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TUITION TAX:

UO GRADUATE STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY FIGHT BACK ON TAX REFORM THAT RAISES STUDENT COSTS BY $65 BILLION OVER 10 YEARS

BY EMILY GOODYKOONTZ • TWITTER @SHARKASAURUSX

Considering graduate school? You might need to think twice. University of Oregon graduate students may soon see their taxes doubled — and some grad students fear they won’t be able to afford finishing their degrees.

A GOP-led federal tax reform bill, H.R. 1, passed in the House on Nov. 16 by a partisan vote. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act strips grad students — and undergraduates — of several tax benefits. Nationwide, some graduate students could see their taxes triple if the Senate and House come to an agreement on tax reform in the next few weeks.

Both UO and its graduate students are clamoring for changes to a bill that could increase costs to college students nationwide by about $65 billion over the next 10 years — and they aren’t alone in their outrage.

The American Council on Education and about 50 other higher education groups (including the Association of American Universities, of which UO is a member), signed a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee, decrying the legislation for discouraging postsecondary education and undermining the financial stability of educational institutions.

The letter cited eight sections of the House bill that higher education groups call detrimental. The sections eliminate deductions and raise the taxes of both undergraduate and graduate students, while significantly reducing the revenue of universities.

“It is already a struggle for me to survive on the stipend provided to me,” said Julia Taylor, a UO Ph.D. candidate two years into her studies. “If this tax bill goes through the Senate, I honestly don’t know what I am going to do.”

A Senate version of H.R. 1 passed out of the Finance Committee on Nov. 16 and could make its way to the Senate floor as early as next Wednesday, said Nancy O’Neall, monitor of the Ad Hoc Tax Group, an informal collective of university and higher

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But the Senate version retains key differences that must be reconciled with the House version of the bill before any legislation becomes law, and it is unclear exactly what effects the final legislation would have on educational institutions and college students.

Many at UO are expecting a large, negative impact.

“If our revenues are disrupted, we have to find ways to balance that,” said Betsy Boyd, federal liaison for UO. “We have a commitment at this university to the student experience and keeping college affordable, and this bill will make it harder for us to do those things.”

The House bill repeals two tax credits for students and their families, the American Opportunity and the Lifetime Learning tax credits. It also eliminates deductions for student loan interest — increasing the cost of student loans by about $13 billion over the next ten years, according to the American Council on Education.

“About half of our student body population has to borrow money to go to school,” said Boyd, “and when you are just starting out in a career, being able to deduct that interest helps manage the cost of borrowing.”

But graduate students might stand to lose the most.

The House version of H.R. 1 repeals a traditional tax exclusion on tuition waivers received by graduate students around the country — including the 1,400 graduate employees at UO. Tuition waivers are usually about $5,000 per term, and graduate employees also receive a stipend for living costs, according to Interim Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Sara Hodges. Eliminating the tax exclusion would more than double the tax on UO graduate stipends — amounts already difficult to live on, grad students say.

Calling graduate employees a “life-force” on the campus, Hodges expressed her concern in a letter

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to Oregon representatives Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee — the two committees responsible for drafting the legislation.

“This legislation is bad for graduate students, bad for the undergraduates who are instructed by graduate students and bad for research labs that are powered by graduate student workers. It is bad for America’s ability to attract the brightest minds to its universities, and for America’s stature as a world leader in research and higher education,” wrote Hodges.

But UO grad students aren’t taking the legislation sitting down. While other students prepared to head home for the holiday, some grad students organized a phone banking day — their only recourse to countering the legislation so far.

On Tuesday, Nov. 21, graduate student members of the university-wide Graduate Teaching Fellow Federation gathered in PLC 180 to call senators representing communities around the nation and ask them to vote down the tax reform bill. They also asked family, friends, educators and community members to call their legislative representatives on behalf of graduate students.

For some, a tax on tuition waivers could mean a swift end to their academic careers.

After more than three years of working towards her Ph.D., graduate employee Larissa Petrucci worries she will have to quit graduate school.

“If the University of Oregon could not find a way to keep me from paying that increased tax, it would not be tenable for me to continue grad school,” said Petrucci, who organized the phone banking.

While it’s unclear how UO would manage the increased costs, the university will advocate for its students, said Boyd.

“What we do know is that if we tax graduate student tuition or we reduce the tax credit that helps

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put money back in student pockets, college is going to be less affordable,� said Boyd.

The university could see impacts to both its revenue and donations, said Boyd. Last year, UO received 50,000 donations from 40,551 donors for a total of $695 million. Annual donations average around $200 million, and last year, UO received a single $500 million gift from the Knight family that will be used to build a new research center, the Phil and Penny Knight Campus.

For the most part, UO relies on small, yearly donations. “We have a lot of people who make small gifts that make a big difference to the university,� said Boyd. “This bill is expected to greatly reduce charitable giving.�

The tax reform means about 94 percent of taxpayers would not itemize their taxes and not receive any deduction for charitable giving. That, in turn, would significantly lower the amount of people donating to nonprofit organizations and universities like UO, Boyd said.

The university expects to take a big revenue hit, losing federal tax subsidies on bonds, and universities everywhere could lose access to private activity and advance refunding bonds.

UO uses these low-interest bonds for capital projects like building construction, including the Ford Alumni Center and Global Scholars Hall, said Boyd. Sequestration on Build America Bonds alone would cost UO about $20 million between 2018 and 2040 — about $1 million per year, said Boyd. And changes to the Unrelated Business Income Taxwould tax nonprofits for licensing trademarks and logos, taking a chunk of UO’s $4 million annual

revenue — money that otherwise goes to the athletic department.

For now, the tax reform hovers in the Senate, waiting for a vote.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell needs 50 Republican votes to pass the Senate version of the bill and could bring it to the floor next week, according to O’Neall.

