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THE RIVERFRONT PROJECT, EUGENE’S NEWEST NEIGHBORHOOD.
The city of Eugene makes noticeable headway in its Riverfront Urban Renewal project, building a new neighborhood from the ground up.
BY MATHIAS LEHMAN-WINTERS • DESIGNED BY LIZ BLODGETT
downtown by 5th Street, which will cross the Union Pacific railroad tracks and extend into the development.
The plan for the new development will have highdensity housing, with apartment buildings ranging from four to seven stories. A significant portion of the housing will be multi-family units; there will also be townhomes and 75 affordable housing units. All of the estimated 500–1,000 units that are not categorized as affordable housing will be priced at market rate.
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After over a decade of planning, reorganizing tax codes and navigating red tape, a new neighborhood is being built from the ground up along Eugene’s riverfront.
The so-called “Downtown Riverfront” is the culmination of years of work by the city, private developers and the Eugene Water & Electric Board to create a new economic and residential center in Eugene.
The new development will be primarily residential, with some limited land parcels set aside for retail stores, a restaurant, a central plaza and a new hotel.
The Riverfront Neighborhood will be directly connected to the newly constructed Knight Campus at the University of Oregon via the Ruth Bascom Bike Path. The path recently had lights installed that are turned on at night along its stretch between the university and the Riverfront Neighborhood.
Anne Fifield, the Economic Development Manager for the City of Eugene, said that the city hopes the development will integrate the urban downtown with the city’s park system and the river.
“The river is gorgeous, and there’s nothing there. We can’t even access it,” Fifield said. In her opinion, the riverfront is an area that is “completely underutilized.”
The new neighborhood will be clearly defined by natural and manmade features being sectioned off by the Willamette River, Ferry Street and railroad tracks. Fifield said that the development will be integrated into
The cost of this development comes with a substantial price tag. Riverfront Park, which began construction in 2020 and was finished in 2022, was originally estimated to cost $14 million, but ended up costing $18 million.
Fifield said that any major, new or unanticipated construction costs will be paid for by the developer, Atkins Dame, as opposed to the city.
A cost-benefit analysis of the development completed by the city in 2018 estimated that the total project would cost $138,750,000. Public investment would account for $25,925,000, while the remaining $112,825,000 would be financed by Atkins Dame.
Fifield said that the development, while costly, would provide housing for hundreds, if not thousands, of residents and provide new income for the city. “Long term, the development is going to generate tax revenue and keep us physically sustainable,” Fifield said.
Susie Johnson is a resident who visits the new Riverfront Park, and has lived in Eugene since 1970. In her over half a century in the community, she’s seen a lot of development and a lot of change.
On the new Riverfront Neighborhood, she had two main thoughts: “I’m really excited” and “It’s about time,” Johnson said.
The city of Eugene has earmarked $1.5 million in public funding for the project, but there remains a $5 million spending gap that the city hopes to find funding for. The total cost of the renovation is estimated to be $56 million.
A map detailing the plan for the Downtown Riverfront Neighborhood can be found on the Eugene Government website.
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Construction continued along the Willamette riverfront in Eugene, Oregon, on July 24, 2023. (Eric Becker/Emerald)
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TIPPING VS. LIVING MINIMUM WAGE
I was talking to someone about job hunting recently, and I asked what job they would want to work. They just said that they would want something with tips. That got me thinking, why are tipped jobs the only ones we can survive off?
BY MILLY GAMLEN • DESIGNED BY ESTHER SZETO
Tipping is a huge part of the service industry culture in this country. Seeing the screen of options at the end of every transaction has become a norm in society. It’s a known and accepted thing that if you want a decently paid job while in high school or college, the jobs available are mostly in the service industry.
So why is this? Why are we all being told the jobs that will actually give us the money we need to live are above minimum wage? Does that not defeat the purpose of minimum wage? Why are tips the reason we are scraping by? And most importantly, is this healthy competition or an unacceptable work climate?
The post-pandemic tipping epidemic has become out of hand. The dreaded “tap here” screen has grown in popularity almost 20% since the pandemic. Having said that, the necessity for tips has become one of the main driving forces in keeping staff numbers up as the workforce has been minimalized post-COVID. Through tipping, employers keep their positions desirable to workers in need of tips to survive.
However, some employees are beginning to question the faith they have had that tips will continue to flow in. As the pandemic is coming to a close, so are the tips many people would give out due to their gratitude for essential workers. Now, we’re all back at work and we don’t feel as philanthropic.
