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NEWS WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE SENATE THIS SPRING

BY HANNAH KANIK • TWITTER @HANNAH_KANIK

e university senate is gearing up for a busy spring term of discussions, passing new legislation and electing its new vice president.

Over winter term, the senate passed a policy forbidding relationships between students and teachers, approved a new doctorate program for ethnic studies and made changes to departmental honors.

In the coming term, the senate aims to accomplish even more, Senate President Bill Harbaugh said. is term, the senate will vote on the academic continuity plan, discuss ways to help increase the university’s enrollment and finalize changes to course evaluations.

Academic continuity plan e academic continuity plan, which aims to create an academic procedure in the event of an emergency, is scheduled to be put to a vote at the next senate meeting on April 10. e senate was set to vote on the academic continuity plan at its last meeting on March 13, but the discussion of the policy took up the rest of the time at the meeting and it was postponed.

Harbaugh said some senators are uncomfortable with the idea of cutting administration out of the process because it makes it less burdensome for them and is a conflict of interest.

However, Harbaugh said the plan should be taken seriously to make sure students don’t face potential

issues, like an inability to receive financial aid.

In order to receive financial aid, students have to submit their grades. If an emergency or strike occurs and no grades are given, there is a chance students will not get their aid.

“If [GEs] go on a strike, it should be a big deal,” Harbaugh said. e new procedure, outlined in the academic continuity policy, awards emergency grades to students to avoid this issue.

Enrollment increase Roger ompson, vice president for student services and enrollment management, will speak to the senate about how administration is handling the “small budget crisis” the university is experiencing due to low student enrollment, Harbaugh said. e university is working to grow campus by 3,000 students over the course of eight years to address the crisis and increase tuition revenue.

According to the Office of Institutional Research, the university’s student population decreased by nearly 2,000 students over the past six years. In 2012, there were 24,591 students enrolled at UO, whereas in 2018, there were 22,760 students enrolled.

Harbaugh said ompson will update the senate on the crisis and discuss ways that the senate can potentially help during this budget crisis.

Course evaluations e senate will vote on transforming teaching evaluations to be text-based in order to better measure the instructor’s success. e topic of teaching evaluations entered the senate in spring 2017 after a study surfaced that showed the structure of the evaluations was sexist and racist. e senate has been working with the administration to create a new form of evaluating teachers to combat this bias.

After piloting new evaluations in select classes at UO and working with a representative from the University of Southern California, the senate will be making the final changes to the new form of evaluation and voting on it sometime this term, Harbaugh said.

Harbaugh also said he hopes to pass the new evaluations through the senate this term to be in place by fall 2020.

New vice president e senate elects its new vice president each spring term. e vice president serves for one year and then becomes the senate president the following year.

Current senate Vice President Elizabeth Skowron will become the senate president next academic year.

Harbaugh said the senate will elect its new vice president by the end of the term.

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BY BRAEDON KWIECIEN • TWITTER @BRAEDON_JAMES One of Eugene’s newest breweries, Manifest Beer Co., celebrated its first anniversary and label release party on Friday, March 29. Head brewer Brandon Woodruff accomplished his first year at the current location, perhaps due to his unorthodox motto: “We don’t necessarily want you to like our beer. We want you to remember our beer.”

With concoctions such as a berliner weisses made with ginger and peach, and another made with passion fruit and lychee, it’s apparent that he steps out of bounds with ingredient choices. A berliner weisse is a tart German wheat beer frequently found with fruit added to supply unique flavors.

At $5 for 11 ounces, the passion fruit and lychee berliner is tropical, sweet, citrusy and tart — not too tart that every sip was a pucker punch, but just enough that it’s juicy and refreshing. e peach ginger berliner is sweet and tart, and more like a peach fizz than a beer — it would be palatable for someone who swears off beer. It’s possible to imagine ginger in the taste, and if it’s in there, it just adds a delicate bite to the slight tartness.

