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A TUITION HIKE OF NEARLY 5 PERCENT HAS BEEN APPROVED for 2016-17

amid voices of protest.

Students seek a greater say in the future price of their education.

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The Board of Trustees passed a 4.7 percent tuition increase for in-state students and 4.5 percent increase for out-of-state students. The hike will cover the $17.5 million increase in costs for the fiscal year 2016, as the University of Oregon’s budget relies heavily on students’ tuition.

Student Amber Potratz said the tuition increases will force her to drop out before her last year at UO. She is the first in her family to attend college. “I can no longer pay for my rent and my credit card bills,�

Potratz said.

Potratz was not the only one. The board spent over an hour listening to concerns from multiple students and faculty.

Another student, Alicia Severson, said she is fortunate enough to have her parents support her financially throughout college. However, with the hike in tuition this year, she said she will probably be the only child out of three in the family to be able to attend college.

UO student Adrion Trujillo said he came to the UO as a queer and homeless student. He gave a testimony accusing the administration of going against its mission, as he almost choked into tears. “How is this a liberal school when black students feel alienated at the school ... when we invest in fossil fuel that destroys not only our futures but your future as well.

What makes this a progressive school when school officials tell a crowd of survivors to not drink as much alcohol, then they wouldn’t get raped?� Trujillo said. “Now you want to raise tuition and price out students like me who almost couldn’t afford this in the first place.�

Students rallied against the proposal back in February to no avail. In addition to almost 80 students at the meeting, over 500 students have signed a petition urging the board not to raise tuition, UO student Mariana Paredones said.

UO student Vickie Gimm shared several stories from 30 pages worth of testimonies.

Trustee Kurt Willcox proposed increases of 3.7 percent and 3.57

percent at the meeting, cutting $2.8 million out of Schill’s proposal.

Trustee Ann Curry spoke in support of the proposal, saying it is “immoral� and “fundamentally unethical� for UO to put financial burdens on students’ back.

The board voted it down by a count of 3-11 and passed the initial proposal. Curry, Willcox and student trustee William Paustian voted in opposition of Schill’s proposal.

ASUO Finance Director Shawn Stevenson led the walkout right after the vote. Earlier, he gave a public comment saying the increases will hurt the relationship between administration and the student body as well as the state. “You have proved that you are not willing to work with students,� he said. “We’re not willing to work with you if you’re not willing to work with us.� “Schill is a racist,� some protesters shouted as they left the building.

On top of tuition, mandatory fees are going up by 3.83 percent, health center fees will increase by 7.9 percent and the incidental fee will rise 4.5 percent.

The board continued the meeting by passing authorization for bond issuance, which was discussed on March 3. The board also passed Presidential Goals and Evaluation unanimously.

Schill went over his excellence plan to hire 80-100 new tenurefaculty and build more research spaces. He also wants to expand the Robert D. Clark Honors College and programs in Portland. Schill mentioned nothing about the upcoming live-on requirement but said many residence halls need renovations for safety and accessibility reasons.

VP and Provost Scott Coltrane took the lead in updating the board with an IT Plan. As of now, the UO will put $2.75 million towards rebuilding and maintaining the IT system. VP and Chief of Staff to the Provost Melanie Muenzer said the committee needs $10 million to run efficiently in the future.

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THE EMERALD EDITORIAL BOARD ON TUITION The following is the opinion of the Emerald Editorial Board and not Emerald Media Group as a whole. The board is comprised of the 2015-16 management staff and opinion editor.

The Emerald Editoral Board from left to right: Kira Hoffelmeyer, Cooper Green, Jack Heffernan, Dahlia Bazzaz, Kaylee Tornay, Scott Greenstone and Tanner Owens. (Cole Elsasser)

On March 4, the University of Oregon Board of Trustees raised tuition by almost 5 percent over the voices of students yelling in protest. Not surprising — tuition at UO has increased every year for nearly two decades, and students have protested for just as long.

