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The University of Or-egon Students of the Indian Subcontinent will host its 19th annual culture night, Utsav, with special guest Hasan Minhaj this Saturday at 5 p.m. in Straub Hall room 156. Minhaj, a correspondent from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, will host a stand-up comedy set.

UO SIS has been hosting Utsav – which means “festi-val” in Hindi – since 1998. UO SIS member Meghna Agar-wal said that Utsav is a night in which SIS highlights South Asian culture by featuring performances from students and community members.

“It’s really exciting to be holding such a differ-ent Utsav celebration, and I can’t wait to see Hasan performing live on Saturday,” said Agar-wal. “One of our goals with inviting Hasan was to bring together lots of students who might normally not be interested in SIS events.”

Tickets are $10 for non-students. Refreshments will be provided after the show. Another Utsav event will take place earlier that day at 3 p.m. in the LLC Performance Hall. It is free for everyone.

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CALENDARCALENDARFRIDAY 4/15Bee Weekend 2016 - Glorybee (29548

B Airport Rd.) 9:30 a.m., free

Bee Weekend is a two-day event with beekeeping education, distribution of packages of live bees, live demonstrations, honey sampling and onsite food vendors. GloryBee has been a local honey farm for 40 years, and the annual Bee Weekend is its biggest event of the year. While University of Oregon students may not desire to take home packages of live bees, the honey sampling and beekeeping education may be of interest.

SATURDAY 4/16UO Repertory Dance Company Spring

Performance - Dougherty Dance Theater (Gerlinger Annex, 1484 University St.) 8 p.m., $12 general admission, $8 for students and seniors

Presented by the UO’s Repertory Dance Company, this annual spring concert serves as the company’s capstone dance event of the 2015-16 academic year. The performance will feature works that will be included in the company’s upcoming tours to Oregon communities later in the spring quarter. Tickets are available at the door or in advance from the UO Ticket Office.

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(796 W 13th Ave.) $7 weekend pass

To find quality gems, beads, crystals, minerals and earthly treasures, look no further than the Gem Faire coming to Eugene this weekend. Every hour at the fair are lottery drawings for gem prizes. Exhibitors have traveled from around the world to sell at their booths. The Piccadilly Flea Market is also at the Lane County Event Center this Sunday, so shoppers can multitask with their thrifting.

FRIDAY 4/15Paul McCartney - Moda Center (1 N

Center Court St.) 8 p.m., $30+

In his “One On One” tour, the legendary Beatles frontman performs some of his greatest hits for a packed house in the Moda Center. On March 31, McCartney announced the June release of his career-spanning collection Pure McCartney. Fans can look forward to classics from his Beatles days and solo career this weekend in Portland. This will only be the second stop on his North America and Europe tour spanning the summer, so a fresh and energetic performance can be expected.

SATURDAY 4/16Pink Collar Comedy Tour - Curious

Comedy Theater (5225 NE Martin Luther King Blvd.) 9 p.m., $12 in advance, $20 at the door

The Pink Collar Comedy crew is an all-female stand-up comedy group from New York City, and they are performing at the Curious Comedy Theatre this weekend. The group prides itself on its “brazen honesty and estrogen-themed jokes.” Belinda Carroll, who can be recognized as a comedy producer from Portlandia, joins the show. The Pink Collar Comedy Tour’s Portland show is also a benefit for Planned Parenthood.

SUNDAY 4/17Parov Stelar - Crystal Ballroom (1332

W Burnside St.) 8 p.m., $25 in advance, $30 on day of show

An incredible mix of jazz, house, and electro, Parov Stelar’s music is genre-spanning and boundary-breaking. The Austrian musician, producer and DJ has a vintage aesthetic straight from the ‘20s and a unique, modern sound. Stelar has been releasing an album nearly every year since 2001 and is coming to the Crystal Ballroom in Portland this weekend to perform his electro-swing music.

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Following a string of records with rambunctious names like Tally All The Things That You Broke and Sunbathing Animal, Brooklyn-based punk band Parquet Courts established a strong reputation as a group full of two-chord punk tracks and articulate stoner-poet lyricisms. They’re also one of the most exhilarating live performances you can witness.

In this installment of Double Takes, Emerald writers Emerson Malone and Craig Wright review Parquet Courts’ newest album Human Performance, which finds the band leaving behind the juvenile naivety of its past and advancing toward a cleaner, more adult release.

