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The Next Step The Hi-Fi was a staple venue for Eugene music. After it closed, Sessions Music Hall emerged as Hi-Fi co-founder Danny Kime’s latest vision for the space, continuing the venue’s legacy.

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e University of Oregon is partnering with Oregon Health & Science University to form a joint Center for Biomedical Data Science that will provide students and faculty with new opportunities for cancer research collaborations. e center will include up to 20 researchers and their teams to analyze OHSU’s patient data, according to Around the O. is continues UO’s new Presidential Data Science Initiative, which is working to include data in department research across the university, according to the Data Science Program about page. “ e reason this makes so much sense is that as we are able to measure more and more variables related to a person’s genes and proteins and cells,” said Dr. Robert Guldberg, UO vice president and executive director of the Knight Campus. “Data analytics and artificial intelligence and those different areas are helping to predict complex systems, and there are complex systems all around us. Cancer is a great example of that.” e center will be an extension of data science research between UO’s Knight Campus, which is currently under construction in Eugene, and OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute in Portland. Each institution will provide space for the partnership’s research teams, according to the Register-Guard. “To make something really big like this happen really takes the stars aligning,” Guldberg said. He said it’s the vision of the president and other UO faculty members, as well as their colleagues at OHSU, that has come together to create the partnership and all that they hope it will accomplish. Dr. Brian Druker, director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, emphasized the immediate need for cancer treatment. “I can’t tell a patient to be patient. ey need something today,” Druker said. “Too many patients get diagnosed with cancer too late,

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and we often don’t have something for them. We need something for those patients now, but we need to prevent that from happening by diagnosing cancer earlier.” Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny have been major financial supporters of both Knight institutions. Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle and his wife Mary also recently gave the university $10 million to support the research efforts, according to Around the O. “A good portion of the gift from Tim and Mary Boyle is going to be directed towards providing greater opportunities for students and being able to attract great students to come and participate in this center,” Guldberg said. “ ere will be fellowships and scholarships and funding for student research.” Druker said that both institutions are committed to involving underrepresented student demographics. He hopes diversification of student involvement with this research will translate to impactful discoveries for his patients. “My longterm goal is to have this remarkable, energetic group of young individuals that believe they can change the world, and give them the tools to do that,” Druker said. A senior director, who would act as a liaison between the two campuses, has not yet been hired. ere will be a national and international search for the ideal candidate, Guldberg said. Each university has agreed to pay up to $1 million per year for five years to cover the director’s salary and expenditures, according to the Register-Guard. Guldberg said he wants to continue the Knight Campus’s mission of doing world class science that translates discovery into societal impact at the quickest rate possible and said he hopes this is the first of what will be many centers affiliated with the Knight Campus.

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Bad Suns has its crowd wave lighters and cell phone flashes. Alt-rock band Bad Suns sells out HiFi Music Hall in Eugene, Ore. on March 1, 2019. (Sarah Northrop/Emerald)

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ormer University of Oregon Provost Jayanth Banavar resigned effective July 1, and he has passed the torch to his successor: Patrick Phillips. Phillips, who has worked at the university since 2000 as both an educator and an administrator (including two years as the executive director of the Knight Campus), said he plans to strengthen the school’s role as a benefit to the state. In doing so, he hopes to make the University of Oregon “one of the nation’s top public research institutions,” as well as a

representative of Oregon’s character as a state — referring to both the region’s natural beauty and its culture that captivated him after moving from California. Phillips said he wanted to become provost because he loves universities. “When I found out as a freshman in college that I could actually make my living never leaving college — that was an easy decision for me,” he said. “My favorite day of the year is move-in day when I see all the hope and the families working together and moving in and the dads carrying the

Patrick Phillips wanted to become provost because he loves universities. (Charlie Litchfield/UO Communications)

