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An eventful Halloween weekend in Eugene and Portland will feature John Grant, a Bollywood Halloween, elaborate haunted attractions and “Zombie Cats From Mars.�

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Pumpkin Beer Week – 16 Tons Taphouse (265 E 13th Ave.) 16 Tons Taphouse is hosting its own pre-Halloween party with a new pumpkin beer being served each day this week, as well as concocting some candy and beer flights. 21+

Saturday 10/31 ParaNorman presented by Eugene Film Society and Red Wagon Creamery – Hult Center for the Performing Arts (7th Ave. & Willamette St.) ParaNorman, the 3D stop-motion animated horror comedy is the Academy Award-nominated film produced by LAIKA, the Hillsboro-based animation company that also made The Boxtrolls and Coraline. Starts at 2 p.m. $10-$20.

7th Annual Brewpublic KillerBeerFest: Halloween Edition – The Bier Stein Bottleshop and Pub (1591 Willamette St.) Twenty-five specialty brews on tap. Photo booth + a costume contest in the evening. Starts at 11 a.m. and goes through midnight.

Proceeds from event go to the National Brain Tumor Society.

2015 Eugene Film Society 72-Hour Horror Film Competition – Hult Center (7th Ave & Willamette St.) Last week, local filmmakers had 72 hours to create a short horror film that integrated a specific line of dialogue and prop. At this screening, all the short films will be presented, and the $1,000 Jury Prize and $1,000 Audience Awards will be handed out. 7 p.m. $15. 16+ only.

Beat Connection, Phantoms, Pluto the Planet – W.O.W. Hall (291 W 8th Ave.) W.O.W. Hall will welcome Seattle’s electronic outfit Beat Connection in this nocturnal electro lineup, fitting for a Halloween night. $10 advance; $12 at door. Doors open at 8 p.m., show starts at 9.

Sunday 11/1 The Frightuary – Lane Events Center (796 W 13th Ave.) A run-down fairground attraction called “The Carnival of Souls� is drawing guests in, but some never make it out. Open from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets are $12, and $1 off with student ID. The Emerald is published by Emerald Media Group, Inc., the independent nonprofit media company at the University of Oregon.

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Friday 10/30 Carrie The Musical – Hatfield Hall (1111 SW Broadway) In 1988, a multi-million-dollar Broadway musical interpretation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie notoriously flopped. Now a cult classic of histrionic idiocy, this play stars the titular Carrie White, infamous for her ultra-lousy prom night that involved some intimidating jocks and a bucket of pig blood, returns to the theater in this Stumptown Stages production. Showing Thursday– Saturday, 7:30 p.m, Sunday at 2 p.m. $25-$40.

John Grant, Bright Light Bright Light – Doug Fir Lounge (830 E Burnside St.) Grant is one of the most compelling musicians around today. At once self-defeating and recklessly confident, Grant writes songs so viscerally personal, it’s as if you opened his diary and found out way more about him than you wanted to know. 21+. $14-$15.

Saturday 10/31 Ghost Town Halloween Hunt – Rossi Farms (3558 SE 118th Ave.) Terrifying monsters, three haunted attractions, high-quality special effects, and old, abandoned tombs are all involved in this 65,000-square-foot event in northeast Portland. $25-$60. 18+ on Oct. 30; 21+ on Halloween night.

5th Annual Bollywood Thriller Halloween Costume Party – Hawthorne Theatre (1507 SE 39th.)

Portland’s biggest international Halloween costume party will take over the Hawthorne Theatre on Halloween night. Tickets are $5 in advance, $10 at the door. 21+. Doors open at 9 p.m.

Sunday 11/1 Zombie Cats From Mars – Clinton Street Theater (2522 SE Clinton St.) This play focuses on Billy, a teenage sci-fi fanatic, who spots a UFO landing nearby. He soon realizes that alien cats have landed in his town to wreak havoc, murder Billy’s closest friends and family, and claw at the furniture (just speculating). $5. Showing Fri., Sat. (5 p.m.) and Sun (6 p.m.) All ages.

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Don’t dream it, be it — That is the message that one student group is trying to spread in its upcoming performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Featuring a mad scientist, wacky Transylvanians and filled with sexual innuendos, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been a cult classic for over 40 years. However, Forbidden Fruit, a student group that performs as a shadow cast of the show throughout the year, aims to emphasize the original message of the stage play and create an inclusive, safe environment of empowerment of identity that the film fails to address.

According to Charlotte Mallon, who will play the character of Riff Raff, the film adaptation has distorted the message of the original stage play. Richard O’Brien, the writer of the stage play, does not completely identify as either a man or a woman and wrote the play to encourage others to feel comfortable with themselves. However, the film adaptation lacked this message. “[The original play] encourages self-exploration and fitting into your own space rather than the social space that you’re assigned. The film is a terrible distortion of this story built by a trans person,” Mallon said.

Courbin Couraud, co-vice president of Forbidden Fruit, says that the group’s focus on the reclamation of hateful words and the original message of the play sets them apart from other casts. The group uses words that are often used in derogatory ways as a form of empowerment for those who are targeted with these words, and they use callbacks

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to rewrite the script to better fit the message of the original stage play.

