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UO ADMINISTRATION AND GTFF REACH CONTRACT AGREEMENTS,

THIS TIME WITHOUT STRIKES

The University of Oregon Administration and the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation met on June 30 to negotiate the latest contract agreements for GTFs and the university. Unlike the negotiations two years ago, this year’s did not result in most of the graduate fellows going on strike.

There were a few notable elements to this year’s contracts. First, it marks the first time that the GTFF has agreed to a three-year contract as opposed to the traditional two-year span.

Across those three years, GTFs will see minimum pay increases of 3.5 percent for the first two and 3.7 percent in the last year.

All GTFs will also benefit from a 65 percent reduction in summer course fees, regardless of whether they are also taking on a summer teaching role. “My role on the bargaining committee (for the administration) was to ensure that the university keeps in mind that we need to look at ways to accommodate GTFs not only as employees but also as students,� said Dean of the Graduate School Scott Pratt.

Both sides also agreed on mandatory trainings for GTFs, which will educate them on things specific to teaching, but also on cultural competency. “We’re really excited about the trainings because it’s something that we pushed for really hard in order to make our campus safer for graduates and undergraduates,� said former President of the GTFF Shawna Meechan, who was present for both of the previous negotiations.

Speaking about what was different this time around, Meechan said that the overall atmosphere of the negotiation table was much more positive this year compared to the sessions two years ago. “Last time, the university hired out a lawyer to represent them in these discussions,� Meechan said. “He was very rude and it was clear from the outset that he had very little understanding of what it means to be a GTF. This year, there was a much clearer sense that we were speaking with others who are invested in what happens on our campus and with getting a contract that was agreeable and enforceable.�

The UO administration also highlighted a clearer sense of mutual understanding with the talks this year. “I wasn’t here for the last negotiations,� said Bill Brady, assistant vice president of labor relations, “but from my perspective both sides worked very hard (and) did a nice job being responsive to finding solutions based on each other’s needs.�

Both sides are confident that this year’s contracts reflect a positive outcome for both GTFs and the administration, and that this agreement will be ratified by the GTFF without incident. “If I were writing the contract, I may have pushed the numbers with our minimum wages a bit higher,� Meechan said. “We’re still struggling to get by here in Eugene. But overall, I think this is a positive contract.�

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⚡ SPORTS Devon Allen hugs his father Louis after winning the 110 meter hurdles.

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After winning the biggest race of his life, all Devon Allen wanted to do was find his family.

A two-sport star who has already registered too many big moments to count on both the track and football field, Allen delivered the the most dramatic performance of his career Saturday evening with a win in the 110-meter hurdles at the U.S. Olympic Trials at Hayward Field.

Allen’s winning time of 13.03 seconds was the second fastest in the world this year. After crossing the finish line, he celebrated for all of 10 seconds before his eyes darted towards the crowd beyond the finish line. He dashed to the stands and scaled the fence trying to find his parents.

“He just was elated,” Allen’s father Louis said.

Just 18 months after a knee injury in the Rose Bowl game wiped out his 2015 track season and hindered his football season the following year, Allen became the first active Duck to qualify for the Olympics since Andrew Wheating and Galen Rupp each did so in 2008.

He used a leaning surge after the final hurdle to pull away from runner-up Ronnie Ash and third place Jeff Porter, and as Allen crossed the finish line, the Hayward crowd went ballistic.

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“I couldn’t even hear,” Allen said. “It felt like a football game; it felt like Autzen Stadium.”

Allen’s victory margin of 0.18 seconds was the largest ever in the event at the U.S. Olympic Trials.

When he heads to Rio, he will become the first collegian to represent America in the event in almost four decades.

Regardless of his performance at the Olympic games, Allen will have a choice to make when he returns to Eugene. A redshirt sophomore, Allen has two years of football eligibility remaining.

Should he return to play for Oregon and head coach Mark Helfrich this fall, Allen figures to be an integral member of the Ducks’ wide receiver unit.

Allen and his father both said they don’t know what his future will hold once he returns from Rio. “Devon loves the sport that’s in season,” Louis Allen said. “I would assume that when track is over, when the Olympic are over, he’ll probably focus on football again and he’ll be out here on Saturday playing with his teammates.”

Allen said himself that there are a lot of moving parts that factor into the decision. As far as the football-Olympic doubles goes, he is in a league of his own this year. Buffalo Bills wideout and former Olympic finalist Marquise Goodwin failed DESIGNERS HALEY PETERSEN E M I LY F O S T E R NEWS EDITOR T ROY S H I N N NEWS REPORTERS TRAN NGUYEN MAX THORNBERRY WILL CAMPBELL

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to qualify for Rio in the long jump, and USC multisport star Adoree Jackson finished tenth in the same event.

Pro football players such as Goodwin, Jeff Demps and Lawrence Okoye all competed at the Olympics in 2012, but Allen is the first football player in recent memory who would be considered a heavy candidate to medal at the games.

“I’m just excited to have the opportunity,” Allen said. “I still love football; I still love playing... It’s a big passion for me, I’ve been playing since I was five. It’s hard for me to think about that yet.”

