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the campbell club co-op is $17,000 in debt. If the money isn’t raised by march 20, the residents of this 80-year-old house on alder street will have to find a new home. They’re pulling out all the stops to save their home — from concert fundraisers to crowdsourcing.

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Saturday 1/30Shall We Dance 2016 at Venue 252. 252 Lawrence St. 5:30 - 11 p.m. Six local Eugene celebrities compete to win the title and the trophy.

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nitely want to be in Portland this weekend for the International Cat Show. Featuring dozens of vendors and hundreds of breeds of cats, you’re sure to have a great time. The event is partnered with the Or-egon Food Bank. Admission is $6 with two cans of food, or $8 without.

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early in Robert Johnson’s coaching career, Oregon track and field had a star sprinter named Keshia Baker. Baker dominated meets running the 400 and 4x400 relay. Johnson coached her to three consecutive conference titles and six school records. Baker was one of those big time athletes who are hard to replace, so when she left after the

2009-10 season, there was a question as to who would pick up the scoring slack.

“Low and behold we found a way to continue to get it done,” Johnson said.

This season, the Ducks face a similar problem: star sprinter/jumper Jenna Prandini decided to begin her professional career early, forgoing her senior season.

“I would be crazy to think you can replace the leadership and intangible qualities Jenna Prandini brought to the Duck program over the last few years,” Johnson said. “She was invaluable in not only the stuff you see on the track, but also off the track.”

In Prandini’s final season, she was the most prolific NCAA Championship point scorer in history, collecting 49 points between the indoor and outdoor Championships. She claimed the second-fastest time in collegiate history in the 100 (10.92 seconds) and the fourth-fastest time in the 200 (22.21 seconds). Prandini also provided invaluable leadership for her teammates, keeping a strong work ethic in training and competitions.

The most obvious candidate to step up is redshirt junior Jasmine Todd — who has filled in for her former teammate in the past. At last year’s Pac-12 Championships Todd had

to step up when Prandini was unable to compete due to an illness. She took part in five events — the long jump, triple jump, 100, 200 and 4x100 — helping the Ducks claim two individual titles, two second place finishes and 35 team points.

For her efforts, she earned recognition as the Pac-12 women’s field athlete of the year.

“You got a glimpse of it at the Pac-12 meet last year when we asked her to go above and beyond and do what she is capable of,” Johnson said of Todd. “You will see more of those types of things this year.”

Todd is a charismatic athlete who isn’t afraid to take on the challenge of leading the program, and she has the speed and talent to match.

But the way to replace Prandini’s production isn’t by putting it all on a single athlete, but rather by spreading the load amongst the team. With another year of maturity and training under their belts, several Ducks should be able to help shoulder the load and ensure the women are as competitive as ever.

“Jenna was a great addition to our team, but at the same time we brought in a lot of talent and have a lot of talent,” Todd said.

The Ducks are as deep as they have ever been – Molly Grabill and Waverly Neer (distance), Raevyn Rogers and Annie Leblanc (middle distance) and Brittany Mann (throws) – so while losing Prandini is tough, it’s nothing new.

“We will do it how we have always done it in the past,” Johnson said. “We will have a cast of characters who step up their game and have more seasoning.”

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University of Oregon students and community members are invited to share personal stories this Friday, as part of the “People’s State of the Union,” a grassroots, informal response to the annual presidential address.

The People’s State of the Union is a nationwide conversation that aims to tap into the personal American experience through public storytelling. This event focuses on a citizen’s personal insight and experience in relation to the country’s state. The event will take place at 2:30-4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29 at the Many Nations Longhouse (1630 Columbia St.)

Participants will choose one of the following prompts: a story the president should hear, an experience that led to insight regarding the current state of the union or a story about when one felt a sense of belonging (or lack thereof) in one’s community.

“It’s a weaving of a collective narrative and culture and community, belonging or not belonging,” said John Fenn, professor in the UO Arts and Administration program, who was recently appointed as a cultural agent for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC). Fenn, who is coordinating the event, anticipates that community members will share stories at the event, each two to three minutes in length.

The USDAC, a non-governmental organization, aims to encourage and augment cultural living on a community scale throughout the United States. Its website states:

“Democracy is a conversation, not a monologue. Understanding the state of our union takes we the people reflecting in our own communities on our challenges and opportunities locally, nationally and globally.”

