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Oregon wants a more diverse teacher work force, and it’s requiring the state’s public institutions to help.

Oregon Legislature passed a bill last year requiring that the state make progress toward hiring more minority teachers into Oregon’s public K-12 school system. The ultimate goal is that the diversity of the state’s teachers match the diversity of the student body they serve. Because Oregon’s public universities produce a large number of in-state, qualified teachers, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission is asking all seven universities to increase minority enrollment in education departments. On April 13, UO announced its plan to do so.

Randy Kamphaus, dean of the College of Education, is spearheading the plan along with several members of COE. He told the Academic and Student Affairs Committee that he’s approaching the plan “not from the standpoint of responding to mandates, because as a research university we should be shaping and exceeding mandates of this nature.�

The plan has nine objectives, ranging from researching UO’s graduate diversity statistics to expanding COE’s educator degree options.

The most straightforward objective of the plan is to increase graduation rates of minority students in education majors. Only 15.6 percent of graduates of UO’s teaching program identified as “not-white� in 2014, according to the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.

Oregon isn’t a particularly diverse state. The state is 86.6 percent white, according to the 2015 census, putting it in the top half of the list of whitest states in the country. But minority enrollment in grades K-12 has been increasing steadily over the past few decades. In 1998, minority students in K-12 made up only 16.3 percent of Oregon students. That number is now at 36.4 percent.

Teacher diversity, however, has not increased at the same rate. Teachers

from minority groups currently make up 8.5 percent of Oregon’s teachers, up from 3.9 in 1998. That leaves a gap of 27.9 percentage points between teachers and students.

Another objective is to increase collaboration with programs already attempting to increase the university’s diversity. “We need to do better as a college, collaborating both within the college, across our university and across universities,� Kamphaus said.

The university also wants to increase minority faculty enrollment.

Tenure-related faculty at UO are 72 percent white. “From a demographic standpoint, we really don’t look like a faculty or a student body that’s a member of the Asian Pacific Rim organization of universities,� Kamphaus said.

ASAC received the plan well, and seemed to think it had a high probability of success. One concern was funding. “I can’t help but pause with the irony of the legislation being passed with no fiscal note to help you accomplish these goals,� Trustee Connie Ballmer told Dean Kamphaus. “I’m wondering if there should be a focus on this, how important this is, given everything you’re trying to do in the College of Education, and given that this requires a lot of funding.�

One way the college intends to minimize costs is through collaboration. Many goals outlined in the plan overlap with goals the college already has, such as increasing the number of scholarships. Trustee Allyn Ford suggested a collaboration across the entire university. “Looking at the objectives and goals, I would think that those would apply across the whole university,� he told ASAC. Kamphaus will present the plan to the HECC in May. If approved, the plan is expected to be completed over five years.

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Man hospitalized after fight near University of Oregon campus UOAlert! sent out a mass text message on April 16 urging students to stay away from East 16th Alley and Alder Street after a fight broke out in the area that evening.

A witness at the scene, Laura Rose, said the fight occurred between two white males who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol. When a bystander got involved to break the fight up, he was cut in the arm with a hatchet. “The guy got cut a big chunk in the arm, super deep. Blood was gushing everywhere,� Rose said.

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They got away with the stolen items and were last seen on mountain bikes heading south on Orchard Street.

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On April 21, Divest UO held a mock wedding marrying the UO Foundation to the fossil fuel industry in a culmination of the campaign’s 35-day sit-in at Johnson Hall.

The ceremony featured a smokestack in a wedding dress marrying a duckhead man dressed in a suit.

Faculty Senate President Randy Sullivan was in attendance and participated by speaking out against the union.

Divest UO is now focusing on promoting a national fundraiser called the Divest Fund to support universities that divest from fossil fuel. If the UO doesn’t commit to divest by the end of 2017, any money pledged to the UO fund will be dispersed among other schools that have committed.

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SPORTS Autzen Stadium will be host to an international soccer match this summer between Paris Saint Germain and FC Internazionale.

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Between his roles as president of TrackTown USA and associate athletic director at the University of Oregon, Vin Lananna has brought a number of renowned events to Eugene and the state as a whole.

Each spring, elite track athletes from all over the globe travel to Hayward Field to compete in the Prefontaine Classic.

