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THREE DIFFERENT MINIMUM WAGE STANDARDS WILL BE IN PLACE IN OREGON BY 2022.

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Oregon’s public universities presidents petition state for $100 million UO President Michael Schill, along with the presidents of six other public universities, is petitioning the state of Oregon for a $100 million increase in funding.

The petition was sent to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission on Wednesday, March 30.

Collectively, they asked for $765 million for the 20172019 cycle, which is $100 million more than the current cycle. According to the petition, this will not stop tuition increases but help the increases stay lower than 5 percent each year. The HECC will review the petition for a budget increase on April 13.

The Emerald is published by Emerald Media Group, Inc., the independent nonprofit media company at the University of Oregon.

Formerly the Oregon Daily Emerald, the news organization was founded in 1900.

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UO student charged with sexual assault Sean Wood was arrested March 30 by the UOPD. Wood has been charged with unlawful sexual penetration in the first degree following an investigation that stemmed from an incident at Wood’s residence on Feb. 6. According to court documents, he is also charged with sexual abuse for an occurrence in September 2013. Both victims are University of Oregon students. Prior to his arrest, Wood was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.

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Gun pulled at Taylor’s Forest Laughner was arrested by the Eugene Police Department around 1 a.m. on March 29 after revealing a gun outside Taylor’s Bar and Grill. Laughner, 23, was cut off from service and asked to leave by Taylor’s staff before he revealed a gun in his waistband outside the bar. Laughner attempted to flee the scene but was ultimately arrested on the corner of 11th Avenue and Alder Street. He is charged with reckless endangering, unlawful use of a weapon and three counts of menacing.

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Printers on campus hacked to produce antiSemitic flyers Five printers on the UO campus were part of a national hacking that produced anti-Semitic flyers promoting a neoNazi website. On March 25, network printer ports received the flyers that were open to the Internet.

A 30-year-old hacker, Andrew Auernheimer, took credit for the hack, according to the Washington Times. The flyers appeared at a number of institutions — including Oregon State University, Brown, Princeton, University of Southern California and University of Rhode Island – as they prepared for Holocaust Remembrance Week.

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3/28: The Pacific coast biking story was wrongly attributed to Craig Wright. The story was written by Mathew Brock.

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New bill may move

LIQUOR SALES

(Mariel Abbene)

to grocery stores

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This November, Oregonians will vote on whether grocers that are licensed to sell beer and wine will also be allowed to sell liquor. Currently, only statecertified stores are allowed to sell liquor. This is the first time that such a measure has made it on the ballot, though grocery associations have lobbied for a bill for years.

Pat McCormick, a spokesperson for Oregonians for Competition, the main petitioners for the ballot measure, says that the current state-run monopoly system is bad for the government and for residents. “It makes little sense for the government to be responsible for enforcement of alcohol laws on one hand and to be promoting the consumption of liquor by selling it on the other,� McCormick said.

If passed, this measure would prevent the state from selling liquor and instead make its largest function liquor law enforcement. This entails everything from drunk driving laws to making sure that stores aren’t selling to minors.

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McCormick says that the measure has been received well by Oregonians. “They like the idea of being able to buy distilled liquor at the same place that they already can buy beer and wine,� he said. “It leads to more convenience for the consumer and less hassle for the government.�

Liquor sales are the third biggest source of money for Oregon, behind revenue from taxes and the state lottery. Losing this revenue source will mean a lot of restructuring of programs that directly benefit from liquor revenue, as well as the potential for a liquor tax in the future. “It’s inevitable that the legislature will try to change programs and try to share in that revenue source,� said McCormick. “We wanted to make that process more transparent and revenue neutral.�

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission breaks down where each portion of liquor sales currently goes.

Almost half of the costs are absorbed by manufacturers, meaning half of each dollar goes into making the liquor itself. Thirty seven percent represents revenue for the state, county and city. The rest goes into OLCC’s operating costs, bank card transaction costs and commission for the sellers.

