VOLUME 46, ISSUE 10 NOVEMBER 19, 2010

3 11 Ceramics Club to host holiday sale5 MHCC men's basketball team

lend helping handAllied Health launches program

demanded in healthcare field

Page 10A beat of Native American culture

Jeremy Barney, Native American grass dancer, celebrates the many varieties of tribal clothing worn during theseventh annual Kanawaksooma Pow-wow Dec. 13.

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2 OPINION THE ADVOCATENOVEMBER 19, 2010

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Joseph Baird

Jill-Marie Gavin

Chanel Hill

Riley Hinds

Laura Knudson

Yuca Kosugi

David Lopez

Mike Mata

Jess Peterman

Kylie Rogers

Mario Rubio

Shelby Schwartz

John Tkebuchava

Jessica Winters

Editorial

Get out and help outThe holidays are quickly approaching and

along with the traditions of overeating on Thanksgiving and overspending for Christmas comes the intuitive idea to give back to our com-munity.

MHCC is doing its part to contribute to chari-table efforts with the “Something Wonderful” campaign and the Toy and Food Drive.

Rich Duval, Project YESS coordinator and organizer of “Something Wonderful,” said the need exceeds the help every year. They have re-ceived 110 applications from families requesting assistance, but only have enough food and toys to help about 35 of those families. That means there are still 75 fam-ilies who may not have anything un-der the Christmas tree — children going without presents, par-ents not know-ing what to say.

A c c o r d i n g to Associated Student Gov-ernment Vice President Jon Francis and ASG Director of Communi-ty Affairs Jo-natan Lopez, the MHCC Toy and Food Drive reports nothing offi cial, but said they have not been notifi ed that any of the many drop off boxes are full and need to be picked up.

There is still time to contribute so The Advocate would like to reach out to stu-dents and faculty and implore everyone to get out and help out.

There are a variety of excuses people may of-fer not to donate time, money or gifts.

Excuse #1: I don’t have time.

Rebuttal: There are many hours in the day. Twenty-four to be exact. There has to be an hour in there somewhere when you can drop off some canned food to a neighborhood drop box or here on campus. You could drop an hour of vid-eo game time or time watching TV on a Friday night and head down to Outside In (outsidein.org/volunteer) and take calls at their front desk

screening at risk homeless youth.Excuse #2: I don’t have any money.

Rebuttal: The families enrolled in “Some-thing Wonderful” look for help with household items as well as toys and both can be found in the fruitful isles of The Dollar Tree if you can’t afford high-ticket items. Gifts can be made as well. Look up ideas on the web on how to create scarves and hats and throw a party with your friends with the entertainment being a compe-

tition of who can create the most scarves or hats.

Excuse #3: I don’t know where to go to volunteer.

Rebuttal: Go online to oregonvolunteers.org

and you can fi nd a lot of options in your county. Students can also talk to Lopez. As the ASG director of commu-nity affairs, he has resources to help students volunteer. Local churches are also a great place to go. They are al-ways organizing homeless or senior outreach activities that require a lot of help. You can pack and deliver food box-es, prepare meals, hand out blankets

and warm clothing, or even just help load

things in vans or pro-vide your van or truck

for use. Most important, The Ad-

vocate would like to express how important it is to not only

act when you remember the needy during the cold weather or

holidays, but “Get out and help out!” throughout the year. There are always

homeless people, hungry people, people who need to pay rent before buying toothpaste or de-odorant. There should always be enough help out there for those who need it. You never know when you will need it and hope there is someone out there to help you.

Corrections:In Issue 9 of The Advocate, an error appeared in the

story entitled “Running helps Ethiopian fi ght inner pains, near and far.” Tahir Chakisso actually placed second in the 1,500 meters during the 2008 5A PIL dis-trict championships in track and fi eld. The Advocate regrets the error.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010 NEWS 3

By Riley HindsThe Advocate

A new six-month certifi cate pro-gram called health informatics is be-ing offered at MHCC in the Allied Health Department.

Wayne Machuca, a computer infor-mation services instructor, is one of two heads for the new program. Ma-chuca described health informatics as “a global term for anything having to do with information in the health care environment — basically, the elec-tronic movement and management of data.”

Medical practices across the coun-try have many ways of storing their data, all of which could potentially use different software, or none at all, mak-ing it nearly impossible for providers to easily share their records with oth-er facilities.

“Health informatics is a huge, huge topic (in the medical community). It’s massive. The more I get into it, the more I realize it’s even larger than I envisioned when I started,” said Ma-chuca.

Donna Larson, dean of allied health, said, “We expect career de-mand for people in this job category to be very high because the program will be preparing them for six different roles in society. We came to the conclu-sion that the fi elds we could best pre-pare students for were implementa-tion manager and technical/software support.

“I would see a starting salary of someone coming out of the six month program being anywhere from $40,000 to $45,000,” Larson said.

People trained through the certifi -cate program are expected to be hit-

ting the market in spring. “We really see this as a long-term

career path,” Machuca said, “and it is for that exact reason that Donna Larson and I are developing a degree path.” A two-year degree program is

expected to go into effect next fall.Larson said, “The government has

set a mandate: any health care organi-zation that provides care to Medicare patients and receives reimbursement from Medicare must implement elec-

tronic health record keeping by 2014. An approximate $1.6 billion has been allocated by the federal government for training throughout the communi-ty colleges and universities associated with the program.“

The curriculum is a product of health experts from Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Columbia University and the Oregon Health and Science University, partnering with roughly 250 community colleges across the Unites States, one of which is MHCC.

Portland Community College, Lane Community College and Umpqua Community College are also included in the course development process.

The certifi cate program is made of 20 components, each of which is essentially the equivalent of a three-credit class.

“Things have been moving quickly. A degree is usually given around two years from conception to implementa-tion. We had six weeks. Donna Larsen and I are literally designing the pro-gram as we speak,” Machuca said.

Larson said, “We have eight stu-dents enrolled in the fi rst set of class-es but I’m expecting next term’s class size to be much larger. We’ve had a lot of inquiries from students and we are working with the school’s advisory center to get the word out. There is no application process, enrollment is open.”

