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TV SHOW RECOMMENDATION: Inventing Anna (on Netflix) Summary: Inspired from real-world events, Russian-born Anna Sorkin — played by Julia Garner — convinces New York’s top 1% that she is a wealthy German heiress called Anna Delvey. While using this fake title to obtain thousands of dollars in cash and goods, she works toward opening an exclusive art club. Yet journalist Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) is ready to prove to the world that Sorkin is a fraud.

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Recommended by: Christyn Nightengale, junior studying pre-law “It’s really interesting. It’s about a girl who fakes her way to being an elitist in New York,” Nightengale said.

“She works her way into the rich social circle.”

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A&C Bao Bao House's most popular dumplings, the Steamed Pork Dumplings (front) and the Shang Hai Steamed Bar Zi (back). Bao Bao House serves house made dumplings, noodle bowls & Chinese standards. (Liam Sherry/Emerald)

BAO BAO HOUSE SERVES UP THE BEST DUMPLINGS IN EUGENE

This authentic Chinese restaurant specializes in beautifully handcrafted dumplings, wontons and bao zi that are unlike any other.

BY LAUREN LEONE

One of my favorite things about Eugene is the wide diversity of restaurants and the endless opportunities to try different kinds of food. I love trying a new local eatery every weekend and checking them off my imaginary list. Until this week, however, I had yet to find the perfect dumplings — until I went to Bao Bao House.

Bao Bao House, located on West Park Street, is an authentic Chinese restaurant that specializes in delicious and delicate dumplings, steamed pan-fried bao zi, a variety of wontons, fried rice and many other tasty bites. Each item on Bao Bao House’s menu is hand crafted on a daily basis using fresh ingredients and served in a picture-worthy display.

The restaurant setting is warm and welcoming and can work perfectly for a lunch between friends and family or a romantic date-night out. The brick walls are filled with various tiger drawings and paintings in celebration of the Chinese New Year which started on Feb. 1, commemorating the year of the tiger.

While the restaurant itself is a bit small and there may be limited seating inside, there’s always the option to order takeout on a busy night.

“Usually we are busy on the weekends, and we’re always busy during dinner time,” Qi Liu, a Bao Bao House employee who has worked there for about four months, said. “It’s all fresh, homemade and special,” Liu said, referencing the items on the menu. “Our fried rice is very good, we use a handmade sauce to cook it, all of the fried rice are popular too.”

Bao Bao House’s menu is filled with a variety of dumplings, wontons, bao zi and different kinds of fried rice. Some of the popular dishes are the ShangHai steamed fried bao zi, the cheese and chicken bao zi, the steamed or pan-fried pork dumplings and the shrimp fried rice in Xo sauce.

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originates from Chinese cuisine.

If you’re going to order the Bao Zi — which I highly recommend you do — there are many different kinds to choose from. They have ShangHai steamed fried Bao Zi, vegetarian fried Bao Zi, curry beef steamed fried Bao Zi, shrimp Bao Zi, steamed sweet bean paste buns and cheese and chicken Bao Zi. Once your food arrives at your table, you’ll be amazed at the finesse and craftsmanship that goes into making these delicate dumplings, wontons and bao zi. I ordered the steamed pork dumplings and the ShangHai steamed fried bao zi, and I was immediately impressed when the food was brought to my table.

Each dumpling is steamed to perfection, and the bao zi has a deliciously fried bottom that adds a perfect texture to every bite. They are garnished delicately with black sesame seeds and green onion, which elevated the presentation and added a nice hint of sesame and freshness to the overall taste.

“I love that they’re a small business and that they make everything by hand, and you feel like there’s love in the food,” Renee Grube, a returning customer having lunch with her friend Dana Turell, said. “I keep ordering the dumplings. I’ve had all their dumplings, but the pork dumplings are great, and you can get them to go.”

For Turell however, this was her first time eating at Bao Bao House. “I thought the dumplings were amazing. I would totally come back for the dumplings,” Turell said. “I saw so many things I loved but the dumplings were perfect.”

The high praise of the dumplings is certainly warranted with how delicious and filling they are. I encourage everyone to check out this restaurant either through take-out or a welcoming dine-in experience.

