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Portlandians love their birds. In fact, if you show a guy with a v-neck on a fixed bicycle your bird, he’ll probably smile and show you his. Though, if

you flip someone off in pretty much any oth-er large city in America – LA, Detroit – you better make sure you’ve touched up on your Krav-Maga, or your personal martial art of choice.

You have to admit, living in Portland is pretty luxurious compared to most places in the United States and perhaps the whole world. We have more freedom to say what we want, wear what we want and, do what we want, regardless of how weird or offensive it may be. This isn’t said to set Portland on a pedestal. Rather, our abundant culture of free speech can shape how we view conflicts over free speech throughout the world.

By now, you should have heard about the terror attacks in France that killed 12 satiri-cal journalists and staff at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, a policewoman, and four Jews at a Kosher market. The attack in Paris is said to have been incited by Charlie Hebdo, a week-ly satirical magazine struggling to make ends meet. Charlie Hebdo published sever-al satirical illustrations that mock religious leaders, namely Muhammed, the prophet and founder of the Islamic faith. (A mer-chant, Muhammed was greatly disturbed by the materialism in Mecca, his home turf. He spent a lot of time in solitude, where divine insights were revealed to him. His revelations are recorded in Islam’s holy book, the Qur’ an.)

As BBC reports, many Muslims, of course, condemn the brutal terror attacks in France. However, a certain group of radical Islamists felt compelled to avenge the satirists’ treat-ment of Mohammed.

It’s easy to stand in support of Charlie - “Je Suis Charlie.” It’s easy for us to say: “How dare radical Islamists tread on our Western right to say whatever we want to say!” Trust us, as journalists at MHCC, we live and breath free speech. Imagine, if you will, Associated Stu-dent Government members barging through the door of The Advocate office, opening fire on everyone, killing every journalist in the room. All this for an article that stated: “The

OohLaLa app is the dumbest thing ever to be created in the history of student government.”

Of course, none of that scenario would ever happen to The Advocate or ASG (at least we hope not). But it did happen, on a severely drastic scale, in France. Charlie Hebdo wasn’t just exercising free speech in a creative way, it was exposing what it found wrong with rad-icalism. Depicting fundamental religious and other radical groups through vulgar, offensive illustration is a standard for Charlie Hebdo. It’s actually surprising that we haven’t seen media coverage of anyone else questioning Charlie Hebdo. For safety’s sake, should we draw some

sort of line on freedom of speech? It’s some-thing we should consider.

One person on our editorial board put it like this: “My freedom of speech ends where yours begins,” as a response to civil liberties in general. It’s safe to say that while freedom of speech is the baby of the western world, many other countries are unfamiliar with this value. Perhaps what causes conflicts between ours and other cultures is a failure to communicate. We in the West are so quick to defend and display our attitudes. Perhaps our free speech and reckless humor is running too wild, mak-ing other cultures feel that their points of view are being stifled and are in danger of exter-mination. Our satire could be interpreted as propaganda. While one could argue Muslim

extremists are desperate to convert the world to Islam, one could just as easily argue that rad-ical Muslims are actually desperate to get our attention because they are pleading us to leave their way of life alone, free from harassment.

Freedom of speech is the guard against radicalism, propaganda and often hate. Some-times, however, freedom of speech oversteps its boundaries and overwhelms the minority, with the potential of becoming propaganda itself.

This last Saturday, we Portlandians exer-cised our own style of intolerance against a very small minority group. For the most part,

counter-protesters were lighthearted in their resistance to Westboro Baptist Church’s usu-al anti-gay protest at the Moda Center, before a Blazers game on Jan. 10. Though we did not incite violence and danger, we did overpow-er and dilute the WBC message by holding banners that read things such as “nothing to see here.” Could it be possible that we view our values as freedom, but look upon WBCs’ views as unworthy of communicating? Are we basically saying they have less of a right towards free speech? Are we just as intoler-ant? Or, were we in a way embracing their rights to free speech by standing side by side with them with our sarcastic signs?

We have a duty to counter hate, but with all these voices and signs, such as in Portland and even Charlie Hebdo, intentions become muddled. We are not really hearing anything.

We are monkeying around, making a joke out of a very powerful tool. On one hand it’s beau-tiful, on the other, we’re only using it to fur-ther divide ourselves.

