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ON THE COVER Aaron Wise, a sophomore golfer for the Ducks, was the first freshman to win a tournament last year.Photograph by Adam Eberhardt

The university reached a settlement of $242,000 with two insurance brokers on May 9. The case centered on bonuses paid to former head football coach Chip Kelly and his coaching staff for the team’s success in the 2012-13 season.

The athletic department paid a $490,000 premium to the insurers thinking their policy with Lloyd’s of London, an insurance market, would cover the coaches’ bonuses.

The coaches earned $688,000. The insurers refused to reimburse the UO, saying the policy only covered the maximum potential bonuses.

Young Americans for Liberty held an interview and Q&A session with British journalist and activist Milo Yiannopoulos on May 10.

Yiannopoulos shared his controversial views on topics like feminism, immigration and his over-the-top style.

“I don’t want any Muslims in the country,” Yiannopoulos said. He also said 52 percent of Muslims in Britain believe that homosexual sex should be outlawed and, as a gay man himself, he feels as though his identity was under attack.

Supporters made up most of the audience at the event. The next stop in Yiannopoulos’ tour will be at DePaul University in Chicago on May 24.

There were 34 reports of gastroenteritis symptoms, commonly known as the stomach flu, from students at the UO Health Center and the Lane County Public Health Department.

This is the first outbreak in at least two years. Symptoms include stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea, but the virus is not life threatening.

It is unclear where the outbreak originated. The health center is assessing that information as students come in. Oregon State University had a Norovirus outbreak in early April that affected an estimated 75 students.

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Former education professor CHiXapkaid Donald Michael Pavel filed a lawsuit claiming wrongful termination. Pavel was fired in January 2015 after he was linked to a sexual harassment report.

Pavel’s lawsuit states the university violated his constitutional right to procedural due process, saying he was never given an opportunity to learn about the specific allegations against him and that he was unable to rebut them.

The amount Pavel is seeking in the lawsuit is unspecified.

Besides the university, he is also suing various UO employees in connection to his termination.

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Fraudulent for-profit colleges may be stealing financial aid from larger institutions. Last month, 24 U.S. senators, including Oregon’s Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, signed a letter urging the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate national accrediting agencies’ practices to check that colleges are meeting the academic standards outlined in the Higher Education Act.

Accreditation gives a college access to the $150 billion in federal financial aid offered each year in the form of Pell Grants and loans. Fraudulent schools may be reaping the funding that could otherwise be going to institutions that strictly adhere to the standards outlined by the Higher Education Act – a minimum 90 percent graduation rate and at least 50 percent employment rate post-graduation.

In 2009 alone, students at for-profit colleges collected more than $24 billion in loans and grants. So if even a small portion of these schools are not living up to performance standards, or are committing fraud, a large amount of money is being misappropriated.

“With the ballooning cost of college bogging down students with more and more debt, it’s crucial students and families invest their higher education dollars with the confidence that they’re getting a good return,” Senator Wyden said in an email. “I

have been working with my colleagues to bring down rising college costs, and to make sure students get all the facts before they choose a school.”

The concerned senators point to the recent collapse of one of the nation’s largest for-profit institutions, Corinthian Colleges, which was based out of Santa Ana, California, for 20 years before going defunct in 2015. Corinthian offered programs that certified students in specific fields like medicine, business and criminal justice. It oversaw over 100 campuses throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Corinthian doctored statistics to cover up poor academic standards and falsely marketed the quality of its courses and job placement rates to applicants. This led to bankruptcy in April 2015, leaving thousands of students with debts to an institution that no longer existed, and in some cases, without a degree to show for it. Those who did finish their education were left with a degree from a blacklisted college.

Corinthian isn’t the only for-profit school doing this. A 2011 Government Accountability Office report found at least four of the 15 for-profit schools they surveyed were also fraudulent or falsely marketing. Some school officials were even encouraging applicants to lie on their FAFSA filings in ways that would draw in more funding.