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refrigerators in.” Citing Phillips’s successful history of leadership, UO President Michael Schill called Phillips “one of the UO’s most productive and prolific scientists” in a university-wide message about his appointment to the provost position. As the top academic officer, the provost sets priorities for the whole institution, managing finances and faculty and coordinating between staff and administration. Phillips is inheriting a $34 million budget deficit, with rising costs and uneven budget cuts. UO raised tuition by 6.9 percent for in-state residents while slicing $11.6 million from various campus employees and programs, a decision that some felt hit departments, like the arts and humanities, disproportionately. e situation is complex and the path forward is unclear, but the choices he makes in handling the effects of the budget crisis will inevitably ripple. In an interview with the Emerald, Phillips said that the Office of the Provost must pay attention to the funding balance to ensure that tuition dollars go toward students. Phillips said the solution begins with the need to “fully embrace our mission as a public university, one firmly grounded in the strengths, values, opportunities and challenges of our very unique state.” Becoming a valuable research institution for the state at large, he said, will increase the university’s value to the state and help secure funding in the long term. “It’s an investment to the whole state to have students who are doing well. And the opposite is also true — if we have students who are being driven underwater, that’s going to hurt the state,” Phillips said. “Right now, we are shifting the burden so much on students that we forget or miss the point that investment in a public education helps the entire state.” Before his new position started, Phillips used the time to meet with deans and faculty to learn about what each department is working on, what they need or want and how they operate at the ground level. He

said those discussions will continue through the summer. “Listening will be the first order of the day, and I know that each of the colleges and schools have existing plans and dreams that I am eager to hear about,” Phillips wrote in a letter to his colleagues after being chosen. “One of my primary goals as provost is to make sure that we weave together previously unconnected strengths and ideas in a way that advances the institution as a whole.” He also addressed the budget problem in a letter to university staff after being chosen as provost. “A top challenge for this — and every — university is the increasing cost of education and the rising question of whether what we do is worth it to the student,” Phillips wrote. “In all that we do, we must serve students first.” Schill’s announcement alluded to that search for a budgetary balance as well. “Patrick fiercely believes that achieving our academic ambitions and serving the next generation of students will require a holistic approach that requires world-class offerings from the arts, humanities, and professional programs,” Schill wrote, just a few months after a round of cuts made in May which some felt disproportionately affected the arts and humanities side of the university. Immediate issues like the budget deficit will likely take first priority, but Phillips also has a vision for growth. Part of that vision is to capitalize on Oregon’s qualities as a state in the making — to become, as he put it, a “university in Oregon,” not just a “university of Oregon.” As a native Californian, Phillips decided to continue his career in Oregon after falling in love with the state’s culture and nature, qualities he hopes to infuse into the identity of the institution. “We have this educational role for students, but I also think that we have a broader societal role in terms of being kind of intellectual leaders and have the potential at least to talk about policy,” Phillips said. He said because Oregon is still a growing state, the university can

7 ARTS & CULTURE

David CP Placencia of Wheel Haus Arts sells his art along with his students’ art at a booth during the First Friday ArtWalk held by the Lane Arts Council on July 5, 2019. (Marissa Willke/Emerald)

CELEBRATING ARTS AND COMMUNITY AT THE FIRST FRIDAY ARTWALK BY FRANKIE KERNER People of all ages spilled out of Kesey Square into the streets of downtown Eugene on July 5. A balloon animal artist crafted balloons into different shapes, a performer spun plates atop a long stick and artists painted and drew pictures live while people strolled through. “Art is for everybody,” said Liora Sponko, Executive Director of Lane Arts Council. On the first Friday of each month, Lane Arts Council and the City of Eugene throw the event that’s been running for more than two decades. ere is a guided tour that participants can choose to follow, where organizers explain all the features and answer questions. People can also wander at their own pace, milling around the streets of downtown with a corresponding map of all the venues and sights. “We believe arts and culture is the best way to bring people together and build community,” Sponko said, detailing the importance of making art accessible to all. e event is free, complete with live music and the opportunity to view local art. Over the eight years Sponko has worked for Lane Arts Council organizing this event, she’s seen it fluctuate in attendance. e ArtWalk is only becoming stronger and more accessible to a wider audience, she said. “I’m seeing a lot more people attending

the ArtWalk, and different ages, different demographics — it’s really becoming a true community event,” Sponko said. In 2018, 1,145 artists and 60 arts venues participated in the event over the course of a year.

“We believe arts and culture is the best way to bring people together and build community.” Every First Friday features five different attractions on the guided tour. is year’s features included the Design Arts Apprenticeship Showcase, which had arts and products designed by students through Lane Arts Council’s design apprenticeship program. New murals and art installations by artists Valentina Gonzales, Santiago Uceda and Julie Anderson were available for people to check out on the tour as well.

