Griffin is a junior and a Japanese and international relations double major who is clustering in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He hails from Pendleton, Ore., a small town in a desert.
On campus, he is involved with In Between the Lines Improv Troupe, After Hours and URTV. You may also recognize him from his job at the Common Market.
He is a Libra, who likes to play frisbee anywhere, even when it is snowing.

What is being in After Hours really like?
It is really fun we love to hang out with each other and laugh at all the incest and internal drama that we cause.

What is the best advice your parents gave you?
My parents didn’t give me a lot of advice, but they told me to eat my green beans to grow and it worked I’m 6-foot-5.

If you were a garden what would be growing?
Probably tomatoes and just free love.

What was your most challenging improv moment?
The time when I was chosen to be a really obscure president I think it was Zachary Taylor, and I didn’t know who he was.

What is the song of the week?
‘Part-time Model,” by the Flight of The Concords.

If you could make an iPhone/iTouch application, what would you name it and make it do?
It would be ‘iTouch myself,” and it massages you.

If you were given $30 million what would you do?
Pay off my college debt and take a boat around the world for a year. When I come back have a really big party.

What is UR missing that OR has?
My dog Webster; he’s a black lab.

Sakamoto is a member of the class of 2009.



The steep price of health and wellness

Instead of shaming others for not epitomizing stereotypical health and wellness, we must meet every individual where they are at.

Reinventing fairytales with Eastman’s “H & G”

It is not a “narrative” in the typical sense, but rather a visual and auditory collage of dreamlike fragments that piece together a nonlinear reflection on life.

The issue with renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America”

It reinforces the idea of American exceptionalism, and furthers the increasingly accurate worldwide perception that the U.S. has no regard for its neighbors and allies.