On the anniversary, Woodruff touted two Brett beers — beer fermented with less common brettanomyces yeast that can impart tropical flavors.

Woodruff had been homebrewing for years before he opened his first brewery, Mancave Brewing Company. When he and his former business partner split, Woodruff took his brewing equipment to Elk Horn Brewery and used their space to start up Manifest.

From Mancave to Manifest, one thing Woodruff wouldn’t let go was the initial “M” in each name.

“It’s top secret, almost like a family heirloom,” he said. “ ere’s some secretive stuff behind that ‘M,’ and I didn’t want to let go of it.” Woodruff said the secret is something he wanted to keep for himself and not tell the press. e only beer that moved from brewery to brewery was his Exalted IPA, a recipe he had been homebrewing for over a decade. On his brewery’s anniversary day, the Exalted Double IPA was on tap, which was, as it should be, very hoppy. It has a fresh, herbal, forest aroma with a slightly tinted head from the dark orange, almost rust hue of the beer and was not for the faint of heart when in comes to IBU — international bitterness units, which is associated with hoppiness. It’s incredibly refreshing and, despite the hops, still balanced and just too drinkable. A couple pints would knock a lightweight out, but it’d still be worth it.

“I love that beer so much,” Woodruff said, “and there’s nothing that really speaks to that beer except that it is exalted. It’s really fucking good.”

After about a year working in the Elk Horn space, Woodruff teamed up with Gary Miller, the owner of Doc’s Pad, a sports bar in Eugene.

Attached to Doc’s was once a bar called e

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Green Room. But now in that space is Manifest’s makeshift brewery. It’s a tight space with two walls and two all-glass garage doors opening into an alley. It’s Built under a parking garage and guards multiple giant brewing tanks, which Woodruff has now moved three times — not an easy feat. e biggest moment for Woodruff this year was meeting his distributor. He said that at the 2018 Nano beer fest in Portland, a representative from Day One Distribution came up to Woodruff and said, “Out of the hundred breweries that are there, your beer is the best.” Woodruff had been sleeping in his truck for the three days he was at the festival. “I didn’t really have the money for a hotel, so I felt like a rock star,” he said. A couple of nights in the truck seem to have paid off.

“It was pretty neat the first time we had a distributor pick up a good order. We had our beer in Astoria, Eugene, Springfield, Corvallis, Bend and Ashland all in one day,” Woodruff said. Just the night before the anniversary gathering, a distributor came to pick up 80 cases of beer. “My total sales that I used to be at with Elk Horn was maybe about 15 barrels a month. Now getting 15 barrels picked up in a day is pretty cool,” he said. “ at’s a special feeling.”

e special day was also the first time the public could get their hands on uniquely labeled cans of specific beer varieties. Woodruff used to have a generic label he would hand write the name of the beer on, but now the berliner weisses and a Northeast IPA have their own labels, which he designed himself. e two berliners feature the “M” rising like a sun over a mountain range and a short history of the berliner weisse on the side. e Northeast IPA design is much different, displaying cartoony and humorous clip art-style text boxes and shapes — a tongue-in-cheek congruence with the beer’s name: “highly recommended.”

Coming up at Manifest will be a hazy beer named “Brenda’s got a hazy,” a play on Tupac’s “Brenda’s got a baby,” and a testament to Woodruff’s love for old-school rap. He’ll also be releasing a barrel-aged, fresh-hopped pumpkin sour.

He pours for customers on Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. to whenever customers stop drinking at the open-air, literal hole-in-a-wall brewery, and Manifest usually has two to four taps running at Doc’s.

e exalted IPA is Brandon Woodruff’s oldest recipe and the only beer that he brought from his former brewery, Mancave Brewing Company.

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Lupita Nyong’o stars in Jordan Peele’s latest horror film, “Us.” (Courtesy of Universal Pictures)

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‘US’ IS MORE SOCIAL COMMENTARY THAN HORROR FILM

BY ILANA SLAVIT is article contains spoilers.

