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both want it “How do you make sure the person you’re having sex with doesn’t later accuse you of sexual assault?

If they can claim months after sex that they didn’t actually consent (even though they were obviously into it the whole time), aren’t you kind of screwed? (no pun intended).”

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You are right to say that consent is a very sensitive topic at the University of Oregon, and I’m happy to hear that you respect the consent of others, as well as the impact it will have on yourself. As you may have learned during a Get Explicit presentation, always ASK! Your first step to getting consent and not being framed for sexual assault is to literally ask, “Wanna have sex, sweet thang?” This can be steamy, romantic, cutesy, cheesy, quirky, suave, awkward — whatever your style is, there is a straightforward way to ask if your partner wants to give consent.

If you feel like this would ruin the mood, practice so it doesn’t! Get up in the morning, brush your teeth, look at yourself in the mirror and in your gentlest voice whisper in their ear, “Do you want to have sex with me?” Say it so you know the mood won’t drop — in fact, say it so it adds to the mood. The asking may be the part that turns your partner on the most (outside of bed, of course).

Okay, let’s say you practiced ‘til you were an expert, and when you asked in the moment it seemed right, but then your partner is hesitant and unsure about saying yes. If that’s the case, do not keep pressuring them because that might lead to the assault accusation you are worried about and make your partner very uncomfortable. The last thing you want is to coerce your partner into saying yes. Try asking what they’d like to do or what you can do for them. This will prompt them to say what they consent to and will give them the opportunity to possibly express why they are feeling hesitant.

Now, let’s say that your partner wasn’t hesitant and it seemed like they were “obviously into it,” as you put it, but they were drunk.

There’s quite a lot of grey area around giving consent and being drunk, here’s a simple guideline: even if you are drunk, the initiator is still liable for their actions, and if someone seems incoherent or unable to think about consequences because they are intoxicated, they forfeit their ability to give consent.

I’m not saying drunk sex is bad because two very inebriated people can certainly have a fun night and end it with sex, but if you’re wary whether someone may accuse you of sexual assault, you shouldn’t be having drunk sex. If it’s your first time with this person or it seemed like you may have pressured or coerced them in any way — I know it sounds unnatural — you should not have sex. Try asking the next day when you’re both sober… then let the magic begin!

If I have one piece of advice, it’s that you should do the right thing, and you seem to know what that is regarding consent. Sometimes temptations or intoxication make irresponsible actions seem okay, but try your hardest to know what’s right and wrong.

For further guidance about consent, check out this comic from Everyday Feminism.

I hope you consent to my advice,

Braedon Kwiecien

Got a question about sex and relationships in college?

Ask Braedon at dailyemerald.com.

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đ&#x;“… WKND CALENDAR Eugene Friday 3/4

Jersey Boys, Friday at 8 p.m. Hult Center (1 Eugene Center) $47.50.

The Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Jersey Boys will be performed at the Hult Center this weekend. Many already know the Cinderella-story plot of four charming Jersey boys who rise from singing under a streetlamp together to being the sell-out crowd pleasing Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The musical will feature legendary hits such as “Big Girls Don’t Cry� and “December, 1963 (Oh What a Night).� Students may know Jersey Boys as the 2014 Clint Eastwood-produced movie of the same title, but now theater and music fans can experience the hit musical live.

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Eleanor Friedberger will perform at the Doug Fir Lounge this Sunday.

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Saturday 3/5

Fast Man, BeatRootBand, and Coyote, Saturday at 9 p.m. HiFi Music Hall 44 E 7th Ave) $5, 21+.

Want to support Eugene artists? Look no further than the HiFi Music Hall on Saturday. For only $5, you’ll have a night of entertainment from local bands Fast Man, BeatRootBand, and Coyote. Fans of rock, folk rock, and blues rock will enjoy the authenticity of these small-town musicians. Fast Man is a high energy, threepiece rock band that “summon adult fairy tales and sprinkle sweat drops on the brave front row.� BeatRootBand will have a more folksy, bluesy vibe for some low-key rock. Finally, Coyote describes themselves as “desert rock / stoner rock.�

Sunday 3/6

Fritos & Cats: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Lincoln Gallery (309 West 4th Ave) Free.

