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AMINÉ HEADLINING AT UO DOWNPOUR CONCERT

ASUO is using surplus fund money to host a concert for students on May 13.

BY ALISA DOUGHERTY

ASUO announced that Aminé will be the headlining performer at the Downpour concert held in Matthew Knight Arena on May 13.

Tickets are already available, priced at $10 for students and $29 for the public. The funds from the ticket sales will be going to an event fund for the next ASUO administration.

ASUO decided to use money from their surplus fund to give back to the students with a large event that is fun and was highly requested by the student body during their campaign. The surplus fund is currently sitting at a total of $1.07 million dollars as a result of the accumulation of funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For this concert, ASUO requested a total of $252,000 from the fund.

“I think it’s been really cool to see student government actually serving something that students want and getting the name out, and they could kind of understand what their money is going toward,” ASUO President Luda Isakharov said. “It’s something that students really asked us for.”

To plan the event, ASUO created a concert committee of students throughout campus who ranked their top three choices from a list of artists within their budget. The goal was to pick an artist that would appeal to the highest number of students, and Isakharov said the results put Aminé far above any other artist that was considered.

To make this event possible, Isakharov said

ASUO has been working with event production agency Pretty Polly, which works with universities to buy talent for several types of concerts and events. Together, they made an offer and negotiated a deal with Aminé for $150,000.

The remainder of their budget goes towards the venue, hiring the agency, sound and lighting, and staff and security for the event.

For the opening act, ASUO called for local bands to apply to enter themselves. Out of all the local bands who applied, Common Koi and Mommy were selected to open the event through public voting on the ASUO’s Instagram story.

“I think that this is just a pretty awesome full circle University of Oregon band experience,” Mommy guitarist Sam Galyen said. “We met in Hamilton and started playing together, and have been playing around campus, bars, Greek life, all that type of stuff since then.”

Downpour will be the Saturday following the street fair, which runs from May 10-12, on campus, where the opening bands plan on promoting their music and selling merchandise.

“I’m excited to, in this next month, focus on our set and our wardrobe and just every idea we could have to make it as epic as possible,” Common Koi drummer Stephen Strong said.

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TAPIA’S TAKE: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “SAFETY” ANYMORE

Opinion: Within the past few weeks, multiple people have been shot over minor mistakes that should never have escalated to the use of a gun. It begs the question of how the presence of guns and the idea of safety have become so intertwined.

BY CAITLIN TAPIA

On April 13, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot after mixing up the address where he was supposed to be picking up his younger twin brothers from a friend’s house. He rang the doorbell and was met by a man who shot him in the head. He fell to the ground before being shot again and running to neighboring houses for help.

On April 15, 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis was shot and killed after she and three others, including her boyfriend, turned down the wrong driveway. She had no cell signal to look at her maps and believed they had the right address. They turned to leave when she was fatally shot by a man standing on his front porch.

On April 17, two teenage girls, Heather Roth and Payton Washington, were shot after Roth mistakenly opened the door to a car she thought was her friend’s in a grocery store parking lot. She apologized and walked to her friend’s car. They were sitting in their car when the man whose car door Roth opened walked over and shot into the car.

That same night, a 6-year-old and her parents were shot after their basketball rolled into their neighbor’s yard. She went to retrieve the ball when she was shouted at by her neighbor. Her father walked over to confront his neighbor.

Their neighbor went back inside his house before returning and opening fire. The girl was shot in the cheek, her mother in the elbow and her father in the back. Her father tried to draw the gunfire away from his family.

I’ve become numb to opening my phone in the morning and reading about another shooting in this country. It’s an occurrence that has almost become routine; it’s discussed in the 24-hour news cycle before it begins to blur into all the shootings before it.

But these shootings are different, and I can’t shake the lingering feeling of fear that I’ve been left with since they happened.

Just as I’ve become numb to reading about the mass shootings, I’ve also internalized the possibility of having to experience one. I’ve become aware of the potential target that a large gathering or crowd poses, the target of a school, the target of going to a concert or even the movies. Public spaces as a whole have become a target.

The thing is, these people weren’t shot in public spaces. They were shot in neighborhoods and their cars. Places where most people are able to enjoy privacy and security without any hesitation or question that these luxuries won’t be there one day.

