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University of Oregon law professor Nancy Shurtz, who was at the center of controversy in fall 2016 after a photo of her in black makeup at her Halloween party circulated online, will return to campus in July, following her one-year sabbatical in Florida.

Shurtz said after the incident that her costume was inspired by the memoir of a Black doctor dealing with racism in the U.S., and she intended for the costume to “provoke a thoughtful discussion on racism in our society.” Many in the UO community criticized her costume for including blackface makeup; over 1,200 UO students signed a petition calling on her to resign and 23 of Shurtz’s fellow faculty members penned an open letter calling on her to resign as well.

After the incident, she made an official apology to the UO community, which in part said, “I intended to create a conversation about inequity, racism and our white blindness to them. Regrettably, I became an example of it. is has been a remarkable learning experience for me.”

Following the incident, the university launched an investigation that found Shurtz guilty of violating UO’s antidiscrimination policies. As a result, Shurtz was placed on administrative leave.

Shurtz will return to campus in July and teach classes in the fall.

“My heart is racing,” Shurtz said in an email interview with the Emerald. “Is the question am I ‘excited’ or ‘terrified’? is leave and sabbatical has been a long one, so I have missed being home and am eager to get back to the great Northwest, my home of 38 years.” e findings of the investigation were published in a report released on Nov. 30, 2016. Despite the investigation’s conclusion that her costume violated UO’s policies, Shurtz says she did not wear blackface. “ at term is reserved for derogatory, mocking, and demeaning depictions of African-Americans,” she said. “At my private, off-campus Halloween party, I sought to challenge racism and provoke thought by depicting through my costume, a book — Dr. Damon Tweedy’s A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine. … At no time did I portray Dr. Tweedy, but I did want to honor him as a man of courage and insight.”

After the incident, UO Ethnic Studies professor Michael Hames-García contradicted Shurtz’s opinion in an editorial submitted to the Emerald: “ e possibility that Shurtz’s act was done with no deliberate racist intent to harm makes it worse in my view.

It confirms everything I suspect and fear daily about the ignorance and callous disregard for black humanity among my colleagues and students,” Hames-García wrote.

Ofer Raban, a constitutional law professor at the law school, said that Shurtz is “legally and morally entitled to return to the law school.” “ e report failed to address Oregon constitutional law which is more protective of free speech rights than the federal constitution,” he said. “ at’s relevant to the case and it wasn’t addressed.” e part of the Oregon Constitution regarding freedom of speech says, “No law shall be passed restraining the free expression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely on any subject whatever; but every person shall be responsible for the abuse of this right.”

Raban continued by saying that the findings of the conduct investigation didn’t take this part of the constitution into account. “ e report conceded that Nancy Shurtz’s expression was aimed at promoting racial equality, but that fact did not play any role in the legal conclusions,” he said. e report says that UO policy prohibits even “unintentional discrimination.” e report stated that, “It is likely and even probable that her costume had a greater negative impact on students of color, because of the historical connotations of, and uses for, ‘blackface.’”

In a statement provided to the Emerald, UO spokesperson Tobin Klinger said the incident has had “a significant impact on the law school and the larger campus community,” but steps, such as curriculum review and school-wide workshops, are being taken to improve relations within the community.

Shurtz said that she cannot accurately predict what it will be like when she arrives on campus. “ e atmosphere can be expected to be challenging. I am going to try to exhibit the principle that one can make human mistakes and learn from the lessons,” she said. “I am going to teach that one needs to recognize a core of inner goodness that provides the basis for sound values and inner strength.”

Shurtz said that she has to be open to all forms of criticism and that rebuilding trust is a day-by-day process.

“I am hoping that a true exchange of thoughts can ensue and deeper mutual understanding attained. I am a human being.”

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UO students bring awareness to sexual assault during the month of April . Athletes wear teal shoe laces, the Take Back the Night event occurs and Sexy Sundays are put on

by FSL. Illustration by Erica Pahua

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SECOND ANNUAL ZINE FEST RETURNS TO UO

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UO AIMS TO FOSTER EDUCATION WITH AN INCREASE IN RESEARCH FUNDING

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Zines, small magazines, displayed at the UO Zine Fest. (Adam Eberhardt)

On April 26, the second annual UO Zine Fest will be returning to campus to celebrate the advantages of self-publishing by giving students an opportunity to showcase or view original art from the around the community. ere will also be free workshops for students interested in learning how to make a zine.

UO students Mary Vertulfo and Teddy Tsai, founders of UO Zine Fest, got the idea for a campus-based zine festival after attending Euzine Fest in 2016, which is hosted in downtown Eugene once a year and attracts artists from all around the country.

“We felt bringing something like that to campus would be a great opportunity for students to get creative and show their work,” said Vertulfo.

Vertulfo, who’s currently working towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, will be showcasing several of her own zines at the festival. She loves the freedom and accessibility surrounding zine culture.

A typical zine can range from a single sheet of paper to a small book.

Sometimes they follow a certain theme or story, and other times, they include a collection of work from multiple artists.

“You can make them on a photocopier and a single-sided sheet of paper can be made into a zine that gets passed around and shared. Because they’re so easy to make and distribute, they can be about anything and for any type of community,” Vertulfo said.

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matter how good you are at drawing or writing. It’s an open format. If you doodle all the time, you can collect your doodles into a booklet and you have a zine.”

In the 1970s, zines found a home in the punk scenes of larger cities, after technological advances helped make the large-scale production of zines cheap and accessible to just about anyone. e DIY culture of zines mixed well with the antiestablishment values of punk culture, creating a perfect storm for the underground press that covered what were, at the time, unknown bands like e Ramones, e Clash and Joy Division.

Taylor Jones is a UO graduate and musician who is excited for the opportunity to get some feedback on a zine he’s been working on for the past few months.

“I aim to explore the human condition through the lens of art and culture,” Jones said. “It will be a print-only source for music recommendations, short stories, open letters and visual art. Our first issue, ‘Art is Illegal,’ hits the press, the streets and your friend’s bedroom this spring.”

