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EUGENE FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL. Thousands gathered to nosh on culinary creations on Saturday. The festival is over, but these trucks are in full swing. We have the scoop on where to eat, what to buy and how many of these businesses came to be.

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Why did you decide to run for mayor?

Well, a lot of my friends are very politically minded, and we all try to keep up with local government and issues. They kept on telling me that I should think about running, so I decided that I would talk with some people and just see if this was some-thing I could even do. I decided that, once I hit some resistance, I would stop. If I went to someone and they told me that it wasn’t a good idea, then I would just accept that and it wouldn’t be a big deal. But I never really got that resistance. People were all very supportive of the idea. So I just kept on going.

You’ve been billed as a progressive candidate. How did you come by that kind of platform, and what does it mean to you?

In the early stages of my campaign, I canvassed a lot of homes and talked to Eugene residents. And I found that a lot of the issues that kept coming up were things that I had a background in and an interest in. Homelessness is a big one, and I think I’m the only candidate who has real experience with that, having worked for Shel-terCare [as development director]. Land use and space was another. I have a lot of experience as a private consultant on agricultural issues and resource allocation. How do we con-tinue to grow and thrive while con-taining our urban sprawl? I focused my platform on making strides in these areas. Being progressive to me means listening to what people are concerned with and thinking about the future. Coming up with long-term goals and solutions to those concerns.

The mayor often serves a tie-breaking role in city council votes. How will you utilize that responsibility in policymaking?

As a mayor, you always hope to break as few ties as possible. I would hope that the city council will be clear in their decisions and that it will be very obvious what the people want. In that way, my vote won’t be as polarizing. I don’t anticipate that that will be the case in all the issues that will be put forth, but I will look to have open and clear communication with the councilors, and them with their precincts, so that we have a full understanding of what needs to be done.

How do you, as mayor, plan to foster a relationship with the university com-munity, and how would you go about tackling the issues and problems that are inherent in a college town?

The first thing I would say to col-lege students is that what happens in local government is of immediate importance to students. Our deci-sions, around student housing and protection for residents [and] around transportation, have a direct impact on the quality of your life in this city. I encourage students to be involved and pay attention. At the same time, you as students have a tremendous impact on the quality of life for long-time residents. Again, with housing and development, there has been a lot of conversation around mak-ing more room downtown. There is always going to need to be coopera-tion between the university com-munity and the established residence because it’s all part of one communi-ty – our community. And while there may be inherent problems and ten-sions, the university is a tremendous resource for our city. It’s a massive employer and the research it leads helps our economy and profile. We also benefit a lot from the tourism at football games and other events that put us in the national spotlight. I will always try to focus on that balance between the needs of local residents and the needs of the university and its population. There is a lot of cooperation already between the UO leadership and local government, so I think really it’s just about continu-ing to do the same good work.

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LUCY VINIS, EUGENE’S NEW MAYOR

During Oregon’s primary elections on May 17, Eugene chose its next mayor, Lucy Vinis, by a landslide. The Emerald sat down with future Mayor Vinis to talk about her background and plans for Eugene before her term begins in January of next year.

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ON THE COVER From left to right, Elegant Elephant Bakery Company, Kalani’s Curbside Island Style Grinds, Lani Maku Grill and Vinnie’s Smokin’ BBQ are featured trucks that were represented at Eugene’s inaugural Food Truck Festival.

Photographs by Kaylee Domzalski.

🔊 MUSIC

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CAGE THE ELEPHANT’S BRAD SHULTZ TALKS NEW ALBUM, BROTHERHOOD AND DAN AUERBACH

Do you guys have any favorite spots in Portland?

Doug Fir, Crystal Ballroom is great, and then Matthan used to live right down the road from Sassy’s [laughs], so we spent some nights in there. I mean you’re in Portland, it’s like the capital [of strip clubs].

What was it like to have Dan Auerbach [of The Black Keys] produce Tell Me I’m Pretty?

It was awesome. Dan has been a friend of ours for a long time, so it just felt like a natural thing ... A good producer is supposed to give you a different perspective on things and I think Dan was able to do that, and one of the most important things that we came to realize through Dan was that we didn’t have to put every idea into a song. Sometimes it’s addition by subtraction.