“We use the space as somewhere we can say things that have been used to hurt us, and hurt other people, and reclaim them so they aren’t so hateful,” Couraud said.

Mallon adds that the group uses the hurtful words and spins them in a way so that the words become a form of empowerment.

“We’ll use words that are generally used in a misogynistic ways, slut-shaming ways and/or homophobic ways, but we’ll put them in our own voices to reclaim the things that have been yelled at us on the street,” Mallon said.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has provided an inclusive place for people of all backgrounds and identities that has contributed to its long-lasting popularity. Rian Pygin, who will play Dr. Frank N. Furter and is co-vice president of Forbidden Fruit, never imagined being capable of portraying the iconic, central character. As a reserved, nervous person, the eccentricity and safe environment of the show has allowed Pygin to become more open and comfortable on stage.

“I am able to go up there and become a completely different person, and all that I am expected to be is ridiculous, over the top, and sexy,” Pygin said.

Forbidden Fruit will be performing at the Bijou Art Cinemas on Oct. 30 and 31 at 11 p.m.

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SPLICE UP YOUR HALLOWEEN JAMS ➥ DANIEL BROMFIELD, @BROMF3 ➥ MEERAH POWELL, @MEERAHPOWELL Halloween music is inarguably great. Though Christmas music can start getting old even before the Thanksgiving turkey is cold on the table, funky and fun jams like Bobby “Borisâ€? Pickett’s “Monster Mashâ€? and Michael Jackson’s “Thrillerâ€? can get the party started anytime of the year. What counts as Christmas music is obvious, but the nature of Halloween music is a little more ambiguous. From Siouxsie And The Banshees to Rihanna, pretty much any artist can fit into a Halloween playlist without fail.

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Ray Parker, Jr. – “Ghostbusters.� The best Halloween songs are often the funkiest, and the Ghostbusters theme is no exception. It’s also a song you’ll be hearing a lot more of soon with Paul Feig’s upcoming reboot next summer.

Michael Jackson – “Thriller.� Though he’s perhaps confusing thrillers with horror, the title track from Michael Jackson’s world-shattering magnum opus is as synonymous with zombies as Dawn of the Dead and Tina Belcher.

Bobby “Boris� Pickett – “Monster Mash.� Yes, you’ve likely heard it a hundred thousand times per October. But honestly, a Halloween playlist without “Monster Mash� is just kidding itself.

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Rihanna – “Disturbia.� This classic deals with real-life scares like stress and anxiety, but it’s expressed through the language of horror, even sharing a title with a Shia LaBeouf horror flick from 2007.

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – “I Put A Spell On You.� OG shock-rocker Jalacy Hawkins rode his batshit, drunken vocal performance of “I Put A Spell On You� to a successful career playing with skulls and emerging from coffins onstage.

Marilyn Manson – “This Is Halloween.� Marilyn Manson’s cover of The Nightmare Before Christmas’s eerie scene-scetter was the best rock/musical cinema pairing until Primus covered the Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory soundtrack.

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DEEP CUTS OutKast – “Dracula’s Wedding.� Even life in a haunted mansion can’t prepare the poor vampire of “Dracula’s Wedding� for the terror of the altar. And his bride, played by Kelis, doesn’t exactly reassure him (“so much at stake... oh, bad choice of words�).

The Who – “Boris The Spider.� Roger Daltrey squares off against a spider and one of the most skin-crawling choruses in musical history in this paranoid cut from the Who’s singles compilation Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy.

Kate Bush – “Strange Phenomena.�

Really any early Kate Bush song will do; she seems to cast spells with that bizarro voice of hers. But what better pick than the one where she’s actually singing an incantation?

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Why we love scary mov ➥ JORDYN BROWN, @THEJORDYNBROWN ➥ MEERAH POWELL, @MEERAHPOWELL

Terrifying experiences might be a shot of pre-civilization invigoration in our safe lives. “I always get butterflies walking up to the entrance and hearing all the screams from the corn,� Rachel Monninger said.

The Eugene local and University of Oregon freshman has been through Lone Pine’s corn maze every year for five years, but she still gets nervous every time. “It’s always been so scary to me,�

Monninger said. “I always freak out right before and feel so accomplished afterward.�

The maze is open every day of the week, but once night falls on the weekends, it becomes a haunted, twisted journey full of ghouls, ghosts and people--who are trained professionals--who will chase you with chainsaws, including on Halloween this Saturday. “It’s not recommended for children under the age of 12,� said Lone Pine Farm’s bookkeeper Denise Garner about the infamous haunted maze. “Some adults can’t make it through the first part. It’s very scary.�

Oregon State University graduate and Junction City native Ryan DeLieu went to the haunted maze for his eighth year this past Saturday, a tradition he began in high school. “I feel like every year they try to change their scare tactics,� DeLieu said. After going for so long, “you get used to how they scare, but even then [it’s hard not to] get startled when some masked man yells, jumps or chases you.�

This is the time of year when horror is coveted. People actively search out grotesque, shocking forms of entertainment to force them to huddle under the covers, too afraid to shut off the lights. But what is it about these scenes that keep us coming back for more? Generally, fear serves as a negative emotion, so why are we drawn to things that make us feel scared?