Across the country, others will be sharing similar stories in groups of varying sizes.

“I think it’s important to get people and communities together to kind of share perspectives in a variety of ways,” Fenn said. “What’s neat about this one is it’s focused on equity and inclusion and participation through arts and culture.”

The content from the People’s State of the Union events across the country will be sent to a council of poets for review, rearrangement and reformatting.

“[The poets] will sift through all this stuff and see what kinds of conversations, concerns, celebrations and themes are going on around the country based on these stories,” Fenn said. “They draw direct quotes, take poetic license and use their craft to speak of and for communities around the country that have contributed.”

The final poem will later be broadcasted on Free Speech TV online.

Last year, he said the poem included references to the Black Lives Matter movement, the death of Eric Garner and immigration issues.

“It can be political, but it’s also about how it’s experienced and talked about by people on the ground,” he said.

More information about the event can be found at www.usdac.us/psotu.

John Fenn, professsor in the UO Arts and Administration program, is organizing the ‘People’s State of the Union’ in Eugene.(Courtesy of John Fenn)

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Marijuana activist John Walsh was best known around the University of Oregon for gathering signatures on campus or striking up conversations with students in the EMU. He was an advocate for the Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group.

For over 20 years, Walsh collected many signatures for several marijuana-related ballot measures, including Measure 91. It passed in 2014, allowing for the public tax and use of recreational marijuana.

Walsh passed away early in the morning on Jan. 3, 2016 at a volunteer house for The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation. He was 60 years old and a native of Providence, Rhode Island. Most recently a Eugene resident, Walsh traveled Oregon gathering signatures and support for various organizations working to end marijuana prohibition.

Paul Stanford, founder of THCF, which owns the house where Walsh died, knew Walsh since he first came to Oregon in 1991.

“John was always the first volunteer to show up to events and the last to leave,” Stanford said. “He was a powerful force.”

Stanford handled the arrangements for Walsh’s cremation and coordinated a memorial service in Portland on Jan. 17.

Walsh was known for having a good memory for numbers. Stanford recalled how Walsh kept around 500 contacts

without any names in his cell phone. He could recognize each contact from their numbers alone. Those who worked with Walsh said he could recount exactly how many signatures he gathered for each ballot measure.

“John was one of the few people in this world you couldn’t say anything bad about,” Stanford said. “The only bad thing you could say about him was that he’d call you a lot.”

Anthony Johnson, director of New Approach Oregon — the group that sponsored Measure 91 — said his fondest memory is of Walsh calling him up to say, in his unique Rhode Island accent, “Anthony, we gotta get the signatures.”

“Good signature gathering days would bring a big smile to John’s face,” Johnson said. “That is another thing that I will always remember about him.”

Eugene resident Dan Koozer, who puts on the annual Eugene Hemp Fest, was a good friend of Walsh. As far as marijuana activism went, Stanford said the two were inseparable.

“John was the one who got me into activism 20 years ago,” said Koozer.

Koozer is planning a Eugene memorial service at Lorax Manner, right next to the UO campus. The tentative date for the service is Feb. 13th.

“One day after Bob Marley’s birthday and one day before Oregon’s,” Koozer said. “I think John would have gotten a kick out of that.”

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The Campbell Club’s dish drainer was “fucked.”“I cut through the pipe and gallons of stagnant sink waste started spraying out,” said Waldo

Przekop, the job and maintenance coordinator at the University of Oregon’s oldest co-op.

Drenched in foul-smelling fluid, Przekop ran to fellow co-opper Jimi Wood for help.

“He comes upstairs covered in straight poop water like, ‘Jimi help me!’ ” said Wood.

Wood toweled off Przekop’s face and the two of them rushed downstairs to fix the dish system. After much trial and error, they managed to get it running again.

“But people still throw food in the sink,” Przekop said, laughing.

They could have called a plumber, but the Campbell Club is already $17,000 in debt. If the

clubbers can’t scrounge this amount together by March 20, the co-op will be shut down by the

Student Cooperative Association, its overseeing body.