But this year’s tuition-raising process was also marred by several glaring failures, most of which began with the activities of one body: the Tuition and Fees Advisory Board.

The advisory board makes tuition recommendations to the university president. Its meetings are the earliest opportunities students have to provide input on tuition. It has four student members: two are appointed by ASUO, and two are appointed by administration.

This year, ASUO’s President Helena Schlegel and Finance Director Shawn Stevenson were the only student members regularly attending advisory board meetings — cutting student voice in the discussion by half because the two administration-appointed members were not consistently attending meetings.

Although ASUO and the advisory board both make decisions that impact the lives of students, ASUO operates with a better sense of accountability than the group deciding tuition costs. The ASUO works under a system of clearly defined expectations and ramifications for not fulfilling them. Senators, for example, can’t miss an unlimited amount of meetings. But when they do miss them, they can find minutes from the meetings.

The advisory board has no such set expectations, and the head of the advisory board, Jamie Moffitt, admitted that it does not take official minutes for its meetings. Students also can’t readily find information about the advisory board through a simple Google search — and even if they do stumble upon the group’s page, all they’ll find is a scattered assortment of spreadsheets.

Information about who its members are, what is expected of them and how they are held accountable should be made available online.

The Emerald is published by Emerald Media Group, Inc., the independent nonprofit media company at the University of Oregon.

Formerly the Oregon Daily Emerald, the news organization was founded in 1900.

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ASUO President Helena Schlegel (center) leads a march down 13th Avenue against the tuition hike.

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Not to do so is to exclude students from half of the conversation.

The advisory board also demonstrated its need for transparency in its January meeting. The board settled on its recommendation in the absence of the two consistently attending student members after they left for class. Later, the board told Schlegel and Stevenson that all remaining meetings were cancelled. This effectively cut them out of any further opportunities to weigh in on tuition. Students were, once again, left out. But in the current system they could do nothing to regain any control.

Unfortunately, this lack of transparency extends beyond the advisory board. Administration tells students that it has to fund many multi-million dollar projects, while simultaneously claiming it wants to do everything possible to keep tuition low.

But the administration and board don’t back those claims by showing alternatives for tuition-based funding like reallocation or budget cuts. That disconnect is incredibly frustrating to students and discourages them from engaging in the tuition-setting process. As it is, the influence they have is minimal.

After all, the Board of Trustees has the final say on tuition increases, and it has only one student member — one of the three board members to vote against next year’s tuition hike. Discussion about tuition would benefit if the Oregon state legislature added just one more student voice to the board, which is mostly comprised of members who graduated from college over two decades ago, when the average student wasn’t shouldering $30,000 in debt.

All this represents an inefficient use of student voice in a system that must change in order to bridge the gap between students and administration. Students literally can’t afford to have so little awareness and agency in this process.

The university won’t be able to afford projects such as improving campus WiFi and providing faculty raises if their students can no longer afford to be taught.

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The EMU Board oversees a nearly $6.5 million incidental fee budget.

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ASUO Executive and EMU Board members both admit that there’s a problem in communication between them.

The disconnect showed throughout this year’s budget season, when Executive didn’t feel included enough in the budget decision-making procedure and EMU Board members felt isolated among other finance committees.

EMU Board, comprised of nine students, three ASUO senators and seven professional staff members, oversees a budget of almost $6.5 million in the incidental fee budget.

EMU board chair and former senator Miles Sisk credited the problems to the differences in structure of governance and budget. “People at the ASUO don’t get to work as closely with the programs and students here,� Sisk said. “I don’t think that the ASUO understands the EMU anymore, and I don’t think that the EMU really understands ASUO quite as much as before.�

As a solution, the board proposed to move off incidental fee completely and move the budget over to the existing EMU building fee. Students would pay the same amount, Sisk said, but the separation will

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improve EMU governance and productivity.

The administration is in support of the independence, Sisk said.

