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BY RYAN NGUYEN • TWITTER @RYANJJNGUYEN Both of the campaigns putting forth candidates for next year’s vacant ASUO seats have announced their platforms on social media, and both platforms emphasize giving students more influence in campus decisions.

Ducks Together and United UO are the two ASUO campaigns this year, and they’ll be facing off for the 32 open spots in next year’s ASUO administration until election polls open on April 9.

Ducks Together Ducks Together describes itself as “the representation this campus needs,” according to its Facebook page. Its platform emphasizes ensuring students have influence in campus decisions and that the right of students to voice themselves on campus is protected. A major goal of the campaign is to institutionalize student voices in tuition decisions.

“Too often these decisions are made behind closed doors and without vast student input,” stated Ducks Together on its Facebook page, “and we are here to tell admin that we are not just a piggy bank, but that we have a seat at the table.”

Other goals of Ducks Together include protecting student access to resources such as Safe Ride,

counseling services and the Student Food Pantry.

Maria Gallegos is the Ducks Together candidate running for ASUO President, and she is campaigning alongside Ivan Chen for ASUO External Vice President and Imani Dorsey for ASUO Internal Vice President.

Gallegos said that she believes in community organizing — echoing the tagline of Ducks Together — because she has seen how it can bring communities together to collaborate on a common issue.

“No one will know more about the tuition increases than a student who just got priced out,” Gallegos said. “Students, community members [and] the people who are impacted by these decisions – they know what the issues are. They know what they need.”

“I know that when it’s organized and you do the work, people show up and people make a difference,” she added.

United UO United UO is focusing primarily on advocating for student voices and on making ASUO more transparent. It describes itself as “determined to give all students a voice and to make a difference in the

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Jacob Faatz is the United UO candidate for ASUO president, and he is bringing in Karishma Shah as the candidate for External Vice President. United UO does not have a candidate for Internal Vice President, and Faatz said that it was because he believes that it would be simpler to communicate with only one vice president.

Faatz also said that United UO wants to hold town halls with students and focus on ensuring student safety on campus and keeping offcampus housing affordable.

“I think that now more than ever, there needs to be more lighting on campus,” said Faatz, referencing the recent surge of crimes near campus.

ASUO will be holding a candidate town hall debate on Monday, April 5 from 4:30 to 6 p.m., with its location to be determined. Campaigns will push their positions on social media until ground campaigning begins and the 2018 ASUO election polls open on DuckWeb at 9 a.m. on Monday, April 9. The polls will close on Thursday, April 12, and election results will be posted on DuckWeb the same day by 6 p.m.

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The “March for Our Lives” in Eugene. The student-organized protest demanded gun legislation in response to school shootings. (Ryan Nguyen)

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BY RYAN NGUYEN • TWITTER @RYANJJNGUYEN When 15-year-old Jivan Jot Khalsa spoke in front of thousands of people during Eugene’s March for Our Lives on Saturday, she felt like she was going to cry.

“I felt super emotional because when I got up there to speak, I saw all these people here looking at me, treating me as equal — even though they’re like 40 or something,” Khalsa said.

Khalsa, a freshman at South Eugene High School, helped organize Eugene’s March for Our Lives event, which attracted thousands of participants. The march is part of a nationwide protest to demand “a comprehensive and effective bill” to end gun violence at schools, according to the official Eugene March for Our Lives Facebook page. The national March for Our Lives was inspired after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead.

Khalsa and other South Eugene High School students were outraged by the deaths of students, which inspired them to organize the march.

“It’s nice to see that people are here and actually showed up,” Khalsa said. “It’s very empowering, and it’s confirming that people want actual change.”

Some marchers held signs with handwritten messages that were scrawled with Sharpie markers, and others’ signs were more elaborate, such as the signs with professional illustrations of student activists. Some children held up signs they Jivan Jot Khalsa, a freshman at South Eugene High School, helped organize the “March for Our Lives” and also spoke at the march. (Ryan Nguyen)

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had drawn with colored markers.

“You’re the voice!,” “Protect kids, not guns!” and “Enough is Enough” are what some of the signs stated. One grandmother held a sign that said, “I march for my grandson’s safety.”

Speakers included members from the NAACP Eugene-Springfield branch, as well as student organizers of the march.

