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Sustainability is a very critical piece of what makes the University of Oregon and city of Eugene attractive to students and residents. e UO has created many programs dedicated to waste prevention and sustainable living. e on-campus Zero Waste program, Student Sustainability Center, and ‘grow pod’ indoor garden are only a few of the resources that are offered to students. e city of Eugene collectively has been working on some new ways to increase recycling, composting, and waste reduction outside of campus life. Starting on Oct. 1, a new ‘Curbside Composting’ program will be implemented for Eugene residential communities. According to the city of Eugene’s website, 40 million pounds of food waste ends up in the local landfill annually, half of which comes from homes in town.

Michael Wisth, Waste Prevention and Green Building Program Manager for the city of Eugene, said that putting food waste into landfill significantly increases methane release into the atmosphere.

“When food waste goes to a landfill it gets covered up,” said Wisth. “When it starts to degrade, it becomes an anaerobic process which produces tons of methane.”

According to the EPA, piling up food waste cuts off access to oxygen and allows greenhouse gases like methane to fester.

Composting limits those greenhouse gas impacts. Rather than cutting off the oxygen from food, it introduces it, and the product can then be recycled into soil.

“It holds moisture well,” he said. “In a warming climate, that’s important too.” e Curbside Composting program decided to limit their intake to food waste only, a decision that was made to the University of Oregon’s composting policies as well. Tea bags, liners, so-called compostable cups, service ware, and napkins are not accepted at UO dining

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“Compost vendors statewide including ours recently initiated significant changes to what they will accept,” said Steve Mital, director of the UO Office of Sustainability.

Both the city of Eugene Recycling & Solid Waste department and the UO Zero Waste Program run through the company Rexius for processing. “ e reason that we’re limiting it to food waste only and not allowing liners or napkins or tea bags or anything other than food waste is because all those other items are easily confused with things that are not compostable,” Wisth said. “If we can eliminate all of that by saying ‘food only,’ the message is a lot clearer.”

Curbside Composting will be available to residents who use the local garbage services. ey will now have the option to put food waste in with yard debris, all of which will then be taken to processing plants. e program has been tested the past three years in a successful pilot project, which included over 1,500 households in four Eugene neighborhoods. Wisth said that the pilot helped the trial and error of concerns that may be found with the system. “I’m really excited for this program,” he said. “I think we’re going to have immediate beneficial environmental impacts because of it.”

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BY RYAN NGUYEN • TWITTER @RYANJJNGUYEN When first-year student Marcelo Torres decided that he wanted to come to the University of Oregon, he wanted a “home-y” place.

“I’m from Houston, Texas, so there’s a Mexican basically anywhere you go,” said Torres, who is majoring in philosophy and economics, during early move-in. “I’m from Mexico originally, and I just wanted something ‘home-y’ — people I know, a culture I already understand and respect and people who are more like me.” e Latinx Scholars ARC, or academic residential community, is the newest of the five residential programs in the recently renovated and rebranded Justice Bean Hall, which also houses the Health Sciences and Environmental Leaders ARCs, among others.

Latinx is a gender-neutral umbrella term that broadly refers to “Latin-Americans (regardless of country of origin), Mexican-Americans, Central Americans, Chicanx, or Hispanics,” according to the Latinx Scholars ARC webpage. e ARC, open to Latinx students and those strongly connected to their communities, comes as an effort to increase the historically low retention rates of the school’s Latinx students, said Rosa ChavezJacuinde, the associate director of the UO Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence.

“Graduating in four years is only part of it, but what’s your experience in your four years?” ChavezJacuinde said. “Like, sure, I can graduate in four years, but I’m going to be miserable and not make any friends or not have any internships, or not really practice what I’m being taught or meet new people or go out of my comfort zone, and that’s not really a

college experience.”

As of fall 2018, about 12% of students at the University of Oregon are Hispanic or Latino, according to university data. e number of students who identify as Hispanic or Latino has been rising since 2008, when just under 4% of students were Hispanic or Latino, according to UO’s latest equity and inclusion report. e idea for the ARC came from the Latinx Strategy Group, a collective of faculty, staff and students that works to improve educational access and equity for Latinx students at UO. Chavez-Jacuinde, who is also one of its members, said that she wants the ARC’s students to see that everybody struggles, “even students who seem like they’ve got 4.0’s.”