PARQUET COURTS’ ‘HUMAN PERFORMANCE’

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Countless reviews have called Parquet Courts a “slacker band.” Other than the stoner-infused motifs of songs like “Stoned and Starving,” that descriptor has never made much sense. Since 2013, there have been six Parquet Courts records: four full-length albums and two EPs.

Many of the songs on Human Performance are slower than typical early Parquet Courts songs, but the guitar work remains as interesting as ever. Austin Brown and Andrew Savage continue to make seemingly incompatible solos fuse into a single brilliant interwoven effort. The duo’s shared vocal duties similarly mesh better than ever.

Savage delivers his most political song to date as he questions police tactics in “Two Dead Cops.” Sean Yeaton provides a driving bassline before Savage’s anxious vocals clash with the guitar, kicking off a story of institutional power abuse: “Somebody follows you home in the dark / Can’t look back, all the gates are down / He could do anything, there’s no one around, plant a bag in my pants / Protect you is what they say / But point and shoot is what they do.”

The evolution of lyrical themes is striking, but the band’s continued instrumental development is the real showstopper. “Dust” features a slow groove instrumental call-and-response section. During the chorus, the guitar plays the main riff, answered by a synthesizer, bass, then finally vocals. It’s an eerie album opener and an instant alert that this was not a rushed production.

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco makes a cameo on “Dust,” and later supplies the guitar solo for “Keep It Even,” which gives both tracks a welcome Wilco vibe and a much-deserved Tweedy stamp of approval.

Human Performance finds Parquet Courts with yet another album worthy of heavy rotation. The sonic strives this band makes are always encouraging, and the slower, often-disjointed sounds mixed with some of the group’s best lyrics to date are hopefully a sign of further developments. Just don’t call them slackers. By the time you do, there will probably be news of another Parquet Courts album coming.

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If nothing else, you have to appreciate Parquet Courts for its exceptional handle on track sequencing, and killer album openers. Such is the case on Human Performance with the fantastic “Dust.” Through the droning guitar and rascally keyboard that jumps in, singer-songwriter Andrew Savage offers the taunting mantra: “Dust is everywhere / Sweep!” as a nightmarish oh-my-god-my-house-is-trying-to-kill-me attack for any germaphobe. But on a more symbolic level, the song posits that the group’s decided to clean up its act with the new album. The array of instruments at the band’s disposal is another notable growth on Human – what previously was a guitar-bass-drums-scream outfit now finds room for flute, keyboards, marimba and bongos.

One of the most admirable things about Parquet Courts is how the band packages vulnerability into some savage tracks. On the album’s title track, Savage narrates the sight of an apartment after a break-up (“Ashtray is crowded, bottle is empty”) counterpointed with restrained sentiments on his depression (“It never leaves me, just visits less often / It isn’t gone and I won’t feel its grip soften, without a coffin”).

Savage’s wittiness runs on all cylinders on “One Man, No City,” the album’s six-and-a-half-minute centerpiece. With a rhythmic guitar hook punctuated with some bongos, Savage makes a clever shout-

out to the Cartesian adage (“‘Cogito Ergo Sum’ people say, but think again”) before it takes a detour into a wandering, instrumental coda

that wouldn’t be out of place on a Velvet Underground record.

There’s no conceptual narrative on Performance to swallow, nor a hyper-literate social commentary like on past records, but dammit, this is Parquet Courts having fun on a new level of musicianship, highly evolved and entirely human. This is the most enjoyable record of 2016, thus far.

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Parquet Courts performing at the Wonder Ballroom on Feb. 24. (Emerson Malone)

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For Kawika Asam, serving food isn’t about business – it’s about family.

Asam moved to Eugene from Hawaii in 2007 and graduated from the University of Oregon in 2012. He decided to con-tinue living in Eugene after graduation but still missed the food from home. His parents worked for a catering business in Hawaii, so after Asam and his partner, Hazel Balilea, had a child in 2013, Asam invited his parents to help run a food truck in Eugene.

Everyday Kine Grindz From Hawaii was running about a week after his par-ents moved to the area.

“Mom does a lot of cooking of the spe-cials, Hazel does the cashier and I’m kind of in the middle of everything,” Asam said. “We all run it together.”