There is also a whole separate set of issues that arrives when we allow tips to be something we survive off: the discrepancies between who makes the most money from tips. At the point we are at with minimum wage, where people cannot survive off it and where tipping is an essential part of many employees’ jobs, how is it fair that there will always be people who make more money purely based on their appearance? Also, I don’t just mean pretty privilege when I talk about appearance. I mean the way someone is dressed, the color of their skin or maybe even the way they smell can have an effect on how much we tip.
By eliminating tips but providing a livable minimum wage, the amount someone is going to make each month is calculable. That helps employees budget and understand how much money they are going to go home with. Molly Moon, an ice cream shop in Seattle, has implemented no tipping and pay transparency. Molly Moon Neitzel, the shop’s founder, claims that upping the entry pay, eliminating tipping and increasing the prices of ice cream to account for no tipping has revolutionized the way her shop operates.
Nietzel also dislikes tipping based on its racist roots — tipping in the past has been a way to ensure white superiority in a post-civil war America. It was viewed as a practice that only
Black people could be desperate enough for money to accept. By eliminating the practice that gives customers all the power, we remove the possibility of discrimination based on race, gender or sexual identity. It also removes the responsibility of the employee to entertain vulgar remarks out of the fear that not holding their tongues will result in no tip. The harassment of workers, specifically feminine-presenting ones would dwindle seeing as those employees wouldn’t be forced to either lose their tip or feel unsafe while working.
Efforts like the ones put forth by Molly Moon
have been implemented in the Eugene community as well. Acorn Community Cafe has started a pay it forward program to help feed those who may benefit from a free meal. By allowing donations to this program in place of tips, ACC is demonstrating another proactive way to help the community.
So, now the real question we have to ask ourselves is why we are so accepting of tipping and who exactly is benefitting from this system? Because it’s definitely not the employees and it’s definitely not the customer. So, what is driving us to cling to this ancient tradition in which employers are the only ones benefiting?
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OREGON BILL OFFERS FREE MEALS TO SCHOOLCHILDREN
House Bill 5014 will make as many as 200 more Oregon schools eligible to give two free meals to its students beginning in the 2024-2025 school year.
BY REILLY NORGREN DESIGNED BY PAYTON LIEBELT
Oregon House Bill 5014, a bill that may allow more schools in Eugene’s school districts to offer free meals to its students, was signed into law by Oregon governor Tina Kotek on July 27.
HB 5014 will allocate funds to the Department of Education so that more schools in the state can participate in giving students two free meals a day.
Currently, 12 schools in Eugene are not eligible to participate in Community Eligibility Provision.
The CEP is a child nutrition program which is part of the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service.
Hunger-Free Oregon, FOOD for Lane County and the Oregon Food Bank are advocates for universal access to free meals for K-12 students in Oregon. Oregon Food Bank and Hunger-Free Oregon influence policy regarding hunger in Oregon, and FOOD for Lane County assists schools with food pantries and also provides meals to students when school isn’t in session.
Many schools in Oregon use CEP, including 19 schools in the Eugene school district. Other schools throughout Oregon remain only nearly eligible for this service option – most of them in rural areas.
According to David Wieland, a policy advocate for Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon, this federal rule change combined with secure funding would make all of the schools within both school districts in Eugene eligible to participate in CEP.
CEP is a meal service option for schools and school districts in low-income areas. Schools that are eligible for CEP are reimbursed for their free meals using a formula that evaluates students who are eligible for other programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Temporary
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Fresh produce is seen inside a kitchen. Food for Lane County prepares to distribute food from its headquarters in Eugene, Oregon, on August 2, 2023. (Eric Becker/Emerald)
Assistance for Needy Families.
Oregon Food Bank and Hunger-Free Oregon estimate that more than 114,000 children in Oregon live in households that struggle to afford food. According to Food for Lane County, 24% of children in Lane County live in food-insecure households.
The Oregon Food Bank estimates that one in five Oregonians face food insecurity in communities throughout the state.
Wieland said that the bill will help as many as 200 additional schools in Oregon be able to offer free breakfast and lunch to all K-12 students. These changes would begin to take place during the 2024-2025 school year.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools in Oregon had federal waivers which ensured that all K-12 students could be served two meals a day without charge. According to the Oregon Department of Education web page, school districts returned to regular meal programs on July 1, 2022.
