The Wolves captured four individual titles at their annual home meet, the John Knight Twilight hosted at McArthur Stadium on Friday, April 10.
Freshman sensation Cody Warner would win the 100-meter in just 11.00 seconds before winning the 200 in 22.09 seconds, his fourth sweep in the 100 and 200 events of his debut season for the Wolves. Warner was also a part of the third place finish in the men’s 4×100 meter relay team and placed sixth in the triple jump with a 12.60 meter leap.
The next two to capture their individual titles were Badane Sultessa and Kaleb Dobson.
Sultessa, the 800 All-American, won the 800 in 1 minute, 51.88 seconds. He then ran a leg of the men’s 4×400 team to help them to their third place finish.
Dobson also competed in four events on Friday in his debut season as a Wolf, making appearances on the 4×100 and 4×400 teams, finishing second in the 400 hurdles, running towards a 55.63 finish and picking up his individual title in the 110 hurdles, winning in 14.95 seconds.
Emmi Collier added two top-five finishes in the shot put and hammer throw. She finished second with 13.57 meters in the shot put and fourth in the hammer with a 47.01 mark, a personal record. Sam Moore also won the first flight of the shot put with 11.75, placing 10th overall.
Rebecca Laible placed second in the triple jump with 11.27, and Amanda Short would throw 40.20 in the javelin to place third.
Western alumni also came out for the yearly event. Former Wolf Landon Burmingham finished fourth in the men’s 200 in 22.85 before finishing fourth in the 400 in 50. 24. Most recent alumnus, Brady Beagley, finished first in the men’s 3,000 steeple in 9:12.88 while on the women’s side, former Wolf Jessica Harper won the 3,000 steeple in 11:39.93. Former Wolf Janna Vander-Meulen placed second in the women’s 100 hurdles in 15.02.
The Wolves have a busy weekend ahead as there are three meets spanning from Thursday, April 16 to Saturday, April 18. The Oregon Relays will be held in Eugene from Thursday to Saturday. The Mt. Sac Relays Thursday and Friday in Walnut, California and the Lewis and Clark Open on Saturday in Portland.
Western’s baseball team (18-19) had a busy few days this past weekend, playing a four-game series against Great Northwest Athletic Conference opponent St. Martin’s University (13-22).
Western would come out with a perfect 4-0 record on the weekend, keeping them atop the conference standings at No. 1. The series win came days after a victory over National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics powerhouse Lewis and Clark State College of Idaho (27-10).
Day one saw two more wins by the Wolves (7-1, 3-2), with junior Darrien Moran pitching for the duration of the game.
Moran’s pitching was top notch as he allowed one earned run on six hits to go along with a game-high tying six strikeouts, while picking up his fourth win of the season.
Adding to Moran’s success was junior Cody Sullivan and senior Matt Taylor, who both hit two triples; they would end up leading the Wolves at the end of the series with three hits apiece.
Day two of the series would go just as well for the Wolves, as they picked up two more wins for Western (13-4, 6-5). Pitcher Brady Miller took the mound and went 2-0, racking up his latest win for the Wolves.
The Saints could not handle the Wolves hitting game one, as Western breezed by for an easy 13-4 victory. The next day was a different story, with the wolves winning with a walk-off single by senior Michael Sherwin.
Western returns to the field Friday, April 17, when the Wolves open a five-game series against Montana State University Billings, starting with a suspended game from mid-March beginning at 1 p.m. at Dehlar Park in Billings, Montana.
The Service Learning and Career Development Center hosted the spring etiquette dinner Monday, April 13, with special guest speaker Mindy Lockard.
Lockard is featured in various magazines and TV shows and has traveled internationally to speak about the power of etiquette. She has spoken at various colleges such as Western, University of Oregon, and Lewis and Clark, in addition to various industries over her 11-year career.
After her first daughter was born, Lockard said she realized “helping to empower girls in their own skin is important.”
The dinner consisted of a five-course meal where students learned how to set a table, how to toast, and how to eat in the American and Continental style.
