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- The VPSL Column: Special Guest Edition
- Announcements
- Dining Updates
- COVID-19 Updates
- Events
- Opportunities
- Student Life Newsletter
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The VPSL Column: Special Guest Edition |
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Jessica Carron, Director of Student Rights & Responsibilities |
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Aimee Milne, Director of the Office of Student Accessibility |
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Happy Halloween!
Today’s VPSL guest column is coming to you from Aimée Milne, the director of the student accessibility office, and Jessica Carron, the director of student rights and responsibilities. We are here to talk to everyone about service and assistance animals. As our community of furry friends on campus continues to increase, so do the questions our students, staff, and faculty have about them. Therefore, we figured a newsletter named The Bark was the perfect place to talk about what qualifies for service or assistance animals, what expectations are for them on campus, and what you can do if you see one on campus.
Service animals are defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as “any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability”. In Oregon, these dogs can include those who are currently in training to learn to perform a task, and there are no restrictions on breed, size, or age. You may see these dogs labeled as service animals and wearing vests, but it is not required that they be in uniform. These dogs may come and go with their handler to any space on campus. It is important to remember that service animals are working hard to support their handlers and therefore it is not appropriate to approach the animals unless their handler has given you permission.
On the other hand, an assistance animal includes comfort, companion, therapy, or emotional support animals. Some assistance animals are dogs, but that’s not required—they can be any species. These animals are prescribed to a person with a disability by a licensed mental health or healthcare provider because the animal alleviates one or more identified symptoms or effects of the person’s disability. They are not required to be trained to perform a specific job or task. However, these animals are only permitted to be in their owner’s residence hall room or outdoors; they may not enter other buildings on campus.
Regardless if an animal is a service animal or an assistance animal, it is important to be aware of the expectations of owners and animals on campus. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
Owners need to be in full control of their animal at all times.
When not in a private residential room, animals need to be on leash unless a service animal must be off leash to perform a particular function of its job.
The animal should be unobtrusive to other individuals and the learning, living, and working environment.
If you are concerned about the behavior of a service or assistance animal on campus, we recommend you try talking to the animal’s owner about your concerns, just as you would do with other student concerns, like noise or other disruptive behavior. If you are a staff member on campus and you need to determine if a dog is a service animal, you may ask the following questions:
Is the dog a service animal required because of a disability?
What work or task has the dog been trained to perform?
Finally, anyone in the community has the right to file a report about the concerning behavior by going to this link or emailing [email protected].
We hope the rest of your semester isn’t too ‘ruff’!
Aimée and Jess
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Food Delivery Misplacements |
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The Frank Manor House has recently received many misplaced food deliveries from students, resulting in much food waste; please ensure that you are giving specific and accurate directions to delivery drivers if you are ordering food or groceries remotely! |
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Apply for the Biden-Harris Student Loan Debt Relief program today! The debt relief application is now available online. Please visit the Financial Aid Office website for more information.
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November 8, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Trail Room |
Dr. Evette Castillo Clark, Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students, invites you to join her during her monthly office hours. This is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and feedback on your student life experience at LC. Dr. Evette wants to connect with you and learn more about your experience on campus. RSVP is not required but highly encouraged. Please email [email protected] to RSVP.
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- Trail Room pop up strips and fries Tuesday 7-9pm
- Trail Room pop up caesar salad bar Wednesday 7-9pm
- Trail Room pop up mac and cheese bar Thursday 7-9pm
- Food truck Friday 5-7pm
- Trail Room weekend coffee and grab and go service Friday, Saturday, Sunday until 10pm
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- From October 22nd to the 28th, we had a total of 6 reported COVID-19 cases in the Lewis & Clark community.
- College of Arts and Sciences on-campus - 1
- College of Arts and Sciences off-campus - 2
- Law School - 3
- Graduate School - 0
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Visit the dashboard for more information on prior COVID-19 case counts reported in the L&C community.
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November 8, 2022 | 6:00pm | Frank Manor House, Armstrong Lounge
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LC English welcomes the poet Jane Wong! Jane is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). Her debut memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, is forthcoming from Tin House in May 2023.
