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More people in Lane County are needing and seeking out help for mental healthrelated challenges. That’s according to recent data from both Lane County and the University of Oregon. And with five adolescent suicides already in 2018 — the annual average is seven –– Lane County is responding. Lane County recently activated an emergency system called the Incident Command Structure — a defensive mechanism that the Lane County Health and Human Services uses to respond to large issues within the community and especially those that cause collective trauma, according to Roger Brubaker, the suicide prevention coordinator for Lane County. The structure means that duties within Health and Human Services shift and reorganize temporarily in order to address the problem. Some of these roles include an Incident Commander, people who take care of operations, as well as Brubaker, who is the subject matter expert on suicide to help guide the process. However, Lane County has never had to use the structure in regards to suicide before. “Suicide prevention has been an ongoing focus in our community,” Brubaker said. “Right now, we’re really seeing increased need for suicidespecific services.” This increased need has recently surfaced at UO. Within the past few years, crisis appointments at the
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UO counseling center have risen from 441 scheduled appointments and 415 attended appointments in the 2014-15 academic year to 634 scheduled and 590 attended in the 201617 year. With the increased need there has also been an increased amount of attended appointments. According to Suzie Stadelman, the suicide prevention team coordinator for UO, compared to this time last year, there has been a 5 percent increase in attended crisis appointments. There has also been a 7 percent increase in time spent providing crisis support. “Our centers and centers across the nation have experienced an increase in not just crisis appointments, but appointments in general,” Stadelman said. She also said that it appears that students are reaching out more, along with the fact that the UO Counseling Center has seen an increase in staff that can better tend to the student population. One of the more memorable uses of the Incident Command Structure was in 2015, when a meningitis outbreak occurred at UO. Some of the resources for crisis intervention are the UO Counseling Center, which is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On Thursdays, it is available between 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. There is also an after-hours support and crisis line, which is at 541-346-3227.
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đ&#x;”Ś NEWS UO student Stefan Strek is running for Congress. (Adam Eberhardt)
STUDENT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE DOESN’T SHY AWAY FROM CONTROVERSY BY MICHAEL TOBIN • TWITTER @TOBIN_TWEETS Stefan Strek is a 27-year-old University of Oregon student who studies art and French and works on campus. On his Facebook page, Strek writes things like, “Reasons women are like cats,â€? — he gives 13 of them — and he reminisces about skipping class in high school to “drink malt liquorâ€? and “get laid.â€? He’s now taken on a new interest: running for Congress. Strek is one of five Republican candidates running in the May primary election to determine who should represent Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, which includes Coos, Curry, Douglas, Lane and Linn counties. Only one Democrat is challenging incumbent Peter DeFazio for his seat. Strek stands out from the other candidates who have run before and are significantly older. He’s the only candidate in one of the most politically contested districts of the country who wore a tank-top, flip-flops and baggy, multicolored swim trunks in front of a statue of the Sphinx at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Past experience Strek isn’t new to local politics. In 2016, he ran for mayor of Eugene and received 1,003 votes, despite not holding any prior public office. In his mayoral application, Strek wrote that his only past political experience was going to the U.S. embassy in Caen, France, to celebrate the 4th of July and drink whiskey and eat chicken wings with “top American and French politicians.â€? Even though he lost the mayoral race, he told the Emerald that he received support from voters outside of Eugene. “There was a large amount of people I spoke with who supported my viewpoints but couldn’t vote for me since they didn’t live within city limits,â€? he said. “People like that I approach
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things objectively with an open mind.� Strek said that running for office will give him a chance to better address issues that he cares about, such as veterans’ health care and Oregon’s foster care system. “I care about people; I’ve seen way too many people that were let down by public policy,� he said. “I want to do what I can to make sure people are safe, have access to health care and have the economic opportunities so they have hope for the future.� Issues Strek is running as a Republican, but calls his politics “common sense.� He said that issues such as veterans’ health care and Oregon’s foster care system can be better addressed at the federal level. According to his preview in the voters’ pamphlet, Strek’s priorities include building a border wall, creating jobs, lowering taxes and “deporting-illegals.� Other than economic issues, Strek is a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment. In a January forum with the other Republican candidates, Strek said that if he won the general election, he would “criminalize the infringement on Second Amendment rights� and that he would work to pass legislation that would imprison legislators who try to limit citizens’ access to guns. In an interview with the Emerald last Thursday, Strek said that the Second Amendment is “the foundation of what makes our country the greatest nation on earth,� and without it “we lose the entire Constitution.� Social media presence On social media, Strek does not hold back on what he chooses to share. In a Facebook post about South Eugene High School’s decision to change its mascot’s name from “Axemen� to “Axe,� Strek wrote that he spent half of his time in
high school “skipping class to drink malt liquor downtown and the other half skipping class to get laid.â€? Strek told the Emerald that voters would perceive posts like these positively. “For the most part, everyone enjoys a good drink and a good time with their gender or nongender of choice‌ who doesn’t enjoy a good time in general?â€? he said. “It’s good to show transparency and that shows a significant level of progress that I met you here instead of drinking 40s downtown and meeting up with girls. I’m at a phase in my life where I don’t care about getting drunk every day. That’s just a fun time to look back on.â€? Strek recently wrote on his Facebook page that women and cats are similar because they “pick on each other in unnecessarily complicated waysâ€? and are “constantly grooming themselves.â€? When asked how women voters in Oregon’s 4th Congressional District would perceive this post, Strek said that they would perceive it positively. “I mean, you think that’s wrong? Most girls have a pretty decent sense of humor and they appreciate cat references. Most girls like cats and identify with them,â€? he said. “I respect cats, just like I respect women.â€? What’s next? If he wins the primary in May, Strek says he hopes to gain to the support of UO’s voters in the November general election. Despite campaigning on controversial values like building a border wall and “deporting illegals,â€? he said he can win voters. “If they took the time to think about it, yes, they would support me. I’ll work harder than anyone else in this race to get this job,â€? he said. “If elected, I will work harder than anyone else in Congress, and you can guarantee that.â€?