I hope that everyone can appreciate the true care and skill that goes into each item on the menu, and enjoy the delicious authenticity of Bao Bao House.

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TRANSPONDER: A SAFE HAVEN FOR THE TRANS COMMUNITY Bennett Brock, the operations director at TransPonder, sits at his desk located at the Transponder offices. The office was closed for almost a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has slowly been opening up to offer more services to people. TransPonder is a non-profit located in Eugene that offers support services and common items needed to assist transgender people in the Oregon community. (Will Geschke/Emerald)

BY KRISTA KROISS

A local non-profit organization, TransPonder provides several resources for the trans and gender diverse community — from yoga classes to free produce and meals.

In 2012, some transgender and queer folks local to Eugene gathered in a backyard, seeking a support group for their identities. In the comfort of each other's presence — knowing this was a safe space to be whoever you are — they shared stories and experiences, provided validation and grew a community for people constantly marginalized and oppressed by our society.

Little did they know this backyard support group would turn in to TransPonder: a grassroots, non-profit organization run by transgender people for the trans and gender diverse community throughout Lane County.

TransPonder offers several services and events, including weekly virtual Gender Diverse Yoga sessions, a resources directory of local health care providers educated on the queer community, a TransParent group to educate and support parents of queer children, food and produce from a partnership with Food for Lane County and more, said operations director Ben Brock.

Brock also said that TransPonder assists with the annual UO Drag Show, which has been performing for over 10 years.

“There’s so many little things, but they’re big,” Kyle Rodriguez-Hudson, the executive director for TransPonder, said of the various different resources the non-profit provides for the community. “It reaches so many different levels of people.”

Being from Chicago, Rodriguez-Hudson was used to having access to resources that understand the queer and trans experience, especially in healthcare — and was surprised at the lack of resources here in Eugene and Lane County when he moved here.

“I realized everyone was being sent to Portland

because that’s where all the resources were,” he said.

“It baffled me because not everyone has the final access or transportation to get to Portland.”

TransPonder works to fill the hole for Eugene based trans resources, particularly with healthcare.

The non-profit has a resource directory with lists of queer-educated healthcare providers for mental and physical health.

Rodriguez-Hudson said he is particularly proud of this resource.

“Here, central Oregon, the valley, TransPonder is needed,” he said, referring to health care resources for the local community. The non-profit constantly works to vet and educate healthcare providers on the queer and trans experience to create more healthcare resources for the local community, RodriguezHudson said.

TransPonder also seeks to provide a community for queer and transgender folks — just like the backyard support group it originated from.

“Within the queer community, chosen family is a big thing,” Rodriguez-Hudson said, discussing the original support group. Chosen family can be anything from your best friend and your partner, to your coworkers or sports team — it is essentially your chosen community of people.

This sentiment of community and chosen family carries through as TransPonder has grown, with support groups, a trans-centered book club and more community-centered events.

For Jack Flukinger, a trans man who moved to Eugene last fall, TransPonder has provided the community he was looking for.

“I think one of the main things I get out of

TransPonder is interacting with other trans people in an open and welcoming environment,” Flukinger said, also noting that representation of trans people is rarely done in a positive light. “TransPonder gives a healthy and happy environment for trans people to exist in.”

Flukinger has participated in several activities, such as the Gender Diverse Yoga class and the book club, an in-person event for Trans Day of Remembrance and volunteering at the COVID-19 vaccine clinic put on by TransPonder at Spectrum — a queer bar in Eugene.

At this time, some events such as the Gender Diverse Yoga class and the book club remain virtual due to the pandemic, Rodriguez-Hudson said.

In addition to the community TransPonder offers, Flukinger also said he finds the trans representation throughout the non-profit important and necessary — as TransPonder is completely run by trans people.

“I think that is definitely very special and necessary,” Flukinger said. “The best people who understand trans people’s needs are trans people.”

Flukinger said he is grateful for TransPonder, especially having come from a small town that is not always friendly to trans and queer people. For him — and many others who use TransPonder’s resources and are a part of the community — it is a safe place to come as you are.

“As soon as I get there, I know that I don’t have to pretend to be anyone else,” Flukinger said, adding that he often feels he has to suppress his trans identity because he can pass as cisgender. “I know I can just fully be myself.”

