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Preoccupations’ self-titled album came out Sept. 16 on Jagjaguwar.

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The self-titled album from Preoccupations begins with more than a minute of feedback noise and nasal radiator drone as a foreboding preamble. In the opening track, “Anxiety,� bassistvocalist Matt Flegel murmurs cryptic, paranoiac verses (“I’m spinning in a vacuum, deteriorating to great acclaim�), but his frayed voice never comes across as self-pitying or defeatist; instead, he uses his anger to fuel his gas tank.

The record, which was released Sept. 16 from Jagjaguwar Records, comes after a few namechanges for the Canadian industrial art-rock band.

Flegel, guitarist Daniel Christiansen and drummer Mike Wallace made up a Black Sabbath cover band before forming a fantastic rock group by the name Women, an outfit that disbanded after an on-stage fistfight in 2010 and guitarist Christopher Reimer’s death in 2012. Songs by Women are relatively hard to find, not only because its debut EP was a self-released cassette tape, but also because it’s basically futile to google “Women band.� Later, members of Women rebranded as Viet Cong, which released an excellent self-titled EP in January last year.

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insensitive, practicing cultural appropriation and opening up old wounds. The name was considered offensive enough to justify cancelling a show at a liberal-arts college in Ohio in March 2015.

Preoccupations represents a significant evolution from the band’s days of prior names, as the majority of songs are virtually hookless and have the searing atmosphere of being trapped inside a furnace. Vitriol and angst are the album’s unifying elements, and the abstract meditation on anxiety is embodied by a muddled tangle of guitars and bass. The epic 11-and-a-half minute centerpiece “Memory� is an elegant bass-driven composition. A few minutes into the track, Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner takes a turn on vocals.

The tracks “Forbidden� and “Sense,� both of which run under two minutes, are relatively mellow respites for the blistering mood. By contrast, “Stimulation� sprints by with break-neck speed as Flegel shouts with glee, “All dead inside!

All gonna die! All gonna die!� The album closes on “Fever,� the taunting electronics of which recall noise-rock group Holy Fuck. The synths begin in the backdrop before towering over Flegel’s “You’re not scared� mantra and ultimately drowning him out.

In May this year, Preoccupations played its first show under the new name at Sasquatch! Music Festival in George, Washington. The return was anticlimactic, to say the least. Unfortunately, a number of circumstances were geared against the band’s set, not the least of which was that it was a late add to the festival roster, and that no sensible festival-goer wants see a band called “Preoccupations� on a Saturday night, especially when it’s sandwiched in a lineup between Major Lazer and Tycho.

The show was attended by a sparse scattering of a few devotees. There was no stage banter, no formal introduction. Bass feedback filled the silence between songs. Christiansen’s abrupt guitar chords stomped on Flegel’s sporadic thanks to the crowd. During one quiet moment, the intro blips from “Midnight City� echoed from the main stage to this shadowy corner of the festival grounds. Later, silence overcame both band and audience when Flegel looked into the thin crowd and asked deadpan, “You guys know M83 is playing, right?� “That’s the name on his driver’s license: M83,�

Flegel remarked to his bandmates, forever fixated on the significance of band names.

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Bon Iver - 22, A Million

It’s been five years since the release of Bon Iver’s self-titled second album and we could not be more excited for the band’s return. While Justin Vernon’s latest singles might be confusing for both longtime fans and newcomers in terms of sounds and song names, this album actually seems like a natural progression from the band’s sad-boy folk roots.

The singles so far have been almost cultish, alien and unsettling at times.

These tracks are deeply-layered, have weirdly-pitched vocals, but still include Vernon’s signature falsetto; however, it’s just as natural-sounding as Bon Iver, and just as personal as For Emma, Forever Ago. His latest album 22, A Million is still very clearly Bon Iver. With that being said, the album proves to be very experimental as Vernon uses electronics to create an unusual atmosphere. Vernon has previously worked with artists such as Kanye West and James Blake, so this mixing of electronica and folk that he borrowed from such artists makes for a very interesting, yet pleasurable listen. Listen to Bon Iver perform “8 (circle)� here.

Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition

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by J.G. Ballard) might seem like a strange idea for an indie hip-hop artist, but this is Danny Brown we’re talking about. He has never been known to simply go along with current, mainstream trends. He is undeniably individualistic with his unique voice and inventive rhymes. He even has indie cred due to his collaboration with the Avalanches and signing to Warp Records.