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SUSPECTS STILL AT LARGE FOLLOWING SERIES OF ARMED ROBBERIES BY HANNAH KANIK • TWITTER @HANNAH_KANIK Over the past week, three businesses and two individuals have been robbed by armed suspects – totaling five armed robberies close to campus. The affected businesses were the Subway on West 18th Avenue and Chambers Street, Neighborhood Market on Hilyard and East 24th Street and Tom’s Market on East 19th and Agate Street. On March 3 and March 8, two women were threatened with a handgun before being robbed of their cash while walking home late at night as well. The Eugene Police Department (EPD) and University of Oregon Police Department (UOPD) are working together to catch those responsible for the crimes. Both departments are increasing their number of officers in the field and detectives on the case, according to the EPD. “We have detectives and patrol units working actively on the case,â€? EPD public information officer Melinda McLaughlin said. University of Oregon President Michael Schill sent an email to students on March 9 connecting them with safety resources and urging them to stay safe during this time. In his email, President Schill said, “If you do find yourself confronted by someone who wants money
or personal property, give it to them without a fight and call 911 as soon as it is safe to do so.� Schill also encouraged students to take advantage of the campus shuttle services and to not walk home alone. UOPD is now offering a UO Campus Shuttle that operates every 15-20 minutes in a bus stop-style on a fixed route from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. every day of the week. Safe Ride and the Designated Driver Shuttle are also available to all students, faculty and staff. Timeline of events: March 2 The Neighborhood Market on Hilyard Street and East 24th Street was robbed at 11:45 p.m. Read more about it here. March 3 There were two robberies that occurred. At 3 a.m., a student was robbed at gunpoint near East 16th Avenue and Hilyard Street. At 9:06 p.m., the Subway at West 18th Avenue and Chambers Street was robbed. March 5 Tom’s Market on East 19th Avenue and Agate Street was robbed at 9:30 p.m. Police officers patrolled the area until 11 p.m. with police dogs and the works. March 6 Pictures of the robbers from the
security footage of Tom’s Market, Subway and Neighborhood Market were released. March 8 At 12:30 a.m., a woman, 21, was robbed on Hilyard Street near East 15th Avenue. The suspect robbed her of her cash after threatening her with a handgun. Her roommate called 911 approximately 20 minutes later when she got home. The suspects had similar descriptions from each of the cases, and EPD is looking into possible connections between each of the cases. “We are definitely looking at the links between all the robberies both on the street and at the businesses in the area and paying attention to all the similarities between in those cases at this point in time,� Lieutenant David Natt of EPD Investigations division said. EPD encourages students to walk home in pairs and take advantage of the services that the University provides. “These are very significant crimes that are occurring, and we don’t want to see anyone get hurt,� Natt said. The EPD said to call them at 541.682.5111 with any information regarding these cases.
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đ&#x;”Ś NEWS Journalism professors Todd Milburn and Lisa Heyamoto listen to a student’s thoughts on freedom of expression at the March 9 event. (Photo courtesy of Emma Oravecz)
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION DISCUSSION REVEALS SOME STUDENTS’ DISAPPOINTMENT IN UO ADMINISTRATION BY BRAEDON KWIECIEN • TWITTER @BRAEDON_JAMES
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Gabriel Alvarez brought his pocket-sized Constitution to a freedom of expression discussion hosted by the University of Oregon so that he could quote the First Amendment if needed. “I came in with the impression that I might be silenced,� Alvarez said. “I see student speech silenced all around campus.� In the sixth part of a series of freedom of expression-related events initiated by the president’s office, journalism professors Todd Milbourn and Lisa Heyamoto led about 15 students through a conversation about what “speaking up� looks like in individual lives at the Many Nations Longhouse on March 9, but by the end, students’ feelings of being disregarded by university administration took center stage. Journalism student Chayne Thomas talked about how he was disappointed that administrators weren’t there to listen, although SOJC Dean Juan-Carlos Molleda was present for the first half of the discussion. “It’s telling that at an event focused on student voices, the president and administration aren’t here,� he said, adding that it may show that higher administration regards corporate investment over students. Thomas also wrote a letter to the Emerald about President Michael Schill’s response to student protesters who interrupted a speech he planned to give on Oct. 6 of last year. UO spokesman Tobin Klinger said Schill was the one who suggested that a
series of events centered around freedom of expression take place; that idea came before his speech was interrupted. Milbourn said that although many administrators weren’t present, a list of talking points will be relayed to the president’s office. Students also wrote down some of their takeaways from the discussion and had their photos taken with them. Those images will be sent with the list of talking points. Zack Demars, a political science turned pre-journalism student, said an event about freedom of expression is much needed in light of the recent tuition increase for next year. He said that even though students voiced their concern during Tuition and Fees Advisory Board meetings, the proposed increase seemed to never change and student voices seemed to go unacknowledged. “It shows that student input really doesn’t have effect,� he said. Demars suggested that there be more access to student and administrator interaction. Ideas floated around the room about students taking on the roles of administrators for a term or being provided much more information during the decision process of major changes such as tuition increases. Demars wasn’t certain what would happen after an event involving less than 0.1 percent of the student population, but hoped some good would come from it. The next freedom of expression event will be about activism in sports on May 8 in various locations around the university.
