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TURMOIL IN ASUO ELECTIONS Grievances accuse bribery and non-disclosure agreements in the Ducks Connected campaign slate which was ordered to disband.

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DUCKS DOMINATE DAY ONE OF THE OREGON RELAYS

BY GABRIEL MARVIN

Angus Folmli, a runner for Oregon, leads the way in the men's 1500 meter run. The University of Oregon hosts a track meet at Hayward Field on April 22. (Jackson Knox/Emerald)

With more than 20 different high schools from around the pacific northwest competing to begin the meet and a handful of Olympians competing as well, Friday's Oregon relays were a sight to see.

Field events began the collegiate section of the meet and Oregon’s Jonah Tactay took home the long jump for the Ducks on his second jump with a leap of 7.13 meters while Emmanuel Ihemeje Jr. came in third place on his third jump of 6.81 meters.

“I'm really happy with how it today was. Because, although my best wasn't up where I wanted it to be, every jump was consistently over seven meters, which is what I'm hoping to do,” Tactay said.

Ihemeje Jr. and Micah Williams were added to the midseason Bowerman trophy watch list. The Bowerman trophy is awarded to the most outstanding athlete in all of NCAA track and field.

In a loaded 1500 men’s invite field that included Olympian and former Duck Cole Hocker, redshirt senior Reed Brown showed the group that he belongs.

The Grapevine, Texas native came in second place with a new personal best of 3:36.44, which is also below the previous meet record. Hocker left the field with a little more than a lap to go and didn’t finish the race.

Oregon again took 2 spots on the podium. This time in the women’s discus throw where Mine de Klerk took first place from her second throw of 53.27 meters while Jaida Ross came in second thanks to her second toss that traveled 53.15 meters.

“It felt really good. I've kind of been a little up and down in the last couple weeks so it feels good to have some improvement with the consistency,” Ross said.

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Ross’s throw marked her personal best in the discus and for the fourth time this season her and de Klerk finished inside of the top three discus throwers.

“I love it. I think it pushes me to be better,” Ross said “I mean, we're teammates and we love each other. So it's good to just be able to kind of push each other.”

Eugene native Pierce LaCoste lowered his personal best in the 100 meter dash from 10.76 to 10.69 when he finished in second behind Wisconsin’s Lawrence Johnson. Teammate Kwabena Lynn finished a tad behind him to get third place in 10.74.

Freshman Ella Clayton crushed the field in the 400 meter dash. She held off teammate Shaniya Hall as the pair went 1-2 in the sprint and Clayton lowered her personal best in the event by almost a full second. Clayton crossed the line at 53.19 which is a new meet record and Hall finished more than a second behind her at 54.38.

The 18-year-old Canadian noted in her post-race interview how, though she’s satisfied with her time, she feels this personal record is far from her potential.

“It's about a second PR from last season so not something I can be disappointed with,” Clayton said.

“I would say 52-mid would be my goal for the season.

I think I can get there with a little bit more training and some more races for sure.”

In the 1500 meter open race three out of the top five spots were Ducks and freshman Tomas Palfrey took the heat in 3:45.25.

In the women’s 1500 meter invite, Izzy ThorntonBot came in second and lowered her personal best time to 4:13.75 while finishing a hair behind Nike OTC

Elite runner Angel Piccirillo who crossed at 4:13.45.

Thornton-Bot has beaten her personal best twice in April, both times at Hayward Field.

“I know, there's a magic to this place here and you can't deny that,” Thornton-Bot said. “I turn up to a race and I race regardless if it's Hayward field or if it's a windy track somewhere that no one's ever heard of.”

Redshirt sophomore javelin thrower Ty Hampton finished fourth in a stiff competition field that featured Olympian Curtis Thompson among other top competitors. Lost in Hapmton’s finish was three consecutive throws that surpassed his personal best that he achieved just a week ago. He improved his personal best by almost six whole meters from 71.78 meters to 77.08.

“I told myself I'm gonna throw 77, like there's no way I'm not gonna throw 77,” Hampton said. “That just proves it for myself that I can be up there with those big guys.”

In the women’s section of the 3000 meter steeplechase redshirt senior Aneta Konieczek was in a neck-n-neck battle in the last 200 meters with Oregon State’s Grace Fetherstonhaugh. Konieczek snagged first place in 9:44.72 and finished four hundredths of a second ahead of Fetherstonhaugh.

“I wasn’t expecting to have anyone,” Konieczek said. “[Fetherstonhaugh] definitely helped me finish stronger than I would have without her.”

Konieczek moved to fourth in the NCAA with her winning time.

Alessia Zarbo ran her first 5000 meter race on the track and came in first with a time of 15:58.07. Needless to say, her first 5K on the track went according to plan.

