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HERE’S WHAT’S COMING UP IN THE UNIVERSITY SENATE

BY HANNAH KANIK • TWITTER @HANNAH_KANIK e University of Oregon Faculty Senate spent fall term preparing for its busy winter and spring quarters.

On the senate’s agenda, changes to teaching evaluations are being finalized, a new program for student success is in the works and Core Education is creating more general education-satisfying courses.

Teaching evaluations For the past year, teaching evaluations have been in the process of being redesigned and tested to make them a less biased, more accurate tool to rate professors.

Senate president Bill Harbaugh, who spearheaded the initiative in fall 2017, said the senate has been working to finalize the changes they’ve made over the past few months.

Changes include eliminating the numeric rating system, implementing a midterm review for students and asking students more relevant questions.

“Last year, we did a few pilots with faculty on the committee. ey would try out new student evaluation surveys,” Harbaugh said. “ is fall, we expanded that. We have five departments trying out the new surveys.”

Harbaugh says the new system could be approved in spring and implemented by fall term.

Student success initiative e senate is working to support the student success initiative to improve university retention rates and give students access to more tools for success. e student success initiative aims

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to provide students with academic counseling, career advising and oncampus resources. e program is inspired by the success of the PathwayOregon program, which provides scholarships and resources to lowincome and first-generation students.

With more than 800 students enrolled in the program, 2018 saw the highest enrollment in PathwayOregon. e retention and graduation rates for low-income students in the PathwayOregon program and high-income students are the same, Harbaugh said. “ at’s very unusual for most universities,” Harbaugh said. “ at shows us that that kind of effort and resources directed at students can really make a difference.”

Doneka Scott, assistant professor and associate vice provost for student success, oversees the program. e senate will be doing their part to inform faculty so things run smoothly, Harbaugh said.

students in these groups tend to have a better idea of what they want their major to be.

Core education has been an ongoing item on the senate’s agenda.

Last year, it approved specific changes to core education, such as redefining learning objectives, so they better align with the university’s mission statement. e goal is to simplify the general education requirements for students.

You can read more about it here.

Votes to watch this January Jan. 16 - e senate will be voting on the conflict of interest, conflict of commitment policy, aimed at addressing the effects of faculty being involved in outside jobs and research.

Jan. 30 - e senate will vote on the sexual and romantic relationships policy. is policy forbids relationships between faculty and students because of the conflict of interest.

e University of Oregon Faculty Senate plan to implement an updated system for teacher evaluations, a new program for student success and simplify general education requirements through core education. (Sarah Northrop)

Core education e next task on the road to finalizing Core Education, which is commonly known as general education, is making living and learning groups like Academic Residential Communities or Freshman Interest Groups more appealing to students. e senate is focused on making the classes associated with living and learning groups satisfy general education requirements.

“We want to encourage students to get involved in those,” Harbaugh said. “ ere’s evidence that they are successful at improving retention and graduation rates.” He also said that

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Cameron Javdani Job Title: Director of Sales & Marketing, Louroe Electronics Major: Political Science and Business Administration Graduated: Bachelor’s degree, 2003; MBA, 2007 Cameron Javdani is a “double duck,” having earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and later returning to the University of Oregon for a master’s in business administration. Now he is Director of Sales & Marketing at Louroe Electronics, but his path to this position wasn’t a straight shot. He’s taken jobs that weren’t what he aimed for and he’s experienced being laid off.

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When talking about his first job out of college, he said, “It wasn’t for me, but I felt that the uncertainty ended up being a motivator. It’s a very normal part of entering the workforce.” But he’s always had a genuine interest in his field, and he learned how to build relationships to create a network he could fall back on when needed.

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“At its most basic, you just want to get some contacts. A mentor of mine once told me that you’re not networking, you’re building your network. So, build relationships. That helped me stop feeling like I had to act a certain way. It took all the stress out of it,” he said.

As Javdani knows, the workforce and the world outside UO can feel intimidating to students about to graduate.

Students often feel that there are few avenues to achieve the ever elusive “success.” But what really is success?

When asked if he would consider himself successful and what success meant to him, Javdani replied, “Yes, I would.

