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thursday | october 22, 2009
health
Meningitis
identified
on campus
One student hospitalized
and tested positive; others
urged to take vaccine pill
Anna He ll an d | N e ws R eporter
Tuesday afternoon, University
health officials identified a student
living in the Living Learning Center
South who had a “probable” case of
meningococcal meningitis.
The student was hospitalized and
tested positive for the bacteria. The University posted a message on its online UO
Alert! system warning of the severity of
the illness and advising those students
who may have come in contact with the
infected student to receive the one-pill
dose of vaccination.
Jenny Soyke, interim medical director
at the University Health Center, confirmed that while people with meningococcal meningitis have the potential
of infecting others, the bacteria cannot
live for more than a few minutes outside
the body, so the disease is not spread as
easily as the common cold.
Because of very strict confidentiality
requirements, the health center was unable to comment on the identity of the
hospitalized student but confirms that
students from the Living Learning Center
South and those in the sorority Chi Omega have been advised to receive the dose of
antibody treatment if they have come into
close contact with the student.
“We immediately called the friends
who brought her in and advised them
to come back to receive a dose of
antibodies,” Soyke said.
The health center then started the
process of notifying all residence halls,
complex directors and employed student
life personnel of the confirmed case and
advice on how to treat it and to provide
information students should be aware of.
Transmitted through respiratory droplets, Soyke said meningitis typically infects
those with extended face-to-face interaction or those who come into contact with
saliva through kissing or sharing cups
and utensils of an infected individual.
Meningococcal meningitis is a very
serious disease. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention have reported
that about 9 percent to 12 percent of
persons with meningococcal disease die
even with appropriate antibiotic treatment, but Soyke said there is a lot of
variation in its severity.
“There is no such prediction process,”
Soyke said. “Someone can take weeks to get
better, others can get better faster; it all has
to do with their previous condition. However, it is a potentially very serious illness.”
Soyke says that common symptoms of
the virus are high fever, headache, a stiff or
rigid neck, nausea, vomiting and discomfort when looking into bright lights.
Immunization to meningococcal
meningitis can be received through the
health center, and any students who think
they may have come into contact with
the illness should see a physician.
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The independent student newspaper at the University of Oregon | Since 1900 | Volume 111, Issue 32
Stamps ease burden
Food benefits program
helps working students
who meet criteria
U
Anna Hell and | N e ws R eporter
niversity student Scott Wells
used to be embarrassed when
he bought groceries with his
food stamps card. Now, two
years after starting on the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),
Wells sees it more as a reward for
working hard.
“To use the benefits, you have to be
working and a student,” Wells said. “I
am basically a model citizen.”
Wells is just one of many students
who are on the SNAP program while
attending school, and he thinks more
students should take advantage of
the benefits.
Currently the program is only eligible to students who work more than
20 hours a week or are on a work-study
program, but Wells thinks the program
should change this.
“I know a lot of people who don’t
work full-time and could use this program,” Wells said. “It’s free, and it saves
money — everyone could use that.”
In May 2009, about 602,000 Oregonians in 313,000 households received
food benefits. In September of this
year, 39,369 Eugene residents in 23,938
households received food benefits — an
increase of more than 5,000 households
from September of last year.
This spike in recipients is something
Fil Soriano, self-sufficiency program
B l air Ryan | Photog r aph er
University student Scott Wells uses his Oregon Trail Electronic Bank Transfer card to buy groceries at Safeway. The cards act like a
debit card and may be used within the guidelines of the food stamp program.
manager, has generally seen. Soriano
works in the offices located on Chad
Drive in Eugene and says not many
students frequent its location.
“We are rather far from campus,” Soriano said. “More student apply at the
West 11th site.”
Gay Rockwell, a self-sufficiency line
manager on Willamette, could not directly say there has been in increase in
Tu r n to stamps | Pag e 4a
Number of
people using
food stamps
28,409,880
*Numbers reported
by the Oregon
Department of
Human Services and
the United States
Department of
Agriculture
645,234
persons in 2008, nationally
persons in September 2009 in Oregon
39,369
persons in September 2009 in Eugene
higher education
Lariviere addresses furlough days issue
Upcoming ballot
measures 66 and 67
also discussed by panel
“Our goal will be to protect
the people who allow us to
perform our mission.”
cj ciar amell a | n e ws r eporter
University administrators faced a
worried and sometimes angry crowd
on Wednesday when they held a town
hall-style meeting addressing upcoming furlough days for classified and
unclassified staff.
President Richard Lariviere, Senior Vice President and Provost
Jim Bean, Vice President of Finance
and Administration Frances Dyke
and General Counsel Melinda Grier
comprised the panel, which mainly
fielded questions on the furlough
days, as well as ballot measures 66
and 67.
Before the question-and-answer session, Lariviere addressed
the audience:
“Our goal will be to protect the
people who allow us to perform our
mission, which is the people who
are here today and the people they
Ric hard l ariviere
u n ive r s it y pre s i de nt
Ivar Vong | Photo Editor
UO President Richard Lariviere spoke to University staff about furlough days on
Wednesday evening in the EMU Ballroom.
represent who cannot be here,” Lariviere said, referring to the University
classified and unclassified staff.
He said those who are not affected
by furloughs may view the issue as a
“curiosity,” but for those who will be
furloughed it is a “source of fear and
anxiety and doubt.”
“We will find a way, if we can, to
make people affected by this contract
whole this fiscal year,” Lariviere said.
“We are going to do our damnedest
to make you whole. The only constraints on our imagination are the
terms of the law and the terms of
the contract.”
The Service Employees International Union Local 503, which represents University classified staff,
nearly went on strike over furlough
days earlier this summer during contract negotiations with the Oregon
University System. The two eventually hammered out an agreement,
which dropped the number of furlough days from 24 to 8-16 over the
next two years.
State employees are also facing
Tu r n to furlough | Pag e 4a
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Intervention needed in
‘Cheesy Griller’ debacle
Residence hall life is under attack.
Only last weekend, the poor students at Harvard
University had their weekday hot breakfast options taken away. But before that, right here at the
University, a far worse travesty occurred in residence
hall dining.
The famous — perhaps even infamous —
Cheesy Griller served at Common Grounds cafe
in Hamilton Complex suffered a demeaning change
in nomenclature this year. In case you missed the
gasp-worthy news, the Cheesy Griller is now known
as the “grilled cheese.”
Simply put, the Cheesy Griller is no grilled cheese.
It is far worse an assault on students’ health that
resembles nothing you have ever seen on the side of
tomato soup. For former University Housing residents, it captures the imagination and sparks nostalgia as only the Cheesy Griller can. (We’ll concede the
single, possible exception of the soft-serve wonder
that is the Whammy, which is now served at Carson
Dining during select “Late Night” hours without the
charming ambiance of Hammy’s — another victim of
rearrangement in on-campus dining.)
Tom Driscoll, director of food services, says the
griller’s snore-worthy rebranding as the grilled cheese
was “an unfortunate mistake.” But how could an error of such magnitude be overlooked by those who
must understand the weight the Cheesy Griller brand
carries? There’s something sinister going on here.
One can only hope Food Services comes through
with its claim that the name will change back the
next time the menu is printed. But we cannot afford
to wait long.
Why should freshmen — and the upperclassmen
they feed — be forced to suffer because a devastating,
if not intentional, mistake? Ultimately, students are
paying for the critical oversight, which poses a serious
threat to the Cheesy Griller’s renown and, in effect,
the residence hall experience — an experience that
hinges upon the little things.
Thank goodness there are still some who are
fighting the good fight. Common Grounds employee
Paoa Wandke told the Emerald that many of the cafe’s
veteran workers are leading the counter-movement
and encouraging students to keep the Cheesy Griller
legend alive.
If student government must intervene to correct
this heinous error in judgement, so be it. ASUO Sen.
Demic Tipitino has already been so bold as to speak
out against the grilled cheese, but the government
body has taken no action.