Matt Newell-Ching, public policy manager at Oregon Food Bank, said that these federal waivers during the pandemic made people realize that food insecurity was an issue that Oregon may have the means to solve.
“There’s a lot of problems that are really hard to solve,” Newell-Ching said. “But this isn’t one of them. We have the means to solve this, we just need the will to do it.”
Newell-Ching said that school lunch can often feel like an “income test” for children who may be on reduced price or free lunch, and free meals for all students would eliminate the stigma that those students feel.
Wieland said Hunger-Free Oregon and Oregon Food Bank have been working closely together to address the root causes of hunger. Wieland said that not having access to food can decrease a child’s ability to learn and socialize in school.
“We know and believe that kids shouldn’t have to learn on an empty stomach,” Wieland said.
Food for Lane County works to fill the nutrition gap for Eugene and the surrounding area during the summer when school is not in session. Tom Mulhern, executive director of Food for Lane County, said that the organization serves an average of 1,000 meals a day in the summer, throughout 32 meal sites. These sites are located throughout Creswell, Veneta, Springfield, Thurston, Eugene, Junction City and Alvadore. They also had five rural food boxes or pantries operating during the summer of 2022. During the school year, they support school-based food pantries that get groceries home to low-income families through the students.
“Having to pay for school lunch is a real barrier for low-income families,” Mulhern said. “Incurring debt to be able to [pay for lunch] is very onerous for families. That just places another stress and burden on families that are already stressed and burdened.”
Newell-Ching said that while this bill is a step in the right direction for Oregon, it doesn’t quite move to the state having universal free meals.
“We’re still part of a coalition that’s trying to get fully universal, but this is a really good step,” Newell-Ching said. “We were frustrated that Oregon is lagging behind other states, but I mean,
we’re talking 200 additional schools, and for the kids who go to those schools, that is a really positive thing. And it helps build our case that this is the right direction to go.”
Newell-Ching said that for schools who returned to the traditional paid school lunch model after the pandemic, instances of school lunch debt went up for families because free meals were no longer available for their children.
“We really envision a future where the notion of paying for school meals isn’t a thing,” Newell-Ching said. “We would love to see the phrase ‘school lunch debt’ thrown into the dustbin of history.”
He said that there is fear of shame and scrutiny within low-income and immigrant households that stops them from filling out forms to apply for reduced or free school lunch.
“[Schools] are nickel-and-diming working parents,” Newell-Ching said. “We want to do away with these barriers that stop kids from eating and doing well in school.”
He said that when this coalition of organizations
like Oregon Food Bank and Hunger-Free Oregon began working together in 2019, no states had done universally free meals yet. He said that it feels like there is a growing consensus that understands the benefits of free school meals.
Newell-Ching said that it has been encouraging to see more organizations step up after the waivers during the pandemic proved that free school lunch was possible for students in Oregon.
Newell-Ching said that the problem does not end with K-12 education. He said that college students are often excluded from helpful programs like SNAP which causes barriers for people seeking higher education. According to a survey from Food for Lane County in 2021, 91% of the college students who were surveyed said they face food insecurity.
According to SNAP eligibility rules, students enrolled in college at least half time are not eligible unless they meet certain exemptions.
“You don’t get to pick and choose what income your parents are,” Newell-Ching said. “This is really all about believing in equity.”
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A Feeding America banner hangs outside of a Food for Lane County warehouse. (Eric Becker/Emerald)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12
Eugene PRIDE in the Park Festival
Celebrate the LGBTQ+ community at this full-day event!
Pride Month may have ended in June, but Eugene is just getting started. Come celebrate at Eugene’s Pride Festival! The event kicks off with a march at Kesey Square at 9 a.m., followed by a walk to Alton Baker Park, where festivities will commence from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. With dozens of local vendors, live music, and plenty to eat and drink, there will be no shortage of all-ages fun. And make sure to check out the afterparty at WOW Hall with a roster of local DJs!
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16
Make Your Own Ice Cream
Kids will love the chance to shake-and-make their own ice cream flavors!
If you happen to be near Creswell, stop by Holt Park at 11 a.m. for the chance to make your own ice cream! The process is simple enough – you pick your flavoring, grab milk and sugar, and get to shaking. A small time investment yields delicious results. Bring the kids! The event is sponsored by the Creswell Library as part of its annual summer reading program.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19
Local Bands Take WOW Hall
Come see Oregon bands like Solution Honey, Common Girl and Confluence take the stage!
