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THE CAMPAIGNS AND WHERE THEY STAND

WHO IS RUNNING AND WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE

ELECTIONS START NEXT WEEK. Here’s your guide to everything

ASUO — including a Q&A with the three candidates for

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ASUO Constitution Court has approved three ballot measures for the upcoming election. Stu-dents can vote on the measures on April 4 through DuckWeb. If you are not well-versed in ASUO language, the ballot measures could be hard to comprehend. We went through the jargon, so you don’t have to. Here’s the breakdown:

MAKING ASUO SERVICES UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE

This measure will require ASUO to implement “Univer-sal Design,” which will provide proper accommodations either upon request or as a regular practice for meetings and events “for students with a broad range of abilities, disabilities, ages, reading levels, learning styles, native languages, cultures [and] religions” without increasing the incidental fee.

The measure was proposed by ASUO Director of Staff Casey Edwards in coordination with the AccessABILITY Student Union. The measure will only impact students and student leaders and has no enforceable impact on professional staff, faculty or other University of Oregon employees.

A vote ‘yes’ would make ASUO agree to a non-binding require-ment to make the organization more accessible to all students regardless of ability and other characteristics such as “learning styles, cultures [and] religions.”

A vote ‘no’ would allow the ASUO to operate without implementing universal design principles.

FUNDING INITIATIVES OF THE STUDENT BODY

If this ballot measure passes, any ASUO-recognized programs or services will receive more money if they collect signatures from at least 10 percent of the student body. The funding will come from the incidental fee the following year. The ballot mea-sure cannot be used to defund programs.

The University of Oregon OSPIRG chapter is behind the measure.

ASUO Senate can still modify the funding to prevent the inci-dental fee from exceeding the budget growth.

A vote ‘yes’ would allow stu-dent groups to collect signatures from students for more funding without going through the ASUO finance committees’ approval.

A vote ‘no’ would not allow programs or services to petition for an increased budget.

UPDATING DEADLINES OF COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS

This ballot measure will require the ASUO president to appoint committee members by Oct. 1. Current ASUO bylaws give the president multiple deadlines to appoint members on ASUO Stu-dent Planning and Construction Committee, ASUO Diversity Plan Committee and Elections Board Chair position.

A vote ‘yes’ would set a deadline of Oct. 1 for the ASUO president to appoint the Election Board Chair, members of ASUO Student Planning and Construc-tion Committee and ASUO Diver-sity Plan Committee.

A vote ‘no’ would leave mul-tiple deadlines for committee appointments.

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THE CAMPAIGNS AND WHERE THEY STANDASUO ELECTIONS ARE UPON US. Students, brace

yourselves for the flurry of brightly colored t-shirts, clipboards and social media plugs. In as little as two weeks, you could know who is going to represent the student body in the coming academic year.

Beginning April 4, you can cast your vote on Duck-web for one executive ticket composed of a presi-dential candidate and two vice presidential can-didates. You will also vote for as many as eight individual senate seats and seven at-large finance committee positions and student positions on university committees.

Sound confusing?This issue has all the information

you need to participate as a well-informed campus citizen.

The first thing distinguishing all these candidates from each other is the campaign with which they are running. Each campaign has a different platform or agenda they hope to focus on if elected. Here are the three campaigns you have to choose from from this year:

Duck Squad• Create a peer debt counseling program• Organize and use media attention to encourage admin-

istrative accountability• Expand SafeRide and DDS services• Advertise mental health services• Lobby for more state funding and new revenue

sources• Create a senate liaison to improve inclusivity

One Oregon• Explore free or subsidized textbook op-

portunities• Increase late night bus service and bring

Uber back• Support groups’ advertising and fundraising

efforts• Sponsor student artists and performers• Further involve student groups in decisions

I’m With UO• Enhance campus lighting• Develop campus shooter response

plan• Coordinate among sexual assault

prevention programs• Combine Safe Ride and DDS• Develop programs to foster suicide

prevention awareness• Expand and advertise university coun-

seling services• Promote sustainability initiatives

within student programs• Invest more money in multicultural

and graduate programs

• Invest in free HIV and STD/I testing.

• Advocate for tuition and fees transparency

• Fight mandatory live on-campus policy

• Increase financial transpar-ency

• Establish an EMU food pantry

• Implement cultural compe-tency trainings

• Support leadership in stu-dent groups

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Every year, the student body collectively pays $17 million to its student government via the incidental fee. To understand why voting in the ASUO election matters, forget for a moment the insignificance of high school student government and look beyond the flurry of T-shirts and clipboards. When voting closes, the winners are responsible for deciding what that $17 million gets spent on.

