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UO SENIOR EVAN PARDI HAS LANDED A PODIUM SPOT IN

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It’s 6:50 p.m. on a Saturday, and UO senior Junbo Zhao stayed at home instead of participating in his friends’ Mahjong game. His laptop is on, internet is working and his browser pulls up Goducks.com. Zhao’s hunting for a football ticket for the upcoming game.

“It’s a tactic,” Zhao said. “You’ve got to do the right thing at the right moment, then you maybe you’ll get a chance.”

Zhao said he wasn’t too fond of football, but once he learned how much students pay for the tickets, he wanted to utilize it.

Through a recently finalized agreement between ASUO’s Athletics and Contracts Finance Committee and the athletic department, the student body will pay $1.7 million in the incidental fee to pay for all varsity sporting events, including 5,148 football tickets each game.

The incidental fee is a built-in dollar amount that all students are required to pay with their tuition. The student government, including Executive branch, Senate and four Finance Committees then decide how the money is spent. This year, each student pays $223.75 per term. That’s a 4 percent increase compared to 2014-15.

ASUO Finance Director Shawn Stevenson said the increase was due to general operation costs, programming and expenses. But the money mainly supports students on campus, focusing on students’ activism and safety.

But where exactly does $16 million go?The most expensive item on the

list is the agreement with the athletic department which holds more than 10 percent of the budget. For next year’s negotiation, Stevenson said ACFC is looking at “creative solutions” to resolve conflicts, such as multi year deals, and allowing students to buy tickets at a

negotiated price instead of forcing all students to pay for athletic tickets. The ultimate goal is to reconstruct the whole agreement and decrease athletic funding.

“That [agreement] just doesn’t work anymore,” Stevenson said. “There is some discussion that needs to be done after the season.”

Another big chunk of ASUO Budget goes to the Lane Transit District contract at nearly $1.5 million. LTD provides bus service to all students in the Eugene-Springfield area, including the 79x route designed for students living near Autzen Stadium.

“[LTD] comes back every year asking for an increase — they act very similar to the athletic department,” Stevenson said.

Route 79x runs Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. No 79x bus is available on Sunday. UO student Nicole Hu doesn’t think it’s enough.

“[Autzen Stadium] is quite far from campus. So if you don’t have a car, it’s very troublesome,” she said. “The buses sometimes are very late.”

Stevenson said students and senators have expressed the desire to see more hours for the 79x bus, but ASUO does not have any specific plans yet.

“We’re taking it in consideration,” Stevenson said.

$6.4 million goes to the EMU Board, maintaining services, operations and events in the heart of campus.

$1 million goes to reserves and assessments.

The $3.6 million of the remaining incidental fee budget is divided between student programs and departments on campus, such as the International Student Association, LGBTQA, Craft Center, Designated Driver Shuttle and Safe Ride, Legal Services and Sexual Assault Support Services.

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The Living Learning Center’s Performance Hall roars with conversation and fills with students from around the globe. The International Student Association’s weekly Coffee Hour brings international and domestic students together.

Gary Gao, president of the ISA, said the main goals of the organization are to connect international and domestic students and help international students adapt to the transition of life in the United States. With about 350 attendees each night and free food, drinks and small games provided, Gao views the Coffee Hour as an opportunity for people to make new friends, both international and domestic, in a welcoming setting.

“We try to help [international and domestic students] build a bridge to close the gap and help them communicate,” Gao said.

As an international student from China, Gao struggled with English and felt embarrassed interacting with others. He surrounded himself with other Chinese students to avoid speaking English during his first few years at the university. However, when his friend brought him to the Coffee Hour during his first year at the university, Gao began to find friends with different cultures and started to attend nearly every Coffee Hour since then.

“Coffee Hour was welcoming, and I started to branch out and started to make more international and American friends,” Gao said. “You get out of your bubble and make new friends outside of your friend circle.”

After seeing the impact the Coffee Hour had on himself, Gao joined the ISA and hopes that he can help students branch out the

way he did and create a more friendly environment where international students can feel at home.

Although international students comprise 13 percent of the student population, Caitlin Sherman, secretary of the ISA, found it difficult to interact with international students before joining the ISA because she was busy with classes and students are not afforded many opportunities to do so.

Sherman encourages students to take time to interact with students from different cultural backgrounds, and she says the Coffee Hour enables that.