But action on the Senate floor might be delayed if McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan think they can negotiate a deal between the House and the Senate in the next few weeks. “If so — and that’s a big ‘if’ — McConnell would amend the Senate Finance bill on the floor with the pre-cooked deal, the Senate would pass it and send it to the House for their approval,� wrote O’Neall in an email to Ad Hoc Tax members. “This would obviate the need for a House/Senate conference committee and speed the bill to the President’s desk before Christmas.�

What the final bill will contain depends on the current negotiations between GOP senators and the House. “The end game is critical,� said Boyd. “You can assume that House and Senate Republican leadership are coordinating.�

For now, grad students and universities await a fate resting in the hands of the GOP senators. “From a university perspective, what we care most about are the impacts to students — changes that result in tuition being taxed, making college less affordable or creating new costs that disrupt our ability to meet our mission,� said Boyd. “There are a lot of bad things in this bill.�

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NEW DIGITAL HUMANITIES MINOR WILL COMBINE LITERARY CULTURE WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY

Spencer Atkinson speaks at the Speak Easy event. (Hannah Kanik)

BY KYLIE STORM • TWITTER @KMSTORM99 On Nov. 13, the University of Oregon announced that a new digital humanities minor will soon be available to students.

The purpose of the minor is to combine “literary culture� with technology, according to the English department’s website.

Given that this generation of students has grown up with technology, the minor aims to study humanities using digital tools.

More than 20 courses are available for students to take in pursuit of the minor. These courses concern different topics, such as English, geography and cinema studies. There is also the option of independent studies, if a student gains approval from the Digital Humanities Advisory Board.

Students will have to take six courses to gain the minor, but only two of those are specified: Literature and Digital Culture and the Technologies and Texts Capstone.

Literature and Digital Humanities is a prerequisite, while Technologies and Texts Capstone is the last class a student has to

take before completing the minor.

The minor requires 24 credits in total, with eight coming from the two required classes.

Throughout the minor, students will create different multimedia projects in an effort to “visualize, publish and analyze concerns in text that is studied,� according to the Minor in Digital Humanities pamphlet.

The digital humanities minor could help students gain a more well-rounded experience and add to their personal portfolio.

Students will get the opportunity to create websites and study maps, publications and digital archives.

Along with this new minor, a digital humanities speakers series has been holding events in the Knight Library. The series is titled “Why DH? Why DH now?� and has varying focuses, like electronics and journalism.

Three events have already passed, but another one will be held on Feb. 15, in which Stanford professors Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Gordon Chang will give a joint talk on a project entitled “Chinese Railroad Workers in North America.�

PLC hall houses the English department on campus. (Emerald Archives)

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BY KYLIE STORM • TWITTER @KMSTORM99 Students gathered in the Common Grounds CafĂŠ in Hamilton’s Dining Commons on Nov. 9 for “Speak Easy,â€? a night of poetry and spoken word about the emotions of college life.

The event is part of Movember, which raises awareness for testicular and prostate cancer on campus, as well as men’s suicide prevention throughout the month of November.

Despite being catered toward men’s health awareness, the majority of participants and attendees were women, according to Nikita Ramakrishnan, the student who made Movember a reality on UO’s campus.

The global charity Movember encourages participants to grow mustaches to raise money and awareness for men’s health. At UO, Movember came back for its second year to raise awareness and spark conversations about all aspects of men’s health.

Throughout November, various departments at UO under the direction of Nikita Ramakrishnan put on several events. These events ranged from health panels to dodgeball tournaments.

Spencer Atkinson, the housing community director of Hamilton Hall, created the “Speak Easy� poetry reading event for students. “I’m a former high school English teacher, so doing spoken word poetry is something that is a familiar venue of mine for self-expression,�

Atkinson said.

Atkinson said he believes men are not participating in certain

events because they are socialized to suppress their emotions. “Men are taught not to express emotion. The only appropriate emotion is anger,� said Atkinson.

The “Speak Easy� event was intended to encourage men to express their feelings in a healthy way. “The goal of the ’Speak Easy’ event is to create a space where it is okay to talk about emotions and to have feelings and to express them with words as opposed to your fists or with other forms of violence,�

Atkinson said.

However, he continued by saying “events that are stereotypically male activities will attract a more male audience,� Atkinson said.

Ways we can change this trend lie in the ways we define “manhood� and what it means to be a man, according to Atkinson. “If we can train young men that there is a myriad of ways of becoming a man, of being a man, of expressing ones man hood in healthy contexts, then we can shift all of those social ails in a positive direction.�

Emily Burns, a sophomore at UO, said more women are participating than men due to the fact that women tend to participate in more events.

Burns said, “There’s a trend that women participate in things more because of the idea of feminism.

Feminism is supporting equality and is not for promoting just women’s health, but promoting men’s health as well.�

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For some University of Oregon students, stalking is not a plot in a Netflix movie that goes away when you shut off the TV. UO’s Title IX Annual Report for 2016 reported 44 disclosed cases of stalking for the calendar year. Oregon’s Department of Human Services reported that sexual and domestic violence programs had 106 stalking-specific calls made to their programs in Lane County in 2016.

Stalking is characterized by someone’s obsession with another person through following them or contacting them, even if the person has requested that they stop.

Through the years, it has come to include social media and text messaging, often called ‘telephonic’ stalking.

Each year, the UOPD and the Crisis Intervention and Sexual Violence Support Services office work with students through cases of stalking on campus.

Renae DeSautel, the interim assistant dean of students for Crisis Response and Prevention, meets with students about situations that they might not consider stalking. “There’s a few different types of stalking,�

DeSautel said. “Most people think of an unknown person who finds someone and starts stalking them. But really, oftentimes it’s an ex-partner or someone who is known to the person, and they’re receiving ongoing contact that is unwanted.�

The idea of being stalked is something that goes under the radar of many college students, but it’s more than just following a student to class and it doesn’t just happen when they’ve recently ended a relationship. It now

occurs often through social media, according to DeSautel. “Maybe they matched on Tinder and suddenly now find all of your information and start contacting you,� DeSautel said. “Maybe you sent them one message, and now they’re flooding your inbox or contacting you with other things.

So it’s not always relationship based.�

At the forefront of the issue is making sure the student is safe, says Kasia Mlynski, UO staff attorney. Mlynski has worked with students to navigate their legal rights in stalking situations.

