SEEKING JUSTICE PROJECT CONTINUES
Japanese Americans who were interned at Camp Minidoka in Idaho will provide a look behind the barbed wire during a series of programs that will continue at Linfield and in McMinnville this week.
The Seeking Justice Project focuses on the events and aftermath of the forced internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II. Many of the Japanese Americans who lived in the Northwest were forced to leave behind homes, businesses and property and were relocated to Camp Minidoka, an internment camp near Twin Falls, Idaho.
This series of programs will feature individuals who were interned, a program on the National Park Service’s action to make Camp Minidoka a National Historic Site, a theatrical drama focusing on the experiences of those interned, and a forum on immigration issues. The program includes three more presentations:
“Seeking Justice: Places of Conscience” will feature Carol Ash, chief of interpretation and education for the National Park Service at Camp Minidoka. She will discuss recent actions by the NPS to make Camp Minidoka a National Historic Site and additional government actions in an ongoing attempt to seek justice for the action of interning Japanese Americans during World War II. Monday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m., 201 Riley Hall.
“Breaking the Silence,” written by Nikki Nojima Louis, is a readers theatre drama of Japanese immigration to the West Coast of the U.S., the challenges of immigrants and a new culture, the hysteria during World War II, with the internment of the Japanese Americans at the camps, and the legal struggle of the constitutional redress. Wednesday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m., Ice Auditorium.
“Immigration Issues: Past and Present” is a forum featuring voices from the Japanese/Asian and Latino community. Yosh Nakagawa, Herb Tsuchiya, Miriam Corona and Julie Braker will discuss being viewed as an immigrant, and the challenges of fully participating in America, educationally, vocationally and legally. Friday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 125 Cowls St., McMinnville.
Many of those participating in the series of programs have ties to Camp Minidoka. Yosh Nakagawa, a member of the Linfield Board of Trustees from 1997-2001, was born and raised in Seattle, Wash., and sent to Camp Minidoka when he was 11. He went on to serve the Asian American Caucus and Ministries for the Evergreen Baptist Church and was vice president of American Baptist Churches USA. Herb Tsuchiya was 10 when his family was sent to Camp Minidoka and 13 when they were released. He went on to graduate from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy and was a pharmacist in Seattle for more than 50 years. He also has been a cast member of “Breaking the Silence” for 20 years. Lilly Kodama was 7 when she and her family were taken from Bainbridge Island, Wash., to the internment camps.
The programs are free and open to the public and sponsored by the Frazee Lecture in Bible and Religion, and PLACE (Program for the Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement). The Frazee Lecture was established by friends and family in honor of Gordon G. Frazee, who served Linfield for 32 years as chaplain and professor of religion. The fund is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas across disciplines, promote civic engagement and pique intellectual curiosity through the exploration of thematic connections. This year’s PLACE theme explores the question “How Do We Know?” Additional sponsors of the Seeking Justice Project are the McMinnville First Baptist Church and Interfaith Advocates for Peace with Justice. For more information, contact Bill Millar, professor of religion, ext. 2456.
LEVINE TO PRESENT ERICKSEN LECTURE
Alice Levine, the 2014 Ericksen Scholar and professor emerita of English at Hofstra University, will present “Cutting and Slashing Byron’s Poetry: Editing the Selected Works” on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room in Nicholson Library.
Notorious for his dangerous but attractive heroes, Byron has been seen as a model for anti-heroes as diverse as Dr. Frankenstein, Mr. Rochester, Heathcliff and Dracula. His later poetry moves beyond the gothic mode into satire and comic commentary, “meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything.”
Levine’s research focuses on English Romantic poetry. She has published numerous articles about Lord Byron, including studies of musical settings of his poetry. She edited “Byron’s Poetry and Prose: Norton Critical Edition,” co-edited “Rereading Byron: Essays Selected from Hofstra University’s Byron Bicentennial Conference,” as well as “Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: A Facsimile of Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library, Volumes I-IV.” She currently sits on the boards of the Byron Society of America and the Keats-Shelley Association of America.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Ken and Donna Ericksen Endowed English Department Fund. Ericksen, professor emeritus of English at Linfield, created the endowment in memory of his wife, Donna, a Linfield alumna, who taught reading, writing and English in the Hillsboro School District for 25 years. The endowment allows the English Department to bring literary scholars to campus for several days to work with faculty and students.
For more information, contact Barbara Seidman at bseidman@linfield.edu or ext. 2210 or Katherine Kernberger at kkernber@linfield.edu or ext. 2289.
