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Student Finance Council approves athletic budget

by John TkebuchavaThe Advocate

The student Finance Council approved the athletic program budget Monday and indicated it would pass the co-curricular programs’ budget at the student Finance Council meeting.

The fi nance council has said that essentially all that remains is to allocate the remaining funds not spent by existing budget items for other projects or ideas they feel could use the money.

The co-curricular fi nance council also brain-stormed ideas to allocate their remaining funds, which includes $74,626 for a special project of their choice. They will spend Monday’s meeting in an-other brainstorming session.

Athletics has $143,366 for use on a special proj-ect this year. Money not spent by the programs will be put into a contingency fund and will be put to use by next year’s fi nance council.

Some of the co-curricular special project ideas thus far include an ASG recreation cen-ter, scholarships for students, water bottle re-fi ll stations and renovating Barney’s Pantry, a food bank available to students on campus.Another idea introduced was the creation of a Di-versity Resource Center, a project that ASG and the Diversity Council have been contemplating for several years.

According to ASG, the diversity resource cen-ter, if realized, would be a place to provide stu-dents with resources and information in regards to diversity on campus as well as a ‘safe place’ for students of different ethnicities, cultures, religions, genders or sexual orientations to gather without prejudice.

In the proposal for the center, the Lake Room would be converted into the center’s headquarters.Costs included in the project amount to $89,000. $54,000 is slated for a full-time staff member who would run the center and the rest of the funds would go towards a renova-tion, including furniture and computer installation.

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Diversity center has potential, but still needs more discussion

For those who noticed an uninten-tional graphical error on the Presidents Day package on the front page of the Feb. 17 issue, The Advocate would like to inform readers this was due to a printing error and a confl ict between the Photoshop fi le format of certain images

and the Adobe InDesign program used to create the page. The staff has been in-formed of this issue which should help avoid similar errors in the future.

The image above, is what the front-page image should have looked like.

by Wally ShrinerMHCC biology instructor

In the acoustic space between snow hush and rain drop, between wind howl and silent winter night, the spar-rows sing. Melospiza melodia, the appropriately named song sparrows are among the earliest of the avian suitors, establishing territories while winter rains and mountain snows still fall. With the new year just begin-ning, they fi ll our neighborhoods with sound--songs of threat and warning, conveying aggressive intent with par-ried phrases that match a competitor’s notes, or upping the ante with their own signature sound, uniquely theirs.

As the season fl ows from fi ghting to family, the targets and the tactics change. Songs used to match and best switch to melodies meant to impress. For a female making the important choice of a lifetime, it is the male who sings the most varied song, who has the largest repertoire, which catches her ear, and heart. And so, via a tra-dition established generations ago, fe-males have chosen the most talented singers, selecting song complexity, and fi lling our world with music.

At a time when decisions are made to reduce the music in our own lives, to make it harder for our human in-struments to sing, a few small birds remind us that a love for melody and an appreciation of mastery run deep in our evolutionary veins. These birds’ preference for complexity in-sures that their own young will hear the varied songs of their fathers and their neighbors, and commit them to memory for next year and beyond. A thought that makes my soul hum.

Soon the air will be fi lled with the chorus of birds, of thrushes and fi nch-es, warblers and wrens, but early Feb-ruary belongs to the hearty Song Spar-

row. A wonder of nature, a bi-product of evolution and a gift of music for all to hear.

Wally Shriner is an MHCC biology instructor and is a Natural Resources Technology program faculty adviser. Eye on Nature is his monthly column.

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Weather is brisk, but spring is near

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A group of tulips are beginning to bloom in a planter on campus, showing that spring is just around the corner.

Among the campaign plat-forms in last year’s Associated Student Government elections, the need for a diversity resource center became a major point em-phasized by the candidates. ASG is now working to make that happen.

The Advocate believes in the need for more clarifi cation on the center. Specifi cally, we would like to know that the center is going to be well used and well received by students, especially for the money that might be al-located for the center.

The center would take the space that is currently the Lake Room in the College Center and would need new carpeting and painting.

At the ongoing Finance Coun-cil meetings, proposals for the center involve a total budget of $89,000, which covers the start-up and maintenance costs.

Included in the $89,000 is $54,000 for a full-time staff mem-ber in the center, $20,000 for the renovations and $15,000 for ma-terials and resources that one would not fi nd in the library. As part of that budget, the co-curric-ular section of the Finance Coun-cil is being asked to fund $35,000, leaving $39,000 to use on another project.

