THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DANCE’S HALF MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION
A professor within the school has been profiting off of thousands of students for several years with his self-published, $89.99 required book. One former student refers to the book as a “glorified Garageband tutorial.”
By Ruby Duncan Investigative Reporter
A professor within the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance has earned roughly $570,000 in revenue from students in the past four years with his self-published book. However the issue was set aside as a “gray area” in policy, according to numerous SOMD faculty.
The professor, Toby Koenigsberg, teaches the “Contemporary Songwriting” course at UO, which previously had at times several hundred asynchronous students each term. He’s raising several ethical and legal concerns amongst his colleagues at the school, their concerns being that he could be not only violating UO Ethics, but Oregon law, due to the
Fall house shows set sail with a pirate-themed show at the Limelight
On Sept. 28, local bands made a splash at the first house show of the season
By Claire Coit Arts & Culture Writer
As the fall season sets in and students return to their busy schedules, the house show scene in Eugene is back up and running.
On Sept. 28, The Limelight, a local house show venue, held their “End of Summer” pirate themed bash. For a fee of seven dollars, people attended the show in pirate costumes to see local bands Housekeeping, GrrlBand and Bowl Peace rock the house with electric performances.
The Limelight is a newer addition to See
HOW TO VOTE IN OREGON
With election day less than one month away, some may find themselves asking: How do I vote?
By Mathias Lehman-Winters City News Editor and Print Managing Editor
There are 28 days until the Nov. 5 2024 general election. For some Oregonians, this election will be one of their first times voting or first time voting from a new address. Here is some information on how to register to vote in Oregon.
For Oregon residents who recently moved to Oregon from out of state, there are two ways
(Alex Hernandez/Emerald) Bowl Peace, a Eugene house band, performs at the Limelight house on Sept. 28, 2024.
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What the new SOJC curriculum looks like
UO’s SOJC introduced a new curriculum in the spring of 2024 that is going to be implemented this year
By Riley Fox Campus News Reporter
University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication has adopted a new curriculum, introduced in spring 2024. It will be in place for the first time this year.
Ghost Town Outfitters opens charming downtown storefront
As students move in and back to school shopping season begins, Ghost Town Outfitters expands to 13th Avenue
By Claire Coit Arts & Culture Writer
Ghost Town Outfitters, a hidden gem vintage store, has come to Eugene’s downtown area. Originally operating out of a warehouse on West 11th Avenue, Ghost Town opened in late 2022 to customers looking for hand-picked clothing at affordable prices.
Eugene’s housing crisis
As the population of Eugene increases with each year, potential residents may find difficulties with the shortage of available housing units
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As the demand for housing grows higher, potential residents may find difficulties with the shortage of available units in Eugene. The current vacancy rate for single-family homes in Eugene is 1.2% while the rate for rentals is 3.6%.
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Meet Jimmy Howard, UO’s New Interim Dean of Students
He took office in July and also serves as UO’s deputy Title IX coordinator
By Riley Fox Campus News Reporter
Jimmy Howard has taken on the position of Interim Dean of Students and Deputy Title IX Coordinator at the University of Oregon as of early July. The previous dean, Marcus Langford, left the position after seven years. He worked for nearly three years as Assistant Dean of Students for Prevention and Response, from Oct. 2018 to July 2021. Then, he became the Associate Dean of Students and Deputy Title IX Coordinator from July 2021 to May 2024, for nearly three years.
He is currently also Senior Associate Dean of Students and Deputy Title IX Coordinator, but quickly took on the responsibilities of Langford’s previous position as the dean’s office is under adjustment
“My home base role is the senior associate dean of students, so it only made sense for me to step into that leadership role, given some of my other responsibilities,” Howard said.
Along with Howard taking on this new role, UO also welcomed a new vice president for student life, Angela Chong. Part of Howard’s role will be to act as a leader while all the changes occur within the department.
“With all those changes, we needed someone to step into the role and to assume some leadership over the dean of students office while Angela gets her footing and figures out how she’s going to lead the division,” Howard said.
Howard is taking on the position of interim dean for now, though the position is not permanent. “It’s temporary, limited time. We aren’t sure how long it will be. That’s something that will be etched out once we continue to get a feel for how Angela’s going to move the division forward,” Howard said.