Ron Bramhall, assistant vice provost for Academic Affairs at University of Oregon, said it’s very hard for an institution to lose its accredited status.

“If a university isn’t meeting the outlined standards, or if they fail to report all that their regional accreditor requires of them, they don’t just lose their accreditation,” Bramhall said. “[The Department of Education] works more as an advisory body that way, making suggestions and recommendations. You’d have to ignore them for a long time to totally lose accreditation.”

Though the senators’ latest letter shows that some are unhappy with this lax relationship, it may not matter so much to non-profit, public universities like UO, which is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. The letter mostly targets for-profit institutions with a history of playing the system.

Senators are calling on the Department of Education to force national accreditors to tighten their standards and evaluate for-profit schools more rigorously. The DOE responded to this criticism by writing a “Dear Colleague” letter to national accreditors telling them to look into these problems, but it made no clear recommendations.

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PROSthe golf club“I swear to God,

The world’s No. 6-ranked amateur golfer has been swinging a golf club since he was just a year old.

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Wise, 19, plans to leave for the pros after his second season at Oregon.

Wise has won four tournaments in two years at Oregon.

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actually helped him learn

how to walk.”- Karla Kane, Aaron Wise’s mother

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The world’s No. 6-ranked amateur golfer didn’t realize how much he liked competitive golf until he left it.

Aaron Wise, a sophomore Oregon men’s golfer, has been swinging a golf club since he was just a year old, when he would use his neck for support as he swung. The club handle sometimes left welts on his neck and blisters on his hands.

“I swear to God, the golf club actually helped him learn how to walk,” Wise’s mother Karla Kane said.

But by the time he reached middle school, the game was more of a chore than fun. His parents, Kane and Marc Wise, would drop him off at the golf course only to see Aaron goofing around, not taking practice seriously. Marc recognized that his son was losing interest and decided to take Aaron out of tournaments for a couple years.

He took up other sports, such as tennis, and continued to play golf for fun. But near the end of middle school, Wise had to choose between the two. He ultimately returned to competitive golf two years after he left, rediscovering the love for a sport he knew before walking and talking.

“It definitely fired me up,” Wise said. “Taking something away makes you realize how much you miss it.”

In hindsight, Wise, likely made the right choice to return. Wise, 19, has won four tournaments in two years at Oregon, quickly establishing himself as the Ducks’ most reliable golfer. His presence has been especially important this season. The Ducks have faced added pressure by virtue of hosting NCAA Championships at the Eugene Country Club May 27-June 1.

But regardless of when and where Oregon’s season ends, it will be Wise’s last with the team. Wise talked with friends and family in the last few months about turning professional, but he didn’t make it official until last week, when he won the Crown Isle Q-School tournament in Courtenay, British Columbia. Wise will begin competing on the Mackenzie Tour of PGA Tour Canada in mid-June.

“It was a tough decision to make and obviously we have it pretty well here playing school golf, but it kind of just made sense,” Wise said.

The win at Crown Isle gave Wise fully exempt status on the

Mackenzie Tour, meaning that he has an automatic invitation to every tournament during the season. The winners of each tournament in 2015 took home anywhere from $31,500 to $36,000.

The prize money represents a stark contrast to where Wise was a few years ago.

Between course fees, gear and private coaching, golf is a notoriously expensive sport to pay for, so Wise looked for cheaper ways to play in high school. He found a job as a “cart guy,” cleaning and loaning golf carts to customers at both the Trilogy Golf Club — 10 minutes from Wise’s high school, Santiago, in Corona, California — and The Links at Summerly, which is near his home in Lake Elsinore.

A work day for Wise went as follows: Go to the gym, come back home, go to school, go to golf practice, go to work on the course and return home to do school work before going to bed.

“That’s his life,” Kane said. “Even now when he comes home ... it’s the same thing. Every waking moment he is on that golf course if he can be. That’s where he’s happy.”