Let’s clarify: This is a lot of money. That being the case, we just want to make sure the money is going toward something that will be used to its full potential.

The Advocate is not opposed to a diversity resource center. We only want to make sure that MHCC does not create a diver-sity center just to have one like other colleges, like Portland Community College for exam-ple. If we are going to have one, let it be useful to the students.

So far, there has not been much clarifi cation on what exact-ly a diversity resource center will be used for, or what the poten-tial full-time staff member will be paid to do. There has been no indication of student feedback

on this center. Last year a diver-sity coalition, which has since disbanded due to graduation of student leaders, proposed the idea to help students cope with going to school in such a diverse environment. They travelled classroom-to-classroom talking to students about the specifi c need for the center and what the benefi ts would be. This year, that has not been the case.

No specifi c information has been given out about what ASG has done to fi nd out what stu-dents want out of the center. Have they done the research? If they have, we would like to see that information released to the student body. We would also like to see ASG put in work talking to frequenters of the most popu-lar congregation points on cam-pus to see if there’s something missing from these sites. Would students like somewhere else to go? What would they like to see in that space? What would they expect to be offered by staff that works in that space? Do they feel diversity is an important subject that needs attention on campus?

If this research has already been done, we need to see the results. The conversation so far has been between the President’s Cabinet, some district board members and ASG. With such a big decision being given to only a few students, there really needs to be more of an attempt by ASG to show why this space is need-ed and who specifi cally it will be serving. ASG members have shown they are passionate about this project. We need to know why.

Perhaps some posters inform-ing the student body would be appropriate. The Call of Nature News has proven to captivate audiences in the past. An an-nouncement calling for feedback in that space would be an effec-tive way to not only inform but encourage response from the campus community on such an impactful decision.

A note to our readers:

by Shelby SchwartzThe Advocate

A former Mt. Hood Aquatics swim coach and two other people died in a plane crash Feb. 16 in Washington.

Seth Dawson, 31, was a swimmer and coach for Mt. Hood Aquatics, formerly Mt. Hood Swim Team.

The four-seater Cessna crashed near Mount Si, in North Bend, Wash.

According to an article in The Seattle Times, Dawson and two other people died in the crash. Rob Marshall Hill, 30, was piloting the plane. Hill was a high school and club swim coach and pilot from Federal Way, Wash. Also aboard was Liz Redling, 29, of Federal Way.

At the time of his death, Daw-son was living in Washington where he worked at Kentlake High School in Kent. He also coached for Valley Aquatic Swim Team (VAST) along with Hill.

Brandon Drawz, former execu-tive director of Mt. Hood Aquatic Center and a close friend of Daw-son, said, “He was a very calm, cool guy. He was always positive no matter what the situation was. It’s one of the reasons the kids responded so well to him as a coach.

“He was a swimmer for Mt. Hood Aquatics, be-came a coach and was promoted to be the aquatics director at Reynolds Middle School (which is op-erated by Mt. Hood Aquatics). About a year and a half ago he was offered a position at VAST in Fed-eral Way as head age group coach,” Drawz said.

Mt. Hood Aquatics uses the MHCC swim com-plex but is not connected to the college.

According to Drawz, Dawson mostly coached younger kids, ages 12 and under. Dawson had been apart of Mt. Hood Aquatics from a very young age.

Erin Bradley, lesson supervisor for the Mt. Hood Aquatic Center, worked with Dawson for three years.

“He was very dedicated to teaching and help-ing people learn. He’s a very laid back person and easy to work with, fun to be around. All the kids loved him,” Bradley said.

“I was going to send him a message the other day, send him a text and say, ‘Hey, how’s it going?’ because I hadn’t seen him in a while and I didn’t. Then I found out he was in the plane crash. (It was) so completely shocking and overwhelming at the same time because we didn’t have a lot of details of what had happened,” Bradley said.

“It was a huge shock to everybody. There are kids who are seniors in high school who knew him, all the way down to 10-year-old kids who knew him who he had coached in 2009,” Bradley said.

Dawson attended California State Universi-ty-Bakersfi eld and grad-uated in 2006 with a bach-elor’s degree of business administration and sports management.

Dawson was on the 2004 men’s NCAA Divi-sion II national team when he swam with CSUB.