“Our central message is that they have a community here, that they have a home here, that they belong here, that they can succeed here, that they don’t have to do it alone,” Chavez-Jacuinde said.

“It’s a community to help you navigate those pieces on your way to graduation.” e ARC’s thirty-some students will take classes in history, ethic studies and Spanish. Michael Hames-García, an ethnic studies professor who will be teaching a class that’s specific to this ARC, wants students to leave his class with the sense that their knowledge and experiences have value.

“In any class, really, you have a diversity of experiences and relationships to the subject matter,” Hames-García said, “and it’s really about building a lesson plan from students’ interests, from those experiences, and using them to guide where the class goes.”

In his classes, Hames-García will often bring in

items or present theoretical problems to the class, asking them how they would each approach an issue.

Some of the ARC’s students have grown up in immigrant communities, Hames-García said, while others have lived in predominantly white communities. Others may identify as Afro-Latino, not speak Spanish or not have “a strong sense” of Latinx culture. “ ere’s never one point of view or one way of approaching an issue. It always starts from multiple perspectives, because there are multiple perspectives in a classroom,” Hames-García said.

Wendy Echeverria Garcia, a first-year Latin American studies and ethnic studies student, wanted to connect with people who share her culture and heritage.

“My culture is something that I really like to embrace,” Garcia said, “and it’ll be nice to share it with other people who have similar backgrounds.”

Half of the class of 2014’s students of underrepresented ethnicities graduated within four years, while 60% of its white students did. e underrepresented ethnicities category includes students who are Black, Hispanic, Latino, native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander or Native American.

For junior Jorge Torres, the new ARC is a chance for him to meet other Latinx people in Eugene.

“We’re used to having a lot of Latin community down in Texas,” said Jorge Torres, who is studying advertising. “ is is a great opportunity to make connections and feel like we’re in a community.”

— Anna Mattson contributed reporting to this article.

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e Ralph Steadman exhibit is coming to the JSMA on the University of Oregon campus Oct. 5, 2019 - Jan. 20, 2020. (Sarah Northrop/Emerald)

rough experimentation with paint, pen and pencil, British cartoonist Ralph Steadman brings nightmarish and aggressive characters to life. He is best known for his collaborative work with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. ompson on their coverage of the Kentucky Derby or in ompson’s book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” but his catalog doesn’t end there.

Steadman’s prolific body of work extends from book illustration — designing editions of “Alice in Wonderland” and “Treasure Island” — to recent work, like creating the album cover for Travis Scott and Quavo’s collaborative album, “Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho.” Steadman’s boundarypushing endeavors create colorful and apocalyptic landscapes mixed with over-accentuated qualities that create an out-of-this-world, satirical representation of his subjects.

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e Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has partnered with the nonprofit Ralph Steadman America to bring a retrospective exhibit of his work to campus. e exhibit will cover Steadman’s breadth of work over the past 60 years, featuring some of his more notable pieces, like his work with Hunter S. ompson or book illustrations, and even early sketches that were done while he was a student. e exhibit will open Oct. 5 and will be available to the public until Jan. 19.

Ralph Steadman America first suggested that the JSMA host the retrospective exhibit two years ago.

Museum Curator Jill Hartz was ecstatic about the idea. She found his body of work to be fitting for the university community. Since then, Hartz has been working on curating an exhibition that would reflect the anticipated interests of the community, as well as expose

Steadman’s work to a new audience.

“I think the breadth of his work connects with the students and the Eugene community,” Hartz said.

Every detail of Steadman’s work is done with intricacy and intention. ere is a lot to digest in his pieces.

Being able to see his work in person allows onlookers to step back and take time to process the messages behind his work.

“When people first see his images in person, they really learn to appreciate his work,” Hartz said.

Steadman arms himself with a clever use of satire as a means to interpret the intentions of political moves done by those in power.