Here are all the categories of position you can vote for:

Senate

At-large committee

The senate handles the majority of student money, mostly by two processes. First, finance senators spend the beginning to the middle of the academic year meeting with student groups to figure out the upcoming academic year’s budget. Senate’s budget recommendation, which goes on to be approved by the ASUO and the university president, determines how much students will pay in the incidental fee the next year.

The senate also allocates surplus money, which comes from any funds that student groups received in the previous year, but didn’t use. Students groups, especially those who don’t have a regular budget from the ASUO, come to weekly senate meetings to request money for events.

Senator candidates run with a slate affiliation, but students vote for them individually.

The president and vice presi-dents have less direct financial control when it comes to spend-ing incidental fee money, but their level of involvement in the budget-setting process can be extensive if they choose. This year, the ASUO executive has organized events such as tuition rallies and a safety forum following the shootings at Umpqua Community College. It also is responsible for organizing the fall and spring street faires. The president appoints a cabinet of positions such as an events co-ordinator, a nontraditional student advocate and a director of staff.

Students vote for one slate’s executive ticket, which is the presi-dent and vice presidents.

At-large committee members sit on one of the four finance committees that determine different parts of the budget. These are not seats on the senate, so at-large members vote only on matters concerning their respective committees.

Students vote for slate-affiliated can-didates, but as individuals.

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Se a t 1Programs Finance

CommitteeJulia McInnis, I’m with UOMartin Martinez, Duck SquadAbdullah Alshobiky, One Oregon

ExecutiveI’M WITH UOQuinn Haaga, PresidentNatalie Fisher, External VPZach Lusby, Internal VPONE OREGONZachary Rentschler, PresidentTori Ganahl, External VPAdam Sharf, Internal VPDUCK SQUADSamara Mokaya, PresidentSophie Albanis, External VPAbel Cerros, Internal VP

Se a t 6E MU Board

Tess Mor, I’m with UOJason Kim, Duck SquadDrew Williams, One Oregon

Se a t 2Programs Finance

CommitteeJordan Allison, I’m with UOMickey Swartz, Duck SquadLauren Horner, One Oregon

Se a t 7Athletics and

Contracts Finance Committee

Keegan WIlliams-Thomas, I’m with UORichard Lopez, Duck SquadAlex Reasoner, One Oregon

Se a t 4EMU Board

Madison Moskowitz, I’m with UORita Jia, Duck SquadChristine Lu, One Oregon

Se a t 9Departments Finance

CommitteeHassan Almumen, I’m with UOMay Saechao, Duck SquadCamila Merlo Flores, One Oregon

Se a t 5EMU Board

Erika Goto, I’m with UOMaxine David, Duck SquadBrendan Carey, One Oregon

Se a t 1 1Journalism

Blair Barnes, I’m with UOMichelle Nguyen, Duck SquadJake Smith, One Oregon

Senate*

Se a t 1 2English, History,

LanguageLisa Smith, I’m with UOLeo Zhong, Duck SquadSara Golestaneh, One Oregon

Se a t 1 7Social Studies

Pablo Alvarez, I’m with UOJuly Ramirez, Duck SquadMargaret Butler, One Oregon

Se a t 1 3Music, Art, Public

PolicyLauren Young, I’m with UOAdrion Trujillo, Duck SquadHiro Nukaga, One Oregon

Se a t 1 8Physical and

Computer SciencesBlair Toy, I’m with UORachel David, Duck SquadEdward Szczepanski, One Oregon

Se a t 1 4Business

Emily Huang, I’m with UOClarice Beasley, Duck SquadColin Petitt, One Oregon

Se a t 2 0Education and

UndeclaredEllie Holschler, I’m with UOMay Dinh, Duck SquadMikayla Rowe, One Oregon

Se a t 1 6Life Sciences

Hao Tan, I’m with UODayja Curry, Duck SquadJordan Thierry, One Oregon

Se a t 2 2Graduate Arts &

HumanitiesAaron Porter, Duck SquadTerra Wheeler, One Oregon

Se a t 2 3Law and Sciences

Mike Francisco, I’m with UOAwab Rawi, One Oregon

* some 2-year seats on senate aren’t open this year.Note: Abel Cerros is the chief of the Emerald’s bike delivery crew. He is not involved with editorial operations at

