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A vigil for Mark and 13 other people who had died while unhoused that month occurred on Sept. 14 at 7 p.m in West Eugene. (Emerald/ Caleb Barber)
Summary: “Verity” is a romance-thriller novel that follows the tale of a woman named Lowen Ashleigh, who is a writer at a financially unstable point in life. Ashleigh is given an opportunity like no other: to finish the pre-existing, highly successful series of another well-established writer. Ashleigh is recruited to finish the series by none other than the husband of the well-established writer, who differs the responsibility after his wife sustains injuries that prevent her from finishing her work.
Recommended by: Lisa Garland, freshman business administration student. “There is a jaw-dropping twist at the end, and the characters were very well-developed, all with different personalities, which made the book very fun to talk about over a cup of coffee with friends.”
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Second most-read story of the past week:
“Apartment fire displaces over 30 Eugene residents” by Ruby Abuhajleh
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A student walks towards the Erb Memorial Union (EMU) on the second official day of Fall classes. University of Oregon students, new and old, prepare for the upcoming year of school, sports, clubs, and more. (Maddie Stellingwerf/Emerald).
On top of club and greek life fairs, a job fair will also be held during the second week of fall term. University of Oregon stu-dents, new and old, prepare for the upcoming year of school, sports, clubs, and more. (Maddie Stellingwerf/Emerald).
Students soak up the sun between classes during the first week of fall term classes. (Maddie Stellingwerf/ Emerald)
Greek life organizations set up their tabling showcase for new students, or anyone looking for more information about greek life. University of Oregon students, new and old, prepare for the upcoming year of school, sports, clubs, and more. (Maddie Stellingwerf/Emerald).
It’s the classic sophomore story: I just moved into my first apartment, and it looked like a hospital room. The uninspiring white walls felt like they were closing in on me with their menacing emptiness, and the bare blue mattress mocked me for having no style.
I worried that I made a mistake in choosing this building, but I was temporarily relieved when I remembered what a difference decorations would make. I then considered how daunting it is to make the room look coordinated whatsoever. “This would be so much easier if I had an aesthetic,” I thought to myself.
I’m just kidding about that last part, but aesthetics have been popularized on social media in the last several years and show no sign of leaving any time soon. The term refers to different trends in clothing, decorations and hobbies grouped together by a shared look. Examples include cottagecore and dark academia.
As a ubiquitous part of internet culture, aesthetics can be a fun way to explore and define a cohesive personal style. Much like personality
quizzes, they’re an outlet for simple categorization.
But do we need to put a label on everything? Is there really any need for an aesthetic called normcore? Why distinguish between dark and light academia? While finding a style you like is meant to be enjoyable, it can verge on completely ridiculous. Categorizing everything you do, wear and consume leads to increasingly outlandish descriptors. Trying to summarize your entire sense of self in just a few words is bound to fail, and we all know that no one fits perfectly into these boxes, so why do we continue?
Moreover, aesthetic ideals tend to be far from inclusive. A search for any well known aesthetic (think Y2K or VSCO girl) on social media apps like TikTok and Pinterest largely yields results from one group in particular: thin white women with apparent access to money. Obviously these people are entitled to experiment with their style, but when they’re almost exclusively presented as the ideal across aesthetics, everyone who doesn’t fit that description may feel left out. As a choice, aesthetics are pretty harmless, but the idea that
you need one is laughable.
Since moving in, I’ve found the time to decorate my room and save it from its sad hospital room look. Unfortunately for my imaginary influencer career, it could not be further from adhering to just one aesthetic.
My record collection and turntable suggest that I’m the pretentious hipster type. The Keith Richards poster above my bed and countless photos of musicians on the walls could (and arguably do) belong to an aspiring musician who hasn’t progressed since about 1987. My “Rocky Horror” poster and decorative bats showcase a flair for the dramatic, and my skunk and raccoon prints from the Saturday market exemplify the outdoorsy person I can’t even pretend to be. An incense holder and acoustic guitar in the window are remnants of the hippie age. As for my overflowing bulletin board and the pallet of cheap ramen under my desk? Pure college student chic.
But maybe it’s okay that nothing matches. After all, I’m a human being, not a cartoon character. I wear different clothes every day, and my interests are impermanent. All of these aspects of my personality and style can coexist. I may not win any interior design awards or thousands of Instagram followers any time soon, but I’m happy being myself instead of trying to fit a narrow ideal. Not to get all dark (or light?) academia here, but I contain multitudes.