But visual art is not the only featured medium of the ArtWalk. Each month, a different musical artist is featured at First Friday. is time, local group Sara B3 & 45 RPM Soul Revue took the stage on the corner of Kesey Square. Paying tribute to funk and soul artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s, they had the whole crowd dancing. Highenergy throwbacks enticed passersby to move closer to the music and engage with the event. Dance is another arts medium participants can experience. Oregon Contemporary eatre hosted Instaballet, which provides the opportunity for people to choreograph dances with professional dancers. It breaks down the wall between dancer and audience, allowing for participants to get firsthand experience dancing with professionals. In the future, Liora Sponko hopes to make the event even larger, blocking off the streets to create more of a festival feel. She and Lane Arts Council “look forward to growing ArtWalk as an evolving platform for creative possibilities and a uniquely accessible venue for arts experiences of all kinds.” e next First Friday will be on August 2 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. For more information on First Friday and Lane Arts Council, visit lanearts.org.

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RENOVATIONS TO SESSIONS MUSIC HALL PUT A NEW TWIST ON A MUSIC LEGACY BY EMILY GOODYKOONTZ, GINA SCALPONE & DONNY MORRISON

Aaron Holmes and Jana Meszaros move an old feature of HiFi Music Hall and discuss the future of the art piece. (Dana Sparks/Emerald)

e music venue once known as the Hi-Fi Music Hall in downtown Eugene has been ripped apart. Renovations are messy and some areas have been torn down to the studs, revealing graffiti tags behind unfinished wood frames. In its current state, the back room is unrecognizable, though some remnants of its past are strewn about — a link to the place’s history. But when it’s complete, it will be totally transformed into Sessions Music Hall. For more than 20 years, the venue has been through multiple ownership changes and unsuccessful rebrandings. But Danny Kime, cofounder of Hi-Fi and current owner of Sessions, says the venue’s latest iteration is his next step in cementing it as one of Eugene’s premiere music spots. When he was 16 years old, Kime walked into Portland’s Crystal Ballroom, a three-story music venue with floors that shake and move when filled to max capacity. e hallways were lined with posters from past performances, PA G E 6

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outlining a rich history built of art and dancing, all influenced by people like Kime, who came for music but left with something just as valuable — a sense of community. “I used to be the guy that complained about Eugene not having a venue like that, until one night over a cocktail a friend of mine asked me, ‘Why don’t you just do it?’” Kime said. at’s exactly what Kime did when he partnered with Mike Hergenreter in 2015 to open the Hi-Fi Music Hall. But in December 2018, after a protracted legal battle between the partners, HiFi closed, though it continued to host shows sporadically. Before their split, Kime and Hergenreter built a new identity for the building at 44 E 7th Ave. as a thriving, accessible music venue in the heart of Eugene. With two stages under one roof, an outside seating area with food carts and garage doors opening into the lounge and bar, the venue became an essential piece of architecture in the landscape of Eugene’s music scene.

Hi-Fi was known as a place where both big name touring artists and local musicians could anticipate high-quality sound and a crowd. Word of Hi-Fi’s closing hit Eugene’s music community hard. “I was like, ‘Oh god, what is it going to be now? e best thing in town is going to be another dance club,’” said Ramzi Habib, guitarist for local band Astro Gala. “When you’re a musician, there’s definitely only a handful of places you can play.” But Kime, who signed a new lease and reopened as Sessions Music Hall in March 2019, intends to carry on the musical legacy in Eugene with a twist. He said that with the reopening of Sessions, none of the venue’s fundamentals will change — and that it will emerge better than before. “It’s the type of art and culture I’d like to have access to in the city I live in,” Kime said. From the “Hodeo” to the Hi-Fi Before the building became Hi-Fi or Sessions, it had many incarnations

through the years as a nightlife hotspot in Eugene. For over two decades, Rock ’n Rodeo, a country-themed bar that had a rough reputation, occupied the building. According to Emerald archives, it started as a line-dancing club in the early 1990s, but by the turn of the millennium, it was known for its bar brawls and nicknamed the “Hodeo.” Despite a rebrand and a sale to new owners, the Rock ‘n Rodeo finally closed its doors in 2008 and was replaced by a series of short-lived clubs. Nightclubs Studio 44 and Dusk both lasted less than six months, according to Emerald archive reporting. After Studio 44 and before Dusk, a venue called the Rok Nightclub and Sportsbar lasted a few years but failed to make much of an impact. When Kime and Hergenreter started the Hi-Fi Music Hall in 2015, it opened with big acts like the Cold War Kids and Robert DeLong. Kime and Hergenreter told the Emerald

