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Spring term means music festival season, and the most impressive lineup of them all may be at the eighth annual Soul’d Out Music Festival. Multiple Portland venues will host a remarkable array of talent for the music festival, which will take over the city from April 19-23. Solange Knowles, The Ohio Players, Alex and Allyson Grey and Giorgio Moroder are among the headlining acts for this year’s lineup. Plus, Travis Scott and Flying Lotus were announced as late additions to the already-packed lineup; the pair will be playing an allages show at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on April 19. Solange Knowles Hot on the heels of last summer’s exceptional record “A Seat at the Table,� which made the list of the Emerald’s favorite 2016 albums (read our review here) — Solange Knowles will be headlining. A Seat at the Table is an immaculate, sweeping epic of R&B, protest-soul, and slow-funk. Solange’s first show in the Pacific Northwest will not be one to miss. It’s Friday, April 21 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Tickets start at $50. The Ohio Players Get ready for the soul-funk legends behind some of the best funk albums of the ‘70s: “Skin Tight,� “Fire� and “Honey.� In January this year, keyboardist Walter “Junie� Morrison, an alum of Parliament-Funkadelic and inspiration for “A Seat At the Table� jam “Junie,� passed away. This nine-member lineup of Ohio Players will feature four original The Emerald is published by Emerald Media Group, Inc., the independent nonprofit media company at the University of Oregon. Formerly the Oregon Daily Emerald, the news organization was founded in 1900.
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For students who skipped breakfast, Summit Creek Church student volunteers faithfully hand out free granola bars every Thursday from about 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of the EMU. Geological science major Kate Bailey sat behind the spread of Nature Valley bars on April 6 and greeted students as they took their individually packaged meals. Bailey said that more than anything, the booth operates to support students who may be hungry and need a snack. “It’s our way to show students that we care about them and that we love them,� Bailey said. One student volunteer, Taryn Ferrando, said that some people approach the stand and seem unsure of whether they are allowed to take a granola bar. She said many people who approach the booth ask what they have to do to get a granola bar, and her response is “just grab it.� Others walk up, take a bar and leave without uttering a word, as if it were routine. Keegan Chaplin, a junior accounting major who works parttime for Summit Creek says the purpose of having the granola bar booth isn’t to talk about religion with students. Chaplin said that if anyone wants to hold a conversation with him, he would, but that’s not his intent working behind the table of single-serving snacks. As for why the
non-denominational ministry chose granola bars over other snacks, Chaplin said, “You get the most substance for the buck.� He cited candy as not being filling enough when a student is hungry and sandwiches being too expensive; moreover, Chaplin said students can save bars in their backpacks until they’re hungry if they choose. When students grab a treat from the booth, they find a small card attached. The card notifies students of a meeting on campus on Sundays at 10:30 in the Ford Alumni Center. The church’s website states that this gathering on campus will occur on April 9 and 16, but community members usually congregate at the Downtown Athletic center on Sunday mornings throughout the year. The church moved to Eugene in summer 2015, and Chaplin says about 20 to 30 students attend weekly. Although some students volunteer at the booth for up to six hours, many of their Summit Creek peers will stop by for a short time and then carry on with the rest of their day. Students looking for religion and granola bars alike can head to the booth on Thursdays and grab what they’re seeking. The stand’s rain cover allows them to sit through Eugene’s capricious weather patterns, and affords students a small snack to get through the day.
