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These are the key components of UO’s QuackHack — a marathon collegiate game-design competition. The Emerald followed one team’s journey from concept to creation.
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11th Annual Good Earth Home, Garden and Living Show at the Lane Events Center. 796 W 13th Ave. 5-9 p.m.
ChocolateFest at the Oregon Convention Center. 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 10:30 a.m.
This weekend, the Lane Events Center will offer what the Eugene Home Show’s website promises to be “the first sustainable home and garden show in North America.� More than 250 exhibits will showcase the best in home garden living with gardeners, beekeepers and LEEDcertified architects. You’ll get to enjoy live music and fresh organic food as well as meet national green building, sustainable living experts and Pacific Northwest authors.
Are you a chocoholic? If so, you’ll definitely want to come to Portland this weekend for the Northwest’s Premier Chocolate Festival. Sample, taste and savor the region’s finest chocolates. By attending this event you’ll be supporting the World Forestry Center, a nonprofit organization devoted to education on sustainability and forestry.
Saturday 1/23 Anjelah Johnson at McDonald Theatre. 1010 Willamette St. 9 p.m. The former NFL cheerleader and MADtv cast member comes to McDonald Theatre Saturday night to continue her stand-up tour. You may know her as Bon Qui Qui or as a sassy Vietnamese nail salon employee. Regardless of her character, she’s sure to bring lots of laughs.
Saturday 1/23 Script Tease at the Brody Theater. 16 NW Broadway. 7 p.m. This unique production is a combination of scripted and improv theater – professional playwrights submit six pages of dialogue, then the audience casts the show! The actors at the Brody Theater don’t see the script until the show begins, but if the dialogue runs out, then they’ll have to finish the play with quick-thinking and improvised lines.
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The Peking Acrobats at the Hult Center. 1 Eugene Center. 6 p.m.
Fertile Ground Festival (happening all over Portland)
See China’s amazing acrobatic tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclers and gymnasts this Sunday on their 30th Anniversary Tour. The Peking Acrobats want you to experience their ancient folk art traditions and live music with Chinese instruments. Their feats should prove to be even more incredible with 21st-century special effects.
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UOPD Assistant Chief candidate withdraws application The only candidate for the assistant chief of the University of Oregon Police Department withdrew his application last week. Chou Her, who previously said he had been offered the position at the UOPD, cited personal conflicts as the main reason for withdrawing his candidacy. “There were some conflicting personal issues,� Her said. “It’s a great opportunity, but not the right time.� Her was the only candidate for the position. While waiting on the results of one final background check, Her struggled with the logistics of moving his entire family 600 miles north. “My parents are at the age where relocation is hard,� Her said. He ultimately decided to remain in Merced, California, where he is the captain of the University of California, Merced police force. The position is now open, with no immediate candidates according to UOPD. “There are no other finalist candidates currently under consideration, and we have exhausted the existing pool of applicants,� Kelly McIver, UOPD public information officer, said. “We will need to begin a new recruitment effort for the position to attract new applicants to consider.� According to UOPD, the position isn’t even technically open while the department reevaluates their approach in searching for new applicants. That search may take a while. UOPD has been vetting candidates since April 1, 2015, when Captain Pete Deshpande announced his retirement. UOPD interviewed several candidates on campus in the following
months. Her visited campus on October 28, 2015, but wasn’t moved to the background check phase until early December. UOPD Chief Carolyn McDermed didn’t care to speculate on a timeline for hiring the new chief, but she was expecting one to be selected in a few months. That was before Her withdrew his candidacy. The assistant chief is the second in command of the department. UOPD requires applicants to have a bachelor’s degree in a field related to law enforcement, five years of sworn officer experience and three years of management experience. Increased applicant requirements come as the university looks to finalize its transition from the Department of Public Safety to a full police force. That transition began in 2012, as McDermed was promoted to chief. McDermed was the last person to hold the assistant chief position. She hopes to find a candidate who will be “motivated to move the department forward in our current transition.� UOPD’s job posting lists assistant chief duties as varied as supervision of all officers and “large-scale spectator and national event coordination.� McDermed also wants candidates who can “lead by example in our department and be a role model for our officers.� Although the UOPD assistant chief position was not the right fit for Her, he hopes to keep an open view toward the future. He doesn’t have concrete plans beyond the UC Merced police department.