Christie Scott of OLCC describes what may happen due to the measure passing. “With the restructuring that would happen should this measure pass, OLCC’s operating costs may go down, potentially leading to bigger profits elsewhere,� Scott said. “However, if the result is increasing manufacturing costs and higher commission, the result could also be higher prices for consumers, as was the case in Washington.�

Oregon would still be making revenue from retailers needing to buy and renew licenses, a fact that both Scott and McCormick point out will not take away from state revenue.

If passed, the measure would take effect in July 2017.

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GUEST VIEWPOINT: DUCK SQUAD WILL ELEVATE STUDENT VOICES This piece reflects the views of the authors, Helena Schlegel and Claire Johnson, and not those of Emerald Media Group. It has been edited by the Emerald for grammar and style. Send your columns or submissions about our content or campus issues to letters@dailyemerald.com.

ASUO Internal Vice President Claire Johnson (Courtesy of ASUO)

ASUO President Helena Schlegel (Courtesy of ASUO)

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s the president and vice president of the ASUO, we have engaged with students across campus on many issues throughout the year.

We have worked toward the mission of empowering students and creating a more inclusive student body. During this election cycle, there is one team that we feel upholds this mission by continually advocating for students and working to improve the UO community. When voting this week on DuckWeb, please vote for the campaign that is for the students: Duck Squad.

Samara, Abel and Sophie, the executive ticket, are students who have all been actively involved in the movement for student power and social justice.

They have entered the election not to build a resume, but to continue their work. Members of Duck Squad have spent their time at the UO advocating in Salem for funding for higher education, organizing rallies to bring attention to campus injustices, testifying at the Board of Trustees and Tuition & Fees Advisory Board meetings on behalf of students, pursuing racial justice in coordination with the Black Student Task Force and so much more.

Duck Squad’s slate is made up of students from a diverse array of student groups and identities that accurately represent this campus. The team has members from student unions, fraternity and sorority life, and many ASUO programs. They know what it means to be a student on campus and how to make student experiences better in the future.

The students running with Duck Squad are working to continue their progress in making tangible changes on campus. They fight for fair tuition, create racial justice on campus, educate on sex positivity and sexual violence prevention and genuinely care about each and every one of us.

Go on DuckWeb this week before Friday at 4 p.m. and cast your vote for Duck Squad. Every vote counts, and every student should be represented by a team that advocates and cares the way Duck Squad does.

Sincerely, Helena Schlegel, 2015-2016 ASUO President Claire Johnson, 2015-2016 ASUO Internal Vice President

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6 YEAR PROJECTION OF MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE

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Minimum wage isn’t really enough to live on ... If you have a car to pay off and rent on top of all the school costs, it’s just not enough to make you financially independent.”

SAM COFFARO, junior advertising student

“The money helps a lot with buying textbooks and some other school supplies,” Williams said.

An out-of-state student, Williams said that any extra income helps pay for the higher tuition costs.

“I’ve taken out every federal loan I possibly can and have some recurring scholarships,” Williams said. “Any amount of money from working helps me financially. I think that this minimum wage increase will do a lot to help other students like me.”

If the university will be forking out more cash to its employees, it will have to find a way to manage these costs.

With tuition hikes fresh on everyone’s minds, it is natural to wonder if a higher minimum wage will bring even higher tuition.

Klinger said that while tuition increases are a way to bring in more revenue, the budgeting board factors in a lot more costs than just wages in tuition decisions.

Theodora Thompson — currently the UO chapter president of the Service Employees International Union, the group that lobbied heavily for a minimum wage increase bill – said that a wage increase can be an offset for higher tuition and costs associated with college.

“This increase will help students meet the costs of rising tuition,” Thompson said.

Originally from Singapore, Thompson came to the UO in 1995, when the minimum wage was $4.75 per hour. She recalls struggling to get enough hours to pay for the costs of living and going to school.

“I was working for a fast-food company at the time and couldn’t find enough hours to get a bigger paycheck,” Thompson said. “Once I graduated and began to work for the university, I saw an opportunity within the union to speak on behalf of those experiences.”

Sam Coffaro is also an out-of-state student.

Originally from Pittsburgh, she moved to Thousand Oaks, California, and later started college at California Lutheran University. She transferred to the UO to study advertising last year.