This contemporary art exhibition at the Lincoln Gallery is hosted by the Oregon Supported Living Program (OSLP) Arts and Culture Program. The OSLP is a non-profit organization supporting people with developmental disabilities, and the exhibition at the gallery is filled with artwork from these people. Art from its Open Studio, Fiber Arts, Photography, and Jewelry classes will be included in the exhibition. In addition to this, the Community Room Gallery will feature pieces by local artist Dan Bruce. For this show, OSLP looked to local artist group Tropical Contemporary for “collaboration, experimentation, and mutual inspiration.�

Friday 3/4

POWFest, Friday 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Hollywood Theater (4122 NE Sandy Blvd.)

Prices vary.

The Portland, Oregon Women’s Film Festival was created to highlight the work of women in film, especially placing a spotlight on female directors. Each fest features the work of today’s top women directors, “Honoring the true pioneers while providing support and recognition for the next generation of leading women filmmakers.� On Friday, there will be a free Filmmaker Panel on women filmmakers, followed by a night full of short films like Girl Couch, La Fille Bionique (Bionic Girl), and Two Dollar Bill. Narratives and documentaries will be screening all weekend at the Hollywood Theater, along with post-screening Q&A panels.

Saturday 3/5

Eleanor Friedberger will be at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge (830 E Burnside St) on Sunday, March 6. Doors open at 8 p.m. Show begins at 9. Tickets are $12-14. New York City’s Icewater will open.

This weekend, Eleanor Friedberger will be performing in Portland in support of her newest album New View, her third solo record outside the oeuvre of The Fiery Furnaces, an experimental indie-rock duo that she led with her brother Matthew Friedberger.

While Fiery Furnaces confirmed Eleanor’s knack for transgressing boundaries of pop music with its esoteric lyrics and meticulously polished, nine-plus-minute tracks (please listen to 2004’s Blueberry Boat if you have a moment), Eleanor’s solo albums have increasingly found her settling into a more personal, accessible territory. But it’d be selling the record criminally short to classify it as adultcontemporary music, since it takes more risks than that.

Her forlorn musings and capri-

cious stories are present from New View’s opener “He Didn’t Mention His Mother,� in which she offers: “Today I am frozen but tomorrow I’ll write about you.� Eleanor’s droll, plainspoken tone is utterly confident throughout the record, which is instilled with a sense of solemnity in retrospect. “Because I Asked You,� fixed in the record’s midpoint, is certainly one of the highlights from New View. Its buoyant organ ambling behind Eleanor’s troubled, inquisitive words, “Why would you want to tell me the truth, or furnish me with mathematical proof?�

Eleanor’s newest is certainly simpler in scope than her prior releases, but it nonetheless embodies how she has maintained her touch as an affectingly human songwriter.

Craig Ferguson Comes to Portland, Saturday at 8 p.m. Aladdin Theater (3017 S.E. Milwaukie Ave.) $57.50.

The legendary Scottish-born American television host Craig Ferguson will be performing standup at the Aladdin Theater on Saturday. Now the host of Join Or Die on the History Channel, a panelbased history trivia show, Ferguson has just finished his decade-long run as host of The Late Late Show on CBS. His Emmy-nominated satire comedy may be a bit expensive for a night out for college students, but it may be worth it for the quality.

Sunday 3/6

Portland Timbers Season Opener, Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Providence Park (1844 SW Morrison St) $40+.

The Timbers will be facing off against Columbus Crew this weekend in their season opener. The Major League Soccer club team is part of the Western conference and will face their Eastern conference rival from Ohio on Sunday. The last time the Timbers faced Columbus Crew was at the MLS Cup 2015, where Portland won 2-1, earning the teams first MLS Cup trophy. The “Timbers Army� is expected to show up big time for the season opener, creating a loud and rowdy atmosphere for all sports fans to enjoy.

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The Zendeavors released their self-titled album in February. (Courtesy of The Zendeavors Facebook page)

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The Zendeavors have a saxophonist. His name is Ted Schera, and he works his ass off throughout the band’s self-titled debut album.

His instrument fizzes, honks and shrieks, filling up every bit of available space in the stereo field. It’s as important to the band’s sound as guitar, perhaps more so.

There are bands far more jazz-influenced than the Zendeavors who have no idea what to do with their saxophones (listen to the dispassionate hooting on some of Sade’s deep album cuts). It’s a miracle, then, that Schera’s instrument never sounds intrusive or, worse, gimmicky.

