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much of the album is reminiscent of her older, hip-hop style. “Freak� and “Art Deco� sound like more composed, tighter cuts from Born to Die. The underlying jazzy, ironic tones of older songs like “Gods and Monsters� or “Born to Die� that Del Rey was so well-renowned for a few years ago are still present here. But, the glimmering ballads are where Del Rey really shines. “Terrence Loves You� is simply breathtaking, with tragic, biting lyrics and a bittersweet tone. It has all the grandeur of “Young and Beautiful� with a more entranced vibe. However, Honeymoon is not without faults. Del Rey sounds jaded and, frankly, rather bored on some tracks. “High on the Beach� is a clear example of her seemingly active disinterest and dismissal of her fortune. She sounds as if she can barely muster the energy to convey that she wants to be left alone. She seems too composed, too careful, too aware of that sad, glamorous golden-girl demeanor that she carries everywhere. It’s as if Del Rey has become burdened by
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As night fell after a long first day of the school year, energy remained high at Condon Hall. On Monday, 37 students showed up at 6:00 p.m. to the University of Oregon Economics Club’s kickoff meeting to pizza and a game of economic trivia, pitting teams, which included the “Paul Krugmans� and “Group 2,� against each other. They took on questions about current events in the economic world, including some as complex as what the most reliable indicator of an upcoming recession is (the answer: “a yield-curve inversion.�) Out of the 29 questions asked, the crowd was able to answer all but four. The UO Economics Club was founded in 2012 and has been rapidly expanding since. This year will be its first as a group recognized by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, which will enable it to request funding from the ASUO senate for its events. The club is now able to receive higher priority in reserving rooms on campus. The organization uses these rooms to provide peer tutoring and study group services twice a week to those enrolled in economics classes. During meetings, professors and instructors in the economics department often come by and show presentations of their research. This provides a smaller, more intimate setting to learn from and get to know professors, as well as witness how concepts grasped in class are being applied in their work. Research vice-chair Pruthvi Nannapaneni joined the club during his freshman year at the UO. “The club was a great way to get to know my professors,� Nannapaneni said.
Included in this year’s group of speakers is economics professor Bill Harbaugh who will present on his research of “Neuroeconomics.� UO Economics Club president Dylan Crownover believes this is an example of how the organization can appeal to students across a variety of majors and interests. The list of guest speakers coming to speak in front of the club also includes company recruiters for economists. This year, Liberty Mutual recruiters reached out to the club to talk about the role that an economist can play at their company. Last year, the club took a trip to Seattle to visit the city’s branch of the Federal Reserve, Boeing and Amazon. “It was valuable because it was a taste of the real world,� Patrick McClellan, chair of public relations said. “You learn about everything in class, but then going on the trips puts meat on the bones.� Debates are a big part of the UO Economics Club. Members research topics and present their views on economic policy. The group intends to check the policies of presidential candidates during the 2016 presidential elections, including for example, what it would really take to build Republican candidate Donald Trump’s proposed wall at the border of Mexico. “The club is an ideal way to put the theory from class into practical application, whether it would be the speakers, the trips or the opportunities to write or research,� said Bill Sherman, who coaches the leaders and administrators of the club. “I am very proud of what they do.� The club meets every Monday at 6:00 p.m. in Condon 260.
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It can be tough to reload each year as a club sports program where recruiting is limited to word of mouth and fliers. Yet, hopes remain high for Oregon men’s rugby, as it looks to build upon its successful past few seasons. The talent level of the departing players from the club is significant, with familiar names like Anton Matschek, Travis Cutler and Taylor Krumrei all moving on after their final year of eligibility. Most of the core scrum is gone. However, the team does see a silver lining. “A lot of times you are training with kids who are on the cusp and the most frustrating thing for them is they never get a chance to break out,” Connor Crossley, a veteran with the team, said. “I am hoping for a few shining stars to come out of this group.” The opportunities are there for the younger members who may not have seen much of the pitch in previous seasons. Playing time is to be had across the board. The coaches and team leaders are watching to see who will make a bid for more action come game day. “There is going to be a lot of open spots come this season,” Anthony Rodriguez said. Rodriguez’s goal, as a second year player, is to take over the playmaking duties. Jess Kraus will be one of the people helping to make personnel decisions as he takes on his new role as club president. “It wasn’t really planned. I got injured last fall, so I wanted to become more involved with the club,” Kraus said.