The Campbell Club was the first project of the Student Cooperative Organization, a group that UO students

founded in 1935, inspired by alumnus Wallace J. Campbell’s senior thesis on Depression-era cooperative living. It’s currently one of three SCA co-ops, alongside the Lorax Manner and the Janet Smith House; all are located within a few blocks of each other on Alder Street.

Just about any Duck can tell you something about the Campbell Club: about its hippies, about its parties, about the police raids that tend to bring them to a halt. Even if they don’t know it by name, they might have seen a towering, spooky-looking old building just off campus and wondered what goes on within its rickety walls.

Over the last few years, the Campbell Club has struggled with a high turnover rate. Though rent is cheap — between $300 and $400 depending on the room — members tend to move in, stay for a few months and move out, often without paying the owed rent, the source of the debt. The co-op’s lack of funds and “anti-capitalist” stance make it reluctant to hire debt collectors.

“Whether we like it or not, [we] live in a capitalist system and we are all affected by it,” said Wood, who currently serves as the Campbell Club’s house representative, membership coordinator and social coordinator. (Due to a lack of membership, many members have had to take on numerous positions.)

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Residents raise a homemade sign advertising a fundraising event to support the Campbell Club.

Jimi Wood (center) sits with a few of her housemates outside their Alder Street home.

Wood first arrived at the Campbell Club in winter 2010, cold and homeless. A resident invited her to spend a couple nights there; she ended up spending a month as a guest before applying full-time.

“I’d never seen anything like this place before,” she said. “The people who lived here were amazing. It was a full house. There were shows all the time.”

Wood continued traveling and settled in New Orleans, where she used her savings to found a co-op based on her former residence. This endeavor failed, and Wood returned to Eugene last year only to find out that the Campbell Club was in danger.

Living at the Campbell Club is often a learning experience. Many residents leave enlightened about elbow-grease skills – and sometimes miss the work enough to come back and do more of it.

“I learned how to cook, how to fix things,” said Phoebe Roberts, a UO senior who left the Campbell Club two years ago but returns to do door duties at their parties. “That house has meant so much to me for most of my college life, so it would be really sad to see it go.”

The Campbell Club is rife with artists and musicians, and even people from outside the community respect its creative culture.

Jordan Blaisdell, drummer for local rock duo the Critical Shakes, admires the Campbell Club’s spirit of artistic freedom. But he’s noticed a dearth of activity as of late. He thinks the problem is motivation.

“I thought this would be an artist utopia if the right set of motivated and creative and inspired people lived there,” he said. “But in the time I’ve been there, I can’t help but get the feeling there’s a lack of motivation.”

Music is central to the Campbell Club’s reputation, and it might just be their salvation. Since mid-December, the co-op has been staging benefit concerts almost every week. So far, they’ve been able to raise about $3,000: $2,000 from a crowdsourcing campaign, the rest from concerts or direct donations.

These shows are wide-ranging to draw as diverse a crowd as possible. Last week, they hosted an EDM show. This weekend’s show will be Mardi Gras-themed, and they’ll follow it up with a ‘70s-themed party on Feb. 5 and an acoustic show on Feb. 13.

The Campbell Club has always hosted concerts, most of them with a suggested donation of $3 to $5. These new fundraiser shows come with required donations at the door – a slightly more capitalist move than is characteristic for the co-op.

In its promotional efforts, the co-op has increasingly reached out to potential tenants who don’t share its political values.

“Our major hurdle has been to be more accepting of people who we’re not sure would function well in our community instead of just trying to pre-judge,” said Wood. “If we need to, we can ask them to leave later.”

The Campbell Club has stepped up its promotional game, printing membership pamphlets and relentlessly promoting its shows and free open mics.

“We’ve tried to not only aim for students – because it is a student co-op – but anyone who’s into the DIY [do-it-yourself] culture,” said Kim Chavez, membership and job coordinator at the Campbell Club.

Though most Campbell Club residents are students – mostly at UO, Lane Community College or Northwest Christian University – the co-op is open to anyone who passes the application process.

Despite all these efforts, Wood doesn’t think they have enough time to fill the house with paying members before they run out of money. Raising $14,000 in less than two months is no small feat. She believes that unless something miraculous happens, the house will close by the end of winter term.