The constant and evergrowing rate of shootings in this country has seeped into every aspect of our lives, and into our ability to ever feel safe again.

While I could spend an eternity discussing the lack of gun control, background checks or the myriad of laws that have allowed us to reach this point, I want to call into question the impact of guns on our perceptions of safety and fear.

Those who support the ownership of guns often cite stand-your-ground laws. Laws that allow individuals to protect themselves and their property. In short, they own a gun because it makes them feel safer.

However, according to a study in Nature, case studies

have repeatedly shown that “gun ownership is associated with an increased risk of gun-related homicide or suicide occurring in the home.” Additionally, the gun-related homicides are largely driven by family members or known individuals, not strangers.

It’s also worth mentioning that even in public places with concealed carry, David Hemenway, professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, stated that the presence of guns only makes crimes more violent.

“What guns do is make hostile interactions — robberies, assaults — much more deadly,” Hemenway said on the Science Vs podcast.

Thus, while guns may give some the false illusion of safety, they objectively do not make us as a society any safer. Instead, they make people such as myself more scared.

At the end of the day, seven people were shot because they made mistakes. Mistakes that I can’t even begin to fathom the frequency of. Mistakes that never hurt anyone or anything. Mistakes that could have and should have been solved with a simple “I’m sorry” that let everyone walk away and forget about it.

The ownership and presence of guns made it so these people can’t walk away from these mistakes. Their lives will forever be changed, and so will the attitudes of everyone who is forcibly impacted by gun violence in this country.

Caitlin Tapia is an opinion columnist for the Daily Emerald. She is a senior from Colorado majoring in journalism and political science. She is most passionate about social justice and politics but will also write about her bike being stolen.

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5 PARTY THEMES THAT ENCOURAGE CREATIVITY

Parties serve as a place for creative expression in clothing; here are some of the most creative.

BY ADRIAN CARDENAS-MEJIA

School takes up a majority of students’ lives, leaving most people with little time to be creative. Because of this, partying is one of the few times students have to creatively express themselves through clothing. Party themes are a huge part of being able to enjoy oneself at a party while also giving people a sense of creative liberty while being in comradery with peers. Here are five creative party themes for this spring term.

ANYTHING BUT CLOTHING

This party theme asks attendants to simply wear anything but clothing. Apart from the usual trash bags, this theme is capable of some interesting fashion moments. For these parties, blankets, tape, paper and cardboard can all become outfits. Dancing in paper pants doesn’t seem like a terrible idea once it gets warmer. Although trash bags are a safe route, the fashion possibilities are endless.

DECADES

This is a classic theme that sees a lot of use and brings some of the most dedicated fashion moments to life. Whether it be the 80s or early 2000s, decades parties usually have a lot of effort and participation from attendants. It is relatively easy to scour one’s closet for something to fit a decades theme.

TOGA

Similarly to decades, toga is a classic theme for parties. Due to the main outfit usually being a piece of white fabric, creativity shines in the details and accessories. For toga, gold and leaf crowns are typically worn to replicate Greco-Roman fashion.

THE FIRST LETTER OF YOUR NAME

This theme leaves the most to creativity. Here, people dress up as anything that starts with the first letter of their first name. Due to the theme being so open-ended, this usually leads to more variation and more interesting outfits. Out of all the themes, this is one of the more humorous ones. Though it might be tough thinking of just one thing to create an outfit around, the freedom allows for extravagance: Why go small when you can dress like anything?

DYNAMIC DUOS

Finally, dynamic duos are a fun theme to do with your best friend. With this theme, people dress up in pop culture dynamic duos such as Mario and Luigi, Spongebob and Patrick, and Bert and Ernie. This theme is more manageable for those who are shy about dressing up since it is in pairs. Partying is not all about drinking. Partying gives opportunities to not only creatively express, but explore one’s fashion.

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IVERSON: ANTI-ABORTION RALLIERS NEED A HOBBY

If you’ve been on campus for longer than a term, the Wellspring Bible Fellowship has probably ruined your day before. You’d recognize them by their disturbing and poorly designed signs, hoarse shouting voices and pallid balding heads.

This Baptist church is based in Roseburg, using the tagline “Worship is warfare,” on their Facebook account. They’re more than an hour’s drive from the university, yet they still find ways to close the gap to really connect with people and confirm that no one likes them.