As for now, Allen is undefeated at Hayward Field and a two-time U.S. champion at the age of 21. He’s looking forward to traveling outside the U.S. again — he said he’s only been to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

A win in Rio could ultimately shift his career path, but Allen simply has his sights set on reaching another personal record as his family watches on, just as they always have.

“Today was a really exciting moment for me,” Allen said. “Something that I want to share with my family. I’m glad that they could come and be here. They’re gonna be in Rio too, so hopefully I can share that same moment with them there.”

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BLACK LIVES MATTER

Black Lives Matter will be three years old on Wednesday. It’s accomplished a lot at University of Oregon in that time, but the recent deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling have left students feeling frustrated.

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Students, faculty and Eugene residents taking a moment of silence for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile on Friday . (Chris Trotchie)

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If you walk past Hamilton Hall, you’ll see photos of deceased black men and women staked into the lawn during a march on the University of Oregon campus on Friday, July 8.

Some of the faces, such as Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, were immediately recognizable. Others were more obscure. All were killed during interactions with police or in police custody, and all were black.

These are the faces of the Black Lives Matter movement. The most recent faces are from last week, when Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were killed by police within 48 hours of each other. It was their deaths that prompted the march at University of Oregon, where nearly 300 students, faculty and Eugene residents turned out on a summer afternoon.

On Wednesday, the organization Black Lives Matter— which was started on July 13, 2013, the day George Zimmerman was found not guilty in killing Trayvon Martin—will be three years old. It’s been three years of protests and vigils and faces put on signs.

Where previous Black Lives Matter demonstrations on campus have been heated protests, such as last November’s, marchers told the Emerald this one was different. Quantrell Willis, assistant dean of students, says the mood was tired and frustrated. “Students were telling me that they didn’t want this to feel like a protest,� Willis said. “We’re exhausted at this point. It was all about love and support.�

Marches and vigils are now more symbolic than anything else, according to Christina Jackson, an

Jessica Brown, Kris Ray and Dontae Ferguson marching with Black Lives Matter during a memorial for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile on Friday. (Chris Trotchie)

academic adviser for black and African retention who marched on Friday.

“I think that (marches) help with creating awareness and education,” Jackson said. “But as much as I want to be hopeful that things will get better, I have my doubts about whether marches like this will really overturn the structure of racism as it is today.”

What UO administration is doing In the last year, UO has started working toward overturning what many like Jackson see as a structure of racism on campus.

From 2005 to 2012, UO’s faculty was the least diverse public university in the Association of American Universities; in 2014, UO had improved but was still fourth-lowest of the 34 public schools in the association. UO President Michael Schill publicly declared in April that the university wants to increase the presence of students and faculty from underrepresented minority groups.

“We recognize that we can and must do more as an institution to meet the needs of Black students,” Schill said in an email to the campus community.

This is no simple task.

“Oregon was founded as a white utopia,” Jackson said, “so there are a lot of reasons why people wouldn’t feel as though this is a place where they can move and live.”

Most of the university’s efforts to promote diversity are still on the horizon. UO has invited

six traditionally black fraternities and sororities to campus; set up black-focused classes, forums and academic residential communities; and launched an initiative to hire more faculty of color

on campus.

But there are almost 400 black students on campus. Jackson’s work focuses on creating concrete programs and safe spaces on campus for them.

“People need a place where they can let their proverbial hair down, so to speak,” Jackson said.

“Where they don’t have to justify themselves or the things that they are asking for.”

Jackson is spearheading a mentorship program called Student of Color Opportunities and Resources in Education, which focuses on pairing upperclassmen—particularly black women in science fields—with incoming students. A similar program in the Office of the Dean of Students has been running since 2004.

What the UO community is doing At the University of Oregon, African-American students make up 2 percent of the student body— 396 in 2015-2016. The march showed that at a university where 60 percent of students are white, 10 percent are Latino, and 6 percent are AsianAmerican, that support is coming more and more from all ethnic backgrounds, Willis said.

And that support wasn’t just at the march itself.

Teri Del Rosso, a doctoral student specializing in public relations at the School of Journalism

and Communication, cancelled her regularly scheduled course discussions on the day of the shootings to talk about the deaths of Sterling and Castile. A newly-established activist group, SoJust Collective, held a brief Black Lives Matter demonstration at the closing of the 2016 Olympic Track and Field Trials on Sunday with signs saying, “support Black Lives on and off the field.”

Solidarity also came from different levels of the UO community; ASUO President Quinn Haaga and Internal Vice President Zach Lusby were both at the march on July 8.

Willis noted the march’s ethnic diversity.

“When the movement started, a large part of those coming out … (were) black people, but (last week in Eugene) you saw overwhelmingly diverse support,” Willis said.

Deanielle Ford, an intern at the Student Recreation Center, agreed. Ford said this walk was the most diverse she’d ever seen.

Diversity is a key part of Black Lives Matter’s goals: Nicole Dodier, last year’s co-director of the Black Student Union, said through a megaphone at the rally that everyone has to recognize the importance of the movement.

“All lives cannot matter until the black community matters,” Dodier said.

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