2016 – Page 19 – The Western Howl

By: Burke De Boer
Sports Editor

Time’s relentless march now blows us into the cold days of autumn. Days that grow short as the nights grow cold. The leaves turn and the harvest comes in and frost thickens on fields laid bare. The fun of summer becomes as distant as the spring that preceded it.

We are now in the best month of the year for sports.

The story of the football season has begun to be told but every team still has a say in its destiny. Quarterbacks scramble like the black cats that dance along cemetery fences. Anything is still possible.

Baseball now gets very serious. The playoffs are upon us, and the end of the month will crown the World Series champion. For one month, America watches its national pastime. For one month, everyone cares about baseball.

Basketball and hockey enter the time of fresh beginnings. Fans recite contradicting prophecies in every town and city across the country, saying “This is our year.” Ultimately, the year only belongs to one team. But for the NHL and the NBA, this month belongs to all.

For rodeo fans, the PBR World Finals comes in November. Bull riders on the cusp fight to qualify for Vegas. The million-dollar, gold buckle payday is just beyond the wicked grin of the jack o’lantern.

Wolves howl and bats screech. Witches cackle and farmers buck hay. Students study and the ghosts rattle chains.

Welcome to October. Let’s play ball.

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Hard times on the road

By: Burke De Boer
Sports Editor

Soccer was dismantled twice on the road as Central Washington took a 1-4 advantage and Simon Fraser won 0-6. The two game journey north saw first-year midfielder Kaili Brundage score the first goal of her Western career, while first-year keeper Caitlin Kastelic saved a combined 26 shots.

The Wolves were completely swarmed in their visit to CWU, having only three shots on goal and giving up a penalty that lead to CWU’s first goal.

Playing Simon Fraser in Canada found some more space for the Wolves, who pressured the keeper with four shots on goal in the first nine minutes of the second half. By that time, Western was already trailing 0-4. The Wolves were left unable to find the back of the net and unable to close the gap. Despite allowing 6 goals, Kastelic turned in the most noteworthy performance as she made 19 saves.

The Wolves close out their long road trip this week, against St. Martin’s.

Saturday, Oct. 9, Central Washington comes to Monmouth. Wolves soccer is currently undefeated at home. The match kicks off at noon.

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Volleyball goes down fighting

By: Burke De Boer
Sports Editor

Wolves volleyball suffered two losses at home, including a nail-biting five sets against ranked Western Washington.

The Thursday match was against Simon Fraser, who came into the game with an 11-2 record. Wolves quickly shocked the visitors and surged to a 25-14 set. Simon Fraser regrouped and won the next three sets. Each set was competitive, as the Wolfpack lost by margins of 22-25, 19-25, 19-25.

Western Washington came into the game favored but Wolves put up a strong effort to force five sets. After losing a rough first set 13-25 the Wolves rallied. Momentum swung between sets, and within sets as well as the teams gained and lost leads on each other.

The Wolves faced five potential match points at the end of the fifth set before falling, 15-11.

Alisha Bettinson had a double-double, with 20 kills and 16 digs. Christie Colasudro had 22 digs as well. Colasudro was also the defensive star of the Simon Fraser game, putting up 29 digs, one of four Wolves to get double digit digs in the game. Bettinson also put up 16 while Makenna Bahrens had 11 digs and Libbie Hoene 10.

Volleyball goes on the road for the next two weeks but will be back on Oct. 20 to host St. Martin’s. The Wolves defeated St. Martin’s in their first matchup earlier this year.

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Wolves beat themselves

By: Burke De Boer
Sports Editor

Wolves football got trounced 2-31 at home on Oct. 1 at the hands of Azusa Pacific University. The Wolves had more yards, more first downs and a greater time of possession but couldn’t finish against a tough APU team. Penalties and missed opportunities stacked up to keep Western from threatening in the game.

Quarterback Philip Fenumiai passed for 307 yards and rushed for another 72, emerging as the rushing leader of the game. He also took five sacks and threw two interceptions.

The game began with a promising start. APU came into the game ranked and undefeated, but were held scoreless through the first quarter. Rushes by Fenumiai and running back Malik Braxton, as well as pass completions to Keoni Piceno and Paul Revis, marched the Wolves down the field. In the opening drive, a 20-yard rush from Braxton and a 25-yard pass to Piceno were among the plays that put the Wolves into the red zone.

However, penalties pushed the Wolves back. Holding and false start calls put the Wolves out of range for kicker Jacob Bannister, whose kick went wide of the goalposts.

A forced fumble by linebacker Tafatolu Tafai, recovered by the Wolves on their own goalline, stopped APU’s first score threat and gave the ball back to the Wolves offense to start the second quarter.

Three and outs ended the half for the Wolves while the defense held APU to 10 points. The game was still in hand as the Wolves received to start the second half. A false start penalty added five yards to Bannister’s kick attempt, which went wide left.

APU piled on 14 points in a minute with a rushing touchdown and a pick six and began to pull away. The Wolves were then able to strike into the red zone before a sack, a tripping penalty and a false start lead to another long field goal try, this one missing from 42 yards.

Defensive back Austin Spencer and lineman George Swartzlander split a tackle for a safety in the fourth quarter to get the Wolves’ only points.

With the loss, the Wolves fall to 2-3 on the season. They host Simon Fraser for a chance to break .500 on Oct. 9. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.