TransPonder can be accessed through their website as well as their Instagram, @transponder_nonprofit.

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A HEAD START AT UO

Head Start is a nationwide program that helps low income families and children with their educational experiences.

BY MELVIN BRAVO Do you remember your preschool days? Holding your parents’ hands as the teacher warmly greets you inside; You start to recognize your name, where your seat is and which peers sit next to you, all in an environment made for you. You start to learn routine through letters and numbers, playing outside and being brave enough to ask someone to play with you. Although these experiences were different for all of us, you started the first steps in a world of education. It is a world of social understanding and the beginning of something bigger lying ahead of you. At the University of Oregon, there’s a program that caters to this educational system and people that believe in those values: Head Start of Lane County.

Head Start provides services for families and students in Eugene, including non-traditional students, helping low-income families with the proper care and attention they need. It helps nontraditional students with children by providing them with a place to work on their studies and that’s affordable as students while their kids also go to school. Head Start’s UO site works with graduate students studying early childhood education and provides services to both UO students with children and other community members. Head Start is a national federally funded program that has run in Lane County for over 50 years and has created a PA G E 8

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Head Start offers different programs to help meet a growing need for social and emotional support for students — not just academic.

“It’s a lot different when you’re parenting a child with special needs,” Shanna Matti, the regional manager at the UO Head Start, said. “I needed resources as a parent.” Matti works with teachers and families at the site and went through Head Start herself as a mother.

Her daughter had a sensory process disorder, and she was able to find help through the Head Start program. She was also getting her Master's while her daughter was enrolled in Head Start, earning her degree at the same time her daughter graduated from preschool. She now can work with students and families, helping them the same way she got help, she said.

“The expectation is that the Head Start program is doing the best they can to ensure that the child is ready to move on,” said Annie Soto, the executive director for Head Start of Lane County. She said through the years there have been more children that have social and emotional challenges. About 25% of students in Head Start have a disability, including learning disabilities, like reading, writing, speaking and reasoning as well as ADHD, autism and

emotional disturbances.

“I believe that early childhood years are the most crucial years, because that’s in our brains, it’s malleable. It’s easy to retrain or introduce and teach young learners, social skills and life skills," Matti said. She indicates that her experience was positive and helped her through her career as a mother and student.

Head Start’s classroom at the UO is located in the Berwick building on East 18th Avenue next to the UO music school. As you head past the Pioneer Cemetery down the hill, you’ll see a cubic pocket of a playground with slides and outdoor toys.

“We're right next to the music hall, so from the playground, the kids can hear the music and they're just enthralled by it,” EuGina Fails, the head teacher for the afternoon class at the UO Head Start, said. She works with kids from ages 3 to 5, helping them on a variety of levels.

"We have a couple of programs that we've adopted as our base curriculum, and Head Start likes to focus on building a foundation for the kids so that they can be as successful as possible in life,” Fails said.

One of the programs that Head Start implements is Second Step, a curriculum that teaches kids about their feelings and different ways to engage with them.

Head Start also has a curriculum called Creating

COVER Connections, which helps families connect with their kids at home, doing activities that encourage positive reinforcement, child cognition (helping with problem-solving, giving them the independence of having a choice and how to handle emotional awareness), along with communicating discipline, according to the Head Start program. They also work with the Department of Health Services, which assists families with building healthy and safe environments for their kids.

Second Step and Creating Connections go beyond preschool — they’re social and emotional means of teaching kids and parents that their feelings are valid and how to engage with each other.

Communicating those feelings out loud helps kids address and express their emotions, Fails said, helping them connect on a social and emotional level with themselves and others before moving on to kindergarten.

Fails thinks that by exposing children to an open environment and speaking to them in earnest that they’ll be able to grow.

Additionally, Head Start uses public funds to support kids and their families with financial needs.

One method that Head Start applies is the TwoGeneration (2Gen) approach. This approach works simultaneously with kids and parents, making sure both are stable educationally and financially. The idea is that a child can only strive if the family has stability and help on their end, Soto said. It's an interconnected and interdependent way of working with the families at the school level but also at home.