But not all hope is lost. If the Campbell Club can’t raise the money, the SCA will stage one last recruitment drive to find enough potential tenants

to keep the Campbell Club alive – while keeping the co-op closed to save money. If not, the building will be leased to other tenants.

If the Campbell Club does close permanently, a lot of memories will disappear with it.

“The dynamic in this house has always been so amazing and it’s so interesting to see how people who are so different from each other get along,” said Wood. “It’s so cool. I wish there were more large-scale communal living spaces in Eugene. It’s challenging, it’s fun. I learn things here.”


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Erin McGladrey comes to work every day at 8 a.m. with a smile on her face. Since 2008, McGladrey has overseen, organized and rallied behind students’ activity at the Women’s Center.

With extensive experience working for multiple institutions and nonprofit organizations, McGladrey’s been a gender and equality resource for students.

Although she serves as a leader, McGladrey said students decide how to operate the organization.

“It’s not about pushing a vision on them,” McGladrey said. “It’s about supporting whatever the students want.”

Eight generations of students have come and gone under the Women’s Center with McGladrey, but many of them still keep in touch with their director.

“I’ve got many wedding invitations [...] The other day I got an email from a former student that she just had a baby. Many of them want to know how the Women’s Center looks now,” McGladrey said. “I think they missed the environment here.”

Soon, McGladrey will also say goodbye to the student organization. Her last day is Feb. 29, McGladrey said. She envisions continuing work with gender issues with other organizations that are more accessible to the community.

“I have been here under five university presidents and each president wants to go a different direction,” McGladrey said. “Now I feel like UO has become a private school, which makes it not accessible for [everyone]. At this point, I don’t have a lot to offer.”

Associate Dean of Students Sheryl Eyster said McGladrey has a lot to offer students and administrators.

A search committee of five formed to look for a new director. The committee includes members from Dean of Students, ASUO Executive, Women’s Center, Sexual Wellness Advocacy Team and Sexual Violence Prevention and Education. Two candidates came to the University of Oregon on Jan. 11 and Jan. 15 to meet with students on campus.

The committee is looking for a leader who understands the importance of gender issues, identifies as a feminist and acts as a bridge between students and the administration, Suzanne Barrientos, women’s center public relations and search committee member said.

In addition to a new director, the Women’s Center will move back into the EMU in May, Eyster said.

“This is an opportunity for the Women’s Center to grow more and create more collaborative partnerships with other student unions,” Eyster said. “Moving back to the heart of campus will get them a home base to meet the greater need of women on campus.”

For the Women’s Center, having a new director in the busiest time of the year is exciting, Barrientos said.

“Although it will be a transition, it’s also going to be an opportunity for student staff to pull through as a team,” Barrientos said.

After almost a decade working as the director, McGladrey said students are the ones who make the Women’s Center a special place.

“I’m excited for the new director to work with the amazing students here,” McGladrey said. “We have students from different backgrounds and with different beliefs come together to have such interesting conversations and expand perspectives on campus.”

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Erin McGladrey working in the Women’s Center. She’ll be leaving her position as director at the end of February. (Samuel Marshall)

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Video games have made tremendous strides by becoming a serious medium for storytelling and artistic expression in recent years. But striking up a conversation about how Undertale or The Last of Us is a masterpiece of storytelling with your literature professor might still make for an awkward situation. Luckily, if you’re a local student who is passionate about games or gaming culture, a campus group called UO Think.Play might be just what you’re looking for.

UO Think.Play is an ASUO-recognized student group under University of Oregon’s English department that is devoted to the academic discussion and analysis of games and modern gaming culture. Meetings and events are organized by a steering committee of six students who lead discussions and schedule keynote speakers for the group’s activities.

Each session is usually led by one of the steering committee members or by faculty members like Tara Fickle, a member of the UO English department. The group also occasionally has guest speakers, such as Dr. Todd Harper, a professor from the University of Baltimore who gave a presentation on body representation in video games via Skype.

Discussion topics vary from elements of the games themselves to how games reflect and affect modern culture. From a cultural perspective, a discussion might explore the depiction of romance, women or the LGBT community within games.

“We’re not just here to play Smash Bros.,” said Nate Boyd, a computer science major and member of the Think.

