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21 CP CAMPUS EVALUATION

21CP releases “final report” for campus safety recommendations in email from UO Interim President BY LILY FJELDHEIM

On Sept. 9, Interim President Phillips sent out an email informing the UO community that 21CP Solutions had produced a final report containing information about their assessment process and recommendations for campus safety and well-being.

21CP is an organization of retired police chiefs, lawyers, community leaders and others who assess the security of police departments, universities, businesses and cities and help create solutions for these organizations to be safer. They worked with the UO between February through June of 2022 to assess campus safety, examine the role of UOPD on campus and make recommendations based on the needs of the campus.

UO had hired 21CP to assess the needs of campus and campus security and provide feedback. The email said they will put out a “comprehensive framework regarding student wellness” to implement 21CPs recommendations over the next few months.

It is not known exactly why the UO hired 21CP. The Daily Emerald attempted to schedule interviews with Interim President Phillips and UOPD, but was unsuccessful.

In his email, Phillips said UO and 21CP worked together to address three main areas relating to campus safety. Those areas include response to individuals experiencing mental, behavioral and emotional health challenges on campus, additional changes to the roles, responsibilities and functions to the UOPD and police accountability.

21CP said it made their assessment based on information and data from “paper, performance and people.” 21CP examined an array of materials such as campus safety reports, policies, training materials and annual reports relating to UO and UOPD. 21CP acknowledged UOPD’s engagement and cooperation with 21CP’s assessment process. 21CP also looked at crime logs, calls for service, engagement with CAHOOTS and other information.

According to the email, 21CP collaborated with the university by meeting in focus groups and conducting interviews

with UO stakeholders and community members.

Through an anonymous email survey titled “Voice of UO” and a student-focused questionnaire, 21CP obtained feedback from 309 individuals.

Phillips said a frequent theme that emerged from 21CPs assessment was mental health support for UO students and staff. He said mental health does not fall under the responsibility of UOPD and will be dealt with separately. Phillips listed a number of mental health resources recently implemented at UO, such as the telecounseling service partner Christie Campus, “Let’s Talk” and Kognito. He also lists future plans to improve and expand mental health services at UO such as creating an acute mental health triage system for students and hiring a mental health promotion specialist to join the Public Health Practices Team.

Phillips said UO reduced the number of armed officer positions by 26% before engaging 21CP and has increased the number of community service officers on campus. This is due in part to the fact that 80–90% of mental health related emergency calls are from individuals who are not affiliated with UO, he said. Going forward, Phillips said the UO will need to work in collaboration with the City of Eugene, the University Business District and CAHOOTS to address these issues.

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HOFFMAN: GREEK LIFE HAS A POWER DYNAMIC PROBLEM

Opinion: Greek life has long been a social system that benefits a select number of members. It has a history of being subject to complaints, rumors and allegations. From the looks of it, these complaints will not be slowing. BY TRISTIN HOFFMAN

I’m a first generation college student. Along with understanding how the higher education schooling system works, I can’t afford to also understand how the Greek social life system works either. I’ve only learned about Greek life passively. In my teen years, my idea of what Greek life is like was shaped from movies such as “Neighbors” and “Pitch Perfect.”

Now in my college years, this idea is shaped through my friends talking about the most recent Greek life drama, rumors and allegations. Through classes, I’ve talked to fraternity and sorority members about how they like or dislike their chapter. Every single time I’ve watched, heard or spoken about Greek life, I am always amazed at how clear it is that there is a power dynamic problem within this social system.

Any human-made system has systematic problems. This is just nature to us. Humans are faulty creatures. However, it seems that Greek life has some more explaining to do compared to other college social systems. For instance, the fact that sororities are unable to possess alcohol while fraternities are able to possess alcohol amazes me. If one party must depend on another party for some type of object or goal, it is an unbalanced power dynamic for the dependent party. Such is the case with alcohol in Greek life. Since sorority sisters are unable to possess alcohol or throw parties, they must rely on others to supply these things if they wish to have them, and the most convenient “others” are fraternity members. Thus, an unfair power distribution is formed. Not only is this sexist as in women should appear classier

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than men and withstand alcohol possesion, but it further promotes rape culture.

There is a noticeable popularity contest within Greek life, as well. Certain sororities have a stronger relationship to certain fraternities than other sororities; some fraternities are more popular than other fraternities. There are affiliated and unaffiliated chapters — mainly due to violations of codes of conduct. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, an unaffiliated chapter, has its own troubles within Greek life’s popularity contest. It is unaffiliated and known for being referred to as “Sexual Assault Expected” nationally.

