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LC student describes cultural experiences in Russia

April 6, 2018 Ostin Merkle-Lawlor 0

By Ostin Merkle-Lawlor Due to an aging population and falling birth rate compared to other industrialized countries, from 1991-2012 the national population of the Russian Federation declined …

Visiting Tongario, the real-life Middle Earth

February 16, 2018 Alix Soliman 0

By Alix Soliman When Americans visit New Zealand, they pretty much vow to take a dorky photo in front of a hobbit hole in Matamata. I have …

Waterfalls: Japan’s Hidden Wonders

September 22, 2017 Shawn Bolker 0

By Shawn Bolker When one thinks of Japan, waterfalls don’t often come to mind. Instead, most envision scenes of the bustling train stations in Tokyo, sprawling Buddhist gardens …

From Portland to the Driest Place on Earth: Junior Natalie Stroud adjusts to life in Valparaiso, Chile, and the Atacama Desert

September 22, 2017 Natalie Stroud 0

By Natalie Stroud Studying abroad is uncomfortable. Plain and simple. When I thought about my experience in Valparaíso, Chile thus far, that is the one thing that …

Adventures Abroad: Trekking through Cajas National Park

July 10, 2017 Noah Foster-Koth 0

“Bleak” and “wintry” aren’t usually descriptions that apply to my experiences in Ecuador. The jungles of the Amazon region were oppressively hot, and the cities of Quito, …

Adventures Abroad: Encounters with the natural and spiritual in Cañar, Ecuador

April 3, 2017 Noah Foster-Koth 0

Our first day at Cañar required two members of our group to stick their heads under open flames as part of a healing ritual. The second day …

Adventures Abroad: Dublin pubs and alternative humor

April 2, 2017 Peter Kranitz 1

Dubliners have a unique way of interacting with strangers: they f**k with them. It’s often a sort of jeering friendliness, a disingenuous niceness that seems a little …

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Why it’s okay that you didn’t study abroad: Missing out on the “typical” LC experience

March 16, 2017 Cameron Crowell 1

While LC trumpets the value of studying abroad, those who cannot participate feel alienated   Waiting for the Pio on the first day of the semester, I …

Adventure Abroad: Expedition into the Kingdom of Spiders

March 1, 2017 Noah Foster-Koth 0

Ever since I was a child, my imagination has populated dark places with threatening creatures and monsters. Of course, most of the time the creatures in the …

Ecuador Abroad: Adventures at the Earth’s Center

February 17, 2017 Noah Foster-Koth 1

  Standing face-to-face with a shrunken head is an unsettling experience. It’s always uncomfortable to look into the eyes of a dead man, and the discomfort only …

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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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