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BY RYLEE KAHAN • TWITTER @RYLEEKAHAN McKenna Sheridan poses with her car outside of the Alpha Chi Omega house. (Adam Eberhardt)
Two weeks ago, after a spike in armed robberies around campus, McKenna Sheridan started working on implementing a rideshare system for her sorority to make sure that no girl walks home by herself at night. The rideshare system is named Alpha Chi Uber, although this may change depending on whether or not they receive copyright usage from Uber. Sheridan, the vice president for AXΩ’s risk management, said that they “needed something to happen,” after the recent increase in incidents around campus. “If anyone needs anything, they’re there for you,” said Kourtynie Farasyn, a freshman member of AXΩ. The day after one of AXΩ’s members said she was attacked, Sheridan started the process of building a rideshare system for the sorority. Sheridan keeps a running spreadsheet of drivers who volunteer for certain hours each day. The rideshare system officially operates Thursday, Friday and Saturday, during whatever hours drivers volunteer for, and is open to any AXΩ member.
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Sheridan created a closed Facebook page where drivers post their hours each night and girls can ask for rides. Recently, drivers started volunteering on nights during the week, and not just the official operational nights. “Some drivers will stick to certain hours and say they’re going to be done at 1 a.m., while other drivers know that they’re going to be pulling all-nighters,” Sheridan said. According to Farasyn, there’s a google document for every week to sign up as a volunteer driver. For just signing up with their phone number as an emergency contact, girls can earn one hour of community service, even if they end up not driving anyone. March 8 started the first test week for Alpha Chi Uber, where 30-40 rides were given by 15 volunteer drivers, according to Sheridan. Because it was coming up on dead week when the program started, Sheridan expects numbers to go up once spring term starts. “One of the important parts of this system is
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educating [the] girls that it’s not safe to walk home alone,” Sheridan said. Sheridan started creating “Alpha Chi Uber Kits,” for the volunteer drivers. These are small baskets for drivers to take with them when they start their night. Kits include water bottles, gum, fruit snacks, candy, wet wipes and saltines. Drivers are given these kits to make the riders’ time more enjoyable. This term, the drivers are paying out of pocket for gas, but Sheridan says that next term she will start doing a raffle every week for one or two drivers to win a gas gift card. After the test weekend, Sheridan posted a survey on the Facebook page asking the girls if they felt that the rideshare system made a difference in their safety that weekend. “100 percent of the girls that replied felt it made a difference,” Sheridan said. “I do believe that it has increased our safety because people post on our page all the time about being able to drive or needing a ride,” Farasyn said. “That’s why it works so well.”
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BY HANNAH KANIK AND BECCA ROBBINS The University of Oregon Police Department just welcomed its newest addition to the force — Onyx the dog. The three-year-old black lab mix will be used as a bombsniffing dog at campus events and will also be used for community engagement. UOPD partnered with UO Intercollegiate Athletics, UO student government and federal law enforcement to train and deploy the dog. For the past seven weeks, Onyx and his handler, officer Troy Phillips, were completing the Law Dogs police canine training program at the Sacramento Police Department, according to AroundtheO. Onyx is a bomb-detection dog and does not detect drugs, according to officer Phillips. He is trained to detect 52 different odors that will aid in finding explosives or explosive components. Onyx is also able to track human scent. If a suspect dropped something at the scene they can use Onyx to track the suspect. Community engagement is a
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major reason Onyx was brought to UO, according to officer Phillips. Onyx has been trained to engage with students under the command “make friends.� Students are encouraged to approach Onyx and pet him when he is out on campus. Onyx was adopted from a shelter, which is cheaper than buying a dog, according to Officer Phillips. Typically, departments could spend as much as $10,000 to $20,000 for a dog and $10,000 to $20,000 for training. Part of the funding for Onyx comes from the UO athletic department, as they want to have Onyx attend athletic events for safety purposes. Previously, UOPD used a federal dog that was significantly more expensive and was often gone on other assignments or in Washington D.C. According to officer Phillips, Onyx is one of only two or three bomb dogs in the state of Oregon. “Our goal is to change the way Oregon looks at these dogs. We want to make them a more common resource,� officer Phillips said.
DRUG AND LIQUOR VIOLATIONS DOWN IN THE DORMS COMPARED TO LAST TERM BY MICHAEL TOBIN • TWITTER @TOBIN_TWEETS Either freshmen are getting better at hiding their drinking or they’re not drinking as much. During winter term, there were 191 drug and liquor violations in the University of Oregon’s 10 residence halls. This number is a 62 percent decrease from the 509 violations reported last term. This number is down significantly from fall term, in which as many as 12 percent of residents living in UO’s dorms may have received a violation. The UO student conduct code does not allow students under the age of 21 to consume alcohol and prohibits marijuana use on campus. The Living Learning Center
(LLC) dorms led the pack with 57 liquor violations and five drug violations for a grand total of 62 infractions. LLC had 22 more violations than Walton, which had the next most at 40 violations. Hamilton Hall, which has 753 residents, had 24 liquor law violations and two drug law violations. Kalapuya Ilihi Hall, home to 500 residents, had two liquor law violations and 10 drug law violations. Both Riley and Barnhart Halls had no drug violations, with five and 15 liquor violations, respectively. The Emerald has created a map to show which dorms were the hotspots for drug and liquor law violations.
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Have you lost something around campus and wondered if someone took it to the Lost and Found? Now there’s a new way for you to find out if the UOPD has your item. A Lost and Found website can be found here, where students can type in what they’re looking for and the system will search the inventory for it. UOPD spokesman Kelly McIver said this prevents students from having to come all the way to the UOPD station on 15th Avenue and Walnut Street just to check if anyone turned in their things. UOPD obtained the Lost and Found in September 2017 from its previous location at the Department of Parking and Transportation. McIver said this transition made sense due to the police station operating 24/7 as opposed to the 5 p.m. closing time of the Department of Parking and Transportation and its lack of weekend hours. McIver also noted the training UOPD employees receive is another reason their office is the best place for this service.
