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    The document summarizes opposing viewpoints on whether President Obama should approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. Caleb Diehl argues that approving the pipeline would create jobs, secure energy sources, and maintain good relations with Canada. Grayson Arango argues that approving the pipeline would be environmentally disastrous, undermine efforts to reduce carbon emissions, and disproportionately impact vulnerable communities. The article also summarizes student opinions on Lewis & Clark College's "Senior Experience" program, with some arguing it emphasizes alumni engagement over facilitating student experiences.

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    The document summarizes opposing viewpoints on whether President Obama should approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. Caleb Diehl argues that approving the pipeline would create jobs, secure energy sources, and maintain good relations with Canada. Grayson Arango argues that approving the pipeline would be environmentally disastrous, undermine efforts to reduce carbon emissions, and disproportionately impact vulnerable communities. The article also summarizes student opinions on Lewis & Clark College's "Senior Experience" program, with some arguing it emphasizes alumni engagement over facilitating student experiences.

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    THE PIONEER LOG OPINION

    MARCH 1, 2013

    Submit your vote for the rhetorical artistry you find most compelling. Vote by sending the columnists name in an email titled Rhetorical Rampage to piolog@gmail.com or take the poll on The Pioneer Log Facebook page. KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE APPROVAL
    BY REBECCA PETERSEN
    STAFF WRITER

    For

    The Rhetorical Rampage


    A WEEKLY COLUMN DEVOTED TO STUDENT DEBATE

    Against
    but he has deliberately cultivated increased offshore drilling and fossil fuel exploitation on public lands. Dont pretend the president walks around barefoot, sporting a tie-dye shirt. Lewis & Clark is committed to sustainability and sound environmental policy. A colleges priority, however, is the sustainability of student job prospects. According to the Keynesian tenets President Obama has demonstrated through his stimulus programs, a huge injection of government spending into the economy will ripple powerfully, promoting investment and raising national income. Our country should recognize the implications of angering a foreign neighbor while straining against Chinas rapid growth. At the same time, we will weaken our economy by denying it essential employment figures. Without the Keystone Pipeline, well have to dig our way out of the rubble and fight through some serious rocks.

    Activists are padlocking themselves to fences and tens of thousands of people are marching on Washington D.C., all in the attempt to combat the panic-inducing possibility that President Obama will approve the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline. This pipeline would carry crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast at a staggering rate of 830,000 barrels per day. To allow its creation would not only be environmentally disastrous but would also mark the United States as a selfish and irresponsible member of the global community. Presidential approval of the pipeline would be a long-term, irrevocable action. It would mean both the threat of large-scale oil spills and another misstep in the series of costly mistakes that have turned our oceans acidic and our weather volatile. Additionally, such a choice would run entirely counter to the promises of President Obamas State of the Union speech, in which he expressed the urgency of weaning the United

    States off of carbon-based fuels; approving the pipeline would put into question his dedication to this cause. While some argue that the Keystone XL Pipeline would reduce our dependence on overseas oil sources, the pipeline would primarily demonstrate a complete lack of commitment in the fight against environmental degradation and climate change. It would also show disregard for the lives of the people that these decisions affect the most, people who live without stable shelter and resources. It is bitterly unfair that the individuals most imperiled by climate change also contribute the least carbon to our atmosphere. Logically, we all know that the first step to getting out of a hole is to stop digging, and this countrys addiction to fossil fuels is the shovel in our hands. We also know that the shifts in our global climate have been brought about by the repeated allowance of projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline. All this prompts the question: why is this pipelines approval even up for debate?

    BY CALEB DIEHL
    OPINION EDITOR

    The Keystone of political and economic stability


    In this new arena for written debate, two columnists will face off each week with differing opinions on an issue that impacts the Lewis & Clark Community.

    A direct pipeline to hypocrisy and peril

    Crushing the Keystone XL Pipeline will collapse international relations and economic arches. With the stroke of his pen to approve the pipeline, President Obama can create thousands of jobs and secure short-term energy. Killing the project could anger Canadas conservative leaders, who have promised retaliation. And you know how hockey players get when they see a fight. That could be the good news, after we get past our own radicalized, regressive energy conservatives. More delays and indecision on this issue could stop anything from passing in todays polarized government. Activists worry the pipeline could threaten Nebraskan grasslands, but after TransCanada adjusted the pipelines route to avoid sensitive areas, Nebraskas Governor consented to construction. President Obama did promise progress on climate change,

    Senior Experience replaces celebration with contradiction


    life as a college graduate. In order to address this transition, the administration will hold a series of Senior Experience events throughout the semester. Senior Week, an extra week after finals for seniors to celebrate their impending ejection into the real world, will also be introduced. The Senior Experience events can be more harmful than helpful during the transition away from Lewis & Clark. They emphasize enjoying our time while were here (the more we love LC, the more money we should give), but at the same time, theres a conflicting emphasis on how excited we should be to leave. Im able to savor my time here and regret that its coming to an end, but its off-putting to be asked to feel this way while also being encouraged to hurry up and leave. The Senior Experience is feeling more and more like a restaurant that wants its customers to have a good time and tip well, but with not-so-subtle encouragement from the wait staff to make your way towards the door so they can give your table to someone else. Unfortunately, Senior Week doesnt do much to help with this feeling. Events include an organized shuttle for Senior Night Outat which seniors will pay for their own cover charge, food and drinksand several events designed to get us started early as active alumni. The degree of activity seems to be mostly measured by dollar signs. This week focuses more on the transition into being alumni than the transition out of being students. by students of the same class year. It facilitates realistic friendships with people you will likely find in your classes or dorms. Over our time at LC, however, our friendships grow up and out of class year specificity. We are encouraged to branch out and expand our social circles by being involved in the school, and some of us have done just that. Senior Week directly opposes the Colleges encouragement of these relationships between students of all class years, as it awkwardly shifts you back into an environment populated only by students from your class year. This weeklong isolation makes it nearly impossible for non-seniors to attend graduation. The lifelong memories and heartfelt goodbyes I planned to make will now have to find their place in reading days and finals week, because it is unrealistic to expect non-seniors to hang around for an entire week, living somewhere off-campus, waiting for graduation to happen. I hope that as commencement and Senior Week approach, the College will realize that right now, the Senior Experience feels like its more about what LC wants and less about what seniors need.

    A Degree Summed up in Dollar Signs


    Being an alumna doesnt interest me just yet; I want to be spending as much time as I can as a student, making memories with friends to sustain our relationships as we face the reality of a likely long-term separation, but these experiences arent ones the College strives to facilitate. Structurally, the week feels like an illogical bookend to match New Student Orientation. At NSO, you are placed in an isolated environment primarily surrounded

    ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE SHUMANN

    BY GRAYSON ARANGO
    STAFF WRITER

    For many students, the slow approach of May means the end of the semester, but for some of us it means the end of our college careers. The graduating senior

    class faces the daunting reality that 70 days from now, we will have finished our last classes. We will have no more exams to take, no more essays to write. Instead, we will face the staggering responsibility of packing up our lives, saying goodbye to the place weve made our home and moving on to

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