If you happened by Oregon Hall during the noon hour on Wednesday, you would have caught some of the staff from the Office of the Registrar playing "Suzy Sticks" on the front lawn.

“Walking into a bar the other night, a man grabbed the back of my cowgirl hat and when I turned around [he] continued to screw with it. I looked him in the eye and said, ‘we don’t know each other. Don’t touch me.’ This is huge for me, I didn’t used to look men in the eye, and most often when I say things, it’s too quiet for people to hear.” The young woman telling this story had taken a 30-hour self-defense class at her university. She was reporting back, a year later, on her experiences since taking this course.

A limited number of tickets for public tours this summer of the Watzek House, Oregon’s newest National Historic Landmark, and The Shire, a unique landscape in the Columbia River Gorge, are now available. The tickets are expected to sell out quickly so early registration is recommended. 

As a child in her home country of Albania, Hueda Kapri preferred watching news rather than cartoons.“I always had a big desire for justice,” she says.That desire led the 20-year-old international student to University of Oregon in 2011, to pursue a degree in international studies with a focus in diplomacy and international relations. This summer, she will take what she has learned back home to Albania as she undertakes an internship with the Peace Corps in which she will be helping to train new Peace Corps staff.