One of Vertulfo’s favorite aspects of Zine Fest is the sense of community and the ability to make and share art with few resources. “ e fest is a way to get a bunch of super passionate people and creators in a room to say, ‘Hey, I love something so much that I’m going to make something about it, and I want you to share that with me, so here’s a zine,’” Vertulfo said. “It’s a great way to build community, spread information, and celebrate the diversity of the arts and creative spaces on campus and in the community.”

In a massive move towards becoming more competitive in university research, the University of Oregon has put its faith in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, or OVPRI. e OVPRI extended its resources to help faculty conduct even more research at the University of Oregon. ese changes are aimed to improve the University of Oregon’s national ranking and attract external funding for the university.

“Research helps foster education. at’s one piece of our mission as a university,” said David Conover, vice president of research and innovation. “ e next piece of it is to advance knowledge and advancing knowledge in many disciplines requires external funds.” e OVPRI provides several services to researchers at the university, including applying for the legal rights to research ideas, drafting proposals for grants and fellowships and reducing administrative overhead costs. e office is also improving facilities and resources on campus.

Conover presented developments the OVPRI is implementing at the university Senate meeting last Wednesday. You can read more about them online. e changes to come include new facilities and resources, such as a high-performance computer called Talapas and high-speed internet to make high-speed data processing at the university much faster. Data processing typically takes a long time, according to Conover. e internet should be up and running by late May. According to Conover, the OVPRI expanded its “seed grant” program this year. A seed grant is a smaller money award, usually around $50,000, to kickstart a research project to make it more eligible for larger grants from companies or institutions outside the university. e OVPRI promoted this program and received “around 20” applications for seed grants this year, Conover said. e UO Center for Environmental Futures was awarded $600,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation earlier this month. e center received a seed grant from the OVPRI to start their research

that later led to their award. e university also created incentive awards for the graduate students to apply for fellowships and grants as well. Postdoctoral student of psychology, Caitlin Bowman, was awarded $2,000 for submitting an application for a fellowship. “ e Vice President’s Research and Innovations office had an incentive award for submitting the fellowship that I actually received,” Bowman said. e OVPRI also began a partnership with the Oregon Health Science University to create collaborative grant opportunities between UO and OHSU. e grant will work like the seed grants, but candidates are eligible to apply from both UO and OHSU and the universities will share their resources. Around 40 applications came in for the program’s first year a few weeks ago and will be reviewed by both OHSU and UO. e winner will be announced in late May. Professor of computer science Dejing Dou, who has conducted five research projects at UO, said that receiving funding at the university for projects is “very competitive” and time consuming.

Dou went on to say that he thinks the structural changes to research at the university from the OVPRI are going to help attract top graduate students and postdoctoral students to UO. Funding for the OVPRI is primarily from federal returns of external grants, according to Conover. When the university conducts research, they receive a federal return for the resources they use. ey don’t receive any money from student tuition.

According to Conover, another exciting development is the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerated Scientific Impact. e Knight Campus is not a project of the OVPRI, but the office will provide aid and resources for its research endeavors, just as it aids various other colleges on campus.

Conover said the university has not experienced a change in research this great in several years.

“In recent history, this is the biggest thing by far,” Conover said.

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BY BECCA ROBBINS • TWITTER @BROBBINSUO Students, faculty and staff now have a new way of getting around campus and the downtown area. Eugene’s new bike share program launched April 19, when the shiny blue racks that have popped up around campus in the past week became filled with bikes for people to rent.

Although the bikes went active after the city’s launch ceremony last ursday, the University of Oregon will have its own ribboncutting ceremony on Tuesday at the station outside of the EMU on 13th Street. e event will feature demonstrations of how to operate the system, as well as guest speakers and PeaceHealth Rides swag. e 300-bike, 35-station system, will cost $5 a month for UO students, faculty and staff for 60 minutes of ride-time per day. Students, faculty and staff can also choose to pay per trip with a free 15 minutes each day. After that, it costs 10 cents a minute.

Riders must first make an account either on the PeaceHealth Rides app or online here.

After that, UO Bike Program coordinator Kelsey Moore said riders only need their credit card and the pin they created when making an account.

Moore said she thinks the bike share program will make a difference in students’ commute and offer a flexible alternative to walking or owning their own bikes.

“A good way to think about bike share is like taking the bus,” said Moore. “Say you’re walking to school and then you have something you want to go to downtown and you’re like, ‘Wow, it’s really nice out’ and you don’t want to hop on the bus. Instead, you just grab one of these bikes.”

Moore said she sees freshmen using the bikes as an alternative to bringing cars or their own bikes.

“Instead of owning a bike they’ll need to

make sure is secure and repair, they have total access to bikes for short rides or however they want to use it, and they don’t have to store it for the year,” said Moore.

Bike share can also “complete your daily transportation” by allowing students to keep their bikes on campus or take a bike share downtown, helping them to get around even when the EMX is full.

“It’s very flexible. Since there’s about eight stations on or adjacent to campus, students, faculty and staff can ride between buildings, they can park wherever, return to stations or rent from stations — it’s going to be really flexible,” said Moore.

Announced in the fall, bike share was initially intended to be a UO-specific initiative with $200,000 in funding from ASUO. After campus planning rejected the system due to issues with security using credit cards, the City of Eugene and LTD decided to get in on the project and expand it to serve downtown and the Whiteaker neighborhood. e bikes feature GPS tracking that not only ensures bikes aren’t stolen, but also helps riders find available bikes and reserve them on the app.

According to Moore, every few weeks people will come and redistribute the bikes back to stations to ensure the racks are refilled. e bikes are maintained by local employees of the bike system, JUMP Bikes. e head of the shop is a former UO Bike Program mechanic, Al Hongo. e future for the bike share program seems to be promising, especially for people like Moore who are in a hurry to get from one part of campus to the other.

“I own a bike, but some days I walk, so I can totally see on a day I decided to walk, and I was running late for something, I would totally grab a bike,” said Moore.

BY CASEY CROWLEY • TWITTER @CASEYCROWLEY55 e University of Oregon is in the process of hiring an associate vice provost for online and distance education. e position is new and part of UO’s effort to better coordinate and support online education.

Part of the role of the new AVP will be to determine what students are looking for in online education. “ e primary goal for online education is to support undergraduate student success,” said Scott Pratt, executive vice provost for academic affairs. “What online will do as its first priority is provide online and hybrid course options for our current students.”