Free speech becomes a controversy when it has the potential to endanger or single out minorities. We are not immune to backlash, counter-protests, and even acts of terrorism. We are accountable for our words and depic-tions of other groups. While the terrorism in France is never justified for the lack of couth on Charlie Hebdo’s part, we openly acknowledge that there is a risk when taking free speech too far and we must be ready for whatever comes.

It’s our choice to speak and to listen, and we should be wise in how we choose to do ei-ther.

“There’s a limit even at school. You can’t yell ‘fire’ here, for example. You can’t endan-ger mass amounts of people. There’s saying what you want to say and then there’s aggra-vating.”

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“I think there is a boundary and limit to free speech and I think it has to do more so with hate speech. I don’t think Charlie Hebdo crossed that line.

Canada has good freedom of speech boundaries that limits against hate speech. They have a good model.”

Kealani BarfourStaff, Future connect Program (Scholarships)

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Corrections: In the Jan. 9 issue of The Advo-cate, a story on page 2 with the headline “OOLALA or OOH-NO-NO,” misstated the number of MHCC stu-dents. Student enrollment is currently about 8,100, based on full-time equivalency. Also, the men’s bas-ketball story on Page 7 was mistakenly repeated from a prior issue. To see the updated story, visit us online.

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Will Darkinsthe advocate

Calling all future politicians! Your help is needed to find the next student government leaders of Mt. Hood Community College.

Mt. Hood’s Associated Student Government (ASG) is looking for students to become members of the elections committee during January. The elections committee is responsible for organizing candidate debates, advertising, and promoting student voting later on this spring.

“The committee’s goal is to motivate students to get out there and let them know their vote counts,” said Cristian Urzua, current ASG vice president. “Essentially whoever you’re electing is going to be in charge of the student budget.”

Working within its budget, student government is planning big things for Mt. Hood.

Urzua said student leaders think of new and exciting ways to improve student life.

“Right now we’re focusing on online electronic resources,” he said. “We’re trying to work with (MHCC) President Debbie Derr to provide free textbooks for students online.” The initiative is still in development, but promises to be a viable resource for future students.

Being involved in student government was not Urzua’s initial goal entering college. A former athlete at Gresham High School, he felt uncertain where to turn.

“At Gresham I wasn’t that involved, but once I took that step into college I decided I wanted to be aware of what is happening at my college,” he said. “I felt that I could create a legacy for future students to follow” and that legacy begins with the elections committee, he said.

The elections committee is comprised of four members, each executing different tasks. The chairperson ensures that debates and classroom presentations will be carried out by each candidate. Advertising and promotion of the election are headed by the marketing coordinator, while other important duties

are conducted by the logistics and support coordinators.

The committee may undergo changes, and officials are considering additional positions.

Urzua highly recommends the ASG experience to any student considering joining.

“The connections you make in student government are great, and it is those connections that really help you get what you

want out of your college experience,” he said. “The faculty is very supportive of what we do, which really makes our job easier.”

If you are interested in joining the student elections committee, visit the ASG in the MHCC Student Union or go to www.mhcc.edu/asg for more information. Applications must be completed online and submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23.

Make connections, join ASG’s elections committee

Hayden Hunterthe advocate

On Jan. 22, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson will come to Mt. Hood Community College to give a presentation on how we, as world citi-zens, can achieve peace in our time.

Arun Gandhi will speak at 7 p.m. in the College Theater, in an appearance open to the public and all MHCC students and staff. Ad-mission is $5 for the public but is free for all Mt. Hood students with I.D.

If by some chance you don’t know, Mohan-das Gandhi was a peaceful activist who sought to free his people from British rule through nonviolent means.

In 1893 the Mahatma, or “great soul” moved to South Africa to accept a job as a law-yer, but instead began his struggle to secure basic human rights for his people. He was ar-rested many times while he spent 20 years in South Africa developing his peaceful protest-

ing methods. Because of such methods, in 1914 the British government conceded to many of Gandhi’s demands.

After his time South Africa, the Mahatma returned to India. He began protesting the Rowlatt Acts that had been used to impris-on many Indians: The laws allowed arrests without war-rant, indefinite deten-tion without trial, and juryless in-camera trials for proscribed political acts. During this time, Mohan-das himself was arrested and sentenced to six

years, but got released after two.After prison, Mahatma Gandhi dedicated

himself to trying to fix Muslim-Hin-du relations. In 1947 Pakistan and

India were divided among re-ligious boundaries into inde-pendent states. Upset by the Western-imposed partition, Mohandas fasted in hopes of bringing peace to Calcutta and Delhi.

