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Never before has the apocalyptic desert looked so beautiful. George Miller returns to direct the fourth installment of the Mad Max franchise.

He leaves the audience no time catch their breath or notice that Tom Hardy stepped in seamlessly for Mel Gibson in the adrenaline shock that is Fury Road. In a brutal chase across the desert, Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) finds Max as an unlikely companion to team up against the warlord Immortan Joe and his halflife warboys to find hope in a planet made inhospitable by the war-hungry tribes that populate it. Shot with little CGI, the stunts are as shocking as the flame thrower-toting heavymetal guitarist in a red onesie.

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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

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Through interviews with The Church of Scientology’s defectors, director Alex Gibney’s adaptation of Lawrence Wright’s book Going Clear is an impeccable deconstruction of one of the most enigmatic, made-in-America organizations. The documentary explains plenty within two hours: the life of founder L. Ron Hubbard; the religion’s inventive vocabulary; the Church’s current figurehead, David Miscavige, and the numerous allegations of his violent behavior; as well as why the Church courts celebrities like Tom Cruise and John Travolta as members; and how it achieved the tax-exempt designation as a religious institution.

This is the most compelling documentary of 2015.

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Room One of this year’s strongest Oscar contenders, Room is a simple story told to stunning effect. Brie Larson plays a woman kidnapped at the age of 17, who raises her young son (Jacob Tremblay) in the one-room shed where they are held captive. On the son’s fifth birthday, they formulate a plan to escape. Told from her son’s perspective, it’s a hauntingly real story told with a child’s innocence. Director Lenny Abrahamson does the impossible, making a small space feel almost infinite.

Every inch is given importance, and for fleeting moments you buy into the Stockholm syndrome shared by the characters.

Both Tremblay and Larson give incredible performances, resulting in a brutally tense film that comes together beautifully.

Nothing else in 2015 makes an audience so fruitfully invested in the fate of its central characters. It’s not an easy movie to sit through, but you’ll leave enlightened — feeling as if the whole world has changed before your eyes.

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What We Do In The Shadows From the creators of Flight of the Conchords comes the best comedy of 2015 (absolutely outweighing Trainwreck) and the best movie about vampires in a long time. The mockumentary centers around three vampires living as flatmates in modern-day New Zealand. They have chores, go out to clubs and settle house disputes.

The movie takes all the typical vampire tropes (nocturnal, blood-sucking, bat transformations, etc.) and turns them into laughable, everyday situations.

The actors never force jokes, they come often and effortlessly. There are a few parts that are scary, but it’s all in good fun. The movie will have you desiring more New Zealand vampire antics by the time it’s over. One of the highlights is a standoff between the vampire flatmates and a pack of werewolves. You can imagine what ensues.

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new kitchen and woodshop to open this spring ➥ Grace With the University of Oregon having outgrown its current food preparation facilities, an upgraded kitchen is set to open this spring in the middle of east campus.

David Opp-Beckman, capital projects manager for Housing Facilities, said the new 22,000 square foot central kitchen and woodshop will be located on Columbia Street between 19th and 17th Avenue. It will allow for the preparation of larger quantities of food at one time, and give more opportunities to use local and fresh products in dishes. “Food service just keeps growing and we get more products, more opportunities to be able to put products out there,� Director of Food Service Tom Driscoll said of the project.

The larger kitchen will also allow university dining to produce enough food to satisfy the student body.

According to Opp-Beckman, the project will be LEED-gold certified and will allow for consumption of 35 percent less energy than the Oregon energy code requires. “It will allow us to use more modern technology in a modern kitchen and facility,�

Director of University Housing Michael Griffel said.

The current central kitchen is located in the basement of Carson Hall and was originally designed in 1945 prior to its opening in February of 1950.

Construction of the new central kitchen is funded by $8.5 million from University Housing cash reserves.

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According to Griffel, the new kitchen will also bring together food preparation and catering staff.

Roughly 100 out of the 400 catering and dining student staff members will work in the new central kitchen when it opens. “We’re able to get some new equipment, some new bakery ovens. It will allow us to bake things more on time [and] be fresher,� Driscoll said.