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Andrew Katz, an alum of South Eugene High School and 2012 economics graduate from the University of Oregon will return to Eugene this Friday, Jan. 22. He returns as the drummer for Car Seat Headrest, a rising indie-rock band reminiscent of Room On Fire-era Strokes, with the loose quality of Guided By Voices. Car Seat Headrest is touring in support of its critically acclaimed album Teens Of Style. The lead single “Something Soon� accompanied the album on many best of 2015 lists. The band will perform at Sam Bond’s Garage (407 Blair Blvd.) with Pluto the Planet. Tickets cost $8 in advance. We caught up with Andrew prior to Car Seat Headrest’s first Eugene show. Emerald: What are you most excited about in coming back to Eugene? Andrew Katz: It will be nice to see my family. I grew up there, so I know some people are going to come to the show. I’ve got a lot of friends who still live there. I’m hoping to take the band to Track Town Pizza — gotta get a little plug in for Track Town. They have the best pizza on the planet. E: I read that you joined Car Seat Headrest by answering a Craigslist ad. Is that true? AK: That is true. It was actually [frontman] Will Toledo answering my ad, I think. When I moved to Seattle, I knew I wanted to pursue music more heavily, so I was posting ads on Craigslist, and I was even doing that in Eugene ... Will found me and he came over to my place in Seattle. We jammed, and it went pretty well and we kept playing together. E: Will is a prolific songwriter who’s written 12 albums already. How many of those have you been a part of? AK: He is a prolific songwriter. Teens Of Style is the first one that I am on. A lot of Teens Of Style is from Will’s back catalog. I think there’s
actually only one brand new song. The others are a selection of old songs that he picked for the album. E: You mentioned you were an economics major. Were you expecting to be in a touring band out of college? AK: Of course not. If you expect that, you’re going to be really let down. I got lucky. When I first graduated, I got a job working at the University of Washington in an econ-research lab. That was really nice because I had super flexible hours, so I was able to be a musician. I met Will, and I knew he was a very serious musician after playing with him and checking out his backlog of music. I knew there was a chance it could happen, but I never expected anything to happen, and when it did, it was quite a lovely surprise. E: What should the crowd expect at Car Seat Headrest’s first Eugene show on Friday? AK: Don’t expect much. I like to set low standards. But it will be a good show. We like to rock pretty hard, and I think Eugene will really like it. E: What advice would you give to UO students who are in bands looking to catch a break? AK: Join another band. Be in as many bands as you can. Spread your chances over a big area. In college, I literally played with hundreds of musicians. That’s the only way to do it as a drummer. If you’re a songwriter, keep writing songs. Get better and better at it. If you listen to Will’s first recordings, they’re not as high quality as they eventually sounded. He got better and better as he did it. E: Now, perhaps the most important question of all: Rennie’s or Taylor’s? AK: Oh, Rennie’s for sure. Taylor’s is great if you’re almost blackout drunk, but if you’re trying to be a human being, Rennie’s is the place to be.
This exhibition is made possible by Clarkson Creative, the Coeta and Donald Barker Special Exhibitions Endowment, The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, and JSMA members. (Left) Pre, 1975. I Dream a World, Clara McBride Hale, 1986
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From left to right, Dhruv Khurana, Bryan Varga and Drew Balog. The team of three created a prototype of their game, ‘Discourse’, in 40 hours.
Creating a game in a weekend isn’t easy, but these UO students are armed with energy drinks, waffles and lots of ideas.
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to take what they create here and turn it into a business.� Throughout the course of the event, participants ate and slept where they created. While hackathons are a popular way for software developers to create, last week’s event was the “first-ever collegiate gaming hackathon in the U.S.� Members of the UO community and beyond were welcome to attend and compete. Over $3,000 in prizes were up for grabs, a mix of cash awards and cutting-edge tech. Here’s one team’s journey through that weekend.