When a man began heckling Khalsa during her speech, some marchers began shouting him down and told him to “shut up.” Khalsa continued to speak during the minor interruption, which only lasted for a few minutes before security went to investigate.

Diane Peterson, 39, got involved in the local Eugene chapter of Moms Demand Action after the shooting at Charleston High School two years ago, and she wanted to participate in the March for Our Lives to support student activists.

“This is a problem that directly affects the youth of our country,” Peterson said. “This is not just a one-day thing.”

The march began at the Federal Courthouse at East 8th Avenue at noon and ended at 2 p.m. outside Whirled Pies Downtown at West 8th Avenue. Pyro Prodigies, a step dance group from Sheldon High School, performed outside of Whirled Pies at the end of the march.

Who marched Kira Stone, 16, and Ainsley Afelin, 17, are both students at Churchill High School in

A NEWS Eugene. They came to support their fellow students.

“I fear that my little sister who’s in elementary school could go through something like this and that I could lose her,” Stone said.

“It’s eye-opening seeing all these people being here,” Afelin said. “The fact that people are actually trying to make change and end gun violence is amazing.”

Sophia Reyes, 18, and Tyler Brown, 19, are an out-of-state couple and say that once they saw how politically active Eugene was, they wanted to show their support for causes that are important to them.

“It’s nice to see a community that embraces each others’ ideas and that comes together and creates such big impact on the community,” Reyes said. “One thing we feel like we can do to have our voices heard [is to march]. I feel like it’s an effective way to let our government know what we’re thinking about.”

“We’re from Vegas and not used to a community that’s so involved with each other,” Brown said.

Daniel King, 22, and

Bailey Garcia, 24, are former students of the University of Oregon and Southern Oregon University, respectively, and wanted to march in support of student safety.

“I think any event like this where people advocate for the change we need to see is comforting … just to know, even though politicians and the people in power aren’t listening to what we want, that people in general feel the same way about needing change,” King said.

“I am really close to Umpqua Community College and that was really stressful,” said Garcia, referencing a school shooting at UCC in 2015. “We’ve had canceled days at SOU for supposed threats that were terrifying. It’s important to keep the voices going to show — especially the Parkland students — that we have their back.”

Nathaniel, 13, is a student at Thurston Middle School. His mother has been talking to her son about what to do in a school shooting since he was in the third grade.

“Everyone has a voice,” Nathaniel said. “I hope that this is the start of change.”

Sophia Reyes and Tyler Brown participate in the “March for Our Lives.” (Ryan Nguyen)

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ARTS & CULTURE ‘HITLER VS PICASSO AND THE OTHERS’ AT THE BROADWAY METRO THEATER REVEALS THE NAZIS’ OBSESSION WITH ART

BY MAX EGENER

Art doesn’t always serve to expand one’s mind or represent complex ideas or culture. The context in which people present art influences how viewers perceive it. Picasso said painting “is an instrument of war, an offensive and defensive weapon against an enemy.” Sometimes art can be used maliciously, as the Nazis did in the years leading up to and throughout WWII. The potential of art to be used as propaganda is the foremost issue in the new documentary “Hitler vs Picasso and The Others.” The Broadway Metro theater in Eugene is showing the film during a special one-night-only event on Wednesday, April 4 at 6:45 p.m.

The film tells the story of how the Nazis looted museums and people’s personal art collections across Europe. It describes how the regime portrayed many stolen works of art and their artists as a threat to its autocratic, white-supremacist society.

Hitler, who was an aspiring professional artist in his younger years and rejected

by Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts twice, deemed modern works “degenerate art” and banned them across the empire.

The documentary revolves around five exhibitions, starting with the 1937 Nazi-curated Munich exhibit called “Degenerate Art,” which travelled to 12 cities in Germany and Austria. The exhibit intended to propagandize residents of those cities and cast 650 works of stolen art as contrary to Nazi ideals of Aryan beauty. The Nazis contrasted their framing

of so-called “degenerate art” with the “Great Exhibition of German Art,” which glorified the appreciation of art they saw as purely Aryan.

The film then shifts to the story of the French-Jewish art collector and gallery owner Paul Rosenberg, who was a friend of great artists such as Picasso and Matisse, whose work was confiscated by the Nazis. In 1910, Rosenberg opened a gallery called “21 rue La Boétie” in Paris, but in 1942, the Nazis stripped Rosenberg of his French citizenship and took every piece of art in his collection. Rosenberg’s granddaughter and Huffington Post Editorial Director, Anne Sinclair, tells his story in the film.

