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Joseph Wahl received a double degree from the University of Oregon in Asian studies and history. He returned to earn his teaching degree two years later. After teaching at Beaverton High School, Joseph had the opportunity to work in executive recruiting. Since then, he has led a successful career in many different positions from working for former Portland Mayor Vera Katz to his present position of principal, Wahl and Associates, LLC.
What are the most important skills that have helped you in your career?
I think one of them is adaptability. In going to the U of O, I was a bartender, and at times I was even a wrestling coach at Roosevelt High School, so I think resilience and adaptability are skill sets that really helped me move and be flexible between those jobs. The skill set that most employers are looking for is the ability to learn, adapt and communicate well.
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I think if you’re in a city you don’t have any connections in, you should look at the UO Alumni Association. See if there’s a chapter of the Alumni Association nearby that could help you. That’s a great way to get started. The other option would be for graduates going somewhere in Oregon to contact one of your professors, because at least one of them will have connections. They might be willing to introduce you, but even that hinges on your relationship with them and your networking skills.
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e Junction City Police Department is in charge of communicating emergency 911 calls to University of Oregon Police Department officers in the field as of Feb. 2. (Sarah Northrop)
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As of Feb. 2, the University of Oregon Police Department does not directly dispatch its officers for emergency calls. Instead, the Junction City Police Department has been in charge of communicating emergencies with UOPD officers in the field, according to an email from UOPD spokesman Kelly McIver. As counterintuitive as the system might seem, UOPD Chief Matthew Carmichael said the decision helps the department address a lack of adequate staffing. Carmichael also said the move actually streamlines the process for dispatching a UOPD officer. “I don’t want to create confusion,” Carmichael said. “ ere is no change [to service]. Calling 911 today as of [Feb. 2] is the same.” ere is one 911 dispatch center for Lane County: Central Lane 9-1-1, located in Eugene. Central Lane is known as a primary public safety answering point (PSAP) meaning it receives all 911 calls in a certain area. After determining the jurisdiction of the call, Central Lane either directly transfers the call to a secondary PSAP, like JCPD, or e Emerald is published by Emerald Media Group, Inc., the independent nonprofit media company at the University of Oregon. Formerly the Oregon Daily Emerald, the news organization was founded in 1900. VO L . 1 2 0 , I S S U E N O. 3 2
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relays the information provided by the caller via a separate phone call to a non-PSAP department, like UOPD. Carmichael said that before moving emergency dispatch services to Junction City, UOPD normally had to wait to receive these emergency calls and then their office had to relay that information to an officer in the field. JCPD is a secondary PSAP, so by using their dispatch center, Carmichael said JCPD can directly speak with UOPD officers in the field, eliminating the need for multiple phone calls between departments. “ e difference is now you are talking to the dispatcher who, at the same time, is talking to the police officer in the field,” Carmichael said. To clarify, Carmichael said that JCPD will only handle UOPD’s emergency calls. Central Lane 9-1-1 will still relay information from non-emergency, UO-related calls they received directly to UOPD. He also said non-emergency callers using UOPD’s direct number are still be able to talk to someone at the UOPD office. Carmichael said he has no intention NEWS EDITORS EMILY GOODYKOONTZ MICHAEL TOBIN BECCA ROBBINS A&C EDITORS JORDAN MONTERO SARAH URBAN SPORTS EDITORS JACK BUTLER SHAWN MEDOW MAVERICK PALLACK OPINION EDITORS JASON BIBEAU SAMUEL ANTHONY
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of turning UOPD into a secondary PSAP because he says state funding for dispatch centers is “exceptionally limiting.” “Everyone is fighting for that same tax money,” Carmichael said of state funds tied to dispatch centers. “ ere is no extra money.” McIver said in an email that the emergency call boxes on campus are still handled on campus from the UOPD dispatch center. “Sometimes resolving those situations requires police and/or fire to be dispatched,” McIver said, “in which case JCPD is contacted to dispatch those emergency services.” Carmichael reiterated multiple times that this dispatch reorganization will not impact service for callers. “We have a high expectation of service,” Carmichael said. “When our students call, the expectation is that someone is going to answer and someone is going to come help me. We have always lived up to that, and we are currently living up to that. I think there is change on the horizon as we work through this from a collective and professional perspective.” BUSINESS PUBLISHER & PRESIDENT BILL KUNERTH X317 EMAIL: BKUNERTH@DAILYEMERALD.COM VP OPERATIONS KATHY CARBONE X302 EMAIL: KCARBONE@DAILYEMERALD.COM CREATIVE DIRECTOR COLE PETROCCIONE X327 EMAIL: CREATIVE@DAILYEMERALD.COM
