April and June and sent emails back and forth with Sellers.

After receiving offers from a handful of colleges in Cali-fornia, Diaz came to the conclusion that MHCC was a great fit for her and her athletic future for the first two years of college.

“I was talking with some schools in California,” said Diaz. “But they were private and too expensive. So I went with Mt. Hood.”

Hart is happy the team landed Diaz.“She is tough, and, seemingly, loves to run and compete,”

Hart said. “Gabriela is a very positive young lady who seems to always be smiling. We expect that she will improve tre-mendously while also helping our women’s team within our conference.”

By sheer coincidence, Diaz found out that the Sparks throwing coach Sheila Po’Oi, formerly Sheila Forty, attend-ed Mt. Hood and was track and field teammates with Matt Hart, then a student-athlete.

Hart was a first year hurdler (1992-93) and she was in her second year as a thrower.

For now Diaz wants to focus on one sport at a time — but she mentioned the idea of basketball and volleyball sounded quite appealing if the opportunity presented itself. Photo by Devin Courtright/The AdvocateFreshman Gabriela Diaz has been one of the top runners for the Saints this season.

OctOber 1, 201010 SpOrtS

By Chanel HillThe Advocate

The Saints volleyball team kept the wins com-ing last weekend on the road, in conference matches two and three of the season.

They traveled to Coos Bay Saturday where they played the Southwestern Oregon Lakers, sweeping the match in three straight games (25-20, 25-9, 25-20.)

Although they got the win against the Lakers, the last-place team in the Southern conference (0-2 league and 3-13 overall), it was not without its challenges.

“Southwestern is al-ways a tough place to play. It’s a small gym, and it’s very loud,” coach Chelsie Speer said. “We struggled with the little things, but as a group we pulled through togeth-er.”

Three of the Saints had a total of seven plus kills in the game, lead-ing the way was freshmen Devan Belshe with eight kills.

In Roseburg Sunday, the Saints beat the Umpqua Riverhawks, who are now 0-2 in conference action and 4-20 overall.

Despite the long road trip, the Saints were able to repeat their Saturday night performance, sweep-ing the Riverhawks in three straight games, (25-19, 25-12, 25-13).

Freshmen Devan Belshe led the Saints in kills with a double digit 16 kills, Kyra Speer also had an impressive game with 12 kills against the Riv-erhawks.

The Saints (3-0 and 19-4) are ranked No. 2 over-all in the NWAACC poll behind the Blue Mountain Timberwolves, who are off to a strong start with a 5-0 record in the East and 21-3 overall.

According to Speer, their goal of winning the NWACC title this year is something well within reach for the Saints, as long as they don’t let the wins and losses affect their mindset.

“We’ve got a great group of girls but they can be real-ly hard on themselves,” Speer said, “and at times that can be a problem. Our mindset is to strive for perfection and sometimes they forget the team is the most impor-tant part if they (individually) are off and pull them-

selves out of the game. It’s been a roller coaster ride.” Still, the Saints have time to readjust and focus with seven more conference games, and tough oppo-nents such as the Timber-wolves and the Tacoma Ti-tans down the line.

“This is a game of mo-mentum,” coach Speer said, “the way it changes so fast. I want the girls to play as well as they can, to worry about our side of the court and do what we know how to do.

“Success isn’t wins or losses, and that’s some-

thing I want them to keep in mind not only on the court but in life.”

The next match for the Saints will be tonight against Linn-Benton at 7 p.m. at home.

"Success isn't wins or losses, and that's something I want them to keep in mind not only on the court but in life"

Chelsie Speervolleyball head coach

Saints volleyball keeps the wins and kills coming

500 competitors, and a mix of four-year university and com-munity colleges run-ners.

“This race will be good experience for this young team,” said Maneval. He said the meet will show how MHCC compares to the oth-er community col-leges,

Maneval said he hopes this meet will help the team continue to progress, “We’ve got a long ways to go, We’ve just got to keep building all the way to the end.”

Caulson, the leading men’s runner, had a similar perspective on the season,

“We’re a really young team. Practices are still getting more intense,” he said in a telephone interview Tues-day.

“We’re still progress-ing, We’ll be ready for the NWAACCs.”

The Charles Bowles In-vitation will be held Sat-urday at 9:30 a.m. at Bush Park in Salem.

Co-captain Kyra Speer at a Chemeketa match ealier this year.

Meet: continued from page 8

Cross country coach Matt Hart

“This race will be good experience for this young team."

Keith ManevalCross country assistant coach

Games against Southwestern Oregon and Umpqua give MHCC a good headstart

Photo by Devin Courtright/The Advocate

Upcoming Southern Region Schedule

Teams playing Linn-BentonChemeketaSW Oregon

LocationGresham

Oregon CityRoseburg

Date and TimeOct. 1 @ 7 p.m.Oct. 1 @ 7 p.m.Oct. 2 @ 1 p.m.

OctOber 1, 2010 News 11

By Kylie RogersThe Advocate

Public Safety has a list and they’re checking it twice.

The list, a criminal trespass orders list, is found on the MHCC website under the public safety link. The criminal trespass order is a violation that is used for more serious offenses such as assaults, threats and repeat offenders.

