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As the second week of spring term starts up, lot of times is people are hearing something that out pepper spray and get hurt.” some students are wondering about their safety happened to a friend of a friend and then posting There are a few different options for self- on campus after a string of robberies during it, and people are getting scared.” defense classes on campus. The Warrior Sisters, the weeks leading up to spring break have Dorman said the campus robbers seemed to be a Eugene-based organization, offers self-defense still gone unsolved. after whatever the victim had in their pockets and classes in Eugene twice a week. UO offers a two- The Eugene Police Department reports there warns against walking alone at night around the credit women’s self-defense class. Students can have been eight robberies near campus between time many are leaving bars. also request a self-defense workshop for a group Jan. 1 and April 2 this year; three more than in the “If you’ve been out drinking, it’s really important through the UO Recreation center. same time period last year. that you plan ahead of time for a way to get As the weather warms up, many students may Another robbery occurred on April 5 near home,” Dorman said. “If you’re walking, make find themselves outside later to enjoy it. If they 14th Avenue and Patterson Street. Eugene police sure you walk in groups, don’t be out and heavily do, Dorman says to reach out to the resources reported that a 22-year-old woman was pushed to intoxicated by yourself, stay away from dark areas. that UO provides, like the UO Campus Shuttle, the ground by a male suspect who was trying to We haven’t had any incidents where people are in which just recently added two more stops to its steal her purse between 1 and 1:30 a.m.. groups of even two or three have had an issue, so off-campus route. One of the biggest issues the EPD has it’s all been sole victims.” With the primary robberies still open, Dorman encountered is the uptick in social media posts Dorman also said a good way to stay safe is to emphasizes that people should do everything they about the robberies. take a self-defense class rather than carrying a can to protect themselves. “We’re really asking people to be careful about self-defense weapon like pepper spray. “The biggest thing is safety in numbers — stay their social media posts because it creates panic, “I’d recommend that they take some self-defense together, don’t be out wandering in the dark and a lot of cases it just didn’t happen,” Dorman classes, that way they have a clear understanding and put yourself in a vulnerable position,” said. “If they see something and they’re a victim of of what the limitations to those are,” Dorman Dorman said. something, call the police immediately. I wouldn’t said. “What I don’t want to see is somebody Braedon Kwiecien and Frankie Benitez contributed tell people not to post, but what’s happening a getting robbed with a gun to have them pull reporting to this story.

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Since March 5, White Bird from last month with Eugene Clinic, Lane County’s crisis- Weekly, Margaret Alexander, intervention service, has librarian and facilities manager teamed up with the Eugene for the Eugene Public Library, Public Library to extend the said that roughly 3,000 people accessibility of services already visit the library every day. available through existing This is partly due to its close locations. White Bird’s “Library proximity to Eugene Station Extension Plan” is a free and according to Perin, because service for walk-in counseling it’s also a place to be calm: a and referrals for community place to recharge more than members seeking someone to just a phone. talk to. “It’s one of the only places White Bird operates medical where people can find a safe, and dental clinics, drug and warm place to be quiet. It’s alcohol treatment programs, a hub of community. It goes outpatient mental health way beyond just checking out services, offers housing support books,” Perin said. and connects local residents to The White Bird Clinic other resources. This is the first began in 1969 as an answer time in history that White Bird to the large increase of has done an extension of its homeless youth in and crisis office. around Lane County. Michelle Perin is one of two Perin believes that the crisis counselors who will be process of beginning counseling available through the Library can sometimes be scary and Extension Plan. With multiple discouraging. Oftentimes, years of experience as an EMT, appointments are scheduled she believes that White Bird months in advance with little is qualified to serve as a first help in between. contact for people experiencing “We’re hoping that it will a wide variety of issues because be kind of a model for other of its breadth in resources. communities. If it’s successful “Longer term counseling is here in Lane County, we’d love unfortunately at a minimum to extend it to surrounding right now in Lane County. cities, like Oak Ridge, Creswell Waitlists are really, really or Cottage Grove – places that long just to get into to see a don’t have any resources like counselor. This is a way to this at all,” Perin said. fill the gap,” Perin said. “This Currently the Library is crisis counseling – we’re Extension Plan is funded not licensed to do long-term through December 2018, with therapy. The idea is to work a possibility of refunding in with the other agencies that the near future. Services are are already out there – places available Monday through that people may not be able to Thursday, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., access on their own.” and Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. According to an interview to 5:30 p.m.

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Andrew Pardi is the executive director of Students for Global Health. (Sarah Northrop) ANNUAL GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE LOOKS TO BRING AWARENESS TO WOMEN’S GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES BY RYLEE KAHAN • TWITTER @RYLEEKAHAN

The University of Oregon will host the “Alma Ata” (an international declaration that issue that often gets brushed aside at many of annual Western Regional Global Health discusses the importance of primary health care), the larger conferences Klausen said, which is Conference April 20 through 22. The conference and “Adverse Childhood Experiences.” why he made sure that wasn’t going to happen at is open to everyone and free for students Other schools attending the conference include this year’s conference. with their ID. Tickets can be picked up at the University of Washington, Oregon State University, “We wanted to especially highlight [the UO ticketing office. Oregon Health and Science University and importance of the issue] by placing it at a The new Global Health Club at UO is looking Portland State University. plenary panel level, as well as feature a lot of to start a conversation about global health that There will be nine breakout sessions in the the different perspectives of that issue that isn’t just medicine-related, but is about education, conference, some of which will include “Refugee are generally not exposed,” Klausen said. “We awareness and advocacy from a well-rounded Health,” “Obstetric Fistula and Beyond: Improving have a formerly homeless panel member, perspective, according to UO student Zoe Women’s Health,” “Global Health Environment” a transgender panel member, a practicing PEOPLE VISIT THE Cameron. Cameron is the public relations and and “Rural Healthcare and Barriers to Access.” physician and two members from the Society of communications chair for the club and a junior Since September, Pardi has been Menstrual Cycle Research.” EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY majoring in human physiology. coordinating guest speakers with the help of a Pardi, Klausen and Cameron all agreed that it Part of the reasoning behind hosting the team of students. is extremely important that college students are conference at UO this year is to raise awareness Each student that is a part of the Global Health aware and informed about all of the issues that for the new Center for Global Health and the global Club brought a different perspective on an surround and compose global health. health minor. issue that is most important to them, which is “When you get to college, we all sort of get “One of our goals is to make the Pacific highlighted in the design of the conference. For this tunnel vision — we put these blinders on,” Northwest a main point of location in the U.S. when Pardi, it’s the ethics involved in global health. Pardi said. talking about global health,” said Andrew Pardi, the Grant Klausen, a junior majoring in human “We focus on the homework we have to do and executive director and president of the UO Global physiology and minoring in chemistry and global the friends we have around us, which is important, Health Club. health, is the co-director of events for the Global but I feel like we sometimes lose sight of the This year’s overarching theme for the conference Health Club and had a major impact on the bigger picture,” Pardi said. “Any education you is “Change-Makers: The Essential Role of Women planning of the conference. can receive about what the true state of the world in Global Health.” Plenary panels for the conference One of the most important global health is right now is going to make you a better person are “Global Health and Ethics,” “Menstrual Health,” issues to Klausen is menstrual health. It’s an in the long run.”