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The University of Oregon will pay over $1.6 million for losing the James Cleavenger vs. University of Oregon Police Department free speech retaliation lawsuit. Fees include the jury-awarded sum and the attorney fees of both Cleavenger and UO. Cleavenger won a lawsuit against the UOPD in September.

The jury awarded him $755,000, and UO was ordered to pay Cleavenger’s attorney fees.

Combined with fees for UO’s own attorneys, UO will pay $1,647,899.29. The money will come from UO’s insurance policy, not the general fund.

The initial award of $755,000 included $650,000 in economic damages and $105,000 in punitive damages. The jury broke the punitive damages down by defendant: $36,000 against UOPD Chief of Police Carolyn McDermed, $51,000 against Cleavenger’s supervisor, Lieutenant Brandon Lebrecht, and $18,000 against Sergeant Scott Cameron. “We didn’t ask the jurors for any specific amount of money.

They just came up with that on their own,� one of Cleavenger’s attorney’s, Jason Kafoury, said.

Kafoury said the actions taken against Cleavenger by the UOPD ruined a potential career in law enforcement. Cleavenger’s goal was to become a police chief. “I told the jurors, ‘Police chiefs make anywhere from $100,000 to $200,000 a year. You guys do what’s fair for him in terms of how you think this has affected the rest of his life economically,’ and they awarded $650,000 in lost earning capacity,� Kafoury said.

Cleavenger’s attorney fees added up to $452,200. The fees cover five attorneys, a trial technologist, a law clerk, and two paralegals. Cleavenger was represented by Portland law firm Kafoury and McDougal.

Jason Kafoury and Mark McDougal were co-counsel on the case.

Cleavenger also had an additional $45,773.59 in costs relating to the trial, including fees for submitting witnesses, subpoenas and printing

papers related to the case. The most costly of these fees by far, at $36,588.95, were “fees for printed or electronically recorded transcripts necessarily obtained for use in the case,� according to court documents.

These fees include paying court reporters to transcribe witness testimony. This was done with 18 witnesses.

In First Amendment cases, once the attorney fees and costs are submitted and approved by the judge, they are automatically added to the final award.

UO also has its own attorney fees. It was represented by Eugene firm Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick. The total of all their approved fees was $394,925.70, according to the Office of the General Counsel.

The university’s insurance policy has, so far, paid $281,867 to Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick.

UO has an insurance policy that will pay all $1.6 million.

The Public Universities Risk Management and Insurance Trust, PURMIT, covers the seven public universities in Oregon. “The University of Oregon has comprehensive insurance for situations involving university employees, officers and volunteers as well as the buildings, vehicles and other assets,� Julie Brown, the campus relations director of enterprise risk management, said. “The insurance program covers everything from earthquake damage to art collections.�

In the Cleavenger vs. UOPD trial, the insurance policy will cover 100 percent of the damages, with a $0 deductible for the university.

Before the trial started, Cleavenger and his attorneys offered to settle the lawsuit for $600,000. “Defendants refused to engage in settlement discussions,� court documents note, “with the exception that at 10:46 p.m. the night before trial was to start, defendants offered to settle for $20,000 inclusive of fees. This offer was less than plaintiff’s costs.� Cleavenger turned down the offer. UO will ultimately pay $1 million more than Cleavenger’s initial offer.

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Growing up in HALLOWEENTOWN ➥ CHRIS

St. Helens, OR has become a mecca of ‘90s Halloween nostalgia.

I grew up in St. Helens, Oregon. It’s a small town on the Columbia rRver about an hour from Portland, and right on Highway 30. There’s not much to see, and most people just pass it by without ever giving it a second thought. But we have one claim to fame - Halloweentown was shot in our Olde Towne district.

Made for the Disney Channel in 1998, the film follows Marney and her two siblings as they explore the town where Halloween was born.

It’s a magical borough of ghosts, vampires, and all manner of extras weighed down by heavy prosthetics. The movie’s short, sweet, and saw repeat airings during the spooky season.

Every October, my hometown celebrates this bit of pop culture history with a month-long “Spirit of Halloweentown� event. In past years, it’s been a humble event. Local businesses put up scarecrows, a replica of the iconic JackO-Lantern from the movie sits in front of City

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Hall. Costume parties and parades bring the community together But this season has been different. Friends talked about plans to visit St. Helens over the weekend. Talk in the Emerald newsroom went around about “the real Halloweentown.� It blew my mind that my hometown was being talked up like a legitimate tourist destination. This small celebration has been going on for years, yet it’s never been a major tourist attraction until this year. On Friday, October 10th, over 10,000 people flocked to the city for a pumpkinlighting ceremony with the film’s star Kimberly J. Brown.

10,000 people visiting St. Helens is an insane prospect. It’s a city of just over 13,000 residents, with the Oldetown district rarely seeing business outside of occasional events. The small town square that once contained a whole town of monsters was overflowing with bodies eager to get a snapshot with a replica Jack-O-Lantern modeled after the film’s iconic centerpiece.

Last year this same event drew only 700 people, and little about the proceedings have changed. The pumpkin is large, but it feels like decoration and not a main attraction. Storebought skeletons haunt hay bales, and a pine tree is painted black with a light purple garland.

For a small-town spectacle, it’s perfectly charming. But it’s not a sight worth planning a weekend around. So what convinced UO students to brave a three-hour drive for what amounts to a seasonal Instagram selfie?