“You’re seeing a different side of the student body. The atmosphere has a lot of different cultures [and] you hear a lot of different languages around you,” Sherman said. “It’s good for our students to get to know the student body, widen their horizons and realize that our world is becoming a mixing pot.”

To further promote cultural interaction, the ISA invites other international student groups to co-host the event. Senior Jessica Vasquez, a domestic student, attended her first Coffee Hour on Oct. 16 when the Saudi Student Association and the Muslim Student Association co-hosted the event. Although Vasquez was apprehensive about going to the Coffee Hour at first, her friend convinced her to go for the free food. Vasquez ended up staying for more than the food.

“It’s a very open environment to just come, hangout, get to know international students and get to learn about other cultures, ” Vasquez said.

The Coffee Hour takes place in the Living Learning Center’s Performance Hall every Friday from 4-6 p.m.

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As the Gateway shopping center nears the end of its transformation from an indoor mall, built in the 1990s, to an open-air facility, new stores continue to open their doors. Rouse Properties, the company that owns the shopping complex, has also changed its name to The Shops at Gateway to coincide with its redesign. Panera Bread was the first store to open up at Gateway on Aug. 25.

Since then, Payless ShoeSource, Maurices and Ulta Beauty have all opened their doors.

“Since we opened our doors, the reaction has been great,” Jorge Gonzalez, general manager of Ulta Beauty, said in an email.

According to Gonzalez, the new store gives local residents more options for beauty products.

“It gives Springfield [or] Eugene residents a new place to shop for all their beauty,” said Gonzalez.

Together, the new businesses take up about 100,000 square feet of prime retail space. The shopping center is also updating its outdoor facilities with bike paths, and is adding refurbished and covered walkways to make public transportation more accessible. According to Skip Sandgren, general manager of The Shops at Gateway, the redevelopment was sparked by multiple big-box stores’ interest in moving in and their need for additional space.

“We decided that we were gonna do a complete uplift of the mall,” Sandgren said.

The Shops at Gateway are open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and from 12 p.m. to

6 p.m. on Sundays. Other recently opened stores include GameStop, Hobby Lobby and Ross Dress for Less, which opened Oct. 10. The mall also has plans to add 40,000 square feet of outparcel building, lots separate from the main development, which according to Sandgren, are slated to open sometime next year.

Many of the new and recently opened stores are looking for employees. Ulta has several jobs available, including merchandise and service coordinators and a beauty advisor. Additionally, the beauty retailer has already hired about 20 new employees.

“Our entire store team is from the local community [...] with half of the employees being college or beauty school students,” Gonzalez said. Hobby Lobby is looking to fill positions, including a co-manager. Ross Dress for Less also has open positions.

Sandgren said that the changes have been well received by the public.

“I’ve had a great deal of positive feedback,” Sandgren said.

Other new stores are expected to open in the coming months including Subway, Random Shoes, Nails on Court, Harry Ritchie’s Jewelers and International Fitness as well as others. Marshalls is also expected to open in November, along with Rack Room Shoes.

“Every one of the new stores has been very successful,” Sandgren said.

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FIGHT WITH EATING AND CONTROL

“IN A SCREWED-UP WAY IT WAS LIKE AN ESCAPE FROM EVERYTHING ... BECAUSE ALL I DID WAS WORRY ABOUT FOOD ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT, I DIDN’T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE.”

Senior Evan Pardi has managed to land a podium spot in every race in the Pacific Northwest. Along the way, he’s had to endure not just the grueling training of an elite triathlete, but also an internal struggle that has given him the mental toughness he needs to compete at the highest level.

Summer in Alabama can be brutal. Temperatures hover around 90, with heavy humidity. You wouldn’t catch anyone out wearing more than one layer of clothing — anyone other than Evan Pardi.

During the summer of his freshman year of high school, six-foot-tall Pardi weighed only 120 pounds. He had developed a serious eating disorder, dropped 60 pounds and had almost no body fat. Even though the temperatures were close to 100 degrees with 90 percent humidity, Evan had to wear a jacket and coat because his body temperature was dangerously low.

Seven years later, Pardi is now one of the elite athletes at the University of Oregon.

In just three years of competition, Pardi, a member of the club triathlon team, has managed to land a podium spot in every race in the Pacific Northwest. Along the way, he’s had to endure not just the grueling training of an elite triathlete, but also an internal struggle that has given him the mental toughness he needs to compete at the highest level.