“I act as a resource and support for our families at Head Start,” Allison McGillivray said. She’s a Family Support Coordinator at UO Head Start, helping families with resources and information here in Eugene. She’s been working with Head Start as an FSC for five years in the UO Head Start location along with two other locations in Eugene.

McGillivray said most of the families that go

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through Head Start are income-qualified and are living at or below the poverty line. She mentioned that although a lot of families are income-qualified at Head Start, it doesn’t paint the real picture of where the poverty line stands.

“There are families in Lane County that are living in poverty, but don’t income qualify,” McGillivray said. She described a grassroots study called ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed), done in Oregon about families that are above the federal poverty line but struggle to meet the basic costs of living. The study showed what the federal poverty line is for a family in Oregon, and the annual cost is $24,100. Families that sit above this level don't qualify for services on the federal level.

McGillivray, along with Head Start, tries to help families on the state and federal levels of poverty making sure that their homes have everything they need to function.

This includes non-traditional students who are getting their degrees at the UO, such as those with children, who must be both academic and family responsibilities. Head Start at the UO helps integrate both dynamics with students that are going through obstacles.

Head Start launched its program in 1964 during the war on poverty. The idea was to help break the cycle of poverty in the education system and instead establish services accessible to low-income families.

Soto leads Head Start in Lane County and has been working with them since 1979. She’s responsible for making sure the agency meets the expectations and regulations of both the department of education in Salem and the head office for Head Start in Washington D.C. Oregon first adopted the Head Start program back in 1989, because of senator Frank L. Roberts who brought the program to light. However, it wasn’t recognized by the state and on a federal level until Roberts and his wife, Barbara Roberts, the 34th One of the playgrounds available to students in the program. Head Start is an on-campus program that aids non-traditional students. (Maddie Stellingwerf/Emerald)

Governor of Oregon, worked to adopt the Head Start program in Oregon. He wanted to change the preschool education system and thought that the Head Start philosophy was the way to go. Soto tries to keep the program going by showing the state why the program matters.

“Most of the research around early childhood in our country has been paid for by Head Start funds,” Soto said. One of the research projects that they were able to help fund during this time was the television program “Sesame Street.” Soto mentioned that a lot of early childhood research was funded by their program, calling it Head Start research dollars.

The program is mostly supported by local parents and teachers who have children in or work with the program. “One of the reasons it’s been around is that the people who receive the services make the decisions,” Soto said. Soto mentioned there’s a policy council in Head Start that meets monthly to talk about grants and funding for the program.

At the UO, Head Start has been around since the early ‘90s, reaching out and working with the College of Education and other divisions in the school. “We have a strong relationship with the early childhood division at the UO,” Soto said, saying that throughout the years they’ve worked with some great research projects and people, including Helen Neville, a brain scientist, working with the brain lab for over 10 years.

They were able to take MRIs of some of the children and provided services for them and their families for a long time.

Annie Soto hopes that when children leave Head Start, parents have the resources and opportunities to go where they want in the community. She said as a parent you never stop advocating for your children.

“It doesn’t matter if they're 9, 12, 18, you never stop advocating for your kids,” Soto said. Having something like Head Start available for families will stick with you forever, Soto said, and will be a program that can help families for years to come.

EuGina Fails is a teacuer at the UO campus location of Head Start. Head Start is an oncampus program that aids non-traditional students. (Maddie Stellingwerf/Emerald)

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HANNA HILCOFF POISED TO TURN THE TEAM’S HARD WORK INTO WINS

A young Oregon women’s lacrosse team is working through growing pains on its way to becoming a formidable force in the Pac-12. BY BEN BARRETT

The Oregon Ducks regroup during a break. The Oregon Ducks Women’s Lacrosse team takes on the SDSU Aztecs, on Feb. 27, 2022. (Molly McPherson/Emerald)

Oregon lacrosse (3-10, 1-6 Pac-12) sits at the bottom of the conference standings with three Pac-12 games remaining.

The Ducks, however, believe they’re better than their record shows. With standout attacker Hanna Hilcoff at the forefront, Oregon looks to use the final three games of the season to set the tone for next season.

Eight of the team's 13 games have been decided by three goals or less, only two of which have gone the way of the Ducks.

There is a consensus within the team that the results in those games do not paint an accurate representation of what they are capable of.