“I believe in the power of etiquette, not because it makes other people feel uncomfortable about us, but because it makes us feel comfortable in our own skin,” Lockard said.
She added that by using proper etiquette during interviews and meals, students would be able to expand their professional network.
She involved students within the dinner and spoke about not only how to eat properly, but why it is important.
“Eighty-five percent of a person’s success has to do with people skills,” she said.
People skills can allow a person to make others feel comfortable in their presence, but if they do not know this type of etiquette, they might not get asked out to dinner again.
“Manners have to do with how you handle yourself in professional situations,” Lockard said, “Etiquette is not about being better than other people, it is about sitting down and engaging with other people.”
Adry Clark, SLCD director, said they have been hosting this event for almost five years, with the last event held last November.
“Good dining etiquette is such a big part of the interview process,” Clark said. “Because she’s such a good trainer […] it’s easy to apply it in life.”
The SLCD office is located on the first floor of the Werner University Center and is open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. They provide assistance with resumes as well as mock interviews to help students prepare for finding jobs.
Western’s 22nd annual Pow Wow, presented by the Multicultural Student Union will take place Saturday, April 18, in the Pacific room of the Werner Center.
It is an all day celebration of immersing into a culture and experiencing the different customs of food, dancing and music. Many different vendors will be present to represent the beauty of the Native American culture.
Doors open at noon and the event lasts until midnight.
MSU’s fundraising coordinator, Jovany Romero, a junior Spanish major said that “this is one of their biggest events of the year.” Romero added that “a lot of planning goes in to this event. The grand entrance is the biggest part. There are vendors from all over Oregon and tribes to do Native American dancing and drumming.”
The Pow Wow is a reenactment of Native American culture by contemporary people from all walks of life and background. People from around the community join together to share the experience through singing, dancing and eating. The sharing of Pow Wow traditions shows respect and admiration for the history and heritage of Native American culture.
Dancers and drummers will be there to help visualize the Native American culture, as well as a dance competition with categories in fancy dancing, traditional dancing, grass dancing and jingle dancing. A dinner featuring different foods of the Native American culture will be available, too. The presenters of the show include The Master of the Ceremony; Nick Sixkiller, Host Drum; Woodsman, Whipman; Tony
Whitehead, and Flag Bearer; Grand Ronde Honor Guard.
“It is good to experience a different culture and new experience,” Romero said.
Romero said people may participate in a raffle, with the grand prize being a blanket which has been blessed.
The Pow Wow is a great opportunity to submerge oneself in Native American culture.
MSU secretary, Briana Navarrete, a senior double majoring in business and Spanish, said, “I want people to experience and learn the culture, have fun and come back next year.”
Organizing a wedding can be one of the most stressful situations for couples on a budget. Who will be the photographer? How are we going to feed so many friends and family members? How will I find an affordable dress, or a fitted and wallet-friendly tux? Where do we start looking for venues?
Students getting ready to tie the knot, who are asking themselves these questions, are in for a sigh of relief:
Sunday, April 19, from 1-5 p.m., Gentle House will host their third annual bridal show.
The Gentle House, an 1880’s farmhouse equipped with gardens and a museum, allows couples to turn their fairy tale wedding into reality.
“The purpose behind our Annual Bridal Show is to demonstrate how a bride can have an absolutely fantastic wedding while staying on a budget,” Shurisa Steed, Gentle House staff, said.
The bridal show is free for students who wish to attend and is open to the general public as well.
This enchanting venue is on the north side of Western’s campus on Monmouth Avenue, across the street from university apartments, making it easily accessible to students and Monmouth residents.
According to Shurisa, renting the Gentle House venue comes with a kitchen, tables and chairs, a bridal changing room, sound system, two restrooms, and a Gentle House representative to help during the event.
Considering that the Gentle House is an event center, there will be five historic gardens featured at the bridal show, staged for wedding ceremonies and receptions to demonstrate how a wedding can be arranged and decorated for any couple’s unique tastes.