While 2016 has already presented plenty of great hip-hop releases from Drake, Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott and more, Atrocity Exhibition will be one of the most ambitious hip-hop records of the year. Its singles have already proven Brown’s tenacity and dedication to his craft, not to mention the album’s list of features, including Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar and Earl Sweatshirt. His witty lyricism and infectious yet sinister beats are still there, but they’re more refined. Danny Brown is at the top of his game. Make sure you see him live at WOW Hall on Oct. 8 (tickets come with a free digital copy of the album).

Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch

Last year, Jenny Hval released the excellent Apocalypse, girl which ended up on many best of the year lists. This year, the Norwegian avantgarde, art-pop musician is releasing an album about blood; specifically, Blood Bitch is about menstruation. According to Hval, the album is an “investigation of blood.� It features her sweet voice and experimental instrumentation; however, Blood Bitch is not for the faint of heart. In a statement, Hval said that this is the “first album where I’ve started reconnecting with the goth and metal scene I started out playing in many years ago.�

It’s also a fictional story, centering around horror characters and vampires. If you need something out there to listen to that is also deeply personal, make sure you check out Blood Bitch. NPR Music also has a First Listen available on its website where you can stream the entire album for free.

Regina Spektor - Remember Us To Life

The Soviet-born, American-bred indie songstress Regina Spektor is back with her seventh album this week. While most people know her for her theme song from Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black (“You’ve Got Time�) and her heartfelt odes in 500 Days of Summer (“Us� and “Hero�), Spektor actually has an impressive back catalogue of solid albums ranging from niche anti-folk to pure indie pop. While the first single off the album, “Bleeding Heart,� might seem like plain, mainstream pop, don’t fear —her eclectic voice and witty lyrics are still there with Remember Us To Life. “Older and Taller� harkens back to her days as a quick-witted girl with a piano. She is still Regina Spektor. And even if you can’t get into her music, you can’t argue that her sweet voice is immediately infectious.

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If you’re passing through the Campbell Club co-op and see any chocolate milk laying around, you’d be advised not to drink it so as not to incur the wrath of Waldo Przekop.

“If you drink my chocolate milk, I’ll get really mad,” he laughs.

The 23-year-old singer-songwriter, who records as Cigarettes and Milk, originally went by Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk after two of his creature comforts. A quick Google search revealed fellow folkie Rufus Wainwright had already written a song by that name, so now it’s just “Milk.”

It’s a contrast that suits his music.

Przekop can pick some awfully sweet melodies out of his guitar, but his songwriting style, self-described as “guttery,” can be uncompromising.

“I scream from somewhere deep,” Przekop says. “I like being sad and I like making other people sad. I like to feel that something I’ve experienced can resonate with someone so strongly they experience it as well.”

Though an adherent of the “Travis picking” acoustic guitar style, pioneered by mid-century coal-miner balladeer Merle Travis, his influences are less rooted in the past than in contemporary indie folk singer-songwriters. He’s not a huge fan of Bob Dylan, for instance, but he does draw influence from latter-day Swedish Dylan acolyte The Tallest Man On Earth.

“You can swear more often [nowadays], you can be darker, it’s okay,” he says, and indeed his mouth is as guttery as anything else about his music.

He’s currently working on a sevensong album, which is as yet untitled but which he describes as “higher-

quality cell phone recording.” It’ll be his second; he released his debut Wilderness Road in 2014, which he’s disavowed for being “too indie-folk.”

Przekop was born in Connecticut and attended Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, Conn. before dropping out after a personal crisis (“a lot happened,” he says, but he won’t go into much detail.) He impulsively flew to Maui, where he mostly slept on beach for six months before becoming disillusioned with the lifestyles of his fellow transients.

“It was a lot of hippies, a lot of crust punks sleeping on the beach,” he recalls. “It kinda started to become depressing because five months later, that’s the same stuff they did.”

After traveling with a friend around the country, he found himself in Eugene, where he’s lived for a year.

He applied to the Campbell Club and has lived here since, excepting two months in Connecticut following a family emergency.

His nomadic lifestyle is part of what drew him to folk music in the first place. “[Folk singers are] usually singing something about the railroad, something about being homeless, something about alcohol, something about drugs,” Przekop says. “A lot of folk is really about traveling and being poor, which is what I’ve always done and been.”