SPORTS Armoni Brown, a long jumper for Wisconsin, reaches full stride before a jump. The University of Oregon hosts a track meet at Hayward Field on April 22. (Jackson Knox/Emerald)

HOCKER, TEARE, WISNER AND WEST

FAIL TO CAPTURE WORLD RECORD IN OREGON RELAYS Fans pack Hayward to see world record attempt.

BY ERIC BERNIKER In the main event of the Oregon Relays at Hayward Field, former Ducks Cooper Teare, Cole Hocker, James West and Matt Wisner failed to meet their goal of setting the world record in the 4xMile relay.

“At the end of the day I’ve never heard the crowd as crazy as it was today,” Teare said. “That's good. We are getting the community involved… We’re trying things; we're going out and having fun.”

The quartet of Ducks past and present each completed a mile in succession, finishing with a group time of 15 minutes and 52.05 seconds, the second fastest 4xMile of all time behind the world record of 15 minutes and 49.08 seconds set by Ireland in 1985.

In the Men’s 200 meter final Will Mundy came in second place, finishing in 21.36 seconds. Fellow Duck Evan Mafilas took third, coming in at 21.75.

Ryan Mulhollan, Micah William, Will Mundy and Xavier Nairne won the men’s 4x100 relay, finishing in 38.83 seconds.

In the men's 4x400, Mundy claimed his third podium and second first place finish of the day, taking first place with Nathan Poff, Evan Mafilas and Max Vollmer in 3 minutes, 11.10 seconds.

Shana Grebo took the women’s 200 in 23.23 seconds while Alexandra Webster finished third, posting a time of 24.60.

In the women's 800, Dania Holmberg took third finishing in 2 minutes, 16.51 seconds.

Redshirt freshman and Eugene native Taylor Chocek took third in the women’s 100 meter hurdles finishing in 14 seconds flat.

Sydney Holiday, Kemba Nelson, Jasmin Reed and Jasmine Montgomery won the women's 4x100 in 44.59 seconds over Wisconsin and Oregon State.

In the women’s 4x400 McKenna Ramsay, Mia Moerck, Carly Kleefeld and Izzy Thornton-Bott held off Oregon State, taking first place with a time of 3 minutes, 46.52 seconds.

On the field the Ducks represented well too.

Dominique Ruotulo continued to shine, soaring 13.33 meters to win the triple jump.

Mason Strunk took second in the hammer throw, heaving the ball 63.14 meters.

The event’s winner, unaffiliated Ethan Katzberg set a meet record at 74.16 meters.

Harrison Canfield and Max Vollmer tied for first in the men’s pole vault, both clearing 4.88 meters. Duck Arthur Katahdin took second place at 4.73 meters.

Jaida Ross and Mine De Klerk came in second and third in the women’s shot put.

Ross threw 16.88 meters, and De Klerk was just short at 16.57 meters.

While the Ducks enjoyed seeing some of their young stars thrive and former greats compete, it will be a quick turnaround for Oregon track and field. The Ducks will travel to Corvallis for the OSU High Performance Meet starting Friday, April 29.

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CELEBRATE MAY DAY Wheeler: May 1 is International Workers’ Day, and we should celebrate to not only show solidarity with workers organizing their workplaces, but also because a victory for the working class is a victory for students.

BY PORTER WHEELER • TWITTER @DOCBATTINGTON May 1 is May Day, the international workers’ holiday to celebrate the victories of the working class and highlight its continued struggles. Yet May Day has broadly disappeared from the public consciousness despite its importance, even on college campuses. However, the increased discussion of labor and national union victories in Starbucks and Amazon speak to the holiday’s significance and the need for college students to celebrate.

May Day commemorates the Haymarket Massacre of 1886 — which won us the eight-hour work day — but most students will never interact with the history of labor organizing in their education. Former Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation President Rajeev Ravisankar spoke to me about how discussion of labor and May Day is non-existent.

“Labor is stripped out of the equation and overlooked, deliberately,” Ravisankar said. “Students feel ambivalent about labor; it’s something in the past.”

Ravisankar currently teaches a course on labor in the media at the School of Journalism and Communications; it’s one of UO’s few classes that acknowledges the role of labor movements in winning positive change for the working class. The underrepresentation of labor in our studies causes students to associate themselves with a set of aspirational ideas rather than their material reality. Excluding students from the working class serves the interests of the holders of capital. For instance, it is in the UO administration’s interest to keep you from identifying with the underpaid and overworked graduate employees, residence assistants and dining workers.

We erroneously believe that our degrees will grant us upward mobility beyond those positions despite how intimately close we are to the working class.

“You are one step away from precarity,” Ravisankar said. “The vast majority of students are going to enter into relationships of employment and need a wage to survive.”