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‘DON’T TOUCH MY HAIR’ EXHIBIT INVITES STUDENTS TO GET PERSONAL ABOUT WHAT THEIR HAIR MEANS TO THEM

Kristen Clayton, co-curator of “Don’t Touch My Hair,” BY SARAH URBAN poses in front of the exhibit. (Adam Eberhardt)

“Your hair is your glory,” Kristen Achievement and Vice President of the Clayton’s mom told her over and over. UO Division of Equity and Inclusion She would hover above her daughter’s Dr. Yvette Alex Assensoh to develop the head and work her hands through purpose and plan for the project. the thick, waist-length curls. For The design of the exhibition revolved Clayton, these moments were a sacred, around five community conversations ritualistic practice. that took place in January 2018. At In Melbourne, Florida, where Clayton the conversations, UO students and grew up, she was the only African faculty gathered at JSMA to discuss American student at her private the personal significance of one’s hair. elementary school. The school required Clayton facilitated these conversations kids’ hair be kept “neat,” — a rule that by with a list of questions, and assured nature, excluded her curly and kinky those in attendance that they were in a afro. Clayton remembers routinely safe space to be vulnerable. sitting in front of the television for “I’m really emotional, but for this up to 10 hours as her mother washed project I had to abstract my own and conditioned her hair before emotions because there were so many straightening it with an iron comb that other emotions going on,” she said. was heated over the stove. “Whether that’s of the guest curator, “It was a way for us to bond but it the artist, the participant — everyone was also difficult because you knew else was really emotional, so I had that it wasn’t necessarily for aesthetic to feel nothing.” pleasure,” Clayton said. “It was so that I Responses varied dramatically. could survive in an environment when According to Clayton, one participant kids wanted to touch your hair or play spoke about feeling suppressed in with it because it was so different.” a major that is dominated by men Clayton — now a first-year graduate who have a regulated professional student at the University of Oregon — appearance. Another participant didn’t fully grasp that her hair was curly opened up about being from a poorer until she was in the 11th or 12th grade. family, and having to wear a buzz cut “To not know yourself in your natural to avoid lice. state, it’s very strange,” she said. Lancaster was approaching the During her role as co-curator of discussions from a primarily political “Don’t Touch My Hair: Expressions of angle. She was taken aback when one Identity and Community,” an exhibition student explained that her relation to on display at Jordan Schnitzer Museum hair was wrapped up in a sexual assault of Art, Clayton saw her own experience incident. The student was physically reflected in the exhibit. disarmed by the attacker’s hold on her The exhibit “investigates the politics long ponytail, leaving her relationship of hair, racialized beauty standards, to her hair tainted and wrapped up in hair rituals and the differences in trauma. Cutting her hair was a symbol expectations between men and women of the weight and pain being lifted. with regard to hair,” said guest curator “I was really stunned; I hadn’t thought Meredith Lancaster. about that. It added an extra layer to “I’M DONE WITH Five student-photographers took all the things that could be tied up in a photos of UO students and faculty who person’s hair,” Lancaster said. spoke of their hair as a significant part Following the discussions, the student SURVIVING. I of their identity. These photos, paired photographers conducted photo shoots with individual hair stories, line the with those in the community who were walls of the JSMA. willing to have their stories included in The idea for the exhibition began the final exhibition. WANT TO THRIVE.” circulating after Janelle Crouch, a One photographer, junior Malik hairdresser and motivational speaker Lovette, shot each of his photos with KRISTEN CLAYTON from Atlanta, Georgia, spoke at UO his iPhone X. Another photographer, Ethnic Hair Care Day in May 2017. JSMA sophomore Ugochukwu Akabike, set staff had a conversation with Crouch, down his phone to use a real camera UO student group Black Women of for the first time. He had only been

PAGE 8 | EMERALD | MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2018 Sophomore Aayana Fuller poses for a photo that highlights her hair as a form of self-expression. (Courtesy of Ugochukwu Akabike)

A photo of Jaria Martin (left) and other participants taken for the “Don’t Touch My Hair Exhibit.” (Courtesy of Ugochukwu Akabike)