By Shelby SchwartzThe Advocate

Roads closed, an extra week of winter break, and food shortages are a few of the memories from the “Arctic Blast” of 2008 — and weather reports now circulating warn that students should prepare for a possible snow blast sometime in the next week.

“The coldest weather of the season is expected late this week into early next week in the interior valleys of southwest Washington and northwest Oregon and in the western Columbia River Gorge,” according to a special alert Thursday from the Na-tional Weather Service.

What’s the reaction from MHCC students about how snow might affect the campus and surrounding areas?

“I think snow this early in the season would suck. I have to work all weekend,” Tamy Neiger said Thursday. “It’s my fi rst year here so I don’t know how it affects the school. I would really hate to lose class time especially this late (in the quarter).”

Nicole Perdue said, “I’m fi ne with it as long as it happens on the weekend. If it’s a precursor to more snow on our break, that’s fi ne.”

Phil Ringer said, “I don’t want snow, because I take the bus to school.”

The National Weather Service alert also said, “Areas in the Columbia River Gorge could see snow levels fall to near the surface.

If the cold arctic air materializes, it will bring the coldest air of the season to the area, with low tem-peratures falling into at least the 20s in the valleys.”

MHCC Public Safety Offi cer Wayne Feagle said the college follows an established procedure to de-termine whether to close campus in case of bad win-ter weather.

“If we feel it’s unsafe after hours when the col-lege is closed, the offi cer will call the facilities direc-tor, and then the facilities director, and the college president will decide whether to close the college,” Feagle said. “Normally this occurs during the grave-yard shift at 1 or 2 in the morning, when the roads are slick.”

Anyone concerned about closures or late starts may want to take advantage of the “fl ash alert “ service provided to students and staff by MHCC. The alerts are a free service that sends a message to phones by text or by email about weather-related closures.

MHCC’s Risk Manager Staci Huffaker said any-one signed up for the service must renew each year.

If students do not want to sign up for the service

to fi nd updates, they should refer to the college web-site or check the local TV or radio stations.

“When facilities prepares for any type of weather event, they for example will look at the anticipated snow fall and the load capacities to make sure our roads and buildings can handle accumulated snow-fall or ice, as ice is heavy,” Huffaker said “Public safety is instrumental in the closure and opening of the campus and evacuations if we have to leave during the day because of snow.”

There is also a possibility the campus might close only for the morning and opening up later during the day for afternoon classes.

Huffaker, said, “We have to have safe access be-fore the campus is opened.

“It’s actually pretty impressive that so much ef-fort and work is put into preparing for these events, especially when you don’t know what Mother Na-ture is going to do,” Huffaker said.

To access information on weather information or to sign up for fl ash alerts, go to the MHCC website, click on ‘Quick links’ and scroll down to “Inclement Weather.”

There is information about when updates might be posted in event of a closure or late start and how one may sign up for fl ash alerts.

Health Informatics:

Early season storm could trigger closure alert system

Allied Health program to benefit MHCC students in job market

For more information about the Allied Health Informatics Program go to the Academic Advising and Transfer Center in AC2253

NOVEMBER 19, 20104 SPORTS

By John Tkebuchava & Jon FuccilloThe Advocate

The MHCC cross country teams concluded the season at the NWAACC Championship meet Sat-urday at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, with the women fi nishing fi fth and the men fi nishing tenth.

When the men’s teams lined up for the 8K run, the ground at their feet was soft and muddy from the drizzling rain that had begun in the morning and would last well into the meet, making it virtual-ly impossible for any one runner to gain momentum.

The bad conditions were not enough to contain freshman Tahir Chakisso, who stayed near the front of the pack despite tumbling at the beginning of the fourth mile (the last stretch on the slippery course). He grabbed tenth place with a time of 26 minutes, 36.94 seconds.

“I really had a chance to be in the top two,” said Chakisso. “It’s really hard running in the cold like that, especially with the injury in my (left) ham-string. My hamstring was completely frozen and my stomach was really hurting me and I just fell down.

“I don’t want to use it as an excuse. I’ve been in-jured a lot. If I won, I won. It just wasn’t my day.”

More than anything, he wanted to fi nish the race after his spill. People were encouraging him to walk on the side and drop out of the race. That wasn’t an option for Chakisso who runs with so much pride and with family and friends in attendance.

“I’m competing for my team and wearing their jer-sey,” said Chakisso. “Didn’t want to let them down. Plus my family and country (Ethiopia) friends were all there to watch me.”

The next Saints to cross the fi nish line were

freshmen Chris Newell, Donnie Coulson and Troy Prettyman, who fi nished within 30 seconds of each other with times of 28:15, 28:21 and 28:31 respec-tively.

The fi nal three to cross the fi nish line were fresh-man Jonathon Butcher (29:53), sophomore Markus Stephens (30:24) and freshman Jordan Bennett (31:02).

“I had a better race than usual. The team did pretty well, too,” said Prettyman.

Newell said, “It felt pretty good,” although he threw up after the race, a sign many runners con-sider a positive for pushing themselves beyond nor-mal limitation during a race.

Chakisso was not as content with his perfor-mance. “I was aiming for the top three,” he said, but battled with a variety of diffi culties in addition to the slippery course. “I got dizzy and my hamstring started to hurt.”

Spokane Community College dominated the fi eld. Not only did they win the men’s champion-ship but they had fi ve runners place in the top 10, including Sophomore Anthony Brown who won the race with a time of 25:19.88. Brown’s teammates fi nished second, third, fi fth, eighth, 28th and 33rd in the 81-man race.

The victory marked the tenth straight victory for the Spokane men. Just last year Brown fi nished as the runner up.

At the conclusion of the men’s race, the course got in even worse shape for the women’s 5K run. With patches of grass torn and riddled with puddles, it made for a sloppy competition.

But the mangled course did not stop freshman Gabriela Diaz, the top MHCC fi nisher, from placing 12th with a time of 19 minutes, 11 seconds.

“There was a lot of mud, but you just go through it,” said Diaz.

