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Articles by Casey Pickard

LC women’s rugby competes in annual prom dress game

April 20, 2018 Casey Pickard 0

By Casey Pickard Lewis & Clark’s women’s club rugby team held their annual prom dress rugby game on Saturday, April 7. The team was joined by players …

Athletic Trainer Jeremy Loew talks career and time at LC

March 16, 2018 Casey Pickard 0

By Casey Pickard Before and after practice, student athletes can be found in the Athletic Training Room for help with everything from physical rehabilitation after surgery to …

Snow burdens LC baseball team’s season opening games

March 2, 2018 Casey Pickard 0

By Casey Pickard The late February snow storms that affected the Portland area forced the Lewis & Clark men’s baseball team to cancel practices prior to their …

LC quidditch combines fantasy literature and athletic competition

February 16, 2018 Casey Pickard 0

By Casey Pickard After discovering their mutual love for the Harry Potter books, roommates RuthMabel Boytz ’20 and Katie Hull ’19 decided to begin building Lewis & …

Volleyball coach Stacie Matz-Gordon shares her drive

December 1, 2017 Casey Pickard 0

By Casey Pickard As a high schooler, Lewis & Clark’s head women’s volleyball coach knew she wanted to inspire young women through coaching. Coach Stacie Matz-Gordon was …

Swim team hopeful despite losses at meet

November 17, 2017 Casey Pickard 0

By Casey Pickard The Lewis & Clark swim team’s first meet of the season was Nov. 3 against the University of Puget Sound (UPS) in the Zehntbauer …

Ski club hopes to shred slopes

November 3, 2017 Casey Pickard 0

By Casey Pickard Although they are beginning the school year with a decreased budget, the new leadership of Lewis & Clark’s Ski Club is determined to make ski …

Remington Campbell Feature

October 20, 2017 Casey Pickard 0

By Casey Pickard The Lewis & Clark Football team has enjoyed success in the past few weeks. One member of the defense, Remington Campbell ’18, is an …

Coach Locey shares his sports philosophy

October 20, 2017 Casey Pickard 0

By Casey Pickard Jay Locey has been the coach of the Lewis & Clark football team since Dec. 2014. He recently enjoyed his first wins with the …

Women’s volleyball team sets hopes high for the season

October 6, 2017 Casey Pickard 0

As the LC women’s volleyball team continues to push deeper into their season, their losses give them a greater perspective on what it means to be an …

Exploring the divide of students and athletes

October 6, 2017 Casey Pickard 0

Lewis & Clark is a school that prides itself on its community. Few would guess that one of LC’s greatest divides in the student body begins with …

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BACKDOOR | Backdoor Puzzle, studying abroad editio BACKDOOR | Backdoor Puzzle, studying abroad edition: Are you ready for traveling? • By Charley Booker

The Backdoor is proud to present our recurring puzzle feature with contributer-made original crosswords, wordsearches and more. Any mistakes are definitely their fault, and we as editors claim no responsibility. Any opinions expressed are also those of our contributors, unless we happen to agree with them, in which case they were our ideas the whole time.

You can check your answers on the Mossy Log website, piolog.com. Yes, we are still working on changing it. No, we do not know when it will change. Yes, we know it is confusing. Seriously, stop DMing us on Instagram with questions. We have them too. 

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SPORTS | Team speaks about struggles retaining coa SPORTS | Team speaks about struggles retaining coaches, concerns for future competition • By Venus Edlin

Head Men’s & Women’s Golf Coach Bradley Johnson announced he would be leaving in two weeks at the golf team’s first practice of the season on Feb. 21.

Lewis & Clark hired Johnson in January 2022, with many in the athletics community hopeful for the impact he would have for the program. Johnson had a reputation for improving collegiate programs: He took New York University’s men’s team from being 130th in the nation for more than a decade to 8th in the country, and coached their women’s team to a national championship in 2019. Now, Johnson is returning to New York where his wife was offered a lucrative job opportunity.

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ARTS | Campus creatives vend, spend at spring Co-o ARTS | Campus creatives vend, spend at spring Co-op art market • By Summer Dae Binder

On Feb. 26, the student-run cafe and hangout spot The Co-op held their first art market of the Spring 2023 semester. The market had roughly 30 vendors, who displayed their various wares of jewelry, prints, fiber arts, clothing and more in a maze of tables within the cozy cafe, all with a backdrop of snowfall outside.

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FEATURES | Editors stir up booze-free take on clas FEATURES | Editors stir up booze-free take on classics • By Venus Edlin & Emma Ford

On March 17, or Saint Patrick’s Day, many flock to bars or stay home and get drunk. However, there are many reasons why people choose not to drink: they have already had one too many, (hopefully wanted) pregnancies, attempting to defeat the alcoholic streak in the family or just wanting to break Irish stereotypes. No matter the case, here are some just-as-tasty non-alcoholic options, because everyone deserves a delicious drink in hand. 

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OPINION | LC must boycott NY Times in protest of t OPINION | LC must boycott NY Times in protest of transphobic news • By Venus Edlin

Lewis & Clark needs to stop supporting the New York Times.

The Associated Student Body (ASB) should stop providing digital access, professors should stop driving clicks to their website and if you have a paper subscription, it is time to cancel. The New York Times, an institution of United States journalism, has an agenda against transgender people.

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NEWS | IT services have been working around the cl NEWS | IT services have been working around the clock since Friday in ongoing investigation into widescale cyberattack • by Summer Dae Binder

Lewis & Clark has been the target of an ongoing cyberattack that has caused network outages of systems and services since March 3.

A campus-wide notification was sent at 7:35 a.m. explaining that the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone system was experiencing an outage. Another notification was sent at 9:38 a.m. that all three campuses were experiencing a widespread outage with no estimated time for restoration. On March 4, the Executive Council notified the school that the outage was the result of an external cyberattack on all of LC’s IT systems, though the source of the attack is unknown.

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