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CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS
DIALOGUE 6 6 Publisher’s Note 10 Letters 12 From the President
INTRO 15 16 Campus News 20 Regenerating Vision 24 Heavy Metal 26 Art Heals 30 Profile: Andiel Brown 31 Bookmarks 32 The Best . . . Way Forward 34 Excerpt: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
OLD OREGON 45 47 Unstoppable Duck 51 To the Rivers, With Love 54 Class Notable: Matt Thomas of Townshend’s Tea 54 Class Notes 66 Duck Tale: The Difference a Dollar Made
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FEATURES
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HITTING THE RESET ON RESPECT When race-related events shook the UO campus, Allen Hall Advertising students decided they could not just stand by. BY HANNAH LEWMAN
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LIZARD TALES Why would an otherwise sane professor brave the desert heat to lasso a sagebrush lizard? BY TOM TITUS ON THE COVER A desert horned lizard perches upon the finger of a student in Tom Titus’ biology class, Amphibians and Reptiles of Oregon. Photo by Nicholas DePatie.
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SPRING 2017
TOP: RHIANNA GELHART; BOTTOM: CHARLIE LITCHFIELD