Students feel the same economic strains and woes of workers who toil for long hours while worrying about rent and grocery prices. According to the American Psychological Association, more than 1/3 of American college students struggle to meet basic needs; 36% are food insecure and live in unstable housing. Many

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college graduates will work middle class jobs after college; according to a report by Georgetown University, 63% of jobs require a postsecondary education.

May Day is a celebration for all members of the working class, even those who are not currently selling their labor in a workplace. It is in your best interest as a student to fight for better wages, working conditions and benefits for the working class, because whether you like it or not, you will join it after graduation.

Further, if a fellow worker wins those benefits in their workplace, you can use that to leverage your workplace and lobby for better conditions. If a unionized retail worker elsewhere makes over $15 an hour with benefits, then your boss is coerced into providing competitive conditions unless they want to lose your labor. On our campus, May Day is for the EMU Starbucks workers fighting for a union or students working campus jobs, and for all students and all workers.

Allow May Day to make you conscious of your position and your kinship to the working class, both in university and after it. Even if you’re not working, show solidarity with those that are struggling for better conditions.

To help out immediately, you can attend May Day events organized by the Eugene and campus community. On May 1 there will be a fair at the Park Blocks at noon organized by Eugene Democratic Socialists of America. The campus’ UO student workers group and Young Democratic Socialists of America have organized a similar workers’ event on May 3 at 2:30 p.m. at the EMU amphitheater.

Just as an injury to one is an injury to all, so is victory.

Porter Wheeler is an opinion columnist at the Daily Emerald. As a student of global studies and cultural anthropology, he writes passionately about politics and culture through an intersectional lens.

BY IAN PROCTOR Ian Proctor is an editorial cartoonist for the Daily Emerald. He is a freshman with interests in journalism, political science and animation, as well as paleontology and biology. Ian’s comics may appear bizarre, but this is just the way he tends to draw things.

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BRIBERY AND NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS WITHIN ASUO ELECTIONS The Ducks Connected slate was hit with bribery claims in multiple grievances, resulting in being banned from this year’s ASUO elections.

BY GAVIN GAMEZ • TWITTER @GAV_GAMEZ A prominent slate in this year’s ASUO elections, Ducks Connected, found itself disbanded from the election entirely following multiple grievances with accusations of bribery and non-disclosure agreements. While the slate itself was disbanded, members of Ducks Connected were still allowed to run independently for the remaining duration of the election.

This year’s slates, or groups of students running for ASUO positions, included Ducks Connected, Ducks United, Progress UO and Build Back UO. Ducks Connected presidential candidate Claire O’Connor faced accusations of bribery from another ASUO member and reported her own campaign’s use of nondisclosure agreements, leading the Elections Board to disband the slate.

According to members currently within ASUO, these practices of alleged bribery are not new and have been present in past election cycles. New ASUO President Luda Isakharov and Vice President Kavi Shrestha say they are troubled by these patterns and want to change this culture within the university’s student government.

On campus, the ASUO senate serves as stewards of the Incidental Fee. The I-Fee, currently about 9 million dollars, is a student-paid fee which funds ASUOrecognized services and student organizations.

The initial grievance The week before the election, Ian Finn, a member of ASUO’s Programs Finance Committee, filed the first grievance against then-ASUO senate president Claire O’Connor, claiming she broke ASUO election rules with accusations of bribery.

Finn said O’Connor, who was running for ASUO president with the Ducks Connected slate, contacted him in early February before the elections, asking him to join the Ducks Connected slate.

In the text message screenshots Finn submitted along with his grievance, O’Connor said the Ducks Connected slate would give supporters “preference to the point of guaranteeing positions.”

“Long story short, if there is someone willing to join our campaign this term and help us win, we will appoint them over anyone who does not want to be involved in our campaign,” O’Connor wrote in her text.

“I was like, ‘Oh wow. This is just offering me this position in exchange for a vote in exchange for working on a slate,” Finn said. “I think it’s really shady to assume that you can just promise people these positions, not even knowing if you’re gonna win.”

In O’Connor’s response to Finn’s grievance, she said the screenshotted conversation

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was “an attempt to inform [Finn] that I would not be giving positions to anyone solely because we were friends, and I wanted to value the effort and commitment I was receiving from several others who had joined onto my team as volunteers.”

“My decision to add the words ‘to the point of guaranteeing positions’ was driven only by the desire to contradict the notion that I might guarantee positions to those who are my friends,” O’Connor said.

The Emerald reached out multiple times to O’Connor, her running mate Ginni Gallagher and campaign manager Kyle Geffon for an interview or statement. They did not respond.

Finn said part of O’Connor’s offer was that he would not be able to work with any other active slate.

“Had I done that, and had I hitched my wagon to her and she didn’t win, then I’ve fought against the active administration. How am I going to get an appointment?” he said.

