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THAT HELPS STUDENTS FEEL AT HOME BY RYLEE KAHAN • TWITTER @RYLEEKAHAN If you’re a student at the University of Oregon who chooses to dine on campus, chances are you haven’t given much thought as to where your food comes from. Or maybe you assume that it was made at whatever dining venue you got it from, such as the Dux Bistro, Common Grounds or Fire ‘n’ Spice. While it may be true that individual dining venues create and plate entrees, at some point or another that food made its way to that dining venue from the central kitchen. The central kitchen produces 100 to 150 sushi rolls, 250 wraps and 400 sandwiches in any given day. These products are called “finished goods” and are usually found in a refrigerator section of a dining venue already wrapped and ready to go for students. The current location of the central kitchen opened in the spring of 2016 and was previously located in the basement of Carson Hall. Located on Columbia Street between 17th Avenue and 19th Avenue, this kitchen is a warehouse-sized building of about 22,000 square feet. The venue houses the equipment and a 100-person staff needed to produce the 2,000 to 6,000 meals per day that UO students consume, according to William Mullins, assistant director of culinary operations. Chef Mullins came to the UO in July after previously working at the Oregon State University kitchen for five years. Before coming to university operations, he worked in the hotel industry after going to school at the Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park. Chef Mullins additionally has over 25 years of experience as a chef. His first job was cutting baked potatoes open at a steakhouse, and since then he’s been working his way up to where he is today. “I love it here,” said Chef Mullins. “It’s so much fun getting to be creative every day.” At the central kitchen, operations start at 5 a.m. every day with general production, and depending on the amount of catered orders, a day can end anywhere from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Around 60 student employees work at the central kitchen, many of them in the catering
department, according to Chef Mullins. The catering department can be one of the busiest departments depending on the day and how many orders the staff receives. Orders can be things like coffee service, breakfast pastries, fruit platters, hot foods, or sandwich and lunch meat platters. The catering department is also in charge of putting on the late night breakfasts that happen during dead week and finals week at the UO, as well as the IntroDUCKtion lunches in the spring. According to Chef Mullins, the central kitchen provides almost all bakery items, including duck cookies, croissants, muffins and cookies, among many of the other bakery items found in the dining venues. The central kitchen makes all of the dining venues’ soups, salad dressings, marinades, sauces and salsas. Soups are made in batches that are no less than 30 gallons in size at a time. “On any given day, we probably produce anywhere from 200 to 400 gallons of beans, soups or sauces,” said Chef Mullins. As far as sustainability is concerned at the central kitchen, they try to source as much produce and meat as they can locally, according to Chef Mullins. “It’s not just dorm food,” said Shawn Savage, the central kitchen sous chef. “The work we do is about telling our story and making ourselves relevant,” said Chef Mullins. “If we want to produce better quality food, we’re the ones that drive that.” Along with trying to find as much organic food as possible for students, the staff at the central kitchen also do their best to provide students with as many vegan, vegetarian and other options as they can. “We have recipes that we specifically write for vegan and vegetarian foods,” said Chef Mullins. Chef Mullins and the rest of his staff are always aiming to give the best food that they can to students. “The food we make helps the students feel at home,” said Chef Mullins. “It’s their first time away from mom and dad. It makes a more successful student.”
Russel Blumish cuts trail mix bars into individual pieces. (Natalie Waitt-Gibson)
Head Chef William Mullins. (Natalie Waitt-Gibson)
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ARTS & CULTURE EMERALD RECOMMENDS: THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2017 BY NIC CASTILLON, SARAROSA DAVIES, DANA ALSTON AND ZACH PRICE
Nic Castillon’s picks: 3. “Flower Boy” by Tyler, the Creator
Tyler, the Creator’s latest release is vibrant and soulful, a sound that perfectly matches the album’s bright, sunflower-filled artwork. The production on this record, which Tyler handled himself, is masterful. Warm keys and glistening strings fill the world of “Flower Boy” and perfectly compliment the record’s carefully-selected vocal features. As always, Tyler’s rich persona shines through on tracks such as “911 / Mr. Lonely” — arguably the best single released in 2017.