Two other goals of online education at UO are to create a few targeted masters online and hybrid programs and create onlineonly undergraduate degree programs.

“I think our expectation is that our undergraduate students will have online education as a part of their program, not the whole of their program,” said Pratt.

In the long run, Pratt said that there should be some options that allow students to earn a degree online.

UO offers no degree programs that are exclusively online, while Oregon State University offers 50 of them. OSU is ranked in the top 10 universities nationally for online education, according to OSU. UO is looking to hire someone for the position that has had previous experience developing programs at another research university, according to Pratt.

In 2015, over 6,000 UO students took an online course. Last year that number grew to around 8,000, according to Pratt. e university is testing late-add courses that are less than four credits to give more class options to students who drop classes. ese classes would satisfy general education requirements and will be shorter and allow students to do them on their own time. is term, there were 79 courses that were listed as distance or online education, according to DuckWeb. “We are kind of late to the game, and so we have done a lot of looking at how a place like ours — a research university — doesn’t have a well-developed online program at this point,” said Pratt.

“Arizona State and Oregon State both have huge online programs.

We are not in a position to compete directly with the kinds of things they do, but there are other things we can do,” said Pratt. e hiring process will be overseen by a 10-person search committee made up of members of the UO faculty and staff. e AVP’s pay will correspond with their experience. e university is hoping to hire someone for the position before the start of fall term next year. ere will be a town hall on May 2 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. to allow students and faculty to learn more about the search and the university’s vision for online and distance education.

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APRIL IS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH HERE’S A LOOK INTO THE EFFORTS ON UO’S CAMPUS TO KEEP STUDENTS SAFE

BY BECCA ROBBINS • TWITTER @BROBBINSUO

ASUO Wellness and Safety Advocate Maya Date. (Becca Robbins)

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Every 98 seconds an American is sexually assaulted, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).

Nationally there has been an increase in coverage of sexual assault with the #MeToo movement and multiple public allegations of sexual misconduct against influential people such as Harvey Weinstein, former Alabama judge Roy Moore and Louis C.K. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and although many support events mark campus calendars at the University of Oregon, some students don’t feel represented in the dialogue and curriculum promoted by administration.

In a 2015 UO campus climate survey on sexual assault and sexual misconduct, only 36 percent of respondents said they believed campus officials would take action against the perpetrator of a reported sexual assault.

According to the climate survey, 55 percent of the respondents stated they believed a victim would be supported by other students and 53 percent believed that a report would be taken seriously by campus officials. Just under half of participants said that those reporting misconduct would be protected by campus officials.

To each of these questions, transgender, gay, queer and nonconforming students showed less confidence in UO’s reporting process than other participants. “Overall, TGQN students were least likely to believe that a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct would be taken seriously,” according to the survey.

RAINN reports that transgender students are at a significantly higher risk than other students of experiencing sexual violence on college campuses.

In general, women of color experience rape at higher rates. irty-two percent of multiracial women, 27.5 percent of Native American women, and 21.2 percent of black women compared to only 20 percent of white women and 13.6 percent of hispanic women were raped during their lifetimes, according to a 2014 CDC report.

Some students at UO say university prevention efforts don’t offer enough support and resources for those most at risk of experiencing sexual assault, like people of color and LGBTQ identified people.

University of Oregon’s Approach to Sexual Assault In 2014, three university reports assessed sexual

violence on campus and offered recommendations to Interim President Scott Coltrane. One of the reports estimated that 12 women a week are victims of attempted or completed rape at UO. Coltrane announced a commitment of money, resources and programming to preventing sexual violence at UO. While not all of his recommendations have been completed, this push brought students programs like Get Explicit, a new Associate Vice President and Title IX Coordinator and an Fraternity and Sorority Life sexual violence prevention team.

At the Board of Trustees meeting in March, UO President Michael Schill applauded the university’s work on the issue of sexual violence on campus.

ASUO Wellness and Safety Advocate, Maya Date, took to the microphone to disagree with Schill.

“I would like to reiterate that UO is not doing a good job with their sexual violence prevention,” Date said at the meeting. “You say this campus is a place where survivors feel comfortable talking about their stories. at is just not true.”

Date collaborates with sexual violence prevention groups like the Sexual Wellness Advocacy Team, the Title IX office, the office of the Dean of Students and Safe Ride through her position with ASUO. But Date feels people of color and queer students don’t see themselves reflected in resources like the scenarios of Get Explicit, a sexual violence prevention workshop for first-year students, or the online prevention training, Haven, another first-year program.

As a woman of color herself, she said she is passionate about this issue because she sees how much it affects her and those around her. is year’s Take Back the Night theme is “decolonization,” specifically honoring Native American women, a group that Date said has been especially marginalized in sexual violence discussions.

Native Americans are twice as likely to experience a rape or sexual assault compared to all races, according to RAINN’s website.

“Native women are being cut out of these narratives,” Date said.

So much of the discourse surrounding sexual violence, Date said, becomes an issue of “who’s the loudest.” For minorities and marginalized groups

of Oregon doesn’t tolerate sexual violence,’ but that kind of statement doesn’t have any force,” said Freyd.

“Maybe it’s better than nothing, but you really need to commit serious resources if that’s the case.”

She said the resources that have been committed increased administrative capacity and some services.

“Where it’s been lacking is to support the knowledge, creation and the really hard work we need to do,” said Freyd.

Date said one the best things she thinks people can do it get involved and put actions behind their words.

“If you’re not helping, you can’t be mad if it’s not changing,” said Date.

While she feels all of the campus efforts and events are necessary, she said the “narrative needs to be expanded” and more representative of the students body it’s affecting.

As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to a close, Freyd said she thinks universities, especially UO, can and should be on the front lines of this issue and approach it from a cultural perspective.

“What we really need is a culture shift, which probably involves a lot deeper kinds of educational experiences,” Freyd said. “It’s a much bigger commitment and a much deeper thing we need to do, I think, than we’ve yet done.”

kind. But among female participants affiliated with FSL, 35 percent reported the same thing.