they were to be perfectly matched for each other and the bad luck hanging over the venue seemed to finally have dissipated. But just two years later, their partnership ended and Hergenreter sued Kime in August 2018, alleging that Kime excluded him from the company and they could no longer work together. According to the court documents, Tree House 6, the company under which they operated the Hi-Fi Music Hall, was nearing bankruptcy. e judge sided with Hergenreter, and a Eugene attorney was given possession and control of Tree House 6’s assets as part of a thirdparty receivership in October 2018. Tree House 6 was dissolved and its assets were sold to pay down any of the business’s outstanding debts. Hergenreter’s wife bought all the assets, which included lights, headphones, and some sound equipment, for $10,501 in March. Both Hergenreter and Kime declined to comment on their split or the circumstances that led to it. Kime announced that he was rebranding Hi-Fi as Sessions Music Hall on March 12, the same day he filed the business licensing paperwork. However, the same day Kime announced Hi-Fi’s rebranding, the Emerald contacted Hergenreter, who wrote in an emailed response that it was not a rebrand at all. “My former partner is attempting to re-open a new business, under new ownership & name, copying the business formate (sic) that was created by HiFi Music Hall,” he wrote. Hergenreter did not respond to questions about the split or lawsuit after this initial correspondence. Kime is now operating the venue as Sessions under his new company, Dankshaca, LLC, according to documents filed with the Oregon Secretary of State. e venue has much of the same staff, same management and the same sound company, Kime said. “We’ve learned a lot from our wins, but even more from our mistakes at Hi-Fi and are happy to have the opportunity to reimagine, redesign and start fresh with Sessions Music Hall,” Kime said. “All of those ‘I really wished we had done it this way’ moments are being resolved.” Sessions looks toward the future, cultivating local music Nico Bisio — a University of Oregon student and local DJ known as Bizio — has worked with Kime for over two years at Hi-Fi and Sessions. With the support of the venue, Bisio began hosting weekly events in 2016 called Soul Tribe Sundays in the lounge at Hi-Fi. It’s a night featuring underground house music, what he described as “a high-consciousness, high-vibe, dance-oriented community event where everybody feels safe.” Kime’s support of Soul Tribe helped

reinvigorate the underground house music scene in Eugene, which Bisio said is no easy feat for a Sunday night event with a niche sound. Turnout for Soul Tribe Sundays was initially low. “Weeklys are a long game — you have to be able to wait and let the night grow gradually,” said Bisio. “It’s hard to find a venue that is willing to eat some shit with you and then continue to work with you, help and share resources with you. ey really understand that it’s a symbiotic relationship.”

“I USED TO BE THE GUY THAT COMPLAINED ABOUT EUGENE NOT HAVING A VENUE LIKE THAT, UNTIL ONE NIGHT OVER A COCKTAIL A FRIEND OF MINE ASKED ME, ‘WHY DON’T YOU JUST DO IT?’” Kime said the event has become one of Sessions’ most popular nights, drawing crowds of up to 200. “It’s become a community. It’s a family and the venue has really helped cultivate that,” Bisio said. Sessions closed intermittently throughout spring and summer as Kime and his partners renovate the venue and wait for a permanent liquor license from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Bisio’s Soul Tribe Sundays took a hiatus. Other venues offered to host the popular night, but Bisio said he felt loyalty Kime and Sessions. “All the elements that make it such a great space there — the impeccable sound quality, the awesome flow of the space, the way it looks in there, the staff — just everything they have going on there that’s so magical. I didn’t feel right doing Soul Tribe anywhere else so I waited for them to reopen,” he said. “It’s supposed to be a welcoming place because music should be a welcoming and healing experience for everybody.” Bisio said that during the transition to Sessions, the venue lost assets like decor and couches. “We’re working on getting more deco in the lounge and getting the ambiance to be awesome in there,” he said. “I’ve even put in a couch there and some lamps.”

e lounge is staying roughly the same with a few renovations. When the larger Sessions renovation is finished, the venue will still have two separate stages, a main bar area and a new speakeasy behind the biggest stage where patrons can order specialty cocktails and drinks. “We are becoming a dynamic destination,” Kime said. “We will have three rooms that can be twisted to transform into whatever atmosphere makes sense for the evening (within reason). With 10k square feet, we have room to work with.” Owner of Eugene dispensary Amazon Organics Shane Cavanaugh joined Kime in December 2019. e two are preparing the speakeasy to pivot into a cannabis lounge if Oregon makes public marijuana consumption legal. An Oregon senate bill that would have legalized pot lounges died in committee in May. “We know that there eventually will likely be an opportunity,” Kime said. “We see the way cannabis is moving and the music industry and cannabis growing hand in hand, so there’s opportunities there. What exactly that is, what that looks like, we’ll determine by the laws around it as they evolve.”