pursuing photography seriously for around a year. A little while later she saw a beautiful Black and carefree Black girl mentality,” she said. “Some of the first few sessions you could tell woman with a big and bold afro walk onto the The purpose of the exhibit was not to restrict that I was nervous and I didn’t really know what I platform in the train station. Clayton instantly this conversation to one cultural group, but was doing,” Akabike said. However, as the project noticed the shameless confidence and fearlessness to show that all UO students and faculty are progressed, he gained confidence and was able to with which the woman carried herself. connected, and can understand each other give clear direction. “I looked at her, and then I saw my self in her better by opening up about their relationships Participant Jaria Martin, senior at the UO, that I had suppressed for so many years,” she said. to hair, according to Clayton. Participants in the said given the current political climate, she felt Similar to Clayton, Lancaster grew up in an exhibition came from all different backgrounds, honored to have her hair celebrated in a state environment where her hair was something that ethnicities and genders. where at one time it was illegal for Black people set her apart from her peers. She remembers being “I have grown in the way of awareness. I notice to reside. “...To have my university be able to ridiculed and bullied by other children; they called when people put work into their hair, I notice showcase this to serve as an education piece, and her a lion because of her unruly curls. Lancaster when people wear different styles of their hair,” not just a celebration piece, I think that really is still working on wearing her natural hair with Akabike said now that he has had time to reflect encompassed everything, and I was just thankful pride, instead of feeling like a target for judgment on the exhibition. to be a part of that.” Martin loves her hair; she and insults. She curated the exhibit hoping that Whether curly or straight, black or brown, is known for her confidence and ability to rock the exhibition would evoke a discussion leading to frizzy or flat, long or short, hair can be a flag the natural look. deeper understanding of others. representing identity and culture. Individual Next to the photos in the exhibit, there are “We have to spend more time thinking about the stories may be scarred and complex, or light quotes from the community conversations. In things that make us the same,” Lancaster said. and casual, yet they can all carry weight one hallway, a small table adorned with an open Isaac Leve, a senior at UO, said he was and significance that is deeply kneaded journal stands opposite of the photos. Inside the encouraged by many of his friends and teachers, as into one’s identity. journal, viewers of the exhibit are given space well as his mother, to participate in the exhibition. Clayton was tired of trying to assimilate herself to reflect. One writer said that their hair is limp He describes his hair as “a huge ‘fro” and says into a white environment. After graduating high and lifeless, and that it often reminds them of that he grew it out because he wanted to. And as a school, she cut her hair. their inadequacies. “But it is the color of warm, white male, he acknowledged that this is a luxury “It was kind of like a scar, like all those years of honeyed afternoon sunlight,” they continued. “And many students aren’t able to exercise. me straightening my hair was still on me,” Clayton that I appreciate.” Another one of the photographers, sophomore said. “I’m done with surviving. I want to thrive.” Clayton said that her own story was revealed Jasmine Jackson, said she was passionate Don’t Touch My Hair: Expressions of Identity and through each story shared. She recalled her about helping create the exhibition because Community runs in JSMA until May 13, 2018. There time studying abroad in Paris when she took she recognized that it is not common for Black will be one final community conversation on May 2 out her braids overnight. The next day in class, people to talk about their hair by choice. She from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. This discussion is open to all her classmates, some of whom she’d known enjoyed collaborating with each of the other UO students and faculty and intended for reflection throughout her entire college career, didn’t even photographers and curators, noting that each and evaluation of the exhibition. recognize her with a new hairdo. She struggled to person had their own strengths and utilized them The JSMA is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on dissect what that meant. to encourage others who were experiencing doubt. Wednesdays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through “I felt such a disconnect between my identity, my “I walk into a room and feel as though my hair Sundays. Entry is $5, $3 for people 62 and up and free hair and how other people saw me,” Clayton said. openly tells the story of my developing confidence for members, UO students and faculty.

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United UO slate members (from left to right) Karishma Shah and Jacob Faatz speak at town hall debate. (Frankie Benitez) UNITED UO IS THE SLATE TO WATCH BY TED YANEZ

It’s that time of year again at the University of a major economic Oregon. The Candidate Town Hall Debate for this resource for the city. Last year’s ASUO election featured two slates: United month, I made the same UO and Ducks Together. Polls open on Duckweb suggestions as Faatz on Monday, April 9 at 9 a.m. and results will be regarding lighting and published on Thursday, April 12 at 6 p.m. While working with the City both slates have many similarities, there are a few of Eugene. In regards to key differences that swayed my support toward the university’s Title IX United UO. policies, Faatz made the United UO isn’t the Status Quo distinctions that “they’re The first key difference is that none of United not policies; they’re called UO’s candidates currently hold an ASUO office guidelines.” He wants to work with the university position; Ducks Together does. Maria Gallegos to turn these guidelines into structured policies. — currently sitting in Seat 13 in the Senate United UO Wants to Get Things Done and running for ASUO President — touted the When asked by a student during open questions experience of her and her running mate for how each slate will accomplish their goals, as internal ASUO VP, Imani Dorsey, several times these positions are only one year long, United ASUO throughout the debate. It should also be noted UO pointed out that it wants to focus on safety, that the external ASUO VP candidate for Ducks parking and housing. It wants to help students Together, Ivan Chen, is currently the ASUO push back against housing companies that take organizing director. gross advantage of students. VOTING Jacob Faatz, ASUO presidential candidate When it comes to parking, United UO wants with United UO, doesn’t have ASUO experience. to work with the university to improve parking Neither does Karishma Shah, ASUO VP candidate conditions because students shouldn’t have to with United UO. It doesn’t take experience to rely on the local bus system. This is extremely POLLS OPEN ON come up with good ideas, such as additional important when students have exams and study lighting either on or near campus to improve late at night. The bus system stops operating safety. That being said, Faatz isn’t without before the Knight Library closes at 2 a.m., and DUCKWEB ON political experience. He has internship experience students aren’t able to park on campus past with Senator Ron Wyden’s field office, which midnight. This creates a dangerous situation MONDAY APRIL 9 he brought up in an effort to show that he has where students may be walking alone at night. transferable skills that would help him serve our Ducks Together’s answer made me uneasy. In campus. When he brought this experience up, short, they implied that the nine-month academic AT 9:00 A.M. AND Gallegos mocked him, saying she wasn’t running year was short and not everything can get done. for a position with the City of Eugene. The slate stated that it wanted to “plant seeds,” RESULTS WILL BE United UO Wants to Keep You Safe adding that the administration “takes advantage” As previously mentioned, Faatz wants more of the annual turnover due to the nature of lighting to provide safer routes for students. On the ASUO executive offices. United UO fired at PUBLISHED ON the other hand, Ducks Together brushed off this Ducks Together by stating, “We will do more than idea, asserting that the crimes were mostly off advocate; we will act.” THURSDAY APRIL campus. This commentary disregards student Both slates talked a great deal about diversity, safety, especially considering the close proximity but little about intellectual diversity. For many of the crimes to campus. Notably, one of the on campus, this is an important aspect due to 12 AT 6:00 P.M. crimes that recently occurred on March 17 was the nature of their unpopular views. Students not even one block away from campus. Before the with such views have told the Daily Emerald crime was reported, I drove around most of the they have been harassed for them. Luckily, these experience and having little to show for it. streets that border our campus. What I saw were students can rest easy knowing that there is a Students Need to Consider Their Priorities several minimally lit streets; it was barely safe slate that I feel would be more likely to protect It’s time for students at the University of Oregon for a car. When I decided to go for a walk along them if this continued. to make a decision –– one that shouldn’t be taken these streets, I stumbled along some of the uneven While Faatz sided with the students when lightly. If you are still unsure about which of the sidewalk due to a lack of lighting. asked about UO President Michael Schill’s two slates to vote for, I urge you not to shrug this One of the worst areas for lighting was around New York Times column, he also said that off. While a school election might sound silly the East Campus Houses and 19th and Alder, both “opposing views should be respected” and to make such a big deal of, it just might be the just down the street from the site of the sexual that we shouldn’t “scream and yell” at those difference between being safe on campus and not. assault on March 17. When asked how she would we disagree with. As a student who has been At the very least, we should consider our priorities handle the allocation of ASUO funds, Gallegos said harassed for having opposing views, I would and choose which slate appeals to us best. I value that campus was “already lit and super expensive feel safer on campus with Jacob Faatz as ASUO safety for every student, regardless of race, color, to change. … that, to me, is wasteful.” President. It takes a lot of patience, respect gender, preference or affiliation. That’s why I Faatz stated he wanted to work with the City and self control to be such a person. That is firmly believe that United UO is the slate to vote of Eugene, pointing out that UO students are far more valuable than being an insider with for this year.