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Scare season returns

By: Matthew Oldfield
Freelancer

The fall season comes with pumpkin patches, rain and changing leaves. This is also the time for all the ghosts and ghouls of Halloween to begin showing up out of the shadows, creeping up on those who are unaware. That’s right, the season of Haunted Houses is back and ready to scare anyone daring enough to go inside.

If you’re someone who enjoys going to creepy old houses, or walking along a dark trail, then maybe these sights are for you. For all you haunted house people, The Oregon School of the Deaf, in Salem, is hosting The Nightmare Factory for the 29th year in a row. This year’s theme is the zombie-filled Infected Nightmare. The special haunted tour will be $10.00 from Oct. 7 to 8, however, the rest of the show dates will be $15.00 for general admission. If you’re looking for a really good scare, their $20.00 Pitch Black event will occur on the last two nights of the show, Nov. 4 and 5, will be a truly terrifying experience.

Another haunted house that’s just a little farther north is Milburn’s Haunted Manor, located just outside of Hubbard, Oregon. Guests can face the imaginative horrors of Milburn’s manor in either one of two parts: “The Manor”, “The Dark” or guests can dare to do both. General admission is only $10.00 for one part, or $15.00 for both. For those who wish to go, but feel this might be too frightening, you will be pleased to know that this is more of a PG-13 type of haunted house.

If you’re looking for something closer, with more of an R rating scare, look no farther than Corvallis’ own Haunting of the Majestic. The Majestic Theatre in Corvallis will transform for four nights only into a haunted house at the end of October. The 18+ haunt is on Oct. 28 and 29 with a much more family oriented haunt on the 30 and 31. Prices will be hard to know until those dates come closer, but you can still check out the Majestic’s website for more details as the dates draw nearer.

These are but three events happening on this side of Oregon. There are far more haunted houses around the area if you’re brave enough to find them.

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All hands on deck

By: Paige Scofield 
Campus Life Editor

Western’s Campus Public Safety Officers have always gone above and beyond when helping those who are in need. Whether that’s finding a stolen bike or escorting students home, they treat each task as equally important. Despite this, how could they strive to be better? How could they extend a hand of help to everyone and anyone who contacts them? Campus Public Safety Officers want to communicate with every student and faculty member to the best of their ability.
As some may know, Western is well known for its American Sign Language program and is home to a community of deaf and partially deaf individuals. In the fall of 2015, Campus Public Safety Director Rebecca Chiles was contacted by College of Education faculty member, Brent Redpath, to do a presentation on Western’s Campus Public Safety for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Faculty.

“In that gathering, we began to discuss ways that deaf and partially deaf faculty, staff, students and Campus Public Safety could better communicate. An idea was brought to me by College of Education faculty, Kara Gouranis, that she had a couple of students who were willing to teach us at Public Safety some basic American Sign Language. Two students, Petra Schenfeld and Cassie Owens, began meeting with us in late fall 2015. They were patient and understanding with us and we have made some progress,” said Chiles.

The officers involved in this training include: occupational environmental safety officer Allen Risen with 27 years on the force, officer Scott Tennant with five years, officer Trever Jackson with nine years, administrative office assistant Angela Barry with two years and Director Rebecca Chiles also with two years of experience.

“Both officer Tennant and officer Jackson have used American Sign Language with students on a couple of different occasions since we began taking the classes,” Chiles added.
Campus Public Safety also announced on Western’s website, wou.edu, that they have created a deaf and partially deaf text line.

The Western website instructions states,“The user simply sends a text message to the specified number and the text will be answered by our Campus Public Safety staff. We encourage deaf and partially deaf faculty, staff and students to use this number for all communication with Campus Public Safety, such as, emergencies of any kind, door unlocks, report a crime or suspicious activities, etc. If you are part of the Deaf/Hard of hearing community and would like the phone number for this service, please feel free to contact the Office of Disability Services at ods@wou.edu or Public Safety at safety@wou.edu and we will do our best to answer any questions you may have.”

Above all, Campus Public Safety is doing their best to make sure every student and faculty member at Western feels safe and heard.

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Where you can write on walls

By: Paige Scofield
Campus Life Editor

On Friday Sept. 23, the Richard Woodcock Education Center became open to the public. Construction for the building began last year and was completed before the 2016 school year started. Before the ribbon cutting, the crowd gathered around the building waiting for the speakers to present. Among those speakers was Oregon’s Governor, Kate Brown.

When taking the podium, she endlessly complimented the university and all the steps that we’ve made to further our education curriculum. She spoke with true sincerity and graciously complimented Western again by stating, “Educators trained at Western will contribute to Oregon’s goal of building an education system that meets the needs of all students.” The last to speak, of course, was Richard Woodcock.

Western News stated that during his time at Western (then called the Oregon College of Education), Dr. Woodcock served as an assistant professor of psychology and the Reading Clinic director from 1957 to 1961. Dr. Woodcock strives to bring teachers and students together from all walks of life by using education as something that brings people together.

Once the speeches were complete, Gov. Kate Brown and Dr. Richard Woodcock cut the red ribbon, officially opening the Richard Woodcock Education Center to the Western campus and public.

The building itself is filled top to bottom with technology. This includes SMART Boards, avatar simulations and live-streaming connections with real classrooms in the surrounding areas. Not to mention, you can write on the walls; many of the classrooms and study areas have whiteboard walls that allow you to use them as you please. Even if you don’t have a class in the Richard Woodcock Education Center, go take a look and see the wonders for yourself.

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