Dennis Baker, age group swim coach for Mt. Hood Aquatics who worked with Dawson for a few years, said of his reaction upon hearing of Dawson’s death: “First

shock and then extreme sadness. We’d all just seen him a couple weeks earlier at a swim meet up in Federal Way.

“He was really gentle and kind. He was won-derful with the kids, he always had a great smile, he was always pretty steady and laid back but in-tense in the water. He was a great swimming ath-lete,” Baker said.

Dawson coached Colin Eaton, a Mt. Hood Aquatics swimmer and Corbett High School se-nior.

According to Eaton, Dawson coached at Cor-bett for one year.

“We would room with him when we’d go to swim meets, and he’d be telling us, ‘You know, gotta talk to ladies this way’ and stuff like that,” Eaton said. “Like a bigger brother, I think, is a per-fect way to talk about Seth. He was always there for us and taught us how to talk to girls,” he said.

A memorial for Dawson will be held 1 p.m. Sunday at Hudson’s Bay High School in Vancou-ver, Wash.

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Former Mt. Hood aquatics swim coach victim of deadly plane crash

ASG representatives have said they will ask the board of education to create and pay for the full-time position for the proposed Diversity Resource Center.

If the board does not agree to pay for the position, ASG has stated it’s intent to pay for the position themselves.

During the athletics fi nance council, the baseball program stated its need to have the in-fi eld resurfaced.

The track and fi eld represen-tatives brought a proposal to the table to resurface the track. The estimated cost for replacing the track is $140,000-$240,000, ac-cording to fi nance council mem-bers.

They said the track is in dire need of resurfacing, emphasiz-ing the fact that the track is not only used by the track and fi eld team, but also used by the com-munity and other students and classes on campus.

“Simply said, the track is in dire need of replacement.” said Matt Hart, head track and fi eld coach. Hart also spoke of the track’s importance to both the school and community. “We not only host our Mt. Hood track and fi eld meets but we also host Special Olympic meets, masters meets, community meets, high school meets, middle school meets, football games, soccer events and the Scotland High-land games, he said.

“The current surface is the same surface that was poured in 1994 when it was installed,” said Hart.

Hart said that since then, they have painted the track to act as a sort of “band-aid” but

no resurfacing has been done. “It would have been nice to re-surface the track after 10 years. 12 years is pushing it. 15 years is neglecting it. 18 years is…well, it is just way too long,” said Hart.

Hart said the current condi-tion of the track has even led to some injuries among athletes.

“I can tell you that having a functional surface would de-crease how many shin splints and other training specifi c aches and pains we have,” he said, “The surface is less able to ab-sorb the impact from running as it is less fl exible. Wear and tear to the body increases and per-formances are not optimal.”

Robert Cox, the Dean of Stu-dent Success, said that the col-lege would most likely not fund this in the future if resurfacing is needed again and said that the funding for future resurfac-ing would likely fall back on the students and the fi nance coun-cil.

Both athletic programs said that in order to get more precise estimates, price quotes would have to be obtained before mak-ing a fi nal decision. ASG Direc-tor of Finance Nathan Harris said Monday that athletics de-cided to either use their money on resurfacing the track or the baseball infi eld. They will be getting quotes on the prices of these and basing their deci-sion of frugality. If both are too expensive they will place the money in a contingency fund and save it to combine with next year’s excess money.

The fi nance council’s next meeting will be on Monday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Finance: Continued from page 1

Athletics budget fi nalized, co-curricular to be determined

The last MHCC political forum of winter term, examin-

ing of the merits of vigilante justice, is scheduled Wednesday from 12:10 to 1

p.m. in the Bob Scott Room in the library.The forum topic is titled “Is Batman really a super-

hero?” The Mt. Hood Community College forensics team

will be the guest speakers at the meeting. The fi rst 20 minutes of the meeting will be devoted to yes and no answers from forensics members followed by their explanations. Questions and debate will be held after guest speakers answer the forum question.

Political science instructor Janet Campbell hosts political forums several times each term. Campbell is responsible for facilitating the meetings and the sub-jects of discussion.

Students from the SEED program (Scholarships for Education and Economic Development) will offer

presentations on women leaders of South and Central America as part of the “Herstory” program Thursday in the College Center from noon to 1 p.m.

Coordinating the event is something new for ASG bookkeeper Mary Burlingame. “This will be my fi rst year,” she said, adding that SEED students are excited to be presenting at the event. “They wanted to work on this before they leave,” Burlingame said.

The food served at the event was chosen by the SEED students and consists of traditional dishes that the students eat in their country. There will also be music at the event with Jessie Marquez singing.