In elementary school, he considered himself obese.When Pardi transitioned to middle school he sought to change

that. He started exercising a lot — specifically running and rowing — but he wasn’t losing the weight as quickly as he had hoped.

“I started to get teased about it,” Pardi said. “It became a peer pressure thing, like ‘Why is the fat kid running?’ ”

Pardi continued running through middle school and into high school, when he finally began to see results. In his freshman year of high school, his weight dropped from 180 pounds to 150.

“That would’ve been a nice area to stop, but then I kept going,” Pardi said.

He began to push himself more and more, which wouldn’t have been so bad if he had continued to eat. Although he didn’t realize it at first, Pardi was developing the traits of anorexia and bulimia. He was running more, eating less, and using excessive exercise as a distraction from his growing problem.

Pardi didn’t think he had a problem, but his condition was beginning to worsen.

“When you don’t eat enough, you don’t have any energy,” Pardi said. “So I’m trying to run faster because I wanted to be competitive, but I was just getting slower and slower, so it became more and more frustrating.”

Pardi had developed symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety, stemming from his frustration about his slow times and weight.

“It was terrifying,” said Paul Pardi, Evan’s father.Paul Pardi was having dinner with his son one night when he

saw him struggling to figure out what to eat. Noticing a growing issue, they decided to seek professional help. Their doctor immediately knew something was wrong, and recommended Pardi start seeing a dietitian and psychiatrist.

The doctors and psychiatrist prescribed him, as Pardi put it, “a lot of drugs.”

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His dietitian, Anna Key, noticed from his appearance that he was going through something serious.

“He was kind of gaunt and sunken,” Key said. “He had dark eyes and a pale look to his face.”

When he first saw Key, Pardi was more interested in sports nutrition and eating better, but after a few more meetings, Key recognized there was a more important issue at hand.

“It wasn’t necessarily about the sports nutrition at that point,” Key said. “We had a more critical issue that we needed to address.”

“In hindsight, seven years later, I would’ve put me in the hospital,” Pardi said.

Pardi was suffering from a severe eating disorder that affected him physically and mentally. For an intense endurance athlete like himself, the problem was not uncommon. According to the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, 9 percent of males who compete in endurance sports suffer from eating disorders. For women, that rate is much higher -- about 24 percent.

Tim Crowley, Evan’s Florida-based trainer who has trained several endurance athletes who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, said the problem is common among athletes competing at the highest levels.

Crowley and Pardi agree most of these athletes are perfectionists who push themselves to extremes and pressure themselves to be the best. With little control over their circumstances, many triathletes strive to find some aspect of their life they can control.

With food, “you can control everything, and with that comes a certain amount of satisfaction,” Crowley said.

“In a screwed-up way it was like an escape from everything,” Pardi said. “Because all I did was worry about food all day and all night, I didn’t worry about anything else.”

Pardi was sidelined from the start of his freshman summer to the first few months of his sophomore year on doctor-ordered rest.

“It was killing me,” he said about not being able to run.

As he entered his sophomore year, Pardi began to regain his health. He saw a psychiatrist and dietitian weekly. He ate more and gained some weight back, but was still far from returning to running.

His parents knew the hiatus was

necessary but understood how hard it was for him to stop doing what he loved.

“He was active all the time, so it was really tough for him,” Paul Pardi said. “But we wanted him to gain weight. Exercising and running five miles a day wasn’t going to help him do that.”

After five months of visits to his therapist, calorie-heavy dieting, and no hard exercise, Pardi was ready to run again. He tried out for the cross country team his sophomore year, but realized he was a lot slower than before. Soon, though, he figured out his struggle could be a growing and learning process.

By the time his junior year rolled around, Pardi was up to 150 pounds and the fastest cross country runner in the state.

Even after overcoming all this, the disorder took another toll. Pardi suffered a stress fracture in his hip caused by a calcium deficiency in his bones that originated from his eating disorder. It sidelined him from running for a year.

“My bones were basically the bones of a 70-year-old woman,” Pardi said.

Now, Evan says his injury was more of a “blessing in disguise.” It only prevented him from running, so he found an outlet in another sport: triathlons.

He began swimming and, as he grew healthier, biking. Soon, a year had passed and Pardi was running again. Problems with his hip, however, lingered, and he realized his future lay in triathlons.

