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The stage is set with lights illuminating the single microphone poised in the center of the room. The crowd claps as the first poet launches into an expressive poem about the morality of playing God, commanding the attention of the audience with his animated hands and booming voice, performing a poem titled “A Letter to Mr. Hammond of Jurassic Park.”

The members of the audience snap in approval when he asks Mr. Hammond, “Do you think they know how far they are from the stars, or do they think it’s just another cage?” You can feel in the air that nobody in the room was free from goosebumps.

On April 4, the University of Oregon’s Poetry Slam group held its “Off to Austin Showcase,” which highlighted work from the poets who will be representing UO at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational later this week. The group of students will compete with their best rhymes and writing at the University of Texas in Austin from April 6–9 against upwards of 70 other college teams from around the world.

After being founded in 2013 by undergraduates Alexander Dang and Hannah Golden, Poetry Slam has grown to five enthusiastic members spanning a spectrum of ages and majors. This is the group’s second year traveling to this competition, and the poems they showcased touched on topics ranging from masturbation to issues of identity, race, abuse and societal beauty standards.

“The big difference between written word and slam poetry is the performance because you can’t just go up there and read something off a

piece of paper and expect people to feel things about it,” said Annalee Nock, a freshman competitor. “I am excited because it’s just people coming to talk about their feelings, and I love that because it doesn’t happen very often.”

In addition to the competition, this weekend will provide opportunities for the group to watch other poets, participate in workshops and recite niche poem types like haiku and “nerd poems.” Nock calls it a “Coachella for poetry.”

While Golden says they are more serious about competing this year and are looking to “ruffle some feathers,” it’s more about the power of the poetry in the end. That’s why she and Dang started this group in the first place.

“It’s about having a space to share poetry and meet other poets and not feel like you’re on your own,” said Golden. “To have something like this that you can go to every week, it’s invaluable to have that experience.”

After many compelling and energetic performances, the group took to the floor together to perform a lighthearted piece titled “House Party” in which they accurately outlined and somehow beautified the crazy reality of a college house party.

This showcase was just one of many events hosted by the group every term in order to help engage the community in slam poetry. It often organizes open mic nights, workshops and more. The next event will be a showcase on April 12 in Global Scholars Hall Great Room, hosted by well-known slam poet Mighty Mike McGee.

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Just 40 miles south of Portland, and just over an hour north of Eugene, is the annual Tulip Fest tak-ing place at Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn. All weekend, guests can eat Dutch Sausage and Mexican food, go wine tasting, take pictures among 40 acres of tulips, play paintball, check out local vendors set up in the marketplace or even schedule a hot air balloon ride over the farm. Indi-vidual admission is only $5, with extras costing more.

Those over 21 can enjoy the Wine Wagon Farm Tour. Activities include an hour-long wine tour and talk. The tour includes two glasses of wine and pairings. Tickets for this special event must be preordered for $25.

Additionally, participants can watch wooden shoe-making demonstrations, check out the Steam Tractor Spark show on Saturday, and get pictures taken with Tulip the Cow, who will be wandering around all weekend.

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G-Eazy, 8 p.m., Matthew Knight Arena (1390 Villard St.), $44

Eugene is G-Eazy’s fourth stop on his When It’s Dark Out world tour. The Bay Area-based rap/R&B artist’s most successful single, “Me, Myself, & I,” hit the top spot on the Billboard rap charts earlier this year, and No. 7 on the U.S. charts overall. Tickets for the show at Matthew Knight Arena can be purchased through the student ticket office online for $44, but can be found elsewhere online for upwards of $75.

SATURDAY 4/9Color Me Rad 5K Run, 9 a.m., Valley

River Center (293 Valley River Center), $50

Color Me Rad is returning to Eugene for the fourth consecutive year for its only Oregon event. Registration for Color Me Rad comes with a race T-shirt, event tattoo, color pack and “Goo Guard” phone case for your run. Participants of the “fun run” 5K will enjoy a scenic run along the Willamette River on a beautiful spring morning.