Sadie Tresnit is an opinion columnist for the Daily Emerald. She is a first-year English student from Portland. In her free time, she reads and plays music, and she is passionate about feminism and environmental issues.
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According to the latest data by Food & Wine (October 2021), a data set collected from 500 randomly selected breweries, 93.5% of breweries across the U.S. are white-owned. While this is a drastic number, more and more individuals are pushing to diversify the brewing industry. In fact, this cultural expansion may be happening closer than you think.
Here in Eugene, on the first level of Amazon Corner apartments located on 32nd Avenue, Xicha Brewing will be opening up their second location very soon. As the only Latinx-owned brewery in the Pacific Northwest, it’s almost certain that once you walk through their doors, you’ll find something quite memorable.
Xicha derives from the word “Chicha,” which is a fermented drink from the Andes and Amazonia regions. Just like their name signifies, the brewery is a melting pot of Latin American culture. A commitment to profound representation was set in stone in the very beginning when a chef,
brewer, operations expert and business strategist all walked into a bar… just kidding. But, these four passionate individuals really did get together and embark on a two year plan that resulted in their first location set in Salem, Oregon.
With empanadas from Venezuela, gallo pinto from Costa Rica, tacos de barbacoa from a family recipe and aguas frescas, Xicha is a place you’ll definitely want to grub at after long study sessions in the library. And it doesn’t stop there; if you’re looking for a party, they regularly host Loteria and dance nights featuring cumbia, bachata and salsa. The best thing about this spot is that it is familyfriendly, so everyone can join the fiesta.
Now I’ll get to what you really came here for: the beer. Melissa Sanchez, the marketing coordinator, met with me and explained that IPA beer (India Pale Ale) is a popular beer style in Oregon that is sort of “hoppy and bitter.” You may ask what makes Xicha Brewing so different from all the other bars in town. Well, they love to add their
twist and experiment with flavor. For example, their Passiflora beer holds a hazy passion fruit IPA, and their Colibri contains a sweet hibiscus IPA.
This brewery’s impact goes beyond the industry as well. Xicha is passionate about connecting with the community and participates in Latinx-based causes such as the one in support of the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center. Similarly, UO’s broad Latinx program has caught their attention, and Xicha hopes to find ways to support them as well as the rest of the Latinx community present in Eugene.
Those at Xicha are immensely stoked to share their traditions with the Eugene community, and I know we’re ready to take it all in. With over the counter service, lively music and a mural installation, Sanchez said it will house a “Buenas vibras type of feel. If you’re in college, you will want to come here after midterms to celebrate.”
The Pacific Northwest’s only Latinx-owned brewery comes to Eugene. Located on the bottom floor of the Amazon Corner apartments, Xicha Brewery will soon open up its new location in Eugene. (Krista Kroiss / Emerald)
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Amber Mark was sleeping in a tent on Highway 99 when she was killed by 18-year-old Anthony Charles Rodeen after he ran over her tent on Sept. 8.
The driver continued driving recklessly after running over Mark and one other the tent. He eventually hit another pedestrian after driving onto a sidewalk near a Dari Mart before being apprehended by a witness and arrested by Eugene police.
The other person in the tent, a 23-year-old, had life-threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital, according to police.
Rodeen is facing charges of murder in the second degree, attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the second degree and two counts of failure to perform the duties of a driver to injured persons.
A vigil for Mark and 13 other people who had died while unhoused that month was organized by Mark’s family and the housing advocacy group Stop the Sweeps Eugene on Sept. 14 at 7 p.m.
Steven Kimes, a pastor at Eugene Menonite Church and a member of Stop the Sweeps Eugene, began the ceremony with a moment of silence. A crowd of nearly 50 people, including Mark’s friends and family, stood silently in the tree-shaded area at the corner of Highway 99 and Bethel Drive.
Kimes said the road is well-known for having people go up and down along the sides to access various nearby services. Heused a microphone and a small amplifier to be heard over the sounds of the traffic.
“We are here today to remember Amber Mark,” Kimes said. “And to consider what our city is doing to houseless people.”
The crowd held candles in plastic cups as Kimes read aloud the first names of the 13 unhoused people who had died in Eugene in the past month.
According to the medical clinic Health Care for the Homeless, life expectancy for people experiencing homelessness drops to 48 years. The current average life expectancy of U.S. citizens is about 78.8 years, according to World Bank Open Data.