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or most people, Monday evening primarily gravitated around a very specific debate between two people, both of whom are competing for the same job. The conversation included whether one believes that climate change was a hoax concocted by the Chinese, how to alleviate the relationship between the black community and the police and whether either of them has a plan to systematically demolish ISIS. It was a very serious evening grounded in very serious matters. These were the strange circumstances during which I divorced reality and stepped into an Animal Collective show. The Baltimore-based experimental-pop group played the McDonald Theatre on Monday, Sept. 26. Eric Copeland, vocalist for experimental electronic group Black Dice, opened.

An Animal Collective show is a sensorial baptism by fire. The stage decoration included towering, cubist sculptures of heads, which loomed over the band’s three central members: Avey Tare (real name David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) and Geologist (Brian Weitz).

Geologist earned the moniker for sporting a headlamp during each show, as if he were spelunking, but the real reason is much more practical; the visuals are a busy, mangled montage, an inexplicable fusion that defies easy explanation.

It evoked pixelated cartoons siphoned through a kaleidoscope

and the surrealist imagery of Spanish painter Joan MirĂł. The theatrics were wasted, but so was the crowd, so it evidently did wonders for them.

A friend in high school once suggested to me: “I think you have to be young to enjoy Animal Collective.� It made sense at the time; the band embodied a certain youthful whimsy that no one else did.

One of the more marvelous things from AnCo is the rapport between Avey Tare and Panda Bear.

They have voices that pair very well together. Panda’s evokes a young Brian Wilson, while Avey’s is a bit rougher around the edges. They have an inimitable way that they sing together. Sure, they harmonize and sing in counterpoint, but they also do a rapid call-and-response, sharing syllables between them, dancing up and down the staircase of a melody with grace and vitality.

Almost none of this rapport translates to the live show.

The setlist was a hodgepodge of tracks with a heavy emphasis on the group’s album Painting With, which dropped this year. The set also included a nearly unrecognizable arrangement of “Water Curses,� a relatively deep cut in the band’s catalog that already sounded like it was recorded inside a fishtank.

Then there was the doomy, synthfilled cover of “Kids on Holiday,� an interesting take of the acoustic, chipper cut from the 2004 album Sung Tongs.

There were all the standard

Animal Collective ingredients: tribal drums, the many layers of modular synths and the spotless tenor vocals layers from Panda. But there didn’t seem to be anything to galvanize the show as a whole. Even the horrifying bass and melodic synth flourishes of “Summertime Clothes,� a stand-out from 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavillion, was tiresome and seemed to fall flat.

With time, the band’s hooks have gotten poppier and dumber. The opening verse to “Summertime Clothes� is a poetic description of night sweats and restless agitation during a sweltering summer night befitting a Stephen King story (“My bones have to move and my skin’s gotta breathe�).

Avery Tare of Animal Collective sings during the group’s performance at the McDonald Theater in Eugene, Ore. on Sept. 26, 2016. (Aaron Nelson)

Compare this with “FloriDada,� the single from Painting With: we hear Avey’s vocal chords pogoing up and down as he sings “Flori, Flori, Flori, Flori, Florida, Flori-dada, Flori-dada!�

Maybe the band has veered into senselessness and any emotional bond I had with them has dissolved; maybe Roger Murtaugh and I have something in common, and I’m getting too old for this shit. When I’d returned home with my roommate after the show, he had an easier epiphany: “I hate the youth.�

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magine an arena of cheering fans bathed in fluorescent light, all focused on a group of headphoneclad competitors in the center of the room. Instead of dashing across a field, dribbling a ball or crashing into one another at full force, these studentathletes sit at desks, swipe mice across tabletops and tap away on keyboards.

