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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

THE PIONEER LOG FEATURES

Winterim workshop boosts entrepreneurial spirit on campus


BY LINDSAY MULCAHY
STAFF WRITER From Jan.14-18, 2013, 34 participants arrived on campus for Lewis & Clarks annual Entrepreneurship Winterim, a workshop designed to introduce students to skills needed to start their own business ventures or contribute to existing ones. The workshop, which cost $500 to attend, had lectures from guest speakers, such as Amber Case (08), recently featured in Inc. Magazines as one of the 30 Under 30 to Watch. The speakers provided students with the ability to interact and network with successful entrepreneurs. I thought the best part was being able to have intimate conversations with guest speakers, especially those who were alumni, said Marisol Jenkins (15). Being able to learn and connect to their academic background truly sparks some reassurance that an education from Lewis & Clark opens up so many possibilities after college. The week culminated with a group project where students designed their own innovative business models. The projects, ranging from a collapsible surfboard to a cultural dance studio to a male cosmetics line called Get Rubbed, were presented for peer evaluation and reviewed by the entrepreneurs. That was the hardest part, said Daniel Hahm (16) of the evaluation and review process. Your group thinks they have a great idea, and then when others critique it you realize all the variables you didnt think of. Fellow Winterim attendee John Rogers (15) agreed, saying that despite the discomfort the process greatly improved [my] skills in that particular area. Ian Blair (14) said that the Winterim helped him feel more prepared for a job because he now feels he knows how a business works. Hahm agreed that

I thought the best part was being able to have intimate conversations with guest speakers, especially those who were alumni.
the conference showed him the amount of work that you need to put in to be successful. This course proved to me that you have the power to create your own job. All you need is a good idea and the dedication and tenacity to follow through with it, said Rogers (15). The college is increasing attention on entrepreneurship with the creation of the Entrepreneurship Center, which will be lead by Psychology Department Chair Brian Detweiler-Bedell. The first undertaking of the center is an entrepreneurship competition that will take place this spring. Teams of students can sign up to develop for-profit or non-profit business ventures and then compete for funding to make their ideas into reality.

Unity and reconciliation:

A Rwandan story of healing


STAFF WRITER

BY HANNAH PRINCE

THE PIONEER LOGS NATURAL SCIENCES COLUMN

BY JULIA HUGGINS
STAFF WRITER Theres a high probability that the majority of Lewis & Clark students are not familiar with our own Yung-Pin Chens work on randomness statistics, and many are potentially interested in LC faculty member Anne Bentleys development of battery nanoparticles. If youll humor me, I would love to shed some light on Assistant Professor Shannon OLearys work with electromagnetic fields and help translate the complex world of Professor Deborah Lycans ribosomal research. This is the first in a series (possibly infinite) of short articles highlighting the lively and dynamic world of natural sciences at LC. Hidden away in the basements and back-rooms of BoDine and Olin, experiments are festering, algorithms are running and equipment is being calibrated. The mysterious science is happening here, yet these activities dont

make a significant difference to the majority of our community. I invite you to join me in randomly sampling these pockets of inquiry, with the objective of elucidating this fascinating work that is all too often obscured by jargon and daunting course prerequisites. Our focus will be to create a lens through which all members of our academic community can envision the main hypotheses, methods and techniques of each field and take in the import of new results and the conclusions drawn from them. Each week we will explore a different facet of current LC research: senior theses, professor spotlights, recent publications, unresolved problems and future goals... All subjects are all liable to examination. As the topics covered will be variable and dependent on readers interests, please do write to me (jhuggins@lclark.edu) with your ideas, suggestions, proposals, questions, et al., and together we will lay the foundation of scientific literacy.