Because officers and employees are trained in handling evidence and properly inventorying it, “UOPD has an advantage over other departments,� said McIver. Granted that training, UOPD ensures that all items can be stored securely and returned to their proper owners. McIver said the resource sees a spike in inventory after athletic events and public events where people, not even specifically students, drop or lose a lot of things. While McIver said most of the inventory is coats and umbrellas, UOPD keeps other things that offices previously might have thrown away. McIver suggests that all students check the website to be sure if their lost items were turned in. “It used to be that it was only kind of higher value items that would get forwarded to Parking and Transportation and kept for release,� said McIver. “The nice thing now is that everything gets kept – everything gets logged, except for perishable things, like half a sandwich.�
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UO STUDENT VETERAN CENTER RECEIVES STATE GRANT TO EXPAND RESOURCES BY HANNAH KANIK • TWITTER @HANNAH_KANIK Trent Goodman joined the Marines in 2010. He came to the University of Oregon in 2014 because of the outdoor activities that the state of Oregon offers. Soon after being admitted, Goodman experienced the struggle that many incoming, non-traditional students face; however, he found a home in the Student Veterans Center and went on to be the team leader of the PAVE (Peer Advisors for Veteran Education) program. The Student Veterans Center received a state grant of $54,000 from the Oregon Department of Veteran Affairs last January to expand its resources for student veterans like Goodman. In the Student Veterans Center, located on the outside of the EMU, there are several resources available to student veterans; these include free coffee, a small library and a space to interact with other student veterans. There are approximately 400 student veterans on the University of Oregon campus, according to Samantha Roberts, Veterans Program Coordinator. The grant doubles the UO Student Veterans Center’s annual budget, which is funded by the
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Dean of Students and the ASUO. This grant will allow the center to hire a part-time employee, sustain an existing peer mentorship program, expand the center’s digital resources and increase orientation programs. “It’s a huge boost to what we can provide,� Roberts said. This grant was part of Senate Bill 143 within the State of Oregon that had colleges and universities in the state of Oregon apply for a piece of the main grant of $1 million, according to Roberts. Lane Community College also received a grant. Roberts said she anticipates the two schools working together with the grant to aid students transferring from Lane to UO. “We’re almost combining our resources to reach students on both campuses and make that transition a bit smoother,� Roberts said. Roberts said she hopes the university expands its resources to student veterans. “We need more support, especially for what these students are bringing to our campus. These are people who are going to go off and do incredible things. They are going to become even
better leaders. They are going to be running for office,� Roberts said. One of the programs the Student Veterans Center runs is PAVE. This program assigns a peer to an incoming student veteran — matched by major — to help ease the transition into college life. The grant is slated to absorb some of the program costs associated with PAVE and expand it to winter and spring term, alongside further orientation programming for incoming students. One of the issues the Student Veterans Center is working to address is veteran homelessness. Goodman said after coming to Oregon, housing was one of the biggest challenges he faced. “Housing is really tough, especially for veterans. Most of them come in as transfer students. so most of them are not going to want to do any dorm living,� Goodman said. Goodman said he hopes the Student Veterans Center can expand its resources to reach more students on campus through making the center more visible to students. “Increasing visibility helps bring more resources to the students,� Goodman said.
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The Emerald asked the University of Oregon community to nominate outstanding women to celebrate as part of Women’s History Month. Our newsroom chose one woman to honor from a pool of nominees who are making a significant impact at UO with their integrity, courage, innovation, creativity, spirit, smarts, leadership, hard work and ambition. Ali Lau was nominated four separate times for speaking out on issues of inequity, bias and race at UO. Read about her work below, and find profiles of the other nominees in the Emerald’s calendar insert. High above the coruscating waters of the Pacific Ocean, the plane curved northward, carrying Alexandra Lau home. As the shores of Honolulu tilted into view and the lush green archipelago of the Hawaiian islands stretched across the horizon, Lau began to cry. Her chest ached. It was the first moment in which she began to understand the depth of her intrinsic connection to her home and land as a Native Hawaiian woman. She was returning for the first time since leaving her all-Native Hawaiian private preparatory high school to attend Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Throughout childhood she dreamed of leaving Hawai’i behind to live in New York. But when she finally left the cocoon of her warm island home, she was struck with the cold reality of life as one of the most underrepresented peoples in the United States. “I grew up not knowing I was a minority,� Lau said. “I’m Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipina, Portuguese, Russian, Welsh and Native American
— I’m very mixed, but what I identify as is Native Hawaiian, and it took a long time for me to even really realize what that meant.” At Hampshire, she struggled to find any faculty to take her seriously. She watched her rich, white friends navigate the academic system with ease. “For someone coming all the way from Hawai’i from a fairly middle-low income family, it was really hard for me to fit into that,” Lau said. “I had a friend whose dad was donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to the school, and I saw him excel.” But it would take Lau years to understand and express what she was experiencing. She transferred to St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, where the diverse atmosphere of New York City welcomed her. Lau graduated in 2010 with a bachelors in mathematics. Now a 29-year-old graduate student at the University of Oregon in her final year, Lau is earning two master’s degrees from the College of Design, one in architecture and the other in community and regional planning. “Everything I do is based on my identity of being Native Hawaiian,” Lau said. “There’s been a huge movement in Hawaiian renaissance for us to remember as a people who we are and what the power is in that.” American society stigmatizes Native Hawaiians as “fat and lazy,” and sometimes Native Hawaiians internalize these stereotypes about themselves, said Lau. But the last 30 years have seen a resurgence and reclamation of cultural heritage. She intends to use her technical architecture and planning skills with an indigenous lens to push the Honolulu community toward sustainability. It wasn’t until she moved to Eugene that her experience of being a minority crystallized. “Being here brought up a lot of doubt for me,” Lau said. “Doubt that I was capable to be here and to do this, doubt that I would be able to finish, doubt that I even was a valuable citizen.” She felt it in everyday moments, like being ignored during a visit to the dentist. She was isolated as a woman of color in her academic department. On top of the stress of grad school, she was usually the only person of color in her classrooms. During discussions, other students talked over her, and she found her ideas dismissed and overlooked by faculty. “It’s below the radar. And if you aren’t looking for it, and if you don’t have the language for it, you don’t really know it’s happening. But it is still happening to you,” Lau said. “So many of these little experiences — whether you know they’re happening or not — they are having an effect on you.” Once she found a way to articulate the problems she and her peers were facing, Lau took the fight for equity to the top of the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management. She met Rachel Mallinga, one of the only other women of color in the department, and the two began to work together. “Ali is just one woman in the long history of women of color who’ve spoken up and done the hard work to push for change,” Mallinga, an alum of the nonprofit management program, said. In 2015, Mallinga founded the Peer Exchange as a safe space for underrepresented students in PPPM to convene, share their experiences and support each other. Lau was inspired to voice her concerns about a lack of equity in the department and find a constructive way to create change from within. After a group of students sent official letters to the PPPM department with requests for equity action and saw little change, Lau knew they needed a concrete framework to hold the department accountable. The two women spent eight months interviewing students and compiling an official report that evaluated the department’s cultural competency from a student perspective and