[Success] is doing work that I find meaningful and fulfilling and gives me the flexibility to have time for family. Work is important, but it’s not as important as family.”

It’s evident that Javdani is a thoughtful person and a good manager. He cares about people more than business, and it shows in how he approaches his work and lives his life.

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e Tuition and Fees Advisory Board will be busy winter term as it drafts its tuition and fee rate proposals for the next academic year. e 18-member body will meet at least five times in January to discuss the financial situation the University of Oregon will face next year, according to the board’s website.

Once its discussion is complete, the board will recommend new tuition and fee rates to UO President Michael Schill who will then adjust the recommendations if necessary before sending them to the university board of trustees for final approval. e TFAB will host a student forum on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 6 p.m. in the EMU’s Redwood Auditorium. Students are invited to learn and speak about the tuition process. Outside of the forum, all TFAB meetings are open to the public.

A number of university leaders, including Schill, UO Chief Financial Officer Jamie Moffitt and ASUO President Maria Gallegos-Chacon, have shared their hopes to keep any increases in tuition under 5 percent.

Any increase over 5 percent would have to be approved by the state, which could leave university finances in a bind if not approved.

For an in-state student taking 15 credits, a 5 percent increase would mean about $158 more per term. An out-of-state student taking the same number of credits would pay about $542 more every term.

e plan, according to the TFAB’s calendar, is to propose out-of-state student tuition to the board of trustees in March and in-state student tuition in May. Schill said that out-of-state tuition comes first because it is “capped at the market rate,” meaning that the UO must keep out-of-state tuition low enough to ensure students continue to apply. In-state tuition, because it is much lower, is more flexible and can be adjusted to make up for gaps in the university’s budget, so the TFAB plans to wait for the state’s budget to be finalized. e state budget is the biggest unknown at this point and is complicated by the fact that, at this stage, it’s two different proposals, which would leave the university in very different financial positions.

It won’t be known which proposal will succeed until May or later, according to Moffitt, so it’s possible that the board of trustees will need to meet again in the summer to change the tuition rates they approve this spring.

In the case that the state sends the university the money it asks for, things will still be tough for budget administrators.

“Even if the best result comes about, which is the [larger of the two budget proposals] and a tuition increase under 5 percent, we would still have a challenging budget for next year,” Schill told the board of trustees in December.

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UO President Michael Schill said he hopes to keep in-state and out-of-state tuition increased under 5 percent.

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ARTS & CULTURE Christian Bale (left) as Dick Cheney and Sam Rockwell (right) as George W. Bush in “Vice.” (Courtesy of Annapurna Pictures)

Review: ‘VICE’ IS AN ACERBIC

POLITICAL SATIRE FOR THE TRUMP ERA

BY ILANA SLAVIT “Vice” is a wicked smart, fast-paced, acerbic rollercoaster of a satire, focusing on former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Widely disliked and intensely secretive, Cheney is not the first subject to come to mind for a campy political parody. But as director Adam McKay made the 2008 economic crisis a hysterical riot with “ e Big Short,” he was prepared to step into another political realm with the former VP. A non-chronological timeline of Cheney’s journey from uneducated drunkard to infamous politician is intercut by historical footage and snarky narration. e film stars Christian Bale as Cheney and Amy Adams as his wife Lynne, along with Steve Carell as Cheney’s abrasive mentor Donald Rumsfeld and Sam Rockwell as a bumbling George W. Bush.

Bale and Adams are phenomenal in their third film together, completely transforming themselves physically and emotionally for their respective roles. Bale is unrecognizable as the hefty Cheney, gaining forty pounds for the

role and adopting every individual mannerism. is is not new for a chameleon like Bale, who lost 60 pounds for the “Machinist.” Adams also gained some weight and is outstanding as the power-hungry Lynne.

Since very little public information exists about Cheney’s life, McKay utilizes parody for certain scenes — the most notable being Cheney and Lynne’s Shakespearean style conversation regarding the position of vice president. In such instances, the film mocks its own existence, as no one can truly tell what happened in history besides those who lived it.