On Jan. 30, 1948, Mohan-das Mahatma Gandhi was shot

in the stomach twice and the chest once by a Muslim fanatic; he died later that day.

Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of the Mahatma, the child of Mohandas’ sec-ond son. Growing up in South Africa

during apartheid, he was beaten frequently by whites calling him “too black” and by blacks calling him “too white.” As a child he sought revenge, but his grandfather showed him an-other way.

His grandfather taught Arun to understand nonviolence through understanding violence. He would gain knowledge about violence and anger through his daily lessons.

Now, Arun works to share that knowledge around the world in his visits to colleges and with world leaders.

Arun will begin his visit to MHCC by hav-ing a meet-and-greet at 4 p.m. with students and anyone else in the Student Union. At 5 p.m., he will depart to dine with college ad-ministrators and other Mt. Hood supporters for the next hour and a half. Following a half-hour break, he will give his College Theater presentation at 7 p.m.

To order tickets in advance, visit mhcc.edu/ArunGandhi/.

Mahatma Gandhi’s fifth grandson to visit MHCC

MHCC will be closed on Monday in obser-vance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. There will be no classes. But, the campus will be open for anyone who applied to participate in the MLK Jr. National Day of Service. The event is a chance for Mt. Hood students to con-nect with student volunteers from other local schools and serve the community.

MHCC’s ASG director of community af-

fairs and the Diversity Resource Center will participate, joining an estimated 700 other col-lege students in greater Portland-Vancouver.

According to nationalservice.gov, various organizations helped disadvantaged people get jobs, food, education and health treatment during last year’s event.

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Visual Arts Gallery hosts Cutshall

Clay Club president Amber Meyer ponders a sculpture by faculty member Richard Cutshall. Cutshall’s mixed media paintings and sculptures are on display in the Visual Arts Gallery this week.

Adam Elwellthe advocate

You could say Sierra Rickards is simply ex-cited for her upcoming role of Janet Van De Graaff in MHCC’s theater production of “The Drowsy Chaperone,” but that would be an un-derstatement.

“I’ve been wanting to play this role since eighth grade. Sutton Foster played Janet and she’s like my total girl-crush,” said Rickards.

Rickards described the play as “Kind of a farce. It makes fun of the stereotypi-cal tropes in a musical.

“It’s a musical within a musical,” she added, explain-ing that the characters them-selves are actors.

Van De Graaff, the play’s protagonist, is a successful Hollywood actor who wants to give up the big screen to marry her fiancé - Robert Martin. Rickards described Janet as “the type of character that knows what she wants and will do whatever it takes to get it, even if that means disguising her voice like a French girl to spy on her fiancé.

“She is a very silly character, but she is not stupid,” Rickards said. Instead, “she is actually very smart, which I respect her for. She knows

she is talented, and she knows she is loved. I think she realizes that people love her for what she does rather than herself, as a person - which is why it is so important to her that Robert loves her,” she said.

Rickards said connecting to the character was easy.

“There wasn’t anything initially awkward about the role,” Rickards said, even though she said she was “absolutely certain” that her own spirit animal is a fox, as opposed to De Graaff’s spirit animal: a doe.

Rickards’ hobbies outside of theater include art. She enjoys drawing and painting, and is an avid admirer of –

naturally – foxes.“I think that they are truly

beautiful and elegant creatures, and I so wish I could hang out with a family of foxes,” she said. “It would just be so great. I haven’t ever met one in person, but I feel that if I did, I would just cry with pure joy. My Instagram even has fox in the title of my handle: @foxesandferns.”

After fulfilling her eighth-grade goal, Rick-ards has another one in mind: “It is definitely on my bucket list to meet a fox, and possibly even have one as a pet, which you can actually do in Oregon, which is really cool.”

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Hayden Hunterthe advocate

As Mt. Hood Vice President Richard Doughty said, the theme of Wednes-days board meeting was, “unleashing the potential.”

Before we get to the dirty details, it is pertinent to mention that the board room got a completely new look since November. The large, pink chairs have been tossed and replaced with sleek, black office chairs. Even the tables around the board meeting were re-placed with newer tables.

