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Rapper Ab-Soul will perform at WOW Hall on Saturday SATURDAY, APRIL 8 April 15. (Courtesy of David Chachere) THURSDAY, APRIL 13

Moon Hooch at Hi-Fi Music Hall Whitney at WOW Hall Saxophonists Mike Wilbur and Wenzl SATURDAY, APRIL 15 Indie-folk band Whitney will make a McGowen, and drummer James Muschler stop at WOW Hall in a couple weeks. Last make up this trio, all of whom studied year was a big one for the band, which is comprised of former members of Unknown at New York’s New School for Jazz and Ab-Soul at WOW Hall Contemporary Music. But Moon Hooch Mortal Orchestra and . ain’t easy-listening jazz. The group formed Whitney released its debut album, the Currently touring in support of his fourth after their busking turned New York subway hazy and fun “Light Upon the Lake,” and studio album, “Do What Thou Wilt,” Ab-Soul stations into impromptu raves with their performed at a slew of festivals, including will drop by WOW Hall on his Y.M.F tour in stupefying and ingenious take on EDM, South by Southwest. In 2017, the band is on mid-April. The Southern-California rapper electronica and rock with volatile stops, tour and has a new EP of covers, including is signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, the starts and bold change-ups. Check out their Dolly Parton’s song, “Gonna Hurry (As Slow same record label as Kendrick Lamar, Tiny Desk concert to hear what it sounds as I Can).” Catch Whitney at 9 p.m. Doors Isaiah Rashad and ScHoolboy Q. Known for like when a saxophone is choked with a open at 8 p.m. Tickets are online and go for his spiritual and transformative lyricism, road construction sign, or just catch them at $12 each. The band’s Portland show is sold Ab-Soul likes to take his audiences on a Hi-Fi. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 on out, so get tickets for the Eugene one before journey of self-discovery during his live the day of the show. they’re gone. performances. Tickets for the all ages show are $23 in advance or $27 the day of ➡ ➡ EMERSON MALONE the show SARAROSA DAVIES

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TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2017 | EMERALD | PAGE 5  COVER Eugene skate

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Conner Robinson rides in a bowl at Washington-Jefferson park. (Aaron Nelson)

Eugene-native Silas Baxter-Neal has spent For people like Baxter-Neal and countless Like Baxter-Neal, local skater Connor Robinson more time on his than he has walking others around the world, provides a was first attracted to the sport because he could do on the ground, or so he claims. The professional positive and healthy outlet for a community usually it alone. skater said that ever since his older brother gave excluded from mainstream society. For them, “You can do it all the time,” Robinson said. “You him his first board as a 6-year-old, he hasn’t skateboarding is much more than just a hobby or don’t need a group to [skateboard]. It’s nice to have stopped skateboarding. pastime — it’s a way of life. a group to do it, but you can do it by yourself too.” The first Baxter-Neal ever skated at At age 16, Baxter-Neal earned his first sponsorship For many, skateboarding is a mode of individual was Amazon Park, which is minutes south of the from a local called and just expression that takes time and dedication to perfect. University of Oregon campus. He immediately fell in six years later he went pro. He didn’t always want to In 2014, Eugene’s Parks and Recreation love with the park and what he calls an alternative be a pro skater though. He played traditional sports department opened the Washington-Jefferson community of outcasts. like soccer and basketball when he was younger, but Skatepark to the public under the I-105 bridge. “Every free moment I had I was on my he quickly lost interest as he grew older. The park — which at 23,000 square-feet is the skateboard,” Baxter-Neal said. “As soon as I was “It started getting really competitive,” Baxter- largest undercover skatepark in the nation — was done with my homework I would go to the park and Neal said. “I just wanted to have fun as a kid. So built by Dreamland . Based in Lincoln stay there until dark.” I was drawn more to skateboarding because it City, Dreamland has built more than 100 parks There he learned to and landed his first was challenging, but I wasn’t competing against worldwide. Some of its most famous parks include kickflip, but it wasn’t long before he moved on to anyone else. It was just me trying to get better at the Adriatic Bowl in Fano, Italy and the 2016 Van’s trying more complicated tricks like varial flips and skateboarding and trying to learn new things. The World Championship skatepark in Malmo, Sweden. 360 pop-shoves. only competition was with myself.” “It’s awesome to be on this end of skateboarding,”