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EMERALD EDITORIAL: ENDORSING SKEPTICISM IN A ONE-SLATE ASUO ELECTION April 7, 2017 The Emerald Editorial Board exists to provide the newsroom a voice on prominent campus issues. It operates separately from the objective work of our reporters, giving our organization a platform to create and continue a dialogue on campus. The board’s members include Sararosa Davies, senior arts reporter; Meerah Powell, digital managing editor; Will Campbell, associate news editor; Kylee O’Connor, sports reporter; Mark Kellman, engagement editor; Cooper Green, editor in chief; Patience Greene, opinion columnist; Alec Cowan, opinion editor; Billy Manggala, opinion columnist. This is normally where the Emerald would write an endorsement of an ASUO candidate. However, students only have one option this year and that creates two big questions: how did this happen and what does it mean? This election season’s only campaign slate, UO For You, paints its top three platform goals in broad strokes: accessibility, inclusivity and affordability. More specifically, Amy Schenk and her running mates, Internal VP Tess Mor and External VP Vickie Gimm, want to tackle the tuition crisis, improve food security for students, make mental health services more accessible and push cultural competency training for students, specifically incoming freshmen. A one slate campaign is unprecedented in recent ASUO history but it isn’t exactly an accident. Schenk, Mor and Gimm are not natural allies, and each have distinct views. Instead of running against each other, they decided to band together and form a “coalition,� or what Schenk referred to as a “student movement� at the Emerald town hall. The positives of this action are untested, but at face value, they communicate a desire to compromise over political differences. The slate members’ views, which are often at odds, may slow processes to a gridlock — but they may also ensure that policies and decisions are drafted through different viewpoints even after the election is long in the past. The downfall is that a one-choice race isn’t democratic. Even with the slate’s visionary platform and efforts at representing diverse opinions, students won’t have the opportunity to express via vote which perspective they align with and what speaks to them. Students didn’t even get to select the diverse “supergroup� that formed the coalition. This one slate campaign is said to be an attempt from inside ASUO to clean up politics, with the goals of making it more welcoming and open-minded. Instead, it comes off as even more inaccessible than before. Although ASUO hasn’t been renowned for its openness. A small portion of the student population votes in these elections — 24 percent last year — meaning that even when there is competition, candidates only need to focus on
a few major groups to sway the vote, such as Greek Life or freshmen. More than voting itself, the competition from other slates is what drives candidates; debates expose weaknesses and strengths, and strong competition forces candidates to perfect their platforms. Gimm skipping the town hall for a class should lead students to question just how motivated the slate is to communicate with its voters. But competition can also breed empty promises and shameless pandering to voters. ASUO has a history of competition bringing out ugly displays of power. This is part of the reason UO For You was happy to run unopposed. But surely there is a better solution to cleaning up ASUO politics than eliminating choice entirely. The bigger concern is what this situation says about UO’s student population. The same school year students protested and cried over the national presidential election, only one person runs for campus president and students look the other way. Were those protests the dying gasps of a now fully apathetic student body, or do students just not care about on-campus politics? If it’s the latter, can you blame them? ASUO hasn’t traditionally been forthright in educating the campus on what it does and how it operates. But students should care. ASUO distributes approximately $16 million yearly — that’s student money. If you are involved in extracurricular activities on campus, you probably have something at stake in this election. It would be a mistake to imagine ASUO won’t make any changes to current funding. Sitting President Quinn Haaga, for example, chose not to grant club sports a $50,000 request that ASUO governments gave yearly in recent history. It is possible that UO For You’s vision of political compromise will prove successful and demonstrate that ASUO officials are trying to find different and better ways to serve students. But regardless, there’s not much that students can do now. Barring a bizarre and unanticipated write-in movement, UO For You will be next year’s government. But it’s not too late for the student population to change its outlook on campus government. If getting involved and changing ASUO culture from the inside doesn’t sound appealing, it’s crucial for students to remain skeptical and create systems that hold those in power accountable. Attend senate meetings, host rallies or contact ASUO members directly. Demand interaction. What ASUO really needs, maybe more than a lecture on democracy, is a culture change. In the meantime, let’s hope UO For You is as ready to lead as promised, because — for better or worse — we’re stuck with them.
