Dorm Cooking: Pita with hummus and bell pepper

BY MARI YAMATO
Features Editor

The Pioneer Log, March 18, 2011

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For this tasty and healthy sandwich recipe, you will need a frying pan. Hint: Copeland G-wing usually has cooking utensils if your hall is lacking cooking supplies. Ingredients: One half/whole bell pepper Hummus Pita bread One tablespoon canola oil Directions: 1. From the side, slice pita bread halfway through, making a pocket, so you can stu bell pepper slices inside. 2. Rinse bell pepper and make a circular cut around the top of the pepper. Pull stem from pepper and scoop out unwanted seeds and membrane. Slice bell pepper into thin strips. 3. Heat frying pan on medium high with one tablespoon of canola oil. Once pan is heated, place pita bread on pan for approximately 30 seconds on each side. 4. Once pita bread is thoroughly toasted, throw bell pepper strips into pan. Cook for 3-5 minutes, depending on desired texture, and stir regularly to prevent burning. 5. Spread hummus inside the pita bread, then stu the cooked bell pepper slices inside. Enjoy!

PHOTOS BY MARI YAMATO

LC History: Alumna Major Perspectives: Arlen Nishida General Jeanne M. Holm (49)
BY JULIA STEWART
Opinions Editor

BY MICAH LEINBACH
Staff Writer

Last week, the 30th annual Gender Symposium looked towards the future of gender in society. is week, the LC History column looks toward one remarkable story of gender struggle in the past with a focus on alumna Jeanne M. Holm (49), the United States Air Forces (USAF) rst female general. Born June 23, 1921 in Portland, Holms early life is largely undocumented, one fact we know is that prior to military service Holm was a professional silversmith. On May 15,1942, the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps was established by Congress, allowing women a chance to serve in the military. Holm would enlist as a truck driver, but by 1943 she had been commissioned as a ird O cer, her rst o cial military rank. We felt like pioneers we knew we were breaking new ground, she said. Holm later re ected on her rst experience in the military with a statement that suited her alma mater nicely. roughout World War II, Holm commanded and trained a regiment of female service members, having moved from rainy Portland to sun-baked Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. As the war came to a close, Holm left her

command of a military hospital in favor of a civilian life. She attended Lewis & Clark as a rst-year in 1946. But the start of the Cold War would draw her back to military service. e rst crisis to incur casualties resulted in Holm being called back into active service, and she was forced to leave her studies after two years. She returned nearly a decade later, in 1956, to complete her degree. In the time between, she served in Berlin, helping to oversee the airlifts over the Soviet blockade. Holm became the rst woman to attend the Air Command and Sta School. ACSS was the Air Forces college for eld o cers, and clearly Holm did something right. She would come to serve under three presidential administrations, write a book on womens role in the military and act as one of the militarys leading activists for women in service. Holm has too many accolades to list, but the high number alone demonstrates her life of service and success. One impressive achievement is the USAF Center for O cer Accessions & Citizen Development was named after her. Video interviews of Holm in her old age, shortly before her death on Feb. 15, 2010, show a ery redhead with spirit to match. It was that spirit that earned her the Distinguished Alumni award for exceptional leadership from LCand many honors besides.

Arlen Nishida hails from Hawaii, but has been patrolling the streets of campus to ensure our safety for the past 11 years. He plans to spend another 15 years as a campus security o cer until he can retire at age 67. I have always admired the police and re department and the people who are out there helping, said Nishida. Although he considered pursuing those jobs, he wanted to avoid the politics that his policeman brother-inlaw warned him were involved. In working at a college campus, Nishida said that he enjoys the camaraderie between the o cers, sta and students. Nishida spends a large portion of his day behind the wheel of the large-and-in charge Campus Safety pick-up trucks. e sustainably-minded folk on campus may wonder why a Toyota Prius wouldnt be just as effective. Trucks are better to haul the barricades we use for special events, said Nishida. Also, we do transportation of injured people. ats why we have the four-door trucks instead of the small two-door ones. In his eleven years, Nishida said he has only had to go into action ten times. Once in a blue moon you think about things that could have gone wrong, or maybe that I should have done it this way. But in terms of fearing for his life, Nishida said that is not an emotion he has to face. Marijuana violations are the most com-

mon incident he faces. [Marijuana] is a drug and it will fry your brain, warned Nishida. He continued, Every type of drug has its good and bad [aspects] and I would recommend staying away from those drugs. Even though Nishida said there isnt anything he doesnt like about his job, he said the best part is the end of the day when he gets to go home to his wife, three Chihuahuas and two Chow Chows.

PHOTO BY JULIA STEWART

Campus safety officer Arlen Nishida considered law enforcement but wanted to avoid the politics.

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