The truck was originally located at 7th Avenue and Chambers Street, but moved to 19th Avenue and Agate Street in August 2015. It’s open Wednesday through Friday from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Asam said it upset him when he came to Eugene and saw foods being labeled as Hawaiian just because they had teriyaki sauce on them. The foods at his truck are marinated instead of drenched in sauces.

“We wanted to create an atmosphere and serve food like we do the real way,” Asam said. “I wouldn’t even call it ‘au-thentic.’ Nobody’s authentic. To me it’s just the way of cooking and the way we serve our food that separates us.”

The truck offers kalua pork, teriyaki chicken and chocolate mochi ice cream, among other things. There are also specials that change daily.

Kalanihano Nakakura, a UO sophomore from Hawaii, discovered the truck her first week of freshman year. She said it is one of the only places in Eugene that serves local Hawaiian food and that the employees are personable.

“They know what it’s like to be away from home, so they definitely create a sense of home away from home when you’re at the food truck,” Nakakura said. “There’s always something to talk about with them.”

Aside from serving food a few days a week, Everyday Kine Grindz from Hawaii also caters for UO events including Japan Night and the Hawaii Club’s annual luau. The truck can also usually be found at the ASUO Street Faire, which is held on campus fall and spring term.

Asam said that after attending UO, he’s happy to give back to students and the community through his food truck.

Balilea added that the family’s positive vibe also makes the truck worth visiting.

“We do a lot of our cooking with a lot of Aloha: a lot of love,” she said. “We put a lot of care and passion into our cooking. We love to do it for the people and make people happy.”

From left to right: Esther Asam, Damon Asam, Hazel Balilea, Kyron Asam, Kawika Asam (Courtesy of Hazel Balilea)

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“[UO Mock Trial] is more than just a team, it’s like a community that we have,” University of Oregon junior Sara Gaylon said. “This is probably my favorite part of the UO.”

Gaylon has been involved with UO Mock Trial since her first year at the university. She joined the group hoping to gain experience for law school, and now Gaylon is the president of the student group.

Helping to grow a 12-member team into a well-established group of 33 active members, Gaylon led the university’s core team to compete at The National Championship Tournament in South Carolina.

This is the first time in history that the Oregon’s team will go to nationals, Gaylon said. Despite being nervous and intimidated, Gaylon said it is an exciting opportunity to learn and establish the university’s name on a national level.

“It’s hard to not feel intimidated when you go against schools like Yale and NYU,” she said. “But at the same time very exciting.”

The competition, hosted by the American Mock Trial Association, is an established playground “to foster the development of undergraduate students in the areas of leadership, public speaking, rhetoric, and persuasion through a legal forum,” according to its website.

The UO Mock Trial team started competing in regional competition back in February. The group advanced to the Opening Round series, which was held in March in Chicago. UO came in fifth place,

guaranteeing a spot in the national championship. The best 48 teams will compete against each other from April 15 - 17.

The team has worked closely with Judge Michael McShane at the Eugene Federal Courthouse to prepare for the competition, Gaylon said.

Throughout this school year, UO Mock Trial has traveled to different schools such as University of Washington, UCLA and Stanford on invitational tournaments. Though these tournaments mostly serve as practice debate, Gaylon said UO has recently been invited to more elite schools.

The numbers of students who want to participate in UO Mock Trial has increased in the last two years, Gaylon said. During spring recruitment, the student group received more than 60 applications wanting for tryouts but had to cut down to 30 students.

Because UO Mock Trial groups travel frequently to different states for competitions, its academic department, the forensics department of the Clark Honors College, requested an increase in next year’s budget through the incidental fee last winter term.

In the past, UO Mock Trial had to cut back on going to competitions throughout the year to save up for competing in regionals, Forensics Director Trond Jacobsen said.

The senate ultimately granted the 25 percent increase to forensics to cover traveling costs and accommodate growth.

The UO Mock Trial team is headiung to South Carolina for the National Championship Tournament. (Courtesy of UO Mock Trial)

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Since Scott Landfield, owner of Tsunami Books, declared his campaign for Eugene mayor last month, he’s spent $3.47.

This accounts for the cost of making copies of supporters’ signatures, plus parking his car at city hall to turn in his mayoral application.

“Now I’m riding my bike to campaign events,” Landfield told the Emerald. “I want to save that money.”