Another benefit of the new central kitchen, according to Griffel, is that dining will now have more space and equipment to prepare food.

This will allow for dining to have more control over what ingredients go into food products and allow for the use of more local and fresh food.

Opp-Beckman also stated that three students studying architecture were employed

by University Housing and helped develop early plans for the project.

The woodshop portion of the project is also likely to help revitalize the student carpentry program, according to Opp-Beckman.

The old campus woodshop was once located on the site where the woodshop and central kitchen are now being built. It was demolished about a year ago.

The university has a large maintenance and carpentry staff that build and repair furniture. University Housing is also looking to potentially hire students to help with summer carpentry projects once the central woodshop and kitchen open this spring.

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Darren Carrington honored his late highschool teammate by wearing his number in the Alamo Bowl. (Adam Eberhardt)

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Instead of wearing his No. 7 jersey in the 2016 Valero Alamo Bowl, Oregon wide receiver Darren Carrington donned No. 22 to pay tribute to his best friend Markel Byrd.

Byrd died tragically on Dec. 22 and wore No. 22 as a safety for the New Mexico Lobos.

Although the Ducks squandered a 31-0 halftime lead and ultimately fell 47-41 to TCU in triple-overtime, Carrington individually put on a show in Byrd’s honor, catching four passes for 100 yards and a touchdown in the first quarter alone.

Carrington kept Byrd in his thoughts during his inspired performance. Underneath his No. 22 jersey, Carrington wore a shirt with Byrd’s picture and the words “Forever Young.”

Carrington and Byrd shared a truly special bond few others are fortunate enough to experience.

“We were inseparable,” Carrington told reporters in San Antonio about a week before the game. “We were like the same person.”

They used to play against each other in Pop Warner football and first became teammates on a club basketball team in the summer after sixth grade. They became best friends as seventh graders, and eventually attended high school together at Horizon Christian Academy in San Diego, where Byrd was the quarterback of the football team and Carrington the star receiver.

Carrington’s youngest sister DiJonai, a guard for Stanford women’s basketball, said the two were “basically brothers.”

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Christmas was supposed to be the first time Darren and Byrd reunited since high school, due to their busy college football schedules.

Byrd planned to travel to San Antonio with the Carringtons to watch Darren play TCU in the Alamo Bowl. Byrd asked Darren to bring him a backpack, a jersey and a pair of cleats from Oregon, but Darren never got the chance to give Byrd his present.

Byrd was driving home on Interstate 40 near Gallup, New Mexico, when the rear tire of his Chevy SUV blew and both he and his girlfriend were ejected from the car. Byrd died instantly, and his girlfriend was transported to a local hospital and listed in critical condition.

Just before Byrd left for California, Darren called to tell him he loved him and wished him a safe trip home. Byrd promised to call Darren when he got closer to San Diego.

“He never called,” Darren said. “It was just tragic.”

The next two days, Darren didn’t speak much as he tried to make sense of it all. On Christmas Eve, the Carringtons went to Byrd’s house to visit Stephanie Threadgill (Byrd’s mother), Byrd’s grandma, brother and sister.

“That’s what really helped Darren the most — talking to Markel’s mom — because she’s just so strong and in such high spirits,” DiJonai said. “She just told Darren, ‘He wouldn’t want you to be sad. He would want you to just focus on your game. He knows you got him.’ After that, he was in much higher spirits.”

When Darren learned of his suspension from the 2015 national championship game for failing a drug test, he was scared to tell his parents about his suspension, so instead he called Byrd first.

Byrd was the “only person to ever completely get” Darren and is his “guardian angel.” Since his loss, Darren has found joy in the bonds he’s made with his teammates, particularly quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., his roommate for the Alamo Bowl trip. He and Adams connected immediately when Adams transferred to Oregon from Eastern Washington, and spent many nights together at the Student Recreation Center turf fields running routes.

“I feel like God just put Vernon on my team for this last year,” Darren said. “He knew this was going to happen.”