ASUO Finance Director Shawn Stevenson, in opposition of the proposal, said the separation would affect student autonomy within the EMU Board. “Lack of communication from the EMU Board seems to stem from overactive professional staff diminishing student control, which is not fixed through independence from the [incidental fee],�

Stevenson said via email. “But [with] closer ties to the student body and its governing structure.�

Instead, ASUO Executive is drafting a ballot measure for the upcoming election to increase communication between the two branches, ASUO President Helena Schlegel said. The ballot measure will put an ASUO Executive representative on the EMU Board and require the board chair to report to ASUO senate, Schlegel said.

Several ASUO senators are also concerned with the heavy involvement of the pro staff on the EMU Board at the meeting. Senator Max Burns claimed the EMU professionals, rather than students, created the budget.

At the meeting, the senate body had to spend a significant amount of time asking clarifying questions about how the EMU Board and its budget operate.

EMU Board member and ASUO senator Robin Lilley expressed frustrations that other senators hadn’t responded to emails concerning the issue prior to the meeting on Feb. 17. “It’s unprofessional to bring out problems at the meeting ...while the input could have been discussed beforehand,� Lilley said at the meeting.

EMU Board member and ASUO senator Shea Northfield was surprised with the conflicts surrounding the EMU Board’s budget at the meeting. She said she has heard no concerns from either Executive or Senate members prior to the meetings.

The separation must go through Schlegel’s approval, otherwise it’s “just a dreamland now,� Sisk said.

Schlegel said she welcomes an open dialogue with the EMU Board but has not heard from the board. She is against the proposal at the moment due to the lack of information. She said she sees no benefits coming out of the separation.

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On Feb. 26, a brief email was sent out by Kelly McIver stating that UO Police Chief Carolyn McDermed had announced her retirement earlier that day. This retirement came as a surprise to other members of UOPD, as she had a full schedule for the following week with meetings on every single day.

Pressures had been high around McDermed following a $755,000 lawsuit she lost last year when James Cleavenger sued her and two other officers.

He is a former officer who felt he was wrongly terminated and retaliated against, and he then sought compensation by suing.

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of Safety and Risk Services is overseeing the search to fill the position permanently. “I can’t speak to any of the events that occurred before I began overseeing the UOPD [last December],� said Le Duc, “But I do know that Chief McDermed made her own choice to retire and I support that choice.�

However, the Oregonian released on March 5th that McDermed was paid to leave her position. Her $46,000 payment includes her salary for the four months remaining in her yearly contract as well as two weeks paid vacation she had accrued. University spokesman Tobin Klinger declined to say why the payment was necessary.

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It’s something special when a parent can enjoy a stereotypical kid’s movie. This phenomenon describes Disney’s newest movie, Zootopia, which tackles the subject of disregarding stereotypes.

Zootopia stars a small, suburban bunny named Judy Hopps who dreams of making the world a better place. She lives in a world of animals, both predator and prey, who live together peacefully. Of course, there are some mean animals here and there, but as it’s mentioned several times in the film, these mean animals’ personalities have nothing to do with their predator or prey identity.

Hopps strongly believes that animals’ identities shouldn’t control who they are in life. Even when her parents insist that she should be a carrot farmer like many bunnies, Hopps says that she can be anything and quickly starts battling social norms.

She becomes the first bunny cop in the city of Zootopia, a job that’s typically filled by larger animals. She encounters a fox, Nick Wilde, along the way, and the remainder of the film concerns her and the fox’s journey in solving a missing mammal case for the Zootopia police department.

This is where Zootopia turns into a cute crime movie, if there is such a thing. Hopps and Wilde follow leads that carry them through a series of adventures: sneaking through a building guarded by wolves and being threatened by a tiny, yet powerful mouse.

Disney has created a whole world for these animals to inhabit. This animal metropolis

is fascinating and funny as you watch little mice villages with their animal versions of Macy’s and Target or watch Hopps and Wilde walk through a group of animal naturalists. There’s nothing funny about parking tickets or taxes in the human world, but these concepts in a cartoon animal film make it a little more relatable and oddly charming.

