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THE SCENES DIRECTOR ZEINA SALAME’S ‘STAGE KISS’ OPENS THIS WEEKEND AT UO.

Although the play focuses on the drama of the stage, we take a look behind the set at the people that keep the lights on, the costumes stitched and the curtains rising.

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FRIDAY & SATURDAY Stage Kiss — Robinson Theater in Villard Hall (1109 Old Campus Ln.), 8 p.m., free for UO students with ID Directed by Theatre Arts graduate student Zeina Salame, Stage Kiss is a romantic comedy written by Tonynominated playwright Sarah Ruhl.

The melodrama follows two romantic leads who lose touch with reality when the story follows them offstage. This performance stars students from the University of Oregon theater program.

Read more about the production of Stage Kiss on page 8.

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SATURDAY 4/23 Design a Skateboard Deck — Old School Eugene (207 E 5th St., Suite 120), 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., $60 At Old School Eugene, a creative space in downtown Eugene, everyone has the opportunity to design their own skateboard this weekend. A fee of $60 provides designers with supplies, a board and grip tape. Using the various materials provided for decoration of your own one-of-a-kind skateboard, designers will leave with a completely rideable board for commuting around Eugene.

Judah & the Lion — HiFi Music Hall (44 E 7th Ave.), 8 p.m., $12 The Americana-folk band Judah & the Lion is coming to Eugene this weekend in support of their second full-length album, Folk Hop N’ Roll, which was released in March. The bluesy band from Nashville formed in 2011 and has already received success on the charts, with its first EP Sweet Tennessee. Fans of folk and blues music can see Judah & the Lion’s performance at HiFi Music Hall.

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FRIDAY 4/22 Matt & Ben — Funhouse Lounge (2432 SE 11th Ave.), 7 p.m., $15 This satirical play written by comedy genius Mindy Kaling and producer Brenda Withers is being performed at the Funhouse Lounge in Portland this weekend. The “Hollywood Cinderella story� is based on fictional activities of real-life movie stars (and Kaling’s real-life friends) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The play’s storyline follows the duo’s efforts in scripting Good Will Hunting and their friendship’s formation along the way. Matt & Ben is an allfemale production (yes, including the title characters.)

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Spring arrives with Blossom Time For the entire month of April, the Hood River Valley community will be celebrating the arrival of spring with its annual Blossom Time.

Thanks to the beautiful pink and white fruit tree blossoms that bloom every year in the spring, the entire region marks the arrival of the warmer months ahead with a large festival.

The Hood River Fruit Loop is the main attraction, as a 35-mile tour route around 20 farm vendors and wineries participating in Blossom Time with special events

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Events throughout the month include a Blossom Time craft show, Blossom Time quilt show, a farm “pansy party,� a grange blossom dinner and an all-you-can-eat breakfast hosted by the fire department. For those over 21, there are several wine and beer-tasting events.

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Doug Benson — Helium Comedy Club (1510 SE 9th Ave.), 4:20 p.m., $22, 21+ In order to truly celebrate the 4/20 weekend, one must spend it with High Times Magazine’s “Stoner of the Year,�

Doug Benson. Host of Doug Loves Movies, star of documentary Super High Me, and host of web series Getting Doug with High, comedian Benson comes to Portland this weekend to celebrate Earth Day by “enjoying God’s green Earth� and performing his stand-up comedy at the Helium Comedy Club.

SUNDAY 4/24 Portland Flea & Food Market — Rejuvenation and Jacobsen Salt Co. (1100 SE Grand Ave.) 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., free entry The Portland Flea & Food Market is being launched for the first time this season. Written up as a gathering place for the “best of Portland’s makers, food purveyors and curators of vintage to sell their wares and grow their businesses,� the market will showcase over 50 vendors along with a large selection of food for shoppers. After this launch, the Portland Flea & Food Market will continue every last Sunday of the month.

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Zeina Salame, director of ‘Stage Kiss’ leads a group of talented backstage hands that keep the gears turning.

Photo by Samuel Marshall.

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In this installment of Double Takes, two Emerald writers share their thoughts on the new film The Jungle Book.

Daniel Bromfield The Jungle Book feels like an instant classic. It’s the kind of movie people go back to, either for the taut action or for the stunning visuals; about every five minutes, there’s a shot that feels iconic as Jack’s stroll down the spiral hill in Nightmare Before Christmas. If all this movie had going for it was the end credit sequence, it’d still be worth it.