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Among the 23,634 students at the University of Oregon, around one percent are proudly training for war. Although Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets blend in when they are among their peers, they stand out on Thursdays when they don their military fatigues. The ROTC is a full-time commitment that demands physical and mental endurance. Caleb Snyder, a sophomore in the ROTC program, said he often wonders what his life would have been like had he not joined the ROTC. He resents the program sometimes because of the sheer time commitment required of him and fellow cadets. He says it can limit him from doing other activities more typical of a college lifestyle. “Sometimes I wish I could just live a normal life and be a college student,� Snyder said. “Not shave my face every single day like I have to; not have to spend my weekends not with my girlfriend like I want to and go hiking like I love to do. But at the same time, if I didn’t have the full-ride scholarship to the University of Oregon through the ROTC, I wouldn’t be here right now.� The primary purpose of the ROTC is to train college students how to be officers in the United States Army. But as many cadets will say, it is much more than that. The ROTC calls for a rigid structure and time commitment that members say is demanding yet rewarding. “I need the structure,� said Joey Fisher, a junior in the ROTC. “I need deadlines, I need the pressure because if I don’t have it I absolutely would slack off and no one would be holding me accountable.� When Fisher puts on his uniform in the morning, he says that because most people do not distinguish between the ROTC and the active duty military, he acts with a
heightened sense of professionalism out of respect for those who are on duty. “College and the ROTC don’t always mix well. Waking up at 5:30 in the morning three times a week doesn’t mix well with staying up until 2 a.m. studying,� Fisher said. Hayley Floyd, a UO junior in the ROTC program, said that the time commitment to ROTC as an upperclassman can be a pain, but she also appreciates the structure it provides to her life. “When I wasn’t doing ROTC, I kind of felt lost,� Floyd said. “I didn’t know what I was doing half the time. When I got out of class I had work, but when I had free time I was like, ‘What do I do with myself?’ And so ROTC provides that structure.� Floyd said that she too acts more professional in the uniform; however, while most of the time people are respectful, she notices a slight stigma at UO. “Especially on this campus — I don’t know how it is at other schools — but we do get weird looks,� Floyd said. Cadets find the ROTC in a variety of ways. Some enlist in the National Guard out of high school, then enter the program once they enroll in college. Others try the program out of curiosity in college, then sign their contract. There are many student groups on campus that all have their various codes of conduct. But students in the ROTC are making the ultimate promise to their country, according to Lieutenant Colonel Sharel Pond, head of the ROTC program at UO. “People know that this is the military,� Pond said, who is also a professor of military science at UO. “While it is serious and the mission is very serious, we want to make it as engaging as possible. As an educator, I want to include every sense I
MS II Cadet Caleb Snyder leads his blindfoldeed team through a medical evacuation drill during leadership lab. (Phillip Quinn)
Senior ROTC Cadet Captains Jasmine Clark and Christmas Fou march down University St.. (Phillip Quinn)
Oregon ROTC Cadets plat capture the flag during their leadership lab. (Phillip Quinn)
can. So if I have all five senses in their learning environment, then they are going to learn a lot better. It doesn’t have to painful.” One cornerstone of the ROTC program is the “leadership lab” that takes place every week during the school year. In these labs, cadets are put through drills that mimic aspects of combat situations in order to increase their critical thinking and decision-making skills. These can range from fun team building activities, such as building rope bridges, to more rigorous simulations, such as how to react when under fire by an enemy. “I want them to be prepared for the worst day they will ever have and pray to God they will never have it,” Pond said. Pond acknowledges that some labs can be very demanding of students. “You’re going to come back dirty and tired and sweaty and muddy,” Pond said. “And my experience is that students like those labs just as much because they get to tell their friends what they did. They come back energized because they did something and challenged themselves and learned.” Pond is also out to change the notion that
ROTC is hyper-competitive, composed of purely physical training. She encourages her students to have tough discussion about emotional and psychological issues that might arise in a military environment, like sexual harassment and suicide risk. “I’m teaching them to look inside themselves to recognize what their biases and stereotypes are and what their leadership style is,” Pond said. “I want them to recognize what gets in their way so they can better lead their soldiers.” The brawny, aggressive military “dude” is another stereotype that Pond wishes to dispel. “I want diversity,” Pond said. “I want people of color. I want women. I want everybody that might not think ‘I’m the army guy.’ The army is not about just guys.” Contracted ROTC cadets receive full-ride scholarships to UO and after graduating have a guaranteed job as an officer in the Army. But cadets recognize that the program gives them more than just financial security. Snyder relishes the opportunity to wear his camouflage attire because he understands its significance. “You don’t represent just the ROTC; you
represent every single person who has ever worn that uniform,” Snyder said. “That’s what they’re really trying to instill in their programs. Common customs and courtesies, how to wear the uniform, how to act in the uniform — you’re not a civilian in the uniform.” Although Snyder enlisted out of high school to get in-state tuition to attend UO, he now recognizes how much more the military has shaped him as a person and how much it means to him. Even more, he is learning that his responsibility is not only to educate himself, but to help build up his fellow cadets. “It makes you look at things above and beyond yourself rather than, ‘I’m just trying to get through college,’” said Snyder. “I’m trying to make the people around me better.”