Finn said he was hesitant to file a grievance against O’Connor due to the Elections Board’s lenient punishments in the past. “I didn’t really see the Elections Board as capable of doing anything, and so I figured there’s not much reason for me to talk about this,” he said.

After Finn filed his grievance, the Elections Board hit the Ducks Connected slate with a one-day sanction from campaigning.

“When I did file the grievance and I heard about the sanctions, it was exactly what I expected,” Finn said. “I was like ‘Wow, really? What is the point?’”

However, Finn said he was glad more attention was eventually drawn to his grievance and that the Elections Board had viewed what happened as a serious violation.

“I was just hoping that there’d be some repercussions for them conducting their campaign the way that they did,” he said. “I am glad with how it turned out.”

Divided on Ducks Connected “I pretty quickly learned that the way to get on ASUO is to know someone,” Isakharov said. Isakharov ran alongside Kavi Shrestha in their campaign slate Progress UO. Together, Isakharov and Shrestha won in the election. Starting May 25, Isakharov will serve as ASUO president with Shrestha as her vice president.

Isakharov said the elections are inaccessible for students who don’t already know people within ASUO. “The applications for the executive positions aren’t circulated very widely, so, like, two people apply who were a friend of someone,” she said.

The act of promising people different positions within ASUO is something Isakharov said has been going on for years.

She said once a current president is elected, they will often put up an ASUO position on Handshake for applicants. Even though the president interviews applicants, she said the president will already have chosen the student they promised the position to while campaigning.

“A lot of people are really qualified and aren’t getting positions,” Isakharov said.

The accessibility of ASUO is one of the primary reasons she and Shrestha ran, she said. “We don’t think that they do it maliciously,” she said. “I think this is just the practice of ASUO, and we ran because we were like ‘we just need to change the culture.’”

Isakharov and Shrestha decided to run together during November of last year against O’Connor and her running mate Gallagher.

After making that decision, Isakharov said O’Connor met with them to discuss their campaign and asked why they were running against her and if they had any disagreements with her policies.

She said O’Connor asked Shrestha to run with her for ASUO vice president and offered Isakharov a director position within the executive branch.

“We basically were like, ‘No. This is why we’re running. We don’t like that you’re offering us positions not to run,’” Shrestha said.

After learning Isakharov and Shrestha would be running in a different slate, O’Connor told them she wouldn’t be running in the election.

Shrestha said they thought it was weird that it seemed O’Connor was trying to keep her campaign a secret. “I just thought the whole strategy there was a little interesting and some of the methods that were used,” he said.

Election Board Complaint Pg. 2

9.7.1 Consequences may include but are not limited to: temporary suspension of any or all campaigning privileges 9.7.2 The Elections Board may overturn a suspension once a candidate or campaign restores compliance with these rules.

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Provide a brief statement of facts giving rise to this complaint: As the Ducks Connected slate was built, members were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement. We created this agreement on January 14, 2022, based on historical knowledge that ASUO elections have a tendency for malicious behavior. For example, in my first election, there was a serious effort to blackmail one of the presidential candidates after the other slate discovered his initiatives.

This agreement was drafted prior to the release of this year’s election rules and we were mistaken to not go back and confirm whether we were in compliance. This agreement was meant to protect the ideas and originality of my campaign and my fellow slate members. This was not meant to be a form of intimidation or harassment, but rather an effort to maintain the integrity of our campaign, and we made a good faith effort to ensure that all who signed the NDA were comfortable and in agreement with the terms.

Given the ruling of grievance 014, we revisited our NDA and realized that our injunctive relief clause was a potential violation of Elections Rule 2.4.b. In finding this, we immediately voided all NDA’s and ensured that each of our slate members was informed.

We recognize that our lapse of judgement is in no way a justification for a potential violation. Additionally, we recognize this is a major violation and subject to temporary suspension of any or all campaigning privileges. The purpose of this grievance is to recognize our potential violation of these rules and notify the elections board.

Provide a brief statement explaining any exigent circumstances requiring the Elections Board to act in an expedient Provide a brief statement of facts giving rise to this complaint: manner (if applicable):

Left: Previous ASUO senate president and presidential candidate Claire O’Connor filed a grievance against her own slate, Ducks Connected on March 26. According to her grievance, members of Ducks Connected were asked to sign nondisclosure agreements.