The characters are mostly tropes, though they’re believable, especially Ben Kingsley as big-hearted stick in the mud Bagheera and Idris Elba as hyper-violent Shere Khan. The most poignant character arc is that of Bill Murray’s Baloo, whose love of the “man-cub� Mowgli turns him from cold-hearted conman to blubbering papa bear. The only distracting celebrity was Christopher Walken, whose King Louie was basically just a scarier version of Baloo.

The Jungle Book’s biggest flaw is that it’s a bit confused.

It starts with operatic grandeur, then turns into a lighterhearted movie where animals talk in New York accents.

Some of the comedic elements seemed out of place, as in when Mowgli jostles beasts that exclaim “Excuse me!�

There are also only two musical numbers; I wish they’d either included all or none of the original 1967 Jungle Book songs, which mostly seemed there for nostalgia.

A lot of the kids watching this won’t have seen the original, so nostalgia might not have been the best approach for this project. But when those kids revisit it down the road, they’ll have tons to marvel at.

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Chris Berg Jon Favreau took one hell of a leap of faith by committing to remake The Jungle Book as a liveaction/CG film. With one single human actor in the entire film and an environment generated wholly by computer imagery, it’s easy to see how this trip into the jungle could’ve ended in disaster. But the end result is a modern piece of movie magic.

Boasting the most convincing digital scenery since Avatar, the world on display feels unquestionably real. Even the animals, voiced by an all-star cast and occasionally breaking into song, are crafted with immaculate detail. Unlike James Cameron’s tour of Pandora, The Jungle Book has to contend with reality as a comparison point. We all know what a tiger looks like, and convincing our brains that a digital recreation is the real thing is no easy task. But every animal in this Jungle passes with flying colors.

The narrative is simple and charming, working ideally as a path to take us through two hours of visual splendor. Captured in stunning 3D to create a wonderful panorama display, The Jungle Book is bound to be one of 2016’s top cinema experiences.

Make it a triple take — visit emrld.co/jungletakes to read Anna Lieberman’s review of the film.

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The late ‘60s were a time of wondrous and rapid evolution in pop music with major and underground acts alike risking their commercial viability in the name of art-minded experimentation. But perhaps no one went further out than the Swedes.

The “progg� scene that flourished in Sweden’s hippie-era communes and universities was devoted to anti-commercialism, guerrilla performance, leftist politics and live improvisation that made the Grateful Dead look tame.

It was DIY before DIY, punk before punk and though it has since become a bit of a joke in Sweden, the rest of the world can only goggle in wonder.

Progg is still little-known in the States. Expect Anthology Recordings’ Träd, Gräs och Stenar box set – available for your streaming pleasure on Spotify – to change this.

Collecting two live albums and a glut of unreleased jams from the Swedish band Träd, Gräs och Stenar (which translates to “trees, grass and stonesâ€?), this five-hour compilation is a wonderful entry point to a forgotten rock scene that never quite got its due.

Some context: Träd, Gräs och Stenar was the final incarnation of a collective of musicians that had previously gone by the names Harvester, International Harvester and Pärson Sound. The music the band made as Stenar was a lot more rock-oriented and less out-there than the amorphous, minimal noise they had made under their prior names. The live albums here – Djungelns Lag and Mors

Mors – were released in 1971 and 1972, respectively. By this time, the music they were making was unruly and proudly experimental but also unexpectedly listenable.

Most of the songs here are, for lack of a better word, jams. Träd, Gräs och Stenar were art-school friends, and their music isn’t far removed from what I’ve heard lots of bands here at the University of Oregon do in the heat of particularly wild house shows. They sound like a bunch of buddies screwing around. But they’re always in tune with each other, and it’s a blast hearing the different band members’ ideas bounce off of each other as they move through their songs.

They also create better music than most basement bands, in part because of their restraint. These jams prioritize texture over soloing or dramatic crescendos, and they’re usually gorgeous.

This is not music for people with short attention spans, and indeed, not everyone will want to wade through five hours of improvisational rock. But it’s not essential to listen to this thing front-to-back.