PADDOCK, SANTANGELO TO LEAD BAND
The Linfield College Concert Band will perform “Music Inspired by the Written Word” on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Ice Auditorium.
The concert will feature music inspired by The Washington Post, Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” “Moby Dick,” “4th Century Liturgy of St. James,” Sara Teasdale’s poem “There Will Be Rest” and “Oliver Twist.” The evening will be conducted by Joan Haaland Paddock, Linfield professor of music and director of instrumental activities, and Christian Santangelo, Linfield College senior.
The Linfield Concert Band is comprised of music majors and minors, as well as non-majors from across the campus. Community members from the region also participate in the Linfield Concert Band. Currently, 26 student musicians and 16 community musicians make up the band.
For more information, call the Department of Music at ext. 2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
THEATRE TO PRESENT THRILLER
The lines between reality and fantasy blur in the upcoming Linfield College Theatre production, “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom,” a suspense thriller about video games and the impact technology can have on lives and relationships.
The play runs Nov. 6-8 and 13-15 at 7:30 p.m., with a late-night show on Friday, Nov.7, at 11 p.m. in Marshall Theatre.
“Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom,” by Jennifer Haley, explores the impact of technology on identity and human relationships and delves into the ethics encountered in virtual reality. In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting is a subdivision with identical houses. The goal is to smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own. Haley’s work explores the impact of technology on identity and human relationships and delves into the ethics encountered in virtual reality.
The play also investigates the communication gap between parents and children, according to Janet Gupton, director and associate professor of theatre arts. “It serves as a cautionary tale about the need to question how much time is healthy to be spent on the internet in an already ‘plugged in’ world,” said Gupton.
Actors in the show will play two different characters, both an adult and a child, to push their acting abilities in character development. Cast members include sophomores Emilie Skladzien of Kamuela, Hawaii, Murphy Jackson of Hood River and Madilyn Bechtel of Kirkland, Wash.; juniors Emily Griffin of Napa Valley, Calif., and Travis McKenna of Elko, Nev.; and seniors Nicholas Granato of Damascus, MacKensie Sempert of Rhododendron and Cody Meadows of Anchorage, Alaska.
Additionally, the crew will have a large role in bringing this thriller to life. Junior Mic Cooney of Beaverton is working as the videographer designer for the play’s technical and video demands. Senior Kelsey Garrett of Medford is serving as the assistant scenic designer and also will be creating original artwork that will be used in the show.
Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, Oct. 28, and will be available at http://www.linfield.edu/arts, by phone or at the Marshall Theatre Box Office. Tickets are $9 for full price; $7 for seniors (62+) and Linfield faculty and staff and $5 for students. There will be a $2 discount for everyone on opening night. Seating is reserved. Located inside the lobby of Ford Hall, the box office is open Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 5 p.m., and until performance time on performance days. The box office will also be open Nov. 8 and 15 from 3 to 7:30 p.m. The Marshall Theatre is fully accessible. This production is produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
For more information, call ext. 2292.
RESIDENCY FOCUSES ON ENVIRONMENT
Renowned sustainability expert Robert Musil, a Woodrow Wilson Foundation visiting fellow, will present a public lecture as part of a three-day residency at Linfield College. He will present “The Legacy of Rachel Carson: Do Environmentalists Make Any Difference” on Monday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall.
Musil is the president and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council, the legacy environmental organization envisioned by Carson and founded in 1965 by her friends and colleagues. Musil is also a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where he teaches about climate change and American environmental politics.
From 1992-2006, Musil was the longest-serving executive director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Peace. During his tenure, he nearly tripled PSR’s membership, budget and staff. He is a graduate of Yale and Northwestern Universities and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and has been a visiting honorary fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Musil specializes in contemporary global sustainability, security and health issues, as well as Cold War history, culture and policy. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including “Hope for a Heated Planet: How Americans Are Fighting Global Warming and Building a Better Future” and in 2014, “Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment.”
Musil helped launch PSR’s environmental program in the early 1990s and led PSR campaigns for safe and affordable drinking water, clean air, and to prevent toxic pollution and global climate change. He also initiated PSR’s U.S.-Mexico Border Project in El Paso and Juarez, Mexico, and has represented PSR at international environment negotiations in Montreal, Kyoto, Johannesburg, Geneva and elsewhere.
Musil served as executive director of the Professionals’ Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control, the SANE Education Fund, the Center for National Security Studies Military Affairs Project and CCCO: An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling. He is a former Army Captain who taught communications and policy at the Defense Information School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind.