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e Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation cited that the original academic continuity plan, presented by the Academic Council of the University Senate on Feb. 13, compared a GTFF strike to an unpreventable natural disaster. (Sarah Northrop)
e Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation took issue with a portion of a proposed University Senate policy that compared a graduate employee strike to an unpreventable natural disaster at the Senate’s last meeting on Feb. 13. e Academic Council of the University Senate presented the policy, known as an academic continuity plan, to clarify protocol during significant academic disruptions. e original draft of the policy included union strikes as an example of a possible academic disruption, along with natural disasters and extreme weather. e GTFF, which represents 1,500 graduate students on campus, argued that the university has control over potential strikes, but it does not have control in extreme weather circumstances or natural disasters. e University of Oregon experienced an unexpected snow storm last week that could have caused a serious problem had it lasted longer or interrupted finals week. “If that had happened during finals week, there could have been an issue about whether or not we could award grades because people couldn’t take their exams or turn in their papers,” Scott Pratt, co-chair of the Academic Council of the University Senate, said. GTFF President Michael Magee said that public sector labor laws in Oregon state that whenever any union group is negotiating with their employers, there is a significant amount of time between the end of negotiations and the beginning of a strike. is includes a 150-day period of “good faith bargaining,” two weeks of mediation and a 30-day “cooling off period.” “At any point along that process, the university has the ability and control to ward off the disruption a strike would cause by reaching an agreement. It’s not a surprise that nobody sees coming,” Magee said. Magee spoke at one of the Academic Council meetings to express the GTFF’s concern with the policy. e council ultimately removed the examples, including the word “strike” from the draft. Magee said this is a good
start, but he would prefer that strikes be identified as an exception to the policy. e revised policy was scheduled to be voted on last Wednesday; however, the meeting was cancelled due to the snow. e Senate will vote on the policy at its next meeting on March 13. e GTFF also had an issue with the policy pressuring faculty to do the work of other employee groups in the event of a strike, Magee said. “If you imagine a similar policy applied to another employee group — let’s say that the police union decides to go on strike — it would seem absurd to have a policy that demands faculty or graduate students to then engage in the work of campus security. e logic at work is similar,” Magee said. In the past, the university did not have an academic continuity plan set in place. “ e academic continuity plan filled kind of a hole in the emergency plan for the university,” Pratt said. If the policy is passed, when the university declares a state of emergency, the Academic Council would be involved in the emergency protocol, Pratt said. Emergency grades would be awarded to students and the situation would be noted on their transcript. In 2014, the Senate attempted to create an academic continuity plan out of anticipation of a GTFF strike. is policy did not pass and the Senate mobilized the Academic Integrity Task Force to evaluate the policy and produce a new one. Ultimately, the task was moved to the Academic Council. Pratt said the council followed the structure from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create UO’s policy. “ at seemed to be the smartest way to go, so we adopted their grade structure and then incorporated it with our own terminology,” Pratt said. e policy aims to uphold academic integrity, be transparent between students and faculty and be fair to all students. “Students need to be confident that the work they are doing now is going to be recorded, or is going to be something they can show to graduate schools or, for that matter, to financial aid,” Pratt said.
