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Internal Vice President candidate Tess Mor speaks at the ASUO Town Hall held at the Gumwood Auditorium at the University of Oregon EMU on April 4, 2017. (Samuel Marshall)

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Candidates on the ASUO campaign slate UO For You answered questions at a public town hall on April 4, in the EMU. The town hall replaced the usual ASUO election debate because UO For You is the only slate running this year.

The slate is composed of Presidential Candidate Amy Schenk, Internal Vice Presidential Candidate Tess Mor and External Vice President Vickie Gimm.

Gimm couldn’t attend the event.

This is the first year ASUO has only had one slate in recent history, according to Hunter Mackin, the ASUO election coordinator. ASUO faces a challenge in representing the entire student body’s opinions without offering them two different campaign options. “I don’t want students to feel as if they don’t have a choice,� Mor said. Mor feels that in previous years, her, Gimm and Schenk would not have initially formed a single campaign because of their differing views; however she believes having a diverse slate is important. “The whole thing about senate is representing different views and the greater campus,� Mor said, “and the greater campus doesn’t have one view, it has many different views.� “It’s really awesome that we’re able to coalition build and bring three groups that historically kind of divided ASUO elections all together,� Schenk said about the individual candidates backgrounds. “I see this campaign not as one slate but as a student movement.�

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Both candidates said they would still do ground campaigning and phone banking for their slate even though they are running unopposed.

Schenk isn’t worried that candidates who may have initially campaigned against each other will differ over their goals. “There aren’t really different goals,� Schenk said. “We’re all really working for the same goal — providing for students and having the student voice heard on this campus.�

UO For You’s campaign platform centers around three main goals —I nclusivity, accessibility and affordability. Here are the specific initiatives the candidates presented for accomplishing each goal: Inclusivity Mor mentioned advocating for a mandatory cultural competency training, possibly required during freshman orientation. “We were on the topic of diversity and things like that, and we were finding ways to put action behind our words and behind our advocacy. We really want to push that, potentially in freshman orientation, cultural competency is one of the required things that new students have to go to,� Mor said. “I think it’s a really good transition to the UO.�

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Affordability On the topic of tuition increases, both Mor and Schenk focused on advocacy. Mor said she wasn’t entirely clear on the power ASUO has in affecting tuition increases but understands it mostly as an advisory role. Schenk also advocated for increasing the number of student voices in tuition discussions. She has been involved in the Tuition and Fees Advisory Board in the past. Both candidates mentioned alternatives to increase affordability.

Mor said she wants to expand students groups without increasing fees. “I’m really passionate about student groups being able to expand their programs,� Mor said. “I hope to find a way that we can find a middle ground maybe, where it’s still affordable for students but we’re also still expanding student programs.�

Schenk wants to open a student food pantry on campus similar to the one at the Episcopal Campus Ministry on 19th. “The food security working group has done a lot of awesome work here on campus, so I want to heighten their effort and see what we can really do to bring food security here to UO,�

Schenk said. “I think the food pantry is our most tangible aspect at this point.�

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I almost dropped out of college my senior year. I was a few credits away from officially graduating, actually.

I was frustrated with being in school for the fifth year, in debt and uncertain of my chosen career path. I was lost and thought giving up was probably the most viable option. (Didn’t Bill Gates drop out of college to pursue his calling?)

I had walked at my graduation ceremony but I still had 20 credits left — which meant summer school and putting off what I considered starting my “adult� life by getting a job and generating income by pursuing a career in entertainment in L.A. (Didn’t Brad Pitt drop out one semester before graduating?)

There I was, at a crossroads. Do I pay $3,000 of tuition and forfeit my summer to finishing my education or do I buy a oneway ticket to L.A. and jump into the abyss of entertainment and adulthood? Thank god for fear. Because of it, I chose to finish what I started nearly five years and three educational institutions ago.

That was the summer I met Alex Tizon.