Gale Blessing director of safety and security, said, “We want to keep people safe.”

An incident Sept. 13 is an example of pub-lic safety’s determination to keep the MHCC campus safe. An email sent to staff and faculty that day by Maggie Huffman, director of com-munications, said, “At 11:32 a.m. today, a male waving a firearm ran from a nearby parking lot onto the Gresham campus and was quickly apprehended by police officers several minutes later. MHCC Public Safety has placed the sus-pect on our no trespass list.”

“It all happened very quickly,” said Huffman in an interview the next day. “The time from when the suspect ran over to campus to the time the Gresham Police Department arrested the suspect was about

one minute so it was a very quick response.”Once the suspect, Skyler Lindsay, was in custody,

Huffman said it was discovered that the gun was not a real firearm. A Multnomah County Jail official said Thursday no one by that name has been taken

into custody.According to Blessing, the school received

notification from 9-1-1 about the individual be-ing near the area. Blessing then called public safety officer Carl Stromseth to investigate.

“I got the call but he was already in custo-dy when I got down there,” said Stromseth, “I then had to make sure it was over and contact the people who needed to be contacted.”

People who are expelled from campus are required to fill out a “Notice of Criminal Tres-pass” form. In general, people are listed on the criminal trespass orders for one year but it varies on the severity of the case. There are options to appeal but they differ for students, non-students and employees.

“We have the list and photos to make people aware. If they see them on campus, they need to contact our department because they are violating our order,” Blessing said.

Stromseth said, “If they have got a plan and are going to act on it, that’s serious.”

To report a threat on campus or an individual on the trespass list, dial “7911” from any campus phone.

Photo contest to raise awareness about global warming

Public Safety keeps trespass list to maintain securityGun threat last month turned out to be false scare

Skyler Lindsay (left) and Nicholas Indre are both listed on the MHCC no trespass list, kept by Public Safety. Lindsay was apprehended Sept. 13 after waving what was believed to be a firearm on campus. Indre was placed on the list Sept. 23.

By Jessica PetermanThe Advocate

In an effort to spread aware-ness and do something about global warming, MHCC social science in-structor Janet Campbell and hu-manities instructor Eric Tschuy de-signed an MHCC photo contest to support the 350 organization.

350.org’s mission is to “inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis —to create a new sense of urgency and of possibility for our planet,” ac-cording to the orga-nization’s website.

“We can all feel a lift in our per-sonal lives as we participate in this fun way to raise awareness of the issue,” said Camp-bell. “It’ll be cool to see how people will choose to portray it.”

Photo entries should be turned in to Campbell’s mailbox or to her office located in the Social Sciences Division (Room 2667) by 4:30 p.m. Oct 6. A hardcopy of the photo and

a brief artist’s statement should accompany the entry.

After being evaluated and judged, the winner will be de-termined by Dana Spielmann, integrated media photography instructor. The winner will be an-nounced Oct. 8 in the College Cen-ter during MHCC’s “Global Work Party” event and will receive a $40 gift certificate to Burgerville.

350.org, an organization that focuses on global warming, is host-ing a ‘Global Work Party’ Sunday, Oct. 10 (10/10/10). To find a work party in the Port-land area. go on-line to 350.org

More than 2,500 events are planned in 150 countries as peo-ple come together to spread aware-

ness and do something about glob-al warming.

“I think it’s cool that this group 350 is trying to coordinate this on a global level,” Campbell said Tuesday.

MHCC students encouraged to participate in 350.org-sponsored photo competition

"It'll be cool to see how people will choose to portray it."

Janet Campbell social science instructor

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Integrated media students interviewed students, faculty and staff regarding how they feel about community college and how it’s affected them on Wednesday.

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Diversity Council meeting

The MHCC Diversity Council will have a

meeting on Oct.8 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Lake Room at the College Center that will be open to the general college population. At the meeting, plans for the celebration of the various heritage months in the up coming year will be established, as well as dedicat-ing a week out of each month for activities specific to the “ethnic group of the month”.

In order to join, students are invited to visit the student government offices in the college center and ask to speak to Tra’ Ford. They will be instructed when to show up at any of the weekly meetings to become in-volved.

2010 MHCC crime statistics

A crime and securities report for the period of Jan. 1, through Dec. 31, 2009, is now avail-able at www.mhcc.edu/CleryReport. The re-port will include statistics for the previous three years concerning alleged crimes and discipline referrals for certain law violations that have occurred on campus, in certain off-campus buildings or on property owned or controlled by MHCC and on public property within or adjacent and accessible from its campuses.

A free paper copy of the report can be ob-tained by contacting the Department of Safe-ty and Security I room AC2330 at 26000 SE Stark Street, Gresham, OR, 97030, or by call-ing 503-491-7310.

Applications for patrol volunteers

The MHCC Department of Safety and Security is still accepting applications for students interested volunteering for the “Students on Patrol”. The “Students on Pa-trol” is a new addition to a campus watch program run by the Department of Safety and Security.

For more information, contact the De-partment of Safety and Security in room AC 2330, on Mondays-Fridays from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. or call 503-491-7310

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