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ARTS & CULTURE Solange Knowles released her fourth studio album, “When I Get Home,” on Mar. 1, 2019. (Creative Commons)
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INTO A GLISTENING JEWEL ON ‘WHEN I GET HOME’ BY JORDAN MONTERO • TWITTER @MONTERO_JOR “S McGregor (Interlude),” the second track off Solange’s fourth studio album, “When I Get Home,” makes the record’s intent murky but apparent. Over a tumbling piano played by Vivian Ayers, a sample of Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad’s poem “On Status” repeats “I boarded a train, kissed all goodbye.” With these farewells, “When I Get Home” welcomes something new. Solange’s most recent album is rooted in her hometown Houston’s late 20th-century traditions, and she successfully manipulates them to form a glistening jewel. e album dresses up its deep bass landscapes and chopped ‘n’ screwed ideologies with eloquent piano chords, soft harmonies and jazzy spirituality. In the process, a dreamy piece of art becomes less of a personal manifesto and more of a decorated, forward spectacle. Solange’s previous album, “A Seat At e Table,” evoked personal grievances, allowing them to spill out over its funky canvas. Now, Solange has removed herself from the painting, leaving only her artsy interpretation and the presence (and remnants) of the city that made her. Perhaps putting herself on the wax was too daunting a feat to repeat — not that it detracts from “When I Get Home’s” own accomplishments. On “Can I Hold e Mic (Interlude),” Solange buckles herself to a spiraling jazz keyboard: “I can’t be a singular expression of myself / there’s too many parts, too many spaces / too many manifestations / too many lines…” and so on. PA G E 6
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is “letting go” shows progression in her artistic pursuits. ough fully her vision, Solange excellently curates components that help chisel her work: Tyler, e Creator; e Dream; Pharrell and Panda Bear frequent the album’s contributor list. Others such as Earl Sweatshirt, Playboi Carti, Metro Boomin and Houston icon Scarface deliver notable appearances. Standing on the Corner, Blood Orange, Raphael Saadiq and Steve Lacy also offer subtle input. Under the album’s wistful and jazzy surface is the skeletal structure of the chopped ‘n’ screwed aesthetic, an electric, choppy hip-hop style made famous by DJs and producers in Houston in the early 1990s. Off-kilter timings and bass kicks organically navigate Solange’s soothing compliments, but half the time it’s Solange’s vocal command dictating the production around her. “Stay Flo” is a Houston-dazed lullaby; a trap ruse complete with low-frequency bass nods molded into a shiny, new gem by Solange’s soft caress. “Binz” also boasts that Houston bounce — another trappy, fidgety outline that’s transformed into an angelic, cushy “banger” due to Solange and e Dream’s seemingly reserved delivery and choir-like melodies. e album’s rhetoric alludes to Houston as well, with references to landmarks like the Southwest Houston hub (”Almeda”), the TX-8 Beltway (“Beltway”) and Scott Street (“Exit Scott (Interlude)”). Yet, Solange increases the sum of these parts by juxtaposing this language with a tasteful spirituality, mentioning candy
paint jobs (prevalent in Houston) in “Way to the Show,” then mystical Florida Water a few tracks later in “Almeda.” “Down with the Clique’s” glitchy beat is again accented by Solange’s falsetto. With all the moving parts in its composition, the song creates an enchanting illusion of space. e album reaches a somber high point on “Time (Is),” and the Pharrell-produced “Sound of Rain” pairs an empowering chant with trickling piano and crystally synths. A presence of pride and blackness permeates through the album’s core, a testament to this being the constant dashing of jazz elements across the album. “My Skin My Logo,” a funky, electric bass-driven track undoubtedly informed by Tyler, e Creator and Steve Lacy’s groovy sensibilities proudly positions melanin as a pillar of identity. e fluid and flowing “Almeda” is a proper highlight on “When I Get Home.” On the track, which features e Dream and a standout verse by Playboi Carti, Solange uses clever wordplay and tasteful callbacks to again put her identity at the forefront: her culture is something that can’t be erased by even the most powerful forces. “When I Get Home” is an early contender for one of 2019’s top albums. Its striking originality and scope of purpose separates it from other releases like only a few artists know how to do. And in conjunction with “A Seat at the Table,” Solange is proving herself as a powerful contributor to this decade of music.