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Committees at-large

I’M WITH UOMaddie Moore, Morgan

Krakow, Ben Brown (2-year)

DUCK SQUADNicki Zavoshy, Talisha

Jackson (2-year)

ONE OREGONSolomon Greenwald, Yuri

D’Agosto, Henry Korman

ACFC AT-LARGE

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I’M WITH UOClaudia-Rose Mehranbod and

Luci Charlton

DUCK SQUADLeonardo Perez, Nhu Le, Anna

Hoffer

ONE OREGONCherry Ni and Emily Pearson

EMU AT-LARGE (ONE AND TWO-YEAR SEATS)

I’M WITH UOAdrianna Roberts, Emily

McAlindin, Alex Pear, Sammi Wong

DUCK SQUADJustin Cheung, Amber

Erkan, Jackie Mayorga, Kiara Kashuba

ONE OREGONJasmine Asadi, Olivia

Onustock, Josie Kissinger, Ben Barna

STUDENT RECREATION CENTER ADVISORY BOARD

I’M WITH UOPeri Langlois, Rachael

Wallace, Rachel Wilson

DUCK SQUADDelbar Efhad, Ariston

Mokaya, Priscilla Cardenas

ONE OREGONClaire Bange and Trevor

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ASSOCIATED STUDENTS PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

I’M WITH UORachel BennerDuck SquadSierra Jager

ONE OREGONMikkel Hendison

STUDENT PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE

I’M WITH UOWoo-Rim Lee

DUCK SQUADMax Jensen

ONE OREGONAllison Bruno

DFC AT-LARGE

I’M WITH UOJanelle Bond and Pen Gou

DUCK SQUADGabrielle de Pena

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Mother of Lauren Jones filed $2.5 mil-lion lawsuit against

PeaceHealthThe mother of Lauren Jones filed a

$2.5 million lawsuit against PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center University District claiming medical negligence and wrongful death.

Jones passed away last year from meningococcemia. On Feb. 17, 2015, PeaceHealth diagnosed Jones with an "influenza-like illness" when she went to the hospital with a 103 degree fever. She was sent home to her residence hall with Tylenol and ibuprofen, where she was later found unconscious that same day. She never regained consciousness.

The lawsuit alleges the hospital failed to perform a blood test and have her evaluated by a specialist for infectious disease.

Former basketball players Dominic

Artis and Damyean Dotson filed a law-suit against Univer-

sity of OregonArtis and Dotson are seeking $10

million each from the university, claim-ing the investigation against them in the wake of rape allegations in March of 2014 was biased, denied them due process and diminished their chances of playing in the NBA.

Former player Brandon Austin was also accused and sued the university last October. All three players were

dismissed by the UO and banned from campus for up to 10 years in May 2014. Austin filed his own suit seeking $7.5 million in October.

In August 2015, the survivor of the alleged assault settled her suit against the UO for violating her Title IX rights, receiving $800,000 and free tuition.

A crash involving an EMX bus and a truck near campus sent a child to the hospitalThe crash occurred at Franklin Bou-

levard and Orchard Street around 12 p.m. on March 17. It sent five people to the hospital with minor injures, includ-ing a seven-month-old child. According to EPD reports, the child was brought to the hospital after hitting her head on a metal pole during the crash, but was reportedly unharmed. The accident was caused by a Ford F-350 pickup truck when it ran a red light while trying to make a left turn onto Orchard Street.

Both students study-ing abroad in Brus-sels accounted for

after attacksBombings at the airport and a metro

station left 30 dead and 230 injured. Two UO students in the area were con-firmed as safe and accounted for follow-ing the attacks.

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SAMARA MOKAYA

Hear from the candidates that are running to become next year’s student body president.

Why did you decide to run for president? I was sitting down one day and I was like: “I could let

other people make decisions and hope that they are hearing what I am saying — hope they are listening to my voice. Or I can be the one who enacts those changes.”

You don’t have any student government experience; will that be a disadvantage?

I don’t see it as a disadvantage. I think there should be an acknowledgment that senate and the ASUO do have governing power, but I also think that we need to acknowledge there’s power within our student body as a whole.

How do you hope to improve safety on campus?There are places on campus where there are no lights.