2. “A Crow Looked At Me” by Mount Eerie
“Death is real / Someone’s there and then they’re not / And it’s not for singing about / It’s not for making into art,” Phil Elverum sings on “Real Death,” the opening track of “A Crow Looked At Me.” The songs on this Mount Eerie album focus on the recent passing of Elverum’s wife to pancreatic cancer, and they are brutal. Elverum doesn’t attempt to make something beautiful out of his wife’s death. He simply tries to grapple with it, through a set of songs filled with stark honesty and realism. It’s hard to listen to, but it is incredibly moving.
1. “Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood” by Sun Kil Moon
“Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood” is essentially a middle-aged man rambling for over two hours, but it’s still the best album of 2017. Mark Kozelek’s eighth solo album as Sun Kil Moon seems to go on forever. The album’s tracks feature an incessant stream of digressive lyrics, many of them lasting about eight minutes or longer. Yet there is something entrancing about them, as if they are all part of someone’s personal journal or travelogue. Throughout the album, Kozelek brilliantly navigates his way through absurd humor and touching moments and manages to make everything, even the minutiae of everyday events, sound interesting. The long-winded vocals are also backed by pleasant instrumentals, featuring Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth-fame on percussion. It’s a lot to sit through, but Kozelek’s honest tributes to close friends and musings on Muhammad Ali make it well worth the time.
Sararosa Davies’ picks: 3. “Jen Cloher” by Jen Cloher
Australian indie-rocker Jen Cloher has an astute eye for songwriting, just like her partner Courtney Barnett. But on her self-titled album, Cloher’s music resonates perfectly on its own. She has a keen eye for lyrical content — winding poetry through everyday moments. On “Sensory Memory,” buttering the edges of toast becomes a metaphor for unspoken changes in a relationship. Cloher reflects on power dynamics, singing like Patti Smith in “Shoegazers”: Indie rock is full of privileged white kids / I know because I’m one of them / Who else has the luxury to gaze backwards?” With simple instrumentals — Cloher opened for Barnett and Kurt Vile this fall on just an acoustic guitar — her lyrics shine.
2. “Capacity” by Big Thief
The way Adrianne Lenker sings — her soft voice tumbling out of her mouth, unspooling like thread — you’d think she would have trouble breathing. But “Capacity,” her band Big Thief’s second album, feels anything but short of breath. Instead, it’s a cathartic and slow-burning release that explores trauma, family and close friendship. On “Mythological Beauty,” Lenker details her young mother’s trials and tribulations. “There is a child inside you who’s trying to raise a child in me,” Lenker breathes over quiet guitar and piano. The band wrote most of these heavily emotional and mythical songs while recording their debut, 2016’s “Masterpiece.” But “Capacity” is nothing short of a masterpiece itself. The album is both dark and refreshing, just like the January rain Lenker sings about on stand-out track, “Mary.”
1. “Pure Comedy” by Father John Misty
No album captured 2017 — in both political and personal ways — as well as Father John Misty’s “Pure Comedy.” A sprawling take on pretentiousness, entertainment and humanity, “Pure Comedy” annoyed a lot of people when it came out. Misty (former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman) is a sometimes polarizing figure. He straddles the line between prophet and pretentious asshole. But ultimately, this polarization reflects today’s world well. And while he croons over Elton John-style piano, singing about how “our brains are way too big for our mother’s hips,” it’s hard not believe that he’s right. He’s right, even if we hate to admit it.
Dana Alston’s picks: 3. “DAMN.” by Kendrick Lamar
Across his first three albums, Kendrick Lamar’s perspective and lyricism gradually expanded beyond his Compton upbringing and into the metaphysical. “To Pimp A Butterfly” was an artful mediation on the black experience in America, and “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” tracked Lamar’s youth in a home surrounded by violence and addiction. On “DAMN,” he looks inward. Gone are the funk and jazz stylings of “Butterfly;” instead, Lamar’s latest work is steeped in the sounds of trap and modern rap. Rihanna joins him on “LOYALTY,” and “HUMBLE” rides a beat from “Black Beatles” producer Mike.Will.Made.It. But even as his sound grows more radio-friendly, Lamar’s storytelling remains his unwavering strength. If the breakneck braggadocio of “DAMN” makes longtime listeners uneasy (it really shouldn’t), tracks like “DUCKWORTH” cancel all doubt in Lamar’s pure artistry. No other rapper can tell a story quite like K-Dot.