SUNDAY 4/10The Great Gatsby by the Eugene Ballet

Company, 2 p.m., Hult Center for the Performing Arts (1 Eugene Center), $32+

With beautiful dancing by the Eugene Ballet Company and compositions from UO music professor Brian McWhorter and OrchestraNext, The Great Gatsby will be performed in a medium you’ve never seen before at the Hult Center this weekend. Artistic director Toni Pimble’s ballet vision of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel is full of gorgeous costumes and lavish party scenes for an atmosphere of style and glamor.

FRIDAY 4/8Pegboard Nerds, 10 p.m. Euphoria

Nightclub (315 SE 3rd Avenue). $12.50, 21+

Pegboard Nerds is a Danish/Norwegian electronic music group, consisting of Alexander Odden and Michael Parsberg. This Friday, they will be playing in the basement of the Euphoria club in Portland. The group’s for-charity EP Pink Cloud was released in 2015, with all proceeds going toward breast cancer research. The release reached No. 2 on the iTunes chart and helped raise money for the charities involved. Since forming in 2005, the group has released more than 20 singles.

SATURDAY 4/9Portland Trail Blazers vs. Minnesota

Timberwolves, 7:30 p.m., Moda Center (1 N. Center Court St.), $20+

The Trail Blazers, currently at sixth place in the Western Conference of the NBA, will play against the 13th place Timberwolves this weekend. While this sounds like an easy win for the Blazers, it is not so certain after Minnesota’s defeat of the Warriors on April 5. The Warriors had lost their 54-game home win streak to the Celtics, and then the Timberwolves delivered the second blow just days later. The Blazers might be up against a real challenge at the Moda Center this Saturday.

All WeekendGame Masters: The Exhibition, OMSI

(1945 SE Water Ave.), $13.50

This weekend, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is showcasing the work of over 30 video game designers who have worked on games for arcades, consoles, PC and mobile platforms. Everything from Nintendo character-led worlds to immersive musical games like Rock Band will be displayed in the exhibition. While at OMSI, visitors can also check out exhibits on Oregon agriculture, renewable energy, human development and earthquakes.

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Braedon Kwiecien is the Sex and Relationships columnist at the Emerald. He writes to help University of Oregon students in all walks of life. Submit a question online at emrld.co/askbraedon.

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Dear Is there any hope?,Yes, there is hope. No, you’re not alone. But

yes, it does seem like you are in the minority.At the University of Oregon and on

campuses across the nation, a hookup culture prevails due to expectations set by movies and TV about what college will be like for us young, horny adults.

This is an exciting time full of new freedoms, interesting peers and longing desires, but sometimes when you are in a loving mood, the other is only lusting.

When it comes to looking for someone interested in more than just sex, you have options, but these may not be the perfect answers you are looking for.

If you are someone who uses Tinder to find dates, know that it was made for exactly what you are not looking for: just hooking up. However, there are those special individuals who proudly write on their profile, “Looking for more than sex.” Be blunt and be bold! You can use this app for meeting friends, making weird pick-up line jokes with strangers or finding people with similar interests who happen to find you to be a pleasant surprise as well. That being said, Tinder is probably not your best bet.

For those crazy kooks who like to meet people face-to-face, parties are tricky. On one hand, there are a lot of peers who seem interesting, are all dressed up and usually in good spirits because they came out to have a good time; however, the culture around college parties, unfortunately for some, tends to lean toward getting incredibly drunk and being incredibly aroused.

You can meet wonderful people at parties and have lovely conversations outside where you’re not getting hot and heavy in a basement, but you have to advertise that by asking someone if they want to talk, just

dance or do something fun the next morning. Once again, tell it like it is: be charming and interesting and you have better odds at finding more than ‘just sex.’

The amount of time you invest in the start of your relationship is also crucial for the outcome. If you want to meet someone on Monday and be romantically attached by the weekend, the emotional development of the relationship will not be very strong. If you meet someone in class, around campus or anywhere else and you think you might “like like” them, take time to get to know them fairly well and allow them to get to know you. Instead of just being interested in each other’s bodies, this will help get that extra something that you’re looking for in a relationship.

Finally, if you’re looking for someone that enjoys the same lifestyle or hobby as you, then look around when you’re doing that. When you’re doing what you love, you might find another kind of love right next to you. If you want to date a runner, join a running club; for readers, try a book club; gamers, look for a video game club; journalists, the Emerald is hiring!

