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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016 DAILYEMERALD.COM THURSDAY DEMANDS YEAR LATER NOV. 17 MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF The Black Student 12Task Force’s 12 demands for a safe space on campus. Five1 have been fulfilled and the Black community is fighting for progress and awareness on campus. DARK KNIGHT: THE MUSICAL AT UO LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM THE BLACK STUDENT TASK FORCE COMIC: ELECTION DIVIDES THE U.S. Traditional Greek & Indian Food 992 Willamette Street Eugene, OR 97401 (541) 343-9661 24/7 Eugene Airport Shuttle Get Your Spins On. Drink Wheel Thursdays at 35443 www.omnishuttle.com $ SAVE $ Fly EUG 541-461-7959 1-800-741-5097 What color do you bleed? Show it by donating blood. Between November 1-20, give blood on behalf of the Ducks and help save a life. Donate at Lane Blood Center or any of our local blood drives. We’ll be on the UO campus November 14 – 19 at the EMU. MORNING JOB FOR Make your appointment today! STRONG BICYCLIST Walk-ins welcome. Deliver the Lane Blood Center • 2211 Willamette Street • Eugene, OR • 97405 Emerald 6-8am Laneblood.org • 541-484-9111 Mondays & Thursdays. Delivery is done with our cargo bikes. All participants may enter for a chance to win two tickets to the Civil War football game. Apply in person at Suite 302, EMU or email [email protected] www.CivilWarBloodDrive.com PAGE 2 | EMERALD | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016 EMERALD MEDIA GROUP & DARK KNIGHT: THE ARTS MUSICAL RISES AT CULTURE POCKET PLAYHOUSE ➡ SARAROSA DAVIES, @SROSIEDOSIE Riley Mulvihill, director of Juliet. He hated the process, but Pocket Playhouse’s most recent then fell in love with performing. production, Dark Knight: The “We performed and I got that Musical, says it’s Batman’s time applause from the audience and I to shine. Pocket Playhouse is a felt the love,” Mulvihill said. “And student-run theatre company I’ve done it ever since.” on campus, and as Mulvihill told Recently, he has enjoyed the the Emerald in an interview at change from acting to directing. the green room of Villard Hall, “Moving towards directing “Spiderman already has his instead of acting has really shown musical. It’s time for someone else.” me another side of theatre, That “someone else” is Gotham and it’s a little less egotistical,” City’s superhero vigilante, or as Mulvihill said. Mulvihill says, “a man dressed up With 11 songs, Dark Knight is a as a bat, punching criminals.” full-length musical. Mulvihill has “It’s ridiculous,” Mulvihill had help from many people, both continued. “Musicals have a way of during the five-week rehearsal making the ridiculousness part of process and even before rehearsals the world.” had officially begun. Mulvihill Mulvihill, who started writing noted his production team as the show in middle school with essential helpers during the the help of his choir director, Josh rehearsal process. The Joker sings in Pocket Playhouse’s production of “Dark Knight: The Musical.” (Ben M. Jones/ Rist, is capitalizing on the current It hasn’t been easy though, Pocket Playhouse) “superhero hysteria” seen on the according to Mulvihill. For now, silver screen with Marvel and DC. the space only allows for a piano His favorite actor to play the Joker accompanist, Kevin Dempsey, but OPINION is Mark Hamill, but he says the Mulvihill hopes to one day feature others who have played him — most a full orchestra. notably Heath Ledger and Cesar “That was a big step for us to be ➡ Romero — are also fantastic. able to get live accompaniment,” SASHA BURROWS As a senior, Mulvihill hopes to Mulvihill said. Divided Country mount a production of the show His favorite song in the show on a larger scale someday, but is called “Kill the Bat.” Audiences is excited be producing it with should look out for the Joker’s Pocket Playhouse because it’s an big reveal, which according to organization he’s been involved Mulvihill features three-part with since his freshman year. harmonies reminiscent of “My first audition, I got a lead scenes from Les Miserables Lemme at him! role in a Pocket show,” Mulvihill like “One Day More” and “The Never! said. “What I love about Pocket Confrontation Scene.” is that it is original content. Michael Malek Najjar, assistant The directors are normally the professor in theatre, noted that playwrights… There’s room for his theatre students are excited creativity and imagination, but for Pocket’s first original musical, this is first time, that at least I have despite its short rehearsal process. seen, where an original musical is As Mulvihill said of the piece, “It’s being done.” going to make you laugh, going to Pocket Playhouse sponsors make you cry and going to make four to six student-created plays you want to come back for more.” per term and has a board of Dark Knight: The Musical runs students who select pitches given Thursday through Saturday at by directors. This is Mulvihill’s 5 p.m. in Villard 102, and entry first time directing and writing a is first-come, first-served. © theatrical script, but he has acted Although tickets are free, there is since middle school when his mom a suggested donation to support made him try out for Romeo and student-made theatre. 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(Aaron Nelson) VOICE ➡ MAX THORNBERRY, @MAX_THORNBERRY On Nov. 11, Black student group you probably have no idea how it feels,” leaders spoke to hundreds of students Natashia Greene, external coordinator and community members at the for the Black Student Union, said to EMU amphitheater, addressing the the crowd on Friday. “One of our main climate around race on campus. It’s goals is to really make sure that our been a year since the Black Student students feel safe.” Task Force issued 13 demands to UO Instead of allowing Black students administration in the hopes of creating to feel safe and included, many feel the a safer and more inclusive university. climate on campus subjects them to The revisiting of these demands, overtly racist attitudes and sentiments. which include renaming buildings “The reality of it is that stereotypes named after KKK members, comes in tend to overshadow the hard work we the wake of discriminatory events on really put in in order to get into higher campus. education,” Chris Holloway, a member of the Black Male Alliance, said at the Members of the Black Student Union rally. have received racist threats online. Roger Thompson, vice president for On Halloween, a UO professor wore enrollment management is one of the blackface at a private party, and on people working to solve issues Black Nov. 9, high school students donned students face at the university. He said blackface at UO, offending community he has been pleased to see bolstered members on a campus that is intended recruitment efforts of Black students to be a safe space, according to in recent years. He notes that UO was President Michael Schill. These recent the first university to support Good in racially related events may be forcing the Hood, a non-profit organization some UO Black students to reevaluate that offers scholarships to graduating where they fit into the priorities of the high school students in Northeast university. Portland. The university also created a Of the 12 demands made by the BSTF sponsorship and scholarship program a year ago, less than half have been with Jefferson High, a predominantly fulfilled. Black high school in Portland. UO’s Black students are frustrated “In the last seven years, we have gone that after a year of pushing for from about 18 percent of our freshman demands, they’re still fighting for class being domestic minority students progress. On Friday, they rallied to 31 percent this fall,” Thompson said. together in solidarity, determined to “We have made the freshman class continue the march forward. far more diverse than it has ever been “We experience things that most of before.” illustrations by Stacy Yurishcheva PAGE 4 | EMERALD | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016 ACME FILMWORKS Presents Emerald Media Group CAL NDAR Nov.