On May 17, Oregon’s primary will include the ballot for mayor. A candidate can win the election immediately with 50 percent plus one vote; if no candidate receives the majority, the mayoral election will be held again in November with the two highest-earning candidates. Landfield doesn’t want the race to be over in May.

“That was … the seed that started this,” said Tsunami Books employee and University of Oregon alum Kelsey Yoder. “He wants the candidates to be pushed to do more, [and] get to know the communities they’re working with.”

Landfield has updated the bookstore’s Facebook page with some musings on his mayoral run. In the first post, he established the three “planks” of his platform: (a) he’s not running to become elected as mayor, but rather (b) to extend the election process past the primary date and into November, and (c) he’s doing this with as little money as possible to demonstrate that any citizen can run for office without major financial backing.

After growing up in southern Illinois, Landfield moved to Eugene in 1978 and planted trees for 20 years with the Hoedads Reforestation Cooperative, a 600-worker “earth

healing” movement. His parents, both journalists and literature buffs, named him after F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner. He wanted to be a writer since age 5 and opened Tsunami Books in 1996.

The entrance wall of Tsunami Books is a towering assemblage of historical and cultural iconography — the Register-Guard’s front page after the Apollo 11 moon landing, the New York Times front page after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, flyers for Oregon Country Fairs from years past, Obama’s iconic “HOPE” poster, a poster of Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac standing arm in arm and a loud red, white and blue poster screaming “NO IRAQ WAR.”

But one poster is noticeably absent — one in support of Landfield for mayor. It’s intentional, he says. He’s not even using lawn signs. When one supporter asked him about this via the bookstore’s Facebook page, he told people to make their own.

“Scott is definitely going the route of grassroots, DIY, do-whatever-you-can-in-whatever-way-you-can sort of style,” said Eugene artist Ila Rose, who’s working with Landfield to make a mayoral sign for the storefront.

In lieu of financing his campaign, Landfield hosts fundraisers at the bookstore and donates the proceeds to local nonprofits. This Thursday, April 14, a fundraiser for Occupy Medical Eugene, a volunteer-run clinic that offers free medical care, will be hosted from 7-10 p.m. at Tsunami Books.

“Instead of raising money for my campaign, I’m raising money for something real,” he said. “The longer I run, the more money I’m going to raise for nonprofits.”

The event includes community activists, poets, artists and writers, and an auction of local artists’ works.

“He wants to see resources go to community need rather than toward people running campaigns,” said Jorah LaFleur, emcee of Tsunami’s slam poetry nights. “That seems pretty straightforward and a really neat citizen voice to be added to the mix.”

Landfield wrote on Facebook that campaign fundraising is “a despicable waste of resources.”

“I think people need to stand up and tell these small-town candidates to quit raising so much money for their campaigns and start running on who they really are,” he wrote. “It takes very little money to get that across.”

Landfield is up against four other candidates: ShelterCare fundraising director Lucy Vinis, city councilman Mike Clark, former EWEB commissioner Bob Cassidy and UO art major Stefan Strek.

Vinis remarked that she’d love to not fundraise for her campaign, but at the same time, it forces a candidate to be beholden to his or her constituents.

“Fundraising for a political campaign is a huge endeavor and it would be wonderful as a candidate not to do that. In a self-interested

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Scott Landfield, proud owner of Tsunami Books, hopes to push other mayoral candidates to do better. (Kaylee Domzalski)

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Thursday, April 147-10 p.m.

Tsunami BooksA fundraiser for

Occupy Medical Eugene, a volunteer-run clinic

that offers free medical care. The event includes community activists,

poets, artists and writers and an auction of local artists’ works.

Scott Landfield, proud owner of Tsunami Books, hopes to push other mayoral candidates to do better. (Kaylee Domzalski)

way, I’d love not to fundraise,” said Vinis. “[But] I think it’s a very important way to establish credibility as a candidate.”

Merrill Watrous, an education instructor at Lane Community College, says that Scott’s campaign exemplifies “a new paradigm” with his dismissive approach to donations.

“Maybe we’re at a tipping point and Scott is representing that right now,” she said. “I hope we’re more thoughtful about how we spend money in campaigns.”

Landfield said he was “very unhappy” with the election’s mayoral candidate prospects and that no candidate represented the ideas that he and “everyone” around him feel are most important — local campaign finance reform, slower urban growth and fewer projects contracted to out-of-state developers.