recommended specific changes to curriculums, classrooms and faculty. “This ‘Cultural Competency Report’ provides key elements to establishing a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion,” Mallinga and Lau wrote in its intro. When Mallinga graduated last year, Lau took over as a facilitator of the Peer Exchange. Because of Mallinga and Lau’s vocal leadership of the Peer Exchange and the official letters sent to the department head, Rich Margerum, the PPPM department formed an Equity Initiative of faculty and students to address the concerns. “I think there’s a little bit of complacency that, oh, we’re all liberal-minded, open minded, and so forth, everything’s going fine — without really understanding where those perspectives are coming from,” Margerum said. The initiative has used this report and hosted listening sessions to hear the perspectives of underrepresented students. For a graduate department that specializes in shaping cities and
“I GREW UP NOT KNOWING I WAS A MINORITY.” ALI LAU societies with policy, it’s essential to understand how applicable and integral these issues are and include them as a central part of the curriculum, according to Lau. “You can count on your fingers how many students of color there are. You know that it’s small,” Lau said about PPPM. Graduate school is already a stressful environment. Add the stress of being an underrepresented student and it becomes even worse, Lau said. “When you’re one of a few women of color in a department, you’re dealing with a really different experience, and graduate school can be an unwelcoming environment” Mallinga said. “Just having that support — how to navigate around microaggressions is really important.” Lau also sees Mallinga as a leader for social change. “Until I started working with her, one, I thought I was going crazy, and two, I just had no idea that you could actually do
something about it,” Lau said. Those around Lau in the department and in her life, like her partner and fellow PPPM student, Oliver Gaskell, consistently emphasized Lau’s ability as an agent for change on both structural and personal levels, despite all the other work she has to do. Gaskell said that Lau also aims to connect with the international students in the graduate program who are sometimes left on their own. He said she made it one of her goals last term to meet with international students and hear about their experiences. Margerum described her as brave for confronting implicit bias within classrooms and holding the department accountable. “She’s just done a really terrific job of being critical of things that fall short but also being very constructive and presenting in a way that faculty come away with a real positive, energized feeling about what they need to do and being convinced this is a priority,” Margerum said about Lau’s work. Lau and Mallinga aren’t the only students who’ve felt burdened by a culture of whiteness at UO. “Eugene’s pretty ethnically homogeneous, so when you first move here you can feel really othered to a whole different extent than probably where you’re moving from,” Jaclyn Kellon, a Ph.D candidate in chemistry and the president and founder of student support group Community for Minorities in STEM, said. Kellon reached out to Lau last summer when starting a program for grad students called Creating Connections. “Our goal is to create a larger social network and social support system that can help students from underrepresented minority populations connect and feel a sense of belonging at the university,” Kellon said. Lau is in her last six of months of school and has moved her focus from the PPPM’s Equity Initiative to helping Kellon kickstart the broader program. She wants to leave behind a growing community and support system for future graduate students of color. PPPM hired two new tenure-track faculty, for positions called Engaging Diverse Communities. Both start next fall and are Latino men. But the department still has a long way to go and things are moving slowly, according to Lau. “People who are in positions of power, namely white, cisgendered men and women should listen to women of color,” Mallinga said. “Throughout history we’ve spoken our truths and this is what Ali has done. She’s going to be an agent of change.”
Ali Lau holds a model of her project, Mixed, which focuses on providing opportunities for refugees in Portland. (Phillip Quinn)
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CITY OF EUGENE MUST HELP STUDENTS FEEL SAFER BY TED YANEZ
What the heck is going on in Eugene? Recently, there has been a string of armed robberies near campus, more harassment and more sexual assault reported within UOPD beats. Despite the numerous resources campus provides, students have come to terms with a very uncomfortable truth: It is no longer safe to travel around campus at night. What can we do to make ourselves safest at night? What is UOPD doing to make us safer? What else can be done? Tips for Students Traveling at Night Safe Ride and the Designated Driver Shuttle are a resource provided by the University of Oregon and ASUO to give students a safe alternative to drunk driving and walking home at night. This is a great resource for students to have, but it’s not big enough for every student to be able to get a ride in a reasonable amount of time. For perspective, it’s not uncommon for Safe Ride to take an hour or two to get to your location. This isn’t necessarily an issue with Safe Ride. Rather, it concerns the large demand for rides. UOPD can provide safety escorts, but again, it’s not a big enough resource for students to actually use in a timely manner. It also offers
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self-defense classes for women. UOPD is testing a pilot campus shuttle that makes runs to and from campus much like a bus, but this still leaves students as sitting ducks just as LTD does with its busses. A map of all shuttle stops, which also gives an approximated position of the shuttle, is available online. Ultimately, the best advice is to never travel alone at night. This is, of course, an ideal situation and isn’t realistic for many students. Having been previously licensed by the Oregon Department of Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) as unarmed security, there are a few tips that I can offer to students traveling at night. Students who wish to carry pepper spray should consider buying a spray that includes an ultraviolet marking dye. This way, whenever UOPD or Eugene Police finds someone that fits the description you’ve given them, they can use an ultraviolet light to confirm that you sprayed them. Most sprays that I’ve seen cost around $10 or less. Just remember to never use it indoors. If you have a little higher of a budget, stun guns are allowed on campus. As always, a little common sense can go a long way with such devices. Before you buy any personal protection devices, you should be aware of all legal liabilities
and consequences that are associated with them. Read the weapons policy and consider taking a class in how to handle such devices. Students with additional questions surrounding personal protection devices are encouraged to call the UOPD non-emergency line at 541-346-2919. University policy and code of conduct questions should be directed toward the Office of the Dean of Students. If carrying such a spray is not appealing to you, I suggest buying a powerful flashlight. I still have my large MagLite from my security job and have used it several times in poorly lit areas. This helps for two reasons: 1. You can actually see an attacker and identify them better for police. 2. A powerful flashlight can be used to temporarily blind an attacker. While a flashlight like I sometimes carry is suitable for self-defense, remember that your primary goal is to get home safely; don’t try to win a fight just because you think you can. UO Can Only Do So Much If we increase the amount of security or police officers around campus, we could expect to pay even more than we already do in tuition and fees.