As long as it’s alive in our hearts, the Cheesy Griller
can never die.
So next time you’re at Common Grounds and craving something rubbery, greasy and barely esculent,
order a Cheesy Griller. The grilled cheese can go to
you-know-where.
In my opinion | Grace Pettygrove
Players in a game of disciplines
Take a breather from discussing Obama
and his maybe-a-little-bit-unearned
Nobel Peace Prize. Another Nobel Laureate
made a big splash last week: Elinor Ostrom,
the first woman to win the Nobel Prize
in economics.
Let’s be clear: Ostrom
has not triumphed as a
woman in mathematics
or traditional economics. She comes from
the land of political science; in that sense, she
doesn’t challenge the Third
most steadfast gender waves
stereotypes in academia.
It’s no surprise the first female Laureate in
economics would come from a less mathematic field when women like Ostrom, in
the tenured professor age-range, can still
remember academic advisors rejecting
them from trigonometry classes on the basis
of gender.
“That was routine. They indicated that no
woman needed trig or calculus or anything
of this sort,” Ostrom told Michele Norris of
National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” “If you’re going to be barefoot and
pregnant in the kitchen, you didn’t need
these things.”
She does show, however, that even if
you systematically exclude and discourage women from joining your field, they
will still find ways to be smarter than you.
As a social scientist, Ostrom used field research — real life observation — to reach
reasonable conclusions about resource
preservation in a field where professionals
often spin global paradigms out of detached
mathematical models.
Shattering age-old assumptions about
the “tragedy of the commons”— the idea
that people take advantage and deplete
resources faster when those resources are
cooperatively owned — Ostrom observed
that shared resources are often better
protected when local stakeholders have a
role in their management.
In a state known for perishable, though
renewable resources (think trees and water), Ostrom’s reinterpretation of the commons has a lot of local applications. I heard
about her victory first, not from the newspapers and scattered blogs that covered it,
but from two environmental activists who
gave a rousing speech for Oregon fisheries
in front of my sociology class.
They were advocates for “Fair Fish,” a
nationwide campaign to protect public
access to wild fish populations. The Obama
administration currently supports a fishing quota system based on “catch history”
that, according to the non-profit Food and
Water Watch, actually encourages the quick
depletion of fish stock by rewarding reckless, monopolizing corporations and
running small fisheries out of business.
Fair Fish instead advocates for a system
that awards larger quotas to the fisheries
and coastal communities that use more
sustainable practices.
If Oregon’s fish-rich coast is a commons,
they argue, it would be best managed in a
way that preserved and included as many of
the stakeholders as possible, from fisheries
to local business owners to environmentalists. Ostrom’s award is a symbolic victory for Fair Fish advocates, as it lends international support to their perspective on
environmental sustainability.
In a broader sense, both Ostrom’s
theories and her Nobel victory emphasize
the intelligence of diversity. If an academic
discipline is a commons, economics is a
commons long dominated by men in suits
who assume that their objective numbers
know what’s best for the rest of us. But we’re
all stakeholders in this big number game,
and it’s about time for a greater variety of
players — women and political scientists,
for starters — to get a word in edgewise.
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students deserve accurate news
There’s a lot of debate surrounding Oregon’s upcoming special election. However, it’s well-established that voters need
accurate information if they’re going to
make informed decisions.
On Oct. 20, an article titled “Tax increase may hurt University funding” ran
in the Oregon Daily Emerald that contained some significant factual inaccuracies about the election and the two ballot
measures (Measures 66 and 67) that will
be brought before voters.
The ASUO is part of a non-partisan
statewide effort to register students to
vote in Oregon’s upcoming election, as
well as educate students about the issues
being debated. Accordingly, we want to
make sure that it is absolutely clear about
what University students will be voting on
next spring.
Unfortunately, the headline of the original ODE article was inaccurate. If the tax
increase that was passed by the Oregon
Legislature is ratified by Oregon voters,
then the $733 million that has been earmarked for schools, public safety and
other public services will remain intact,
which will result in millions of dollars being sent to the University.
If the tax increase is rejected by voters, then that revenue will not be received
by the University. The inaccuracy of the
headline was also reflected in the text of
the article.
One reason for the mistake in the article might have been that it was unclear
to the reporter what would happen if Oregonians voted for or against Measures 66
and 67. To be clear, here are the facts:
If Measures 66 and 67 pass — that is,
if a majority of voters vote “Yes” on the
tax increases (one on corporations and
another on individuals making over
$125,000 a year and couples making over
$250,000 a year), then $733 million will
remain in the state’s general fund, some of
which will likely be sent to the University.
Conversely, if the referendums fail —
that is, if a majority of voters vote “No” to
the tax increases — then the $733 million
will no longer be allocated for the general
fund, and the University will not receive
its designated portion of that money.
In making up their own minds about
how to vote in this election, students can
research the arguments being made by
opponents and supporters of the tax measures. But the Oct. 20 ODE article also included inaccurate information about who
these groups might be.
The article accurately quotes a spokesperson for an organization opposed to
the tax increases but incorrectly labels a
group called Our Oregon as “the main
organization in favor of the tax increases”
while claiming that the group didn’t respond to requests for an interview. Our
Oregon may not have responded to the
ODE’s call because it is a non-partisan organization. The coalition of groups supporting the tax increases is actually called
Defend Oregon.
The ASUO Executive wants to make
sure not only that students are provided
with accurate information, but that they
are empowered to have a voice in the process. Regardless of whether the referendums pass or fail, the upcoming special
election will impact University students
directly.
That’s why it’s so important that all
students get registered and show up to
vote in the election — we have the right
to determine how this election will affect
us. If you haven’t registered to vote yet, or
if you have moved or changed your name
since the last time you did register, come
drop by the ASUO office in Suite 4 of the
EMU to fill out a registration card. We’ll
happily turn it in for you to make sure
that your voice is heard in this important
process.
asuo e xecutive
correction
Because of a reporter’s error,
an article in Tuesday’s Emerald
(“Gerwin returns to Oregon,”
ODE, Oct. 21) misspelled the
name of Oregon men’s club lacrosse coach Joe Kerwin. The
Emerald regrets the error.
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What’s news got to do with it?
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dai ly vanguar d
Today’s top stories:
murder, rape, kidnapping and
armed robbery.
Not surprisingly, these are
the top stories every day on local
news programs. What is it that
makes these stories news, and
what happens when reporting
on violent crimes goes too far?
On Thursday, Oct. 8, a news
story broke on Portland’s
KGW about a man who had
committed sex crimes against
minors. Unfortunately, KGW’s
reporters did not stop there.
The news program laid out the
details of the crimes committed:
A man allegedly molested a
4-year-old child and made
a teenager perform sexual
acts with a dog while taking
photographs of the abuse.
A friend of mine, who watched
the program, commented that
hearing this made him sick to
his stomach. He could not
imagine why they felt the need
to specify these horrific crimes,
especially when another news
channel said they couldn’t name
the crimes committed.
Putting aside, for the moment,
the question as to whether or not
this story is actually news, I think
it’s safe to say that no one needs
to know a man raped a minor
and made a teen have sex with
a dog. This type of reporting
just seems irresponsible, a clear
attempt to shock viewers into
watching. What’s more is that
Portland’s KATU, using better
judgment and discretion than
KGW, refused to specify the
criminal details.
So what is it that makes
“We are not interested in gory details about who got
smeared on the interstate, who got murdered, etc.”
K VUE Viewer
violent stories newsworthy?
A news station based out of
Austin, Texas, decided they
would start asking themselves
that very question. The station in
question, KVUE, implemented a
series of guidelines that a violent
story must meet in order to
air. These guidelines include
questions such as, “Does action
need to be taken? Or is there an
immediate threat to safety?” If a
story fails to meet one or more of
the guidelines, it does not air.
Joe Holley of the Columbia
Journalism Review ran a study
on the effects of this new policy
on KVUE’s viewers. The station
got its highest ratings in a decade
after the switch. One fax the
station received from a viewer
read, “We are not interested
in gory details about who got
smeared on the interstate, who
got murdered, etc.”