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đ&#x;“– COVER Oregon Ducks guard Sabrina Ionescu (20) goes for a layup. (Adam Eberhardt)
IONESCU THRIVES ON COMPETITION, LOOKS TO TACKLE FINAL FOUR EXPECTATIONS
BY SHAWN MEDOW • TWITTER @SHAWNMEDOW At Sabrina Ionescu’s first basketball tryout in her hometown of Walnut Creek, California, she was just a middle school student trying to find a place to compete. She didn’t own basketball shoes, but that didn’t stop her from outperforming everyone else in the gym. Ionescu ran past the other players and scored plenty of buckets, but the club’s head coach didn’t offer her a spot. “I guess his daughter was on the team and Sabrina was just punking everybody in the gym,â€? Ionescu’s twin brother, Eddy, said. The coach told her that she didn’t fit with the team, that she wasn’t good enough and that basketball might not be the sport for her. Ionescu (Yo-Ness-Coo), only in her sophomore year, has already left her mark in the Oregon women’s basketball history books. Now she is the PA G E 8
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Pac-12 Player of the Year, the NCAA record holder for career triple-doubles and a semifinalist for the 2018 Naismith College Player of the Year award. Basketball, in fact, might be the right sport for her. “I always think about that story as if, ‘What is that guy thinking now?’� Eddy said. Ionescu broke onto the national scene in her freshman year with Oregon when she helped lead the Ducks to the Elite Eight as a No. 10 seed. She was the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and the espnW National Freshman of the Year. Now, as one of the best players in college basketball, 2018 Final Four expectations rest on her shoulders. Ionescu thrives on competition, but she hasn’t always been able to find it. During her childhood she surpassed most of her peers, and a struggle to find on-court challenges led her to playing with her
brother, other boys and older girls. Her ambition to best everyone she played elevated her to the level she’s at today. When Ionescu was in middle school, she struggled to find valuable competition in her age group when she played with other girls. For Ionescu, playing with boys offered her more challenging experiences. “They would come to me and say, ‘Please take your daughter, she will get hurt,’� Ionescu’s father, Dan, said. “She wouldn’t back down. She would keep playing.� Ionescu’s middle school didn’t have a girls’ team, so she tried to form a team, but the level of competition with the girls didn’t live up to her standards. As she always did, Ionescu played with the boys outside of school. But the school district wouldn’t
let her play on the boys team, according to Dan. “Back then it was definitely different than it is now and I think girls and boys are definitely more accepting now playing sports together,” Ionescu said. “It was kind of sad to be honest ‘cause we didn’t even have a girls team.” Sometimes Ionescu managed to play on a boys club team when players didn’t show up for her brother’s AAU games. “I’d just go over to her and point at her and say, ‘Go get your shoes out the car,’” Eddy said. “Me and Sabrina would combine for like 60 points out of the game. It was just ridiculous.” The twins challenged each other as often as possible. After school, Ionescu would go home and head to the gym with Eddy. “Her brother would push her every single time,” Dan said. “It’s just like he never took it easy on her.” The two played a lot of one-on-one growing up. According to Dan, Sabrina would win all of the games. “She was always able to control herself in the big moments and get in his head. And he would rush things like guys do,” Dan said. “When you rush, you play out of control, so she would take advantage of every single mistake he made. She’s more disciplined and chooses her fights very well — chooses her moments very well.” The games got physical, which made it hard for Dan to watch sometimes. But Ionescu held her own against Eddy. “If he was ahead, they would keep playing and playing until she wins,” Dan said. “She would never let go.” Now, it’s a little different when they play. Eddy, who plays at City College of San Francisco, is 6-foot-5, towering over his 5-foot-11 sister. “We always get in the gym whenever she gets back,” Eddy said. “We always go in and take Sabrina Ionescu cuts down the net after leading Oregon to its first Pac-12 Tournament championship. (Adam Eberhardt)
some shots and she’ll ask me some stuff when we work out, show her some tips. We’re always still together.” The one-on-one time and years of playing street ball with her brother and friends helped launch a high school career at Miramonte-Orinda High School. By her senior year she became the top guard and the No. 4 recruit in the nation, according to ESPN. Her young, competitive spirit is still evident at Oregon, where she always wants to be involved. In the 2018 Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinal
I don’t know if she likes to win as much as she hates losing.” DAN IONESCU against Colorado, Ionescu had 10 points, eight rebounds and 11 assists — just two boards shy of her 10th career triple-double. In the fourth quarter, she sat on the bench as the Ducks held a 77-33 lead. “I don’t even know if she probably even knew where she stood on those kind of things,” Oregon head coach Kelly Graves said. Ionescu’s ambitious nature makes her crave playing. She loves the big moments and
never shies away when pressure mounts. “I don’t know if she likes to win as much as she hates losing,” Dan said. “She doesn’t like to fail. When you fail you feel depressed. She’s very hard on herself. When she loses a game or something, we don’t talk for days.” She may not talk to her dad after losses but she celebrates the wins with him, including the Pac-12 Tournament in Seattle when he rushed the court from the stands to celebrate with his daughter, embracing her in a hug. During that game, Ionescu posted 36 points in Oregon’s 77-57 win over Stanford, giving the Ducks their first ever Pac-12 Tournament title. “I can always tell when she’s really really focused,” senior Lexi Bando said. “And she’s capable of doing that every night and tonight is just the night that she decided to go off for almost 40 points.” Her dad drove up Seattle for the tournament, which isn’t out of the ordinary. He drives up from Walnut Creek to most of her home games — roughly an eight-hour journey. Eddy said that he and Ionescu don’t just talk about basketball; they like to keep each other informed on their lives outside of the sport. When Eddy’s games are streamed online, Ionescu tunes in to give her brother pointers. Eddy does the same. “Just to keep my head up if I’m not shooting the ball well or something like that,” Ionescu said. “He’s usually just really supportive. He never really tells me too much. I think he understands I’m usually in my own head. He’s just there to talk and vent to.” When they were kids, the twins weren’t focused on making each other better players. They only wanted to beat each other — and it’s what drove Ionescu to the skill level she’s at. We’re always going to be best friends,” Eddy said. Sabrina Ionescu drives to the basket against UCLA in the Pac-12 Tournament semifinal. (Adam Eberhardt)
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EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS ARE TREATMENT, NOT TOYS BY JADYN MARKS Across the United States, emotional support animals (ESAs) have become a trend. Recently, a story came out about a woman who tried to bring her “emotional support peacock” on a flight with her, resulting in airlines making stricter rules for allowing animals on flights. While it’s good that ESAs are being normalized, it’s gone too far — to the point of harming those who do rely on animals for emotional support. At 15, I was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I tried therapy, then medication, and eventually improved with a combination of the two. Despite this, my quality of life wasn’t more than mediocre. Then I adopted Mia. Mia is a chihuahua miniature pinscher mix who I met visiting a rescue shelter near my old college. I had thought about the idea of adopting an emotional support animal for a while, and she was the perfect candidate. Shortly after adopting Mia, I left that school and returned home — my mental health had taken a steep descent, and Mia alone couldn’t help it. However, after that, things began to improve dramatically. Having Mia around helped me a lot — she was a comfort when I was upset or anxious and made me feel protected and safe. As someone who was often too depressed to leave my apartment, I was usually alone and lonely,
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but Mia changed that. Having a constant companion made a huge difference, even in my general, everyday mood. Without Mia, I would still be a functional student. But having her around has greatly improved my quality of life. I don’t have anxiety attacks nearly as often, and my depressive episodes are few and far between. And she’s better off as well — the rescue shelter staff members told me they presumed she had been used for breeding and then released on the streets. Hearing about the woman claiming her peacock was an emotional support animal to cheat the system angered and worried me. Soon after, the New York Times came out with an op-ed about how emotional support animals are essentially a scam. This is exactly what I was afraid of. This woman, and others like her, are using people with disabilities to cheat the system, discrediting those who actually need emotional support animals. Apparently, you can find a remote therapist online and qualify for an emotional support animal in under 15 minutes; “qualify” in the broadest sense of the word. No good (or licensed) therapist will diagnose you in just 15 minutes, much less online. I was treated by the same psychiatrist for years. She diagnosed me, started me on medication, counseled me and eventually approved me for an emotional support animal. I didn’t cheat the system.