đ&#x;“Ł OPINION Allowing those with concealed weapons permits to carry such devices on campus would allow specific people to make their own investments in campus security if they don’t already possess a concealed weapons permit. Part of what prevents this from happening is a policy adopted by the Board of Trustees that was first implemented by the now disbanded Oregon University System. For those who do not wish to go that route, this is a good case in favor of rideshare companies like Uber or Lyft returning to Eugene. UO wants people to know where the lighted paths are on campus: It offers a night option on its online map. Campus appears to be committed to fixing issues to the point that you can even drop a pin on the online map and tell the university about a lighting, hardscape, landscape or other issue that you may be encountering in a specific area of campus. Students should take advantage of this reporting system to let the university know what parts of campus need more of a security presence (choose to report an “Otherâ€? problem and explain what’s going on). A suggestion I have for UO is to consider installing emergency call boxes in more areas that aren’t main campus. Spencer View Apartments — family housing for UO students — doesn’t have any. Barnhart Hall and Riley Hall also don’t have any emergency call boxes nearby. One might assert that we have many emergency call boxes, many of which aren’t used, but looking at the online map provided by the university (on night mode) raises some questions about the current call boxes. For example, why does UOPD have four call boxes around them while the northwestern side of campus has a noticeable hole where these call boxes seem to require a job to get to? Eugene Needs to Get Involved Making students safer is more than a responsibility for the university; the City of Eugene needs to be involved in providing more street lights and safer bike lanes. Walk down Alder Street past E. 19th Avenue and you’ll find what looks like a large, unlit corridor. The same can be said for the many areas that students live at around east campus down Villard, Orchard, or even around E. 24th Avenue. For other examples, students don’t have to
travel very far off campus. Next time you’re out with friends, take a look at how dark some of the sidewalks are in these areas. The City of Eugene is currently having its own crisis with a lack of police officers. According to the Associated Press, Eugene Police ignored one-third of the daily service calls it received in 2017. Luckily, the Eugene City Council has opened the door to potentially allowing Uber and Lyft to return to Eugene. Eugene Mayor Lucy Vinis acknowledged that college students need a way to get back and forth at night and hopes to see the rideshare companies back in Eugene by summer. While it’s promising to see the city working to bring back ridesharing after a four-year absence, Mayor Vinis also said, “We want to make sure that we have a safe system, and so we don’t want to trade one unsafe situation for another.� University of Oregon Police Chief Matt Carmichael said that he has been working with the university to encourage the city to allow ridesharing. Students Shouldn’t be Satisfied Just Yet According to UOPD, there have been more than 70 incidents on or near campus property between 9 p.m. and 2:59 a.m. since Jan. 1, 2018. Of the incidents reported, 40 of them were quality of life incidents (drugs and alcohol, disorder, etc.), 29 of them were property incidents (theft, trespassing, etc.) and three of them were violent incidents. Chief Carmichael issued a statement Friday saying, “UOPD is working with EPD, sharing information and planning, and I have directed our detectives to prioritize these cases.� He also stated that extra officers have been added to the patrol shifts at night. Chief Carmichael even posted his cell phone number for students with questions and suggestions. If you are a victim of any crime, I urge you to report it to UOPD as soon as possible, so campus can at least have an accurate picture of which areas need more protection. While it’s nice to see our own police department taking action, students should put pressure on the city to do more, as our university is one of the largest employers in the county. Now is the time for us to take preventative measures and use any means necessary to make getting home safe.
COPING WITH GRIEF AS A COLLEGE STUDENT BY EMMA SPAETH The deaths of multiple University of Oregon students and a professor have brought grief upon the university community and beyond. Coping as a college student poses unique challenges, as the college environment is not the most conducive to grieving. After a tragic event like this occurs, students are forced back into their stressful lives and not allotted the necessary time to grieve. Despite this challenge, there are resources specifically designed to help with the grieving process that are available to UO students. Unfortunately, when a college student loses someone, the world does not halt for us: we are forced to move on, often before we are ready. Grief is difficult to escape and there are no easy answers when it comes to coping with a death. The emotions are overwhelming and it brings on pain unlike anything you may have felt before. In our hearts, we understand that death is a natural part of life, but that knowledge makes it no easier to cope with a death. Everyone copes differently. Coping with the loss of a friend or family member is incredibly challenging, and for some, it might be one of the greatest challenges they have faced. After a loss, some want to do something to dull the pain and fill that void. This can cause one to develop harmful habits, such as doing drug or abusing alcohol, oversleeping, developing a sex addiction or even engaging in excessive exercise. Moving on is going to hurt, but developing unhealthy methods of coping won’t help in the long run and will likely result in more suffering. Taking time to grieve and finding an outlet for negative emotions
can help. Grief is a process that affects people to different degrees — meaning there is no universal solution. You need to accept that time is needed and allow yourself to grieve properly. It’s okay to not be okay. As Julia Samuel said in “Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving,� a self-help novel that details solutions for dealing with grief, “You never ‘get over it,’ you ‘get on with it,’ and you never ‘move on,’ but you ‘move forward.’� Therapists and psychologists are trained to help people handle the emotions brought on by the death of a loved one. They can provide strategies to cope with and manage a loss. The University of Oregon provides counseling through the UO Health Center, along with an after hour support and crisis line (541346-3227). There are also resources in the Eugene community not affiliated with the university, such as private counselors specialized in grief counseling. Talking to someone and learning how to process the emotions you are feeling is a healthy way to handle a loss. Research has been done on how to help college students cope with a loss and educate people on these unique circumstances. There is also an organization called the Students of AMF (Actively Moving Forward), which works toward connecting grieving college students. The healing process for individuals coping with loss is intense and heartbreaking. When someone close to you passes, grieving is a life-changing experience. Know your resources and allow yourself to deal with the overwhelming emotions that come along with a death. While you may never truly move on, you can move forward.