If you look at the timing, the invasion of college-age tourists makes sense.

Halloweentown premiered 17 years ago, so the kids who grew up with the film are now old enough to feel nostalgic for it. Combined with the viral effect of social media, all it takes is a spark of awareness to light a nostalgic fire. It’s not often that we see the birth of a new holiday tradition, but it’s easy to see the children of late’90s cable TV flocking back to St. Helens year over year to recapturing that youthful moment.

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Russell Arkin didn’t play ultimate frisbee until he was a sophomore at South Eugene High School.

Arkin grew up playing soccer through middle school, but took a year off from the sport during his freshman year due to leg injuries. He found ultimate frisbee soon after, which he had never played previously.

“I didn’t really know ultimate was a thing when I was in middle school,” Arkin said. “It wasn’t really an option for most kids.”

Arkin continued playing ultimate through high school and at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Upon graduating from Whitman last May, Arkin returned home to Eugene. One of his high school teammates, Vinh Bui, asked Arkin to be a counselor for a week long summer ultimate camp run by Eugene Middle School Ultimate, a non-profit organization recently started by Bui and a few other Eugene-area players.

Arkin accepted.

Since, EMS Ultimate’s summer camp has continued its goal of making ultimate more accessible to middle schoolers by starting a structured league this fall. Five Eugene-area middle schools — Cal Young, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Spencer Butte and Waldport — each formed co-ed teams for the inaugural fall season. Arkin, now the executive director of EMS Ultimate and coach of the Spencer Butte team, said he and the rest of the organization were surprised how quickly ultimate has caught on among middle schoolers in Eugene. Anywhere from 70 to 100 kids show up on Saturdays at Century Field behind Roosevelt, where all of EMS Ultimate’s games are held.

“We were going into the fall hoping we would get 10 kids per school,” Arkin said. “Our biggest

problem, which isn’t really a problem, is how do we keep track of all of these kids? It’s been more successful and popular than we were anticipating.”

The tight-knit ultimate community in Eugene has shown a willingness to get involved as well.

Former Oregon Fugue (the women’s team) and Ego (the men’s team) players, Lillian Weaver and Trevor Smith, and current players Jesse Shofner, Hope Zima, Will Watkins and Ty Livingston all coach fall league teams. Ego head coach Jay Janin serves on the board of directors, as well as former Ego standout Cody Bjorklund, who secured deals with Five Ultimate and Friction Gloves to cover jersey costs for the fall.

Still, EMS Ultimate is trying to develop a sustainable budget.

Going into the summer camp, they were operating at a deficit.

The organization continues to raise money through a GoFundMe page, which Bui created in early September.

“It’s an uphill battle, but if kids get a chance to play (ultimate) competitively at an early enough age, they’re going to pick it over other sports,” Bui said.

EMS Ultimate’s fall season concludes with a tournament on Nov. 21. According to Arkin, the organization is already in talks to start another league for the spring, and expand on last summer’s summer camp with several more sessions.

For EMS Ultimate volunteers like Arkin, they continue to strive to provide middle schoolers with an opportunity they didn’t have: to discover the sport of ultimate early.

“Getting the kids exposed to ultimate, so they can fall in love with it like we all did, that’s really the goal,” Arkin said.

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During the opening reception of the Art of the Athlete exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Katie Gillard, an art instructor from Beaverton, pulled me aside to watch a video.

The video was taken at the studio for the Art of the Athlete summer class, offered only to a handful of Oregon student-athletes.

Several athletes, working on their projects, were filmed discussing who was better: Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders. The conversation went back and forth until the camera panned to Oregon defensive lineman DeForest Buckner.

“DeFo, are you going to contribute to this?” Gillard asked him.

Buckner looked up at the camera, smiled, then looked back down at his project.

“I got one mission: finish my art,” he said, then returned to his task at hand.

Moments like this were why Gillard and Lisa Abia-Smith, the organizer of the program, nicknamed Buckner “Dr. Defo.”

Over the course of the fourweek program, student-athletes learned simple art techniques, then created expressive works of art.

Abia-Smith, who headed the program all four years of its existence, was blown away by what she saw from Buckner.

She said the name “Dr. Defo” originated from his passion for and patience with his pieces.

“I have never seen, even in my art students, someone focus so closely and precisely on their work,” Abia-Smith said at the opening of the exhibit on Oct. 21.

“My best friend is a surgeon and

it’s that same sort of preciseness.”

In high school Buckner dabbled in art, taking a few classes here and there. He enjoyed his experiences but never really considered himself artistic. For Buckner, art is a way to convey emotion.

“It’s doing something different,” Buckner said after practice on Sunday. “It’s another way to express your feelings.”

Like many of the athletes’ artwork, Buckner’s pieces portrayed themes of family and culture. One of his pieces, a collage titled “Roots,” features the seal of American Samoa surrounded with maps of the Hawaiian and Polynesian islands from which Buckner draws his heritage.

“He was very concerned with making sure that the flag was there and that everyone had a place on it,” Abia-Smith said. “It was almost like a self-portrait through pictures.”

Art is also an outlet for Buckner to escape from the grind and pressure that playing a collegiate sport brings.