Play steering committee. “We’re here to have a thoughtful deep conversation about this medium.”

The format of the meetings generally starts with a focused presentation of the week’s topic, which is then followed by a more casual group-wide discussion. Even though the members of UO Think.Play strive to take an academic look at games, they try to not be too serious about a medium that is based primarily around having fun.

UO Think.Play hopes to one day evolve into a legitimate game studies program on the UO campus, similar to the comic studies program that has already been established. For now, the members of the steering committee are working to create a sturdy infrastructure and make connections with professional authorities on gaming culture.

“A lot of this last year has been building infrastructure,” said Dante Douglas, another member of the UO Think.Play steering committee. “Now we have a charter, rules and people that are part of the faculty that we can talk to.”

UO Think.Play originally started meeting in 2009, though the group only became recognized by the ASUO last year. Although Think.Play primarily focuses its discussions on video games, gamers of all kinds are encouraged to come and participate in the weekly discussions. The group also puts together gaming events like the Think.Play Gaming Triathalon, where attendees compete in several duck-themed games for prizes.

The group currently meets every Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. in Education 176. Meetings are open to the public.

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Unlike this year’s Oscar nominations, the new Duck on campus is not #SoWhite.

- On Jan. 23, a 1,000-pound bronze monument of University of Oregon’s mascot was revealed to a crowd of very eager spectators. The big duck debut tipped off a day of exciting Oregon basketball. After the men’s basketball team got their selfies in with the new duck, they then went on to play UCLA. All the baskets, rebounds and field goals we scored contributed to our being victorious over the Bruins with a final score of 86-72.

Warning: more sports ahead!- Earlier in the week, on Jan. 21, men’s

basketball played a warm-up match against USC. With a solid 89-81 win, the Trojans had to ride off in their wooden horse with the feeling of defeat. Their treacherous ways did not come in handy this time (see Greek mythology for reference).

- Other sports were positively active this week as well. On Jan. 22, women’s basketball refused to lose any more games – beating Colorado, 59-46. The Lady Ducks continued to win the weekend on Sunday with 77 big ones to Utah’s mere 65. And to commemorate the start of the Australian Open, women’s tennis was the underdog in a battle against Virginia Tech and came out with a big fat W. This was a significant win for the team since they were ranked No. 60 and V-Tech was No. 30 – ouch.

But they have snow to go back to in Virginia, so no hard feelings.

- Another team going home with a disheartening L is the New England Patriots who lost 20-18 in the AFC Championship game on SNF (Sunday Night Football, duh). The Brady Bunch was sent home packing and Deflateagate II is a no-go. The Denver Broncos will be one half of Super Bowl 50. The Carolina Panthers will make up the rest of the Feb. 7 feast after their 49-15 slay against the Arizona Cardinals. Broncos, Panthers, Bey and Coldplay will see you in two Sundays at 3:30 p.m. sharp.

- UCLA and USC weren’t the only two entities visiting the PNW this past week from So-Cal. My least favorite part about Pitch Perfect 2, Hailee Steinfeld, came to visit her BFF, a freshman at UO, for the weekend. Not that this is important news to me personally, but this was a common topic of many people’s conversations the last few days. If I haven’t lost your attention, feel free to waste time looking through Steinfeld’s Instagram page. You’ll see the “woes in the dirty Eug,” as she captions one of her pictures, doing “Eug” things, a.k.a. Voodoo Doughnut and Taylor’s. Sew kewl.

- I’ll take “Things that are insignificant” again for 200, Alex. The recent alliance formed between two of the most disappointing humans on Earth, Donald Trumpet and Sarah Fail-in (as my seven-year-old cousin calls them) is both comical and good for, let’s say it together, my girl

Hillary. On Jan. 19, all I could think the moment Palin announced her endorsement of Trump was that I should’ve seen this coming. The dynamic duo make for an unfortunate political statement, but do so much good for the world of comedy.On Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey did what she does best, her spot-on Palin impression, and made my heart happy.