The final set of exhibitions featured in the film take viewers to present-day Germany. In 2010, German customs officials stopped a train to Munich for a random passenger check.

Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of one of Hitler’s primary merchants of stolen art, Hildebrand Gurlitt, was on the train and questioned by the officials. They ultimately discovered that Gurlitt was still hiding works by Monet, Picasso and Matisse in his apartment. This section of the film focuses on two paired exhibitions in Bern and Bonn, Germany featuring the works that Gurlitt had kept hidden.

“Hitler vs Picasso and The Others” will leave viewers with a greater understanding of how the Nazis used art to shape their wretched national identity.

The stories of struggle and loss during the Nazi reign featured in the film offer a fascinating, new look at a familiar part of history.

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INSIDE A PRISON WHERE UO FURNITURE IS MADE Jim Jones stops from his work, but only for a moment, while he waits for the glue on his project to dry. He says that his work through OCE gives him a reasion to be happy despite his circumstances. (Dana Sparks)

BY FRANKIE BENITEZ • TWITTER @0ITSFRANKIE0 Most students have no idea that much of the furniture at the University of Oregon is designed and built by prisoners.

For years, UO has purchased furniture from Oregon Corrections Enterprises (OCE), a semiindependent state agency that is self-funded. Last year, UO partnered with OCE to create new dorm furniture. Students designed the furniture, and OCE manufactured it.

The Emerald visited Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem to talk to inmates about their experience working with OCE and to see the facilities.

Oregon State Penitentiary has an OCE furniture factory, industrial laundry center, metal shop, and contact center.

The penitentiary is the only maximum security prison in the state. Walking into the pastel yellow prison, it’s exactly as you might imagine. There are 10 guard towers, chain link fences and 25-foot walls. It houses 2,117 inmates.

OCE made $28.5 million in revenue in 2017, a record breaking year. The program employed 1,419 inmates in several prisons across the state.

There is a noticeable difference in the atmosphere inside the OCE facilities from the rest of the prison.

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the phone. Some are giving information for places like the DMV, some are making sales for OCE. In the design office, inmates sit at spacious desks in front of computers, creating virtual 3D models of pieces of furniture.

OCE was created to meet the requirement of Measure 17, a law passed in 1994, requiring all inmates to work for 40 hours a week. Job training and education can count for up to 20 of those hours.

Prison labor has been a constant reality throughout American history. The thirteenth amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, has a caveat that allows involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. In some states, prisoners are not paid for their labor.

In Oregon, inmates are paid on a merit-based point system. They make as little as $8 per month, but can earn upwards of $265 per month. Inmates earn points for completing tasks, including education and job training as well as work.

Recently on the UO campus, a group of students have protested the prison industrial complex and UO’s use of OCE furniture. Read the student protesters’ guest opinion in the Emerald at dailyemerald.com.

The student protesters call the requirement to work slavery, and demand that UO stops all interaction with OCE. There are similar protests across the country, including a national protest that took place in 23 states with at least 20,000 inmates

going on strike and refusing to work, according to the LA Times.

But inmates interviewed by the Emerald say that working, especially with OCE, makes their sentence go by faster, keeps them out of trouble, helps them prepare for life outside of prison, and boosts their morale.

The inmates interviewed by the Emerald volunteered to share their experience working with OCE. Some of the names have been changed upon request of the inmate in order to protect anonymity.

James Sheppard, 42, is serving a 20 year sentence, and has been in prison for six years. He said that he thinks that calling the mandatory work hours slavery is misguided.

“It’s very easy for people to make comments like that if they’ve never had to live on this side. I would have absolutely felt the same way, but here’s something to think about; people without purpose don’t survive. They don’t thrive,” he said.

He said that not all inmates think that way. Some agree with the protestors.

“Many folks believe that we’re being taken advantage of. That we’re assisting in our captor’s success,” he said.

He mused that victims of crimes probably don’t think that prisoners should get paid at all.

Sheppard worked in other prison jobs for two years, and with OCE for four. He worked in the metal fabrication shop for three years and now

It’s the closest feeling I have to feeling like I’m free, and you can’t put a value on that.”