“It’s definitely a way to get away from everything,” Buckner said. “It’s a good way to shut everything out and focus on what you’re feeling in that moment.”

The summer program includes several access workshops, in which athletes help children with disabilities create works of art.

To Buckner, working with kids was one of the most rewarding aspects of the class.

“It was great being able to put a smile on the kids’ faces,” Buckner said. “It makes a big difference in their lives and it makes it a big difference in mine.”

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For the players having a short week of practice, it can be tough to switch schemes to match the opposition. Luckily, both Oregon (4-3, 2-2 Pac-12) and Arizona State (4-3, 2-2) had byes last week.

Oregon comes into the game with cautious optimism after the return of Vernon Adams, Jr. who helped hold off Washington for a 26-20 victory. The Oregon offense has seemingly bounced back, and averaging 39.3 points per game. The defense is still, however, lagging.

Arizona State stumbled against then No. 4 Utah, falling 34-18. Similar to the Ducks, the Sun Devils are a team that can put points up on the board, but struggle on defense.

Royce Freeman

It should come as no surprise that Freeman is one of the players to watch for Oregon. The starting back has had an impressive season so far, racking up 997 yards and nine touchdowns. He is a nice combination of speed, power and balance. Pairing his athletic ability with his knack to read his blockers has resulted in a strong sophomore season.

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MATCHUPS TO WATCH THIS THURSDAY Oregon wide receivers vs.

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The big storyline in Seattle was the return of wide receiver Darren Carrington, who helped bolster the lagging Ducks’ aerial attack.

Carrington is a big-bodied receiver who is skilled at shaking open on his routes, resulting in big chunks of yards. Pairing him with the reliable Bralon Addison and talented Dwayne Stanford makes it likely that Oregon will have a target available on each play. Against Washington, the three combined for 251 yards and two touchdowns. On the other side of the ball, the Sun Devils have held teams to 251.6 passing yards and have snagged six interceptions. They’ll try to jam up Oregon at the line of scrimmage to keep the Ducks from using their speed downfield.

With two similar teams facing off, the game will likely boil down to a few key moments. For Oregon, one of those moments could come during punt returns.

Addison has been the man to return them for Oregon all season, and he has the ability to read the field sometimes breaking one for big yards. ASU’s junior punter Matt Haack is no slouch kicking the ball. He has averaged 42.6 yards per punt this season, and his season-high is a whopping 63 yards. Haack will try to kick the ball away from Oregon.

This could go in Oregon’s favor — year-afteryear field position wise — even if Addison never gets a chance to return a punt.

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The Oregon sophomore kicker from Portland, Oregon has had a strong season. So far, he has made 11 field goals and 32 extra points for a total of 65 points. Schneider has been accurate from distance and has provided a nice outlet for when the Ducks struggle to find the end zone. Look for him on Thursday to salvage what otherwise would have been empty Oregon possessions.

ARIZONA STATE Demario Richard

Back from an injury that kept him out of the game against Utah is running back Demario Richard. While most of his work is done on the ground, averaging 88.2 rushing yards per game, he also has an effect in the passing game — catching 18. In total, Richard has six touchdowns on the year.

Devin Lucien

It’s become something of a tradition that the opposing team’s top wideout becomes a player to watch when facing the Ducks, as the porous secondary encourages breakthrough performances.

On Thursday, the nod goes to senior Devin Lucien.

Though he has had a relatively quiet year, with just 338 yards and one touchdown, Lucien has the speed and size to create some mismatches that could be exploited for some big gains.

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According to preseason expectations, Thursday night’s contest between Oregon and Arizona State on ESPN was intended to feature two of the top programs in the Pac-12 – possibly the nation. The teams were ranked inside the top 15 of the AP poll and both had marquee non-conference match-ups to open the season.

However, when the Ducks and Sun Devils meet in Tempe, Arizona, it will feature two teams still in pursuit of becoming bowl eligible.

Arizona State and Oregon are coming off bye weeks with 4-3 records and two Pac-12 losses.

Arizona State has mirrored many of Oregon’s struggles. The offense, guided by quarterback Mike Bercovici, hasn’t transitioned as well from 2014 to 2015 as it was initially expected to. The unit is averaging just 28 points per game and Bercovici’s quarterback rating is listed at 52.6.

The numbers contributed to Arizona State being dominated in games versus USC and Texas A&M in September.

A win at UCLA a few weeks ago displayed the group’s potential, though. As for Oregon, the team is trying to win consecutive games for the first time this season. With a healthy Vernon Adams, Jr. and Darren Carrington providing another dynamic threat, the prospects look much brighter than what they were a couple weeks ago.

Here’s how Oregon and Arizona State stack up: Oregon offense vs.

Arizona State defense Oregon’s offense looks like a completely different animal with Adams behind center. The graduate-transfer returned after missing back-to-back games to lead Oregon to 442 yards of offense and a 26-20 win over Washington. In addition, wide receiver Darren Carrington returned from his six-game suspension and became Adams’ main target, finishing with five grabs for 126 yards and two touchdowns.

With that said, coach Mark Helfrich said there are still a number of “simple mistakes that we can correct.” But the speed and excitement Oregon’s offense is normally associated with was certainly there at Washington. Royce Freeman took advantage of the added passing threat and ran for 138 yards on 27 carries.

