SAA HOSTS HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINFIELD
The Linfield community will celebrate Happy Birthday Linfield with events on both the McMinnville and Portland Campuses.
It will be held Monday, Feb. 23, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Wildcat Den on the Portland Campus; and Thursday, Feb. 26, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Fred Meyer Lounge in Riley Hall on the McMinnville Campus.
The celebration, hosted by the Linfield Student Alumni Association (SAA), honors Linfield’s 157th Birthday. The campus community is invited to the party, which will include a video time capsule, cake, games, prizes and photos with the Wildcat. The history archives are compiling memories of students from the year. Stop by the McMinnville table to record a video memory and add to Linfield’s rich history.
Follow activities throughout the day at @LinfieldCollege and @LinfieldSAA, and use the hashtag #HBDLinfield.
Linfield joins nearly 100 schools participating in Student Engagement and Philanthropy Day. The initiative is designed to increase student understanding of philanthropy and grow engagement on campuses. Institutions from the United States, England, Canada, Australia and other countries will participate.
For more information, contact Heidi Reeley at hreeley@linfield.edu or ext. 2282.
SPORTS JOURNALISM SYMPOSIUM SET
Two Sports Illustrated writers, a Portland-based professional sports agent and a World Series-winning former major league baseball player will be featured at a Sports Journalism Symposium at Linfield College Thursday, Feb. 26.
The group will discuss a range of current issues in sports coverage during an evening panel presentation. Participants will also visit classes and meet informally with students throughout the day.
The panel will be at 7:30 p.m. in Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall. It will last about an hour with time devoted to audience questions. “Let Them Wear Towels” will be shown at noon the same day in 201 Riley Hall.
The panelists are: Chris Ballard, senior writer at Sports Illustrated; Scott Brosius, a former MLB player and Linfield baseball coach; Lindsay Kagawa Colas, a sports agent from Portland whose clients include major WNBA players and Olympians; and Lindsay Schnell, an SI writer and former Oregonian sportswriter.
In addition, the ESPN documentary “Let Them Wear Towels” will be screened earlier in the day and a discussion will follow. The film was produced as part of ESPN’s “Nine for IX” series on Title IX. Produced, directed and written by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, it documents the issues of access that women sportswriters confronted in covering sports in which they were not allowed in locker rooms after games while male sportswriters were given access. Schnell will discuss the film and her experiences following its showing. It includes interviews with Melissa Ludtke of SI, Claire Smith, Lesley Visser and Christine Brennan.
Other films by Sundberg and Stern include “Knuckleball,” “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” (2010 Sundance Film Festival Winner: U.S. Documentary Best Editing), and the 2008 Gotham- and Emmy-nominated “The Devil Came on Horseback.”
Sponsors of the events are the Mass Communication Department, Nicholson Library, the Sport Management program and its allied departments, with additional funding from the Office of Academic Affairs. For more information, contact Brad Thompson, ext. 2291.
HANDS-ON MAKERS PROJECTS EXHIBITED
The Linfield Makers project will be featured during an upcoming Spring iFOCUS Science Colloquium Lecture Series on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 4:10 p.m. in 201 Riley Hall.
The event, hosted by Jennifer Heath, professor of physics, will include an exhibition and discussion of hands-on projects made by students, and of campus resources for such projects. Following the talk, attendees can walk around and view student work, and discuss it with the makers themselves. Among the projects will be two student-built 3D printers, a robot, machining projects, electronic circuits and more. The iFOCUS Science Colloquium Series is made possible by the Hearst Foundations.
For more information, contact Gina Castillo, gcastill@linfield.edu, x2567.
SONG TO PRESENT FACULTY LECTURE
Anna Song, assistant professor of music at Linfield College, will kick off the spring faculty lecture series presenting “Updating Aural Skills Training and its Pedagogy” on Wednesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. in 201 Riley Hall at Linfield.