Coffaro has a minimum-wage job as a building monitor at Allen Hall on the UO campus, cleaning classrooms and maintaining facilities. She also works seasonally for the Duck Store during the textbook rushes to make extra cash. The Duck Store’s employees are not paid by the university.

“Minimum wage isn’t really enough to live on,” Coffaro said. “If you have a car to pay off and rent on top of all the school costs, it’s just not enough to make you financially independent.”

Coffaro is trying to do just that – make herself financially independent – a requirement to apply for in-state tuition, something that would save her a lot of money while attending the UO. Because tuition at the UO for the 2016-2017 school year was fixed before the statewide minimum wage increase, this next year will act as a sort of trial run for how the increases — which begin in July — will play out in the future. Beginning next year, the university will likely have a clearer picture of how the increases will affect tuition.

The new law breaks the state down into different economic areas, with the largest increases happening in the Portland metro area, where the minimum wage will be $14.75 by 2022. The wage hikes will be spread out over a six-year span, giving time for businesses and industries to adjust to higher labor costs.

“We are appreciative of the legislature phasing in these increases incrementally,” Klinger said. “This gives us time to work with lawmakers to find other ways of providing funding and revenue for our public universities.”

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YOUNG THUG’S ‘Slime Season 3’ gives nothing new

The music on Young Thug’s Slime Season 3 is less exciting than the music it promises. This release, which marks the end of the Slime Season series, is more of the same; there’s nothing here Thug hasn’t done as well or better on a prior release.

Except for one song: “Worth It,� which is a great, gooey R&B slow jam that features some hilariously filthy sex talk (“I’ma shoot inside that pussy like a hooli on you / Goddamn, I’m sorry, B�), as well as some of Thug’s tenderest and most virtuosic singing to date. It’s the kind of thing Thug’s hero Lil Wayne might have put on Tha Carter III or IV, and if Thug intends to keep following Weezy’s career path, he’ll cap his current mixtape run with an album full of songs like these.

It’s the most promising thing Thug’s done in about three mixtapes. (And don’t miss the adorable video, starring him and his fiancee Jerrika.)

But for the most part, the differences between Slime Season 3 and Slime Seasons 1 and 2 – or, for that matter, last month’s mixtape I’m Up – are negligible. It’s darker and less hooky than I’m Up, it’s not quite as weird as Slime Season 2,

and it’s more consistent than Slime Season. (It’s also only eight tracks, a break from the meandering sprawl of the last two Slime Seasons.) But these differences feel too small to get excited about, and pretty much everything we’ve come to expect from Thug is here – triple-time rapping, trap beats, shrieked hooks, a lot of non-sequiturs.

All that said, Slime Season 3 isn’t a bad release. There’s no real filler, and there are plenty of thrilling moments (Thug’s deranged rant on “Drippin’ “; the Auto-Tune histrionics on “Memo�).

Newcomers will likely be dazzled by how well he juggles eccentricity with no-bullshit Southern bangercraft. And thanks to its brief length, Slime Season 3 is a great tape to play for newcomers. But it’s easy to be cynical if you’ve followed Thug and heard it all before.

Down the road, Slime Season 3 will probably be regarded as either Thug’s most listenable or most forgettable mixtape. It’s so him it’s gotta count for something. But it also doesn’t do anything to expand our ideas of who he is.

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allowed Sulman Raza to reflect and develop

Sulman Raza on the course during a spring 2016 tournament. (Adam Eberhardt)

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While going through the recruiting process in 2011, Sulman Raza asked Oregon men’s golf head coach Casey Martin about taking a redshirt year during college to focus on academics.

Raza intended to major in architecture – a five-year program. Martin and Raza decided that, during the 2014-15 season, Raza would redshirt while continuing to work on golf.

According to Raza, the redshirt year was needed, not only to focus on school but also to improve on his previous two years at Oregon.

“My golf game was not that great,” Raza said.

“At the time, I couldn’t break 75. I’d lost some weight and wasn’t working out much in the summer, so I just thought it would be a good opportunity to get my game together and work on a few parts that weren’t so sharp, which were putting, ball-striking and definitely lifting.”