It feels like it’s on shuffle anyway; many of these performances were recorded in drastically different places, from festivals and houses to meadows and airfields, and the recording quality track to track tends to vary.

But if you just want to get lost in a head-expanding musical space for a while, you could do a lot worse than throwing on Träd, Gräs och Stenar.

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Talking with Californian University of Oregon students about why they came to Oregon can often yield complaints about California’s higher instate tuition and academic standards. For Patrick McClellan, a Palo Alto native who attended Mountain View High School in California before going to the UO, these lamentations are nothing new. “I’ve always heard the rumors that it’s much easier for out-of-state students to get accepted to UC schools,� McClellan said, “and I’ve heard that they are accepting fewer and fewer Californians each year.�

The latest audit of the University of California school system finally gave solid proof of these assertions and highlighted some major reasons for the increasing number of Californians attending Oregon schools. Last years’ data for UC schools shows that certain behaviors and decisions of the UC Board severely disadvantage residential Californians in being accepted to UC campuses.

UC schools have been lowering academic standards for nonresidential students over the past five years in order to accept more nonresidential applicants.

Last year, UC schools collectively accepted about 16,000 students that were below the mean SAT/ACT scores, contributing to a more than 400 percent increase in non-residential enrollment. “We also saw cases where residential students would receive acceptance letters that referred them to enrollment at other schools, even ones that they hadn’t applied for,â€? said Margarita FernandĂŠz of

the California State Auditor’s Office. “This was not the case for nonresidential students.�

FernandĂŠz referenced a key shift in the business models and profitmotives of the UC campuses. Before 2007, all UC schools had to hand tuition revenue over to the UC Board of Reagents, where it was then divided up amongst the 10 campuses. Now, UC schools get to keep all of the revenue from non-residential tuition rather than give it away, placing a clear advantage toward seeking out-of-state enrollment.

McClellan says that these circumstances reflect his own reasoning for seeking college outside of his home state.

A junior studying economics, McClellan said he chose UO for its college-town feel. Growing up near Stanford University, he wanted a school that could match the same social and academic atmosphere for less money. “At UC schools it can be hard to get the classes you need on time, leading to more time spent pursuing your degree,� McClellan said. “Since I’m already taking out loans to pay off school, why not go to an outof-state school where I know I will be able to graduate sooner and for less money?�

McClellan said that even though the realities of the UC school system can be frustrating, he doesn’t feel like he had to settle for UO. Current president-elect of the ECON Club, he feels that the experiences and connections he’s acquired from the UO have benefitted him.

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ne scene in the latest University Theatre play has over 25 technical cues in a matter of 120 seconds.

In the stage’s wings, dressed head to toe in black, armed with headsets and scripts full of notes and racing around in the dark are the crew members who will be working behind the curtain. By opening night on April 22, they’ll be ready for people to file into the Robinson Theatre on the University of Oregon campus for Stage Kiss.

The crew attempts to operate in the dark, as the silent puppet masters of the show — ready to execute quick set changes, blackouts and fire off the sound effects that will bring the show to life.

This will be the reality for those working on Stage Kiss, which runs through May 7. This week marks the show’s final dress rehearsals. This means the show’s seven crew members have spent hours in the theater perfecting lighting and set changes until the final curtain drops. “If their [crew] call is about 6 p.m., on a good night during tech rehearsal you get to leave at 10. Often it goes until about 11,� said Zeina Salame, who is the show’s director and a Ph.D. student at UO. “And depending on the run of the show, sometimes later. It’s a long night, and we will be busy for every second of it.�

The show’s plot follows an actress who is reentering the business after a sabbatical from the acting world. She ironically lands the lead alongside her estranged lover. While they now both lead different lives, the play shows how one onstage kiss can ignite emotions in people on and off the stage.

While the goal of any stage crew is to go unnoticed by audience members, this time it’s a little different.

Watching this show, audiences will get a taste of each aspect of the theater — including what’s happening backstage.

The show is what many would refer to as “meta�: it’s a play all about how to create a play.

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Director Zeina Salame (left) and crew member Ben Larson work with the rest of the crew backstage for hours during tech week.

To give another hint of what to expect, a review by NBC New York said: “The play both spoofs and honors actors, with the idea that their actions in real life could be easily affected by their roles on stage.�

This has proven to be a popular show for this reason and should be especially appealing to theater buffs.