“A lot of that misconception comes from fraternities in the South,” Carson Kroll, SAE’s Sexual Violence Prevention officer for the University of Oregon, said. “The people [at UO] think that we are similar to that for some reason. That national view of SAE is so broad and we get thrown under that label.”

I empathize with SAE members due to the fact that not all of their members sexually assault women and must withstand hate for being something they are not. But this also makes me question what caused them to join SAE in the first place. Did they research how their potential fraternity is viewed publicly? And once they heard about the acronym, what caused them to still stand as an SAE brother?

This hyperfixation on SAE is causing long-term negative effects on Greek life as a whole, I believe. By painting SAE as the bad guy, other fraternities profit off of their unpopularity in the public eye and can potentially slide past sexual assault

Overpopulation Freshmen

BY IAN PROCTOR

weariness. However, fraternity members are 300% more likely to sexually assault someone compared to non-fraternity members. Sorority members are 74% more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women in college. These are horrific statistics. What are the solutions?

There is no good fraternity or bad fraternity. Rather, every fraternity continues to perpetrate the power struggles relating to gender, alcohol, popularity, sexual assault and rape culture. Despite recent additions such as Sexual Violence Prevention chairmen, sexual assault still continues to happen. I believe a lot of issues within Greek life have to do with alcohol and the high pedestal partying is placed on. If Greek life were to minimize these two issues and their presence in college social life, there could be a noticeable drop in sexual assault rates.

We are currently in the Red Zone. This means that we are in a period of time during the first three months of school on college campuses that wave in a rise of sexual assault cases among students. The Red Zone coincides with fraternities throwing parties often during the start of school to celebrate the new year and their newest members. Fifty percent of all sexual assaults on college campuses occur during this period of time.

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When Iker Lopez first arrived at the University of Oregon for his freshman year, he couldn’t find his dorm room. He reported this to Global Scholars Hall, but his card listed a lounge and didn’t say which floor.

“Our impression was, it was going to be two doubles connected by a bathroom. That’s what pops up when you look at the rooms and your housing,” Lopez said. “I was the first one to move in, and I took a video of the room, and I sent it to them and then we were all super shocked that it was just one really big room with two bunk beds.”

He had been told he would be in a room with three other students, but didn’t realize his dorm room would be a converted common area with four beds and the windows covered so people walking down the halls couldn’t see in the room.

This year, UO announced their freshman class was the biggest ever recorded at the university: 5,338. According to an Around the O article published in late September, the class represents a 16% increase in freshman enrollment compared to last year and a 36% increase over the last five years.

As a result of this large freshman class, UO has been forced to find more available space for incoming students by converting lounges into dorm rooms and what used to be doubles into triples, according to GSH resident assistant Liam McNamara.

Over-enrollment has created a number of

issues within freshman dorms, like students not being able to move rooms and having limited community space and crowded amenities.

Community spaces are now returning to their former use as students are being relocated out of temporary living spaces to new openings where students didn’t show up or have already left. But due to the greater number of triples, amenities are still overworked.

Lounges in dorms like GSH started as temporary living spaces, and the students assigned to these spaces are being relocated to permanent living spaces as they open up, according to an emailed statement by Anna Schmidt-MacKenzie, director of Resident Life and Educational Initiatives. She said this is due to an “overwhelming and somewhat more than expected demand for a University of Oregon education.”

Students living in these temporary living spaces are charged for the cheapest room rate plus their dining plan, Schmidt-MacKenzie said, adding that these students will also receive support from their RAs and other UO team members will help them to transition to permanent living spaces.

However, some students feel like they lack support from the university. Sabina LyonFreedman said it was difficult to know where to go on the first day. It didn’t help that she didn’t really know what she was looking for.

“It had lounge written on the temporary housing portal thing, but it was unclear what they meant,”

she said. “I thought I was gonna be stuck in a broom closet.”

As spots began to open up, students in lounges were given new room assignments and LyonFreedman was assigned to a room down the hall. She was given 48 hours to move.

When she went to look at the room, she found the top bunk she was supposed to sleep on was extremely unstable. Additionally, because of medical reasons, sleeping on a top bunk was unrealistic, she said. Her future roommates were never told she was coming.

When she brought her situation up with University Housing, staff offered to let her stay in her lounge for a couple extra days and suggested that she request that maintenance bring in a new bed. When she asked that housing assign her to a different room on account of her medical needs, they told her she would need to provide doctor’s notes to the Accessible Education Center and then speak with housing again.

“I’m supposed to do all that by Tuesday,” LyonFreedman. “I knew I would only be given 48 hours, but I did not know that the place I would be moved to would be inaccessible for me.”