“Us,” Jordan Peele’s heavily anticipated sophomore feature, is a mind-bending twist on the evil twin concept that is more thrilling than terrifying. Ripe with Peele’s sardonic humor to ease the tension, the majority of the jump scares and truly horrifying moments are revealed in the film’s trailer.

Similar to Peele’s debut, “Get Out,” “Us” is more social commentary than horror film. While “Get Out,” was a satire on race in America, “Us” tackles income inequality by examining the concept of being born into wealth versus poverty.

Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex star as both an upper class family and their evil doubles. While on vacation in Santa Cruz, Nyong’o is reminded of an incident with a lookalike as a child on the

Santa Cruz beach boardwalk. Against her better wishes, her husband takes the family to the Santa Cruz coast and chaos occurs once their evil doubles follow them to their villa. e entire cast is fantastic, particularly Nyong’o in her multifaceted roles as both mother and villian. Elizabeth Moss also shines as an annoying, rich white friend of the family.

Although the film doesn’t focus on race, interactions with Moss’ haughty family allude to the intersection between whiteness and privilege. When Moss asks her smart-speaker to call the police, the song “Fuck the Police” plays instead as she is brutally killed by her double.

In the traumatic world of “Us,” no one can save anyone except themselves. But, the same could be said about real life society.

Michael Abel’s brillant, bone-chilling soundtrack is a perfect metaphor for the film

itself. A mix of classical, African, opera, hiphop and Psycho-esque violins, “Us” is a social commentary and horror film for the modern age. Jump scares are too predictable in a world of countless scary movies and television shows, so Peele updates the genre by injecting meaning. With income inequality broadening the gap between rich and the poor across the nation, the evil doubles represent the main family if they were impoverished.

Peele is clearly a perfectionist and a horror movie lover. “Us” is ripe with easter eggs, from the opening sequence of rabbits in cages to the lyric “Fuck the police coming straight from the underground” as Moss and her family are bludgeoned to a pulp. Many critics are calling Peele the next Hitchcock, but he’s more than a master of suspense. He’s a master of the genre mashup.

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BY ARIANA SINCLAIR When University of Oregon student Cassidy Gibson was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome her senior year of high school, her diagnosis came with a whirlwind of doctors appointments and new medications — and she quickly became familiar with how complicated health insurance and contraceptive care can be.

Gibson and her doctors were unsure of the best birth control for her, switching between five brands of the pill within 18 months of her diagnosis. Her PCOS symptoms are controlled by increasing estrogen, which most versions of the pill offer. Her insurance didn’t cover changes that came within a single month and charged her a deductible for every consultation.

Gibson said that when she came to UO in the fall of 2017, her stress was alleviated at the insurance orientation she attended her first week. e Oregon ContraceptiveCare Program, she learned, would pay for all her birth control and related appointments.

Gibson is one of 1,033 students currently enrolled in CCare at UO, according to a health center report.

CCare provides free contraceptive care to people at or below 250 percent of the federal poverty level, giving eligible UO students more flexibility in birth control options and the freedom to choose the care that works for them.

CCare is almost 20 years old and is funded through Medicaid, the federal program that helps people with low income pay for health care insurance.

Staff at the Oregon Health Authority’s Reproductive Health Program noticed a gap between people who qualified for Medicaid and people who couldn’t afford private insurance. is demographic of the population was left without health coverage and was ultimately at a higher risk of unplanned pregnancies, so CCare was devised to fill this gap.

“One of the hallmarks of CCare is that individuals can apply for CCare at the clinic site on the day of their appointment, get same-day services and walk away with birth control methods,” said Emily Elman, a senior policy analyst for the Oregon Reproductive Health Program. For Oregon Health Plan, “the application process is a bit more cumbersome.”