mmanuel Habimana, born in Rwanda, was 9 years old during the Genocide of 1994. He is currently studying English as an AES student at Lewis & Clark on the Dallaire Scholarship. On Thursday, Jan. 31, Habimana presented his documentary, Komora: To Heal, to a packed Council Chamber. A simultaneous streamed video of the film screening was shown in the Stamm dining hall, which was filled to the point of overflowing. The documentary was a collaboration between Habimana and Natalie Ledford, a college student from Nebraska. The Director of Academic English Studies Joann Geddes introduced the event by discussing the history of the Dallaire Scholarship at LC, which was established in 2004. To date, this scholarship has brought eight individuals from Rwanda to study English for a year at LC. The Dallaire Scholarship is the brainchild of former student Michael Graham (06), who was inspired by the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The funds give Rwandan students a chance to learn English and improve opportunities for citizens in Rwanda by changing the country itself. I met with Emmanuel Habimana to discuss his film and to talk about his personal experiences of working on an early traumatic childhood experience. Komora means to heal, and Habimana clarified the titles importance and relevance to the film and his life. You can heal the wounds you have, you can heal any sickness, but you can heal something related to emotional difficulties, especially when it comes to trauma, he explained. So, the film is about the people in Rwanda...after the 1994 Tutsi genocide. The film focuses on the life of those orphaned by the genocide as they struggle to deal with the aftermath of trauma and learn to overcome it. Habimana and his co-director Ledford explore the relationships between survivors and the people who were responsible, the killers. They talk about the process of unity and reconciliation that is now going on in Rwanda. The Pioneer Log: What is it like to work on a project with such a personal connection? Habimana: Filming was really

difficult, but after some time I learned a lot. So, its become a part of healing and helped me many times. He added that he had actually changed the title to Komora from its original name, The Children Who Lived, after gaining an understanding from the people involved in the project, especially from the people who killed and those who repented. Filming the documentary became like a medicine...its really difficult to understand somebody else, especially when its somebody who has caused the trouble to you, like the killers, he said. At this point during the interview, we were interrupted by Associate Dean of Students and Director of Multicultural Affairs Tricia Brand, who chatted with Habimana, praised his work on the documentary and called the screening of Komora probably one of the singular, most impactful events of the year. PL: Can you discuss the success that you have had in spreading his message about Rwanda and sharing the story of your country? Habimana: Its the only thing I can do to give value of the people who have been killed... They have been killed without any value, [they] have been just killed like animals, like dogs! But this is the thing, that I feel like I am bringing back to my family, my community, my country and the future! Its the only thing I can do. PL: How does it feel to share such a personal story with such a large audience? Habimana: It was difficult but important to share for people who cant speak for themselves, who dont have the opportunity. Because how are we going to tell people what has happened? It happened, people were watchingno one wanted to react, people turned back and many other people have perished. He stressed that the genocide was not just a Rwandan issue and that the situation was more political and was contributed to by other countries in the international community. So, telling [my story] is really tough, but just because its tough, I have to fight it and face this stuff; I have to share the story. Thats all I can dothen, people can know what

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happened. PL: What do you want people to take away from the film? What is its purpose? Habimana: My purpose was to teach orphans, who are going to watch the movie, that we can overcome, that we can do something. The [second purpose of the film] was to show the imagewhat my country is doing after the genocide, showing where we are progressing good and where we are failing. Habimana hopes that by sharing Rwandas story, not just of the genocide but also of the survivors and future of Rwanda, he can help others understand and stop future injustices. His hope is to stop the kind of trauma that he experienced. What happened [there] happened to me and was over, but people survived, and we have to deal with other difficulties as a nation after a genocide, and Its not something easy and it takes a while. Habimana hopes that his voice can alert people to current crises. Maybe someone about my age today, or the same age I was in 1994, is facing the same thing just because he is the thing that he is, you know, the ethnicity, or any different reason. Maybe he has different opinions to the government, or maybe he was born in a place rich with minerals and, you know, he has to die becauseI mean there are many different reasons why people are being killed, especially in Africa, or somewhere else like that. Anyway, that, [the documentary/story], is my contribution. I wish I could do more. I wish my voice could be heard by many, many people, as many as possible, but thats all I could do.

Komora: To Heal will be screened again on campus later this spring, and can also be seen online through Vimeo. Donations will be accepted to help Habimana and Ledford finalize their film.

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