Marquez, currently living in Eugene, spent her early childhood in Puerto Rico as well as traveling fre-quently to Cuba. Marquez describes her music as be-ing “a conversation between cultures. Though it’s Cu-ban, it has an infl uence of American blues and jazz.”

The Herstory events emphasize the importance of women. Marquez said, “Being a mother and musician, it’s a very diffi cult balance. Even in the music indus-try, it’s diffi cult to be a woman.” But, she added, “In Latin America, (women) are very powerful.”

A debate held at Western Washington State Uni-versity was streamed live to a group of students and instructors at MHCC Tuesday.

This was the fi rst live stream event hosted by the college. Philosophy instructors Chris Jackson and

John Hasenjaeger were responsible for organizing the event. The topic for Tuesday’s session was “Evolution-ary theories of religious beliefs: Does biology explain away god?” The event was held at 7 p.m. and ended at 8:30 p.m. The lecturers were Franklin & Marshall College Senior Visiting Scholar Michael Murray and Westmont College Biology Instructor Jeffrey Schloss.

Jackson said on Tuesday 15 students attended the event. He said, “It was really interesting. After watch-ing the stream we shut it down and continued to have our own discussion. We ended up staying a long time after it was over.”

A second live stream was scheduled for Thursday during the same time slot in room AC1253. Thursday’s scheduled topic was “Natural evil in a fi ne-tuned uni-verse: Is evolutionary suffering incompatible with a good god?”

Jackson said this will be the last live stream event of the term but he and Hasenjaeger are planning on holding more events next term.

Jackson also said he hopes to coordinate a debate next term with Portland State University Philosophy Instructor Peter Boghossian. Jackson said of Boghos-sian, “(He) has said in the past that all faith based be-liefs are delusional.” Jackson said he would like to de-bate him on this subject due to its condescending tone. He also said he has written letters to the newspaper at PSU in the past to try to coax Boghossian into debate but has received no response.

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Livestreams new to MHCC campus

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Students and volunteers participate in practice funeral arrangements.

Top: Second year funeral services student Adam Lane goes over funeral arrangements with volunteer Susan Norsworthy during the mock funeral event on Tuesday, Feb. 21 in the Jazz Cafe.

Left: Urns on display to show options for funeral pos-sibilities on Tuesday.

Right: The wicker casket was shown for a green burial option at just $1,595.

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also performing in MHCC’s Winter musical Snoopy!!! The musical, which opens Feb. 24, requires three ad-ditional one-hour practices each week (Tuesday, Thurs-day and Friday).

Beckman admitted it was a lot to handle, but justi-fi es it to himself knowing that “playing drums for a vocal jazz group isn’t something you can do profes-sionally. It’s like a once-in-a-lifetime chance,” he said, adding that “it (Genesis) takes a lot of time and if I had nothing else going on I feel like I could give it my full attention.”

But as it stands, Beckman is working two jobs, prac-ticing a lot and going to school taking general educa-tion courses.

“I want to make this my priority. It’s the only reason I’d ever want to be in college, other than maybe getting a business degree or something just to be safe,” Beck-man said.

As for his future, in the words he believed when he was 10, “I’m going to be a rock star.” Eleven years later, he explained how things have changed since then.

“That was my dream, but my ideas have changed since then,” Beckman said. “For a while I wanted to open a recording studio and work on the business side. Then I wanted to be a fi lm composer and write music commercially. Then I wanted to be a rock star again, but that’s a tough life to live. Lately I’ve been thinking about opening a venue, a restaurant/community cen-ter where people can play music.”

Beckman also plays the guitar and has since he was 11. In fact, when he is not at school, he doesn’t play the drums. He plays “acoustic country/folk types of stuff,” said Beckman.

As for what he likes to listen to, he said he can sit down and enjoy listening to a whole jazz album, but is more into blues stuff and old rock.

“I listen to a lot of Stevie Ray Vaughn and John Meyer. I also like old funk bands like Steely Dan,” said Beckman

by Jeff HannigThe Advocate

After practicing for hours on end, Zach Beckman’s friend showed him a beat he had learned — and with-out ever playing the drums before, he played it back for him.

Beckman said his fi rst thought after that moment was, “I’m a drummer now.”

Beckman can be seen drumming with the MHCC vocal jazz group Genesis in the College Center Tuesday at noon.