When the stalking situation is between two students, the route often taken is a mutual no contact order, according to Mlynski. “Any student can go to the Office of Student Conduct or can work through my office or any of the advocates we have on campus to request a mutual no contact order,� said Mlynski. “It’s a two-way order that tells both people, ‘Hey, if you see the other person, you’re required to walk away.’ If you violate the university’s no contact order, then the university can sanction you under the student conduct code.�

UOPD detective Kathy Flynn has a few tips to ensure that if a student finds themselves in a stalking situation, they can remain safe — including making sure their phone is charged and walking in well-lit areas. “We always tell people not to scare them but take threats seriously,� Flynn said. “If you’re in a situation and you feel alarmed and you try to talk yourself out of it, don’t. Trust your instincts.

It’s better to overreact. It’s better to have the police come and get you somewhere safe at any time of day than to take any risk.�

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BY NIC CASTILLON “Utopia,â€? BjĂśrk’s latest album, can be seen as a companion to 2015’s “Vulnicura,â€? as it explores many similar subjects. “Vulnicuraâ€? functioned as a way for the Icelandic singer to process a breakup with her long-term partner, American artist Matthew Barney.

Naturally, the album took on a somber tone; however, on “Utopia,� things are noticeably brighter, like a light at the end of a tunnel.

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“Arisen My Senses,� the album’s opening track, immediately communicates that change. It begins like a cool spring morning, with the sound of chirping birds, just before shifting into a dense mix of colorful synth chords, subtle harp sounds and complex, layered vocals.

Read breakdowns of the other tracks at dailyemerald.com

UO ANNOUNCES KNIGHT CAMPUS LEADER

BY WILL CAMPBELL • TWITTER @WTCAMPBELL He calls himself fundamentally a bioengineer, but his next job is going to be bigger.

Robert Guldberg, a Georgia Tech professor and leader in scientific research, will be the executive director of Oregon’s $1 billion scientific school, The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, according to an announcement on AroundtheO Monday.

He currently holds Georgia

Tech’s Director’s Chair for the bioengineering and bioscience school. He also is a faculty member of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

He will manage an estimated 750 jobs created by the Knight Campus, set to open in 2020, and his starting annual salary is $550,000.

Read about his previous scientific research at dailyemerald.com

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BY ZAK LASTER • TWITTER @ZLAST3445 The Oregon Ducks beat the Oregon State Beavers in five sets to win the Civil War at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis, Oregon, on Friday night in the regular season finale.

Ronika Stone led the Ducks with 14 kills and Taylor Agost added 12.

Willow Johnson and Lindsey Vander Weide each added 11 kills.

Oregon started the deciding fifth set with a kill by Vander Weide. The two teams then exchanged 3-point runs. Later in the set, Oregon

clinched the 15-9 set victory with a 5-0 run, thanks to three Oregon State errors.

In the first set the Ducks used a 6-1 run, which ended with a kill by Vander Weide, to put the Beavers away for the 25-22 victory.

Oregon State raced away with the second set because of a 15-4 run to take a commanding 21-9 lead.

Read more about Lindsey Vander Weide’s big night at dailyemerald.com.

Last spring, a new Jewish chapter, the fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu, colonized at the University of Oregon. It is aiming towards a charter for fall 2018.

Jewish Greek life has the ability to bring members closer together — their similar backgrounds give the members an opportunity to relate to each other, according to junior Brett Hoskins, a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi.

UO currently has three Jewish-affiliated Greek life groups: the sorority Sigma Mu Omega, which was founded in 2003; the fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, which was founded in 2001; and Sigma Alpha Mu, a colony that started as an idea at a ski retreat last year and that is aiming towards being a chartered fraternity next fall.

Read about some of their goals at dailyemerald.com

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“You just walk in and walk out with money,� says Cheyenne Johnson, a former Lane Community College student. Twice a week, she visits the Grifols Talecris plasma donation center in Eugene, supplementing her income with money exchanged for the plasma in her veins.

Plasma, a component of blood, is used to make medicine. It can be separated out from a person’s blood, and the remainder safely returned to the donor. At the Eugene Grifols location, donors can make between $25 and $150 a week, depending on how many consecutive visits they make —maximum eight visits per month. Cheyenne, 23, visits regularly because her hours have been cut at work and has been donating since she was 18.

Plasma donation is a source of income for people all over the United States. ABC News reported that 94 percent of the world’s plasma comes from the United States, and 80 percent of the country’s plasma centers are located in poor neighborhoods.

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Plasma is a $16.8 billion global industry, and it continues to grow.

Grifols Talecris sells plasma products in more than 90 countries and is the third largest global manufacturer of plasma therapies, according to its website.

In Eugene, many young adults and students go to the donation center in search of quick cash. Its website even boasts that it’s “just minutes away from the University of Oregon,� and that students can do homework while they donate. Beth Vial, a former phlebotomist at the Eugene Grifols location, estimated that about one third of the donors at the Eugene location are between the ages of 18 and 24.

According to data from the New York Times, the median income of a student’s family at UO is more than double the national average, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

That makes UO the 174th richest university out of 2,395 in the United States, in terms of student wealth.

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school like UO can be an isolating experience, and donating plasma to supplement a small income is just one of the things that might separate low income students from their peers.

Laying back in a comfortable chair and listening to the whir of a machine filtering your blood might seem like fast, easy money. But it’s not always quick or painless, and it’s not guaranteed.

Donors can be turned away for a variety of reasons.

The Process A donor’s first visit to the Grifols Telecris building on West 8th Avenue can take several hours. First-timers receive a medical exam and a drug test and are asked to fill out a long questionnaire and watch an informational video.

There are several things that can disqualify a donor, including intravenous drug use, recent tattoos or piercings, or a lack of a permanent address. Vial said homeless people are not allowed to donate because they have a higher chance of being exposed to “high risk activities.”

But young, healthy college students like Corbin Couraud, a senior at UO who regularly donates plasma, have a good chance of qualifying. He said that he once saw a woman who appeared to be homeless come into the donation center holding many of her belongings. “They asked her when the last time she ate was,” Corbin said. When she answered, “Yesterday,” she was turned away.

Cheyenne said she sees all sorts of donors at the center, including “creepy people and weird people, but there’s also put-together people and normal people.” Corbin said that he usually sees other students from UO and LCC. “It’s kind of interesting to look around and think, ‘I have a few really specific things in common with everybody in this room and everything else is a complete mystery,’” he said.