As Wise started receiving scholarship offers to play college golf, he was faced with another decision. But he decided to come to the University of Oregon, where wet and windy conditions could prepare Wise for professional golf. Wise and his family also felt Oregon head coach Casey Martin gave him the best chance to grow, allowing players the free will to make mistakes and learn from them.

Martin officially signed Wise to a National Letter of Intent in November 2013 during Wise’s senior year of high school. Martin said at the time, “I think he has a chance to become one of the best players in Oregon history to be honest.”

But perhaps even Martin didn’t know Wise would prove him right so quickly.

A year after signing his letter, Wise, in just his fourth collegiate tournament, won the Ka’anapali Intercollegiate in a sudden-death playoff and became the first Oregon freshman to win a tournament. He finished his freshman season with two wins and earned Pac-12 second team honors.

His consistency has become especially important for the team this season.

In April, the Ducks played their last regular season tournament, the Western Intercollegiate at Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz. Oregon struggled as a team, while Wise battled with Stanford junior Maverick McNealy throughout three rounds, and each surpassed the previous course record. Wise ultimately lost by two strokes to McNealy, the top-ranked world amateur, but kept the score close until the very end.

“You can tell he really wants to beat [me], and I really want to beat him,” McNealy said. “But I think what’s really cool about this rivalry is that we’re both good friends off the course and admire each other’s games.”

McNealy and No. 1 Stanford are one of 13 teams Oregon will face in the Tucson Regional May 16-18. The Ducks must finish fifth or higher to reach the NCAA Championships in Eugene. In addition to Wise’s departure, the Ducks will lose seniors Zach Foushee and Brandon McIver at the end of the season, making this their best chance to win a national championship for the foreseeable future.

Aside from his play in tournaments, Oregon teammates have followed Wise’s meticulous approach to practice. As part of his warm-up routine, Wise sets up a mirror opposite his putting stance to square his hips and shoulders and has a line drawn across the mirror to trace the arc of his stroke.

“I’ve watched Aaron with his routine doing that putting drill,” redshirt junior Sulman Raza said. “Ever since, I’ve seen results with my putting and I think everybody else is catching on. We’re all trying to get to that same level as him.”

Turning professional after sophomore year is rare in college golf and is unprecedented in Oregon history. Even Daniel Miernicki, who still owns the Oregon individual wins record with five, didn’t leave the Ducks until after his senior season in 2012.

But those who know Wise best are quick to acknowledge his maturity in golf and beyond. It was only a matter of time before he made the decision.

“I feel I’m playing well enough to make that next step,” Wise said. “I’m excited to make it and ready to see what the future holds.”

the golf club“I swear to God,

Wise, 19, plans to leave for the pros after his second season at Oregon.

Wise has won four tournaments in two years at Oregon.

actually helped him learn

how to walk.”- Karla Kane, Aaron Wise’s mother

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In the history of Pac-10/12 softball, only the UCLA Bruins had won four consecutive Pac-12 softball championships (1988-91).

Now they have company.When Geri Ann Glasco caught the final out of

Oregon softball’s 5-1 victory over Utah on May 12, the Ducks clinched their fourth consecutive Pac-12 title.

“It’s a really exciting moment for this team and I’m really excited that I get to do that here at Jane Sanders Stadium,” Cheridan Hawkins said. “This conference is hard to play in, and to be able to win four straight Pac-12 titles, that’s a huge thing.”

The win gave the original senior class, which includes Janelle Lindvall, Koral Costa, Stevie Jo Knapp and Hawkins, four outright Pac-12 championships in four years. Throughout the years, the Ducks added Jasmine Smithson-Willett, Hailey Decker and Glasco to the senior class. Alyssa Gillespie entered the Oregon program in 2012, but redshirted her freshman season, leaving the Ducks with eight graduating members.

“We’ve worked hard from the day we got here,” Hawkins said. “We want to make an impact, all eight of us, any way we can, and to help this team win a Pac-12 championship is awesome.”