Over the past 11 years, Beckman said he has played with a lot of different types of musicians.

“I learned who I liked to play with,” said Beckman, “people who like music.”

As you might guess, Beckman played in bands in high school, but nothing stuck outside of school.

“Jazz was introduced to me freshman year since then it hasn’t been my main thing, but it follows me,” said Beckman. He played drums in the jazz band all four years of high school and received scholarships to play at MHCC.

Then, like many students in college, Beckman had to make a diffi cult decision. Beckman said he left school to work full time, hopefully to save money while his job was giving him good hours.

Unfortunately, when he returned this fall his schol-arship was no longer in place.

“Funding for scholarships got cut,” said Beckman. “I still do it (study music) because I love it.”

Beckman picked up where he left off when he re-en-rolled into school in fall 2011. He is playing in Genesis’ band, a group consisting of four musicians who back-up the vocal jazz group: Shawn Schlogel on the piano, Erik Nordin on the guitar, Aaron Patton on the stand up bass and Beckman on the drums. They practice Monday through Thursday for two hours. Genesis is

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Zach Beckman playing the drums last week in one of the practice rooms on campus.

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Drummer � nds a groove with vocal jazz group Genesis

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Feb. 29The OMSI After Dark series presents “Bridgetown Baconfest” which explores the engineering of Portland’s newest bridge while offering a tasty meat snack. The 21+ event runs 6 to 10 p.m. at OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., and is $6 for members and $12 for non-members. For more information, visit www.omsi.edu/afterdark.

The MHCC winter theater production of the musical “Snoopy!!!” brings Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts” character to life in the College Theater. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Student tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. For tickets, call 503-491-7154 or purchase on the web at tickets.mhcc.edu.

SpaceTime: Works by William Rihel III, Matthew Juniper and Stephanie Simek open in the Visual Arts Gallery. The gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A reception will be held Feb. 29 from 6-9 p.m

McMenamins Edgefi eld hosts a history pub, “A Woman Alone: Mona Bell, Sam Hill and the Mansion on Bonneville Rock,” with a presentation by John Harrison, biographer of Mona Bell, at the Power Station Theater. The free event starts at 6:30 p.m. and is open to all ages.

SNOOPY!!!

On Campus Review

MHCC winter musical opens tonight in the College TheaterSnoopy (Sam Mcpherson) sings while he sits on his doghouse typing a letter during dress rehearsal of the MHCC winter musical “Snoopy!!!” Tuesday night in College � eater.

Photo by Riley Hinds/� e Advocate

by Kylie RogersThe Advocate

“All beagles look alike to me,” said Snoopy, but the statement has been proven false even by the iconic childhood fi gure. Mt. Hood Community College’s theater production of “Snoopy!!!” has set itself apart from the beloved Peanuts comics and show.

As seen on Wednesday night’s dress rehearsal, it took some time to adjust to the difference between the typical two-dimensional characters to those performing on a stage in full dimension. But whenever a production takes a well-known series and puts it in a different format, it is a bit of a shock, especially when silent Snoopy starts to sing.

The play runs about 15 minutes under two hours and its characters take the audience through school, Halloween and everyday life.

All characters, including Snoopy (Sam McPherson), take part in the narra-tion of events even though the only person who can hear Snoopy is Woodstock (Eddy Morales). Charlie Brown (Jacob Westfall)

has some spot on translations. It’s important to remember, it’s not

just a narrated story. “Snoopy!!!” is a mu-sical. And there is quite the musical vari-ety in the play; everything from a country number, Broadway show tunes, an a capel-la piece and a little funk are included in the mix.

I really enjoyed that there was a pit of musicians. It was not the classical or-chestral pit arrangement, just a few musi-cians to accompany the actors on stage. It was never overwhelming; although that may not have been an option as the main cast all had microphones that at points in the dress rehearsal, seemed too loud.

The costumes for the play main-tained the well-known costumes of the classic comic strip and cartoon, most nota-bly Charlie Brown’s yellow and brown zig-zag shirt. The costumes were also helpful in making the adult actors more believable as children. However, while the costumes were child-like, they were not cartoon-like.

Believing the actors were child cartoons was diffi cult. While the set main-tained a cartoon feel with lots of fl at pieces, the actors also seemed fl at and stiff in their

movements. The movements looked like they had been rehearsed too many times and were just part of the motions that had to be done. Lucy, as she placed her arms at her side with hands fl at and facing out like a penguin, was particularly guilty of this.