Once the process of signing up with Talecris is completed, visits are straightforward. Donors sit in black chairs until their appointment slot is called. Everyone in the slot shuffles over to the computer kiosks, where they take an abridged version of the questionnaire and return to their seats.

Then donors are individually called into one of four small rooms, where a donor center

technician examines them. A quick prick to the finger tests the donor’s blood for iron content and hematocrit level, or red blood cell concentration.

They also check the donor’s heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature. If any of these levels fall outside of the approved range, the donor will be turned away and they will not be paid that day.

Donation centers also mark a donor’s finger with a permanent marker that glows under a blacklight to prevent people from donating at multiple centers. They check fingers under a blacklight for marks from other centers, too.

Some donors leave the rooms looking at the ground, defeated.

“I told them not to put me in room two. It’s bad luck,” a woman said as she left a donor room looking upset. “I never pass in room two.”

Both Cheyenne and Corbin usually pass, but Cheyenne has failed the screening process a few times because she biked to the center. Biking causes her heart rate to be too high to donate.

Once, Corbin failed because he hadn’t eaten in several hours.

If a donor passes, they are directed to walk down a hallway and take a seat in a room full of blue lounge chairs. A movie usually plays on the large TVs all around the donation center for people to watch while they wait. Next, a phlebotomist wearing a clear plastic face mask and a light blue uniform smears the donor’s arm with iodine — a thick, foul-smelling, yellow paste.

Then, holding the donor’s arm with their gloved hands, the phlebotomist chooses a vein and inserts a 16-gauge needle. It’s roughly three times as big as a needle for a standard ear piercing.

Cheyenne and Corbin both look away while the needle goes in.

According to Cheyenne, the process only really hurts when the needle goes in and gets taken out. Corbin said he kind of likes the experience.

“I mean, as much as a person can like getting strapped into a machine and having fluids sucked out of their body,” he laughed. He said if he thinks about it too much, the process is uncomfortable, but you can get used to it.

Blood flows through the clear tube attached to the needle and into the plasmapheresis machine.

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disks spin while the machine separates the plasma from the rest of the blood. Plasma comes out of the machine and into a bottle. “It’s kind of shocking how much plasma they take — it’s a pretty big bottle,” Corbin said. The color of the plasma varies from person to person, from honey to orange. The rest of the blood is returned to the donor through the same tube.

It takes between 30 minutes to an hour for the bottle to fill with plasma. Cheyenne donates with her headphones on. “I always have my music blaring,” she said. After finishing the donation, cold saline runs through the tubes, turning them bright red and sending a chill through the donor.

After the saline, a phlebotomist removes the needle, which stings a bit. The phlebotomist wraps the donor’s arm in a bandage, and they are free to leave. The money earned automatically loads onto the donor’s Grifols debit card. They can return to donate again in two days. The needle leaves a mark. Some people scar more than others, but with frequent donations there’s a good chance that donors will have lasting needle marks.

“I don’t like having marks on my arms,” Cheyenne said. “So far it hasn’t been bad. It’s healed before I’ve gone back.” She worries that people might think she’s on heroin or meth because of the needle marks.

Corbin is less worried about it. “I don’t feel like I strike people as someone who does heroin.” He said that if someone asked, he’d just tell them he donates plasma and then they would feel bad for assuming.

But for Corbin, it can be a frustrating experience going to school at UO, because sometimes people don’t seem to understand what it means to be worried about money, he said. “It sucks so much.

I’m not embarrassed that I am low-income, but I do get jealous. I get salty about being at a school where I look around and there are people with money,” he said.

Many students on campus have never thought about donating plasma for extra income, according to Corbin. “I’ve had people who do have money and they’re like ‘Oh my god I could never,’” he said. “You would be surprised at what you would do if you were actually worried about where your next meal was going to come from.”

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“At no other time in our lives will we live with so many people our age in such close quarters and at the same time be presented with so many opportunities to meet those people.”

As an opinion columnist, I often look at the University of Oregon with a critical eye. I search for faults that need fixing, issues that need addressing and something to take a stand on.

However, every now and then, I find myself wanting to express my gratitude for this strange and wonderful place. Only nine weeks into the first term of my freshman year, I’ve already fallen so deeply in love with this campus. So, in the spirit of the recent and upcoming holidays, here is a list of nine things (one for every week I’ve been in school) that I love most about UO. I encourage you to check these things out if you haven’t yet and share your own list:

1) The guy who plays piano in the EMU. You can find him weekdays from 12 - 2 p.m. in the Taylor Lounge (that place with the comfy chairs on the first floor, behind the stairs). Plus, if you’re really lucky, you just might hear his insanely good rendition of the “Game of Thrones” theme song.

2) Puddles Cafe.

I live in Barnhart Hall, which is far away from every other coffee source on campus so Puddles is a godsend. Plus, since it’s less crowded, they make lattes there way faster than Common Grounds (sorry, Hamilton), and they serve breakfast sandwiches until 10 p.m.

3) Quiet floors.

Honestly, I never thought I could be so productive. If you ever need a miracle (two essays, WebWork and three tests to study for all by tomorrow?), I’d recommend the fourth floor of the Knight Library, in the back left corner by the windows. For those of you who have spent any time on a quiet floor in any of the UO libraries, you know exactly what I mean.

4) The people handing out free stuff on campus.

Free granola bars. Free keychains. Free coupons. Thank you! Thank you!

5) Turkeys.

Turkeys are my second-favorite bird (ducks come first, duh). And the iconic campus turkeys are both hilarious and absolutely intimidating. They once blocked the entrance to Barnhart — but how did they get out there? Did they ride the bus? When you’re sad, just think about the campus turkeys riding the bus.

6) Biking to Class.

As a student who used to exclusively walk to campus, I had mixed feelings about bicyclists (cars may stop for us, but bikes really won’t). But then I became a bicyclist and discovered that I could get to campus in three minutes flat. Plus, there’s really nothing like successfully juggling a coffee and dodging pedestrians, all with the rush of the wind in your hair. Anyone with a mode of transport like this knows what I’m talking about — be it a skateboard, scooter, roller blades or unicycle (you know who you are).

7) EMU Starbucks.

I know there’s an awesome one on 13th St., but I prefer this one. I honestly cannot explain why. Go on a weekend morning or late at night, when the line is considerably shorter than during the week.