I would say part of my responsibilities are just making sure that we respond to student crises, making sure that students who are in need get support and have a place that they can go for advocacy. “ “
—Jimmy Howard
Title IX Coordinator
and Deputy
Before working at UO, Howard said he worked for just under a year at Oregon State University. He said he was drawn to UO because of its practices around sexual violence prevention.
“I think Oregon has some of the best practices around prevention work [and] around sexual violence prevention education. It was really attractive to work at a place that took this seriously and [that is] committed to providing services for students. Both preventative work, but also response work,” Howard said.
According to Howard, his job revolves around supporting students.
“I would say part of my responsibilities are just making sure that we respond to student crises, making sure that students who are in need get support and have a place that they can go for advocacy. We do basic needs, [including] supporting students around needs with finances, temporary housing needs, child care, textbook subsidies, and things like that,” Howard said.
Title IX is a federal law that works to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. Howard serves as a deputy Title IX Coordinator.
“Our responsibility to students, particularly around sexual harassment and sexual misconduct, [is] making sure we have spaces that are safe for students. This includes their sex, their gender expression, and other protected statuses related to Title IX,” Howard said.
The Office of the Dean of Students includes a large col-
lection of projects and programs.
“We have, under the umbrella, our collegiate recovery center, our substance misuse and abuse prevention work, and then we have our sexual violence prevention education work, along with just generally promoting healthy relationships and boundaries,” Howard said.
“Then we have our multicultural identity based support services team that includes the women’s center, the black cultural center, LGBTQIA+ services, veterans services,” Howard said.
“[Our role] is helping students connect and get support based on the identities that they hold while they’re here with us,” he said.
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Protesters pack the court in solidarity with one “Eugene 19” defendant
Samuel Joseph Yergler was arrested after being involved in the April 15 pro-Palestine blockade of the I-5 highway
By Jess Coronado City News Reporter
On Oct. 3, protesters packed the Lane County Circuit Court to support one man charged with disorderly conduct in the second degree.
The defendant, Samuel Joseph Yergler, was one of 52 arrested after his involvement in the April 15 I-5 pro-Palestine protest and blockade. All except 19 of the 52 protesters arrested were given a diversion option, which offers community service and a $100 citation.
The remaining 19 defendants, all charged with disorderly conduct in the second degree, are set to go to trial from October to Jan. 2025.
“I hope the judge recognizes the legitimacy of the defenses that these actions of civil disobedience, that are happening worldwide, but specifically in the United States are absolutely necessary and are the last line of defense,” one protester who goes by the alias, Gloria, said.
The Daily Emerald granted Gloria the use of an alias for protection against “violent and reactionary people” in the community.
By “necessary,” as a defense, Gloria refers to ORS 161.200 or the “choice of evils” law. It states that “physical force” or “conduct which would otherwise constitute an offense is justifiable and not criminal” when a person or the public faces imminent injury.
Protesters blocked the I-5 in solidarity with the A15 – April 15 — movement across the world, where supporters were encouraged to
“blockade major choke points in the economy.”
According to one protestor and former Insurgent writer also facing charges, Eric Howanietz, their actions on April 15 were a “necessity.”
“We’ve cataloged about 15 other direct actions we did,” Howanietz said. “We really feel like we had exhausted all other options and were left with this case where we could key into this global action that was occurring.”
Court documents state that Yergler argued his actions on April 15 constitute “advocacy, campaigning, educational outreach, petitioning of government officials and other lobbying efforts, boycotts and personal actions to avert the harms of U.S. complicity in Israel’s war and genocide.”
In order to advance a choice-of-evils defense, Yergler will have to present evidence proving three things. First, that actions in April were necessary to avoid threatened injury, the injury was imminent, and that it was “reasonable for him to believe the need to avoid the injury was greater than the statute they were found to have violated, seeks to prevent.”
On Oct. 3, the court heard opening statements from both the defense and prosecution, witnesses testimony and some evidence was presented.
The jury was dismissed and were instructed to return on Oct. 4.
HOW TO VOTE IN OREGON
to register to vote: online and via voter registration card.
Residents looking to register online must show a valid Oregon drivers license, permit or ID card issued by the DMV.
If a resident does not have any of these forms of identification they can still use an online voter registration application. Upon entering the requested information, which includes an Oregon address and the last four digits of one’s social security number, applicants must print out their form and deliver it to their county elections office.