One of Landfield’s nemeses is MUPTE, the tax incentive that lets multi-unit housing projects avoid paying new taxes for 10 years in exchange for developing. According to Eugene Weekly, that’s the equivalent of a $16-million tax break for Capstone, the Alabama-based developers behind the 13th & Olive apartment complex.

“It’s moving out of control for the big corporate dollar,” he said. “Their idea of growth is not real growth.”

The perfunctory construction work at 13th & Olive – hallmarked by the persistently defective units – is proof of how developers

can dupe the Eugene community, he argued.“A lot of student housing that has gone in

under the city’s rules is a total scam,” said Landfield. “They’re fucked. And in 10 years from now, they’re going to be really fucked.”

He cites Eugene mayor Kitty Piercy’s support for the 13th & Olive tax break — the largest downtown redevelopment project in the city’s history — as a “huge failure.”

“They’re wiley sons-of-bitches; they’re full-on pirates,” he said of these developers. “Johnny Depp would just be a hand on deck.”

He’s also spoken before Eugene City Council to denounce the proposed construction of luxe condos above the downtown public plaza Kesey Square.

“It won’t do anything about the criminal element right there; it’ll move them a few feet,” he said. “And it’ll make a couple guys millions of dollars.”

Landfield — whose candidacy also looks at homelessness, unchallenged City Council seats and term limits — knows the May 17 primary may mark the end of his run, as voters may choose one of the election’s other candidates who’ve invested in lawn signs.

“If I make it past Lucy [Vinis] spending no money, I’m proving something that no one else in America is doing right now,” he said. “I’m showing how possible it is for an average person to do it.”

Note: Craig Garcia contributed to this story.

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Winning tennis matches in the Pac-12 is hard. Winning when your team was recently reduced to six players is harder.

The Oregon women’s tennis team dismissed three players due to a violation of team rules. The team is now playing with the minimum amount needed for the rest of the season.

Dramatic late-season personnel shifts rarely breed success, especially in doubles.

“Chemistry is huge for doubles pairings,” head coach Alison Silverio said. Two of the three dismissed players, Kennan Johnson and Christi Woodson, were crucial pieces to the Ducks’ doubles squads.

With five players generally available, Oregon has featured seven different doubles pairings in its last four matches.

After months spent learning and adapting to a partner’s playing style, abandoning it for a new partner on short notice can be mentally draining. Hitting the reset button is not ideal for a team that needs to create momentum.

The season hinges on how the team reacts and adapts. Despite the setback, Silverio has confidence in Oregon’s ability to bounce back.

“The girls know each other and each other’s games well, so I think [chemistry] happens naturally,” she said.

The Ducks’ doubles record since the dismissal is 0-4. Due to injuries, however, Oregon has forfeited the No. 3 court in three of four matches, putting the pressure on courts No. 1 and 2 for the Ducks to take the doubles point.

“I think they have been handling [the pressure] phenomenally,” said Silverio. “For us, it’s just all about competing, fighting and battling ... I’m very proud of how they have been handling the adversity.”

For the Oregon coaches and players, the focus is not on events of the past, but on the future. With the Pac-12 championships beginning on April 20, building confidence is key.

Silverio was pleased with the team’s doubles performance in a close loss to Utah,

“I can see us keeping [the pairings]... to see if we can get it going,” Silverio said.

Oregon has no seniors on the team. Leadership is pivotal in scenarios like this, but the team hopes the pressure now will lead to stronger players in the future. The trials and tribulations of today will lead to valuable experience tomorrow, especially for a growing program looking to compete for Pac-12 titles.

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Oregon men’s club lacrosse went 2-10 in the Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League Division I last year. Since then, the team has done a complete 360, achieving a record of 9-2 so far this season.

This dramatic shift is owed in large part to a transition in the coaching staff. After more than eight years with the program, Jon Bongiorno transitioned from assistant coach to head coach. He has made a profound impact on the culture of the team, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Senior Liam Delumpa is a team captain and the only four-year player on the team. During his time at Oregon, Bongiorno has coached him both as an assistant and head coach.

“Towards the end of last year, when he assumed more responsibilities due to our poor record, things were fixed a lot,” Delumpa said. “More structure — we were definitely working harder under a more rigorous regime. I think this year as head coach, and being in control, his organizational skills have really contributed to our success.”

Bongiorno credits his team’s success to not only the talent, but the commitment and hard work that each player puts in on the field. The importance of culture is something he reiterates, especially with all the new players on the team.