Gresham Toyota contributed to the new look in the boardroom, accord-ing to Al Sigala, director of the MHCC Foundations and Alumni Relations.

The evening started off with Presi-dent Debbie Derr introducing MHCC’s new director of marketing, Bruce Bat-tle, to the board members.

After presenting his qualifications, Battle said he is already “out there look-ing at meeting with vendors and other marketing/advertising opportunities.” This will get MHCC’s name and mis-sion out to the community as well as potentially increasing enrollment, he said.

Next came a presentation from AVID, a program on campus that al-lows for students to seek help with their classes, whether it be tutoring or extra college success courses – “(e)spe-cially for those students traditionally underrepresented in higher education,” according to the group’s website.

AVID has been doing really well recently, so they advocated for broad-ening their program to include more students without hiring more resourc-es (teachers). Three students from the program shared their personal stories about the program.

The Strategic Planning Task Force followed, with its own presentation. The Strategic Planning Council pre-sented three narratives from the per-spectives of students, the community, and MHCC partners (the Foundation, business representatives, business lead-ers, faculty and staff, and government organizations). These hypothetical nar-ratives were each group’s predictions of their expectations for the college five years from now.

After the narratives were read, Derr said, “I know the input we got (the nar-ratives) was honest in relation to where we are while honest and hopeful with

where we are going.”Doughty discussed what was be-

ing done within the MHCC budget to offer more fiscal opportunities for the college. Between now and Feb. 1, he and other key budget officials will meet with the budget managers of each col-lege department to help them develop their budget proposals.

“I think we accomplished some good things last fall in getting the pro-cess out in front of people, getting them to think about what they’re doing, and being more ready in January to engage,” said. Doughty.

The MHCC Head Start and Or-egon School Employees Association bargaining agreement of 2014-2016 was approved and signed, after a little deliberation. Board Member Bob Coen was worried about the specification and wording of some sections in the docu-ment, before his concerns were put to rest by Head Start presenters Susan Brady, director of children’s develop-ment and family studies, and Director Jean Wagner.

The night concluded with brief dis-cussion of President Barack Obama’s proposal for two free years of commu-nity college for qualified students. Derr suggested further talks on the issue in upcoming board meetings.

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Greg Leonovthe advocate

Tax season is upon us all, once again. But, new this year, everyone who is employed and has filled out any official tax forms will be required to have secured health insurance to avoid paying a penalty.

For anyone filing taxes for income earned in 2014, the penalty under the federal Affordable Care Act (i.e., “Obamacare”) will be 1 percent of reported household income (based on income above $10,000 for most individuals), or $95 per uninsured person in the household. The taxpayer must pay the higher of those two amounts, accord-ing to healthcare.gov (the federal government’s website for the Act).

The fee will be calculated when filing taxes. The last day to file federal and state tax returns for 2014 is April 15. In general, income taxes get filed for the previous year during the first quarter of the current year.

Acceptable forms of health insurance for tax filers include “(a)ny marketplace plan, or any in-dividual insurance plan they already have,” ac-cording to healthcare.gov. Insurance provided by employers is acceptable, as are Medicare and Med-

icaid, The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), TRICARE (for current service members and military retirees, their families, and survivors), other veterans’ healthcare services, Peace Corps. volunteer plans, and “self-funded health coverage offered to students by universities for plan or pol-icy years that begin on or before Dec. 31, 2014.”

There are a few ways to avoid paying the pen-alty fee besides having coverage. There are 14 “hardship exemptions,” according to an article in Forbes Magazine and on healthcare.gov. The eas-iest way is to be homeless, but other ways include shut-off notices from utility companies. All one would have to do is show a copy of the notice.

If unpaid medical expenses from within 24 months before filing taxes exist, then one would qualify for an exemption (copies of medical bills would be required).

Affiliation with a recognized organization or religious group that does not recognize insurance as a necessity may also qualify individuals for ex-emption. Forms are available on healthcare.gov/fees-exemptions/apply-for-exemption/.

Dodging insurance may be costly come tax sea-son, but with the right tools, and correct affilia-tions, exemptions are possible to most people.

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Monday night’s college football champi-onship game was a tough pill to swallow for many Oregon Duck fans, the final score read-ing a shocking 42-20, Ohio State Buckeyes with the win.