The Zendeavors, a band of University of Oregon alums now based in Portland, are a good reference point for how to make “real rock� in 2016. Though the band jams out a lot (sometimes too much; most of these songs could be halved), there’s barely any soloing in the traditional sense. Rather, there’s a lot of soft, ethereal strumming. Though nobody here sounds particularly eager to prove their chops, they’re tight enough to make their prowess obvious. And though singer Andrew Rogers is obviously an heir to the blues-rock singers of the ‘60s and ‘70s, the band’s sound isn’t retro by any means.

Rogers has come a long way as a songwriter from his 2014 solo album Through An American Wasteland, released as Abraxas Wandering, whose sinners-andsaints clichĂŠs distracted from its otherwise lovely pre-

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Dylan folk. But he’s still prone to clunkers like “if I die before I wake, then I don’t get to wake and bake.�

Rogers does a lot of drugs on this album, but it’s never clear if he’s an addict or if he’s just a 20-something musician living the carefree life of a 20-something musician. As such, it’s hard to tell if we should be concerned by a lyric like “one day I’m gonna die of overdose� or just accept it as part of a gritty seeker persona.

Even if Rogers is affecting an image, he’s certainly not affecting his voice. I’ve met Rogers, and he actually sounds like that when he talks. His gritty, feline yowl is a thing of wonder. But his voice is rather low in the mix throughout the album. This isn’t a flaw; in fact, it’s refreshing. Many rock bands go into the studio with a mainstream-rock idea of how their music sounds, and as a result, thousands of small-time bands release hyper-compressed, Californication-sounding debuts every year. The Zendeavors does not sound like Californication.

In fact, it’s hard to find a reference point for the Zendeavors’ music, no small feat for a band working in a genre as spent as rock. The closest thing I can think of to the sound of this record is David Bowie’s Blackstar, with its towering walls of sax and pit-pat drums. The Zendeavors are still young, still growing, and certainly capable of a far better album than this.

But it’s always nice to have bands around that are willing to deviate from rock’s established templates.

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The house lights fall, only to be replaced by brighter lights illuminating the stage. The bright colors of costumes bounce off huge video projection screens; a masked stage chorus sings as piercing live gunfire interrupts.

Scorched is not your typical play. It is full of fantastical elements and serves as a glimpse into the life-changing reality of war.

With a large cast and crew of about 30 people, Scorched aims to bring audiences in and make them understand the realities of the emotional, physical and mental trauma that those who’ve been affected by war experience every day. More specifically, the play portrays what those overseas in Syria are enduring in the wake of the country’s civil war.

“What [Scorched] does is it takes this interpersonal family conflict and uses it as a setting for the greater issues that come with war, like refugees, war trauma, children suffering from war,” said director Michael Malek Najjar, who spent years going to bat to be able to bring this play to the university level.

“And it also deals with what happens when a war is over. How do you go on living after going through something like that? It has many deep issues in it, and we often leave rehearsals weeping.”

The play has been in production since the beginning of fall term, with acting rehearsals beginning at the start of winter term. The hours of practice are necessary in order to bring the play to life in the most historically accurate and emotionally connective way possible.

“There’s no way to do a play like this without [having] a deep sense of empathy for the characters,” Najjar said. “It’s not enough to “act” the play, you have to read survivor accounts, you have to read what’s going on in the war, you have to read testimonies from

It’s not enough to “act” the play, you have to read survivor accounts, you have to read what’s going on in the war, you have to read testimonies from those who’ve survived and witnessed the war.”

MICHAEL MALEK NAJJAR, director of the adaptation of ‘Scorched’

those who’ve survived and witnessed the war.”

This goes as far as watching the horrific massacres, reading about human rights violations in Syrian jails and having to think about these events as if they were happening to the actors themselves. This type of method acting often leaves the cast shaken and emotional, but with a better understanding of the purpose behind the show.

“My hopes are that [the audience] will go on this emotional journey with the characters and come out the other side empathizing more with people who they may not have and understanding there’s another way out of this, and it doesn’t always have to be dealt with the way we do militarily,” Najjar said.

Scorched is set up so audience members are close, surrounding the stage rather than watching from a distance, and will watch scenes of violence unfold in front of them.

While this may leave some feeling uncomfortable or upset, it is an honest truth of what so many people have experienced in their lifetime.