Like therapy and medication, Mia became part of my treatment plan. Because of stories like this woman’s and responses like that of the New York Times, I’m anticipating more difficulty in being accommodated. Will I have to jump through more hoops to rent an apartment? To take my 10-pound dog on a flight? If I do, it will be because of people who take advantage of the system. If you’re one of those people, I urge you to stop. You’re stealing a method of treatment that wasn’t designed for you and making it less accessible for people with diagnosed mental illnesses. Yeah, you may really love your pet peacock, but has it helped your depression? Your anxiety? Does it calm your panic attacks? Does it substantially improve your quality of life? If you can’t say yes to any of these questions, you’re selfish and undeserving. Emotional support animals weren’t designed for you. Leave our treatment alone. As for those of you who use an emotional support animal as part of your treatment plan, try not to let it get to you. Know your rights and the regulations you may have to follow, but assert them — if you’re abiding by regulations, there is no legal reason for you to be denied housing, or to have to leave your pet at home when you’re taking a flight. You are not the problem – those who abuse the system are. And the truth always comes out.
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I’m skeptical of white liberals, and it goes back to the moment I knew Donald Trump would win the presidency. It was election night, and the polls just started to close on the East Coast. “Madame President� was on the tips of our tongues, and we had bottles of champagne ready to be opened to celebrate the certain victory. But then I started to doubt the historic moment would happen after a friend made a casual joke. My friends were discussing how they believed a reporter made a journalistic mistake in a cover story for the Daily Emerald. And the reporter happened to be Asian. “You can’t trust Asians, am I right?� a white friend said, laughing, without missing a beat. As an Asian journalist, and the only non-white person in the room, I was stunned. However, it was not by her remark, but rather by my white, liberal “friends� and their silence, that shocked me. There was visible discomfort in those white faces, but I could also see in those same white faces that they were unwilling to challenge one of their own. The person who made the remark left the room shortly after, and she remained unchallenged until I posed a simple question to the room: What the fuck was that? Although it may be difficult for white liberals to challenge their own, it’s even harder as a person of color to challenge white people. I’ve been met with accusations of being hysterical, aggressive, divisive or even racist when I challenge them, but it’s only when a white person joins me that my
feelings are validated for other white people. But nobody joined me this time. Their silence was a backstabbing betrayal I could never truly forgive, and one friend didn’t even know why I was so upset. My friends may have voted Clinton that night — and would have voted Obama for a third term if they could — but their silence voted Trump. At that moment, I knew “Madame President� was no longer a certainty. And I was right. But I also learned counting on friends to stand up with me was no longer a certainty. White liberals may believe their politics are inclusive as long as they see people of color and LGBTQA3 people as part of their movement. But it’s important that white liberals recognize intersectional liberals — people who aren’t white and have different experiences, aspirations and political beliefs that are modified by how their identity affects how they live. This silence and lack of understanding of intersectionality isn’t new. It has long been white liberals’ tacit sign of approval of America’s racist legacy. This lack of understanding is one of the driving criticisms of the Women’s March. Although the women wearing the pink pussy hats may have had good intentions, the event largely ignored the intersectionality of women — trans women, women of color and low-income women — and how it leads to different forms of oppression compared to the white middle class that seems analogous with the word “woman.�
Instead, it is often people of color, particularly women of color, who have been the true liberal heroes for all Americans. Marsha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman, led the Stonewall riots and ignited a revolution of queer liberation. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi formed the Black Lives Matter movement, an organization that fights against the oppressive forces of intersectionality that is imposed on all Black Americans, in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Grace Lee Boggs, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, worked closely with Malcolm X in the fight for civil rights and fought for labor rights in her home of Detroit. These activists likely didn’t act to promote progressivism. They did it to protect themselves because they couldn’t count on white progressives to stand with them. White progressives can vote the right way and believe the right thing — that love is love, Black lives matter and Dreamers are American, too — but they should also do the right thing: listen to us, believe us and stand with us. Racism isn’t just refusing service to someone based on their appearance. Racism is also ignoring the people of color who have been warning you about it and doing something about it for centuries. Racism doesn’t always manifest itself as people wearing white hoods and chanting “You will not replace us.� Sometimes, racism manifests itself as people wearing pink pussy hats and chanting “I’m with her.� Or chanting nothing at all.