***Pardi has thrived in his three years

as a triathlete. He was the second-fastest American finisher in the 2014 ITU World Triathlon Championship in Edmonton, and placed 11th in the 2015 USA Triathlon Sprint National Championship in Milwaukee.

But Pardi, a music performance major, will always remember his battle with his eating disorder and how it helped him grow as a person and an athlete.

“As horrible as it was, it’s made me so much stronger mentally,” Pardi said. “It’s made me able take losses in a race, or losses in music or life, and put them into perspective. It used to be a dream to be able to sleep a whole night, wake up and not almost pass out from standing up.”

Still training hard, Pardi hopes to compete for a spot on Team USA in the next year.

He’s come a long way from being the fat kid who likes to run.

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‘STEVE JOBS’How long must a person be gone before

they can become idolized? History has often elevated certain individuals to the rank of gods. They become part of folklore, defining figures of our collective culture.

Steve Jobs may have only left us a few short years ago, yet it’s fair to say that the figurehead of Apple Computers has entered this reserved shelf of history.

Steve Jobs is, predictably, a film that sets out to depict the globally famous CEO of Apple, chronicling some of his most tumultuous years. In the process, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, HBO’s The Newsroom) presents a polarizing picture of the man beneath. Despite all this, calling Steve Jobs a biopic yields hesitation. Rather, this feels like a modern piece of mythology — a story that takes pieces of history and sculpts them into a three-act play about creation, legacy, and ambition.

Sorkin’s script is the star of this picture, with every other element seeking to enhance that framework.

The majority of the film is told from Jobs’ perspective in the final minutes before the unveiling of the Mac (in 1984), NeXT (1988) and iMac (1998). These three arcs are told

in real-time, applying a looming pressure to the experience.

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Michael Fassbender takes on the titular role and gives a striking take on a cultural icon in multiple stages of his career.

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Each peripheral character — like Apple employees Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) and Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg) or Jobs’ ex-girlfriend Chrisann (Katherine Waterston) and their daughter Lisa — makes appearances within these moments if only to shoehorn more about Jobs’ life into the scenes and distill more of the fascinating biography into the two-hour runtime.

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of Joanna Hoffman, Apple’s director of marketing. It’s a secondary part without much influence over the bulk of the narrative, and her character could easily come off as hollow. But Winslet elevates each scene against Fassbender into a potent, irresistible dynamic.

Danny Boyle’s direction feels luxurious for such a claustrophobic drama, which acts as both a benefit and deficit. While most of the story takes place backstage at various theaters and opera houses, Boyle finds space for interesting visuals. That accomplishment is oddly undermined by moments of unnecessary alteration to the scenery.

As Jobs quotes a Bob Dylan song backstage, the lyrics appear against the wall in an unprompted moment of visual poetry. Similar tricks are pulled seemingly at random, and it’s little more than a distracting gimmick used without narrative consistency. But at its best, Jobs plays out like a Shakespearean drama set against early Silicon Valley— occasionally overwrought, but never bland.

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This time last year, it was the Pac-12 Player of the Year Joseph Young, now a recently signed NBA rookie, who was answering questions and taking pictures alongside Dana Altman at Pac-12 Media Day in San Francisco. In his final season playing for Oregon, Young averaged 20.7 points, 4.4 boards and 3.8 assists while leading the Ducks to the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament.

But Oregon isn’t too worried about his departure, as the team looks to fill the void he leaves with a balanced approach.

“We were more balanced last year than people gave us credit for,” Altman said. “This year, I think we’ll have that balance. Offensively, we’ve got a number of guys that can step up and score baskets.”

“We got a great recruiting class and transfers that will pick up the slack,” said Elgin Cook, sitting in the spot previously occupied by Young at this year’s Pac-12 Media Day

Cook, a redshirt senior who averaged 13.0 points and 5.2 rebounds, is one of six returners.

Altman and Cook took the podium, representing what will be a drastically different-looking Oregon men’s basketball team, one that is projected to finish fourth by the media.

Both were optimistic about their potential and incoming mixture of talent.

“I think we’ve got a group of good guys that want to compete,” Altman said. “It will be a lot of fun working with them this year.”

On top of getting Villanova’s Dylan Ennis via transfer and reigning Spalding NJCAA Division I Player of the Year Chris Boucher, Altman has three highly touted freshman guards.

Ennis was a starter for Villanova who Altman said is “easy to work with.” He is now a graduate student that has already shown signs as an emerging leader.