“There’s a combination of confidence and frustration,” fourth-year coach Chelsea Hoffman said. “Our mentality in those fourth quarters is to try to do it alone. We need to try to do it together.”

This opinion is shared by Hilcoff, a junior from Jupiter, Florida.

“Every game we have little wins,” Hoffman said. “I don’t think our record is an accurate representation of the work we put in and the talent we have on the field.”

Hilcoff, as one of the leaders on this young Oregon team, is trying to bring a championship culture to a program that has not seen a winning season since 2017.

In high school, Hilcoff led The Benjamin School to the state championship game as a senior and was named a U.S. lacrosse AllAmerican in Florida.

To start her career as a Duck, Hilcoff led the team in goals her freshman and sophomore years. She is on pace to do so again as a junior, an accomplishment which would propel her into Oregon lacrosse royalty.

“I want to make a name for my jersey, for number 32,” Hilcoff said. “When I pass that on, to have people know what

number they’re wearing and what I did wearing that jersey.”

However, Hilcoff and Coach Hoffman have their eyes set on more important milestones than personal accomplishments. Above all, they want to win.

Hilcoff, as Hoffman admitted, will be an integral part in this process.

“Hanna does it all,” Hoffman said.

“She’s an explosive dodger, and an explosive player.”

But, Hoffman explained, there is more to Hilcoff’s success than meets the eye.

“What people don’t see is who also helps create for Hanna,” Hoffman said.

“Our offense being able to create space and share the ball allows Hanna to do her thing.”

Players like fifth-year senior Lillian Stump, senior Shonly Wallace and junior Alyssa Wright have been critical in creating opportunities for Hilcoff to do what she does best: score.

As the 2022 season comes to an end, the Ducks look to take full advantage of the opportunity to gain valuable in-game experience for a roster that for the most part is playing their first full season of collegiate lacrosse.

“At the college level, it’s anyone’s game at any point in the game,” Hilcoff said. “A lot of the young players may see a lead or a few good moments and coast off that, when we need to bring the intensity from the first quarter to the fourth quarter.”

Oregon has the talent and the correct mentality to be a successful team. For Hilcoff, the rest of her career is driven by a simple goal.

“I want to leave the program with a better team record,” Hilcoff said.

Hilcoff, Coach Hoffman and the rest of the returning squad are determined and ready to accomplish this, and elevate the program to a new level.

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OLD NICK’S PUB FEEDS PEOPLE IN NEED — FOR FREE Lockdown measures gave rise to a pay-it-forward program that’s been feeding local people in need for over two years.

BY ALEXIS WEISEND • TWITTER @WEISEND_ALEXIS

Old Nick’s Pub feeds the community through its pay-it-forward program. (Photograph courtesy of Old Nick’s Pub)

Employees of Old Nick’s Pub bustled about the restaurant, making preparations for an influx of customers on Saint Patrick’s Day as they usually do every March. But March of 2020 was anything but usual.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown ordered restaurants and bars to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 16, 2020, according to a press conference. The owners of Old Nick’s Pub were left with $2,000 worth of food ordered and an empty restaurant on one of their busiest days of the year.

“I was sitting there, and I just said, ‘Well, I'm not going to let this food go to waste. Why don't we just cook it and give it out to people in the [Washington Jefferson] park?’” co-owner Emily Chappell said.

Chappell reached out to the Whiteaker neighbors community Facebook page and posted on a homeless support Facebook page she runs to spread the word about the free food.

“I just told everybody, ‘Hey, if you need to be fed, come see us. No questions asked. We’re not going to make you feel bad,’” Chappell said.

Employees cooked the food meant for Saint Patrick’s Day and handed it to people through a walk-up window.

“I thought to myself, seeing how appreciative all these people were, I was like, ‘Man, this is something that we could just do any time,’” Chappell said. “If somebody walks up to our window and they're hungry, they could always be fed.”

The owners approached the staff about a pay-itforward program where customers could donate money for anyone in need to receive free food.

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personally, in the past, I’ve experienced food insecurity,” bartender Jean Woest said. “Being in a place where I could see those people and actually help them, it was just really satisfying.”