I’ve read that you never learned music theory. Why is that?

My dad never put a lot of weight into that when he was teaching us. He wanted us to learn to write songs before we became great musicians. He valued that more than becom-ing a great musician. He was the kind of guy that would teach me and Matt three chords and then say ‘Go write a song,’ so I don’t know. It’s not that I wouldn’t like to know music theory, it’s just I’ve always put more weight into songwriting, and I think that takes a lot of my time up.

What’s it like to be in a touring band with your younger brother [Matt, the singer]?

It’s great. I feel blessed that we get to share this experience together. We grew up in a small government housing apart-ment complex in one bedroom with four boys, so we were always really close... All in all, I love it.

You’re playing in Louisville, KY tonight. Are you go-ing to have a chance to return to your hometown of Bowling Green?

We actually did just go home to Bowling Green. My dad played a show at this bar called Pit Balls, which is kinda the place we started, so we all went up there and hung with my dad and had a good time. We haven’t had a chance to play Bowling Green. We will probably do that in the fall or something.

What does it feel like when you do return home?

Usually when we go home and go out in Bowling Green, it’s to that bar [Pit Balls] and it feels like Cheers. It’s really Bowl-ing Green’s version of Cheers so it’s good to see everyone and see old faces.

After blasting onto the music scene with “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked” from its self-titled album in 2009, Cage The Elephant has found its footing as one of the most popular rock bands of the era. The band is currently touring in support of Tell Me I’m Pretty, which was produced by The Black Keys/The Arcs guitarist Dan Auerbach.

The Emerald caught up with Cage the Elephant’s guitarist Brad Shultz just before the group played a home-state show in Louisville, KY. The group played a sold-out show at McMenamin’s Edgefield Amphitheater in Troutdale, OR with Portugal. The Man and Twin Peaks on Saturday night, June 18.

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Cage the Elephant plays at the Edgefield Amphitheatre in Troutdale. (Craig Wright)

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This past month, the allegedly distant dream of Donald Trump’s candidacy became an undeni-able reality as the New York businessman suc-cessfully captured the delegate count to secure the Republican nomination. Since his initial arrival on a shining escalator, Trump’s campaign has drawn millions of voters into the roomy 747 that has graced the tarmacs of so many cities with the banner of “Make America Great Again” proudly welcoming every new patron. Trump has officially arrived.

Also arriving with the candidate’s official win is a timely need for introspection: How did he get here, though so many thought it was laughably improbable? Who has he brought along with him? What, more emphatically, has he brought along with him?

The answers to these questions are colorful. Many say his supporters are bigoted, supremacist or uneducated, but the phenomenon of Trump extends much further than even his own policies. Indeed, Trump’s attraction runs much deeper than political promises and unprofessional jargon: it is built on empowerment.

Trump’s strategy has been more than just rep-resenting his voters’ views — it’s about his ability to boost the confidence of his constituents in their beliefs, praising their decision to support him and giving back some of the power he holds in return.

He does this by repeatedly using the words “strong” and “powerful” in contrast to their oppo-sites of “weak” and “powerless,” especially when making the conventional “us vs. them” dichotomy. The way Trump speaks has always been uncouth, but the full effect of his speech is actually felt by those it superciliously uplifts, not by those it attacks.

And, consequently, voters everywhere love it.“I like people that want to win,” Trump said at

his Eugene rally. “Look at all these strong people out here in the audience.”

As Trump opened his rally, he immediately ap-plauded the strength of his supporters; he began by acknowledging his voters’ power, then shifted the focus of that power towards those who would want to take it away.

When a “heckler” began chanting inside the pavilion, Trump looked at them and changed his train of thought. “I love my hecklers,” he said. “A lot of times you’ll have a heckler no one can hear because they have weak voices, but my people are yelling ‘Here, here, here!’” As the crowd clapped for his vocal compliment, he elected to allow this protester to stay.