Mark’s family took the opportunity to say a few words about her after Kimes’ service. Mark’s aunt, Mystic Mark, described the different treatment unhoused people receive from police and coroners compared to housed people.
Typically, police records of deaths will list the city of the deceased individual in the “address” section, she said. When Mark’s body was identified, the news release listed her name and age followed by “no address.”.
“They knew she lived in Eugene,” she said. “Even if she didn’t have a house, she still lived in Eugene.”
She said the medical examiner was supposed to call Amber’s cousin so she could be taken to a funeral home. Mark’s mother had
also left voicemails, she said.
“But when her mom finally got hold of the medical examiner, they said they had sent her somewhere else because they didn’t think there was anyone to claim her even though they had contact information for a family, and I just thought that was really, really wrong. And if she had a house, none of that would have happened, and I just want to point out how wrong that is,” she said.
The deaths of people without housing have been historically under-reported and under-represented by governments. The Oregon State Legislature tried to change that last year when it passed SB 850, which requires death reports to include housing status and counties to record how many people die without housing.
From January to July in 2022, the Oregon Health Authority recorded 41 deaths of people without housing in Lane County. There were 245 of those deaths total in Oregon in that time period.
But with less than a year of data, the ability of officials to notice trends and understand just how many people die without housing is limited.
The bill does not require counties to improve the way they find people who have died without housing outside of citizen reports and police finding bodies.
Stop the Sweeps Eugene collected the names of the 13 people who died by speaking to a network of people living on the streets. According to Kimes, their first names are Travis, Amanda, Little Desi, Johnny Walker, Mickey, Gabe, Nicki, Billy, Michelle, Scott, Brett and Stanley.
The Eugene Weekly has an obituary segment for unhoused people who died in Lane County. Holding vigils and sharing the memories of these people is one way to fight against this under-representation, Kimes said.
Some people who attended the vigil had known Mark for more than a decade. Others had met her once or twice and attended because she made an impression on them.
“Amber’s family and friends say that Amber was an old soul, and when she smiled it radiated across oceans,” Kimes said. “Amber was a mother, a daughter, a sister, a niece and a forever friend. She touched the lives of every person that she came across in life.”
David James was Mark’s boyfriend at the time of her passing and had known her for four years. He said she was a helper and someone who frequently checked in with people who had grown close to her.
James said he and Mark would sometimes butt heads, both being the type to want to give all of their time to helping the people they knew on the street.
“She was running around being the helpful person, giving what she has to others,” James said. “People loved her for it.”
Amber Mark’s family has created a GoFundMe to raise money for funeral expenses.
“AMBER WAS A MOTHER, A DAUGHTER, A SISTER, A NIECE AND A FOREVER FRIEND. SHE TOUCHED THE LIVES OF EVERY PERSON THAT SHE CAME ACROSS IN LIFE.”
STEVEN KIMES Eugene Menonite Church Pastor
On a bustling, cloudy Saturday afternoon at the Lane County Farmers Market, vendors are selling their various jams, hummuses, potatoes and spices for community members’ delight. It is a cheerful place for people of all ages to come across fruits and vegetables of various sizes and colors. The farmers market is a unique environment where people can meet their food growers and buy fresh produce.
Local farmer Shelley Bowerman, the owner of Moondog Farm, stands inside her booth, helping customers with questions regarding her jams, salsas and seasonings. Bowerman is also the founder and owner of Lane County Bounty, a brainchild of hers born out of the pandemic in April 2020, she said. Lane County Bounty is a business committed to selling regional produce, meats or coffee bean products directly to community members. When the pandemic was at its height, Lane County Bounty filled the void for people who wanted to support farmers without leaving their homes.
“I think that we all have a responsibility to understand the impact of our consumption,” Bowerman said. “To be a responsible consumer is an ethical choice that we should make. I think it benefits us to know our farmers because the place is really important for the human experience. Being in the rhythm of the weather and the seasonal availability of food is really grounding on a soul level, and it can make us very happy.”
Bowerman’s passion for food began while studying at the University of Oregon in the mid2000s where she was active with the Urban Farm and worked in food service. She found the process of cooking rewarding and special when using ingredients grown with her bare hands. She also founded the UO’s Project Tomato, a freshman orientation program that grows tomatoes for Carson Hall’s pizza sauce, while working at the Office of Sustainability. Bowerman enjoys the communal aspect of food and how growing organic products builds trust with those who interact alongside the food chain.