- That hilarious sketch comes in handy with all of the other things going on in the world that might make your heart cry. On Jan. 20, students of Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan experienced a mass shooting that left at least 22 people dead and around 50 others injured. The university is located just 86 miles from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad and it has been confirmed that students specifically were the gunmen’s targets. All four of the shooters were killed by army officials. The attack wasn’t carried out on accident; it is believed to have been planned by the Pakistani Taliban, although the shooting was highly condemned by the man known as the chief (or something) of the national Taliban group, Fazlullah. All educational institutions in the city of Charsadda will remain closed until Jan. 31.

A lot of money and a lot of bronze went towards a new duck on campus, men’s basketball beat out So-Cal teams, women’s UO sports were victorious, the

Broncos and Panthers made it to the 50th Super Bowl, Hailee Steinfeld comes to the “dirty Eug,” Palin and Trump make for comedic relief and Pakistani Taliban

take responsibility for a university mass shooting.

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Few days go by in which Van Williams doesn’t think about the morning his heart stopped beating.

Williams, now in his third year as an Oregon men’s golf assistant coach, was out on a run in Eugene the morning of Nov. 30, 2014. He intended to meet his wife, Dani Williams, somewhere along the last few miles. He never showed up.

Dani called him to find out where he was, but another person answered, telling her that Van was lying unconscious on the side of the road.

Dani hurried to her husband and when she got to him, found Van not breathing. Just as she arrived, an off-duty nurse spotted the two as he was driving by. The nurse recognized that Van had gone into cardiac arrest and performed CPR until an ambulance arrived. Paramedics continued to resuscitate Van on the way to the hospital. After 11 minutes without a pulse, his heart started beating again.

Van awoke from a coma the following afternoon to find that nothing was wrong with his heart. All tests came back normal.

“I truly believe it was a miracle,” Van said. “Just thankful that God allowed that miracle to take place.”

Van returned home to Dani and their four children a few days later, grateful to be alive.

The news of Van’s near-fatal episode certainly came as a shock to the Oregon men’s golf team.

Head coach Casey Martin said he knew something was wrong when Dani called him that morning.

“I remember I was getting ready to go to church on a Sunday morning and I get this call from Dani and I’m like, ‘Huh, that’s weird,’ “ Martin said. “I picked it up and she said, ‘Look, something bad happened.’ I went in immediately to the ER, saw him and I thought he was a dead man.”

Martin hired Williams in July 2013 after then-assistant Brad Lanning took a job as Loyola Marymount’s head men’s golf coach.

Martin and Williams had known each other since they met at a PGA Tour event in 1998, and became good friends when Williams caddied for Martin on the tour from 2001 to 2004.

Before coming to Oregon, Williams was coaching golf and basketball at

Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Williams kept in contact with Martin, often calling Martin to pick his brain about golf coaching techniques. Though Williams’ goal was to become a Division I basketball coach, he told Martin of his growing desire to continue coaching golf. Once Lanning’s departure became official, Martin flew Williams out to Eugene during the July 4th weekend for an interview. Williams accepted the job shortly thereafter.

In the two and a half years since, Williams has helped coach two NCAA Championship qualifying teams and developed the likes of Thomas Lim and Aaron Wise, who each made the All-Pac-12 freshmen team in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

“Van is an interesting coach to have, because he doesn’t come from a golf background like a lot of assistants do, but he comes from a competitive background,” Wise said. “He’s someone we can turn to as players, someone we can talk to, someone who cheers us up when we’re down on the golf course.”

On the anniversary of his accident, Williams hiked Spencer Butte in the morning by himself, taking time to reflect on the experience and the year that followed.

“Any time that I complain, my wife smiles at me and says, ‘Yup, thankful you’re alive,’ “ Williams said. “It kind of puts in perspective anything that you go through in everyday life.”

The same perspective can be found among the men’s golf team. Those who were around the team a year ago haven’t forgotten Van’s scare. It serves as a reminder of how much the team is connected beyond the golf course.

“I think that was a big eye opener to us,” Lim said. “It’s a lot more than golf. We’re a family and we need to care about each other because you never know when people are gonna leave.”

Williams still wants to be a head coach someday, but has no plans to leave the Ducks in the immediate future.

“When those right positions begin to open up, I’ll apply, and I don’t know if that’s a year or 10 years,” Williams said. “I could definitely see myself here for a while. I’m in no rush.”

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Van Williams (right) and Aaron Wise during the 2015 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships.(John Vu/Oregon Athletics)


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