“I don’t want it to feel like a story about ‘over there,’ ” Najjar said. “I want it to feel like it’s happening over here.”

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Minimum wage has been a hot-button topic for a while now. Bernie Sanders brings it up weekly on the presidential trail and the discussion has labored on in statehouses around the country, even here in Oregon. Currently, there are four statewide initiatives to raise the minimum wage, not including a plan announced by Governor Kate Brown earlier this year. The Oregon Senate responded by passing Senate Bill 1532 on Feb. 11, which passed in the House a week after.

The bill would steadily increase the state minimum wage to $13.50 over the next six years, through an established tiered system based on counties’ demographics. Within Portland’s Urban Growth Boundary the minimum wage would be $14.75.

In more rural counties the wage would be $12.50, in an effort to ease some of the financial strain on small businesses.

At the University of Oregon, service workers have negotiated via the Service Employees International Union for years to increase the contracted wage for university jobs. SEIU represents workers at all seven the public universities in the state.

Theodora Thompson, president of the local chapter of the SEIU, is an admissions specialist at the UO. She came to Oregon from Singapore 20 years ago, leaving behind a universal healthcare system and broader labor rights, to pursue her education at the UO. Since graduating and becoming a university employee, she has been active with the union’s efforts to increase the minimum wage.

“People have to have a wage that allows them to have dignity in their work and selfsufficiency with their lives,�

Thompson said.

According to a study by North Star Civic Foundation based on the 2014 Consumer Price Index, the current $9.25 wage leaves almost half of working families with one or more kids unable to meet living expenses – well over half for single parents.

Johnny Earl, a UO custodial coordinator and former vice president of the UO SEIU, was chief negotiator during the latest contract negotiations with the University of Oregon. Cost of living expenses are something that have been a part of that conversation for a while. “We’ve been talking for a long time about how this issue wasn’t going away,� Earl said. “It’s not acceptable for people working for the government to have to rely on government services just to make ends meet.

It’s not 30 years ago anymore.

It’s expensive to live on the west coast now.�

Earl said that the wage increase is a step in the right direction, but he would have preferred the $15 an hour figure that they have been pushing, which is the crux of the Local 503 SEIU’s statewide initiative.

In light of the latest senate bill, it is not certain yet whether a measure supported by SEIU to increase the statewide minimum wage to $15 will still appear on the ballot this November.

Regardless, Oregon is expected to increase the minimum wage beginning next year, something that hasn’t happened since 2014.

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WHAT IS THE INCIDENTAL FEE? THE FEE STUDENTS PAY EVERY TERM THAT FUNDS VARIOUS OPERATIONS, STUDENT GROUPS, CONTRACTS, ETC. WHAT STUDENTS PAY NOW: $223.75 TOTAL REVENUE: $15,571,314 WHAT STUDENTS PAY FALL 2016: $233.75 TOTAL REVENUE: $16,246,264 TOTAL REVENUE INCREASE: $674,950

This year, PFC will have an 11.6 percent increase in its budget to help with these fast growing groups and has also increased stipends for student leadership positions.

According to Lusby, the additional funds will help student groups become more productive. “A lot of groups grow very quickly on campus and the model PFC works in can’t accommodate that. The benchmark this year really helped us expand those student organizations,�

Lusby said.

Within this increase, $740,140 will be used to give student leaders within these groups stipends. ASUO Finance Director Shawn Stevenson said the stipends, which is 26.5 percent of PFC’s total budget, will help students develop leadership skills without having to make significant financial sacrifices or debate if they want to become more involved within their groups. “With PFC growth, we saw a lot of stipend growth. This is really going to promote student leadership. There will be more positions on campus and more ways for students to grow,�

Stevenson said.

In contrast to PFC, the Athletics and Contracts Finance Committee, which had an 8 percent increase last

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year, will have a 1 percent decrease in its budget. According to ACFC chair Andrew Dunn, this decrease helps create space to further support student groups and their work on campus. “A large increase to the [incidental fee] is not something we set as a goal, but supporting student groups on campus and providing the opportunity for student leaders to grow within their own programs they design is really important to ASUO,�

Dunn said.

Stevenson said that he is excited to see how the funds will affect the Men’s Center, which works with sexual assault prevention and reassessing masculinity. Now that the group can hire a full-time director, Stevenson and other ASUO members are optimistic about the growth the Men’s Center will see.