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EDITORIAL: ASUO SLATES

The following is the opinion not a defining factor, having of the Emerald’s editorial board experience on how ASUO and not Emerald Media Group works may translate well into as a whole. the slate’s performance next The ASUO election is an year if elected. But sticking opportunity for UO students to the status quo may not sit to directly participate in well with students depending their school’s democracy, but on their view of the current election turnouts the past ASUO slate. In that case, couple of years have been United UO is the slate horrendous. A total of 2,799 to consider. students voted in the 2016 United UO ASUO election and 1,439 United UO is campaigning voted in 2017 — roughly 11 on its five pillars: student percent and 6 percent of the safety, student housing, student body, respectively. student health, transportation ASUO handles roughly $16 and community town halls. million accumulated from Among many things, the students’ tuition, which is slate is more focused on one of the many reasons why infrastructure changes students should be voting in than Ducks Together, the election. emphasizing the increase Unlike last year, two ASUO of lighting around campus slates are competing this in response to the recent year to represent the student robberies and increasing body: Ducks Together and parking availability. United UO. The Emerald United UO’s slate members will not endorse a slate are made up of students this election as they have who are not already in in previous elections, but ASUO. Jacob Faatz and we endorse the idea that Karishma Shah are the students should be informed running president and vice so that they vote according to presidential candidate, what they believe is best for respectively. Faatz has the university. interned with U.S. Senator Ducks Together Ron Wyden and has also According to its Facebook interned for Oregon Senator page, Ducks Together is “all Lee Beyer. United UO believes about taking back student that the slate’s experience power.” Maria Gallegos and in local government and its Imani Dorsey, the presidential fresh approach to the ASUO and vice presidential establishment will prove candidates, stressed in last that it’s the right choice to Thursday’s town hall debate represent UO students. that student voices will be UO students need to know protected and heard on issues that ASUO will decide where like tuition increases. One their tuition dollars go next of the slate’s main focuses year and debate how much is to make the student Food your tuition is increased Pantry more available to food the next year. Students who insecure students. Increasing care about their money Food Pantry availability allocation have a say in was part of Amy Schenk’s where the money is allocated campaign last year for her to. Students can call their slate, UO For You. representatives, or participate It’s important to know that in town hall debates, but Ducks Together is primarily the first point of democracy made up of current ASUO starts with voting in who you representatives. Although it’s believe represents you best.

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The way that students of color vote is vastly Magazine, nearly four out of five students are important for this ASUO election. The harassment that employed for full or part-time jobs. Students’ time UO students of color face has recently become more is more costly, which makes it hard for them to public, whether because of the nazis on campus, anti- do labor that is not properly compensated. For immigration graffiti or racist costumes from faculty. marginalized students, this issue is on top of the Both slates have stated that the safety of marginalized stigma and harassment they receive from peers, students is a major concern for their platform, but and as vice presidential candidate Karishma Shah students of color should be concerned about the stated, marginalized students are more likely to feel WHY inexperience of United UO. unwelcome on university campuses. Yet they are Last Thursday, I went to the ASUO town hall debate. supposed to be fine with practically doing free labor Ducks Together and United UO were ready to prove the for the university. MARGINALIZED importance of their slates and why they deserve the Many marginalized student organizations do the vote. A common theme in the questions being asked major recruiting for their community – enough work was the focus on marginalized students, particularly for a full-time paid position. The ranges in stipends STUDENT students of color. Questions circling around cultural vary between organizations, but even groups like competency, safety of students of color, mental health the LGBTQIA3, with one of the highest stipends for and First Amendment protections were posed. marginalized student organizations, will still have GROUPS SHOULD Toward the end of the Q&A with both slates, United student leaders struggle in their leadership roles UO vice president candidate Karishma Shah, in because they are not compensated properly. expressing support for students of color on campus, In response to concerns about stipends, United UO showed UO students the potential concerns with stated that they were unsure how to help fix stipends BE CONCERNED leaders who have little experience in ASUO. She stated, because of their lack of experience on ASUO. Ducks “We can also encourage the cultural groups on campus Together stated that there are problems with the to ask for more funding.” current stipend model which currently allows the ABOUT Shah, who is a member of the Indian Student university to not “[pay] students the money that they Association, showed good intent and experience on deserve.” Though Ducks Together does not promise the issue concerning student organizations but didn’t hourly wages, they are willing to work on the current INEXPERIENCED propose a sufficient plan to assist those groups. stipend model with their senate and financial officers. Marginalized student organizations have been “We’re not here giving students a voice. I know you denied increases in stipends yearly and have had don’t need encouragement. ... I know what you need CANDIDATES to fight to keep ASUO from allocating their funds because I’ve been there,” said Gallegos, presidential elsewhere. Student of color organizations do not need candidate for Ducks Together. BY VERONICA FERNANDEZ-ALVARADO “encouragement” in requesting funds because they are Ducks Together is more equipped and more continuously begging to keep the pennies that they are experienced to handle the issues that marginalized able to have. students face so that we don’t have to take any steps Due to rises in tuition, employment of college back. Marginalized student groups that care about students has risen to an all-time high. According to progressing on the issues that we still face today a survey released by Business Wire and Seventeen should vote for Ducks Together.

