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BY MICHAEL TOBIN AND FRANKIE BENITEZ “Shasta Weekend” is usually an exciting trip for students to have fun and spend time with friends. But this year’s trip turned tragic after a University of Oregon student was found dead early Saturday morning.

Authorities identified the student as Dylan Pietrs, a 21-year-old business administration major from Denver and a member of Phi Gamma Delta, which is commonly known as FIJI. “Shasta Weekend” is an annual event attended by hundreds of UO students at Shasta Lake in Northern California. According to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, the specific cause of Pietrs’ death will be determined in the next week by a post-mortem exam, but authorities suspect no foul play was involved. e sheriff’s office said students found Pietrs Saturday morning in a sleeping bag inside a small tent.

Pietrs’ friends remembered him as honest and caring.

UO student Jason Agtarap recalled when he first met Pietrs through a program called “Semester at Sea.” e program allows students to take classes on a ship and visit multiple countries.

Agtarap said Pietrs approached him as he ate dinner alone and started up a conversation with a joke, and the two became close friends. “ e entire time I had known Dylan, I had known him to live so deeply. He was someone who would always ask how you’re doing, and not because it was polite, but because he genuinely cared,” Agtarap wrote in an email to the Emerald.

“I treasure all of the late-night conversations we shared while stargazing on the Indian Ocean, and even though he may have left us, I know he’ll never stop exploring this world,” Agtarap wrote.

“Shasta Weekend” is not endorsed by the University of Oregon, said UO spokesman Tobin Klinger. Students, mostly members of Greek life from UO, Oregon State University and other schools such as University of California Davis, spend a weekend at Shasta Lake in houseboats and tents on the shore during different weekends in the spring.

An Emerald reporter at the scene recalled the series of events Saturday morning. Around 9 a.m., people were getting ready for another day, joking and laughing, when the news began to get around that a Phi Gamma Delta member had been found unresponsive.

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emergency response boat, the news only took 10 to 15 minutes to spread throughout the students in attendance. Within half an hour, students stopped applying sunscreen, began turning off their music and waited to hear if the unresponsive student was OK. As news of Pietrs’ death spread, the houseboats and campsites fell silent. Students were stunned.

“It totally changed the mood, it was super upbeat and after, we were just wondering where to go,” said UO student Christina Crolla, who didn’t know Pietrs personally but was on the trip.

Emily Ray, a UO junior who was camping near Pietrs’ tent, said the news caused the usually upbeat tone of the weekend to drastically shift.

“People were holding their friends close and praying, and a lot of people were crying,” she said.

“All the boat captains and riders made the decision to load up the boats and return a day early. I was so proud to be part of a student body that would do anything for one of their fellow classmates regardless of whether or not they knew him.”

Although no one officially announced that the trip was cancelled, all thoughts of continuing the weekend were quickly dismissed.

“We had to pack up and leave; it’s a respect thing. I didn’t want to stay there,” Crolla said.

People were ferried back to the marina between 11 a.m. and mid-afternoon. e authorities assisted in the ferrying process.

Crolla said the boat ride from the campground to the marina was silent.

Following early media reports of the death, the UO Division of Student Life released a statement on Saturday evening acknowledging the tragedy of Pietrs’ death, but also condemning the Shasta trip as a whole.

“As devastating as this sudden passing is, it is important to point out that this tragedy is connected to an unauthorized tradition among many college students,” the statement said.

“Students from many institutions have a history of demonstrating poor life choices during visits to Lake Shasta. ese activities are contrary to the values of the university and fraternity and sorority organizations.” e university’s statement triggered an uproar on social media, and by Sunday morning the UO Division of Student Life amended its original statement without announcing the revisions.

Klinger acknowledged that the social media backlash contributed to the revision.

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Jill Niedermeyer, a UO junior, wrote in tweet on Saturday, “Taking time to call out students for their ‘poor life choice’ is blatantly disrespectful on the day of his passing.”

Agtarap was also upset about the statement.

“To those who knew and loved Dylan, it was an insensitive and unjust tribute to his impact on this campus, and within our hearts,” he said.

At 11 a.m. on Sunday, the UO announced on Twitter that it updated the post and regretted the “insensitive tone of the earlier statement.”

After reading the statement, Justin Hanes, a senior public relations major, wrote an email to Vice President for Student Life Dr. R. Kevin Marbury, Dean of Students Kris Winter and President Michael Schill, calling on them to apologize for the initial news release. “ ey need to take full ownership of the comment in their press release,” Hanes said. “ e comment invalidated everything else they said previously. It’s like writing something really meaningful and then saying ‘but.’”

On Sunday afternoon, Marbury released a statement apologizing for the original statement.

Marbury wrote that the intent of the original message was to “quickly respond to a tragic situation” and to “provide resources to support the community members affected by Dylan’s passing.” “ at statement should have reflected that our focus was and remains on assisting Dylan’s family and friends as they deal with this news,” Marbury wrote. “We have heard from a number of you and greatly appreciate your perspective that the statement came across as insensitive.

As the leader of the Division of Student Life, I offer my apology.” e national headquarters of Phi Gamma Delta tweeted an official statement Sunday extending condolences to Pietrs’ friends and family. “Our thoughts are with all those who have been touched by this tragic loss,” the tweet read. e UO chapter of Phi Gamma Delta also tweeted a statement Sunday offering their “deepest sympathies” to Pietrs’ family, saying “even as we deal with our own loss of a good friend, we know that their loss is much greater.”

Students affected by this tragic event can call the UO student after-hour support and crisis line or schedule an appointment with the University Counseling Center at 541-346-3227.

Ethan Brenner contributed to the reporting of this story.

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What began as a normal night in the KWVA DJ studio for University of Oregon student Sterling Baraquio ended with several UOPD officers drawing their guns on him.

UO spokesman Tobin Klinger explained that late on the night of May 11, UOPD officers were responding to a suspect who tried to break into the Tykeson Hall construction site with bolt cutters.

Officers tried to stop the suspect, but he refused to stop and ran away.

Klinger said the suspect was described as: a white male in a dark hooded sweatshirt with a slight build, approximately 6 foot, 170 pounds and between 18 and 25 years old. Klinger said the suspect has still not been identified.

Police believed that the suspect may have run into the EMU, so they began clearing the building.

It was 12 a.m. on Saturday morning when Baraquio, a 21-year-old UO junior, was in the EMU hosting his radio show in the KWVA studio. He said that about 40 minutes into his show, a UOPD officer entered the station.

Baraquio quickly put on a playlist of songs so the broadcast wouldn’t be interrupted.

“He comes into the studio and says that I have to leave with him right now — immediately,” Baraquio said. He was the only one in the station.

Baraquio said that he asked the officer repeatedly what was going on and if he was being arrested, but the officer offered no further information. He also said the officer seemed agitated and just repeated that he needed to leave.

Baraquio said the officer then left the recording

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booth. He began gathering his belongings before the officer returned moments later, this time with his weapon drawn and pointed down — not directly at him — and told Baraquio to exit the station immediately. Baraquio said that he complied and was escorted toward the exit without his belongings, but the officer said he could return to get them later.