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While not every eSports competition may be as grandiose as tournaments like The International, presented by Valve, or Blizzard’s Heroes of the Dorm — gaming competitions with cash prizes ranging from thousands to millions of dollars — the University of Oregon is now participating in a joint effort with the Pac-12 to bring such spectacles to collegiate competition at UO. Last May, the Pac-12 announced that it would be officially endorsing eSports competition later this year through Pac-12 Networks — a sports-focused television network owned by the Pac-12 Conference. In the months since, Pac12 Networks has contacted associated universities to begin talks on how to organize and support what they call “The Pac-12 Networks eSports Program.�

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the NBA: Philadelphia 76er’s CEO Scott O’Neil announced Wednesday they are buying two eSports teams, Dignitas and Apex, on the premise of “getting out in front.�

According to Ryan Currier, vice president of digital products for the Pac-12 Networks, there are several reasons why the Pac-12 makes a great candidate as the first major conference to endorse eSports competition. “First, college eSports is in its initial stages, but Pac-12 universities are increasingly involved in it through passionate student groups and have had success in existing competitions,� Currier said. “Second, eSports also has compelling ties to the academic missions of our schools, including departments at Pac-12 universities such as computer science, visual and cinematic arts, engineering and others.�

The previous two championship teams from the Heroes of the Dorm tournament were from University of California, Berkeley and Arizona State University, both of which are Pac-12 schools. Members of the winning teams received up to $25,000 a year for tuition.

Each of the Pac-12 schools are invited to participate in the first year of competition and each will be responsible for establishing its own competitive team.

Representatives from each university have been involved in ongoing talks about collegiate eSports.

There’s also been much discussion on who exactly will organize and support a collegiate eSports team at UO. So far, none of the athletic programs from any of the 12 universities have been involved

al Revolution with the upcoming eSports program. Instead, the Pac-12 Networks has primarily reached out to established eSports clubs and leaders for input. As of right now, it is unclear where eSports teams fit in at UO. The Pac-12 Networks requested that schools have both a faculty and student representative to participate in ongoing discussions, while not necessarily being involved with the team later on. For UO, the staff representative is Erica Swanson, the director of parent and family programs. The student representative is Carter Fritsch, the programs administrator for the ASUO and vice president of the only ASUO-recognized eSportsrelated student organization, the UO Smash Club — a group that meets weekly to play Super Smash Brothers games.

According to Swanson, one topic that has inspired debate is whether or not collegiate eSports competitors would fall under NCAA amateur status. If so, this might bar them from competing in other competitions, such as Heros of the Dorm, or from earning revenue by Twitch-streaming and creating YouTube content, as many professional gamers do.

Another concern that Swanson noted are whether Title IX requirements for equal opportunity based on gender will apply. According to a survey by WellPlayed, an eSports tournament production company, the viewership of eSport events is roughly 94 percent male and 3 percent female. At competitions, females only represent one of every ten competitors.

More concerns include: which games

should be played, what companies would agree to have their games featured and to what levels of fantasy violence taking place in said games is acceptable for broadcast by the Pac-12 Networks.

“I’m just so fascinated and encouraged by the thoughtfulness that’s happening at the Pac-12 level and by the representatives from the schools.” said Swanson.

“There have been a few female members involved in those discussions and they’re concerned about what it means to be a female gamer. Even though women are involved, they are still underrepresented, in terms of female professional or amateur gamers.”

Tryouts for the Pac-12 Networks eSports Program collegiate teams may begin as soon as October or November. According to Currier, there will be a competitive season that will include head-to-head matchups and events. This will likely include a tournament in conjunction with a Pac-12 championship event.

Another faculty member who has been involved in the discussion is Julie Scroggins, the ASUO student organization advisor, who is excited for the potential to increase student participation on campus by taking advantage of the opportunity to cater to the gaming generation.

“I think the more variety of things we can offer students to find something they can connect with the better,” said Scroggins. “There’s a pretty low entry point and you don’t necessarily need to be awesome and to always have been playing well to be a gamer. I think that’s exciting.”

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Before the University of Oregon freshmen started school, they were given free gifts.

The university gave the class of 2020 pep rally t-shirts and lanyards, as well as two books: a novel and a guide to excelling in class.

Over the summer, the UO Division of Undergraduate Studies sent every freshman a copy of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me� — a novel written as a letter to his son about being black in America.

The university paid $37,000 ($7.75/book) for 4770 copies, costing more money than previous years because it is only available in hardcover.

But the 25 member panel selected the book out of 36 others, believing that it was a vital read for all freshmen. “We selected Coates because we felt the need to enable, on our campus, civil discourse around powerful topics of national and personal identity� said dean of undergraduate studies dean Lisa Freinkel. “We believed that the conversations that this book would bring about on our campus were important and ultimately helpful ones, although by no means easy ones.�

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another book to the freshmen class’s summer reading: “The A-Game: Nine Steps to Better Grades,� which was written by a University of Mississippi psychology professor.