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PAGE 12 | EMERALD | MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2018 SPORTS OREGON SOFTBALL COMPLETES SWEEP OF ARIZONA WITH RUN-RULE WIN BY SHAWN MEDOW • TWITTER @SHAWNMEDOW

Miranda Elish (40) pitches the ball. (Natalie Waitt-Gibson) Catcher Gwen Svekis (21) prepares to bat. (Natalie Waitt-Gibson)

The bases were loaded in the bottom of the sixth long, outscoring the Wildcats 23-2 on the weekend. “[Elish] threw more pitches than I wanted her inning when Arizona’s errors came. “We had a plan, and we committed to it fully as a to,” White said. “To tell you the truth, going into the Pitcher Taylor McQuillin threw back-to-back team,” head coach Mike White said. “I think it’s the postseason, we might need that.” wild pitches, allowing two runners to score, giving first time all year we really committed to the plan With the Ducks up 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth, Oregon softball a 6-0 lead. Moments later, an we had, and I was pleased to see it pay off. Now, senior DJ Sanders stepped into the batter’s box. error by Arizona’s shortstop allowed freshman hopefully it’ll give us some confidence to stick to our On a 2-2 count, Sanders, who hit the NCAA-high Shaye Bowden to reach first while another plan and do what we need to do.” 29 home runs last season, caught it perfectly as she Oregon run scored. Junior Megan Kleist got the start in the circle. roped a line drive way over the left-field wall to give Then, senior Gwen Svekis doubled down the left- She lasted five innings, throwing 10 strikeouts while Oregon a cushion lead of 4-0. field line to bring Bowden around to third. Oregon allowing just one hit and two walks. Kleist threw Iakopo started in place of Mia Camuso at first needed just one more run for a run-rule win and a several 1-2-3 innings, including the first and the fifth, base, while fellow freshman Lauren Burke got the series sweep. That came with one swing of the bat which had fives strikeouts over the six outs. She had nod at designated player. from freshman Mary Iakopo, who blasted a three- seven strikeouts through the first three innings. “Every now and then you just get into a funk, and run home run to right field to win the game 10-0. In the top of the sixth, Kleist was replaced by you need to see it from the other side of the field,” “It didn’t even feel like it went over,” Iakopo said. “I Miranda Elish, who, earlier in the day, completed White said. “I think Camuso will probably be out just thought one out was going to be a pop fly.” Saturday’s game which was postponed due to there next week and hopefully she’ll create some The No. 5 Ducks (32-6, 7-2) trounced No. 9 Arizona weather. Elish faced four batters in the one inning urgency there.” 10-0 in a run-rule win to sweep the Wildcats at Jane she played in the earlier game. Oregon now shifts its focus on a road trip to Sanders Stadium for Oregon’s first series sweep of Elish and the Ducks retired the first and only three Tempe, Arizona to play Arizona State before the season. Behind big bats and strong pitching, the batters that she faced — two via strikeouts and one hosting nonconference opponent Oklahoma in a Ducks faced little trouble from Arizona all weekend on a ground ball. one-game matchup.

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Oregon Ducks defender Jill Zubillaga WASHINGTON STATE waits for a pass. (Devin Roux) THROWS NO-HITTER IN 7-0 ROUT OF OREGON