A Kundiman fellow, Jane is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay, the Jentel Foundation, and others. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.
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November 3, 4, 5, 7:30pm | Fir Acres Theatre |
Based on Puccini’s beloved opera La Bohème, Rent follows the ups and downs of a year in the life of a group of impoverished, artistic friends living in Manhattan’s East Village. The group’s dreams, losses, and love stories weave through the musical’s narration to paint a stunningly raw and emotional portrait of the gritty bohemian world of New York City in the late 1980s, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
Tickets can also be purchased at our box office, Monday through Friday, 1:00-5:00pm, and one hour before performances beginning October 24th. Phone reservations for non-campus ticket purchasers only (503-768-7495).
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Friday, November 4 and Tuesday, November 8, 2022 | 9:00am - 4:00pm | Agnes Flanagan Chapel
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Advance sign-ups are required for these clinics. If you would like to participate in the clinics, please sign up as soon as possible. Schedule your appointment here.
- It is very important that you bring your PRINTED insurance information and consent form with you to the clinic.
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If you desire vaccination, but the above criteria are barriers for you, please e-mail [email protected] for guidance about other possible ways to receive the vaccines.
- Updated COVID-19 boosters help restore protection that has decreased since previous vaccination, and provide broader protection against recent variants. The new bivalent COVID booster is safe and effective and can be given at the same time as the flu shot. It protects against the original strain and the Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5. You can get either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccine two months after any initial vaccine series or two months after a previous booster. There is no cost for the COVID vaccine booster.
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Alternative Spring Break is an eight-day, seven-night immersive service-learning trip to Puerto Rico where a team of 12 students will participate in volunteer projects focused on conservation and community resilience as guided by community partners. Staff and trained student leaders at the Center for Social Change and Community Involvement prepare participants for service through an integrated curriculum incorporating a series of critical discussions, project training, and student-led fundraising goals. The program will cover a wide range of topics related to the service project, including but not limited to community organizing, ethics of volunteerism, activism, and advocacy. This experience is designed to be a hands-on opportunity for Lewis & Clark College undergraduate students to learn more about themselves, others, and the world around them.
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November 3, 2022, November 17th, 2022 | 3:30pm | Office of Student Accessibility
The Office of Student Accessibility is excited to present a 4-part Study Skills Workshop Series! Each session will focus on a different topic, and the series will be repeated multiple times throughout the school year. The first series will be presented in person, but stay tuned for recorded or live Zoom sessions to be offered in the future. Sign up for any or all sessions using the link above!
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Submission deadline: March 15, 2023
The Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students looks forward to presenting Student Life Staff Awards in Spring 2023. You are invited to nominate exceptional Student Life staff members today!
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Submission deadline: December 9, 2022
Each semester Watzek runs a data visualization contest. We welcome submissions from any student who has created a data visualization, broadly-conceived, as part of their fall coursework. To enter, students will simply need to provide their visualization as an image file and separately prepare an abstract written for a public audience that accounts for the data presented and contextualizes their analysis. More details about preparing entries can be found here. The deadline for the fall term will be December 9th, 2022.
As always, we welcome and encourage you to work with your students ahead of the deadline as they prepare their visualizations and abstracts. Additionally, to aid in the preparation of entries, this term Watzek will provide a data visualization workshop on Thursday, December 1st, at 4pm in the library classroom. Pizza and other refreshments will be available. Please pass this information along to interested students.
We strongly recommend students submit their work early so that they can receive feedback ahead of (and sometimes after) the deadline, and we reiterate that we encourage you to work with any interested students as they prepare entries.
Finally, I invite you to join us in celebrating the winner of last year's contest, Caelen Wilkie-Rogers, and runners-up, Eb Yahya, and Lauren Arriola. Their submission can be viewed on the LC DataStories website. The creativity of the submissions received last year - thanks to Brian House's students - meant that we expanded our conceptualization of the contest to a data "audio-visualization" contest. We look forward to seeing what we might receive this year.
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Additional Newsletter
from Division of Student Life
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