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Election Board Complaint Pg. 2

Please attachRight: any The relevant evidence or documents for31st, review. evidencebyyou have supporting your with briefher should On January I wasAny approached Claire O’Connor to work slate be (Ducks Connected). I am on ACFC (seat 01) but was week before submitted with thispresidential completed document.likely Evidence may include but is not limited to: testimony and electronic ASUO’s going to have to resign due to studying abroad Spring term. In short, I was promised an appointment to the ACFC executive election, Finn, photos, a documentation (e.g.Ian email, text messages). member of ASUO’s designee office in exchange for working with and voting for her slate. In the messages, she said “we will give preference to the point Programs Finance of guaranteeing positions to those who help our campaign this term” over text message to me (I will provide these screenshots and Committee, filed a DISCLOSURES AND AGREEMENTS grievance against then necessary documentation along with this form). When I asked what this would entail, I was told it would require “fully committing to ASUO senate president By signing here, petitioner signifies the following: our slate over any others”.

In exchange for working on the campaign, and voting for the slate, I would receive a paid appointment on Claire O’Connor, claiming she broke 1. I have proofread this complaint and agree to serve a copy this iscomplaint (including its position equates to a payment of 12*$565 or ACFC the next year. ACFCofsalary approximately $565 aattached month (Ievidence) believe), sointhis ASUO election rules with entirety to the respondent immediately of thismight form not [if multiple exist, petitioner $6,780 upon over asubmission year (my numbers be exactlyrespondents right as I’m not entirely sure on the pay structure, but should be ballpark accusations of bribery. shall(Excerpt serve afrom separate ASUO complaint to each party]. accurate). This is a clear violation of section 2.4 of the elections rule, ASUO’s equal opportunity hiring rules, and section 9.8. This Elections Board) 2. I have read the Elections Rules and Procedures, and agree that this complaint conforms to them. action constitutes bribery, and I want to ensure that all campaigns are holding themselves to the standards outlined in the elections 3. I have completed this complaint to the best of their knowledge and personally attest to its content. board rules.

Petitioner Signature:

Date: March 26, 2022

In O’Connor’s response to Finn’s grievance, she said three of Finn’s close friends or personal information,” he said. “So I didn’t have any real reason to be alarmed.” committed to and decommitted from her campaign, leading her to become wary of The NDA signed by members of the Duck Connected slate included four sections who supported her campaign. going over what was classified as “confidential information,” a “covenant not to How to Submit “As such, I spread the rumor that I would not be running for ASUO President and disclose,” “obligations of Ducks Connected” and an “injunctive relief.” withdrew myself from public conversations about the election,” O’Connor said.

According to the “injunctive relief” section, “any breach of this agreement Programs Finance Committee Spencer Rosenau initially ranto with Ducks any exigent immediately disqualifies the recipient from participating in the ASUO 2022 Election Provide a brief statement explaining circumstances requiring the Elections Board to act in an expedient 1. From your UO emailmember account, create an email addressed asuoelectionsboard@uoregon.edu.

Connected. When Finn filed his grievance, Rosenau decided to run independently. in any form, which includes, but is not limited to, working with another slate in any manner (if applicable): CChethe respondent at their UO email address.

Rosenau2.said didn’t feel comfortable endorsing leadership candidates that were form or running for ASUO office as an independent.”

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Attach any relevant evidence or documents for the Elections Board’s review. The Elections Board’s sanctions against Ducks Connected prompted Isakharov promising positions to others.

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The Elections willbribery, respond in leadership a timely fashion the As the election is within the next week, I request to that anyElections sanctions or disqualification be levied prior to the start of voting, to ensure certain that the Elections Board wasn’t going to rule against the slate, like they “After Ian’s grievance was filed, then more and more stories and things started that if violations of election rules are found, there wouldout,” be time to address didn’t feel like they had a case against them,” Rosenau said. coming Shrestha said. them.

Please retain a copy of the email as well as any correspondence with respondent(s) for your records.

“In the Board’s response they said it was only one case and we were like, ‘Well she NDAs and friendly fire has 17 volunteers, seven managers and then she has 23 or 24 secretary positions I would like to acknowledge that I am filing thispublished more thanon a month after theIsakharov initial incident her website,’” said. occurred and apologize for not reporting A day before Isakharov and Shrestha filed their grievance, O’Connor filed a She said one of O’Connor’s volunteers even put an ASUO position they were not my concerns sooner. I wasn’t sure whether this could be a violation of election rules, and no campaigns had actually been announced grievance against herself. According to her grievance, members of the Ducks currently in on their personal Instagram page. Isakharov and Shrestha included this at ASUO’s the time.elections I also was unsurea whether it would be worthgrievance reportingform this, as riskElections severing Board. professional ties with much of the senate, Connected slate were asked to sign NDAs citing having “tendency in their to Ithe for malicious behavior.”

In a ruling on their grievance, the Board stated candidates could no longer being a sitting ASUO member.

O’Connor said the purpose of her grievance was to recognize the slate’s potential campaign online or in-person with the Ducks Connected slate. Those previously violation of election rules and to notify the board of that purpose. affiliated with Ducks Connected could still campaign individually.