For those in Eugene, this would be at the Lane County Elections office at 275 W 10th Ave in downtown Eugene.
For those who do not wish to register online, they may pick up a voter registration form from the Lane County Elections office, and then return it upon completion. They also may mail their form in.
Any legal citizen over the age of 16 is permitted to register to vote in the State of Oregon. However they must be 18 years of age or older to receive a ballot. The deadline to become a registered voter in Oregon is Oct. 15.
For voters who are already registered to vote in Oregon, but want to register at a new address, they have until 8 p.m. on Election Day (Nov. 5) to change their registration and cast a ballot.
However, if a resident is updating their registration close to an election, they may have to request their ballot at the Lane County Elections office, as they will not be receiving it in the mail.
For voters who are in Eugene but want to vote in their home state — some of the over 11,000 out-of-state students attending the University of Oregon, for example — they may request an absentee ballot. Individuals requesting absentee ballots should fill out an Absentee Ballot Request Form and return it to the Lane County Elections office.
Residents can check to make sure their voter registration is up to date and track the status of their ballot with the Oregon Secretary of State’s site, My Vote.
On Oct. 16, the day after the Oregon voter registration deadline, ballots will begin to be mailed to voters. They will continue to be mailed out to all approximately three million registered Oregon voters until Oct. 22.
The last day to mail in an absentee or replacement ballot is Oct. 31, on Halloween.
Nov. 5 is election day. Voters will have until 8 p.m. on election day to either drop off their ballot at an official dropbox or have their ballot in the mail and postmarked.
Any ballots received after this date and time will be excluded from the count.
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The meal point system encourages unhealthy eating habits
With few nutrient-rich and low-point options, UO meal plans make access to healthy food a privilege
By Gracie Cox Associate Opinion Editor
While no college meal plan will ever be perfect, universities have spent thousands of dollars and hours adapting their dining halls over the past few decades. In this effort, UO came up with the point system as an alternative to buffet-style dining. In overpricing nutritious and filling food and incentivizing restrictive diets, the point system inadvertently leads students to develop unhealthy and unfulfilling eating habits. This underserves first-year students, who, due to the stress of the college transition, need to be nutritionally supported by their university.
As explained by University Housing, “All
residential meal plans except for the Carson based plan operate on a flexible point system loaded weekly on your UO ID and can be used at any of the 14 dining venues.” Students receive points on Sundays and spend them throughout the week on drinks, meals and other foods.
With UO’s point-style meal plans, fruits, vegetables and high-protein options cost significantly more points than less nutrient-rich carbs. For instance, an order of fries from Dux Bistro costs one point while a small salad costs three. This contrast encourages less nutritious eating, robbing students of the foods that will keep them energized and full throughout the day.
“At the dining halls, I felt like it was hard to eat enough protein and be able to afford three meals a day. I ended up eating out multiple times a week in order to feel full,” UO second-year Ryan Pirrung said.
Due to lower-point meal plans — such as the 65 point Select compared to the 80 point Standard — costing significantly less, students often opt to have fewer points and restrict their food intake rather than pay extra hundreds of dollars on top of their already expensive housing costs.
With the prevalence of “Pointflation,” the loss of point value and rising prices of campus food, students are further pressured to skip meals or opt out of protein, fruits and vegetables. Whether or not these choices match the needs of individual bodies and lifestyles.
And when it comes to Carson Dining Hall, the buffet-style plan which offers five points a week
to spend at other dining venues, by far the most limiting meal plan, students are punished for choosing the most inexpensive option.
UO sophomore, India Roane, said she felt isolated by her choice of meal plan.
“I could only eat outside of Carson once a week, so I wasn’t able to eat with friends and relied on other people’s meal plans if I wanted to eat with them. It felt embarrassing,” she said.
For those with alternative diets, Carson also fell short. Roane continued, “Being lactose intolerant was really hard at Carson. A lot of the dinners were just mac and cheese and pizza, so I would end up eating chips and salsa for dinner all the time.”
Both at buffet-style Carson and at point-operating dining venues, students also often feel pressure to “get the most bang for their buck,” overeating in an attempt to best capitalize off of their costly and mandatory meal plan.
In my own experience, I hated the thought of wasting rollover points at the end of the term, and in order to avoid this, I would purchase snacks and meals that I didn’t fully want or need. Much of the time, undesired food would end up in the trash, and my points were wasted.