“I think choosing a local organic diet has repercussions that we might not notice at first,” Bowerman said. “When we slow down and understand its benefits to the local economy or to soil, we’re preserving farmers to be here for 20 years.”
Lane County Bounty strives as an online
business that focuses on delivering food to various food pick-up sites and homes around the city. According to the company’s website, people can either get food delivered to their residence with a $10 convenience fee or walk to a list of pick-up locations across Eugene and Springfield. Lane County Bounty will email them the exact address when the purchase is made. UO students living in dorms can even walk to their nearest pick up location near Maude Kerns Art Center on Villard and 15th St, she said, to collect their delivered goods.
“You place an order before our deadline on Wednesday night or Sunday night,” Bowerman said. “Depending on the location, the tote bag will be delivered around 4:15 p.m. When you get there, you empty out your tote filled with your order and you leave the tote there. So it’s the bring your own bag situation. That’s it.”
Bowerman believes her business allows farmers “to reach people in ways that are new,” she said. Her business creates a new market where farmers can have direct access to consumers and support each other in their sales. Bowerman said she has 20-30 vendors who use her online marketplace, including some farm owners at the Saturday market. Lane County Bounty buys the products from the farms and provides the full amount of
profits back to them once sold.
“I wanted to give access to people who weren’t able to get out because of the pandemic,” Bowerman said. “It was a really great way to collaborate with some farmers who were losing restaurant accounts at the onset of the pandemic. And it’s like creating a new funnel for local food.”
Bowerman said the biggest misconception of her career is people think she does everything in her company. She views this idea as a martyr, a person who sacrifices themselves for others to succeed. Bowerman wants farmers to enjoy a work-life balance where they don’t have to take on too many responsibilities to provide for themselves.
“I want to change these negative ideas so that farmers can have a better schedule,” Bowerman said. “I think we can do that by collaborating on marketing, transportation and just finding out the places where we can overlap more and working together on those points.”
Lane County Bounty has a wide array of items grown by farm owners based in the Willamette Valley. It makes it easy for community members to research local farms and provides alternative products to everyday grocery store needs.
Shelley Bowerman, one of the founders of Lane County Bounty, looks out from her tent at the Eugene Farmer’s Market on an early Saturday morning.. Lane County Bounty is an organization dedicated to strengthening the local food economy. (Will Geschke/Emerald)
BY GREEN JOHNSON
Green Johnson is a first-year editorial cartoonist for the Daily Emerald. With a major in Art and Technology, they love to analyze trends through the lens of drawing. He will take any opportunity to talk about his favorite cartoons, so be warned!
Pip the Pessimist is a new bi-weekly comic about an anxious little bird and his wise rabbit friend. (Green Johnson/Emerald)
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We’ve all watched the news. We’ve all turned on the TV to see program hosts yelling into the camera, ranting and complaining about the various news stories of the day. We’ve seen provocatively headlined stories reported on with the sole purpose of producing a strong reaction and shaky cell phone footage played on loop.
With the rise of virtual journalism — that is, non-written journalism — the line between news and opinion appears to have been so heavily blurred that the public can have difficulty understanding what is being presented as fact versus commentary.
According to a 2018 Pew Research study, only 36% of individuals with what was considered high levels of political awareness were able to discern the difference between various factual and opinion statements with 100% accuracy.
That number halves when looking at those with low political awareness.
But how did we get here? Why do we struggle with this incredibly important difference between fact and opinion?
Let’s break it down.
First, we must understand the difference between three different types of news programs: local news, national news broadcasts and news talk shows.
According to Arcadia University, local news programs are known to have fact-based reporting and include sponsored sections. National broadcasts also utilize fact-based reporting;
(Billy Lawson/Emerald)however, they can also include opinion segments or commentary. News talk shows, usually presented as pundits (single-person) or panel shows, can be much more opinionated. Examples of these shows include “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on FOX News and “The View” on ABC.
However, these programs are often presented in alarmingly similar ways.
To start, the shows are often set up with one or more anchors in a studio. The anchors wear nice clothes, sit behind a large desk on a million-dollar set and report the news of the day into a camera. Their programs usually run during primetime.
Social media is another factor. Because of its accessibility to the public and overall ease of use, social media reporting often breaks the cable news pattern in favor of a more relaxed and less expensive approach to broadcasting. Within sosial media, however, there is still rarely any variation between these two types of journalism.