Freshman Tyler Dorsey, a 6-foot-4 product of Maranatha High School in Los Angeles, is the 23rd ranked recruit in the 2015 class, according to Sports Illustrated. Named Gatorade State Player of the Year for California, the double-double machine hung his hat on averages of 34.0 points, 10.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.9 steals as a senior.

Trevor Manuel, a four-star prospect out of Everett High School and Oak Hill Academy, is the No. 3 player out of the state of Michigan. He averaged 21.9 points per game in his senior year.

Kendall Small, a four-star out of Mayfair High School in Anaheim, averaged 22 points and 9.3 rebounds to stand among the best guards in the 2015 class.

An experienced group featuring Cooks, Dillon Brooks and Dwayne Benjamin is returning, and Altman expects them to take over the team.

Altman’s goal will be no different than in years past: to intermix a balanced group of young prospects and veterans.

Since he first arrived in 2010, he has guided Oregon to five straight 20-plus win seasons and a program-best three consecutive NCAA tournament appearances.

“We have to play an exciting brand of basketball,” Altman said. “We have challenges in front of us. [But] we have the resources, the facilities. Our program will grow.”

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Head men’s basketball coach Dana Altman during a game at Matthew Knight Arena. (Emerald Archives)


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With two and a half miles to go in his first triathlon, Thomas Fate collapsed. The last thing he remembers was watching a boat bob lazily on the pristine surface of Applegate Lake in southern Oregon.

Blacking out is a common occurrence in endurance sports, often referred to as “bonking” or “hitting the wall.” As glycogen levels slowly deplete during the course of a race, the body loses its ability to keep going. Many athletes will try to stave off the inevitable by loading up on carbohydrates before the race or keeping a snack with them to eat.

Because Fate was new to triathlons, he hadn’t done either, which is why he found himself lying on the ground on the final stage of the Granite Man race the summer before his freshman year of high school.

“It kind of came out of nowhere,” Fate said. “I knew something was coming, but I guess my body just shut off.”

Fate doesn’t remember how long he was out. He thinks the lapse was roughly a minute, calculated by the distance the boat had traveled along the shore. No one would have blamed him for dropping out at that point. But Fate had other ideas.

“I got up, kept running and finished,” Fate said.

He doesn’t remember what place he got, but for Fate, racing has never been about winning or losing. That moment in which he blacked out provided clarity on what he loves about sports: the concept of pushing yourself until you’re running on fumes, then pushing some more.

Growing up in Grants Pass, Fate loved to run and bike. This was despite his friends

not being as interested in joining him. So he turned to a group informally known as the “Weekend Warriors,” a collection of older guys who went on rides together.

“I started inviting him out on our rides and he just melded into the group,” Tom Venzon, a family friend, said. “It was neat because even though we weren’t as fast as him, he’d ride with us and you never felt you were being left in the dust.”

The group also gave Fate his first nickname, “Skinny Ass” Thomas, because he was too small to ever draft behind on rides.

“He would get out in front and wouldn’t even break the wind,” Venzon said with a laugh.

Community is something Fate enjoys about competing. He had that back home and he also found it here in Eugene — joining the Oregon club triathlon team last year as a freshman.

“Thomas is a really fun-loving guy, laid back but knows how to work hard in practice,” said club president Forrest Kollar.

The club is young and talented this year and Fate has played a key role in integrating the new faces. He is active on the group’s Facebook page, inviting anyone to join him during training sessions.

Fate has come a long way since waking up on the ground that afternoon, improving as an athlete and learning the nuances of the sport.

“I’ve always just wanted to have fun with what I do and get better at it — to see myself excel,” Fate said. “I want to keep doing this for as long as I can.”

He has also learned to always have a protein bar on hand just in case.

AFTER A ROUGH START, UO’S THOMAS FATE HAS

HONED HIS TRIATHLON SKILLS

Triathlete Thomas Fate has learned the nuances of the sport since his first triathlon prior to entering high school.(Samuel Marshall)

Growing up in the public eye, Selena Gomez has had much of her life publicized. Everything from her relationship with Justin Bieber to her 2013 diagnosis with lupus, an autoimmune disease, has been plastered all over the Internet.

In an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Gomez said that this past year has been hard for her as she is trying to find out who she really is. Even through disease, breakups and rumors, the most shocking thing Gomez has had to deal with recently is body shaming.