“Finally he tells me that I’m not being arrested or anything — he’s just escorting me out of the EMU just for precaution because they lost a suspect,” Baraquio said.

According to Baraquio, the officer did not escort him all the way to the exit by the large lawn outside the EMU. Baraquio said that when he exited the building by himself, two or three officers with flashlights and weapons ran in his direction, loudly commanding him to get on the ground. “ ey’re just screaming at me to ‘get on the floor,’ ‘get on the ground,’ ‘put your hands up.’ ey think I’m the suspect,” Baraquio said. “I have never been put in that situation before or anything close to it. It was probably one of the scariest moments of my life.

Having weapons drawn on me, I didn’t know what was going to happen.”

He said the officers did not let him up until the original officer who had escorted him out of the radio station arrived a couple minutes later and told the other officers that he was a DJ and not the suspect. “ ere was no communication with the cop who escorted me through the EMU and with those other cops. I thought it was really poorly executed,” Baraquio said.

He said that he asked for information about why the EMU was being cleared, when he could go back in for his belongings, and for the names of officers, but was given no information.

UOPD Chief Matthew Carmichael is currently reviewing the interaction between the officers and Baraquio for “skill development” according to Klinger, and UOPD refused to comment on the interaction until the review is completed. e interaction left Baraquio feeling frustrated and confused.

“I don’t want to assume that it just happened because I’m a person of color. I don’t want to just say that, but I really do think that part of it has to do with it. Why didn’t he walk me out? Why didn’t he communicate with the other cops?

Does he not value my safety over someone else’s safety?” Baraquio said.

An officer from UOPD met with Baraquio and recorded his recollection of the incident on ursday morning, and the same officer met with a group of about 15 students who work at KWVA to answer their questions.

Baraquio said the officer explained that UOPD will be reviewing all the footage, including the footage from the bodycam on the officer who interacted with Baraquio in the radio station.

Even though he feels that the meeting was helpful and it seems like UOPD “wants to make a change,” he is still left troubled by the situation.

“I think there definitely needs to be resolution and somebody needs to be held accountable,” he said. “I don’t want anything like this to happen again.”

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Like hundreds of students, University of Oregon junior Corina Perea is considering applying for internships. She’s an international studies major and would like to get some professional experience before she graduates.

Even so, she’s not sure whether to take an unpaid internship or hold out for something paid. She’s worried an unpaid internship might be a waste of her time.

“Internships have the potential to be an amazing tool, but it also allows room for exploitation,” said Perea, who is also majoring in women’s, gender and sexuality studies. “A student can get an internship at a law firm, and while they get to put that on their resume, they actually just spent the summer grabbing coffees and answering phone calls.”

Perea is not alone in her apprehension.

Many students and faculty members say that while internships can help bridge the gap between secondary education and full-time employment, some students can’t afford to work for free as an intern and others wonder if an unpaid internship will offer a less meaningful experience.

“Sometimes the reality of an internship is very different than what was advertised,” said Gretchen Soderlund, associate professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication. “I’ve talked to students who have done internships that were basically glorified administrative assistant positions that didn’t in any way prepare them for the job market they’re looking to break into.”

Todd Milbourn, co-director of UO’s journalism masters program, also noted that unpaid internships are not an option for

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students who need paid work in order to cover tuition and make ends meet. “ at exposure and that experience is essential and you’re going to need that to land a job. But in the meantime, exposure and experience doesn’t pay the bills,” Milbourn says. “It doesn’t pay the rent and it doesn’t make sure you have your groceries covered.”

Milbourn emphasized how the financial stability throughout an unpaid internship can hold those who need the wages out of the job market.

“What happens is, the students that can take those unpaid internships tend to come from wealthier backgrounds. ey either have parental support or have funding themselves,” Milbourn said. “It’s a barrier that’s going to keep out a whole bunch of people who otherwise are bringing really great things to the table. It’s a big problem, and I think it’s one that more and more students are having to navigate. It’s troubling.”

However, Milbourn doesn’t want to underestimate the value of internships as a tool to help students apply their education.

“Internships have always been important.

I think that what young people are trying to do is build work experience, build portfolios, build skills — and internships are a really critical way to do that,” Milbourn said. “ ey also give you an opportunity to test out what you’re learning in the classroom.”

Like Milbourn, Soderlund understands the importance of internships. She just wishes there could be a guarantee of value, whether it’s monetary or otherwise. “ e internship has to be conceived of as an

educational experience for the interns coming in rather than as a way to get cheap labor,” Soderlund said. “ ere has to be some kind of compensation, or else it’s unclear whether this is a training program or they’re just getting a lot of free labor.”

Hannah Schandelmeier-Lynch is a junior working on her economics major who recently completed a paid internship at the Food for Lane County Youth Farm. While it was a positive experience, Schandelmeier-Lynch acknowledged that she wouldn’t have been able to participate in the same way had it been an unpaid position.

“I was able to spend time outdoors, learn about something new and regularly meet and interact with positive people,” SchandelmeierLynch said. “If It were unpaid, I wouldn’t have been able to do it all.” e job and careers section on UO’s website, which lists prospective job and internship opportunities for students, doesn’t include whether an internship is paid. is information is usually included in the fine print of an internship application.

Lorena Galvan, assistant director of the Lundquist College of Business Center Services, said there are multiple places students can look for information regarding paid internships. “ e Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries has some information that can help students understand internship expectations and requirements,” Galvan said. “Students can also reach out to their career services professionals for help identifying, evaluating and negotiating opportunities.”

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e Wayward Lamb closed in February 2018 due to “the realities of a long-term forecast” after only about two-and-a-half years of being open, according to a Facebook post made by Wayward Lamb owner Colin Graham. Spectrum Eugene will be located at the same site as the Wayward Lamb, 150 W Broadway. (Creative Commons)

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Eugene has zero gay bars. e Wayward Lamb was Eugene’s last one, but it closed in February for financial reasons.

Plenty of bars in Eugene are LGBTQfriendly but none specifically cater to LGBTQ individuals. e closure of the Wayward Lamb three months ago was devastating to some community members but has inspired two individuals to start a bar of their own: Spectrum Eugene, which will open in July. Helen Shepard and Toni Riley, the two owners of Spectrum, wanted to open a space for people with a spectrum of genders, sexualities and other marginalized identities — those who have not traditionally been catered to by mainstream services — so they can have a space to feel welcome.

“I’m not under any sort of illusion that my venue is going to change the whole world. But I think that my attitude can impact the people around me, and then those people can impact the people around them,” said Shepard.

However, some community members are frustrated and say that the bar’s owners took their ideas without credit.

After the Wayward Lamb announced that it was shutting down in February, community members held brainstorming sessions to create “a dedicated queeridentified LGBTQIA+ space that serves people of color, trans, kink” and other intersectional communities.

Arken Vetra, a UO student studying biological anthropology, was one of the organizers of the sessions. Vetra — who uses they/them pronouns — said Shepard and Riley took several of the ideas brought up by people of color at the brainstorming sessions without including them in the development of Spectrum.

“A lot of the specific language that we used, we feel has been co-opted,” Vetra said. “It’s become just another white person with money taking ideas from black and brown people in the community and running it off as their own idea.”