Zootopia doesn’t stop there.

It highlights the unfairness of racism and stereotyping in an animal setting. Why should a fox be refused service at a restaurant run by elephants? Or why should a tiger be stereotyped as mean because of his large stature?

Although it’s not a Pixar film, Zootopia is up there with films such as Up and Inside Out, both movies that producer John Lasseter collaborated on.

Lasseter and the rest of his team have yet again released a film targeted toward children with important underlying messages, presented in a way that’s captivating, entertaining and beautiful.

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Ann Curry , alumna and broadcast journalist, voted against the 4.7 tuition hike.

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Kurt Willcox, non-faculty staff representative on the Board of Trustees, voted against the hike.

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Frustrations finally boiled over. Students holding signs saying, “When will the price be right?� and “Silenced again,� marched out of the Board of Trustees meeting March 4 in an act of defiance against University of Oregon administration. “We’re not willing to work with you if you’re not willing to work with us,� ASUO Finance Director Shawn Stevenson said before he led students out of the board meeting.

This was the last effort of ASUO and supporting students to prevent tuition from going up 4.5 and 4.7 percent for resident and nonresident students respectively. After they left, the Board of Trustees passed the tuition hike 11-3.

Resident student tuition at UO has increased 45 percent over the last 10 years. In 2006-07, annual resident tuition was $5,970. Next year, it will be $10,771.

This is the second year in a row students protested against tuition hikes at a board meeting. With no clear end to this yearly frustration, the future raises a swarm of questions.

THE FINANCIAL FUTURE FOR GRADUATES

Vickie Gimm, a UO student, took the Board of Trustees’ stage during the time allotted for public comment and read dozens of testimonies from other UO students.

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“I am a student who is below the poverty level and can’t afford a tuition increase like this,� read one testimony. Other students voiced similar concerns: Raising tuition would make it harder or impossible to stay at UO. But on average, students who take on more student debt tend to be more capable of paying off their loans, said UO associate economics professor Benjamin Hansen, who specializes in education and cited national research. Just 18 percent of those borrowing more than $100,000 default on their loans, as opposed to 34 percent of those borrowing under $5,000. “The real problem with student loans isn’t really the amount of student debt people have,� Hansen said in an interview before the Board of Trustees meeting, “It seems to be more of an issue of what income they have when they graduate.�

More than half of the money from tuition increases goes toward funding research and hiring more tenure-track faculty. Hansen sees this as an effort to provide students with a better education so they can graduate sooner and be placed into higher-income jobs. According to a 2014 study published by the American Community Survey, Americans with bachelor’s degrees earned an average of $50,515 over a 12-month period

compared to $27,868 for those with just a high school diploma.

Hansen thinks students should look at debt as an investment. Though debt affects him as a young professional still paying off loans, Hansen looks at the wider issue. “The average person that ends up with like $200,000 in student loans might be a dentist or doctor,� Hansen said. “They would view that as a necessary expense to get the training that they needed. They would get a high enough income where they could afford those loans.�

Student loans are the best kind of debt to have, Hansen said, because of the time frame. Hansen’s student loan interest rate was about 5 percent, and his loan payments are tax deductible, something he takes advantage of. “[Five percent] is pretty much the same interest rate as my mortgage,� Hansen said. “So I should be in no more of a rush to pay my student loans off than I am to pay off my mortgage on my house.�

If Hansen lost his income and job, the bank wouldn’t grant a deferment period for paying off his mortgage, but the government would allow that for his student loans. Hansen said that, if anything, he is in more of a rush to pay off his mortgage because of this.

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Students march through campus following the March 4 Board of Trustees meeting.

“I’ve put student loans on the longest repayment scheme that I possibly can,” Hansen said.