The crew members have to work to bring together every component of the show. This includes props, staging and up to six changes of three large sets that take up the entire stage. “Something that people can easily forget [is that] those who decide to work on crew

are extremely dedicated to the process, and absolutely integral to its success,� said Salame.

At first, the crew members practice all of the technical aspects of the show without the actors present, then the actors are integrated. This is called a “wet tech� rehearsal, and they are often full of kinks to work out before opening night.

Stage manager Alisha Rogers says the hardest part about her job is timing. She has to work with many other people to coordinate the lights, sound, the set and more. And even with Rogers’ seven years of experience, she says it’s not so easy.

“SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE CAN EASILY FORGET [IS THAT] THOSE WHO DECIDE TO WORK ON CREW ARE EXTREMELY DEDICATED TO THE PROCESS, AND ABSOLUTELY INTEGRAL TO ITS SUCCESS .”

ZEINA SALAME, director of Stage Kiss.

While she has two assistant stage managers to help run the show, Rogers has the final say when it comes to calling cues for every tiny moment that takes place on stage.

“Figuring out when costumes go on, when and where for the first time, was kind of a bumbling,” said assistant stage manager and junior Ben Jones.

“We had to stop and hold a few times … Every aspect of tech is like that.” He goes on to say how something so small as needing to adjust the trajectory of a light can be cause for them to put rehearsal on pause.

“Just the little tweaks change a bunch of other little things,” he said. “It’s just about greasing the gears.”

Jones says this is the most technically complicated and intricate show he’s seen in his time here at UO, so getting all of these little things down to a science is even more crucial.

Not only is the show on the line, but so is the safety of those on stage. There are constantly moving pieces to Stage Kiss. Besides the large sets to be aware of, there’s also the flying in of large back walls and the heavy curtain.

But regardless of the long hours and inevitable mishaps that can drag rehearsal into

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the late hours of the night, it’s worth it to those who work backstage come showtime.

“I really like the feeling of being up in the booth with both of your techs on either side of you and calling that first call for curtain and knowing the audience is so immersed,” said Rogers.

The crew has to command movement on stage without letting the audience catch on that there are people making these shifts happen.

“I think there’s a lot of the magic elements of theater in the things you don’t see that we do back here,” said freshman crew member Emily Mair. “I think it’s really inclusive — something about everyone working together to make a piece of art.”

Whether it’s sweeping the stage beforehand or manning the ropes in the wings, everyone is needed to make it all come together.

“In a lot of these magic moments, I’m seeing them from the side,” Jones said. “But it’s knowing that the magic is happening … knowing that moment is coming, knowing that we have that power over people that we can make them feel things. That makes it worth it.”

Stage manager Alisha Rogers works in the booth behind the audience during the show. She works with two assistant stage managers to help run the show.

Director Zeina Salame (top middle) speaks to members of the cast and crew during a rehearsal in the Robinson Theatre.

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THE MUCH-NEEDED SPARK FOR OREGON’S OFFENSE For the majority of this season, Oregon center fielder Austin Grebeck has carried the Ducks’ offense.

Oregon has plenty of power bats littered throughout its lineup — A.J. Balta is tied for second in the conference in home runs, and Kyle Kasser and Jake Bennett are each hitting over .300 in Pac-12 play.

But Grebeck has been the spark all season. He’s been the only real consistent threat at the plate since opening day.

The junior from Laguna Hills, California, was one of the main catalysts in the Ducks’ three-game sweep over USC on April 15-17.

Grebeck reached base and scored a run in the first inning of all three games.

“That’s my job,” Grebeck said following Oregon’s 8-5 win over the Trojans on April 17. “That’s how I look at it; it’s my job to get on [base] and get the offense going. If we score a run in the first, that’s great, but that’s up to the guys behind me.

I need to get on and get in scoring position.”

After being shuffled around the lineup last season, Grebeck has found a home at the top of the order.

He’s become a prototypical leadoff hitter this season.

During his sophomore season, Grebeck hit .243 and struck out more than he walked. This season, he is batting .296 and his on-base percentage of .438 ranks seventh in the Pac-12. He has seen a huge increase in his slugging percentage and batting average on balls in play as well.

Even with Grebeck, Oregon has struggled to find consistency in the heart of its order this year.