“[Out of] 44 [players] on our roster in the beginning of the year, 22 were new to the program,” Bongiorno said. “We added two new coaches to the coaching staff, so out of the four coaches and 44 players, literally half is new.”

The new players are made up of both transfers and freshmen, many of whom have already established prominent roles on the team. Sam Snider, a freshman who transferred from Colorado to Oregon in the winter, immediately stepped into the starting position at goalie. Another transfer, Michael Marcott, came to Oregon from the University of Denver, the 2015 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse champions. He was named team captain only six weeks after arriving on campus.

Junior Midfielder Lucas Kuchta, one of the returning athletes trying to move on from last year, is happy with all new talent that the team has gained.

“Last year sucked,” Kuchta said. “I think that I can speak for a lot of the guys that were here. We’ve lost some important players, but the good thing about that is that there are young guys and new players stepping up to the occasion.”

With three more games in the regular season, the team has high hopes for what lies ahead.

“After not making the conference tournament

last year, that was a big point of emphasis,” Bongiorno said. “The immediate goal is to get better every single opportunity you have. Then at the end, it’s to win our league, win our league tournament, get that bid to the national tournament and then see where it goes from there.”

The Ducks’ confidence is at an all-time high. Sophomore Troy Romstad, one of the 22 newcomers to the team, has witnessed it this season.

“Coach preaches that he wants us to be fast, confident and fundamentally sound,” Romstad said. “So we’ve definitely got a lot of the confidence, and we’ve shown that when we’re at our best, we can play with any team in the nation.”

This team’s only two losses come from two of the top-ranked teams in the country: No. 1 Chapman and previously-No. 3-ranked Colorado.

“They take care of each other off the field,” Bongiorno said. “And that’s where you get into that family dynamic. Any coach will tell you: If you can get a team that’s more like a family, that’s when you tap into that hidden growth potential of the team. Honestly it’s just them, not me. I just give them some structure and they’re good to go.”

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Oregon midfielder Jake Marcy (9) checks Dominican midfielder Spencer Anderson (12) and wins the ball at a home game.

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Oregon baseball manager George Horton’s teams have embraced “small ball” throughout his long and prosperous coaching career. But in his 19th season as head coach, he and his coaching staff made the decision to move away from that strategy.

“It’s an intentional thing — we’re not trying to sacrifice as much,” Horton said.Oregon’s offense, however, has struggled mightily. The team batting average

(.217) and on-base percentage (.322) are the lowest in the conference and slugging percentage (.324) is second-lowest. All three are the lowest they’ve been in any season under Horton. The Ducks (14-12, 4-5) have scored the third-fewest runs per game (4.77) and currently sit in eighth place in the Pac-12 standings.

Small ball is an offensive approach that emphasizes “manufacturing runs” — moving runners into scoring position by means of sacrifice bunts and stolen bases. Its counterpart, the “take-and-rake” approach, underscores scoring runs in bunches by means of walks and extra base hits.

During Horton’s tenure, no Pac-12 team has played more small ball than Oregon. The Ducks’ “small ball index” — sacrifice bunts plus stolen base attempts per game — of 2.91 is the highest in the conference from 2009 to the present.

Thus far in 2016, the Ducks’ small ball index of 1.92 is the lowest it has been since 2009 (1.95), Horton’s first season at Oregon. The Ducks have averaged far more sacrifice bunts per game (1.27) than any team in the Pac-12 during that span, but the fourth-fewest (0.73) in 2016.

Prior to the start of the season, the Ducks were excited to move away from the strategy.

“That just means the coaches are going to trust us a little bit more,” Phil Craig-St. Louis told reporters at the beginning of the year. “With the pitching we have, I think we’ll be able to win some games just by swinging and not go back to the bunting that has been here for so many years.”

The change in approach is not a byproduct of his current players’ skill sets, which Horton said are not much different from those of past players. Rather, he and his coaching staff wanted to change the status quo.

“We don’t want to lead the nation in sacrifice bunts anymore,” he said.Horton acknowledged Oregon’s shift away from small ball will inevitably

lead to more double play balls because runners will advance to second less frequently due to fewer bunts and steals. He hopes it will lead to more multi-run innings, which he said are “momentum-breakers” for opponents.

