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The godfather of shock rock will perform in Eugene the day before commencement. He spoke with the Emerald about his villainous alter ego, today’s “fast food” music and shock-proof audiences. WOM E N ’ S T R AC K & F I E L D W I N S T R I P L E C R OW N
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NOT ALONE: THE UNSPOKEN EPIDEMIC OF MENTAL ILLNESS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
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“MAYBE I DON’T DESERVE TO BE FRIENDS WITH ANYONE.” - EVITA GARZA, UO sophomore According to the American College Health Association, 60.8 percent of students felt overwhelming anxiety last year. Statistically, that means about 14,600 UO students felt overwhelming anxiety.
“I DON’T GO TO CLASS. I DON’T GO TO WORK. I DON’T DO MY SCHOOL WORK. I CAN’T GET OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING. I’M AN AWFUL PERSON.” - EVAN MURPHY, UO sophomore About 60.6 percent of students reported feeling “very lonely” last year and 80.6 percent felt “overwhelmed by all [they] had to do.”
“WHAT ABOUT THE PERSON WHO ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, WOKE UP AND NEVER TOLD ANYONE?” - MEGHAN CRANE, Oregon Health Authority
A stigma of mental health may be preventing college students from getting help from their closest allies: their friends and peers. On Friday, the Emerald will publish “Not alone: the unspoken epidemic of mental illness on college campuses,” which will include personal stories from UO students battling mental illness and highlight the abundant resources available. Jennie Shen, president of the UO Student Mental Health Advocates says we have “built a society where it is acceptable to ignore it — to put these types of issues on the back burner,” Shen said. To those who don’t want to talk about sadness, feeling alone, their worry of drug abuse or anxiety with their peers, this piece strives to highlight those commonly shared sentiments and the ways the University and students can help. Mariko Lin, a senior staff psychologist at the UO counseling center said that, “The more a student is vulnerable to sharing their struggles, the other students will share just as much. There’s a lot of fear of seeming like we don’t have it all together … The more that they share that vulnerability, their struggles, the more it will be reciprocated.”
And 10.4 percent of students “seriously considered suicide” in the last 12 months.
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Oregon would have lost by .02 points. After Makenzie Dunmore started the relay off for the Ducks, Deajah Stevens ran the second leg, bringing the Ducks into a battle with USC. Elexis Guster ended up finishing the third leg in first place, but USC wasn’t far behind. It came down to Raevyn Rogers, who had just become the first woman to win her fifth NCAA title in the 800-meter. She and USC’s Kendall Ellis fought for first for the entirety of the race, but it was Rogers who ended up as the victor. Oregon finished in a collegiate record-breaking time of 3 minutes 23.13 seconds, just 0.2 seconds before USC. But Oregon’s celebration would have to wait since Georgia decided to make two protests. It argued that Stevens should not have been in the relay in the first place because it was originally announced that Stevens had been given a DNF as opposed to a disqualification. Because Washington had helped her, Stevens was given a disqualification instead, allowing her to compete in the relay. Georgia then argued that Oregon had impeded USC during the 4x400 relay, but this was found to be false. When the protests were refuted, the Ducks began to celebrate once again, refusing to allow the pouring rain and hail dampen their spirits. “When they prepared us for this meet, our sports psychologist told us about American Pharaoh,� Rogers said referring the Triple Crown-winning racehorse. “She saw a commercial about American Pharaoh and how he had the biggest heart out of the other horses, so we wanted to go into NCAAs with a big heart.� ENGAGEMENT EDITOR MARK KELLMAN NEWS EDITORS MAX THORNBERRY WILL CAMPBELL JACK PITCHER A&C EDITORS CRAIG WRIGHT CARLEIGH OETH MATHEW BROCK OPINION EDITOR ALEC COWAN LOGAN MARKS SPORTS EDITORS KENNY JACOBY JONATHAN HAWTHORNE JARRID DENNEY
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When Alice Cooper is decapitated by a guillotine, put to death in an electric chair or hung in a straitjacket onstage, fans don’t just cheer. In fact, they pay more than $700 for a chance to be splattered with fake blood in the front rows. For nearly 50 years, the godfather of shock rock has horrified audiences with his stage antics and persona — the angry, sadistic and defiant villain of rock ‘n’ roll. The Alice Cooper band earned its notoriety by pioneering the theatrical arena rock show, but in a phone interview with the Emerald, Cooper said audiences are now desensitized to his theatrics because of an unlikely opponent: reality. “If you talk to Marilyn [Manson], if you talk to me or you talk to Rob Zombie, we all understand that CNN is more shocking than anything we can do,� Cooper said. He thinks only the truly grotesque would strike fear into the heart of an audience today. “Honestly you can’t [shock a crowd], unless you’re going to saw your arm off onstage. And that, you can only do twice — so pick a really good audience for that.� No matter how many hit songs and deadly props Alice Cooper takes on tour with him, the most celebrated moment at his concerts, and in his career, is the sound of a school bell ringing preceded by the chorus of “School’s Out.� On June 17, Cooper will bring his nightmarish stage show to the Cuthbert Amphitheater — hours before seniors at the University of Oregon will attend graduation ceremonies and many can officially say “school’s out forever.� In 1972 the Alice Cooper band set out to write an anthem about the agonizing final moments before the school bell rings for summer. But no one predicted that sending students away with the song blaring over the loudspeakers would become a lasting tradition in schools across the country 45 years later. “We had no idea that it was going to be the national anthem in May every year,� Cooper said. “It’s amazing how everybody relates to that song, and mostly the teachers. The teachers are so sick of the kids at that point.�
Alice unmasked Born Vincent David Furnier in 1948, Cooper wrote a column, Get Out of My Hair, under the pseudonym Muscles McNasal while he attended Cortez High School, in Phoenix. He worked well with words in school but often resorted to hiring girls to do his algebra homework. He spent
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much of his time writing songs and playing in cover bands with his friends during his time at Glendale Community College, where he majored in art. He would later legally change his name to Alice Cooper in 1974. Alice Cooper was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. He has sold more than 50 million records and in 1974 he set the world record for the largest indoor stadium concert with 158,000 attendees in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is also the only artist to have performed at London’s Wembley Stadium in five consecutive decades. Offstage, Cooper is a father, self-proclaimed devout Christian and a five-handicap golfer. Before speaking with the Emerald, he shot a 76, four over par, at the Troon North Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. He golfs daily, but because of the heat — it was 111 degrees when he called — he usually tees off around 5:30 or 6 a.m. When on tour, he continues to golf in the mornings, but at night when he dons his black makeup, his murderous alter ego emerges. “When I play him, I become this arrogant villain with a really bad attitude, except I do allow him to become [Peter Sellers’s “Pink Panther” character, Inspector Jacques] Clouseau every once in a while. I don’t mind him slipping on a banana peel because that makes it funny,” Cooper said. Alice is not the only character on the stage with attitude. Cooper’s band is taught to bring as much ego, arrogance and rock star panache to the stage as they can muster. But the backstage scene in “Wayne’s World” is an accurate depiction of Cooper’s bandmates, whom he encourages to be the “nicest guys in the world with no ego” when offstage. “That’s what I got. My guys in the band are best friends,” Cooper said. “They’re the sweetest guys in the world. But when they get onstage, I want them to be arrogant bastards.”
Breaking out In the late ’60s and early ’70s, the Alice Cooper band had trouble breaking out of the Los Angeles psychedelic scene where they regularly shared bills with the Doors, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. They had been a regional success in Phoenix but were deemed “too weird” by L.A. audiences. Even renowned experimental musician Frank Zappa did not understand the band, but he was intrigued by its theatrics. He invited the band to audition at 7 o’clock at his house one day, and his confusion was exacerbated when they arrived in full stage regalia at 7 a.m., not 7 p.m., as Zappa expected. He did not comprehend them, but signed them to his record label, Bizarre Records, anyway. Refusing to return home as failed musicians, Cooper and the band were fueled by what he called “sheer determination” to succeed. No matter how many nights they spent sleeping on friends’ couches, the band took every measure to ensure their success — stealing money during one night stands to pay for food, rehearsing for long hours and ultimately creating an act the world had never seen. “We had given up college. We had already decided that we left home to make it. We were not going to come back with our tail between our legs,” Cooper said. The band failed to break through until its third studio album, 1971’s “Love It To Death.” They relocated to Detroit and met Producer Bob Ezrin. Ezrin saw potential in a song he thought was called “Edgy” and predicted it would be a hit if they stripped it down to its most basic form. Ezrin also insisted that each member of the band had to develop their own unique sound on their instruments before recording, so the song would stand out on the radio. The band listened, and
“I’m Eighteen” spent 13 weeks in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 21.
A changing landscape According to Cooper, bands today lack attitude and emotion. “Where are the outlaws?” he asked. He also feels that bands are too political and focused on what is coming next, rather than focusing on creating timeless works. “We’re in an age of fast food radio,” he said. “We used to have gourmet food; now we have fast food. Same thing with music. We used to have gourmet music; now we have fast food music. I can’t think of any songs I hear on the radio today that are going to stand up over 30 years.” “Paranormal,” Cooper’s 27th studio album, is due July 28. Larry Mullens Jr. of U2, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and Roger Glover of Deep Purple all appear on the Bob Ezrin-produced album. Two songs feature the original Alice Cooper band lineup. True to his character, the album contains songs about rats, dead flies and love. The Nights With Alice Cooper Tour will incorporate new material alongside his classics. At this point in his career, Cooper said that everything he does is for his longtime fans, from his new album to his gory concerts. Although Alice Cooper’s stage antics might not shock audiences anymore, Cooper still aims to entertain as the maniacal frontman. “I established this character and I think that I’m consistent with it. And that’s really what it is, is being consistent with your character and don’t let him down and let him become something else,” Cooper said. “Just because the world is changing doesn’t mean Alice has to.” Alice Cooper will perform at the Cuthbert Amphitheater on Saturday, June 17. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8. Tickets start at $40 and are available here.