As yellow confetti fell upon the Buckeyes, I slumped in my seat, thinking that confetti should have been for my Ducks.

The truth of the matter is that the Buck-eyes quite simply outplayed Oregon in all fac-ets of the game. They came ready to compete on both sides of the ball.

They were prepared to combat Oregon’s high-paced offense with a brilliant substitu-tion rotation on defense, and took full advan-tage of Oregon’s soft rush defense behind their ironclad running back, Ezekiel Elliot, who fin-ished with a championship game record of 246 rushing yards. Elliot would get four rushing scores, on a total of 36 carries. ‘Zeke’ was out of this planet Monday night.

A big key to Ohio State’s success against Oregon was the time of possession. The Buck-eyes had the ball for 37:29 of the 60-minute game, while the Ducks were held to a total possession time of only 22:31.

The Buckeyes made a few mistakes in the game, turning the ball over four times (three fumbles, one interception), but the Ducks were rarely able to capitalize on these take-aways.

And how about the overall play of redshirt sophomore Cardale Jones?

Jones who started the season as Ohio State’s third-string quarterback, only to get the starting job following a preseason injury for early Heisman favorite Braxton Miller (sea-son-ending shoulder injury) and then a broken ankle suffered by backup J.T. Barrett, who had led the Buckeyes to an 11-1 start and became a Heisman contender himself.

Enter the 250-pound, 6-foot, 5-inch Jones, inserted into the starting lineup for the Big Ten championship game against the Wiscon-sin Badgers. Jones led his team in dominat-ing fashion, winning 59-0 and tossing three touchdowns in his first-ever start for OSU.

Jones followed that up with a 42-35 win over the No.-1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide on New Year’s Day, in the semifinal round of the College Football Playoffs.

It seemed as if this kid had ice water run-ning through his veins, leading his team to the biggest game of the season in only two starts.

During the national championship game, Jones led his Buckeyes behind his incredible arm strength and decision making. He finished 16-for-23 for 242 passing yards, a passing touchdown and a rushing score. That includ-ed a 45-yard toss to the Buckeyes’ deep-threat wide receiver, Devin Smith.

The Ducks got solid quarterback produc-tion from Heisman winner Marcus Mariota but found themselves in a lot of third-down positions, a challenge in which they were far too uncomfortable, converting on only two of 12 third downs for the night.

Oregon also struggled scoring in the red zone. In their four red zone trips the Ducks scored only one touchdown, settled for two field goals and turned the ball over on downs once.

Oregon started the game off quick, driv-ing down the field 75 yards in 11 plays to take an early 7-0 lead with just 2:39 elapsed off the clock. The Buckeyes fired back with three con-secutive scores to go ahead 21-7 late in the first half, before Oregon kicked a field goal.

With the halftime score at 21-10, Oregon found itself in a hole it had not experienced this season. Yet, the Ducks responded master-

fully behind a takeaway, followed with a one-play strike: a 70-yard touchdown pass to Byron Marshall (who finished with eight catches and 169 yards). Soon after, Oregon added another field goal.

But, 21-20 was as close as the Ducks would get. The Buckeyes ran the ball down Oregon’s throat, scoring three rushing touchdowns and completely shutting down the Ducks for the remainder of the game.

During the Buckeyes’ second-half demo-lition, I couldn’t help but hope that Mariota would somehow bring the Ducks back, but that just didn’t happen.

I tip my hat off to the Buckeyes and head coach Urban Meyer for their performance in the championship game. They were the better team Monday night – and have been in the past, now having defeated the Ducks all nine times they’ve played.

As I sit and reflect on the Ducks’ season, I can’t help but be proud of Oregon. The Ducks made it to the final stage of college football, but fell a little short. They played hard all sea-son and helped continue Oregon’s rich foot-ball tradition. They entertained, and kept us on our feet. Looking back at the season, on the whole, Oregon truly “Won the Day”.

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Oregon’s Heisman-winning quarterback Marcus Mariota leaves the field one last time, after Ohio State beat the Ducks, 42-20, for the college football championship on Monday. Mariota later announced he will enter this year’s NFL draft on April 30.

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Brandon Raleighthe advocate

On Wednesday, the Saints men’s basket-ball team fell in a hard-fought overtime battle to the Chemeketa Storm, 81-76.

The Saints started off slow against the Storm, digging themselves into a 16-point hole midway through the first half. The Saints were able to rally late in the half to bring that deficit to eight points, at 32-24.

