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Volume 105, Issue 161
Students
face fears
in unique
workshop
Unconventional assignments
challenge advertising majors
to achieve ‘personal growth’
By Chelsea Duncan
Senior News Reporter
When senior journalism major loe
Leineweber was assigned to run naked
through a golf course for an advertising
workshop he's taking through the School
of Journalism and Communication, he
was a bit apprehensive.
Each year, Dan Wieden — president of
Wieden + Kennedy, the advertising agency
that handles the Nike account — leads the
workshop. The workshop's theme this
year was overcoming fears, and Wieden as
signed students various ways to conquer
"fears"- from objecting at a wedding to
doing a stand-up comedy act to convinc
ing one's parents that he or she is gay.
Leineweber happened to get the task of
streaking, something he said he is defi
nitely nervous about.
"I'm a really modest person," he said.
"It's something 1 would never do."
But Leineweber does plan to follow
through with the assignment, which he
said is meant to help him overcome future
challenges he will encounter in the adver
tising industry.
But while Wieden's grand scheme may
be to help students learn to deal with un
comfortable situations and requests
throughout their future careers, he has
also asked a student to commit a crime.
Streaking can carry a misdemeanor of
fense if at least three people file com
plaints with the police, according to the
Eugene Police Department.
Leineweber said he's not too concerned
with the potential legal consequences be
cause he doesn't think the responsibility
would fall "squarely on my shoulders."
SOJC Dean Tim Gleason said the
school does not condone illegal or uneth
ical behavior, but it's too soon to jump to
conclusions about how the assignments
will turn out.
"I think there's an ongoing process
here," he said. "I think Dan has presented
them with a rather interesting challenge."
He said people face uncomfortable situ
ations every day, and the assignments will
give the students a chance to learn how to
deal with these kinds of challenges.
"Their obligation is to determine the
appropriate response," he said, adding
that students are in no way obligated to
commit a crime.
Wieden was not available for comment.
Leineweber said he knows he could
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folk fun
Tim Kupsick Photographer
University students Maria Vidas (left) and Dakota Carey (center) dance with Brooke Doling during the Willamette Valley
Folk Festival on Sunday.
The Folk Festival was held on campus Friday through Sunday, and featured international
food booths, workshops, arts and crafts and various live performances, such as Obo Ady &
Kukrudu and spoken word artist Laura “Piece” Kelley. The festival boasted what
cocoordinators Ariel Zimmer and Will Reischman called “a consistent international flavor."
This year's event featured new additions such as tables manned by community
organizations. Festival-goers had the chance to participate in workshops that gave people
the chance to try folk art, such as banjo playing and West African and Rumbana dance.
Minority
students
share their
life stories
‘My Own Story’ event features
students’ identity-themed
autobiographical monologues
By Kera Abraham
Freelance Reporter
The first performance at Thursday's "My
Own Story" opened with an image pro
jected onto a screen: Iwo smiling women
holding a baby between them.
University student Toby Ilill-Meyer
stood backstage and read into a micro
phone:
"From day one, baby Toby's fate was
up for debate. What would happen to a
child raised by lesbian parents? Would it
be normal? Would it grow up being able
to act out normal gendered relation
ships? Would it live out the American
dream — married with a white picket
fence and 2.5 children? Perhaps even be
come a senator?"
Then Hill-Meyer strode on-stage, long
brown hair hanging loose.
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Club settles
budgetary
grievance
withASUO
The Gaming Club obtains help
in compiling its new budget
after it was defunded in May
due to miscommunication
By Jared Paben
Senior News Reporter
ASUO Student Senate Ombudsman
Mike Sherman and University Gaming
Club Director Mike Peterson have reached
an agreement to replace the club's zero
funded budget for next year with Senate
surplus money, Sherman said.
The agreement was reached after Peter
son filed a grievance against the ASUO
Programs Finance Committee in early
May, alleging that the group's budget was
nixed because the group's ASUO Tag, Sen.
Colin Andries, never helped group
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