Despite making no headway with the accessibility center, UO housing found her a double with a bathroom that had opened up in Kalapuya Ilihi which fit her needs, Lyon-Freedman said. She moved there on Wednesday.

Just a floor below Lyon-Freedman’s room,

The hallways of the Global Scholars Hall are still for a moment in the middle of a school day. (Maddie Stellingwerf/ Emerald)

As freshman arrived on campus some were placed in temporary living situations; just one effect of an abnormally large Freshman class.

BY JAKE MOORE

the second floor lounge in the north tower of GSH played host to four young men, making it a very rare quad dorm room. Iker Lopez and Shai Bromberg are two of the people who live there and have already grown close over the first month of school, they said.

Now, after establishing connections with the other residents, they and their other two roommates are being sent to four different dorm rooms in three different dorm buildings.

“So one of us is going into Barnhart. [Iker’s] going to Bean, I’m going to Hamilton and another one is going to Hamilton,” Bromberg said.

They will take the spot of students that either never showed up or have left UO. But Lopez and Bromberg would rather stick together.

“I’m moving to Bean and getting put in a double with someone new,” Lopez said. “We actually filled out a roommate change so that me and [Shai] could actually be in a double.”

The four students have now moved in with roommates they don’t know in a hall with people they have never met.

“It’s very frustrating because I made new friends, got close with my roommates and everyone’s comfortable,” Bromberg said. “Now, like midterm, while I have all these tests and everything now they’re telling us I gotta move, get a new roommate [and] I have to move all my stuff from this location.”

When Megan Sebree signed up for housing in the spring, she registered for a double with a sink. But when she checked her housing portal late in the summer, her room had switched to a triple, she said. The effects of over-enrollment have become a normal part of her living experience.

In the first weeks of school, with lounges being used for temporary living, she and her friends looked for study rooms or remained in their dorms. Sebree said she has spent more time in her dorm room than she had expected.

“I think we’ve been using the study rooms more,

but the study rooms are just full all the time.” Sebree said. “And I think I’ve been spending more time in my dorm than I would have probably thought I would.”

In addition to converted lounges and triples in GSH, other halls have also felt the effects of overenrollment. Kalapuya, which is mostly doubles with bathrooms, has also seen a large number of rooms converted to triples.

The large campus population has changed campus life for the rest of the students outside of dorms as well.

UO dining has struggled to keep up. Unthank Hall was designed with seven dining options, only five of which are ever open, according to McNamara. The already-understaffed UO dining appears to be struggling to keep up with the demand of more than 5,000 freshmen, plus RAs, professors and other students. Mcnamara regularly sees lines circling around the Unthank dining hall.

While the lounges have cleared out and students have been moved to permanent living situations, the other effects of this year’s abnormally large freshman class are still being felt and won’t go away so easily.

Over the last few years, UO freshman class sizes have increased steadily. With the construction of new dorms, perhaps there will be enough space for bigger freshmen classes, but it remains to be seen if the rest of campus is prepared for more students.

“NOW, LIKE MID-TERM, WHILE I HAVE ALL THESE TESTS AND EVERYTHING NOW THEY’RE TELLING US I GOTTA MOVE, GET A NEW ROOMMATE [AND] I HAVE TO MOVE ALL MY STUFF FROM THIS LOCATION.”

SHAI BROMBERG former resident of ‘quad dorm’ in GSH

The Global Scholars Hall dorm houses students on the east side of campus. (Maddie Stellingwerf/ Emerald)

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS RETURNS TO THE MAUDE KERNS ART CENTER

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS RETURNS TO THE MAUDE KERNS ART CENTER

Celebrate life through art, activities and dancing

BY KEYRY HERNANDEZ

Skulls, spirits and death are seen in the horror movies that give us our worst nightmares, but throughout Latin America, these things are greatly celebrated during Dia de los Muertos. Largely originating in Mexico, this holiday aims to commemorate those who have passed onto the underworld by welcoming their presence back. So what happens when our loved ones come back to town for two days? Well, we have the rest of the year to grieve, so we waste no time in gathering together and expressing our joy for life. Nov. 1 and 2 are full of festivals including live music, art, and delicious food, and laughter echoes through it all.

The Maude Kerns Art Center’s yearly Day of the Dead Exhibit running from Oct. 14-Nov. 14 provides a space for the Eugene community to learn more about the holiday and engage in beautiful traditions. With 19 artists from the States and Mexico, Maude Kerns is excited to share a range of art forms exhibiting oil and acrylic paintings, watercolors, textiles, photographs, welded metal and prints. Folks in town will not only be introduced to Latin American art forms, but will also be able to immerse themselves in the profound emotion behind the culture. One of these works comes from Maryland artist Francis Schultz-DePalo, who is exhibiting they’re oil painting titled “Día de los Muertos, Hildalgo.” Shultz-DePalo describes it as a “scene of devotion” depicting a mother and child in Mexico preparing a grave site in the midst of festivities.