Please don’t lose hope. There are some amazing, thoughtful, lovable people around this campus. You just have to be patient and find the one that’s right for you.

I hope you have fun in the sun and find your one,

Braedon Kwiecien

“I’m losing faith in the boys on campus. I have yet to find a guy who is interested in being more than a friend without just ‘hooking up,’ and I’m not quite sure what to do anymore. I’ve had crushes and interests but they’ve all fallen flat because I’m not into having casual sex with them.”

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THE THREE SLATES RUNNING for various University of Oregon student government offices released information on their campaign donations and spending on Tuesday. The wide margin of spending between One Oregon and the other campaigns has caused some to question whether ASUO should institute a spending cap next year.

One Oregon spent about $15,000 in this year’s election, more than double the amount spent by I’m With UO and Duck Squad combined, that spent $3,774 and $3,500 respectively.

At Tuesday’s ASUO election debate, Zach Rentschler, One Oregon’s presidential candidate, characterized his campaign’s spending as proof of his team’s ability to raise funds.

“Our campaign’s fundraising has been a total blessing,” Rentschler said. “Fundraising from the community has been huge, and it’s something we’re going to help clubs do next year if we’re elected. We have no idea how much the other campaigns are fundraising, so we never stopped fundraising, and we never will stop fundraising because there is no way of knowing where other people are at going into elections.”

A majority of One Oregon’s campaign funds have come from the candidates. Adam Scharf, One Oregon’s internal vice president candidate, contributed $1,000. Rentschler himself contributed $4,000. External vice president candidate Tori Ganahl contributed $7,000. Of the $22,995 One Oregon has raised, 52 percent comes directly from the candidates themselves. That’s not counting an additional $3,000 donated by an Albert and Pnina Scharf, and $3,000 by a Heidi and Jason Ganahl.

One Oregon’s spending is the highest in recent history. Last year, the election campaigns spent less than $10,000 combined. In 2014, it was $16,000.

“It’s clear they’re trying to buy this election,” I’m With UO’s campaign manager Andrew Dunn said. Dunn

hopes the elections will be reformed next year, specifically around spending caps.

“It makes the elections much less accessible. Students will run based on their ability to fund raise rather than the importance of the issues,” he said.

“There should absolutely be a spending cap,” Duck Squad’s campaign manager Vickie Gimm said. “If One Oregon thinks they can abuse the elections process and get away with all this bribery, I will be uber disappointed.”

Here’s a breakdown of each campaign’s revenues and what they spent it on:

Duck SquadTotal raised: $3,413Total spent: $3,500Largest contribution: $370Three biggest expenses: T-shirts: $500; posters and flyers: $600; food: $300.

I’m With UOTotal raised: $6,034Total spent: $3,774Largest contribution: $900Three biggest expenses: T-shirts: $2,774; campaign kickoff: $372.34; room rental: $175.

One OregonTotal raised: $22,995Total spent: $15,573Largest contribution: $7,000Three biggest expenses: T-shirts: $7,500; advertising: $3,116; FedEx: $2,142.

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ASUO presidential candidates Zach Rentschler, Quinn Haaga and Samara Mokaya debate on April 5. (Cole Elsasser)

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Siren Magazine staff says they feel “violated” when the Women’s Center professional staff considers reallocating the publication’s funds.

Siren, the magazine of ASUO Women’s Center, is the sole student-led feminist magazine for the University of Oregon.

Siren has been operating on a $3,000 per year budget, a third of what other similar student-led publications receive.

This year, the student government decided to increase Siren’s budget to $9,000, ASUO Senator and Program Finance Committee Chair Quinn Haaga said.

The Women’s Center professional staff, who control its budget, planned to reallocate funding to its international student programming, said Siren content editor and ASUO Senator Zach Lusby.

The Women’s Center director Fatima Roohi Pervaiz said via an email to the Emerald that professional staff has considered reallocating funds from Siren to programs that prioritize international students, but has chosen to request funding from surplus instead.

“[We] have a social responsibility to be sure all of our programming is budgeted in the most equitable way possible,” Pervaiz said. “Particularly programming for marginalized populations like international women.”