According to stats listed by the NCAA, the Ducks rank 285th out of 300 teams in the nation in batting average (.229) and 290th in hits.

Grebeck has been the lone bright spot for a floundering Oregon offense.

“He’s having a very consistent year — I don’t want to jinx him,” Oregon head coach George Horton said.

“That’s what you hope a junior does ... He’s been not only a solid defender in center, but a very good offensive catalyst too.”

Probably if we were going a little better earlier in the season with the guys behind him, his whole body of work stat-wise would be a lot better.

He was kind of carrying the torch there for a long time.”

In the past two weeks, the Ducks’ offense has started to come alive. They have won their last five conference games, and have outscored their opponents 39-25 during that span. Oregon was 12-12 before its winning streak, but has jumped from 10th to fourth in the conference standings since.

Oregon scored in the first inning of seven straight games dating from April 8-17. While they have seen a slight dip in starting pitching performance in that span, Oregon has quietly emerged as a Pac-12 contender.

That is in large part due to Grebeck’s consistent play.

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Eugene NCAA Championship MOTIVATES DUCKS “Any time you have a big carrot in front of you, there’s going to be more pressure ....

But it’s a good kind of pressure.

It’s motivating...”

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From the moment Oregon won the bid to host the 2016 NCAA Championships for men’s and women’s golf at the Eugene Country Club, there was inherent pressure surrounding the team to play well this season.

“Any time you have a big carrot in front of you, there’s going to be more pressure,” men’s golf head coach Casey Martin said Monday. “But it’s a good kind of pressure.

It’s motivating and it’s galvanized a lot of the guys.”

The Ducks are still not guaranteed a spot in the NCAA Championships. Martin put in the 2016 bid believing it would present his team an opportunity to contend for its first championship in program history. But also for Martin, a Eugene native, the bid offered a chance to showcase the course he was raised on.

“Growing up in Eugene and this golf course, it’s been a love affair with me,” Martin said. “I’ve spent my entire life out here. It’s a big part of wanting to give back and share a special place that a lot of people aren’t familiar with.”

After hosting one of six NCAA regionals during the 2014 postseason, Martin was encouraged by NCAA officials to bid for

the 2016 championship. Once Martin received approval from Eugene Country Club general manager Rich Spurlin and the club’s board of directors, he submitted a bid for the club to host its first NCAA Championship since 1978.

“Eugene embraces amateur athletics and Eugene Country Club loves their Ducks,” Spurlin said. “When the idea came up we were delighted.”

Eugene Country Club will host the women’s championships from May 20-25 and men’s championships May 27-June 1.

The course will play differently in championships than what the Ducks are used to. The front nine and back nine will be flipped in an effort to make the end of rounds more compelling.

Although this will be different from what the Ducks are accustomed to, the possibility of competing for a championship on their home course remains advantageous.

“Being able to play here three times a week, that experience is something we’re going to have over everybody else,” Oregon sophomore Aaron Wise said. “Being home, being able to sleep in our owns beds and go to our own gyms – all of that is going to play into it.”

During the last two seasons, Oregon has played its best in the fall before dropping off in the spring. At the start of this season, the team discussed how it was going to reverse that trend. Oregon started slow in the fall, but have since improved in the spring, placing fifth or better in four of its last five tournaments.

Most recently, the Ducks finished third at Pasatiempo Golf Club’s Western Intercollegiate, and Wise finished one stroke behind individual winner Maverick McNealy of Stanford.

“To come in third at Pasatiempo shows we’re really close,” Wise said. “We’re looking to peak, and now is the time to do it.”

After playing in the Pac-12 Championships April 30-May 1, Oregon will have to finish fifth or better in its regional to advance to the NCAA championship in Eugene. Often characterized as the toughest week in collegiate golf, it’s far from ideal, but the Ducks accept the challenge.

“Your whole season comes down to three rounds and most of the time you’re shipped to some place you’re not familiar with,” Martin said. “It is what it is, and we have to be ready for it.”

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After two home track meets this month, Devon Allen has run 4,420 meters in eight total events. He’s also tacked on to that workload with six victory laps.

The redshirt sophomore dominated at both the Pepsi Invitational and the Oregon Relays over the past two weekends, including a meet record in the 110-meter hurdles at the Pepsi Invitational. At both meets, he won the 110 and 400 hurdles, and helped the 4x100 relay teams to first place finishes.