Discussion at the sessions included what community members wanted an LGBTQ+ space to have (a nonprofit structure, accessibility to all ages and intersectional sensitivity training were some of the recurring themes), how a potentially nonprofit space with a community board model could function and how a space could include underrepresented and marginalized groups.

Shepard applied to register Spectrum as a company in mid-April, about two months after the Wayward Lamb closed its doors for the last time.

“I’m really trying my best to include all the people that were involved in the community meetings to give

them a chance to be a part of building Spectrum,” said Shepard, who uses they/ them pronouns. ey added that they had hired Vetra to lead a workshop for staff members about racial sensitivity.

“It’s hard to have ownership on an idea, especially when it’s a community building experience.”

Despite criticism, some LGBTQ+ community members are hopeful about the benefits that Spectrum will bring to the Eugene area, such as a safe space for LGBTQ+ individuals to build community and seek shelter from harassment.

“I don’t want to trash talk it and make people boycott it,” said Cressa Perloff, another one of the organizers of the brainstorming sessions. “I would rather that trash talk results in positive change at this stage.”

Riley and Shepard also want to make Spectrum more than just a gay bar.

Shepard said it’s going to be a space to plan “the revolution.”

Shepard said that it would be a space where people can take workshops about combating white supremacy, understanding white privilege and learning about sex positivity. Spectrum is also taking requests from mural artists to add murals to the space. “ e real beauty and the story is in the way that queer people gather to resist social norms and the pain that is in our society,” Shepard said. “Just the act of loving yourself or loving somebody else can be socially progressive.”

Riley has a personal investment in creating a dedicated space for LGBTQ+ people. When her father died by suicide in 2016, it was because he was unable to come out as gay. “ is is for him. I want to create a space where one human doesn’t have to feel like their only solution is to leave,” Riley said.

“I don’t want it to be a secret, because that’s what created the space that put him where he was. He’s not physically here now, but I wouldn’t want him to think that I’m not proud as hell of who he was.”

Spectrum will have its grand opening event on July 28 at the Wayward Lamb’s former location, 150 W. Broadway, where Spectrum will be located.

Spectrum will include an all-ages café and lounge that serves brunch and dinner, along with a 21-and-over bar and event venue. e bar will be available for booking to host group meetings, shows, fundraisers and special events, according to its website.

“Providing that safe space for people is really important, because if the people don’t feel safe, then they’re not going to speak up,” Riley said. “ ey’re not going to fight for themselves. ey’re gonna stay at home and cower, for lack of a better phrase.”

SPORTS Ducks outfielder Alexis Mack (10) arrives on first base. (Ben Green)

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Just like the previous two games for Oregon softball, runs were hard to come by in Saturday’s Eugene Regional matchup against Drake.

Oregon had not allowed a run in its previous 23 innings of play coming into Saturday’s matchup, putting pressure on Drake’s pitcher, Nicole Newman, to be perfect.

Newman pitched well but ultimately succumbed to Oregon’s offense in the fifth inning on an Alexis Mack single. e No. 1 Oregon softball team (50-7) defeated the Drake Bulldogs 3-0 thanks to a stellar performance by pitcher Miranda Elish and a three-run fifth inning, earning a spot in the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament as the Ducks look to advance on to the Women’s College World Series.

Mia Camuso led the inning off with a single and Lauren Lindvall repeated the result.

Cherish Burks then pinch ran for Lindvall and the two Ducks were bunted over by Shannon Rhodes. Jenna Lilley was then intentionally walked, loading the bases for Mack. e slap-hitting left fielder blooped a single through the shift, scoring Camuso and the sliding Burks, giving the Ducks a 2-0 lead.

“She was able to pop one over the top,” head coach Mike White said. “I thought she did a really good job in controlling that. In similar situations this year I pinch hit for her, but I just had a gut feeling that she was gonna come through.”

Haley Cruse singled two pitches later to score Lilley, but Mack was thrown out at home by Drake left fielder Abby Buie on the play. Mack appeared to be safe but

Oregon baseball fell once again to No. 17 UCLA in Los Angeles 10-2 in the final game of the series. e Bruins (35-17, 18-9 Pac-12) had 10 hits, no errors and left five runners on base. Oregon (25-27, 11-16 Pac-12) had six hits, two errors and left five stranded.

Kelby Solmers (2-7) lasted three innings for the Ducks, gave up seven runs (two of them unearned), struck out three and walked two. Ryan Garcia (6-1) pitched five innings, had four strikeouts, a walk and one earned run.

UCLA did not wait long to get its offense rolling, as the Bruins scored six runs in the second inning.

In his first at-bat of the day, left fielder Jeremy Ydens scored three runs on an RBI triple. ey scored a single run in the

was called out at the plate.

Elish and her 0.96 ERA took the circle for the Ducks, looking to go the distance. e sophomore ran into plenty of jams throughout the game but never faltered, throwing seven innings of shutout softball. e righty struck out 11 Bulldogs, making her total in the regional 25 over 14 innings. ere came a time when it seemed imminent that Maggie Balint would relieve Elish. With two runners on and one out in the sixth, White walked to the circle to chat with Elish and was met with the confidence and determination every coach wants to see out of their pitcher.

“Coach just said, ‘I’m gonna bring Maggie in,’” Elish said before catcher Gwen Svekis interjected.

“She said, ‘No. I got this,’” Svekis said. at was all White needed as he retreated to the dugout and watched Elish strike out the next two batters to end the inning.

“It was three words: ‘I got this,’” said White. “I said, ‘Okay, show me.’”

Elish also flashed the leather, making a diving catch on a bunt attempt, which might be seen later tonight on ESPN. “ at’s what I told Gwen,” Elish said. “I said, ‘If I’m not on SportsCenter Top-10, I’m gonna be really upset.’”

Oregon will sit back and await the winner of the Kentucky Regional with its scoreless streak now at 30, including the 21 innings from the regional.

“Hearing they didn’t let up a run is so cool to me,” Svekis said. “I just think that is the most awesome, fun statistic to hear. ey’re some tough cookies in the circle.”

fourth inning after Garret Mitchell tripled to start the inning, and Daniel Rosica hit a sacrifice fly ball to center field to score him.

Oregon scored its first run in the sixth inning. After second baseman Spencer Steer walked and advanced to second off a wild pitch, Jonny Deluca hit an RBI single up the middle.

Just as they have done all series, the Bruins kept up the attack, scoring two runs in the bottom of the sixth and another in the seventh inning. ey also managed to keep Oregon off balance by rotating in four different pitchers after Garcia left in the sixth. e Ducks will close out its season next week in Eugene against Arizona. e first game of the three-game series will be ursday at 7 p.m.

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LACROSSE LOOKING TO NEXT SEASON, HOPING TO FIND SUCCESS IN THE SMALL THINGS

BY SIERRA WEBSTER • TWITTER @WEBSTERSIERRAE

Shannon Williams (36) tosses the ball to a teammate. (Emerald Archives)

e end of the 2018 Oregon lacrosse season comes as an exodus of six starting seniors, including senior attack Jill Zubillaga, who earned All-Pac-12 first team honors and IWLCA All-Region second team honors, senior attackers Mariah Gatti and Cambi Cukar and senior goalie Brittany Read, who all earned Pac-12 second team honors. e Ducks, led in points by junior attacker Shannon Williams for the second year in a row, tied their all-time single season points record of 336 points. Williams scored 74, while Zubillaga followed with 61 of her own.