Additional University of Oregon groups include: • University Mental Health Support Line • SAFE Hotline (541) 346-7233 • Support (Group Counseling) Living With Loss
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SPORTS OREGON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TROUNCES MINNESOTA 101-73 IN SECOND ROUND OF NCAA TOURNAMENT BY SHAWN MEDOW • TWITTER @SHAWNMEDOW With the clock counting down in the first half, Oregon junior guard Maite Cazorla had the ball in hand with her back to the hoop. She turned away from Minnesota’s Kenisha Bell, turned back around and found Oregon sophomore guard Sabrina Ionescu open. Ionescu looked at the clock, dropped her shoulder to look like she would drive, instead stepping back behind the 3-point arc and launching a buzzer-beating 3-pointer. Both teams began to head for the locker rooms, but the referees called them back to the court because Ionescu was fouled. She missed the and-1 free throw, but still had 22 points with five rebounds and seven assists at the half with the Ducks leading 51-36. “I’m still bummed I missed the free throw,” Ionescu said. Ionescu failed to complete a tripledouble one game after recording the 10th of her career. But she set a Pac-12 record for single-season assists — now 286 — while still collecting 29 points, nine assists and seven rebounds as she led the No. 2 seed Ducks to a 101-73 win over No. 10 seed Minnesota in the NCAA Tournament second round. The second round game was also Oregon’s 3-point record holder and Eugene native Lexi Bando’s final game at Matthew Knight Arena. She scored 11 points. The win advances the Ducks to the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row after never making it to that stage ever before. By the end of the first quarter, it was evident that Ionescu would at least come close to yet another triple-double as the sophomore posted eight points, four rebounds and four assists. Ahead of the game, the Ducks expected a fast tempo from Minnesota, and they got just that. The Gophers came at the Ducks, but Oregon managed to
box Minnesota out of the paint thanks to Ruthy Hebard, who finished the night with 10 rebounds, while also claiming 22 points. Guard play was a key for both teams, using four-guard systems. Cazorla was set to have her work cut out for her with Bell running the Gopher offense. Cazorla kept Bell to 14 points after Bell posted 26 in the Gophers’ first round win over Green Bay on Friday. A big part of Oregon’s dominating performance was freshman Satou Sabally’s play. At 6-foot-4, Sabally towered over all but one of Minnesota’s players — 6-foot-5 senior Bryanna Fernstrom. Fernstrom saw limited minutes in the Gophers’ loss. Oregon’s second half started off hot. The Ducks scored 12 of the first 15 points of the third quarter, five of which belonged to Sabally. Oregon outscored Minnesota 31-14 in the third quarter to hold an 82-50 lead going into the final quarter. “When you look at them statistically,” Minnesota head coach Marlene Stollings said, “the closest you can compare to them on paper is UConn.” The Ducks coasted through the fourth quarter with many of their bench players seeing action while starters were rested. Oregon was outscored by Minnesota 23-19 in the fourth as Oregon went on to win the game 101-73. Oregon will play the winner of Ohio State and Central Michigan, who play on March 19. That Sweet 16 game will be on March 24 in Spokane, Washington. For head coach Kelly Graves, who coached Gonzaga for 14 years, there’s a coming home feel, but his focus is on the Ducks. “I’m just excited because we have the chance to move on and like Sabrina said, win another two-game tournament,” Graves said.
OREGON LACROSSE DROPS OVERTIME THRILLER TO NO. 12 USC BY COLE KUNDICH • TWITTER @CKUNDICH
Oregon Ducks forward Satou Sabally (0) looks for a teammate to pass to while being defended by two Minnesota players. (Adam Eberhardt)
With 30 seconds remaining and the Ducks trailing 8-7 to USC, head coach of women’s lacrosse, Katrina Dowd, called a timeout to draw up one last attack. It paid off. Oregon’s Jill Zubillaga scored with eight seconds remaining to send the match into overtime. That ended up being as close as the Ducks would get to pulling off the upset, though, as they ended up losing 9-8 to No. 12 USC in Los Angeles. On a free position shot in overtime, the Trojans were able to escape with a win against a Ducks team that was looking to go 2-0 on its road swing after a 14-6 win over Arizona State on Friday night.