Including Diaz, the women’s side had three run-ners fi nish in the top 20. Sophomore Amanda Fag-gard placed 15th with a time of 19:17 and sophomore Stacy Bird came in at 19:27, good for 20th place.

“Our top three competed well,” said head coach Matt Hart.

Nevertheless, Faggard, who had to endure some breathing issues, said she felt her performance was off, “I thought I would do better than that,” she said.

Following Bird was freshman Jennifer Tina clocking in at 21:03, sophomore Holli Davis at 21:28 and sophomore Jessica Hunter with a time of 24:20.

“I’m proud of all our ladies. They stepped it up,” Hart said. “We had a lot of challenges this year on the women’s side.”

Clark Community College won the women’s race and had four women who placed in the top 20 in a group of 75 runners. Their best runner, Briel Thoune, took third with a time of 18:51.49.

For the second year in a row sophomore Shawna Schooley of Everett Community College stole the spotlight and was awarded the NWAACC individual champion with a time of 18:29.41.

Bird and Smith fi nished the fall sports season on the women’s sophomore All-Academic Team recog-nized by the NWAACC. Bird has maintained a 3.78 GPA and Smith a 3.58.

Photo by Devin Courtright/The Advocate

Saints freshman Tahir Chakisso (right) just beat Highline’s Nick Lipinski for a 10th place � nish (26:36.94) in Saturday’s NWAACC Championship meet in Oregon City at Clackamas Community College.

"I'm proud of all our ladies. They stepped it up."

Matt HartSaints cross country head coach

Saints end on high note at NWAACCs, women place 5th

Volleyball dominates early, end with first round sweep

See NWAACCs on page 5

Photo by Devin courtright/the advocate

Freshman outside hitter Devan Belshe (7) helped the Saints sweep the Bellevue Bulldogs in three straight games � ursday night in the MHCC gymnasium. She � nished the match with 11 kills.

By Jon FuccilloThe Advocate

Ready – set – go! The Saints brought a frenetic style of play to the table in round one of the NWAACC Volleyball Championship match Thursday night in the MHCC gymna-sium.

The No. 1 seeded Saints (10-0, 34-7) from the South clobbered the No. 4 seed Bellevue Bulldogs (8-4, 11-25) from the North in a three game sweep.

They won easily, (25-3, 25-12, 25-6).

The result paralleled earlier in the season, when the Saints defeated the Bulldogs in sweep-like fashion for the third time this year.

This is the fourth year in a row that MHCC is hosting the NWAACC Vol-leyball Championship and the Saints, the Southern Region Champions, are riding a red-hot streak of 11 wins fol-lowing Thursday night’s victory.

After fi nishing the 2009 campaign

with a second place fi nish during the NWAACC Championship on their home court, the girls along with the coaching staff are more eager than ever to walk away with a Champion-ship trophy to sit beside their most recent 2007 trophy. The team has won a total of seven NWAACC Cham-pionships, including most recently back-to-back in 2006 and 2007.

“They’re just so hungry,” said head coach Chelsie Speer. “Coming so close (last year) and not reaching that goal. They (sophomores) are really feeling it. Freshmen are feeling the same thing though.”

It was a good start for the Saints right from the beginning, who pound-ed away one point after another to begin game one. The entire team was fi red up and their faces were lit with a fi erce happiness.

The same couldn’t be said for the Bulldogs, who looked timid and fl at

NOVEMBER 19, 2010 SPORTS 5

By David Lopez & Jon FuccilloThe Advocate

Basketballs thumping on the hardwood fl oor echoed across the court Tuesday afternoon, drown-ing out the laughter of the chil-dren who fi lled the MHCC gym-nasium.

But the ear-to-ear smiles on the children’s faces told the sto-ry.

For the second consecutive year, MHCC’s basketball team hosted the Phonics Phactory Mount Hood Basketball Camp.

Students from Phonics Phac-tory Christian Elementary School in Gresham attended the two-hour camp and went through basic drills with the MHCC’s men’s basketball team watching over and providing en-couragment.

Head coach Geoff Gibor, whose son Jordan attends Pho-nics Phactory, wanted to do something for the children and asked the school principal if there was anything his players could do to assist as they did last year.

“He said, ‘Actually, you guys can do something there (at MHCC)’,” said Gibor, recalling how the basketball camp came to fruition.

The children who attended the camp, about 80 in all, ranged in age from 6 to 13, the majority be-ing on the younger end of the spectrum.

“It’s a great way to expose them to sports, which is a big thing for them,” said Phonics Phac-tory principal Brian Mayer.

“It’s fun,” added Gibor, “it’s always fun with kids. It reminds me of a time when nothing else mattered.

“It was an awesome day to be a Saint. It was a pretty great day for all parties involved. Those

kids just loved it, Couldn’t get any bet-ter.”

For freshman guard Otho Lesure, it was an experience to remember.

“It makes you want to just live life,” said Lesure on working with the kids. “These kids really enjoy the things some people take for granted.”

“I like to be a positive person for the kids. They are the future. Hopefully, a lot of them become good at basketball (someday) and give me some games to watch in the future,” Lesure said.

Sophomore point guard Drew John-son coulnd’t agree with his teammate more.

“Means a lot to give back to the kids,” said Johnson. “Because it makes me understand and realize that kids these days may look up to me as a role model.So it helps me become a better person.”

Though the camp was operated in an organized fashion, complete with the blare of a horn when each drill was fi nished, the overall mood of the event was very relaxed and exciting for the youngsters whose smiles lit up the gym.

“You try to get them to do what you asked,” said Gibor. “But at the end of the day, if they had fun then you did a good job.”

Gibor said the team is planning on a series of activities related to community service projects for the near future including a visit to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland.

Basketball team aids local Christian school in life lessons

Photo By jon Fuccillo/The advocate

Saint’s freshman guard Blake Westbrook (le� ) and sophomore guard Dustin Jones instruct students from Phonics Factory Christian Elementary Tuesday in the MHCC gymnasium.