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Rifanty Kahfiani jumped through hoops to become a starter on the Oregon women’s tennis team. The 18-year-old freshman from Jakarta, Indonesia took the TOEFL test, an English language test, seven times before she met the target score to get accepted into and play tennis for Oregon. When she finally got here, she played five matches and went 5-2 in doubles and singles before suffering a severe ankle sprain that confined her to a scooter and crutches for a month. With two other Ducks out with injuries as well, the team had to rely on just six players to get them through the next six weeks of competition. During spring break, Kahfiani marked her return to the court to face Fresno State in singles. “I’m very excited to play as best as I can,” Kahfiani said. Although her match went unfinished – the Ducks won 4-1 before she could conclude her match – the team is just happy to have her back. “Before, we had just six players, but to know that now there are so many more options, it’s kinda crazy,” her teammate Alyssa Tobita said. English is still new for Kahfiani. She struggled to keep up in her math class because she had to decipher the instructor’s unfamiliar accent while learning new concepts. “I know that Math 95 (Intermediate Algebra) is not that hard, but the language makes it harder for me,” she said. “I got frustrated the first week. But when I kept doing it, it’s fine.”
It has been just 3 months since Kahfiani landed on U.S. soil, but her teammates marvel at the progress she has made learning English. “When we have team meetings, the coaches sometimes say words that she won’t understand,” Tobita said. “But after the meeting, she’ll come to me and ask what the word meant. It’s crazy that she can remember the words and take that all in.” Kahfiani started learning English in elementary school but was only limited to simple things such as numbers. While playing on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) circuit, she had to travel a lot, which forced Kahfiani to hone her English skills. “Honestly, I’m not that good at English, but I got better when I was traveling,” she said. “I have to speak English with everyone, so that made me better.” Kahfiani’s route to Oregon seemed destined with the connections forged throughout her tennis career. She befriended Shweta Sangwan, a sophomore on the Oregon team, from playing on the ITF circuit and is practically family with the two Indonesian brothers on the men’s tennis team at Oregon, Armando and Fabian Soemarno. Until last April, the 18-year-old didn’t even know about the University of Oregon until two Indonesian tennis players for the Ducks convinced her to apply and linked her up with the coach. Oregon head coach Alison Silverio capitalized on these connections to convince Kahfiani to pack her bags and move to a foreign land almost 8,000 miles from home.
“We had a nice connection with the two brothers that were already playing here, so that’s how Rifanty and I started communicating,” Silverio said. “She seemed like a very positive, very respectful young lady when I first talked with her. It was a very great start to our relationship.” While Kahfiani’s teammates help her out with English, she also teaches them about the Indonesian culture, particularly language. Tobita uses the little Indonesian she has picked up from her to establish personal rapport during matches. “[The team] calls me Tobi, so she’ll be like, ‘ayo Tobi,’ which means ‘let’s go Tobi.’ So I’ll say ‘ayo Fa,’ which is ‘let’s go Rifa,’ ” Tobita said. “I love saying that a lot during matches. It makes me feel connected just to her than just saying, ‘let’s go Ducks’ all the time, especially when she’s watching from the back of my court.” One of the Indonesian phrases that the team, including the coaches, has picked up is ‘ayam goreng,’ Indonesian for fried chicken. Whenever Kahfiani misses an easy ball or falls, she utters that phrase, and the team can’t get enough of it. “She missed a couple balls in a row and she said ‘fried chicken,’ but in Indonesian,” Silverio said. “And I went, ‘Rifa! You just said fried chicken.’ And
she said with a smile, ‘Yes coach. Yes, I did.’ That put a smile on her face and it made me and the other girls laugh. She’s a fun girl to be around.” Even when Kahfiani was going through rehabilitation, she continued to contribute to the team by supporting them from the sidelines. “[Rifa and the athletic trainer] would be on the side of the court doing their exercises and she would always feed in positive energy,” Silverio said. “That’s the kind of student-athlete you want on your team. When things aren’t great for them, everything’s not going their way, they’re still going to find a way to give back to the team.” Kahfiani has just embarked on her college journey, but she already has options laid out in her future. She harbors dreams of pursuing a professional tennis career, becoming an athletic trainer or opening a restaurant boasting healthy food. She’s on track to go down any of those paths. She’s on the varsity tennis team, pursuing a human physiology degree and her cauliflower pizza and pasta are some of the dishes her teammates have enjoyed. “I typically don’t like people helping me when I’m cooking, with the exception of Rifa,” Nia Rose, a junior on the team, said. “I trust her to cook anything.”
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