We want to make sure that the university is a well-lit campus where students can actually safely walk home. We also want to make sure DDS and Safe Ride are expanded.

How will your experiences in social justice activism help your slate as leaders?

When we have a problem, we can attack it from a governing [point] of view … Or we can protest. We can do direct action. We can do other things in which we can go around the system, which I think is very powerful.

Why should students vote for your campaign? We want to hear all the voices, not where the power has

been concentrated … And the best way to do that is to get students from different backgrounds with different ideas to create a shared picture and put a puzzle together.

We are making sure — whatever we do — that we are doing it for the benefit of students. That’s why we’re listed on our Facebook page and website as a community and not a political organization. We are not looking to fluff our resumes. We are not looking to launch careers in government. We’re looking to make our school better.

Student government experience: NoneOther affiliations: Member of the Student Orientation Staff, Black

Student Union, outreach coordinator at the Multicultural Center.

Major: Political Science

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Why did you decide to run for president?… I feel like I have a really strong understanding of what the

ASUO needs to do to better serve the students. Working in the ASUO for the last three years has helped me identify the weaknesses in the ASUO where we could be a lot stronger both in outreach and with programs throughout the whole budget process.

What would set your campaign apart from others?We really work to set tangible goals, things that we really

feel that we can accomplish within a year, and I think that our experience inside ASUO has definitely allowed us to identify areas that can be strengthened within the ASUO.

How do you plan to keep tuitions and fees affordable for students?

We are advocating for tuitions and fees transparency. What that would look like is a page on the student government website where students can go and see exactly where their money is being spent and how the university is using our money. Also our team would be more than willing to lobby to make sure that students’ voices are being heard.

Why and how would you merge Safe Ride and DDS?They provide similar services and they are both funded

through PFC. To combine them would use the finances efficiently and effectively.

We will start with a conversation with the leadership teams of both [services] to see how the merger fits … Something I think is very important with this merger is to get the support from the administration, which in talks with President Schill I think he expressed is something [it] could potentially be interested in.

Why should students vote for your campaign?Our executive definitely brings the most experience

within ASUO to the table, which I personally think is really important when running the ASUO … We [the executive] have a lot of experience working directly with the budget process, which is also something very crucial because it’s such a big part of ASUO.

Student government experience: ASUO senator and vice-chair of the Programs Finance Committee.Other affiliations: Member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, vice president of

the Panhellenic Executive Council, development coordinator for Camp Kesem,

member of Environmental Leadership Program.

Major: Planning, Public Policy and Management.

ZACHARY RENTSCHLER

Why did you decide to run for president? It is something that I hadn’t thought of before this year.

But there are a lot of changes that I want to see and a lot of people I want to bring into the process, so it ended up being the right decision for me. What I am really passionate about is prioritizing the services that students use every day.

On Feb. 13, Rentschler made an abrupt exit from the ASUO Senate budget meeting. He was the last senator to vote on the budget that cut the late night bus services. Without his presence, the senate didn’t have enough members to take a vote and had to send the meeting into recess.

What went through your mind when you stormed out of the budget meeting?

…Transit is one of the things that got me involved with the student government and pushing it off and acting like it was not all that important — when in fact a lot of students depend on it everyday — made me want to disrupt the business as usual.

You have been very vocal about improving students’ accessibility. How will you go about accomplishing that?

For example, people who live out in Autzen, they can’t access any incidental fee[-funded] event without thinking about the way to get home past 9 or 10 p.m. That means they can’t access Ducks after Dark, Divisi singing at midnight or a lot of experiences that make being a UO student really great. [And] making sure people basically have a way of getting to and from campus either through expanding Safe Ride, or the buses.

Many of the candidates on your slate are new to the ASUO; do you see that as a disadvantage?

I think it’s a challenge and an opportunity for the ASUO. This year felt like business as usual to me, where a lot of priorities ended up slipping through the cracks because people were recycling last year’s budget into this year’s. So bringing some people into the process who can look at it with fresh eyes is needed. Thinking of these people as new at the ASUO is only telling half the story, because they have been fighting on these issues already and they will continue to fight regardless of whether they will be elected.

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Others weigh themselves down with constant, prodding reminders of forthcoming sequels, breeding a cycle of hype that can never fulfill promises. Dawn of Justice commits all of these sins, among others.

The core problem with this iconic face-off is rooted in another sin: greed. In a post-Avengers world, one can only imagine the pressure placed on DC Studios to get their heroes together for an equivalent payday.