When it comes to the organization of UO’s dining halls, our current set-up is insufficient. Students deserve to be nutritionally supported by their university, no matter their financial situation, and UO must restructure its dining options to best accomplish this.
The Week of Welcome should be a year-round program
More student support about how to navigate campus resources and websites should be implemented for new students
By Claire Nowicki Opinion Columnist
As a fourth-year student set to graduate in the spring I’ve been counting my credits, ensuring I have everything I need for graduation. Seeing the new first-years begin their move-ins, brought me back to the confusion and newness of my first year.
The Week of Welcome has numerous activities for our incoming first-years and there is no doubt that the university wants to make a good impression on students and their families.
My Week of Welcome was behind masks and overshadowed by the most chaotic move-in process of my life, but I couldn’t deny my excitement for starting a new chapter.
Yet, when it came to the specifics of how to register for classes, what to take and who to talk to, I was pretty clueless. I remember vaguely being told to schedule a meeting with an advisor, but after doing so, they just helped me pick out a few classes and sent me on my way.
Unsurprisingly, like many students, I made mistakes when applying for classes. I eventually learned that classes with numbers one through three next to them are good for collecting credits. By the end of the year, most of what I learned about Duckweb, what classes to take and how to navigate Canvas, was self-taught.
When classes start, the dorms fill and the campus is in full swing. The new first-years will feel the overwhelming newness of college life, and finding the resources they need past week one can be intimidating and difficult.
It’s not that the resources do not exist, as Jasmine Saboorian highlights in her article, “Student resources to know before the school year begins,” UO has resources ready for students. However, the excitement of the Week of Welcome is short-lived. For the first-years, taking the step to reach out to an advisor or an assistance program is incredibly daunting.
Alyvia Embree, a fourth-year UO student had a similar experience with student support services.
“As someone who is a first-generation college student, I found myself struggling to navigate through all the logistics of picking out classes, working out my financial aid and setting up the needed schooling accounts such as Canvas,” Embree said. “I was always confused and scared that I was doing something wrong and because neither of my parents went to college I had no one to guide me through the process. I also had no idea about many of the student resources that were available to me and unfortunately it took me a while to discover them.”
Experiences like Embree’s are all too common, and students are paying the price, literally.
Most tuition money goes directly toward classes. And when students mistakenly register for classes that don’t count towards their major, graduation credits or turn out to be classes they didn’t need, they’re essentially losing money.
These programs can and should be improved so that students don’t make simple mistakes—that can cost hundreds in tuition money—just from a lack of information.
is in her final year at UO, majoring in political science and comparative literature. Her work focuses on government, philosophy, and literature.
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The incoming Freshman Class of 2028 moves into the University of Oregon residence halls on Sept. 26, 2024.
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ON THE COVER
The School of Music and Dance’s half million dollar question
revenue he made from the book while working as a “public official.”
Koenigsberg is the sole owner of King & Hill Publishing, which publishes his textbook, according to state business records. He registered his business with the state in 2020.
He did not directly answer the Daily Emerald when asked how much he has profited from textbook sales since its publishing in 2020. However, according to an analysis by the Emerald, Koenigsberg may have pocketed roughly $570,000 in the past four years, given the price of his textbook and varying number of students each term.
Since Koenigsberg self-published his book, he allegedly received all the revenue from this text. According to one SOMD faculty member, the text did not go through the typical academic peer-review and publishing process, and therefore there was no third party that would earn a profit.
In a subsequent email to the Emerald, Koenigsberg claimed his text was contributed to and vetted by those who have worked for famous musicians including Elton John, the Backstreet Boys, French Montana, Grace VanderWaal and many more.
SOMD’s slow response to its students and staff’s concerns
SOMD students and faculty attempted to raise their concerns to the dean of the SOMD, Sabrina Madison-Cannon, in 2020, according to SOMD faculty who asked not to be identified for confidentiality purposes.
The concerned faculty were told there was a “gray area” in policy for the situation, and nothing was changed at this time. In late 2021, Madison-Cannon and the Office of the Provost discussed the issue again, according to emails obtained by the Emerald. Madison-Cannon was told it seemed like a “pretty clear conflict of interest,” by the Executive Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, emails show.
However, the Assistant Director of Research Compliance Services at the time, Carolyn Craig, told Madison-Cannon that there was no hard policy to prevent instructors from selling their materials to students, and that the SOMD should establish its own policy for this, according to the emails obtained by the Emerald.