While Gomez was on vacation in Mexico, she said she was photographed in a bathing suit and received a lot of negative comments, basically saying that she was fat. “It was weird because it’s not just, ‘Oh, she’s fat.’” Gomez said. “It’s like, ‘She’s a mess. She’s gone off the deep end.’ I’m like, because I’m on vacation wearing a bathing suit?”

Gomez isn’t the only one that deals with this.

All celebrities have had their fair share of societal judgment and some don’t handle it well. Gomez, however, handled it with grace. Her new album, Revival, is all about embracing herself and loving exactly who she is. One of the songs on the album called “Kill Em With Kindness” is about how she deals with all the hate that is thrown her way.

According to the NYC Girl’s Project, over 80 percent of 10-year-old girls are afraid of being fat. These aren’t celebrity girls; these are girls just like you and me who are having body issues at 10 years old.

The study also found that by middle school, 40 to 70 percent of girls are dissatisfied with two or more parts of their body. Many people are quick to blame the fashion and entertainment industries for producing an unattainable body image for younger girls. While that may be true, it is everyday people who shame celebrities like Gomez when they gain a few pounds and show off their bodies.

Is this what we should be teaching younger girls? That because a woman’s body weight fluctuates it means she deserves to be ridiculed?

We should lead by example. We need to start teaching younger girls about their bodies and start teaching them how to love themselves for every single pound they weigh. Gomez is doing just that with the platform she has been given.

In a radio interview on On Air with Ryan Seacrest, Gomez said, “I feel very empowered and confident in where I am.”

Even though many horrible things have been said about her, she is choosing to rise above it with her album. This is something

that we should look up to because no matter what gender or sexual orientation you identify with, everyone faces body issues at some point. That’s just the world we live in. Being strong, independent and confident with yourself takes time. The reality is that you are never going to change some people’s opinions about you, so why not change the opinions you have about yourself?

DeGeneres said something to Gomez in the interview that really stuck with me, “You can always have the last word if you choose to.”

This couldn’t be truer. No matter if you’re being bullied or discouraged, you can always choose to come out of it stronger, healthier and happier.

“There’s more of me to love and I’m happy with myself,” Gomez said. “I didn’t want them to win.”

So listen to her new album Revival and be happy with exactly who you are just as Gomez is being happy with who she is. As she said, “The next day, it wasn’t about how I gained weight, it was about how I embraced it. And that’s just my kind of approach.”


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Body shaming affects a wide range of people, from 10-year-old girls to grown celebrities. (Emerald Archives)


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The SAA is holding a Food Drive that will help feed students at UO! Help give back to the fellow Ducks that surround you every day!

UO STUDENT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOOD DRIVE

CONTESTS :• FSL house to donate the most cans gets $100 for their philanthropy!

• Club to donate the most cans gets $100 for their organization!

• Donate and you could win a Duck football jersey!

The Duck Store Drop Off: 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

DROP OFF LOCATIONS: The Duck Store and Ford Alumni CenterFROM MONDAY, OCT. 19TH TO FRIDAY, NOV. 6TH

More about the UO Student Food Pantry• UO food pantry serves about about 110 students/ week and about 880/year

• UO food pantry average 9lbs of food/student

• UO food pantry distributed 32,000 lbs food this past year

• More than half (about 59%) of college students suffer from food insecurity (a lack of nutritional food)

Address: 1329 E 19th Ave Eugene OR 97403Day/Time: Thursdays from 4pm-6pm Needed for access: Student ID card

Tues, 10/27 • Wed, 10/28 • Tues, 11/3


» Designate sober host(s) to monitor the event and ensure a safe party.

» Let your neighbors know that you’ll be throwing a party and give them your phone number, so they can call you before they call the police.

» Plan to serve water, non-alcoholic, drinks, and provide snacks for guests.

» Remember, you must be 21 years or older to use or possess marijuana or alcohol.

Call the non-emergency police number 541-682-5111. Ordinance on Unruly Gatherings = Fine Up to $1,000

Respond positively and comply with police officers that come to your house.

Remember, interfering with a police officer makes a bad situation worse.

If a police officer asks you to clear an area, leave right away.

If you are concerned that your friend might have alcohol poisoning, call for help! Oregon’s Medical Amnesty law (ORS 471.430.10(a)) prevents you from receiving a Minor In Possession (MIP) citation.

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