Freshman forward Spencer Clayton (far le� ) works with one of the students from Phonics Phactory Christian Elementry on his dribbling skills Tuesday in the MHCC gymnasium. Sophomore guard Delroy Gibbs helps a young boy work on his coordination.

photos by jon fuccillo/the advocate

throughout the course of the three games, minus spurts of promise here and there.

“I think they were a bit intimidated,” said sopho-more outside hitter Kyra Speer. “We came out and had a lot of energy. The fi rst game is the most important. It sets the tone.”

Demi and Devan Belshe, the freshmen twins from Rooseburg, had their way on offense. Both fi nished the match with double digit kills. Demi had 13 followed by Devan with 11. The Saints fi nished the contest with a total of 37 kills compared to the Bulldogs’ 11.

Coach Speer was impressed with her team’s ability to come out aggressively and play their tempo of volley-ball. But she remains humble and knows in a tourna-

ment of this magnitude it’s any team’s for the taking.“As a coach I am trying to keep them grounded,” said

coach Speer. “We need to do the exact same thing (to-day) that we did (yesterday). Don’t do anything differ-ently.

“Focus on one match at a time. We can’t start think-ing ahead. Just one match at a time…”

The Saints will advance to play the match winner between the No. 2 seed from the West – the Clark Pen-guins (7-5, 16-21) – and the No. 3 seed from the East – the Wenatchee Valley Knights (10-4, 27-6). (Results were not available at press time).

The second round match featuring the Saints will start today at 12:30 p.m. in the MHCC gymnasium.

NWAACCs continued from page 4

Saints excel in round one action over the Bulldogs -Coach Chelsie Speer was awarded the Southern Region Coach of the Year.

-Kyra Speer was honored for the second year in a row as the Southern Region Most Valuable Player. She was also honored by the NWAACC along with teammate sopho-more outside hitter Haley Leithem on the fall Sophomore All-Academic Team.

-Freshman outside hitter Devan Belshe earned First Team honors along with freshman setter Rylie Engleson.

-Sophomore libero Kelsey Kai made the Second Team.

NWAACC Volleyball Awards

NOVEMBER 19, 20106 SPORTS

By Chanel HillThe Advocate

Malcolm Johnson doesn't recall idolizing sports fi gures growing up, or paying much attention to the impressive list of awards and stats he posted dur-ing his high school football career at Barlow High School in Gresham.

What he does know well is the football fi eld, hard work and his passion for the game, a game he not so long ago thought about leaving.

It only takes a moment to re-alize that the young man wear-ing a black hoody, grey sweats and a Florida Marlins cap tilt-ed to the left side is indeed the same face that two years earlier had appeared in Sports Illus-trated’s Faces in the Crowd for his excellence on the football fi eld while at Barlow.

This is the same Malcolm Johnson who received a full ride scholarship to national powerhouse Boise State University as a running back. They are cur-rently ranked No. 3 in the nation in the AP Poll and, most important, No. 4 in the BCS (Bowl Champion-ship Series).

The unassuming former Barlow football stand-out takes time to explain how he ended up back in Gresham attending Mt. Hood Community College after a one-year stint at Boise State.

"I don't so much have anything to prove. I didn't

know if I really wanted to even play anymore," said Johnson on returning home after a red-shirt season at Boise State.

But to understand anything about Johnson, you would have to know where he came from. The run-ning back, born and raised in Gresham, was among one of the fastest and toughest competitors in the state during his senior year in 2009.

His speed — an 11-second time in the 100-meter-dash — and his ability to stiff-arm defenders with-out a misstep made him a bright star on college re-cruiting lists.

During his high school career, he was honored with eight varsity letters at Barlow – three in foot-ball, four in track and fi eld and one in basketball. In his senior year he was honored as a 6A First Team All-State running back.

He averaged 204 yards per game, rushed for 2,635 yards on 287 carries and scored 25 touchdowns dur-ing the 2008 campaign. In 2008 ESPN honored him as Player of the Week.

Johnson graduated from Barlow with 6,975 total rushing yards, a diploma in his back pocket and a signed offer to attend Boise State on a football schol-arship.

Once at Boise State, he was met with a new level of competition and red-shirted for the Broncos.

"It was just a lot faster, everybody is bigger and stronger and if they're not just as fast as you, they might be faster,” said Johnson on sizing up Division-I level play.

On addition to practices, athletes are expected to attend all team meetings and balance their school schedules, a task that Johnson wasn't ready for.

"I think I got a little homesick, like something hit me in the head. Juggling football and school, I thought it was too much, but I think that was kind of an excuse for me."

He continued pushing through and completed three semesters at Boise State before his grades no longer kept him eligible for his football scholarship.

"It was all just kind of being lazy,” said Johnson.

“The fi rst semester I didn't do much studying and it got me in the hole pretty early. I did okay second semester but it all kind of fell apart in the summer.”

Despite having a strong support system within the school, the misconception that athletes get a free ride isn't true and Johnson found that out the hard way.

"The coaches wanted us to be more on our own without getting extra help, but help was there if you wanted it. We just had to do it on our own," said Johnson. "I didn't really take the initiative myself to go out and get the help."

So Malcolm headed back to Gresham and some-where between potato country and home, realized what he was giving up.

"It's my favorite sport: the competitiveness, the skill, and just knowing I can play at the next level," said Johnson. "When the time came to play and I couldn't play, I realized how much I wanted to play again."

He's home now, taking 18 credits at MHCC, work-ing out with a speed coach, running three times a week and lifting weights four times a week, all in hopes of returning to Boise State next term.

“They said if I get my GPA back up, I can go back in January,” said Johnson.

“I have to demonstrate that I’m doing well in school to get my scholarship back. I will walk on for try-outs but they’ve told me my spot is there for me,” said Johnson who’s kept in contact with his running backs coach Keith Bhonapha at Boise State via e-mail since leaving.

Still, he’s not losing focus of his future, “The thing that I realized is that I need to really focus on school. School is the thing that’s going to get me places,” said Johnson.

Next fall will mark the second chance for the young man who hopes his feet will carry him back to the arena, the lights and what he knows so well.