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GUEST COLUMN SLAP: UO PROFITING OFF PRISON LABOR IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE BY JAMIE CUNNINGHAM This piece reflects the views of the UO Student Labor Action Project (SLAP), and not those of Emerald Media Group. It has been edited by the Emerald for grammar and style. Send your columns or submissions about our content or campus issues to letters @dailyemerald.com. In collaboration with other students working out of the Radical Organizing Activist Resource (ROAR) Center, this term the University of Oregon Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) launched a campaign to bring awareness to the university’s profits off of prison labor. SLAP is a group of students at UO that builds campaigns involving students and the labor movement. This has included supporting the GTFF in strike for a fair contract, working with the statewide fight for a $15 minimum wage and pressuring administration to reinstate shift meals for student workers in the dining halls. This most recent project started after ROAR and SLAP students noticed the underside of their classroom desks were labeled with tags from Oregon Correctional Enterprises (OCE). OCE, a semiindependent agency, sells furniture made by inmates in Oregon prisons. Incarcerated people working for OCE are paid only an estimated $70-80 per month and are subjected to inhumane working conditions under unethical circumstances. ROAR obtained public records that exposed a disturbing $2,041,834 in purchases University Housing has made with OCE from February 2015 to October 2017. Between February 2006 to February 2018, transactions between University Housing and OCE totalled $7,285,094. According to SLAP’s research, contracts mostly involved new dorm furniture, but EMU and classroom furniture purchases were also substantial. SLAP hand-delivered a letter to President Schill asking for a meeting with administration to negotiate better ways the university could go about making future furniture purchases, which has received no reply. SLAP has now gone forward with a campaign organizing community opposition to the Prison Industrial Complex and UO’s investment in an agency that profits off the exploitation of prison laborers. Thus far, SLAP has organized several demonstrations that have been effective in bringing awareness to these issues. On the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 27, SLAP members hung large banners at locations on and around campus. The students used the banners to peacefully convey their message of abhorrence to the PA G E 1 2
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university’s use of prison labor, while handing out informational material to interested passerbys. Within minutes, building managers alerted police, who aggressively confronted the peaceful demonstrators, threatening them at several locations with trespassing charges and jail. It was not made clear to the demonstrators holding the banners what university policies they were breaking, as they were harassed and poached out of public student access spaces. Following this action, SLAP held a week-long boycott of furniture purchased through OCE. Students across campus refused to sit in their classroom chairs and EMU furniture while ROAR hosted floor brunches with folks able to sit with them in boycott of university spaces using OCE furniture. As students at this university, it should be our priority to hold the admin signing off on these transactions accountable for the ethics of the purchasing decisions they make with our tuition money. Purchasing records with OCE show UO has a dense history of engaging with a system that disproportionately jails communities of color and other marginalized groups. This makes UO an active participant in perpetuating this country’s culture of enslaving marginalized peoples. UO administration has made it clear they have zero regard for human rights by collecting unpaid wages of incarcerated folks via the purchase of OCE furniture. Furthermore, the UO has made it apparent it has no interest in using its position as a state leader and place of higher learning to contribute positively toward a more humane and just future for the state of Oregon. UO has no place advertising or branding themselves as a catalyst of the human good, or as more specifically published, an institution “enriching the human condition.” Rather, until administration begins to listen to their students and consider the lives and working conditions of the people they are exploiting, the UO should be ashamed, and we as students funding this school should be angry. The campaign has just begun, and SLAP welcomes any students seeking justice for incarcerated workers to reach out and become involved. To learn more you can attend weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the ROAR Center (room 006 of the EMU). Additionally, people wanting to get involved can message SLAP on their various social media accounts or like the University of Oregon Student Labor Action Project Facebook page for updates.
SPORTS OREGON SOFTBALL SWEEPS SUNDAY DOUBLEHEADER TO FINISH 5-0 IN OREGON INVITATIONAL BY COLE KUNDICH • TWITTER @CKUNDICH
Ducks pitcher Miranda Elish (40) celebrates her second strikeout of the day. (Ben Green)
On Thursday, Oregon softball’s game versus Toledo was cancelled due to rain. The No. 6 Ducks didn’t have to wait much longer for game action, though. Playing five games within 48 hours, Oregon looked alive and well versus the opponents they welcomed to Eugene for the Oregon Invitational. That was especially the case on Sunday, when offensive fireworks and lights-out pitching led the Ducks to a pair of victories over Montana and Bryant. Game 1: No. 6 Oregon 7, Montana 0 Miranda Elish has been nothing short of dominant in her sophomore campaign with the Ducks. That continued on Saturday at Jane Sanders Stadium. Going up against Montana, Elish put together one of her strongest outings of the 2018 season by throwing a one-hit complete game that featured 11 strikeouts to lead the Ducks to a 7-0 win, one day after her 12-strikeout performance in a 12-2 win over Weber State. “My team played really great behind me,” Elish said. “You just have to really pitch every pitch with intent and purpose.” Elish looked to be making a run toward her second career no-hitter, but a two-out single from Ashlyn Lyons in the top of the fourth spoiled that chance. That, and a Tori Lettus walk in the fifth inning, was all the offense the Grizzlies would muster together. A pair of singles from Haley Cruse and Alexis Mack in the third set the stage for Shannon Rhodes, who drove in both Cruse and Mack with a 2-RBI single to give Oregon a 2-0 lead. It was a new inning, but the same story in the bottom half of the fifth. A Cruse single, Jenna Lilley walk and Mack single loaded the bases for Rhodes. The sophomore delivered again, bringing home Cruse and Lilley with her second 2-RBI single in as many at-bats
to double Oregon’s lead to 4-0. The Ducks tacked on three more runs in the fifth inning to go up 7-0. Game 2: No. 6 Oregon 17, Bryant 1 The sun showed up for the back-end of Sunday’s doubleheader, and so did the Ducks’ bats. A 13-run second inning carried Oregon to a run-rule, 17-1 win over Bryant in the team’s final game before Pac-12 play kicks off on Friday versus UCLA. “Offensively, we had some people swing the bat pretty well,” head coach Mike White said. “You want some good feelings going into next weekend. Obviously we’re facing one of the best teams in the country.” Cherish Burks entered Sunday’s game with only five plate appearances on the season. She had made them count, hitting two home runs with six RBIs. She got her first start on Sunday. With two on in the second, Burks launched her third home run of the season to put the Ducks up 5-0. The Ducks batted around in the inning, and Burks stayed hot, ripping a two-RBI double to left-center. “The more live pitching you see, the better,” Burks said. “Whoever’s name is called, just going up and being able to produce. That’s the best thing — our ultimate goal.” Burks’ teammates joined in on the fun in the second inning onslaught. Shaye Bowden cleared the bases with a double, Lilley singled home Burks, and Gwen Svekis drove in Lilley with an RBI single. Three more runs were brought in by way of a walk or hit by pitch. Maggie Balint went 3.1 innings in the circle, giving up only one hit and one run. With the Ducks holding a 15-0 lead, White took out Balint and brought in freshman Olivia Kinsey, who threw 1.2 shutout innings in her second appearance of the season.