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works in design. He said that there is a significant difference between other prison jobs and working with OCE. “They’re not going to ask you for your opinion on something, they’re just going to ask you to mop the floor,” he said. Sheppard explained that with OCE, he feels valued as a team member, and that inmates are treated like experts in their fields.

“It’s the closest feeling I have to feeling like I’m free, and you can’t put a value on that,” he said.

Sheppard said that compared to the value of having a purpose, and something to focus on that makes the day go by faster, the money is not that important.

“I’m not going to get paid what I got paid on the street. But that’s part of acceptance of my life now. Would I do this job if they didn’t pay me?

Most likely,” he said.

Positions with OCE are highly coveted, and inmates have to pass a rigorous interviewing process to be accepted. OCE has the best paying jobs in prison, and prisoners are able to learn skills like metalworking, design, fabrication, and more. Inmates are not forced to participate in OCE programs, but if they quit their job with OCE or if they are fired, they will be required to work somewhere else.

Michael Eric Nitschke, 58, is serving his fourth or fifth sentence, and has been in prison for 21 years for his current sentence. He has earned four college degrees while he has been in prison, and will earn a fifth from UO in general social science with a focus in crime law and society shortly before he goes on parole in May. He has worked with OCE since 1998, doing a variety of jobs.

Currently, he works with procurement in the tool room, making orders and checking in on projects.

He has opportunities to mentor other inmates, and works at a computer for most of his work day.

He said that working with OCE has been a great opportunity for him and other inmates.

“I’ve seen criminals who over time, now own businesses. Own their homes and they’re tax-paying citizens and have good jobs and I think that this is a great service,” he said.

Nitschke said that the money he made with OCE helped pay for part of his college tuition in prison, and that the atmosphere of the job helps his morale on a day-to-day basis.

“You feel like you’re a human being. It’s the closest to being in the community while wearing blue, because you have purpose, you use your mind and you learn skills that will be transferable upon your release,” he said.

“Sure I’d like to get paid more money, but it’s an opportunity for people to change their lives.”

Prisoners who work with OCE make $158 per month on average, according to OCE’s annual report.

There are opportunities to earn more by working overtime, and there are bonuses that can be earned for meeting or exceeding goals or for excellent behavior.

Other jobs in the prison make between $8 and $82 per month, according to OCE records.

Jim Jones, 58, echoes Nitschke’s sentiment.

“I get to come to work, build things, be creative. I get out of my house all day long. I get a decent paycheck. Look at where I’m at. I’m a guy in prison and I’m actually happy to be here. Go figure that one,” he said. “House” is slang commonly used in prison to refer to a cell.

Jones has been incarcerated since 1996, and currently works at the furniture fabrication shop. He has worked with computers in the past, but prefers the active work of building things.

He remarked proudly that the room where we sat for the interview was entirely his design.

The wood used to construct the room was all reclaimed from scraps from furniture orders.

He pointed at the ceiling, which was made out of a pattern of different colors of wood.

“The student desks you have at the university, well those are the fall-off pieces from them.” He explained the problem-solving process of finding ways to build with the scraps.

“Most people have to go to work, like they got to go to work in the kitchen, they got to go wipe tables, they have to go sit over there and make phone calls, and I did that,” he said of the room.

“I picked up a lot of valuable information just working here,” he said. “I’m learning everyday something new. Another way to do something or how to improve, how to interact with people, how to mentor, how to do whatever.”

Jones explained that focusing on your work and learning new skills can not only give inmates opportunities to use upon release, but prevent them from getting involved in what he called “prison politics” or associations and conflicts with groups of inmates.

“When you come in here you basically leave your blue shirt

The last stop for furniture made through Oregon Corrections Enterprises after full assembly. (Dana Sparks)

Lewis Larson sands the edges of a table. (Dana Sparks)

outside the door. You’re coming here to do a job and you can put that aside,” he said.

If an inmate is not seeking a job for himself, he will be assigned one.

These jobs are usually more menial.

If an inmate does not find another job before he is expected to be at the job that was assigned to him, he will be expected to be there. If he is not there, he will be written up for conduct violations for being in an unauthorized area. Conduct violations can lead to penalties including time in segregation. Segregation is not the same as solitary confinement, but it is a higher security situation, like a jail within the prison.