“It’s not about hitting home runs, but it’s just lack of giving up outs as sacrifices. We’ll still base hit, bunt to move guys and all that. We’re trying that style to see if we can get the continuity to score more runs consistently.”

Conventional knowledge says small ball will lead to more consistent scoring than the take-and-rake approach. A 2005 analysis of Major League Baseball teams by Baseball Prospectus, however, determined “hitting approach has no effect on the consistency of runs scored.”

If they are committed to moving away from small ball, they may need to recruit players who more closely fit the take-and-rake mould.

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George Horton is trying a strategy new to him and the Ducks this season. (Adam Eberhardt)

A regression analysis indicates that the Ducks tend to win more of their games in seasons when their small ball index is higher. (Kenny Jacoby)


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Have you ever thought about world peace and universal tolerance when it comes to religious diversity? If you have, I’m sure it was nothing more than a far-fetched idea — a dream, really — that only beauty pageant contestants and little kids have taken seriously.

But I’m here to tell you there’s hope for the world — hope that has been vocalized through none other than the voice of God: Morgan Freeman. (Not to be blasphemous, of course. Just think: Bruce Almighty and its sequel, Evan Almighty).

The man who can make anything sound interesting and important worked with the National Geographic Channel on the long-awaited, six-part miniseries, The Story of God. It premiered on April 3 and continued on April 11. The program follows Freeman on an international voyage in which he attempts to answer questions such as,“How has God helped us answer the biggest questions about our place in the universe?” and “How do our beliefs connect us all?” in one epic story.

Subjects of science, afterlife, evil and the apocalypse are all examined. The show takes viewers to places like Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas; the Pasupathi Nath Temple in Varanasi, India; a mosque in Cairo, Egypt; the Western Wall in Jerusalem and a science lab in Geneva, Switzerland.

The premiere of the event series racked in about 3.5 million viewers, making The Story of God the fourth most-watched telecast of all time for Nat Geo and the network’s most watched program thus far in 2016.

The program I was flipping back and forth through while watching Morgan do his thang was one that also answered a worldly question: Why must Rebel Wilson expose her privates on national television? Also on Sunday night, and also bringing in around 3.5 million viewers, the outlandish MTV Movie “Awards” aired.

For the last 23 years, MTV has closed out the Hollywood award season by not just being a normal award show, but a cool award show. This is the program that is meant to consist of informal-attire only, young vibes, entertaining acts and some scandalous aspects that are too awkward to watch with your parents.

I’m usually a fan of MTV award shows, but for me, it fell a bit short this year and not just because Kevin Hart was co-hosting. First, it all took place outdoors in the Warner Bros. production lot, so it had a different feel from past years. Then, there were way too many sci-fi-related things happening, and I just wasn’t having it.

I get it — The Avengers, Superman, Batman and Star Wars all hold great cultural significance in the world, but I could’ve done with a little less of those, and more Khaleesi or something. That was my favorite part of the night: when Khaleesi, aka Daenerys Targaryen, aka Emilia Clarke (IRL), was on stage for all of two minutes. She did a killer Borat accent and told Andy Samberg her father “hates” him — her words, not mine.

The other thing MTV got right was the list of winners for the night. J-Law won Best Hero for her (BA) performance in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2. Ryan Reynolds, or Mr.

Lively, took home Best Fight and Best Comedic Performance for Deadpool. Adam Driver (you know, bae from Girls) won Best Villain for that one movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Amy Poehler got Best Virtual Performance for the (cutest) movie (ever) Inside Out, the Straight Outta Compton crew (deservingly) scored Best True Story and Will Smith got jiggy for the Generation Award.

Much pop. Very culture.Even more underwhelming than the

“entertainment” at the Movie Awards are the elections here on campus. Looks like Duck Squad is out and One Oregon and I’m with UO are about to throw down during week 3. There seems to be a little less drama surrounding campus politics this year with the exception of One Oregon’s wild tactics last week that gave them a fat slap on the wrist. Bribery is a no-no and stalking freshmen in the residence halls is too.

On April 11, ASUO banned the slate headed by Zach Rentschler from campaigning until 9 a.m. on April 13 because they gave out pizza in exchange for votes in the Global Scholars Hall and they tried to bribe some members of the fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, not with pizza. One Oregon’s mischievous behavior was kept very G-rated.

Morgan Freeman on faith, the MTV Movie Awards, ASUO elections

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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