Zubillaga’s game-tying goal was her second of the game. It wasn’t the first time the Ducks clawed from behind, either. Oregon fell behind 3-0, 4-1 and then 6-2 before scoring three straight goals to threaten USC. Shannon Williams also found the back of the net twice, and Mariah Gatti led the team with three goals. Brittany Reed finished with a season-high 15 saves. Even with the loss, Sunday can be seen as an encouraging step for a Ducks team that was dominated in a 19-8 loss to No. 18 Stanford just one week ago. Oregon welcomes Colorado to Papé Field on March 23. M O N D AY, M A R C H 1 9 , 2 0 1 8
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⚡ SPORTS WALK-OFF HOME RUN GIVES OREGON FIRST SERIES WIN OVER UCLA SINCE 2015 BY MAVERICK PALLACK • TWITTER @MAVPALLACK Two on, two out, and two strikes. That was the situation for Oregon center fielder Shannon Rhodes with the score tied at zero in the bottom of the seventh. “There comes a time where you just have to dig deep and not be afraid,” Rhodes said. “I think that’s what I did there. I believed in myself a little more than I was afraid of [Rachel Garcia].” Rhodes hit the next pitch for a walk-off home run to center field off Garcia, giving the Ducks their first series win since April 2015. No. 6 Oregon’s 3-0 win over No. 3 UCLA came on the back of Megan Kleist, who pitched a complete game, six-hit shutout that featured six strikeouts and a walk. Those scoreless innings perfectly set up Rhodes for the big moment. “My plan was to hit a ball hard on the ground,” Rhodes said. “With my swing plan being hitting a ball on the ground and a rise ball going up, something’s bound to happen.” Garcia was dominant for the first six innings of the ballgame, matching her 16-strikeout performance from Friday. In that Friday 6-2 win for the Bruins, Rhodes struck out three times, leading White to drop her in the order. “I did some things to try and motivate her,” head coach Mike White said. “She made some great adjustments today at-bat. That’s what you have to do. You have to compete. She made the adjustments and finally got a great pitch to hit.” Rhodes was ecstatic after the game, getting an ice-bath from her teammates while being interviewed on television. “You know those times where
you just black out and don’t know what’s going on?” Rhodes said with a smile recollecting her at-bat. Kleist also bounced back after a poor Friday performance where she gave up two home runs. “Our execution wasn’t very good [on Friday],” White said. “Today it was awesome. We never really gave them a chance to come up with that big hit in a big situation.” Kleist was dominant throughout the game, striking out six and mirroring Garcia inning-for-inning. “My old saying goes is you never lose a shutout,” White said. “And Megan Kleist throwing a shutout against that team – that’s a tremendous effort.” One of her lone hiccups was in the sixth, when UCLA put two runners on with no outs, forcing a bunt situation for Aaliyah Jordan. Jordan executed the sacrifice bunt well, moving the runners over, but Briana Perez got greedy and tried to score from second. Lauren Lindvall quickly hopped off the first base bag and gunned a throw to Gwen Svekis to get Perez at home and to keep the game tied at zero. “That’s heads-up ball playing right there,” White said. “They’re gonna put it on you. They have a great team and fast base runners.” This win meant a lot more than most for the Ducks, as this marks their first series win over UCLA since the April series in 2015. “Hopefully this is something that will change the momentum for us going forward,” White said. The Ducks will have a week off before heading to Corvallis to take on Oregon State for a fourgame series starting on Thursday, March 23.
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Ducks forward Ruthy Hebard (24) blocks the shot of Gophers guard Kenisha Bell (23). (Ben Green)
RUTHY HEBARD’S PRESENCE FELT IN OREGON’S SECOND ROUND VICTORY OVER MINNESOTA GOLDEN GOPHERS BY ZAK LASTER • TWITTER @ZLAST3445 In the second quarter of the Oregon Ducks 101-73 second round win over the Golden Gophers, the dominant post play of Oregon’s 6-foot-4-inch forward Ruthy Hebard was again on display at Matthew Knight Arena. Gophers guard Jessie Edwards tried to shoot down low, but Hebard smashed one of her four blocked shots back into her body. Not wanting to get her shot blocked again, Edwards tried to get the ball to her teammate Kenisha Bell, but Justine Hall blocked that shot too. Hebard was able to snag the ball while unbalanced, throw the ball off the Minnesota player and give Oregon another possession. Plays like this are what led to Oregon limiting the Gophers to 18 second-chance points and holding a 46-18 advantage in the paint, and the Ducks successfully kept the explosive Gophers’ uptempo offense held down until it was too late. When preparing for Saturday’s game, both coaches agreed the game was going to be an up-tempo, high-scoring shootout because of the guard play. Both teams entered Saturday’s matchup in the top nine in scoring offense, partially because both utilize a four-guard lineup; however, the Ducks held a big advantage with their size down by the basket.
The Golden Gophers starting lineup relied on 6-foot-5-inch Bryanna Fernstrom to guard Hebard, but she was unable to do much to contain Hebard, who finished the game with 22 points and 10 rebounds for her 12th double-double of the season. Defensively, the post players were focusing on getting back on defense instead of going for the rebound each possession. Despite their efforts to hustle back on defense, the Ducks collected 21 more rebounds than the Golden Gophers. It wasn’t just the Gophers that struggled with the size of the Oregon post players during Oregon’s two wins in the Eugene Regional. In Oregon’s 88-45 first round win over the Seattle Redhawks, the height of the Oregon players was even impacting the coaches. “One time I looked up and we were trying to rebound, and I couldn’t even see my players,” Seattle head coach Suzy Barcomb said. “They had 6-7, 6-5 out there.” It was clear that the Ducks held the size advantage throughout the Eugene Regional, but now as the team heads to Spokane to play in the Sweet Sixteen, the advantages that made the first two games so sweet may not be there as the team gets deeper into the NCAA Tournament.
⚡ SPORTS OREGON’S SEASON ENDS
WITH A 101-92 LOSS TO MARQUETTE IN THE SECOND ROUND OF THE NIT BY GUS MORRIS • TWITTER @JUSTGUSMORRIS Oregon’s mens basketball season ended on Sunday with a 101-92 loss to Marquette in the second round of the NIT. Marquette (21-13) jumped out to a double-digit lead in the first quarter and led from the 7:14 mark in the first quarter. The Ducks finish the season at 2313, marking the fewest wins since the 2010-11 season, Dana Altman’s first year when the Ducks went 21-18. MiKyle McIntosh led Oregon in scoring with 25 points, while Paul White scored a career-high 19. Oregon showed some life in the fourth quarter, cutting Marquette’s lead — which at one point was 25 — to 11 with two minutes left. But Oregon’s hole was too deep, and the Golden Eagles hung on to advance to the quarterfinals. The 101 points was a season-high for Marquette. The Ducks held their only leads at 5-0 and 7-6 before the Eagles began their barrage from deep.