The only downside to winning his first race on April 16 at the Oregon Relays was that he couldn’t perform another victory lap. He had to warm up for hurdles instead.

Before competing at the Oregon Relays, Allen was only going to run the 400 hurdles and relay.

The decision to run the 110 paid off because he broke the Oregon Relays record in 13.48. Next, Allen took on the 400 hurdles. He charged out of the blocks fast and made the stagger by the first 100 meters. By the last stretch, Allen was exhausted from his attempt to break the school record.

“The last few feel like walls,” Allen said of his stumble over the final hurdle. “So you gotta jump over those, and it takes a lot out of you.”

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Allen ran the 400 hurdles in 51.32, just shy of the 50.44 record set in 2001 by Brett Guymon.

“I guess I’ll have to do the 400 hurdles again before the end of the season,” Allen said with a smile.

Changing up his spring season, Allen has dedicated his focus to track, rather than spring football, to prepare for a summer that could include the Olympic trials. His freshman year, Allen was jumping from the gridiron to the track almost every day.

“It’s new, he’s never been able to do this before,” Oregon track and field head coach Robert Johnson said. “We’re in uncharted waters.”

Along with the high-volume workouts, Allen is also getting used to the toll track takes on his body.

“Physically, [track is] a little bit more tiring,” Allen said.

After back-to-back meet weekends, Allen said he is “going to take it lighter until Pac-12s and Nationals.”

While track will be the main focus of the spring, spectators can expect to see him on the sidelines at the spring football game on April 30.

“I might be there to help with the water or something,” Allen said with a laugh. “I don’t plan on playing, but I’ll be out there for sure.”

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BEING AN INTROVERT IN AN EXTROVERT’S WORLD

(Mariel Abbene)

The sun shines through the bright cobalt sky. Flowers are springing up on the overgrown grass as bees buzz around collecting pollen. For the first time in months, the weather in Eugene is not dark, dreary and rainy. Everyone is outside playing beer pong, partying and soaking up the sun. Music and loud voices blare from all directions. But for introverts like me, spring is the worst time of the year.

Every day on my way home from class last week, I walked past students having way more fun than I was. As much as I would like to attend the outdoor parties people threw last weekend, my desire to cuddle up in my blankets and watch Netflix was too strong.

For introverts, parties are often filled with awkward encounters and the anxious desire to run away from everyone. Yet not attending these parties can make us feel lame or left out.

The party culture that is so prevalent on college campuses makes being an introvert difficult.

The forced social interactions and the loud crowds can be overwhelming and draining. For me, parties and the small talk that goes with them aren’t that fun.

Yet there is a pressure in college to be social and to party. These outgoing, extroverted people make introverts feel ostracized at times.^In an article titled, “The Stigma of Introversion And Why It’s Wrong� the author says that,

“Extroversion is seen as the ideal, and just as it is often said we live in a ‘man’s world,’ it can similarly be said that we live in an extrovert’s world.�

Susan Cain, author of the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts, said in an interview that, “Our schools, workplaces and religious institutions are designed for extroverts. Introverts are to extroverts what American women were to men in the 1950s — second-class citizens with gigantic amounts of untapped talent.�

As introverts, we can’t eliminate the stigma that goes along with our necessity for satisfying down time.

There is a stigma, possibly created by this extroversion bias, that introverted means anti-social and awkward. In a Psychology Today article, author Nancy Ancowitz says that the American Psychiatric Association considered including introversion as a symptom of mental disorders in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2010. The definition they used included, “Withdrawal from other people, ranging from intimate relationships to the world at large; restricted effective experience and expression; limited hedonic capacity.�

If the APA decided to use introversion as a determining factor for mental illnesses, it would have been saying that being an introvert, even though much of the population is considered introverted, is such a negative

thing that there may be something wrong with it. This could send a demeaning message to introverts.

I define an introvert as someone who enjoys and gets energy from being alone. It is someone that enjoys being with close friends, but not attending loud parties.

Introverts are not necessarily shy though, which could be the cause for the stigma. To me, this definition is not a bad thing. Being introverted never seemed like a bad quality until I came to college.

Student orientations, mixers and dorm culture emphasize being social, and therefore, extroverted.