The next heckler wasn’t as fortunate. Trump’s supporters began shouting and pointed them out for their candidate to give the order of ejection. He did so gleefully with a powerful “Get him out of here,” mockingly saying “Go home to mommy“ as they left. Trump later indulged himself by reciting various histories of his experiences with “hecklers,” even attacking a Hillary speech as having “Weak and pathetic hecklers… I think they were for Bernie. These were meek, mild hecklers,” before recounting his own parse record with protesters.

His rhetoric continued throughout the rally. “Women want strength,” he yelled over the enthu-siastic crowd, later in the rally. “We are going to put this country back together.”

These moments made the crowd electric, due to the fact that Trump has grown past the con-vention of just a politician that makes his voters believe in their politics — he is a figure that is making voters believe in who they are as people. Not only are they Republicans or conservatives but men and women with strong and powerful lifestyles, and, by believing in Trump, they have some power that others simply don’t. Put simply, Trump supporters are elevated past their political label and given characteristics that impact their lives outside of politics.

As Domenico Montanaro from NPR put it, long before Trump’s nomination was guaranteed, “Trump’s supporters aren’t with him because they want to hear the wonky details. They want some-one to channel what they feel.”

This power that Trump wields is taking vot-ers outside of Washington, elevating them past the ideal of better institutions and emphasizing their ideal of being a better human being, which is something no other 2016 candidate has done thus far. This is shown in both his rhetoric and the result of it, which has seen an emphasis in racial identity, gender affiliation and physical dominance against those that oppose him. His supporters now feel a new power in who they are and their ability for that power to be felt — they’re a new congregation for the man who loudly pro-claimed “I am nothing more than a messenger.”

Trump is very much like a savior to many Republicans. Believing in him not only reinforces what they see as good in the world, but their belief in him gives them strength. He’s against the es-tablishment, like some kind of savior against the pharisaical politicians of old. He’s delivering the country from the partisan bondage of politics to the land of capitalist milk and honey.

Many call him a demagogue, but he is truthfully becoming something more than a demagogue: He is becoming a deity, with powerful and frighten-ingly enthusiastic followers, and a fixa-tion on his ability to influence others. As his campaign continues, the world is left to see his power shower down on his believers as well, as the new Church of Trump rises against a sea of naïve nonbelievers.

Alec Cowan is a political columnist at the Emerald. Follow Alec on Twitter @ SirAlec_9542

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Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump walks on stage and greets his supporters during his rally at the Lane Events Convention Center in Eugene, Oregon. (Adam Eberhardt)

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Lake Lanier sits in the opposite corner of the country with the small town of Gainesville, Georgia resting on its shores. The 38,000 acre historic lake served as the proving grounds for the best in the world 20 years ago, when Gainesville hosted rowing in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Now, in 2016, it hosted the best club teams in the nation for the American Collegiate Rowing Association Regatta.

The Oregon Club Rowing program had an opportunity to prove itself against the 66 other premier club rowing teams in the country on May 27-29. After a season full of strong performances, the coaches and team members held high expectations for themselves.

The Ducks entered five boats: Men’s Novice 8, Men’s Varsity Lightweight 4, Women’s Varsity 4, Women’s Novice 4 and Women’s Varsity pair.

The highest expectations were for the Women’s Novice 4s. They qualified for Grand Finals with the fastest time — six seconds ahead of the second fastest time. In the Grand Finals, Oregon defended its qualifying position

by placing first and becoming the programs first ever National Champion at the ACRAs.

The Women’s Varsity pair entered the competition with the goal of earning a medal. They succeeded as they captured bronze and finished one second behind the silver medalist.

However, the Women’s Varsity Lightweight 4’s result came with drama of its own that’s easily described as bad luck.

“There was a pleasure boat running aside the race course — just in front of the field — and that boat had a wake behind it,” explained Head Coach Marlene Miranda. “Our boat, and others as well, got caught in the wake, and it slowed them down significantly. That was a heartbreaker.”

The boat exceeded the five mile per hour limit, and its wake affected four of the eight boats in the race. The Varsity 4’s entered with the third fastest time without feeling as though they ran their best race.

Despite the heartbreak, the women’s team won the Small Boats Trophy with 147 points. Grand Valley placed second with 81.