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Meraki [may-rah-kee], a Greek word, means “to do something with soul, creativity or love; to put something of yourself in your work,” according to the black lettering artfully painted on a blank white wall inside of Eugene’s newest sunlightflooded coffee shop. Mid-century, modern-style furniture adorns the café in shades of white, grey, black and yellow with light, wooden accents that match the hardwood floor. e simple colors pair well with the daylight that shines through the two 12-paned glass garage doors that could presumably be rolled up when the temperature rises above freezing. Meraki Coffee & Co. Café opened its doors on Monday, Feb. 18 and stayed open the entire following week for Eugene locals to come in and escape the cold of the “snowmageddon.” Located on 1203 Willamette St., the café sits on the newly renovated strip that also houses the popular Claim 52 Brewing Kitchen and the eclectic restaurant and retailer, Saucefly. e coffee shop serves local roasts from Equiano and Pacori, as well as avocado toast, oatmeal, soup from Soup Nation and an assortment of local bakery goods. Owner Alexandria Marchant has had the idea for such a coffee shop for over eight years but never found the right opportunity to make it happen. en, Marchant’s familyfriend brought the availability of this spot to her attention. “A family friend knew that I had always wanted to do this because I had talked about it in the past,” Marchant said. “We literally found the spot before we did the planning.” From there, it was a bit of a fire drill for Marchant to get everything ready to open the café. Luckily, for eight years, Marchant spent lots of time visiting other coffee shops, detailing what she likes, doesn’t like, and then applying that to her vision. When a space finally became available, it was just the about putting it all together in a way that would fit her dream. “I wanted something that’s cozy but kind of modern. I don’t want anyone to feel like they’re not
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welcome,” Marchant said. “I really like detail, and I kind of drive myself crazy because I just obsess over all of every last little thing.” is attention to detail and desire for everything to be perfect are extremely evident, regardless of the time restraints this vision was accomplished under. e coffee blends were hand-picked by Marchant to provide the best-tasting coffee possible. “We tried a lot of coffee — a lot — before we chose somebody,” Marchant said. Equiano coffee even created a unique roast for Meraki to use in their espressos. e cold brew coffee is delicious, so much so that it hardly needs add-ins like milk and sugar because it is so smooth. On the warmer spectrum, the mocha is the perfect mix between sweet, creamy and rich, composing one of the better mochas in town. e food available at Meraki is not something to gloss over. e avocado toast comes in a few varieties with a choice of white or sourdough bread and a choice of chilli flakes or everything seasoning on top. e avocado is mixed with lime juice and herbs placed on top of a thick, toasted slice of bread. As for the pastries, Marchant has yet to settle on a set assortment of items as she searches for the perfect bakery to be their supplier. e intricate, hand-painted murals on either end of the café is another aspect that makes Meraki so aesthetically satisfying. Both swirly, floral-heavy paintings were handmade by Marchant’s husband’s cousin, Curtis Duke. Duke painted the murals and designed the artistic Meraki logo by utilizing his experience as a tattoo artist at Black Label, a local tattoo parlor that specializes in high-end tattoos. All of these details — from the coffee blends to the murals on the walls — create a perfect atmosphere to relax and think. Coffee shops should be the perfect place to contemplate and get work done while enjoying good food and even better coffee — Meraki Coffee & Co. understands this and executes it perfectly.
Avocado toast is one of the most popular snacks at Meraki Coffee & Co. (Madi Mather)
A customer waits in line at Meraki Coffee & Co. e new cafe is located near downtown Eugene. (Madi Mather)
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MAKES A COMEBACK e summer before Kate Murphy arrived as a student at the University of Oregon, she was diagnosed with popliteal artery entrapment syndrome, a rare vascular disease affecting the main artery that runs behind the knee. (Madi Mather)
BY SHAWN MEDOW • TWITTER @SHAWNMEDOW As Kate Murphy ran along Pre’s Trail for a photoshoot with the Emerald, she stopped and took off her winter coat. Underneath, she was dressed for the occasion. “I wore my Penn Relays jacket for this,” Murphy said while stroking the right sleeve that reads “Penn.” At the shoot, she couldn’t contain her smile. e jacket from the Penn Relays is one of the few items connecting her to her running past. It’s a momento from a successful young career with Penn Relays glory and a spot in the 2016 USATF Olympic Trials. She never had a photoshoot as a member of the Oregon track and field
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team. She never raced in an Oregon uniform. She never will. In October 2018, Murphy medically retired from Oregon because of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome, a rare vascular disease affecting the main artery that runs behind the knee. But Murphy, now a UO sophomore, is running again, trying to get her career back on track. Murphy was a top runner in the nation during high school. She was just a junior when she qualified for the 2016 Olympic Trials, where she ran 4 minutes, 14.52 seconds in the 1,500-meter semifinal, and she won the Adidas Dream in the