Kraus is also expected to make an impact on the field, though he is still working to rehab a torn ACL in his left knee. He is training with the team, but is only at 80 percent. A late fall return seems likeliest. Practice started two weeks before school, though not all the players were able to make it back on campus in time. The team ran two sessions a week on the turf fields, while also incorporating extra endurance sessions, like a team run up Spencer Butte. The Ducks have done a good job coming together during those sessions, keeping a high level of competition by pushing each other on the field in a positive manner. That speaks to the trend of this program supporting each other on and off the field, maintaining a sense of encouragement and camaraderie. “We have the time,” Crossley said, “so if we get some bodies in here and get them ready to go, we might actually have one of our best years.” The goal every year for Oregon rugby is to make it to nationals. Realistically this season, with how much experience, talent and size they lost, that may be a tall order. But this team isn’t looking at what was lost — instead they continue to emphasize the future. “What we are trying to focus on is our recruiting efforts,” Kraus said. “We have a huge pool to gather students from to get interested in our sport.” The first home game of the season is scheduled to take place on Oct. 24 against Chico State on Riverfront Field.
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After blood tests and lab results forced Charles Wilson to remove roughly 70 allergy-inducing foods from his diet – including wheat, dairy, various fruits, chicken – he decided to start eating crickets. “I basically had to rebuild my personal nutrition and what I needed for ingredients,� said Wilson, who graduated from the University of Oregon School of
Charles Wilson sought alternative forms of protein after learning he was allergic to casein as a child. (Courtesy of Cricket Flours)
Law in May. “So cricket protein was a great option.�
Last January, Wilson released the cricket cookbook All Cricket, No Bull, which includes about thirty recipes – from spiced French toast to sweet lemon balsamic vinaigrette dressing – all of which employ the insects in some edible fashion. Working with UO business school graduate Shean Ellis, the two co-founded Cricket Flours, a cricket-oriented business that offers an alternative and novel form of nutrition. Crickets as food are usually destined for the novelty candy shelf, preserved in lollipops or next to the worm larvae dusted in nacho cheese powder. “Yeah, you still might see a cricket inside those lollipops next to a scorpion, and it might be the gateway bug that let people try it,� said Wilson, who hopes consumers will move beyond the novelty and appreciate crickets’ value as a meal supplement. “We’re delivering it as an added protein and ingredient.� Crickets contain an immense amount of nutrients, including iron, calcium, amino acids and several vitamins. However, vegans and those with shellfish allergies are barred from eating crickets. During his childhood, Wilson learned he was allergic to casein (a protein found in milk.) This led him to discover alternative plantbased proteins and, eventually, cricket flour. It worked for his diet, but it was nearly impossible to find in the market. “I started seeing it as a market opportunity to not only provide myself with another protein source, but other people who either had dietary restrictions, allergies or who were just looking for a more sustainable form of protein,� said Wilson. Cricket Flours first began selling cricket powder, a protein-heavy grind made of 100 percent crickets that can be added to smoothies and baked goods. The business has since expanded its product line with chocolate peanut butter-flavored cricket powder, Cricket Fuel protein powder and, as of last Saturday, cinnamon-raspberry cricket
Shean Ellis, a UO business grad, helped Wilson develop Cricket Flours. (Courtesy of Cricket Flours)
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Since its founding, Cricket Flours has gone on to develop a diverse array of cricket-based products. (Courtesy of Cricket Flours)
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instant oatmeal. Many of the foods in All Cricket, No Bull are Wilson family recipes that he’s tinkered with and folded cricket powder into, including his great-aunt Myrtle’s fudge sauce recipe. Cricket Flours recently put out a cricket fudge sauce, made with 186 crickets per jar. You won’t find spare antennae or insect eyes staring back at you when you try a Cricket Flours product. The process of mashing crickets into powder is very similar to how grain is milled into flour. The taste doesn’t indicate anything buggy. If anything, crickets add a subtle nutmeg taste. The United Nations released a report in 2013 saying that Earth will be home to about 9 billion people by 2050, and to feed everyone, we might have to start eating crickets for protein. Entomophagy (humans eating bugs) is so common that humans intentionally eat insects in their diet in 80 percent of the world’s nations. Although thousands of cricket farms are based overseas, compared to a relative few in the states, Wilson and Ellis work with North American suppliers based in Canada and the southeast U.S. to source locally and reduce their carbon footprint. Ellis and Wilson collaborated in summer 2014 and pitched the idea at the UO Lundquist School of Business’ venture program, during which students conceptualize and refine business models. Cricket Flours stood out since Ellis and Wilson had already been selling cricket powder online. The online commerce proved they’d already made good strides toward having a real, sustainable company, said Nathan Lillegard, Cricket Flours’ faculty advisor and business school instructor. “There were more doubters than believers [in class], because crickets are icky,” said Allan Cochrane, an instructor in the entrepreneurship program. “When you hear about crickets, you don’t go ‘Great idea!’” Cricket Flours competed against other budding businesses at three competitions over the span of three months this year. In February, they competed in the Mai Bangkok Business Challenge at Sasin Graduate Institute, a prestigious
