Earlier this evening, we posted a factually inaccurate tweet on our Twitter account:

“Survey says 100% of @UOfsl affiliated women have been sexually assaulted, ASUO members threaten to halt expansion.”

This was a misrepresentation of an accurate story, which reported that according to the “results of the latest campus Climate Survey, conducted by University of Oregon psychology professor Jennifer J. Freyd,” 100 percent of “Fraternity and Sorority Life-affiliated female students who reported non-consensual sexual contact” on the survey “were violated by male perpetrators.”

As a result of the tweet, we received dozens of requests to take the article down. Our social media editor followed Emerald protocol, and, after tweeting the correction, kept the original tweet to preserve transparency. After speaking with the Emerald’s management staff and newsroom advisor, however, I decided to break the newsroom’s social media policy and remove the tweet.

Thank you to our audience on Twitter for bringing this error to our attention, and our apologies to those who were misled or misrepresented by our tweet. We plan to use this incident to refine our social media standards and training.

As someone who has reported extensively on the issue of sexual assault at the UO, it saddens me to write this letter. We are a newsroom that serves the University of Oregon community, and spreading misinformation does a disservice to our audience, our staff and the person responsible for the tweet — a woman in the FSL community.

Going forward, we will continue to devote our energy to bringing the community accurate and trustworthy information.

Sincerely,
Dahlia Bazzaz
2015-2016 Editor in Chief

University of Oregon President Michael Schill, who officially took over in July, is delivering his first address to campus at 11 a.m. today in the Erb Memorial Union ballroom.

His speech, officially titled “The UO’s Commitment to Access and Opportunity,” will discuss “specific plans for improving access, retention, and graduation,” according to Around the O.

Emerald reporter Caley Eller is live-tweeting the event. You can see her tweets below. On the go? We’ll also be retweeting her from the main @dailyemerald Twitter account.

Tweets by @CaleyEller

257 liquor and 87 drug law violations were added to the University of Oregon Police Department’s crime log on Nov. 4. All of the incidents, which took place primarily in the residence halls, were handled through student conduct.

Although the incidents were only added recently, they reflect violations that have taken place throughout fall 2014. UOPD Public Information Officer Kelly McIver said that University Housing, which handles the bulk of liquor and drug violations in student housing, periodically sends data to the UOPD to be put on the crime log.

Otherwise, Week 6 numbers reflected normal campus crime trends trends – bike thefts and substance violations. The Kid Cudi concert on Nov. 6 likely contributed to the cluster of incidents surrounding Matthew Knight Arena on the same day.

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On Monday evening, Ryan Bath was reversing out of a one-way circle in front of Hendricks Hall on University Street when a woman on her bicycle rode straight into his back window. The woman, who he could only identify as “Grace,” was still standing upright on her bicycle after the collision.

According to University of Oregon Police Department Sergeant Scott Clark, who was at the scene of the accident, the bicyclist was greeting a friend just moments before the crash. She was not wearing a helmet.

“As soon as she said ‘hi’ to her friend, everyone heard a ‘boom.”

The rear window of Bath’s black Volkswagen had been completely shattered.

.@DailyEmerald A car/biker collision on University St in front of Hendricks Hall pic.twitter.com/IxqKlrvjlq

— Kaylee A Tornay (@ka_tornay) October 20, 2015

Immediately following the collision, Bath and a friend of the bicyclist helped her onto the sidewalk and called 9-1-1. Fearing a serious head injury, the two kept the bicyclist— whom Bath could only identify as “Grace” — immobile until an ambulance arrived.

With his car still in the same place — slightly jutted out onto University Street — Bath said he’s been keeping in touch with a friend of bicyclist about her condition.

“I’m just trying to make sure she’s okay,” he said.

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On the second day of its once-a-term meeting, the University of Oregon Board of Trustees approved every resolution on the meeting agenda in a single vote Friday morning.

Here are the items they approved:

• Awarding a license to begin construction of a 29,000-square-foot sport performance center for student athletes on the first floor of the Casanova Center. The “Marcus Mariota Sports Performance Center” is fully funded through private donations.
• Renovations to increase Hayward Field’s capacity to 30,000 seats in 2016.
• Renovations to Chapman and Klamath Hall.
• Construction of a new College and Careers building which will house the College of Arts and Sciences.
• Allowing earlier input from students in the yearly tuition-setting process.
• The university’s finalized budget for fiscal year 2016.

This meeting is ongoing. Follow our live blog of this meeting and keep checking the Emerald website and Twitter for minute-by-minute updates until the meeting ends at 12:15 p.m.

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While you were watching the Grand Ole Party’s debate Thursday evening, almost the entirety of room 156 in Straub Hall was filled by 7 p.m. It seats 520 people.

State and city representatives, professors and the University of Oregon community alike gathered to hear about the “Really Big One” from some of the people who know it the best.

Presenters getting ready as room is almost completely full. pic.twitter.com/tLPvIjK0Ou — Dahlia Bazzaz (@dahliabazzaz) August 7, 2015

The forum included three main sessions: the cause of an overdue 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the potential effects and the ways people can be prepared if one strikes in the next 50 years. Afterward, there was a Q&A session for the public to quiz a panel of experts on their seismic wonderings.

Professors in the UO Department of Geological Sciences started to plan for the event about a week after The New Yorker released an article with a detailed account of the disasters that would result from a monster quake on the Cascadia subduction zone (a fault line which runs from Washington down to northern California.)

Douglas Toomey and Rebecca Dorsey, both professors in the department, wanted the event to inform the public on what they should and shouldn’t worry about.

Liquefaction not expected to be much of a factor in the Eug-Springfield area during the Cascadia earthquake.