Even though first-year human physiology major Jolie Jitto came in with 48 credits to her name (making her a sophomore), that didn’t stop her from taking a few notes. “During high school, I had never been in a room with that many people. So that was one thing I was a little bit apprehensive about,� Jitto said. “I [learned from “The A-Game�] about making yourself known to professors and being talkative within discussion groups, which in the long run, is going to help not only academically, but in being a more open-minded student.�

The Student Orientation department was behind sending the guidebook out to freshmen in the gap between the IntroDucktion summer orientation and the school year. “We wanted to provide them with this useful tool to be successful from the get-go rather than having to have a bad term, and have to figure things out after,� said director of student orientation programs Cora Bennett.

When the freshmen returned to campus, student orientation gave those who went to Sept.

26 pep rally light green and yellow t-shirts.

Both “The A-Game� and the t-shirt’s mailing costs were $7.71 per student, however, the number of first-year students will not be publicly released until the fourth week of school.

The cost of lanyards, a utility that every freshmen receives to hold dorms keys, costs a 46 cents a piece.

The division of student life welcomed students by hosting a pep rally, along with the Flock Party, Duck N2 the Rec, and College Block.

Division of Student Life Communications Director Laura Miller feels that it is important to make freshmen feel that they belong at the UO. “It sets the foundation for a healthy supportive community. Meeting people and finding connections to campus helps students perform better academically, adjust better to college, and fosters a healthy learning experience for all.�

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The four-year graduation rate at the University of Oregon falls significantly below the national average.

Only 50 percent of UO undergraduates complete a degree within four years, according to data collected by the Office of the Registrar, putting the university’s rate roughly 10 percentage points under the national average calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics.

But the Academic and Student Affairs Committee, headed by the Office of the Provost, plans to meet the national average of 60 percent by 2020.

During September’s Board of Trustees meetings, the committee outlined the Student Success Initiative. The initiative aims to decrease the time it takes students to graduate and the percent of students that leave UO without a degree, which is roughly 30 percent. “As we know, the cost of attending a university is increasing,� said associate vice provost for student success Doneka Scott. “We believe that every student admitted to the University of Oregon can and will graduate with a degree in a timely fashion.�

According to a letter to faculty and staff written by Provost Scott Coltrane, the Student

University of Oregon graduates walk down Agate st. on University of Oregon’s campus. (Taylor Wilder)

Success Initiative was allocated $17 million when President Michael Schill first announced it in November 2015. A portion of those funds has recently gone to creating a team of three administrators who will head the initiative.

Scott will work specifically on decreasing the time it takes students to earn their degrees, while associate vice provost for academic excellence Ron Bramhall will work to decrease the number of students who leave the university without a degree. Vice provost for undergraduate studies Lisa Freinkel will oversee many of the offices involved.

Scott said some initial goals are to coordinate academic advising efforts across the university and align degree requirements so that students have a clear understanding of what it takes to finish in four years. There may also be changes in the requirements themselves. “It has become increasingly clear that achieving our student success goals will require significant work at the curricular level in departments, schools and colleges,�

Coltrane wrote in his letter. “One important piece of that reform — especially in light of the work of the Black Student Task Force — is tied to changing our multicultural studies

graduation requirement.�

According to materials presented at the Board of Trustees meeting, the initiative’s leadership team may also work with faculty to improve advising and student performance in major requirement courses with high percentages of D’s, F’s, W’s and ‘No Passes.’ One example is Math 241, a requirement for UO’s most popular major, Pre-Business Administration, which has a poor performance rate of 30 percent.

Scott said UO will also work to increase students’ sense of belonging — a non-academic indicator of potential for four-year graduation.

For underrepresented populations, graduation rates consistently lag behind UO’s 50 percent. For example, approximately 19 percent of UO’s Black students graduate within four years, according to the Office of the Registrar. Part of the initiative aims to close that gap by increasing early advising for atrisk students.

Scott said changes will begin to take effect this fall, and many will be targeted at incoming freshmen. “These initiatives will have a positive effect on all of our students,� Scott said. “We’re starting there but we’re not ending there.�

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Ronika Stone has already made history at the University of Oregon, despite starting her first day of college on Monday.

