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BY HANNAH KANIK • TWITTER @HANNAH_KANIK On April 3, “Punish a Muslim day,” an event that originated in the United Kingdom, will take place, targeting the Muslim community around the world. The UO Muslim Student Association will hold a counter-demonstration on campus throughout the day. According to the Eugene Islamic Center, there were unconfirmed reports of someone spreading fliers around Lane Community College describing malicious acts toward people who are Muslim. The fliers listed a point system that would be in effect based on actions taken against members of the Muslim community ranging from verbal abuse and physical assault to bombing Mosques or bombing Mecca. Police will increase their presence in the Eugene community and around campus to ensure safety, according
to the Eugene Islamic Center. The center was warned by the FBI to increase security near its Mosque on April 3 due to the threats of “Punish a Muslim day.” The UO Muslim Student Association’s counterdemonstration is meant to show they are “Muslim and proud” and stand in solidarity with one another. “There will be a UOPD sergeant who will be walking around the surroundings to ensure chaos does not happen,” a Facebook Post by the UO Muslim Student Association stated. The demonstration will be held in the EMU amphitheater from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. “By simply being present and visible we can provide a safe space for those who may feel targeted on a day like this,” an MSA Facebook post said.
Despite the gaping construction zone next to Johnson Hall and ground breaking on the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, crews won’t be done remaking the University of Oregon campus any time soon. Around the O reported planning for a new $5 million building, proposed to create classroom and faculty office spaces for the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Design. It is presented to open in summer of 2021. The project still needs to be approved by the Board of Trustees and a site has not yet been chosen for the building, but Around the O reports that a location should be chosen by next fall. Provost and Senior Vice President, Jayanth Banavar , told UO Spokesperson Tobin
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Unable to get a permit to “bomb” Eugene with leaflets, local attorney Charles Porter (right) assisted by two volunteers pushed a wooden sculpture of a bomb along the march route on Sat., Jan. 20, 1973. Emerald Archives
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A LOOK AT THE TWO CAMPAIGNS COMPETING FOR 32 OPEN ASUO POSITIONS
Ducks Together and United UO are the two campaigns competing in the ASUO elections this year. Next year’s ASUO administration has 32 open spots up for grabs. The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) is UO’s student government, and it’s one way students can express their opinions on UO policies and procedures. ASUO also manages the incidental fee — the fee that funds numerous student groups, the free UO athletic
tickets and the free bus tickets throughout Lane County. ASUO will hold a public candidate debate on Thursday, April 5 in the EMU Cedar and Spruce rooms from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The 2018 ASUO election polls open on DuckWeb on Monday, April 9 at 9 a.m. The polls will close on Thursday, April 12, and election results will be posted on DuckWeb the same day by 6 p.m. Here is a look at the two slates and some of their aspirations for next year:
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DUCKS TOGETHER Maria Gallegos of Ducks Together is running for ASUO student body president. (Courtesy of Maria Gallegos’ Facebook)
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just want communal say over what happens to us, which I don’t think is that radical to ask for.” As a junior, Gallegos has been working in ASUO since her freshman year, when she interned with former ASUO President Beatriz Gutierrez in her 2014 presidential campaign. Gallegos
is currently serving as an ASUO Senator as the History, Music, and Language representative. She’s majoring in ethnic studies and minoring in both environmental studies and women, gender and sexuality studies. Ivan Chen, also a junior, is the Ducks Together candidate for external vice president, and junior Imani Dorsey is the Ducks Together candidate for internal vice president. Both are majoring in ethnic studies. Tuition and Affordability Ducks Together wants to make sure that students have a say in how the University of Oregon makes tuition changes. Gallegos said she wants to ensure that ASUO keeps track of whether UO administration follows the recently passed House Bill 4141, which mandates the UO to create tuition advisory council with student members. Gallegos wants to establish the council by next year. Ducks Together also wants to have students who are not affiliated with ASUO be members. According to Gallegos, ASUO-only groups can have “more privilege in those conversations, and it can become elitist.” “Regardless of whether I win or not, I also want regular students who are working — they don’t necessarily have to be an all-star, super-involved student — to be on that panel,” Gallegos said. “Folks who genuinely are impacted by tuition.” Protections for Students Ducks Together also wants to establish student panels that are
involved in deciding punishments for student conduct code violations in the Office of Student Conduct. Gallegos participated in the demonstration by the Student Collective during President Schill’s speech last year, and she says that the way the office handled students’ punishments was unfair. “The office basically had oneon-ones with them. It was very discreet,” said Gallegos, who is currently on the Student Code of Conduct Committee. “Students didn’t really have a say in what happened to them.” Student panels would see students who were alleged to have broken the student code of conduct and would decide the guidelines of their punishment. The Office of Student Conduct cannot fill these panels because it would have to hire a full-time staff member to do this, and Gallegos wants to make ASUO in charge of organizing these student panels. “Other major universities do this, so I don’t see why we can’t,” Gallegos said. Funding for Student Services Another key plank of Ducks Together’s platform is to secure funding for student services such as the Food Pantry, Safe Ride and the Designated Driver Shuttle. “When you call Safe Ride currently, it’s like an hour away if it’s available. But cutting their funding probably isn’t the smartest thing to do because we know it’s such a highly used resource,” Gallegos said, referring to how ASUO tabled the $13,400 request made by Safe Ride in February, as reported by the Emerald.