All of it together resulted in Oregon’s most complete performance on offense all season, and a reason for optimism heading into the latter half of the schedule. But Arizona State’s front seven poses a stiff challenge for Oregon.

The group is ranked second in the Pac-12 in rushing yards allowed, giving up just 129.3 yards per game. It also ranks first in the conference in sacks with 24.

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Oregon defense Bercovici has thrown for 14 touchdowns and just five interceptions, and running back Demario Richard is averaging 5.2 yards per rush. But those numbers have been outdone by a myriad of other problems Arizona State’s offense has faced.

The offensive line is giving up an average three sacks and 7.7 tackles for loss, according to The Oregonian.

It opens the door for an Oregon defensive line that has had its share of struggles this season too. However, the unit appears to be coming into its own as of late. The Ducks rank fifth in the conference in rush defense and second in sacks with 21.

And based on Oregon’s pass defense this season, getting to the quarterback could be crucial for the defensive line this week. Bercovici is averaging 39 passes per game, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise if his attempts total is higher on Thursday.

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When discussing Oregon’s pass rush this season, defensive line coach Ron Aiken is quick to to describe the areas of technique he often stresses to his group in practice about getting to the quarterback. “Flip your hips,� “get skinny� and don’t rush “the passer with your shoulders square to a blocker.� “Flipping the hips� and “bursting to the quarterback� is what Aiken preaches most often, and despite a lack of quarterback pressure in the first couple weeks, Oregon has enjoyed an increasing level of success from the defensive line in that regard as of late.

The unit ranks second in the Pac-12 in sacks with 21, and the combination of nose tackle Alex Balducci and defensive end Deforest Buckner has recorded 12.5 tackles for loss and 7.5 sacks alone.

But Aiken sees a group with plenty of work left to be done. “There’s still more sacks that we’re leaving out there, contact on the quarterback [in which] we need to make sure we take him to the ground,� Aiken said on Sunday, before describing the technique that many of his players need to become more consistent at. “It’s technique that we do in practice, but we need to make sure we bring it to a game.�

It seems to be a defining phrase for not just the defensive line, but the entire Ducks team as it gets set to face Arizona State on Thursday night. The talent runs deep — against Washington State, the Ducks used nine players in their rotation on the defensive

line — and the potential is clearly there. “But we just need to finish,� Balducci said. “There’s a lot of tackles outside the box and a lot of sacks that we could’ve gotten (at Washington.)�

It is all part of a larger emphasis on getting to the quarterback that the Ducks defensive coaches instilled this past offseason. And it has translated to Balducci becoming the “biggest plus� for the defensive line this year, according to Aiken. “Alex has done a great job flipping his hips and getting on the edge of guys to give us additional pressure,� Aiken said. “We’ve upgraded what we do with our nose tackle on pass rush.�

Balducci, who used the offseason to work on that facet of his game, appears to be pleased with the personal results too. “Last year, we really focused on dropping eight guys and containing the quarterback,� Balducci said. “This year, we’re letting the front go more and do our thing. I feel like I’m getting there.�

It’s a modified role for Balducci compared to previous seasons, but his success has become the perfect complement to Buckner, who is described as one of the most dominant players in college football, according to Pro Football Focus. Buckner currently has 36 tackles, nine tackles for loss and five sacks. “He’s the No. 1 interior pass-rusher in the country, and ranks second at his position in run-stop percentage. Just ask Colorado’s offensive line how much fun he is to block,� the analytics site writes.

In addition, Buckner is a semifinalist for the Ted

Hendricks Award, given to the nation’s best defensive end, and projected by multiple media outlets to go in the first round of next year’s NFL draft. He’s garnered all this acclaim while taking on as many as three blockers on a given pass play. “Deforest is doing what’s expected and more,�

Aiken said.

Balducci’s output has become even more beneficial then, because of the certain times in which Buckner is double or triple teamed. But, it’s not just him. True freshman Henry Mondeaux has recorded three tackles for loss and three sacks, and Jalen Jelks and Tui Talia have each added a sack of their own, which has translated into the Ducks’ rotation including as many as nine players. “It’s nice because you know you got guys going in that can apply pressure,� said Balducci.

Now, as Aiken said, Oregon will continue to try and translate the technique they consistently work on at practice into a game situation at Arizona State.

The defensive line will face a quarterback in Mike Bercovici, who averages 39 passes per game and likes to sling it downfield.

And for the Ducks’ defense to be successful, the defensive line has to be an integral part, which means defenders will have to flip their hips and burst to quarterback. But it also can be simplified. “You want to measure what you do by winning ball games,� Aiken said. “So we have to do what we can to win ball games. We have to figure out how to get the quarterback.�

Buckner, Balducci, and Mondeaux are all dominating forces on the defensive line (Adam Eberhardt).

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Oregon’s defense was only responsible for five sacks through the first four games of the 2015 season.

Of the five, 1.5 came from the Ducks’ defensive line. In three games since (Colorado, Washington State and Washington), the Ducks combined for 16 sacks on opposing quarterbacks - more than tripling their previous output.

Most importantly, Oregon’s defensive line totaled 10 of the team’s last 16 sacks, including all four in its most recent victory at Washington.