The 6-foot-2 middle blocker is the highest-rated recruit in Oregon volleyball history, ranking 10th on the Prepvolleyball.com Senior Aces list.

Since arriving at Oregon, Stone has proven to be a dominant force on the court. On Sept. 22, she and fellow freshman Jolie Rasmussen led the Ducks with 11 kills each as they began Pac-12 play with a 3-0 victory against Oregon State. Stone also led the team with six blocks, including one solo block.

“We knew they were good,” head coach Jim Moore said about Stone, Rasmussen and freshman Willow Johnson, who had eight kills of her own. “They have confidence; they’re where they are for a reason.

They’re the players they are for a reason.”

Stone, in particular, demonstrated her confidence by refusing to show the nerves that may be expected of a freshman athlete. On her first two swings of the match, she put down kills. Later in the first set, Oregon State went on a three-point run that Stone and Rasmussen eventually stopped with kills. They turned the momentum of the set back to the Ducks, leading to victory.

“Having my first Civil War was crazy,” she said after the match. “It’s weird; I’m not really that nervous.

When I’m on the court, I don’t really worry about the crowd as much, so it’s just like practice.”

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National Team. During the championships, she led the world in hitting percentage at .550. She also won a Junior International Silver Medal as a member of the USA HP Select A1 Red Team.

Her international success is surprising only because of how quickly it happened. It was only about six years ago that, by complete accident, Stone discovered her love for volleyball in the first place.

“I tried out just because in junior high everyone was trying out for a bunch of sports,” Stone said. “I didn’t know what position I wanted to be, so I just went into the line that was the shortest, which was the middle blocker line. And that’s how I became a middle blocker.”

Stone was a standout at Valley Christian High School, located in San Jose, California. While she was there, her team not only won the 2013 and 2015 Division III State Championships, but also advanced to the semifinals in 2012 and 2014. In her senior year, Stone had 630 kills, 429 digs, and 67 blocks.

Stone’s athleticism runs in the family. Her father, Ron Stone, is a former NFL offensive guard and threetime Pro Bowler. He helped the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl victories before retiring in 2006.

Her sister, Ronna, is also an athlete at Oregon as a thrower on the track and field team.

Growing up, the sisters played basketball on the same club team. They continued playing basketball on the varsity team in high school for a couple years until they both decided to focus on their respective individual sports.

“She’s a phenomenal athlete, always has been,”

Ronna said. “She’s extremely talented when it comes to athletics and is pretty good at any sport she tries out.”

Born 16 months apart, the two of them have always been close, even sharing a room for most of their lives. Because of that, Ronna is excited to have her sister join her at Oregon.

“It’s nice to have someone I can always go to since we’re away from home,” Ronna said. “And she’s pretty fun and crazy and always dancing so it’s nice to have that back since I missed out on it when I was here at school last year.”

When Stone began unofficially touring college campuses, she was immediately attracted to Oregon.

She said that she connected well with the volleyball team, but that wasn’t the only reason she decided to attend.

“I wanted not only the volleyball team to be great — because they are – but other sports as well,” she said. “It’s a great athletic community.”

Her academic needs were another reason she decided that Oregon would be the perfect fit. She plans to major in journalism and pursue her interest in sports broadcasting.

“After I’m done in my volleyball career, I want to go try to get an internship at ESPN,” she said. “I know I have to start small, but I want to be on ESPN.”

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Justin Guldager knew from a young age that he wanted to go into the field of athletic training.

Ironically, it was his own injuries that convinced him of that.

“Back to like fifth grade, I wondered why the bone fractured in my thumb when I was playing basketball,” Guldager said. “I was just curious, like ‘Why did it happen?’ Throughout middle school, I started to be more and more interested in science.”

After a standout career at nearby Willamette High School where he was a two-sport star, he has found a way to continue playing his favorite sport, baseball, competitively while also pursuing his dream job.

A human physiology major entering his junior year at the University of Oregon, Guldager has used his own experiences as an athlete to advance his career as a trainer. He is currently in his first year working with the Oregon football team as an undergraduate assistant.

Guldager split time starting at

first base and designated hitter for Oregon’s club baseball team last spring as the Ducks went on to play in the NBCA World Series and finished runner-up to the club team at the University of Nevada, Reno.