The school did not begin the policy making process until June 2024.
In light of this, the textbook continued to be required for every student for several more years, allowing Koenigsberg to profit further.
The information given to Madison-Cannon was proven to be false in April, when the UO’s Associate Director of Conflicts of Interest & Export Controls, Mandy Gettler, discovered administration did not account for Koenigsberg owning his own publishing company when they discussed it with the dean in 2021, emails show.
When the Emerald attempted to speak with Madison-Cannon in May to discuss Koenigsberg’s textbook, she wrote in an email statement that she was “not able to comment on those matters right now, as confidential personnel and policy-related discussions are happening related to this.”
Madison-Cannon stated to the Emerald in September that there would be a new policy that would be voted on and ratified sometime in the coming months. She said that, “we expect the situation to be resolved at this point.”
Textbook guidelines and how they’ve been broken
According to UO Ethics guidelines, “All university employees, including faculty and staff, and even some students and volunteers are considered public officials.”
State law bars public employees from using their position for financial gain. UO policy clearly states an employee can’t influence students to buy goods from an employee’s side business.
It also requires employees to disclose and receive prior approval from an administrator for all outside activities that could financially benefit them.
The UO Office of the Vice President for Research Innovation recommends that faculty follow the American Association of University Professors guidelines for professors who assign their own texts.
The AAUP guidelines include several recommendations. One suggestion is to place copies of the text in the UO Course Reserves, which would give students the option for free access.
Another is to have an unconflicted third party affirm the decision to include the text in class. This may look like a department head or other faculty member who approves of the quality and necessity of a text in any given course.
I believe this is a common practice at UO and other institutions of higher education, and does not violate Oregon law. I have done this with the full knowledge of the UO administration.“ “
—Toby Koenigsberg SOMD Professor
In an email statement to the Emerald Koenigsberg stated, “I believe this is a common practice at UO and other institutions of higher education, and does not violate Oregon law. I have done this with the full knowledge of the UO administration.”
Koenigsberg did not identify if any UO administrator gave prior approval for his textbook arrangement nor did he say if he disclosed his outside activity.
Koenigsberg stated to the Emerald that he plans to provide the text for free to his students going forward. However, “Contemporary Songwriting” is not currently available at the UO Libraries.
According to UO’s registration and financial aid website, DuckWeb, Koenigsberg’s class will have a maximum of 50 students instead of its regular 500 in the upcoming terms.
These students are required to purchase a different textbook, its price tag coming out to $17.25 for a new copy. The textbook is titled “The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory,” written by John Seabrook.
Koenigsberg was not involved in the writing or publishing of the new textbook.
Students, faculty express frustration over Koenigsberg’s course material
Students and faculty alike have shared a general feeling that the text is less of a professional source and more so a software tutorial one could access online for free.
Current students from the SOMD Dean Student Advisory Council said this issue was brought to the Dean in the spring due to several students’ concerns.
Some SOMD faculty have said since this text was published through his own company, it did not go through any peer review. Koenigsberg did not confirm or deny any questions relating to his book’s review processes.
“The self-published aspect is important here. It’s important because the academic review process, the peer review process, is what assures quality when a scholar does research or writes a book,” Zachary Wallmark, an associate professor of musicology at the SOMD, said.
According to students and faculty, Koenigsberg’s book mainly consists of screenshots outlining how to use GarageBand. GarageBand is an Apple software application that does not exist on Windows software, meaning it can be difficult to access for students without an Apple computer.
“It very much is a glorified GarageBand tutorial,” Maykenzie Freeman, a former student in the SOMD, said. “We didn’t even talk about lyricism, except for maybe one week of the course.”
Freeman said because she did not have a MacBook, she had to
It very much is a glorified GarageBand tutorial. “ “
—Maykenzie Freeman Former SOMD Student
spend a lot of time in the library in order to access the software, and ultimately do any work for the class.
Austin Godburn, a former student in the SOMD, who is now a music producer, said that it felt like the popular songwriting class was taking advantage of freshmen.
“From my perspective, it was like a collection of PowerPoint slides, not like an actual legitimate text on songwriting,” Godburn said.
He also said when he was a freshman, he wasn’t thinking too much about the textbooks, he just accepted they were required.