Aside from the gardens, there will be countless wedding professionals attending the show ranging from photographers, bakeries, DJs, and beauty salons to inspire couples’ possible wedding arrangements.
Photos by Orion, a photography company from Keizer, will be showcasing large portraits of different special occasions.
Kathryn Davidson, from Photos by Orion, said, “For couples on a budget, Photos by Orion is great because all our packages come with a CD of images and unlimited printing rights. So the price they see is the total price they pay; no hidden fees here.”
Ovenbird Bakery will present their special and delicious cakes baked specifically for weddings. Katie Schaub, from Ovenbird Bakery, said their focus for the bridal show will be showcasing cakes with free samples for students to try.
“We have, on several occasions, produced pies, fruit tarts, éclairs, cheesecakes, and candies as supplemental or alternative wedding desserts,” Schaub said.
For more information about the bridal show or the venue, contact Gentle House at gentlehouse@wou.edu, or by phone at 503-838-8673. You can also visit its website at gentlehouse.org.
Monmouth’s latest edition, a new bake shop called Sugar Lilly, will be opening on Broad Street across from the Tan Republic by Monmouth resident, Sarah Lilly.
Lilly has always carried a passion for baking.
“I’ve been baking my whole life. It is something that I have always enjoyed,” Lilly said. “I think I have always had a bit of a talent for it.”
Her business originally started in her personal home three years ago. After receiving a domestic baking license, Lilly would make cupcakes in her own kitchen and sell them at the Salem Saturday Market.
Customers would flock to her homemade cupcakes that included traditional and gluten-free recipes. Some of the flavors Lilly has featured at the Saturday Market are: s’mores, gluten-free double chocolate, and strawberry with strawberry buttercream.
But weather conditions at the outdoor market only allowed Sugar Lilly to operate for a few months out of the year. When the space became available in Monmouth, Lilly could not pass up the chance to finally open her own shop.
“The opportunity came up with the owners of this place, and I could not turn it away,” Lilly said.
Lilly’s business began with cupcakes, but those will not be the only desserts available at her shop. Sugar Lilly will feature a full dessert menu consisting of pies, cheesecakes, cookies, and more. There will also be a breakfast and lunch menu that will include soups made daily, salads, and sandwiches.
Sugar Lilly will also serve coffee, teas, Italian sodas, and espressos.
Everything in the shop will be made fresh, “nothing processed, [and] everything will be made from scratch,” Lilly said. She said she likes to utilize local products as often as possible and will be able to add to her menu depending on what is available—like fresh cobblers when berries are in season.
Lilly said Sugar Lilly will be “A place you can get a healthy lunch.”
“Everything there is going to be made fresh every day. And real ingredients. We don’t use margarine, fake fats, or lard. Everything is as natural as possible,” Lilly said.
Students will be happy to learn that Sugar Lilly will offer free Wi-Fi, and include a cozy covered patio outside for additional seating. Lilly is also working to develop student and military discounts and punch cards. Free dessert will be given to customers on their birthdays.
“It sounds like a great place for students to go and get a good dessert,” said Courtney Haess, an education major.
Lilly hopes to open the doors to the Sugar Lilly bake shop around May 1.
For more information visit the Sugar Lilly Facebook page at www.facebook.com/SugarLillyGourmetCupcakes
By Jack Armstrong - News Editor
and Haunani Tomas - Editor-in-Chief
The Oregon Student Association is currently campaigning against bill 4.15 introduced into the upcoming ASWOU elections beginning Monday, April 20 through Friday, April 24.
Bill 4.15 would effectively sever the current ties between the OSA and ASWOU. Both organizations are designed to provide advocacy on behalf of students, with ASWOU being specifically centered on Western Students.
The ballot asks: “Should WOU students leave membership with OSA?”
WHAT IS OSA?
Created in 1975, the OSA is, in part, a reaction to what Oregon students saw as rapidly decreasing student involvement in higher education administrative decisions like tuition, incidental fees, and on-campus policies. Since then, OSA has become the second largest voter registration in the United States.