Although Oregon’s secondary has drawn criticism in nearly every game this season because of its 121st-ranked pass defense, the defensive line’s lack of pressure at the beginning of the year is partially to blame. Without a consistent pass rush, opposing quarterbacks have been allowed too much time in the pocket. Sacks don’t tell the whole story, but much of the defensive line’s increase in production over the last three games can be attributed to more hits on quarterbacks. As a result, Oregon’s pass defense is slowly becoming more well-rounded.

Senior defensive end DeForest Buckner is responsible for a large portion of the unit’s improved pass rush. Buckner’s five sacks are a teamhigh, and he’s been unstoppable in stretches this season.

Early in the third quarter against Washington, Buckner sacked Huskies quarterback Jake Browning on back-to-back plays, single-handedly halting a promising scoring drive.

“He’s just that factor, he’s going to get through that line of scrimmage,” said cornerback Ugo Amadi, who grabbed the game-clinching interception against Washington.

Defensive coordinator Don Pellum believes his defensive line has been similar all season. The major improvement over the last few games has come from the secondary.

“I don’t know if the [pass rush] has changed a lot,” Pellum said. “What we’re doing overall between the front and the back, I think we’re playing better coverage behind them and allowing a little more time for our guys to continue to rush.”

However, interior defensive linemen, particularly senior nose tackle Alex Balducci, have stepped up for the Ducks. Balducci has two and a half sacks on the season, all of which came during the last three games.

Combining Buckner and Balducci with a rotation of Tui Talia and fastemerging Henry Mondeaux at the opposite end position, Oregon has a formidable defensive line.

Still, the Ducks are weary of plays left on the field. Sixteen sacks over the last three games is an improvement, but the Ducks feel like they should have more.

“We’re doing well, but we just need to finish,” Balducci said. “There’s a lot of tackles outside the box and a lot of sacks that we could’ve gotten.”

Oregon’s pressure against Washington almost wasn’t enough, as the Huskies nearly came back and spoiled a 26-20 victory.

Thursday’s game at Arizona State won’t be as forgiving. Quarterback Mike Bercovici is protected by an experienced offensive line of four seniors and a junior. The unit also hasn’t given up more than one sack in four of its seven games. Oregon’s defensive line, its anchor, will be tested once again.

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For a team that buys in to the ‘Win The Day’ mentality, Pac-12 championship talks will seem premature.

But following Oregon’s 26-20 win over Washington, that’s exactly what some stars of this Ducks football team had on their minds, even though the Ducks are more than two games behind Pac-12 North-leading Stanford.

In Seattle, a reporter asked if the Ducks could run the table, a question that was leading and equally premature in the first place.

“I think we can,” Adams said.

“You know, we just got to clean up the little mistakes, the little baby mistakes, the penalties, continue not to turn the ball over and be better on third downs. I think we do that and I think we have a good shot at it.”

Defensive end DeForest Buckner echoed a similar thought after the game.

“The win is a foundation for the second half of the season. Obviously our goal is to win out, so we have the opportunity to be one of the best teams up there (in the Pac-12 standings),” said Buckner.

A six-point win over Washington – a team thought to finish in the bottom half of the conference before the season – and Oregon is ready to run the table?

The Ducks played well. Give them credit. They protected the football, the secondary kept Washington’s receivers in check and Oregon had a quarterback who threw the ball with some authority.

A good foundational restart, perhaps.

But a momentum boost to then win out? That seems foolish. Senior linebacker Rodney Hardrick agrees.

“The way we look at it, it’s each day, each practice, each meeting,”

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Hardrick said to me after Tuesday’s practice. “So [we] really don’t care about anything that’s going on, any expectations or anything like that. We focus on what we need to do each day.”

Sure, Adams and Buckner — and the whole Oregon football team — felt good after the win and were likely excited to move forward – they’re human. And the reporter was trying to exploit that emotion in his or her recap – we’re human.

The win needs to be taken for what it is: A step in the right direction. “[The win] doesn’t really change much, but guys are more enthusiastic, have a lot more energy,” Hardrick said. “Things are going easier. People are doing their jobs correctly.”

And that’s what they’ll need to do to get by Arizona State, California, No. 8 Standord, USC and Oregon State to complete just the regular season. Obviously, it can’t be ignored that there is more than a month of football left before the Pac-12 Championship on Dec. 8 is played.

Focus in on the Sun Devils and you’ll see a team in an eerily similar situation. Both teams are 4-3 overall, 2-2 in the Pac-12, coming off a bye week, got routed at home to a conference foe, and most importantly, can’t afford another conference loss.

So, if there’s one thing Oregon cannot have going in to Tempe, it’s too much confidence and an expectation to return to Eugene with a win.

While I’m not forecasting such ideas, if the Ducks have any shot of returning to Santa Clara to defend their title, they first have to win today.

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**Editor’s Note: Each week during football season, we feature an essay from the opponent’s student newspaper on why Oregon will lose. This week’s edition is from Mathew Tonis, the football beat reporter at The State Press.** With public opinion souring on the Sun Devils, the team needs to turn their play around, and quickly, or face even more criticism from both outside the program and in. As a team that had national title aspirations, it seems as though the National University Holiday Bowl is now a long shot.

Following another anemic offensive performance in the rearview mirror after a bye week, the ASU offense is still searching for a full game in rhythm, and the Oregon defense is the perfect opponent to do that.