Oregon has a huge music scene, and it doesn’t let up during the summer! Come to WOW Hall on the 19th to get a glimpse of popular local bands and performers like Solution Honey, IX of Swords and Confluence (based in Eugene) and Common Girl (based in Portland)! Doors open at 7 p.m. with tickets starting at $8. The show, much like the venue, is all-ages, so prepare to leave your drinks at the door.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20 A Race for the Rest of Us
A short and sweet race for charity is accessible for everyone!
You might have heard of running a 5K, but you probably haven’t seen an 0.5K event until now. Lane Council of Governments’ Senior & Disability Services is hosting “A Race for the Rest of Us,” an annual event raising money for Lane County seniors facing food insecurity. The event invites attendees to “walk, run or roll” across the short distance, located at Eugene’s Oakshire Public House. Fees range from $20 to $30.
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This weeks editor’s picks...
“BARBENHEIMER”
IS A CINEMATIC EVENT FOR THE AGES
The box office is a grueling climate for original stories, especially in an era dominated by remakes and sequels. With two of the most anticipated films of the year slated for release on the same midsummer weekend, I was concerned that one would get the short end of the stick. In a prosperous turn of events, young people across social media delved into their bag of creative expression, and a worldwide phenomenon was born. In a mash-up of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” the “Barbenheimer” hype train unfolded into a cinematic event for the ages.
Both ambitious projects from esteemed filmmakers, the only thing standing in their way was each other — until it wasn’t. As a live-action realization of a doll and a historical epic concerning the creation of the atomic bomb, their thematic polar opposition spawned an onslaught of memes. Posters featuring Barbie overlooking a pink mushroom cloud and the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer sporting a pink suit grinning ear to ear graced Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Instead of picking sides and opting for discourse, fans embraced the potential of “Barbenheimer” – a chance to see Gerwig and Nolan pour their hearts out on screen in a versatile moviegoing weekend.
The success was immediate and historic, shattering box office records. Their combined opening-weekend earnings skyrocketed to $244 million in the domestic market. “Barbie” raked in a whopping $162 million — the biggest opening ever for a female director. Although coming in second place, “Oppenheimer” earned a staggering $82 million — a figure utterly unheard of for a three hour R-rated biopic.
The icing on the cake came when the lights went down and audiences could finally experience both films in all their glory. Each a masterfully executed vision, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are two of the
most incredible films 2023 has to offer.
Gerwig’s creation stars Margot Robbie as the famed doll, inhabiting an alternate reality chock full of unique Barbies and Kens. Barbieland is a lavish beachside landscape sprinkled with pastels
Both films opened on July 21 to historic box office returns, fueled by a fan-led dual marketing campaign titled “Barbenheimer.”
BY SEAN AVERY DESIGNED BY PAYTON LIEBELT
Barbie’s attention, gives one of the best comedic performances I’ve ever seen. His infatuation with patriarchy, love of horses and climactic musical number are as hysterical as they are ridiculous. In comparison, “Oppenheimer” is a bonechilling examination of guilt and the terrifying power of man. Cillian Murphy’s career-defining lead performance stares into your soul and leaves you gasping for air. His brilliant mind and complicated relationships become a side note to his explosive discovery, eating up his mind for eternity.
The cast is overflowing with pitchperfect supporting performances. Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, determined to prove Oppenheimer is a communist and withdraw his security clearance, knocks it out of the park. His reserved courtroom speech evolves into volatile anger as the film progresses. Though limited in screen time, Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer turns in another excellent performance.
and life-sized plastic buildings. The production is among the first of its kind – a glowing representation of a child’s imagination.
Everything changes when Robbie’s “Stereotypical Barbie” is burdened by thoughts of death and must journey to the real world in search of her owner. Accompanied by Ryan Gosling’s Ken, she discovers the harsh nature of reality and the complexities of womanhood. Its vehement feminist messaging is not touched on lightly. Instead, it’s the driving force of the central conflict. While playful, bright and delightfully silly, at its core, “Barbie” is a hard-hitting and empowering feminist epic.
Gosling’s Ken, a man-child desperately vying for
With his 12th feature film, Nolan’s direction reaches perfection. He seamlessly cuts back and forth through time, stranding pieces of information until their satisfying third-act revelation. Cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema dazzles in color and black and white, depicting the impossible beauty of scientific breakthroughs. The sound ranges from thundering to piercingly quiet, creating an immersive, overwhelming atmosphere for the audience.