Sessions Music Hall closed again July 1 pending a new liquor license, which the venue has been without since December 2018. Kime said it’s an internal issue; he has to apply for a new license every time he signs with new partners, but he expects a permanent license will finally come through in two to three months. Kime said the OLCC will issue the venue temporary licenses for the six shows Kime already has lined up. Soul Tribe Sundays will continue through July but may be put on pause if a license doesn’t come through by August, Bisio said. “It’s hard running a venue — it’s a really hard business to stay in,” Bisio said. “It’s been a really amazing thing that this space has been able to stay open. And we’ve had our challenges there. But things are staying good. I’m really hopeful for the future.” When Sessions reopens, Kime sees many possibilities on the horizon, from a possible second venue to live streaming shows. “Who knows?” Kime said. “We will keep our eyes and ears open for all possibilities and analyze their potential on a case by case basis. For now, it’s one step at a time.”

Nate Hisamura, Shane Cavanaugh, Danny Kime and Aaron Holmes stand in front of the new Sessions sign. (Dana Sparks/Emerald)

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IN EUGENE THIS SUMMER BY HUNTER REED Once the school year comes to an end, Eugene can feel quite empty for University of Oregon students. e stillness of campus seems foreign. Your roommates, friends and most of UO are scattered around the globe and the onceclamorous Saturdays on 13th Avenue have become quiet. is is the perfect time to be a tourist in your own city and explore what Eugene has to offer. After months of being stuck indoors due to rainfall and unforeseen snowstorms, the Eugene community takes full advantage of the warm weather and clear skies by hosting events all summer long. Here’s a list of the Emerald’s top things to do in Eugene this summer:

Entertainment ranges from music to comedy, circus acts, “Haute trash” fashion shows and of course, incredible food. e fair runs from July 12 to 14. Ticket prices for the full weekend are $70, and one-day ticket prices range from $25 to $32.

1. EUGENE SATURDAY MARKET

ere’s nothing better than ending a summer day seeing your favorite musician. is is especially true when the performance is at a venue like the Cuthbert Amphitheater. e Amphitheater offers an open outdoor space with bench seating and a large lawn. Located outside of Alton Baker Park, Cuthbert is just a short walk from campus.

Looking for a way to immerse yourself in Eugene’s culture? e Saturday Market features local foods from vendors from around the state, organic produce from nearby farmers and a spectrum of art from Eugene artisans, all accompanied by live music. e market is located at the heart of downtown, on 8th and Oak, and open every Saturday until Nov. 9. With an average of 300 vendors selling each week, there’s something for everyone.

2. RELAY FOR LIFE: EUGENESPRINGFIELD

On July 12, e American Cancer Society hosts its annual Relay for Life at PK Park. Cheer on the participants who have spent months raising money for e American Cancer Society. Survivors of cancer run the first lap and caregivers take the second, with teams of donors finishing the race. e relay is a celebration of life and survival of a disease that is diagnosed to over 20,000 Oregonians each year.

3. OREGON COUNTRY FAIR’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY If you want to get away and escape reality for a weekend, make sure to visit the Oregon Country Fair. e fair creates events that allow you to explore art, nature and experiences in a safe and respected environment. is year is OCF’s 50th anniversary, so this one will certainly be special.

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4. EUGENE EMERALDS BASEBALL GAME

Head over to PK Park and catch a Eugene Emerald’s baseball game. ey’ll be having multiple series’ throughout the summer. Find a game that fits with your schedule and support Eugene’s local team.

8. EUGENE FOOD TRUCK FEST

Eugene is known for its local food scene, particularly its numerous food trucks. On Aug. 17 and 18, the Eugene Food Truck Fest arrives at PK Park. Go visit your most beloved food truck, or maybe even find a new favorite! Proceeds from the event will benefit e Eugene Mission, a local shelter.

9. OREGON FOOTBALL GAME

As summer winds down and football season approaches, get ready for fall term with some pre-season games. Fans hope for a promising 2019

season with new recruits and Justin Herbert’s return. e pre-season kicks off on Sept. 7 against the University of Nevada, followed by a game against the University of Montana on Sept. 14.