2. “Big Fish Theory” by Vince Staples
Vince Staples deals in cold doses of reality. The Long Beach native rose to fame on the back of his unblinking look at the gangs, drugs and violence that controlled his hometown. Staples’ lyrical sharpness is matched only by his rebuke of sentimentality; he displays the darkness of his upbringing without a lens. “Summertime ‘06” dealt in the sounds and textures of West Coast trap. It makes Staples’ latest project’s hard shift toward industrial EDM especially jarring. Listening to “Big Fish
Theory” (Staples’ second LP) is an abrasive and overwhelming experience. Swirling drums, heavy synths and production from Flume (yes, Flume) all make appearances. Under it all, Staples raps about fame and “human issues too strong for tissues.” “745” is a bass-heavy techno-romance, and “BagBak” presents an afrofuturistic call to protest. But “Yeah Right” is the album’s dissonant center. A bass-heavy assault wielding a Kendrick Lamar feature, the track is Staples’ best case for being rap’s best provocateur. No other artist pushed the genre as far as he did this year.
1. “Melodrama” by Lorde
Lorde never wastes a word. The 21-year-old New Zealander already made her case for “lyrical prodigy” status on “Pure Heroine,” her acclaimed debut. But after a flurry of award wins and a curated soundtrack for “The Hunger Games” franchise, she all but disappeared from public view. Four years later, she delivered “Melodrama,” her masterful sophomore effort that cemented her claim to pop royalty. The album is an expansion of Lorde’s world, delivered via pulsing ballads and bangers. Jack Antonoff — the album’s producer and secondary creative force — does a remarkable job keeping things fresh over 11 tracks. Chopped up samples and swirling drums push songs like “Sober” and “Hard Feelings” into unexpected territory. “The Louvre” captures the blissful moments of an early romance. “Liability,” one of the many highlights, envisions Lorde alone, abandoned by her youthful confidence. Lorde’s search for permanent youth is mournful, heartbreaking and honest. It’s only in the final moments, punctuated by doubt, when she finally moves past her childhood. The journey there produces 2017’s most fascinating listen.
Zach Price’s pick: “SATURATION” Trilogy by BROCKHAMPTON
Not very often is one of the biggest breakout artists of the year also one of the most prolific. But the rap collective Brockhampton delivered the “SATURATION” trilogy in 2017, providing their fans with 48 songs in the span of six months. This onslaught of releases could be seen as a means of achieving mainstream success through market pollution, but that wasn’t the case for the “SATURATION” trilogy. Logical and sensical, each part of the trilogy is entertaining and coherent from beginning to end. And after establishing its style early and often, the group continued to get more creative and intricate as the records went on. The diversity of tracks is the group’s most impressive feat, though. From catchy radio-worthy, uptempo hits like “GUMMY” to raw, emotional ballads like “BUMP,” Brockhampton always covers its bases. But if one lesson is to be learned from 2017, nothing good can last forever. Frontman Kevin Abstract announced that the third and final piece of the trilogy would be Brockhampton’s last release. While there are plenty of internet theorists who suggest otherwise, we shouldn’t argue with the final act of the group’s well-received, short-lived career. As the old saying goes: If you truly love something, you must set it free.you must set it free. F R I D AY, J A N U A R Y 1 2 , 2 0 1 8
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Construction workers inspect the pit dug for the foundation of Tykeson Hall, the future home of the College of Arts and Sciences. (Adam Eberhardt)
BY KYLIE STORM • TWITTER @KMSTORM99 Walking down the quad off 13th avenue, you’re going to hit construction. The first sign is the noise — the drilling, hammering and beeping of excavating vehicles. The next sign is two fences, one metal and one neon orange plastic, guarding the construction zone. The third is the giant hole in the ground where the Johnson Hall parking lot used to be. Construction workers tore into the former parking lot between Johnson Hall and Chapman Hall over winter break. They’re digging a hole that will make up the basement of the Tykeson Hall College and Career Building. It’s one of several projects under construction, or preparing to go under construction soon on the University of Oregon campus. Several of these are major projects, costing $5 million or more, according to Associate Vice President of Campus and Facilities Management Mike Harwood. These include Tykeson Hall, Oregon Hall, Bean Hall, Knight Campus and several other projects, some smaller than others — and it’s more construction than the campus planning department has seen in several years. But all this construction is causing some
