Emerald THE DAILY
MONDAY, OCT. 7, 2024
INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM PRODUCED BY STUDENTS, FOR STUDENTS
INVESTIGATIONS
ARTS AND CULTURE
THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DANCE’S HALF MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION
Fall house shows set sail with a pirate-themed show at the Limelight On Sept. 28, local bands made a splash at the first house show of the season By Claire Coit Arts & Culture Writer
As the fall season sets in and students return to their busy schedules, the house show scene in Eugene is back up and running. On Sept. 28, The Limelight, a local house show venue, held their “End of Summer” pirate themed bash. For a fee of seven dollars, people attended the show in pirate costumes to see local bands Housekeeping, GrrlBand and Bowl Peace rock the house with electric performances. The Limelight is a newer addition to
See pg 10 for full story
(Alex Hernandez/Emerald)
Bowl Peace, a Eugene house band, performs at the Limelight house on Sept. 28, 2024.
CITY NEWS
HOW TO VOTE IN OREGON A professor within the school has been profiting off of thousands of students for several years with his self-published, $89.99 required book. One former student refers to the book as a “glorified Garageband tutorial.”
By Ruby Duncan Investigative Reporter
A professor within the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance has earned roughly $570,000 in revenue from students in the past four years with his self-published book. However the issue was set aside as a “gray area” in policy, according to numerous SOMD faculty.
The professor, Toby Koenigsberg, teaches the “Contemporary Songwriting” course at UO, which previously had at times several hundred asynchronous students each term. He’s raising several ethical and legal concerns amongst his colleagues at the school, their concerns being that he could be not only violating UO Ethics, but Oregon law, due to the See pg 9 for full investigation
With election day less than one month away, some may find themselves asking: How do I vote? By Mathias Lehman-Winters City News Editor and Print Managing Editor
There are 28 days until the Nov. 5 2024 general election. For some Oregonians, this election will be one of their first times voting or first time voting from a new address. Here is some information on how to register to vote in Oregon. For Oregon residents who recently moved to Oregon from out of state, there are two ways See pg 6 for full story