PAGE 6 | EMERALD | TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2017 said Dreamland team member Joey “but people just like to point out the Martin. “It’s amazing to help people fact that sometimes those people are achieve their own personal goals.” the ones holding .” Martin says that for any community Martin from Dreamland has to thrive, it needs a meeting been building skateparks for more place to do what it wants to do. A than 15 years and he agrees with skateboarding community can’t be Petulla’s observation. healthy without a skatepark. “There’s bad stuff that happens “There’s a lot of good people who [in skateparks], but that same stuff are sharing ideas together,” Martin happens at the tennis courts or other added. “And a skatepark becomes places in the park,” Martin said. a place where those ideas can be “People don’t want to believe it or a reality.” accept it, but it’s true.” Skateparks often provide a While perceptions are generally scene sanctuary for many, but they also negative, Martin says people in carry some negative assumptions. Oregon are much more supportive Baxter-Neal feels that they are widely of the skateboarding community. known for attracting all kinds of illicit According to him, Oregon has some behaviors. Many skaters say that of the best skateparks in America. it’s almost never the people who are People travel from all over the nation actually skating that are using drugs; to skate the parks that Oregon has usually it’s the people who are just to offer. Much of this is thanks to hanging around the parks. Dreamland, who has built a large In Eugene, many skaters say that portion of the parks across the state, the Washington-Jefferson skatepark including parks in Portland, Newberg, is routinely patrolled by local law Astoria and Pendleton. enforcement due to a heightened risk “Oregonians are very supportive of of illegal activities such as vandalism, skatepark culture.” Martin said. “We drug use and assault. just built a skatepark in Nebraska and While skateparks might carry these it took them five to seven years before associations, they have the same they raised enough to get it. And for if not lower crime rates as other them, there’s probably not another public parks. skatepark anywhere in the same In 2009, the Tony Hawk Foundation vicinity. We’re super fortunate here in surveyed 102 law enforcement the Pacific Northwest.” Brody Petulla grabs his board at the Washington-Jefferson officers who frequently patrol Martin says that Oregon supports skate park in Eugene. (Aaron Nelson) skateparks in 37 states. The survey skate culture better than other showed that almost half of the officers communities in the world, but not questioned cited a decrease in overall everybody feels that way. Petulla youth crime since a skatepark opened thinks that skateboarding still has in their area. a long way to go before it gets the Despite these negative assumptions, respect that it deserves. Baxter-Neal says that skateparks fill “It took us so fucking long to an important role in communities. get [Washington-Jefferson] park,” “A lot of the time the people who Petulla said. “So I don’t think that are attracted to skateboarding need many local governments or even this a different sort of community that local government gives a shit about isn’t in the mainstream,” Baxter-Neal skateboarding. They just think it’s said. “Without having skateparks a nuisance.” or a skateboarding community, a Whether Eugene supports lot of those people will be drawn skateboarding enough is subjective, in a direction that isn’t so healthy. I but the benefits of a community think that by having skateparks and embracing the sport are not. Without a skateboarding community, you’re the support of local governments including a group of people who isn’t to help build skateparks, this often usually included.” outcasted community can be led Local skater Brody Petulla has down a path that perpetuates the been to the Washington-Jefferson stereotype that skaters are often Skatepark every dry day since he perceived to be. moved to Eugene. He’s familiar “The Washington-Jefferson with the public’s assumptions about skatepark spent over a million dollars, skateboarders. He doesn’t deny that but you go down there and see how some of them are true, but he says many people use that park and it skaters are singled out. makes it all worth it,” Martin Said. Petulla says that there are criminals “People try to put a dollar value on Rapper Ab-Soul will and drug addicts in all aspects of life, those things, but you just can’t.” Maize Bianchi begins a pop-shove on his board. (Aaron Nelson)

Without having skateparks or a skateboarding community, a lot of those people will be drawn in a direction that isn’t so healthy.”

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Oregon softball pitcher winds up on the mound. (Aaron Nelson)

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Mia Camuso was supposed to the bases loaded, but Danica bunt. Instead, she ignored her coach’s Mercado could not convert the three sign and hit a walk-off single up the baserunners to runs as she grounded middle to keep Oregon softball’s out to first to end the inning. perfect season going. Arizona State had a loaded bases It was scoreless for seven-and-a- situation of its own in the fifth but half innings at Jane Sanders Stadium squandered the chance to score in the final game of Oregon’s series with a flyout from Skylar McCarty against Arizona State. But finally in to Lauren Lindvall kept the game the eighth inning, the drought ended. deadlocked at zero. Oregon won the game in walk-off Kleist allowed only four hits and fashion in its first extra innings game finished the day with four strikeouts of the year, beating the Sun Devils and two walks in 7.1 innings. Balint 1-0 to keep the team’s undefeated entered in relief with a runner at first campaign alive at 33-0. and one out. “I actually kind of messed up. I “I think it was her location,” White was supposed to do a sacrifice bunt,” said. “She came out throwing strikes Camuso said. “I knew that I couldn’t and that makes it much easier on leave my teammates out there so I our defense.” took my best shot at that pitch.” Balint struck out the first batter The game had a familiarity to the she faced and got the Ducks safely to Ducks’ 1-0 win over BYU on Thursday, the bottom of the seventh thanks to when pitchers Maggie Balint and a strong throw from Lilley across the Oregon escaped a pitching duel with diamond to Camuso to get an out. the Cougars’ McKenna Bull. This time Oregon could not provide a run it was a combination of Megan Kleist in the seventh and the game went and Maggie Balint against Arizona to extra innings, the first time this State’s Dale Ryndak. season the Ducks have played “It was a pitcher’s duel,” head coach beyond seven. Mike White said. “Three pitchers The Ducks got out of the top of threw really well. Ryndak really kept the eighth unscathed and got the job us off balance.” done in the bottom half of the inning Megan Kleist returned to the circle thanks to Camuso’s walk-off single. after pitching the first 2.2 innings “We’re hanging tough,” White said. on Saturday in Oregon’s 8-4 win. “Our top three hitters didn’t get a hit Freshman pitcher Miranda Elish, who today. Not very often you get a win entered in relief of Kleist yesterday, when you’re top three hitters don’t batted ninth in the order today as the get a hit. We found a way, scratched Ducks’ designated player. it out.” Oregon had an early chance to Oregon takes on Portland State in a score in the second inning with double header on Tuesday April 4. Oregon acrobatics and tumbling team.. (Phillip Quinn)