“Most people…who make their own materials for their own classes, they just make a PDF packet and publish it [for free],” Drew Nobile, an associate professor of music theory, said.
Nobile said he tends to post his class content for free access in Canvas, a software which many courses at UO are run through, rather than going through the “trouble” of publishing something through a personal company.
Wallmark said if he were to require a self-written text that was peer-reviewed and published through a third party, he would receive “a very small percentage” of profit.
This is because when using a publisher a separate group is introduced that earns the majority of the profit and academically reviews the text. Koenigsberg’s text did not have this separate group.
Wallmark said because of the low profit margins, most professors aren’t motivated by the profit they would receive from assigning a text.
Koenigsberg’s publishing site was previously publicly accessible during the Emerald’s reporting. Shortly after being contacted by the Emerald, Koenigsberg’s site became private and is no longer publicly accessible.
“I am very proud of the popular music program. I also am very proud of popular songwriting, one of the most-loved music classes at the university,” Koenigsberg stated.
(Tristin Hoffman/Emerald) ON THE COVER: Maykenzie Freeman, a former student of Koenigsberg’s class, said that because she did not own a MacBook computer, she spent a lot of her time at the library to access Garageband software. (Lulu Devoulin/ Emerald) LEFT: The School of Music and Dance’s Dean was made aware of the “conflict of interest” with Koenigsberg’s book.
Where to eat on a Ducks football game day in Eugene
Visiting Eugene for a weekend? Here are the best spots you can’t miss on Ducks football game day.
By Andres Baisch Arts & Culture Writer
The Ducks joining a new conference means many new fans from across the country will visit Eugene. For those visiting for the first time, here are some of the best spots to grab a meal on a visit to Track Town U.S.A.
McMenamins East 19th Street Cafe
McMenamins is an Oregon-based brewpub chain with three locations across Eugene. With locations on High Street, Club Road and East 19th Avenue, McMenamins has been operating in Eugene for forty years.
try, Dundon said McMenamins’ cajun tots are what it is known for.
Rennie’s Landing
Located steps from campus on Kincaid Street, Rennie’s Landing is a Eugene staple.
Being the closest bar to Autzen stadium, Rennie’s is a convenient spot to grab a drink and eat before walking across the Willamette River.
Jasmine Gilmore has been bartending for two and a half years at Rennie’s. With Rennie’s opening in 1981, Gilmore said that the tradition of Rennie’s is what makes for a fun atmosphere on game day.
before the game and one hour after the game. Fans can also get five-dollar pints of Ninkasi Gold all day long.
Ali Hudnall is the front-of-house manager and events coordinator at The Bier Stein. Hudnall says there are a variety of beers to try at The Bier Stein.
“Ninkasi and Hop Valley, you can kinda find those beers all over,” Hudnall said. “I really love Gratitude, they’re super small, by campus, [and] they don’t ever make the same beer twice.”
If you’re in Eugene this fall, especially on gameday, check out these restaurants and bars for the full Eugene dining experience.
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: CLOE
McMenamins district manager Jamie Dundon cites how the conference realignment may pose challenges.
CHASE
The local freshman forward has shined in her new position
By Lily Crane Sports Reporter
The 2023 Oregon soccer season was defined by freshmen presence on the roster. This season is a completely different story — except for the glue of the Ducks’ backline, Cloe Chase.
Chase is a local product, hailing from Springfield. She played at Marist Catholic High School and tallied the fifth-highest goal total in Oregon high school history with 118 goals. Despite her prowess as an attacker with the Spartans, Chase pivoted to playing center-back with Oregon.
“It was definitely different because I had never really played defense,” Chase said after her debut against Seattle University, which she expressed she was “nervous” about due to the new position. “I took it as a learning experience and I’m going to play my role and contribute to the team. I just have to follow the footsteps of previous players.”
Last season the Ducks went winless. The worst record in program history was, in part, due to having 15 freshmen — a total that ranked second among Power Five schools.
Head coach Graeme Abel made it a mission to go out and recruit veteran players from the transfer portal in the offseason. Many are starters along with Chase, who has started in all but one match.
“I definitely didn’t expect to play this much,” Chase said ahead of conference action. “[The coaching staff] constantly tell me that they trust me. I’m just taking their word for it and trying to go out there and play my best game.”
The center-back said that getting a lot of playing time early in her collegiate career built her confidence by knowing that the team has her back.