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Jacob Faatz of United UO is a newcomer to ASUO, but he says that his lack of ASUO experience doesn’t deter him from running for ASUO president. “I think that my experience and my passion and knowledge about these issues and the community will bring a lot to the table,” Faatz said, “and I think my candidates think the same thing. We’re eager and ready to work hard.” Faatz is interning for U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and has also interned for Oregon Senator Lee Beyer. As a junior, he’s currently majoring in history and minoring in planning, public policy and management. Karishma Shah is the United UO candidate for external vice president, and she’s majoring in business and Spanish. United UO does not have a candidate for internal vice president, and Faatz’s decision to only have one vice president is allowed according to the ASUO Constitution. United UO only has one candidate for vice president because, according to Faatz, it would be easier to communicate with one vice president and not two. Safety In response to the recent crimes on campus, Faatz wants to establish more lighting in places that are dark on campus, as well as expand the advertising for Safe Ride and the Designated Driver Shuttle to encourage more students to use the services. Students may not use campus shuttle services because “students feel like it won’t be them that will be attacked,” Faatz said.
Health Faatz also proposes that the UO Health Center subsidize testing for gonorrhea and chlamydia to promote students to get tested. This policy goal, he says, is in response to Lane County showing higher rates of sexually transmitted infections than is the average for state of Oregon and the average U.S. county, according to a recent report by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. “If we can break down the barriers, that being money, for students to go get tested,” Faatz said. “I think that would then allow students to be educated on knowing what STIs they’ve contracted.” Housing United UO also wants to help prevent students being abused by their landlords in off-campus housing. Faatz wants to work with the Community Alliance of Tenants, an Oregon-based tenant-rights organization, to establish a 24-hour hotline for frustrated tenants. The hotline would be for students who believe their landlords are violating the Eugene Rental Housing Code. Transportation Another big issue on campus that Faatz wants to tackle is campus parking — specifically, the lack of available parking spaces. United UO’s proposal is to increase funding for campus bike lockers, which Faatz says will prevent bike theft and promote biking as a means of traveling to campus. “You can’t just tell people to stop driving your cars,” Faatz said, “but you can provide options for other ways of transportation.”