BY AUGUST HOWELL • TWITTER @HOWELL_AUGUST

After striking out the last two of the first baseman after getting Oregon hitters to end the ball Alvarez in a pickoff situation. game, Scotty Sunitsch dropped One walk and a hit batter later his glove on the mound in and the bases were loaded. Oregon triumph as his Washington State replaced Acuna with Nico Tellache, teammates swarmed around him, who walked in the next run. After congratulating him on his no-hitter. making yet another pitching change After winning the first two with Peyton Fuller, Robert Teel OREGON UPSETS NO. 16 games of the series, Oregon failed launched a three-run double that to get a hit against Washington sealed the game. USC 18-11 ON SENIOR DAY, State and fell to the Cougars 7-0. The closest play of the day to Sunitsch’s (3-1) season-high for ending the no-hitter came at the innings pitched before the game start of the ninth inning. Kyle FIRST WIN OVER RANKED was seven, with seven strikeouts. Kasser hit a deep shot to left field, Today, he pitched all nine innings but Derek Chapman made a sliding with nine strikeouts. catch to keep the streak going. OPPONENT SINCE 2008 “My change-up was really on “We only had about five or — that saved the game for me,” six quality at bats,” Horton said. BY MAGGIE VANONI • TWITTER @MAGGIE_VANONI Sunitsch said. “I actually didn’t feel “We need to get a lot better at very good to start the day, but it a speed-mix guy. It seems to turned out alright.” short circuit us.” The clock trickled down to zero front of the 217-person crowd and Head coach George Horton One of the only times Oregon and the final whistle blew. began the senior day festivities by was disappointed by the outcome had men on base came at the price Oregon sophomore Lexy Biller singing the national anthem. of the game for the Ducks, but of an injured batter. Third baseman dropped her stick and turned “It was awesome,” Zubillaga recognized that it was a special Spencer Steer was hit in the right around. She immediately found said. “It was something that I have day for Sunitsch. It was the first knee by a pitch in the bottom of goalie Brittany Read and without been asked to do for a while. My time Horton had ever been on the the seventh inning. After laying a second to wait, she jumped into teammates were super supportive, opposing side of a no-hitter. on the ground for some time in the senior’s arms. so it was a great experience.” “He was too much for us to tackle serious pain, the sophomore limped It was a day to celebrate the The Ducks scored nine consecutive today,” Horton said. “He had all four to first base with the coaches, seniors of Oregon’s women’s lacrosse goals after Zubillaga’s — two more pitches mixing and pressing.” but was in too much pain to team, as four of them earned hat than the amount they scored in The losing pitcher, Kelby Somers remain on the field. tricks while Read defended 16 of their loss against the Trojans back in (1-4) started the game but left in the “Either side of the knee is USC’s shots on goal in Oregon’s March. USC could not keep up with sixth inning. James Acuna replaced very painful, and he couldn’t senior day at its final home game Oregon’s momentum,and became Somers with runners on second and put any weight on it,” Horton of the season. The Ducks (8-5, 4-3) loosely aggressive, racking up 15 third with one out, and struck out said. “So fingers crossed that upset No. 16 USC 18-11 on Sunday fouls within the first 15 minutes. the next two batters. we’ll have him tomorrow.” afternoon at Papé Field. The victory In fact, the Trojans didn’t find Washington State sealed the game Oregon will play one non- marked four straight wins for another goal until the last two-and- in the seventh inning by scoring conference game tomorrow Oregon and was the Ducks’ first win a-half minutes of the half, when four more runs to add to its 3-0 against Portland at home. Then, over a ranked opponent since 2008. they scored two to end the half lead. Andres Alvarez reached second the team travels to Seattle for “I think it was a very emotional down by seven. base after an error from Ryne a three-game series against day with it being senior day,” head “They’re always dangerous, and Nelson, who threw it over the head Washington starting Friday. coach Katrina Dowd said. “If you they recruit extremely well,” Dowd look at our scoring, our seniors really said. “So, to be able to get a win put the ball in the back of the net against them is huge.” today, and I just think our team plays The second half started with blue for them. They’re our heart and soul, skies, as the Trojans took advantage and I couldn’t be prouder. I couldn’t of the weather’s familiarity and plan it or write it up any more special scored six straight goals. But it would for them.” never be enough for the comeback In their last game at Papé Field, they were looking for, as the Ducks’ the Oregon seniors scored 15 of lead never dropped below five. the team’s 18 goals. Jojo Hesketh Behind Hesketh’s five goals, was one of three seniors to score Mariah Gatti scored four, and three goals in the first half. She Zubillaga and Natalie Modly each led each team with five goals scored three as well for the Ducks. at the final whistle. After the game, the rest of the “I got my family, and I’m going Oregon team rushed from the to do whatever I can to score,” sideline, to join Biller and Read in Hesketh said. celebrating. The crowd jumped to In a rainy first half, USC (7-7, 5-4) its feet in a standing ovation and claimed an early 1-0 lead. Duck erupted in cheers. senior Jill Zubillaga scored the tying Oregon will travel to Berkeley, goal less than a minute afterward. California next week to play the Ten minutes prior ,she had stood in Bears on Friday, April 13 at 5 p.m. Oregon Ducks infielder Ryne Nelson (29) throws the ball back to the pitcher. (Devin Roux)

PAGE 14 | EMERALD | MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2018 Q SPORTS Join OREGON MEN’S TENNIS our WINS CRUCIAL SENIOR DAY Board! MATCH OVER ARIZONA BY MAVERICK PALLACK• TWITTER @MAVPALLACK Be more. Cormac Clissold celebrates with his teammates after he won his match that clinched the win for Being a board Oregon. (Adam Eberhardt) member is an amazing opportunity for students to contribute to the direction of a large non-profit Emotions ran high from beginning Ducks, eight days after clinching the to end of Oregon’s Senior Day in the Washington match. Oshima now has organization like Student Tennis Center on Sunday. 10 wins on the season after joining Through all the celebration, there the team in January. was still an important match to be “Riki came through again,” The Duck Store. played as Oregon is still fighting Schyllander said. “He’s got a lot of to get to NCAAs. The No. 49 Ducks confidence after that Washington dominated Arizona 4-0 in front of a match. He played one of their The leadership packed house. stronger positions. He, as a freshman, It was a bounce-back win for took care of it in straight sets.” Oregon after losing 4-1 to No. 37 ASU The other two single points for the experience is on Friday. Now sitting at 14-7 on the Ducks came from usual spots. Gentry Robert Le Parc season and 2-3 in Pac-12 play, the and Laurent both won in straight President, Sophomore Position Ducks needed a victory on Sunday as sets. Laurent won his match 6-2, 7-5 immeasureable. they try to earn one of the 64 spots in to put the Ducks up 2-0. Just three The Duck Store Board of Directors the tournament. seconds later, Gentry won his match “It was a must-win,” head coach 6-4, 6-2 to put the Ducks one win Tues, Apr 10, 2018 • 2:00 p.m. Nils Schyllander said. “I think we from victory. responded really well.” Although their business is finished Oak 240 • EMU Seniors Cormac Clissold, Simon at home, the Oregon seniors will still University of Oregon Stevens and Akihiro Tanaka were look to finish their collegiate careers Annual Meeting honored before they played their last on a high note with the postseason collegiate match in Eugene. and graduation looming. “Yeah, it was definitely a special Despite the added stress, the Ducks day for Cormac, Aki and I,” approached the match like they Current Open Positions Stevens said. always do. Although none of the three seniors “There was a little more pressure Two (2) Sophomore positions each for a two (2) year term got results in their singles matches, than usual on this match,” Clissold One (1) Student-at-Large position for a two (2) year term Stevens and Clissold each picked said. “We treated it as usual. up wins in the doubles portion. We come out and just try to get One (1) Graduate position for a one (1) year term Clissold and Thomas Laurent won the job done every day. It’s like their match 6-4 to give the Ducks any other match.” One (1) Classified Staff/Officer of Administration for a two (2) year term the advantage. It was then up to It was a bittersweet day for One (1) Faculty-at-Large position for a two (2) year term Stevens and partner Ty Gentry Schyllander seeing his seniors to win the point. compete for the last time in Eugene. With Stevens yelling every point, “It’s kind of sad to see them All candidates must be Duck Store Members enrolled in the academic year of the he and Gentry were able to secure the graduate in a way because you spend doubles point for the team. so much time together over so many position as of Spring Term 2018. “We came out with a lot of energy,” years,” Schyllander said. “I am very Stevens said. “At the end, there was a proud of all three of those guys.” lot of tension. Winning that doubles The Ducks will play on the road point was a key for the match. I think for their last three matches of having our family and more crowd the season, traveling first to Salt than usual gave us the energy to be Lake City to take on Utah next able to clinch that doubles point.” Saturday at 11 a.m. In singles play, Oshima picked “They know what they need to do,” Eugene • Portland • Bend • About.UODuckStore.com up the clinching point again for the Schyllander said. “We’ll get it done.” For more information contact Natalie Eggert at [email protected]