Zubillaga, who started in every game this season and broke the UO single-season record for goals with 57, said one of the things she will remember most from her four years with the Ducks was a senior night 18-11 win against No. 16-ranked USC. Zubillaga, who put in three goals, scored the Ducks’ first point, tying the game early. Oregon never lost the lead again. “ at was probably one the most exciting

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Oregon defender Jill Zubillaga (15) runs toward the goal looking for an opening to pass the ball. (Kiara Green)

games I’ve ever played in — to upset a ranked opponent like that,” Zubillaga said. “To do it with such conviction was awesome. And it was senior day, so that makes it that much better.”

Overall, Oregon went 9-9 on the season, 4-6 in conference play, and entered the inaugural Pac-12 Tournament as a No. 4 seed.

At the tournament, Oregon won its first game, avenging an earlier regular season 1513 loss to California, this time outscoring the Bears 22-9 and winning the first-ever Pac-12 tournament game.

Williams, who earned Pac-12 second team honors, said, “I think our execution was there and definitely our effort and just the want to play together. It was fun; it was just a super fun game.”

After a hot first half against Colorado in the semifinals, the Ducks fell 16-6 to the Buffs.

Williams said the team was unable to capitalize offensively and make completions. Regardless, head coach Katrina Dowd is proud of the

team’s progress, recognizing that learning to compete at the highest level doesn’t happen without a process. “ e players have bought into wanting to hold that Pac-12 trophy and with that comes a pretty hard journey in terms of work ethic and competition,” Dowd said. “ ey finally got a taste of what it’s like to win a big game.”

With half of the Ducks starting lineup graduating, the team will need to count on returning starters including Williams, junior midfielder Madeline Reece and junior defender Mandi Trostle. e Ducks, who have nine incoming freshman, are returning all of their starting defenders, providing some stability while giving space for players to step up offensively.

“I’m really excited to see a lot of the players step up their game,” Williams said. “I think right now is the perfect opportunity because we don’t have people who are set in their roles. We have a lot of dynamic people.”

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EX-DUCKS, WORLD CHAMPS STACK FIELDS FOR PRE CLASSIC

BY SHAWN MEDOW • TWITTER @SHAWNMEDOW

e Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. (Emerald Archives)

Former Ducks sprinter and Olympian Devon Allen during the 100m. (Ben Green)

Before Hayward Field gets its new look for the 2021 IAAF World Championships and possibly in time to host the 2020 United States Olympic Trials, some of the world’s best track and field athletes will compete one more time at the historic stadium for the Prefontaine Classic this upcoming weekend.

With multiple events featuring world champions and world record holders, this year’s field is packed with star athletes, including some Oregon alumni. From former football player and Olympic finalist Devon Allen to world champion Phyllis Francis and newly turned pro Raevyn Rogers, some past Ducks will compete at the current Hayward one last time.

Allen will run in his marquee event, the 110-meter hurdles, while Francis will compete in the 400-meter, the event that she took gold in during the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London. Rogers’ return to Hayward Field will be in a stacked 800-meter field that includes South African Caster Semenya and American Ajee Wilson.

Along with Francis in the women’s 400-meter, American great Allyson Felix and 2016 Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo line the world-class field.

Allen’s 110 hurdles race won’t be easy with Omar McLeod and Aries Merritt among others in the field. e men’s 100-meter dash, which is not a Diamond League event, might be the biggest attraction of the weekend. e race features reigning world champion Justin Gatlin and 60-meter indoor world record holder Christian Coleman. Ronnie Baker, Ben Youssef Meité,

Reece Prescod, Bingtian Su, Chijindu Ujah and Isiah Young also line the field that would be worthy of an Olympic final. e Bowerman Mile will also feature a deep field that includes Clayton Murphy and Oregon alum and fellow American and Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz. Ayanleh Souleiman, who won the 2014 Bowerman Mile with a 3 minute, 47.32 second run — still his personal best and the meet record — and 17-year-old Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen will also run in the event.

In the women’s 1500-meter, American Olympic bronze medalist and world championship silver medalist Jenny Simpson will race with a strong field made up of Laura Muir, Brenda Martinez and many other Olympic-experienced runners. Former Duck and Australian distance runner Zoe Buckman is also set to compete in the race. e women’s 400-meter hurdles will also feature a diverse field that includes Rio Olympics champion Dalilah Muhammad, world champion Shamier Little and former Arizona runner Sage Watson.

In the field events, the men’s pole vault features another world-class lineup with Olympic champion and world record holder Renaud Lavillenie, 2017 world champion Sam Kendricks, 2016 Olympic champion iago Braz and 18-year-old Swede Armand Duplantis.

As of Sunday, May 20, the men’s 200-meter and the women’s 100-meter haven’t not been announced but could also feature Olympic-worthy fields. e meet will take place Friday, May 25 through Saturday, May 26 at Hayward Field.

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CREATING A SCIENCE-LITERATE GENERATION OF STUDENTS

BY BECKY HOAG

It was time to sign up for next term’s classes again, and University of Oregon junior Julia Trujillo knew she needed to fulfill general education science requirements for her bachelor of science degree. Trujillo, a pre-journalism major, was dreading this, having felt disconnected from topics taught in her science classes.

“I only had two science classes and they were both mandatory,” Trujillo said. “ ere was a biology (class) where the professor was very much into science and just adored all things about it but was bad at teaching it. And chemistry was the same thing. It started feeling like a math class instead of a science class, so I wasn’t really curious about what we were learning about, but rather just getting information for the test.”

Like Trujillo, many U.S. citizens feel intimidated by science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics, with Pew Research Center finding that 52 percent consider math and science “too hard.” e Programme for International Student

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Assessment (PISA) ranked the U.S. 24th out of 71 countries for science skill level of 15-year-olds.

Students who continue their education at a university usually cannot escape science and math GE requirements, so many take an introductory class to fulfill the requirements.

Yet science and math are included in the university general education requirements for a good reason. According to a peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Translational Medicine by Elizabeth Marincola, learning science helps develop disciplined thinking, which can help in other parts of people’s lives. e paper also concluded that many societal issues revolve around scientific topics, such as health care, technologic development and food choices.

But for students, these science and math requirements can feel like a burden. Like many undergraduates in a similar position, Trujillo looked for a class that sounded intriguing and easy. She had always found astronomy interesting, so she decided to get her science requirements via astronomy courses. e first class she took was lecture-based and “kind of boring.” e next term, she took astronomy lecturer Scott Fisher’s “ e Birth and Death of Stars.”

“I was expecting it to be still interesting and engaging … but basically a lecture,” Trujillo said.

“But instead I found the best class I have ever taken on campus.”

Trujillo said Fisher made the large lecture class feel active and exciting. Instead of trying to teach meticulous details, he focused on increasing student interest in the topic. She said that on the first day of class he said, “I am going to teach you the things you are going to remember, you are going to love and that you are going to talk about whenever you have an opportunity.”