Within FSL, chapters have a representative on their own Sexual Violence Prevention team that works with Frazee. One of those representatives, Leah Cave, also sees a need to include different voices in the conversation, including polyamorous relationships and asexuality. Because there are no resources for those relationships and it’s not talked about, Cave said she doesn’t think those people feel supported in these spaces.

One effort of the FSL Sexual Violence Prevention Board is to provide a SWAT presentation for each fraternity. While Date said that’s a great idea, she thinks there needs to be more accountability in making sure these presentations happen and are productive.

Another category of people Freyd says isn’t as active in these conversations as they should be is men.

“We need to really take on the issues of how men are socialized and the kind of masculinity they learn and to really involve men in fixing and addressing this problem,” said Freyd. “We’re not going to stop it until we significantly involve men in this.”

According to a study by the CDC in 2010, men are much more likely to be perpetrators of sexual assault; 98.1 percent of women and 93.3 percent of men who were victims of rape reported male perpetrators.

However, the data shows that in instances of sexual coercion against men, 86.3 percent of the perpetrators were women.

The Future of UO’s Sexual Assault Prevention In order to see real change on campus and beyond, Freyd said there needs to be more of an emphasis on research. “ e university, like many universities, talks about training, like we can somehow just train people not to rape other people,” she said. “ ere’s very little evidence that that does anything.”

Freyd said she thinks students should continue their work on this issue and should put pressure on the university and administration to back up their official statements and policies with real change. “ ere’s this tendency to talk, to say, ’ e University

lacking resources that other groups have access to, their voices might not be able to reach the same volume as others, she said.

Kerry Frazee, director of prevention services and organizer of UO’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month events, said the events and services are about honoring those who have been harmed, in addition to continuing awareness and education efforts.

“It’s a community effort, not an individual approach,” she said. “Students want to be a part of the solution.” is month’s events include a display featuring the number 3250, the number of student the SVP Board says will be assaulted during their time at UO. It’s covered in sticky notes with pledges from people of what they’ll do to reduce the instances of sexual violence. At athletic events, athletes wore teal shoelaces, the color of sexual assault awareness.

In addition to events hosted by the office of the Dean of Students, Frazee noted work of groups like Combined Culture, a UO group “committed to improving their respective communities through film and art” according to their website. e group created a video titled “Rewritten” featuring a scene at a party that could’ve led to a woman getting assaulted in a man’s bedroom but instead ended when she expressed discomfort.

UO psychology professor and author of a 2014 UO Sexual Violence and Institutional Betrayal Survey, Jennifer Freyd, said that while the rate at which people, especially on college campuses, are talking about sexual violence has improved, there is still work to be done. “ ere’s been lots of increased attention to the problem, but I also think there’s a long way to go, that we probably need a lot more of that than we have right now,” Freyd said. “I think things are in better shape than they were in 2014, but we don’t actually have evidence we have been able to reduce the instances of sexual violence.”

Freyd’s study examined sexual violence experiences in members of FSL. In 2015, 26 percent of female participants not affiliated with FSL said they experienced unwanted physical sexual contact of any

Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events: April 23 10 a.m. Solidarity Wall at the Memorial Quad 6:30 p.m. How to be an Ally and Support Survivors of Sexual Violence at Wesley Center April 24 6 p.m. Let’s Talk About It EMU Crater Lake South Room April 26 6 p.m. EMU Amphitheater April 27 10 a.m. Wesley Center Open House

NUMBER OF SEXUAL ASSAULT INCIDENTS REPORTED BY UOPD 16

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MAKE EUGENE QUEER AGAIN

BY MILES TRINIDAD Alcohol flowing, music blaring, lights flashing and bodies grinding; it’s the typical night out at the local bars. Just like everyone else, I only have one mission: leaving my worries about classes behind, even if it’s just for a night. On a dimly lit dance floor packed wall-to-wall with sweaty bodies, I feel as if my partner and I are lost in the crowd as we dance together, but a new worry begins to creep into my mind.

As a man dancing with another man, I can’t escape the discomfort of being gawked at and singled out. I wish I didn’t have to feel this way, but I almost have no choice.

Despite Eugene being ranked as one of the most LGBTQ-friendly cities in the United States, and the University of Oregon being the most LGBTQ-friendly university in Oregon, the city still lacks spaces where queer people can be queer without hesitation.

Queer spaces are important because they provide an opportunity for all people in the LGBTQ community to gather and socialize without fear of blatant hate or subtle microaggressions. ese spaces are where we can be ourselves, whether we are with our partners or by ourselves, looking for friends, for community or seeking our next love or our next hook up.

Eugene previously had this space with the Wayward Lamb, which was the city’s only explicitly queer bar when it opened in 2015. is provided the LGBTQ community with one of the only queer spaces in Eugene where it can be out, loud, proud and unapologetic. However, it closed in February after three years of business, citing finance problems and family concerns, leaving a hole in the community that has yet to be filled.

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Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to experience the Wayward Lamb because I turned 21 a few weeks before it closed and was unaware of its impending closure. However, I was able to experience a thriving queer nightlife during a summer in D.C. where I lived only a few blocks away from it. Although it was only a brief encounter, I came away with a feeling that I still haven’t quite found in Eugene: at I might actually be normal.

Although the closing of the Wayward Lamb impacts the Eugene community, it is also emblematic of the vanishing queer spaces around the country. Queer spaces have closed due to a variety of reasons — gentrification leading to increasing costs, dating apps removing barriers to connect with others and businesses facing pressures to cater to a straighter audience — leaving fewer and fewer places where queer people can be openly queer.

Having a queer-friendly space is not necessary for LGBTQ individuals to freely express themselves, but being out and proud outside of these spaces does not always come naturally.

It is easy to forget that these queer spaces were created out of necessity rather than celebration. Especially before the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision making same-sex marriage the law of the land, queer people were marginalized and discriminated against in their communities and lacked places where they could freely express themselves and connect with others in the queer community.

Despite progressive strides in LGBTQ equality and inclusivity across the country, queer people still need and appreciate these spaces. In dominantly non-queer spaces, it can be alienating and

frightening to express one’s queerness around people who may not be as tolerant as one might expect, even in a liberal city such as Eugene.

