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TrackTown USA president Vin Lananna shocked the track and field world last April by securing the 2021 International Association of Athletics Foundation World Championships for Eugene. Since the announcement, the bid has been met with questions and concerns ranging from the cost of the proposal to bribing allegations.

Though the controversy has quickly become a national story, bringing the World Championships to Hayward Field has sparked a local debate among students and faculty of the University of Oregon. These questions boil down to who will pay for the event and how the university will accommodate 2,000 visiting athletes and approximately 3,000 members of the media.

Lananna proposed that the project will cost $40 million from public funding, initially meant to be paid with state support and a lodging tax increase. However, Lananna recently indicated that the dollar amount of tax support is now only expected to be $25 million – after a lukewarm reception from Lane County legislators.

The attention now turns to what the UO’s role will be in paying for the World Championships, especially in relation to a budget refocused on research and academics.

Nick Jones, a UO sophomore, says he has mixed feelings on the IAAF bid.

“Bringing prestigious athletes here definitely gives great exposure to the city and the UO,” said the former Pit Crew member, “At the same time, I’d like to see some attention on renovating academic buildings like PLC.”

Although President Schill has acknowledged in a recent message to the UO community that “resources are too scarce and our mission too important for us to waste money in redundant administration, poorly performing programs and lax accountability,” the UO still sees value in supporting TrackTown’s bid both financially and by providing housing. According to a legislative agenda by Hans Bernard, UO’s associate vice president for state and community affairs, funding TrackTown’s proposal is a top priority. Bernard stated that “…these events will be to the economic and cultural benefit of the Eugene-area and the State of Oregon.”

These details come amid Lananna’s announcement last September that historic Hayward Field would be undergoing renovation. Construction begins this August, with plans to triple the seating – a facelift under the management of the UO Foundation.

Evidence suggests that the UO may cater to TrackTown USA during the event. According to UO documents, “Any regular University of Oregon staff time spent working on the event would not be charged to TrackTown USA.” The Register Guard expanded on these proposals, noting that any activities that conflict with the championships, including classes, seminars or orientations, would be canceled. However, because the event is still several years away, UO Vice President General Counsel Kevin Reed says that “There’s no final OK on any of those arrangements.”

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University of Oregon administration and critics of sexual assault policies have finally found something they agree on: Darci Heroy.

As interim Associate Vice President and Title IX coordinator, Heroy will report directly to University of Oregon President Michael Schill starting today about sexual assault on campus.

Heroy’s experience as a Title IX case investigator for the university from 2013-2014 as well as her background in gender equity make the administration’s critics, like sophomore Zach Lusby, hopeful.

“I was really impressed,” Lusby said after Heroy’s appointment last week. Lusby has organized many protests against the administration in the past. “It is a really strong start to getting students involved in taking a role in administration.”

The university is already battling sexual assault on several fronts: For example, Oregon Hall has crisis and support staff to talk to survivors, UOPD has a detective sergeant who specializes in sexual violence, and associate athletic director Lisa Peterson oversees gender equity within Oregon athletics. Heroy will be the person who connects them.

“[I have] the ability to take that 10,000-foot view, rather than being in the weeds all the time, doing the work on the ground,” Heroy said.

Finding someone like Heroy was at the top of UO’s list for addressing sexual assault, which came to the forefront after a high-profile rape case in 2014 and a campus survey that found that one in five UO undergraduate women faced some kind of rape, sexual assault or unwanted sexual advance.

That list came out around this time last year — when things were very different.

***Feb. 27, 2015: Clutching a large banner with

“STOP SILENCING SURVIVORS,” protesters marched in silence into Johnson Hall and then started shouting, demanding to speak to the interim university President, Scott Coltrane.

From the moment they entered building, where the university’s top-level leadership works, it felt like a battle, said Lusby, who helped organize the rally. Administrators locked the doors and didn’t pick up their phones.

“Their faces were filled with dread,” Lusby said. “It seems like they were really scared of conversing with students.”

Days earlier, UO had countersued a student who was suing the university after she was sexually

assaulted, she said, by three UO basketball players in 2014. But the university abandoned the suit after a petition signed by 1,500 people demanded the university drop it.

The protesters wanted to talk about moving forward. When an aide let Lusby and three other students in, they told Coltrane they felt betrayed by the university.

About a month later, in April, Coltrane announced his recovery plan to the university via email. The list of objectives, timed with Sexual Assault Awareness month, included hiring a Title IX coordinator and dedicating half a million dollars to expanding staffing and programs for sexual assault prevention. WHAT HAPPENS NOW

Heroy is hired on until the end of the academic year. Meanwhile, the UO will continue to search for a permanent administrator for the $105,000-130,000-a-year job. The university has been conducting a national search and has interviewed four candidates, but didn’t offer the job to any of them. Heroy was offered the job but declined to take the permanent post. She said she may yet decide to become a candidate for permanent position.

Heroy is new to administration, but has worked in law and is a Duck. She was a Title IX investigator taking on sexual misconduct cases at UO, and before that studied law at the university and taught law history classes.

This background is why many critics of the university are lauding her hire.

Some see her as a compassionate figure. Erin McGladrey, director of the Women’s Center, is leaving her job at the university this month because she feels UO has become “a private school” and not accessible to everyone, but McGladrey said Heroy makes her optimistic about the future.

“I don’t think she’s scared to make the right call, even if it’s uncomfortable,” McGladrey said.

McGladrey hasn’t met Heroy, but has worked with student survivors of sexual assault who felt she was “someone they could talk to” — an ally.

But UO administration also considers Heroy an ally: She’s been advising them on strategy since April 2015 — when admins originally posted her job — and they asked her “repeatedly” to take the position before she finally accepted temporarily, Heroy said.