10. THE EUG PARADE 2019

Wrap up the summer season with the EUG Parade on Sept. 22. is year’s theme, “Steppin’ Out,” celebrates what makes Eugene unique through community organization. Participate and step out on the Eugene streets, or watch the parade march through downtown from the sidelines.

5. GO TO A CONCERT AT CUTHBERT AMPHITHEATER

6. THE LANE COUNTY FAIR

Lane County hosts its annual fair at the Lane Events Center. Come for carnival rides, magic shows and an X-games-style freestyle motocross performance. Fill up with Philly cheesesteaks and Hawaiin shaved ice, among other carnival foods. Enjoy all of this with performances from Chris Jansen, Life House and more. Tickets for adults are $9 and $6 for kids. (July 24-28)

Event goers relax on a lawn next to the market. e Eugene Saturday Market offers hundreds of vendors every Saturday from April to November in Downtown Eugene, Ore. (Maddie Knight/Emerald)

7. EUGENE PRIDE IN THE PARK

Celebrate the LGBTQ community at this year’s Pride in the Park, as well as the first-ever Pride March in Eugene. e march will begin at Spectrum, on 150 W. Broadway, at 10 a.m., making its way over to Alton Baker Park, this year’s destination for Pride in the Park. Festivities and celebrations will continue there. After Pride in the Park, at 8 p.m., Spectrum will be hosting Eugene’s Unveiled Queer Burlesque. As Eugene Pride in the Park’s motto goes, “Come out and be you!”

e Pride Festival boasts a large and colorful crowd of friends, families, vendors and performers in Alton Baker Park August 11, 2018. (Dana Sparks/Emerald)

OPINION BIPARTISANSHIP IS MOSTLY FUTILE IN TODAY’S POLITICAL CLIMATE BY DANIEL MILLER • TWITTER @DANIELMILLER549

Bipartisanship has long been perceived as a virtuous trait, but in today’s acrimonious political climate, capitulation towards the Republican Party should be out of the question because most of their ideas have become so extreme. ere is no middle ground when it comes to dealing with climate change. No money should ever go towards a border wall to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. No person should ever be denied healthcare. Because today’s politics are mostly driven by special interest groups, when Republicans and Democrats work together, the American people are almost always negatively affected in some manner because of it. Bipartisanship brought forth the Patriot Act, Obamacare, Wall Street deregulation, and an extremely bloated military budget needed for the current bombing of seven different countries and maintaining 800 military bases around the world. e kind of bipartisanship that most people seem to yearn for has recently occurred. Democrats Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy and Ro Khanna worked with Republican Mike Lee to pass a resolution that would end U.S. support to Saudi Arabia as they continue to bomb innocent Yemeni civilians. e resolution was still mostly split between party lines but, unfortunately, President Trump killed it with a veto. e country has seen a massive shift over the past few years where the majority of the American people favor the progressive policies that candidates such as Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, and Elizabeth Warren have been strong advocates for. Well over half the country now supports progressive policies such as Medicare for all, universal education, the Green New Deal, slapping strict regulations on Wall Street, and restoring a much higher corporate tax rate. As the presidential race begins to pick up, it is important to

pay attention to the language being used by centrist candidates such as Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar. Klobuchar has recently said that she wants to “bring back bipartisan talks” in regard to healthcare, and has tepidly endorsed the Medicare-for-all system. She also called the Green New Deal “fairly radical.” What is radical is the fact that millions of people can not afford health insurance and the sun will cook most life into extinction if carbon emissions are not drastically reduced within the next decade. e political strategy of the Democratic Party since Bill Clinton took office was to appeal to leftists during a campaign and slowly shift towards the right as Election Day gets closer, with hopes that the move would also appeal to many conservative voters. is triangulation method puts true progressives and those hoping for pragmatic change in a precarious situation. It is almost as if their preferred candidate is saying, “What are you going to do now, vote for the other guy? I’m the closest thing you have for any representation and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it. Either vote for me or stay home and run the risk of getting someone who doesn’t represent you at all elected.” Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown won reelection in Ohio by running a progressive campaign, while Blue Dog Democrat Joe Donnelly lost his reelection bid one state over in Indiana. Bernie Sanders convinced a room full of Trump supporters in West Virginia to support Medicare for all. In just two years, the seminal progressive party named Justice Democrats won seven congressional elections (including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), with no name recognition and without taking corporate PAC money. Republicans constantly cried foul and complained