Many LGBTQ people are still reluctant to express themselves for fear of social repercussions from friends and family, or worse in more conservative states. Queer spaces provide a safe space to be free of these concerns.

Although I am a strong supporter of queer spaces, they aren’t perfect. Trans and gendernonconforming people aren’t always welcome, and queer nightlife is infamous for celebrating only a specific kind of LGBTQ individual: cisgender, white men.

Despite these problems, the spaces serve as safe havens of queerness in a world where the LGBTQ community is constantly pressured to conform to a crushing heteronormative culture and adhere to masculine and feminine norms. But queer spaces allow us to reject this status quo.

We can kiss without shame, genderbend without objectification and socialize without fear. is need for queer spaces doesn’t come from a feeling of resentment toward straight or cisgender people. Instead, it comes from a feeling of wanting to freely embrace who we are.

While the LGBTQ community lacks queer spaces throughout Eugene, it doesn’t need to be this way.

Business owners can take the initiative to host regular queer-friendly events or become entirely LGBTQ friendly. And LGBTQ individuals can co-opt already existing spaces and reclaim it as their own queer spaces.

It is time for the community to help make Eugene queer again, and perhaps help others see that the queer community is not so queer after at all.

9 OPINION UNDERGRADUATES SHOULD CONSIDER A RESEARCH POSITION THIS SUMMER

BY LUKAS HANSON For many undergraduates, the start of spring term marks the beginning of a lengthy search for summer jobs and internships.

It is easy to see why. e pressures of rising tuition and increasing demand among employers for skilled job applicants make summer work necessary for most students.

As the upcoming undergraduate research symposium demonstrates, however, jobs and internships are not the only worthwhile student positions. On May 17, hundreds of students will gather in the Erb Memorial Union to present the results of their work and network with professionals.

For many of the students that plan on attending, this event will likely be another step toward their careers of choice.

With these benefits in mind, it is important for applicants to consider undergraduate research positions as well, as this seasonal round of job hunting begins. ese positions offer access to professional networks, technical skills training and publishing opportunities — all of which can significantly contribute to a résumé.

Some undergraduates might mistakenly believe that research is only helpful for students majoring in the sciences. Although it is true that research techniques are not of great use to everyone, the work environments for these positions are highly professional compared to the standard part-time

job. is is a significant asset. An undergraduate that demonstrates a strong work ethic and success in a research position can be just as well off compared to a similar student in a selective internship.

Professor Kevin Hatfield, the director of academic, residential and research initiatives, said that the undergraduate research symposium has been working to break down the misconception that research is only valuable to STEM students.

“Early on, there was this perception among students that research is all STEM-related. Students would self-select out of research. … Research can help an English major no differently than a chemistry major,” Hatfield said.

Regardless of their postgraduate plans, college students can almost always benefit from the networking opportunities that undergraduate research positions present. ese roles offer students the chance to work with professionals in their field, and these potential mentors can provide valuable advice throughout the early stages of a student’s career. e technical skills that most student researchers practice throughout their work are also helpful in a competitive job market. Undergraduate research used to be relatively rare. In recent years, it has become so common among students, especially those in scientific fields, that many graduate schools and selective programs expect it from most applicants.

Hatfield underscored the importance of undergraduate research in applying

to graduate school.

“I think that as graduate schools become more and more competitive, we need to build more research relations and have enough faculty hours to support more undergraduate research,” Hatfield said. e other strong but not always realized assets that undergraduate research positions provide are publishing opportunities. Once again, co-authoring a scientific or scholarly paper is a feat that might not seem particularly useful to students outside of scientific fields; however, the professionalism such a paper demonstrates will be seen as beneficial to future employers or postgraduate programs. Whereas most part-time jobs and internships produce no tangible product, a completed research paper can serve as a strong, immediate addition to any student’s work portfolio.

Costa Capellas, vice president of Pacific Capital Resource Group, Inc., explained at the recent spring career fair what employers look for in job applicants.

“One of the … important traits we look for in candidates is a consistent history of achievement, [whether] it be academic, athletic, communitybased, and so on,” Capellas said.

Regardless of their major, undergraduates should add undergraduate research positions to their list of considerations for both this coming summer and all subsequent years. e application process, be it for graduate school or a job, is highly competitive by its nature. A few years of research experience might be all it takes to get a leg up on the competition.

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SPORTS Team under running back Jamal Elliott (24) makes a break down the field. (Devin Roux)

TOP TAKEAWAYS FROM THE 2018 OREGON FOOTBALL SPRING GAME

BY JACK BUTLER • TWITTER @BUTLER917 e Oregon football spring season is over, and it concluded with a 59-34 victory for the offense (Team under) against the defense (Team Lighting) at the 2018 spring game.

Nobody knows what that means, but there were some strong individual performances that opened and answered questions as the Ducks head into the summer.

“We ... kept it simple so guys knew exactly what they were doing, and we got a chance to see who could actually do it,” head coach Mario Cristobal said.

Here are some of the top takeaways from the 2018 Oregon spring game: No clarity at backup quarterback position Justin Herbert is the starter for next season. ere is no doubt about that, and during the first quarter, Herbert threw a pass at the goal line that was deflected and intercepted by linebacker Kaulana Apelu. e linebacker dodged a defender and hit the open field at full sprint on his way to a 100-yard return for a touchdown.

However, in the process, Herbert did his best to try and tackle Apelu, a risky move considering that quarterbacks aren’t allowed to be touched in the spring game.

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e defensive players — not being allowed to block Herbert — compensated by getting in his way and “shielding” Apelu on the way to the endzone. e Ducks know the value of a good backup quarterback. One play can change a season, and it did last year when quarterback Justin Herbert injured his collarbone. So, the last thing they want is for Herbert to get hurt in the spring game.

“I don’t even want to touch Herbert,” defensive lineman Jordon Scott said. “I don’t want to put our season in jeopardy.”

Linebacker La’Mar Winston joked: “I thought about it.”

When Herbert got hurt last season, Braxton Burmeister took over the offense and struggled. e Ducks got a reinforcement for this season with freshman Tyler Shough. ey’ve been fighting for playing time since Shough arrived early for spring practice and both posted good numbers in the spring game.