Fisher is one of the growing number of UO STEM instructors engaging with the UO Science Literacy Program (SLP), which was founded in 2010 and funded through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) with “significant internal support” from UO – according to the SLP website. e program strives to improve science literacy by providing instructors and graduate students with effective teaching methods. Rather than lecturing, SLP instructors are encouraged to build an inquiry-based teaching style to promote student curiosity and engagement. “ e biggest things are about trying to shift the mindset from it being the instructor delivering information to the students working through the information themselves,” graduate

education mentor Austin Hocker said. e science literacy program currently works with the biology, physics, earth sciences, chemistry and human physiology departments. Instructors, graduate students and undergraduates join the program on their own accord, and take out of the program what they put into it. e SLP website reports that 155 SLP courses have been taught by the 45 faculty members, 91 graduate fellows and 103 undergraduate scholars participating. e main aspect of the program is the journal club, where approximately 20 to 30 SLP members meet weekly for one hour to discuss papers about successful teaching methods. is is how Hocker got involved.

“It is really awesome to have a community of people to talk to about teaching and talking about different strategies to make students more successful and learn more,” Hocker said.

After attending the club for several years with a peer who was a SLP graduate student, Hocker slowly started attending SLP events himself and using their educational methods to teach core human physiology courses. One of the unique aspects of the science literacy program is that it requires undergraduates and graduates in the program to teach a class by the end of the quarter.

Now, instead of teaching science courses, he helps other graduate students learn how to teach and helps organize the journal club.

If the instructors and graduate students want to gain even more experience and knowledge, they can attend the regional, weeklong Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching led by Vandegrift.

According to university communications, 55 faculty and postdoctoral researchers attended last year.

Using the tools Hocker said that most members hear about it from instructors or peers like he did, and many are drawn to the program through their interest in teaching. From there, the community aspect helps hold members accountable. Fisher finds the relatively unformatted nature of it beneficial to the program because it allows individuals to use approaches that work best for them. For example, while some teachers like to use electronic survey method, like iClickers, he is worried that this method ruins the class flow. He would rather use what he calls “chest voting” where students vote on answers using their fingers.

“To me, the iClickers – it just always felt like we broke the magic in some sense,” Fisher said. e nonprescriptive nature also encourages more faculty to join the program because they don’t have to worry about too much of a time commitment. ere is a concern that arises with the program being less structured, though.

Outspoken physics professor Greg Bothun, who has taught SLP courses in the past, said he believes that more organization could lead to the program to becoming more formal. He would even like to see it become a department of its own with science communication professionals guiding it.

“We’re all amateur at this, and that is okay at some level. But on another level, an amateur needs to be guided by a professional to become better,” Bothun said.

Bothun said he’d like to see science literacy experts leading the program. As of now, SLP members, such as SLP Associate Director Elly Vandegrift, monitor course progress by sitting in on classes to see instructors and graduate students use the new teaching methods. en they provide feedback.

“If you are in a class and you are being put in small groups or you are talking with each other and you are answering clicker questions, for example, there’s a lot of evidence that by doing those types of practices, it is much better for student learning,” Vandegrift said. e program started with lower-division courses, but instructors are encouraged to apply the teaching methods to upper-division courses too.

Fisher said he believes that some of the methods work best in a smaller teaching environment and that is where the program can really excel.

“With 30 or 40 students, you can do whatever you want,” Fisher said. “All the doors are open for active learning.”

Bothun agrees that many of the techniques explored in the program are easier to implement in a smaller class, yet he emphasizes the importance of keeping the program’s focus towards nonscience majors. “ is should be employed in Physics 101 where there are 200 students because that’s where the impact is,” Bothun said.

He said that ideally, non-science majors would be required to take a science class that’s a smaller class size with lots of hands-on learning, kind of like the way writing classes are formatted.

While there might be some disagreement on which direction the SLP should go, both Bothun and Fisher agree though that the program is a step in the right direction in tackling the larger societal issue.

“We want the next person you send to Congress to be scientifically literate,” Bothun said.

Getting the word out Because the SLP is mainly advertised through word-of-mouth, it isn’t very well-known to nonscience undergraduates. Trujillo, who hadn’t heard of the SLP program before, got lucky with her class choice. She said it would be beneficial for both the students and the program if students knew about it.

“All the time you get professors that are like, ‘Here’s the information. Take it.’ And that can be good for a class, but if you have a Gen Ed where people aren’t engaged in the first place because they’re just like ‘I just have to take this’ then you might as well make it interesting,” Trujillo said. e program was recently added to searchable course options on the school’s class information system DuckWeb under the acronym SLP, but because many students don’t know about the program, the feature is less likely to be used.

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Vandegrift recognizes that program’s advertising is an issue, saying that they have tried methods such as flyers and newsletters, but the information still hasn’t trickled down to students. e SLP is in communication with the journalism school’s new Media Center for Science and Technology (MCST) in hopes that the multidisciplinary relationship will benefit both parties.

Vandegrift remains pleased with how far the program has come and points to the awards she and her SLP colleagues have received. Vandegrift and SLP co-director Judith Eisen received the omas F. Herman Award for Special Pedagogy.

Vandegrift was also recognized as a Williams Fellow for her dedication to improving science education. Fisher and chemistry professor Mark Lonergan both received the Tykeson Teaching Award by using skills taught through the program.

Research on teaching supports the methods SLP instructors use. One peer-reviewed paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, found that there is a 55 percent increased chance that a student will fail a lecture-based class, compared to an active-learning one. e study also found that students scored a half grade higher in active-learning classes than those in lectures. “ eir statement is so strong that if this was a medical drug trial, it would have been stopped because the active-learning has such a positive impact on students that we would say we could no longer lecture,” Vandegrift said. ough the SLP program itself is still relatively new to have much data on it, many published sources support the program’s direction. Trujillo is proof that active-learning can have a big effect on students. After taking Fisher’s course, she decided to take another astronomy class the next quarter, just for fun.

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OPINION e University of Oregon College Republicans table outside the EMU. (Emerald Archives)

CONSERVATIVE STUDENTS FACE MARGINALIZATION ON CAMPUS

BY TED YANEZ

On a campus as liberal as the University of Oregon, it can be tough to be in a political minority.

But are students with conservative views actually marginalized on campus? Some students don’t seem to think so; however, there is more than enough evidence showing that they are.

Do conservative students really face discrimination on campus?

Late last month, a column was published in the Daily Emerald entitled ‘ e false narrative of the conservative minority.’ Shortly after, conservative opinion site National Review picked up the column.

“While it would be technically accurate to say that conservatives are a minority on, for example, the University of Oregon campus, this narrative is often accompanied with words like ‘discrimination’ and ‘oppression.’ What these people really mean to imply is that they are marginalized,” writes Marks, the author of the column. People with a conservative mindset didn’t receive this well.

Marks continues, “By referring to themselves as minorities and taking the language reserved for marginalized communities, conservatives are drawing attention away from communities who actually experience discrimination, or prejudiced treatment, and oppression, or ‘unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power.’” It is important to note that Marks does not believe that all republicans are the same. at being said, I’d like to shed a little light on some of the things conservatives experience. You be the judge on whether it’s discriminatory or not.