There were nine of us in his journalistic interview class, something you would call a “boutique� setting. We were very lucky. There are a few professors in the School of Journalism with a reputation which precedes them, and Alex Tizon was one of those professors. Having won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism in 1997, there was a kind of unsaid understanding that because he was a part of the faculty, he was one of the contributing factors (of which there are many) that give the School of Journalism the credibility it’s known for. That summer his introduction to class was, “Welcome to journalistic interview! Who here has read any of my work?�

We all bowed our head in embarrassment. Of course, there was the one student whose hand shot in the air. Internally I was rolling my eyes, but mostly, I felt insecure that I hadn’t even bothered to read his Wikipedia profile before coming to class knowing he was a big-shot professor. Clearly, this was a sign I should be in L.A. and not in this classroom. “I’m not surprised most of you haven’t,� he said with humble disappointment. “It was a long time ago. Besides, most of you are probably here to finish up your credits. It is summer school after all ... But you should probably read my book anyway. Just a tip to one journalist to another, you should always come as possibly prepared to an interview as you can be.�

The class started off tremulously for me. It was hard to hide my anxieties of being there in the first place. On the one hand, I wanted to do well and show up with a good attitude, but on the other, I wanted to give up entirely and move on with my life. Alex knew this was the case for many of us trying to get through our last semester of college. He didn’t take it personally when he asked me what my interest in journalism was and I responded with, “I’m actually more interested in cinema and entertainment ... I just, um ... yeah ... I need to graduate and I um, I do love journalism, but, umm ... “ I could have rambled on forever. Could I be any more unprepared?

Was I really trying to claim a journalism major right now? “Well then, let’s get you out of here so you can start your life!�

There was something about professor Tizon where you just knew he got it; life, if you will. He was wise and surprisingly laid back for a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. He let us call him Alex. He seemed genuinely interested in our lives and pursuits and less interested in grades and bureaucracy, although he did grade us accordingly and was a fierce editor.

I felt like he showed up to every class ready to pull out the potential in us. He really saw us for who we were and who we wanted to be — the sorority girl with dreams of being on the Food Network. The star running back with his eyes focused on the NFL. The former model with a deep interest and understanding in astronomy and physics. The former Beaver with a vision for sustainable agriculture. The fellow Filipino with the internship at the local news station. The overachiever with her own anxieties of an uncertain future. The frat guy with an inclination for ESPN. And me — the transfer student with a giant question mark hovering over her and an “interest� in entertainment ... whatever that even means.

It was four weeks of intensive journalistic interviewing, borderline uncomfortable at times. He asked us hard questions and made us ask hard questions, such as, why does anything matter? He taught us how to show up prepared, how to find the angle of a story, how to determine if a story is worth covering in the first place, how to use spell check. He made us think. I still use these tools in my everyday life.

The last day of class he very coolly suggested meeting at the campus bar for beers and tots. I was nervous because I’d never been casual with a professor before (was being drunk in front of my professor going to affect my grade?). I’d always been formal and put on a kind of mask of professionalism, but he really wanted to get to know us outside the classroom. We were there for nearly five hours sharing personal stories, laughing at past career mishaps, failed relationships and family. He was the only professor who ever asked about how my father died the previous summer and how I was managing grieving and school. It meant a lot to me. He was genuinely curious about our lives. He was equally open and showed us photos of his two beautiful daughters, gushing at their talent and beauty of which they both had plenty of. His youngest is my age. I remember him showing us a photo of her somewhere in the Mediterranean; she looked so free and beautiful. I remember thinking they had the same smile.

Now I live in New York and am an apprentice at one of the top acting studios in the city. I got my wish of starting my “adult� life, and man ... be careful what you wish for, right?

There are days where I would love nothing more than to be sitting back in the classroom, before I had bills and real responsibilities. If I could do it all over again, I would be more present and less whiney. Getting a college degree is a privilege and sometimes I had the worst attitude about it. In my pursuit of higher education, I’ve been to three universities and one community college. I’ve taken over 250 credits, sat in hundreds of classrooms and listened to dozens of professors.

I’m several thousands of dollars in debt and used to questions if I was the type of person college is “right� for. There are only a few professors who I can genuinely admit made the college experience worth all the work, the stress, the debt. That sitting in their classroom and learning from their minds changed my thinking process and helped me grow not only as a student but as a human being. Alex Tizon was one of those professors.