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University Theatre’s final production of the 2016-2017 season is ending the school year not with a fizzle but a bang. Playwright Anne Washburn’s 2012 creation, “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play,� is a bold and unabashedly weird piece of art that follows survivors of a nuclear apocalypse as they remember and retell the story of “The Simpsons� episode “Cape Feare.� Director Tricia Rodley’s production is a wonderful and visceral staging of a complicated play. With the help of a strong cast and smart production design, Rodley tackles a play that received mixed reviews at many major theaters in the country. Washburn’s writing, though its thesis about the cultural residue of storytelling is brilliant, struggles to balance the play’s many moving parts. The play asks important questions, as good theater does, but Washburn’s broad and shifting focus is sometimes too much for an audience to handle. This isn’t to say that the play isn’t worth the watch — it is; however, “Mr. Burns� is not for those expecting an easy or passive theater experience. The show takes place in three separate time frames. It opens on a group of nuclear apocalypse survivors passing the time by simply recounting “Cape Feare,� and then switches to seven years later when theatre troupes tour the country reenacting television episodes complete with commercials and costuming. The third act, 75 years in the future, features a full-blown melodramatic and musical version of “Cape Feare� complete with gold body paint and Britney Spears’ song “Toxic.� At its core, “Mr. Burns� is a nuanced exploration of how stories change over time. By swapping some characters for others and
tweaking each presentation of “Cape Feare� in the show, Washburn shows how our culture now could be the basis for a new society. While the first act spends ample time introducing the postapocalyptic world, the ensemble carries this weight well. Some of the slower moments in the writing (parts of the dialogue are lifted from Washburn’s own experience retelling the episode) are made easier because of the acting. Matt (played by sophomore Ryan Sayegh) and Gibson (junior Riley Olson) stand out for their “Simpsons� impressions. The actors’ comedic timing makes the dark and often referential comedy accessible to those who might feel lost in the play’s long, odd monologues. The second act builds on the foundation that the first act put in place, but two new characters appear without explanation or background. While the first act explores the immediate aftermath of the apocalypse, the second shows society’s growth while the survivors struggle to mount their production of “Cape Feare� in a competitive environment. During this act, more world building happens. The survivors discuss the world as it is in the moment. Where did all the Diet Coke go? Some characters say it was all “trucked to Denver.� The characters also stage a musical number of the previous society’s greatest hits, some of which appear in the third and final act. While Michael Malek Najjar’s “The Dead� and J.K Rodger’s “Emperor of the Moon� stand out from this season, “Mr. Burns� may be the one production people truly remember. Tricia Rodley’s production steals the spotlight. And for better or for worse, the bold show may define the future of UO Theatre.
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The University of Oregon Faculty Senate will only see a minor change in leadership next year. Senate President Bill Harbaugh will be next year’s Senate vice president and president-elect after he ran unopposed for the position. Harbaugh was elected to the position at the Faculty Senate meeting on Wednesday. Candidates nominate themselves to be elected vice president for 2017-2018 and then become president for the 2018-2019 year. Harbaugh was the only candidate for Senate vice president next year. In a role reversal, Chris Sinclair, this year’s vice president will take over Harbaugh’s position next year and Harbaugh will serve as the vice president. “I get along really well with Chris Sinclair and I think the combination of the two of us is a good combination,� Harbaugh said in an interview with the Emerald. Nominations for vice president/president-elect were allowed until the last minute, right before the vote, but nobody volunteered. Harbaugh said that this is likely because of the amount of work required to be president for not a lot of money. Senate members still voted, even though Harbaugh was the only candidate. Sinclair only asked members to vote if they were in favor. The majority voted for Harbaugh, but not every Senate member raised their hand. Harbaugh said he ran again because he did not feel that he had enough time in his one-year tenure as Senate president to do everything he wanted to do. “You learn a lot doing the president’s job and
if we keep rotating the jobs with new people, nobody ever gets enough institutional knowledge to really be able to use that knowledge to change what the university is doing,� he said. Sinclair is looking forward to being Senate president. He believes the Senate is in a strong state and hopes that everyone continues to take the job of being on the Senate seriously. Sinclair told the Senate that he wants there to be a focus on making good policies. “I would like us to be known as that university which does produce good policy — produces thoughtful, ethical policy which serves as models for others,� Sinclair said. Harbaugh said that people are mostly pleased with what he has done as Senate president this year and that not a lot of people wanted to replace him. He said that a couple people did want to run, but did not think they would have enough votes and support. “The main push back that I have gotten so far has been that I have been too much of a sellout to the administration,� Harbaugh said. “Given my past history people really expected me to be a hell raiser and I haven’t been.� Senators also handed out UO Senate awards. One non-Senate or university member, Diane Dietz, a former reporter at the Register-Guard, was awarded for her work covering higher education. Other award winners were Senate members Kurt Willcox, Jennifer Freyd, and Lisa Raleigh. At the end of the meeting, Provost Scott Coltrane and Anthropology Professor Paul Simonds were both recognized for their service to the university.
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