His work is often a critique of the ruling upper class by satirizing their malicious actions. For example, in his 2015 work, “Donald Trump-Porky Pie,” Steadman depicts an overinflated, grotesque version of Trump with pig

ears and the phrases “Donald Trump, Porky Pie!” written on the bottom left corner — a British idiom used to call somebody a liar.

“It’s important to see how others reflect on our times — and his subject matter is timely,” said Hartz.

Ralph Steadman has a prolific, irreplicable body of work that shaped a generation of cartoonists. His work has evoked urgent discussion of political issues and has created imagery that perfectly complements the stories being told. An extent of this work can now be seen by UO students and the Eugene public at the JSMA. On Friday, Oct. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m., JSMA members will get a first look at the exhibit, accompanied by food and drinks, as well as discussion with members of Ralph Steadman America and museum curators. University students are automatic members and are encouraged to visit the opening.

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BY RYAN NGUYEN • TWITTER @RYANJJNGUYEN After a 22-hour-long bargaining session, Service Employees International Union Local 503 — one of the unions representing workers at Oregon’s public universities — and the bargaining team representing those schools reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract on Saturday. e deal averted a strike that would have began the morning of Monday, Sept. 30 — the day before classes begin at the University of Oregon and some other Oregon colleges — if the union and universities couldn’t settle on a new contract. Now, the union’s constituents will vote sometime in the coming weeks whether to ratify the two-year contract, which would begin in November if approved. e tentative agreement came after months of mediated bargaining sessions between the group representing Oregon’s seven public universities — including UO — and SEIU Local 503, which represents a total of about 4,500 classified employees in those schools. “ e reason that we, as classified staff, were able to obtain that is because everyone fought so hard,”

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said Stephanie Prentiss, the vice president of SEIU Sublocal 85, the chapter of SEIU Local 503 that represents UO’s classified staff. “We’re not asking to be rich. Of course, that’s not our goal. We are asking [them] to give us an opportunity to be healthy and do our jobs to the best of our abilities and be able to provide for our families.”

SEIU Sublocal 85 represents about 1,300 classified employees at UO who work in dining services, student registration and information technology, among other areas. In total, SEIU 503 represents about 72,000 people who work in health care, nonprofits, higher education, local and state government.

Classified employees include workers in food preparation, maintenance, custodial services and information technology, among other areas. Annual wages for classified staff range from about $25,000 to more than $100,000, according to a Sept. 28 statement from the universities’ bargaining team.

SEIU Local 503 has been pushing for higher cost of living adjustments to make up for what they say

does not keep up with the actual costs of living, Prentiss said. e union also said that Oregon’s public universities employ too many managers and pay them overly high salaries.

Cost of living adjustments, or COLAs, are automatic increases in wages that are meant to keep up with changing costs of living.

Over the months that they’ve been negotiating, the universities’ bargaining team has emphasized the growing economic pressures coming from the increasing costs of benefits for public employees. In one of the first bargaining sessions between it and the union, the universities’ bargaining team said that Oregon’s public universities are facing a 25.1% increase in costs from PERS, or the Public Employees Retirement System, over the next biennium, along with a 9.3% increase in health care costs. e universities’ bargaining team also cited how a 2019 Millman Group study found that Oregon employees pay 3% of the cost of covering health benefits for state employees, while employees in California and Washington pay 20% and 14%,

respectively.

“We hope that with these facts you will engage us in a creative and positive discussion of how to best share in these costs,” reads the opening statement from the universities’ bargaining team, which University Shared Services Enterprise negotiated on behalf of, at a Feb. 28 meeting.

Classified employees at Oregon’s public universities get pay increases through a combination of step increases and an annual cost of living adjustment. Step increases are automatic, annual wage increases for workers as they “accumulate years of service,” according to the Illinois Policy Institute, a policy think tank.