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During the first night of the event, developers gather to form teams. They’ve come with fantasies of amazing games, and they’re searching for talent to make them real. Some of the ideas are modest, like a version of Risk that only takes 45 minutes. Others aim higher. One developer pitches a role-playing game that interacts with 3D-printed figurines. As the characters move along a real-life board game, digital recreations of their adventures happen simultaneously on screen. Unlike most of the students participating, Bryan Varga and Drew Balog don’t have any experience in programming; they’re students in the UO’s product design department. They pitch a multiplayer game about debate, pitting two candidates against each other for a mock presidency. It’s a loose idea, but it catches the room’s interest. After they present, the team moves to a corner of the auditorium to see if they have any takers. One of those interested is a high schooler from Washington state named Dhruv Khurana. He’s attracted to Balog and Varga’s debate concept, and he brings needed coding experience to the table. Immediately, a team forms. All three love the idea of debate, and from there, they work to gamify the concept. Balog brings up text-driven games like Papers, Please and Undertale as inspiration. To make their idea into a game rather than a “fancy chatroom,” Khurana introduces the notion of a live audience that can judge the performance of the debaters. Within a 10 minute conversation, Balog and Varga’s idea for a presidential debate simulator has refocused on one core concept: an app which allows users to watch, judge and engage in active debate. The team retreats deep into Lillis, and starts a long night of work. That night, Ted Brown, the founder of local indie game studio Oreganik, gives a speech on managing the scope of projects. The presenta-
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tion sounds like an intervention, reminding the room of eager dreamers that their grand ideas might not be feasible in QuackHack’s 40-hour time limit. Rather than aim for the big picture, he pushes teams to focus on one element of their game and “make it magic.” “Don’t make a Swiss Army Knife,” Brown said. “Make a blade.” The team works until 3 a.m. before retreating for sleep — reckless enthusiasm and Monster energy drinks can only get them so far.
DAY 2
The next morning, the sweet smell of Off The Waffle catering fills the atrium. Every spare chair in the facility has become a makeshift work station, with participants cracking away at their projects. Downstairs, a Super Smash Bros. tournament offers a needed distraction. For Varga, Balog and Khurana, progress is slow. Varga has put together a solid interface, but can’t make it run on a phone, and Khurana is having difficulty connecting players online. The Saturday session continues deep into the afternoon before Varga and Balog face facts — with their experience, they can’t make an app in a weekend. Balog sets his expectations low for the following morning’s deadline. “I think what we’ll have — good favors permitting — is a working menu,” he said. The frustration is inescapable. Struggling to realize their vision on a phone, the team crafts a card-based version of the game. Players draw topics, argue it out and other players vote on the outcome. While Khurana types away at a web-based version of the revised game, Varga and Balog rush out to get supplies for their new physical creation. The deadline is now just over 12 hours away.
DAY 3
After a long night of caffeine-fueled creation, the teams spend Sunday morning putting the finishing touches on prototypes. Green tables dot the floor, each one host to an original concept that arose over the long weekend. There’s a game of virtual reality Tetris, a board game about viral infections and even an app to teach you how to salsa dance. In the mix is Discourse, the final form of Varga, Balog and Khurana’s work. A piece of posterboard explains how
The Top 3 of QuackHack 2016 3 - Virus - A strategy board game akin to Risk, but sped up to be enjoyed in a short-play session. Players take the form of competing viruses, trying to dominate cells. 2 - VR Tetris - Using a virtual reality headset and motion-sensing armbands, the classic Game Boy game becomes larger than life. 1 - Game Full Of Animals - A multiplayer take on Flappy Bird, up to 10 competitors can connect their Android devices to a central server for multiplayer races.
the app version of the game could play, while a deck of physical cards allows passersby to play a round themselves. Questions range from “Sideburns or Mutton Chops?” to contemporary political topics like gun control. Discourse didn’t have enough substance to win over the judges. The event’s victor was Game Full Of Animals, a multiplayer platformer that allowed phones to connect over Wi-Fi for control. The judges praised it for being one of the most technically impressive demos of the weekend and having a concept with the best shot at mainstream success. While the judges didn’t connect with Discourse, the game found an audience. “A lot of people showed interest in the app and card game, several suggested using Kickstarter. So although we may not have won, we have a feasible goal that we may be able to produce in the future,” Balog said. As QuackHack closed, the team was more relieved than disappointed. “We were just happy we could take a nap after being awake for 32 hours,” said Varga. T hu r s d ay, J a n u a r y 2 1 , 2 0 1 6