8) Football games.

Love them or hate them, there is truly nothing like screaming about a touchdown at the top of your lungs with all your classmates one moment, and then melodically singing “Coming Home to Oregon” the next.

9) Meeting New People.

At no other time in our lives will we live with so many people our age in such close quarters and at the same time be presented with so many opportunities to meet those people. I personally don’t talk much in my lectures, but I’ve made friends going to oncampus events, games, concerts, parties, etc. Plus, no matter what, we always have something in common: we’re all Ducks.

What do you love most about the UO?

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The Oregon Ducks host the Oregon State Beavers for the 121st Civil War at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore. on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (Adam Eberhardt)

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DUCKS’ DEFENSE CAN’T STOP TRAE YOUNG IN 90-80 LOSS TO OKLAHOMA

BY JACK BUTLER • TWITTER @BUTLER917 PORTLAND, Ore. — Oklahoma freshman guard Trae Young was one-on-one with Oregon freshman forward Troy Brown.

Oklahoma led by five with five minutes left.

The game was up for grabs.

That’s when Young attacked Brown, burying a shot after a spin move fadeaway.

One possession later, he buried a 3-pointer to give Oklahoma a 10-point lead with four minutes and 38 seconds left in the game.

After the shot, he jogged back on defense as he replicated Michael Jordan’s iconic shrug.

“We scrimmaged them in the preseason,” Young said. “They do a lot of different things. Based off that, they did a lot of switching, so I was able to take advantage

of a big guy on me.”

It was all a part of Young’s dominating performance over Oregon in a 90-80 win for Oklahoma. The Ducks (5-2) played poor defense and turned the ball over all night, allowing Oklahoma to shoot 44 free throws and letting Young score almost half of Oklahoma’s points. He finished with 43.

Oregon and Oklahoma scrimmaged early in the season, where Oregon reportedly won by four.

The difference?

“Well, in that game, Trae Young didn’t get 43,” head coach Dana Altman said. “He controlled the game and got to the line.”

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It didn’t take long to tell how the 121st edition of the Civil War would shake out.

The Ducks elected to receive the opening kickoff, and on their return, Oregon State was flagged 15 yards for an unsportsmanlike penalty.

Just seconds into the game, it was a sign of what became crystal clear throughout: Oregon State wasn’t prepared, mentally or physically, for what they were about to be in for. On Saturday night, the Ducks hit Oregon State in the mouth. Oregon sent off their seniors with 69-10 win, and took some of the sting away from last year’s loss to the Beavers.

“We did what we expected to do,” Troy Dye said. “Go out there and shut them down.”

The 15-yard penalty offered the Ducks’ offense a jumpstart that they ended up not needing but nonetheless appreciated. Oregon electrified Autzen Stadium early and often, throwing 266 yards in the air and adding 311 on the ground. The 52 points scored in the first half was the most by any FBS team this season.

Leading the way in the opening half onslaught was Royce Freeman.

Playing in his last game at Autzen, Freeman was given the ball a lot early in the game and punched in a 2-yard touchdown run to put the Ducks up 10-0 just minutes later. Freeman finished with 142 yards and his two scores put him first in Pac-12 history in rushing touchdowns — sixth among NCAA career rushing leaders and 10th among NCAA career rushing touchdown leaders.

“Royce is a really special player,” quarterback Justin Herbert said. “I told him earlier today, ‘I was a big fan of you before I came here, but even a bigger fan now.’”

Oregon Ducks forward Mikyle McIntosh (22) recovers the ball while being defended by DePaul Blue Demons center Marin Maric (34).

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Herbert completed just 13 passes on the night in 23 attempts but made them count, throwing for 251 yards and three touchdowns.

A 29-yard dart from Herbert to Dillon Mitchell in the back of the end zone highlighted what had been missing when he was out with a broken collarbone.

He didn’t finish the game, as both freshman Braxton Burmeister and senior Taylor Alie earned snaps.

“Justin, he’s our franchise quarterback,” head coach Willie Taggart said. “Not just to our offense, but to our entire football team.”

At first glance, the scoreboard might read into it being all offense, but three turnovers forced from the Ducks’ defense complemented what Herbert and company were able to do on the offensive end.

“It was Oregon. You know Oregon did what Oregon came to do, and they were successful at it,” Oregon State interim head coach Cory Hall said.

The Beavers were anything but in control on Saturday. Following a 53-yard touchdown completion to Mitchell to make it 52-7, Oregon State coaches had to break up Beavers’ players involved in a scuffle on the sidelines. In the aftermath, the Ducks added 14 points in the second half on its way to a 59-point win.

Since taking over as head coach, Taggart has grown to understand the pain felt from the 2016 Civil War loss. While there’s no shortage of things to improve moving forward, dealing with a second consecutive loss to the Beavers won’t be on the list.

“I definitely didn’t want to be that coach that goes to offseason with a loss to the school up north,” Taggart said. “Didn’t want to be that guy.”

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PAYTON PRITCHARD SCORES CAREER-HIGH 29 POINTS AGAINST DEPAUL

BY ZAK LASTER • TWITTER @ZLAST3445

BY GUS MORRIS • TWITTER @JUSTGUSMORRIS

The Oregon Ducks defeated the Oklahoma Sooners 92-74 as part of the PK80 Invitational at Matthew Knight Arena on Saturday afternoon.

The Ducks improved their record to 5-1 this season, while the Sooners fell to 3-2.

“I loved our fight early in the game,” head coach Kelly Graves said. “Even though there’s some things we still got to continue to clean up.”

Sabrina Ionescu led the team with 28 points, seven rebounds and six assists. She also had a block late in the game that led to a double technical foul being called — Ionescu’s first of the season. The block sent the crowd into a frenzy and frustrated Oklahoma center Vionise Pierre-Louis, who smacked at the ball Ionescu was holding.

“I didn’t say anything. I just looked at her,” Ionescu said, but then added with a laugh, “I had the block on the stat sheet.”