Woodstock had to have been my favorite character. He maintained his side-kick role much like the cartoon. And though he did not say a single word, Woodstock provided comic relief through his quirky support of the cast and was the most car-toon-like character on stage.

The play, while still being under two hours, including intermission, felt long. The play has been said to be fun for all the family by director Jennifer Hunter but I have a hard time seeing a young child sitting through it.

There is also a scene when Linus (David Koshuba) runs through the crowd, which may or may not be something kids will be comfortable with.

“Snoopy!!!” opens up 7:30 p.m. to-night in the College Theater. Tickets can be purchased from the box offi ce and run at $5 for children under 12, $10 for students and $12 for adults.

From le� : Peppermint Patty (Marissa Hanson), Lucy Van Pelt (Kara Pierson) and Sally Brown (Valerie Lopez) perform during Tuesday nights rehearsal in the College � eater.

Photo by Riley Hinds/� e AdvocateFrom le� : Snoopy (Sam Mcpherson) and Woodstock (Eddy Morales) perform during Tuesday nights rehearsal in the College � eater.

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by Mike MataThe Advocate

The 84th Academy Awards are Sunday at 7 p.m. and after watching last year’s sweep by “The King’s Speech,” it feels like the academy could do with some outside sug-gestions.

Listed below are the nominees, with The Advocate’s predicted winners in bold, for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Animated Feature Film and Visual Effects.

— “The Artist”— “The Descendants”— “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”— “The Help”— “Hugo”— “Midnight in Paris”— “Moneyball”— “The Tree of Life”— “War Horse”

— Demian Bichir for “A Better Life”— George Clooney for “The Descendants”— Jean Dujardin for “The Artist”— Gary Oldman for “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”— Brad Pitt for “Moneyball”

— Glenn Close for “Albert Nobbs”— Viola Davis for “The Help”— Rooney Mara for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”— Meryl Steep for “The Iron Lady”— Michelle Williams for “My Week with Marilyn”

— “A Cat in Paris”— “Chico & Rita”— “Kung Fu Panda 2”— “Puss in Boots”— “Rango”

— “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, part 2”— “Hugo”— “Real Steel”— “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”— “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”

Off CampusAcademy award picks

by Chanel HillThe Advocate

The Chemeketa Storm found out Wednesday night that re-venge is a dish best served cold, as the Mt. Hood Saints defeated the Storm 94-76 on home court to take over sole possession of fi rst place in the Southern Re-gion.

As the game clock ran to zero and Mt. Hood fans gave the home team a rousing stand-ing ovation, the visiting team exited the court with their heads hung in defeat. The Saints, who entered the game tied with the Storm at 10-2, had entered the game with a chip on their shoulder but left vindicated.

In their fi rst meeting Jan. 25, the Storm defeated the Saints 89-77, handing the Saints their fi rst loss in the Southern Region and breaking an eight-game MHCC win streak.

“I think that for the play-ers, there’s bigger motivation to beat a team the next time,” said head coach Jeff Gibor. “We were able to see what they did well the fi rst time around and make adjustments.”

The Saints were propelled by sophomore point guard and co-captain Marcus Moore, who led the Saints with 25 points. Spencer Clayton had 15 points and 10 rebounds.

The fi rst half began with both teams going tit-for-tat, staying even in scoring until the Storm pulled away to end the half six points ahead. The Saints, who had many turn-overs in the fi rst half and 20 for the game, came out hard against the Storm after the break. Gibor, who has stressed the importance of being patient and playing their style of ball, said they knew how to adjust in

the second half. “Coach just told us to stay

calm,” Moore said. “The turn-overs we did have had good intentions behind them. He just told us to slow it down and vi-sualize the play before it hap-pens.”

Moore took turns with team-mate Robby Rivers dropping shots during a 13-0 Saints run in the second half. He said he felt the pressure to get it done at home. “We wanted to beat them because they beat us last time but also because of the (tie-breaker) and the fact that it was

sophomore night and our last home game, that was just icing on the cake. ”

Moore and sophomore teammates Rivers, Rei Jensen, Coletun Tarr, Clayton, Curtis Papenfuss, Drew Johnson and Alan Yates played their fi nal home game at Hood behind a supportive home crowd that held signs in support of the team. Some vigorously heckled the opposition.

Gibor, in his third season as head coach for the Saints, said he’s proud of the leadership his sophomores have shown.