Burmeister was 7-of-12 for 64 yards and one touchdown. Burmeister can use his legs to escape when the pocket collapses, rushing to extend drives.

Shough was a more efficient 5-of-8 for 103 yards and two touchdowns. Shough, who said he was excited for the game during the week’s media

sessions, didn’t show any lack of confidence. For his first pass, Shough lofted the ball deep into one-onone coverage for wide receiver Daewood Davis, who caught the ball and carried it into the endzone.

“He is not scared to just throw it up. at’s what I like about Tyler,” Davis said. “ is whole spring, [the backup quarterback battle] was kind of equal.”

Saturday’s spring game didn’t answer the question of who will be the backup quarterback.

Neither showed a clear advantage during the game.

Burmeister still looked shaky at times but made plays, and Shough, while efficient, was limited to only eight pass attempts.

But the decision doesn’t need to be made now, and the Ducks hope Herbert stays healthy so it doesn’t matter.

Young players in key roles Spring games always reveal new names and new faces to the crowd. Young or inexperienced players have an opportunity to introduce themselves to the fans, and on Saturday, many young Ducks did.

Daewood Davis, a speedy redshirt freshman wide receiver, caught two long touchdown passes.

Redshirt freshman CJ Verdell led the running backs with eight carries for 44 yards and two touchdowns.

“CJ Verdell continues to show why he was such

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Defensively, sophomores omas Graham Jr. and Deommodore Lenoir started at cornerback, and all game they didn’t allow wide receivers to separate themselves.

“You can’t underestimate the advancement, the progress of guys like Deommodore and guys like omas Graham,” Cristobal said. “ ese guys have turned it up.”

Underclassmen will need to play well in big roles for Oregon this upcoming season. Of the seven running backs who got touches, five of them were underclassmen. Tony Brooks-James and Taj Griffin are the veterans, but Verdell, Travis Dye, Darrian Felix and Cyrus Habibi-Likio are all weapons the Ducks will have at their disposal in the 2018 season.

“Everybody is very talented, so it makes you want to work that much harder,” Verdell said. “We’re a close, tight-knit group, and we all want to see each other succeed.”

Apelu and Simms pull away at open linebacker positions e highlight from the game was Apelu’s interception-turnedtouchdown, but the senior led the team in total tackles as well. e inside linebacker spot next to Troy Dye is open, and on Saturday, Apelu showed why it should be his.

He was an important part of the position group last season but suffered a season-ending leg injury. e recovery process is complete, as shown by a strong spring game performance.

“It hurts inside, and it’s a long process,” Apelu said. “But it felt

good to be out there.” e other quality, but less flashy, performance was by outside linebacker Keith Simms. On the first drive, Simms shed a block and jumped in the face of Herbert, who froze right before the whistle blew, signaling a sack.

It was part of his eight tackle, one sack performance that showed he could be the mainstay at an outside linebacker position.

Wide receiver production As good of a quarterback as Herbert is, he needs receivers that will make him look even better. If the spring game is any indication of what is to come in fall training camp, then there will be many battles for playing time.

Brenden Schooler, Dillon Mitchell and Johnny Johnson III were some of the established guys entering the game, but Jaylon Redd and Davis showed why they should see the field as well.

Davis finished the game with three catches for 75 yards and two touchdowns. He was tall and fast last season, but he wanted to gain weight during his redshirt season to complete his skill set.

“I waited a whole offseason to show the world what I got, and what I did today,” Davis said.

Redd’s skill set is like DeAnthony omas or Charles Nelson. ey used him in the backfield, in the slot and out wide, and he returned kicks. e sophomore ended the game with 110 total yards, including 32 rushing and 22 receiving yards. e Ducks need to surround Herbert with weapons, and they’ve got some young guys to choose from.

Oregon sprinter Lauren Rain Williams hugs her teammate after the 4x100 meter relay at the Pepsi Invitational on Saturday, April 7, 2018. (Devin Roux)

TRACK AND FIELD EXCELS AT MT. SAC RELAYS

BY SHAWN MEDOW • TWITTER @SHAWNMEDOW Oregon track and field had another big day at the Mt. Sac Relays in Torrance, California on Saturday as the Ducks took home several personal bests and school records. e day started off with Oregon’s men coming fourth in the Elite 4×100-meter race, while the women finished second in the same event.

But the best event of the day for Oregon came at the end when the women’s 4×400-meter relay team finished on top with a three minute, 31.93-second run. at team was made up of Venessa D’Arpino, Hannah Waller, Shae Anderson and Makenzie Dunmore.

Dunmore, Waller and Anderson came fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively, in the women’s invite 400-meter. e men followed up the women’s 4×400 with a second place finish of their own in a season-best time of 3:06.90.

Cravon Gillespie finished eighth in the men’s 100-meter while teammate Damarcus Simpson came 11th. Ariana Washington finished fifth in the

women’s edition and Lauren Rain Williams came 10th.

Rain Williams and Washington came sixth and seventh in the women’s 200-meter.

Sabrina Southerland then finished second in the women’s 800-meter, setting a PR of 2:01.44. Susan Ejore also set a personal best, coming in eighth while running the race in 2:04.53.

Braxton Canady matched his PR 13.93 100-hurdles as he finished seventh in the race.

Off of the track, Chaquinn Cook broke the Oregon program record in the triple jump with a 45-7-foot/13.89meter jump, but her jump only got her to third place in the event. Ben Milligan then went on to tie his outdoor PR with a high jump of 2.19 meters.

Kiana Phelps continued the trend in the field events, scoring a personal best 52.26-meter/1715.5-feet throw in the discus, finishing eighth. e Ducks now head to Tucson, Arizona, for the Desert Heat Classic next weekend.

Team under quarterback Braxton Burmeister (11) scrambles during a play. (Adam Eberhardt)

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Q SPORTS SHANNON RHODES’ PINCHHIT HOMERUN HELPS OREGON SWEEP STANFORD

BY MAGGIE VANONI • TWITTER @MAGGIE_VANONI

With two outs in the bottom of the fourth, and Oregon clinging to a 2-1 lead, Shannon Rhodes stepped to the plate with a runner on.