The ASUO decided to limit the fee increase to 4.5 percent because it did not want to be greater than the 4.46 and 4.7 percent tuition increase for in-state and out-of-state students next year, Stevenson said.

The decision was made to stand in solidarity with students.

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ikipedia has a gender problem.

The site’s governing body, the Wikimedia Foundation, found in a 2011 study that only 9 percent of its editors and fewer than 13 percent of its writers are female. This means the majority of Wikipedia’s nearly 5 million articles — relied upon by students, researchers and late-night Internet browsers every day — are penned by men.

This skews the site’s content toward men, said Eugene resident and amateur Wiki editor Vicki Amorose. It can mean articles on men are longer and better researched.

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“It’s very similar to the way that history is written by the victors. You do not hear the voices of the excluded,� said Amorose. “Certainly it affects the content of Wikipedia when 90 percent of its editors are male.�

Wikipedia is one of the top 10 most frequently visited sites on the web, and 47 percent of its readers are women.

A handful of University of Oregon faculty members, professors and local community members are taking a direct approach by hosting an “Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-AThon� this Saturday, March 5, from noon to 5 p.m. in the A&AA Library in Lawrence Hall.

The goal is to improve upon or create Wiki pages for female artists. It’s

organized by the UO Department of Art and UO Libraries.

Although female editors are encouraged to get involved, people of all gender identities and expressions are invited. Tutorials will be provided for beginner Wikipedia editors; anyone interested in participating is encouraged to create a Wikipedia account ahead of time.

The event’s Wiki meet-up page offers a list of pages to be edited, including UO professors whose pages either don’t exist or are a scant few paragraphs.

Art+Feminism is a campaign that aims to add to coverage of women artists, photographers and filmmakers on Wikipedia through these edit-a-thon events, which began in Brooklyn, New

“IT’S VERY SIMILAR TO THE WAY HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS. YOU DO NOT HEAR THE VOICES OF THE EXCLUDED.” VICKI AMOROSE, Eugene resident and amateur Wiki editor

York, in 2014. This Saturday’s edita-thon is part of an international Wikipedia editing campaign, occurring in dozens of universities and art museums around the globe, including Stockholm, New York and San Francisco.

When Amorose learned of the first Art+Feminism event in 2014, she taught herself how to edit Wikipedia and created a new page for Nuclear Beauty Parlor, an all-female group of artist-activists who protested for nuclear disarmament in 1980s San Francisco.

Amorose, one of the Nuclear Beauty Parlor members, spent two weeks assembling the page and submitted the article for Wikipedia to approve. Eventually, another editor – whose handle was “Radiodude” – deleted it because of “lack of notability.”

“I was like, ‘Radiodude, who are you to tell me this isn’t notable or important?’ ” Amorose said.

Irate and determined, she spent another three weeks looking up archived articles in The Wall Street

Journal and San Francisco Examiner about Nuclear Beauty Parlor and returned with 30 more citations for the page. The page was approved soon thereafter.

“So much of this type of history goes undocumented because it was pre-Internet,” she said. “So much is going to get lost if it’s not digitized.”

According to a 2011 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota, “There may be a systemic bias against females that cause their edits to be more likely to be reverted (undone) by another editor, particularly early on in their Wikipedia tenure.”

Unlike Amorose, many female authors and editors don’t come back and give it another try.

Mary Brau, a member of Wiki Project Oregon, a statewide collective of volunteer editors, thinks that’s because of a “difference in psychology.”

“Men come back,” Brau said.

Across the world, but especially in Western countries, studies show men have higher self-esteem than women. Women aren’t encouraged

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to exhibit behaviors associated with success — like risk-taking — so risks like submitting a Wikipedia page for editing don’t come as easily.

Wikimedia’s study reported that “if there is a typical Wikipedia editor, he has a college degree, is 30-yearsold, is computer savvy but not necessarily a programmer, doesn’t actually spend much time playing games and lives in U.S. or Europe.”

“I believe we need to understand the origins of our gender gap before we can solve it,” former Wikimedia Foundation executive Sue Gardner wrote in a blog post.

The gender imbalance means that women-centric pages receive relatively minimal handling, while male-related articles can undergo elaborate, comprehensive drafts.