“It was a really nice surprise,” said Miranda. “To beat a team like [Grand Valley] puts us in the top echelon ... It gets our name out there, and it puts it in the forefront of the competition’s mind.”

Both men’s boats finished outside the top eight, but for the Men’s Novice 8, a 13 place finish out of 22 boats was a result the team was proud of considering they finished with a personal best time.

“We can proudly state that for at least the past 10 years, this has been the team’s best performance overall,” Miranda said.

Like all clubs, the program is paused for the summer, but for the more experienced rowers, Miranda will be sending them day-to-day workouts starting in August.

The program will attend at least two regattas in the fall, but fall is about training and development in an effort to continue the program’s momentum earned from this season. Recruiting and tabling is a priority, but Miranda expects to have an experienced crew returning for next season.

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OREGON ROWING FINISHES SEASON STRONG, LOOKS TO CONTINUE MOMENTUM INTO NEXT SEASON

The men’s varsity 4 crew team paddles across Dexter Reservoir in Eugene, Oregon. (Emerald Archives)

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The first two days of the 2016 season couldn’t have gone much better for Matt Rose.

Rose hit a walk-off single in the 11th inning driving home the winning run and giving the Eugene Emeralds a 2-1 win over the Boise Hawks Saturday evening. His late-game heroics came just over 24 hours after he hit a two-run homer in the Emeralds 6-1 win on Friday.

“I’m seeing the ball well,” Rose said. “Besides the two strikeouts today, but those things happen. Just gotta stay through the middle of the field and good things will happen.”

Andruw Monasterio started the bottom of the 11th with a leadoff walk for the Emeralds and was then bunted over to second by Kevonte Mitchell. With one out, Rose stepped to the plate and laced an opposite-field line drive that was nearly caught by Boise right fielder Bobby Stahel.

The ball clipped off Stahel’s glove as he was charging in, and Monasterio came around to score before Stahel could get a throw to the plate.

“I was just trying to score the run,” Rose said. “The guy throws hard; I just had to put the bat on the ball. I barely swung.”

Tommy Nance earned the win for the Emeralds in his first appearance of the season. Nance tossed two innings and struck out two while walking one. One of those strikeouts came on the final at-bat in the top of the 11th, when Nance punched out Stahel to retire the side with a runner stranded on first.

Nance combined with Michael Knighton and M.T. Minacci to toss six scoreless innings in relief of Eugene starter Bryan Hudson.

Hudson—a six-foot, eight-inch left-hander—was the Chicago Cubs third round pick (82nd overall) in the 2015 MLB Draft. Saturday marked his season debut with the Emeralds, and he threw five innings and surrendered one run while striking out two. Hudson is ranked as the Cubs 15th best prospect by MLB.com, and consistently spotted his fastball in the 88-90 mph range on Saturday.

“He’s a gamer,” Rose said. “He kept us in the game and then the bullpen just came in and shut the door.”

Boise scored its lone run of the game in the fourth inning when Luis Castro lined a one-out double to left-center. Stahel followed with a single to drive home Castro and later stole second to get himself in scoring position before Hudson worked his way out of a jam with a strikeout.

Eugene’s bats stayed silent for the early part of the game; they mustered just three hits in the first seven innings before they broke through. In the seventh, Rose reached on a leadoff walk, and Chris Pieters followed with a single. Later in the inning, Alberto Mieno grounded out to second, but Boise was unable to turn what would have been an inning-ending double play, and Rose scored from third to tie the game at 1-1.

Pieters went 3-for-4 with a double and a stolen base and had nearly half of Eugene’s seven hits. Stahel went 2-for-5 with a double and RBI for Boise.

With the win, Eugene improved to 2-0 on the year and will have a chance to sweep Boise (0-2) when the two clubs play the series finale at 5:01 p.m. on Sunday.

ROSE SHINES ONCE AGAIN AS EMERALDS TOP BOISE HAWKS 2-1 IN EXTRA INNINGS

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Emeralds infielder Chris Pieters (15) hits the ball. The Eugene Emeralds host the Boise Hawks at PK Park in Eugene, Oregon. (Kaylee Domzalski)