After graduating high school, Guldager had offers from local community colleges such as Lane, Clackamas and Mt. Hood to pitch out of the bullpen, but doing so would have halted his progress as a trainer.

He instead made the decision that so many high school athletes struggle with when entering college: Guldager chose to give up the sport he loved and instead enroll at Oregon to begin the university’s human physiology program.

One year away from the game was enough, and Guldager tried out for the club team prior to his sophomore year at Oregon.

Guldager was a first-team allleague first baseman his senior year while playing at Willamette, but during American Legion summer baseball, he was used only as a pitcher. The opportunity to hit the

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ball again was enticing.

“During American Legion, I never hit; I was a pitcher only,” Guldager said. “I got to club baseball and they said they wanted me on the team because I could hit the ball really well. I thought it was really cool that that’s why they wanted me specifically on the team.”

Now a veteran member of the club team, Guldager is juggling the schedule of being an athlete while working 20 to 30 hours per week with the athletic department and taking a rigorous class schedule that include anatomy and physiology classes.

It’s nothing new for Guldager, who served as the de facto team trainer while also working as one of his team’s top pitchers during his last season with the Eugene Challengers American Legion travel club prior to his freshman year of college.

“Other kids carried around bats and balls … he carried around the med kit,” Challengers head coach Josh Riley said. “He taped ankles up and he did a good job at it and knew what he was doing, It was

kind of a blessing for us.”

Guldager was in attendance at a Challengers game last summer when a Eugene player suffered a major knee injury in the middle of a game. The Challengers don’t have a full-time trainer, and Guldager ran down from the stands and began to tend to the player and stabilize his knee so the coaches could continue to focus on the game.

“When you talk about why you get into coaching, he’s kind of that model kid that you hope you get to coach,” Riley said.

Guldager’s end goal is to keep young athletes healthy. He wants to help others avoid the same injuries he suffered during his career.

“Right now, I really just want to be able to help people,” Guldager said. “That’s been my goal for awhile; I just want to make sure that other athletes are able to play at their highest level.”

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Oregon’s cross country teams are off to a fast start.

The No. 3 ranked men’s team and the No. 4 ranked women’s team kicked off what they hope will be another successful season on Sept. 16 at the 11th annual Bill Dellinger Invitational. Both the men and women took first.

Redshirt junior Sam Prakel and sophomore Tanner Anderson tied for the individual victory on the men’s side. Prakel, the runner-up at the Bill Dillinger Invitational last year, also placed 30th overall at the Pac-12 Championships in 23:59.0 and 43rd overall at the NCAA West Regionals in 31:58.0. Anderson, who made his Oregon debut last year as a freshman, will likely make a bigger impact for the Ducks this year. His best race was a 12th place finish at the Washington Invitational with a time of 23:32.0.

Another sophomore athlete that could find more success this year is Matthew Maton, whose best race was also the Washington Invitational last year, in which he placed eighth as Oregon’s second finisher. As a high schooler, he won six 5A Oregon state track and cross country titles for Summit High School. He won the state titles for cross country in 2013 and 2014 after placing second in 2012. During the 2014 meet, he broke Galen Rupp’s legendary Oregon high school state cross

country record with a time of 14:45.

Rounding out the Duck’s deep team is none other than senior Edward Cheserek, who won his third straight NCAA title last year — a feat no other male athlete has ever done. He is also a three-time Pac-12 champion and the 2015 Pac-12 athlete of the year.

The Oregon women’s team is also deep, although it will miss Waverly Neer, who was denied her appeal to compete for a fifth year. Leading the way for the women at the Bill Dellinger Invitational was junior Emma Abrahamson, who came in fourth overall with a time of 17 minutes, 34.2 seconds. Abrahamson transferred to Oregon from Vanderbilt after spending her 2014 cross country season there. Her debut at last year’s Bill Dellinger Invitational was her best race of that year, as she placed seventh with a time of 21:01.5.

Oregon’s third finisher, senior Maggie Schmaedick, placed eighth with a time of 17:39.1. At last year’s Pac-12 Championship, she was Oregon’s fifth finisher at 15th overall with a time of 20:25.7.

The Oregon women were without redshirt junior Alli Cash and top recruit Katie Rainsberger for the meet, but they will likely be Oregon’s top female runners this year.