“It’s going to be a really

tough group to say bye to,” Gi-bor said Thursday. “Just to see how they’ve all grown and to see the joy on their faces last night was pretty impressive.”

But the work is not done. The Saints still have one team left to play in the region as they will head to Albany Saturday to play the Linn-Benton Road-runners, who are tied with the Southwestern Lakers with a 7-6 record in the South. If the Lak-ers win against the Storm Sat-urday, they will have a shot at clinching a playoff position. If they lose, and the Lakers win, they will just miss playoff con-tention and end the season in the fi fth seat in the Southern Region.

With the win Saturday, the Saints (now 11-2 in the region) secured a playoff berth and following Wednesday night’s game will at least tie for the Southern Region title. The Storm, now one game behind the Saints with a 10-3 record, will share the title with the Saints if they defeat the South-western Lakers Saturday and the Saints lose to the Roadrun-ners.

If that happens, the teams will end the season as Southern Region co-champions. But the Saints will drop to the num-ber two seed in the NWAACC playoff tournament based on a number that was drawn by coaches at the beginning of the season.

The Saints will play the Roadrunners Saturday with a gametime of 6 p.m.

On Feb. 18, the Saints de-feated the Southwestern Lakers 86-77 in Coos Bay.

Jensen led the Saints in scor-ing with 22 points and 12 re-bounds. Moore added 21 points in the win, and Clayton had 18.

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Saints pummel Storm, seize lead in Southern Region

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Drew Johnson shoots against Chemekta Storm Wednesday at home.

Women split, dropped from post-season

by Chanel Hill The Advocate

It was a bittersweet night for the Saints women’s basketball team Wednesday as they fell 58-45 at home to the Chemeketa Storm.

The evening was highlighted by a sophomore presentation recognizing Emily Burch, Kelsey O’Neil, Melissa Carey and Haley Chovich, who were playing their last home game at MHCC.

The Storm, who have clinched a playoff berth and are now tied with the Clackamas Cougars for the number two position in the Southern Region with a 10-3 record, came out ag-gressively on offense against the Saints. The Saints did what they have done all season and battled back, shooting 54 percent from the fi eld, but still ended the fi rst half 15 points behind the Storm.

In the second half, the Saints didn’t back down, driving through the lane, taking hard fouls and refusing to quit.

The Saints, who still have one game left in the regular season, will miss out on the post-season this year. Currently the Saints are tied for fourth with the South-western Lakers with 5-8 record. The team, which started the sea-son under new head coach Joc-elyn McIntire, will not realize their goal of winning the South-ern Region or NWAACCs.

The loss to the Storm follows a Feb. 18 victory for the Saints, who defeated the Southwestern Lakers 56-50 on the road. Saints scoring was led by sophomore Emily Burch who had 15 points and fi ve rebounds.

The Saints will head to Al-bany Saturday for their fi nal game of the season to play the Linn-Benton Roadrunners with a game start time of 4.p.m.

Upcoming GAMESMen’s Basketball

(Away) Saturday, 6 p.m.vs Linn-Benton

This will be the men’s fi nal game.

Women’s Basketball(Away) Saturday, 4 p.m.

vs. Linn-BentonThis will be the women’s fi nal game.

The NWAACC basketball tournament will be held in Kennewick, Wash. March 3-6. Check the NWAACC website for more information.

“We wanted to beat them because they beat us.”Marcus Moore Saints Co-Captain

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“I thought it would make me look tough. (I got them) for the enjoyment of it and to look tough.” — Amy Stanforth

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“I was dumb when I was 16,” she said in regards to some tattoos, which she now covers with other ones.

—Hannah Hobbssecond-year psychology student

“Some of them have meaning but some are just for pure joy. I always want to look more bitchin’. I want to be the old lady who has tattoos.”

—Heather Douglasthird-year cosmetology student

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The R.I.C.E. Club (Remarkable. Islanders. Causing. Excitement) presented “The Story on Your Skin” Thursday. Guest speaker Lilian Onge-lungel, a friend of the club, spoke about the cultur-al relations of tattoos. She and her sister Sha runs a cultural blog and Sha studies cultural tattoos.

The Advocate asked students, staff and faculty of Mt. Hood Community College about the stories behind their tattoos.

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MHCC students and staff share the stories behind their tattoos

Lilian Ongelungel, who presented “� e Story on Your Skin,” shows her tattoos which represent her family.

Find the rest of the tattoo Q&A at facebook.com/TheAdvocateOnline