The Ducks had their hands full with Pierre-Louis, who finished the game with 32 points and 13 rebounds against the Ducks. She was 12-of-21 from the field and finished 8-of-13 from the free throw line. Oregon’s Ruthy Hebard found success down by the basket with 15 points and 15 rebounds. Satou Sabally and Oti Gildon both came off the bench and fouled out. Hebard and Mallory McGwire each added three fouls trying to stick with Pierre-Louis down by the basket.

“Tonight, that’s where their bread was buttered,” Graves said. “I thought by and large, we did a pretty good job.

Defensively, you take the fouls out,

and I think we guarded them well.”

Oklahoma doesn’t usually spend a lot of time down by the basket. They usually like to use their inside game to free up shooters outside for threepoint shots. That game plan didn’t go as planned for the Sooners on Saturday, as they were held to just one 3-pointer in 21 attempts.

“Quite honestly, in the first half, they actually had some pretty good looks,” Graves said. “They just weren’t falling. It was just one of those nights for them.”

Justine Hall added 10 points off the bench with three successful 3-pointers, which included a fourpoint play late in the second quarter that extended Oregon’s lead to doubledigits. This was a game that Oregon led for all but 20 seconds.

This game was part of a doubleheader in the PK80 tournament, which was set up to honor Phil Knight’s upcoming 80th birthday. The men’s tournament is happening throughout the holiday weekend in Portland. Prior to the Ducks and Sooners taking the court today, the Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball team was in town to defeat the Michigan State Spartans 96-62 during a noon tipoff.

“This was not an easy day for people to come out and support because of the Civil War, and they did,” Graves said. “I think it also speaks well to their love of Phil Knight. We were proud and grateful to be able to play in this tournament.”

Next up for the Ducks is a home matchup against Hampton on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Matthew Knight Arena.

Oregon Ducks Aina Ayuso (31) looks to teammates to make a pass.

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The Oregon Ducks play the DePaul Blue Demons during the second round of the Phil Knight Invitational tournament.

(Adam Eberhardt)

PORTLAND, Ore. — Up until Thursday night, Payton Pritchard had never lost a game at the Moda Center. The West Linn, Oregon product won two state high school championships at the Trail Blazers’ arena during his prep career, and he claimed he’s 10-0 in the building.

But that alleged streak ended on Thursday night.

In his first game at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the home of the Trail Blazers until 1995 and the arena adjacent to the Moda Center, Pritchard scored a career-high 29 points, including seven 3-pointers, to lead Oregon (5-1) to an 89-79 overtime win over DePaul (1-4) in the consolation bracket of PK80 on Friday night. He also finished with six rebounds and a game-high eight assists.

Pritchard had a chance to end the game in regulation, but his step-back three rimmed out as time expired. He made up for it in overtime as he outscored the Blue Demons 7-4, and recorded a rebound and an assist to cap his career performance.

“We needed a couple shots,” Oregon head coach Dana Altman said. “I thought he had some pretty good looks.”

Being the lone returning starter, Pritchard knew he would have to be a leader this season. In taking on that role, Pritchard has embraced two different personalities, both of which emerged on Friday.

“Sometimes he might be a, ‘Let’s Go!’ kind of guy, or sometimes he’ll just be a silent killer,” Oregon forward Paul White said.

On Friday night, though, White saw more of the former.

“Tonight, he was more of the ‘Let’s Go!’ Payton, because he knew how important this game was,” White said. “We knew that we couldn’t lose this game.”

A loss would’ve meant Oregon, the unofficial host of the tournament celebrating Phil Knight’s 80th birthday, would play in the last place game against the University of Portland. Instead, the Ducks got Oklahoma in the consolation championship game on Sunday.

While a Portland and Oregon matchup might have been entertaining for the locals, Pritchard wasn’t about to let his team play in the last place game of a tournament in his hometown.

Pritchard scored 11 in the first half, including three 3-pointers, to go along with three rebounds and four assists. He didn’t score again until there was 9:22 left in the second half, but that’s when Pritchard began to heat up. He rattled off 11 points over the next four minutes to keep DePaul at bay.

His 3-pointer with 2:24 left in overtime put Oregon up three and gave the Ducks enough momentum to ride out until the final buzzer sounded.

And when it did, who better to dribble the clock out than Pritchard. He stood at center court as the Memorial Coliseum crowd — a majority of which were dressed in Oregon green and yellow — rose to its feet and cheered a little bit louder for the Portland area native.

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defense and making 6-of-7 of their first shot to take a 14-8 lead entering the first media timeout.

Freshman Troy Brown was in command as he scored eight of Oregon’s first 10 points. He looked confident driving to the basket after he finished two contested layups. Then he hit a 3-pointer, the peak of Oregon’s hot start.

But after the timeout, Oklahoma answered. Led by Young, Oklahoma went on an 18-5 run until the next media timeout four minutes later. Oklahoma was winning the rebounding battle and Oregon was turning the ball over — not a winning formula.. Oregon trailed by eight at halftime.

The Ducks played well to start the second half. They took the lead with a MiKyle McIntosh 3-pointer, which was part of a solid run by the graduate transfer.

He contributed seven points to Oregon’s run, part of his 11 point, seven rebound night.

But again, Oklahoma had a run of its own. Young exploded, scoring 30 of Oklahoma’s 42 points in the second half.

“We had a lot of bad fouls,” Altman said.

“I’m surprised we played this poorly defensively,”he added.

“We’re not committed to it right now, so until we do, we’re going to struggle.”

The Ducks played well offensively, but they committed 17 turnovers. They also did not play well down the stretch. While Young was scoring at will and shrugging, the Ducks fell flat offensively.

After a media timeout with 6:39 left in the second half — and with the game still in the balance — Altman called three specific plays, all of which ended in disaster.

One play was for Elijah Brown, who got open but decided to try and draw a foul, only to turn the ball over. The next missed play was a rushed Troy Brown 3-pointer, which he missed, and after that, Payton Pritchard missed on a 3-pointer.

“We took bad shots,” Altman said.

“We had a play called on all three of them and didn’t execute them one time. ... The game kind of got away from us right there.”

Offensively, there were good moments. Oregon wasn’t aggressive enough to match Oklahoma’s free throws, but it was ultimately the defense that couldn’t get it done.

“I mean, 80 points should be enough to win,” Altman said.

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by DePaul Blue Demons center Marin Maric (34).