But while Marvel took a full five films to build a cinematic universe, DC has attempted to do it in two. With Man of Steel lacking more than tangential references to non-Superman characters, that leaves Dawn of Justice to cover tremendous ground with little space to spare. Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Aquaman, Lex Luthor, Doomsday, and The Flash all boast decades of history that must be delicately managed. It would take a gentle hand to fit all of this establishment neatly into a single feature.

Zack Snyder does not have gentle hands. The man behind Watchmen, 300, and Sucker Punch lives by a dark aesthetic with an eye for the eccentric and unbelievable.

In Dawn of Justice, these same tendencies are applied to a dry, dialogue-heavy script that will leave most action-oriented fans either scratching their heads, or asleep in their seats. Dawn

of Justice is an incomprehensible epic, skipping over character development in favor of hitting the next plot beat. To fit this five-hour story into a two-and-a-half-hour timeline, Snyder has trimmed every frame that isn’t absolutely vital to communicating the story.

But rest assured, plenty of time is carved out to tease other DC properties coming soon to a screen near you.

The heroes on screen are pop culture icons of pulp, and Dawn of Justice works overtime to drown them in cynicism. Ben Affleck’s Batman is a hardened man turned cold by tragedy (that the audience never truly gets to understand) who publicly attends bum fights and murders no less than a dozen people in cold blood. Jesse Eisenberg’s Luthor is a painfully eccentric millennial CEO whose over-the-top monologues feel out of place in such a drab world. Doomsday is every generic grey monster from the past decade mashed up into one. Wonder Woman feels exciting and fresh, but Snyder barely puts her in the film.

As a result, the final fight sequence that justifies the film’s existence can’t even satisfy. Punches are thrown and explosions occur in typical blockbuster style, but two hours of preceding mediocrity strips out all of the fun.

Like in Man of Steel, Snyder’s DC Universe is soaked in 9/11 imagery, cable news paranoia, and general hopelessness. It’s not one worth celebrating or occupying for any period of time. But unlike Man Of Steel, Dawn of Justice is executed with an incompetence that puts it in the league of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and last summer’s Fantastic Four. Few films have left me as frustrated, broken and irritated.

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Unfortunately, not everyone has the luxury of a secluded family estate to retire to when things get rough, but Stardew Valley might give you the next best thing to living out that fantasy.

Stardew Valley – a spiritual successor to the classic Harvest Moon series – was created entirely by a single developer, Eric Barone, and published by Chucklefish Games. Since its release for PC on Feb. 26, the game has sold more than half a million copies and has been one of the first games since Minecraft to gain such a tremendous following in such a short amount of time. The game’s sudden success has prompted Barone to rethink his plans for how he will continue developing the game after release. It has already prompted him to make major changes to the pacing and story elements within the game. The biggest addition that has been announced so far is an upcoming four-player co-op mode.

The game’s base mechanics borrow directly from the Harvest Moon series. You’ll spend much of your time growing seasonal crops, raising a variety of animals, fishing, foraging and fostering relationships with the various townsfolk. There is also a combat system where you can fight monsters in the local mine and a large amount of customization for both the player character and the farm itself. The game also has a much better user interface than Harvest Moon and isn’t

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There are two main goals to work towards while playing. The first is to make your farm a success by earning large amounts of money and cleaning up the farm from its unruly state. The second is to restore the town’s ramshackle community center by collecting sets of items, like one of each crop from a specific season or each species of fish you can catch from a particular body of water. Alternatively, you can sell the building to the game’s main antagonist JojaMart, who will turn it into a warehouse instead.

The overall aesthetic is fairly cheerful with upbeat music and colorful artwork. The story also has a profoundly modern feel to it. For example, you can marry any of the ten potential marriage candidates, regardless of your gender or theirs, and many of the game’s subplots deal with surprisingly real-world issues, like the father of a family leaving to fight in a war.

One of the best parts of this game is the amazing amount of community support it has received. A huge variety of modifications are available already, including additional music, better character portraits and even a mod that turns all the animals in the game into Pokemon.

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To start the second half, Oklahoma guard Buddy Hield (24) hits one of his eight total three pointers in the game. (Kyle Sandler)

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In the far left corner of the Oregon locker room, Dwayne Benjamin sat with a towel over his head. Fighting back tears, Benjamin slowly collected his red and black Jordan sandals and packed his bag. The graduating senior, who had transferred from Mt. San Jacinto College two years ago, realized this was it.