At UO, this means students can receive birth control, condoms and Plan B immediately upon applying for the program. Registration is about a three-minute process and doesn’t require much from the student: a driver’s license or passport and insurance card if they have one.

Oregonians are eligible for the Oregon Health Program, Oregon’s state Medicaid waiver, if they make at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level (or $16,753 annually), whereas they can be eligible for CCare if they earn $33,350 or below. Access to CCare drastically increased the number of people eligible for contraceptive

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care coverage in the state of Oregon. e Oregon Health Authority estimates that 270,990 women are in need of publicly funded family planning services in the state. is is defined as the number of women who could become pregnant in Oregon between the ages of 13 and 44, with an income at or below 250 percent of the federal poverty level. CCare covers 19.3 percent of those women statewide.

In 2017, CCare prevented 1,174 unplanned pregnancies, according to the Oregon Health Authority.

While only 23.4 percent of clients statewide have private insurance coverage, 88.6 percent of UO student clients do.

For these students, CCare can be used as a “backup” option, said health center representative Julia Dunbar. When a student receives birth control through the health center, the pharmacy bills their private insurance first. And if their private insurance only covers a portion of the total amount, CCare will cover the rest.

But CCare strictly covers contraceptive care. It does not cover other forms of sexual or reproductive health care for its clients.

Other options exist for students in Eugene who

are in need of more health coverage. e Planned Parenthood in Springfield is a Title X clinic. is means it is federally funded and offers complete reproductive health care, including Pap smears, STD testing and contraceptive care.

For Eugene residents, this is an option for those who are uninsured or have limited private insurance. For UO students, this can be difficult if they do not have access to a car, as the Planned Parenthood in Springfield is almost two miles from campus. But the EMX, which is free to UO students, stops in front of the building.

All university clinics in Oregon have chosen to be CCare-only, according to Elman, the state health care analyst. e process and requirements associated with becoming a full Reproductive Health Program clinic that receives Title X funds are more robust than that of CCare. She supposes that universities do not go through the trouble because the majority of students have access to CCare, OHP or private health insurance.

CCare also provides confidentiality for patients if they wish. Some students are unable to have productive conversations about contraception with parents. is could limit their options and availability of birth control.

CCare provides free contraceptive care to people at or below 250 percent of the federal poverty level, giving eligible UO students more birth control options and freedom to choose the contraceptive that works for them. (Dana Sparks)

a campus group about promoting When helping students apply the program to men because they for CCare, Dunbar said she always offer options such as condoms and checks if they would like to keep their consultation appointments. information private or not. is gives As of 2016, the state of Oregon students the freedom to decide which also requires insurance to cover up care is best for them. Dunbar estimates to a year’s worth of birth control that 20 percent of students ask that with established patients at one their information remain confidential. time. Dispensing a year’s supply of One UO senior applied for CCare birth control reduces the odds of her freshman year because she unplanned pregnancy by 30 percent, needed birth control but did not feel compared to dispensing smaller comfortable discussing those options amounts more frequently, according with her parents, even though their to Planned Parenthood. insurance covered contraceptives.