“We are deeply appreciative of the dedication these employees demonstrate every day in their jobs on our university campuses,” the universities’ bargaining team wrote in a statement after the union announced the deal. “ eir work makes an enormous difference in the education and lives of our students, as well as the research and community services that Oregon universities provide throughout the state.” e pending two-year contract — described by SEIU Local 503 as the best “in over a decade” — includes: • A total 5.1% cost of living adjustment over a two-year period for all classified staff • Forty-eight hours of paid time for workers if campuses close or open late because of inclement weather, over the two-year period of the contract • Workers who have worked for five years and have no additional step increases will receive a 2.5% “longevity premium” • Maintaining the $1 price of meals for UO dining-service employees, after the universities

proposed a price increase to $3 No change in workers’ health care costs “ is is a win for the 4,500 workers who dedicate their lives to Oregon universities,” said Melissa Unger, the executive director of SEIU Local 503, in a statement. “ is hard-fought victory is a testament to the strength and solidarity of Oregon’s front-line university workers.”

After submitting their final offers, SEIU 503 and the universities’ bargaining team couldn’t settle on a new contract. After the union declared impasse on Aug. 16, it and the universities’ bargaining team had to submit their final contract offers to an outside mediator within a week, as per Oregon law.

But a month after sending in their final offers, a period of time known as the “cooling-off period” in Oregon law, neither the union nor the university could settle on a final contract, and SEIU Local 503 called a vote to authorize a strike. Over 95% of its constituents then voted to approve a strike if the union couldn’t settle a deal with the universities.

After bargaining sessions that SEIU Local 503 has described as “frustrating” and “frankly insulting,” the agreement comes as a reprieve to Prentiss, who’s worked at UO for nearly two decades.

Prentiss said that classified staff will be voting in a few weeks on whether to ratify the contract and that she wants to maintain the momentum of the union’s campaign.

“By getting this momentum up and explaining it and giving them a clear picture of how this contract works, then I think that they’ll be willing to keep this,” Prentiss said. “It’s the best contract I’ve seen in 18 years. I have never seen a cost of living this high. So I’m really happy.”

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IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS Classified employees: Those represented by SEIU Local 503, among other unions, including workers in areas such as food preparation, maintenance, custodial services and information technology.

Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA): Automatic increases in wages that are meant to keep up with changing costs of living.

Impasse: A part of the bargaining process where, once declared, both negotiating parties file their finals contract offers to the Oregon Employment Relations Board.

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BY BAZIL STERLING With the future of the climate and the lives of billions on the line, rising global temperatures and sea levels, extreme weather and other climate events are threatening life as we know it. While these catastrophic symptoms of climate change become more noticeable, world leaders have remained still and the Trump administration has only taken steps in the wrong direction, such as withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement and cutting funding for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Although the Trump administration has only worsened the state of the climate, its climatebased injustices have consequently elevated the voices of activists worldwide. A premier leader of the movement is 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta unberg — one of several high-profile, young activists who has been in the national spotlight in recent years.

And like those who came before her, politicians and those in positions of power have attempted to silence the voices of the youth who advocate for climate change and gun reform.

In response to a claim unberg made in a recent speech that Earth is enduring the start of a mass extinction, Trump sarcastically tweeted that “She [ unberg] seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”

Even though Twitter rants and cyberbullying are common practices for Trump, this sort of immature behavior from a world leader shows the lack of interest Trump has in listening to his critics. By attacking those seeking to resolve significant global issues, Trump shows that he takes these matters far too lightly.

Trump’s minimal involvement in global climate crisis conversations illustrates the lack of urgency from the United States in easing one of the greatest threats ever seen by mankind. Perhaps more concerning than a 73-year-old man mocking a teenager on social media is the fact that Trump only attended the United Nation Climate Summit for around 10 minutes.

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Instead of attending class, students from schools across the Eugene School District march to join the Climate Strike. (Sarah Northrop/Emerald)

being criticized, her statements are based on the scary, scientific facts of climate change. Because younger generations have inherited a deteriorating climate from their parents — the same parents who are now politicians — unberg believes that older generations must be held accountable for what they have left their children.