THE FINANCIAL FUTURE FOR UO

UO President Michael Schill said the financial situation at UO is not going to get better anytime soon. Obligations from the Public Employee Retirement System go into effect in UO’s budget in 2018, adding an estimated $6-8 million to the university’s expenses.

The projected budget for 2018 is $26.5 million compared to $17.5 million in 2016, according to Vice President of Finance and Administration Jamie Moffitt, who gave a presentation on the budget situation at the board meeting.

But the board can’t keep pushing those costs onto students, said Kurt Willcox, a trustee who represents university employees who aren’t teachers or students.

Willcox believes that money can be allocated from other sources besides students in the future. He wants to use $2 million from $76 million worth of Unrestricted Net Assets — resources that may be used at the discretion of the president’s office and not the Board of Trustees. He proposed finding creative ways to draw some money from the $1 billion in the UO Foundation’s assets and employing funds from $200 million worth of private donations.

Willcox said that although the UO Foundation’s assets are restricted, they are the ones that can “solicit and find the money.”

He supports a number of state legislative initiatives to address the problem.

President Schill strongly disagreed.

“It is irresponsible to say, ‘Let’s just take a year and hope and pray that there’s a valid initiative that’s successful and helpful,’ ’’ Schill said.

Ann Curry, William Paustian and Willcox were the only ones to vote in favor of this alternative plan against 11 other trustees.

“If we don’t try and push and stretch some of the resources we have, we’re not going to be in a position where we can impact the tuition arrangement,” Willcox said after the meeting.

THE FUTURE OF RISING TUITION

Hansen said forecasting tuition increases is a challenge, but he predicted tuition may continue to go up at UO. In the job market, the value of a college education has gone up.

That means graduates are able to earn higher salaries than in previous years. It also means that more people will be pursuing college degrees, and as the demand for college goes up, so will tuition.

“The value that’s attached to a college degree is higher than ever,” Hansen says, “If that value keeps on going up, that does tend to put upward pressure on the demand for education.”

For Willcox, the proposed “A Better Oregon” initiative is the best hope to stall tuition hikes.

The measure would impose a gross receipts tax on large corporations. He says that the money gained from that measure could be used to fund higher education, lowering tuition increases. The first step is getting the measure on the ballot in November, something he believes is likely.

He fears the consequences of not taking that kind of action.

“We’re going to have to go back to tuition and keep raising it and raising it,” Willcox said, “That’s not sustainable.”

Students hold signs in protest of the tuition hike.

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After a somewhat disappointing fall, Oregon women’s golf is on a hot streak to start an important spring season.

The Ducks opened their season with a win over Oregon State in the Civil War Match Challenge and finished fourth at the Peg Barnard Invitational at Stanford, a tournament in which they held the lead heading into the final round.

Despite coughing up that lead, the Ducks showed that they were ready to bounce back from the fall and make a final push for the NCAA Championships.

That notion was only reinforced when the Ducks claimed victory at the Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Arizona, in February.

“I think the team win was great for confidence, especially at that golf course. It gave us opportunities to go low and get more comfortable in that situation,” senior team captain Caroline Inglis said.

Inglis has been the unquestioned leader of this Ducks team. Her stroke average is a team best 73.19 for the season — this average does not include her score from the Westbrook Invitational — and she is currently ranked the 14th best amateur in the world by Women’s Amateur Golf Ranking.

In the Westbrook Invitational, she tied with teammate Cathleen Santoso for third place overall with a score of 4-under par (212). Santoso has been another important part of the Ducks’ early success this spring. She’s currently third on the team with a 75.06 stroke average and feels that the win in Arizona only raises expectations going forward.

“We definitely have a stronger mindset in that we have the faith and belief in ourselves that we can win and we can play that good and compete against the best,” Santoso said.

Santoso attributes the tournament win to patience and discipline, aspects that the team hasn’t been without but could use more of, especially as the National Championships approach.

While Oregon was probably happy to see the fall season end — they only had two top five finishes in the five matches — head coach Ria Scott was never worried heading into the Spring.