While some may find “Vice’s” haphazard, anxious pace and frequent intercuts between real footage, reenactment and parody distracting, it is arguably the perfect structure for the subject matter. rough legal intervention, Cheney was able to gain more power than any other vice president, changing the course of history with his decisions on Iraq and other monumental political choices.

“Vice” asserts that Trump’s power hungry demeanor and unpredictability are not so

foreign to the American public, as Cheney isn’t the most informed or balanced man himself.

Perhaps, the film muses, he is evil incarnate. e film is geared at a liberal audience, even poking fun at it’s own bias in a mock focus group scene. is allows it to forgo explanation of events, as it assumes the audience is already knowledgeable.

“Vice” received mixed reviews, with a current Rotten Tomatoes rating of 64 percent; however, many of 2018’s most controversial, inventive films have received lukewarm responses, such as “Vox Lux” and “Assassination Nation,” also a political satire.

All of these films tackle human nature with a sardonic, caustic wit frequently seen in films of the Trump era. In a media landscape ripe with exaggeration, there is no room for subtlety. “Vice” plays on the public’s hunger for aggrandizement and absolute power with the same yearning as Cheney.

“Vice” is a cautionary tale come too late. We voted for Cheney. We voted for Trump. We’re paying for the result.

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HOW OREGON IS MAKING COLLEGE POSSIBLE

FOR LOW-INCOME AND FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS

BY RYAN NGUYEN • TWITTER @RYANJJNGUYEN

Shelia Diaz-Gutierrez, an undocumented Oregon Promise student at Portland Community College, would not have been able to attend college without the Oregon Promise program. (Ryan Nguyen)

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Shelia Diaz-Gutierrez wanted to be the first in her family to attend college.

But her high school academic counselor told her that there were few resources for her because she’s an undocumented U.S. resident.

Because she’s undocumented, she can’t receive federal financial aid nor participate in federal support programs for aspiring college students.

At the time, she felt dejected. Diaz said that she had the drive and intelligence for college, but if her counselor couldn’t find a way for her to attend, then how could she? “I didn’t really question it or doubt it,” she said.

Feeling hopeless, she let her grades slip and eventually left high school without a diploma.

But after the Oregon Legislature approved the Oregon Promise grant in 2015, Diaz became one of thousands of Oregon students who used the program to attend college without having to take out five-to-six-figure loans. e Promise is a state grant that can pay a portion of — or even all of — a student’s tuition toward one of Oregon’s 17 community colleges. e lawmakers who crafted it had a simple premise: If you make it easy and affordable for students to apply to college, then they’ll go to college. And for low-income and firstgeneration students, the program is especially impactful.

During the Promise’s inaugural year in 2016, more than 19,000 students applied to the Promise — “nearly a third of the high school graduating class of 2016,” according to a study by research nonprofit Education Northwest.

About 10,000 were eligible for the program, and nearly 7,000 students received the grant, according to a January 2018 state report. e average grant size in 2016 was $650.

And because it’s money coming from the state and not the federal government, Diaz was able to get the funds she needed to pay for college. e Promise is one of the few support programs open to undocumented students to help them pay for college. Diaz currently attends Portland Community College through the Promise.

“It puts community college or college within the realm of possibility, especially for those students who maybe didn’t think that they were college material or that they wouldn’t be able to have the resources to go to college. It opens the door,” said Roberto Suarez, Portland Community College’s Oregon Promise Manager. e study by Education Northwest found that not only does the Promise give students the funds they need to pay for college, it also gives hope to students who are doubtful that they can attend college.

“Just the messaging around free college can maybe induce students to start thinking more about college who maybe never thought about it before,” said Michelle Hodara, the lead researcher behind the study.

It also found that almost 70 percent of firstgeneration students and nearly half of all other students agreed or strongly agreed that hearing about the Promise made them think more about attending college. e study defines first-generation students as those without immediate family members, including parents, guardians or siblings, that have college degrees or certificates. ough only a sample of Promise students were surveyed, Hodara said that she was surprised by how clearly patterns appeared in such a small sample.