POOR DEFENSE CAUSES DUCKS TO FALL TO UC DAVIS, ENDS FIVE-GAME WINNING STREAK BY MAGGIE VANONI • TWITTER @MAGGIE_VANONI In the top of the fourth inning, the Ducks were down 6-1 to the Aggies. Oregon’s offense wasn’t getting past first base, and the team’s only run came from a Jakob Goldfarb homer in the bottom of the second. An inning and a half later, the Ducks regained hope as they tied the game 6-6 with a sacrifice fly-out to right field from Gabe Matthews. Yet, the momentum didn’t hold. Instead, it fell. The Ducks had a five-game winning streak entering the series finale against the UC Davis Aggies, but the Ducks (11-4) fell 9-7 Sunday afternoon at PK Park.
“We had no errors, but we set the table for them to get batters and not execute pitches,” Oregon head coach George Horton said. “[We] did the wrong things at the wrong times … I just don’t think we played as well as we should have today.” When the Aggies (4-8) scored three runs for a four-run lead in the top of the fourth, Oregon began a series of three pitching changes. After pitching for three innings, allowing six runs on seven hits, starter Cullen Kafka was relieved by freshman Peyton Fuller. Fuller, who ultimately received the game’s loss, made his third appearance this season for the Ducks. Continued on page 14
Oregon Ducks infielder Gabe Matthews (12) runs to first base. (Devin Roux)
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In his 1.1 innings pitched, he allowed two runs off of two hits and one walk. Parker Kelly was next on the mound and struck out six batters over three scoreless innings, until Oregon pulled up their closer, Kenyon Yovan, in the top of the ninth. “It’s a tough loss,” Goldfarb said. “We wanted to come out and get the sweep today, but from an offensive perspective, putting up seven runs is never really a bad thing. That being said, I just think that our pitches need to just fill out the zone better earlier in the count.” The Aggies also made three pitching changes; however, they took advantage of Oregon’s weak defense and brought up a surge of pat power to control the bases. “We helped them,” Horton said. “We set the table in the second inning … We didn’t have as good of discipline as I thought we needed out there pitching.” Both teams had 11 hits, yet Oregon was unable to bring in enough runs to catch up to the Aggies after tying them in the fifth inning. The Duck’s final run came in the bottom of the eighth from a right field hit from Taylor Travess that brought home Ray Soderman. In the final inning, and the final chance for an Oregon’s redemption, the Aggies scored two, while the Ducks’ left the bases loaded with a final out from Soderman. “The good news is we stayed in there and hung in there,” Horton said. “We had a chance to win or tie late in the game, and I think that’s because of our guys’ toughness and confidence. You can’t give that kind of stuff away. We’re about ready to start conference and good teams make you pay for that. Today U.C. Davis was a better team.” Oregon will play its final game before starting conference play this Tuesday, March 13, against Gonzaga at 6 p.m. at PK Park.
Oregon Ducks pitcher Cullen Kafka (33) throws the ball. (Devin Roux)
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BY GUS MORRIS • TWITTER @JUSTGUSMORRIS Even after losing to USC in the Pac-12 Tournament semifinals on Friday, Oregon’s season will continue in another postseason tournament. It’s just not the one the Ducks wanted to be in. Oregon received a bid to the NIT on Sunday and will be a three seed in the tournament. The Ducks will host Rider at Matthew Knight Arena on Tuesday at 7 p.m. For a team that entered the season with NCAA Tournament aspirations, it’s a disappointing, but deserved, draw to end the season. Expectations were high entering this season for an Oregon team coming off its first Final Four in almost 80 years. But the Ducks had to replace almost all of the production from that team and attempted to do so with a handful of new faces. Oregon welcomed graduate transfers Elijah Brown and MiKyle McIntosh, as well as the 12th-ranked recruiting in the country, highlighted by five-star Troy Brown, as well as Kenny Wooten and VJ Bailey. Paul White, who sat out last season due to transfer rules, also stepped into a large role this season. But while on paper this team looked talented enough to at least make it back to the tournament, the oncourt product was a different story. After starting the season 4-0 against an array of weaker teams, Oregon struggled against tougher competition. The Ducks went 1-2 in PK80 (including a 71-63 loss to UConn, which finished 14-18 and recently fired its head coach) and then got their hearts ripped out by a Boise State half-court buzzer beater. Oregon righted the ship and took a 10-3 record into Pac-12 play, but that’s where things again hit a snag. The Ducks went 2-4 in their
first six conference games and battled the rest of the way to stay at .500. A major lowpoint was their 35-point loss at Stanford, the worst Oregon loss under Dana Altman. But once again, Oregon figured things out and many thought they had turned a corner. Then, Oregon lost to Washington State in the penultimate game of conference play, a loss that eliminated any hope they had of making it to the NCAA Tournament with an at-large bid. Oregon was inconsistent all season but hoped that the team that had beaten Arizona and Arizona State was the one that would show up in the Pac-12 Tournament. After all, Oregon’s only route back to the NCAA Tournament was to win out. The Ducks’ last-ditch effort started in shaky fashion. They needed overtime to defeat Washington State in the first round and only beat Utah by two in the second. Oregon didn’t play well in either game but had at least made it to the semifinals. But USC didn’t entertain the upset, and easily dispatched the Ducks by 20. So here the Ducks stand, a three seed in the NIT hosting Rider on Tuesday at Matthew Knight Arena. The Broncs finished the season 22-9 overall and first in the MAAC with a 15-3 record but were upset by Saint Peter’s in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament. Both Rider and Oregon should have things to prove considering how close each were to a NCAA Tournament bids. The NIT is never desired, but for an Oregon team that will once again be flush with a multitude of new faces next season, it’ll be a good chance to gain postseason experience in hopes of avoiding this situation in the future.