When it’s all said and done, “Barbenheimer” will be remembered as an unprecedented success — two films with impactful messaging and masterful direction forever linked in time. Though they share few similarities, Gerwig and Nolan’s films ignited a passion for cinema and storytelling unrivaled in the modern age. Studios may try to replicate their success, but the magic of July 21, 2023, can never be recreated.
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2023 SEASON PREVIEW: OREGON VOLLEYBALL
After a historic 2022 season, the Ducks look to set the bar even higher.
Oregon volleyball returns to the court after a special 2022 season. They ended their regular season 23-5 with 17 conference wins – which surpassed the 16 conference wins from the No. 2 ranked 2012 team. The Ducks won all of their home matches and ended the season with a 16-game win streak before being knocked out of the tournament.
After losing a heartbreaker to No. 1 Louisville in five sets in the Elite Eight and losing some valuable key players like Brooke Nuneviller, Gloria Mutiri and Karson Bacon, who all won All-American honors during their career at Oregon, the Ducks are looking to set the bar even higher heading into the 2023 season.
Despite losing those players who contributed heavily to their success, Oregon will have returners and new players that will help them push that bar higher.
Out of the strong group of returning players, Mimi Colyer is the headliner. The American Volleyball Coaches Association National Freshman of the Year is the first player in program history to receive that award and the seventh in the Pac-12. She’s also the first freshman in program history to be voted to one of the three All-American teams and the second in UO history to win Pac-12 Freshman of the Year after Michelle Krebsbach won it in 1986.
After leading all NCAA freshmen with 616.5 points and 544 kills, she set a conference record with eight Freshman of the Week selections. After 26 kills against Nebraska in the Sweet 16, she pushed the Ducks into the Elite Eight. Colyer quickly made a strong impression in Eugene, and even though she’ll be handed a heavy load with Nuneviller leaving, she’s ready.
Colyer wouldn’t have had the success she did last season without returning setter Hannah Pukis. The senior became the third UO setter to earn AllAmerican honors after setting a new career high of 11.18 assists per set, which ranked second in the Pac-12 and tenth across the NCAA. Pukis helped the Ducks set a new program record with a .293 hitting percentage 11 times over the season, leading the team to a .300 and higher hitting percentage.
BY NINA-GRACE MONTES • DESIGNED BY ESTHER SZETO
Out of the transfer portal, Oregon Volleyball added more depth to their roster this season with the acquisition of Onye Ofoegbu, a middle blocker from UC Irvine. This past season, she led the Big West Conference with 143 total blocks and a .372 hitting percentage with a career high of 3.39 kills per set, 4.31 points per set, 1.28 blocks per set and 24 service aces. The grad transfer will join Colby Neal, Reagan Hope and Kiari Robey guarding the net.
Two incoming freshmen for the Ducks, Noemie Glover and Becca Kelley, were named two of the 19 athletes to the U.S. Girls U19 World Championship roster and will train together at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. From there, 12 athletes from the roster will be chosen to compete in the FIVB U19 Girls World Championship in Osijek, Croatia and Szeged, Hungary.
In her final high school season, Glover led Cathedral Catholic to a 42-0 season and a state title after hitting .550 with 13 kills and five blocks in the championship game. Kelley was named to the Texas All-State team for Rockwall High School after she hit 20 or more kills in 13 different matches including a 40-kill performance.
The Pac-12 is one of the hardest conferences to play volleyball in. Schools competing in the conference have won 17 out of 42 all-time NCAA championships – four more than the next conference. A Pac-12 team has been one of the final four teams in all but six years of the NCAA tournament, in addition to at least one Pac12 team playing in 27 of the 42 NCAA title matches: the most in any Power Five program. Last season, eight teams finished above .500 overall, while seven teams won double-digit conference matches. Eight Pac-12 athletes earned All-American honors while 23 were put on AVCA All-Region teams.
Last season, half of the Pac-12 teams made it into the NCAA tournament. Stanford and Oregon were the only teams to advance past the Sweet 16, but both teams got knocked out in the Elite Eight. In the NCAA’s preseason ranking, the Ducks are ranked No. 9. After a historic season in 2022, Oregon and Pac-12 Volleyball continue to set the standard for the sport.
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Ducks libero Georgia Murphy (10) serves the ball. University of Oregon Womens Volleyball take on the Colorado Buffaloes on Oct. 23, 2022 at Matthew Knight Arena. (Maddie Stellingwerf/Emerald)
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