“Cloe’s obviously getting way more playing time than I did my freshman year and she’s doing great,” senior goalkeeper Maddy Goldberg said. “I think it’s good for her as a freshman to get this time under her belt early because as she grows into the game it’ll help her.”
Chase admitted that the collegiate game is “a big transition” but feels like she’s “been up to the task.” She’s proven that with her countless clearances to apply pressure on opposing offenses — and just a freshman, Chase is in for the long haul.
“We’re trying to figure out how [new teams] travel,” Dundon said. “For instance, we’d always know that Stanford travels well, or Washington travels well.”
Dundon says that the East 19th Avenue location is well-equipped to welcome larger crowds on game days.
McMenamins is one of the oldest establishments for pubs and breweries in Oregon. The High Street location is the oldest brewpub in Eugene, having operated since 1988.
When asked what item visitors should
“All of our events definitely draw people in,” Gilmore said. Open from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day, Rennie’s has a bar on both of its two stories and an outdoor patio.
“You gotta go for the classic Rennie’s lemonade, that is our house cocktail classic,” Gilmore said. “On tap, we’re always going to have Hop Valley Bubble Stash, and it’s made just two miles down the road.”
The Bier Stein
The Bier Stein is a restaurant and bottle shop located on Willamette Street.
During this football season, Bier Stein is partnering with Ninkasi, a microbrewery based in Eugene. On game days this season, food specials will be one hour
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the list of venues in Eugene. Lucas Carroll, a resident of the house, started hosting shows there in the spring 2023, when he realized that the house had a big backyard and a deck that would be perfect as a stage.
Carroll said he has been interested in the music scene for years and jumped at the opportunity to join the house show community with his own venue.
“It’s been chaotic as hell and I’ve had a great time putting the shows together,” Carroll said. “If I couldn’t find people to play with in a band, I could at least be a part of the whole house show scene here by throwing them.”
When asked what makes a good house show, Carroll said, “A killer house show is all about the connection between the audience and the band. If the band brings the energy, the audience is gonna bounce it back.”
This connection between the crowd and the bands was evi-
dent during the last Saturday night of summer.
Band members donned eye patches and flashy pirate costumes as they performed. The first set was Housekeeping, whose lead singer Ashley Michael Epstein sang her heart out to both originals and covers. Next up was GrrlBand, sporting a sparkly purple guitar and killer vocals.
The closing set was Bowl Peace, who performed the covers “Disco” by Surf Curse and “Black Licorice” by Peach Pit, as well as a handful of originals.
With Elise Benton on vocals, Owen Akiyama on bass, Holden Hunt on guitar and Elizabeth Bailey on drums, Bowl Peace has become a staple of the house show scene here in Eugene over the past year. Their energy-filled performances and bit-filled shows have kept audiences on their toes.
“I feel like family with these guys. Shows are probably my favorite part of it,” Benton said. “To do all the bits, have a great performance, and have this 30-45 minute set where you give everything you’ve got. It’s an awesome experience and I wouldn’t rather be doing anything else.”
When asked what keeps the shows exciting, Benton said, “We want every show to be different. We always try to change up the covers and what we’re doing to keep it fresh.”
Bowl Peace followed through with this goal on Saturday night, capping off their performance with their bass player, Owen Akiyama, walking the plank.
Akiyama built the plank himself and reinforced it before the show. During the band’s dynamic performance, Akiyama walked across the plank into the crowd and jumped. The crowd caught him and he surfed across the sea of pirates attending the show.
“We decided to have a pirate theme for this show and walking the plank just kinda came to mind,” Akiyama said. “No one thought I could do it. I was at Home Depot buying the plank like, ‘how is this gonna work?’”
The bit was a welcome reminder of just how exciting these house shows are. With live performances, fun themes and a community of music-loving students, house shows are a unique part of the student nightlife in Eugene.
(Alex Hernandez/Emerald) Bowl Peace, a Eugene house band, performs at the Limelight house on Sept. 28, 2024.
(Miles Cull/Emerald)
Opened in 2005 and serving over 1000 different bottles of beer, The Bier Stein remains a popular Eugene destination for unique beer and good food.
(Miles Cull/Emerald)
Cloe Chase (6) poses as the Ducks starting lineup is announced.
The Purdue Boilermakers defeated the University of Oregon Ducks 1-0 Sunday, September 29 2024.
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