Each member of the original four had a dramatic impact on Oregon’s program, starting with the highly touted Lindvall. She paved the way for other recruits, namely Costa and Hawkins, to come to Oregon.

“Janelle Lindvall was one of the first major recruits to get to come to the program — that was a major [kudos] for us to get Janelle,” Oregon head coach Mike White said. “When you get one or two good players, [recruits] wonder ‘Why did they go there?’ It kind of brings in other players and that’s what happened after we got Janelle.”

At the time, Lindvall had family ties to UCLA (her sister played for the Bruins) but opted to go to Oregon, signifying a shift in the dynamics of Pac-12 softball. Up to that point, Arizona, Arizona State, UCLA, Washington and Cal were the top-tier programs in the conference.

“I grew up in a Pac-12 family — I really wanted to stay on the west coast and California didn’t seem like the best option at the time,” Lindvall said. “Oregon was the closest and I really liked that this program wasn’t living on past success and on the uprise — I wanted to be a part of that.”

During the departing seniors’ freshmen season, Oregon won its first Pac-12 championship, but ultimately fell short of the Women’s College World Series. The next two years, the Ducks reached the WCWS.

Although this season is no different for the seniors to win the conference championship and reach the WCWS, the goals have extended further than just getting to Oklahoma City. This year, the Ducks believe with their pitching and hitting depth, as well as experience, they will win the national championship.

“When we go to the World Series, there’s no surprise,” Costa said. “Our pitching will get us there, but we have to figure out our hitting to win it.”

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Julia Dale-Eshet will be 3,270 miles from home when she begins her Division I tennis career. The high school senior from Miami, Florida, is another recruit the Oregon women’s tennis program snagged from the Sunshine State. Nia Rose, Daniela Nasser, Shweta Sangwan and former player Christi Woodson all have Florida roots.

For Dale-Eshet, the decision was simple.

“The coaches,” Dale-Eshet said. “They were very genuine and I want to be around genuine people.”

The answer is not a surprise, according to those who work with Dale-Eshet.

“She will always say what she thinks and she will never hold back,” said Gabriela Mateus, Dale-Eshet’s high school coach.

Dale-Eshet comes to Oregon as a five-star recruit ranked 25th in the nation by TennisRecruiting.net. Oregon initially contacted Dale-Eshet at the Eddie Herr International Junior Championships in late 2014.

Dale-Eshet later made an official visit to Oregon where she met players and learned more about the program that Mateus believes fits her well.

“I think she is going to love it,” said Mateus. “[Her] being there and having such an amazing facility will help her. She is a very structured girl, so once she sees that she is going to follow it.”

Until she arrives on campus in the fall, Dale-Eshet will focus on rehabilitating her knee. She tore her right ACL at a tournament last year and it is not expected to be back to 100 percent for another six months.

However, Dale-Eshet’s rehab has been ahead of schedule. She was able to play in her first tournament after a year on April 3. She can easily run and slide and she is consistently competing again.

An ACL injury for a player of Dale-Eshet’s style may be more serious than other players.

“She’s very quick, fast, and for being that small, she hits the ball hard,” said Mateus.

Her quickness and agility may be at risk if her knee fails to reach full health, but Mateus is not concerned about that. In fact, she found a silver lining.

“I think [the injury] was actually good timing for her,” said Mateus. “She needed to take a break to get in love with tennis again, and I think it helped her mature.”

Mateus believes the injury helped her develop mentally, but she also wants Dale-Eshet to improve her physical form.

“She has to get stronger. She is still very small so she still has to gain weight and put on muscle,” said Mateus. “My biggest concern with her playing Division I is the

back-to-back matches.”With her tennis time limited over

the past year, Dale-Eshet has been able to focus on her other interest: music. She is releasing an EP soon, and her Facebook and Twitter profiles are full of pictures with guitars, microphones and other musical equipment.