“We knew that, from our experience last year when we didn’t have a great Fall, that a great spring is still possible,” Scott said. “So we weren’t ruling out the possibility of being able to come out of the gate strong and have a strong spring because we know that we are capable of a lot more than what we scored in the fall segment.”

Scott has been impressed with the leadership that the upperclassmen — especially Inglis and Santoso — have displayed but also thoroughly enjoys what the newcomers to the team are starting to accomplish. The Ducks added two quality recruits this season in freshman Petra Salko and Kathleen Scavo.

Both performed well during this season.

Salko is currently just behind Santoso for fourth in team stroke average at 75.50 and Scavo recently tied for ninth overall at the Westbrook Invitational.

“You look at them on the golf course and they don’t conduct themselves like freshmen,” Scott said of Scavo and Salko. “They might have had some freshman moments in the fall but they’ve quickly gotten over those and really have showed a lot of maturity here in the last few events.”

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in opening round of PAC-12 Tournament Never has a current Oregon women’s basketball player won a game at the Pac-12 Tournament.

The Ducks (20-10, 9-10 Pac-12) rallied from a 15-point deficit to close within three points, but couldn’t complete the comeback, falling 74-68 to Arizona at Seattle’s KeyArena and sending Oregon back to Eugene empty handed.

The Wildcats (13-18, 4-15) shot 53.8 percent in the first half, which led to a 36-24 Arizona lead at halftime.

Oregon’s Lexi Petersen finished with 23 points, Maite Cazorla added 19 points on 3-of-7 shooting from three-point range and Jacinta Vanderberg finished with 14 points and eight rebounds.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t defend with enough passion to earn a victory,” head coach Kelly Graves said. “That’s what it came down to.”

Oregon – still coping with life without co-Pac-12 player of the year Jillian Alleyne – was outscored 22-7 in the second quarter and lost the rebounding battle, 34-24.

“They started to get really hot and shooting really well,” Petersen said. “We didn’t make an adjustment. We need to play defense a little harder and make them feel uncomfortable. I don’t think we did that.”

The Wildcats were inspired by the program announcing this week that coach Niya Butts and her staff will not return to coach the team next year.

“We just talked about playing hard and giving it our all,” said LaBrittney Jones, who had a season-high 26 points.

“We know it’s our coaching staff’s last time with us, and we just wanted to give it our all for them.”

In the first quarter, the Ducks started 7-of-12 from the field and held a 17-14 lead after the first quarter. Vandenberg scored six of Oregon’s first eight points.

The Ducks had their largest lead of the game at 17-9 with 2:57 left in the first.

From there, the Wildcats began to catch fire. They had a 27-7 run that spanned the rest of the half.

“My goodness, they shot lights out,” Graves said. “It was an incredible performance that they had certainly in that first half.”

Oregon entered the game ranked No. 3 in the NCAA in three-point shooting, but finished 6-of-22 from beyond the arc while Arizona was 7-of-10.

Arizona had a 15-point lead in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter.

Oregon trimmed the lead to 59-51 on a three-point field goal from Cazorla with 6:28 remaining in the game. The Ducks, using a smaller lineup to counter the Arizona attack, closed to with three points with 2:16 left.

“We had to change the tempo somehow, so we just opted to go small – put a lot more pressure on them,” Graves said.

“It’s not really our game, but [I] thought the kids did a nice job.”

A pair of free throws from Jones and a layup from Keyahndra Cannon made it a 71-64 Wildcat lead.

Free throws from Oti Gildon made it a five-point deficit for the Ducks who began to foul shortly afterwards.

Arizona made the final free throws to advance to the second round of Pac-12 Tournament play.

With the loss, the Ducks figure to play in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament, which invites the top teams excluded from the NCAA Tournament field.

“Somebody has got to invite us somewhere, I guess, at some point,” Graves said. “It’s a great opportunity for young kids to get some action and be better.