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disruptions. Staff and students alike have voiced complaints about things like drilling and hammer noises during class, and even privacy issues in dorms due to construction near bathing areas. UO spokesperson Tobin Klinger said the construction sounds “like a washing machine.â€? While it may seem like an uptick in construction projects, there may be slightly fewer projects this 2017-18 academic year. But the projects that are happening are larger and have a higher dollar value than the usual yearly projects, said Harwood. “[The projects] are bigger and more impactful‌ as opposed to some other projects that weren’t quite so disruptive,â€? he said. Harwood compared this year’s disruptions to the EMU renovation disruptions in 2015, when students were displaced from much of the building during construction. Another reason for the increased construction is projects were put on hold and the maintenance deferred, according to UO Project Manager Tim Allenbaugh. Students living in Bean Hall expressed frustration with the construction at a town hall meeting last November. “I am certain that students will complain given the
noise and disruption, and also that staff and faculty within offices in [Chapman] will be disturbed,� said professor Kristin Yarris in an email to the Emerald. Yarris is a professor attempting to teach in Chapman, one of the halls directly next to the Tykeson construction site. Yarris added that she is looking to get her classroom rescheduled, but that is not easy after the term has already started. Martina Oxoby, the assigned managing staff for Tykeson Hall, said that they are trying their best to address concerns and complaints. “We recognize that there is a lot of projects going on on campus and it is disruptive to the normal workflow,� Oxoby said. “One thing that we’ve been doing on the Tykeson Hall project is putting together a weekly update for construction activity to come.� This update is sent to building and department managers who are “encouraged� to pass on the information, said Oxoby. Updates includes noise expectancy and general information about what’s going on. “Everyone is encouraged if they do have any noise or odor complaints to contact Environmental Health and Safety,� Oxoby said. This is the most construction that has taken place
on UO’s campus in the last several years. “I’ve only been here four years and this is by far the busiest that I’ve ever been,” Allenbaugh said of the time he’s been at UO. “And talking with colleagues in my department, I don’t know if it’s an all-time high but I think it’s at a peak, probably in the last decade.” So what exactly is happening with campus construction? Tykeson Hall College and Careers Building Tykeson Hall is intended as a way to help students figure out their future, according to Harwood. “There’s a lot of stories [about a student who] comes in, goes through a university, and comes out on the other end and they’re like, ‘I’m not really prepared. I somehow got stuck on a track and nobody ever told me that I was better at doing something else,’” Harwood said. The career advising opportunities Tykeson will provide are meant to help prevent those situations from happening. Tykeson Hall, proposed by the College of Arts and Sciences, will offer an additional advising space for students. It’s the first from-the-ground-up project to be built on the side of campus directly west of the EMU since the Prince Lucien Campbell building was constructed in the 60’s. The building’s construction costs about $30 million, with the total rising to around $42 million, according to Oxoby. The Tykeson family donated $10 million of that amount in 2014. Fundraising by the College of Arts and Sciences and bonds make up the rest of the funding. Most of the excavation took place over winter break, with the fences going up during finals week. The hole itself is intended for the basement of the building. It is expected that heavy excavation will wrap up at the end of this week, said Oxoby. Tykeson Hall will open its doors in fall of 2019, according to Oxoby. Bean Hall Renovation Beginning last summer, Bean West undertook renovations that will last until late fall of 2018. After that construction has finished, renovation will begin on Bean East. Bean East, then, will be closed for a year. School leaders expect that Bean construction will finish altogether in August of 2019. The renovation is intended to make Bean more accessible. It will include a new stair tower with an elevator. To fund Bean, Oregon legislature provided $44 million in revenue bonds and an additional $4 million in auxiliary bonds. Bean, in particular, has caused many complaints from students. Residents of Bean East complained about noise during quiet hours, blocked off restrooms and construction workers coming and going unannounced. The university has done a few things to try to accomodate students’ concerns. As a reparation for students having to live in a construction environment, $550 was deducted from room and board costs for students living in Bean East. David Opp-Beckman, the facilities capital
A rendering of Tykeson Hall. (Courtesy of University of Oregon)