According to the OSA mission, their purpose is to “represent, serve, and protect the collective interests of students in postsecondary education in Oregon.” The organization collectively represents more than 120,000 college students in Oregon, and serves much like a student labor union.
OSA’s short-term goals involve working with legislators and decision makers to act as a lobbying for students to the state.
“Lobbying is an ambiguous concept to people,” said OSA Executive Director Emma Kallaway. For reference, lobbying is the act of attempting to influence the actions of public officials, especially legislators.
The 45-member non-profit organization consists of a team that firmly believes in their mission: “protect the collective interests of students in postsecondary education in Oregon.”
HOW DOES OSA BENEFIT US?
While advocating for post-secondary education affordability, OSA works to prevent sexual violence, accounting to cultural competency, increasing accommodations for those with disabilities, and collecting data about the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Queer) community to better serve the needs of college campuses.
More recently, OSA petitioned for an increase in financial aid, lower tuition and an increase in the quality of education.
The OSA’s efforts include organizing student rallies like the Rally to Restore Higher Education. Held on Feb. 12, 2015, the rally brought together students from 26 universities and community colleges to push for a reinvestment of state funds to freeze tuition costs.
OSA also sends students to Salem when the legislature is in session to speak on behalf of Oregon students. OSA has several students speaking to the legislative body concerning debt at a university budget hearing Tuesday , April 14, 2015.
Western students attended the Rally to Restore Higher Education, and some of the organization on the Western end was handled through ASWOU, but if bill 4.15 passes then Western will officially resign their membership to the OSA.
“There is an increased level of difficulty getting legislatures to support individual schools,” said Kallaway. “[OSA provides] a nearly 40-year long relationship with state officials that [Western students] have access to.”
Instead of lobbying for individual campus needs, OSA has the utilitarian lens of looking at the bigger picture.
“OSA has the ability to view what’s best for the entire student body population of Oregon versus the needs of an individual institution,” said Kallaway.
Western’s membership with OSA is funded through incidental fees, which are collected from students every term and used to fund student clubs and activities that fall outside the realm of academics – such as special interest clubs, health and wellness, athletics and student leadership activities.
These fees have been initially approved by both ASWOU senate and the incidental fees committee (IFC), but according to WOU Students Against 4.15, a student action group, “ASWOU senate recently passed a bill that was contrary to their [already voted upon] budget and decided to give students the opportunity to approve OSA membership on the ballot.”
Affordability being OSA’s chief objective, it costs students $1.49 per term to be members of the OSA.
Kallaway describes the per-term membership fee as being “less than a cup of coffee.”
“It save [students], at minimum, hundreds of dollars per student,” she said.
IF PASSED, HOW WILL BILL 4.15 AFFECT US?
This referendum would completely strip students’ ability to advocate for themselves at the state and renders students powerless. In other words, Western would be removed from OSA.
Proposed referendum measure that is being voted on next week would completely strip students of its collective power.
Consequently, OSA field organizer Brittany Duffy-Goche said this would leave Western students with “little to no power in Salem to be able to fight against tuition increases and policy that helps promote a safe and inclusive learning environment.”
“Students of Western would lose their impact,” said Kallaway.
Duffy-Goche explained that Western would be removed from the OSA, which would “sever our ability to effectively advocate for students on a statewide level.”
Some students on campus have already spoken out against the proposed changes. The student-lead group WOU Students Against 4.15 writes on their website that “withdrawing membership from the Oregon Student Association is a huge mistake.”
“If this referendum is passed, it would be detrimental on a multitude of levels,” said Duffy-Goche.
Students Against 4.15 believe that departure from OSA would severely limit Western’s ability to advocate on behalf of the student population without the power in numbers that OSA offers.
Students Against 4.15 writes: “be extremely wary of any attempts to limit your collective student voice in Salem. We need to work together in order to achieve real victories for higher education in Oregon.”