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‘RIVER MONSTERS’ CREATOR JERMEY WADE TALKS NEW ANIMAL PLANET SHOW 8 APRIL 9-15 CALENDAR

TUES FLEET FOXES AT MCDONALD THEATER 10 (1010 WILLAMETTE ST), DOORS OPEN AT 8 P.M., THIS WEEK IN SHOW AT 9 P.M., ALL AGES, TICKETS $41.50

Name a more influential band in starting in 2011. Their latest album, the 2000s folk revival than Fleet “Crack-Up,” marked a shift toward Foxes. Doing so is difficult, if not a darker sound, though still built impossible. The five-piece band, upon acoustic folk. Fleet Foxes’ led by frontman and lyricist Robin live performances have been Pecknold, emerged out of Seattle consistently lauded, and those and quickly found success riding expecting a ho-hum, self-serious complex harmonies and an airy, show will walk away surprised EUGENE open sound. Their debut album, and jazzed. Peckold’s humor and which will be 10 years old in June, habit of involving his audiences was lauded as one of the best is well-documented. Even fans (Courtesy of Broadway Metro) of the decade. Their reputation who roll their eyes at folk music grew until their six-year hiatus will be entertained. THURS 12 TUES WVMF LINEUP RELEASE PARTY 10 EMU, 6:30 P.M., ALL AGES, FREE

Curious about which bands will feature a live DJ. Free food as well be playing at this year’s Willamette as free Willamette Valley Music Valley Music Festival? Organizers Festival merchandise will be made of the annual, student-based available. Those who show up to music and arts festival will be the event will also be given the hosting a lineup release party chance to win a pair of tickets on Tuesday, April 10. The event to this year’s Sasquatch! Music will be held at the Erb Memorial Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre Union in the Lewis Room and will in Washington. “DISTANT SKY: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS LIVE IN COPENHAGEN” ONE-NIGHT-ONLY SCREENING AT THE BROADWAY METRO (43 W BROADWAY), 7 P.M., NOT RATED, $9 FOR ADULTS AND $8 FOR STUDENTS SAT BOTANY WORKSHOP This 144-minute-long concert film his family dealing with the tragedy as documents the acclaimed Australian well as footage of the band recording MOUNT PISGAH ARBORETUM (34901 FRANK rock band’s emotional show at the “Skeleton Tree.” 14 PARRISH RD.), 10 A.M., $67 FOR NON-MEMBERS, Royal Arena in Copenhagen, where Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are $57 FOR MEMBERS. they played a varied set list ranging known for their experimental sound, from their first album, “From Her to mixing violin and piano with post- Eternity,” to their sixteenth album, punk guitar. Their haunting duet with Botany is the study of plants methods, as well as anatomy and “Skeleton Tree.” Lead singer Cave Kylie Minogue, “Where the Wild Roses and their biologic makeup. Spend family information. The class wrote the latter in the wake of the Grow,” is their most popular single, the day learning from botanist will be hands-on and thorough, sudden death of one of his sons — he while their gospel-tinged “O Children” Tobias Policha at beautiful Mount so be prepared to be outdoors. also released a documentary called found success after Harry and Pisgah Arboretum. There will Please bring a hand lens if you “One More Time With Feeling,” which Hermione danced to it in “Harry Potter be a focus on flowering plants; have one, but all other materials consists of home videos of him and and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.” attendees will learn identification will be provided.

TUES WED SAT 10 11 14 Bike to David Minor Theater, meet at the Queer History Lecture Run with a Researcher, MORE EMU, bring a bike, your with Regina Kunzel, meet the researchers student ID, and $2 for a Knight Library Browsing at the “O” Desk at the EVENTS: ticket, 6:15 p.m. Room, 3:30 p.m., free EMU, 8:00 a.m., free PAGE 2 | EMERALD | MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2018 MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2018 | EMERALD | PAGE 3 q FILM & TV

JEREMY WADE TALKS RIVER POLLUTION, ‘RIVER MONSTERS’ SUCCESS AHEAD OF HIS NEW SHOW ‘MIGHTY RIVERS’

Jeremy Wade holding a marsheer in the Ramganga river above Jim Corbett National Park in India. (Courtesy of Animal Planet) BY FRANKLIN LEWIS • TWITTER @FLEWIS_1