It was her second game in a row not starting, and head coach Mike White had benched her for the first three innings in Sunday’s game. Yet, in the bottom of the fourth, he decided to give her a chance.

Her first pitch was a ball. e next three pitches were labeled as another ball, a foul and a strike. e fifth pitch looked to hit her left elbow, and she dropped her bat and began to head to first until the umpire officially called it a ball and made her return to the batter’s box.

“Sometimes calls don’t go your way,” Rhodes said. “You just got to keep your head in the game and keep swinging.”

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“I used the bench theory and maybe it worked her up a little bit. … When you get your chance, that’s what you got to do. When you get your chance, take it.

And Shannon did.”

Once again, White’s decision worked. In the top of the sixth, Rhodes jumped into the cushioned wall in the back center field to perfectly catch a hit from Stanford’s Whitney Burks. “[It was] kinda startling,” Rhodes said. “It kinda slowly rose, and I thought it might go over, but I just had to stick with it and save my pitcher a little.”

Along with Rhodes’ home run, a two-out RBI from Haley Cruse allowed the Ducks to score three of their four runs in the fourth inning. eir first run came in the bottom of the first thanks to a Gwen Svekis twoout RBI as well. e Cardinal scored their only run of the game in the top of the fourth, with a solo home run from shortstop Whitney Burks.

In the circle, Oregon pitcher Miranda Elish started for the second time this series. She earned the win, now holding a 16-1 season record and pitched a complete game allowing two hits, one walk and striking out 10 batters (her ninth double-digit strikeout count this season). e Ducks will take the series sweep and prepare to face off for the Pac-12 title during next weekend’s road trip to Seattle. Starting on Friday, April 27 at 5 p.m., Oregon will match up against the No. 1-ranked Washington Huskies for a three-game series. “ ey beat us down here last year, and we want to get that revenge back,” White said.

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Oregon infielder Shannon Rhodes (9) watches the ball after stepping up to bat. (Emerald Archives)

Q SPORTS SHANNON WILLIAMS LEADS WOMEN’S LACROSSE IN POINTS AHEAD OF PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS

BY SIERRA WEBSTER • TWITTER @WEBSTERSIERRAE

Oregon Ducks attacker Shannon Williams (36) moves past her defender to position to shoot the ball. (Devin Roux)

After practice, Shannon Williams, junior attacker for the Oregon women’s lacrosse team, and five of her teammates stayed late to shoot around. Williams said this is normal for the team, especially when the weather’s nice.

“We’re out here trying. We haven’t achieved some of the success that other teams have, but it’ll come. We’re putting in the work every day, and we’re really hoping for it,” she said of her team, which went 8-8 during the regular season. “We really are trying to create this culture here and this example of excellence.”

Williams, who has started every game at Oregon, is the top-scorer for the Ducks and the youngest starting attack. Last season, she broke Oregon’s single-season record for goals with 51, and she broke the points record with 72. She also broke the single-season records for goals per game (three) and points per game (4.24). is season, heading into the Pac-12 championships, she is just seven points away from her previous record for points.

Earlier this season, Williams was recognized as the Pac-12 offensive player of the week — the only Duck to be recognized this season — after shooting 4-for-5 and helping secure a win in the Ducks’ season-opener against UC Davis Oregon finished the regular season last Friday in Colorado, where they lost to the Buffaloes 19-9. Williams scored two of the Ducks’ nine points.

Despite being the youngest starting attacker, Oregon head coach Katrina Dowd said Williams plays with the

maturity and threat of an older player.

She isn’t just the top scorer; she has the second-most assists on her team with 28, following senior attack Cambi Cukar, who has 43.

“She wants to make everyone else look good, sometimes to a fault,” senior midfielder Natalie Modly, who is Williams’ teammate and roommate, said.

Dowd called Williams the team’s “most dangerous player,” saying the junior attack is a threat both behind the net and in her ability to see what’s happening on the field.

“She’s gonna be one of those pillars of our program — somebody even ten years from now, we’ll still talk about,” said Dowd.

“She’s that leader for us.”

Williams, who is the head of Oregon’s Student Advisory Committee and a pre-med student, is “the fabric of the team,” Dowd said.

Oregon travels to Boulder, Colorado for the Pac-12 Championships this weekend as a No. 4 seed. ey play No. 5 Cal in the first round on ursday, April 26. e Ducks won their first matchup against the Bears at home with a final score of 12-7 but failed to secure a win on the road in Berkeley, losing 15-13.

“Everybody’s gotta be dynamic,” Dowd said of her team heading into the championships. “[Williams has] gotta be playing with killer instincts,” said Dowd. “She’s gotta be playing with swagger and just a never quit, never die attitude in order to fulfill our goal to walk away with the first Pac-12 championship.”

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Film director Jean-Luc Godard, perhaps the most well-known figure to come out of the French New Wave movement, made some of the most challenging and influential films of the 20th century. is Wednesday, the Romance Languages Department will be screening Godard’s 1996 film “Masculin Féminin” as part of an ongoing French Film Series.

“Masculin Féminin” follows a

handful of French youths — “the Children of Marx and Coca Cola” according to one of the film’s famous intertitle cards — and features discussions of love, sex and politics shot in beautiful black and white. ose who can’t speak French shouldn’t worry; the movie will feature subtitles in English. e screening will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 110 of Willamette Hall.

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received positive reviews and rose to a respectable position on the charts in 2014. Alt-J is currently on tour to promote its third album, “Relaxer,” and is set to bring psychedelic, computerized imagery to the stage.

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e seven-year-long Syrian refugee crisis is escalating, so Encircle Films’ latest documentary, ‘After Spring,’ couldn’t come at a more apt time.

Executive produced by John Stewart, the film explores the stories of two refugee families attempting to find sanctuary in the Zaatari, the largest Syrian

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refugee camp. e film promises a heartbreaking, but ultimately hopeful look at the struggles of refugees in the modern world.

After the screening, Syrian refugee Hussain Rashou and Tod Schneider, advocate for the Refugee Resettlement Coalition of Lane County, will host a discussion on the documentary.

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Last weekend was a holiday for weed smokers (April 20), and what better way to celebrate than with hiphop’s famous weed connoisseurs, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa?