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On the night of the Ducks’ first-round Pac-12 tournament game against Washington State in 2015, forward Jacinta Vandenberg found herself in a tight spot. NCAA transfer rules prohibited Vandenberg from traveling with the team, so she crammed in the back of a Fiat-sized rideshare car with members of the Oregon Pit Crew instead. “There were like four people over six-foot and two people in the back with our legs up,” Vandenberg laughed. “It was comfy though.” Following her release from Fresno State and subsequent tranfer to Oregon last season, Vandenberg was unable to do much other than practice with the team. This season, she anchors the Oregon front court alongside All-American Jillian Alleyne. Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Vandenberg began playing basketball at age eight but didn’t play organized hoops until she was 12. She fondly remembers playing one-on-one with her brother, Jordan, who stands at 7-foot-1 and played Division I basketball at North Carolina State. Once Jordan became a highly-sought-after recruit, Vandenberg began to realize her potential as well. “My brother is three years older than me and he always did things, and I wanted to do them too,” Vandenberg said. “He would play state-level basketball, then national-level basketball, and I always wanted to do that. So when he did that I thought, ‘Okay, if he can do it then I can do it too.’” Vandenberg won gold medals in 2009 and 2010 while playing for Victoria Metro in the U-18 nationals. She earned a spot on the U-17 Australian team that competed in the Oceania Qualifiers. She gained the
attention of scouts from the United States and received a scholarship from Fresno State, where she played for two years. The transition from Australian to American basketball proved to be more difficult than Vandenberg had anticipated. “It’s a lot more physical — no one really in Australia, especially in high school, lifts [weights],” Vandenberg said. “So coming over and not having lifted, I put on like 20 pounds in my first year.” In the early days of her career at Fresno State, Oregon head coach Kelly Graves kept an eye on the 6-foot-5 Australian. The day she was granted her release, Graves received a call from a friend of his who had helped recruit Vandenberg to Fresno State. “He called me that day, after she got her release, and said, ‘Hey this is somebody I think you’d be interested in,’ “ Graves said. Within two weeks, Vandenberg was signed and ready to play for her new school. Graves liked her game from the moment he first watched her: her high basketball IQ, her defensive play, awareness and rebounding ability. He also saw the value of adding a player with two years of NCAA experience to a relatively young team, and having someone tall to go up against Alleyne in practice. “Jacinta makes me a higher basketball IQ player,” Alleyne said. “She definitely challenges my level of understanding the game and she challenges me on the floor to talk and lead this team. “She’s always in my ear. There’s never a day in practice where I don’t hear her and I am so grateful for that because it pushes me to be my best every day in practice.” by gus morris, @g_amorris
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Everyone’s favorite Backstreet Boy was beat up and arrested, Obama took an eloquent victory lap, the GOP and Democrats debated once again, a UO student group requests $15K and Chip Kelly is in our timezone again! When Nick Carter and a friend left a Florida bar bloody and beat up, it was obvious that they took the whole Black & Blue concept of ’99 a little too literally. Backstreet Boys heartthrob and Dancing with the Stars season 21 runner-up Nick Carter can now add the title of “Key West Bar Brawlerâ€? to his rĂŠsumĂŠ. On Jan. 13, Carter was arrested and later charged with misdemeanor battery by Florida police after an altercation with bar staff. Carter and his friend Michael Rae Papayans were refused service and eventually asked to leave a Key West bar because of how intoxicated they were. Instead of being happy drunks and enjoying themselves, the two felt the need to prove their toughness in a slap fight with two bar employees. Both men (babies) are said to appear in court on Jan. 21. A less-ratchet international heartthrob, our beloved POTUS, gave his final State of the Union address on Jan. 12. President Obama spoke a little bit on everything: from what he has done, what still needs to be done, who may take his place, who will not and a whole lot of idealism. Talk of improving the American education system came up, all the way from Pre-K to college. Energy efficiency and all the ways we could actually use solar and wind power were listed. Peace for all was proposed. Now, about everyone else in the room‌ VP Biden had the whole “cool on the outside, screaming on the insideâ€? vibes going after he