I’m of the opinion that you play as long as you can.”

The seeds for the WNIT are announced on March 14. For Petersen, the chance to play in an Oregon uniform again is enticing.

“Speaking for myself, I would love to continue to play [in the WNIT],” Petersen said. “I’ve had such a good time and long run at Oregon. I just want to finish on a good note.”

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⚡ SPORTS Dillon Brooks fights off a USC player in the March 7 matchup.

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Oregon’s coaches and players were certainly aware of it, even if they didn’t say it, on Feb. 28 after the team’s win over Washington.

The ninth-ranked Ducks were an undefeated road trip away from winning their first outright Pac-12 regular season title since 2002. But, given their last road trip, which resulted in consecutive losses to California and Stanford, it was clear that the two games versus UCLA and USC would provide a test.

Oregon passed that test gracefully Saturday, as the Ducks defeated USC, 76-66, three days after dispatching UCLA, 7668. The wins give Oregon its second outright regular season conference championship title since 1939 and extends the Ducks’ winning streak to five heading into postseason play.

“I’m really happy for the guys,” Oregon head coach Dana Altman said on Oregon IMG networks.

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Brooks and Chris Boucher combined for just eight points and the Ducks began the game shooting 3-of-10 from the field. They trailed by as much as seven just four minutes in, but went on a 24-8 run to establish control of the game heading into the latter part of the first half.

Then, things got weird. The lights shut off at the Galen Center, causing a 20-minute delay with about five minutes remaining in the first half.

“It was an awkward game, that’s for sure,” Altman said.

Oregon pushed its lead to as much as 14 after play resumed, before taking a 44-37 lead into the half.

USC caught the Ducks playing flat footed to begin the second half, though, and went on a 21-9 run to take a 50-48 lead. However, it was lead they wouldn’t cling to for long, and after Dorsey made a pair of free throws to put the Ducks up 5452, Oregon wouldn’t trail again.

The Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas begins next Wednesday, March 9 and Oregon will enter as the No. 1 seed with a first round bye.

⚡ SPORTS Oregon track and field will compete in the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championships on March 11-12.

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Oregon track and field will send a school record 26 entries to the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 11 and 12.

There are 16 Ducks on the women’s side and 10 for the men.

“The Ducks are absolutely excited, geared up and ready to go,” Oregon head coach Robert Johnson said. “We are 100 percent in championship season, which is always a big thing for us.”

The expectations are high for both teams. The men are looking for back-to-back NCAA Indoor titles while the women finished second last season after five consecutive championships.

This year the men are projected to win while the women are expected to place third.

“We will never know until we get there and run,” Johnson said. “The women have proven you don’t have to be ranked No. 1 to go in there and win.”

Johnson believes that several of his athletes on the women’s side should finish higher than predict. Brittany Mann, for example, is likely to top her expected 10th-place finish.

“I know the person and competitor she is — no one wants to do better than her, no matter how she performed to get there,” Johnson said.

Both teams have athletes who have competed on the big stage before, and that experience should help calm the newcomers and freshmen on the team. One of those veteran leaders is Annie Leblanc, who is entered in the women’s 800. She has been involved with two championship teams and finished second at last year’s indoor championships.

“I don’t want to jinx anything,” Leblanc said when asked how this group compares to previous teams. “We can’t predict what’s going to happen, so every person has a job they will focus on.”

Oregon will look to pick up big points in the women’s 800, with Leblanc running alongside Brooke Feldmeier and Raevyn Rogers — whose qualifying time leads the field by more than three seconds.

“Our group this year is really good and its been showing in workouts,” Leblanc said. “We are all really competitive runners but we use each other’s strengths in good ways.”

The men head to the meet top-heavy. Edward Cheserek (3000 and 5000), Devon Allen (60 hurdles) and Blake Haney (mile) all hold the top times in their respective events.

One of the difficulties for the coaching staff was deciding in which events to enter Cheserek, as the junior would place highly in multiple. They tried to balance the schedule and the fields to find the best fit.