When I think of what a mentor typically looks like, I always think “Good Will Hunting� (go ahead and blame my “interest� in entertainment), and feel inadequate that a professor never showed interest in me the way Robin Williams showed interest in Matt Damon — that I wasn’t a genius, or special, or that I wasn’t the next Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. In fact, I got a B- in his class. But that’s exactly what Alex Tizon was to me and to all of us that summer. He was a guiding light.

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Matthew Carmichael began his time as UOPD police chief in September 2016. (Christopher Trotchie)

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he last hree University of Oregon Police Department chiefs left before fulfilling their contracts. After the latest chief — Carolyn McDermed — retired unexpectedly, UOPD began the search for a replacement for the fourth time in a decade.

Last September, the University of Oregon hired Matthew Carmichael as chief of UOPD. Carmichael says the experience he has gained in past police service will help him rebuild Oregon’s police department into the service he says it should be. “I want to be that catalyst that helps reduce sexual assault on campus. I want to be that department and team that reduces bike theft. I want to make sure that no student walks alone at night.�

Carmichael’s innovative style of leadership is something no other chief has brought to campus.

UO’s police chief is mixing it up with students in the EMU and making UO crime logs more easily available to the public online.

Carmichael has been working as a law enforcement officer for 33 years. Previously he served as chief of police at UC Davis. He became chief at the UCDPD following an incident at UC Davis where police pepper sprayed Occupy protesters in 2011 with military-grade pepper spray.

Carmichael is set on making a difference during his time at UO. His first step is to foster a stronger relationship between UOPD and the campus community by finding ways to connect with students and campus groups so UOPD can better understand their needs and concerns.

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meetings with student groups to help guide their talks toward the most important issues.

Mdobj has been impressed with Carmichael’s effort so far; she feels he has made a strong effort to understand the needs of the campus community. “So far we’ve started working on presentations on alcohol, sexual education and all the things that might end up making someone’s experience at UO bad,� Mdobj said.

Carmichael also plans to expand the Saferide program using UOPD funds and enlist student volunteers for campus security.

One of Carmichael’s main projects for campus is creating a unified lost and found program run

by UOPD. Currently, each building has its own lost and found system, forcing students to backtrack for their missing items. Carmichael’s new program will provide a centralized location on campus to recover items, as well as introduce a website to help students report and recover lost items.

According to Jennifer Garcia, the current interim police chief at the UCDPD who worked with Carmichael for many years, Carmichael has always been known for having big ideas but also for having the drive and planning ability to implement even the most surprising of them. “He was always a deep thinker. He has lots of big ideas and likes to play them out and experiment a little bit. It’s like thinking outside the box,� Garcia said. “He was always a fun and happy person who was really good to work with.�

Despite his optimism, Carmichael has inherited a tense situation at UOPD due to the whistleblowing incident of 2012, an ensuing lawsuit and the abrupt departure of the previous police chief. But Carmichael has been in worse situations before.

On Nov. 18, 2011, two UCDPD officers sprayed several unarmed and seated protestors in the face with military-grade pepper spray. The incident went viral in a matter of hours, which drew global

attention and put both the school and UCDPD in a tense position.

Both officers involved and the UCDPD police chief were placed on administrative leave soon after. On the Saturday following the event, Carmichael, a lieutenant at the time, received an offer to become the acting police chief for UCDPD. Initially Carmichael declined the job offer. But after thinking it over, considering the gravity of the situation and talking with his family, Carmichael decided this would be the best opportunity for him to make a difference in a troubled time for law enforcement in the U.S. “My wife and I talked it through and thought maybe we could have a positive impact,�

Carmichael said. “I stepped outside myself a bit and thought, hopefully, we could make things better.�

Carmichael confronted the storm of outrage and controversy facing UC Davis, something that often brought out the more serious side of his upbeat personality. “Even though he liked to joke around and have fun, he had this serious side to him. When it was time for business, it was time to do business,� said Lieutenant James Barbour, a fellow officer at UCDPD who had worked with Carmichael since 2004. “He’d often try to inject humor into the process, but only when it was appropriate.�

Carmichael estimates that during the pepper spray scandal, UCDPD received at least 4,000 formal complaints from callers around the nation.