In 2015-16, Siren doubled its staff of content creators and received three times the number of submissions as the previous year. In addition, it published the longest issue in history with 64 pages, Pervaiz said.

Despite the magazine’s success in providing a platform for students to express their opinions, Lusby said Siren is not a top priority at the Women’s Center.

“The professional staff has not been historically supportive of the Siren, in my personal opinion,” Lusby said. “The Women’s Center’s priority is funding salaries and making sure it is following its pay model, before it starts funding student groups.”

Lusby and Editor in Chief Hannah Lewman asked the professional staff to request an increase with PFC this year to keep the magazine growing.

Producing a high-quality magazine three times a year with a budget of $3,000 is not “sustainable or practical,” Lusby said.

The Women’s Center director at the time, Erin McGladrey, suggested that Siren request money from ASUO surplus to cover additional costs.

“[ASUO surplus] is not a sustainable source of funding,” Haaga said. “It’s not guaranteed — you have no idea how the senate would vote on certain things. You also have no idea how big the surplus would be that year. There have been years where senate only had $30,000, so senators would have to scrutinize things more.”

To help, PFC granted the Women’s Center’s proposal, which included the request for an increase in international student programming, while also expanding Siren’s budget to match other similar student publications’ budget.

With this budget, Siren will be able to extend its page count, increase the number of color pages, publish more copies and have more content both in print and online, Lusby said.

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Following a heavy rainstorm in 2009, an oak tree keeled over and crushed a BMW in the Johnson Hall parking lot.

It broke the car’s six windows and flattened its pillars. Former University of

Oregon Provost Jim Bean ran over to the students gathered around the debris and yelled, “Don’t hurt yourself! Don’t climb in there! There’s nobody in there!”

“How do you know?” someone asked him.“It’s my car,” Bean said.When he returned at 7 a.m. the following morning,

the campus operations workers were still working on cutting up the tree. They had been there all night. Discussion of the tree’s salvation occurred almost immediately after Bean’s car was totaled.

Within a few months, students in a product design studio during fall 2010 constructed a coffee table and chair for Johnson Hall using the tree.

While some recognize that reusing a fallen tree for campus architecture is a gesture toward conservation and sustainability, Bean saw a simpler motive: “I just looked at it as a way of getting even with the tree.”

Campus’ removed trees are recycled for several buildings – an elm tree that was cut down during the expansion of Allen Hall is now installed in a column at the building’s stairway; the welcome desk in the Ford

Alumni Center lobby used wood from the oak tree that smashed Bean’s Beamer.

Bean said he was unaware the oak was part of the new alumni center until it opened. He went on a tour and someone mentioned the desk’s origin as a tree that fell by Johnson Hall.

“You don’t understand,” Bean said, shaking his head. “That thing fell on my car.”

Despite the UO being the number one school in the country for sustainability leadership in architecture education, an area by Millrace known as “Back Forty” holds a stockpile of valuable trees that were removed from campus, including cedar, oak and walnut. Set aside by campus operations in the event that someone wants to repurpose them for a project, these trees are only sporadically reclaimed.

“Sadly, there is little reuse of the wood from trees we are forced to remove,” said campus arborist John Anthony, who once used a cedar tree from the Back Forty to construct a rudimentary Lincoln log bench, which can be found on the lawn outside Lawrence Hall. “I wish there was more of a demand for the wood, but it can’t seem to gain any traction.”

The salvation of UO’s fallen trees isn’t always the simplest option. A visit to a lumber mill to purchase ready-made lumber is infinitely more convenient for construction purposes.

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UO Arborist John Anthony (Emerson Malone) A bench outside Lawrence Hall on campus constructed from wood from the Back Forty. (Emerson Malone)

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With a limited desire for campus-grown wood, the campus operations team has decided to slowly wane the number of trees that it stockpiles in the Back Forty.

“We’re running out of storage,” said Phil Carroll, landscape maintenance supervisor. “We’re not going to save any sizable wood that we cut down unless it has an identifiable purpose. By now, we’re at capacity and it doesn’t make sense to add to our inventory at this point, unless a piece of wood has a very probable destination.”