Cash was Oregon’s second finisher and sixth overall at both the Pac-12 Championships and

the NCAA West Regionals last year with times of 20:05.3 and 20:46.1, respectively. She was also Oregon’s second finisher and 31st overall at the NCAA Championships with a time of 20:20.9. Her finish earned her All-American honors.

Rainsberger finished her senior year at Air Academy High School (located in Colorado Springs, Color.), undefeated after winning the national title at the Nike Cross Country Nationals in 16:56.8. She led her school to the 2015 state title while setting a new course record of 17:39. She was the 2015 national Gatorade Cross Country Runner of the Year and was the Colorado Gatorade state winner for both track and field and cross country last year.

The cross country teams will race again on Saturday at the Washington Invitational, a meet the men won last year and the women won each of the past two years.

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RECENT DEBATE IS FULL OF CONTROVERSY AND FACT CHECKING DEBATE ARTICLE Republican nominee Donald Trump stared glumly into the camera and flatly dropped the word like he had so many times before. “Wrong,� he said in a monotone Queens accent.

His opponent, Hillary Clinton, pressed onward, smiling slightly at the interjection but appearing unscathed. At times both candidates took moments to defend themselves against accusations from both their opponent and moderator Lester Holt, all the while adding more claims to be challenged.

Fact-checking was one of the larger topics surrounding Monday’s debate after Matt Lauer’s floundering as moderator in the Commander-in-chief forum earlier this month. Should moderators attack false claims from candidates and seek an admittance of falsehood, or should fact-checking be left to the candidates?

Moving the debate to foreign policy and the anticipated discussion of the Iraq war, Lester Holt attempted to correct Trump on his previously stated support for the Iraq war, but the Republican nominee would not admit to it. “Mr. Trump a lot of these are judgment questions. You had supported the war in Iraq before the invasion,� Holt stated. “I did not support the war in Iraq,� Trump responded. What ensued was an exchange between the two in which Holt continued to state Trump’s support for the war while Trump vehemently denied the accusation, even retracing his statements back to his 2002 interview with Sean Hannity. “That is mainstream media nonsense put out by [Hillary Clinton],� Trump accused.

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sea of irrelevant justifications.

This distracting discourse is why many moderators feel that it is not their job to challenge the validity of statements made by debaters. Chris Wallace, the moderator for the third debate this season, shares this sentiment. “I do not believe that it’s my job to be a truth squad. It’s up to the other person to catch them on that.� Wallace said to his network, Fox News, earlier this month.

There are certainly hundreds of voices at any one moment in a debate who are factchecking the candidates. Major publications like the New York Times and NPR provided almost instantaneous fact-checks live during the debate. Since the debate finished, entire lists have been compiled of false statements told by either candidate. Fact-checking is certainly thriving online and voters are desperate to educate others on the truths of statements, taking the burden of moderators to halt a debate for validity’s sake. The executive director of the commission on presidential debates, Janet Brown, tackles the argument logistically: “I think, personally, if you start to get into the fact-check, I am not sure — what is a big fact, and what is a little fact?� she said on CNN this past Sunday. “And if you and I have different sources of information, does your source about the unemployment rate agree with my source?�

What really resulted from this debate between moderator and candidate was a fact left in doldrums. While Trump attempted to explain his past rhetoric the true question of adequate military judgement was lost, which Holt attempted to regain but was finally left buried in the lively defense of Trump to his own words.

Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, understands

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that it’s dangerous to allow false statements to be made, however, “The danger of leaving it up to the candidates to fact-check each other is that it doesn’t necessarily bring us any closer to the truth.�

What voters can affirm for themselves is that this past debate provided an often improvised, arduous debate that had an abyss of incorrect assertions with little progress made when those assertions were challenged.

The exploration for truth did nothing to realistically present a victory, and only proved to distract candidates from matters pertaining to their own opinions of their character and their ability to provide leadership.

The debate, which offered a record audience the opportunity to understand both candidates in real time, does not need a machismo inflected by one candidate presenting more right answers than the other—it does not need to devolve to a standardized test in which candidates grab for the exact words they once spoke.

Future debates need a fluid transparency of who they are and who they hope to be, both criticizing their opponent while providing their alternative, and trust that the truth will be provided for the thousands seeking it.Future debates need a fluid transparency of who they are and who they hope to be, both criticizing their opponent while providing their alternative, and trust that the truth will be provided for the thousands seeking it.

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