That wasn’t the only source of hostility Carmichael and the department faced. As chief he was forced to make tough decisions and some, particularly those regarding personnel action, were not popular with the law enforcement community.

Carmichael says he received “hate emails� from U.S. police officers in response to some of the

decisions he made.

Ultimately, Carmichael’s efforts instilled a sense of trust between UCDPD and the UC Davis campus community. He carried the tone he set in those hectic first months throughout his tenure at UC Davis. Carmichael started an officer outreach program, established a monthly meeting to listen to the concerns of students and even recruited the department’s bomb dog, Charlie.

“He really put himself out there,” Garcia said. “He worked harder than all of us. He came in first and went home last, worked weekends and made himself available to students, staff, faculty and anyone who wanted to talk to the police department.”

When “Pokemon GO!” was released last summer, UC Davis, like many other campuses, needed to address the safety and concerns the mobile game presented. Carmichael organized a massive “Pokemon GO!” event, where he invited the campus community to come play the game with UCDPD, reminding them to exercise caution while playing.

Carmichael believes that the UO community is very open and it has given him an instant sense of belonging. He admires the university setting because of the many opportunities and experiences it opens for people who attend or visit.

At 52, Carmichael has no plans to stop working in law enforcement anytime soon, but even when he retires he envisions himself staying in a university community. He is considering studying geology later in his life because of his interest in stones. He enjoys scouring the desert and picking agates off the beach with his family during his free time.

“What’s different for UO is that there’s no mistaking where you’re at … The UO, for us, is like that binder that brings the community together — the whole state honestly. It’s very welcoming, it’s a comfortable place to be, but it makes you feel like you’re part of something greater.”

This is Chief Carmichael’s Amber bear. Amber Swartz was abducted in Pinole, California in 1988. Carmichael had this case years later as a detective sergeant. To date, Amber has not been located and his amber bear reminds him of that every day. It is something he has kept with him for years and has the most meaning in his workspace.

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Throughout Jesse Shofner’s years on Fugue, the Oregon women’s ultimate frisbee team, she did nothing but dominate the sport. Apart from being Fugue’s team captain for two years, Shofner led the team to national championships in 2013 and 2015, won the 2016 Ultiworld college player of the year and was a member of the AllStar Ultimate Tour in 2015 and 2016.

Her recruiting video from 2016 has nearly 50,000 views on YouTube.

These are just a few of Shofner’s numerous accolades. So, it comes to no surprise that she has had unheard of success post-collegiately, as well.

Shofner, who graduated from the University of Oregon in the spring of 2016, was recently selected to the 28-person roster for the Nashville Nightwatch. This makes her the first female player in history to make a full season AUDL (American Ultimate Disk League) roster.

“The body of work over the course of three months that she showed left every single one of the coaches with full confidence in her to make the right decision on the field with the disk in her hands,” Nightwatch head coach Ryan Balch told ultiworld.com Shofner says that over the course of a few months, -Jesse including a try out and two following training camps, she proved her worth and was offered a spot on the team.

On Saturday, April 1 when Jesse Shofner and the rest of the Nashville Nightwatch professional ultimate team arrived in Jacksonville, Florida for the first game of the season, she was anxious to play her first game as a rostered player.

To her surprise, she was greeted by a few friendly faces. The University of Southern Florida women’s ultimate frisbee team made the trip from Tampa to come watch Shofner play in her first game. Shofner says that the support from both males and females has been “breathtaking.”

“I talked to them after the game and it’s really grounding to be exposed to those people,” Shofner said. “I don’t know if me playing means that more women will play pro. I’m not sure that that’s even the objective. When people talk about gender equity within the community [of ultimate frisbee] women and men talk about the lack

of opportunity for women to play pro.

The hankering thing isn’t women saying, ‘why don’t I have the opportunity to play with these men?’ “ According to Shofner’s former Fugue teammate, Gabby Aufderheide, there are “mixed attitudes” about the AUDL in general, because of the lack of opportunity for women to play.

There are no women’s teams and it is understandably difficult or women to make a men’s team roster.

