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Week 8 | March 10, 2025 | Spring 2025

Issue 23 | go.lclark.edu/bark | IG: @lc_vpsl

Guest Columnist | The Scoop This Week | Announcements | Events | Opportunities

Spring Happenings with Student Engagement

Guest Columnist: Tamara Ko

Dear students,


Can you believe it’s already March and we’re almost to the halfway point of spring semester? The Student Engagement student team has been hard at work planning out the rest of the academic year for you and we’re excited to have you all join us for our Spring Scramble and Dog Daze in March, Mario Kart and Teacher Appreciation in April and then our annual reading day tradition, the boba food cart! Stop by the Student Engagement counter on the first floor of Fowler Student Center anytime to learn more about our upcoming events and to guess our riddle of the day.


In addition to our daily operations, Student Engagement is also excited to be gearing up for Senior Experience and Commencement preparations for the Class of 2025. Be sure to follow us on Instagram, @LCStudentEngagement, so as to be updated on all of our future events! 


Best,

Tamara Ko

Director of Student Engagement & Special Events

The Scoop This Week

Senior Week in the Career Center


Seniors are invited to sign up for the Career Center’s “Senior Week.” The Career Center is offering SENIORS a virtual Career Starter Package, including:


  • Job recommendations
  • Employer suggestions
  • Alumni connection support


Sign up to get yours! As a bonus, all Seniors that come in for a meeting in the Career Center March 3rd-12th and note “Senior Week” will get a free tote bag!

Announcements

Office of the Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students March Pop-Up


Join the VPSL office for a cozy pop-up event on March 13th, 12-1 p.m. in the J.R. Howard lobby across Watzek for coffee, tea, cupcakes and donuts! Grab a snack and write your friends surprise gratitude or encouragement cards, which we will mail for you!

Additional Scholarships Available for College Outdoors Trips


College Outdoors is excited to announce ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABILITY for trips! If you qualify for any amount of federal financial aid, you can go on any upcoming trip for half price! This includes Spring Break trips. Learn more.

Spring Break Dining Hours


Stay informed about the upcoming modified dining operations by Bon Appetit for spring break 2025 (March 21st - March 30th).

Career Connections with Alumni


Career Connections with Alumni connects current students with alumni who will offer advice regarding careers, internships, and degree-applicable endeavors. At this event, alumni will be seated by career field or industry and students will have a chance to ask career-related questions. This is a great opportunity to learn more about a career field and practice communication and networking skills. It is informal and fun, and lunch will be provided!

Events

Upcoming Athletic Home Games:

  • March 11th,
  • Softball vs Warner Pacific University, 2:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • Softball vs Warner Pacific University, 4:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • March 12th, Women's Lacrosse vs North Central College, 7:00 p.m., Huston Field
  • March 13th,
  • Women's Tennis vs Willamette University, 9:00 a.m., L&C Tennis Dome
  • Softball vs Pacific University, 12:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • Baseball vs Whitworth University, 12:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • Women's Tennis vs Willamette University. 1:00 p.m., L&C Tennis Dome
  • Softball vs Pacific University, 2:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • Baseball vs Whitworth University, 3:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • March 15th,
  • Women's Tennis vs Willamette University, 9:00 a.m., L&C Tennis Dome
  • Softball vs Pacific University, 12:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • Baseball vs Whitworth University, 12:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • Women's Tennis vs Willamette University, 1:00 p.m., L&C Tennis Dome
  • Softball vs Pacific University, 2:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • Baseball vs Whitworth University, 3:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • March 16th,
  • Softball vs Pacific University, 11:00 a.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • Women's Tennis vs Pacific University, 11:00 a.m., L&C Tennis Dome
  • Baseball vs Whitworth University, 12:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex
  • Softball vs Pacific University, 1:00 p.m., Huston Sports Complex


March 10th, Zen Sitting Meditation: 12:00 p.m., Gregg Pavillion, The Lewis & Clark community (students, staff, and faculty) from all three schools are invited to join Greg Smith (retired GSEC faculty) and Andrew Mason for a free, weekly drop in Zen sitting session. All are welcome.


March 10th, The “Nest” Opening Dinner & Food Insecurity Panel: 5:00 p.m., Rogers Hall 115, Come join SEED and the Center for Social Change and Community Involvement for the opening of the ‘Nest.’ The Nest is a community resource hub for everyone to come hang out at, study, visit the food pantry, and collect information and resources from different offices/clubs around campus.


March 11th, Difficult Subjects - Religion, Education, and the US-Japan Security Alliance by Jolyon Thomas (University of Pennsylvania): 5:00 p.m., Olin Hall Room 301, The end of World War II marked the beginning of a new relationship between the United States and Japan. As both countries settled into the uneven but intimate security alliance, they regularly contended with a conundrum: Cold War geopolitics demanded that they promote religion as essential to good capitalist citizenship, but recent domestic legal changes made it impossible to teach religion in public schools. This talk introduces two strategies that people in the two countries used to navigate this conundrum, highlighting how a new commitment to the legal separation of religion and state forced creative reinterpretations of the relationships between capitalist democracies and their junior citizens.