Even KGW and KVUE’s
respective Web sites reflect the
difference in sensationalism
between the stations. At the
time of this writing, KGW’s
local news includes headlines
such as “Ground broken on new
NE Portland church destroyed
by fire” and “Driver sought
in hit and run crash.” On the
other hand, KVUE’s headlines
read “Obama urges people to
serve their communities” and
“Domain development seeing
construction boom.”
When it comes to what one
might consider real news —
little things like foreign affairs
and health care — local news
also falls short. In preparing
for this article, I, somewhat
grudgingly, sat down to watch
an entire half hour of local news.
After the obligatory murders,
kidnappings and a commercial
break, KGW started in on the
important stuff like health
care reform, deployment of
troops to Afghanistan and
Hillary Clinton’s visit to Russia.
These three stories, combined,
were given about 30 seconds
of air time, whereas a story
that followed about Michael
Jackson’s “new” song received
about a minute all by itself. We
can see what the local news’
priorities are.
Violence, though sometimes
useful to know about, is not
news, and the details even
less so. I would think it is no
surprise to anyone that some
people died today, yet those
stories get more time and more
priority than the decisions that
are being made in capitols across
the country, and across the
world, that will affect everyone.
KVUE and KATU have shown
that discretion when it comes to
reporting on violent crimes can
still draw an audience. It’s time
more local news channels came
to the same conclusion.
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Referendum story obscures reality
As a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology who studies the
politics of ballot initiatives
in Oregon, I am very familiar
with how spokespeople for and
against various measures use
slick talking points and evocative media imagery to make
their cases to a larger public.
But while it is true that initiative activists are quite adept at
manipulating media outlets, it
is also rare to read actual news
reporting on the initiatives that
obscures more than it illuminates. Unfortunately, this was
the case with CJ Ciaramella’s
article entitled “Tax increase
may hurt University funding”
(ODE, Oct. 20).
The actual wording of the
tax measures is still being debated by legislators, but both
measures are expected to include the statement that the
tax increases will “Maintain
Current Budget for Education,
Health Care, Public Safety,
Other Services.” This was legislators’ main reason for passing the targeted tax increases
in the first place, and remains
the primary message of the
Defend Oregon campaign, the
organization representing a
coalition of advocates for the
tax increases.
Of course, it is good politics for anti-tax advocates like
Pat McCormick to attempt to
divert voters’ attention from
Oregon’s present revenue
problems by concocting hypothetical future ones: constructing and circulating this type
of “straw man,” among other
things, is McCormick’s job.
But Ciaramella (and the
ODE)’s job is to report the
facts, and Tuesday’s fanciful
headline literally elevates McCormick’s imagined potential
crisis over the very real one
facing students and families in
the University community at
this instant: “University Vice
President of Finance and Administration Frances Dyke said
the minimum loss for the University (if the increases are defeated) would be $3 million.”
Anti-tax activists have every
right to tell us why they think
tax increases could hurt Oregon’s economy in the future,
but the ODE should work harder to balance these scenarios
with descriptions of the crisis in
higher education that we know
would ensue immediately if the
increases are overturned.
Both Oregon’s Legislative
Revenue Office and a group
of 30 Oregon economists have
written in favor of targeted tax
increases. In addition to these
publications, and the projections of UO administrators like
Vice President for Finance and
Administration Frances Dyke,
the Defend Oregon campaign
suggests that overturning
the measures will result in $1
billion in cuts to education,
health care, and public safety
in the current budget.
As a UO student, I cannot
help but wonder: don’t these
more immediate concerns
deserve mention alongside
Pat McCormick’s longerterm fears? Don’t the revenue
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UO needs ethics course
The University offers a
plethora of courses geared to
meeting students’ educational
needs and stimulating their interests in diverse subjects. But
one important course is missing and should be required of
all students — civic ethics. The
course should include sections
on government systems, laws,
politics, cultures, customs, religions, and ecology, and focus
on worldwide differences in
what is considered right and
wrong behavior.
Students need civic ethics to
build personal value systems
that are tolerant and understanding of others, to communicate effectively, and to
prepare to work on solving the
world’s problems.
Today, world peace and
equitable allocation of the
planet’s resources remain elusive universally sought-after
goals because we lack common
understandings.
The global financial crisis,
spread of swine flu and avian
flu, dependence on international trade for resources and
products, increasing populations and capabilities in what
were once dismissed “third
world” countries, destruction
of important parts of the ecosphere, and the spread of unrest and illegal activities troubles people around the world.
Civic ethics would help
eliminate the confusion that
can arise when different
ethical standards are applied
to problems in different settings, and the course would
prepare students to address
common concerns.
Some may argue that a civic
ethics course is not needed because the University already
acknowledges the need for
cross-cultural training and offers a rich array of courses addressing different cultures and
lifestyles. The mission statement declares “a commitment
to international awareness
and understanding, and the
development of a faculty and
student body that are capable
of participating effectively in a
global society.”
The statement also espouses
a commitment to “the cultivation of an attitude toward citizenship that fosters ... the wise
exercise of civic responsibilities and individual judgment
throughout life.” Nevertheless, the University bachelor’s
degree requirements include
no courses that would ensure
these goals are met.
Bachelor’s degree requirements include a minimum
of six credits (two courses) to
fulfill a multicultural requirement geared toward “introducing students to the richness
of human diversity and to the
opportunities and challenges
of life in a multicultural society.” To fulfill the requirement, a bachelor’s degree
candidate gets to pick any two
classes from the categories of
American cultures; identity,
pluralism and tolerance; and
international cultures.
Descriptions of these categories allude to some classes
that might touch upon civic
ethics, but of the 127 courses
to choose from to meet the
multicultural requirement,
none appears to takes a global
perspective emphasizing the
diverse views of ethics in different countries, religious and
social groups; no two courses
will be adequate to meet the
University’s stated objectives,
even in combination with
all other courses a student
must successfully complete to
receive a degree.
Administration at the University may argue that no one
qualifies to teach a civic ethics course covering government systems, laws, politics,
culture, customs, religions,
and ecology.
A course can be created,
however, including salient
materials from each discipline
that will stimulate thought,
understanding, and the desire
to obtain additional information. The University is bursting with specialists having
bits of the knowledge all students need. The civic ethics
course could be structured as
modules taught by these specialists and could culminate
in a panel discussion of the
interrelationship between the
different disciplines.
To measure effectiveness
of the course, the University could require students to
submit final papers entitled,
“What civic ethics means to
me,” in which they would reflect on their responsibility
as individuals in global society. Their thoughtful reflections would offer proof that
the University fulfills its mission, and we could hope for a
better world.
projections of economists and
legislators deserve the same attention afforded to a campaign
spokesperson’s talking points?
Oregon voters are used to
watching the major questions
of their day reduced to a drone
of sound bites and attack ads as
elections intensify. Frustrated,
we often look to news institutions to provide more substantive
accounts of the players and the
stakes. With this expectation in
mind, we can see how Tuesday’s
article reflects more than just
bad reporting on Ciaramella’s
part. The article also reflects a
failure of ODE editors to distinguish between political rhetoric
and economic reality.
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marketing strategies that enable
large organizations to reach out to
Generation Y, people between the
ages of 18 and 30 years old.
“Bret is prolific,” said Peter
Lund, partner and co-founder
of InsYght Consulting. “He produces vast amounts of stuff.”
Bernhoft is currently developing a marketing plan that would
connect the Red Cross to Generation Y. Lund said immediate
results of Bernhoft’s work with
the Red Cross include the organization’s use of Twitter to keep
in touch with young people.
“If we were weaponry, Bret
would be a shotgun,” Lund said,
“and I would be a rifle. He produces as much in one week as I
produce in eight.”
Bernhoft uses social media
stamps
student applications, but said
that’s because there is no way to
track the numbers.