The second half was very much of a back-and-forth battle as both teams seemed to an-swer every basket with a basket of their own. Late in the game, the Saints made an impres-sive comeback tying the score with less then two minutes to play.

With the score knotted 68-68 and less than a minute to play the Saints came up with a big defensive stop. Mt. Hood quickly called

a time out with nearly 20 seconds left in the ball game.

The Saints ran their offense until soph-omore Oleg Marandyuk found a hole in the defense. Marandyuk drove to the basket and drew a foul with seven seconds remaining. Af-ter making two clutch free throws Marandyuk and the Saints possessed a two-point lead.

Chemeketa’s point guard Kevin Brazille then drove the distance of the court only to miss a layup that was then tipped in by a team-mate to tie the game at 70 with 0.5 seconds left in the game

The Saints inbounded the ball to Maran-dyuk, but there was too little time to even get up a full-court prayer.

Overtime started similar to the second half. The teams traded baskets until late in the overtime when the Storm were able to take a three-point advantage.

With 17 seconds left in overtime, the Saints drew up a three-point play. But the Storm were all over the play, intercepting a pass and soon drilling two devastating free throws that sealed the win for Chemeketa.

Head coach Geoff Gibor discussed the de-feat. “It’s a tough, tough loss. But with that I’ll say that our guys played hard and competed and we got better,” he said. “I think we played with a lot more aggressiveness tonight then we have for a few games and that’s good. You start looking at what were trying to get done and I think we made some steps in the right direction.”

The Saints were led by freshman Jamal Muhammad (23 points and seven assists), Marandyuk (17 points and four rebounds), and the spark off the bench, sophomore Jason Wallace, who finished with eight points and 12 rebounds.

Wallace gave his thoughts on the tough overtime loss.

“We started slow and weren’t ready in the beginning,” he said. “I feel like we had to get our confidence up. We came out shook a lit-tle bit, and when we got together we brought ourselves back and nearly won the game.”

Wallace continued, “It’s a learning experi-ence, big learning experience for us. We are a young team and we’re still growing, so we just got to get ready for Lane.”

The OT loss came after a 14-point loss to SW Oregon last Saturday in Coos Bay, 86-72.

The 3-10 (0-2 in league play) Saints will take on the 9-7 (1-1 in league play) Lane Com-munity College Titans, who are coming off a 22-point victory over Umpqua CC. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. at Lane.

Muhammad, the Saints’ leading scorer, said about the upcoming Lane game, “I can’t wait.”

Saints lose heartbreaker at home

Brandon Raleighthe advocate

The Saints women’s basketball squad suf-fered a 13-point loss to the Chemeketa Storm Wednesday night, 59-46. The defeat dropped Mt. Hood’s overall record to 3-13 overall (0-2 in league play).

MHCC kept pace with the Storm in the first half, grabbing a one-point halftime lead at 21-20, but in the second half Chemeketa proved too much to handle as it outscored the Saints 39-25.

The Saints found solid production from their freshmen as Kiera Stokes provided 12 points and four rebounds and Kelsea Baton add-ed 10 points. Madison Weaver, also a freshman, scored four points and grabbed 11 rebounds.

For a second game, Mt. Hood was missing its leading scorer and rebounder, Marley Yates, but she will be back in action on Saturday.

Saints freshman point guard Jesse Morris, who finished with six points and four assists, gave her thoughts on the loss to Chemeketa. “They were beatable, and we just didn’t play like we should have,” she said. “We’re missing

a couple players, so that didn’t help.”Morris continued, “We had good spurts

when our energy was up and I think that was good, but we need to just keep that for a full 40 minutes. We can work on being more consistent and work on our defense.”

The Wednesday loss followed a frustrating 71-35 point defeat to SW Oregon last Satur-day, in Coos Bay.

Up next for Mt. Hood are the Lane Titans, 14-4 (1-1 in league play. Tip-off is 2 p.m. Sat-urday at Lane Community College in south Eugene.

Saints start season 0-2 in league play

(Top) Oleg Marandyuk fights for a loose ball against Chemeketa CC. (Above) Kelsea Baton in her 10-point performance against the Storm

Photo by Beka Haugen - the advocate

Photo by Beka Haugen - the advocate

Mt. Hood women lose to Chemeketa Storm