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MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 DAILYEMERALD.COM ⚙ MONDAY 2017 SHASTA WEEKEND 2016 TRUMP MAY AXE STUDENT DEBT FORGIVENESS PROGRAM WRAPPING UP LAST WEEK’S NEWS THE WESTERN WORLD’S TEACHING IS RACIST OmniShuttle 24/7 Eugene Airport Shuttle www.omnishuttle.com 541-461-7959 1-800-741-5097 CALLING ALL EXTROVERTS! EmeraldEmerald Media Media Group Group is is hiring hiring students students to to join join ourour Street Street TeamTeam. Team winter Getfall paidterm. term. to Get have Get paid paidfun to handing tohave have fun funouthanding handingpapers out to out papers fellow papers tostudents. fellowto fellow students. students. Apply in person at Suite 300 ApplyApply in in person person at at our our office office in in the the EMU EMU, Basement Suite 302 or email [email protected] oror email email [email protected] [email protected] June 1st 2017 EmeraldFest.com PAGE 2 | EMERALD | MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 NEWS NEWS WRAP UP • UO shut down its websites for maintenance; more downtime set for the future. Monday • The Atlantic published UO professor Alex Tizon’s posthumous story on his family’s slave. The story was received with some controversy and sent a shock through the Twitter-sphere. Tizon, a Pulitzer Prize win- ner, died in March at age 57. Tuesday Betsey DeVos, the Secratary of Education, might cut a student debt forgiveness program in announcement set for next week. (Creative Commons) Student debt forgiveness program may get axedaxed by Trump administration • Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Justin Shukas announced his resignation. ➡ • The School of Journalism and Communica- WILL CAMPBELL, @WTCAMPBELL tion announced its budget plan. A total of 11 positions will be cut from faculty. Here is a relatively easy way and Scholarships office, is one a house instead of paying off • Taylor’s Bar and Grill canceled its signature to get rid of student debt: 1) of those people. She said if the student debt. event: dollar beer night. It also announced work for the government or federal government denies her “It’s kind of scary,” Garibay Wednesday new ownership. Dollars will return next week. a non-profit, 2) keep up with the program, she may not be said. “It just puts a lot more student loan payments for 10 able to fulfill her dream of buy- pressure on budgeting your years and 3) apply for the Pub- ing a house. money every month and trying lic Service Loan Forgiveness Coleman, who is $44,000 to pay down your loans.” Program, a federal government in debt, is shocked by the Garibay and Coleman both program that many former stu- possibility of the federal counsel students on the pro- dents currently rely on to solve government denying her the gram, which number about their debt troubles. debt relief, particularly after 200 per year, they said. The two But the Trump administra- she is halfway through the hold workshops every term, • Students involved in the SOJC’s Duck TV tion on Wednesday signaled it 10-year-long commitment. but they tell students to be voiced concern with the journalism school’s may cancel the program in an Coleman graduated from wary of relying on the program plan to reorganize the TV studio. effort to cut $10.6 billion from University of South Dakota in because of the turnover in the Friday federal education funding. 2010, and her employment here federal government. The Washington Post said makes her eligible because UO “Administrations change in an article that it acquired qualifies as an employer to of- all the time; rules change,” budget documents, which are fer eligibility for PSLF. Coleman said. supposed to be released to the Coleman is frustrated be- Coleman said Oregon has public next week, mentioning cause she would have chosen 1,614 employers with people the cuts. There are no further a different payment plan if submitting paperwork for the details provided. she knew the program would PSLF program. The Public Service Loan fall through. “It’s a scary time to be in Forgiveness Program began in Michelle Garibay is also a higher ed,” Garibay said. • Students in debt wait for the Trump admin- 2007. The Washington Post re- UO financial aid counselor, The Trump administra- istration to announce its school budget plan, ports over 550,000 people are who graduated from West- tion plans on releasing the which may cut a program for debt relief. “on track to receive the benefit.” ern Oregon University. Like documents next week, suppos- Ashley Coleman, assistant Coleman, she is relying on the edly detailing the future of the Weekend director of the Financial Aid program to allow her to buy PSLF program. 