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(Creative Commons) REPORTED ON-CAMPUS RAPE HAS MORE THAN 5 THINGS KATE BROWN WANTS TO DO DOUBLED, FOR STUDENTS IF SHE WINS REELECTION ACCORDING BY ERIN CAREY • TWITTER @ERINLCAREY TO UO When Oregon Governor Kate their collective concerns have in the U.S were put in limbo. Brown announced on Sept. 25 made headway: lawmakers gave While Brown’s supporters BY ANDY FIELD that she would be running for tuition waivers to community say she’s had successes, she has re-election in 2018, she didn’t college students in need, and also seen resistance from the TWITTER @ANDYTSUBASAF have much time to celebrate the state passed environmental Republican party on her support because her campaigning protection and the economy of abortion rights, gun control began immediately. grew. On the other hand, tuition and immigration. Brown has been on the has also increased, causing a She has an approval rating of Reported incidents of on-campus rape campaign trail since Nov. 9, 2016 penny-pinching struggle for some over 50 percent consistently but more than doubled in 2016, according after she won her first election students. Also, stricter federal will face solid competition for a to an annual university police report for Governor. immigration laws have struck fear released Friday. During Brown’s campaign, into some students. Their dreams The University of Oregon blog Around the Oregon students and some of of gaining citizenship and working keep reading on pg 4 O announced that the University of Oregon Police Department released this year’s Campus Security and Fire Safety Report. The report states that there were 16 reported incidents of on-campus rape, compared to SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CHANGES seven in 2015. ITS NAME TO SCHOOL OF DESIGN keep reading on pg 5 BY FRANKIE BENITEZ • TWITTER @0ITSFRANKIE0 Students walking into Lawrence Hall will see the then what do we need to do now to put ourselves on same halls, seats and chalkboards. What they won’t a course to achieving that?” he said in an interview see is the newly organized inner-workings of the with the Emerald. schools that occupy the building. “We are quite unique on the West Coast in All are invited to the new College of Design’s our school of arts and design for how many launch party at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, in Lawrence subdisciplines we do. Before, that was all crammed Hall to welcome its new name and a new into the smallest category we had — a department. organizational structure. And we’ve expanded that. We’ve said, ‘No, when you The School of Architecture and Allied Arts was do that many things and you do it well, that’s called one large school with many departments, offering a school.’ And that’s why we had to become a college nearly 30 different programs. The restructure — in order to unpack these departments and let them to the College of Design created a college of grow into schools.” three smaller, more specialized schools and one The new schools are the School of Architecture independent department. and Environment, the School of Art and Design Dean of the College of Design Christoph Lindner and the School of Planning, Public Policy, led the restructure and said the goal was to prepare and Management. The Department of Art and the school for the next hundred years. Architecture remains an independent department. “When we looked at reorganizing, we asked ourselves, ‘Who do we want to be? Where do we The intersection of 13th Ave. want to be in 50 years time, in 100 years time and keep reading on pg 5 and Universtiy St. on the University of Oregon campus. (Adam Eberhardt) MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017 | EMERALD | PAGE 3 NEWS BROWN: CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 2018 election from the Brown hopes to keep that growth Republican party. going in 2018. Brown was the secretary of state in “Since I became governor, Oregon February 2015 when former Gov. John has added 130,000 jobs to the Kitzhaber resigned during a scandal, economy,” Brown wrote. “Our state has and Brown stepped up. the fastest job growth in the country. Here are five things that Brown’s We need to keep the economy strong campaign hopes to improve for and make sure every Oregonian has Oregon students in her aspirations the opportunity to get ahead and for re-election: stay ahead.” The availability of jobs is a major 1. Halting tuition hikes concern for many students who face large student loans and uncertainty During spring and summer, of being able to pay them after students watched a teeter-totter of they graduate. tuition increases. The UO Board of Trustees approved 3. Defending minorities a 10.6 percent in-state tuition hike in March, but the state’s Higher Brown signed a bill in August that Education Coordinating Commission shields immigration information, and rejected the tuition hike the next has been very clear on her stance of month, per Brown’s recommendation. keeping Oregon as a sanctuary state. Then, the school appealed the Brown understands that this decision and secured the 10.6 percent movement of protecting immigrants hike — but the University received a and minorities needs to keep going — last-minute influx of money from the and she relies on the student vote to state, dropping the tuition hike to 6.6 make sure that happens. percent after all. “I look forward to earning the According to Brown, the constant support of students and young uncertainty of being able to afford voters across the state,” Brown said. higher education needs to stop. “In the current troubled political “I am concerned that Oregon’s climate, Oregonians need someone students are carrying too much of they can trust in the governor’s the financial burden of their own office — someone who will defend education,” Brown said in an email to our progress on health care access, Oregon Governor Kate Brow n. (Creative Commons) the Emerald. “That’s why I worked this LGBTQ equality, immigrant rights and year with Oregon’s public universities reproductive rights.” to decrease proposed tuition hikes and Brown is also Oregon’s first openly “One thing I’m proud 5. Maintaining Oregon’s make sure that schools are spending LGBT governor to win an election. of is the work I’ve done to individuality their resources wisely.” improve accountability This is also a large concern for the 4. Access to information and transparency in state Part of what makes Oregon university’s student government. Amy government,” Brown said. “My unique is its ability to be Schenk, ASUO president, has made Oregon has had consistent issues administration has enacted the attractive to all types of people it clear that tuition increases is a when it comes to access to public most significant public records who love its inclusiveness and primary concern for her team in the information. Critics say obtaining reform in in forty years. progressive thinking. upcoming year. public records is a difficult process. Brown publicly posts all While the governor has a Brown understands that and she has public records requests and lot of issues that still need to 2. Continue to grow Oregon’s tried to make this process easier. their responses online and has be addressed and many who economy On May 9, 2016, a task force hired a staff attorney whose oppose her, Brown wants to assigned by Brown came to Allen Hall job is to deal with requests. She keep that feeling of progress According to many state to discuss how to make public records also posts her weekly calendar alive, and wants to be the economists, Oregon’s job prospects requests easier. The governor has online, along with employees’ governor that is able to do that. remain strong, and have triggered moved on the issue since then, with conflict of interest forms when “Oregon is a special place.