Jacob Faatz of United UO is running for ASUO student body president. (Courtesy of Jacob Faatz’s Facebook)
DUCKS TOGETHER SLATE CANDIDATES
FINANCE COMMITTEE: ACFC: Cynthia Aguilar ACFC: Rumeez Haq EMU Board: May Dinh EMU Board: Clarice Beasley EMU Board: Charlie Keene PFC: Miles Larson PFC: Carly Ebisuya
SENATE: Seat 1 PFC: Kezia Setyawan Seat 2 PFC: Marian Fragoso Basuri Seat 4 EMU Board: Andrea Castillo Seat 5 EMU Board: Ethan Shafer Seat 7 ACFC: Caitlin Saavedera Seat 9 DFC: Abdullah Al-shbanah Seat 11 Journalism: Jasmine Jackson Seat 14 Business: Xiao Dai Seat 17 Social Studies: Daniel Smith Seat 18: Physical & Computer Sciences: Brian Sun Seat 19: Psychology, Sociology, & Humanities: Arie Markowitz
UNITED UO SLATE CANDIDATES
FINANCE COMMITTEE: ACFC: Kimo Fong ACFC At-Large: Alissa Campista DFC: Ashwin Bhat EMU Board: Maggie Miller PFC: Adrianna Vaca PFC: Feroze Hasan SRC Board: Akshat Nema SRC Board At-Large: Samantha Heimler
SENATE: Seat 1 PFC: Norah Alrasheed Seat 2 PFC: Natalie Jenkins Seat 4 EMU Board: Noah Goldstein Seat 5 EMU Board: Caley Carlson Seat 9 DFC: Noah Jordan Seat 11 Journalism: Jeffrey Lynch Seat 16: Aliana Salagean Seat 17 Social Studies: Emily Fowler
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JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART EXHIBIT ‘VISION OF NATURE/VESSEL OF BEAUTY’ BEGS VIEWERS TO LOOK CLOSER AT THE NATURAL WORLD BY MAX EGENER
The renowned, Eugene-based artist Keith Achepohl said that his works currently on display in the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art are “all about the life and death of plants.” The exhibit, “Vision of Nature/Vessel of Beauty,” will remain in the JSMA Barker Gallery until April 29. However, on Feb. 24, the local community learned that Achepohl passed away in his Eugene home while surrounded by family, according to his obituary in the Register-Guard. “The works in the exhibition represent six years of an artist’s life — in this case, an artist who is nearing the completion of his own life,” Jill Hartz, who co-curated the exhibit, told the RegisterGuard in February. The JSMA exhibit includes nine distinct but related explorations of objects from nature. One exploration is called “Tree Conversations;” another is “Skunk Cabbage.” Each exploration is grouped separately in the gallery and consists of multiple artworks. Achepohl used an impressively wide variety of media including pencil, acrylic, collage and oil to create the pieces. A three-week residence at the Morris Graves Foundation’s 150-acre forested artists’ retreat on the Northern California coast called “The Lake” inspired Achepohl to create these pieces. Graves was a colleague of Achepohl and an esteemed artist from the Pacific Northwest who died in 2001. According to the Foundation, upon Graves’ death, “The Lake” became a place to incubate artists interested in utilizing the abundance of nature available in the area. In the past, Achepohl had described his residence at “The Lake” by saying it was like “going to a monastery.” Through its depictions of the smallest natural objects and minute
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details, the works implore viewers to look at nature in a way they never have before. Many of the paintings show a single decaying leaf, while others show the miniscule fibers of a lively, grassy plant’s root system. The pieces range from intensely detailed to indiscernible and abstract. Achepohl acknowledges life and death equally in these pieces as he uses vibrant earth colors coupled with the muddled blacks and greys of charcoal. “The closer you get to it, the better experience you’ll have with it,” Achepohl said about the intimacy viewers feel with the natural objects in his paintings during a February interview with UO’s Oregon Humanities Center. During the OHC interview, Achepohl said he encountered many people while living in Eugene for the past ten years who told him, “I just came back from a walk in the forest.” When he asked them what they saw, Achepohl found that most people were puzzled by the question and simply say that they saw trees. “Often they don’t know what they saw, ‘cause they didn’t bother to look. Oh what a waste, you know?” Achepohl said. During the decade Achepohl lived in Eugene, his ability to meditate on the often forgotten details of life and translate them into his work made a impression on the directors of the JSMA. He served on the JSMA’s Leadership Council and Collections Committee, gifted and loaned numerous works of art from his own collections and participated in many UO classes and museum events. “It was a joy to see so many of Keith’s friends and family experience his work alongside our community of museum visitors,” read the JSMA’s post on their website following Achepohl’s death.