Marquette made ten of its 12 threes in the first half and led by 20 at halftime. The Eagles maintained a 20-point lead for most of the second half and held their biggest lead at 89-64 with 8:06 left in the fourth quarter. In the final game of his freshman season, Troy Brown finished with eight points, five assists and three rebounds. Pritchard also scored 16 points to go along with four rebounds and four steals, while VJ Bailey added 11 points off the bench. The loss caps a disappointing season that saw Oregon take a step back after its Final Four run last season. The Ducks will hope to change their fortunes next season when they welcome in a top-5 recruiting class featuring five-star recruit Bol Bol. At the same time, Oregon will say goodbye to Elijah Brown, Roman Sorkin, and McIntosh, who will all graduate this year.
Ducks forward Paul White (13) disrupts the Broncs rebound resulting in Oregon recovering the ball during the game against the Rider University Broncs. (Ben Green)
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The University of Oregon Student Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), in collaboration with the Department of Landscape Architecture, is hosting the inaugural Landscape Architecture Student Work Showcase. The showcase is a chance for landscape architecture students to present their work from this term. The event is also an opportunity for students and
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As kids, most people learn all about the ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex because of its size. But the famous T. Rex was not the largest predatory dinosaur of the Cretaceous period. That distinction goes to a genus of dinosaur called Spinosaurus. The dinosaur had extraordinary spines along its back that grew up to five-and-a-half feet long. Its body reached lengths up to 49 feet. At the event, National Geographic (Courtesy of Mcdonald Theatre)
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Hip-hop collective SOB X RBE was founded in 2016 by best friends Yhung T.O. and DaBoii in their late teenage years. Rappers Slimmy B and Lul G later joined the group, rounding out the lineup as it still is today. The Vallejo, Californiabased group has received special mentorship from fellow up-and-
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faculty from other disciplines to learn about the landscape architecture program. Attendees can experience the full process of planning a landscape architecture project. According to the landscape architecture department website, their students “engage the varied landscapes of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest as a laboratory for design experimentation.� Coffee and snacks will be provided.
Emerging Explorer and German/ Moroccan paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim will tell the story of this massive creature and how its originally discovered fossil remains were lost during the Allied bombings of Germany during WWII. Using video recreations showing the prehistoric Sahara where Spinosaurus lived, Ibrahim will explore the science and history of the underappreciated dinosaur.
PREZIDENT BROWN AND CHEZIDEK CONCERT HI-FI MUSIC HALL (44 E 7TH AVE), 10 P.M., $23 IN ADVANCE, $28 DAY OF SHOW
If you’re one of the many Eugenians that get down to the soulful twangs of reggae, Prezident Brown and Chezidek at the Hi-Fi on Friday night could be your destination. The two artists have released work over the past 15 years and both performers are more than experienced with putting on a great live show.
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Prezident Brown’s highly energetic style keeps his performances exciting and lively. Fans of his music know that he can have the crowd jumping one moment and swaying the next. Meanwhile, Chezidek’s more harmonic style will resonate deep within the walls of one of Eugene’s staple venues.
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đ&#x;‘? ENTERTAINMENT GODFATHER OF FUNK GEORGE CLINTON CONTINUES TO BRING THE FUNK TO THE OLD AND NEW SCHOOL
George Clinton to perform in Portland at the Rosland Theatre. (Creative Commons)
BY AMIRA BORDERS • TWITTER @MIRRAAAAAAAA The feeling millenials get when they hear the soulful rhythm of Childish Gambino’s “Redbone,â€? and how timeless this record will be is like a sense of deja vu for some. That sound heard in today’s music comes from the funk era. Sampling has created some of this generation’s most praised music, and one of the legends who presented the opportunity for this to happen is the great Funkadelic and Parliament lead George Clinton. At the golden age of 76, Clinton looks forward to a year worth of touring and keeping his ear to the streets. Keeping up with today’s new acts including Cardi B and Migos, Clinton is the ultimate hip-hop connoisseur to chat with. Clinton has witnessed all the ups and downs the music business has to offer through his over-30-year career. But that career was marked by frequent drug abuse and royalty troubles, both of which plagued his success. He refers to both as his reasons for sobering up eight years ago and deciding to fight for his art. “People don’t believe you when you in that frame of mind,â€? Clinton said, reflecting on getting clean. “You don’t even believe yourself.â€? The business side of sampling music forced him to have more awareness about the commercial use of his music. Clinton says he was paid directly by the artists for his samples when they first released. These works include De La Soul’s 1989 “Me Myself and Iâ€? which took parts from Clinton’s “(Not Just) Knee Deep,â€? and Ice Cube’s 1993 “Bop Gun (One Nation),â€? which samples Clinton’s song under the same name. Usually, when artists allow samples they receive payments from the sales of the second song. PA G E 4
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However, according to Clinton, he has not received payments from the record company. For Clinton, the fight to receive royalties has been long and hard. He says has been fighting the record companies for over half a billion dollars, and blames the struggle for his lack on invitation to this years’ Grammy Awards. For three years he has been credited as a writer on various hit songs and he says he has not received an invitation. “They don’t want me to show up because they’re afraid I’m a say something,� Clinton says. So far, Clinton has gotten the rights back for his song “Atomic Dog� and some earlier works. According to Clinton, music companies are just now starting to show how an artist can get their rights back. Clinton is working on getting the album “Mothership Connection� back in his ownership. He is also working on a documentary that highlights this experience that will release later this year. “It’s going to be entertaining to people when they see just how much I had to go [through] just to get it all back,� Clinton says. Clinton says samples have brought him closer to a younger audience and have kept him relevant. Artists he has worked with include Tupac, Dr. Dre, Prince, and Kendrick Lamar. Clinton describes working with Lamar as working with an old soul. “It’s like working with Prince,� Clinton says, “Wesley’s Theory,� Clinton’s sample and feature on Lamar’s 2015 sophomore album “To Pimp A Butterfly� proved his ability to still reach a younger audience. From artists he has worked with to acts he can see
himself collaborating with like Childish Gambino and Migos, Clinton likes it all. “I think I gravitate to music that gets on parents’ nerves,� Clinton says. Clinton has plans to tour with newer acts and wants to include them in his future music. He would like to see Future sample him. “Future is like a Funkadelic man already,� Clinton says. He has plans to work with Childish Gambino, tour in Japan with Flying Lotus and hopes to do something with Cardi B. “I like her style,� Clinton says. “I like all the people that come around with new stuff like that.� With new collaborations also comes new music. Clinton has big things coming from his new album “Medicaid Fraud Dog.� According to him, the album is expected to release in April. Until then, fans can listen to his new single, “I’m Gon Make U Sick O’Me.� With prescription drug abuse rising, this project will be highlighting issues in the food and drug industry. “I’m a make you sick and then I’m a give you the antidote,� Clinton says. According to Clinton, the prescription industry is worse than drug dealers. As a recovering drug user, Clinton does not want to preach to the youth. According to him, all he can say is to replace the negative substance with something positive. For him, there is no need for any of that when you have music. “I can get high as hell just getting in that groove,� he says. George Clinton and the band Parliament-Funkadelic will be in Portland, OR at the Roseland Theatre March 21 at 8 P.M. Fans can purchase tickets at the Roseland website or through a local Safeway.
