“Tell us something that most people don’t know about you.”

The opening line from the team behind the Student of UO Instagram page is a vague, open-ended question, but according to the original creator Connor Yap, it gets results.

“I feel like most people that have an interesting story are able to share it, because I think it’s for the greater good of our community at school, for people to know that they’ve gone through these hurdles or that they have this fascinating story,” Yap, a business administration major, said.

The page, which has 350 followers and a dozen posts, is operated by three juniors — Yap, Alonso Zorrilla and Antonio Wiley — and freshman Henry Amnann.

“We wanted to create a page that would help build a sense of community on campus once it got big enough,” Yap said. “We are firm believers that everyone has a story because everyone comes from a unique background.”

UO student Melissa Lovelace recounts a weekend in Mexico City, when she cut her leg, an injury that resulted in getting 15 stitches. “Next thing you know it’s gushing blood and I’m struggling to hold it together (my mind and leg). No one around me spoke English and it was only my second week there so it took awhile to find help,

“[We’re] definitely trying to show how diverse the University of Oregon is in a variety of ways,” Zorrilla said.

Each team member devotes about five hours per week to maintaining the page. Tasks include finding people for stories, contacting them, meeting with them for the interview and taking their picture. Unlike the comparably bigger “Humans of New York,” Students of UO does not usually partake in spontaneous, on-the-street interviews, but rather prearranges every meet-up.

“I think we’ve gotten kind of lucky with some the people we’ve been able to meet,” Yap said. “We are not necessarily looking for all these crazy people with these crazy stories, but I think stories that are relatable.”

Zorrilla and Yap said their most surprising interviews are usually athletes.

“The one thing I always tell them is: if you want to share your story about how you became an athlete, that’s great, but what I think most people want to know about is what do a lot of people not know about you?” Yap said.

Yap believes that athletes tend to be elevated and semi-famous figures on campus. However, in interviewing them, the Students of UO page avoids labeling and attempts to uncover more in every individual.

“I feel like it’s great to appreciate the athletes and everything they do for this school, but at the same time you don’t want to idolize them. That’s where people sometimes get scared to approach athletes even though every athlete we’ve interviewed is super cool,” Yap said.

Many other UO students now want to be featured on the page. “People are always saying, ‘Hey, can you interview me next?’ “

“For a lot of the people that we interview, I feel like they’re a lot of underdogs and people that have faced adversity, so just not taking anything for granted is one thing I’ve learned from the stories we’ve posted,” Zorrilla said.

“I’m just fascinated by their stories. Some are obviously less subtle than others, like the spearfishing accident. I kind of treat all the stories equally. I’m proud of every story we’ve posted,” Zorrilla added.

“Ultimately what we want to do is we want to help out this school with prospective students and current students,” Yap said. “We want to let them know how diverse our campus is and why this is such a great school to go to.”

You can find the Students of UO Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/studentsofuo/.

You know “Hello” already, the first track on Adele’s new album, 25. It instantly became a viral hit and worldwide phenomenon when the single was released. With Saturday Night Live parodies, thousands of YouTube covers and Lionel Richie mashups, it quickly worked its way to the top of the charts in 28 countries, making it the first single ever to sell one million downloads in a release week in the U.S., according to Billboard Magazine.

The single foreshadowed the sales to come with 25, as early numbers reported by Billboard indicate more than 2.4 million copies have already sold. That breaks NSYNC’s 15-year-old record for most U.S. album sales in a single week, proving Adele provides the only real challenge to Taylor Swift’s chart-topping reign of 2014-15.

After a four year break between album releases — the Grammy Award-winning 21 and the now already-legendary 25 — Adele fans can rejoice over the new album. While 21 was a heartbreaking ode to a painful breakup, 25 comes after a career-threatening vocal cord surgery and the birth of her son with partner Simon Konecki. In a happy relationship with a new family, her music has changed only a little bit — and it’s for the better.

Adele is known for her power ballads, and that is certainly still the case in her third album. Since she has released so many of these ballads before and has such a distinctive sound, about five of the tracks on 25 could be knocked out for sounding so similar. Adele’s voice and lyrics have the power to move mountains, but the tracks of 25 will rarely surprise you. However, there are a few standouts among the crowd.

Immediately, I fell in love with “Million Years Ago,” a dreamy harmony akin to the background music one would hear in a Parisian cafe in the spring. Any listener is promptly transported to an old European city with flowers blooming and the heat of warm coffee rising in the crisp air as soon as the chorus swoons, “I wish I could live a little more / Look up to the sky, not just the floor.”

On “Send My Love (To Your New Lover),” the second track of the album, the melodies contrast deeply with the usual Adele ballad as a beautiful ensemble of voices join in for the upbeat chorus. Usually no one would describe Adele’s music as something to dance to, but this song provides a beat that’s hard to resist.

“Sweetest Devotion” is the kind of song you blast in your car going down the highway. It doesn’t have the old-time British feel of Adele’s usual music. Rather, it feels like an American country song. Later, the dark and haunting “River Lea” brings back the melancholy of 21, but with more of a gospel-sounding vibe.

No matter what, Adele’s voice will always draw in hordes of listeners of all ages, genders, languages and backgrounds. She will stay at the top of the charts as long as she continues to produce music.

Recently, there seems to be more crime on campus than usual. Just in the last two weeks of the fall term, two armed robberies occurred near the sorority houses and a female student was attacked and nearly kidnapped outside of Hamilton Hall. As a girl who just finished the first quarter of her freshman year at the University of Oregon, I am not feeling safe when I walk home from the library at night.

Here’s what the university is doing wrong — and what it’s doing right — in combatting crime on and near campus.

The most significant problem is that Safe Ride is inefficient. Safe Ride does not appear to have sufficient resources for the demand placed upon it by the current campus environment. On more than one occasion, I have called Safe Ride around midnight or a bit later after leaving an event, and received the dial tone for two minutes before I hung up. Another time, I was told there was a 45-minute wait.

If someone is in danger or feels unsafe in his or her surroundings, they cannot wait for 45 minutes. Fifteen minutes, at the absolute maximum, should be the wait time for Safe Ride. If this means putting money into more vans with more drivers, then that is an excellent place for my tuition money. Even if I don’t use Safe Ride, I’m happy to support it for my friends or any other student that seriously needs a ride because they feel unsafe.

Every year, there is a Campus Night Walk, in which students critique the lighting in an attempt to create a fully lit campus at night. But were the residence halls even a consideration in this walk? It is important that we are safe walking from class to class after the sun sets, but equally important that we feel safe where we live as freshmen. When even the lights of Matthew Knight Arena cannot illuminate the outside of Hamilton enough to thwart an attacker’s confidence to strike, there is a problem.

On a positive note, the university does an excellent job of notifying students when there is crime on campus. Within five hours of the Hamilton Hall attack, students were given alerts via email, text and other communications.

Improving the Safe Ride system by reducing the on-call time to fifteen minutes or less, and providing better lighting around the residence halls would go a long way towards the safety and security of all University of Oregon students.