project manager for University Housing, apologized to residents for a lack of communication about the construction. After Bean, it is expected that residence halls Hamilton and Walton will see renovations, said Harwood. “The decision to renovate Bean was really driven by housing realizing that in order to recruit students for the 21st century, we need to have 21st century housing,” Harwood said. “Their future plans for Hamilton and Walton are really to completely redo those.” Knight Campus In October 2017, the university revealed the design plans for the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, set to open in 2020. A year earlier, Phil and Penny Knight donated $500 million to help fund the new campus. An additional $50 million was donated by the Oregon state legislature. It was the largest donation to a public university ever. As a part of the Knight Campus, UO purchased a 1.7 acre parking lot, located across the river from the main Knight Campus, for $3.2 million in November. This space will house a 150,000 square foot research building. The plan also includes a glass skybridge over the six-lane Franklin Boulevard to connect the campus. Although Knight Campus has not yet begun construction, it has already created issues within the UO community. The university moved people out of the Millrace buildings, and a couple restaurants have been displaced because of the plan, including Lucky Duck Espresso, Domino’s Pizza and recently remodeled Evergreen Indian Restaurant. Usha Shaik, the owner of the Evergreen Indian Restaurant, was worried about how her business would be affected by the relocation. “We’ve been looking so hard to find a location, but still we haven’t come to a point because a lot of places don’t have parking,” she told the Emerald in April 2017. In June 2017, the Evergreen Indian Restaurant bought the Jade Palace restaurant property. Oregon Hall Renovation Oregon Hall, the building where the registrar and financial aid offices are located, has been under construction since late summer of 2017. Fencing was installed in August, and window replacement began in September. The building is being renovated in two phases: the west wing, which is three stories, and the east wing, which is four. Harwood says that the project is on budget and on schedule. “It was really difficult to figure out how to [renovate Oregon Hall] in a sequence that kept all of the units functioning,” Harwood said. The first phase, the construction on the west wing, is almost done. The whole renovation is expected to be finished September 2018. The project is funded mainly by central funding, or UO-held bonds. $9.5 million was contributed by central funding. Auxiliary funding contributed $175,000, and around $1.5 million was through capital improvement.
Oregon Hall is under renovations at University of Oregon campus. (Emerald Archives)
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Marijuana in a grinder. (Sarah Northrop)
BY ELAINA COLUSSI “I thought those guys [the Ku Klux Klan] were OK until I learned they smoked pot.” Meet Jeff Sessions, the Trump Administration’s Attorney General. He later said he was kidding, but the basics of his message are true: he sympathizes with white supremacists and is extremely anti-marijuana. He recently made a decision to withdraw the Cole Memo, a famous Obama-era policy which gave states the space to legalize marijuana without fear of federal interference. This announcement has had economic, social and political impacts in Oregon and across the country. Economic Impacts: When Sessions announced the withdrawal, a fund of marijuana-based stocks dropped more than nine percent and even affected the stock price of the company that makes Miracle-Gro, which dropped five percent. North American marijuana sales in 2016 totaled 6.7 billion dollars; it’s set to reach $20.2 billion by 2021. For fiscal years 2016 and 2017, Oregon brought in a combined total of over $90 million in marijuana tax revenue; 60 percent of that revenue goes toward mental health and alcoholism support services, cities, counties
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and law enforcement — the other 40 percent of revenue goes toward education. If Sessions begins to crack down on states in which marijuana is legal, Oregon will lose some of its current education funding, an important expenditure considering Oregon is ranked 38 in the nation for education. Social Impacts: Medical marijuana is now an important part of the healthcare industry. Although Sessions has not explicitly stated that he will target medical marijuana businesses, his intense anti-cannabis stance suggests that such an attack is not out of the question. In 2016, there were over a million people who used medical marijuana. The American Legion, the largest wartime veterans service organization, has been a leading advocate for the removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. By rescinding this memo, Sessions has taken on a large coalition of medical marijuana users: veterans, senior citizens, cancer survivors and parents of children with epilepsy, to name a few. Political Impacts: There are also considerable political impacts that come along with rescinding this memo.