In January, Portland hosted the World Indoor Championships.

But it’s not just track that is grabbing all of the appeal.

This summer, aside from hosting the U.S. Track and Field Olympic trials for the third consecutive time, Eugene will draw a diverse audience as it hosts an International Champions Cup match at Autzen Stadium between soccer super clubs Paris Saint Germain and FC Internazionale (Inter Milan) in July.

The last time a major, non-American football event was hosted at Autzen, the rock band U2 performed in front of 35,000 fans in 1997. That show was nearly shut down early due to noise complaints.

A match featuring two of soccer’s most prestigious clubs could yield a much more positive result.

“Obviously there’s an economic impact benefit,” UO athletic director Rub Mullens said. “But for us in the community of Eugene, it’s another opportunity to introduce something: an A-level international soccer match for our community.”

When the University of Michigan hosted an ICC match between Real Madrid and Manchester United in 2014, 109,000 fans filled the “Big House” to watch the match on the Wolverines’ football field. It was the largest draw for a soccer match in U.S. history.

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Autzen to capacity for the match — the additional television coverage will present Eugene to an enormous and diverse audience. According to the International Champions Cup website, more than 80 million fans viewed the eight-team tournament in 2014. “[Eugene] would probably never be one of the cities where, off the top of their head, they say ‘let’s go visit Eugene,’ but this gives people an excuse to visit, as well as fans from all over the country,” Charlie Stillitano, chairman of Relevant Sports, said. “There may be a Paris fan from New York coming out to see the game.”

Eugene embraces its rich track and field history more than any city in the country. But in the last decade, soccer’s popularity in Lane County has skyrocketed as well. The recent success of the Portland Timbers has drawn an influx of fans who now have a vested interest in the successful local club. Lane Community College announced last fall it will add a men’s soccer program due to growing interest in the sport.

By all indications, Lananna’s efforts to grow the sport of track and field are paying off. Lananna led a surprisingly successful coup last year that resulted in Eugene landing the rights to host the 2021 world track and field championships — the first time ever that a U.S. city has been awarded the honor.

“I think the international flavor does so much for the University to showcase itself as a global institution,” Lananna said. “Globally, it’s gigantic.”

In the past, chatter about Oregon football has taken a backseat leading up to fall camp due to the buzz of another sporting event. But this summer, track and field won’t be the only reason.

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AN INHERENT RISK: CONCUSSIONS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL ➥ JUSTIN WISE, @JUSTINFWISE ➥ K E N N Y J A C O B Y, @ K E N N Y J A C O B Y

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Society of America’s chapter meeting in early April certainly had a unique appeal.

Oregon football head coach Mark Helfrich was there to talk about media relations, but when he began taking questions, the conversation shifted to perhaps the biggest issue facing the sport: concussions.

Helfrich compared head injuries to car accidents. “They aren’t going to outlaw driving cars. They’re going to look for ways to make it safer,� Helfrich said. “That’s what we’ve got to do in football.�

In general, increased awareness, coupled with changes in rules, equipment and how the game is taught, has created a safer game.

Protocol for how head injuries are treated has improved, and growing scientific research on the subject is leading to a better overall understanding of the injury.

Yet making the sport safer doesn’t address all the problems. At Oregon,

79 concussions from football were reported from 2013-2015, according to records received from the university.

Hits like the one that knocked former Oregon quarterback Vernon Adams out of the Alamo Bowl in January display the violence that persists in the game.

When asked how football has changed since his heyday in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Oregon defensive line coach Ron Aiken smiled. “[It] was taught you led with your nose,� said Aiken, who has coached at both the Division I and professional level for 24 years. “Guys wanted to stay on the field so much that they didn’t talk about what happened as far as a head-to-head collision. They just accepted it and went on to the next play.�

Former Oregon linebackers coach Erik Chinander, who is now working under former offensive coordinator Scott Frost at the University of Central Florida, gives a similar assessment. “When I was playing, guys were concussed, but you’d let them go,� said Chinander, who played offensive line at the University of Iowa from 1998-2002.

That’s not to say that concussions were somehow a foreign concept when Aiken and Chinander played.

Rather, in the Chinander’s words, “It just wasn’t relevant.�

The version of football they describe does not exist anymore.