Darren’s first catch of the Alamo Bowl was the game’s first touchdown, a 37-yard bomb from Adams. He finished the game with seven catches for 107 yards and a touchdown.

Darren said Byrd is living through him now, and he “will never take nothing on this earth for granted, ever again.”

An online fundraising page has been established to help cover expenses for Byrd’s funeral.

This article was cut to fit in our print issue. You can find the full story, as well as the fundraiser link for Markel Byrd, online at emrld.co/1mrHArM or by going to dailyemerald.com.

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he house lights fall over the audience as the show is about to begin. The stage lights up and the crowd claps excitedly as the first actor walks out, dressed head-to-toe in grand Renaissance garb, transporting everyone back in time, and setting up the entire show for what’s to come.

When you think of the theater, it’s easy to appreciate the larger parts of it all: the acting, the set or even the story itself. But it takes the little details to pull it all together: the lights, the props and — a sometimes overlooked detail — the costumes. Costumes have the ability to set up the audience’s perception of the show for anything— from establishing the time period to understanding the personality of a character.

This is why the University of Oregon’s theater department provides students with opportunities to hone their abilities in costume design and construction through its costume design program. “Costumes are a tool to help tell the story, more than anything else,� said Shannon Dunbar, a second year Master

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of Fine Arts student in costume design. “When you’re at a show and you’re seeing this spectacle in front of you, it’s easy to forget all the minute details that went into every little aspect of that show [like the costumes].�

Each costume takes care and consideration. The long process of conceptualizing, sketching, collaborating and then finally constructing the piece can be tedious. For some, the initial concept development is what takes the most time in order to create the perfect, unique garment for each character in a production.

A recent UO production, Sonrisa del Coyote, featured costumes by Delta Starchild, a senior theater and fine arts major. She began planning the costumes for the show over the summer while she was spending time in London. The show opened Oct. 22, and it was Starchild’s second time designing for a New Voices production — the theater department’s annual scriptwriting competition. “I did a lot of research into the way the Mexican culture and Native American

culture visualize their lore so I could be accurate in what I was portraying,�

Starchild said. “It’s really a love for theater and a love for clothing, and the way you can create art on the body.�

The costume design program indulges the creativity of students by allowing them to design for the shows each term and experiment with different ideas to give each show a special look. Because of this, Starchild was able to bring unique costumes to the stage- including a coyote mask made to resemble old coyote mosaics and a headdress with fox fur around it to better portray the personalities of the characters and the culture.

Dunbar, who will have designs featured in the theater program’s next production, Water by the Spoonful, feels that sometimes the fun in working with costumes is in how they have the ability to change the way people’s bodies are seen on the stage. “It’s fun to do things that alter the shape of the body like [add] padding, or giant wigs and hats,� said Dunbar. “Things that

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In order for the costumes you see on stage to come to fruition, people spend hours behind the scenes hand-sewing, beading and building each piece from scratch. This work takes technical skill and practice, which is why the theater department is offering a course called Costume Construction (TA 419/519) this term.

“If anybody wants to design costumes, they have to know how to make them,” said Jeanette deJong, the new head of the costume department. DeJong has taught costume design for three years now, and has designed costumes for approximately 160 shows all around the country for a variety of companies and story themes.

With a capacity of only 10 students, deJong’s class is small and hands-on and assigns multiple projects over the term to allow each person to develop their construction skills. Students in this class can expect to walk away with skills in tailoring and even constructing a corset.

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experience under their belts like Dunbar are excited to take the class to help strengthen their technical skills.

“You can easily spend a couple weeks on a costume,” said deJong. “Dyeing fabric, designing, fitting, painting the fabric and adding details … I think that when you see all the costumes together on the stage and everything moves beautifully, you feel you’ve done your part in the play beautifully.”

But is it feasible to have that feeling of joy and satisfaction in your craft and still make enough to pay rent? Oregon is ranked fourth in the nation for average salary of costume designers, with the average hourly wage settling at $30.61, and a yearly salary of $63,680, according to Sokanu, an online career service. And that’s just for the design — not taking into consideration the construction of the pieces, which can be done by both designers and technicians.