WBF has been known to frequent the EMU Amphitheater area, though they haven’t been allowed inside. This is strange considering the acceptance rate for UO is a high 93%, though maybe higher education isn’t on their agenda.

What is on the to-do list for their semi-monthly campus visits is to shout threatening warnings to the student body about how our

BY BRAYDON IVERSON

ways are leading us to damnation, or so I loosely gathered. That certain students’ identities, love and happiness are wrong and that they are immoral. According to WBF, women who’ve had an abortion — making perhaps a very difficult decision or have been subjected to worse — are evil and comparable to the acts of the Holocaust.

And thus, they grace campus occasionally, rain or rare shine, to aggress, aggravate, antagonize and alienate the students of a university they live nowhere close to.

Do they really have nothing better going on?

Have they never thought of, say, going bowling instead? Bowling is pretty fun. Maybe picking up any other book than the one they scream at us. There are some other pretty good ones. Start with “Frog and Toad” then work your way up. At this point, I believe taking a nap would be more

productive to their day than whatever it is they think they’re accomplishing on campus. It’s always helped me when I’m cranky.

I wanted to plead this to them, so when a group from the WBF came to visit last month on Good Friday, I stopped by and faced the many recording GoPros they wear “for their protection.” At the top of the EMU Amphitheater, right at the heart of campus, a group of at least five held their repulsive yet slipshod plastic signs. Some with a printed rainbow discouraging people’s pride in their sexuality, another with a CGI’d fetus.

I first spoke with Shawn Kellim, a member of WBF. I asked why he was there, and you can probably guess his spiel. Then I asked what I thought would be the only justifiable reason they would decide to come all this way and do all of this: They’re at least paid to be there by their church, right?

“Not a dime,” Kellim said. “It cost

me money to be here. I build the signs, I pay for the signs, I pay for the gas to get up here, I pay for the food afterward.”

I spoke to the larger group of them after finishing with Kellim, and they told me they were looking to have conversations with students. That students yelling back at them is what made things difficult.

“I think it’s a shame when someone hears something they don’t like, you immediately get called a racist, Nazi, bigot,” another protester said.

I’m not sure about that one. Usually, when I say something people don’t like, I just get told my take on “The Notebook” sucks. I don’t get called a bigot, and that sounds like a skill issue to me.

The pastor and leader of this group, Ryan Clark, told me about his problem with people taking pride in themselves. “The Bible says we’ll boast in nothing ultimately but Christ,” Clark said. “I have nothing

Students gather to confront Billboard Chris on his stance against medically prescribed hormone blockers. Chris, who has visited many college campuses to date, records student reactions with a phone.. (Riley Valle/Emerald)

Opinion: There are simply so many better things to do with your time than yell at a crowd of people calling them sinners. We should ignore them and go do cooler stuff.

good to offer.”

Finally, we’ve found a middle ground. I talked to students engaging this group in conversation and debate. All of whom had something they’d either rather be doing or were planning on doing later.

“It made me uncomfortable to see such fervent anti-abortion statements, especially because they were making comparisons to the Holocaust. That wasn’t cool,” firstyear Isaiah Hawk said. “I’d rather just be resting, but I want people to know that this is a space that is queerinclusive and that hateful opinions don’t define everyone on campus.”

Hawk planned on celebrating Shabbat after leaving the scene.

“It makes me feel like these people don’t really have anything better to do,” Sofía Olivarez said. “I’m always willing to speak with someone no matter their opinion, but at the end of the day, idiots will be idiots.”

Olivarez told me they would be visiting their mother in Portland to grab dinner with her.

“If you’re volunteering to come here, it seems like you’re voluntarily starting something,” Michael Elder said. “Knowing the demographic of the school, why come here knowing it’s going to be a problem?”

Elder planned on finishing the show “Bad Batch” later that night.

I should stress that this article is not a scolding of all religious demonstrations on campus. In fact, the students I spoke to that day pointed me to a separate Christian group off to the side of the EMU. I spoke to them, and while they did not want themselves or their organization named for fear of backlash, they were fine with telling me how much they disagreed with WBF’s method of advocacy.

On April 25 a new heckler, Andy Schmelzer, stood in the middle of the EMU

Amphitheater and began spouting similar rhetoric to WBF. I was expecting a scene like earlier this month, but to my amusement, the yelling man seemed to be shouting at no one.

