april 13, 2012

Student-curated art show will feature Eidolons, Shiner, The Robinsons, Youth and Grandparents

ARTY LIKE A ROCKSTAR

The Pioneer Log arts

Students take back the night

BY ZIBBY PILLOTE
Editor-In-Chief

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ILLUSTRATION BY LIAM OCONNOR

Student band Eidolons will open tonights show, BODYMOVEMENTSPACEGESTURE.

BY DREW LENIHAN
Arts Editor

[O U T E R] Space Gallery is going out of this world again; this time is the form of a juried, curated show by collective members Abigail McNamara (12) and Spencer ByrneSeres (13). McNamara has wasted no time since the opening of her critically acclaimed senior show installation in setting up [ O U T E R] Spaces show not a week later. The main aim of Fridays event is to bring student art out of Fields and into the open. I am hoping to create an avenue of exposure for student artists, in particular to faculty and non-art students. I thought it would be great to pair art with music for an afternoon in the sun, said McNamara. The show is titled BODYMOVEMENTSPACEGESTURE, with McNamara

and Byrne-Seres making calls for submissions from artists in the months leading up to the show. After carefully choosing work to curate a cohesive, aesthetically and conceptually linked show, the art duo released the final list of artists and work. Featuring the work of 11 student and professional artists, the show kicks off in front of Fields art center at 4 p.m. Music from student and alumni bands Eidolons and Shiner will start, followed by The Robinsons (members of Viva Voce), Youth and Grandparents. Music starts at 3 p.m. and wraps up around 9 p.m. Adjacent to the art will be another opening in Fields Arnold Gallery, featuring the work of sophomores Tony Chrenka and Flynn Casey. Entitled 100% Solid Bold, the students opening is sure to bring some raw expression and daring swagger to the mix.

LC students should go because they should know about the creative capacities of their peers. There are some really amazing artists on campus and the Art Department is one of LCs most wonderful communities. Not only that, but organizations like [O U T E R] Space and events like this are potential opportunities that the student body should be taking advantage of, said McNamara. [O U T E R] Space Gallery is run by a group of LC students and the walls, which will be set up for the temporary show, are available for anyone to borrow. The gallery was recently awarded a budget for the 2012-13 school year by Jason Feiner and the Student Organization Committee, meaning events like these will be happening more frequently and the walls will be even more accessible to the creative bones of the student body.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and to celebrate strong women survivors everywhere and take on the issue on campus, the Womyns Center has a week of activism and expression planned. On April 16, join members of the Womyns Center in a discussion about consent at 6 p.m. in Thayer. The discussion will address what consent is, how you know youve got it and what to do when you arent so sure. Scout Niblett and alum band Older Women will play in the Co-Op on Wednesday. Thursday calls attention to one of the most important aspects of preventing sexual assault: getting people of all genders involved. Forest Area Director David Rosengard will lead the discussion, How Men Can Help Prevent Sexual Assault in Tamarack at 3:30 p.m. People of all genders are welcome and encouraged to attend. Later Thursday afternoon, there will be a writing circle in the Womyns Center centered on personal experiences with sexual assault. Immediately following, there will be a candle-lit vigil in the rose garden. All week, the Womyns Center will be tabling for the Clothesline Project, an organization supporting survivors of sexual violence. Survivors design t-shirts expressing aspects of their own experiences with sexual assault and display them publically. The Center is also hosting a Postsecret board that will allow students to anonymously express thoughts or experiences of their own on the topic of sexual violence.

Bureaucracy on fire
BY DREW LENIHAN
Arts Editor

Inspection report: KLC under the lens

duties of the now-defunct LCMC (Lewis & Clark Music Coalition). They were the ones who booked most of the shows around campus for probably 4 or 5 years, said Howe. At the end of last year, they were dissolved, and the role was unofficially given back to us. Overall, the station realized its goals for this year. KLCs radio shows have increased from 11 per semester to 30, and theyve been reaching a wider audience. According to Howe, the administration has contacted KLC asking them to broadcast advertisements for classes and events. Several bands have already used the stations new recording facilities. Howe confirmed that a compilation of these recordings is in the works, which will be available for students to download at the end of the semester. Xander Blair (13), one of KLCs recording managers, said, Weve gotten in a few bands every month to record, and Im confident that well have more people working in our studio next year. And, of course, KLC planned and hosted the Sunburn music festival, which was bigger than ever this year. As far as Sunburn goes, there definitely were some things we could have done better, but for the most part I think it was a success, Howe stated. There have, however, been some setbacks along the way. You always shoot for the moon, and you never get there, but you can really try, said Howe. Josh and I really wanted to find a new level of professionalism at KLC. I think to an extent weve found it, but not to our expectations. And were still working on it. Looking ahead, KLC hopes to continue the current trend of increasing their presence and professionalism. We want to make sure next years staff continues with what we tried to accomplish this year, stated Howe, because that never happens. Usually when the managers graduate, the new managers come in and everything is lost. Its good to change things up every year, but you should also look at the past and take as much as you can from it. Assistant manager Shannon Boerner (15) added, We will continue to build on previous improvements in order to become more widely known, not simply at LC, but in the greater Portland area. We will also increase our efforts to reach out to Portlandbased bands. Its always a work in progress, said Howe. Because when push comes to shove, its a college radio station. Its supposed to be a fun place where you can play music. But I think the best thing KLC has to offer is a real life practicum where youre learning skills for a career, whether it be radio, events programming or even recording. Blair agreed, stating, We are currently well organized, and more professional than our graffiti might suggest. Were well prepared to offer even more to students next year and beyond.

IILLUSTRATION FROM KLC

BY LAURA BLUM
Staff Writer

KLC Radio has a shaky history, having gone through many ups and downs throughout its lifetime. This year, however, its managers have been working hard to pick up the slack and increase the organizations presence both on and off campus. Tim Howe (12) and Josh Cohn (12), this years co-managers, had lofty goals for the radio station. We went in trying to rediscover what KLC can be, said Howe, who has been involved with KLC since his sophomore year. Over the years its taken a lot of different twists and turns and manifestations. So we started from the ground up. We hired a lot of new people, and our goals were centered around exploring the possibilities of this space and the opportunities this school has given us. These goals included creating a recording studio out of previously unused space, reaching a larger audience of listeners and replacing the outdated analog broadcasting system with a digital one. KLC also took over the

1968 was a pinnacle year for social movements around the world. In Paris, students and intellectuals aligned themselves with the communist and workers party and nearly brought the French government to its knees. Similiarly in Mexico, young people took to the streets crying for reform due to misrepresentation in a government under the same party for nearly 40 years. In the USA, the Anti-Vietnam War movement heated up with the infamous shooting of four students at Kent State. It was a moment in human history in which the people questioned the structure of our systems, and the hegemony of the people versus the structure may have changed forever. A radical diversity of critical and social theory emerged as a result of this fragile moment in the human condition. As we appear to be in such a moment in our school and newspaper, I find it imperative to provide a tantalizing qoute speaking towards a harsh critique of bureaucracy. This quote is from, Society of the Spectacle (1973) by radical French thinker Guy Debord. The frenchman was a member of the Situationist International, a group of European revolutionaries who used methods and theory of Marxism and avant-garde art to express their dissent and critiques of high capitalism.

The commodity the bureaucracy appropriates is the totality of social labor, and what it sells back to society en bloc is societys survival. The dictatorship of the bureaucratic economy cannot leave the exploited masses any significant margin of choice because it has had to make all the choices itself, and because any choice made independently of it, even the most trivial concerning food, say, or music- amounts to a declaration of war to the death on bureaucracy. - Guy Debord
Thesis 64, 1973