“Most importantly, you look at what is best for Edward,” Johnson said. “Try to have him be successful and do what is best for our team.”

For Haney, the pressure of entering the meet with the top time and having a target on his back isn’t something he is worried about.

“I know where I’m at and what I can do,” Haney said. “I’ll just go in there and do my race.”

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UO WOMEN’S CENTER AIMS TO INCREASE AWARENESS ON CAMPUS

Attendees celebrate International Women’s Day in the LLC Performance Hall.

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March 8 marks International Women’s Day, and ASUO Women’s Center members who are also international students weigh in on the subject of gender inequality both broadly and specifically for our generation.

I walked up to a floral sheathed table outside of the EMU’s main entrance. In addition to two smiling faces, I was greeted by a spread complete with a basket of sanitary pads and tubes of chapstick along with various buttons and stickers that screamed feminism.

The table belonged to the ASUO Women’s Center, whose mission is to “advocate for the best education and working environment for the women at the University of Oregon,� as stated on its website. Those involved with the organization offer a range of resources to UO women from the smallest of things like pantyliners to large-scale efforts geared towards creating a societal change in regards to the oppression of women.

The two ladies who I got to speak with are both international students: Elsie Fedha from Kenya and Chenle Xu from China. Fedha is a member of the Women’s Center and helps out with group efforts as a volunteer, while Xu holds the official position of international student advocate. The two seem to take pride in advocating for women, both locally and internationally, which is clearly shown through their involvement in the center’s annual International Women’s Day celebration.

On March 5, the female-centered organization presented the UO community with a night full of diverse foods and performances from

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around the world in the LLC Performance Hall to celebrate and honor women, as well as honor the process of peace and human rights in the world.

The event was open to all genders; admission was free and they offered guests complementary gifts. “When I first came here and saw that no one really pays attention to International Women’s Day, or even knows about it, I was sad,� Xu said. “That’s why, or one of the reasons why, I wanted this position so I could help plan a very big celebration on campus for women.�

Both Xu and Fedha shared this disappointment for the lack of communal commemoration for women on International Women’s Day in the U.S. “In Kenya, Women’s Day is a big deal, especially in the public sector. Like in the government, there are meetings with the women in parliament, and this is when they work to revise laws in Kenya specifically to help women,� Fedha said.

Inequality between men and women has been a universal struggle, but definitely more prominent in certain regions. The U.S. is often seen as a Western, free country where equality is valued; however, both Xu and Fedha think there is work to be done here.

The type of gender imbalance found in America does not exactly mirror the discrimination of rural women in China and Kenya, as the UO ladies shared examples of with me. There are other forms of discrimination around us on both a national-scale and locally on our college campus. “Sexual assault,� Xu said. “This is one of the biggest problems I see for young people and it goes back to the inequality between men and

women. Sure, women are not the only victims, but we are the majority of victims. Women here are still looked at like objects. The American dating culture is imbalanced, and more of a hook-up culture, and all of these things cause major problems like assault.�

Fedha adds that much of the nation’s social issues stem from how the government works and how there should be a top-down movement to improve life for people, especially for women. “The U.S. justice system is very flawed in terms of how they react to situations of rape, for example,� Fedha said. “I just don’t get how the justice system doesn’t see the inequality in treatment between men and women.�

Discrimination comes in many forms, but the two that Xu, Fedha and I think need to be tolerated more in our lives today have to do with race and gender. Children are being raised in a society that has the tendency to racially and sexually discriminate, skewing kids’ perceptions of the world from the beginning. “It’s a matter of fighting for what’s right and against what’s wrong,� Fedha said. “So first, people need to become aware of what really is wrong. A lot of people need to be educated on what women and minority populations have gone through so that new generations can also see this and help with it not getting repeated.�

Negina Pirzad is an opinion columnist at the Emerald. Follow Negina on Twitter @Neginapepina.

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