Thai school. More than 20,000 insect farms exist in Thailand. During the competing businesses’ trade show in Bangkok, Cricket Flours offered samples of spiced granola to passersby. “Invariably, half the people would walk up and look into [the sample cup] to see if they find something that looks like a bug,” said John Hull, assistant dean for the UO Centers of Excellence, who accompanied Ellis and Wilson to Thailand. “When they don’t see a head or a leg sticking out of the samples, then they’ll try it. It’s an amusing phenomenon.” An emissary of Bhumibol Adulyadej, the king of Thailand, approached Cricket Flours’ booth. He tried the cricket granola and accepted a copy of the cookbook from Wilson, which he handed off to an assistant. “So somewhere in the King’s collection of gifts is a cookbook on crickets,” said Hull. The following month, Wilson and Ellis traveled to Canada, competed and placed first in the Global Venture Labs Investment Competition at the University of Manitoba, the self-proclaimed “Super Bowl of Investment Competitions.” They took home 20,000 Canadian dollars. In May, two months later, they competed at the University of Texas in Austin, where they placed in the semifinals. Cricket Flours has partnered with other businesses throughout the country, including the Wayback Burger chain, which borrowed one of Wilson’s recipes and seasonally sells an Oreo Mud Pie Cricket milkshake. The Cricket Fudge Sauce can also be found at SubZero Ice Cream in Clackamas and Beaverton. Cricket Fuel is sold next to the PowerBars at The Duck Store. As early as next week, the Duck Store will begin selling a pumpkin-spice cricket smoothie, a cross between a dessert and a protein shake. The shake will be sold through October and November. “It’s a real thing,” laughed Conrad Hulen, Duck Store food manager. With its newest beverage, Cricket Flours may convince the ultimate demographic, the pumpkin-spice-adoring mainstream, that crickets can be tasty.
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The latest sports venue to receive a facelift at the University of Oregon is one of the most beloved. Historic Hayward Field is set to receive a complete renovation in preparation for the 2021 Track and Field World Championships. Vin Lananna, the UO associate athletic director and president of TrackTown USA, a local advocacy group for track and field, is one of the main people responsible for the renovation. Lananna took the time to sit down and talk about what to expect from the new Hayward.
VL: The west grandstands also has difficulty in that they have never been accessible for the disabled — we don’t have elevators or handrails. We don’t have enough restrooms and we don’t have enough seats as we host the World Championships in 2021. So the impetus is we have to make the stadium be, on a temporary basis, around 30,000 seats. We will have a permanent facility that is about 12,000 — which is a couple thousand more than we have now. We will try to maintain all the charm of it and all the historic perspective.
A visualization of the west grandstands at the renovated Hayward Field. (Courtesy of Goducks.com)
E: What is being done to the Bowerman Curve and Building? VL: No real decision has been made yet with the Bowerman building. It’s likely it will either be taken down or moved in some way, because the seating does need to extend down to the start of the 100 [meter race]. E: Is the hammer still going to be moved to the infield?
Emerald: Why is Hayward being renovated? Vin Lananna: It’s time. The east grandstands has had lots of money put into it on a regular basis for maintenance. Once and for all, we need to fix the basic things: unsexy things like bathrooms, fences and rot at the top of the grandstand. We need to renovate that, refurbish it so it will look the same but better. E: How about some of the other things being done to the facility?
VL: Yes. The hammer obviously presents some challenges, because of the configuration of our jumps. A lot of other stadiums serve as soccer venues, so the runways are outside lane eight. We don’t want to do that. Our challenge is to conduct the hammer on the infield, while other events are going on. E: Has a budget been set for the project? VL: Still working on it. The reality of it is we are still in the planning stages. E: When does planning become action? VL: We are pretty close. We expect by the end of this academic year to have a good sense of
the financial side of it and have a real timeline. My timeline and their timeline might not be the same. Mine is this summer, after the Olympic Trials. We have a window; we don’t plan to have to cancel or change the PreClassic or the NCAAs. There might be some construction going on, but we want to have them here without any interruptions. E: How about the Oregon Preview and Oregon Twilight, those kind of meets? VL: It’s possible that in 2017 there will be construction going on and they will not be able to be held — but everything else will stay intact in 2016. Right now, I am working with our track coaches to find out what that would actually look like. E: You talk about keeping the charm of Hayward, and obviously it has a lot of nostalgia for many people. Are there some specific ways you are trying to do that? VL: Well I think that the iconic venue is the east grandstands, which we will maintain intact and everyone who arrives on campus will see the east grandstands will be exactly the same. It’s funny, because the west isn’t that old. The plans that we have now are really what Bill Bowerman had when he put them in — he just ran out of money. E: Why should fans be excited for this renovation? VL: I think what we will have is all of the amenities of a major sporting event. So the NCAAs, the Olympic Trials, the PreClassic, the Oregon season, the high school state meet — it will all have all the charm of Wrigley Field and other iconic venues. The athletes are going to perform. The stuff they do as competitors will all be very similar. But all the other stuff will be modernized. It will not be ornate; you will know it’s Hayward Field.