In the grievance, O’Connor said the agreement “was meant to protect the ideas O’Connor’s campaign managers spoke on her behalf in their response brief to and originality of my campaign and my fellow slate members.” She said the NDAs Isakharov and Shrestha’s grievance. were drafted prior to the release of this year’s election rules.

“It is a fact that Claire asked Kavi to be her Vice President,” they stated in the brief.

“This was not meant to be a form of intimidation or harassment, but rather an “However, this was not done for the purpose of discouraging him from running against effort to maintain the integrity of our campaign, and we made a good faith effort to her but rather because she believed that they could achieve great things together.”

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Anyalso evidence supporting your briefIsakharov should be ensure that all who signed the NDAs were comfortable and in agreement the or documents The response brief claims you that have O’Connor never promised an submitted with this completed document. Evidence include but is not limited to: testimony and electronic term,” O’Connor said. executivemay position.

Isakharov said she had heard members of Ducks Connected (e.g. were email, asked to sign text messages).

According to Isakharov and Shrestha, O’Connor, Gallagher and Geffon resigned photos, documentation NDAs early on. She said several friends came to her saying they felt uncomfortable from their current seats on the ASUO senate following the grievances against the with signing an NDA. Ducks Connected campaign.

As a part of Ducks Connected, Rosenau did sign the NDA. “At the time, I didn’t O’Connor announced her resignation in an email to the current ASUO senate. Irisa DISCLOSURES really think a lot about it, but it was just an expectation in the slate,” Rosenau said.

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BY HANNAROSE MCGUINNESS Martin King has been a trumpet player for 15 years and is currently in the LCC music program. Non-traditional students have found success at Lane Community College as they continue their music educations.

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The door of a music practice room at Lane Community College has a piece of paper taped to it with names scrawled across it. Students are signing up for specific times to have exclusive access to these coveted spaces for musicians. As the term trudges on, students lug their instruments and materials into their practice rooms, do what they can for their allotted hour and then return to the world outside of that sound-proofed room.

“One of the great things about music school is that there are designated practice rooms,” LCC student Martin King said. “You go in there, lock yourself in and do your thing until you get better, and then you can get out.”

For King and University of Oregon transfer student Thomas Guastavino, these practice rooms have become an integral part of their educational experiences. Both identify as non-traditional students, share a passion for music and hope to become music educators after completing their journeys through undergraduate and graduate schools. While neither got their musical or educational starts at LCC, both King and Guastavino credit the college’s robust music department for providing them with tools to further their learning.

King, a current LCC student in the music program, has been playing trumpet for 15 years. His educational journey has included attending the University of Nevada in Reno for a year, dropping out to attend community college, moving to Oregon, starting classes at LCC after an almost 10-year hiatus and, most recently, being accepted into the UO College of Music and Dance. King said he leans toward the jazz studies major but isn’t positive about what he’ll commit to once he starts at UO in the fall. He said all he knows is that he’s doing what he’s meant to do.

King said studying in the music program at LCC has provided him with the skills to continue his education at UO. He auditioned for and earned an Ensemble Talent Grant, which paid for 13 credits of courses for the winter term at LCC. King said his time at LCC has encouraged him to keep practicing.

“It’s been a great experience,” King said. “The music department is awesome. It’s got a great faculty, very knowledgeable instructors and just very helpful, friendly people.”

Lane’s music program hosts resources like a recording studio that can fit 24 musicians; an isolation booth and a control room; the Music Technology Lab, which offers state of the art technology for students to utilize for music engineering, and the Performing Arts Resource Center, which houses reference materials.

King said he puts in at least an hour of trumpet practice every day. That doesn’t include time he spends rehearsing for ensemble performances or class times where he’s practicing music.

For King, sticking with the trumpet for over a decade has felt natural, even with the obstacles he faces such as finding the time to practice between classes and work. He said that although he loves practicing and rehearsing, “performing is truly magical for me.”

“Pretty much once you start playing, you don’t want to stop,” King said. “That’s what I’ve found because music is like magic — it feels so good.”

In another practice room across town on the UO campus, Guastavino, a music education major, is belting his heart out, practicing a choral ensemble piece. Like King, he said his educational journey has been a long and winding road. Guastavino is a post-baccalaureate student. He received a degree in theater and found himself re-enrolling in classes when he found out about LCC’s Performing Arts department years after joining the workforce as a physical therapist assistant.

Guastavino said he decided to leave the health care sector and begin a journey in the direction of his passion for music. Through his time at LCC, he learned about the UO’s choral track for music education as a pathway to teaching. From there, Guastavino set his sights on the university.

Guastavino said his passion for singing has been an ever-present part of his life. Some of his earliest

memories are of him singing, and he said that years of vocal lessons and choir performances have solidified his passion.