When incoming recruits arrive for summer session, Greg Skaggs, Oregon’s team physician, gives them a packet that lists the risks of a concussion, from what the symptoms are to how to correctly manage one.

In 2010, the NCAA mandated that all

“GUYS WANTED TO STAY ON THE FIELD SO MUCH THAT THEY DIDN’T TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AS FAR AS HEAD-TO-HEAD COLLISION. THEY JUST ACCEPTED IT AND WENT ON TO THE NEXT PLAY.�

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Former Oregon running back Kenjon Barner, pictured here at the Fiesta Bowl, was knocked unconscious after taking a hard hit in a game against Washington State in 2010. (Emerald Archives)

member institutions have concussion management plans on file.

Skaggs, an athletic trainer at Oregon since 2007, uses a formal and structured system when teaching and evaluating concussions. Skaggs and his team give baseline tests — known as SCAT 3 — to every player before the season, which gives them a distinct understanding of each individual’s normal cognitive skills should a head injury occur.

More critically, Skaggs has implemented a step-by-step process for monitoring players who’ve experienced head trauma — covering everything from when they’re allowed to return to school to when they’re permitted in the weight room and, finally, when they can hit the field. At the same time, most concussion testing still relies heavily on players’ honesty. “We don’t have a magic test that will tell us for sure whether somebody has a concussion,� Skaggs conceded.

The issue of self-reporting remains perhaps the single biggest roadblock to the effective diagnosis and treatment of concussions. When a player sprains an ankle or twists a knee, he or she will almost always limp — it’s hard to fake walking on one good leg. As Skaggs and others have routinely pointed out, there is no objective way of pinpointing when a player has been concussed.

It has compelled some programs to shift some of the responsibility of identifying potential concussions on suspected athletes’ teammates.

Oregon is one of 15 high-profile athletic programs that require athletes to report if they suspect one of their teammates sustained a concussion.

Such a rule could help detect more head injuries, but some players equate it to “snitching� on their teammates and refuse to do so. A 2015 survey of 200 Division I athletes by University of Dayton researchers found that half did not report suspected concussions for teammates.

Oregon defensive lineman Canton Kaumatule, who has sustained multiple “freak� concussions during his playing career, said he would have no problem reporting a teammate whom he thought might be concussed. “I’ve been through it, and it’s not fun,� Kaumatule said.

Kaumatule’s most recent concussion occurred on the final day of fall camp last year. He was pushed in the back and tumbled forward to the ground at the same time a teammate ran full-speed into the top of his head. The next moment he remembers is waking up to a light being shined in his eyes. Kaumatule then underwent treatment with Skaggs and the athletic medicine team before making his Oregon football debut against Michigan State about two weeks later.

While it’s common for individuals to return within one to two weeks after a concussion, UO biomechanist Li-Shan Chou has begun to question that practice.

Oregon running back Tony Brooks-James is carried off the field after sustaining an injury in a game against USC. (Adam Eberhardt)

“WE DON’T HAVE A MAGIC TEST THAT WILL TELL US FOR SURE WHETHER SOMEBODY HAS A CONCUSSION OR NOT.”

CONCUSSION FACTS

GREG SKAGGS , Oregon football team physician

Chou began researching the effects of head injuries 12 years ago. In 2013, he and a team of researchers released a study concluding that concussed athletes’ executive function, which is the ability to perform multiple tasks successfully, was abnormal well after the injury occurred.

“We found that two months after injury, they still walk differently under a multitasking environment,” Chou said.

The study also showed that how individuals feel may not match up with their cognitive results. And perhaps most importantly, the point at which a concussed athlete returns to “complete recovery” is unknown, according to the team’s findings.

Kaumatule’s playing time last season was limited due to the concussion and other minor injuries. Since then, he has taken measures to prevent another severe head injury from happening. Medical trainers have been working to find the right helmet for him, trying out interior padding for his helmet, as well as different caps designed to reduce the impact his head receives when hit. They told Kaumatule if he were to sustain another couple of concussions, he would be forced to retire from football.

“I just hope it doesn’t happen again,” Kaumatule said.

It didn’t sway him to call it quits, though, which is the attitude of many current and former Oregon players.