The Amphitheater was empty, and students were entirely passing him by. The difference makers on this day were second years Alex Underwood and Alton Mills, who sat at the top of the Amphitheater holding signs that read “Do not engage” and “You are loved.”

“The more they’re able to get content, the more they’ll keep preaching hate and showing up and ruining our beautiful beautiful days,” Mills said, referring to the GoPro on Schmelzer’s chest. “I’m sitting in the sun, people are smiling at us, encouraging us, asking to take our pictures and talk to us. There’s lots of positivity in spite of it, I can’t imagine a better space to be in right now.”

Even Schmelzer seemed baffled by the lack of attention he was getting when I spoke to him. “It’s really quiet here today,” Schmelzer said. “They would be really violent, and all of a sudden it just stopped.”

Looking for any attention available, Schmelzer directed his shouts to a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses who were handing out pamphlets with resources for mental health that same day at the EMU, saying they had a “false Jesus.”

Observing the difference in scenes from earlier in April to the later nonconsensual sermon, the way to handle WBF and others on campus is clear to me.

Do not engage them; tell everyone they’re welcome instead.

Yes, it’s objectively funny to talk about having gay sex as you pass them by. Yet the reason they’ve returned here with their cameras is to catch you saying that or worse and post it to their following for validation. They’ll always keep coming back if we give them the attention they lacked as children.

I argue it was funnier to watch Schmelzer listen to his own echo off the empty amphitheater seats at the EMU for an hour. It was super embarrassing.

We have better, more fun things to do than give attention to ostentatious,

petulant groupies and their tirades by the amphitheater. Go do something cool; let them strain their vocal cords being lame.

Protect yourself and others. Don’t engage with these fools. If you feel so inclined, let others know they’re welcome here despite all the noise. Still, the onus shouldn’t be on us to ignore them. The university needs to find a way to keep the campus inclusive yet orderly, and WBF needs to find better hobbies.

Here are a few: Instead of waving signs outside of Autzen, go to a football game. Oregon vs. UCLA was so much fun, and yet, they didn’t go through the gates and kept hating from outside the club. Maybe if they didn’t pay so much for their signs they could get a ticket and “Shout” with everyone else instead of at them, for once.

Speaking of losing money, Kellim not a month prior to the day I spoke with him lost a court case and was ordered to pay two fines of $750 dollars each for noise ordinance violations he committed outside the Planned Parenthood in Springfield. Try practicing with your legal team as well, because leaders of WBF also had a case dismissed with Abolish Abortion Oregon last year.

Maybe your focus should be winning a court case rather than winning our hearts, losers.

I’d rather just be resting, but I want people to know that this is a space that is queerinclusive and that hateful opinions don’t define everyone on campus.”

ISAIAH HAWK, student Braydon is a second year opinion columnist for the Daily Emerald and fourth year student. Covering sports, student life and broader national trends, sometimes he doesn’t even know if his opinion is genuine or not.

Chris is a father to two daughters, and he uses his position to denounce gender affirmation services. His board contradicts the given definition of “dad” by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. (Riley Valle/ Emerald)

OREGON FOOTBALL SPRING GAME: 5 OFFENSIVE TAKEAWAYS

BY AARON HEISEN • TWITTER @AARONHEISEN

Oregon football held its annual Spring Game on Saturday. It was the culmination of 15 spring practices the team held over March and April which were meant to integrate the new transfer students, bits and pieces of the 2023 recruiting class and new faces on the coaching staff. One face in particular, is Oregon’s offensive coordinator, Will Stein. Stein comes to Oregon from University of Texas San Antonio to replace former offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham. While Stein wasn’t responsible for all of the play-calling on Saturday, his fingerprints were all over the Green Team’s 23-20 win over Yellow. At this point in a college football season, defenses tend to be ahead of the offenses, and that showed in a game that didn’t see its first touchdown until the final minute of the first half.