⚡ SPORTS OREGON ACROBATICS AND TUMBLING TOPS GANNON, FALLS TO QUINNIPIAC IN TRI-MEET BY AARON ALTER • TWITTER @AARONALTER95 After losing their first meet of the season to Baylor, Oregon acrobatics and tumbling lost to the No. 4 Quinnipiac Bobcats and beat the No.6 Gannon Golden Knights in Sunday’s tri-meet. On their home court at Matthew Knight Arena, the Ducks finished the day with 272.23 points, while the Bobcats and Golden Knights had 274.585 and 271.93, respectively. The Ducks are now 3-2 on the season with two meets left. While they held a lead going into the team event, a season-low score of 90.53 dashed the team’s shot at a sweep of the meet. A trio of falls were the chief culprit, knocking 4.5 points off the Ducks’ score. “We just had a couple busts,” Ducks head coach Keenyn Won said. “It’s just about building confidence, drilling it in so that we don’t have something like this happen again for the rest of the season.” Oregon has performed well in the compulsory event this year, but struggled on Sunday. While their mark of 37.70 put them just behind the Bobcats’ 37.80, it fell more than a point below the Ducks’ season average of 38.717. The event has proven to be a key component of the team’s success, as the Ducks are now 0-2 in meets where they’ve lost the opening event, but 3-0 after winning it. They bounced back in the acrobatics event, besting both teams with a mark of 29.35. The Ducks went on to win two of the event’s three heats. The Bobcats jumped back on top before halftime in the subsequent The Ducks synchronize tumbling. (Natalie Waitt-Gibson)
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In this year’s Robert D. Clark lecture — hosted by the Oregon Humanities Center — plant ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer will discuss the role indigenous people play in debates over public lands. Kimmerer argues that while the debate is politically active, it excludes the voices of the indigenous. For those looking to sprinkle some intellectual discussion into their Tuesday evening, this may be the event for you.
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footage into a fragmented film collage. “Acts and Intermissions� is the second film in director Abigail Child’s Trilogy of Women and Ideology, which explores how different ideologies fail women. After the screening, Child will be available to answer questions during a Skype Q&A. The event is free, and popcorn and refreshments will be provided.
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In addition to her ecological background, Kimmerer is also Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. Her research has led her and her students to study plants that are important to indigenous people. She has authored two books and numerous essays on the topic. With her extensive experience, Tuesday’s lecture is likely to impress.
SCHNITZER CINEMA: ‘ACTS AND INTERMISSIONS’ AND A SKYPE Q&A WITH DIRECTOR ABIGAIL CHILD AT THE JSMA (1430 JOHNSON LN.), 7 P.M., FREE
On Wednesday, March 14, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will hold a screening of the 2017 film “Acts and Intermissions� as part of the Schnitzer Cinema Series. This experimental documentary focuses on the life of anarchist political activist Emma Goldman and the resurgence of protests in the 21st century, mixing new and old
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Michael Daugherty has created a performance for music and literary lovers alike. Tales of Hemingway, a cello and orchestra concerto, presents a diverse and delightful experience by representing pieces of Hemingway’s work in each song.
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The show recently won a 2017 GRAMMY Award and is coming to the Hult Center this week. The audience will be enraptured by a well-rounded and versatile performance, featuring Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona’s Malagueùa.
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MAKES PORTLAND’S MODA CENTER AS INTIMATE AS HER DINNER TABLE BY SARAROSA DAVIES • TWITTER @SROSIEDOSIE Four years ago, New Zealand pop poet Lorde opened Portland’s Crystal Ballroom for indie-pop band Vampire Weekend. Now in 2018, hot off the release of her sophomore album “Melodrama,â€? she’s headlining arenas and stadiums across the world. But somehow, Lorde — born Ella Yelich-O’Connor — manages to make even the largest venues feel intimate. Maybe she even gave Portland a little extra love. In a long speech during the middle of her performance at the Moda Center on Saturday night, she mentioned that both her assistant and tour photographer are from the city. “Rip City! I don’t know what that means, but I like it,â€? she said to the audience. Part of the intimacy came from her choice of openers for the tour: Swedish pop artist Tove Styrke and hip-hop duo Run the Jewels. While Styrke provided a bubbly and synthpop-filled performance — including a cover of Lorde’s “Liabilityâ€? — Run The Jewels ran through a profane and energetic performance. Younger fans and their parents may have considered the rambunctious hip-hop group an odd opener for this tour, but the duo proved its fit, even apologizing to the parents in the crowd for its profanity-filled set. Its members — Killer Mike and EL-P — sent positive messages into the audience with every bit of stage banter they had in them, mentioning Women’s History Month at points and even ending the set on a note about suicide prevention. Run the Jewels probably garnered some new fans among the salt-and-pepper part of the audience: most seemed to be ‘90s babies who knew the words already. They continued to sing along for every song when it was finally time for Lorde to come on stage. After a pulsating version of “Soberâ€? at the beginning of her set, Lorde emerged clad in a sheer black jumpsuit. The dancers around her moved in beautiful jolts, all dressed in white. The crowd screamed, and she began her set with songs from “Pure Heroine,â€? her 2013 debut album. Known for mixing an emotional vocal delivery and poetic songwriting with intricate and heavy pop, it seems Lorde has been destined to play arena tours. Her emotional
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and nuanced delivery poses her in a different light than contemporaries like Taylor Swift, though. David Bowie called her the future of music. Rather than focus on visual gimmicks and a variety of costume changes, the tour delivers a stark stage setting for the artist. Her dancers often spent time suspended in a glass box in the air. Her first costume change was on stage where she shed the transparent jumpsuit and wrapped a pink skirt around her waist. Four panels at the back of the stage occasionally showed videos of clandestine teen activities — drinking from the same flask in dusty rooms, driving in cars with heads out the window and jumping into dark pools. These visuals fit well with the sense of vulnerability Lorde carries as an artist, especially with an album as intense as “Melodrama.� She gave long speeches before songs such as “Writer in the Dark� and “Liability.� “Some of my favorite songs are about being lonely,� she said before launching into a nuanced and pristine cover of Frank Ocean’s “Solo.� After this part of the set, Lorde riled the audience into dancing again, singing “Supercut� and “Perfect Places,� two of the larger, more resonant songs from “Melodrama.� The audience sang along to her breakout hit, “Royals.� And soon, Lorde was asking everyone in the crowd to give it their all for hit single “Green Light.� Confetti stars inscribed with phrases like “Melodrama forever� and “Green Light� rained down on the floor seats as the song climaxed. Lorde exited and stagehands placed a drum pad in the center of the stage. She played a pared-down encore — just her and the drum pad — ending the show with the surging “Team.� She ventured into the audience at the end of the song. But after, the lights turned on and Moda Center employees began to sweep the confetti stars from the floor as audience members grabbed handfuls of them to take home. And just as many intimate, dancefilled nights do, the show ended in a tidying of the aftermath. Early in her set, Lorde explained that she likes to address an audience as if she were having dinner with its members. “Thanks for having dinner with me, Portland,� she crooned.