Tight end Evan Baylis has considered the long-term effects of concussions — such as depression, Parkinson’s disease and progressive dementia — but then said, “You can’t be thinking about that. You become more tentative.”

Former offensive lineman Tyler Johnstone, who is expected to at least be signed as an undrafted free agent in the upcoming NFL Draft, admitted he’s heard the horror stories.

“It’s the most terrifying thing ever,” Johnstone said. “But you just have to do it and take the right precautions to protect yourself. ” Yet concussions, like car crashes, continue to occur despite increased safety precautions.

The 37 reported concussions at Oregon in 2015 indicate that the injury remains just as much a part of the game as anything else.

It’s the reason why Johnstone said that if he ever has a son, he may push him to play golf.

“This is an uncommon game for uncommon men,” Chinander, the former Oregon linebackers coach, said. “We’re trying to limit the risk, but it’s always going to be there.”

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that after one concussion, a second one is three times more likely. Athletes with three or more prior concussions were eight times more likely to display cognitive deficits compared to athletes who had suffered only one concussion.

NUMBER OF CONCUSSIONS REPORTED FOR OREGON, 2013-2015

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Dirty Mind 1980

This is His Purpleness’s poppiest album, and at just under half an hour, it’s a quick and easy listen. Like Purple Rain, it’s not particularly experimental. But it’s hooky as hell, and it’s also one of his dirtiest albums, featuring the ludicrous homewrecker fantasy “Head” and a little ditty about incest called “Sister.” Not for kids.

Purple Rain 1984 Purple Rain is Prince’s most rock-oriented album, heavy on guitar solos and light on experimentation. If you want something gnarly and out-there, this one isn’t for you.

But it’s a great album, and it’s got some of his most ubiquitous jams, including “When Doves Cry,” “Let’s Go Crazy” and the epic title track.

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Sign ‘O’ The Times 1987 This sprawling double album is a combination of three or four half-finished projects the singer was working on in the mid-‘80s. There’s something here for everyone, from the pure pop of “Starfish and Coffee” to the Blade Runner balladry of “If I Was Your Girlfriend” to the avant-garde minimalism of “Forever In My Life.”

1999 1982 1999 is perhaps the best demonstration of what Prince was capable of. It’s got radio hits like “1999” and “Delirious,” but most of it is given up to paranoid, seven-plusminute drum machine jams that prefigure house and techno. Though it won’t appeal to anyone looking for short, snappy pop songs, it’s the best Prince album for those of us with more out-there tastes.

The Hits/The B-Sides 1993 Though it’ll be a bit pricier than any of his albums, this triple-disc set is as good an overview of Prince’s prolific and daunting career as you’re likely to get. There’s a lot of great songs on the two “Hits” sides, but the real gems here are the nonalbum B-sides on disc three, including the immortal piano ballad “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?”

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No musician in the pop pantheon has made it harder to find their work than Prince, which is frustrating if his death last Thursday at age 57 piqued your interest in his discography.

The Purple One’s music isn’t available on Spotify or YouTube — he’s on Tidal, of course — and the Knight Library here at University of Oregon only carries two Prince albums: 2004’s Musicology, one of his many disappointing post-prime efforts, and 1984’s Purple Rain.

For those too scrupulous to pirate, the cheapest option is to dig around in bargain bins or buy his work on iTunes. But if you have no conception of Prince’s music, you might not find it worthwhile to just buy a full album.

Luckily, we at the Emerald put together this guide to the best Prince albums to start with depending on your musical taste.

Other Options Prince’s 1979 self-titled is a solid poprock album. 1985’s Around The World In A Day is a bizarre tribute to the psych-pop of the late-‘60s. 1986’s Parade plays like the film soundtrack it is, but it has a few of the singer’s best songs, including “Kiss.” And if you can find it, 1994’s legendary Black Album is the Purple One’s weirdest, funniest and funkiest outing.

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MISSISSIPPI’S NEW LGBT DISCRIMINATION LAW “I call on every Mississippian, no matter what our race or region or party, to rise above our petty differences and build together the Mississippi our citizens deserve.�

These are the words shown on Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant’s website. For Governor Bryant, it must feel ironic to talk about rising above these petty differences.