Despite Todd Graham’s insistence that the ASU offense is a run, play action fake team, the most success the Sun Devils have had comes from airing the ball out with redshirt senior quarterback Mike Bercovici.

The run game should receive a massive boost with sophomore running back Demario Richard returning to the lineup after not playing against Utah. The boisterous back has made it clear all week how important he is to this offense and, with the way ASU played without him, the fans more than agree.

Oregon’s pass defense ranks last in the Pac-12, which should allow space for senior D.J. Foster and redshirt senior Devin Lucien to operate down the field and Bercovici to find his form from his three-game run in 2014 when people around Tempe anointed him as one of the most dynamic quarterbacks in the conference.

While those bold predictions have not come true, the offense has looked very good at times and has the playmakers to exploit a weak Duck secondary and advance the ball down the field at a rate ASU hasn’t seen since Taylor Kelly hung up his pads for the final time after the Sun Bowl.

Defensively, ASU has been, quite frankly, dominant at times, shutting down dynamic running backs like Paul Perkins and Devontae Booker. The Sun Devils, aside from two games against triple-option offenses, have nearly shut down the line of scrimmage, forcing opposing quarterback to air the ball out, with varied success.

While Vernon Adams, Jr. said earlier this

week that he likes going against blitz-heavy defenses, he hasn’t faced one that blitzes quite as often as the Sun Devils do. ASU consistently brings pressure on the quarterback, and inexperienced or unprepared passers are in for a rude awakening with Laiu Moeakiola or Christian Sam charging from the edge.

The Duck offense has not seen an animal like the Sun Devil blitz attack and, if ASU can finally force turnovers like it wants to, it could be a long day for Adams and the rest of the offensive unit.

Once again, this is a game the Sun Devils need. Graham has preached all season this is the most talented team in his time in Tempe and a fourth loss in eight games would be near disaster for both the current state of the program and for future prospects.

On a night where ASU will honor its favorite son, Pat Tillman, it’s hard to imagine the Sun Devils being anything less than fired up to grab a win on national television and keep their slim Pac-12 South hopes alive, at least for this week.

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⚑ GAMEDAY TRUST WHAT YOU SEE AND TAKE WHAT THEY GIVE YOU. DON’T FORCE ANYTHING AND JUST HAVE FUN. SCOTT FROST, Oregon offensive coordinator.

As far as offensive coordinator Scott Frost is concerned, when the Ducks are balanced, they are a better team (Emerald Archives).

FROST: TEMPO IS EVERYTHING AGAINST ASU ➡ KENNY Oregon, fresh off a bye week, has had extra time to prepare for its game against the Arizona State Sun Devils in Tempe on Thursday night.

Following practice on Monday, quarterback Vernon Adams, Jr. said the bye week was “a little too long,” but the team is “ready to play.”

Arizona State is a team that likes to blitz a lot on defense, but Adams said he likes playing those types of teams because it gives the wide receivers a lot of one-on-one opportunities.

“Arizona State does a lot of good things on defense,” Adams said. “They try to confuse you with stuff and you’ve just got to be smart.

You’ve just got to make sure the o-line and running backs are in the right protections, and if you see something, just trust it. Trust what you see and take what they give you. Don’t force anything and just have fun.”

Offensive coordinator Scott Frost said the Sun Devils being described as a blitz-heavy team is “an understatement.”

“These guys blitz not just one extra guy but two extra guys a bunch of the time,” Frost said.

“I think their blitz percentage is between 55

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and 60 percent, so on more than half the plays they’re coming after us.”

The goal of Arizona State’s defense, Frost said, is to “create chaos” by taking away the easy plays and leaving the quarterback vulnerable to the pass rush. He described the defense as boom-or-bust. Teams that have faced it often lose yardage on consecutive series, only to break out for long gains shortly thereafter. Patience, therefore, is the key to defeating it.

“There are going to be some series they win,” Frost said. “When they’re going to be that aggressive and gamble, they’re going to make their share of plays. We just have to hit on our share of plays, too, and hopefully when we hit on our share of plays, they’re big plays.”

The Ducks restored balance to their offense last week in their win over Washington, thanks to the returns of Adams from a finger injury and wide receiver Darren Carrington from a suspension. In previous weeks, back-up quarterbacks Jeff Lockie and Taylor Alie lined up behind center, and Oregon’s passing

game was severely limited. The offense was unbalanced, so opposing defenses were able to focus their efforts on stopping the running game because the passing game wasn’t a threat.

Frost said having Adams and Carrington back made a “huge difference in the game,” and Adams, in particular, made plays that “really bailed us out.”

“When we’re balanced, we’re a better team,” Frost said. “For a while there we felt like our best chance was to run [the ball] a bunch, and we ran it well when we did, which was great to see. But if we can make throws down the field, it loosens everything up, so we’re going to have to be balanced.”

Frost thinks Oregon’s tempo on offense will play a “big factor” in the game. He plans on being selective in terms of when to utilize a fast-tempo attack, so as to give Oregon’s defense ample time to rest.

“If our defense has been on the field a long time, I don’t want to go fast and put the defense right back on the field if it doesn’t work,” Frost said. “We’ll pick our spots with the tempo.”

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