“From what I have seen at
my branch, and I have been
here for a long time now, there
isn’t too much of a difference
in the amount of students coming in,” Rockwell said. “It is all
about if they meet the criteria
to receive the benefits.”
To apply, each student must
fill out an application form
and provide proof of a 20hour work week or work-study
program, and undergo an interview process to determine
the eligibility and amount of
benefits they could receive.
“It’s not a cut-and-dry process,” Rockwell said. “There
are always so many factors to
take into consideration, but if
you come in and apply, we will
see what we can do.”
In November of 2007, Wells
did just that, and has been re-
tools including Twitter, Facebook,
blogs and a vast amount of personal and professional Web sites
to cater to Generation Y’s need for
constant, new information.
Bernhoft’s experience at
KPSU has presented another opportunity to market Red Cross
opportunities to youth. The radio program was the breeding
ground for the initial business
idea, which developed between
Bernhoft and Lund in February
of 2009.
“We found a business idea
that let us do something that
we’re interested in and it addressed a societal need,” Lund
said of the beginning stages of
InsYght. “We see a lot of companies who don’t know how to
talk to Generation Y, and they’re
slow to learn. InsYght enables
these companies to understand
Generation Y and to give them
the services needed to appeal to
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ceiving benefits since then. At
each six-month mark, Wells is
required to update his status
and then reapply every year.
Applying for the SNAP
program isn’t as hard as one
Generation Y’s interests.”
The consulting agency further
allows its partners to address
their interests.
“I’m a third generation donor, recipient and volunteer for
the Red Cross,” said Bernhoft of
his family history. “Red Cross is
a stellar organization with opportunities that you can’t find
elsewhere.”
Other opportunities for involvement with the Red Cross
include manning the blog for a
day, inputting data, doing outreach events to develop Red
Cross public representation and
being a part of the Red Cross
Youth Council.
“What the Red Cross offers is entrepreneurialism,”
Bernhoft said.
Developing Generation Y
marketing strategies has more
possibilities than ever before,
but the field doesn’t come
without difficulties.
“The biggest hurdle is apathy,” Bernhoft said. “It’s not a
lack of anything, [Generation Y]
just haven’t been inspired yet.”
Bernhoft has four shows
through KPSU, which he uses to
reach out to his generation, but
only one of those shows is specific to InsYght. During his show
Sex Talk, Bernhoft hosts candid
sex talks from 10 to 11 a.m. on
Sunday mornings.
“There’s a trend for people to
become entrepreneurs in depressions and recessions,” said Lund.
“Some of today’s great businesses
came out of the Depression. Today’s entrepreneurs are going to
be this generation’s post-recession business leaders.”
Bernhoft is working for this to
be the case.
“I want my own business,”
said Bernhoft, who won’t be
in this line of business forever.
“You can’t market to youth
when you’re 40 years old.”
Department of Human Services
representative in Lane County
and was then rewarded $150
per month.
“Last year (2008), I got $200
plus an additional $100 for
(taking care of) my brother,”
Wells said. “So, a total of about
$300 a month.”
“I know so many kids who
use their stamp money to buy
Slurpees and junk food,” Wells
said. “They let you get away with
a lot, but I feel like I’m cheating
the program that way.”
With an EBT card, a person
is able to purchase such items
as cereal, fruit, vegetables, meat
and dairy products. One thing
not on the list: hot food items.
With all its limitations and
guidelines, Rockwell said the
program cannot be changed at
the local level.
“There’s a rule book,” Rockwell said. “The important thing
is that people should come in,
and we will see what help we
can give them.”
While working a 20-hour
week at Toys ‘R’ Us, and as fulltime psychology and business
student, Wells juggles a busy
schedule and is looking to go to
graduate school next year, but
with the benefits he receives,
life is just a little bit easier.
“It’s not a cut-and-dry process. There are always so many
factors to take into consideration, but if you come in and
apply, we will see what we can do.”
Gay roc k well
de partm e nt of h u m an s e rvic e s
would think, Wells said. The
application requires basic
background information and
living situation statuses. Along
with this form, Wells said he
had to bring in proof of his financial aid standings and pay
stub photocopies.
After a short interview process, Wells said he waited a
few months to hear from a
In Oregon, students are
able to receive their benefits
through the state’s Electronic
Benefit Transfer (EBT) system and by using an Oregon
Trail Card at grocery store
card-scanning devices. Wells
says that almost every grocery store in town has this device and uses it every time he
purchases food.
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The reception from the audience, which included a large
group of SEIU members, was
less than enthusiastic.
University Senate Vice President Nathan Tublitz said he
has received more than 150 emails from concerned faculty
and staff about the furloughs.
He floated several ideas for
off-setting the furlough days,
such as setting up a fund for
those affected.
“People who don’t have to
take furlough have a responsibility to help those who do,”
Tublitz said. “We’re a family,
and we all have to work together to make this place the best
we can.”
The administrators said they
are considering several options
to compensate furloughed staff.
Also discussed were
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upcoming ballot measures
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for the crowd, and some
asked if the outcome would
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and 67 pass, the contract is still
in place.”
In the end, the administrators
could offer little more than cold
comfort to the audience.
“We had every interest in protecting the classified staff,” Bean
said. “It just didn’t work out.”
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Paul Westhead’s speedy new style of play is an adjustment for
Ducks; the question is: how quickly will they adjust?
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(Above) Sophomore power
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head coach Paul
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new offense.
(Right) Westhead says the
enthusiasm the
Ducks show is
a good sign that
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the runand-gun.
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regon women’s basketball
head coach Paul Westhead
was asked at last week’s
media day how long, in his
estimation, it would take the
Ducks’ current players to fully adjust to his
fast-breaking offensive system.
“A day, a week, (or) a lifetime,” Westhead
said. “It’s really hard to predict. Being with
them in the spring and the fall, their enthusiasm, their willingness to (understand the
system) bodes well.”
Much has been made of the Ducks’ lack
of “ideal players” for a fast break system,
implying a longer adjustment time than
most. But Westhead does have positional
flexibility among his players that can suit
whatever lineup fits him.
The players believe that the system fits
them equally well.
“I absolutely love the running system,”
redshirt junior Victoria Kenyon said. “It’s
real similar to the European style of play,
which I’m really familiar with. I’m much
more comfortable.”
Kenyon is one of four players along with
Lindsey Saffold, Aliyah Green and Tatianna Thomas listed liberally on the roster
as a “guard/forward” — wing players in
the fast-break offense. Kenyon and Saffold
were both used as post players at times last
season, in addition to a small forward role
along the wings.
“(Coach Westhead’s system) encourages everybody to take advantage of our
athleticism,” Kenyon said.
This includes the Ducks’ true post
players, of which only three remain: Nicole Canepa, Ellyce Ironmonger and
Amanda Johnson.
“I liked how she introduced herself …
power forward,” Westhead said of the media day introduction of Johnson, the Ducks’
leading rebounder last season. “She’s a
versatile player.”
Canepa, a lean 6-foot-5-inch post, missed
10 games last season due to injuries but
is healthy for this season and can run the
court well. The 6-foot-4-inch Ironmonger is a more grounded player who found
success in former head coach Bev Smith’s
half-court offense.
“You would not say on the surface that
(Ironmonger) is the classic fast-break
player, more of a slow-paced, methodical
player,” Westhead said. “But she shoots that
outside jumper so well that she fits what the
trail big in my system does. I could travel
around to a lot places trying to find someone who shoots the ball like that, and here
she is.”
In the backcourt, Westhead has last year’s
top two scorers in Micaela Cocks and Taylor Lilley along with Nia Jackson, who has
returned from a torn ACL in her left knee,
and junior college transfers Kristi Fallin and
Candyce Flynn. For all the collective athletic talent present in the Oregon backcourt,
each player must become accustomed to
Westhead’s system.
“I still have a lot to learn,” Flynn said.
“This is the real deal.”