Deaton Love, the UO campus operations’ trades and maintenance coordinator, says they’re overwhelmed with trees, given the lack of interest in reclamation and the finite shelf life of the trees sitting in the mud. As months pass and trees go unclaimed, the wood begins to deteriorate and lose its worth.

“All we can do is salvage the logs, and hope that somebody will put forth the effort to handle the logs,” Love said.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle is that the wood cannot be given away, and not everyone can simply request their own log. Since the trees grow on campus, they’re state property and need to stay on campus. This means they can only be claimed by a university department for campus development

projects or small fixes, such as a new cabinet or chair for a faculty member’s office.

Product design professor John Arndt, who led the studio that worked on the oak tree that fell on Bean’s BMW, found this stipulation that the wood from UO trees must remain on campus to be another setback, as students in his studio often want to take home something they’ve spent so much time designing.

“With sustainability being such a byword in the public focus these days, it frustrates me to know there are directives for trying to achieve sustainability nationwide and certainly here at this campus,” Anthony says. “And this would be an excellent way to say we’re going to utilize everything we can. There’s certainly enough construction on this campus — either redesigns, interiors or new buildings — that it could be used.”

Steve Mital, the UO’s director of sustainability said, “It’s really important [to rely on campus trees], but we have to keep it in perspective. The amount of wood that we use in total so far outweighs what we grow and harvest ourselves.” Mital likens using fallen trees to someone growing their own tomatoes — valuable, but not always all-encompassing.

“Most people who have a garden probably recognize that they still buy most of their food throughout the year from a supermarket,” he said.

Repurposing campus lumber is more time-consuming, expensive and involves more steps than simply visiting a lumber mill. Since the campus lacks equipment to mill a tree, an outside source — such as Urban Lumber in Springfield — needs to be contracted for drying and cutting the tree.

Previously, the Back Forty trees were cut into firewood for low-income families and donated to a local non-profit organization. This partnership soon dissolved since the organization didn’t consistently retrieve the wood.

The 100-year-old California Incense Cedar that kissed Fenton Hall’s top floor in December 2015 was cut into sizable chunks and relocated to the Back Forty. Since its widely publicized fall, many inquiries from the campus and community have been made as to the tree’s ultimate fate, which may be intertwined with the forthcoming Chapman Hall remodel.

“We’re in the middle of the process of the [Fenton Hall] cedar,” said Carroll. “Hopefully it’ll find a home, but it’s far from guaranteed.”

The UO doesn’t have any directive to rely on campus lumber stored in the Back Forty (and such a policy would be difficult to enforce). And since there’s no obligation for the UO – nor its construction contractors – to claim any trees from the lot, they’re just stuck in the space Anthony calls “tree limbo.”

A bench outside Lawrence Hall on campus constructed from wood from the Back Forty. (Emerson Malone) The Back Forty stores campus’ valuable fallen lumber. (Emerson Malone)

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Did you enjoy watching Pitch Perfect? Then you might want to follow Divisi, University of Oregon’s thriving, all-female a cappella group. The group that just won the Northwest Semifinals of the International Competition of Collegiate A Cappella and is headed to the finals in New York City on April 30.

Divisi is the first UO a cappella group to accomplish this since 2010. It is also the first time that an all-female a cappella group will attend the finals since 2011.

“Divisi has a history of strong women breaking boundaries in a cappella,” said senior and assistant music director Austin Skelton. “We, as the current Divisi, feel honored to be upholding that tradition by competing in the ICCA finals.”

“Only the top 10 a cappella groups in the entire world attend finals, and we are one of them,” singer and soloist Samantha Westmoreland said. “We have to pinch ourselves sometimes to remind us that this is real life.”

The final competition will be held in the Beacon Theatre, which is the same facility used for the Tony Awards, as well as many Broadway productions.

Divisi selects their songs through a democratic process at “listening

parties” where all members bring songs that they think would work well for the group. Skelton explained that Divisi usually learns a new song every one or two weeks, but the group is currently focusing on its competition set for the finals.

UO students can check out Divisi, along with a cappella groups On the Rocks and Mind the Gap, on Fridays at 3:45 p.m. in the EMU. Divisi can also be hired for events, and is releasing an album that is expected to be released next fall.