— Dahlia Bazzaz (@dahliabazzaz) August 7, 2015

Dorsey, the department head, said that there was a lot of concern and confusion surrounding a potential quake. “My favorite myth surrounding the Cascadia earthquake is that a tidal wave could somehow cross the coastal mountains and pour into the Willamette Valley. It’s a big deal when an earth scientist says this, but that’s physically impossible,” Dorsey said.

The event, which featured a surprise visit from Congressman Peter DeFazio, was also streamed online from the UO Channel page. Other highlights included a session lead by Chris Goldfinger, a professor at Oregon State University who showed a clip of an earthquake he experienced. In 2011. In Japan. At a conference about earthquakes.

His presentation is called “Shaken Not Stirred.” Lol. — Dahlia Bazzaz (@dahliabazzaz) August 7, 2015

Toomey, who’s been working on implementing an early warning system for earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest, went over the nuts and bolts of the quake, including this helpful tidbit:

— Emerald (@DailyEmerald) August 7, 2015

A slightly uncomfortable laugh from the audience after that statement by Toomey

— Dahlia Bazzaz (@dahliabazzaz) August 7, 2015

After some puns and uncomfortable realities, Josh Bruce, who works with the Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience, talked about how to prepare practically, and reassured some worries.

Bruce: “We will not see the tsunami in the valley.”

— Dahlia Bazzaz (@dahliabazzaz) August 7, 2015

Digital copies of the slides from sessions will be uploaded to the event’s website, along with questions that went unanswered from the Q&A session, which carried on long after the event’s ending time of 9 p.m.

You can view the Emerald’s liveblog of the event here.

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The University of Oregon’s Department of Geological Sciences is giving the community a chance to ask questions about “The Really Big One,” which — if you haven’t heard — is an overdue 9.0 magnitude earthquake that experts predict will hit the Pacific Northwest in the next 50 years.

If you have a burning question you’d like ask the panel of experts at the forum tonight, or want to chat with Emerald Editor in Chief Dahlia Bazzaz, comment on our liveblog or tag @dailyemerald or @dahliabazzaz on Twitter.

Professors from the University of Oregon’s Department of Geological Sciences are using recent discussion of a possible — and overdue — 9.0-magnitude earthquake hitting the Pacific Northwest as a teachable moment through a public forum tonight.

Where and what time will this forum take place?

The forum will be at 156 Straub Hall (1451 Onyx St.), right next to the Erb Memorial Union on the UO campus. It’s from 7-9 p.m., but organizers are expecting a large turnout, so get there early if you want a seat in front. There’s also an overflow room at 145 Straub Hall with a feed set up.

What will it cover?

The event is designed to inform the public about possible scenarios for a monster quake in Oregon. There will be three short presentations and a panel of UO professors, one Oregon State University professor and local partners working on earthquake response/preparedness.

Does it cost any money?

Nope. It’s free. Also, parking is free on campus after 6 p.m.

I can’t make it.

Follow @dahliabazzaz and @dailyemerald on Twitter for live updates, and check our site for a recap after the event. A live video feed of the forum is also available for streaming on the UO Channel.

At about 3:55 p.m. on Wednesday, the Eugene Fire Department received a call about a fire at Southtowne Lanes. By 5:30, 30 or so firefighters had managed to contain the flames within the bowling alley’s building.

Though everyone was successfully evacuated from Southtowne, the smoke darkened the skies in the immediate area and water pooled in nearby streets. Here are some photos from today’s emergency response to the fire at Southtowne Lanes.

When I first started working at the Emerald as a columnist last spring, my old editor required her writers to spend at least two hours in the newsroom every week.

We were encouraged to come in to get help on our stories, but barring that, we could fill the time we spent in Suite 300 however we pleased.

It was in those two hour gaps every week that I discovered the Emerald’s archive wall. Located at the southwest end of the newsroom, the archive consists of several dozen tall, thick leather-bound volumes of the Emerald’s print edition dating back to 1920.

I pored over them like I had history at my fingertips.

Not only did these stories illustrate the effects of national and international crises on the University of Oregon community, but, as all good journalism does, they gave the opportunity for people to have representation — no matter how big or daunting the topic of discussion.

Less than a week after recreational use of marijuana was legalized in Oregon, we decided it was time to pay homage to our history as it was being made.

Our cover story for this week is about the lengths one Emerald managing editor in the 1960s took to protect the identity of her anonymous sources after she penned an article about student attitudes toward marijuana.

The story of Annette Buchanan is one of bravery and conviction. Subpoenaed and required to appear in front of a grand jury at just 20 years old, she refused to give up the names of five marijuana users she quoted in a May 1966 story. She even burned her notebook — the only place where the names were recorded — prior to her trial.

Buchanan didn’t emerge victorious from the legal battle, but she didn’t miss her spring term finals for nothing. Her case was vital in helping develop a “shield law” in Oregon, which allows journalists legal grounds to keep sources anonymous.

To help retell the story, we’ve spent the last week transcribing 14 articles relating to Buchanan’s uphill battle with the courts, the article that captured the attention of a district attorney, and the protections that Buchanan helped secure for future journalists and their sources.

It brings me great pride not only to be working at the same publication as the muckraking college journalists who came before me, but to be attending a college that played a role in the 20th century’s most pivotal moments.

From the moment I started reading about the Vietnam War or Civil Rights movement in those aged brown pages of the archives, I knew we had an obligation to share these slices of history with our readers.

If nothing else, I hope our republishing of Annette Buchanan’s journey serves as a reminder: we don’t need to wait until graduation to start making our dents in the universe.

Sincerely,

Dahlia Bazzaz

Follow Dahlia on Twitter: @dahliabazzaz