“I don’t want to have the mystery or ‘what if ’s’ in the back of my mind,” Johnson said. “I want to go out and really see what I can do.”

Gresham native fi ghts for a second chanceon the gridiron

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photo by devin Courtright/The advocate

Malcolm Johnson

Malcolm Johnson, who red-shirted at Boise State in 2009 (le� ), looks onto the MHCC � eld where he played during his Barlow High School football career and re� ects on the game he loves.

NOVEMBER 19, 2010 SPORTS 7

UFC 123 main event preview and throwdowns

Speed, discipline and punishing strikes steer MachidaBy Riley HindsThe Advocate

Lyoto Machida is coming off a devastat-ing loss in UFC 113 that may have only been postponed from a controversial win in UFC 104.

Machida started his martial arts train-ing when he was just 3 years old and earned his black belt in karate by the time he was 13. At the age of 17, he began training for Mixed Martial Arts fi ghting.

According to a 2009 statistic, opponents of champions like Frank Mir, BJ Penn, Ra-shad Evans or Anderson Silva can expect anything from a 36 percent to 80 percent takedown success rate. Machida’s challeng-ers see less than 20 percent of their take-down attempts successful.

Okay, so Rampage has a signifi cant ad-vantage in the experience category (38 fi ghts total, Machida has 17), but only sev-en of his fi ghts have been in the UFC and he lost two of them. I can hear his trainers now: “I don’t think we’re in Pride anymore, Todo.”

I have never liked Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. The array of foolery utilized by his team on The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy-weights in 2009 sealed any deal remaining for a scrap of his dignity in my eyes. Focus

on the prize and victory in the cage? No. Rampage directs his band of certifi ed los-ers (who may have been winners had their coach not been Jackson) to fi ll opponents “Team Evans” cars with chickens and to paint their prefi ght prep rooms pink. Ram-page proved over and over that his mind is stuck in the clouds of fame and entertain-ment. Week after week of loss and we still get Ultimate Fighter: Jackass Edition Star-ring - Rampage Jackson. His team ended up with one win the entire season and both fi nalists came from Team Evans.

Machida routinely picks his opponents apart with startling strikes and speedy takedowns that disorient contenders. Al-though both fi ghters are, in fact, champi-ons, I am expecting to see Rampage face down and unresponsive at the end of this fi ght.

Think about it. Rampage is coming off a huge loss in a fi ght against a person Ma-chida knocked out cold less than two years ago. He lost on his show and lost on his chance to get revenge. Rampage should not be fi ghting Machida; he should be fi ghting a blind 3-year-old girl.

Rampage even admitted in one post-fi ght interview regarding his performance in UFC 114 against Rashad Evans: “I knew

I lost that fi ght before I even stepped in the cage,” then went on to discuss his attempts at constant secrecy surrounding himself and his training camp. How did we (the general public) not get that message? Mr. Bar-acus, tear down this wall . . . of secrecy and stupidity. This time, let your fans know you plan on losing before they get too worked up for your act.

Although both fi ghters are champi-ons I am hop-ing/expecting to see Ram-page unrespon-sive at the end of the fi ght. But sure as BJ Penn will be cho-sen victor against Matt Hughes, Machida will win this fi ght by deci-sion. Lyoto 'The Dragon' MachidaLyoto 'The Dragon' Machida

By David LopezThe Advocate

When Quinton “Rampage” Jackson fi ghts Lyoto Machida Saturday night at The Palace in Auburn Hills, Mich., in a UFC light heavyweight (175 lb.) feature, it will mark his second fi ght in the last 17 months.

In his last fi ght Jackson was out-worked and outclassed by Rashard Evans and dropped a unanimous deci-sion. Despite the hype and animosity going into that match, Jackson looked lethargic most of the night, unable to mount a signifi cant offensive attack until late in the fi ght when he knocked Evans down with a right hand. By the end of the round, however, it was Jack-son fending off an Evans onslaught just before the fi nal bell.

Rampage admitted afterwards to feeling some rust that evening, but the fact is that was his eighth career defeat and it’s been two years since he’s defeated anyone of note.

So should Jackson’s fans be worried heading into the showdown with the versatile Machida? Simply put, no.

Though some fi ghters are smitten with fragile psyches, there are a rare few who feed off the idea of combat, victories and losses being second na-ture. Jackson is in the latter category.

During Season 10 of The Ultimate

Fighter, Evans sarcastically asked how many losses Rampage had suf-fered, to which Jack-son matter-of-factly replied, “A bunch. So what?”

Never was this resolve on dis-play more so than in December 2008 when Jackson faced another bitter rival, Wander-lei Silva, who twice s t o p p e d J a c k -son in brutal

fashion while the pair were fi ghting in Pride.

That night would belong to Jack-son, however, as he fl attened Silva with a single left hook in the fi rst round, thus erasing any lingering de-mons.

Couple this with Machida’s previ-ous two fi ghts against Mauricio “Sho-gun” Rua and it’s obvious that despite

the long road Jackson has travelled, he will have the momentum com-

ing into the cage Saturday night.

When Machida fought Rua in a rematch this past May, he had an opportu-nity to erase the bitterness that most MMA fans were feeling after he received an unpopular decision in the fi rst meeting seven

months prior. Instead, Machida looked like a spent force, being

brutally knocked out in the fi rst

round. Though

Machida will un-

doubtedly attempt to

stick-and-move to

avoid Jackson’s power, he should also be a much more willing partner than Evans was seven months ago, giving Jackson opportunities to attack from a standing position, something that Evans constantly kept him from doing in their match. He will also have the reassurance of having fought already this year, erasing the rust that hin-dered his performance against Evans.

Another positive for Rampage is his under-appreciated ground game. His aggressive striking style often makes fans forget that Jackson entered MMA from a wrestling background and was rumored to have considered becoming a professional wrestler before enter-ing the world of MMA.

In the end, what it comes down to for Jackson is the knowledge that if he loses critics will surely begin to speak of him in the same sense that others, such as Tito Ortiz and Chuck Lid-dell, are spoken of: past-their-prime legends whose presence in the cage causes them humiliation more than it entertains fans at this point.