If you are interested in auditioning to be a part of Divisi, spring auditions will be held on Saturday, June 4, at the School of Music.

You can follow UO Divisi’s calendar to stay up to date with the group.

“We have been preparing for this since August and we can’t wait to leave our hearts on the stage,” said Westmoreland. “We are so overwhelmed with and grateful for the love and support that we have been receiving from our families, friends and the UO community throughout this competition process.”

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Divisi performing in Berkeley, California, this March at #SheSings2016. (Courtesy of Divisi)

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Oregon men’s tennis honored its departing seniors, including one of the best in program history, prior to its final home match of the season Sunday.

As the announcer reeled off what seemed like an endless list of accomplishments, Daan Maasland walked forward, waved to the crowd and hugged his coaches. The student section was not chanting his name, and Wolfmother’s “Joker and the Thief” was not blasting in the background while the team took the court.

The senior ceremony characterized Maasland: modest, consistent, successful.

Maasland is a silent leader on the court. While other players yell and direct their frustrations at whatever they choose, Maasland has the cooler head, and cooler heads often prevail. On senior day, his stoic body language projected a laser focus toward the match ahead, but the emotions of the day could not be completely suppressed.

“It went both ways. Of course I had to be focused on the match, but I realized that it was my last time here and I just tried to enjoy it,” Maasland said.

Maasland has quietly amassed one of the most impressive résumés in Oregon tennis. His 76

singles victories and 66 doubles wins rank third all-time, and his freshman year singles record of 23-9 is the third-highest wins total in a single season. He is a four-year letter winner and earned second-team All Pac-12 honors last season.

Maasland holds a 3.6 GPA as a business administration major. He was a Pac-12 All-Academic second-team selection his junior year.

Someone with that list of accomplishments has every right to brag, but Maasland has a habit of being humble. On such an emotional day, do thoughts of his legacy ever enter his mind?

“No, not really ... It would make me most happy if we do well as a team,” Maasland said.

Oregon took the 4-0 victory over Utah on senior day, but Maasland was unable to finish his singles match before the Ducks clinched the game. For Maasland, the team victory is what matters. He has led his team to an impressive 15-4 record, and despite the conclusion of home games, the season is far from over. Tough conference road matches against Cal and Stanford loom, and the Pac-12 tournament is a mere two weeks away.

“[The rest of the season] is also on my mind,” Maasland said. “We’ve got to have good matches on the road and in the Pac-12 tournament, with the main goal being to reach the NCAA tournament and do well there.”

After four years of working with Maasland, Oregon head coach Nils Schyllander could not be more complimentary.

“He is so mature and he is a solid person,” Schyllander said. “He takes care of schoolwork and shows up to practice to give it all he has. His character has really put an imprint on this program.”

Maasland raves about the program and how it has impacted him as well.

“I kind of grew up here,” Maasland said. “With tennis, but also outside of the court. I had a great experience with teammates and the whole athletic community.”

Maasland’s name is secured in the Oregon record books. His stats draw eyes, but his personality is what keeps people rooting for his success. He is one of the best tennis players in program history, and if you ask his peers, he’s one of the best people too.

Men’s Tennis Daan Maasland’s final match

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Oregon second baseman Kyle Kasser has flown under the radar for much of his baseball career. At 5-foot-10, 176 pounds, he is routinely one of the smallest players on the diamond. But since getting an opportunity to start, he has been the Ducks’ most reliable hitter.

On March 19 against Utah, manager George Horton started Kasser in the second spot of the batting order, in search of “a little spark” on offense. Up to that point, his team’s two-through-five hitters combined for a .181 batting average.

Kasser provided that spark. He broke out with three hits, a walk, two RBI and a run in five plate appearances. He started in the two-hole again on March 22 and has been a staple in the lineup ever since. He leads the team with a .400 batting average.

Patience has been key to Kasser’s success. He was barely recruited by college programs in high school despite hitting .434 and earning first-team All-League honors his senior year.

“Being small was definitely one of my downfalls,” he said. “I was always overlooked.”