women’s 1,500 meters with a time of 4:07.21 time to qualify for the Trials. Everything appeared to be going right, but something was wrong. In the fall, she began to feel symptoms. Eventually her legs felt like “bricks.” She visited a variety of doctors, ranging from vascular to endocrine, but they couldn’t figure out what was causing the pain. When she extended her foot, the blood flow wouldn’t go beyond her knees. “My feet would either be numb or ghostly white, or they’d be burning. ... It wasn’t just running but I think running made it worse,” she said. “It was like tingling, pins and needles. It was like electric shocks up my
legs. It compressed the nerves, the arteries and the blood vessels, so it was just like everything. It was so uncomfortable to run too. I had to stop.” Murphy was diagnosed the summer before she arrived in Oregon. “I was immediately like, ‘OK, when’s the surgery?” she said. She wanted to get back to running as soon as possible. After the surgeries, Murphy missed the fall and winter seasons with rehab. She began working with Oregon’s distance athletic trainer, Grant Wilson, who helped her through the hard times. “He was one of the main reasons
had airplane reservations. We had I was like, ‘No, I’ve got to tough it all set up to go. Our expectations this out,’” Murphy said. “I think were following what she was during that time when I was really telling us. Her real belief was struggling, I just needed somebody that she was going to be running. to push me along and encourage She kept hitting these walls me so I could get back.” where she got injured.” Murphy was fighting. Even Now, Murphy is slowly returning, with Wilson’s encouragement running 15 to 20 miles a week with and rehab, she wasn’t making 5 to 7 hours of cross-training. Her progress quickly enough. goal is to be at 30 to 40 miles by the She watched on as her friends summer to get back to competing. and teammates competed. She In the back of her mind, making couldn’t travel with the team for the 2020 Olympic Trials is not meets. at was tough for Murphy. out of the question. e Trials, Nearly 3,000 miles away in which will be held in Eugene, Virginia, her father, Howard, didn’t would require a qualifying process know how much she was struggling. — something she had to do in “She kept telling us she was going 2016 as a high schooler. to race but we didn’t know,” he said. “It’s a year-and-a-half away, and I “Maybe she felt like she was letting could make it again if I wanted to,” us down. at’s just her perception Murphy said. “If I want to aim for of it. Our perception of it, of course that goal, I just really have to focus.” — you’ve got to get healthy. We don’t roughout her experience put any pressure on her.” dealing with injury, For Murphy, she has reached she just wanted to out to many online protect them. to share her story “I didn’t reach and hear stories out to my family from others. as much because I “She has a lot of didn’t want them to friends all over the know I was really country, all over struggling,” she the world actually,” said. “I think it was Howard said. “She because I wanted has an amazing set them to know of people who keep I was fine and I up with her.” didn’t want them to Going under worry from across the username the globe.” “trackmurphy,” the Fast forward 19-year-old has more to April and than 9,500 followers Murphy still wasn’t on Instagram, while competing, and then her Twitter (@ she felt a pain in KATE MURPHY trackmurph) has her thigh. more than 3,000. It was a stress Murphy’s posts reaction in her following her injury became femur from a variety of sources: inspirational. In her Twitter bio, she increasing mileage too quickly, has Nike’s “No Excuses” commercial lack of stability in her knee with the punchline, “My feet hurt.” because of the surgeries and Her Instagram posts have lengthy not being in shape. and emotional captions. at ended any possibility of Her post on Feb. 11 reads, “When I her competing in the outdoor was 16, I would not allow myself to season. Six months later, let age limit my goals. As a 19-yearshe medically retired. old, I will not allow a vascular “It was kind of quick for us as disease to limit my goals. It’s a parents because she’s so optimistic,” psychological thing.” Howard said. “In reality, she wasn’t Murphy gets messages from telling us the whole story. I knew supporters; whether they are she was considering [medically fans or runners themselves, she retiring] but teenagers don’t always tells her story for others. tell you the whole story, so it came “It does make me really happy up on us. But now we’re acclimating that people reach out to me because to the whole idea of it.” it does make a difference, I think,” Murphy needed a fresh start, Murphy said. “I started realizing I’m a new beginning but didn’t going to show people that it’s not all want to leave Eugene. pretty. ere’s going to be so many “It was us mourning the NCAA more bad days than good days. career,” Howard said. “We had plans It’s gonna be hard.” to come to some of the events. We
IT WAS LIKE TINGLING, PINS AND NEEDLES. IT WAS LIKE ELECTRIC SHOCKS UP MY LEGS.”