During that game against the Jacksonville Cannons, Shofner settled right in, scoring two points and helping her team play a hard-fought match.

“As a female playing in a predominately male environment, I was curious just if I could do it. If I could hold my own,” Shofner said.

She most definitely did.

Despite having success, Shofner admits that playing against men is no easy task. The most difficult part, she says, is defending cuts. To supplement the increased level of difficulty, Shofner works diligently to minimize her mistakes.

“Learning how to minimize your weaknesses and emphasize your strengths is part of the game in any facet, but especially in this environment for Shofner me,” she said.

Shofner’s Fugue teammates at Oregon have been happy to see all of her success. She is continuing to build the Fugue legacy as she makes a name for herself in the professional world of ultimate frisbee.

“It was really awesome to know that people believe that she’s talented enough to play in the league,”Aufderheide said. “It’s cool to say that she was my captain and she’s been a big player in the Oregon community. To see her on the national stage like that is always awesome.”

With all the success that Shofner has had, she says that none of it would have been possible without her former Fugue teammates and longtime coach Lou Burruss.

“It prepared me for every facet of future play coming out of college and in my life. I would not be the person I am–with the thought processes that I have, with the relationships that I have, any of it – without Fugue, without the University of Oregon women’s team.”

“As a female playing in a predominately male environment, I was curious just if I could do it, if I could hold my own,”

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The reclamation of sexual objectification and historically objectifying words is a cisgender white woman’s game. It’s easy for us white girls to pretend that “free the nipple� campaigns are enough to end numerous systems of oppression, some of which we haven’t even considered.

But white women need to do some things, and knitting pussy hats isn’t one of them.

There are many groups of people in this country who can’t embrace this supposedly empowering movement. It’s been noted multiple times in different post-women’s march think pieces that transgender women have felt

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I take issue with this usage of the word “slut” for multiple reasons, one of these being that the reclamation of it is pretty exclusive to white women.

“Being intersectional is being intentional,” said Fatima Roohi Pervaiz, director of the ASUO Women’s Center. “It’s taking into account other people’s experiences.”

Intentionality and critical thinking seem to be something that is missed by a vast majority of well-intentioned white women wearing pussy hats or handmade vagina costumes. We just need to recognize that we all have different experiences.

Being intentional really isn’t that difficult, either. Roohi Pervaiz recounted a recent experience about the February performance of “The Vagina Monologues” by the University of Oregon’s Panhellenic women.

When she asked the organizers if they might start the play with a statement mentioning that not all women have vaginas, they were happy to oblige.

“Having deep, meaningful conversations and dialogue is essential to getting to the root of [these issues],” said Roohi Pervaiz.

But not only transgender or non-gender conforming people feel uncomfortable with the reclamation of objectification. In my last article about similar issues, I discussed the SlutWalk, a movement started

in 2011 by two Toronto women as a response to a Toronto police officer’s comments about how women should dress in order to avoid getting sexually assaulted. I take issue with this usage of the word “slut” for multiple reasons, one of these being that the reclamation of it is pretty exclusive to white women. In a 2011 “open letter from black women to SlutWalk organizers,” this exclusivity is explored.

“As Black women, we do not have the privilege or the space to call ourselves ‘slut’ without validating the already historically entrenched ideology and recurring messages about what and who the Black woman is,” the letter said, which was signed by The Board of Directors and Board of Advisors of Black Women’s Blueprint and endorsed by organizations such as the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community and the Los Angeles Black Women’s Network, amongst many others. I’d imagine the sentiment remains similar today: black women do not have the privilege to take back their sexuality the same way that white women do.

And we all need to acknowledge this.

We need to advocate for the rights of people with vaginas and uteri. We need to stop the objectification of femmes. But we also need to realize that not everybody feels safe or wants to do that by wearing pussy hats, and change some of our rhetoric to reflect that. If we’re going to wear pussy hats and participate in “slut walks” and free our nipples, we’ve got to also have some “Protect Trans Lives” signs in our hands, and we need to show up at Black Lives Matter rallies and lift up women of color who don’t benefit from the same privileges that we do.

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