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WES ANDERSON’S STOP-MOTION ‘ISLE OF DOGS’ IS AESTHETICALLY STYLISH YET EMOTIONALLY HOLLOW BY MIA VICINO • TWITTER @MIACINO
With his latest film “Isle of Dogs,” the famously meticulous Wes Anderson has presented himself with a challenge: Is it possible to make a derelict island full of rancid garbage and mangy mutts beautiful? Using muted tones, intricate sets, and a gorgeous mixture of hand-drawn and stopmotion animation, Anderson has ensured that the film’s aesthetic style is decisively a triumph. But he may have sacrificed some of the soul of the film in the process. After a wave of dog flu sweeps across the fictional Megasaki City, the cat-loving Mayor Kobayashi enacts a decree to quarantine all dogs on Trash Island. The mayor’s ward, a 12-year-old boy named Atari (Koyu Rankin), flies solo to the island to find his dog, Spots (Liev Schreiber), and encounters a ragtag group of former domestic dogs: the cautious Rex (Edward Norton), the gossip-loving Duke (Jeff Goldblum) and Boss and King (Bill Murray and Bob Balaban). Chief (Bryan Cranston) is the only disobedient stray in the pack — “I bite,” he repeatedly explains. Atari is similar, albeit less standoffish, and the two slowly form a heartwarming bond. Aside from his perfectly symmetrical cinematography, Anderson’s intentionally stilted, on-the-nose dialogue is one of his most iconic trademarks. This winsome aspect is still apparent
yet downplayed in “Isle of Dogs,” as most of the human characters speak unsubtitled Japanese (though an interpreter played by Frances McDormand translates some important scenes). The film is prefaced with a title card stating that all characters speak in their native tongue, while the barks have been translated to English. This means that Japanese speakers may get a bit more out of the film than others. On the other hand, it encourages English-speaking audiences to identify with the dogs rather than the Japanese people. This is a problem. That problem is exacerbated by the introduction of Tracy Walker (Greta Gerwig), a plucky American exchange student and journalist. Gerwig’s voice is delightful as always, but her character is one of the only Englishspeaking humans — she serves mostly as a vessel for American audiences to project themselves into. Tracy recalls Jared Leto’s character in Netflix’s film, “The Outsider,” in which a white American is forced to assimilate with the Yakuza gangs of Japan. While these characters aren’t technically examples of whitewashing, a term which refers to the practice of casting white actors in roles made specifically for people of color, their existence still prioritizes the white experience
while using Japan as a stylish backdrop. The filmmakers are clearly trying to demonstrate that these characters feel like outsiders in Japan, but they seem to be forgetting that “American” is not synonymous with “white.” Aside from these missteps, “Isle of Dogs” attempts to be respectful to Japanese culture by throwing in homages to Akira Kurosawa’s classic samurai films and employing Alexandre Desplat’s percussive, taiko drum-heavy score. It’s easy to get distracted while trying to drink in every subtle reference and intricate detail — perhaps too easy. As the plot gets rolling, new obstacles come in at a mile-a-minute, making it hard to focus on what exactly is happening. There’s just no room for the characters (or audience) to breathe. In addition to the sometimes baffling story structure, frequent exposition dumps also distract from the spine of the film: the devoted bond shared between people and their dogs. The only thing stopping it from jumping from good to great is its inability to get in touch with humanity like Anderson’s other films do — the heart is sorely missing from the dystopian world in “Isle of Dogs.” If only the characters were as complex as the plot. “Isle of Dogs” opens Friday, April 6 in theaters everywhere.
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UO’S CULTURE OF PROTEST BY CASEY CROWLEY • TWITTER @CASEYCROWLEY55
Ismet Guchan, one of the 23 protestors booked during a protest against apartheid-connected stocks held by the state board in Jan., 1978. (Emerald Archives)
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n Jan. 20, 1973, a group of protesters marched from the EMU to Alton Baker Park in opposition to the Vietnam War. When the march began, there were less than a dozen people, but by the time it was over, almost 500 had joined. Marching in silence out of respect for those who had died in the war, the protesters carried a wooden sculpture of a bomb almost the size of a person and a North Vietnamese flag. In an era of anti-war protests, this march was the last Vietnam War protest at the University of Oregon. A week later the Paris Peace Accords were signed and the war was over. It has been 45 years since the end of the Vietnam War and although protest has changed, it still plays an important role in society. Throughout UO’s history, protests have served as a crucial voice for the student body population and a means of holding its surrounding institutions accountable. They have become an
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integral part of the campus culture. During winter term there were five protests on the UO campus that were working for a variety of different causes ranging from advocating for more gun control to protesting a mural in the Knight Library. Though the UO is not a pillar of protest, it has been accepted by many as a part of campus life. A part of the culture “I think it is something that Eugene or at least part of Eugene prides itself on — that it has been a place that is open to protest,” said Carol Van Houten, an activist since 1968 when she moved to Eugene. At that time Van Houten was a part of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), a group that was trying to get more people to oppose the Vietnam War. She says that Eugene is a welcoming city that is tuned into what’s important and willing to speak up about it.