✒ WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: THREE WOMEN AT UO MAKING A DIFFERENCE BY SARAH URBAN
Do you know a woman making a positive impact in the University of Oregon community? Chances are, you probably do — and chances are, she probably doesn’t get enough recognition. The Emerald asked the UO community to nominate outstanding women as part of Women’s History Month in March. Our newsroom chose Ali Lau from a pool of nominees who are making a difference at UO with their integrity, courage, innovation, creativity, spirit, smarts, leadership, hard work and ambition. Out of the nominees, Lau was nominated four separate times. But the other nominees also had their own interesting stories. Read about each nominee’s individual impact on the community and find Lau’s story on our homepage. Ellen Gillooly-Kress Ellen Gillooly-Kress wears many different hats. She received her master’s degree in cognitive linguistics from the University of Oregon and is now continuing at UO with the intention of earning a Ph.D. in theatre arts. She is heavily involved with the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation Union and is an inspiration to many. Her impact is widespread and powerful. “Ellen is a leader,” said Alisha Rogers, a theatre arts undergraduate who nominated Gillooly-Kress for the honor. “She is a strong woman who embraces being a woman in power and [she] helps to empower others.” Gillooly-Kress said she desires to create a safe space within the theatre department that is less hierarchical and more horizontal. She is currently obtaining the rights to a 1928 play titled “Machinal,” and plans to portray each character using an all femme-identified cast. She doesn’t want to cast exclusive to body parts, but rather allow freedom and expression to bring the production from 1928 into 2018. Gillooly-Kress recognizes that theatre has been overwhelmingly binary in the past. “I think it’s time to start discussing how we can expand that,” she said. To that end, she advocates against linguistic criticism; women are too often judged by the way in which they speak, she said. Instead, the focus should be on the content they are trying to communicate. “I would hope to have any kind of linguistic discrimination eradicated,” Gillooly-Kress said. “There is a power in young women speakers. They lead. They are the vanguard of linguistic change.” At the heart of Gillooly-Kress’s drive lies her passion for teaching and mentoring. “My goal is to be the supportive person for these people to find their self-confidence,” she said. Though Gillooly-Kress loves and supports movements such as the Women’s March, which allows women across the country to gather and walk in solidarity with others, she said she feels that the emphasis needs to be placed on bold action. “Maybe we should start working and maybe we should start striking to get people to realize the value of all women do in society,” she said. Fatima Roohi Pervaiz As the director of the Women’s Center at UO, Fatima Roohi Pervaiz interacts daily with dozens of students. “I am mentoring and educating the feminist hive all day,” she said. “That’s what I do.” Pervaiz doesn’t see her position as a job, but
instead, a lifestyle. With 20 student staff, the Women’s Center is a hub for acceptance and a catalyst for change. Pervaiz was ignited at a young age by the injustice of patriarchal religion in her home. She said she knows trauma and oppression and claims that she will fight to the death in defense of her students’ happiness, health and success. “I want to make sure that others don’t experience the darkness that I’ve known,” she said. After working with at-risk youth in Northwest Ohio, Pervaiz went on to be an educator in schools, churches and eventually at a juvenile detention center. “It was some of the most incredible fulfilling work with kids, who literally were kids,” she said. Pervaiz described them as fundamentally good and sweet, yet acknowledged that somewhere along the way, they were failed by someone in their life. Now at the UO, Pervaiz is working hard to make activism accessible, rather than elitist. She exudes passion and embodies love: her students know that she is their biggest fan. “I want to make her proud,” Vanessa Linne Sanchez wrote. Pervaiz encourages her students to treat everyone with dignity and respect and to remember that everyone is a human with their own agency and autonomy. Pervaiz operates with intentionality behind everything she does. She runs the Women’s Center firmly, with a trauma-informed, student and survivor-centered intersectional feminist lens. “She can be fierce when she needs to be, but she is protective and gentle as well,” Sanchez said. Harley Emery Harley Emery co-founded the No Lost Generation club at UO. “Ever since I started school here, I wanted to be a part of some kind of refugee advocacy group,” she said. Emery won Miss Oregon in June 2017 and competed in the Miss America Pageant this past September. She said she initially became involved in order to receive scholarships and improve her public speaking and interview skills but met amazing people and had incredible experiences along the way. Emery is recognized by those around her as selfless and dedicated. Former undergraduate Shivali Kadam describes her as self-motivated. “Instead of waiting for opportunities, she creates them,” said Kadam. Emery approaches her activism on a personal level. “If you can help one individual, that is completely changing one person’s world,” she said. No Lost Generation engages in a Skype video call once a week with students in the Gaza Strip. Together, they discuss cultural issues and work on English proficiency. For Emery, these Skype calls have had a powerful impact and have been very moving. Emery, as well as No Lost Generation as a whole, intends to expand their work beyond UO to the Eugene community. She said many people live under oppression, and she sees it as a human responsibility to help, “... having the general mindset that it could be any of us born into that situation.”
Ellen Gillooly-Kress is heavily involved with the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation Union. (Madi Mather)
Fatima Roohi Pervaiz is the director of the Women’s Center at UO. (Madi Mather)
Harley Emery co-founded the No Lost Generation club at UO. (Phillip Quinn)
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