Therefore, Jackson needs this vic-tory badly and he knows it.

His last victory was two years ago. His back was to the wall that time and he’s in the same position this time. Expect him to rise to the occasion this time, too.

Jackson's toughness and never-say-die attitude will be deciding factor

Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson

UFC 123 will be shown live on Pay-Per-View from the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Auburn Hills, Mich. Saturday beginning at 7 p.m. The co-feature will be B.J. Penn vs. Matt Hughes. Joe Lauzon vs. George Soti ropolous and Phil Davis vs. Tim Boetsch are also scheduled for the event.

NOVEMBER 19, 20108 LIVING ARTS

The “The Emperor’s New Clothes” brought joy and a chorus of applause from more than 500 el-ementary school children and volunteers who at-tended Wednesday’s performance.

I was a little worried before the show started that the tykes would distract from the action on the stage. While waiting for the curtain to rise, a little boy who I’m sure just recently learned how to write was sending a text message in the row in front of me. Another row ahead, two little girls were playing a hand-clapping game, which start-ed several other hand-clapping games nearby. I suddenly under-stood why the department recom-mends students and faculty to at-tend the public show. Yet, to my pleasure, when the music started and a band of peasants in color-ful garments danced on stage, the children were fully engaged.

There were other surprises, too, in Hans Christian Anderson’s tale of a peasant, Peter, played by Co-leton Sticka, who wants to go to the city and become rich. The set starts out simply with a backdrop of the night sky over an Arabian city and some brick styled plat-forms placed mid-stage center, left and right. When Peter and friends head to the city a new set is dropped from the rafters. Soon after, Peter is knocking on an in-visible door and the sound effect associated with the rap drew oohs

and ahhs from the mystifi ed children. Audience participation is a must with this

show. Several children made their way onto the stage to play the parts of a horse and noisy old-fashioned sewing machines.

Also, don’t be surprised if the actors make their way through your row at some point or another. Breaking the fourth wall is a common phenom-enon in this performance.

Notable acting performances were by the Emperor (Jordan Brown), the Empress, (Quinci

Daoust), Peter (played by Sticka), and Grand-mother (Suzanne Duval). Sticka excelled in directing the audience during audience partic-ipation moments. Brown’s emperor was authori-tative enough to scare Peter but simple and gentle enough to be a pleasure to the children. Daoust held good form for an empress as she paraded around the stage demanding the respect a queen deserves. Even the timbre of her voice distin-guished herself from the peasant class.

Duval outclassed everyone, though. Her per-formance as the grandmother was exceptional, from her posturing to her delivery. During her few mo-ments of stage time, she lit up the stage and turned it into a breathing land in the countryside.

If you have children, I recom-mend taking them to the Saturday performance. It’s clean fun with good moral lessons about honesty and making the best with what you have. The show starts at 2 p.m. in the College Theater. Part-time the-ater instructor Jennifer Hunter di-rects the show. Tickets are $2. For more information, call the box offi ce 503-491-7154.

The next MHCC play will be the musical “The Rocky Horror Pic-ture Show.” Auditions are Nov. 29, 30 and Dec 1 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Studio Theater. More audi-tion information is available at www.mhcc.edu.

REVIEW:The Emperor's New Clothes brings joy to youth

� e emperor(Jordan Brown) shows o� his garment, which is invisible to those who are un� t for their position or just stupid, during Wednesday’s performance.

Story and photos by David Gambill

Peter (Coleton Sticka) directing children to lead the crowd in sound e� ects.

NOVEMBER 19, 2010 LIVING ARTS 9

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By Jessica WintersThe Advocate

Jewelry, artwork, scarves, purses, hats, re-conditioned musical instruments, handmade skincare products and Christmas ornaments are a few of the items available “Scrooge Lives,” the 41st annual holiday craft festi-val that will take place in the College Center Lounge (Room 1051) Dec. 1, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Dec 2, 10 a.m. to 5p.m.

Vendors this year include MHCC custodial staff employee Jim Ouchida, who is selling handmade silver rings and polished gem-stones. A new vendor this year is a non-prof-it organization called “The Music Project,” which sells reconditioned musical instru-

ments.The community group called “Mostly Mo-

zart Multi-Generational Clarinet Ensemble” will provide a musical performance Dec. 1 from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

On Dec. 2 from noon to 1 p.m. the Associ-ated Student Government will be presenting the lighting of the “holiday giving tree” where people can donate unwrapped toys or non-perishable food.

College Center employee Mary Burlin-game, who is in charge of the event, said, “Last year’s attendance registered 3,500-4,500 people visiting the College Center for the two-day period event. “We hope to meet or beat that attendance,” she said. Amber Mooney tries on a hat at last year’s “Scrooge Lives” event

File Photo by Mick Eagleson/The Advocate

By Shelby Schwartz and Anevay TorrezThe Advocate

MHCC students and staff are preparing for Thanksgiv-ing by packing for trips back home to spend the holiday with their families.

Asked what Thanksgiving means to him, business major Jake Gregus said, “It means it’s the one time of the year that I can relax; it’s nice to just sit down with the family.”

“My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is strawberry cheese-cake, doesn’t matter if it’s store bought or homemade. Just having dinner and watch-ing football is tradition for my family,” said Gregus.

Some family recipes are secret, but some people were willing to share their family traditions and Thanksgiving meals.

“I usually just cook a turkey and a ham, I have 23 to 25 peo-ple, and sometimes I set the table with scriptures at each setting and at the end of the day we all go around and say what we are thankful for,” said Sue Sanders, head cashier and

accounts receivable specialist for the MHCC bookstore.

When thinking about Thanksgiving, Mary Peery, MHCC Bookstore customer service representative, said, “It’s a sweetbread my mom used to make for all the major holidays. She would make a bunch of them for Easter and Thanksgiving and hand them out to the neighbors. When we had it for breakfast, we would make icing and I would make mine different colors and driz-zle it on top.”

Tambi Boyle, math instruc-tor, said, “The day before Thanksgiving, there is usually no room in the fridge to fi t a thawed turkey. So we start driving around to look for one. We usually fi nd one at around midnight. It’s the whole family driving around.”