Some students feel intimidated on campus In my conversations around campus, I’ve spoken with students who haven’t felt free to express their views when the discourse gets political. McKenna Sjoden, a freshman in the Lundquist College of Business and Media/PR/Webmaster for UO College Republicans, is one of these students.

“I often find myself writing from a liberal perspective in fear of getting a lower grade if I wrote how I actually felt,” Sjoden said. “When people find out I’m republican, they act as if they are astonished we even exist on this campus. e university focuses so much on diversity of skin color and culture that they neglect the value of diversity of thought.” Despite these feelings, Sjoden said she feels generally safe on campus as a conservative and praised the university for keeping protests from getting too out of hand.

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conservative positions. [But] some have been thankful that I’ve spoken up in class and said they’re happy to have an outspoken conservative because it is so rare,” Milionis said. “ ere are radical students who would be happy to see my organization kicked off campus, but in my experience, these students are few. Most people simply roll their eyes and walk on. But if one student stops, or even takes a moment to consider that we are rational, just like themselves, then I consider that a victory.” Milionis said that he would like to see more conservative ideas taught in the classroom such as Austrian economic theory in the economics department.

Tabling can be rough at UO Hannah Ford, a freshman at UO, said, “Usually, the worst that happens tabling is we get stink eyes and middle fingers. ese individuals didn’t want to have a civil discussion with us; they wanted to berate us. One of them was quite threatening and I wanted him to leave. But I was not in control of the situation so I couldn’t tell him that. It left me with that nasty, sick feeling in your stomach.” Ford said she thought she would be less likely to be attacked like this because she’s a woman.

In my experience at the table, there have been many students who tell us they’re happy we’re here, but they won’t attend our meetings or be public about their beliefs due to wanting to keep their relationships with others — in some cases romantic relationships — intact.

When I was tabling for UOCR last year, a group of students came up to the table and called us white supremacists. A friend of mine and I explained that not only were we not white supremacists, we weren’t really even white. We both had one white parent, but my friend’s other parent was Middle Eastern and my other parent is Hispanic. Instantly, we were called liars and angrily harassed for having pale skin. I was further harassed when I had small bout of anxiety due to feeling threatened by the aggression of these students. Although a report was made to the university, it has not been addressed.

UO needs more balanced speakers Milionis said the university should “bring or encourage and/or fund right wing groups to bring conservative speakers” as well as “host debates between intellectual(s) on both sides of divisive issues.” is isn’t an unreasonable request.

UO often hosts seminars with guest speakers on liberal topics. Why doesn’t the university or its departments host more conservative speakers as well?

In 2016, YAL hosted Milo Yiannopoulos for an interview and Q&A session at UO. UO should host more events like this and not leave it up to student organizations to do all the work and give broader political understanding and discourse. For now, the University of Oregon College Republicans and UO College Democrats will be holding their own panel debate on May 23 at 6 p.m. in Straub 145.

President Schill doesn’t serve all students Between students feeling uncomfortable with expressing themselves in class out of fear of students being bullied for their views, the UO has failed at making all students feel welcome.

President Michael Schill has been known to comfort liberal students when something upsets them. For instance, on November 15, 2016, President Schill wrote an email to the UO community about President Donald Trump’s election. “Indeed, the current political climate and its aftermath have left many members of our community concerned and upset,” writes Schill. “Efforts to divide us based upon the color of our skin, our nationality, our immigration status, our abilities, our diversity of thought, our gender, or our sexual orientation must be called out and stopped.”

He claimed that “every person in this university is important and valued.” When I’m being harassed for my diversity of thought and the color of my skin not matching someone else’s stereotypical imagination of how I should look and vote, I do not feel important nor do I feel valued.

President Schill wants division based on these things to be “called out and stopped?” Why didn’t he say anything to conservative students when there was a mass protest on the night of the election? I received several messages from friends living on campus telling me that they were scared and they didn’t vote for Trump. ey told me not to wear my Trump shirt out of fear that something might happen to me.

Does this sound like a campus where diversity of thought is truly valued, especially when President Schill’s silence about a protest that frightened others who voted similarly is so deafening? ere are no visible efforts for more conservative speakers to be hosted on campus. ere are never any emails from residence life coordinators about the safety of a conservative student when political tensions are high. It’s one thing to write an email and include phrases such as “diversity of thought” to appear inclusive. But if President Schill truly believes in diversity of thought, he would show more support for conservative students too.

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DON’T LET SPOILERS RUIN YOUR MOVIE EXPERIENCE

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e internet is a minefield of spoilers.

Few people understand this fact better than some of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most dedicated fans. Prior to the release of “Avengers: Infinity War,” some fans chose to abstain from the internet entirely. A price worth paying — some of them may argue — to avoid hearing about important details and plot twists.

But do spoilers really ruin movies as much as people tend to believe?

Although society often looks down upon spoilers and those who spread them, a study suggests that spoilers might improve, rather than ruin, the audience’s enjoyment of a story.

Jonathan D. Leavitt and Nicholas J.S. Christenfeld at the University of California, San Diego conducted this experiment on 819 students in 2011. ey presented each student with both spoiled and unspoiled versions of different short stories.

Some of these stories were mysteries that ended with ironic twists while others had straightforward conclusions.

Despite these differences, the study demonstrate that the readers consistently enjoyed spoiled stories just as much, if not a little more, than their unspoiled counterparts.

Does this study make it acceptable for people to openly spoil movies? Hardly.

In fact, Benjamin K. Johnson and Judith E. Rosenbaum at University of Amsterdam reported that audience members consistently preferred unspoiled stories when they conducted a similar study three years later.

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report similar trends. Regardless of whether an audience member preferred their stories to be spoiled or unspoiled, the impact of spoilers on their overall experience remained relatively insignificant. e distaste that many people express toward those who spread spoilers is justified but usually an overreaction.

Carelessly revealing major plot details for muchanticipated movies such as “Avengers: Infinity War” is an obvious blunder.

Despite this, people still need to understand that spoilers are not as bad as they might think. Avoiding the internet, ignoring friends and shutting down conversations are all overreactions to often unimportant movie details.

When people angrily respond to spoilers, both online and in person, they promote the toxic atmosphere of spoiler culture.

Too often it seems that fans, driven by their aversion to spoilers, will shut down most conversations about a film or book around its release.

It goes without saying that people should be courteous and avoid ruining the best parts of movies for others.

But moviegoers should still understand how little spoilers tend to impact their cinematic experience.

Movies are supposed to be fun. ey are designed so that die-hard fans and casuals alike can gather their friends and family to enjoy a story on the big screen.

It is time for people to stop taking spoilers so seriously and watch movies for what they are: well-crafted stories that most people can enjoy, with or without spoilers.

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“HAZEY” features work from three students that transforms the mundane parts of everyday life into intimate artistic pieces. Details about what lies inside are scarce, but the artists — Ross Doyle, Ariel Sanchez and Han Cao — are sure to offer some of the best student-

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is Tuesday, the Museum of Natural and Cultural History will host a moon viewing party at the EMU Amphitheater. University of Oregon astronomy professor Scott Fisher will be there, along with a set of professional telescopes, in order to help gain a better perspective on Earth’s only

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Despite his typical antics, he’s ditching the costumes and theatrics to bring a stripped down, organic show with his band on May 24. Take a night out to experience Yankovic like you may have never seen him before.