“It wasn’t just one question that was different,” Hodara said. “It was every single question. And so, that was a more definitive finding that for the first-generation respondents, the Oregon Promise seemed to have a greater impact on their lives.” e study also found that nearly one-third of first-generation students who received the Promise said that they wouldn’t have gone to college without it.

“What the Promise is trying to do is convince young students and their families that, whatever they’ve heard about the costs of higher education and the barrier that poses for them, they can do it,” said Ben Cannon, who heads Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission, which manages the program.

Barriers to attending college For low-income and first-generation students, the challenges of applying to and entering college are compounded. Firstgeneration students may not know where to go in search of resources that could help them apply, and they might not even be aware of them in the first place. is was the case for Diaz, whose legal status meant that she couldn’t receive federal financial aid. For other students, the Promise is their safety net. e high costs of attending a four-year college coupled with the uncertainty of winning scholarships means that college plans often change.

Fabiola Birrueta, for example, didn’t plan on attending a community college after high school. She wanted to go to a four-year college to study marketing. But when Chemeketa Community College offered her the most money in scholarships compared to other universities she applied to, she decided to make the “smart choice.”

“It’s pretty much the same education you could get anywhere else, but for a cheaper price,” said Birrueta, now a sophomore at Chemeketa.

She received the Promise during her second year, unlike most Promise recipients who receive the grant before, but she was still ecstatic about it. Her other scholarships helped out with her first year, but the Promise kept

her from paying out of pocket for tuition during her second year.

But she’s far from the only Promise student to apply out of financial necessity. Duy Nguyen, a senior at Reynolds High School, applied for the Promise to save money. (Duy has no relation to this article’s author.)

“It’s cheap,” Nguyen said. He added that he wouldn’t have to be in debt for as long as he would have been if he had enrolled at a four-year college instead.

Without the Promise, it would have been a lot harder for his low-income family to afford college and for him to study nursing. He’s an honor roll student, but the process of applying for scholarships is time-consuming, and the scholarships he might win would most likely not be enough to pay for the tuition at a four-year college, he said. For him, the Promise — and community college — is a safety net.

How it works Oregon’s program subsidizes tuition for high school graduates and GED recipients. Other requirements students must fulfill to be eligible for the Promise include: earning a 2.5 or higher GPA, starting college classes within six months of graduation and having fewer than 90 college credits already under their belt.

To make it easy, applying to the Promise online takes less than an hour, a relatively short amount of time compared to scholarship applications and college essays. Birrueta and others said it was pretty straightforward.

Laura Queirolo, a teacher at South Eugene High School, said that the Promise is a great option for high schoolers who either haven’t developed the academic skills, such as time management and research abilities, to go to a four-year college or who want to learn a technical trade skill.

“I think every college senior should apply… and at

least lock that in so that they have the option when the time comes,” Queirolo said.

She teaches AVID, the Advancement Via Individual Determination program, which is a program that helps students learn the academic skills they’ll need for college.

Queirolo said the requirement to enroll within six months of receiving a high school diploma or GED is vital to the program’s success.

“Kids who aren’t sure if they’re going to get accepted and don’t know how they’re going to pay for college are looking kind of for a way out,” Queirolo said. “Taking that gap year or avoiding school is one way that they do that.”

The impact Across Oregon, early numbers are showing the Promise’s potential: Nearly 10,000 18-year-old Promise students have enrolled in community colleges, according to a January 2018 report from the Oregon HECC. And though the Promise isn’t aimed at low-income students, about half of the Promise’s first cohort of more than 6,700 came from low-income families, according to a December 2016 report analyzing the Promise’s impact.

According to the study, 75 percent of firstgeneration students surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that the Promise helped them “see that college could be affordable,” while 64 percent of other students said likewise.

The problems e study from Education Northwest also found that students, parents and high school staff members said they felt unclear about the details of the program.

Many students thought that the grant would cover

tuition completely, didn’t understand how to reapply for the grant or expected a higher award than what they actually received. And even though the Promise only applies to Oregon community colleges, 47 percent of those surveyed thought that the Promise would pay for tuition at public four-year Oregon colleges.

Part of this can be attributed to how relatively new the program was, having been approved by the Oregon Legislature in July 2015 and planned to start that fall, Hodara said.