Song will discuss her research on the teaching and learning of musicianship and aural skills. Fluency in the language of music is largely defined by one’s ability to understand and respond to music heard aurally, and to hear and perform what is visually represented in musical notation. Formal music education programs in higher education invariably include courses in musicianship and aural skill development as core components in the curriculum. However, such courses have long been considered challenging to teach and intimidating for students. Until recently, aural skills pedagogy remained relatively neglected as an area of research in music education.
Song will also discuss the importance of integrating reflective writing, improvisation, cooperative learning and technology into musicianship courses in order to update teaching strategies and align pedagogy with contemporary learning theory.
Song joined the Linfield music faculty in 2008. She graduated with a bachelor’s of arts degree in composition from the University of California, Los Angeles and earned her master’s of music in conducting from the School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. She recently completed her doctoral studies in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition to teaching and conducting at Linfield, she is the co-founder and artistic director of In Mulieribus, a professional women’s ensemble that focuses on the performance of early music.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Linfield Department of Music at 503-883-2275.
FILM FESTIVAL LOOKS AT ENVIRONMENT
Four evenings of environmental films followed by expert panel discussions will be held March 4-7 at 7 p.m. in the Pioneer Hall Reading Room.
“Growing Cities” will be shown Wednesday, March 4. The film showcases urban farming around America. In doing so, it shows how much power urban farmers have to revitalize cities and change eating habits.
“Plastic Paradise” will be shown Thursday, March 5. Thousands of miles from civilization, Midway Atoll is in one of the most remote places on earth and is home of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which siphons plastics from three distant continents. In this film, journalist/filmmaker Angela Sun sheds light on the effects of plastic consumption.
“The Economics of Happiness” will be shown Friday, March 6. The film describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance. Communities are coming together to rebuild more human-scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm.
“TINY” will be shown Saturday, March 7. The film follows one couple’s attempt to build a tiny house from scratch, and profiles other families who have downsized their lives into homes smaller than the average parking space. Through homes stripped down to their essentials, the film raises questions about good design, the nature of home and the changing American Dream.
The Environmental Film Festival is sponsored by the Linfield College Office of Sustainability, the Linfield Environmental Studies Program, the Linfield Activities Board and the Linfield Art Department. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Duncan Reid, ext. 2738, sustainability@linfield.edu.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, assistant professor of English, will participate in “An Evening with Shakespeare,” a panel hosted by OPB’s Art Beat program, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in Portland. The panel will discuss Shakespeare’s contemporary resonance, his representation of history and gender roles, and the political uses of his plays. Learn more at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-of-shakespeare-tickets-15702456470
Linfield Magazine earned a bronze award in the general interest magazine category at the 2015 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VIII Communication Awards. The award recognized Mardi Mileham, editor; Laura Davis, assistant editor; and Candido Salinas, graphic design.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
MONDAY, FEB. 23
Noon: Happy Birthday Linfield, Wildcat Den, Portland Campus
THURSDAY, FEB. 26
11 a.m.: Happy Birthday Linfield, Fred Meyer Lounge, McMinnville Campus
Noon: “Let Them Wear Towels,” Sports Journalism Symposium, 201 Riley
4:10 p.m.: iFOCUS Science Colloquium, 201 Riley
7:30 p.m.: Panel, Sports Journalism Symposium, Ice
FRIDAY, FEB. 27
5 p.m.: Women’s tennis at Whitman Winter Classic vs. Whittier
SATURDAY, FEB. 28
Today: Men’s and women’s golf at Willamette Cup
11 a.m.: Baseball at Puget Sound
11 a.m.: Men’s tennis vs. Lewis & Clark
Noon: Softball at Lewis & Clark
1 p.m.: Women’s tennis at Whitman Winter Classic vs. Texas-Tyler
SUNDAY, MARCH 1
Noon: Baseball at Puget Sound
Noon: Softball at Lewis & Clark