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Lorde brings out her signature dance moves to the Moda Center stage. (Sarah Northrop)
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UO STUDENT RECEIVES GRANT FOR RESEARCH ON OREGON’S COMMERCIAL MUSHROOM INDUSTRY BY MAX EGENER Becca Marshall is a senior environmental studies major and the recipient of the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship. The grant is $2,500 for her work on natural resource management and the mushroom industry in Oregon. (Dana Sparks)
Love them or hate them, on a burger or in a salad, mushrooms are one of the most sustainable foods people can eat. With Oregon’s wet, temperate climate — which is ideal for mushrooms — the state plays a key role in the industry. But according to University of Oregon senior environmental studies major Becca Marshall, commercial wild mushroom pickers in Oregon may not be getting the support they need from forest managers to continue growing the industry. Earlier this year, the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship awarded Marshall a $2,500 grant to conduct her research into how forest management policies in the Willamette National Forest affect wild mushroom pickers. “I got into this research because I was personally interested in mushrooms,� Marshall said. “The idea that the mushrooms we eat are just the fruit of this potentially huge underground network.� Marshall finds it fascinating that the single largest organism in the world is the parasitic honey fungus in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. A significant part of her research is gathering data by talking with as many mushroom pickers as she can to understand if they face unnecessary barriers in their work. She said she has learned that pickers often face difficulties getting the correct permits and sometimes, they are not notified of crucial Forest Service road closures in a timely manner. She said that people in the industry also worry about timber-centric management activities like tree-thinning and clear cutting that destroy the best mushroom patches. Although mushrooms do not contain protein, mushroom cultivation doesn’t require high amounts of land or water, and it has a low carbon
footprint. According to a study conducted by the research and advocacy group, Environmental Working Group, and the environmental firm CleanMetrics, farmed salmon and beef emit 5.4 and 12.3 pounds of carbon dioxide respectively for every pound consumed, where as a pound of cultivated mushrooms only emits 0.7 pounds of carbon dioxide. The mushroom industry in the U.S. is also rapidly growing as more people have expanded their palates to include the fungi and demand abroad is increasing, according to a report by Zion Market Research. Marshall’s project, which is now in it’s second term, is primarily concerned with understanding how well forest managers follow environmental justice guidelines set out in the National Environmental Policy Act to manage for the cultivation of non-timber products such as mushrooms. Under these guidelines, managers must try to recognize the cultural, social and economic impacts any proposed action may have, and they must allow for the public to be included in a dialogue about policy. Marshall said that many mushroom pickers in Oregon are immigrants from Southeast Asia or Central America or are first generation Americans. She said they bring with them a rich cultural tradition and knowledge of mushrooms. The mushroom industry is also seasonal, and many pickers are migrant workers. They follow the “mushroom trail,� which starts in British Columbia in the late summer, follows warmer weather in Washington and Oregon in September and October and ends in California in December where many of them spend the winter. Oregon has a long history of producing timber products, but the seasonal nature of the mushroom industry and language barriers
between pickers and managers make inclusive dialogues about policy hard to achieve. But Marshall said the National Forest Service could be trying harder to include the voices of people in this lucrative industry. “Harvesting mushrooms and other non-timber forest products provides an economic alternative to timber, which is something I think the Forest Service should focus on to create greater biodiversity within the forest and to manage it more equitably for everyone. Not just focusing on managing for powerful timber companies,� Marshall said. Marshall said the Forest Service primarily manages for timber and often disregards the economic benefits a thriving mushroom industry can bring. “I’m not trying to demonize the Forest Service,� Marshall said. “They also face challenges that make supporting the pickers hard.� The Forest Service has a budget that changes annually, so they don’t always have the stability necessary to maintain connections the with mushroom picking community. Marshall said she hopes that her research will illuminate the predicaments many mushroom pickers find themselves in to earn a living in this culturally-significant and economically-beneficial industry. She wants the Forest Service to start researching how they can better support the mushroom industry on their own. “As of now, my long-term plan is to pursue a career in sustainable agriculture research and policy,� Marshall said. After graduating from UO, she wants to take the skills she has learned in her research to the Peace Corps community gardens and agroforestry program in the West African country, The Gambia. M O N D AY, M A R C H 1 2 , 2 0 1 8
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