The Daily Emerald’s Jack Aaron is providing takeaways for the defensive side of the ball, so here are five from that up-and-down offensive performance.

were successful came on the perimeter, like that first touchdown pass to Troy Franklin. The next notable one came nine minutes into the second half when quarterback Ty Thompson and wide receiver Kris Hutson linked up for a 70 yard pass and run. Out of man coverage on the left side, Hutson darted on a post route and broke free. If not for a stumble, it would have resulted in a touchdown. Receivers Kyler Kasper and Justius Lowe were also targeted in downfield scenarios and it will be interesting to see where those two fit into Oregon’s offense.

headline the ground attack as it did last year. Freshmen Jayden Limar and Dante Dowdell were also given an opportunity and should be used in spurts throughout the season.

While few were successful, the Ducks weren’t shy attempting passes downfield. The ones that

There was little to take out of Oregon’s run game as explosive plays were few and far between. A significant reason for this was that the offensive line was mixing and matching so the strongest group wasn’t always out there. That being said, the transition to Stein won’t change much of the mentality regarding the running game. It will be used to establish the offense and set up everything else the Ducks hope to accomplish. It seemed as if the 1-2 punch of Mar’keise “Bucky” Irving, who was on Yellow, and Noah Whittington, who was on Green, will

Oregon wasn’t hiding what its running scheme would look like. The heavy majority of running plays came out of the shotgun. It’s something that was featured in Dillingham’s offense, and is now clearly a staple with Stein. Even when power-back Jordan James was in the game, the Ducks handed him the ball out of the shotgun. Doing so forces the defense to stay on its toes as it has to prepare for both running and passing plays. While Oregon struggled to find success on the ground, Whittington seemed the most comfortable in this scheme as he carried the ball 10 times for 31 yards.

and freshman Kenyon Sadiq to see the majority of snaps on Saturday. Herbert had two catches for 14 yards and Sadiq had two catches for 25 yards. Oregon relied heavily on its tight end depth last year, with Ferguson, Herbert, Cam McCormick and Moliki Matavao all playing a significant part in Oregon’s 10-3 season. With the transfer portal still open, it will be interesting to see if Oregon adds to this group, and if not, Sadiq and Herbert will be asked to carry a load they may not have thought would be put on them.

It is unclear what tight end Terrance Ferguson’s injury is, but Dan Lanning said he would be out “for a while.” His absence paved the way for senior Patrick Herbert

Franklin and fellow wide receiver Traeshon Holden will be the two most reliable receiving options, but they will be complemented by some of the quickest receivers in the NCAA. Junior Tez Johnson showcased that much as he hauled in a slant from Thompson and took it 63 yards for a touchdown. Hutson also took the top off the defense with his speed on the post route that set up the Yellow team’s second touchdown.

Oregon’s regular season will open on Sept. 2 when the Ducks host Portland State in Autzen Stadium.

OREGON’S OFFENSE IS STILL FINE TUNING FACETS OF ITS GAMEPLAN, BUT THERE’S A LOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO FOR DUCKS’ FANS.

Long time Oregon Duck, Bryce Boettcher (46), tackles Alabama transfer, Treason Holden (5). (Jonathan Suni, Emerald)

Wide receiver, Kris Hutson (1), sheds a defensive press by Trikweze Bridges (11). (Jonathan Suni, Emerald)

Bo Nix (10) hands the ball off to freshman running back, Dante Dowdell (24). (Jonathan Suni, Emerald)

‘23 SPRING GAME SHOWS DEFENSIVE IMPROVEMENT

BY JACK AARON • TWITTER @JACKAARON

Last year’s defensive woes may be coming to an end.

For what was a picturesque day in Eugene, it wasn’t all that perfect for both the Oregon Ducks’ green and yellow team offenses. While both had flashy plays and ran up the score a bit — Green Team beat Yellow 23-20 — the defenses certainly made their presence known, starting from the first drive.

The Daily Emerald’s Aaron Heisen covered the offensive takeaways, so here’s what we learned about Oregon’s defense from the spring game:

With quarterback Ty Thompson leading the yellow team on the first offensive possession, hopes were through the roof to finally see something to cement his hype. We wouldn’t see that — at least for the first possession.

On the first play of the drive, veteran linebacker Mase Funa fought off a blocker and simultaneously disrupted a swing pass headed in running back Bucky Irving’s direction — a play reminiscent of the pick-six Funa had against Washington State.

Next, a two-yard run from Irving, who was hounded by green defensive linemen. Surely a welcome site based on how much of a weak point the team’s run-stuffing ability was last year.