Flynn, a native of Cleveland, spent last season at Rend Lake College in Ina, Ill., where
she won all-Great Rivers Athletic Conference
honors after transferring in from Morehead
State. She had just graduated from Rend
Lake and was unsure of her future when Oregon assistant coach Keila Whittington came
calling, scholarship in tow.
Having been with the Ducks for two
months, Flynn has had her eyes opened
repeatedly by Westhead.
“That if you think you’re going fast,
you’re not going fast enough,” Flynn said.
“You can always go faster, you can always
do better. Where you’re at is never enough.
“It keeps me motivated. I think, if I
think I’m doing this good, I need to be
doing better.”
In the pursuit of going faster, Flynn
and the Ducks hope to turn the program’s
fortunes around in the process.
“My challenge is to make this team form
the habit of winning,” Westhead said.
“That’s what I’m trying to do.”
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Football
Redshirt freshman Kenjon
Barner and the
Ducks are ready
for the Washington Huskies
Saturday.
Ducks champing at bit for Huskies
Competition ramps up after
a long bye week for Oregon;
Locker focus of defense
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Toward the end of Wednesday’s practice,
the Oregon football team went through its
clutch-time drills.
The starting offense went against the starting defense and had to drive down the field
in a minute and a half and with one timeout.
The heat rose on both sides with pride on
the line. If the offense scored, the defense
was sure to take it as an insult, while the
offense would get frustrated when it couldn’t
score.
Quarterback Jeremiah Masoli led the Ducks
down the field, getting a key fourth down conversion on fourth and nine, but from 40 yards
out they had just two plays to try to score. After the first play (a short pass up the middle),
the linemen on both sides of the ball got into a
little bit of a tussle.
Nothing big happened, it was broken up
within seconds, but it showed everyone that
even teammates turn to enemies when they’re
fighting for something and the competitive
juices are flowing. The first team ended up
not scoring, but the intensity still remained on
the field and that’s the way head coach Chip
Kelly likes it. He said of the scuffle that it was
just “football and guys being competitive.” He
wasn’t worried about that and said that overall the practice yesterday was exactly where he
wanted it.
“This group as a whole has practiced extremely well since the start of the Purdue
game,” Kelly said. “They understand how
important it is about how well we practice.
(It) was another great practice. They had great
enthusiasm and they were fired up.”
Senior running back Andre Crenshaw said
guys had a little bit more of an edge to them
this week because of the bye and because of
who the team is playing this weekend.
“It’s been a fun week,” Crenshaw said. “You
know, big game and the rivalry. This game
just always means a lot to us for what they
did in the past. Coaches always remind us of
it. We always play hard against them because
it’s Washington.”
Redshirt freshman running back Kenjon
Barner agreed with Crenshaw about the bye
week giving the Ducks a chance to rest and
he said that has also allowed the running back
unit to continue to grow.
“The bye week couldn’t have come at a better time,” Barner said. “We were able to get all
those guys healthy and back into things … as
for our progression, (it) has been good but we
can’t be complacent. There’s a lot to work on
like our reads, cutting and blocking.”
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Barner himself was also given a
little time to heal. The concussion
he sustained before the UCLA
game is completely healed, and he
said it is a “non-issue” right now.
He also said, despite all of the injuries in the secondary, Kelly hasn’t
moved him back to his original
position of defensive back.
Junior linebacker Spencer Paysinger touched on some of those
injuries, and he said with the potential return of safety T.J. Ward,
there will be even more leadership
on the defense.
“John Boyett is doing a fantastic job right now,” Paysinger said.
“We couldn’t ask for anything
more from him. But T.J. brings a
type of leadership and exuberance
to the field that gets us all hyped
and when we see him make the
big play, we want to make the big
play.”
The Ducks will definitely need
that this weekend against Husky
quarterback Jake Locker. Locker
is a threat to run or stay in the
pocket and throw deep, and it’s
something Paysinger and the
defense are aware of.
“He’s probably the best overall
athlete we’ll play this year besides
someone like Jahvid Best,” Paysinger said. “The ball is going to
be in his hands every play, and we
have to key to that. He runs a 4.4
or 4.3 40 (yard dash), and he can
pass the ball 70 yards off the back
of his foot.”
Locker will be a main focus for
the Ducks defense but the team is
well aware of the unfriendly confines of Husky Stadium. Although
a track rings the field, tight end Ed
Dickson said it does get loud in
there and Husky fans will be less
than cordial for the green and yellow.
“(The rivalry) is tremendous,”
Dickson said. “It’s a hostile environment. We have to be ready for
a battle.”
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Athlete
Kendra
of
the week: Little
Junior Kendra Little is the Athlete of the Week
for her dominating play early in the women’s
golf season. She has been the Ducks’ top finisher in each of their first three tournaments and
placed first overall in two of them. In the team’s
first tournament in New Mexico, Little shot a 68
in each of the final two rounds, twice tying for
the second-best single round score in school history. For the tournament she shot a total of 207,
which was 12 under par and set a new record
for the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational. Little again finished in first overall at
the Giustina Memorial Classic in Corvallis and
played a key role in a 25-stroke team victory for
the Ducks.
Oregon Daily Emerald: You played basketball in high school, do you still play around here
at all?
Kendra Little: I don’t. I’m a junior and when I
was a freshman, it was the first year that I hadn’t
played basketball part of the year. So I’d go to
the Rec Center and just kind of goof around and
play and shoot a little bit. But since then, I really
haven’t. I still love basketball, but I just never
play anymore. I like to watch it, but I don’t really
get to play anymore.
ODE: In terms of mindset, are there any
connections between how you approached
basketball and how you approach golf?
KL: They’re really different sports. In basketball, if I was getting frustrated, I’d just really focus on playing good defense and just letting all
my frustration out on defense. With golf, you
can’t really let yourself get mad or really show
any emotion, you’ve got to keep it inside. It’s
basically opposite.
ODE: What are you majoring in?
KL: Political science right now; I’m thinking
of switching to sociology. I just declared a month
ago, so I’m still kind of deciding.
ODE: Do you know what you want to do
after college?
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KL: I’m going to turn pro after college, just
give it a go. I might as well, we’ll see where it
takes me.
ODE: What’s your favorite part about going
to the University?
KL: I just love the atmosphere. I grew up in
Portland for the first eight years of my life and
then I moved to Eugene when I was nine, so
I’ve been a Duck fan my whole life. I just really
love the athletic department; the people are really great. I love the town; I think it’s really a
good college community. It was just the right fit
for me.
ODE: Was this where you wanted to go in
high school?
KL: Not really. Honestly I really wanted to go
to the University of California, Berkeley. Freshman year and sophomore year of high school I
was like, “Yeah, that would be a good place to
go.” It turns out that Ohio State recruited me,
and then Cal didn’t recruit me, but Oregon
did. So I was like, “You know what, everything
happens for a reason.” Ohio State was just too
far away, and Oregon was just a really good fit
for me.
ODE: You’re a junior now, what do you
think you’ve improved on most between your
freshman year and now?
KL: I’d say my short game. My putting right
now has never been any better in my entire
life. I think I’m a little bit more mature, just
taking things step-by-step. I’m not getting
too frustrated when I play bad and not getting too excited when I play well, just staying
even. I think that’s something I’ve definitely
improved on.
ODE: What’s your favorite thing to do
outside of golf?
KL: I really like movies. I like to go to the movie theatres, even though it’s like $6.50 per ticket. I
really, really enjoy going to movies.
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Time is not on Vin Lananna’s
side.
Next Friday, Oct. 30, is the
Pacific-10 Conference Championships to be held at Skylinks
Country Club in Long Beach,
Calif. Two weeks later, on Nov.
14, the Ducks will return to
Springfield Country Club as
hosts of the NCAA West Regionals. The NCAA Cross Country Championships are Nov. 23,
and indoor
track season
will officially
begin with the
UW Indoor
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Jan. 16. The
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ships begin on
Mar. 12 in Fayetteville, Ark., and
the very next week (Mar. 20) is
the Oregon Preview at Hayward
Field, the beginning of outdoor
track and field season.