Larry Reid, 71, has been in prison for 22 years and will be released this December. He has worked with OCE for 19 years, and has worked as a purchasing clerk and in the contact center making sales. He said that he applied to OCE to learn new skills.

“One thing OCE has done also

is my standard of living has gone up. The other jobs don’t pay as well as OCE does and I’ve been able to save $6,000.” He hopes to use the money to set himself up for a good start outside of prison.

Reid said that he tries to tell younger inmates to find opportunities to go to school or learn job skills like he did through OCE. “There’s too many kids who don’t have anything to do in here except get in trouble,” he said. “You can make a little money to support yourself in here and you can learn a job skill but you have to stay out of trouble.”

Inmates must have six months of good behavior before they qualify to apply to OCE, and conduct violations will result in the loss of their position.

“What scared me the most was the idea of going 20 years in prison and leaving with less knowledge than I came here with,” Reid said. “I wanted to make something of myself before I left here.”

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SPORTS Members of the Oregon women’s basketball team leave the floor after the game against Notre Dame in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA tournament. (Adam Eberhardt)

OREGON’S HISTORIC SEASON COMES TO A CLOSE IN ELITE EIGHT WITH 84-74 LOSS TO NOTRE DAME

BY GUS MORRIS • TWITTER @JUSTGUSMORRIS SPOKANE, Wash. — Oregon head coach Kelly Graves issued a warning twice this weekend that in hindsight proved to be dead on.

After the Ducks’ win Friday over Central Michigan, in which they allowed 22 offensive rebounds, Graves talked about the importance of rebounding in the next round against No. 1-seeded Notre Dame Irish.

“We can’t allow 22 offensive rebounds on Monday night or we’re going to get, you know, blown out,” Graves said. “That’s the bottom line.”

To further drive the point home, he reiterated himself during media availability on Sunday.

“If we do that tomorrow, we lose.”

Graves probably would’ve liked for his team to prove him wrong. But on Monday night, his prediction rang true.

The Irish outrebounded the Ducks 51-29, with 19 of those boards coming on the offensive end, leading to a 26-9 advantage in second-chance points for Notre Dame, which ended the Ducks’ historic season in the Elite Eight on Monday night at Spokane Arena, 84-74.

In a decisive third quarter, the Irish (33-3) grabbed 19 rebounds to Oregon’s six and outscored the Ducks 21-9. Notre Dame entered the quarter trailing 46-40 and left with a 61-55 lead.

“That’s where the game was won,” Graves said.

After a blazing first half where each team seemingly scored at will — the Ducks shot 58 percent from the field and the Irish 48 percent — Notre Dame’s defense locked in. Oregon (33-5) made just three of its 17 shot attempts in

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the third quarter (17 percent) on top of getting outrebounded by 13.

Over the first three minutes and 28 seconds of the third quarter, the Irish rattled off a 15-4 run that Oregon never recovered from.

“We knew they were going to come out and punch us,” sophomore guard Sabrina Ionescu said. “We just had to be able to punch back, and we didn’t.”

Ionescu, who earlier on Monday became the first member of the Oregon women’s program to make the AP All-American first team, struggled over the final 20 minutes to return to her first half form that yielded 19 points on 8-of-13 shooting. She scored just seven points and made just one of her nine second-half shot attempts.

She finished the last game of her sophomore season with 26 points, five rebounds and four assists.

The Ducks got as close as two in the fourth quarter but never retook the lead that they surrendered with 6:27 left in the third.

“You saw a team that was still trying to climb the mountain, trying to get to where we’ve never been before,” Graves said. “And you saw a team that knew how to get there, and they wanted it.”

Ruthy Hebard, who earned an All-American honorable mention earlier Monday, scored 12 points in the first half but was held without a bucket until there was 5:48 left in the fourth quarter. She finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds but only accounted for five points and one board in the second half.

As a team, the usually dangerous Ducks were held in check from deep by a team that on average allowed opponents to shoot almost 35 percent from 3-point range. Notre Dame used its length and athleticism to pressure the Ducks on the perimeter, forcing miss after miss.

The Ducks, who average a national-best 40.4 percent from three, made just four of their 15 attempts.

“They knew our personnel well,” Ionescu said. “That’s what they did. They played us to our weaknesses.”