As the end of his high school career neared, Kasser hadn’t been recruited to play anywhere, so he sent a highlight tape to “pretty much all schools, just trying to go anywhere.” Because of that, he received a few offers, including one from Horton.

“Kasser, as a baseball player, is a winner. He’s a scrappy guy that bunts, hit-and-runs, executes, walks,” Horton said. “It’s not ice skating for him — it’s not style points or anything else. He just finds a way to beat you.”

Kasser started one game as a freshman, but made the most of limited opportunities. In the first game of the 2015 Civil War series, the score was tied 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth inning. With the bases loaded and two outs, Horton called on Kasser to pinch hit.

With just six at-bats to his name, Kasser worked the count full and watched the payoff pitch run just off the outside corner of the plate: ball four. The runner on third scored and Oregon won 3-2 on his walk-off walk.

Kasser remembers that pivotal at-bat as one of his greatest baseball accomplishments. Now when

he’s struggling at the plate, he thinks back on that moment to regain his confidence.

“It kind of came out of nowhere, really, but it definitely gave me some confidence and let me know basically that I can compete at this level,” Kasser said. “It was just one at-bat, but it kind of settled me in a little bit. I realized I belong here.”

Kasser said his teammates were surprised because he hadn’t contributed much prior to that at-bat.

“People kind of gave me a little more respect,” Kasser said. “I believe that I’m a hard worker and stuff, but to have that show on the field I think kind of opened some people’s eyes to see what I can do.”

In addition to batting average, Kasser is the team leader in on-base percentage (.514) and slugging percentage (.533).

“I’m not the biggest guy, so I have to win it with mentality,” Kasser said. “I have to be up there saying I’m the toughest person out there — you can’t beat me. I’m going to give you everything I have, and I’m going to beat you with that.”

Kyle Kasser FROM OVERLOOKED TO OREGON’S BEST HITTER

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One of the most recent posts on the University of Oregon men’s soccer club’s Facebook page is a team photo captioned, “We never get tired of winning.”

The photo was taken after the team captured the Oregon State Invitational for its third trophy of the season. The brash caption encompassed what Oregon has done this season: Win.

The Ducks were nearly unstoppable all year. They outscored opponents 81-22 en route to a 20-1-3 record, while playing club teams from mostly large universities. In addition to the OSU invitational, they won both league and national titles during the winter. This completed what members of the team refer to as “The Treble,” an homage to winning three trophies in a season at the European professional level.

The team’s competitive schedule has ended for the year, and while the Ducks will still take the field for the occasional friendly match during the spring, they now have time to reflect on their accomplishments. For many of the Oregon players, it was the most successful season of their careers.

“We never felt like we were going to lose,” sophomore forward Andrew Saenz said. “We would never really get mad. If we were losing, we always just felt like we could get one or two goals to get back in it.”

Oregon tallied off numerous blowout wins, but its most important victory took a gutsy performance and a bit of luck.

In the NIRSA National Championship match, Oregon trailed UC Davis 2-1 after surrendering a goal with 15 minutes left in regulation. Near the end of what was their sixth match in three days, the Ducks sent forward a frantic attack in a desperate attempt to draw even.

“Going into the last five minutes [center back Zach Donner] was basically our only defender and we had nine guys up the field,” Oregon player-coach Alex Riley said. “I told [center back Kevin Cotter], ‘Dude, just go...’ He went into the box and actually got fouled in the box and we drew a [penalty kick].”

Henry Fassinger buried the penalty kick for the Ducks with no time remaining in regulation. Just minutes later, Oregon won the match in extra time on a golden goal by Saenz.

“It literally can’t get better than that,” Riley said.The team is formed of players who, Riley states,

are all talented enough to play college soccer anywhere from the Division III to Division I level.

As with many large-school club teams, Oregon’s players come from various backgrounds.

Donner spent three years playing high school and club ball in Oregon before moving to England, where he spent a season playing for the professional club Woking FC.

Riley played with a club team in the Bay Area that spent a brief time as the No. 1 ranked team in the nation. Saenz said he was never the primary scoring threat on his high school team in San Jose, California, but he has now evolved into the point man on a championship team during his first year with Oregon.