Additional edge pressure and a second batted ball from Funa would end the yellow drive early. Pass rush was a common theme in this matchup, as both quarterbacks had to flee the pocket prematurely to extend the play and avoid defensive linemen. Although it may not look like the defensive line played extremely well on the stat sheet since sacking the quarterback wasn’t allowed, they still did their job and then some, never letting either quarterback feel consistently safe in the pocket.

There were multiple occurrences where, in a full-speed game, either Bo Nix, Thompson or Austin Novosad would end up getting hit or even sacked if it weren’t a scrimmage.

Not only did the defensive line show up when rushing the passer, but when stopping the run as well. The green defense, going against a backfield led by incumbent starter Irving, only let up 42 rushing yards on a sub-par 3.1 yards per carry average.

The yellow run defense played just a notch or two below green, but still held the green rushing attack led by Dante Dowdell and Noah Whittington to under 100 rushing yards.

While both defensive lines held up primarily, it was another story for both groups of defensive backs. The green defense had a particularly tough time covering Thompson’s No. 1 target, Kris Hutson, as he shined going 143 yards, including a 70-yard catch and run and a 17-yard touchdown.

On the other hand, the yellow defense struggled to cover both Traeshon Holden and Troy Franklin consistently, which shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the diminished depth at defensive back.

There were times when the corners and safeties played lockdown defense, sticking to their assignments, but there were other instances of those defenders taking poor angles that led to missed tackles.

Defensive stat leaders for the game included yellow team’s Jeffrey Bassa and Devon Jackson with five tackles each. Mase Funa added a team-high three pass breakups plus the only forced fumble which came from Connor Soelle.

Overall, Ducks fans should feel more comfortable with the run-stopping and pass rush from the defensive line, but questions about defensive back depth remain.

We won’t know how the defense will perform in a real game scenario yet, but we’ll find out when the Ducks host Portland State for their season debut on Sept. 2 in Autzen Stadium.

Long time Oregon Duck, Bryce Boettcher (46), tackles Alabama transfer, Treason Holden (5). (Jonathan Suni/Emerald)

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

This week’s editor’s picks...

MAY 13 Foam Wonderland

Looking for a rave? Get caught in a foam ocean at Cuthbert Amphitheater

Located at the Cuthbert Amphitheater, the annual Foam Wonderland is back this week in Eugene for its 10th year. The set list includes EDM allstars Sullivan King, Atliens, Level Up and Decadon. Be prepared to get poured over by foam— lots of it. Wear some loose clothing and maybe a bathing suit if you are caught in the center. The foam is non-toxic, so it is at your own risk if it is ingested. The event cost $45 a person and doors open at 5 p.m.

MAY 9, every Tuesday of the month SSC Millrace Restoration Volunteer Event

Waddle down to the Millrace waterfront and participate in the areas restoration project

The Student Sustainability Center and the University of Oregon landscaping team are hosting a weekly volunteer event this month at the millrace waterfront across from the main campus. The goal of their project is to beautify and restore the area by planting native species and clearing out invasive ones. Volunteers are told to meet up at the Wilkinson House— a large, white house located on Onyx Street— and will walk with the group to the area. Volunteers will not be expected to bring equipment. Dress appropriately– you may get dirty. The event will take place on Tuesdays between 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

MAY 10-12

ASUO 2023 Spring Street Faire

The street faire’s irresistible food truck and vendor selections are sure to put a smile on your face this week

The biannual ASUO Spring Street Faire is up and running this week for community members to eat delicious food, collect succulents or find thrift clothing items. Hopefully, there will be warm weather this week to sit among friends on the lawn while slurping on some yakitori noodles. On the way to class or work, make sure to give yourself enough time if you want food; there may be long lines. At your own risk: the smell of caramel corn will make you hungry. The event will be open from Wednesday through Friday between 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

MAY 14 Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night or What You Will

Get a laugh at an Shakespeare comedy this weekend of sibling foolery

The University of Theatre department presents a showing of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night or What You Will, a romantic comedy written in 1601. In this play, twins Viola and Sebastian are separated from a shipwreck and eventually reunited when Voila is dressed as a man while serving under countess Olivia. People should watch this play who are interested in comedy surrounding siblings, romance and obscure pranks. The performance will be on Sunday between 2 p.m.4:15 p.m.

(Serei Hendrie/Emerald)

(Madi Mather/Emerald)