At the postgame dais, a somber Ionescu reflected on what had been the greatest season in program history. She, like Graves, recognized the significance that the 33 wins, Pac-12 regular season and tournament titles and No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament had on the program. She expressed optimism among regret that Oregon came up short of the Final Four — a goal that it deemed completely within reach.

“I’ll definitely remember this game,” she said. “It was a great run. I mean, it’s going to hurt. We had a great year. I’m happy our freshmen were able to come in and contribute and see what it’s like to play for an Elite Eight. I’m happy we were able to do that last year.”

Ionescu will be back next year, along with a majority of Oregon’s roster. She vowed to do better next season.

“We’re going to come back — we’re going to learn from this,” Ionescu said. “We’re going to come back better and hunting this Final Four next year.”

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BY SHAWN MEDOW • TWITTER @SHAWNMEDOW Tied at one with loaded bases, a full count and two outs, senior DJ Sanders faced the payoff pitch in the top of the eighth.

She reached down on her swing and sent the ball flying over the leftcenter field fence, hitting a grand slam and giving Oregon a 5-1 lead in extra innings.

That lead was preserved in the bottom of the inning as the No. 5 Ducks (27-6, 4-2) defeated No. 25 Oregon State 5-1 in the rubber match of their series on Saturday in Corvallis. Behind a complete eightinning game from junior pitcher Megan Kleist (10-4), the Ducks earned their second series win in a rubber match in Pac-12 play.

Kleist allowed six hits and one run over the eight innings while throwing five strikeouts. Her ERA now sits at 0.91 on the year.

The one run came in the form of a

McKenna Arriola solo home run in the third inning to give the Beavers a 1-0 lead.

Oregon responded in the fifth when Lauren Burke hit an RBI single to score Cherish Burks and tied the game.

After leading the NCAA last season with 29 home runs while playing for Louisiana, Sanders has struggled to find her deep ball on a frequent basis after hitting seven home runs in nonconference play.

Sanders’ last home run came when the Ducks beat LSU 4-0 on Feb. 23.

With the Ducks’ win over the Beavers, Oregon keeps its series win streak — which dates back to 2012 — alive against Oregon State.

Oregon takes on Portland State in a doubleheader on Tuesday, April 3 in Eugene before Arizona comes to Jane Sanders Stadium for a threeday series starting April 6.

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OSHIMA SECURES VICTORY AS DUCKS EDGE WASHINGTON IN 4-3 WIN

BY COLE KUNDICH • TWITTER @CKUNDICH In two prior instances this season, the Oregon men’s tennis team had its match decided in a third-set decision. Oregon lost both matches.

Third time’s the charm.

With Saturday’s match at Washington tied 3-3, freshman Riki Oshima pulled off arguably his biggest win since arriving to Oregon to give the Ducks a big road win over its conference rival.

Armando Soemarno did not play, so the Ducks doubles lineup was shaken up.

Ty Gentry and Simon Stevens — who regularly have played in the No. 3 spot — shifted up to No. 2 and came away with the 6-1 win. Shortly after, the No. 36 pair of Thomas Laurent and Cormac Clissold came away with the 6-4 victory to clinch the doubles point for the Ducks.

Oregon didn’t hold the lead for long, though, after Akihiro Tanaka (7-5, 6-2) and Simon Stevens (7-6(2), 6-1) each lost

in consecutive sets to put the Ducks down, 2-1.

Laurent did his job at the No. 1 spot. That was the case again on Saturday, with the Frenchman coming away with the 6-4, 7-5 win over No. 80 Mitch Stewart to tie the match at 2.

Gentry has been putting together quite the 2018 season, but the sophomore didn’t have it all versus Washington, dropping a 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 decision to Jack Davis to put down Oregon 3-2.

With its backs against the wall, the Ducks needed two wins in its remaining matches.

Clissold delivered on his end, storming back to win in three sets, 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-1 over Amit Batta.

All eyes then shifted to Oshima, who pulled out the three-set win over Alexis Alvarez, 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-4 to give Oregon the 4-3 win over its Pacific Northwest opponent.

Oregon junior August Raskie was selected to the U.S. Women’s Collegiate National Team Europe Tour (CNT-Europe) 12-player roster as one of two setters, USA Volleyball announced on Thursday.