was given the task to work with scientists to find a cure for cancer. Kentucky clerk Kim Davis snuck her way in. Our FLOTUS looked stunning as always, this time, in a marigold Neiman Marcus dress that sold out even before the end of Obama’s speech. And the seat next to Mrs. Obama’s was left empty to symbolize the deaths that have been caused by gun violence. Oh, politics. You never seem to take a night off. This past week, we saw more GOP and Democratic debates — with people talking over one another, throwing all the low-blows possible and cold side-eyes and mad-dog stares. On Jan. 14, the Republican candidates forced their useless rhetoric into our homes (minus Mrs. Silicon Valley and Dr. Maybe) — Carly Fiorina and Sen. Rand Paul were demoted and couldn’t play with the big kids anymore. On Jan. 17, the Democratic candidates graced our TV screens – all two of them were on their game. Could we all just agree that Gov. O’Malley has zero chances going forward? He can misquote historical figures and be overly polite somewhere off camera. Sen. Sanders did seem to steal the spotlight in the fourth debate; however, my girl Hillary played defense in true varsity style. I’m with her. Our own student-run governmental body made an interesting decision this week when ASUO senate approved a $15,000 request from the Students of the Indian Subcontinent. SIS
asked for the money in order to bring Hasan Minhaj to campus, a senior correspondent from The Daily Show. Was Aziz Ansari too busy with Masters of None? I personally have never seen Minhaj’s work in the past, but it seems like the group believes he would be a worthy feature of the cultural night. Aside from the $15K from student government, departments around campus are supporting the cause. I remember Maz Jobrani, a Persian-American comedian, was a huge hit when the Arab Student Association got him to come for Arabian Night last spring. Let’s see if Minhaj will live up to it. One person who will always be loved by the UO community is Mr. (big balls) Chip Kelly. Well, family, he’s coming closer to home! After an unfortunate season with the Philadelphia Eagles this year, Chip Kelly has been hired as the San Francisco 49ers’ new head coach in a four-year deal worth a whopping $24 million. I guess getting fired isn’t all that bad in the NFL. The open position with the Niners was going to be filled by either Mike Shanahan, head coach of the Washington Redskins, or our Chippy, and it seems like the latter got to the Craigslist job listing first.
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Thomas Laurent brings dynamic talent and cultural perspective to Oregon tennis During crucial points of Oregon tennis matches, it is common to hear chants of the French word “allez” echo through the Student Tennis Center from fans and teammates in support of Duck players. While it literally translates to “going” in English, the chant is intended to mean “let’s go” and has become the de-facto rallying cry for the Ducks as they have jumped out to a 3-0 start in their spring campaign. It is no coincidence that the Ducks have adopted the chant since the arrival of freshman Thomas Laurent, a dynamic talent from Montpelier, France, who could provide the final boost the team needs to crack into the toptier of the Pac-12. Laurent, an 18-year-old freshman who did not participate in fall play and arrived on campus just a few weeks ago, is already one of the Ducks’ top players. By season’s end, Oregon coach Nils Scylander expects Laurent to be interchangeable with Oregon senior Daan Maasland — one of the top players in program history — in the No. 1 and No. 2 slots on the team. “For coaches, I think it’s good to have tough decisions to make in the lineup,” Oregon sophomore Simon Stevens said. “That means that a lot of players are ready to play and they are able to compete in every spot … That’s a good weapon to know that we can change a little bit. It’s definitely a luxury to put [Maasland] on two.” Coaches, teammates and opponents have all described Laurent’s game as “well-rounded.” While he doesn’t possess an overpowering forehand or untouchable serve, he stands 6-foot-3 and is able to reach balls that most players could not. He has a way of lulling opponents to sleep with an effortless style of play and stealing points through sheer consistency. “In the minds of the players that play against him, it’s tough,” Stevens said. “You have to be focused every single ball, every single point.”
In his brief collegiate career, Laurent is 3-0 in singles play. Although the season is just a week old, he has already picked up a signature win that only furthers Schylander’s belief that he can compete against some of the top players in the country at the No. 1 slot for the Ducks. While playing against No. 54 University of California Santa Barbara on Jan. 18., Laurent masterfully navigated his way through two sets and a tiebreaker against the Gauchos’ No. 1 Morgan Mays to pick up a crucial match win that clinched a team victory for the Ducks. “He’s played so much tennis and so many tournaments in his life that competing comes very naturally to him,” Schylander said. Oregon’s roster is loaded with international talent — seven of the Ducks’ 10 players hail from outside the U.S. — and Laurent has had to overcome the same obstacles that all exchange students face. While he speaks solid English, he is not entirely fluent and often depends on Stevens, a Belgian international student, to translate for him. “It’s very good to have a guy who can speak French sometimes, and there’s a lot of different cultures on the team,” Laurent said. “I think that’s good for our college game, and for tennis and for life in general.” Laurent has had no problem adapting to life on the Oregon campus, and it appears that his game has translated just as well. He was a standout talent on the French junior circuit and crafted his game against some of the top players in Europe. “He played tournaments in France a lot and he’s obviously ranked very high,” Schylander said. “You don’t have the international results that he’s had without being at a high level.”
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