Carol Pauker, bookstore employee, said, “I cook for two people who do Atkins (a low-carbohydrate diet plan), two people who are vegetarians, and everybody else will eat anything. So out of a family of 12, I just cook and they can try to fi nd something within that.”

Annual 'Scrooge Lives' event to bring art vendors to campus

Holiday gives staff and students something to be thankful forSpecial Feature:

By Mike MataThe Advocate

They may not be the most high-profi le club on campus, but cosmetology’s “Image Makers Club” is gaining notice from students and faculty alike.

The club participates in a variety of events, from renting Halloween-themed mannequin heads and doing free pre-dance make-up during Hallo-week, to going to a professional hair show in Seattle, to holding retail selling contests. “My whole goal is to get more involved in the school,” said President Franny Crabb.

“This year we’ve been a part of the success of cosmetology,” said Crabb.

Associated Student Government President

Larry Collins-Morgan said, “The clubs are the lifeblood of Mt. Hood. There is a direct correlation between student achievement and involvement in extracurricular activities. ”

Crabb said, “I’m pretty sure it’s in the by-laws that anyone can be in a club. But we don’t have any outside members.”

The club is in the midst of planning a sale for the holidays, perhaps a bazaar. They are also talking of a Valentine’s Day event and discounted work done for high school proms in the spring.

The club also attends hair shows. A trip to a Seattle show was paid for, in part, by the proceeds from the mannequin head fundraiser and others like it. Crabb said another show is in the works.

A hair show is similar to a convention in that different vendors and companies set up booths and teach seminars about cosmetology. Cosmetol-ogy programs also bring their own product, such as KMS, the hair product of the MHCC cosmetol-ogy department.

“There are hundreds of vendors,” said Crabb.Crabb said she looks to keep up the participa-

tion of the club.“My goal was to raise money to go to hair

shows. The current goal is raise more for the next president so we can stay involved in the school,” Crabb said. “Sometimes we feel like we don’t have a lot of involvement. I’m trying to get people more involved with the school. That’s my main goal.”

Cosmetology club goal to create new image on campus

Recipe: Christmas Bread Provided by Mary Peery

NOVEMBER 19, 201010 LIVING ARTS

Annual Kanawaksooma pow-wow dances through MHCC By Devin CourtrightThe Advocate

The sound of thundering drums was heard from noon to 10 p.m. in the MHCC gymnasium Saturday at the seventh annual Kanawaksooma Pow-wow, sponsored by the Native American club Chako-Kum Tux.

The pow-wow this year featured a variety of Na-tive American tribal dance performances and ritu-als throughout the day, performed by professional dancers and members of the community. During each dance performance, a drum group, generally with eight people, pounded on one bass drum while singing Native American tribal ritual chants.

Elisha BigBack, club president, said she was happy with the turn out of the pow-wow.

“I feel like it’s a success. I feel like a lot of people came and I feel really good about it,” said BigBack. “It’s a lot of work but defi nitely worth it.”

BigBack said she was there setting up the event at 6 a.m. and then had until midnight to take everything down.

According to BigBack’s speech, the club partnered with native community or-ganizations, such as the Bow and Arrow Culture Club, Red Lodge Transitions Services, Tawna and Laura of Kill-erTaco to organize the pow-wow and educate the visitors about Native American cul-ture.

“Our partnership with several community organiza-tions speaks volumes about the type of communication

we want to convey to our youth, it takes a commu-nity pulling together and supporting each other to continue the traditions and cultural beliefs we hold dear as Native people,” said BigBack.

Elizabeth Perry, one of the two club advisers, said she wouldn’t have the exact number of people who attended the pow-wow until later this month, but said there was “over a thousand” people who attended the event.

“Our feed was set up for a thousand (guests) and we used all the food, so it (the crowd) had to be a little bit more than that,” said Perry. “Some of them (the vendors) actually sold out. They told me, ‘I wish I would have brought more stuff.’ ”

Celia Payer, vice president of the club, said there were 24 vendors selling an array of items such as t-shirts, jewelry, hats and even salmon. There were also four non-profi t groups at the pow-wow. She also said the food served was salmon, red potatoes, carrots, rolls and buffalo stew.

Perry said the per-formers, drummers and the MC of the event were all contracted by the club to do a service and were provided a table in return.

“It was kind of like an age-old tradition of native trade,” said Perry.

“I think as a whole, we all benefi tted from the pow-wow,” Perry said. “I think we did a really good job (this year).”

End of term concerts to be heldBy Kylie RogersThe Advocate

Music director Susie Jones has been preparing her groups for their winter concerts Dec. 1 and Dec. 2 by picking musical literature that will challenge the students and engage the audi-ence.

The free concerts, held both days at 7:30 p.m. in the College Theater, also serve as the fi nal exam for performing students. Their exam grade is based on par-ticipation and “ongoing contribu-tion to the band,” said Jones.

The Dec. 1 event will be a per-formance by the Mt. Hood sym-phonic band and orchestra. The symphonic band will be co-direct-ed by Jones and Leroy Anderson and will play three pieces.

“There are different strengths and weaknesses in the band. It makes for different talent each year,” Jones said. The diffi culties are overcoming the holes in in-strumentation but there are sev-

eral students who have picked up second or third instruments, she said.

The two jazz groups perform-ing Dec. 2 are audition groups with group one under Jones’ di-rection and group two under the direction of Stan Bock. Each group will perform four pieces.

Jazz Band 1 recently played at Memorial Coliseum Nov. 7 as a tribute to veterans, playing 1940s big band music to an audi-ence of 3,000, according to Jones. Jazz Band 1 will play new mate-rial at the Dec. 2 performance.

Jazz Band 1 also performed Thursday night along with the U.S. Air Force Academy Fal-conaires in the Vista Dining Cen-ter.

“Someone from the Air Force contacted me and said they were doing a West Coast tour and wanted to know if they could play with us,” said Jones.

For more information, contact Jones at 503-491-7158.