Van Houten is also a current member of Community Alliance of Lane County, a community activist organization that works to create a more “just and peaceful community.” It began in 1966 as part of a national organization aiming to end the Vietnam War. During the war, her son asked her if he would have to go to war when he grew up. After that, Van Houten said she felt it was her job to make sure no other boys or girls would have to go. During the Vietnam War protests in opposition to it had one clear goal: end the war. “There was no question about what the goal was back then,” said Van Houten. As a member of WILPF, Van Houten was deep into political community activism. Once with members of WILPF, she went to the UO ROTC building and acted as if they were going to levitate it using words and smoke in a way
that was fun while still sending a message. ROTC is the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, a training program for college students to become officers in the United States Army, a controversial program in the era of anti-war protests. Van Houten said that students always organized the biggest protests. “The fact that the students sat in Johnson Hall kind of gave an opportunity for something dramatic,” she said. That drama occurred in April 1970 when a group of 50 students occupied Johnson Hall to protest the presence of the ROTC building on campus. During the Vietnam War there were a number of other demonstrations protesting the presence of the building. Six hours into the sit-in, the group had grown to about 300.
Vice-chancellor Freeman Holmer confronts protestors in Jan., 1978. (Emerald Archives)
On the second day of the sit-in, 15 protesters moved into the office of UO President Robert Clark. Clark then declared that any protesters still in the hall at 5:15 would be arrested. Police arrived and peacefully arrested 61 protesters. During the sit-in, Gov. Tom McCall wanted to send the National Guard in to remove the students from Johnson Hall, but Clark refused to send them in until after the students were removed from inside the building, according to Van Houten. “I have a lot of admiration for President Clark that he was wise enough to realize that would lead to a dangerous situation. We could have had a Kent State,” said Van Houten. She is referring to an incident that happened less than two weeks later when the National Guard shot students at Kent State University who were protesting the United States’ bombing of Cambodia. Four were killed, nine others were injured and one was left paralysed. After UO students had been arrested, the National Guard arrived at Johnson Hall and deployed tear gas outside the building where a larger crowd was protesting. About 2,000 people participated in protest in response to the tear-gassing later that day at Emerald Hall. Although this protest was dramatic, it was not effective — the ROTC building remains
on the UO campus without any objection from student activists. The Free Speech Movement John Nicols, 75, is a professor of history at UO and was involved in the Free Speech Movement while studying at UC Berkeley in the ‘60s. At the time, some colleges did not allow political speakers of any kind to speak on campus. The FSM supported political and free speech on campus and some of its members went on to participate in antiwar protests. Nicols eventually left the FSM when it turned violent. “I supported nonviolent protest and I supported sit-ins, but when it got to physical destruction of property or throwing things at people, that took away from the purity of the motives,” said Nicols. He then left the United States for six years because he did not support the Vietnam War. Nicols doubted the effectiveness of Vietnam War protests. “I don’t think it probably made any difference; what made a difference was the physical cost,” he said. After the ban on political speech was implemented at UC Berkeley, a small group of students protested after facing disciplinary action for political speech. They were joined by a group of about 500 students for a sit-in protest, leading to the formation of the FSM. Since the end of the FSM, many of the bans on political speech on college campuses have been removed. But at UO, free speech has come under fire in recent years. Last year at UO, President Schill proposed changes to restrict the time, place and manner of student activism on campus. After pushback from faculty and students, the changes were dropped. In 2017, UO also appeared on the top ten worst schools for free speech list made by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. A recent wave of protest The size of a protest doesn’t always equate to success. “Simply focusing on the size of a crowd or the actual visible element of protest doesn’t necessarily speak to a social movement’s influence or power. There’s a lot of other ways in which social movements must engage with the political system,” said Steven Beda, an assistant history professor at UO. Beda specializes in twentieth century history, labor history, Pacific Northwest history and environmental history. He says one big difference between activism today and in the twentieth century is the purpose of things like marches or