It was decided. The pub would continue handing out free food to anyone who needed it. During the first six months of the pandemic, four or five people a day would come for free food, Chappell said.

During that time, many people lost their jobs.

Chappell said many people seeking food were not homeless but living paycheck to paycheck. She recalled a man who said he spent his last paycheck and seemed very depressed coming to her for a meal.

“I could kind of see it change as like his body was able to process nutrition and his basic needs were met,” Chappell said. “It was like, ‘Okay, I'm going to make it through this.’ And to see that just a simple act of feeding, somebody can give them hope in the world to maybe keep going, that was why this had to keep going to me. It had to be an anytime thing.”

Woest said he remembers when a family living in Washington Jefferson Park came to the restaurant for food but seemed hesitant about ordering food, only asking for one or two meals.

“I was like, ‘Oh, no, we’ll get food for all of you.

What do you want?’” Woest said. He served them and even gave them extra food to take home. “The mom had the kid with her. She started to tear up and cry, and she was just like, ‘We haven't had a hot meal in months, so this is making such a huge difference.”

Thanksgiving was a huge day for the pay-itforward program, Chappell said. Whole families came

out to receive food from Old Nick’s Pub. One man, who told Chappell he couldn’t feed his family that year because he was out of work, broke down crying, she said.

“It was heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time,” Chappell said. “Heartbreaking because why is he having to weep over being fed? How broken is our system?”

However, Woest said it is harder for people to come to the restaurant and use them as a resource for food ever since Washington Jefferson Park, the previous location of a sanctioned camping site, shut down on March 16.

Old Nick’s Pub is just across the street from the park.

“It's sort of sad to have this way of supporting the community and kind of see, due to policies and stuff, it's harder for folks to make it here,” Woest said.

Chappell said donations have been low lately as well. However, she believes pay-it-forward programs should expand to other businesses.

“I think that this is an accessible thing for many businesses to be able to do. It seems like giving away free food is a bad idea, but I think you'd be surprised to see how much community support you get,” Chappell said.

Woest said the program has helped build trust between the employees of the restaurant. “I've seen the employees stepping up and being like, ‘We want to really help each other now, and we really want to be there for each other in the same way that we've seen the business being there for the community,’” Woest said.

People can donate to Old Nick’s Pub’s pay-it-forward program through its website or at the restaurant.

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THE BALLMER INSTITUTE:

Randy Kamphaus is the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Oregon.

(Marissa Willke/Emerald)

WHAT IS IT AND WHY NOW? The University of Oregon hopes the Ballmer Institute will be a new and innovative response to a broad mental health service gap.

BY JACOB H. MOORE The University of Oregon announced the creation of The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health on March 1. Behavioral health is a term that has recently gained popularity in the education field that refers to both mental health and promoting positive emotional health and behavior, according to acting executive director for the Ballmer Institute Randy Kamphaus. The institute will work to address a shortage of mental health professionals, who will be trained to address mental health issues that can create larger problems for individuals later in life.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report in February detailing the state of mental health of youth and adolescents nationwide. In this report, it identified that of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 about 20% have experienced a major depressive episode in the last year, and of youth ages 3-17 only about 10% receive mental health support.

According to the CDC, “mental health among children and adolescents is associated with immediate and long-term physical health and chronic disease, health risk behaviors, social relationships, education, and employment.”

“Teachers are now increasingly required to promote behavioral and emotional well-being,” Kamphaus said. “[They] are in a transition period where they have to deliver health promotion services.” In schools this is often referred to as “social emotional learning.”

The UO already has the College of Education, which offers special education and school psychology programs. However, these programs are limited to graduate level degrees, and even these programs can only support so many students.

“We had 12 students in our second year

cohort… It was very challenging to find 12 practicum supervisors,” Billie Jo Rodriguez, a UO professor specializing in Special Education and school psychology, said. “We can’t address the shortage if we can only have the capacity to train 10 or so school psychologists a year.”

The proximity of the new Ballmer Institute to Portland Public Schools and a number of surrounding districts will provide students the opportunity to participate and conduct research in a larger and more diverse community.

According to Rodriguez, this will also improve the amount of students that UO can support.

Not only will graduate programs increase in size, but the Ballmer institute will be able to educate a huge number of bachelor degree students.