It’s a lot to digest. And with
every passing day, these dates
loom larger and larger.
We are roughly four weeks
past Sep. 29, the first day of
school and the day that associate director of track and field
Dan Steele formally accepted the
head coaching position of the
Northern Iowa cross country
and track and field teams. With
the 2009 cross country season in
its infancy, the timing could not
have possibly been worse, and
yet it looks more and more imposing as fall quarter progresses.
Lananna has been scouring the nation in pursuit of his
next assistant director of track
and field. No candidates have
been formally named by the
athletic department, and it is
unclear how many have been
interviewed by Lananna. His
next director will have to be
well-versed in multi-events
competition — Steele is widely
credited with the development
of Ashton Eaton and Brianne
Theisen into NCAA champions
— with a keen eye for recruiting and a good existing rapport
with Lananna.
To Lananna’s credit, he
has built up Oregon’s name
so much in the past five years
that he is assured a foot in the
door, if not an accepted offer.
At the end of the day, of course,
Lananna must sign off on all
decisions regarding the track
team — there is a reason his
official title shifts to “assistant
athletic director” as track season progresses. He is, to put it
succinctly, very hands-on. This
does not have to be an obstacle,
but it could narrow the field
of candidates.
Conventional wisdom suggests that Lananna will have
his man (or woman) by Jan.
16 at the latest; he would probably feel better about the hire if
he could wrap it up by Christmas. A progress report will be
demanded of him at the impending Pac-10 Championships media day. The subject,
among media members, may
be brought up more often than
the Ducks’ chances of taking home men’s and women’s
conference crowns.
“ Lananna must sign off on all
decisions regarding the track
team — there is a reason his
official title shifts to ‘assistant
athletic director’ as the track
season progresses.”
For the men, ranked No. 2 in
the nation in the most recent
U.S. Track & Field and Cross
Country Coaches Association
poll, those chances look good;
the battle with top-ranked
Stanford on Oct. 30 will be passionately fought by both sides.
The women saw their national
ranking fall four spots, to No.
8, on the heels of an uneven
performance at Saturday’s
Pre-National Invitational. The
Washington Huskies are the
nation’s top-ranked women’s
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Head cross country coach Greg
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Pac-10 Championships.
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to be run, and outcomes are
no sure thing. Life after Galen
Rupp has gone as well or better than expected for the men,
while the women show flashes
of serious talent. Lananna will
do his best to put his teams in
position to succeed, just as he
will do with his newest hire.
Whoever — and whenever —
that may be.
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For the love of chess
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J ac k h u n t e r | photog r aph er
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Billboard
Top 10
1. “3”
Britney Spears
2. “Down”
Jay Sean featuring Lil Wayne
3. “Party in the U.S.A.”
Music
Miley Cyrus
Love of melodies
inspires unique instruments around the world
4. “Whatcha Say”
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6. “I Gotta Feeling”
Jason DeRulo
5. “Run This Town”
Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West
The Black Eyed Peas
7. “Paparazzi”
Lady Gaga
8. “You Belong With Me”
Taylor Swift
9. “Fireflies”
Owl City
10. “Use Somebody”
lorax
See how residents of
the alternative co-op
spend their Saturday
night
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Kings Of Leon
Re n a Le v- B a s s | Photog r aph er
The UO Chess Club meets every Thursday night from 6-8 pm in the EMU Fishbowl.
For the love of chess
The University Chess Club welcomes all newcomers — skilled or otherwise
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Dia de Los
Muertos
The Maude Kerns Art
Center honors the dead
with its annual festival
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Eli sabe th Kr amer
Fr eel ance R eporter
ngled at the end of one of the EMU’s many
tables stood an easel draped with an oversized green and white chessboard. Attached
with Velcro, chess pieces waited at their chosen
positions, mirroring the latest game plan of the University
Chess Club.
Letaw recently reinvigorated the club that, as one
member recently told her, has been on campus in some
form or another for the past 30 years. The current group
gathers in the EMU Fishbowl every Thursday at 6 p.m.
Each meeting introduces a new strategy for members
to consider and, if they so chose, a game to apply it to.
With names like the Gruenfeld Defense and the King’s
Indian Attack, the strategies ring more of a combat zone
than they do of a game board.
“There really is a thrill of the battle with this game,”
said club vice president and fourth year University graduate student Rob Fisette.
To both exercise their skills and indulge in some
spirited competition, the club hosts at least one tournament per term. In addition, members often play in offsite competitions. However, many of those contests are
unrated and, as such, focus more on honing rather than
glorifying a player’s skill.
Tu r n to chess | Pag e 7B
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Music
Showcasing the
sounds of Harmony
Exhibit features
instruments from
around the world
Ot t Tam m ik
Scen e R eporter
What do tobacco cans, goat
skin and computers all have
in common? Well, apparently
they’re all musical instruments.
“What is the definition of
musical instrument? It’s something that makes sound. I’d
just like people to be struck by
the diversity,” said University
ethnomusicology instructor
Mark Levy.
The Museum of Natural
and Cultural History’s newest
exhibit, “World Harmony,”
demonstrates how people
around the world harness their
united love for music with
wildly different instruments
depending on the materials that are available to them.
Featuring mostly local artists,
the exhibit allows visitors to
not only hear, but even play a
variety of instruments from
around the world.
“It gets to showcase the talent that’s out there,” said the
museum’s assistant director
Judi Pruitt. “It’s fun. Everyone relates to music. There’s
music in every culture.”
The exhibit allows guests
to learn about cultural significance of music in other areas
of the world.
In Mozambique, bat wings
are melted onto a xylophone
to help seal the instrument.
In New Guinea, only men
are allowed to play a large,
canoe-like slit drum to signal
sacred events such as deaths
or social gatherings.
The exhibit also features a
guitar-like instrument built
from a gas canister, a hunting
bow played with the mouth
and a bagpipe made from an
entire goat skin.
The unique nature of the instruments doesn’t stop there.
One Tibetan instrument is
made of human bone.
“They’re looking at drums,
Re n a Le v- b a s s | Photog r aph er
Open until Jan. 3, 2010, the exhibit features instruments that are played for
entertainment, political events, rituals, and celebrations.
but you don’t always find one
made of human skull caps,”
said museum guide Mary
Smith, pointing to the most
shocking item on display.
Levy agreed that it could be
considered a little creepy, but
he says there is need to seek
understanding in the cultural
context of Tibet.
“In the Buddhist view, life is
fleeting. Today we look at the
exhibit, tomorrow we might be
one of those drums,” Levy said.
Pruitt finds that the museum
has been a lot noisier recently
because of the hands-on section
of the exhibit. Pruitt’s personal
favorite is the steel drum.
“I don’t know how to play
music, but I sounded good
playing that drum,” she said.
Although the museum already owned a lot of the instruments it currently features,
many of them were sitting on
the shelves, unidentified.
“I had to be a detective
in many ways,” said Levy,
who researched many of the
instruments on display.
Some of more obscure instruments, such as an ivory
trumpet, gave Levy trouble before he was able to track down
the specific tribe that had created it. He is also featured in the
exhibit himself, playing Serbian
and Bulgarian wind pipes.
As different as the various
instruments are from one another, University professor
Jeffrey Stolet’s composition,
“Tokyo Lick,” stands out. Focusing intensely on the empty
World
Harmony
Upcoming
events:
Tuesday, Oct. 27
Panel discussion and music
demonstrations with Nick
Sixkiller; Mitsuki Dazai
(Japanese koto); Eliot Grasso
(Irish uilleann bagpipes); and
Jennifer Kyker (Zimbabwean
mbira).
Tuesday, Nov. 3
Bagpipes in Ireland and the
Balkans
Mark Levy and Eliot Grasso
Tuesday, Nov. 10
Women’s Participation as
Zimbabwean Mbira Players
Jennifer Kyker.