“I’ve always sung. It’s just always been part of my life,” Guastavino said. “I think the best choices I’ve made have been to get deeper into that passion. I’ve done a lot of singing since then in a lot of different contexts.”

Guastavino said music has become very personal to him, acting as an identifying factor in his life. He said his love for music motivates him to become a music educator so he can share his passion with students who might benefit from the experience.

“What I’d really like to do is teach high school,” Guastavino said. “That’s the time when I remember that arts programs really helped me personally in school.”

Guastavino said his time at LCC gave him access to diverse resources that allowed him to try out things like using digital software to score music and working in a recording studio. He said that when he transferred to UO, he felt like he had many tools to utilize. Part of what inspires him to become a music educator is the creative nature of composing music.

“There are so many things people can do that are destructive,” Guastavino said. “Music is something that is purely an act of creation.”

For both King and Guastavino, their music comes to life on stage, but it takes its first steps in school practice rooms.

Guastavino said he hopes to pick up a few more instruments in his time at UO, where he’s already learned how to play a bit of clarinet and flute. Afterward, he hopes to become a music educator for high schoolers.

King said he hopes to have a career as a freelance musician after earning his bachelor’s and graduate degrees. Long term, he sees himself teaching private trumpet lessons. He credits his time at LCC for providing him with the space, time and tools he needs to be successful at the university.

“Great things can happen at Lane,” King said. “It gives me so many feelings to hear great music. Being involved in it is kind of next-level, too.”

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RETURNS TO IN-PERSON RALLY “This year, our aim is to address the culture of silence that a lot of feminized people — particularly people in marginalized communities or with marginalized identities — have to deal with,” event co-organizer Kati Rodriguez Perez said.

BY EVAN REYNOLDS • TWITTER @_EVANREYNOLDS Since 1978, local residents and community members have taken to the streets for Take Back the Night, an event aiming to raise awareness of sexual and domestic violence. The event is one of hundreds occurring in an international protest movement. Organized by the UO Women’s Center, a local Take Back the Night will begin on April 28 with a rally featuring several keynote speakers from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., followed by a march through Eugene from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

“The event takes a three-pronged approach by supporting survivors, educating the community and preventing future harm,” Fatima Roohi Pervaiz, director of the Women’s Center, said. “We will speak to a myriad of issues, including underrepresented, marginalized populations — Native American and Indigenous communities, Latinx communities, LGBTQIA+ communities, for instance — and how they all intersect with domestic violence.”

This year, the event aims to specifically address the stigmatization and silence regarding instances of sexual and domestic violence. Kati Rodriguez Perez, the sexual violence and prevention coordinator for the Women’s Center and coorganizer of the event, pushed for the theme in order to lift up marginalized voices.

“Our aim is to address the culture of silence that a lot of feminized people — particularly people in marginalized communities or with marginalized identities — have to deal with,” Perez said. “In our patriarchal society, the experiences of sexual and domestic violence have generally been overlooked and undermined and dismissed, so people feel as if they have to stay silent.”

In 2018, the National Crime Victimization Survey found that just 25% of sexual assaults were reported, in spite of more than one in three women reporting having experienced some form of sexual or intimate partner violence. For those in marginalized communities, that number was even higher.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the April 28 rally will mark the first in-person Take Back the Night event since 2019. In 2020, Pervaiz essentially organized the event from her laptop; in 2021, she moved her workspace into her home in order to plan it. She said she was looking forward to returning to an in-person experience that addressed the fallout of pandemic-related concerns.

“Survivors might have been isolated, even sheltering in place with their abuser or perpetrator. Children were not in school, and so teachers, bus drivers, folks trained to look for signs of abuse didn’t have the ability to discern potential harm or neglect at home,” Pervaiz said. “That virtual movement was incredibly powerful and essential for survivors, and seeing that global solidarity and support was unmatched. But we are eager to come back together.”

Take Back the Night has also led to partnerships across a host of campus organizations and interest groups. The Women’s Center has partnered with Alpha Chi Omega, who will be student hosts for the event; Duck Rides, who will offer accessible transportation; and Students for Choice, who will host a sign-making booth beginning at 5 p.m. at the EMU Amphitheater, according to Pervaiz. UO Muxeres, as in past years, will paint their faces in half-skulls, representing and honoring those who have not survived sexual and domestic violence.

Pervaiz said roughly 20 trained Women’s Center student staff will be present and visible in the audience during the rally, offering a safe space for protesters who might feel emotional or vulnerable. The staff will also carry kits including tissues, resource cards for on- and off-campus partners and resources, a map of the march and rally and 1 ounce containers of Play-Doh for overstimulated or anxious attendees.

“People often don’t share these experiences, which they may have compartmentalized for years,” Pervaiz said. “It can get emotional and intense, especially because the stories shared are always so incredibly vulnerable, incredibly powerful.”