Making strides toward recovery, Murphy runs 15 to 20 miles per week in addition to 5 to 7 hours of cross-training. (Madi Mather)
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OPINION GET OFF THE COLLEGE STRUGGLE BUS BY JOANNA MANN • TWITTER @JOANNAMANNDANCE e struggle is real — it’s a phrase we’ve all uttered in times of cramming for finals, having a bad hair day or eating ramen for the fifth night in a row. But is the struggle of being in college genuinely real? Or are we just forgetting how privileged we are to be here? It seems as if all college students do is complain about being in college. Yet it is difficult to fathom just how many people wish they could attend college but are unable to because of the financial burden or lack of time in their schedule. One Edward Jones study found that 83 percent of Americans say that they cannot afford a college education. is number is staggering yet understandable given how much tuition rates have risen in the 21st century alone. According to federal data, the inflation-adjusted price for undergraduate tuition, room and board rose 42 percent between 2000 and 2010. at number has only continued to increase over the past decade. is means that the select few who are able to go to college are those who come from affluent families or those who were able to have the time and resources to obtain scholarships and financial aid. We college students should be celebrating the opportunity we have to be here, not commiserating over some homework assignment we don’t want to do or an exam we don’t want to study for. “I definitely think that people aren’t self-aware in terms of how privileged they are to be here,” said Hannah Murawsky, a second-year UO student. It’s not just a myth that college students usually end up being more successful than those without a degree. On average, a college graduate with a bachelor’s degree will earn roughly 66 percent more money over the course of their life than someone with only a high school diploma. Staying in school is worth it. You can absolutely put up with a few years Shan Peterson studies art history at the EMU. (Madi Mather)
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of challenging academics in order to reap the benefits in the end. However, there are a few aspects of college that should not just be written off as first world problems. Many students who pay their own tuition have to balance rent payments, homework and a full work schedule. is leaves little to no time to focus on their own self and take a mental health day once in a while. “For some people, they understand that it’s a privilege to be here, but they’re also struggling to do what they want to do,” said Murawsky. Another real college struggle is that most students are learning to take care of themselves for the first time. is experimental period tests one’s physical and emotional health to the max, and you have to set your own boundaries since your parents aren’t there to do it for you. “Most college students probably don’t take care of themselves as well as they would want to or should,” said Rio Solano, another second-year UO student. “ e freedoms that college grants you are being thrown at you all at once, and you just have to figure it out on your own.” It is possible that many of the “struggles” college students complain about are just the results of low selfdiscipline. Falling behind in classes is easy to do when you choose to stay out late instead of studying, and feeling lethargic can largely be attributed to not learning to cook for yourself properly. With the exception of those who are truly working as hard as they can to go to work and afford school on their own, the majority of the “struggles” we college students complain about will disappear as soon as we decide to grow up. Instead of dwelling on the minor inconveniences we face each day, let’s be thankful that we even have tests to study for and goals to work towards. e struggle only becomes real when we forget those privileges.
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Recommends e snow is beginning to melt and students are back to class. Week eight was basically cancelled, which means week nine is on the horizon and approaching with unforeseen intensity. You might be looking forward to getting back to work, but even if you’re not, take solace in the fact that spring break is right around the corner. As you gear up for the end of the term, set aside some time to listen to a new album or watch a few impactful movies — they might be just what you need to get through the week.