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PHOTO EDITOR MEERAH POWELL CARLEIGH OETH ADAM EBERHARDT DIRECTOR OF SALES AND MARKETING MATHEW BROCK ON THE COVER ART DIRECTOR LINDSEY SMITH X303 VOL. 118, ISSUE NO. 79 DESIGN EDITOR DANA SPARKS OPINION EDITOR EMAIL: [email protected] Images taken at Shasta Lake EMILY HARRIS ALEC COWAN following the UO weekend trip last CREATIVE DIRECTOR MANAGING PRODUCER LOGAN MARKS DESIGNER GET IN TOUCH NICOLE PETROCCIONE X303 year (left) and this year (right). CHRISTOPHER TROTCHIE KELLY KONDO SPORTS EDITORS EMAIL: [email protected] EMERALD MEDIA GROUP EMILY HAMREN 2016 photo by Jennifer Vick Cox via OUTREACH DIRECTOR KENNY JACOBY 1395 UNIVERSITY ST., #302 LAYHA PITTS ANNA LIEBERMAN JONATHAN HAWTHORNE Facebook EUGENE, OR 97403 2017 photo by Benjamin Green 541.346.5511 JARRID DENNEY MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 | EMERALD | PAGE 3 COVER University of Oregon students National Forest Service and the resorts in remember the infamous purple cooler the area to keep students safe and prevent from last year’s Shasta Weekend littering as much as possible. emblazoned with the phrase, “Do You Shasta County Deputy Ray Hughes Wanna Do Some Blow Man?” and the explained that this year the resorts in Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity letters. The the area will be providing receptacles image was just an example of the mess for trash. created by University of Oregon students “If kids don’t want to keep their tents, A on Slaughterhouse Island during the they can throw them away,” he said. annual Shasta Weekend trip. Marina manager for Jones Valley Resort The Facebook post with the image Ricky Villanueva confirmed, “We provided of the cooler went viral and garnered a dumpster there and apparently the kids national attention. It was shared over would see the dumpster and take in their 71,200 times. trash. It made a big difference. We plan on (er) Slaughterhouse Island in Lake Shasta doing it for years to come.” clean was labeled a biohazard, and 25 workers According to UO sophomore Dani in the forest service were called in to clean Gomez, who attended Shasta Weekend for up the mess left by the students, including the second year in a row, “Everyone was trash, tents and human waste. kind of trying to make a bigger effort to The UO Lambda Chi Alpha chapter was not create a situation like last year.” temporarily suspended by its national Gomez said many students attempted leadership. The fraternity issued an to clean up the landscape. Shasta apology, but the volunteers from the “By the time I packed up onto my boat, fraternity sent to help with the cleanup there was nothing left on the island. were turned away because the site was All the tents were gone and boys were deemed too hazardous due to the human walking around with trash bags,” she said. waste left on the island. The fraternity is The Division of Student Life from UO no longer suspended, but it refused to and Oregon State University worked comment on whether any of its members together to send a joint letter addressed weekend are attending Shasta this year. to fraternity and sorority chapter advisors At Lake Shasta, students rent at both schools. The letter stressed safety houseboats and party all weekend. Photos and declared that the trip is not endorsed ➡ @0ITSFRANKIE0 FRANKIE BENITEZ, and videos of the trips show students by either institution. “Their decision to drinking alcohol, swimming, smoking and attend is not condoned by their chapter, dancing on boats at the lake, as well as their international organization, or by partying on the shore. UO/OSU.” The sheriff’s boating safety department According to the letter, “Students may at the lake has been working with the in certain instances be held accountable The “infamous” Shasta 2016 cooler left after the annual UO Greek student trip. (Jennifer Vick Cox via On May 19th and 20th, the Phi Psi boat DJ repeatedly stopped the performances throughout both nights asking everyone Facebook) listening to clean up their trash. (Benjamin Green) PAGE 4 | EMERALD | MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 DAILYEMERALD.COM GRAD GUIDE GRAD GUIDE WHAT NOT TO DO AT GRADUATION NOTABLE ALUMNI FROM UNIVERSITY OF OREGON THE MOST VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED IN COLLEGE Dot Dash Sunglasses ($25) Great Gifts for Grads at Mosaic! 957 WILLAMETTE ST.