“From Billy Joel to Chris Brown, I love and appreciate all styles of music,” said Dale-Eshet.

Come fall, Dale-Eshet will work to continue the long line of successful women’s tennis players from Florida.

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“I THINK [THE INJURY] WAS ACTUALLY GOOD TIMING FOR HER,” SAID MATEUS. “SHE NEEDED TO TAKE A BREAK TO GET IN LOVE WITH TENNIS AGAIN, AND I THINK IT HELPED HER MATURE.”

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As Hillary Clinton comes closer to the Democratic nomination, still contested by a persistent Sen. Bernie Sanders, the heat has turned up. The last debate between Sanders and Clinton was atypical for the duo, as their usually cordial air became more akin to a Republican debate, filled with negative attacks and sly shots at one another.

While most of Sanders’ objections were based on Clinton’s ties to Wall Street, one of the prime accusations against her this season has been that she’s a “flip-flopper”: a politician who changes her opinion any time she sees an opportunity to gain votes.

To say Clinton has adopted different views throughout her political career is fair. She changed her stance most notably on gay marriage and the Iraq war, two monumental controversies of the last decade. Even since her 2008 run, her views have shifted, leaving the public and media at large to question the ethics of her campaign.

“Will you say anything to get elected?” asked Anderson Cooper at the 2016 Las Vegas debate.

“Well, actually, I have been very consistent. Over the course of my entire life, I have always fought for the same values and principles, but, like most human beings — including those of us who run for office — I do absorb new information. I do look at what’s happening in the world,” responded Clinton.

This could be seen as the reaction of a very practiced politician, but the question itself reinvigorates an age-old issue in politics. President Barack Obama was called a flip-flopper during his campaigns, and the title has been bestowed on him even as his administration closes its final months.

Flip-flopping has become a commonplace term easily tossed out by voters and analysts, but the major pitfall of the idea is that it shortchanges the ability for politicians to evolve their views.

The staunch divide between Sanders and Clinton — or, more broadly, the revolutionary and the establishment — brings greater credence to the flip-flopper debate than usual. Sanders’ ticket runs on the promise of consistency, of not compromising to gain popularity. But the former Secretary of State and First Lady has acknowledged that throughout her political career she has changed her policies with intention.

The larger question arising from this divide is: Should voters always expect their representatives to continuously hold true to their beliefs, even from the very beginning of their political career? Sanders is a rare bird for sticking to the same policies since the 1980s, but does that show persistence or stubbornness?

Clinton’s former opponent, Martin O’Malley, thought that this obsequious obligation to the public was not the best role for her.

“Leadership is about making the right decision, and the best decision before sometimes it becomes entirely popular,” said O’Malley on CBS’ Face The Nation.

The best argument against the flip-flopper terminology is that it restricts the amount of flexibility that politicians have throughout their career. Society itself changes as time goes on, and most often, politicians are a reflection of those changes.

Throughout his career, Obama flip-flopped on the issue of gay marriage, though many believed

that at heart he held convictions of its legality. Only when the American culture decided that this was its issue of choice did Obama feel he could advocate for its constitutionality. This earned him the title of flip-flopper, but that triggered reaction does not do service to the duty that politicians have to both their constituents and themselves, and this evolution is one that Clinton experienced as well.

Their own convictions become second to their duty to voters, which often means a cognitive dissonance in policy.

Clinton’s mobility is perhaps what makes her more center than far left. The ability to move with voters demonstrates greater compromise (perhaps making her a better politician). Sanders is not harmful politically, but it is only through the cooperation of these two figures — the staunch and the flexible — that government begins to work.

As Sanders begins to focus on his influence rather than his nomination, it would not be surprising to see Clinton and the Democratic Party adopt his views heading into the national election. The mass influence that he has garnered can bring massive changes to the party’s outlook, drawing it — and by association, Clinton — farther to left.

This is the balance between Clinton and Bernie; this is the power of compromise, not flopping.

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