When the researchers at the University of Minnesota analyzed the lengths of Wiki articles edited more heavily by men or women, they found that “the average male article is 33,301 bytes long, the average female article is 28,434 bytes long… ” But much of the Wiki gap could have more historical roots, as art and architecture librarian Sara DeWaay posits.

DeWaay suggested that the discrepancy is related to

women’s historical exclusion from academia; men traditionally wrote art history texts that, in turn, highlighted other male artists.

“That might have to do with why there is still this disparity,” DeWaay said.

“Wikipedia has a lot of rules about what types of sources you can use to document entries, so since research on women is so far behind ... there are fewer sources we can use to add women on Wikipedia.”

UO’s event focuses on women in art, and includes everything from crime novels to the avant-garde. UO academics like art professor Tannaz Farsi see this as an extension of their work.

Farsi and others have added Wiki articles for the edit-a-thon’s contributors to claim. She wants to build content on Iranian artists Parastou Forouhar, Shirazeh Houshiary and Sara Rahbar. The Minnesota study also found that in 2008, women only made up 10 percent of the editorship of arts-related Wiki articles.

“Narrating their accomplishments and documenting their impact is a means of contributing to my field,” said Farsi. “To be part of the culture of adding knowledge goes hand-inhand with what we do at the university.”

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RO U N DTA B L E : Emerald predictions as Oregon women’s basketball aims for the NCAA tournament Oregon women’s basketball was on the cusp of an NCAA Tournament berth entering its road trip last week. However, a season-ending injury to Jillian Alleyne and two consecutive losses has changed the outlook for this team as the postseason gets set. Emerald staff reporters Jonathan Hawthorne and Christopher Keizur analyze the position the Ducks are in currently and provide predictions before the Pac-12 tournament begins.

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Oregon was swept on the road in the final weekend of regular season after it won five of six games. How does that change the mentality of the team this week heading into the Pac-12 Tournament?

HAWTHORNE: I think the losses of Jillian Alleyne and Jordan Loera had a profound impact on the team. They were out of rhythm and out of sorts.

The preparation this week will likely focus on getting back into mental shape ahead of the Pac-12 Tournament, where every team is hungry to advance.

KEIZUR: The mentality should be to leave everything on the court. There are young players on this roster, like freshman point guard Maite Cazorla, who can use this opportunity to grab the reins and take control of a group that will be looking for a new leader. Three freshmen combined for 30 points in the loss against Stanford, so look for the youth movement to continue.

Who will step up in place of the injured Jillian Alleyne?

HAWTHORNE: Oregon’s three post players were 3-for-21 from the field against Stanford on Sunday. Without Alleyne in the post, the Ducks are going to have difficulty creating enough space to get quality 3-point attempts up. I can see Jacinta Vandenberg having a standout game for the Ducks on Thursday. Though she’s said she doesn’t particularly look to score, she needs to at least be an offensive presence to give Oregon’s shooters space to shoot.

She must also have a strong opening quarter so defenses focus some attention on her.

KEIZUR: None of the post players on the current roster have the ability to replace what Alleyne provided, as all were complimentary defense and hustle specialists. Thus I think the answer for the Ducks is to focus on small ball lineups that can get out and run on opponents. I think Lexi Petersen has the ability to excel in the role of a small-ball four. She has the length and speed to disrupt traditional posts on defense and her outside shooting would make for a nightmare matchup.

Against California last weekend she scored 20 points and collected seven rebounds, so there is some precedent for the position switch.

How far will Oregon advance in the Pac-12 Tournament? Could they still sneak into the NCAA Tournament?

HAWTHORNE: The first time Oregon played Arizona, freshman guard Maite Cazorla had 23 points and Kat Cooper added 18. If the Ducks receive similar efforts and Vandenberg works the high-low threat, the Ducks should beat Arizona in the first round. UCLA, though, looks like a much taller task in the second round. Head coach Kelly Graves says the Ducks must win two games to make it to the NCAA Tournament, but in the latest projections, the Ducks are nowhere to be found.

KEIZUR: It’s unfortunate to say after the team was able to build so much momentum in the second half of conference play, but Oregon isn’t going to be making a postseason run. The Ducks aren’t going to win a game in the Pac-12 Tournament — they just don’t have the firepower anymore to beat Arizona.