“Best team I’ll ever play for,” Benjamin said. “Best two years of my life.”

Before media members entered with cameras and recorders, cramming the compact locker room following Oregon’s 80-68 Elite Eight loss to Oklahoma, the team took the 10-minute cooling off period to thank its two seniors for everything they had done.

“It was just the seniors, that’s all we were talking about,” Chris Boucher said. “They worked hard for us and knowing they’re leaving like that just hurts.”

Elgin Cook, who scored 24 points in his last collegiate game, had one of his best outings. On the other hand, Benjamin struggled from the floor, and finished with just three points on 1-of-6 shooting.

“Not a lot of seniors have this moment,” Dillon Brooks said. “Elgin fought so hard, same with Dwayne. It’s hard to go out like this. The seniors will always be in our hearts and they’ll always be Oregon Ducks.”

Oregon lost to a more experienced, better prepared Oklahoma team.

Oklahoma guard, Buddy Hield put on a spectacle.Shaking past Cook and other Oregon defenders

as if they were kids on a playground, Hield splashed his way to a 37-point, one-man show. It knighted him into NCAA Tournament royalty with the likes of Stephen Curry, joining an elite circle of players who have scored 100 points prior to the Final Four.

“Buddy’s performance ... we just haven’t seen that,” Oregon head coach Dana Altman said.

For the second straight game, he resembled a certain NBA legend who was enjoying every minute of the shooting barrage from the stands.

“He’s been Kobe since I came here,” Oklahoma freshman center Jamuni McNeace said. “He plays like Kobe, he’s competitive like Kobe, he scores like Kobe. Buddy gets buckets, Kobe gets buckets.”

But in a game where Oregon dug itself in an 18-point first half hole, missed 17 3-pointers and gave up 16 second-chance points, it was clear it wasn’t just Hield doing the damage.

The Pac-12 regular season and tournament champion, the team who won 31 games in a season and became the first No. 1 seed in program history, did not play that way Saturday.

“That first half is etched in my mind already,” Altman said. “It will be a tough six months thinking about that.”

“We had a great year and we’ve accomplished things that have never been done,” Brooks said.

“We put Oregon on the map for sure.”Altman didn’t provide a clear answer about

what may happen with this program next year. He told media members that he wants what’s best for his players’ futures. Some will consider the pros — Tyler Dorsey, Boucher, Brooks — and others will look forward to another year.

“I hope all of them come back. I’d sure like to work with them again, but that has to be a decision made by their families,” Altman said. “I want what’s best for them, and when they decide what they want to do, then we’ll try to put a team together and do the best we can.”

Realistically, Brooks, Dorsey and Boucher should return. The group could make for a roster filled with more experienced, more developed, and potentially, more talented players.

“Everybody grew up this year,” Dylan Ennis said. “We’re showing that Oregon is one of those basketball powerhouses now. Hopefully, the momentum will push into next season.”

For now, the loss hurts. But Altman said he knows this season will be one he looks back on fondly.

“Once the hurt of this game, once we get through that, we’ll reflect back on this year with great pride,” Altman said. “I’ll look back on it with a lot of love.”

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The Oregon women’s basketball team hasn’t played in Texas since 2007.

After rattling off three straight WNIT wins, the Ducks (23-10) have advanced to the quarterfinals and will visit University of Texas El Paso in El Paso on Monday night for a 6 p.m. tipoff.

It’ll be just the second-ever meeting between UTEP and Oregon. The two teams played in 1994 in a 80-70 Oregon win in Eugene.

Oregon is coming off a 73-63 win over Utah in Eugene,where it held the visiting Utes to 3-of-23 from 3-point range. Lexi Bando led the Ducks in scoring with 34 points. After the win, Oregon head coach Kelly Graves spoke to his team’s effort.

“I thought tonight we played with as much poise as we have all year — in any game,” Graves told reporters after the game.

Graves credited forward Jacinta Vandenberg as “a key to the tournament” after the Ducks lost the Pac-12’s co-player of the year, Jillian Alleyne, to an ACL injury.

Vandenberg has averaged 9.6 points and 7.7 rebounds per game, and fifth-year senior Lexi Petersen has scored 18.3 points per game in the last three Oregon wins.