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1010 WILLAMETTE ST., EUGENE, OR 97401, 8 P.M., $52-$279, ALL AGES e famed Weird Al Yankovic is coming to Eugene this week, but not in normal fashion. Yankovic is known for his comedic parodies of hit pop songs, some of the most notorious being “White and Nerdy” and “Like a Surgeon.” Not even his humble beginnings — he recorded his first songs in a UC Davis bathroom — could stop his last album, “Mandatory Fun,” from reaching the top of the charts in

natural satellite. During this time, the moon will be just past its first quarter, halfway illuminated and on its way to a full moon. e lunar viewing will start at 8:30 p.m., just as the sun sets, and the event will be free and open to the public. Free coffee, cocoa and cookies will also be provided.

is Friday is your chance to abide with e Dude and sip a White Russian at the David Minor eater and Pub’s 10th annual “ e Big Lebowski” party and screening. e Coen Brothers’ stoner comedy has a well-established cult following, and its weird, whip-smart dialogue will leave audiences in stitches. ose dressed as “Big

Lebowski” characters at the David Minor can score half-price White Russian cocktails, so throw on your rattiest robe and your most open-toed sandals.

Tickets sell out quickly for this righteous event, so be sure to purchase in advance for a dollar off. Showtimes are 6:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.

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RANDY PAPÉ OREGON ADVANCED STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM

( ursday) 6:15pm - 8:15pm A pre-symposium reception is available for Lundquist College of Business students.

Students will get to dive into conversations about strategy and values with the symposium panelists and executives from sich companies as Columbia Sportswear Company, Burley Design, RAIN Eugene Accelerator, Springfield Creamery/ Nancy’s Probiotics, PapÊ Group, Housing Capital Company, Fred Meyer, Friends of Laguna Honda, and Deloitte Services, LLP. Seating is limited and is by invitation only.

Lillis Business Complex, Room 182

ANXIETY MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP

( ursday) 2:00pm - 2:50pm Gain an understanding of your anxeity triggers and symptoms, and develop strategies for addressing related challenges. All students welcome to

drop-in. Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Duck Nest (041)

PEACE CORPS APPLICATION WORKSHOP

( ursday) 2:00pm - 3:30pm Make your application stand out from the rest.

Attend this workshop to learn how to browse Volunteer openings, find the right program, and strengthen your application. You will have an opportunity to ask questions about service, learn steps you can take to improve your chances, and gain valuable tips to guide you through the application process.

Hendricks Hall, Room 220 - Career Center

School. All graduate students are welcome.

Family friendly! Susan Campbell Hall, Room 111 (Grad Student Lounge)

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FRIDAY March LIVE

UO ART MFA THESIS EXHIBITION

( ursday) 5:00pm 6:00pm Come participate in a collaborative twopart discussion series on multiple aspects of healthy LGBTQIA+ relationships. Pizza will be provided!

Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Duck Nest (041)

(Friday) 12:00pm - 5:00pm e University of Oregon Department of Art presents the 2018 MFA thesis exhibition of Laura Butler Hughes, Stephen Milner, Natalie Wood and Alexander Wurts at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, OR. Working across photography, painting, sculpture, installation and new media practices, their culminating work draws from deeply personal experiences that signal a complex contemplation of the present through the mediation of everyday encounters and activities.

Disjecta Contemporary Art Center

DUCKS AFTER DARK: BLACK PANTHER

FRIDAY BIKE ADVENTURE

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LGBTQIA+ HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

( ursday) 8:15pm -11:15pm Join us in the EMU Redwood 214 for a free movie! Plus we have FREE popcorn and soda for UO students with a valid UO ID! Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Redwood 214

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PAAWS GRADUATE SCHOOL DE-STRESS PLAY WITH DOGS EVENT ( ursday)

1:00pm - 2:30pm Feeling stressed? Help is on the way! Drop in to pet, hang out and play with therapy dogs at the Graduate

JUNIOR RECITAL: MORGAN PAIGE, VOICE

(Friday) 7:00pm Featuring: Andrew Pham, Piano; Luis Rivera, Tenor elma Schnitzer Hall (Room 163)

UO BASEBALL VS ARIZONA 7 PM

(Friday) 7:00pm Come watch your Baseball team face Arizona on Friday, May 25th 7PM at PK Park. Free Admission with Student ID! PK Park

TRICKS TO INHERIT

(Friday) 7:30pm - 9:30pm Tricks to Inherit: is the first translation of Reygadas’ Astucias por heredar un sobrino a un tĂ­o, cited as the “first drama staged in Californiaâ€? by Hispanic theatre historian NicolĂĄs Kanellos. Written in Mexico City, Tricks to Inherit is a satirical comedy about a miserly uncle, his love-struck nephew, and their wily servants.

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EXHIBITION & RECEPTION (Friday)

(Friday) 1:00pm Get ready to Frolf (Frisbee golf). Join us for a pleasant bike ride ending in Frisbee golf. First time Frisbee golfers welcome!

Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Bike Program

5:00pm - 7:00pm Michael Geffel, Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture, will be exhibiting his design research over the last year in the Hayden Gallery.

Lawrence Hall, Hayden Gallery

YESPLUS HAPPINESS HOUR

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(Friday) 2:30pm - 3:30pm REcharge via Yesplus Yoga-BreathingMeditation Lokey Education Building, Room 116

ACEING YOUR TESTS

(Friday) 2:00pm - 2:50pm If you find yourself rereading an exam question only to find it more confusing, then come discuss strategies for becoming a more successful tester. Prince Lucien Campbell Hall (PLC), 72

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SUNSET/FULL MOON PADDLE

COFFEE HOUR

(Friday) 4:00pm -6:00pm Another week another coffee hour! is Friday we are going to celebrate Ramadan together. Join us to taste some delicious free food and drinks and have fun.

LLC South Performance Hall

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ART & TECHNOLOGY CAREERS - LUNCH & LEARN

(Friday) 11:45am Come learn about the wide range of careers from professionals in the field, enjoy lunch, join discussions, bring your questions!

Lawrence Hall, Room 206

FISHBOWL FRIDAY

(Friday) 4:00pm - 7:00pm Come to Fishbowl Fridays.

Meet new people, play board games with friends, get a free Starbucks Coffee, win raffle prizes, have fun doing activities and more.

Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Fishbowl

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(Saturday) 5:00pm - 10:00pm Enjoy the sunset, then paddle your boat by the light of the rising moon on Fern Ridge lake! Must register in the Outdoor Program office. Pre-trip meeting will be May 24th at 6:00 p.m. in the Outdoor Program Barn.

Outdoor Program (OP) Barn

PLAY RUN WITH A RESEARCHER

(Saturday) 8:00am - 9:00am Join University of Oregon researchers for special Prefontaine Classic edition Run with a Researcher.

Meet at the “O� desk at the Erb Memorial Union and tour campus. No sign-up is required. All paces are welcomed. Participants will head past libraries and research labs before enjoying Pre’s Trail, inspired by the late, great Steve Prefontaine. Best of all, each run and walk will be led by one of our leading researchers.

