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Broadway) Health Insurance Marketplace Days Inn Dept. of Health and Human Services (1859 Franklin Blvd.) 465 Industrial Blvd. UO Campus London, KY 40750-0001 (15th and University) & 2125 Franklin Blvd. This Public Service Advertisement has been donated by Make reservations at city2cityshuttle.com or call 541-758-8001 Emerald Media Group. PAGE 2 | EMERALD | MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2017 NEWS 15 FRESHMEN INITIATE EFFORT MUSIC TO TAKE DOWN A MURAL THEY CONSIDER RACIST IN EQUIPMENT KNIGHT LIBRARY STOLEN BY RYAN NGUYEN • TWITTER @RYANJJNGUYEN Fifteen first-year University of Oregon students are FROM TWO spearheading an effort to petition the University of Oregon to remove a mural that they believe to be racist, located in the Knight Library. Francesca Smith is the leader of the group, and she first HOMES learned about the mural when a graduate instructor in one of her classes took Smith — and the rest of Smith’s class — to Knight Library’s west stairwell to see the mural. NEAR The mural is titled “The Mission of a University.” After seeing the mural, Smith said her jaw dropped. She took issue with the part of the mural’s text that read, “It means conservation and betterment not merely of our national CAMPUS resources but also of our racial heritage and opportunity to Owen Phillips had this guitar stolen recently. (Courtesy of Owen Phillips) the lowliest.” “It’s easy to complain about something harmful,” said Smith, “but it’s another thing for someone to step up and actually do something about it.” BY CASEY CROWLEY • TWITTER @CASEYCROWLEY55 At the time of publishing, 816 individuals signed the Change.org petition. Smith said that other students in her class also took issue Two UO students have reported musical which was really a bummer,” said Phillips. with the phrase and other phrases in the statement. So, she equipment stolen from their homes just a The other student, Albert Kalenscher, introduced the idea of a petition in a Snapchat group chat of few blocks from campus in recent weeks. a junior majoring in journalism, had students in the discussion section. The first student, Owen Phillips, a junior a soundboard, a laptop, and an Xbox “A lot of them aligned with the same view that I had,” at UO majoring in human physiology, had controller stolen from his home on 17th said Smith. two guitars, a bass, a microphone and some Avenue and Patterson Alley. Eugene cords taken from his garage at his house on Police responded to the scene on Oct. 15 18th Avenue and Patterson Street The theft and noted that there was no indication of Continued on page 4 occurred on Oct. 23, sometime between 2 forced entry. p.m. and 4:15 p.m., while Phillips was home. Kalenscher, 20, said that the door was “I was at home — it was like broad left unlocked the night before by one of his daylight — and I was in the garage earlier friends who was spending the night. that day and everything was super fine, and He also said that because of the incident, I was talking to somebody on Facetime, he is now going to make sure to keep his and I went back out and the door was front door locked at night. busted and stuff was gone,” said Phillips. Kalenscher and Phillips both said the Eugene Police Department confirmed police have not been able to locate any of that they received information that there the stolen equipment from their houses. had been forced entry into Phillips’ garage. EPD did not provide any further After realizing that someone had broke information about the investigation. into the garage and stolen the equipment, “Here stuff gets taken and gets sold Phillips called the police right away. pretty much immediately, so it was pretty Phillips said it took police about an hour hopeless all around,” said Phillips. to arrive. Neither of the victims said that they Since talking to police on the day of the have any idea of who could have stolen the crime, and having a follow-up with an equipment from their houses. investigator about a week later, Phillips has “People just trespass and break and enter, not heard anything about the process of the and it doesn’t really matter. Even if you investigation. think you are secure. 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MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2017 | EMERALD | PAGE 3 NEWS MURAL: Continued from page 3 She began drafting the petition white supremacist undertones,” that same night, and it took a few and that the mural causes students weeks to research and create. of color to feeling unwelcome, Annabelle Kline-Zilles is a first- “denigrating our very existence on year student at the University this campus.” of Oregon who was also part of Smith and another student are the group that was taken to see planning to speak with the Dean the mural. of Libraries to discuss the possible “It’s not something that I would removal of the mural. expect to see in a university Comments on the petition in 2017,” said Kline-Zilles, an include, “It’s disgusting to see this environmental studies major. “I kind of thing on a supposedly can’t believe that this is here.” ‘progressive’ campus. U of O is Kline-Ziles said that after her all talk, but doesn’t want to take class saw the mural, other students any action when it comes to racist said tthey felt uncomfortable or things like this and the name of very surprised. Deady Hall” and “It doesn’t express “Conversation started what the U of O stands for!” right there,” she said. “The The UO commissioned UO art word ‘lowliness’ was found professor Nowland Zane to design discriminatory and even degrading the mural, which is a painting on toward minority groups.” canvas affixed to a niche in the After that, a group of fifteen wall according to the UO Libraries students continued to talk about it website. Frederick Young, a former outside of class in a group chat, and professor of history and dean of Kline-Ziles said that when Smith Oregon’s School of Sociology, wrote mentioned the idea of a petition, it the text. Zane also designed the was well-supported. mural “Opportunity for the Youth In the petition, Smith states that of Oregon” for the Knight Library’s the mural is “riddled with racist and East Stairwell. (Sarah Northrop) PAGE 4 | EMERALD | MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2017 NEWS GSH STUDENT GOVERNMENT HOSTS SILENT DISCO BY RYLEE KAHAN • TWITTER @RYLEEKAHAN Global Scholars’ Great Room looked around me having a good time,” like a rave on Tuesday night with said Schofield.