Adults in positions of power have taken a liking to bashing kids on social media and talk shows. Fox News guest and Daily Wire journalist Michael Knowles called unberg “mentally ill,” and conspiracy theories have been created about unberg, many of which she has listed as false on her Twitter account. e current treatment of unberg from politicians and media members is eerily similar to their treatment of the Parkland High School mass shooting survivors. In the case of

the Parkland students, the kids had just survived one of the most traumatizing experiences imaginable, a tragedy that has occurred far too many times in the United States. eir calls for an end to gun violence were mocked, twisted and slammed by politicians and media members alike.

Using an image of March for Our Lives leader Emma Gonzalez, Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King created an offensive meme of the then-18-year-old that was based on Gonzalez’s Cuban heritage. e post also sent the message that Gonzalez was advocating for all guns to be taken from owners, while this was not at all the case. Politicians are aware of the influence their voices possess, and intentionally altering someone’s message is a true abuse of power.

Gonzalez’s classmate David Hogg

was also inappropriately attacked

by Minnesota Republican Rep. Mary Franson, who likened Hogg to the Hitler Youth. is disturbing claim shows the absurd need for those in power to disregard the opinions of the youth and the voices of those who experienced a completely preventable trauma that the same adults allowed to take place.

Free from the biases created by being raised in different generations and financial contributions from organizations like the NRA, young activists are motivated to improve the world that they and their future kids will inherit. Both climate change and gun violence are ever-growing issues in our society, and a severe lack of change has inspired the youth to rise up. Until those in power stop discrediting the youth, stagnation on major issues such as climate change will only persist.

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SPORTS

MEN’S GOLF TIED FOR 14TH

AFTER ROUND ONE OF THE NIKE COLLEGIATE INVITATIONAL

BY BRADY LIM e Oregon men’s golf team finished day one of the Nike Collegiate Invitational in 14th place on Sunday at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Ore. e Ducks shot four-over as a team in round one and were paced by freshman Tom Gueant, who posted an even-par 72 to tie him for 30th individually. Gueant birdied 7 and 13, but bogeyed 11 and 18 to settle at the final score of 72.

Elsewhere on the leaderboard

for Oregon, Kevin Geniza and Nate Stember each shot one-over 73s and are tied for 41st after 18 holes.

Other Ducks Yin Ho Yue and Craig Ronne shot a 73 and 77, respectively. e Oklahoma Sooners are the current leaders in the clubhouse by six strokes, shooting 14-under as a team. e Ducks will tee off round two on Monday at 9:30 p.m. in a group with Stanford and Ohio State.

Redshirt Senior Ryan Gronlund puts the ball. (Ben Green/Emerald)

e Oregon Ducks celebrate a point. (Devin Roux/Emerald)

DUCKS VOLLEYBALL RALLIES

TO UPSET NO. 18 UTAH

BY NOAH NOTEBOOM After winning just one of their last four matches, the No. 24 women’s volleyball team looked to get things back on track against the No. 18 Utah Utes on Sunday afternoon. e Utes got the scoring underway early, but the Ducks managed to keep it close throughout the first set. With Oregon leading 9-7, a kill by Brooke Nuneviller put the Ducks up by three points which spurred a timeout by Utah head coach Beth Launiere. With her eighth kill of the afternoon, senior middle blocker Ronika Stone gave the Ducks a first set victory, 25-20.

To start the second set, Oregon took a commanding 21-15 lead after redshirt freshman Karson Bacon secured her fourth kill of the match.

Later, the Ducks won the second set off a Ute error. e Ducks jumped to an early 5-2 lead in the third set after another kill from Stone. Utah managed to cut the

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lead to one less than halfway through the set. e Utes used a seven point run to go ahead 18-14.

A kill by Bacon curbed the Utah momentum and brought the Ducks within three points. In a hotlycontested third set, Utah managed to escape with a 25-23 win.

Oregon led in the beginning of the fourth set before Utah tied it and scored six straight to take an 18-12 lead. Utah won the fourth set 25-21 and tied the match at two sets apiece.

In matches that are decided with a fifth set, Oregon has one win in three matches this season.

In an exciting final set, Oregon snatched the victory from Utah by a score of 15-13. Oregon stays undefeated at home with an overall record of 5-6. e Ducks will continue PAC-12 play against the Stanford Cardinals on Friday, October 4 at 7 p.m. on ESPN2.

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