I think the Wildcats will see an opportunity to snag a win while Oregon will be looking to put this year in the rearview mirror.

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He proved it. In Oregon’s first series of the season at San Diego State, Balta launched two home runs and a triple to help lead Oregon to a three-game sweep.

“Not only did he have the production and power and hits, he crushed the ball when he made some outs,” manager George Horton said of Balta. “The quality of at-bats he had was borderline spectacular.”

Balta was equally excited about the performance.

“It was great,” Balta said. “Just coming back out and playing with the boys, playing with the team — it’s just a great feeling again.

“Coach gave me the opportunity to crack the starting lineup, so I just want to show everyone that I can still do it.”

Balta’s injury came during the 2015 preseason. He was walking down the stairs at his house when the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee suddenly snapped. He’d never suffered a similar injury before — there was “nothing [he] could do to control it.”

Now, Balta feels “100 percent.”

The recovery process was long, he said, but taking advantage of Oregon’s top-notch trainers and facilities made it a lot easier.

“I feel better than I was my freshman year, and I feel healthier than I have ever been,” Balta said.

Balta set Oregon freshman records with 12 doubles, three triples and 78 total bases, while batting .242 with 29 RBI and three home

runs in 2014. A first baseman/outfielder from Valencia, California, he was named a Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American.

Horton has batted Balta second in the lineup each game of the current season, where he’s led the team in RBI (7) and posted a .520 slugging percentage.

“He’s maybe not your prototypical two-hitter, but I think A.J.’s gonna be a run-producer,” Horton said.

Horton described Balta as a “very confident individual,” who errs on the side of being over-aggressive.

“We like his personality in the batter’s box,” Horton said.

Oregon has its sights set on a College World Series berth, a goal it hasn’t reached in Horton’s seven seasons at the helm. Balta said the team’s mentality is a lot tougher this year than in previous years.

“Everyone’s attitude is right where it needs to be: just treat every day like it’s opening day, and I think we do that,” Balta said. “Even with practices, we come out ready to go for it. I think we’re right where we need to be.”

After starting 47 games at first base as a freshman, Balta now finds himself playing left field, his preferred position. He modestly acknowledged he has yet to win the job outright, but with ability to hit for power, Horton will have a hard time keeping him out of the starting lineup.

“I still haven’t earned anything,” Balta said. “I still need to come out and play every game, but I definitely feel good.”

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Ever since the first day of high school, we have been taught the significance of getting A’s by our teachers and parents. The “A� grade is seen as the ultimate reward, showing superb mastery of the material and supposedly predicting future successes. Somewhere in the middle of my journey through high school I started to question whether an A actually meant anything.

People work so hard to get A’s to impress their parents or fellow classmates, but the cost of the grade seems much more than what it’s worth. The endless hours dedicated to studying, sleep deprivation and constant pressure to succeed drives many to the brink of insanity.

Once you actually get the grade you want, does it really mean anything? The satisfaction and sense of accomplishment quickly fade away and are replaced by one question: What’s next?

Letter grades are put in place to provide a simple, standardized system for evaluating students’ performances. It makes sense to give younger kids the external incentive to work hard in school, but I believe that by the time we get to college we need the inner drive to absorb knowledge in order to really get anything out of school.

Coming into college, I thought everything was going to be different from high school, and that people were going to actually care about the material instead of the grades. I have been

quite surprised to find that the high school paradigm of approaching education is very much alive in college.

I, along with all of the other incoming students at the University of Oregon, received a book called The A Game over the summer, which gives helpful tips and hints on how to grasp the celebrated letter grade. Before I even set foot in a classroom, the UO made sure to place the emphasis on striving for a letter grade, rather than getting an education.

A lot of courses are geared towards online assignments and quizzes, further taking the emphasis out of learning in the classroom and making courses more grade-oriented.

I’m sure some employers do factor grades into their applicants’ examination, but there are so many other aspects they consider as well, such as internships, jobs, extracurriculars and volunteer experience. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, college GPA was rated second to last on the list of factors employers care about.

It’s easy to continue obsessing over grades since we have been taught that following the illustrious “A� will lead us to success. The majority of conversations I overhear in my classes involve talks of being on the border between an A and a B, students praising a professor for doling out A’s or criticizing them for their strict

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grading. I hardly hear opinions about the actual material. If our grades are good, we figure we are on the fast track to success and we don’t have anything to worry about. Maybe this methodology of thinking was true when our parents were in school, but I think it is now an outdated way of looking at things.

