Arrazor's Enchanted Scrolls

to begin with, i just need to write this out because i feel ILL regarding this class. while i know that i will pass, i find it incredibly unlikely that i will get the credit, because i had put too much focus into my other classes. every aspect of life is a resource management game and i am REALLY BAD AT THOSE. rather than keeping everything balanced i scramble to fix one resource and the others then drop to severe levels. aspects of my own health, academic health included, are no exception. this class has only been evidence of that. so im sitting here, sunday of finals week, trying not to tweak because i have only proven to myself and my family that i am just as much of a disappointment, a goof up, as we've known — and tried to pretend otherwise — for the last seven years. as previously mentioned, over the course of the term, i was not really able to focus much on this class. i prioritized my other classes because they were more intensive, more interesting, and in my mind, more imp...

  Rachel Biscoe, the SLC President, helps make sure that everything runs smoothly for students on campus. She’s been a member of the Student Leadership Council since May of 2022, and won the election for president last November. She is, as of October 6th, a member of the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission. She advocates for students to the Board of Education, as well as running weekly SLC meetings and biweekly executive board meetings. The executive board meetings are spent trying to decide how to better their team and how to more effectively help students. Grace Hegel is a hobby artist. “Art has been my method of working through stressful periods of my life,” Grace says “this month was worthy of two heads.” In his spare time, Grace gets up to all sorts of craft projects, though his recent series has been styrofoam heads. They have also done a series of Beanie Babies, a couple of which can be seen on their shelf, as well as a reasonably sized series of paintings. The a...

     The occasional deciduous tree speckled along the road provides lovely contrast with the evergreens, and despite how late it is in the season, many of these trees still hold firmly onto their leaves.      Tawnya Dailey uses a leaf blower to clean out the gutters on her house outside of Lebanon, Oregon (November 19th)     The damp soil and dying leaves on the ground provide excellent conditions for fungi to grow.

  Tawnya Dailey, local acupuncturist, has been serving Lebanon for the last 20 years. Dena Burian (left) and Jodi Zurfluh (right) set up lights for Holidays in the Park, which will be holding the tree lighting ceremony in early December. The sun setting over Cheadle Lake silhouettes the Weldwood Water Tower in Lebanon, Oregon.

Cindy Sherman, born 1954, is a photographer who specializes in self portrait photography, though not in the typical sense. One could make the argument, in fact, that Sherman is an actress, as she plays the role of a different character in all of her photos. She began attending college in 1972 in the visual arts program, where she began painting. She found herself frustrated by the limits of the medium, and began dabbling in photography instead. While in college, she had also begun to experiment with what would later be one of the biggest features of her work—dressing as different characters created from clothing from a thrift store.  Her works have a very wide range in focus, from the variety of people you may find on public transport to imitations of historical paintings to clowns. Her best known works, however, were from her series known as “Untitled Film Stills” which focuses on different female characters typical of 50’s and 60’s movies, showing different cliches. As in most of...

    Students walking between classes on campus.     Leaves dance through the wind in circles across the track.   Zeph Portukalian, Student Engagement Leader at LBCC, demonstrates how to get your hand stuck in a vending machine while trying to push a packet of Skittles back into place.