“We’ve adjusted and played kind of a different game,” Graves said. “It’s working and they’re starting to believe. I think that was a big part of it: mental. Now we’re seeing and believing. That can go a long way.”

UTEP (29-4), the Conference USA regular season champion, advanced to the quarterfinal round after a 79-71 win against TCU on March 24. Before a crowd of 7,024, the Miners erased a 12-point deficit with a 41-12 run. The win tied the program’s record for most wins in a season.

In the win, UTEP had three scorers lead the way: guard Starr Breedlove (21 points, eight assists), guard Cameasha Turner (20 points) and guard Jenzel Nash (20 points, seven rebounds).

After the victory, UTEP coach Keitha Adams praised the raucous environment in her postgame press conference.

“El Paso, the city, has rejuvenated this team,” Adams said. “Coming out and having this kind of fan support has put the gas in their tank. They’re loving it now. They love this element.”

Against TCU, the Miners shot 50 percent from the field to extend their school-record home winning streak to 19 games. They’re 8-2 in their last 10 games and — like the Ducks — winners of three in a row.

“Our preparation is better. We still have a bad taste in our mouth from the conference tournament,” Turner said after the win over TCU. “I kind of think we’re peaking at the right time.”

In playing at UTEP, the Ducks will likely see the largest opposing crowd of the season. Oregon played before 4,462 fans in Corvallis on Jan. 8 earlier this season.

“We have some young kids who are getting some valuable minutes and producing,” Graves said. “Just for their psyche and the off-season inspiration, it can be big for them.

I think this is a valuable experience for us. On top of that, we’re winning and having some success.”

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This election will be the first in eight years in which a black candidate will not be receiving the nomination for either the Republican or Democratic party. As President Barack Obama is poised to leave office, his historic run ending in what seems like a torturous close, minority Americans are left to look at the monumental feat they’ve accomplished and question where to go next.

Comprising more than half of the 2008 democratic primary voters, black voters have found what Slate writer Jamelle Bouie has called a “newly activated” voice in the polls. Obama’s dedication to reaching the black community fostered a consistent and dedicated voter base in both of his campaigns and in the current voting pool.

The influence of this has been felt in this election, as former-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s proclaimed “southern firewall” of black voters has propelled her to win up to 90 percent of black votes in most southern states, where black voters comprise significant portions of the overall vote.

This discrepancy is what perhaps led Senator Bernie Sanders to emphatically proclaim “We will end institutional racism” during the Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, as he continued to describe the influence of Black Lives Matters and white privilege in his monologue.

“When you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto,” Sanders said. “You don’t know what it’s like to be poor. You don’t know what it’s like to be hassled on the street and dragged out of

a car.”Sanders’ dialogue is symbolic of how the nature of

the conversation has changed dramatically during this election.

Compare both candidates websites: Clinton’s features more keyword topics like the “school-to-prison-pipeline” and “mass incarceration.” It is much more traditional in the sense that it formalizes systemic racial issues and presents them in a political vernacular.

Sanders’ racial justice page, conversely, immediately opens up with the words “Physical Violence,” and beneath this banner is the names of 14 men and women that were unarmed and killed by police in the past several years. This is perhaps representative of the nature of racial politics in this election, as the formalized political jargon has given way to blunt, passionate rhetoric.

The University of Oregon has seen the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement on its own campus, as the Black Student Task Force held a rally this past November for solidarity with the movement because the racial environment at the university has led students to feel like it is difficult to succeed and grow.

The national discontent with this country’s racial environment seems to mirror the university’s, as both Sanders and Clinton have had speeches interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters in an effort to spread the influence of black voices in politics.

Following these encounters, both candidates have been forced to take a stance on the growing

movement — Sanders has even hired a leading figure in the movement to his staff.

Both were asked, “Do black lives matter?” on the national debate stage earlier this election season. Sanders’ statement in Michigan has just continued the bold, blunt rhetoric of the election thus far. Despite the all-white field of candidates this year, this conversation shows the willingness of all candidates, and not just the minority ones, to address issues of race and racism.

Many critics of Obama’s campaign believed that the number of black voters he attracted in his two presidential runs would die off once the historic factor of his election had faded. However, this election, although drawing in smaller numbers of primary voters, has shown that black voters encompass just as much influence as they did when Obama was running.

While Sanders’ has been able to speak about racial violence with an impassioned voice, this approach

has not earned him the votes that he will need to overtake Clinton.

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