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After three years since her last album, Solange recently released her newest project, “When I Get Home.” (Creative Commons)
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is weekend was University of Oregon’s Queer Film Festival. Although the festival ended Sunday, you can still catch many of the films online. Two standouts, “But I’m a Cheerleader” and “Appropriate Behavior,” are both available to stream on Amazon. “But I’m a Cheerleader” stars a young Natasha Lyonne (“Orange is the New Black”) as the cheerleader who discovers she is lesbian after she is forced to attend a gay conversion camp. “Appropriate Behavior” is Desiree Akhavan’s feature film (director of “ e Miseducation of Cameron Post”). Akhavan stars as a bisexual woman exploring her sexuality after a failed relationship. Check out more of the features, including UO student-made short films, at http://qff.uoregon.edu.
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After three long years of replaying Solange’s notable album “A Seat at the Table,” the artist has finally come back with her newest project “When I Get Home.” ough this album is only 39 minutes long (despite having 19 tracks), it takes you through a neo-soul journey. Filled with sounds that mimic a live performance, Solange has made something that could be used to ease anyone into relaxation. Solange is from Houston, Texas, so it is only right that her album represents the hip-hop culture that is present there, while being styled her own way. is is a good recommendation if you are heavily stressed out by the week nine workload and need to hear something soothing. One critique of the album might be that it is not long enough, but luckily there is some replay value — listening to it on repeat a few times might be good for you. (See review on page 6).
“THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT” FILM SCREENING On ursday, March 7, the University of Oregon Department of History will host a special screening of the 2017 film “ e Chinese Exclusion Act.” e film is an award-winning documentary directed by Ric Burns — the younger brother of fellow documentarian Ken Burns — that focuses on the 1982 American prohibition on Chinese immigration. It originally aired on PBS as part of the awardwinning American Experience series. After the screening, there will be a Q&A discussion with Mae Ngai, a professor of history at Columbia University and the author of the book “Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America,” which explores the history of United States immigration policies. is year, Ngai is also the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics at UO. e screening will begin at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will also be provided.
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e Baylor Bears perform their team routine at Matthew Knight Arena. (Sarah Northrop)
e Ducks execute a pyramid in their close loss to Baylor, ending with a score of 267.905 compared to their opponent’s 285.150. (Sarah Northrop)
IN RIVALRY MEET, NO. 2 OREGON FALLS TO NO. 1 BAYLOR IN FIRST LOSS OF SEASON BY MAGGIE VANONI • TWITTER @MAGGIE_VANONI One team has been waiting years to change the narrative. e other wanted to even the score after a heartbreaking loss two years ago. In the biggest meet of the season, both the Oregon and Baylor acrobatics & tumbling teams fought neck-and-neck until a collapse in the final event secured one the victory. e No. 2 Oregon Ducks (3-1) fell to their longtime rival, the No. 1 Baylor Bears (4-0), Sunday evening at Matthew Knight Arena, 285.150 to 267.905. “ is rivalry is just always going to be what it is,” Oregon head coach Keenyn Won said. “I love when we have teams that can go head-to-head like this. I think it just continues to propel our sport the way we want it to.” Baylor’s win extended its program streak to 23 consecutive meets and tied the team’s series overall record at 12-12. e Bears’ win marked Oregon’s first loss of the season.
“Of course, I’d like to be ahead all the time — everyone would. But it’s so much fun when you’re neck-and-neck,” Baylor head coach Felecia Mulkey said. “You love that. It’s so much fun to compete against Oregon because they’re good, and it raises everyone’s standard and raises the bar.” In the compulsory event, Oregon outscored the Bears in the pyramid heat with a score of 9.80. Baylor won the other three heats of the event, highlighted by a 9.95 in the toss heat. e Bears finished the event with 38.75 meet score, as Oregon followed closely behind with 38.05. e Ducks dominated in the acro event, sweeping the Bears in every heat. e closest Baylor got was in heat one, falling just 0.05 of a point short of Oregon’s winning score of 9.85. With victories in each of the three heats, Oregon earned a 29.25 in the event and took the lead in the meet score with a 67.65
compared to Baylor’s 67.30. “Winning acro event, I think that was a really big high for us because we have been working so hard to improve that event as a whole,” Oregon senior Casi Jackson said. “I think we really just went out there and did what we knew how to do, and that was our biggest high of the day.” Both teams scored 9.90 in the opening heat of the pyramid event — a season-high mark in the heat for the Ducks. But thanks to winning the following two heats, Baylor used a 27.70 event score to move back on top of the Ducks, 97.35-96.60, at the meet’s intermission. e Bears then took the victory in toss event. Despite the teams tying once again in the opening heat, each scoring 9.65 in the 450 Salto heat, the Bears dominated the last two heats and won the event 29.35-19.45. Baylor swept the tumbling event and separated itself in the meet score with its largest lead of 184.80
to Oregon’s 181.925. Oregon did earn a season-high of 8.70 in the third heat by purposefully starting with its lowest starting-score, 9.10. Despite a season-high score of 95.43 in the team event, one of Oregon’s pyramids collapsed during the final event of the meet. is took away any chance Oregon had at a comeback as the Bears secured the victory with an event score of 100.35. Baylor then won the meet with a final score of 285.15 to Oregon’s final meet score of 277.355. “[ e] team event was not what we expected,” Won said. “We have been doing really well at practice at that, so it’s defiantly something we have to go to the drawing board and just get more confident in the execution in that piece.” e Ducks will travel down to Azusa, California, to face off in its second away meet of the season. Oregon will compete against Azusa Pacific University on Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 p.m.