Tuesday, Nov. 17
India: Looking Through a
Musical Lens
Sreevidhya Chandramouli,
South Indian veena
What: An exhibit of instruments from around the world
When: All events start
at 7 p.m.
Where: Museum of Natural
and Cultural History
Cost: Free
air in front of him, Stolet rapidly moves his hands in front
of sensing devices to produce,
like a magician, chaotic tonal
lines and rapid rhythms.
“I didn’t even know you
could make music like
that. Very innovative and
futuristic,” Pruitt said.
Indeed, to the untrained
ear, it might not sound like
music at all.
“To the people who are doing
it, it’s beautiful,” Levy said.
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Max Smoot
hula-hoops in
the front room
of the Lorax
Manner.
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nightlife
Saturday night with »
The
lorax
Sustainable living and a sense of community
characterize the quirky campus co-op
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Monica Joseph displays a bin of compost from the kitchen of the Lorax Manner.
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Eugene’s hip and alternative student co-op crowd lies between the unlikely neighbors of a Mormon church
and a sorority house. Here, the Lorax
lifestyle strives for a utopian ideal.
“It’s really hard to get out of the
house — it’s just a community of its
own,” said Sage, a new resident who
attends Lane Community College.
The house may be far from where
the grickle grass grows, but the catchy
Dr. Seuss poem for which the house
was named still resonates with the
environmentally active students.
“We speak for the trees,” University
undergraduate Steve Berk said.
With the collective spirit of its residents, the Lorax Manner is very much
a living, breathing being. Many students walk by every day but only see
it from the outside — an old Victorian
building with a yard that seems always
to be celebrating Halloween and a
group of cyclists hanging out in the alleyway on the side of the house. Inside,
the Lorax is full of life, its teeming inhabitants working together like ants to
maintain and perfect their home.
“I was really impressed as a rebellious teenager. I was attracted to the
strangeness,” resident Monica Joseph said. “There’s always something
exciting going on.”
A mannequin dressed in Christmas
lights and “Hubert,” the toothless, official imaginary friend of the Lorax
Manner are a few of their creations.
Bikes hang from walls, bikes hang on
poles, bikes scatter the alleyway and
bikes block the closet-turned-phonebooth at the front door. Animating
the colorful walls, one painting or
scribbling leads to the next, weaving
the house into a unified composition.
“The first time I came here, these
people were like, “Come draw on the
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2009 Oregon Daily Emerald 5b
halloween
carving with compassion
ShelterCare’s Jack-O-Lanterns event benefits
Eugene’s homeless through pumpkin carving
maria bau m
scen e r eporter
This weekend, the Fifth
Street Public Market will not
be a typical outdoor store of
local goods and shops. Instead, vibrant orange, carved
pumpkins will inundate the
city streets as community
members come together to
contribute to a local cause.
ShelterCare is holding
Jack-O-Lanterns, its very first
pumpkin-carving and decorating contest, at Fifth Street
Public Market. For $2, participants get a chance to display
their pumpkins and be named
the contest winner.
Scavenger hunts, pumpkin-carving demonstrations,
costume parades and even a
pumpkin seed spitting contest will go along with the
pumpkin display.
University senior and ShelterCare volunteer Lindsay
Walsh said this event promotes
creativity and the spirit of Halloween, and is sure to bring the
community together.
“We are hoping that this
event will become an annual
thing,” Walsh said. “Our goal
is to get the community involved in any way possible.
We have attempted to reach
out to many organizations
and businesses within the
community. This year’s success should bring more community support in the future.
This really is an event for families and people of all ages.”
One University student
and Jack-O-Lanterns participant, senior Jazz Bradley,
said he loves to be involved
in anything that gives back
to the community. He also
said he’s not sure how he will
carve his pumpkin but claims
it will be looking really “rad.”
“I hope this Jack-O-Lanterns
on Fifth continues because it
brings awareness of the homeless to students and is a great
way to give to people that are less
fortunate than ourselves,” Bradley said. “I feel that everyone
should be able to have a good
meal for the holidays.”
Lucy Vinis is a member
of the development team at
Eugene ShelterCare and is
confident this event will put
people in a giving mood.
“It is about the coming together of Eugene to do something positive that will help
support the homeless,” Vinis
said. “Anyone can bring their
carved or decorated pumpkins to participate in something that is both fun and
visually exciting.”
Walsh said this kind of
fundraiser is different because carving pumpkins
around Halloween is fun
and easy — and something
people are already doing.
“Typically, giving to a
cause involves taking your
checkbook out and signing away a sum of money,”
Walsh said. “If you carve a
pumpkin for Halloween anyway, why not make one more
for a great cause? Two dollars
is doable for most of us.”
Vinis explained that in
recent months, the need
for Eugene ShelterCare resources has greatly increased
because of job losses and the
economic downturn.
“We are trying to really kickstart awareness during this
winter season when our services will be in high demand. So
many Eugene and Springfield
residents have lost their jobs or
have fallen behind on rent, and
they are going to look to us for
help,” she said.
The money raised will go
toward ShelterCare’s three
primary programs, Emergency Services, Mental
Health Services and Brain
Injury Services. ShelterCare
serves populations of the
community who are homeless or at risk of becoming
homeless, including people
with acquired brain injuries,
people with mental illnesses
and families with children.
Walsh said carving a
unique design into a pumpkin this Halloween can provide food, housing and even
winter coats to families in
need this fall.
“This is the time of year
when we all need to show a
little bit of understanding and
compassion. I think it’s most
important to educate ourselves
about the issues surrounding
homelessness and try to spread
awareness,” she said.
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MARIA BAUM
SCENE REPORTER
For those participating in
the Latin American holiday
of El Día de los Muertos, or
Day of the Dead, it is a time
for remembrance and ritual.
However, it is also a time
of celebration.
For 16 years, the Maude
Kerns Art Center in the West
University neighborhood has
held the El Día de los Muertos Festival and exhibits to
honor lost loved ones, and
keep Latin American traditions alive in Eugene.
Patricia Cortez, director of Amigos Multicultural
Services Center in Eugene,
said El Día de los Muertos is
a traditional Mexican holiday created to remember the
dead, but that it has spread to
North America with the people who immigrated here.
The art center’s gallery
dedicated to El Día de los
Muertos opened Friday and
includes traditional music, authentic foods, native
dancing, altar displays and
artwork that honors family
members who have died.
Families constructed the
altars to celebrate the lives of
those they loved. The altars
were ornamented with photos, flowers, candles, food
and personal items that were
unique to the individuals being honored. One altar featured guitar picks, another a
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Cortez said the styles of
altars vary depending on
geography. In Mexico, she
said, altars tend to have many
physical objects as offerings,
whereas in Central and South
America it is traditional to
decorate the altar with a photo, candle and glass of water.
“In Mexico, the offerings
are only to the person who
has died and is usually given
to the deceased in both the
cemetery and the home,” she
said. “However, in Central
and South America, the European influence is stronger
and they tend to celebrate the
holiday by making offerings
to both the passed loved one
and also to God.”
At the art center, the festive altars are accompanied
by donated sculptures, collages, photography or canvas
paintings that help to create a
culturally rich atmosphere.
One artist, Dawn McIlwain, has been contributing artwork to this event for
several years and said the
artwork and altars work well
to both divulge culture and
remembrance.
“I enjoy the spirit of celebrating artwork and the
lives of others; it has so much
meaning,” McIlwain said.
The altars were built to
prepare for the sacred days
of Nov. 1 and 2. Each year
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Unfortunately, El Día de
los Muertos is slowly slipping
behind the shadow of Halloween.
“I heard the holiday is fading, and it is so sad because I
know how much I appreciate
tradition and culture, and
I hate to see everyone lose
that,” McIlwain said.
Cortez similarly feels that
each year the tradition of El
Día de los Muertos is being
celebrated less and less.
