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School Slang
  • The Bon: Pronounced “bone;” short for Bon Appétit (LC’s catering service) which refers to Fields Dining Room
  • Campo: Nickname used by LC students to refer to Campus Safety officers, as in “Hey! You guys, hide that! It's Campo!”
  • Freddy's: Fred Meyer, the supermarket where students go to get their groceries and other necessities
  • NSO: New Student Orientation, which lasts for the first week of school and helps new students and incoming freshmen get oriented to life at LC
  • Pac-Man Lawn: Lawn below Hartzfeld that is shaped like Pac-Man
  • Prospie: This is a term for prospective student, often used in a derogatory manner: “I heard that a prospie chick went home with a football player during her overnight visit.”
  • Raz or the Pio: The Pioneer Express, the bus that ships students to and from Pioneer Square every hour
  • RD: Acronym for resident director, the authority figure that RAs (resident assistants) report to
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
  • Being a small school means there aren't tons of classes offered.
  • Cold rain and low UV make up most of the school year.
  • Despite what you may see on prospective student orientation day, nude people aren't common; they just plan the "Accepted Students Day" during the Naked Mile.
  • Don’t overcommit yourself. Classes take a lot of time, and if you take too many classes, you’ll be overwhelmed, and you won’t enjoy yourself.
  • Don’t take morning classes unless it’s a subject about which you’re truly passionate. Getting up at 8 a.m. three days a week will get very tiresome after a month.
  • Get all the AP credits you can before you come.
  • Hooded sweatshirts are your best friend.
  • Word spreads quickly, so don’t do anything you don’t want everyone at school to know about.
Tips to Succeed
  • Check your email often.
  • Don’t stay in the Bon too long. There are several fine eateries a short drive away.
  • Don’t use the words “gay” or “retarded” as descriptive terms. You will get pounced by some of the extremely PC students.
  • Figure out what work you can easily get away with not doing.
  • Speak up and participate during class; get to know your professor and go to the office hours. The small classes provide a great opportunity to have a closer relationship with professors, but you have to reach out and grab it.
  • Study in the Q-Z section of the library (its group rooms have the nicest chairs).
  • Take as many trips into the city as possible.
  • Use office hours.
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s1992

Social Sciences '15

1.5
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Frustrating!

This year's freshman class is much larger than usual and the bus is always overcrowded. The fact that the school offers a shuttle is lovely and necessary because the campus is SO isolated. The city bus line (route 39) which runs through campus only leaves once an hour for a few hours a day, never late at night, and NOT ON THE WEEKEND AT ALL. The Pioneer Express (school shuttle) is convenient for getting downtown and gets you there fast and for free. Drawbacks for this are that it is so overcrowded esp. on friday/saturday nights that you may not get on and it only comes once an hour (!!). If you are using the Pio for leisure- to go shopping or to a concert or whatever its hard to complain about a free bus that takes you downtown, however having a job downtown and using this would actually be impossible. Much of the literature about this school features enticing things about "living in portland" and being a "liberal arts school in a city." These statements hardly seem true when you cannot GET to the city where we "live"

Dec 02, 2011

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CaseyHutch

Music Performance '15

4.2
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Great!

Academic programs are AWESOME. The professors are phenomenal! Homework load = overwhelming sometimes. But it's worth it.

Social scene - there are sooo many opportunities to find friends and everyone is pretty easy-going and very sweet. The only person who might have difficulty finding a friend is a right-wing conservative republican nut.

The facilities are absolutely OUTSTANDING.

Campus life - pretty cool. If you smoke cigarettes and want to stop...good luck. The designated smoking areas (DSA) are essentially the hot spots for hanging out/meeting people.

Unique opportunities!! - The study abroad program is amazing! Cuba!? India!? France? Italy? Africa!? Asia? Australia? South America? etcetcetc.. they've got it all!

Nov 27, 2011

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ciarradonofrio

Women's Studies '15

5.0
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COOP and Platteau- Lewis & Clark Is Creative

Our co-op is completely student run, always has student and external bands playing, has great food, is really affordable, and is a great space. The Plateau is a student run art center. With a dance studio, developing center, and ceramics studio it has all I could want!

Nov 16, 2011

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Traditions
  • Fall Ball: The dance held in November, where people can get dressed up and spend the night dancing. You get $5 back if you use the school transportation to the venue, and, for anybody 21 and over, alcohol is for sale.
  • International Fair: The big event, once a year, where the international students on campus and students with multicultural backgrounds, get together to celebrate different cultures. Commonly, there is music, food, and traditional dress.
  • Naked Mile: In April, daring students run about a mile around campus to celebrate being comfortable with their bodies—or maybe just to practice a little exhibitionism. Students peek out of dorm windows to catch a glimpse of their fellow students displaying their goods.
  • Spring Fling: Another rhyming school dance, the Spring Fling is held at the end of the second semester. Similar to the Fall Ball, the first couple hundred tickets are free, and transportation is provided. Alcohol, again, is available to all of those who are over the age of 21.
Urban Legends
  • According to the legend, in the 1950s, Stewart Hall had a live-in nurse who spent her days walking through the halls to check on students. During winter break, one of the students staying on campus fell sick and was visited by the nurse several times. When his roommate returned to school in January, he discovered the boy dead in his room. A surgical scalpel was found near his bed. Why would the nurse have murdered the boy? Well, the boy had gone to Alaska to work on the oil rigs during the summer, and there, he had supposedly killed the nurse’s husband. After the murder, the nurse mysteriously disappeared. During the ‘60s, two more students were murdered in their rooms in Platt, and students reported seeing an elderly woman in a white outfit exiting the building at the time of the murders. Surgical scalpels were found in the rooms. This was strange because the scalpels hadn’t been used since the ‘50s, and they were the exact same kind that had been used by the Stewart nurse. The four murders all happened under similar circumstances.
  • North Stewart, one of the halls of Stewart hall, was once an infirmary. The Stewart nurse, a middle-aged woman, was in charge of taking care of these students. The result of her death is unknown, but to this day, students claim that Stewart is haunted by the Stewart nurse. She roams the downstairs hallways, moaning with her footsteps echoing. Students claim that she likes girls and will leave them be, but it is the boys that she dislikes the most, and will aggravate late at night by banging on the pipes and following them around the laundry room in the basement.
  • The Virginity Tree is located near the Forest dorms. Not so much legend as it is rule—after students lose their virginity, they are supposed to go to the tree and hang the shoes they were wearing when they first had sex.
Did You Know?
  • Lewis & Clark is located a short five-minute drive away from Lake Oswego, a popular shopping area that has restaurants and other fun things to fill a weekend with.
  • Portland is a great place to be if you're into music. Students can easily run out of money paying for the hundreds of great concerts that happen monthly.

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