(Adam Eberhardt)

OREGON ANSWERED OREGON STATE’S TRASH-TALK WITH A DOMINATING VICTORY

BY SHAWN MEDOW • TWITTER @SHAWNMEDOW

Oregon Ducks linebacker La’Mar Winston Jr. (32) celebrates after making a tackle for loss.

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BY GUS MORRIS • TWITTER @JUSTGUSMORRIS PORTLAND, Ore. — There are still games to be played in the PK80 Invitational, but Oregon’s weekend is already over. An early finish is usually what happens when you lose the opening game of a tournament.

The Ducks finished their PK80 run with a disappointing 90-80 loss against Oklahoma on Sunday to cap what has been an equally disappointing weekend. They’ll head into the final seven games of their nonconference schedule with a 5-2 record. Oregon is still searching for answers in what’s been a wildly inconsistent season so far. PK80 only raised more questions.

Head coach Dana Altman learned something, though.

“We need a massive amount of work,” Altman said. “I hope our guys learned that. … Tremendous amount of things to work on.”

The Ducks didn’t play well in any of their three PK80 games. They had promising stretches, but those sputtered out more often than not.

You could chalk their performances up to the heightened competition, as Oregon’s previous four opponents, all Oregon wins, have a combined record of 4-20.

Or — and this is the option I’m going with — Oregon just isn’t good.

At least, not currently.

The Ducks lack a true, big man, which forces them to rely on stretch forwards who prefer hanging around the perimeter compared to crashing the boards or protecting the paint.

And when their threes aren’t falling, their offense becomes stagnant and forces them into tough shots.

The issues are correctable, Altman says, but the road to fixing them won’t be easy.

“All the things we need to do are the tough things,” he said. “We have a lot of volunteers to shoot it and to pass it, but we don’t have any volunteers to do the tough things right now.”

Oregon had those guys the last three years. Dillon Brooks, Jordan Bell, Casey Benson, Chris Boucher, Dylan Ennis, you name it: all those guys stepped up to do the nitty-gritty work when Oregon needed. The question now becomes who on this year’s Oregon squad will step into the role.

The biggest hurdle with finding that answer lies in Oregon’s inexperience, especially in terms of playing together. This team has only practiced together for the last five months, and while they say they’re all comfortable with each other, the on-court product indicates otherwise.

Still, Oregon has the pieces to be a talented team, and they displayed flashes of brilliance against inferior teams. But the problems arise when Oregon isn’t playing cupcakes like 0-6 Alabama State and Coppin State.

PK80 put Oregon to the test with legit competition, and the Ducks faltered.

“They just haven’t dealt with any adversity,” Altman said. “So, it’s going to take some time. Young guys — six freshmen out there — they’re struggling with it.”

Oregon did show resilience at times this weekend. Its overtime win against DePaul showed that this team, while young, can push through if it puts its mind to it. It also rallied back against Oklahoma, a far superior foe than DePaul, but couldn’t stop Sooners’ freshman guard Trae Young down the stretch.

At the end of the day, resilience in a loss is just a moral victory, and those won’t make Oregon a legit contender for anything this year.

The season is still in its early stages and Oregon has time to remedy its issues. The next seven games will serve as an indicator of how good this team really is.

“I think we’re a lot better than this,” Altman said, “but I think we’re going to have to work awfully hard to change things around.”

With six minutes and 22 seconds left in the third quarter, “We Will Rock You” by Queen began to play at Autzen Stadium. The crowd began to stomp its feet and sing along.

The Ducks had just made it 62-7 against their in-state rivals, Oregon State, after linebacker Justin Hollins intercepted a deflected pass and returned it for a touchdown.

This game felt a lot different than last year’s 34-24 loss.

“It feels like night and day,” Henry Mondeaux said. “Last year, we didn’t put together a good enough plan.

This year, we did and it was really nice to see all the people — different people — step up on our defense. It feels a lot better.”

Oregon (7-5) got its revenge in the 69-10 win over the Beavers on Saturday night. The loss in 2016 hung over Oregon players’ heads, and so did the trash talk Oregon State (1-11) used this week.

Ahead of the game, Oregon State head coach Cory Hall said that he remembers knowing the Beavers would win last year’s game when Ducks players put on their “Nike Duck raincoats.” The Ducks players didn’t forget that quote.

“We try not to get caught up in the media and stuff but the Civil War, it gets kind of personal,” Mondeaux said. “That’s something we’ve had in our weight room — that quote — for a while. It’s been motivating us. I’m not really sure why head coaches do stuff like that because it definitely motivates the other team.”

The Ducks also listened to Oregon State interviews before the game. By the time they came out onto the field, the Ducks were

dying to respond to Hall’s quote.

“It started raining touchdowns so they wanted to put on their rain jackets,” head coach Willie Taggart said.

The Ducks played with force. They were finishing tackles, making big plays and celebrating every moment of the demolition of their rivals from just up Interstate-5.

Going into halftime with a 52-7 lead, there seemed to be a newfound energy in the team.

“Shout out to their head coach for giving us the motivation, the energy and the passion for whatever he said talking about some rain coats, or whatever he was saying.

I really didn’t care,” linebacker Troy Dye said. “Guys were happy, excited because you know you go in there 52-7 super amped up, especially against your rival — no better feeling.”

On Saturday, Royce Freeman rushed for 122 yards on 19 carries, compared to 106 yards without a touchdown on the same number of carries in 2016.

Last year, Freeman’s opposite number, Oregon State’s running back Ryan Nall, rushed for four touchdowns in the Beavers’ win. But this year, he was shut down by the Ducks, getting 41 yards on 14 carries.

“Same thing we had all year: stop the running back,” Dye said. “Hit him as hard as we can, hit him often, and if he don’t break down, he’s gonna go down. You saw, he came out [of] the game. They were rotating four or five backs. I have never seen that happen before.

“I guess it’s their bowl game.

It’s cool.”

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BIG GIGANTIC AT THE MCDONALD THEATRE (1010 WILLAMETTE ST.), DOORS AT 7 P.M., SHOW AT 8 P.M., TICKETS $29, ALL AGES The McDonald Theatre has hosted nearly every type of musical genre.