So for us introverts, the desire to be alone or with friends that we feel close to can be seen as anti-social.

The negative connotation behind the word “introvert� is created by extroverts because they get energy from crowds and activities that require socialization, like parties.

So someone who dislikes the party culture is strange to them.

As introverts, we can’t eliminate the stigma that goes along with our necessity for some downtime.

All we need to do is remember that being an introvert doesn’t make us weird or a failure.

We also need to remember that much of the population is full of introverts. We are not alone, we just aren’t announcing our presence.

Hannah Bonnie is an opinion columnist at the Emerald.

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Kobe Bryant farewell & Tinder, global earthquakes, Kimmy Schmidt If Kobe Bryant had a Tinder profile, he would include only three photos to represent himself, since filling all six slots are for people who need to try.

The first picture would be an epic full-body shot of his playing basketball because, well, if a girl isn’t a jersey chaser to some degree, Mamba isn’t for her. Swipers would get a sense of his athleticism, build and intensity just through this initial picture.

Next would be a tighter shot of his face with a SnapChat filter on it — a filter that adds a little animation and shows Kobe can be silly, but also one that doesn’t distort his (refined) looks. And third, Mr. Bryant would include a picture of him and a child (who clearly isn’t his) walking handin-hand to illustrate how philanthropic, kindhearted and again, how tall he is (since that’s a thing on Tinder).

In his bio, he would write, “24. It’s not my age.

It’s my life.� Followed by one yellow and one purple heart and then a daisy chain of basketball emojis. And after April 13, he would add to his photos a screenshot of his Tweet that reads, “Mamba may be out, but I’ll still be in,� respective of his departure from the NBA. At 37, Bryant’s two decades in the NBA, which he spent entirely as a Laker, got him five championship rings, two Olympic medals and earned him the title of MVP of the NBA All-Star Game four time.

This all ended with a bang in a game against the Utah Jazz. The Lakers (obviously) won the

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match up 101-96, thanks to the 60 points Bryant scored himself. I mean, the man has reached 81 points before in a single game in the past, so I was a little underwhelmed. *insert side eyes emoji* Nonetheless, celebrities infiltrated Staples Center to watch Bryant say adios (literally - who knew he spoke fluent Spanish?) in his final game.

From members of the Throne, aka Kanye West and Jay Z (sans Bey), one-third of the Beckham clan, Snoop D-O-double-G , Adam Levine and his wife Behati, the Weeknd and gf Bella Hadid, Kobe’s former teammates Lamar Odom and Shaq and per usual, Jack (the-ultimate-Lakers-fangirl) Nicholson.

People jumped out of their seats with every swish of a Bryant basket. A reel of Mamba’s epic triumphs coupled with interviews by fellow NBA stars and other celebrities was shown. To say the least, homage was paid to “God,� as said by Kanye/Yeezus (the ultimate culprit of blasphemy) - Kendrick Lamar even made him a hit.

While both lovers and haters of Kobe were shaken by the legend’s NBA retirement, places like Myanmar, Japan and Ecuador experienced some real, physical shakes this past week.

On April 13, Myanmar was hit by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. There were no reported deaths as a result; however, a number of residents in nearby Bangladesh experienced injuries.

Just one day later, Japan felt a magnitude-6.2 quake, which was closely followed by another at 7.0 on Saturday.

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USA Today reported that 41 people were killed by the natural disasters and around 11 individuals are missing. In South America, Ecuador got it the worst this week with a magnitude-7.8 tremble late April 16, resulting in the deaths of around 413 people and 1,500 injuries.

Seismic experts have commented that the back-to-back earthquakes around the globe are, in fact, a tragic coincidence and they are unrelated to one another.

If you’re looking to forget about the tragedies of the real world for a while, Netflix, as usual, has got you. On April 15, the Netflix Original, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt returned to my life with 13 new episodes. Season two of the series was full of hilarity in the form of masked societal jabs and musical numbers by the infamous Titus Andromedon.

The story of Kimmy, played by The Office’s Ellie Kemper, resumes as she is still learning how to maneuver through life after having been held captive for 15 years in an underground bunker.

This season, we are graced with appearances

by Fred Armisen, who brings some Portlandia greatness to the screen and, unsurprisingly, more ingenious stories.

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

Follow Negina on Twitter @Neginapepina.

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