Now a redshirt junior, Raza has emerged as one of Oregon’s most reliable players. On March 9, in the Southern Highlands in Las Vegas, Raza finished tied for third despite the Ducks 10th place team finish. Thirteen days later, Raza won

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the Northwest Classic at the Willamette Country Club in Canby, Oregon, beating out teammates Nigel Lett and Aaron Wise. It was the first individual win of Raza’s college career.

“Sulman struggled a tad and then popped out of it in Vegas,” Martin said. “To get his first win was huge. He’s done some really good things.”

Raza is the first to acknowledge that he can be too hard on himself after hitting a bad shot. This was particularly true when he played in tough conditions.

“The key for me when I played was just staying really patient out there because I’d struggled in the past with staying patient when elements got in the way,” he said.

Raza’s patience paid off. Strong winds at the Southern Highlands Golf Club hampered the Ducks. No one besides Raza finished higher than 27th.

Wet conditions persisted throughout the Northwest Classic, including a suspension of play during the first round. But, Raza kept his calm, winning the tournament by four strokes (-10).

“Any time you can get a win you’re going to gain so much confidence from it,” said Wise, who has won four tournaments in his two years at Oregon. “Sulman is playing well.”

If Raza continues his run and the Ducks advance to the NCAA championships in May, it could be Raza’s homecoming. Raza, who attended South Eugene High School before joining the Ducks, recognizes the significance of playing for an NCAA title in his hometown, but doesn’t want to put any added pressure on himself or the team.

“Maybe there will be more of that for me since I’m the hometown kid,” Raza said, “but I have to forget, again, a lot of that – take it as another tournament and just enjoy the moment.”

Looking back on last year’s redshirt season, Raza believes it had a sizable impact on where his game is currently.

“Especially mentally, I think I did a lot of reflecting through my last few years when I was redshirting to become a better player,” he said.

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WHO WILL BE NEXT TO LEAD THE PACK? Next year, a new team member will take over the role of team captain.

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Caroline Inglis is having a career year for the Ducks. She is the 16th ranked women’s amateur golfer in the world and her 73.19 stroke average is best on the team. She is without a doubt the leader on this team, and her teammates can attest to that.

“On the golf course she is just as much of a leader as she is off the golf course,” junior Cathleen Santoso said.

Head coach Ria Scott echoes this sentiment, calling Inglis “the best senior leader I’ve ever had in my time coaching.”

But Inglis is approaching the end of her college career and soon the title of team captain will fall onto someone else’s shoulders. Two likely candidates are Santoso and fellow junior Marcella Pranovia. Both are just behind Inglis in terms of stroke average. Pranovia is second with a 74.57 and Santoso third at 75.06. More importantly, both have noticed tremendous personal growth in one another since they joined the team.

“Freshman year, we were there just kind of learning all the basics and all that, but she’s really stepped up,” Pranovia said of Santoso.

The two came to Oregon as part of the same recruit class. They have played together since freshman year and have watched each other develop into the players they are today. Santoso especially noticed Pranovia’s growth since they were both freshmen.

“My freshman year, she [Pranovia] was a clueless little one, but she’s definitely learned the rules, and learned what it means to be a leader and an upperclassman,” Santoso said. “Two or three years difference in age may not seem like a lot, but after going through it yourself, you can look back and see the transformation ... I think she’s definitely grown a lot.”

Pranovia and Santoso are going to be competing for the team captain title next year, but a frontrunner for that position has already been established. Pranovia has said that she and

Santoso have discussed who will take over Inglis’ role next year and Santoso seems to be the perfect fit.

“She [Santoso] wants to try and be our team captain next year, which is great,” Pranovia said.

“She knows every single one of us and is very open minded, and I think that’s a characteristic that a leader needs.”

Pranovia is not upset that Santoso wants that role; she’s thrilled.

“I’m really excited for her,” Pranovia said. “She’s grown so much.”

As for Santoso, she is prepared to take on that responsibility. It’s something she’s been working toward since her first day on campus. Soon, it could be a reality.