On any given night, anything from jazz fusion to EDM house music can be heard coming from the historic Eugene music venue — usually not on the same night. But musical genres will be blended on Tuesday night of dead week when Big Gigantic takes the stage at the McDonald. The Boulder, Colorado-

based EDM duo are known for bridging the gap between electronic music and other musical genres such as jazz and hip-hop. Producer Dominic Lalli provides the musical framework for the duo’s music on the turntables, as well as exciting saxophone solos. And drummer Jeremy w keeps the music moving with jazz and rock inspired beats on his acoustic kit.

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University of Oregon’s male and female a cappella groups are joining forces to perform this Friday for their annual winter show at the Global Scholars Hall.

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Indie-pop band Tennis will play at the Hi-Fi Music Hall this Wednesday. Tennis is originally from Denver and is currently on its extensive North American tour in promotion of the band’s fourth studio album, “Yours Conditionally.� The band is composed of the husband and wife duo Patrick Riley (guitar/bass) and Alaina Moore (keyboard/vocals).

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One can expect excellent DJ sets from the two producers and funky raps from the two veteran emcees. It’s hard to tell how potent the Christmas spirit will be in WOW Hall on Saturday, but if nothing else, the opportunity to be immersed in hip-hop history will be there.

Prolific underground rapper The Grouch is bringing his 11th annual “How The Grouch Stole Christmas� concert series to Eugene’s WOW Hall just as Christmas season reaches full swing. This time, The Grouch is joined by others who are heavily embedded in hip-hop history: Del the Funky Homosapien of Deltron 3030 and Hieroglyphics,

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EUZINE COMICS & ZINE FEST FEATURES A VARIETY OF INDEPENDENT ARTISTS

BY NIC CASTILLON

A large amount of foot traffic came through the Broadway Commerce Center in downtown Eugene for the second annual Euzine Comics & Zine Fest last Saturday. The event featured independent artists tabling a variety of work, which included everything from handmade comics to short-run booklets of poetry and prose.

The term “zine� — which comes from a shortened form of the word “magazine� — functions as an umbrella term for a wide variety of DIY art booklets. “A zine really is just a way of presenting your work, whatever kind of work that you may make,� said Alida Bevirt, who helped start the festival back in 2016.

Bevirt conceived the idea for Euzine after tabling at a similar festival in Olympia, Washington. “It was my first experience tabling at a zine event, and it was this incredible feeling,� Bevirt said. “People come up and you’re sharing your work with them and they respond to it.�

From there, Bevirt thought about how

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she could bring that same experience back to Eugene. “The first, biggest part of organizing this was just finding people who believed in this vision we wanted to create,� Bevirt said.

His endeavor was successful: the event on Saturday was filled with people making an effort to share their own artwork and meet other likeminded individuals.

The zines found throughout the festival included how-to guides, photo books and experimental comics. Some zines were absurd or light-hearted, while others were deeply personal.

The qualities ranged from simple photocopied paper to complex hand printed designs.

Bevirt says that these zines function as a way to offer up a unique and unaltered voice for many people. “For example, you buy Vogue magazine and there are models, and designers and advertisements,� Bevirt said. “A zine cuts through all of that processing — it cuts right to the artist that makes their

work. This is their work and you’re receiving it.� “Everybody comes in and sets up, and then the community comes in,� said Jamie Walsh, who helped organize the event alongside Bevirt. “It’s so cool to see it happen. Once you set the tables up, it just happens on its own.�

In the future, both Walsh and Bevirt said they would like to see the event grow. “We just found out we got some grant money, which is really rad,�

Walsh said. “That gives us definitely [a] possibility for a bigger venue.�

At future events, Bevirt envisions workshops, zine readings and lectures, in addition to tabling artists. “We want to start creating more experiences for the public to engage with zine culture, artistically [and] intellectually,� she said. “Last year was successful and this year, I feel like we have a lot of momentum, and it’s also a very successful day,� Bevirt said. “We want to continue to show beautiful and engaging and raw art.�

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RESEARCH SHOWS SHARKS FOUND IN OREGON COASTAL WATERS ARE OLDER THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED

BY MAX EGENER Students planning to spend their winter break on the Oregon coast should keep a lookout for some shark species with unexpectedly long lifespans swimming near the beach.

New research suggests that sharks can live much longer than scientists originally believed. Four shark species analyzed in a recent study published in the journal “Fish and Fisheries” (Great White, Common Thresher, Soupfin and Tiger) often swim in Oregon’s coastal waters.

But don’t worry, the odds of becoming a shark attack victim are minuscule. There have only been 29 shark attacks off the Oregon coast since 1974, and only one has been fatal.

Earlier this month, the Tillamook County Sheriff’s office issued a warning to swimmers, surfers and fishermen, which said that multiple people reported seeing several large sharks near Cape Kiwanda, about 50 miles northwest of Salem. There were also multiple shark sightings off Cannon Beach last July.

While shark sightings can instill fear in Oregon beachgoers, the intrigue surrounding sharks has escalated in recent years, as scientists begin to understand their lifespans more accurately. Last year, researchers in Denmark determined that the Greenland shark — a species that can grow as large as a Great White shark — can live at least 272 years. The study also found that they don’t reproduce until they’re about 150-years-old.

“We had an expectation that they would be very long-lived animals, but I was surprised that they turned out to be as old as they did,” the leader of the Greenland shark study, Julius Nielsen, told National Geographic magazine.

The old method of determining the age of a shark relied on researchers counting calcified growth bands on a shark’s vertebrae. In many cases, counting a band is up to the judgment of the researcher, which has led to counting discrepancies between scientists looking at the same bands.

The new method of determining a shark’s

age is based on radioisotope dating from carbon released into the atmosphere by nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and 60s.

This method is much more accurate, and it has substantial implications for how people research and treat sharks in the wild.

Shark conservation decisions are largely based on the lifespan of sharks. And although no shark species are currently listed as “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act, many species are vulnerable to becoming endangered as a result of overfishing and human ecological impact.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, data about sharks’ lifespans can inform scientists about their ecological role, feeding habits and reproductive tendencies. This information is crucial to improving regulations intended to ensure sustainable shark populations for years to come. Further shark research like these studies will better inform about how to address their declining numbers in the future.

(Courtesy of Creative Commons.)

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