When celebrators aren’t out in the colorful graveyards or streets, they are expressing their gratitude back home by setting up altars. These are meant to commemorate those we have lost by creating space for sentimental objects. This can look like food, drinks and trinkets close ones enjoyed during their lives along with photographs of them. Back home, my mother remembers my grandfather by surrounding his photograph with marigolds (the designated flower meant to guide spirits), candles, his favorite pastry, a toy he left behind in his former car shop and maybe a Corona or two. Community members in Eugene have decided to incorporate this integral part of the holiday by showcasing seven altars at the exhibit.

If you’re looking to join the party, a Fiesta Reception is being held at the museum on Friday, Oct. 28 from 5-8 p.m., which will include activities, refreshments and an exciting performance by El Taller de Son Jarocho, a local community group that specializes in folk music. Tie up your shoelaces and get ready for a lively night!

Death is a universal experience, yet it is processed so differently across the world. Partaking and learning about the way different cultures navigate loss can be eye-opening. Before learning about my own traditions, I thought the only way to process loss was to grieve. Although that is part of it, I’ve found that the other half of loss is feeling gratitude for what we used to have and how it continuously shapes who we are. You too can begin celebrating the Dia de los Muertos by learning about the history of the holiday and partaking in the celebration of life.

Top: A feature in the Maude Kern Día de Los Muertos exhibit asks people to “share a memory, or the name, of someone whose life you celebrate” on a piece of paper to hang on the art piece. (Kimberly Harris/Emerald)

Bottom: “Altar para Frida” by Carol Arian in the Maude Kern Día de Los Muertos exhibit. (Kimberly Harris/Emerald)

OREGON VOLLEYBALL GETS ITS FIRST ROAD WIN AGAINST UCLA SINCE 2018

The Ducks add another monumental game to the win column.

BY NINA-GRACE MONTES

The Ducks bounce back from a three game losing streak to beat the Bruins in five sets.

In the first set of Oregon volleyball’s road match on Sunday, strong serves kept the Ducks competitive. Brooke Nuneviller had fast and powerful serves that UCLA struggled to keep up with. The Bruins started to find a groove late in the first set, as they went on a 5-1 run before head coach Matt Ulmer called a timeout. Oregon pulled within one late as it trailed 23-22, but UCLA secured the win with an ace.

To start the next set, Mimi Colyer stayed consistent in attacking the opposite corner to put up easy points on the board for the Ducks. Between her and Nuneviller, the Ducks man aged to gain some momentum before back-toback points from the Bruins that forced another

Oregon timeout. When the score was tied at 22, UCLA scored 2 in a row to reach match point.

The Ducks saved all 3 set points from the Bruins and took set two to even the game at 1-1.

During the third set, both teams found a rhythm, keeping the score close. UCLA started to take advantage of Oregon’s errors and took a big lead. At 22-14, the Ducks scored three in a row to cut the deficit to 5 and forced a UCLA timeout.

The timeout didn’t slow down Oregon as Elise Agi had back-to-back aces to bring the score within 2. The Bruins ended up being awarded the win after winning a net touch challenge. Ulmer re-challenged the possible net touch, but was unsuccessful.

In the fourth set, Nuneviller hit her 16th kill

of the afternoon and moved into the UO’s top 10 for career kills. She finished the night with 22 kills.

At 15-13, Colyer hit her 17th kill of the match to establish a 2 point lead. The Ducks found a groove, leading to a 5 point lead and a UCLA timeout. Oregon claimed the fourth set and forced a fifth set, which would be its sixth time playing a five-set match this season.

The fifth set was arguably the most compet itive set of the game, but between solid blocks from Oregon’s All-American front row and kills from Colyer and Nunviller, the Ducks took the win. This game was Oregon’s fifth conference win and 11th overall.

The Ducks will come back home Friday for a 6 p.m. game against Utah. The game will be available to stream on Pac-12 Network.

Brooke Nuneviller (5) goes up to serve the ball. The Oregon Ducks face the California Golden Bears on October 8th, 2021, at Matthew Knight Arena. (Serei Hendrie/Emerald)

Oregon Ducks Head Coach, Matt Ulmer, talks strategy during a timeout. The Oregon Ducks face the California Golden Bears on October 8th, 2021, at Matthew Knight Arena. (Serei Hendrie/Emerald)