“As an indigenous myself,
it really worries me because I
can see the culture is not being passed on and there is a
huge loss in that,” she said. “It
is important for Latinos especially to be connected to their
roots. The younger generation need to know even if you
are born in the U.S., there is
more to you than just North
American tradition.”
Cortez said she is thankful
for the festival and exhibits
that the Maude Kerns Art
Center puts on each year because they expose the community and especially young
people to a Latin American tradition. One young
participant in Cortez’s Latin youth program, Blanca
Flores, attended the El Día
de los Muertos opening night
and said she has begun to understand the importance of
cultural awareness.
“We want to show people
who we are and for everyone
to understand the importance
of this holiday,” she said. “It’s
not just for Latinos, but for
people in other cultures too.”
Despite the varying altars and offerings and the
struggle to carry on tradition,
the overarching theme for
El Día de Los Muertos is to
remember the dead.
This two-day celebration
of El Día de los Muertos offers a sense of beauty and
optimism to the afterlife
for Latinos.
“I grew up with everyone
fearing death, and it has always been associated with
mourning in our culture,”
McIlwain said. “El Día de los
Muertos is a joyous way of
remembering someone, and
it brings out the happiness
of a sad occasion. Why not
celebrate life, even when it
is over?”
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Lorax
From Pag e 4B
walls,’” Sage said. “You can
do whatever you want.”
The co-ops have no landlord, or rather, they have no
single landlord. The idea
of the co-ops is to focus less
on spending money and
more on sustaining one’s
habitat directly, by means
of sharing, growing their
own food and doing their
own maintenance.
On Saturday, Sage was
working on his Halloween
costume, comprising 20
papier-mâché masks to represent his various personal
qualities. The LGBTQA was
just finishing a potluck, and a
crowd of people playing capture the flag stormed down
the old fire escape, thus shaking the tomato pots hanging
from bicycle tubes.
In the living room, visitors
gathered for a candle-lit tarot
card reading, and the hiphop/folk band “Explorers of
the Dreamworld” was just arriving. Another group gravitated around the foosball
table, while others planned
their next ’80s dance party on
the kitchen counter.
Putting his mask aside
and walking up the spinning
stairwell to the second floor,
Sage passed a bulky, out-ofdate computer squeezed into
a tight, blood red closet with
a low, uncomfortable-looking fold-up chair. Down the
hallway, University undergraduate John Zatkowsky,
who has lived at the Lorax for
a year, was cleaning his room
and listening to Cascadian
black metal as he greeted the
others under a set of Tibetan
prayer flags hanging from
his doorway.
A minute later, Zatkowsky
led the way through a door
labeled “no access.” The
fairly well-kept fourth story
attic is the storage space for
microscopes, hamster cages,
water guns and just about
everything else.
Zatkowsky pointed to the
dark, three-by-four foot hole
leading to the inside of the
recognizable Lorax tower,
rumored to be haunted since
the days that the house was a
sorority. Legend claims that
a devastated girl hanged herself there after finding out
she was pregnant. Resident
Troy Grudin described having once felt an eerie and unnatural coldness while giving
visitors a tour of the house,
but tonight the only frightening scene in the tower was a
parrot piñata.
“This is a pretty creepy
place in the dark,”
Zatkowsky said.
Poking his head outside, Zatkowsky climbed
to the roof and nudged a
sleeping bag to check if
someone’s slumber was
being disturbed.
“This is best view of Eugene you can get by far in the
city,” Zatkowsky said proudly, remarking that he likes to
chart the sunset through the
seasons. At the edge of the
roof, two trees are used to
practice fix-line climbing.
To really understand
how the house works, Zatkowsky explained as he made
his way back into the attic,
one has to attend a house
meeting where the group
uses secret hand signals to
facilitate discussion.
“Consensus or none
is the cornerstone of
the co-op community,”
Zatkowsky said.
With the consensus ideal,
it is necessary for all the students to agree. Even a single
objection will fail the vote;
however, a vote should not
be blocked unless it is serious
enough a matter that one is
prepared to move out of the
house if it passes.
Sometimes the ideal of
having everyone contribute
has been taxing at the Lorax. In one matter, the house
got rid of its couches for an
entire term, and later this
turned out to be more of an
annoyance. Another time,
students debated whether,
in the vegan household, it
was ethical to poison the rats
in their attic. This took two
terms for the co-op to finally
come to a conclusion, and
some residents even moved
out in protest.
The foundation of the coops depends on the students’
ability to cooperate and their
willingness to be productive in their community. The
Lorax provides its members
lunch and dinner every day.
For a house of 26 people,
everything has to be done in
bulk, and it is an undertaking
to cook every night.
“It’s hard for me to cook
for just one or two people
anymore,” said Sam Bennington, a LCC student who
said a typical dish is stir-fry.
Although the majority of
residents are not vegan, the
house serves only vegan dishes. They try to keep their food
sources under a distance of
100 miles, sometimes growing the food themselves at
their Alton Baker community garden, and other times
CHESS
From Pag e 2B
The team spent the first
part of its Oct. 15 meeting
poring over this display, deciding what move to make
next in a game currently
being waged nationwide
against the American Medical Association’s Chicago
chess club.
“Correspondence games
are slow,” said club president and University graduate student Alathea Letaw.
“Each week, one team will
make a move and e-mail it
to the other, whose members then decide how to
respond. Playing a game like
this is just one of the things
we thought we could add to
the regular meetings.”
Stephen Lamb, one such
player, is thrilled to have
other players to learn from.
Lamb once served as club
president, and after losing
touch with the group, used
the e-mail list he compiled
as president to send a message inquiring about its
current state. It was Letaw
who responded, and Lamb
credits her with re-fueling
the group.
“I think there’s a real sense
of camaraderie here,” Lamb
working at local farms in exchange for food.
Students give back to the
house through chores, which
rotate each term “to keep
chaos from ensuing.” Considering all the food that gets
made, there are also five regularly scheduled dishwashing shifts during the day,
which explains why some
people were still working on
said. “(Letaw) has raised the
level of motivation, and so
the level of participation has
also gone up.”
Letaw often stands alone
when representing female
chess players on the school’s
team. It’s a role she said she’s
gotten used to but wouldn’t
mind losing.
“It seems that girls are less
confident about their game
abilities,” she said. “They
seem to think there’s some
stereotype against women
playing chess.”
Such worries about skill
level are ridiculous, Fisette
said. Like many of the club’s
members, he first learned
the game as a child but only
recently began playing it on
a more regular basis.
“Most people who don’t
come think they’re not good
enough or that they need
to get better before playing here,” he said. “That’s
just silly. We encourage
all skill levels and people
with all sorts of goals to
come participate.”
At the group’s meetings,
more experienced chess
enthusiasts often mentor
newer members. It’s for
that very reason that Sheldon High School chess team
coach Phil Carson began
Saturday night.
The students have worked
out a point system, in which
everyone is assigned around
13 points, depending on
the amount of people in the
house, and each point equals
a half-hour of work, which
can go towards washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, repairing bicycles or facilitating
house discussions.
bringing his students.
“They’re not so intimidated once they see that these
players are students just
like they are,” Carson said,
who has spent five years as
Sheldon’s chess coach.
Carson first fell in love
with the game as a child
when electricity power
outages during the winter forced his family to
rely on board games for
entertainment.
“We played checkers,
SORRY!, and, of course,
chess,” he said. “Now, I
don’t really play for the
competition but more for,
well, the artistry of it all.”
The University club not
only includes high school
and college students, but
also includes members who
originally played at the Eugene Chess Club. When
that organization folded,
many chess-loving Eugeneans began gravitating to
the student-led Thursday
night meetings.
Letaw and Fisette
wouldn’t mind seeing more
student participation.
“I want more people to
come to the meetings,”
Letaw said. “I like to give
people a chance to play.”
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“We have this awesome
house together, and we can’t
just let it fall down,” Joseph said as she mopped the
kitchen floor.
“It’s absolutely been a
blessing for me,” Zatkowsky
said in agreement. “People
should come by more often. We would love to see
more faces.”
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