MONDAY, JULY 25, 2016 DAILYEMERALD.COM ⚙ MONDAY FREE SPEECH IN SAFETHESE ARE REPORTS FROM ACTUAL STUDENTS AND CAMPUSSPACES COMMUNITY MEMBERS submitted to the Bias Education and Response Team, which takes these reports and often tries to start a conversation with the offending party. Now, some faculty say the team is restricting free speech on campus. WEIRD AL TO PERFORM IN EUGENE ON FRIDAY INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS CUP RECAP CAN WE PREVENT POWER OUTAGES ON CAMPUS? ENTERTAINMENT When satire eclipses the thing it was meant to the Emerald, “walking down the street or in the (Courtesy of the Artist) spoof, it’s especially poignant. supermarket and somebody says, ‘Oh, I’ve had this Take, for example, when you hear the nimble great idea since the third grade and I finally got a strings from the 1876 ballet “Dance of the Hours.” chance to share it with you … ’ And it’s almost always You likely don’t think of Italian composer Amilcare something horrible.” Ponchielli, but rather Allan Sherman’s perky He added that since the advent of YouTube, he’s lines: “All the counselors / Hate the waiters / And been pitched much less often. the lake has / Alligators” from “Hello Muddah, “Now if someone has a great idea,” he said, “they Hello Fadduh.” can just go do it themselves.” In the case of “Weird Al” Yankovic, who’s visiting At the start of his career, Al was a college student the Cuthbert Amphitheater this Friday, his parodies studying architecture at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, supplant the original all the time. On YouTube, his but soon realized that his major wasn’t his passion. 1998 song “Amish Paradise” has more than twice the “What I learned is if you’re not passionate plays of Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.” about something, don’t do it if you can help it,” When Weird Al’s career began, he was considered he said. “You’ve got to eat. You’ve got to pay for as a one-hit wonder with his early tracks such as the macaroni and cheese. But I figured out about “My Bologna” or “Eat It” (parodies of The Knacks’ my third year in architecture school that it wasn’t “My Sharona” and Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” my muse.” respectively). And it’s still easy to pigeonhole Weird Still, Yankovic’s career skyrocketed, spanning Al as some kind of bygone act, but that would be just music (both parody and some great originals), film, as delusional as his early critics; in fact, his career television and children’s books. His impression is has never been more pronounced and successful everywhere in our culture. than it is today. Just consider Don McLean, who wrote “American By keeping a finger on the pulse of pop music, Pie” before Yankovic changed it to a ballad about the Yankovic has effectively insulated himself from Star Wars prequels (“The Saga Begins”). Allegedly, cultural irrelevance. In 2014, Yankovic released his McLean’s children have played Yankovic’s version most recent album Mandatory Fun, on which he for him at home so often that it’s messed him up puts the likes of Lorde, Pharrell, Robin Thicke, Cat while playing it live. Stevens and Iggy Azalea. The album reached no. 1 on After Chamillionaire took home the Best Rap the Billboard 200 charts and was the first comedy Song Grammy for “Ridin’,” he allegedly approached album to do so since Allen Sherman’s My Son, The Yankovic on the red carpet to thank him for his WEIRD AL Nut (which features “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh.”) parody “White and Nerdy” on 2006’s Straight in 1963. Mandatory Fun also won the Grammy for Outta Lynwood. Best Comedy Album, which marked Yankovic’s Maybe in the future, we won’t be able to TO VISIT EUGENE fourth Grammy since 1985. remember Pharrell’s “Happy” without thinking Al said he’s prone to receiving suggestions from about Al’s “Tacky” behavior: “I would live-tweet a fans, who sometimes pitch him song parodies of funeral, take selfies with the deceased!” THIS FRIDAY their own. One can hope. ➡ EMERSON MALONE, @ALLMALONE “That was the bane of my existence,” he told CHECK OUT OUR DAILY DEALS! Mondo Deal Ter “Pen” Waxy Monday! Tuesday! Wednesday! 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ART CENTER (500 MAIN ST.) TICKETS ARE $5 AT THE DOOR FROM 7 P.M. TO 10 P.M. — $15 When Joshua Powell started playing The Emerald Art Center’s weekly gathering music in Anderson, Indiana, his style was provides aspiring artists with experience, a mix of high school heavy metal and advice and community. On Thursday, artist Jimmy Buffett flavor. But Powell’s band is Alan Clark will mentor artists with their constantly changing, and the musician and acrylic work, drawing or any other kind of poet will bring his more current brand of illustration work. You can bring art that you happy folk tunes to Eugene with his four- are currently working on or come ready to man band. start a new piece. TUESDAY, JULY 26TH FRIDAY, JULY 29TH ‘WEIRD AL’ YANCOVIC AT THE CUTHBERT CANNABIS SCIENCE PUB! AT WHIRLED AMPHITHEATER (2300 LEO HARISS PKWY.) PIES PIZZA (199 WEST 8TH AVE.) GATES OPEN AT 5:30 P.M., SHOW FROM 6 P.M. 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AT 9 P.M. — FREE. 21+ MONDAY, JULY 25TH THE CORNER OF 8TH AVENUE AND OAK STREET FROM 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. It’s easy to get your groove on this UOPD CHIEF CANDIDATE VISITS EUGENE AT THE KNIGHT — FREE Wednesday night at the Funk Jam hosted at LIBRARY BROWSING ROOM (1501 KINCAID ST.) Hi-Fi Music Hall. Dressing for the occasion FROM 11 A.M. TO 3:30 P.M. — FREE This open air marketplace offers fresh is recommended, so bring your funkiest produce, handcrafted wares and an outfit and your dancing shoes. The third and final police chief candidate for the UOPD is visiting international food court boasting the campus on Monday, July 25. Brenda Trobaugh, current Deputy Chief of world’s most delicious flavors immigrated Police at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo will to Eugene. Go for breakfast, lunch, gifts be holding a public forum for students from 11 to 11:50 a.m. to kick off or simply to pass the time in the summer the day. She will then give a public presentation and hold a Q&A session sun. The market also invites local artists to from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. and a presentation for faculty and staff from perform live, and this Saturday will host six 3:40 to 4:25 p.m. These presentations will be held in the Knight Library local musical acts. browsing room. The Emerald is published by Emerald Media Group, NEWSROOM DESIGNERS SPORTS EDITOR Inc., the independent HALEY PETERSEN JARRID DENNEY BUSINESS ON THE COVER EDITOR IN CHIEF EMILY FOSTER This illustration took student nonprofit media company SPORTS WRITERS PUBLISHER, PRESIDENT & CEO SCOTT GREENSTONE X325 BRANDON MONTES-NGUYEN at the University of Oregon. 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