Wednesday, November 24

C a l e n d a r

Thursday, November 25

Friday, November 26

Wednesday, December 1

Thursday, December 2

No classes12 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. 12-step meeting AC2700 / classroom

Happy Thanksgiving!Campus closed for Thanksgiving Holiday

Campus closed for Thanksgiving HolidayAuditions for Rocky Horror will be held

Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 6 p.m. - 9 p.m College Theater

Jazz Band 1 and 2 will perform

Mt. Hood Symphonic Band and orchestra will perform

Photos by Devin Courtright/ The Advocate

Pow-wow attendants took part in Native American ritual dancing. Photo le� little boy and girl owl dancing (slow dance for boy and girl along to drums.)

Violet Isle fundraiser concert for 8 year-old with neuroblastoma cancer.

8 p.m / $5 at the door of the Someday Lounge

Sunday, November 21

NOVEMBER 19, 2010 LIVING ARTS 11

By David LopezThe Advocate

The memoir of former-president George W. Bush, as expected, is at the very least an interesting read.

Political views aside, how could such a topic not be interesting? After all, in eight years the 43rd president of the United States dealt with a mul-titude of issues ranging from 9/11 in year one to a massive fi nancial crisis by the end of his second term. In be-tween, there were two wars, a natural disaster that dismantled an entire city and a variety of internal and external dilemmas the former president recalls with much candor.

The aptly titled “Decision Points” (referred to as such because each chapter focuses on a different decision made) opens as Bush explains making the choice to stop drinking. He recalls the day in 1986 when he struggled to remember the last time he hadn't had a drink and the ensuing struggle to avoid alcohol once and for all.

He describes his father with much reverence throughout ("there was al-ways something extraordinary about George H.W. Bush") and how virtually

every decision throughout his life ap-pears to have come with the 41st pres-ident's approval, contrary to the belief of many.

It should come as no surprise that much of the book deals with 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed. It's when writing about these topics, especially 9/11, that Bush comes across with an emotion so clear that it reminds you that in spite of being president, he was hu-man fi rst. He admits to having doubts about the mission in Iraq once it per-sisted into 2006 but maintained his stance on the war publicly for the sake of the liberated Iraqis and the troops. He also talks proudly about the progress made toward establish-ing democracy in the two regions.

Regarding criticism of his adminis-tration, Bush is forthright and mostly understands, although he seems to shift blame for the Hurricane Katrina failures to Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco for not authorizing the federal government to control relief efforts.

He recalls an encounter with the mother of a fallen soldier and despite her calling him "as big a terrorist as Osama bin Laden," humbly says, "She lost her son; she had the right to speak her mind to the man who had sent him into battle."

On the Katrina saga, Bush admits to feeling stung by charges that rac-ism was a factor in the government's response (not just by Kanye West, either). It's at this point that Bush again recounts emotionally how his No Child Left Behind Act was a direct result of the heartache he felt watch-ing minorities struggle through school systems.

Though brief, Bush even makes mention of Michael Moore's "so-called documentary" while recollecting on his 2004 re-election campaign and later when discussing a bin Laden message (“It sounded like he was pla-giarizing”).

The book is likely to provide ad-equate justifi cation for critics of the 43rd president as he recounts the cost of fi nancing war and his decision to al-low waterboarding on captured terror-ists, among other things. Proponents will be equally reassured to learn the thought and planning that went into these and many other decisions. For others, “Decision Points” will provide an in-depth look at a fi gure whose place in history, whether for better or worse, is still being determined.

Book Review: George W. Bush from a different perspective

By Mike MataThe Advocate

The Ceramics Club will host a Hol-iday Sale fundraiser Dec. 1-3 at the Visual Arts Gallery from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The sale will feature a large selec-tion of works from all levels of the club. The works will include plates, pitchers and mugs, all thrown and fi red by members.

“A wide vari-ety of things will be available and a wide variety of talent, from be-ginners to alumni to our instructors and techs,” said Elisa Mitchell, an independent study student for ceramics.

Ceramics tech Sarah Davis said the sale items are “perfect gift ideas.”

Twenty-fi ve percent of the proceeds will go straight to the club while the rest goes to pay for the materials used to create the works.

The funds also go toward equip-ment repairs and materials used by the club. These materials include glaze, which can be expensive, and the brighter colors cost more, said Mitch-ell.

There are also kilns that need re-pairing, from electric elements on one, to rebuilding another wood-burning

one, as well as purchasing wood to heat the kilns. Another purchase for the club are new shelves for the wood-fi re kilns, as the old ones are beginning to come apart and when fragments of the shelves fall onto clay pieces being fi red, it renders them un-salvageable.

“It’s not cheap to keep this place running,” said Mitchell.

There are other things besides ma-terials and re-pairs that mon-ey is spent on, such as having potters come in for workshops.

“The club funds act as a subsidiary, so MHCC students are charged a smaller fee.

Students pay $10, while the general public pays $35 for the workshop,” said Davis.

The club plans another fundraiser in the spring, but as far as between then and now, it is uncertain.

“Sometimes we have sales, some-times we don’t. It depends on who wants to organize it,” said Mitchell.

Another fundraiser the club par-ticipates in is the Empty Bowls fun-draiser. They make bowls, fi ll them with soup, sell them and give all the proceeds to food banks. “We raised $1,400 for a food bank one year,” said Mitchell.

Ceramics to holdholiday sale on campus

“A wide variety of things will be available and a wide variety of talent, from beginners to alumni to our instructors and techs.”

Elisa Mitchell Independent study student for ceramics

Photo by Devin Courtright/ The Advocate

'A Little Bit of Everything'

� e exhibit "A Little Bit of Everything" by Dara Allison Harvey will be shown in the Visual Arts Gallery until Nov. 22 Gallery hours are from Monday - Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and is closed on weekends and holidays.

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Top 5 Thanksgiving

Festivities

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aims to bring the joy of Christmas

to area families.

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Book Review

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1. Stuffing face with heaps of turkey.

2. spending time with the disfunctional family.

3. watching the Football game or screaming at the tv.

4. take a nice, long nap Before and after dinner.

5. Going through black friday ads

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