Erb Memorial Union (EMU), “O� Desk

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SUNDAY March

LIVE UO BASEBALL VS ARIZONA

(Saturday) 3:00pm Come watch your Baseball team face Arizona on Saturday, May 26th 3PM at PK Park. Free Admission with Student ID! PK Park

PLAY THE VOICE OF UO

(Sunday) 2:30pm ON SALE AT THE UO TICKET OFFICE IN THE EMU Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Ballroom

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H MUSIC EDM artist Illenium adjusts his beat pad during his set. (Phillip Quinn)

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ILLENIUM

WOWS CUTHBERT, DROPS NEW TRACK AHEAD OF FESTIVAL APPEARANCE IN LAS VEGAS

BY ZACH PRICE • TWITTER @ZACH_PRICE24

e University of Oregon campus was surprisingly quiet for a beautiful Friday night on May 18. at is until the sun started to set behind the valley’s rolling hills and sounds of future bass began erupting from Eugene’s Cuthbert Amphitheater.

On Friday, Denver-based producer and DJ Illenium brought his world-renowned electronic bass music, as well as a host of other impressive musical acts, to Eugene. e show’s openers included Eugene-based producer Evergreen, North Carolina DJ Cry Wolf and festival favorite Big Wild.

Big Wild performed an hour-long set filled with his usual vibey tunes and a variety of live percussion, including drum pads and a Cajon box drum. e Massachusetts native performed everything from a remix of Kanye West’s “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” to his famous remix of Sylvan Esso’s “Hey Mami.”

After Big Wild thanked the crowd and left the stage, it was only a short 10-minute wait until the night’s main event began. e sun had just made its final descent and a quiet chill went through the amphitheater, but it would only last for a moment.

Epic sounds of clashing drums and blaring horns came from the loudspeakers, sending the crowd in a frenzy toward the stage.

Illenium opened the show with “Crawl Outta Love” — a fitting choice for the moment; the song’s lyrics read, “And when the sky went dark.”

Illenium was accompanied on stage by eight high-resolution LED screens that painted quick, exaggerated scenes of rolling landscapes and later, more psychedelic animations. His DJ setup had two Mac laptops riding over his turntables, a series of drum pads to his left and a keyboard on the right.

Following his first track, Illenium introduced electronic producer Said e Sky, who played piano on the duo’s track “Where’d U Go.” Said e Sky would enter and exit the stage periodically throughout the night, adding a melodic touch of keys and synths at just the right moments.

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While it was obvious that the show didn’t completely sell out, the venue still saw a good number of audience members in attendance.

Cuthbert’s lower bowl was packed with ravegoers wearing neon colors, fishnet leggings and tribal designs painted on their faces. e upper bowl left room for listeners to dance freely without bumping into others.

Outside of his original work, one highlight from the night came when Illenium teased San Holo’s “Light” and then seamlessly mixed in Kanye’s “All Of e Lights” to create an incredible fusion of two genres. roughout the night, Illenium did a good job of transitioning in and out of genres, moving quickly from his emotional original work to trap hip-hop remixes to heavy bass and dubstep. A series of flashing strobes, CO2 cannons and colorful rotating lights complimented the rainbow of genres well.

As the night began to wind down, Illenium rounded out the show by performing his now-famous remixes of e Chainsmokers’ “Don’t Let Me Down” and Marshmello’s “Silence.” He then thanked the crowd for showing him a good time during his first visit to Eugene, promising to return. But his night was just getting started.

Following his Eugene performance, Illenium flew to Las Vegas where he performed at the annual Electric Daisy Carnival, one of the world’s largest and longest standing electronic music festivals.

“After this, I’m going to EDC to premier this song with Excision,” Illenium said. “I’m not really supposed to play it, but I wanna show you guys, so here it is.” e premier of “Gold,” which still hasn’t been officially released, went over well with the Cuthbert audience. After his final performance of the night, Illenium thanked the crowd and then headed to the Eugene airport. He had a flight to catch to Vegas, where he took the stage with Excision to premier the song again at 3 a.m.

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HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER, UO’S OLDEST TREE STANDS THE TEST OF TIME

BY FRANKIE LEWIS • TWITTER @FLEWIS_1 e University of Oregon class of 1897 might find UO’s current campus unrecognizable. Large-scale building projects and student enrollment increases have whisked away memories of the university’s modest beginnings. Once the central operating building of the university, Deady Hall today houses parts of the math department and other assorted classes. e entire quad that Deady and Villard Hall overlook — the heart of early UO — is now scarcely utilized.

But the class of 1897 would recognize one landmark — their class tree. Perched on the north edge of “old campus” is a relatively unknown treasure of university and state history: an up to 400-year-old white oak tree.

“Whitokate oaks moved into the valley somewhere between 11,000 and 8,000 years ago,” said Bart Johnson, head of the landscape architecture department at UO. “ ey were here at the time the first Native people arrived here. ey are incredibly important parts to the food web.”

According to Johnson, who has done extensive research on the species, the Old Campus white oak is at least 250 years old and could be over 400. Such a long lifespan is normal for a white oak tree; Johnson said the oldest recorded white oak in

Oregon was around 650 years old. ese ageless wonders were once commonplace. Johnson said that up until 1850, 60 percent of the Willamette Valley was oak savannah — open grasslands that allowed oak trees to thrive. Since then, most of Oregon’s oak savannahs were converted to agricultural fields or swallowed up by Douglas fir forests, making the once dominant white oak a rarity today. Johnson said the preservation of white oaks and their corresponding habitat is critical, as the trees serve many other native organisms, including birds, squirrels and insects. “ eir wide-spreading branches are festooned with lichens and mosses which are occupied by insects, so it’s a food web source point,” Johnson said. “ ey find even now that some of these individual oaks that are just stuck in the middle of an ag field are still very important for birds.”

Oak trees are versatile; they can grow in thin or thick soil, dry or wet climates. Oaks can also adjust their growth rate based on the amount of environmental stress they’re under. is can make dating white oak trees difficult, as a young tree growing under low-stress conditions may be much larger than an older tree under more stress.

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Looking across 11th Ave circa 1895, the old campus oak tree (far left) featured prominently in the early days of UO alongside Villard Hall (center) and Deady Hall (center-right). (Courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives)

conditions, white oaks are still in competition with other trees.

“As soon as you start getting other trees like Doug firs [growing] overtop,” Johnson said, “[the white oak’s] canopy begins to fall apart. You lose that structure and you simply can’t recover it.”

Johnson and his colleagues are working to identify the best remaining oak habitats in the Willamette Valley and are developing ways to restore them before the oaks completely disappear.

“A lot of our work is about thinning out and removing the trees that have grown in around these oaks creating new, open grassland habitat where we can recruit young oaks that can fill in those canopies,” Johnson said.

When the old campus oak ultimately reaches the end of its life, campus will undoubtedly lose a piece of university heritage. But the tree will provide just as much — if not more — ecological value in death as in life. “ ere’s been research done that’s shown a dead tree has more life in it than a living tree,” Johnson said. “Once it dies it becomes inhabited by fungus, beetles, bacteria, insects.

Squirrels are living inside of it. You end up with more biomass in a dead tree than a live one.”

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