“I would say there’s more demand for costume technicians,” said deJong.

“The people who know how to make the beautiful things are more in demand. The

students in the class now are learning skills so they can better make costumes for the stage.”

While Oregon is ranked in the top five for pay, for professionals like Vicki Vanecek-Young, that doesn’t mean it’s easy to find work locally.

“It’s a small costume market in Eugene,” said Vanecek-Young, who has worked in costume for 40 years. “It’s a way of travelling. You’ve got some opportunity out there, you just need a little time to find it.”

Despite the late nights and countless hours spent bent over a sewing machine, lining up the perfect color compliments and trying to seamlessly pull everything together before a show, those who go to bed dreaming up new costume concepts are grateful for the challenges that come with the craft.

“I love the collaboration, and I love the opportunity to be a storyteller as well as a visual artist,” said Dunbar. “That’s the most rewarding part, being able to see your work put in front of you and come to life.”

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The ASUO has several proposed plans for this term.

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ASUO Executive and Senate will spend winter term with a full plate on their hands with budget season and new resolutions for a campus safety campaign.

As budget season approaches, finance committees work on recommendations for next years’ spending.

Athletics and Contracts Finance Committees proposed a 0.22 percent increase in its benchmark at a Nov. 18 meeting. This means a total amount of $328,000.

The athletic department has the most expensive contract and is asking for a zero percent increase from last year’s deal. ACFC Chair Andrew Dunn said the committee will continue to negotiate for more football tickets in response to student demands. “[The number of student tickets are] unlikely to expand,” Dunn said at the meeting. “Athletics expects increase in costs in the following years.”

The two most significant cost increases are 17.35 percent for OSPIRG and 14 percent for the potential merger of the Emerald Media Group and Ethos Magazine.

Program Finance Committee member and Senate President Kevin Dobyns said he is excited to work with the new stipend model. “[In the past], even when student groups came with compelling reasons, we are not allowed to help the leadership roles,” Dobyns said.

“The new stipend model will give PFC more flexibility.”

Departments Finance Committee proposed a 7 percent increase in its benchmark, which will maintain free HIV tests services for students.

Senate funded the service with an over-realized fund last year, DFC Chair Zach Rentschler said.

Senate continues to pursue the Fraternity and Sorority Life resolution after the second campus climate survey was released in October. The survey revealed the same pattern, in which FSL affiliated students are more likely to be sexually assaulted.

FSL is conducting an internal survey in response. Senator Zach Lusby, who is drafting the new resolution, is waiting for the internal results in January before he proceeds with the resolution.

Off-campus retreat resolution is also on the table for discussion. The third amended resolution will serve student groups’ needs, Rentschler said. He proposed the repealed resolution, which restricts funding any off-campus retreat.

If passed, the new resolution requires student groups to fundraise at least half of the request amount.

Senate can still choose to fund any groups’ request with a vote.

“The point is to communicate, so student groups won’t feel intimidated,” Rentschler said. “But we still want student groups to reach out to other resources before coming to senate.”

Rentschler is also proposing a rollover resolution, which will reserve an amount of surplus for next year. Surplus is the leftover money that comes back to senate from student groups at the end of the year.

This resolution will assure next years’ surplus will stay at a sustainable level, Rentschler said.

Last year, senate passed the same resolution reserving $75,000, contributing to this year’s surplus at $400,000.

Dobyns said the amount should be at $50,000.

“I want to spend money now for seniors who are here now,” Dobyns said.

The ASUO Executive branch is pursuing an educational platform for students and faculty about campus safety, Chief of Staff Casey Edwards said. Executive is conducting research to identify the most concerning safety issues on campus.

“Students are getting involved in campus safety more than ever,” Edwards said. “This winter term we hope to have an open dialog with the administration about changes we could make.”

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2016 is shaping up to be a huge year for the gaming industry, and may even overshadow 2015 despite impactful releases from last year like The Witcher 3 and Undertale. Next year’s game catalog boasts many long-awaited sequels as well as exciting new properties that could shape the climate of the industry for years to come. Here’s a look at the most notable games coming out each month.