By educating more students at both the graduate and bachelor levels, the institute hopes to address the lack of mental health professionals in public schools starting with the Portland area.

The other goal of the Ballmer Institute is research. “The vision is to create a more integrated approach to research,” Rodriguez said.

Interdisciplinary research is something that is already present at UO as a part of the Prevention Science Institute. According to the UO the focus of this institute is “Bio-social influences on development,” “Prevention and intervention” and “Implementation Science.” The Institute hosts faculty research that belongs to a number of different departments. Research at the Ballmer Institute should function in a similar way, Kamaphus said.

“We are a month old,” he said. “Our emphasis is on training an emotional health workforce that doesn’t exist.”

Children’s mental health in the U.S. Of children aged 3-17, about 10% have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders and about 10% have anxiety.

Among adolescents aged 12-17, about 21% have had a major depressive episode.

Among high school students, about 37% reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless in the past year.

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TRESNIT: YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO MONETIZE TALENT Opinion: “You should sell your art” isn’t the compliment you think it is.

BY SADIE TRESNIT I’ll admit that the first time I heard the term “side hustle,” I assumed it was a dance move and immediately ignored it. As I delved further into my creative hobbies, though, I noticed it popping up more and more. Essentially, a side hustle is a job you take on in addition to your primary occupation.

This can be an official taxed job with a paycheck or something you start yourself, but today the term usually refers to creative activities like painting and baking. Artists are frequently encouraged to monetize their hobby and start a small business, especially over social media. Ever the contrarian, I have a few problems with that.

First of all, the phrase “side hustle” is annoying. Why should your passion be a “side” thing?

I play and listen to music all the time, and while I don’t currently make money from it, I don’t think I would ever call it a side project. If you feel that you’ve found your creative calling in life, the phrase is insulting.

Furthermore, you shouldn’t have to turn something you love into work. In our heavily profit-motivated society, everything centers around making money. Anything that isn't a corporate job is automatically a side project, and that’s absurd. There’s a sick, silent implication that any time that’s not used to make money is wasted. That line of thinking completely denies average people the opportunity

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to enjoy life. Some people just want to use their free time creatively, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s easier than ever now with websites like Fiverr (where you can pay people around the world $5 for services like logo and web design) to market your talents, but that shouldn’t be an expectation.

In fact, having a hobby is healthy and is something everyone should have the chance to enjoy.

With so much happening in the world every day, it’s important to have time to relax, and it can improve mental health. It’s vital to have aspects of life that don’t revolve around money. Turning your hobbies into work means you’re working all the time, and the activity that once brought you joy becomes nothing but another stressor.

With such a large gap around the country between minimum wage and the cost of living, full-time artistic work is increasingly seen as unrealistic. It’s just generally accepted that if you have a talent, you should use it to make money but it can’t be your main career. This corresponds to a disappointing lack of funding for the arts in the U.S. (except people who make NFTs, but don’t even get me started on that). Public opinion seems to be that artistic careers are only financially viable as an auxiliary to a “real” occupation. Is it such a radical idea that people should be able to comfortably support themselves on the income from one job?

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None of this is to say that people who choose to put effort into side hustles are wrong in any way. We don’t live in dreamland, and people have to make a living. I certainly don’t fault anyone who finds success in marketing their skills. The unfortunate reality is that it really is hard to make money as an artist, and we all have expenses. If someone successfully starts a business from their creative hobbies and that’s something they genuinely want to do, more power to them! It’s an impressive achievement, but it shouldn’t have to be the norm.

However, not everything can be fixed overnight.

While minimum wage is still inadequate in almost every state in the nation, you should support small creators whenever possible. If you have friends who sell their art, let people know. When you can’t support artists with your money, use your voice instead.

Individual acts can lead to large-scale change.

Sadie Tresnit is an opinion columnist for the Daily Emerald. She is a firstyear English student from Portland. In her free time, she reads and plays music, and she is passionate about feminism and environmental issues.

BY PAIGE McBANE • TWITTER @MCBANEPAIGE

Paige McBane is an editorial cartoonist for the Daily Emerald.

She is a first-year journalism student who typically focuses on issues that impact the UO student body. She also enjoys studying social justice issues.

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