sit-ins. Today a march is seen as an end itself, while in the 1970s and earlier it was seen as a tool to a political end, according to Beda. Many of the recent protests at UO have not had the time to achieve their goals, but with little immediate change resulting from larger national protests, some question their effectiveness. “Sometimes it feels like we are right on and we’re making a difference, and sometimes it feels discouraging because we have been working at this a long time,” said Van Houten about her experience an activist. Most of the protests last term were much smaller than the 1970 sit-in at Johnson Hall, the anti-war march and the FSM. Four of the five protests had less than 50 people, and the one that did was a part of the National School Walkout which is a national effort demanding stricter gun regulation. One thing many recent protests at the UO have in common is that they lack official leadership. The UO Student Collective (UOSC), who earlier this school year protested UO President Michael Schill’s State of the University speech, has no official leaders and makes their decisions by consensus. Student
Labor Action Project (SLAP), who have organized multiple protests against the UO purchasing furniture from Oregon Corrections Enterprises, is a group that collaborates on their activist projects without any hierarchy. “Having good strategy — that comes mostly from having a small group of people who are wise and thoughtful [as leaders],” said Van Houten. Protests like the anti-war movement and the Civil Rights Movement had specific, tangible political aims, while recent protests often present a variety of different demands. The protest by the collective covered a wide range of topics from rising tuition cost to the alleged fascism at the UO. It wasn’t till a few hours after the protest, when the group sent out a list of 23 demands, that it was clear what their specific goals were. SLAP’s protest on Feb. 27 demanded that the UO to stop making purchases and contracts with OCE, a program that employs prisoners. “The goal for those protests was to make the student body more aware that the University of Oregon profits off of prison labor,” said Jamie Cunningham, co-director of SLAP. Some modern campus protests made an immediate impact. In 2015, members of the Black Student Task Force spoke to a crowd of hundreds about the climate of racism on campus. The group issued a list of 12 demands to UO administration and have already achieved at least five of the demands. GTF strikes through the years have been effective in creating change, resulting in higher pay and other changes to contracts. A major eight-day strike occurred in 2014, but smaller protests continued into 2016. One thing Beda, Nicols and Van Houten all agree on is that protest is a part of UO and Eugene culture. “Civil disobedience is completely necessary to a campus that is thriving and has student involvement,” said Cunningham. Read about the effects of the UOSC’s protest on campus in tomorrow’s edition.
John Lanier, one of the protestors in Jan., 1978. (Emerald Archives)
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SPORTS Oregon Ducks guard Sabrina Ionescu (20) is fouled by a Notre Dame player while dribbling down the court. (Adam Eberhardt)
Oregon Ducks forward Ruthy Hebard (24) recovers a loose ball. (Adam Eberhardt)
Oregon Ducks forward Ruthy Hebard (24) scrambles for a loose ball. (Adam Eberhardt)
IONESCU, HEBARD EARN GUARD AND POWER FORWARD OF THE YEAR AWARDS BY AUGUST HOWELL • TWITTER @HOWELL_AUGUST The list of accolades keep coming for sophomores Sabrina Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard. The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced its 2018 Naismith Starting Five today. Ionescu received the Nancy Lieberman National Point Guard of the Year Award, while Hebard took home the Katrina McClain National Power Forward of the Year Award. Joining the two Ducks are Gabby Williams from the University of Connecticut, Victoria Vivians of Mississippi State, and A’ja Wilson from South Carolina.
Along with Ionescu, Williams and Wilson headline the 2018 Wooden All-American Team and are all Player of the Year finalists. The dynamic duo of Ionescu and Hebard put Oregon ahead of all other Pac-12 teams in nearly all offensive categories, including scoring margin and field goal percentage. The two were also named to the All-Pac-12 team for the second straight year. Ionescu and Hebard are on the Associated Press’ All-American teams. Ionescu was first-team and Hebard received an honorable mention. Ionescu finished the season scoring 19.7 and 7.8 assists per game and was the Pac-12 Player
of the Year. She finished fourth for total assists in the NCAA. On top of that, she smashed the NCAA triple-double record by posting six this season. She also had more double doubles (15) than Hebard (14). Hebard continued to be a dominant presence in the paint all season long, at one point making 33 consecutive baskets. She was second in the NCAA in field goal percentage at 66 percent. Next weekend, Ionescu, Williams and Wilson will head to Los Angeles for the 42nd Annual presentation of the John R. Wooden Award, which will be broadcast live on ESPN on April 6.