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The Oregon Board of Psychologist Examiners proposed on Friday to reprimand Shelly Kerr, director of the Counseling and Testing Center of the University of Oregon. The reprimand includes a $5,000 fine and required attendance of ethics classes for breaching a student’s confidentiality. The Oregonian reported that the disciplinary actions are in response to Kerr giving UO lawyers records belonging to the survivor of an alleged sexual assault involving three UO men’s basketball players in 2014 without the student’s consent. It was reported that the university requested the student’s therapy records to defend the school from the student’s lawsuit. Members of the board are proposing disciplinary action for “failure to protect and maintain the confidentiality of [the] student’s records,� according to the organization’s statement. Jennifer Morlok, the student’s therapist, and Karen Stokes, Kerr’s former assistant, issued a statement in support of the board’s actions. Morlok and Stokes were responsible for exposing the secret transfer of the student’s therapy files. In a joint public letter, the two stated that their jobs were threatened by the university before reporting the incident because they were not allowed to seek outside legal counsel under any circumstances. “As a clinician, it is our job to protect our client’s information to the best we can. If [this] would have been the focus in this case with this client, then [we] would not have been forced to report violations,� Morlok and Stokes said in their public letter. When the transfer of the student’s therapy file was reported, it created national outrage, and Morlok and Stokes were subsequently fired. The two have filed a tort claim and intend to sue the UO, The Oregonian reported. The board also aimed to reprimand three other university psychologists in addition to Kerr, but the proposal was rejected. UO spokesman Tobin Klinger said in a statement that administrators were pleased that the proposal to reprimand psychologists Joseph DeWitz, Robin Holmes and Brooks Moore were dismissed. Kerr can contest the board’s decision at an administrative law judge hearing. If she fails to request a hearing within one month or fails to appear, the board can issue a final order and Kerr will have to pay the fine and participate in the required ethics course. According to Klinger, the university expects Kerr to request a hearing and will support her in that effort.
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FOSTER, @JESSIEMARIE246
The term bar is a vague word. It can refer to metal poles, granola bars, musical measurements and is also used as a preposition meaning “except for.� It is an expression that has multiple purposes in the English language. But one bar stands out among the rest: the nightlife bar. Or as I like to call it on my bitter days: a dark room that smells like too many people and $10 vodka. Now, I have had pleasant experiences in bars. Campus bars can be fun if you take them in stride. A Wednesday through Saturday appearance at Taylor’s Bar & Grill is going to make you feel like you took your body through a minefield, physically and emotionally. You see everyone you want to see and everyone that you don’t want to see. After an hour in Taylor’s, you will walk out into the quiet street and shout, “WHAT? WHAT DID YOU SAY?� to your friend right next to you. At one point, someone will get sick, lost or sick and lost. Standing at the bar, all you will feel is someone’s sweaty arm pressed against your sweaty arm. How neighborly. In my short experience with bars, I have discovered that they make me more social. A couple glasses of wine or a few beers probably helped open the flow of conversation. Yet, the moment I step into a campus bar, I can hardly hear myself think, let alone carry on a discussion. I don’t quite enjoy someone’s lips
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pressed against my ear trying to explain the classes they are taking this term. The next morning my throat is raw and hoarse from simply screaming, “Hello!� or “How’s your mom?� The louder the music is, the more people will drink. Without the ability to chat with our peers or hear a reply, we give up and grab another drink. Bars aren’t doing this because they want to make the social setting less awkward or more inviting to its customers; bars want people to stop talking and keep drinking. Instead of having a section of the bar dedicated to dancing and loud music, the entire building sounds like a gigantic speaker. We are left to step on one another’s toes, bump heads and say rude things to each other as we all crowd the bar. The end game is the same: we all want another drink. Just stand there with a smile plastered on your face and maybe you’ll slip through — or make another friend. But, you’ll probably just get pushed around, glared at and do the same in return. Sometimes we all need a night to get crazy, be a little weird, and stop being social. Most of the campus bars can offer that environment, and by all means take advantage of it (if you’re over 21, of course.) But at the same time, don’t go every night. The same things happen. Take your friends, walk a little further down the sidewalk and check out something new. Maybe it’s a little quieter, but at least the place won’t smell like 100 percent bad choices (alright, maybe just 70 percent.)