PAGE 8 | EMERALD | TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2017 Ducks take fourth place at The Goodwin ➡ ZAK LASTER, @ZLAST3445 Facing a quick turnaround a tough golf course against great from its last tournament earlier competition,” head coach Casey in the week, the Oregon Ducks Martin said in a news release men’s golf team took fourth after the event. place in The Goodwin, a three- Being part of The Goodwin in day, 24-team tournament that Stanford, California, is special concluded on Saturday. for head coach Casey Martin, as A step up in competition, it is named after Wally Goodwin, the Ducks saw eight ranked Martin’s college coach. teams, six of which were ranked “It brings back a lot of fond in the top 28 according to memories for me,” Golfstat. Stanford, the hosts, Martin said. Aaron Wise putts took first place to lead all Pac-12 Colorado on hole 9. (Adam participants and was the only and UCLA Eberhardt) team to finish the tournament tied for 15th under-par. USC took third and place with a Washington finished fifth. team score of 44- Ryan Gronlund led the Oregon over par. Oregon State starting five, shooting two-under finished tied for 17th par. He finished two strokes with a 47-over par. behind BYU’s Rhett Rasmussen, Individually, only six who won the individual title with golfers finished under- a four-under par. Gronlund was par. The three from the the only Duck player to finish the Pac-12 were Stanford’s tournament under par. Norman Franklin Huang (-3), Xiong tied for eighth place with Gronlund and USC’s one-over par and Wyndham Sean Crocker (-1). Clark scored four-over par for a Next up for the 13th place tie. Ducks is the last Edwin Yi and Kevin Geniza regular season event rounded out the starting- of the season. The five with double digit two-day Western over-par scores. Intercollegiate will “We played well with the get underway on exception of the first day, but it April 9 in Santa was a good experience to play at Cruz, California. Oregon acrobatics and tumbling’s perfect record ends at Baylor 4 PM! ➡ SHAWN MEDOW, @SHAWNMEDOW Oregon acrobatics and tumbling’s perfection to end the Ducks’ hopes of undefeated record came to an end an unbeaten season. when the Ducks traveled to face Oregon outscored Baylor 38.75- defending national champion 38.55 in the compulsory but Baylor Baylor on Sunday. flipped it around 29.55-29.15 in the The Ducks beat acro event to take a 68.10-67.90 lead. the The Ducks kept it close in the Bears in pyramid event but Baylor took the Eugene event 29.55-29.40 to possess a 97.65- earlier this 97.30 lead at halftime. With presidential candidate Amy Schenk season, but Following the intermission, Baylor Baylor returned outscored Oregon by only one-tenth the favor in Waco, of a point to take the event 29.00- Texas, defeating 28.90, keeping the Bears in front in the Oregon 289.745- overall meet at a tight 126.65-126.20. 286.050. The Ducks were outscored by .05 April 4, 2017 Oregon’s points in the synchronized and open strong heats of the pyramid event while the start in the sides tied on the 450 salto heat. compulsory In the tumbling event, Oregon fell event was short of Baylor’s mark again with the EMU Redwood reversed Bears outscoring the Ducks 184.975- in the 183.300. The Bears snagged a perfect acro and 10 on the open pass while Oregon’s Auditorium pyramid Taylor Galvin scored a 9.975 on six events to element heat. give Baylor Baylor dominated the final event, a narrow outscoring Oregon 104.770-102.750 to halftime lead. beat the Ducks 289.745-286.050. From there, Oregon returns home to compete the Bears against Azusa Pacific on April 8 at 6 FREE PIZZA performed p.m. on senior night for the Ducks at with near Matthew Knight Arena. Oregon acrobatics and tumbling team.. (Phillip Quinn) Moderated by the Emerald

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