“I’m more than ready to take on that role and I’m really excited to do so,” Santoso said.

“Caroline has taught me a lot and I’ve spoken to the coaches a lot too, so I think it’s going to be a great senior year for us.”

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ARE TRUMP & SANDERS MAKING PARTIES BETTER BY DIVIDING THEM? Donald Trump is causing a civil war.

Defying the odds and political experts alike, Trump has amassed a considerable following and an astounding delegate count throughout his campaign success. What many Republicans thought would be a business blowhard making his latest publicity stunt has turned into a debacle that is shaking the GOP to its very foundation.

Party leaders from around the nation have called for every option to stop Trump’s growing momentum.

Just what has Trump done to cause such a movement against him?

Experts around the nation have summarized Trump’s brand of Republicanism as the culmination of years of unchecked and dogmatic language against Obama and the Democratic Party. Others see his candid demeanor as profoundly revolutionary.

His refusal to speak “politically correctly� has turned a routine election into an intriguing, dramatic battle of laughable wits between his unique political style and an institution that many see as frustratingly gridlocked. Regardless, what Trump has become (and what Sanders has become on the other side) is a manifestation of ideals, and this is what scares the parties: they present actual actions on rhetoric that has largely been angry and unimaginative.

This dawn of Trumpism — defined by his candor and refusal to play by the traditional rules of politics — is asking the Republican party to accept a leader who they are not sure they can stand behind. His questionable condoning of violence and perceived racism is incompatible with Republicanism for many, while some see the growing masses behind him and believe his rise is inevitable.

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Between these two ideologies, the Republican party is beginning to divide as officials align themselves under either Trump or the new Mitt Romney-led #NeverTrump coalition.

A Trump nomination can mean two things: the Republican Party endorses a man the public has called xenophobic, bigoted, racist and misogynistic, further marking their descent into a more polarized party; or they can choose to divide the party in hopes of reconstructing a more moderate but functional party.

As Lee Drutman from Vox reported, the United States has reached peak polarization, which somewhat explains the enthusiasm for populist figures like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.

Parties have adopted incommensurable stances on key issues and voter divisions are deeper than ever, resulting in a full governmental shutdown in 2013 that cost the country $24 billion as neither party wished to concede to the other.

Candidates promising productivity through Congress are tallying votes, which raises an interesting question: Can these radical nominees solve America’s partisan problem?

The dissension between Trump’s coalitions and the Republican base has forced the party to divide itself in hopes that it can find common ground between its own supporters. As Drutman surmises, this newfound diversity in ideologies will hopefully pressure the party to concede its staunch commitment to its traditional beliefs.

This may force an acceptance of differing ideals between its own members, therefore broadening the base beliefs of the party and allowing for more opportunity for cooperation with members of the opposite party that share the same beliefs.

In a nutshell, this division cutting the staple parties in half may very well be the unifier for the

(Mariel Abbene)

two historic rivals — in order for the system to be built back up, it must first be torn down.

For many voters, seeing Trump for more than his uncouth attitude is impossible — let alone seeing him as something that the American government needs. Sanders, though less divisive, is creating a similar phenomenon on the Democratic side, as his venture to the far left is raising questions as to just what being a Democrat means.

It’s raucous, unsettling, delectably entertaining and best of all, it leans towards a future of American government that could be bright and hopefully absent of the gridlock besmirching the Obama administration’s partisan tenure.

Regardless, what Trump has become (and what Sanders has become on the other side) is a manifestation of ideals, and this is what scares the parties: they present actual actions on rhetoric that has largely been angry and imaginative. While the future is continuing to be analyzed, the present brand that the nominees have left on the party image is irreparable, and that “damage� has the potential to be the solution to the partisan problem, if not in this election, then in races to come.

By going against the grain, Sanders and Trump are intriguing voters in ways that candidates have not done for quite a while, and this intrigue will hopefully lead voters to expand the policies of their parties and open up discussions across the aisle. After all, there’s only one other approach to be afraid of, and it’s already so familiar — politics as usual.

Alec Cowan is a political columnist at the Emerald. Follow Alec on Twitter @SirAlec_9542.

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