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Perez said she hopes attendees will understand the importance of speaking out and addressing the harms of sexual and domestic violence. They said understanding the interconnected nature of violence is critical to preventing it.

“You might not have a shared identity with another person, but what happens to them does affect you in a different way,” Perez said. “I think attending events like this will really help people see the impacts this violence has on so many people.”

Pervaiz noted that students of all backgrounds and awareness levels on social justice issues are welcome at the event, particularly those with underrepresented voices.

“There is no stereotypical survivor, and there is no model survivor,” Pervaiz said.

“People of all genders and identities can and do endure and perpetrate sexual and domestic violence. We need everyone working toward this issue, toward ending this violence and toward expanding the dialogue on this issue.”

A&C Artist Outlet Media offers merchandise and music production in an emerald green room. (Ali Watson/Emerald)

Artist Outlet Media houses several different artist spaces, including a cloud set. (Ali Watson/Emerald)

AOM STUDIOS: FROM CONCEPT TO DELIVERY

AOM Studios has established itself as a hub for all creative endeavors right here in Eugene, where co-founders Ife and Kelsey Adeniji can produce nearly any creative vision you might have.

BY EVAN HUNTINGTON • TWITTER @EVANHUNTINGTON Although Artistic Outlet Media, or AOM Studios, is located in the middle of downtown Eugene, a casual passerby might never know it existed. An inconspicuous black door with no signage leads up a flight of stairs, above Buy2 and Krispy Krunchy Chicken, to the 6,000-square-foot media space. But the work produced at AOM, a production house and media company, reaches people around the world.

Located on the corner of Olive Street and East Broadway, AOM Studios provides clients with services like video shoots, photo shoots, set design, studio recording sessions and graphic design. Ife and Kelsey Adeniji, co-founders of the media company, spoke to me over the phone from Nigeria in the process of shooting a new music video project. Their journey began over a decade ago, where their passions for music, photography, content creation and visual arts led them to transform their creative ambitions into a career.

“We handle everything to help clients get their projects from conceptualization to delivery,” Ife said. “Clients could come to us with any part of their projects in need and we could satisfy it.”

Along with their hundreds of business clients and brands, they work with a myriad of up-and-coming and established musicians, creating music videos for over one thousand clients in the music world, including Snoop Dogg, Nappy Roots, Bun B and B.o.B, Ife said.

Kelsey said her journey into media production came from her introduction to photography in high school. Her grandparents, who were both professional globetrotting photographers, gifted her her first black and white camera, inspiring her to step in that direction.

Ife, who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, was inspired by music from a young age. He was the only kid on his block with a satellite and access to MTV and would charge his friends to come to his house to watch Puff Daddy, Ma$e and Snoop Dogg videos. Eventually he moved to the United States, where he began to pursue music as a rapper in high school.

Kelsey and Ife met in high school, and later when Ife was beginning to get in touch with music labels, she began helping him shoot his own music videos, which eventually inspired them to take their production skills to another level.

“That kind of spiraled into something like ‘Wait, maybe we could make this into a business,’” Kelsey said. “Ife took over the editing of the music videos, and I wanted

to stick with my photography. We were kind of going through this whole thing of dabbling in media at the time when it was kind of just starting out. This was 2011.”

At this point they were taking classes at Lane Community College, but they were beginning to build a clear vision for a promising business idea. With clients already knocking on their door, they knew they had something big. “[Our music videos] were good enough for my friends, my other rap friends, to start calling us and offering us $200 to shoot their videos,” Ife said. “After a while it became a thing where we were doing like five videos a month, the price went up to like $500 and people kept coming.”

They quickly dropped out of LCC together, Ife set aside his music career, and they’ve never looked back.

“I was like ‘Screw rapping, dude! I’m gonna make videos and make real money,’” Ife said.

As a team, they took on their AOM project at full speed, traveling all around the country for various projects within a year of starting up, and eventually traveling all around the world. They take pride in their ability to reach so many people and make an impact on fellow artists’ dreams and trajectory, Ife said.

“One thing about us is we’ve never settled for mediocre production,” Ife said. “Our whole name has always been giving industry and mainstream stuff to you from Eugene.”

Kelsey said AOM’s focus going forward is on the studio itself and community engagement. Within the past year, they opened up their studio to the community for fellow creatives to take advantage of their space.

“My most rewarding thing is seeing the work that comes out of the studio,” Kelsey said. “When you get other people in there to go and create and see the work they’re producing out of your space, you see something that’s better than what they would have done on their own — a higher level.”

AOM Studios has come a long way over the past 11 years, and its owners said they want to light those creative sparks for others in Eugene.

“No one is promised anything. The world owes you nothing,” Ife said. “So knowing everything that has transpired in the decade, the journey has been better than what I thought it would be.”

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