March 11th, SAA Presents - Molecules & Mixers: 6:00 p.m., Olin Lounge, Student Alumni Association (SAA) invites you to our Molecules & Mixers! Majoring in Biology, Chemistry, and/or Biochemistry? Come to meet with alumni from these departments about careers, post L&C education, research interests, and more!


March 12th, Everything... Everywhere... All at Once - Skills & Strategies for Managing Overwhelm: 5:00 p.m., Odell Residence Hall Room 3, The Student Counseling Center is offering three opportunities to practice skills and talk about strategies to manage the chaos of “all the things.” These are being offered three times, please join us as often as you like.


March 13th, Community Dialogue - [No] Hard Feelings: 3:30 p.m., Fowler Student Center, What do you consider “big feelings”? Where do they come from and who influences them? What do they do to and for us – both individually and collectively? How do they shape our perspectives, actions, relationships, or communities? In this small-group Dialogue, participants will be invited to explore Symposium themes through considering the value of their own stories and exploring the potential that both personal and shared feelings have in our world.


March 13th, David Roediger - The Antiracist Education of an Ordinary White: 7:00 p.m., Fowler Student Center Council Chamber, L&C Ethnic Studies welcomes David Roediger, radical American writer, historian, and Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Kansas. Historian David Roediger has spent his career sharpening students’ and scholars’ understanding of labor, whiteness, and class in the United States. But how did an “ordinary white” come to have such extraordinary understanding of race and racism? The renowned scholar of labor, race, and class will speak about his new memoir, his intellectual and political evolution, and how we can sustain movements in defense of education and for racial justice. Signed copies of Dr. Roediger’s new book, An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education, will be available for purchase.


March 13th-15th, Macbeth by William Shakespeare: 7:30 p.m., Fir Acres Theatre, Tickets can be reserved online or at the Fir Acres Theatre Box Office one hour before the show.


March 14th, Socratic Mindreading - A Tricky Case in the Gorgias - Brad Berman (Portland State University): 3:30 p.m., JRHH 102, In Plato’s Gorgias, Polus contends that committing injustice is preferable to suffering it. To Polus’ surprise, Socrates claims not only that Polus denies that view but also, unbeknownst to himself, actually accepts its converse. While Socrates dismisses his interlocutors’ self-reports with some regularity, the familiar strategies he employs to justify such a move elsewhere do not neatly apply to the case at hand. I argue that an adequate explanation of Socrates’ confidence in his own third-person assessment of Polus’ mental state in the face of Polus’ first-person testimony to the contrary has significant implications for interpretations of Socratic epistemology and method.


March 15th, It’s The End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel FIRE): 8:00 p.m., Olin Hall Courtyard, Come one, come all. Crawl out of your bunkers, hop off that escape pod, and traverse the wasteland to witness a devastating display of fiery prowess. Join us for “It’s The End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel FIRE)”–a night of combustion, chaos, and catharsis. Our apocalyptic affair will entertain, mesmerize, and distract you from the rapid crumble of society. All are welcome!


March 18th, Lunch with a Leader - D’Artagnan Caliman: 11:30 a.m., JR Howard 344, An alumnus of the foster care system, D’Artagnan has dedicated his career to serving society’s most vulnerable and a belief in shifting power back to communities. He is both a Child Welfare Consultant working to improve child outcomes within child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and VP of Community Partnerships for the 1803 Fund dedicated to nurturing collaboration, autonomy and power in Black Portland, through social and financial investment.


March 19th, The Let Out: 5:30 p.m., Odell Residence Hall, Lower Level 8, The Let Out is a space which centers on the BIPOC experience at college and how mental health plays a part in this experience. All are welcome to participate in this space through listening and supporting each other. It is facilitated by one of our on-campus mental health counselors. The counselor is there to guide discussions and answer questions about mental health challenges while offering ways to cope while at college.

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Opportunities

We Want to Hear Your Story: Humans of Lewis & Clark


Inspired by Humans of New York, Humans of Lewis & Clark (HoLC) emerged as a storytelling project aimed at capturing the diverse experiences, voices, and personalities our community. Whether through heartfelt personal stories, quirky anecdotes, or moments of quiet reflection, HoLC serves as a digital archive of the students, faculty, and staff who shape the college’s culture. We’re looking for faculty, staff, and students to share their stories and be part of this project.

Brave Talk Training Program


Learn tools to help a peer struggling with anxiety or depression; navigate hard conversations; and connect peers to essential care. Brave Talk sponsored by Maybelline New York and the JED Foundation.

Nielson Social Change Innovation Grant Proposal Review Session


Join the Nielson Social Change Innovation Grant Committee as we talk more about what this program is and review your grant proposals! This session will allow you to talk with committee members about your proposal, get advice and learn more about the program! Applications Open Now! Deadline to apply is March 31st, 2025.

Teacher of the Year Nomination


Submit your nomination by Tuesday, March 18th.

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