Colleen Jones, a nurse practitioner CCare provided the privacy and health with the UO Health Center, inserts care she wanted. She wished to remain five to 10 intrauterine devices every anonymous in this article for the same week and consults most of reason she applied to CCare. her patients on all forms In the past,she has needed of birth control. She thinks enough birth control to last the most valuable aspect of through long breaks away CCare is its ability to cover all from school when returns types of contraception. home to California. CCare “ at’s the most important coverage allows for extended thing with health prescriptions up care,” she said. to 15 months and “When you’re maintains students’ working with human privacy while beings, you cannot living at home. treat everyone If a student the same.” visited a Planned Jones said that UO Parenthood at any students are really point and registered lucky to have the for CCare in the program. She avoids past year, they recommending are automatically specific forms of enrolled in the contraception to program. “A lot of students, instead students do not even giving them all realize that they are the information, on it,” Dunbar said. answering questions e pharmacy and encouraging desk at the health them to make the center has paperwork final decision based to offer CCare as an on their own needs. option when students While the pill come to pick up their requires more prescription. Dunbar EMILY ELMAN attention from the hopes that this will senior policy analyst for the user, the IUD can combat the problem Oregon Reproductive Health Program be painful. CCare in the future. allows students CCare clients at to consider all those options without UO have decreased over the last two worrying about cost. years by 500 patients. Dunbar believes Gibson, the student who was this is due to the lack of marketing diagnosed with polycystic ovary resources for the program and a change syndrome, experimented with how in insurance laws where dependents several of these different birth controls can be covered up to age 26. affected her PCOS and could do so with “I get really frustrated when I see the financial support of CCare. She the pharmacy bill insurance and the said that in the year that she has used insurance only covers three months, the program, she has enjoyed sharing and the person is graduating and has her experiences with her friends and to pay like $300 out of pocket,” Dunbar encouraged them to consider applying. said. “I always wonder: Why didn’t we “It’s not even about contraceptive tell them about CCare?” for me right now,” Gibson said. e e program only covers about 2.5 pill is the only way to curb the painful percent of students at UO, but Dunbar symptoms that come with PCOS. “I’m said they are working on ways to jealous of people that can stick with expand coverage. Dunbar said only two one form [of birth control]. In that case, of those students are men, even though traditional insurance works for them. the program is offered to all genders.

CCare is what works for me.”

Dunbar said she has spoken to

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BY LIZZY PALMQUIST From volunteering with my church’s childcare program every Sunday for years to helping out at Womenspace, a support center for domestic violence survivors in Eugene, I have always pursued a passion of working with kids.

I know not everyone shares my love for kids, and I totally understand why. ey can be extremely challenging to work with at times. ey can be messy, sticky, smelly and can get into trouble way too easily.

Some throw tantrums when they do not get what they want, while others simply refuse to listen to anything you say. So, where is the appeal? What makes working with these funsized humans so rewarding?

It has been found that those who volunteer with kids experience positive impacts on their mental health. e John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted a study of volunteers from Experience Corps, “a national volunteer service that trains seniors to help children in urban public schools with reading and academic success in other areas.” e 17 volunteers exhibited improvements in their brain’s cognitive ability, allowing for heightened neuroplasticity and decreased depression.

When working with kids, I have also found that my mood benefits from my time with them. On days when I am stressed, anxious or feeling down, I have found that popping into Womenspace for a few hours with the kids is just what I needed to turn my day around. eir raw energy and playful nature help me refocus on a more positive mindset.

A gift that kids give to someone volunteering with them is the ability to see yourself differently. As an Volunteering with kids is a great opportunity to see yourself differently and interact with children in a positive setting.

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adult, it can be hard to look at yourself as anything but an average human being. But that’s not how younger kids see you.

At their age, adults are these super weird, tall, almost magical beings that seem to have all the answers, when in reality, we have no clue what we are doing most of the time.

Somehow, they manage to appreciate even the smallest of talents. Know a few Disney songs? You will be the first person they come to for a sing along. Able to dribble a ball?

You are an instant soccer coach.

Ever done a French braid?

Suddenly you are the hairstylist they have been looking for. e parts of you that never seemed important suddenly become admirable traits in their eyes. Allowing them to bring these traits to the surface can help a person admire parts of themselves they never appreciated before.

Volunteering with kids can also provide the opportunity to interact with children in a positive setting, especially for those who have had uncomfortable experiences with kids in the past. Many look at children in public places like in restaurants or on planes with suspicion, believing they will disrupt their evening with loud noises or obnoxious behaviors.

Having the opportunity to interact with kids in an environment where being loud and playful is anticipated can provide a different perspective.