“My main goal was to go Division I,” Riley said. “It’s everyone’s dream. But having that big ‘O’ on my chest — there’s nothing better than that.

I’ve been at this school for four years and looking back, I’m just amazed at what we’ve accomplished.”

“WE NEVER GET TIRED OF WINNING” HOW THE MEN’S CLUB SOCCER TEAM DOMINATES

The 2016 men’s club soccer team has been nearly unstobbable this year. (Courtesy of UO Men’s Club Soccer)

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OPINION

RESPONSES TO THE QUESTION, “How was your weekend?” took on a vibrant new persona this Monday. Stories were a little less humdrum than usual, and I loved it.

From skipping around the rows of flowers at the Woodburn Shoe Tulip Festival, to successfully executing April Fools’ Day pranks on innocent victims, to finally catching the new Batman V Superman movie, thrill seemed to be on many people’s agendas this week.

But the mother of all action this past weekend was the controversial type – the world was exposed to The Panama Papers. The epically titled leak was massive. Huge. Ginormous. Remember the whole WikiLeaks scandal of 2010 by everyone’s second favorite silver fox (after Anderson Cooper) Julian Assange?

Well, take his 1.7 GB of findings on classified U.S. diplomatic cables and multiply it by more than 900 times. That gives you around the size of what we’re looking at with The Panama Papers.

Basically, an anonymous source from a German newspaper obtained 2.6 TB of 11.5 million financial and legal documents from the world’s fourth largest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca, which is based in Panama. What did all this leaked data contain, you ask? Major exploitation.

The German newspaper shared the records with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who relayed the information to a number of its international partners, including the Guardian and the BBC. Thus the world saw the crookedness behind the Mossack Fonseca firm, as well as all the heads of

state, celebrities and other filthy rich people who had accounts with them. Money laundering, tax evading and just all-out hiding billions of dollars are what this offshore firm was made of – just like the movies.

Things weren’t looking good for a lot of the world’s big shots like Russian President Vladimir Putin. On April 3, the Guardian brought to light how the leaked documents show a $2 billion trail that indirectly leads to none other than Putin. I hate to say it, but I’m not surprised. It seems like as days go on, more and more justification for the international “I Hate Putin Club” just continues to surface.

Then, there was the resignation of Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson on April 5. The Icelandic people put on mass protests to get their PM to step down, and once he finally did, the BBC noted it as “the first major casualty of the leaked Panama Papers.”

Haven’t any of these rich crooks seen Spotlight, All the President’s Men or The Insider? Investigative journalists expose corruption — it’s kind of their job.

Along with journalists being good at what they do, another given in today’s world is people protesting outside of the White House. It happens just about every day, but on April 2, a rally took place at the capital unlike any other. The D.C. Cannabis Campaign and other attendees lit up outside of President Obama’s residences to get him and his administration to put more money into research for marijuana and its medicinal value, along with pardoning the pot offenders in jail.

I have to give kudos to the protestors for 1) getting stoned left and right and not caring about Secret Service and other security trying to stop them, 2) blowing up a 51-foot inflatable “joint” and using it as a causal prop, 3) no one getting arrested.

Hopefully, their tactics impressed more people than just me, and being 420-friendly will become more acceptable. You never know; this could be one of Obama’s closing projects as his presidency is (sadly) coming to an end this year.

Sadness came over Eugene and Salem this past week when a first-year UO student was killed in a train accident on April 1. Connor James’ body was found on railroad tracks near the Northwest Expressway in North Eugene. According to the Lane County Sheriff’s Office, James’ death appeared to be an accident and it is plausible that he was trying to climb onto the back of a train but fell.

The James family will hold a celebration of life for the 18-year-old at the Salem Alliance Church on Saturday, April 9, at 11 a.m. They have also created a GoFundMe.com memorial fund in honor of the Sprague High School graduate. The proceeds will support Sprague’s lacrosse team, the sport James played for many years of his life.

PANAMA PAPERS, D.C. MARIJUANA PROTESTS, DEATH OF UO STUDENT

Negina Pirzad is an opinion columnist at the Emerald. The Weekly Ponder is her column discussing the latest trends and news in pop culture. Follow Negina on twitter @Neginapepina.

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