Embarking on a five-year tradition, Snoop Dogg brought his 420 Wellness Retreat Tour to Eugene at the Matthew Knight Arena on Saturday, April 21. Filled with weed smoke, giant joints and an enticing version of Snoop’s own strip club, 420 or “stoner Christmas” as some would call it was a memorable one. e Wellness Retreat gave fans the chance to indulge in weed culture, music and experience the holiday with Snoop and Wiz. Over the span of two days, Snoop Dogg performed in Denver, Las Vegas, Kent and Eugene with the help of some of his friends, including Wiz Khalifa, Migos and Rob Stone.

Wiz Khalifa brought a stoner energy to the stage with more than a handful of giant balloon blunts to be passed around and a sign that read Taylor Gang, the title of his wellknown slogan.

Standing at 6-foot-4-inches in his camouflage joggers and jean jacket exposing his heavily tattooed torso, Wiz shared his 420 experiences with the audience by performing songs heavily centered around that idea.

From newer tracks such as “Best Life” to his classic mixtape songs like “Gangbang,” Wiz made sure to entertain everyone at the show.

At one point, while performing his classic single “Memorized” and feeling the lyrics of the song, he told the audience to “Be yourself — you can help everyone else around you.”

After a few more hits from his previous mixtapes and album including “Taylor Gang,” “We Dem Boys,” and “No Sleep,” Wiz brought the crowd together to sing his hit “When I See You Again.” Fans joined in singing along and lighting joints and blunts up for those who have fallen.

Wiz closed his set by performing his recent “420 Freestyle,” which was a smooth heart-to-heart performance. He started a “gang

gang” chant in reference to his Taylor Gang slogan before departing the stage.

Snoop Dogg turned Matthew Knight into a big 420 party. He entered the stage by performing one of his biggest hits, “I Wanna Rock,” as he danced all over the stage with his backup dancers. After going through some of his notable features, he decided it was time to get the party started.

He appeared with four stripper poles on stage, which at first were a mystery to the audience until he asked the audience if anyone had ever been to a strip club before. Soon, one of his newer songs, “Trash Bags,” filled the arena and stage with big butts and lots of flips. As the strippers appeared, so did money flying into the audience. Sadly, however, the money was not real.

After that moment, Snoop decided to take us down memory lane.

Both the older and younger crowd jammed to hits like “Nothin’ But a G ang” and “Bitchh Please.”

Snoop then took a moment to ask the crowd what they’d like to do with him. He gave the audience three options: ey could either hang out, drink or, of course, smoke with Snoop. e audience responded, and Snoop proceeded with singing the melody “I wanna get fucked up right now.”

Making a reference to UO, Snoop had everyone throw the “O” up and even asked a few people to try and blow smoke through them like a true stoner.

Making sure to pay homage to his fellow ’90s rappers, Snoop tested everyone’s knowledge by playing memorable hits from Eazy E, Biggie Smalls and Tupac.

Snoop ended the show with his classic cannabis hit, “Young, Wild and Free,” slowed down and sung with the help of the audience. He made sure to wish everyone a happy 420 and to make sure they smoke responsibly. He then proceeded to turn around with his arms spread like Jesus Christ as the lights dimmed low.

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EUGENE MARATHONER DOESN’T LET MULTIPLE SURGERIES STOP HER

BY SARAH URBAN

Shaluinn Fullove runs in preparation for the Eugene Marathon. (Courtesy of Shaluinn Fullove )

Shaluinn Fullove has been running competitively since she was five years old.

After growing up in Los Angeles, she became an athlete at Stanford University, where she ran three cross country races during the 1996 NCAA Championships before graduating with an American studies degree in 2000 and landing a job at Google in 2002.

Today, Fullove still works in human resources for Google in Palo Alto, California, where she lives with her husband and daughter. e past few years have tested Fullove’s commitment and perseverance. In 2017, she underwent a double mastectomy, followed by a breast reconstruction surgery. Between the two procedures, her dad and aunt both passed away.

“Running is always the common thread — it is always the thing you can come back to. It’s an anchor…” said Fullove. e pain from that season of life was sharp, but it didn’t extinguish her drive. Fullove is planning to run the Eugene Marathon on April 29. She has embraced the difference that her new shape and circumstances bring, and she admits that her training cycle this time around has been different.

“I gotta rebuild,” Fullove said.

Instead of expecting to be a hero every day

of training, Fullove said she operates from the perspective that it is a triumph every day just to show up. She decided that at the very least, she is going to start each workout and see what happens.

“I have learned how to give myself a little grace this round,” she said.

According to Fullove, her coach, Michael McKeeman, knows the perfect balance between challenging her during workouts and recognizing that running isn’t her full-time job.

Mckeeman grew up a runner himself, and won the Philadelphia Marathon in 2012.

“He is a big reason why I still run,” she said.

“You have to have elasticity for coaching the whole person, not just the athlete portion of their day.”

Running has been a common thread throughout each phase of Fullove’s life. Many of her longest, closest friendships are with old coaches and teammates. “ ere is something about when you run together — when you sweat and you persevere and you push through new barriers with one another,” she said. “ ere is just a bond that gets created, and a mutual respect, and a desire to support one another.”

With a daughter in the first grade and

day-to-day work responsibilities, training for the Eugene Marathon has been scattered for Fullove.

“I wish it was a little more templated. But it’s been more like jenga or tetris,” said Fullove.

Whether early in the morning, with fellow Google employees during lunch or after work, she always makes time. e schedule isn’t always optimal, said Fullove, but “done is better than perfect.”

On April 29, Fullove’s goal is to run smart and execute a race that reflects the work she has put in. In 2008, she qualified for the Olympic Trials as a way to prove to herself that she had beat thyroid cancer. ough she has the potential to qualify again, her focus has shifted this year. Fullove said this race is a celebration of her ability to rebuild and condition her body to withstand the rigorous workouts that are required when training for a marathon.

“To define success for the Eugene Marathon so narrowly to the Olympic Qualifier, I think that would be a missed opportunity,” she said. e Eugene Marathon will take place on Sunday, April 29. Runners can participate in the marathon, half-marathon or 5k — there will be a 1k available for kids. Races begin as early as 7 a.m. and will finish near Hayward Field.

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