Musil has been the producer of numerous groundbreaking independent video documentaries and public radio documentary series including “One Blue Sky: Health and the Human Environment.” He is two-time winner of the Armstrong Award for Excellence in Radio Broadcasting.
Musil will be in residence at Linfield Nov. 10-13, where he will attend classes and meet with students. His visit is sponsored by the President’s Office, the Program for Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement (PLACE), and the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program, which supports small liberal arts colleges by bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives for the purpose of discussion and learning.
For more information, contact the President’s Office, ext. 2202.
LINFIELD TO HOST ORCAN CONFERENCE
Linfield will host leaders from throughout Oregon at the annual Oregon College Access Network Conference Monday, Nov. 10, in McMinnville.
The conference, “Collaborating to Create Access and Success,” features conference sessions and networking opportunities for postsecondary and college access professionals from throughout the state. The goal of the conference is to share best practices, update professionals via state policy insight, and to discuss and contribute ideas on actionable measures to help Oregon reach the goal of 40/40/20 by 2025.
For more information, contact Araceli Ortiz, acting associate director of financial aid, at 503-413-6844.
JAZZ CONCERT PLANNED
The Music Department will host a Jazz Night concert Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall.
The performances will include popular big band music including “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Trumpets Forever,” “Jazz Police,” “Bari, Bari Good” and “Stormy Weather.” Linfield senior Gulfem Torunlar will sing three songs and senior Katelyn Henson will also be featured during a solo on baritone saxophone.
For more information, call the Linfield Music Department at ext. 2275.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Mallie Kozy, dean of the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing, was selected by the University of Toledo as the Outstanding Alumna for Clinical Practice and was honored at homecoming Oct. 23-24. She earned a MSN there in 1993 and a certificate in Medical and Health Sciences Education in 2001. She served on the faculty from 1997 to 2007.
Malcolm Greenlees, the Glenn L. and Helen S. Jackson Professor of Business, designed, wrote and taught a week-long training course on casino accounting and auditing in Macau, China, Oct. 22-26. The course was held in conjunction with the Dr. Carlos Siu Lam of the Macau Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Gaming Teaching and Research in Macau. It was sponsored by the Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, also known as the DICJ — direccao De Inspeccao E Coordenacao De Jogos, the principal regulatory body for the gaming industry in Macau. The volume of gaming revenue in Macau is almost seven times the gaming revenue in all of the Las Vegas Strip.
Michael Huntsberger, associate professor of mass communication, was invited to join the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress. He will survey libraries and other collections of historic radio materials in Oregon, including program transcriptions and artifacts from radio history.
A book review by Mike Leahy, visiting associate professor of health sciences, was published in “The Lund Report,” an online health industry publication. Leahy reviewed a book by Richard Deyo, a professor at Oregon Health and Science University, “Watch Your Back,” which discusses waste and cost in the diagnosis and treatment of back pain in the U.S.
Araceli Ortiz, acting associate director of financial aid, serves on the board for the Oregon College Access Network. Linfield will host the annual conference Monday, Nov. 10.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
MONDAY, NOV. 3
Noon: Spanish language table, Dillin NW Alcove
7 p.m.: “Seeking Justice: Places of Conscience,” 201 Riley
TUESDAY, NOV. 4
7 p.m.: Alice Levine, “Cutting and Slashing Byron’s Poetry,” Nicholson
7:30 p.m.: Band concert, “Music Inspired by the Written Word,” Ice
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5
Noon: German language table, Dillin
7 p.m.: “Breaking the Silence,” Ice
THURSDAY, NOV. 6
7:30 p.m.: “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom,” Marshall Theatre
FRIDAY, NOV. 7
11 a.m.: Women’s soccer vs. Lewis & Clark
3 p.m.: Japanese language table, 304 Walker
6 p.m.: Swimming at Whitman
7 p.m.: Volleyball at Pacific
7 p.m.: “Immigration Issues: Past and Present,” First Baptist Church, McMinnville
7:30 and 11 p.m.: “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom,” Marshall Theatre
SATURDAY, NOV. 8
11 a.m.: Women’s soccer vs. Pacific Lutheran
1 p.m.: Football at Puget Sound
1 p.m.: Swimming at Whitworth
1:30 p.m.: Men’s soccer at Willamette
7 p.m.: Volleyball vs. Puget Sound
7:30 p.m.: Men’s basketball at Portland State
7:30 p.m.: “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom,” Marshall Theatre