about a lack of bipartisanship during the Obama years. He made the mistake of placating them, and as a result the country got Obamacare and conservatives got a Supreme Court pick. ey complained about executive overreach for every 276 signed executive orders over his eight-year term, but have said nothing about Trump signing 102 executive orders in his first two years. e list of Republican hypocrisy just over the past four years is enough to write an entire book about, and Mitch McConnell has once again changed the rules of the senate in order to rush through conservative judges across the country. ere is no middle ground with them, and spineless, centrist Democrats have repeatedly shown that they would rather acquiesce and complain about strident bullies instead of fighting for their constituents. Meanwhile, Republicans accomplished exactly what their donors paid them for. Centrism is finding a nice compromise between bad and worse; it is a tacit endorsement of the status quo. It is an intellectually lazy stance because it assumes that both ideas hold equal weight and deserve equal time for discussion, dismissing the fact that some ideas are just inherently awful. Compromises at this point will fail to give the American people what they want and need. e language being used by centrist candidates are filled with vacuous platitudes and clichés designed to mask coded language such as “access to healthcare” instead of fully promising that everyone will be insured. Do not fall for these linguistic traps; familiarizing oneself with policy substance is crucial in making sure the county no longer travels down the entropic path it has been on for the past four decades.

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One million women in the state of Oregon — over half of its female population — have experienced sexual or domestic violence, according to a 2018 report from the Women’s Foundation of Oregon. Rachel Collins, co-founder of Warrior Sisters, is well aware of these alarming numbers. So she has dedicated the last five years to help prevent the numbers from rising. Collins started Warrior Sisters to give women more than just free self-defense training. She also aimed to give women the tools of an empowerment-based education to prevent everyday disrespect and people violating their rights, no matter the space.

sexual assault, according to a report from Oregon.gov. “ e prevalence against violence against women has been true for a long time. It’s now getting a little more attention in a well-deserved way, but it’s not new,” Collins said. “It’s nice to be able to be here and have this service in a community when its sought out. It’s good for it to be here.” Every Sunday inside the confines of the Art of War MMA gym, Collins leads a group of about 15 to 25 women ranging in age from 12 to 70 years old. Collins, who has a background in the martial art of Krav Maga, teaches women how to use punches, elbows, knees

“We’re trying to give women the tools to leave a situation where they are unsafe or to be able to protect themselves and the people around them.” “One of the things that makes Warrior Sisters training different from your typical martial artsbased self-defense class is that we also incorporate knowledge of the fact that a lot of women have experienced trauma before,” Collins said. “We create the most effective, best training that we can.” In 2018, Lane County received 6,186 calls of domestic violence to crisis lines, second among the 36 counties in Oregon, and 1,151 calls of

and kicks as weapons in physical scenarios. She uses her background as a former worker in rape crisis centers to use empowerment selfdefense training to help women use their verbal skills to set boundaries. “ e things that makes our training distinct is that we focus on physical skills but also on verbal skills,” Collins said. “We’re trying to give women the tools to leave a situation where they are unsafe or to be able to protect themselves and

the people around them.” Heather Taylor, a volunteer assistant trainer, has been able to add her own personal tools during her time at Warrior Sisters over the past four years. Taylor is a survivor of assault and attended her first Warrior Sisters training in early 2015, and she hasn’t missed a Sunday since. “I instantly gravitated toward it because in the first training I felt empowered, and I felt way more confident and then I started building on those skills and here I am today,” Taylor said. Taylor now assists Collins in training the women who come through the doors of Warrior Sisters every Sunday, seeking education to help women feel prepared for everyday situations. “I absolutely love making a difference, especially in our own community,” Taylor said, “and empowering women to feel more confident about their day-to-day life and being able to defend themselves either in a verbal situation or with people in a position of power, but also being able to have those tools in their tool belt to feel confident.” Warrior Sisters has hosted seminars anywhere from the Florence library, a boxing gym in Portland, to middle and high schools throughout Oregon. Collins would like to see Warrior Sisters grow locally, moving from one training a week to two trainings a week and eventually, she aspires to become a full-time trainer. “I think the more trainings that we are able to give, the more women are able to serve, the more we are able to grow our community, and we can only do that with the kind of support that we’ve been lucky to have in the past five years,” Collins said.

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Over of women in Oregon are raped at least once during their lifetime (Women’s Foundation of Oregon)

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