It is not often that these television or social media programs would start out with any sort of disclaimer that explains their difference in purpose. While not always obscure, it is on the viewers to know which shows present fact or opinion.
Newspapers, on the other hand, are very clear.
This is an opinion article. As is evident (considering you are currently reading it), it is found within the opinion section of The Daily Emerald, which is aptly labeled “OPINION” at the top of the page. It can also be found online, under
the opinion tab on The Daily Emerald website.
Beyond that, it is The Emerald’s custom that this article also includes a dek under opinion headlines. For those not familiar, a dek gives the reader an insight into what the article will be about before reading, providing more detail than just the headline. This dek, once again, starts with the word “Opinion.”
Although I always strive to make my pieces well researched and accurate, these safeguards ensure that the reader knows exactly what they are getting themselves into — an article that, while fact-based, outlines my opinion.
Clear labeling is not just a practice of the Daily Emerald. All reputable newspapers include a marking of their opinion sections and columns, and many even provide insight into the goals of articles published in these sections.
“We cover the major news of the day, often with original reporting, but we also offer a point of view,” The Wall Street Journal’s website outlines.
Opinion journalism is delicate work. The opinions produced must contain thoughts that are well-thought out and that endure a thorough editing process. Well-researched facts must be used to form the opinion, and acknowledgment of any shortcomings should be included.
Virtual journalism aims to report on breaking news as quickly as possible because it has the resources to do so. There is almost no time where some news channel isn’t running, and anyone can always post on social media. Therefore, the normal research and editing process can be expedited in order to meet faster deadlines.
Because of the nature of virtual news outlets such as television and social media — and the rarity of any visual or verbal cues or labels that might alert viewers if an opinion is being presented — the line between what is and isn’t fact becomes muddled. This is harmful for the public at large, and has severely harmed the integrity of true opinion journalism.
The Stanford football program hasn’t been particularly impressive recently. The Cardinal went just 3-9 last year and are off to a 1-2 start this season.
However, one of their wins last year was an upset victory over Oregon. On Saturday, Stanford will visit Autzen Stadium as the Ducks look to enact some revenge on their Pac-12 foe. Oregon has played well after meeting its match in the season opener against Georgia. The Ducks demolished Eastern Washington, took down a ranked BYU team and opened Pac-12 play with a comeback win over Washington State. Now, they’ll try to chop down some trees.
The Cardinal went into this year with some hope, despite a brutal ending to last season. After beating the Ducks to improve to 3-2, they lost their last seven games of the year. But now they’re led by quarterback Tanner McKee, a 6-foot-6 junior they have high hopes for.
ESPN’s Matt Miller ranked McKee as the top prospect in tier two of his NFL draft preview, naming him a “prospect with potential to rise.” McKee is considered a borderline first-round draft pick and could very well be a future NFL player.
McKee won’t immediately solve all of Stanford’s problems, though; an area that plagued the Cardinal greatly last year was the running game. They failed to rush for 90 yards on eight occasions, and they lost all eight.
Despite losing to No. 10 USC in week two, the Cardinal had a net gain of 221 yards on the ground — back to the type of mark that made them a successful team years ago. It was actually in the receiving game that USC outplayed Stanford, throwing for 341 yards compared to the Cardinal’s 220.
The Cardinal took a step back in week four, losing 40-22 to Washington. They rushed for just 86 yards in the loss. They were actually solid in the passing game, as McKee threw for 286 yards.
While the Cardinal saw improvement from McKee, the game still exemplified the inconsistencies that have plagued Stanford over the last few seasons. The defense struggled badly, and the offense had three turnovers. The toughest thing for them has been putting it all together. Dating back to last season, they’ve lost eight conference games in a row.
It’s hard to say which version of Stanford will show up against Oregon. The Ducks will be the vast favorites, but last year’s result showed that you can never be too sure. Stanford’s path to an upset would have to involve another strong performance from McKee combined with a return to the running performance from the USC game. Against a vaunted top-25 Oregon team with momentum in its favor, that may be quite a tall task.
The Ducks and Cardinal will meet for a late 8 p.m. kickoff at Autzen Stadium Saturday night.
“I became a firm believer that the Hayward Magic does exist.”The Ducks blast out of the tunnel and onto the field. Oregon Ducks football takes on the Stanford Cardinal at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, Ca. on Sept. 21, 2019. (Connor Cox/Emerald)
The Cardinal have struggled, but they beat the Ducks last year and have a rising quarterback.