“One of the lessons for policymakers is if you approve a program to start that year, there’s going to be a little bit of a learning curve, because to roll out a program of this nature takes more than a couple months,” Hodara said.

During the program’s second year in 2017, the number of submitted applications fell by about 18 percent, according to a January 2018 state report, which says this is “at least partly because of greater understanding” of the program.

Andrew Lee is a junior studying journalism at the University of Oregon. He transferred from PCC after two years of the Promise but wishes he had attended a four-year college instead and feels like it was a waste of time.

Lee could have afforded to go to an out-of-state college, but he opted to attend PCC to figure out what he wanted to study. He feels like he missed out on the typical freshman college experience by going to a community college. “ e face of everyone at community colleges [is] like, ‘I want to get out of here.’ Like everybody just goes in and gets out,” Lee said.

But for many students like Birrueta, the Promise was key to affording college.

“I was able to focus more on school rather than focusing on having to have a second job where it’s like, I’m just finding a way to get money,” Birrueta said.

(Information courtesy of Education Northwest)

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WHY IMMIGRATION IS INSEPERABLE FROM AMERICA

BY ARMAND YAZDANI e topic of immigration has proliferated in U.S. news recently, specifically regarding the U.S.-Mexico border. Harping on the perceived public fear of illegal immigration, politicians have assumed polarized stances on immigration as a whole.

Some politicians state that illegal immigration has contributed to an increase in crime and the economy’s stagnance. President Donald Trump echoed similar sentiments when he tweeted that Democrats “don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest” America.

Others argue that immigrants can benefit the American economy and society and that the government should offer people that have immigrated illegally a pathway to citizenship.

Former President George W. Bush stated that “not only do immigrants help build our economy, but they invigorate our soul.” Bernie Sanders said in his run for president that, “It is time to create a reasonable path for citizenship” for illegal immigrants. And recent findings coupled with historical examples demonstrate why immigration is beneficial to our nation.

One famous immigrant was theoretical physicist Albert Einstein who emigrated from Germany. After coming to America, Einstein discovered the theory of relativity and formulated E=mc^2. His contributions to theoretical physics, as well as nuclear physics, are indisputable.

Other immigrants have shaped American consumerism. Born in Buttenheim, Germany, in 1829, Levi Strauss founded Levi’s, a company known for its denim jeans. Strauss later became a notable philanthropist, contributing to the Pacific

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Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home and the Eureka Benevolent Society, along with donations made to various local organizations following his death in 1902.

Many migrants will often donate generous sums to the underprivileged. Hungarian-born investor and philanthropist George Soros gave $18 billion to Open Society Foundations. According to the Open Society Foundations website, its organization “work[s] to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people.” is specific donation comprised nearly 80 percent of Soros’ net worth.

Some U.S. immigrants are politicians. Austrianborn Arnold Schwarzenegger served as governor of California from 2003 to 2011 and was a Hollywood actor and bodybuilder before. Schwarzenegger inspired many Americans to pursue bodybuilding and entertained countless viewers with his roles in Terminator, Predator and several other films.

Without him, there would be a gap in both the bodybuilding and film worlds. e reality is that immigrants are everywhere. ey may be your idolized scientists, celebrities or politicians. Immigration is inevitable and will continue to grow this country.

Stemming immigration may stagnate the economy.

Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia introduced the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act, a bill which aims to decrease legal immigration but increase highly skilled and educated legal immigrants.

University of Pennsylvania Wharton School’s Penn

Wharton Budget Model of the RAISE Act predicted that by 2027, GDP would drop by 0.7 percent. GDP will lower by 2 percent more by 2040 if immigration halves and there will be 4.6 million fewer jobs. e model projects the RAISE Act to raise per capita GDP 0.02 percent by 2027. It also reports that capital stock will be similar to before the RAISE Act while there will be less workers. However, the model states, given that “immigrants work and contribute to savings,” the per capita GDP will still drop by 0.3 percent by 2040.

In spite of the similarity of capital stock in 2040 to before the RAISE Act, the lack of immigrants will contribute to a decreased GDP. Immigration may not only increase GDP, but it may spur innovation and productivity.