January:

To kick off the year, we have several excellent RPG games coming out. The popular RPG Darkest Dungeon will be coming out of Early Access, and the cult classic Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen will be released on PC for the first time. Nintendo also brings new 3DS titles Hyrule Warriors: Legends and Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam.

March:

Remakes and remasters are the flavors of this month. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD and Day of the Tentacle Remastered are back and look better than ever, while Hitman reboots the infamous assassin-simulator franchise.

May:

If you’re looking for a new kind of shooter, Battleborn might be up your alley with its colorful cast of characters and ability-based shooting combat. Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst re-imagines the cult parkour game Mirror’s Edge.

February:

If you like sequels and new installments of old franchises, this is the month for you.

XCOM 2, Fire Emblem Fates and Street Fighter 5 bring modern installments to three of the most famous franchises in gaming history. Far Cry Primal puts a prehistoric spin on the gritty shooter series.

Mojang’s long awaited side-scrolling shooter Cobalt is also set for a release sometime during February.

April:

This month is all about the grim and dark, bringing the latest installment of the Souls series, Dark Souls III, and the visceral fantasy warfare of Total War: Warhammer.

Sony fans will be excited by the re-imagining of the classic Ratchet and Clank as well as Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, the final chapter in the Uncharted series.

June:

Survival and exploration fans will have lots to look forward to with the full release of the popular survival game Ark: Survival Evolved and the highly anticipated space exploration game No Man’s Sky. We Happy Few also shakes up the survival game formula with its focus on blending in with a dystopian society.

July-December:

So far there have been few announcements of releases for the latter half of the year, but there are still a few titles worth mentioning. In July, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided brings back the classic series of infiltration and human augmentation. Fans of BanjoKazooie will see the spiritual successor to the series in November called YookaLaylee, which will bring back the classic 3D-platforming gameplay that’s too rare these days. Divinity: Original Sin 2 is set for a December release and should continue to define the modern computer-RPG genre.

Other Notable Titles: Overwatch is Blizzard’s newest franchise and is set for a spring release. It’s a first-person-shooter that features a unique cast of superhero-esque characters and ability-based gameplay. World of Warcraft: Legion, the expansion to Blizzard’s powerhouse MMORPG World of Warcraft, is also set for a release by the end of the year.

Crowdfunding success Star Citizen looks to release sometime towards the end of the year. This ambitious title combines physicsbased space combat and complex economics with first-person shooter elements.

The Final Fantasy series is finally getting a new installment. Final Fantasy XV will have an open-world environment and will feature new elements such as a day and night cycle and dynamic weather.

The Last Guardian is set to release some time this year. From the creators of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, this is an actionadventure game where you solve puzzles with the help of a colossal and unpredictable creature that is meant to simulate the instinctdriven behavior of a real animal.

The Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset device, is also set to release sometime this year for around $350.

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CUTTING OFF SOCIAL MEDIA ➥ M a ly s s a

At the beginning of the school year, I made a decision to give up social media due to the lack of free time that I found myself with. After only a couple of weeks, I started to feel lighter and more at ease, but I couldn’t figure out exactly why.

Months went by and at the end of fall term, I made an effort to check up on just how much I had missed. But the more I scrolled and the more I read, I started to feel a sort of weight press on my chest. I hadn’t actually realized until then that the seemingly out-of-nowhere happiness came from keeping my head out of all the ongoing social media drama.

Think about it, how many times a day do you visit social media? Probably more than you can count. The amount of time that many people spend scrolling through comments, videos and pictures is absolutely ridiculous. Not only are we indulging in someone else’s life, but we are wasting our own. We concern ourselves with what’s happening to everyone else more than we concern ourselves with what’s happening right in front of us. Constantly being concerned with others on the Internet can send a message to the people that are actually in your everyday life.

We have all had someone we know pull out their phone when it wasn’t an appropriate time. I can’t say that I haven’t been that person sometimes. Even worse, I have found myself unintentionally pulling out my phone for no reason then quickly putting it away after realizing I was being impolite.