Not just from Democrats, but also Republicans. Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado said that he would be putting a hold on every single nomination from the DOJ until Sessions held up his promise of honoring states’ rights. Jeanne Shaheen, the lead Democrat on the DOJ funding subcommittee, tweeted that she would “work to ensure that resources are devoted to opioid response NOT foolish policy of interfering with legal marijuana production.” Cannabis has lost a lot of the stigma that it used to carry: nearly 70 percent of Americans believe in some form of legalized marijuana. Senator Pat Leahy of Vermont wants to include an amendment in the 2018 omnibus appropriations bill that would maintain protections for medical marijuana. Attorney General Sessions has created a lot of adversaries on both sides of the aisle by withdrawing this memo. Sessions made this decision to please a relatively small amount of Americans who still believe marijuana should not be used in any capacity, and the full economic, social and political fallout has yet to be determined. All that is known for sure is that the withdrawal of this memo has serious consequences for both the country and Oregon.
SPORTS Lexi Bando (10) dribbles at the top of the key during a game against the Stanford Cardinal . (Ramsey Sullivan)
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SHOOTING PROPELS DUCKS BY AARON ALTER• TWITTER @AARONALTER95 There’s a shade over one minute left on the game clock. The Ducks are leading UCLA 60-59, and sophomore guard Sabrina Ionescu looks like she’s taking the ball to the hoop. At the last second, she fires a pass to Lexi Bando, standing beyond the arc. Without so much as a single dribble, Bando lets her jump shot go with 59 seconds to play — swish. After this, UCLA would only score one more basket, and the Ducks would go home with the win. “That sealed the game,” Ducks forward Ruthy Hebard said in the team’s post-game press conference. “We knew that she wanted the ball.” A deep shot in a high-pressure moment on the road may sound difficult, but for Bando, it’s just what she does. Since coming to Oregon from down the road at Willamette High School, Bando has become one of the nation’s premier 3point shooters. “A wide open 3-pointer for Bando is like a layup for most people,” Ducks head coach Kelly Graves said after the UCLA game. “That’s what you need out of your senior.” Bando has made a stunning 45.8 percent of her shots from beyond the arc over her career — the top mark in the NCAA. She’s not just coasting on past success. Bando has drained 54.5 percent of her 3-pointers over the Ducks’ last five games. In November, she was named to the watch list for the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, which
is awarded to the game’s best shooting guard. Bando told The Oregonian’s Andrew Greif that her practice is the sole reason for her dominance. Bando focuses on her practice so much that she requests extra time for her shooting drills at away games, in order to better acquaint herself with unfamiliar hoops. It’s also clear that the senior has a short memory. Her recent success came after a three-game stretch in early December when she went just 1-of-9 from deep. Sometimes, like in the Ducks’ Dec. 2 clash with Weber State, she starts games cold. “They weren’t falling in the first quarter for me,” Bando said after Oregon’s 114-87 win over Weber State. “But coach told me to get in there and make a shot, and I finally started hitting them.” Sure enough, Bando drained four 3-pointers in the second quarter. Bando’s sharpshooting is a key part of the Ducks’ offense and one that blends well with the team’s other stars. Hebard’s play in the paint and Ionescu’s penchant for tripledoubles both help draw attention away from the perimeter — exactly where Bando is at her deadliest. Indeed, her dagger against UCLA came on a play where she was unmarked. The Ducks have their sights set on a Pac-12 title and if they get there, Bando will be a big reason why.
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