A 2018 study titled “Migration and the Economy”

by Citi GPS: Global Perspectives and Solutions found that from 1990 to 2014, U.S. economic growth would have been 15 percentage points lower without migration. is may have been due to the fact that 75 percent of migrants are working age. ey are also responsible for filing more than 40 percent of global patent applications, revealing how immigration boosts innovation.

In an environment of political polarization and anti-immigration rhetoric, some will fear immigration. ey will want the people who have illegally immigrated out. And many other citizens will want less overall immigration. However, many of America’s greats were immigrants and immigration will mainly serve to increase innovation, productivity and GDP. If we seek to improve the United States, we must consider further immigration as something positive.

SPORTS IONESCU RECORDS 15TH TRIPLE-DOUBLE, TIES ASSIST RECORD

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Oregon Ducks guard Sabrina Ionescu (20) shoots in their Elite Eight matchup against Notre Dame. (Emerald Archives)

Oregon Ducks forward Ruthy Hebard (24) blocks the shot of a Stanford Cardinal player on Sunday, March 4, 2018 in the final of the Pac-12 Tournament. (Emerald Archives)

Every time Sabrina Ionescu steps on the court, there’s a chance a new record will be set. e NCAA triple-double record holder for both men’s and women’s basketball recorded her 15th career triple-double in No. 5 Oregon women’s basketball’s (13-1, 2-0 Pac12) 98-58 win over Washington State (6-8, 1-2 Pac-12) on Sunday.

Ionescu’s 17 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists also makes her tied with Lauri Landerholm’s 607 career assists for Oregon, which Landerholm set in 1987.

“It’s kind of funny when Sabrina can get a triple-double and it’s like ‘ho-hum’ somebody else gets player of the game,” head coach Kelly Graves said. at player of the game was Ruthy Hebard, who went 4-of-12 against Washington on Friday in a poor performance by her standards. Against Washington State on Sunday, Hebard started slow again, missing her first two shots. But she scored her next six attempted field goals on the way to a career-high 34-point night on 16-of-21 shooting.

“Ruthy tonight had an advantage and she just took advantage of it and it’s great to see her get back on stride, Graves said.

Hebard struggled at the line, though, shooting 2-of-10, but in the flow of the game she and Ionescu were gelling as usual. Half of Ionescu’s 10 assists were to Hebard.

Ionescu is now one of only 10 players in Pac-12 history to tally more than 600 assists, but the junior is a long way away from former UCLA guard Jordin Canada’s record of 831. e Matthew Knight Arena crowd is always in tune with Ionescu’s performances, looking for the next triple-double. Once again, the crowd let out gasps on

any missed shots where Ionescu lurked nearby as she needed just one more rebound. When it came in the fourth quarter on an offensive board, the bulk of the crowd stood and applauded before breaking out in a “triple-double” chant just as the fans do every time she collects a triple-double.

“I hear it in the crowd, people yelling at me ‘two more rebounds, one more rebounds,” Ionescu said.

“It’s nice that they’re so into it and care about a record like that.”

Oregon’s second-quarter struggles from two nights ago vanished as the Ducks controlled the tempo and the scoring for the entirety of the first half.

Much of that was thanks to Hebard’s nine second-quarter points but also Oregon’s defense keeping the Cougars to 12 points while the Ducks’ offense exploded for 24.

Satou Sabally continued her hot streak with a 25-point performance to follow her 19-point game against Washington.

“Satou continues to mature right before our eyes,” Graves said.

“When she’s aggressive like that she becomes so difficult [for opposition].”

Late in the game, Sabally got in a tussle with Washington State’s Michaela Jones. Sabally was quickly tended to by teammates when the German international began to motion toward Jones.

“I ran out there. I was ready.

Nothing was going to happen, the poor girl was scared,” Ionescu said.

“I knew that wasn’t anything serious.” e Ducks were able to laugh off the 40-point blowout win on Sunday but they’ll quickly shift focus to a road trip to Los Angeles, where they’ll face USC and UCLA next weekend.

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