I’m confused why there isn’t more value placed on acquiring useful knowledge. The real world is right around the corner, but it seems we’re still stuck believing that if we get good grades, then everything is going to be perfectly fine when we get out of college. Basing our future success on a grading system is not the best option.

Some liberal arts schools, such as Reed College in Portland, have decided to start deemphasizing grades, while others have opted to ditch them altogether. I understand why the grading system is in place at most colleges, but it’s time to begin looking beyond grades in order to shape the college experience into one that is going to be most helpful in equipping students with tools to succeed outside of school.

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NINKASI, “FULLER HOUSE,�

UO MEN’S B-BALL AND THE OSCARS With all the news happening around the world all the time — the violence, corruption and terror — it’s always fun to take a peek at the local Eugene news for a breath of fresh, mundane air.

I don’t think the news could get any more “Oregon� than the Feb. 23 update by the RegisterGuard about Ninkasi Brewing facing a fine of almost $7,000 by the state “for not properly keeping tabs on rainwater runoff, according to the state Department of Environmental Quality.�

Basically, Ninkasi holds a Clean Water Act permit, which requires the company to monitor its stormwater discharge four times a year.

The microbrewery came up short on these seasonal checks this year at both its locations, on Van Buren Street and on Blair Boulevard. But wait, there’s more!

According to the Eugene Weekly, “Ninkasi can appeal the penalty, pay it or offset it by implementing a ‘supplemental environmental project’ � — aka, they’d have to get crafty with something other than beer. Ideas like “rain gardens� and “stream restoration� have been thrown around.

More first-world news: everyone’s favorite white family has returned — Netflix premiered the first season of Fuller House on Feb. 26. The show that has made me give the Gilmore Girls a (short) break is a spinoff of the ever-cheesy Full House that ran from 1987-95, telling the story of the Tanner family.

This time, D.J. is a widow with three young boys

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and her party-girl sister Stephanie and her quirky BFF Kimmy Gibbler move in to help her out. Just about everyone from the original show makes an appearance (and are greeted by the alwaysobnoxious “audience� cheers) — all but the Olsen Twins, that is.

Fuller House pokes fun at a lot of things in its 13 episodes (that I proudly watched in 48 hours) including just how cheesy Full House was and how much has changed in the world -mostly with technology and pop culture references- in the last 29 years since the OG show’s debut. There is also some adult humor thrown in, which doesn’t always land right.

On Sunday, I took a break from the endless hugs on Fuller House and did something that still surprises me: I went to the Oregon men’s basketball game instead of staying home and watching the 88th Academy Awards.

The Ducks performed well with an 86-73 win against the Huskies. The halftime show was odd and entertaining — as a halftime show should be.

All in all, senior night with the boys was a good time with some nostalgic undertones.

The metaphoric cherry on top of the end-ofseason home games was the big reveal on Feb. 29, that deemed Oregon No. 9 in the latest poll by AP. Let’s send the men positive vibes in their last couple games in the coming weeks.

I left Matthew Knight Arena right in time to get home and watch the final Oscar giveaways in the night’s biggest categories. Leo DiCap can

finally be introduced in his upcoming movies as “One-Time Academy Award Winner.� He’s been validated! I imagined all the meme and gif makers, moments before Leo’s name was called, like at the end of the Super Bowl or the World Series where they have two variations of the next day’s paper ready.

Also, Spotlight. This was the one movie in the Best Picture section that I actually got to see in its entirety and I’m so happy it won. Long live journalism and talented, daring and authentic journalists!

Before these last few exciting bits of the show, there was a lot of other greatness at the Oscars, like Lady Gaga’s performance that powerfully shed light on sexual assault and Alejandro Gonzålez Iùårritu’s speech after winning Best Director for The Revenant. Girl Scout Cookies were sold.

As for some questionable moments, Chris Rock addressed racial inequality in Hollywood, but at some points it seemed to be too much for me.

Stacey Dash, aka Dee from Clueless, was a whole other story that made me (and Chrissy Teigen) shudder.

Negina Pirzad is an opinion columnist at the Emerald. The Weekly Ponder is her column discussing the latest trends and news in pop culture.

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