Raskie will join the team in Venice, Italy on July 5 to train and practice before competing in the Global Challenge in Pula, Croatia on July 10-13.

In the fall, Raskie appeared in all 30 matches and 112 sets for Oregon, with five starts. She finished second on the team with 5.06 assists per game and third in double-doubles with six.

Over the season, she averaged 1.74 digs per set and totaled 13 service aces. In Oregon’s five-set win against Oregon State, she

made a season-high 29 assists after setting a career-high 16 digs against Washington earlier in the season.

Tryouts for the CNT-Europe team were held March 2-4 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Raskie tried out with Oregon teammate Taylor Agost.

The Pac-12 will represent half of the selected athletes on the roster. Among Raskie, Berkeley Oblad (University of Utah) will play as a middle, MacKenzie May (UCLA) as an outside hitter, Audriana Fitzmorris (Stanford) and Taylor Mims (Washington State University) will be the two opposites and Alexis Dirige (Washington State University) will be the team’s libero.

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WE CAN’T CONTINUE TO VICTIM BLAME STUDENTS

BY TAYLOR GRIGGS • TWITTER @GRIGGSTAYLOR3

The February shooting in Parkland, Florida has caused more of a student-run revolution for gun control than any other school shooting in recent memory, and the movement has received quite a bit of national attention. The students from Parkland were on the cover of Time magazine last week, and there have been multiple marches and student walkouts since the shooting on Feb. 14. On March 14, there was a national student walkout organized by the Women’s March Youth EMPOWER, with the goal to “demand Congress to pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship.” An oppositional movement was formed in response to this walkout, encouraging students to befriend would-be school shooters instead of leaving school for the protest. This movement, which is essentially an anti-bullying campaign, has been entitled and given the hashtag #walkupnotout.

It is a victim-shaming idea that is inherently dangerous and avoids confronting the actual issues that cause gun violence in schools. It is also not a viable solution to end school shootings.

In an op-ed published on March 27 by the New York Times, Isabelle Robinson, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and a survivor of the Parkland shooting, said that she tried to befriend Nikolas Cruz, the shooter, and he still committed the massacre. “It is not the obligation of children to befriend classmates who have

demonstrated aggressive, unpredictable or violent tendencies. It is the responsibility of the school administration and guidance department to seek out those students and get them the help that they need, even if it is extremely specialized attention that cannot be provided at the same institution,” she said. Robinson’s testimony and interpersonal experience with the shooter should be enough of an argument to combat this harmful movement, but its history goes beyond the Parkland shooting.

The narrative of the school shooter being a victim has been copied since the Columbine shooting in 1999. Media coverage from the Columbine massacre created the idea and stereotype that loners and people who have been bullied cause violent crimes. An article from BBC News published the day after the shooting says that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the shooters who premeditated and carried out a massacre that killed 13 people before ultimately killing themselves, were part of a gang at school called the “Trenchcoat Mafia.” This “Trenchcoat Mafia,” made up of boys who were believed to be loners, caused paranoia and fear, leading students to believe that if they bully other kids, they might be victims of a school shooting. It goes without saying that bullying is a problem in schools and that kids should be nice to their fellow students, but it shouldn’t be because they’re fearing for what might happen to them if they don’t.

That Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold committed

this shooting because they were bullied is a rumor that has been debunked. However, even if all shootings were carried out by people who believed they had been tormented by other students, that doesn’t make their actions okay, something that the #walkupnotout movement seems to neglect.

In 2014, Elliot Rodger killed six people on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus in Isla Vista. In a 141-page personal manifesto, Rodger justified his decision to commit this massacre to “punish [his] enemies.” Rodger’s manifesto is ensconced in male entitlement and paints him as an awkward man who people thought of as a loser and who women weren’t attracted to. Even if people treated Rodger terribly, he had no justification to carry out this murder. Telling students to feel sorry for these mass shooters makes it seem like they had an excuse to do what they did. They didn’t.

It seems ridiculous to have to say that killing your peers is an absolutely horrific response to being bullied. Children should not be expected to fight for their own lives by protecting the feelings of other students around them. If a student looks like they might have violent tendencies, adults in their life should have them seek help.

And, most importantly, guns should not be part of the equation. There are several reasons that mass shootings might be carried out, but without access to guns, bullying wouldn’t hold life-or-death consequences.

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