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Lindsey Vander Weide returns the ball in a beach volleyball match. (Courtesy of Oregon Athletic Department)
BEACH VOLLEYBALL DROPS DOUBLEHEADER TO CONCLUDE CALIFORNIA ROAD TRIP BY MAGGIE VANONI • TWITTER @MAGGIE_VANONI
Oregon Ducks catcher Ray Soderman (9) looks to his coaches in between batters. (Devin Roux)
Oregon baseball bounced back from a pair of losses to Stanford with a 5-2 victory over the San Francisco Dons on Monday. Cullen Kafka picked up the win for the Ducks — his third of the season — while Daniel Slominski took the loss for the Dons. The win marks the conclusion of a trip to the Bay Area that was a mixed bag for Oregon. The team dominated Stanford in one game, only to lose the next two. The Ducks now sit at 16-11 on the season. Jonny DeLuca got things going for the Ducks, driving the ball over the right field wall for his first home run of the season. Ray Soderman joined in on the next
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at-bat with a second homer — this time, over left field. It was also his first of the year. Soderman went on to add an RBI in the sixth on a single that scored Kenyon Yovan, while Ryne Nelson send DeLuca home on a squeezeplay bunt that same inning. Deluca added the final exclamation point to the win with a sacrifice fly to score Spencer Steer in the seventh. While Kafka got the win, starter James Acuna delivered a solid performance in his four innings, striking out a career-high five batters. The Ducks will host the Washington State Cougars for a three-game series at PK Park starting April 6th.
The Oregon beach volleyball team concluded their California spring break trip falling 0-5 to both No. 5 Long Beach State and No. 19 Saint Mary’s in Wednesday’s doubleheader at the LBSU Sand Courts. The Ducks (1-4) began the day dropping every set in their match against Long Beach State (15-1) who swept the match 3-0 early on to increase their winning streak to 12 matches. Oregon’s closest match came in court No. 3, where Willow Johnson and Lauren Page got as close as five under the Long Beach State pair of Kristyna Adamcikova and Hailey Harward in set one, 21-16, but Adamcikova and Harward took the second set’s victory as well, 21-13. In court No. 2, Oregon duo Taylor Agost and Josie Cole were defeated 21-13, 21-9 by Sasha Karelov and Megan Kruidhof. In the quick match win for Long Beach State, Karelov was responsible for 17 kills and Kruidhof for five aces.
To secure the 5-0 victory, Long Beach State duo Nele Barber and Rachel Nieto defeated Oregon’s August Raskie and Lindsey Vander Weide in the No. 1 court, 21-17, 21-12. Next on the sand, Oregon fell to Saint Mary’s also in 0-5, to cap a four-match winning streak for Gaels (10-3). After coming from a 21-13 loss in set one, Raskie and Vander Weide came back to win the second set, 18-21, and push their match into a third set – Oregon’s only extra set of the day. The duo ultimately lost the third set, 15-12, to the Gaels. Marine Hall-Poirier and Kyra Hanawahine got close to a third set in court No. 5, losing only by two in their second set of 24-22. But with Saint Mary’s 21-7 victory in set one, the match win went to the Gaels. Oregon will return home and play the Portland Pilots for the second time this season at the Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon on Saturday, April 7 at 1 p.m.
OPINION GUEST COLUMN:
WHAT THE NATION CAN LEARN FROM OREGON’S GUN REFORM HISTORY This piece reflects the views of Carly Armendariz, Clare Malone and Jordan Vargas, and not those of Emerald Media Group. The piece is part of a series of op-eds from Peter Laufer’s Reporting I class at the SOJC. 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. Is the Parkland shooting simply another media cycle that will pass in a few weeks, or are we experiencing a movement towards tangible change? The Parkland shooting has stirred up political debate regarding America’s current regulations on guns. This event has created momentum around activism for gun control. History has a tendency to repeat itself, and when we look at the history of gun control in Oregon, this would not be the first time that a school shooting elicited a change in gun regulations. In 1989, a similar mass shooting occurred in Stockton, California. Patrick Edward Purdy killed five children, wounded 29, and killed himself in a school yard using a semi-automatic rifle that he purchased legally. In response to the Stockton shooting, Vera Katz, then-Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, drew up House Bill 3470. The actions Katz took with the bill made Oregon in accordance with the U.S. regulations and is the basis for many of the gun laws we have in Oregon today. For example, the bill required longer waiting periods for gun purchases, stricter regulations around convicted felons and a thumbprint on the dealer’s record of sale. Oregon’s history around gun control indicates that school shootings can be the catalyst for change in the nation. The Parkland shooting created the extra attention on gun laws that was needed for Oregon Governor Kate Brown to request a change in one of the state laws regarding firearms. House Bill 4145 was passed by the