Historically, when someone has had trust with the administration, they haven’t had trust with students, faculty and staff who are critical, McGladrey said, and vice versa. Heroy has trust with both groups, McGladrey said.

Other students want to wait and see. Sophie Albanis, a junior women’s and gender studies student, was one of the other students who talked to Coltrane at the Johnson Hall protest; she’s now ASUO’s Sexual and Mental Health Advocate and interviewed two of the four candidates UO brought but eventually didn’t choose for the position.

“The one thing I’d be concerned with is too much loyalty to the university,” Albanis said. “The students want somebody who will take the university to task if they need to, who will have those difficult conversations.”

Heroy has not criticized the university’s record nor indicated that she will push for any of the controversial measures some students and faculty are asking for, like suspending Fraternity and Sorority Life from growing or giving academics and staff in the UO Senate more power over the athletic department.

But Lusby and McGladrey are confident that Heroy will be “fair.” For them, this signals that after nearly two years of clashes, things at the university might finally be getting better.

In the last year, UO committed $500,000, hired more staff to investigate sexual assault and support survivors, and started the Get Explicit! education program for students living on campus, among other things.

That’s a response to students, faculty and staff applying pressure, McGladrey and Lusby say. And in the past year, the university community’s attention has turned toward this issue. Last year, Helena Schlegel won the race for ASUO president on a slate focused on safety for survivors of sexual assault. The University Senate has formed committees and passed resolutions around the issue.

Heroy calls herself “the accountability person,” and part of her job is making sure the university complies with Title IX and is meeting students’ needs.

“Part of the function [of this job] is to hold the institution accountable to the laws the federal government has set in place,” Heroy said, “but also holding the institution accountable to what’s in the best interest of the students, faculty and staff here.”

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UO BASKETBALL SEXUAL ASSAULT

CASE

FEB. 27, 2015: Students protest after

UO sues Jane Doe. (Taylor Wilder)

APRIL 3, 2014:Interim President Scott Coltrane

announces his plan to battle sexual assault. The very first thing on his list is creating an “Assistant

Vice President for Campus Sexual Assault.”

MARCH 8, 2014: The night unnamed

student Jane Doe said UO basketball players Dominic

Artis, Damyean Dotson and Brandon Austin

sexually assaulted her.

JAN. 26, 2015: The university hires

Darci Heroy as interim associate vice president and Title IX coordinator.

(Adam Eberhardt)

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AN ‘AMERICAN’ NAME

When I walked into Starbucks today, I really didn’t have any decisions to make. My go-to pick-me-up is a grandé Pike’s Place with room for cream, and when I’m asked for my name, without hesitation, I spell out “Negina.”

There was a time when a trip to Starbucks raised my anxiety levels to the point where decaf was all I could handle. I hated getting a paper cup with “Nigini,” “Regina,” “Nikina” or any other variation written on it. I hated hearing my name – which translates to mean a precious jewel – be butchered to the point of female genitalia.

That’s when I became Nicki one day, Nellie the next and finally, Natasha.

It wasn’t just Starbucks where I’d muddle my identity just to make things easier. At the bowling alley, on the Internet and even abroad, “Negina” was rarely the name I would go by. I wasn’t ashamed of my traditional Persian name – it was just the opposite. I became possessive over it and didn’t find everyday situations worthy enough for me to reveal my sacred name to others.

Now that I’ve gotten over that, I’m comfortable enough to correct people if they say my name wrong. I don’t mind taking the time to explain my name’s cultural background, and I don’t feel the need to be anyone but “Negina.”

Other people who live in the United States with non-traditional American names often go through the same cognitive conflict as I did a few years ago.

For UO senior Jenny Zhang, Americanizing her name meant more to her than just making life easier on non-native Chinese speakers.

“My Chinese name is Ren and it actually ‘means to be tough,’ so a lot of people think it’s a boy’s name,” Zhang said. “I liked ‘Jenny’ so much because when I spell it in Chinese, the characters are so much more girly than ‘Ren’ and I think it fits me more as a female. That’s always something I’ve wanted in my name, more femininity.”

Ever since her middle school English class in Tian Jin, China, the accounting student felt she identified so strongly with the name “Jenny” that she eventually took it on full-time.

“The first time I used ‘Jenny’ outside of school was after I graduated from college and I was at a bar,” Zhang said. “I met this guy from France and he asked me for my name. I thought, maybe I shouldn’t give him my real name because it’s so boyish, so I just blurted, ‘Jenny!’ We ended up dating for three years after that and he continued to use ‘Jenny,’ like everyone else, even though I told him my real name.”

Some students with non-English names don’t feel the need to take on a more American name. UO architecture senior Abdulhadi Almumen has gone by a shortened version of his name, Hadi, for the duration of his time in the States.

“I think Hadi is pretty easy to pronounce since it doesn’t have any of the difficult

Arabic letters like other names do,” Almumen said.

Westernizing a name often happens because of the ease-factor that comes with it. For Middle Easterners, especially in the world today, an English name may mean more comfort in places where racial biases are apparent.

Fortunately for Almumen, throughout his time in Eugene, he has yet to feel pressure from society to give up his Arabic name for reasons of intolerance.

“When it comes to racial profiling and Arab names, everyone in the U.S. has been really nice to me,” Almumen said. “I don’t feel like people treat me with any stereotypes for being Arab or for having a traditional name. It’s more like they see me and treat me the way I do them, which I totally respect.”

Zhang’s switch to an American name carried importance to her because of its significance to her identity as a woman. For Almumen, a Dammam, Saudi Arabia native, his name also feeds into his identity, but in the sense of it being both a familial tie and a symbol of his Arabic heritage.

Almumen said that he will definitely name his children with traditional names, similar to his own, in the future.

“I was named after my grandpa, I’m really proud of it,” Almumen said.

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