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Despite surrendering four runs over six innings with eight strikeouts and six groundouts, Ducks right-handed pitcher Ryne Nelson (29) exited with the lead against Loyola Marymount University. (Ben Green)
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WINS SIXTH IN A ROW WITH 7-6 VICTORY BY MAVERICK PALLACK • TWITTER @MAVPALLACK After taking the first five games of its two-week swing against West Coast Conference teams, Oregon baseball took the field for game three against Loyola Marymount, looking to secure its second series sweep of 2019. Despite the bullpen’s fourth blown save of the season, Oregon was victorious with a two-run seventh inning, which set the table for Nico Tellache’s second save on the weekend. “I think we responded really well,” Tellache said. “ ey put up a number, we put one right back and then a shutdown inning. I think we did a good job of not crumbling and getting after it.” Following Brett Walker’s blown save in the seventh, Tellache pitched two scoreless innings of relief to not only follow up his 1.1 inning save on Friday, but to secure the 7-6 win and sweep over LMU. “Nico was certainly our hottest reliever this weekend,” head coach George Horton said. “I know he wants to be that guy that we call ‘the stopper.’” Although not great like Friday and Saturday, Oregon pitched well
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enough to win Sunday’s game. In the first two games of the series, Oregon starting pitchers Cullen Kafka and Cole Stringer combined for 11.1 innings, one earned run and 10 strikeouts. Sunday’s starter Ryne Nelson was not as strong, surrendering four runs over six innings with eight strikeouts and six groundouts. He did, however, leave with the lead. “ ey did a nice job against our pitching today,” Horton said. “Instead of us self destructing, we threw the ball over the plate and [LMU] did a good job. We’re never gonna question our guys when they throw the ball over the plate instead of walking or hitting guys.” Trailing 6-5, Oregon’s top of the order orchestrated a two-run inning to record the final lead change of the game. A Sam Novitske walk and a Johnny DeLuca single set the table for shortstop Spencer Steer’s game-tying RBI single. “I was just looking for a ball over the plate,” Steer said. “You know, trying to keep it simple, not trying to do too much, and
trying to get a base hit.” After DeLuca was erased on a fielder’s choice hit by Gabe Matthews, Jakob Goldfarb stepped to the plate looking to knock in the go-ahead run. He wouldn’t get that chance though, as LMU reliever Matt Voelker balked, allowing DeLuca to trot home for the eventual game-winning run. Oregon’s first runs of the game came in the first on a two-run home run by Matthews. Freshman left fielder Tanner Smith had a twoout RBI single in the second and in the fourth to raise his batting average to .387. He later scored in the fourth on a Novitske single. “We have a bunch of confidence in our lineup,” Steer said. “We know one through nine, we’ve got really good hitters up-and-down the order.” Oregon will have a one-game stop in Portland on Tuesday to take on the Pilots before heading to Hawaii for a four-game series starting ursday. “Portland’s been tough on us and we’ll start with that,” Horton said. “Hawaii’s been a challenge on us back when we used to go there all the time. It’s always difficult to win there.”
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