House on Feb. 15, 2018 and by the Senate on Feb. 22, 2018. This bill focuses on helping people who are victims of domestic violence, while also preventing people who are not fit to be purchasing guns from getting them. On Feb. 21, a representative from the office of representative Phil Barnhart stated that the bill would be voted on the next day. HB4145 is just a revision of a bill that already existed. The current bill is more specific, stating that it only applies to people who live with their abuser. It is necessary for the bill to be revised because there are many people in abusive relationships who do not live with their partner. People should not have to fear that their abuser could enter their home at any time with a gun in hand. Just in the Eugene and Springfield area alone, obtaining a firearm is easy if you’re at least 18 years of age, have a valid state ID and undergo a subtle background check, according to the local shops in town. These local shop owners said that during these background checks, they are primarily checking if the buyer has a criminal background or is engaged in some type of criminal behavior. If the buyer is found to have some type of criminal history, the buyer may still be able to buy a gun; however, it’s dependent on the severity of their crime. The severity of a buyer’s previous crimes will determine what type of restrictions may be enforced during that transaction, whether that means they can’t purchase additional items like scopes or suppressors or they can’t buy a gun at all because federal or state law prohibits them. HB4145 shows that change concerning gun control after the Parkland shooting is already starting to happen. If Americans continue to focus our attention on this event to promote change, we will be making steps in the right direction. The Stockton shooting proves that tragic events can be the basis for change, so it’s important that we continue speaking up to make that change happen.
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THE PARKLAND SHOOTING MADE IT CLEAR: THE YOUTH WILL BE THE LEADERS OF CHANGE This piece reflects the views of Miguel Perez, and not those of Emerald Media Group. The piece is part of a series of op-eds from Peter Laufer’s Reporting I class at the SOJC. 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. Growing up in Springfield, Oregon, I heard countless stories of the shooting that occurred at Thurston High School in May 1998. Since my days at Mt. Vernon Elementary School, it seemed that every year, one way or another, my peers and I would find a reason to converse about the shooting. But the topic always made me uncomfortable. I avoided talking about Thurston, because I could not comprehend the idea that a human being could do something so vile. As a child through my junior year of high school, I genuinely believed that the goodness in the world outweighed the evil. In spring 2013, the year I graduated from Springfield High School, I was awarded the Bill and Faith Kinkel Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to college-bound high school students who are enrolled in foreign language classes in the Eugene/ Springfield area. It was created to honor the parents of the Thurston shooter whom he murdered the night before the shooting. I knew exactly what those two names represented. Though I did not know Bill and Faith personally, I felt a tinge of guilt for taking too much of a passive stance to the issues of the world around me. During my senior year of high school, I became more aware of the traumas that affected the world around me. It began with the Sandy Hook shooting of November 2012. The thought of such horrific acts aimed at young children weighed on my soul. This was also the time that I became aware of the raging gun debate in America. I knew something needed to be done – I was tired of simply debating the issue. The problem
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was, I had not yet fully formed my own opinions on guns. I understood their purpose as tools, but at best, a gun could be only considered a necessary evil. My acceptance of guns did not mean I wanted one anywhere near me. I agreed with statements like, “it’s a people problem, not a gun problem.” However, it begged the question – why make it easier for people? Now, after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, we are faced with the same question. What do we do now? I have read countless headlines that only dispersed the blame and created more niche debates. This only allowed the world to continue to debate and spread the blame but never led to action. The way the survivors of the Parkland shooting reacted to this national attention is impressive. They are fed up with the back-and-forth debating and are taking action. They are part of a generation that is constantly overlooked by the older ones. They are called self-centered because they are active on social media. Their thoughts and opinions are cast aside because they are considered too young to have any sort of recognition. But they have risen to the occasion, and their voices are being heard. While I do not know if their activism will lead to any change, or even the “right” kind of change, I am glad they are standing up and taking action. We have spent too much time debating and going back and forth, and this has led us nowhere. Though I may only be a few years older than these young activists, as a teenager, I never had the courage to stand up in the way they have done. I am certainly inspired by their actions. Because of the Bill and Faith Kinkel Memorial Scholarship I received, I have always felt a chip on my shoulder to do more. Now as an adult who will soon have a degree in journalism, I am in a position to make my voice heard as well. They say youth are the future. The future looks bright if they can continue to fight for what they believe in.
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