Jeremy Wade, expert fisherman and biologist, water. The water cycle flows through each of us. It’s showed people animals they didn’t know existed,” has turned over nearly every stone when it comes in our interest that water is in good condition.” Wade said. “I think if you’re just showing some fish to freshwater fishing. Known best for his legendary Wade found it challenging to turn the investigation that’s just a few inches long — just a generic fish — catches on the Animal Planet show, “River Monsters,” into compelling television. He said that because people shrug their shoulders and go, ‘So what?’” which concluded its ninth and final season last year, TV is so visual, translating an abstract subject like While he appreciates the reputation “River Wade has traversed the world’s rivers for nearly 35 river health into something that people can see Monsters” has given him, Wade said he had no idea years in search of fearsome aquatic predators. But and hear is difficult. Therefore, “Mighty Rivers” the show would last as long as it did. as his travels accumulated, he noticed a troubling is built around the dramatic journey Wade takes “People say it’s just a fishing show — which it trend: The big fish were becoming harder and harder exploring each river. Wade and his team dealt is — but I think it is more than that. It is a type of to catch. In an interview with the Emerald, Wade said with several tense situations, including being natural history program.” a trip to the Amazon River to catch the illustrious kicked out of Zimbabwe in the midst of filming by Previously a secondary school teacher in the arapaima was particularly alarming. the Zimbabwean government. United Kingdom, Wade said he has always had a “I was expecting [arapaimas] to be hard to find “It was really ironic,” Wade said. “We were actually passion for opening people’s eyes to lesser-known — hard to catch,” Wade said. “But what I wasn’t going to show a couple of good news stories about aspects of life. According to Wade, freshwater fish expecting was to find that they had actually been the Zambezi in Zimbabwe. We couldn’t show them are understudied by the scientific community, wiped out from huge areas of the Amazon.” because we were kicked out.” partially because they are difficult to observe. Due to In his new show, “Mighty Rivers,” which premieres Wade and his crew also had a close call flying in a the silt and sediment transported by rivers, visibility in the United States on Sunday, April 8 at 6 p.m. small, prop-engine plane over the Brazilian jungle. is lower compared to many ocean environments. PST on Animal Planet, Wade investigates the Wade said that as the flight went on, an intense “In something like a coral reef, you’ve got a disappearance of various apex river predators. storm began to develop. When they reached their lot of really pretty, nice fish,” Wade said. “I’ve got Throughout this investigation, he examines the landing spot — a muddy airstrip in a remote town run nothing against them, but I find pretty fish can get ecological health of the Ganges, Amazon, Yangtze, by a local mining gang — the storm had engulfed the a bit boring after a while, whereas in freshwater, Mississippi, Danube and Zambezi rivers. plane. Wade said the pilot made a miraculous dive you get these things with tentacles hanging off “We take water for granted — we take rivers for through a break in the clouds to land safely. them all over the place. You get fish that generate granted,” Wade said. “Rivers are very forgiving — “There was this collective sigh of relief when we electricity. There’s just more variety and more they’ll take a lot of abuse.” got down on the ground,” he said. weirdness, and people like that.” But that abuse has reached a critical level, Wade said the success of “River Monsters” As for any advice he would give to an aspiring according to Wade. Toxic chemical runoff from helped immensely during his investigations for biologist, Wade said one should follow his or her factories and other areas of industry have many river “Mighty Rivers” because he was immediately own interests and enthusiasm rather than what ecosystems at their breaking point. He said he hopes recognized in many of the communities he visited others believe they should do. He also said to be “Mighty Rivers” can bring awareness to the plight around the world. Therefore, he did not need to prepared for failure. that the world’s rivers are under. waste time explaining who he was or why he was “When things work out, it’s always much more “[The plight] doesn’t just matter to fish, [and] it there. The model for “River Monsters,” however, meaningful if you’ve failed before,” Wade said. doesn’t just matter for people who like catching fish,” was more straightforward: Wade caught the “I’ve failed to find a job of any description for Wade said. “All the important, delicate reactions biggest fish he could find. many years, so to finally get the one that I wanted that happen in our bodies — they are all mediated by “The whole success of ‘River Monsters’ was we means that much more.”

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UO PHYSICS PROFESSOR AND GUITARIST, TIM JENKINS, SAYS MUSIC AND SCIENCE ARE INTIMATELY CONNECTED

BY MAX EGENER

University of Oregon physics playing an instrument combines the professor Timothy Jenkins has been linguistic and mathematical thinking passionate about science and music present in the left hemisphere of the since a young age. Growing up on brain with the more creative thinking a farm in Ridgefield, Washington, present in the right hemisphere. about 25 miles north of Portland, “Playing a musical instrument Jenkins enjoyed singing in his church engages practically every area of choir. At the same time, he cultivated the brain at once,” Collins said in the an interest in science from reading video. The full brain engagement that sci-fi novels. A bookmobile drove comes with playing music promotes around Ridgefield and delivered the creative thinking that may books by sci-fi authors such as Isaac help a physicist solve a problem or Asimov to Jenkins’ farm. develop a new theory. He has been teaching physics at Jenkins says that his scientific UO since 1992 and has been playing understanding of acoustic vibrations guitar since he was 14. Rock, blues has also made him a better guitar and folk by bands such as The Beatles, player and performer. It allows Creedence Clearwater Revival and him to think about the sounds he’s Mississippi John Hurt captivated making in a more intimate way, and Jenkins as a teenager. that allows him to be more creative Now, he primarily instructs a when he plays. general physics course, but he also He has the opportunity to teach a teaches a class on the physics of blend of music and science through sound during the summer. He says his summertime course at UO, which that music and science are more draws students from both the physics connected than people often think, and music departments. He says and that his interest in both is it’s intriguing to see how students common in his field. from both departments think about “Galileo said something along the assignments differently. lines of, ‘The book of nature is written For in-class assignments, Jenkins in the language of mathematics,’” first makes students solve problems Jenkins said. “But that applies to on their own. He then has students music as well.” do the same problems in groups. He Jenkins is one example from a long pairs students with strong musical list of physicists who are also gifted backgrounds with students who have musicians. The most well-known strong science backgrounds. He says example is Albert Einstein, who that when students with different played the violin. According to a 1980 backgrounds work together, they do article by Durham Morning Herald better. The process of justifying their music reviewer Peregrine White, “A approach to a student with a different well-worn fiddle case accompanied background forces students to clarify [Einstein] wherever he went.” their thinking and learn different ways “A lot of people think of science to solve the same problem. as strictly an intellectual pursuit, Jenkins plans to retire from his but it’s a creative pursuit as well,” work at UO at the end of 2019, and he’s Jenkins said. “Certainly music helps in looking forward to having more time the creative process.” to focus on music and play more gigs. Recent studies by researchers such He plays about two or three shows a as neuroscientist Anita Collins show year right now, including an annual that being exposed to music at a show at the Creswell Fourth of July young age and playing an instrument parade, where he plays for an hour at throughout life have a plethora of the historical museum in town. benefits for the brain. Playing music “I just want to play more shows,” helps create the pathways in the brain Jenkins said. “I’ve always done a lot of that are useful in thinking about the Anglo-American folk songs, so I’d love world scientifically. In a 2014 “TED- to do a big tour through the United Ed” video, Collins discusses how Kingdom at some point after I retire.” Timothy Jenkins has been teaching physics at UO since 1992 and has been playing guitar since he was 14. (Sarah Northrop)

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