On April 5, Governor Bryant signed a bill permitting LGBT discrimination based on religious faith.

His argument insinuates that religion grants the right to take away other people’s rights. This particular law is disgusting.

This law clears the way for employers to cite religion while determining the workplace policies on dress code, grooming, and bathroom and locker access. Governor Bryant said in a statement that he signed the law, “to protect sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals, organizations and private associations from discriminatory action by state government.�

Further, this law permits individuals to not only refuse to serve members of the LGBT community in stores or offices but also kick them off the premises.

This even allows employers to fire individuals based on their sexual orientation.

This law doesn’t simply give a cake shop owner the ability to decline to bake a cake for a gay wedding, this law gives the cake shop owner the ability to kick the LGBT community out the door.

So if you don’t pretend to be so straight it hurts, you will be punished.

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Can you imagine what would happen if the Mississippi government supported discrimination against any other group — such as Christians? There would be a holy war against Mississippi.

To provide context for how bad this law is, let’s take out the LGBT aspect of the issue and replace it with discrimination based on race. Is this starting to sound like history repeating itself? The reason the discrimination against the LGBT community is similar to racial discrimination is because both groups are oppressed for something they are born with.

“To provide context for how bad this law is, let’s take out the LGBT aspect of the issue and replace it with discrimination based on race.

Is this starting to sound like history repeating itself?�

In learning about America’s history of racial discrimination, were you as appalled as I was that people who are nice, law abiding citizens, who just

so happened to have a different skin tone, could be subject to such a high level of hate and intolerance? People are using the same arguments to justify their hate and discrimination against the LGBT community.

Now, we have the opportunity to reflect on history and realize that an individual’s right to deny someone service is just a nice way of supporting discrimination against anyone who is different. So let’s call it what it is: supporting your “rights� even if it is at the expense of other people’s.

If someone calls themself a supporter of rights, it should be with all law-abiding citizens, not just the ones you approve of.

We cannot continue to allow our society to preach intolerance and discrimination against those who are considered different. Our country is guilty of extreme discrimination and hate in the past, and we are now continuing to move in that direction.

Although this column is focused on the law in Mississippi, this is not just a one-state issue, this is a societal issue that each of us must address. We can either be the generation who works to end this discrimination, or we can be marked in the history books as another generation who hated other people because they were different.

Zachary Moss is a political columnist at the Emerald.

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16 Supermodel Kate 17 As close as close can be 20 Log-in info 21 LG and RCA products 22 Shoe’s end 23 Manager Hodges of the Amazin’ Mets 24 Actress Brennan of “Private Benjamin” 27 Goalie’s jersey number, often 29 “How’s it going?,” in Paris 34 Mafia V.I.P. 35 Dog in “Garfield” 36 Place to get a perm 37 Underground metals 39 Comedy’s counterpart 42 In the center of 43 Baltimore footballer

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wine valley 47 World Cup cry 48 Stock quotes 51 Rapper with a Harvard hip-hop fellowship named in his honor 52 140-character messages 53 Part of E.S.T.: Abbr.

55 “Thar ___ blows!”

58 Bygone crossAtlantic jet, for short 59 “Will it play in ___?”

62 What the first words in 17-, 29and 48-Across are 66 Instagram posting 67 Derrière 68 It follows a curtainopening 69 Hunky-dory 70 Domesticated 71 Where Vientiane is the capital

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Body of water on the French/Swiss border 4 Former “S.N.L.” regular Cheri 5 Adderall target, for short 6 Japanese for “yes” 7 Paintings, e.g.

8 Classic VW 9 Beautiful sights at dusk 10 Broadcaster that relies on listener contributions 11 Going ___ (fighting) 12 Designer Chanel 13 Banjo’s place in “Oh! Susanna” 18 “Consider it done” 19 Pizzeria fixture 24 Kuwaiti leader 25 “Seriously!”

26 Sports org. with divisions I, II and III 27 Nose wrinklers 28 TV journalist O’Donnell 30 Strange 31 Popular chocolatecovered toffee 32 Exclamation often following “Et” 33 Range through Chile

38 “American

Progress” muralist

40 Alternatives to PCs 41 Gibbon, e.g.

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56 Audible “LOL” 57 Supply-and-demand subj.

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