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media app under the sun, anxiety can overcome you if think you’re out of the loop — even just for one day. Like when you forget your phone at home and you’re constantly worrying about all the people trying to contact you, only to find out when you get home that nobody did. Like many others on social media, I started to feel dependent on the flow of information. I felt like I hadn’t really gone through my day if I didn’t know what was going on with everyone else.

Nowadays many people find it more concerning to be out of the loop on the Internet rather than out of the loop with their friends and family. There have been plenty of times when, even though I knew what was going on with my friends on social media, I had no idea that they were going through something completely different in their real lives off the screen.

Since I decided to cut myself off from social media, I have been more concerned with how often I actually talk to my friends rather than with how many likes, retweets and Snapchats I get. When I first joined social media, I didn’t expect to ever come to this point. But now that I have gotten off, I think everyone should consider it.

I find it really gratifying to not have to worry that I’m missing out on something that doesn’t really matter. I want the people in my life to know that I find them more important than what might be happening on my screen and more central to what I should be giving my attention to.

Cutting yourself off from social media may be one of the best decisions you’ll ever make. You’ll have a lot more free time on your hands to get your work done and really connect with the important people in your life. You might even have enough time to cross some things off your college bucket list.

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Oregon (11-3, 0-1 Pac-12) was understandably at a loss for words following its 70-57 Pac-12 opening loss to Oregon State (101, 1-0) on Sunday.

Head coach Dana Altman pointed the finger at the Beavers’ 31 points off turnovers and second chance points.

Sophomore Dillon Brooks (13 points) felt like the team played too selfishly.

Both would agree that the Ducks just didn’t show up to play in any facet of the game.

The Beavers held the advantage on rebounds (37-32), turnover department (8-12) and overall field goal percentage (44.4 percent-35.8 percent).

All things considered, Oregon just didn’t deserve to win this game.

“It was all about competing,” Brooks said. “Oregon State outcompeted us and we were just sitting down, laying down. That’s not Oregon basketball.”

As usual, Gill Coliseum, which sold out for the first Civil War matchup of the year, was deafening. The sea of orange and black was especially riled up to remind its in-state rivals about Oregon football’s heartbreaking collapse in triple overtime to TCU in the Valero Alamo Bowl.

Before the game started, a wave of “We want Lockie” chants flooded the airwaves, setting an unwelcoming tone for the rest of the evening.

Neither Brooks nor Altman used these distractions as an excuse.

“It was a great atmosphere and I just can’t wait to get them back at our house,” Brooks said.

Oregon dug itself in a hole before the game really got going.

Going 6-of-21 from the floor in the first half, the Ducks were forced to play catch up.

Still, Oregon had its chances to come back.

At the 14:17 mark in the second half, a Chris Boucher tip-in cut the Beavers’ steady lead to single digits. If there was any moment that Oregon was going to get back into this game, this was it.

But what ensued was a game changing, jaw dropping, onehanded transition Gary Payton (12 points, six rebounds, six assists) slam that immediately squashed Oregon’s gaining momentum. Elgin Cook would answer, but Tres Tinkle’s (19 points) alley-oop to Drew Eubanks on the other end proved it wasn’t going to be Oregon’s night.

Whether it is the lack of a leader — Brooks and Tyler Dorsey combined for 23 points on 6-of-19 shooting — or consistent outside shooting — the team went 7-for-25 tonight, Oregon has some pressing questions to answer in these coming days.

“Leadership is a part of it, absolutely,” Altman said.

Pac-12 play has started and it’s not going to slow down for anyone. And with a talent stacked California team (12-3, 2-0) that is coming off a 71-58 win over then-No. 21 Utah (114, 0-2) coming to Eugene on Wednesday, Altman can only hope his team gets it together.

The most crucial part of the season has arrived for unranked Oregon. It’s time to find out what this team is truly made of.

“We don’t focus on a lot of things. That’s been a concern for a long time, “ Altman said. “I keep talking about us making more progress and [I’m] disappointed, obviously, with the progress we made this last week. That wasn’t good a effort on our part.”

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