It is completely normal and valid to dislike kids, but volunteering with them provides the opportunity to look at them (as well as yourself) in a different light. Not only will the experience make a nice addition to a résumé, it will provide a unique experience that cannot be gained from other types of volunteer work.

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e Ducks celebrate their win over Mississippi State. Oregon will play either No. 1-seed Baylor or No. 2-seed Iowa on Friday in Tampa Bay. (Devin Roux)

THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM: OREGON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ADVANCES TO FIRST FINAL FOUR BEHIND HISTORIC 88-84 WIN

BY SIERRA WEBSTER • TWITTER @WEBSTERSIERRAE PORTLAND, Ore. -- With just over a minute left in the Portland Regional final and leading by just three points, Oregon women’s basketball’s Sabrina Ionescu drained a step-back 3-pointer.

“Well that was going in regardless,” Ionescu said of her shot. “I didn’t want [the game] to go into overtime.

I didn’t want to give them any more opportunities to score. I was pretty tired and I was like, ‘Let me just hit this and walk off to the Final Four.’”

Forty seconds later, the junior guard found senior Maite Cazorla on the perimeter for another 3-pointer to give the Ducks their widest-lead against No. 1-seed Mississippi State. e Bulldogs have been to the past two National Championship games, but lost both and were looking for their third-straight Elite Eight victory with a National Championship title on the line.

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time in program history.

“Maite’s shot with 16 seconds on the shot-clock, 45 seconds in the game. It’s a questionable shot,” assistant coach Jodie Berry said. “ ey’ve proved that they can hit it. I love the fearlessness and the composure.”

Today’s Elite Eight was the third-straight top-ten matchup between Oregon and Mississippi State, and the second of this season.

In their game earlier this season, Ruthy Hebard held Mississippi State’s Teaira McCowan to just five points for Oregon’s first-ever win over the Bulldogs.

Today, McCowan fought for 19 points off 60 percent shooting and grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds.

For the Ducks, Ionescu led with 31 points, including five 3-pointers.

She also had eight assists and seven rebounds. Meanwhile, Satou Sabally added 22 points and seven rebounds while Hebard netted 14 points against McCowan.

Behind 11 ties and 15 lead changes, neither team led by more than seven

points. e Bulldogs outscored the Ducks in the first and third quarters, while Oregon led offensively in the second and fourth, in what was a fiercely balanced matchup.

To start, Oregon traded 3-pointers for Mississippi State’s jump-shots to lead 6-4, but an 8-0 run from the Bulldogs sent the Ducks scrambling. Oregon responded with an 8-2 run, including two 3-pointers from Ionescu and a pump-fake layup from Hebard, to tie the game with just 30 seconds left in the first quarter. e parity in the first ten minutes would be indicative of the whole 40 minutes.

In the second quarter, the Ducks adjusted to a zone defense, and on offense, Oregon outscored Mississippi State 21-17 to enter halftime up two points at 40-38.

In the first half, Oregon bench players Lydia Giomi and Oti Gildon played a combined 16 minutes and were crucial on defense against McCowan, giving Hebard respite.

On offense, the reserve forwards

created scoring opportunities off-ball by working ball-screens and pick and rolls.

“We wanted to put Teaira (McCowan) in 50 ball screens,” head coach Kelly Graves said. “We started to rescreen a lot. We started to what we call step-up screens so that our kids could take the baseline a little bit more.”

Meanwhile, Hebard had a lowscoring half with just four points.

Sabally and Ionescu stepped-up with a combined 25 points and 55 percent 3-point shooting.

Four ties in the third quarter made for a stressful ten minutes for the 11,534-person crowd at the Moda Center. e Bulldogs and Ducks entered the final quarter tied at 59, but a 5-0 run from Oregon to start and five made 3-pointers, three in the first five minutes, gave the Ducks the margin they needed to secure the regional title. e Ducks advance to the Final Four in Tampa Bay and will play either No. 1-seed Baylor or No. 2-seed Iowa on Friday.

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